No surprise here, but we’re probably going to see the surprisingly awaited 3.2.2 patch here in the next week or two. The PTR is still hopping with lots of changes, but with Onyxia up for testing and all sorts of small changes being tweaked around, they’re getting close to the final release. We’ll keep a close eye for just how much everyone gets smacked around by Onyxia when she goes back live. We’re rather hoping for some destruction. Onyxia has some revenge to level against all those level 70s who …

We’re back after a rather bumpy week of server issues – Gravity already posted some of the more interesting finds from the new PTR patch for Death Knights. We haven’t made much mention of Cataclysm in recent days however, and while the new information on the expansion pack is going to come in very slow drips for the next few months, at least until a build of the game appears, we can still drool over the concept art and the details we do know at this point.
Today, I was over …

We’ve got a few discussions actively going on the tanking and dps changes in PTR 3.22. I think PvPers will like the bone shield cooldown being reduced to 1 min too. MMO-Champion has done a spell comparison with very promising results.
Ghostcrawler has commented now, read the discussion.
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Heart Strike now has its total damage increased by 10% for each of your diseases on the target to the primary target, and half that to the secondary target.
Vampiric Blood now lasts 10 sec. (Down from 20 sec.)
Subversion now also affects Scourge …

Anyone that read our post the other day about stat being changed in Cataclysm will be interested to know that the nerfing is going to begin early for at least one stat – Armor Penetration. This stat, which essentially has allowed most melee raiders to boost their damage output without anything other than ArP, is going to be removed completely in 4.0, but for now, it is being nerfed down to make it less viable as a single stat boost for those who actually understand it.
For the most part, this …

There are quite a few blue posts going up these days with Cataclysm details and discussions, but there haven’t been many details about Death Knights of late, so it was nice to see a few good posts in the last day or so about some issues that are relatively important for the class.
For the most part, it discusses the comparison between Obliterate and Scourge Strike, something that many Unholy DPS DKs have been dealing with for some time now. Interesting to see where there are thoughts are headed on this:

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