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[30 Oct 2009 | One Comment | ]
Sunwell Radiance 2: Now with 100% more Lich King!

Blizzard recently released a bit of a shocker to the raiding community the return of a Sunwell Radiance-esque type of effect with the raid-wide debuff Chill of the Throne.
To summarize for those who weren’t around in BC, or were around but weren’t party of the “Royalty” guilds of the time, a raid effect called Sunwell Radiance was introduced in the last raid of the expansion to shift focus away from avoidance and introduce more steady streams  of damage. (Gravity wrote about the change over at pwnwear.com and has the blue …

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[29 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
3.3 Icecrown

3.3 is looking awesome. The new bosses we’ve seen on PTR are looking innovative and challenging (albeit, Blizzard have said they’re not trying to make Icecrown as daunting as Sunwell).
We’ll see Unholy DKs going back to a traditional deep spec, but necrosis has lost its value in that spec. Current EJ theory is seeing either Dark Death or Disease glyphs being top; I personally would prefer to use Disease, and for AOE it’s the winner. Runeforge Gossip wrote how to use disease glyph. He also likes the scourge strike change to …

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[14 Sep 2009 | 10 Comments | ]
Your spec in 3.22

PTR 3.22 for DPS and Tanks bears some good news.
Tanks can now consider unholy and frost as proper equals to blood tanks. Unbreakable Armour being one minute and buffed to +armour again makes it mathematically similar to the damage reduction of bone shield. I expect UA duration to be put to 15s down from current PTR 20 seconds to balance it out, sine Bone Shield is now 3 charges (+1 from glyph) on PTR and Vampiric Blood is 10s (+5s from glyph).
I did some analysis on Unholy tank builds in …

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[10 Sep 2009 | 3 Comments | ]

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.
Death Knight
Blood

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 …

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[2 Sep 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
New Companion Pets in 3.2.2

A slew of new companion pets is being added to the game when the 3.2.2 patch goes live in a few weeks. Byond the couple that we already know like the Pandaren Monk, there are a few others that have been announced in blue posts or data mined out of PTR. Here is a list of the new ones:

Spectral Tiger Cub – Reward for the Scourgewar expansion for the Trading Card Game.
Onyxia Whelpling – Given to anyone that logs on during the 5th Anniversary event occurring later this year.
Pandaren …