News still slow, but the PTR blues just keep rolling in. For those of you that are sick of hearing about 3.0.8 and not seeing it go live, some of the following blues may help quinch your thirst.
Tons of Howling Blast talk. We haz a CD…we haz no CD…We haz a CD!?! I guess for you DWers and frost people, the Howling Blast CD is here to stay.

Ghostcrawler
Howling Blast was designed for AE dps, for which it was doing too much damage without a cooldown. We totally understand the concern …

As if getting your face shoved in the pillow by 5 lightening throwing Shaman wasn’t bad enough, now PvPers will have this train wreck to face!

Thanks to Bloodlord in the forums for sharing!

For many of you tanking DKs you may have noticed how sometimes single target threat can be a challenge. GC has posted that the issue is being looked at and one bug has already been found and is being hot fixed (presumably with today’s maintenance).

Ghostcrawler
We’re looking at the issue since players have brought it up. However, we are not hearing widespread feedback from across the board that DKs are struggling to maintain single-target threat. That is what makes me wonder if something else is going on, like it only occurs …

A new PTR build was pushed last night and and one of the biggest changes was the removal of the Blacksmithed tanking weapons.

Ghostcrawler
The two-handed Blacksmithing tanking weapons are not going to be implemented.

Indeed, we did not want to stick DKs with these weapons forever, nor did we want to start itemizing 2H tanking weapons forever. DKs were designed to tank with 2H dps weapons.

The new sigil and runeforge enchant should help players with low defense.

I’m actually relieved to know that the temptation to pigeon hole myself into a 186 dps …

How many frustrating nights have you spent trying to raid in Naxxramas or PvP in Wintergrasp? Help is on the way!

Eyonix
For the last several weeks, our players have been experiencing periodic latency in both outdoor Northrend areas and Naxxramas, and we wanted to provide you with several updates on what we’re doing to resolve these issues. As many players have discovered, the outdoor Northrend latency has been tied to activity in Wintergrasp. We are actively working on a server-side fix that should address the high latency experienced in the outdoor …