Blue poster Wryxian dropped some info on cross-language battle grounds that might be of some interest to those of you outside the US.

The latest PTR build showed very few changes, mostly spell changes, this might be a good sign that fine tuning is taking place and a live release may be soon. Below are the DK changes and some updated tier 8 pics via MMOC.

9733 Death Knight Changes

General

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Blood

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Frost

Howling Blast cooldown has been reduced from 10 sec to 8 sec.
Rime now has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown on Howling Blast and cause your next Howling Blast to consume no runes.

Unholy

Death Strike damage has been lowered, it now deals …

I’m not one to cry over class nerf…er…balancing. I can typically take what is given to me and make the best of it. I do, however, like to see things that are broken fixed or addressed. So what is broken? You can see by the title that Unholy pets are lacking in several categories, PvP being the main one.
So, simple question: Are unholy perma pets not meant for PvP?
Lets look at the skills
Base skill Raise Dead all Death Knights get this. As Unholy, you can talent the skill with Master of …

In case you didn’t know, the two new arena maps that where being released with WotLk actually went live in the latest patch:

Netheara
With the latest patch release, we’ve added two new arenas: the Dalaran Sewers and the Ring of Valor in Orgrimmar. These arenas offer new obstacles and challenges for strategy savvy players. The arenas have been added to the random rotation and are accessible via the queue system as Skirmishes. For more information on these two new arenas, please visit http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/insider/11/arena.xml . Both Dalaran Sewers and the Ring …

Jayde dropped another video today hitting the arena with a Unholy spec. On his blog he breaks down the spec in depth showing its weaknesses and strengths. Bottom line is his ghoul is boss and Unholy DK’s suck without him. Check out his blog for the full story, the video is below.