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Filed under: Paladin, (Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It

Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. This week, we examine the holy paladin Tier 10 set and its bonuses.

As my guild and I have been conquering Icecrown Citadel, I find myself with a glut of Emblems of Frost. While my rogue is diligently saving up for some of the sweet rewards, my holy paladin can’t even find a use for the new libram. While I did stop for a minute to consider picking up some off spec gear, I also couldn’t bring myself to part with these hard-earned Emblems for a non-holy piece. What are we to do with all of the excess?

I decided to investigate our Tier 10 4-piece bonus, considering that I was already halfway there with my two current pieces. However, I was also skeptical about how valuable the 4-piece bonus could be, considering that cast time reductions and haste interact in interesting ways. Well, there’s that, and the fact that our tier set was itemized by someone who clearly enjoyed watching us squirm. With a complete lack of a haste/MP5 piece and two crit/MP5 pieces, our 4-piece bonus had better be really amazing to convince me to drop my off set pieces. Read on to find out what I decided.

Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: The truth about Lightsworn Garb

The Light and How to Swing It: The truth about Lightsworn Garb originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Insider Trader (Professions)

Reader Frank recently wrote me and asked for a bit of help with the “staple” products for each profession. Frank said, “Back in the days of Burning Crusade, I had a pretty good grip on the two or three raw materials that went across each of the professions. Are there equivalents to that kind of thing now in Wrath?” I assume that Frank was probably asking specifically about the crafting professions (like Blacksmithing or Tailoring), and not quite so much the gathering professions. A little surprisingly, he’s not the only person to ask me about that this month.

It’s a little late in the expansion to do a basic guide to Wrath of the Lich King materials, but Cataclysm is going to mean one thing for certain. Everyone will rush to get their professions to a relatively max level, so that they can immediately roll over into Cataclysm recipes as early as possible. Put that together with Frank’s request and the inbound patch 3.3.3, and I figured a quick tour of each profession’s most sought after raw materials might give us a little boost.

Let’s take a quick tour of the crafting professions’ common end-game materials.

Continue reading Insider Trader: End-game crafting materials 101

Insider Trader: End-game crafting materials 101 originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Hunter, (Hunter) Scattered Shots

Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week Frostheim uses logic and science mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven Stout to look deep into the Hunter class.

I don’t know whether it’s from charity or curiosity, but I often spend time talking with the sad and dispossessed members of WoW, which is to say, other classes. In one conversation I thought we had found a common ground: the trials and troubles of choosing gear. Any kinship I may have felt, however, shattered when they started complaining about having five (or only four) different stats to compare.

Yeah, a whole five different stats on gear that matter to you? Cry me a river.

Hunters have a lot of stats to juggle — more than most classes. On any given piece of gear our DPS could be affected by attack power, agility, intellect, hit rating, haste rating, armor penetration rating, crit rating, ranged weapon DPS, and even stamina. Not only does each stat affect our DPS differently, but many of our stats have some kind of cap after which they become much less useful — or no longer useful at all.

Today we’re going to head back to hunter school and take a look at the hunter stats that have caps: hit rating, crit rating, haste rating and armor penetration rating. We’ll look at the hard caps and soft caps and how these stats change as our gear improves.

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Scattered Shots: Hunter stat caps: hit, crit, haste, and armor penetration originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Death Knight

MMO Champion’s got the goods on an upcoming build of patch 3.3.3.

Mounts and pets

But first, check out Lil’ XT! Doesn’t your Lil’ KT want a lil’ company? No idea where this lil’ guy will come from as of yet, but it could be a future purchasable pet joining the likes of the Pandaren Monk and Lil’ KT!

Both the Celestial Steed and X-53 Touring Rocket (screenshot) now have their own spells and have 310% flying speed.

Icecrown Citadel

There’s been some issues with absorption effects like Power Word: Shield not benefiting from the raid buffs that Wrynn and Hellscream provide. That will be addressed shortly with patch 3.3.3.

• Strength of Wrynn and Hellscream’s Warsong now also boost the effect of damage absorption spells.

Glyph changes

These changes could be temporary and could be reversed at any time. They’re not in the official notes.

Death Knights

• Glyph of Icebound Fortitude now always grants at least 40% damage reduction.

Priests

• Glyph of Scourge Imprisonment now reduces the cast time of your Shackle Undead by 1 sec. (Up from 0.5 sec)

Rogues

• Glyph of Feint now reduces the energy cost of Feint by 20. (Up from 10)
• Glyph of Expose Armor now increases the duration of Expose Armor by 12 sec. (Up from 10 sec)
• Glyph of Deadly Throw now increases the slowing effect on Deadly Throw by 20%. (Up from 10%)

Other changes

Warlocks

• Dark Pact now has a 100 yards range (up from 30 yards) and ignores the line of sight.

Patch 3.3.3 PTR: Build 11643 notes originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Shaman, (Shaman) Totem Talk

Axes, maces, lightning, fire, frost, and wolves, and best of all, Windfury. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance at Big Hit Box and pens the enhance side of Totem Talk.

Being a hybrid class means there’s not a lot of wiggle room when it comes to making specs as one spec can serve us well through 10s, 25s, dungeons, and soloing. While PvE builds don’t leave much room for experimentation, I’ve seen far more variance in PvP specs, mostly depending on play-style.

Of course there are distinct PvP talents built into the trees and there are core talents for both PvE and PvP without which we’re just not enhancement shamans. But depending on your gear, team, and how your play you can customize your PvP specs for defensive, offensive, mana-rich, or anywhere in between.

Let’s start right out with the two of the more common builds right now:

PvE – 19/52/0 – this spec will serve most all enhancers well across all levels on content and is the spec I use on Stoney.

PvP – 16/55/0 – as I mentioned above there is far more flexibility in specs for PvP. I chose this one because it’s a good starter PvP spec that is highly mana-conservative and defensive focused. I’ve seen many different takes on enhancement PvP specs and experienced players will alter to suit their own play style. But if you need a place to start, go with this.

Read on after the break for the talent-by-talent breakdown of enhancement shamans!

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Totem Talk: Enhancement talents originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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