ALL of the loot *so far* for Icecrown. Including 5man and emblem gear.

Icecrown Citadel Raid Loot
The raid instance has been itemized as well and this news will be updated throughout the night.

25-Man Normal Mode

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
264	Axe	Melee.DPS	Two-Hand	Bryntroll, the Bone Arbiter
264	Dagger	Spell	Main Hand	Frozen Bonespike
264	Fist Weap.	Melee.DPS	Main Hand	Black Bruise
264	Gun	Tank	Ranged	Rowan’s Rifle of Silver Bullets
264	Shield	Spell	Shield	Bulwark of Smouldering Steel
264	Staff	Phys.DPS	Two-Hand	Distant Land
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Chest	Gendarme’s Cuirass
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Hands	Fleshrending Gauntlets
264	Plate	Spell MP5	Head	Faceplate of the Forgotten
264	Plate	Spell MP5	Shoulder	Rusted Citadel Stormers
264	Plate	Spell	Waist	Belt of the Lonely Noble
264	Plate	Tank	Legs	Legguards of Lost Hope
264	Plate	Tank	Waist	Belt of Broken Bones
264	Plate	Tank	Wrist	Bracers of Dark Reckoning
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Chest	Carapace of Forgotten Kings
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Head	Snowserpent Mail Helm
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Waist	Nerub’ar Stalker’s Cord
264	Mail	Spell MP5	Hands	Unclean Surgical Gloves
264	Mail	Spell MP5	Legs	Leggings of Dubious Charms
264	Mail	Spell	Shoulder	Horrific Flesh Epaulets
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Feet	Frostbitten Fur Boots
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Legs	Gangrenous Leggings
264	Leather	Spell	Hands	Handguards of Winter’s Respite
264	Cloth	Spell Hit	Legs	Plaguebringer’s Stained Pants
264	Cloth	Spell	Feet	Plague Scientist’s Boots
264	Cloth	Spell	Shoulder	Stiffened Corpse Shoulderpads
264	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Crushing Coldwraith Belt
264	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Lingering Illness
264	Misc.	Melee.DPS	Finger	Might of Blight
264	Misc.	Melee.DPS	Finger	Ring of Rotting Sinew
264	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Finger	Band of the Bone Colossus
264	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Neck	Wodin’s Lucky Necklace
264	Misc.	Spell Hit	Finger	Loop of the Endless Labyrinth
264	Misc.	Spell MP5	Finger	Marrowgar’s Frigid Eye
264	Misc.	Spell MP5	Neck	Putrid Embrace
264	Misc.	Spell	Neck	Bone Sentinel’s Amulet
264	Misc.	Tank	Finger	Harbinger’s Bone Band

10-Man Normal Mode

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
251	Axe	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Bone Warden’s Splitter
251	Mace	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Gutbuster
251	Mace	Tank	One-Hand	The Brokenhammer
251	Staff	Spell Hit	Two-Hand	Abracadaver
251	Sword	Melee.DPS	Two-Hand	Citadel Enforcer’s Claymore
251	Sword	Spell Hit	Main Hand	Frost Needle
251	Plate	Melee.DPS	Hands	Festering Fingerguards
251	Plate	Spell MP5	Feet	Ancient Skeletal Boots
251	Plate	Spell MP5	Hands	Festergut’s Gaseous Gloves
251	Plate	Spell	Legs	Corrupted Silverplate Leggings
251	Mail	Phys.DPS	Waist	Linked Scourge Vertebrae
251	Mail	Spell MP5	Wrist	Coldwraith Bracers
251	Leather	Phys.DPS	Legs	Plague-Soaked Leather Leggings
251	Leather	Spell	Wrist	Wrists of Septic Shock
251	Cloth	Spell	Legs	Kilt of Untreated Wounds
251	Cloth	Spell	Shoulder	Bloodstained Surgeon’s Shoulderguards
251	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Cord of the Patronizing Practitioner
251	Cloak	Phys.DPS	Back	Shawl of Nerubian Silk
251	Cloak	Tank	Back	Cloak of Many Skins
251	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Neck	Precious’s Putrid Collar
251	Misc.	Spell MP5	Finger	Signet of Putrefaction
251	Misc.	Spell	Trinket	Sliver of Pure Ice
251	Misc.	Tank	Neck	Marrowgar’s Scratching Choker

Reputation Rewards

Note: You can upgrade these rings for more powerful version as your standing with the Ashen Verdict increase.

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
251	Misc.	Tank	Finger	Ashen Band of Courage
251	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Finger	Ashen Band of Vengeance
251	Misc.	Spell Hit	Finger	Ashen Band of Destruction
251	Misc.	Spell MP5	Finger	Ashen Band of Wisdom

Tier 10 Armor Sets
The stats of a few Tier 10 Sets have been discovered. (Sets with a Purple name below)

Class	ilvl 251	ilvl 264	ilvl 277
Death Knight Scourgelord’s	Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear (Heroic)
Death Knight Scourgelord’s	Plate	Sanctified Plate	Sanctified Plate (Heroic)
Druid Lasherweave’s	Garb	Sanctified Garb	Sanctified Garb (Heroic)
Druid Lasherweave’s	Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear (Heroic)
Druid Lasherweave’s	Regalia	Sanctified Regalia	Sanctified Regalia (Heroic)
Hunter Ahn’Kahar Blood Hunter’s	Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear (Heroic)
Mage Bloodmage’s	Regalia	Sanctified Regalia	Sanctified Regalia (Heroic)
Paladin Lightsworn	Garb	Sanctified Garb	Sanctified Garb (Heroic)
Paladin Lightsworn	Plate	Sanctified Plate	Sanctified Plate (Heroic)
Paladin Lightsworn	Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear (Heroic)
Priest Crimson Acolyte’s	Regalia	Sanctified Regalia	Sanctified Regalia (Heroic)
Priest Crimson Acolyte’s	Raiment	Sanctified Raiment	Sanctified Raiment (Heroic)
Rogue Shadowblade’s	Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear (Heroic)
Shaman Frost Witch’s	Garb	Sanctified Garb	Sanctified Garb (Heroic)
Shaman Frost Witch’s	Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear (Heroic)
Shaman Frost Witch’s	Regalia	Sanctified Regalia	Sanctified Regalia (Heroic)
Warlock Dark Coven’s	Regalia	Sanctified Regalia	Sanctified Regalia (Heroic)
Warrior Ymirjar Lord’s	Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear	Sanctified Battlegear (Heroic)
Warrior Ymirjar Lord’s	Plate	Sanctified Plate	Sanctified Plate (Heroic)

Quel’delar Quest Rewards
The rewards for the Quel’Delar questline are now available.

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
251	Sword	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Quel’Delar, Cunning of the Shadows
251	Sword	Spell	Main Hand	Quel’Delar, Lens of the Mind
251	Sword	Melee.DPS	Two-Hand	Quel’Delar, Might of the Faithful
251	Sword	Phys.DPS	Two-Hand	Quel’Delar, Ferocity of the Scorned
251	Mace	Melee.DPS	One-Hand	Cudgel of Furious Justice
251	Mace	Spell MP5	Main Hand	Hammer of Purified Flame
251	Mace	Melee.DPS	Two-Hand	Lightborn Spire

Icecrown 5-Man Dungeons Loot
5-Man Dungeons items are now available on PTRs, this page will be updated multiple times during the night, stay tuned!

Heroic Mode

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
232	Axe	Melee.DPS	Two-Hand	Tyrannical Beheader
232	Axe	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Nighttime
232	Axe	Tak	One-Hand	Falric’s Wrist-Chopper
232	Crossbow	Phys.DPS	Ranged	Felglacier Bolter
232	Dagger	Melee.DPS	One-Hand	Unsharpened Ice Razor
232	Dagger	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Blood Weeper
232	Dagger	Spell MP5	Main Hand	Surgeon’s Needle
232	Fist Weapon	Phys.DPS	Main Hand	Seven-Fingered Claws
232	Mace	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Black Icicle
232	Polearm	Phys.DPS	Two-Hand	Orca-Hunter’s Harpoon
232	Sword	Melee.DPS	One-Hand	Liar’s Tongue
232	Sword	Spell Hit	Main Hand	Seethe
232	Sword	Tank	One-Hand	Rimefang’s Claw
232	Thrown	Phys.DPS	Thrown	Papa’s Brand New Knife
232	Wand	Spell hit	Ranged	Soulsplinter
232	Plate	Melee.DPS	Chest	Frost Wyrm Ribcage
232	Plate	Melee.DPS	Feet	Grinning Skull Boots
232	Plate	Melee.DPS	Hands	Weeping Gauntlets
232	Plate	Melee.DPS	Shoulder	Pauldrons of the Devourer
232	Plate	Melee.DPS	Wrist	Malykriss Vambraces
232	Plate	Spell MP5	Feet	Recovered Reliquary Boots
232	Plate	Spell MP5	Legs	Legguards of the Frosty Depths
232	Plate	Spell	Chest	Chestpiece of High Treason
232	Plate	Tank	Feet	Black Spire Sabatons
232	Plate	Tank	Head	Second Helm of the Executioner
232	Plate	Tank	Shoulder	Shoulderplates of Frozen Blood
232	Mail	Phys.DPS	Chest	Frostsworn Bone Chestpiece
232	Mail	Phys.DPS	Feet	Spiked Toestompers
232	Mail	Phys.DPS	Hands	Hoarfrost Gauntlets
232	Mail	Phys.DPS	Head	Eyes of Bewilderment
232	Mail	Phys.DPS	Shoulder	Spurned Val’kyr Shoulderguards
232	Mail	Phys.DPS	Waist	Belt of Rotted Fingernails
232	Mail	Phys.DPS	Wrist	Essence of Suffering
232	Mail	Spell MP5	Legs	Blackened Ghoul Skin Leggings
232	Mail	Spell	Head	Helm of the Spirit Shock
232	Leather	Phys.DPS	Chest	Choking Hauberk
232	Leather	Phys.DPS	Feet	Blighted Leather Footpads
232	Leather	Phys.DPS	Head	Frayed Scoundrel’s Cap
232	Leather	Phys.DPS	Legs	Fleshwerk Leggings
232	Leather	Phys.DPS	Shoulder	Spaulders of Black Betrayal
232	Leather	Phys.DPS	Wrist	Chewed Leather Writsguards
232	Leather	Spell	Chest	Chestguard of Broken Branches
232	Leather	Spell	Hands	Essense of Desire
232	Leather	Spell	Wrist	Ghostly Wristwraps
232	Cloth	Spell Hit	Chest	Ancient Polar Bear Hide
232	Cloth	Spell Hit	Head	Sightless Crown of Ulmaas
232	Cloth	Spell Hit	Shoulder	Very Fashionable Shoulders
232	Cloth	Spell Hit	Wrist	Bracer of Worn Molars
232	Cloth	Spell	Chest	Mord’rethar Robes
232	Cloth	Spell	Hands	Suspiciously Soft Gloves
232	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Braid of Salt and Fire
232	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Strip of Remorse
232	Misc.	Heal	Trinket	Ephemeral Snowflake
232	Misc.	Melee.DPS	Finger	The Lady’s Promise
232	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Finger	Band of Stained Souls
232	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Neck	Barbed Ymirheim Choker
232	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Trinket	Needle-Encrusted Scorpion
232	Misc.	Spell MP5	Finger	Oath of Empress Zoe
232	Misc.	Spell MP5	Neck	Love’s Prisoner
232	Misc.	Spell	Held In Off-hand	Shriveled Heart
232	Misc.	Spell	Neck	Arcane Loops of Anger
232	Misc.	Tank	Neck	Fossilized Ammonite Choker
232	Misc.	Tank	Trinket	Ick’s Rotting Thumb

Normal Mode

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
219	Axe	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Hate-Forged Cleaver
219	Bow	Phys.DPS	Ranged	Crypt Fiend Slayer
219	Dagger	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Soulscalper
219	Dagger	Phys.DPS	One-Hand	Krick’s Beetle Stabber
219	Dagger	Spell Hit	Main Hand	Chilled Heart of the Glacier
219	Gun	Phys.DPS	Ranged	Rimebane Rifle
219	Mace	Melee.DPS	Two-Hand	Garfrost’s Two-Ton Hammer
219	Mace	Spell MP5	Main Hand	Bone Golem Scapula
219	Shield	Spell MP5	Shield	Protector of Frigid Souls
219	Shield	Tank	Shield	Splintered Door of the Citadel
219	Staff	Phys.DPS	Two-Hand	Tower of the Mouldering Corpse
219	Staff	Spell	Two-Hand	Blood Boil Lancet
219	Staff	Spell	Two-Hand	Unspeakable Secret
219	Sword	Melee.DPS	One-Hand	Ghoulslicer
219	Sword	Melee.DPS	Two-Hand	Mourning Malice
219	Sword	Spell	Main Hand	Splintered Icecrown Parapet
219	Wand	Spell	Ranged	Coffin Nail
219	Plate	Melee.DPS	Chest	Lost Reliquary Chestguard
219	Plate	Melee.DPS	Hands	Plated Grips of Korth’azz
219	Plate	Melee.DPS	Head	Skeleton Lord’s Cranium
219	Plate	Melee.DPS	Legs	Minister’s Number One Legplates
219	Plate	Melee.DPS	Waist	Bent Gold Belt
219	Plate	Spell MP5	Shoulder	Valonforth’s Tarnished Pauldrons
219	Plate	Spell	Head	Greathelm of the Silver Hand
219	Plate	Spell	Wrist	Brace Guards of the Starless Night
219	Plate	Tank	Chest	Scourgelord’s Frigid Chestplate
219	Plate	Tank	Feet	Sollerets of Suffering
219	Plate	Tank	Hands	Crystalline Citadel Gauntlets
219	Plate	Tank	Legs	Legplates of Frozen Granite
219	Plate	Tank	Waist	Titanium Links of Lore
219	Mail	Phys.DPS	Feet	Muddied Boots of Brill
219	Mail	Phys.DPS	Head	Horns of the Spurned Val’kyr
219	Mail	Phys.DPS	Legs	Frostsworn Bone Leggings
219	Mail	Phys.DPS	Waist	Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt
219	Mail	Phys.DPS	Wrist	Gondria’s Spectral Bracer
219	Mail	Spell Hit	Hands	Mitts of Burning Hail
219	Mail	Spell Hit	Legs	Legguards of Untimely Demise
219	Mail	Spell Hit	Wrist	Seven Stormy Mornings
219	Mail	Spell MP5	Chest	Shroud of Rime
219	Mail	Spell MP5	Feet	Soul Screaming Boots
219	Mail	Spell MP5	Head	Polished Mirror Helm
219	Mail	Spell MP5	Legs	Black Dragonskin Breeches
219	Leather	Melee.DPS	Waist	Flayer’s Black Belt
219	Leather	Phys.DPS	Chest	Blackened Geist Ribs
219	Leather	Phys.DPS	Hands	Carpal Tunnelers
219	Leather	Phys.DPS	Legs	Shaggy Wyrmleather Leggings
219	Leather	Phys.DPS	Shoulder	Bewildering Shoulderpads
219	Leather	Spell	Chest	Robes of the Cheating Heart
219	Leather	Spell	Head	Fallen Sentry’s Hood
219	Leather	Spell	Shoulder	Grim Lasher Shoulderguards
219	Cloth	Melee.DPS	Back	Tapestry of the Frozen Throne
219	Cloth	Phys.DPS	Back	Accursed Crawling Cape
219	Cloth	Spell Hit	Hands	Cold Sweat Grips
219	Cloth	Spell Hit	Waist	Essence of Anger
219	Cloth	Spell MP5	Back	Cloak of the Fallen Cardinal
219	Cloth	Spell	Chest	Palebone Robes
219	Cloth	Spell	Feet	Ice-Steeped Sandals
219	Cloth	Spell	Hands	Marwyn’s Macabre Fingertips
219	Cloth	Spell	Head	Tattered Glacial-Woven Hood
219	Cloth	Spell	Legs	Rimewoven Silks
219	Cloth	Spell	Shoulder	Frayed Abomination Stitching Shoulders
219	Cloth	Spell	Shoulder	Mantle of Tattered Feathers
219	Cloth	Spell	Wrist	Wristguards of Subterranean Moss
219	Cloth	Tank	Back	Eerie Runeblade Polisher
219	Misc.	Melee.DPS	Finger	Purloined Wedding Ring
219	Misc.	Melee.DPS	Neck	Painfully Sharp Choker
219	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Finger	Ring of Carnelian and Bone
219	Misc.	Spell Hit	Neck	Coil of Missing Gems
219	Misc.	Spell MP5	Finger	Spiteful Signet

Emblems of Frost Rewards
It looks like Blizzard finally pushed new items with this build, below is the list of items you can buy with the Emblems of Frost you will get from raids, daily quests, and weekly raid quests. Prices aren’t available for the momentWe might have more items today, stay tuned!

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
264	Thrown	Phys.DPS	Thrown	Shrapnel Star
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Chest	Castle Breaker’s Battleplate
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Hands	Gatecrasher’s Gauntlets
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Waist	Gatecrasher’s Gauntlets
264	Plate	Spell MP5	Chest	Chestplate of Unspoken Truths
264	Plate	Spell	Hands	Gauntlets of Overexposure
264	Plate	Spell	Waist	Lich Killer’s Lanyard
264	Plate	Tank	Chest	Cataclysmic Chestguard
264	Plate	Tank	Hands	Gauntlets of the Kraken
264	Plate	Tank	Waist	Verdigris Chain Belt
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Chest	Longstrider’s Vest
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Feet	Rock-Steady Treads
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Hands	Logsplitters
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Waist	Band of the Night Raven
264	Mail	Spell MP5	Chest	Mail of the Geyser
264	Mail	Spell	Feet	Earthsoul Boots
264	Mail	Spell	Hands	Blizzard Keeper’s Mitts
264	Mail	Spell	Waist	Waistband of Despair
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Chest	Shadow Seeker’s Tunic
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Hands	Cat Burglar’s Grips
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Waist	Vengeful Noose
264	Leather	Spell	Chest	Vestments of Spruce and Fir
264	Leather	Spell	Hands	Gloves of the Great Horned Owl
264	Leather	Spell	Waist	Belt of Petrified Ivy
264	Cloth	Spell	Chest	Meteor Chaser’s Raiment
264	Cloth	Spell	Chest	Ermine Coronation Robes
264	Cloth	Spell	Hands	Gloves of Ambivalence
264	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Belt of Omission
264	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Circle of Ossus
264	Cloak	Melee.DPS	Back	Might of the Ocean Serpent
264	Cloak	Phys.DPS	Back	Recovered Scarlet Onslaught Cape
264	Cloak	Spell MP5	Back	Drape of the Violet Tower
264	Cloak	Spell	Back	Volde’s Cloak of the Night Sky
264	Cloak	Tank	Back	Sentinel’s Winter Cloak
264	Idol	Feral	Relic	Idol of the Crying Moon
264	Idol	Balance	Relic	Idol of the Lunar Eclipse
264	Idol	Restoration	Relic	Idol of the Black Willow
264	Libram	Holy	Relic	Libram of Blinding Light
264	Libram	Protection	Relic	Libram of the Eternal Tower
264	Libram	Retribution	Relic	Libram of Three Truths
264	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Trinket	Herkuml War Token
264	Misc.	Spell Hit	Trinket	Maghia’s Misguided Quill
264	Misc.	Spell	Trinket	Purified Lunar Dust
264	Misc.	Tank	Trinket	Corroded Skeleton Key
264	Sigil	Melee.DPS	Relic	Sigil of the Hanged Man
264	Sigil	Tank	Relic	Sigil of the Bone Gryphon
264	Totem	Elemental	Relic	Bizuri’s Totem of Shattered Ice
264	Totem	Enhancement	Relic	Totem of the Avalanche
264	Totem	Restoration	Relic	Totem of the Surging Sea

Blues Posts and a very cool new charity a company is doing through Blizzard

Just to remind, this is not a Blizzard charity, no money AT ALL, is coming from Blizzard. They aren’t even donating prizes to the cause =/

Azeroth is Uniting to Support Child’s Play!
A few days ago I received a mail from Stompalina of Rawrcast about the 1st annual Azeroth United. Don’t forget that every dollar count, you can easily donate by using the ChipIn widget below. (Payments are made through Paypal. A Paypal account isn’t required you can just click “Continue” below the “Don’t have a PayPal account?” question at the bottom left of the page)

“We officially kicked off our inaugural charity event today, and the response has been amazing! In support of the event, Child’s Play featured Azeroth United on their events page (http://www.childsplaycharity.org/events.php), and we are garnering support from WoW-related big-names like Alex Albrect, Scott Johnson and Veronica Belmont. And, all of this response is to bring light to Child’s Play Charity, and their amazing efforts to aid those that need to smile the most – patients in Children’s Hospitals around the world.

Together, we developed Hearts, Hands, and Voices to give light not only to Child’s Play, but also to foster a sense of community among the millions of World of Warcraft players who are active within the social networking internet media community. Anyone who is part of the MMO community is encouraged to donate their voice, and by doing so we are seeing that our reach extends far beyond our home realm.

For more details about how players can give their voice, as well as the amazing gift baskets being donated by sponsors, visit [Link removed temporarily, their hoster didn't like the sudden burst of traffic, see this post].

One (1) Hands Giveaway – As a “Thank You” for your $20 donation to Child’s Play will enter you into an EXCLUSIVE Helping Hands Giveaway where one lucky winner will receive prizes from these sponsors…

• Rawrcast: World of Warcraft Podcast – 60-day World of Warcraft Game Card
• Sideshow and Syrana – 30-day World of Warcraft Game Card and 2009 Blizzcon Authenticator
• Unbearably Hot – Custom, one of a kind, handmade bracelet themed after the Hearts, Hands, and Voices charity event. Sure to be a Blizzcon conversation starter!
• 3point.com: Warcraft Stein – Artwork by amazing World of Warcraft illustrator James Zhang.
• Raid Warning Podcast: Steel Series World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse
• SwagDog: 3ea. $100 Gift Certificates and Weekly 25% Off Codes for all contributors. You can get your code from your favorite Azeroth United Unity Member.
• J!NX Clothing Company – $25 Gift Card, Talking Murloc Plush Toy, and J!NX Keychain

Ten (10) Hearts Giveaways – As a “Thank You” for your $10 donation to Child’s Play, you will be entered into the Filled Hearts Giveaway where TEN lucky contributors will WIN a gift basket filled with donations from these sponsors…

• Curse Networks – Get your hands on one of these great items: mouse pad, USB flash card that are super slim and fit in your wallet they are the size of a business card! OR a Premium Curse Subscription for 12 months
• Azeroth United – Snag one of many assorted WoW TCG Loot Cards
• Geek Girl Diva of Entertainment Earth: $25 Gift Certificate
• J!NX Clothing Company – $10 Gift Card and J!NX Keychain

Together, we are aiming to make Hearts, Hands, and Voices the biggest charity event that Azeroth has ever seen!”

Patch 3.3 PTR Notes – 11/10 Update
The Patch 3.3 PTR notes have been updated once again.

Quote from: Dresorull (Source)

Update: 11.10.2009

• Druids: Gift of the Earthmother note clarified
• Paladins: Sanctified Light (changed reverted based on update to Lay on Hands)
• Rogues: Murder
• Items: Glyph of Victory Rush note corrected

Druid
Restoration

• Gift of the Earthmother: Redesigned. This talent now increases spell haste by 2/4/6/8/10% and reduces the base global cooldown of Lifebloom by 2/4/6/8/10% instead of its previous effects.

Paladin

• Sanctified Light: This talent now also has a 33/66/100% chance to prevent Lay on Hands from causing Forbearance when Lay on Hands is used on others.

Rogue
Assassination

• Murder: This talent now provides a flat damage increase of 2/4% against all targets, instead of only targets which do not appear in Icecrown.

Warrior

• Glyph of Victory Rush: This glyph now increases the critical strike chance of Victory Rush by 30%, regardless of the percentage of the target’s remaining health.

Reminder: WoW Battle.net Conversion Coming
If you didn’t convert your WoW account to a Battle.net one, you probably can’t play WoW anymore at this point. Visit the American Battle.net or the European Battle.net websites to do it now!

Quote from: Bornakk (Source)

A few months ago, we unveiled the Battle.net account, our new way for players to log in to World of Warcraft and future Blizzard games, sign up for upcoming beta tests, shop the online Blizzard Store, and more with just one username and password. This was just the first step in the rollout of the brand-new Battle.net; in the future, players will be able to use Battle.net to participate in cross-realm chat in World of Warcraft, create real-life friends lists, communicate across different games, and a whole lot more.

In preparation for the launch of these new features, on November 11, 2009, all current World of Warcraft players will be required to merge their World of Warcraft accounts with a Battle.net account in order to log in to the game. As our way to say “thanks” for taking a moment to go through the process, existing World of Warcraft accounts that upgrade to Battle.net (including those that have already switched over) will receive a brand-new penguin in-game pet. Starting on November 11, all World of Warcraft players will need to log in to the game using a Battle.net username and password, and anyone who wishes to create a new World of Warcraft account will need to start with a Battle.net account.

Creating a Battle.net account is simple and free. To merge your existing account with a Battle.net account, visit http://us.battle.net . For more info, check out the Battle.net site or read the FAQ: http://us.battle.net/faq/index.html

Account conversion: http://us.battle.net
FAQ: http://us.battle.net/faq/index.html

Blue posts

Quote from Blizzard staff

Random Dungeons and Heroic Lockout
It’s not that you don’t get saved to a Heroic dungeon when using the Random Option in the tool; rather, the Random Option will ignore your Heroic lockouts if you continue to use it, though it will attempt to weight the chance of being randomly selected for a Heroic dungeon to which you’ve been saved lower than those to which you have not, provided there are enough people in the queue to fill a group for an alternate instance without making you wait an excessive amount of time for a dungeon you have yet to do. (Source)

5-Man Dungeons Loot Quality
We tend to provide better loot for forward progression, not the other way around. So you’ll see better loot in the three Icecrown Citadel five-player wings (which will include the chance to embark upon the epic quest line to obtain Quel’Delar) given that the dungeon is tuned for higher gear levels than Oculus, just as you see better loot in Trial of the Champion than existing Wrath of the Lich King dungeons today. I’d prefer it if you didn’t call it an act of laziness either, as there are plenty of new items with unique art being added in the 3.3 content update.

In any event, given that Oculus will award Emblems of Triumph in patch 3.3, two Emblems of Frost if it’s your first Heroic dungeon of the day run via the Random Dungeon option in the Dungeon system, and two additional Emblems of Triumph if you complete the Heroic dungeon via the Random Dungeon option each time after that, you’re technically provided access to better rewards — and a faster accumulation of emblems — than you are today. (Source)

Oculus difficulty
It’s funny. Last week several community managers, developers, encounter designers, and quality assurance folk logged in to the test realms to try out the Dungeon tool by playing in pick-up groups with players via the Random Dungeon option. One of the encounter designers was hit with Oculus first. In jest, we all had a good laugh at the choice provided him for his first go. No one left the group and they cleared it in a flash, I believe getting the 20-minute achievement as well. This was before creatures and bosses were tuned down a bit, and vehicle gear-scaling improved on the test realms.

It’s anecdotal to be sure, but players certainly didn’t shy away from enjoying the time running the dungeon with a Blizzard employee; and they had little trouble clearing it. It’s one of the faster dungeons in Wrath if done right. Maybe we should implement a system where, every time Oculus is selected for you in the Dungeon tool, a Blizzard employee is put in your group. :p

[...] This might not fully address your question, but part of the reason the changes were made to Oculus was due to the fact that players were shying away from that dungeon while testing the Dungeon system more often than they were from other dungeons. This is the type of data we’re watching on the test realms, particularly when features such as this come along.

Are the test realm players a typical sample audience? Perhaps not. But in the grand scheme of our World of Warcraft player base, I wouldn’t even say those regularly running Heroic dungeons are a good sample audience. This is a large game and people enjoy many different aspects of it, some more so than others. (Source)

Vault of Archavon Difficulty
The vault bosses are designed and meant to be very puggable so pretty much anybody can do them (within reason of course). The problem this brings about is what gear they can drop. If we put tokens on them then they are guaranteed loot for everybody in a very easy way – when gear is this easy to get we generally wouldn’t want it to be as good. By making it so it’s basically a lottery on what drops/what you get we feel we can put some top notch gear on the bosses and it doesn’t cause any big issues. (Source)

Rogue
Weapon Swapping
Let me put it this way….

Fine: A rogue changes targets so needs to swap weapons to get a different poison on that target. This is more of a strategic thing — something you only do a few times per fight.

Not fine: A rogue swaps weapons constantly on the same target in order to get lots of poisons on that target. This is more of a hassle, not an interesting decision the player is making. This is more in line with a caster switching weapons to maximize a proc and then swapping back. It’s not fun and it feels like you have to do this annoying and unintuitive (unless you read the forums a lot) trick to maximize your dps.

Now like someone said above, you could make a weapon swapping mod for say Feral druids and few people would feel the need to use it. It’s not the existence of a mod that’s a problem. Mods do lots of crazy things. It’s a problem if it feels mandatory to raiding rogues. That however is a very subjective call and one that’s ultimately up to us to make. We’re keeping an eye on it. (Source)

The solution is very easy (conceptually) – when Deadly Poison procs and a 5-stack is on the target, cause your other hand’s poison to proc. This effectively replicates the effect of weapon swapping, works for all specs, and slightly buffs rogue PVE DPS beyond where it’s at right now – something which rogues are in dire need of, looking at the parses coming out of 3.3 so far. Additionally, it ensures that raiding rogues will use Deadly Poison, as Blizzard has worked so hard to make it attractive to us.

We’ve heard that suggestion a few times and it might be something we explore. We’d certainly rather make swapping not necessary rather than just be mean and prevent it.

Some of you are posting that rogues will use anything that maximizes their dps and this maximizes their dps. That’s not really the point.

Our original comment on swapping was that it appeared to provide a marginal dps increase and we knew that some rogues who tried it weren’t happy with how it worked because the risk was high of screwing something up. So while it theoretically maximized dps, it was risky enough and the gain low enough that we weren’t sure it would become mainstream.

Now things are trending that the dps increase is significant and Adrine’s mod is written so well that it takes a lot of the risk away, even in PvP. That weights things more towards doing something about it, though judging from Adrine’s posts, I don’t think he’ll mind. (Source)

Rogues aren’t getting nerfed
Agreed. We’re not interested in nerfing rogues here, just making an annoying mechanic less attractive. (Source)

Warlock
Soulshatter hit chance
As far as we know, Soulshatter always hits. It isn’t tied to any other talent, such as Suppression. It would still hit if you had zero +hit on your gear. This was changed at some point after LK launched. (Source)

Fel Armor healing threat
Fel Armor causes no healing threat in 3.3. This was a relatively recent change though. (Source)

 

Armored Frostwyrm Mounts (Possible Spoilers)

Warning, Speculation here. Nothing is confirmed (Also, quests spoilers)
We don’t really have any details on these mounts for the moment, but after some digging in the game files and on PTR servers it seems that one of these mounts is already active under the name of Armored Frostbrood Vanquisher (MOUNT) (BLUE).

Two spells are also named after this mount : Frostbrood Vanquisher and Frostbrood Vanquisher Flight.

The only Vanquishers we know are the Wyrmrest Vanquisher used in the Wyrmrest Temple daily quests. The existing Frostbrood Vanquisher spells aren’t really proper mount spells and at this point nothing says that we will be able to learn them like normal mounts, even if it wouldn’t be very surprising to see a new set of flying mount as a reward for Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player) (Objectives and rewards are obviously placeholders at this point)

Things get interesting when you look at quests introduced with this build especially one of them …

Respite for a Tormented Soul
Deliver Sindragosa’s Essence to Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight.

Description
Take this Life Crystal, and have your companions take one as well. It contains potent energies from the verdant Dragonshrine in Dragonblight, and it was my own secret to resisting the dark magics of this place for so long. When you face Sindragosa, battle her until she is weakened, and then have your companions use these Crystals to coax out the essence that is dormant within her. If you then defeat her, you should be able to recover it and return it to Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight.

I’m not going to jump to conclusions here, but it looks like the latest build added a way to control Frostbrood wyrms and a quest to preserve Sindragosa’s Essence at the same time? I’m also pretty sure that the Icecrown Citadel doesn’t have an elevator with a “Frozen Throne” button.

We’ll probably learn more about this in the next builds, stay tuned and keep in mind that at this point it’s just speculation.

Many many blue posts

Blue posts

Quote from Blizzard staff

Oculus nerf in 3.3
As is evidenced in this thread, players have strong opinions on Oculus in contrast to the majority of the other Wrath of the Lich King dungeons. With the implementation of the new Dungeon system and Random Dungeon option in patch 3.3, many players were asking for the ability to black list at least one dungeon from the selection pool. If a large number of players want to black list Oculus because they don’t find it enjoyable — and it can often times be a pick-up group killer — we view that as a problem. We do not, however, see a viable solution in giving players the ability to simply remove any dungeon they want from the Random Dungeon rotation. That takes away from the idea of randomness. In addition, we feel the benefits afforded players when running random Heroic dungeons (extra emblems, the chance to run a specific Heroic instance more than once a day, etc.) are too good to let them narrow down the list as they see fit.

As a compromise, we’ve made the standard fights in Oculus a bit easier, and increased the benefits of item-based vehicle scaling to make the drake combat less cumbersome. We hope these changes deter players from deserting a random dungeon when it happens to be Oculus. (Source)

Vanity Pets with Stats?
We enjoy adding things into the game that just add flavor and aren’t part of any min-maxing discussions. The non-combat pets are one of these things and so are things like titles. As soon as we put some stats on them the purpose changes entirely and anything without the ideal stats becomes “worthless”. Imagine if the cockroaches had the best stats and you see 25 of them in a raid… kinda weird. (Source)

Pugging in 3.3
Just a couple of observations from our point of view:

1) Players who don’t pug dramatically underestimate the number of people who do.
2) Players often assume every realm has the same dynamics that their realm has.

Pugging is something an awful lot of players do and our (frankly inadequate) tool didn’t facilitate that experience very well. The new tool is pretty fast and simple. If you enjoy pugging (or don’t enjoy it but do it anyway ) the new tool should let you spend less time organizing and more time killing (or wiping ).

If pugging isn’t your thing, that’s cool. We’re not trying to push you into it… unless you really like pugs (by which I mean the pooch). The tool will also benefit premades.

Dungeon System
1. You can run with whoever you like. You can /invite or have the tool find random players to fill it in (it is pretty smart in who it finds too). If you find random people, we place some restrictions on your group to discourage griefing.

2. I don’t want to get into this too much in this thread because the discussion has already gone on and on regarding this topic. However, an old style LFG channel doesn’t make much sense (because 1, the tool finds groups pretty quickly, and 2, we don’t like people lurking in the tool and messing up matchmaking just to use the chat channel). Making a new LFG channel world wide would instantly become the new channel of choice for gold sellers, spammers or people who are bored and want attention. Making a second city-wide “trade” channel might at least draw some of the legit LFG lookers from the traders. (Source)

Hunter
Hunter using focus in Cataclysm
If you ignore combo points (which we aren’t planning on adding to hunters), then the biggest decision energy-users face is whether to use a single 60 energy attack or two 30 energy attacks. The answer depends on a lot of variables, including which does more damage, what is on cooldown, the synergy between the abilities, etc.

If you consider the cat druid (because it’s slightly simpler) and ignore finishing moves, then the druid rotation would look something like getting up a +bleed attack, applying a bleed dot, getting up a +damage buff, and then doing the actual damage. You could imagine something similar like that for hunters. I don’t mean hunters are going to be a +bleed class, but more that the choice of what attack to push next should have some decision behind it. It won’t just be Serpent Sting x 1, Chimera Shot x 1000. Repeat.

Also most of the answers quoted above were from Blizzcon. These answers fall into three basic categories: things we know we’re going to do, things we’d like to do, and things we hadn’t really thought about before someone asked a question (e.g. taming mounts).

Also, Enhancement shamans will almost certainly stay as mana-users but still share (non Int) gear with hunters. This likely means some kind of attack power to mana regen mechanic like Ret paladins have currently. However development on stuff like this is still early.

[...] I said ignore the finishers, so that removes Rip and FB. You are left with a bleed (Rake), a bleed buffer (Mangle), a damage buff (SR) and then the actual attack, Shred. Someone unfamiliar with kitties might say “Oh I’ll just use all my energy on Shred, because it does the most dps” the way someone unfamiliar with focus-based hunters might say “Oh I’ll just use all my focus on Chimera / Explosive once they aren’t on cooldowns.” Our plan is to make the rotation have more depth than that. It won’t be at the Feral level of complexity without cps and finishers and because hunters have other things to manage, like Fluffy. (Source)

Focus and abilities cooldowns
Sorry, I meant if we remove the cooldown from those shots then someone might jump to the conclusion that hunters will just spam them. I don’t know if we will be able to remove the cooldown or not. Shred does not have a cooldown yet Ferals use many other abilities. That is one way to go. Another is to keep a small cooldown, but in general we think focus will let us take cooldowns off a lot of hunter abilities since the income rate of focus will help us balance the costs.

In general (and with many exceptions) you can’t balance mana-using spells around cost since casters have nearly unlimited mana at any point in time and certainly early on in a fight. Energy (and focus, and rage to a much lesser extent to where it’s actually a problem) are limited at any given moment but come back pretty quickly. Mana-spells have to be balanced around cast times and cooldowns instead. Hunters generally lack cast times, so most abilities have cooldowns which lead to annoying collisions and a lot of timer-watching. Focus should help improve that. We hope! (Source)

Rogue
Antiarc will get rogues nerfed (Check PoisonSwapper)
As some players are pointing out, it’s not the existence of an add-on that’s the issue. It’s what this means for playing a rogue. We don’t want to see the “How to play a rogue FAQ” that starts “Step One. Download the weapon swapping add-on.”

It’s one thing if it’s a niche deal that generates a marginal dps increase. It’s another if rogues feel like they have to play with the add-on.

We’re still not convinced this will become super mainstream, but we’ll see. I said before it’s a concern and it’s still a concern. (Source)

Warlock
Doomguard and Guardians
Singling out the Doomguard for just a moment…

Are you saying you don’t mind giving up your Imp or Felhound for the Doomguard? Are you talking like on a long cooldown or not? Because really with shorter cooldowns now my concern would be that every boss attempt you’d have the Doomguard out. In which case who would use the Felhound?

With guardians as a short-term guardian that doesn’t replace your current demon it’s easier to carve off a niche. Once they replace the Imp, Felhound, Felguard, Voidwalker, Succubus, then it’s tricker to make work. (Source)

Icecrown 5-Man Dungeons Loot

5-Man Dungeons items are now available on PTRs, this page will be updated multiple times during the night, stay tuned!

ilvl	Type	Slot	Item
232	Axe	One-Hand	Nighttime
232	Crossbow	Ranged	Felglacier Bolter
232	Dagger	One-Hand	Blood Weeper
232	Dagger	One-Hand	Unsharpened Ice Razor
232	Fist Weapon	Main Hand	Seven-Fingered Claws
232	Sword	Main Hand	Seethe
232	Sword	One-Hand	Rimefang’s Claw
232	Thrown	Thrown	Papa’s Brand New Knife
232	Plate	Feet	Black Spire Sabatons
232	Plate	Feet	Recovered Reliquary Boots
232	Plate	Shoulder	Pauldrons of the Devourer
232	Plate	Wrist	Malykriss Vambraces
232	Leather	Hands	Essense of Desire
232	Leather	Head	Frayed Scoundrel’s Cap
232	Leather	Wrist	Ghostly Wristwraps
232	Cloth	Chest	Mord’rethar Robes
232	Cloth	Shoulder	Very Fashionable Shoulders
232	Mail	Head	Eyes of Bewilderment
232	Mail	Head	Helm of the Spirit Shock
232	Mail	Waist	Belt of Rotted Fingernails
232	Misc.	Neck	Love’s Prisoner
232	Misc.	Trinket	Needle-Encrusted Scorpion



Emblems of Frost Rewards-So far

Emblems of Frost Rewards
It looks like Blizzard finally pushed new items with this build, below is the list of items you can buy with the Emblems of Frost you will get from raids, daily quests, and weekly raid quests. Prices aren’t available for the moment

We might have more items today, stay tuned!

ilvl	Type	Spec	Slot	Item
264	Thrown	Phys.DPS	Thrown	Shrapnel Star
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Chest	Castle Breaker’s Battleplate
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Hands	Gatecrasher’s Gauntlets
264	Plate	Melee.DPS	Waist	Gatecrasher’s Gauntlets
264	Plate	Spell MP5	Chest	Chestplate of Unspoken Truths
264	Plate	Spell	Hands	Gauntlets of Overexposure
264	Plate	Spell	Waist	Lich Killer’s Lanyard
264	Plate	Tank	Chest	Cataclysmic Chestguard
264	Plate	Tank	Hands	Gauntlets of the Kraken
264	Plate	Tank	Waist	Verdigris Chain Belt
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Chest	Longstrider’s Vest
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Feet	Rock-Steady Treads
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Hands	Logsplitters
264	Mail	Phys.DPS	Waist	Band of the Night Raven
264	Mail	Spell MP5	Chest	Mail of the Geyser
264	Mail	Spell	Feet	Earthsoul Boots
264	Mail	Spell	Hands	Blizzard Keeper’s Mitts
264	Mail	Spell	Waist	Waistband of Despair
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Chest	Shadow Seeker’s Tunic
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Hands	Cat Burglar’s Grips
264	Leather	Phys.DPS	Waist	Vengeful Noose
264	Leather	Spell	Chest	Vestments of Spruce and Fir
264	Leather	Spell	Hands	Gloves of the Great Horned Owl
264	Leather	Spell	Waist	Belt of Petrified Ivy
264	Cloth	Spell	Chest	Meteor Chaser’s Raiment
264	Cloth	Spell	Chest	Ermine Coronation Robes
264	Cloth	Spell	Hands	Gloves of Ambivalence
264	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Belt of Omission
264	Cloth	Spell	Waist	Circle of Ossus
264	Cloak	Melee.DPS	Back	Might of the Ocean Serpent
264	Cloak	Phys.DPS	Back	Recovered Scarlet Onslaught Cape
264	Cloak	Spell MP5	Back	Drape of the Violet Tower
264	Cloak	Spell	Back	Volde’s Cloak of the Night Sky
264	Cloak	Tank	Back	Sentinel’s Winter Cloak
264	Idol	Balance	Relic	Idol of the Crying Moon
264	Idol	Feral	Relic	Idol of the Lunar Eclipse
264	Idol	Restoration	Relic	Idol of the Black Willow
264	Libram	Holy	Relic	Libram of Blinding Light
264	Libram	Protection	Relic	Libram of the Eternal Tower
264	Libram	Retribution	Relic	Libram of Three Truths
264	Misc.	Phys.DPS	Trinket	Herkuml War Token
264	Misc.	Spell Hit	Trinket	Maghia’s Misguided Quill
264	Misc.	Spell	Trinket	Purified Lunar Dust
264	Misc.	Tank	Trinket	Corroded Skeleton Key
264	Sigil	Melee.DPS	Relic	Sigil of the Hanged Man
264	Sigil	Tank	Relic	Sigil of the Bone Gryphon
264	Totem	Elemental	Relic	Bizuri’s Totem of Shattered Ice
264	Totem	Enhancement	Relic	Totem of the Avalanche
264	Totem	Restoration	Relic	Totem of the Surging Sea

New 3.3 notes, mounts, and achieves

Added the new Feats of Strength : Invincible’s Reins, Big Love Rocket, And I’ll Form the Head!. Invincible is now a confirmed drop from Arthas!

Patch 3.3 – PTR Build 10805
A new build has been deployed on PTRs, stay tuned for more changes!

The Halls of Reflection (Last wing of the 5-man dungeon) are now available for testing

Mounts
2 Frostbrood Mounts ? Smells like Glory of the Icecrown Raider … But at this time the rewards on the achievements are still placeholders, wait & see.

• Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher – Summons and dismisses a rideable Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher.  This is an extremely fast mount.  This mount can only be summoned in Outland or Northrend.
• Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher – Summons and dismisses a rideable Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher.  This is an extremely fast mount.  This mount can only be summoned in Outland or Northrend.

Achievements
Feats of Strength have been added to the game, Invincible is now a confirmed drop from Arthas!

• Invincible’s Reins – Obtain Invincible from Arthas in Icecrown Citadel.
• Big Love Rocket – Obtain the Big Love Rocket from Apothecary Hummel in Shadowfang Keep during Love is in the Air.
• And I’ll Form the Head! – Obtain Mimiron’s Head from 25-player Yogg-Saron with no Keepers assisting you.

Icecrown achievements have been updated and do not look like placeholders anymore.

• Storming the Citadel (25 player) – Defeat the first four bosses in Icecrown Citadel in 25-player mode.
• The Crimson Hall (25 player) – Defeat the bosses of The Crimson Hall in Icecrown Citadel in 25-player mode.
• The Frostwing Halls (25 player) – Defeat the bosses of The Frostwing Halls in Icecrown Citadel in 25-player mode.
• Boned (25 player) – Defeat Lord Marrowgar without anyone taking damage from Bone Cyclone in 25-player mode.
• Full House (25 player) – Defeat Lady Deathwhisper with at least five different types of Cultists active at the time of her demise in 25-player mode.
• I’m on a Boat (25 player) – Claim victory in the Gunship Battle without any raid member visiting the enemy gunship more than once in 25-player mode.
• I’ve Gone and Made a Mess (25 player) – Defeat the Deathbringer before Mark of the Fallen Champion is cast three times in 25-player mode.
• Dances with Oozes (25 player) – Defeat Rotface without a Big Ooze casting Unstable Ooze Explosion in 25-player mode.
• Flu Shot Shortage (25 player) – Defeat Festergut while none of the players in your raid group ever had 3 stacks of Inoculated in 25-player mode.
• Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion… (25 player) – Defeat Professor Putricide without using Regurgitated Ooze on the Abomination in 25-player mode.
• The Orb Whisperer (25 player) – Defeat the Blood Council without anyone in the raid taking more than 22,000 spell damage in a single hit.
• Once Bitten, Twice Shy (25 player) – Defeat the Blood Queen once as a vampire and again without becoming a vampire in 25-player mode.
• Portal Jockey (25 player) – Enter every portal spawned by Valithria Dreamwalker before healing her to full health in 25-player mode.
• All You Can Eat (25 player) – Defeat Sindragosa in 25-player mode without any member of your raid receiving more than 4 stacks of Mystic Buffet.

Models
Lord Marrowgar’s model has been updated once again. I just want to hug him.

Spell Comparison

Quote from Blizzard staff

Paladin
Holy

• Lay on Hands now causes Forbearance when used on self.
• Infusion of Light now causes your Flash of Light to heal targets with Sacred Shield for an additional 50/100% over 12 sec.

Protection

• Divine Intervention now  Also clears the effect of Exhaustion and Sated on the target.

Priest
Shadow

• Shadowform tooltip has been clarified for haste benefits : grants Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch the ability to benefit from haste.

Rogue
Assassination

• Murder now increases all damage by 2/4%. (Old – Only affected Humanoid, Giant, Beast and Dragonkin targets)

Official Patch Notes
The official patch notes have been slightly updated for this build.

Quote from: Dresorull (Source)

Icecrown Citadel

• All three wings of the 5-player dungeon are currently available for testing.

Oculus

• Azure Ring Guardians agro distance changed from 50 to 40 yards.

What do two nerds do for eachother for their 4 year anniversary?

My amazing boyfriend woke up and made me breakfast in bed, took my out to a wonderful lunch, tonight were going out to a big dinner and to see A Christmas Carol in 3D, and going to Bush Gardens this weekend. But what does he add to that?

Help me get enough rep for my kitty<3

And get my Lil’ KT <333

So cute!

Best boyfriend ever <3

O, and yeah, I got him something ingame too. A race change. He no longer wants to be a gnome but is waiting to see new racials =)

Shaman T10 is out!

Worth the wait.

Quest Tracking in 3.3! And updated patch notes.

Had to rip myself away from the sims to show this cool new update. Looks like the questhelper mod will be out in 3.3!

Patch 3.3 – PTR Notes Update 11/05
The official notes have been updated to reflect changes from today’s build. Also included an update from 2 days ago that I never had the time to report.

Quote from Blizzard staff

PvP
Arenas

• All abilities that have base cooldowns of 10 minutes or longer cannot be used in Arenas, down from 15 minutes.

Dungeons & Raids

• Players no longer need to kill the final bosses in all four wings of this dungeon in order to teleport to Sapphiron. Teleportation orbs have been added to allow players access back and forth from Sapphiron’s lair.

Death Knight
Unholy

• Night of the Dead: Now reduces the damage your pet takes from area-of-effect damage by 45/90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players. In addition, this talent now reduces the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 2/4 minutes, down from 5/10 minutes.

Druid

• Tranquility: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.

Mage
Frost

• Deep Freeze: This spell now deals a large amount of damage to targets permanently immune to stuns. In addition, when this ability deals damage it will no longer consume two charges of Fingers of Frost for those mages with the Shatter talent.

Paladin
Holy

• Sanctified Light: This talent now also has a 33/66/100% chance to prevent Lay on Hands from causing Forbearance when Lay on Hands is used on others.

Retribution

• Repentance: This crowd control effect will no longer break early from the damage done by Righteous Vengeance.

Priest

• Divine Hymn: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.

Rogue
Subtlety

• Preparation: The cooldown on this ability has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.
• Filthy Tricks: The cooldown reduction this talent provides for Preparation has been reduced to 1.5/3 minutes, down from 2.5/5 minutes.

User Interface
Quest Tracking Feature
Players can now track quest objectives on the map (‘M’ key).

• Quest Log
  • A Show Map button has been added to the Quest Log. Selecting a quest and pressing this button will open the map for the zone in which the quest objective is located displaying the associated area of interest. Any other active quests in a player’s Quest Log for that zone will also be displayed.
• Map
  • The map interface has been separated into four separate panes: a map pane (left), a pane listing active quest names for the zone being viewed (right), a pane listing the full quest text for any highlighted quest (bottom left), and a pane listing the quest rewards for any highlighted quest (bottom right).
  • All active quests listed in the right pane for the zone being viewed on the map will be assigned a number. These numbers will be displayed on the map according to the areas of interest for each quest.
  • Highlighting a quest name in the right pane will highlight the corresponding area of interest on the map in the left pane, show its quest text in the lower left pane, and list the quest rewards in the lower right pane.
  • Given that some quest objectives can be achieved in multiple locations within a given zone, highlighting such a quest will highlight an area of interest closest in proximity to the character’s current location.
  • This feature can be disabled by un-checking the Show Quest Objectives box in the bottom right corner of the new map interface, restoring the map to its standard full-screen display.
  • Clicking on the arrow in the top right corner of the new map interface will hide all but the map pane, bringing the map out of full-screen mode and allowing players to leave it open while navigating a zone or engaging in combat.
• Objectives Tracking
  • This frame has been improved to offer new functionality and can be used with the new shrunken map option.
  • The Objectives frame is now docked below the mini-map next to the right 2 action bars and will track up to 12 quests for a zone.
  • Numbers have been added next to each quest name and objective corresponding with those areas of interest displayed on the map.
  • If a quest objective has been completed, the number will be replaced with a yellow question mark symbol.
  • The arrow button in the top right corner of the Objectives frame can be used to toggle between minimizing and maximizing the quest objective display.
• Quest Difficulty Tracking
  • This feature is off by default and can be enabled in the Objectives window from the Interface Options menu. Turning this feature on will color-code all quest names displayed in the map interface according to difficulty (grey, green, yellow, orange, and red).