1. passive/boring vs. fun/interesting talent
Blizzard is going to be making some changes to the talent trees in Cataclysm that move away from utility passives and towards sexy active abilities.
Vaneras says: All talent trees will be changed in Cataclysm so that there will be less emphasis on valuable but boring talents that only provides passive increases to damage or healing. Basically we want to make the fun niche and utility talents more available and attractive by making them feel less expensive.
The blue post is just notifying everyone that they’re making it a sticky, but the guide itself is a worthwhile read for anyone considering starting some world PvP.
3. Scourge Strike is bugged. Fix this for S8
Ghostcrawler gives a mea culpa and a bit of snark aimed at the Death Knight community in this post. The important part?
Ghostcrawler says: But we will make sure resilience, Outbreak and Rage of Rivendare are affecting Scourge Strike correctly.
The OP is worried that too many people are able to get what he thinks should be a rare item. Bornakk points out that Blizzard never intended Shadow’s Edge to be as difficult to obtain as the OP thought.
Ghostcrawler helpfully reminds a QQtastic Original Poster that “hotfix” means they’ll put a bug at the top of the pile and fix it without waiting for a huge patch. Hotfix does not mean that they’re going to divert the entire Blizzard development team to your pet issue and bring down all of the servers as soon as they have a patch for each fix.
A DPS class writes to complain about being unable to get a quick group in the Dungeon Finder, not realizing that the best way to get a fast group is to play a useful class instead of Generic T9 Warlock #31415926 on your server. Bornakk has some helpful advice and info for the wayward DPS regardless:
- Go random instead of preforming with more than one character.
- They’re going to look at improving the raid finder now that they’ve perfected the group finder.
- They aren’t going to add functionality for queueing for a dungeon and BG at the same time.
And the best quote of all, especially considering how awesome the dungeon finder is despite the OP’s whining?
Bornakk says: TLDR: Wrong.
Bornakk continues his campaign for the best blue poster ever. The OP asks if the drop rate for Raven Lord was increased.
Bornakk says: We did at the same time we decreased the cooldown of Onyxia’s deep breath ability.
8. Fall of the Lich King Spoiler Alert
Nethaera wants everyone to know that they should avoid data mining sites like Thottbot, Wowhead, etc. if they don’t want the ending of Frozen Throne spoiled. They’re also implementing an unofficial No Spoilers policy for the official forums.
9. Shadowmourne; give us the option of a Swo[rd]
Bornakk wants you to know that the Lich King will drop a nifty sword. It won’t be legendary, but it should be nifty enough to quiet classes feeling Shadowmourne envy.
10. Death Knights in Cataclysm?
A bit of a lore debate that has been bothering roleplayers for awhile now. What will the Death Knight’s role be once the Lich King is defeated and they lose their reason to unlive?
Zarhym says: Death knights still have a vested interest in carving their own path in life (or death… what have you) as members of the Horde and Alliance. The same goes for the Forsaken. There’s always a reason to fight for survival and a better life (or undeath).
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