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Blue News, PTR »

[24 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]

Some testers where pleased to log into the PTR for the first time and get awarded the Love Fool achievement. Some instantly thought that the Be Mine achievement may have been removed from the meta achievement for the title.
Well, that’s not quite the case. The Be Mine achievement has been changed to only require 6 of the 8 candies available. So grats to those of you lucky enough to get lucky enough to get 6 candies. The rest that didn’t even get one stinking back of candies? You’re still SOL.

Kisirani

Blue News, PTR »

[24 Feb 2009 | 21 Comments | ]

A few days ago I noticed a blue response to an off the wall thread in the official forums that asked for “ghetto hearthing” to be nerfed. The thread was, of course, started by a mage that claimed that the exploiting of the free hearth cost him/her gold because people didn’t need ports anymore…
Eyonix responded with what seemly looked like a sarcastic way of blowing off the subject:

Eyonix
But then mages who hate being asked for ports will make rant posts demanding we bring back ghetto hearthing.

Mages like to yell.

Well apparently …

Blue News »

[24 Feb 2009 | 13 Comments | ]

Still lots of 3.1 info to sort through, but a very exciting change to dual spec was announced today by CM Zarhym. Apparently the level requirement will be lowered to 40, lexicon requirement removed, and will only take a 5 second, out of combat, cast time to swap.

Zarhym
Dual specialization isn’t something everyone needs. It’s a perk we’re adding into the game, and it’s initially going to require an investment. If you can’t afford dual specializations for 10 different characters, you might not actually need all 10 of your characters to …

Community »

[24 Feb 2009 | 4 Comments | ]

Tieler of Feathermoon sent word that he, amazingly enough, blew up the Ebon Hold target dummy. I have never been on a dummy long enough to even notice the health move, much less kill it, so I’m not sure if this is a common feat. Either way it was cool and midly funny so I thought I would share. Tieler did mention that he “checked the dummy about 30 min later and it was still blown up”.

PTR, Patch Notes »

[24 Feb 2009 | 10 Comments | ]

The 3.1 PTR has finally dropped and below is a current list of DK changes and then further below that will be the rest of the patch notes. You can see all of the class changes over at MMOC.
Here are some of the random highlights:

Dual spec to cost 1,000 gold.
You can now queue to battlegrounds from any location. (no more ghetto ports?)

Death Knight Changes

General

Blood Boil’s damage increased to make up for Pestilence no longer doing damage.
Blood Boil now does some damage to undiseased targets and extra damage to diseased …