Limited attempts removed on normal

2010 February 9
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After each region’s maintenance this week, raids will no longer lose attempts on wipes in Normal mode for Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. There will still be limited attempts in Heroic mode.

We will continue to monitor developments in Icecrown Citadel in the future, especially since the Heroic difficulty has been unlocked by a significant number of raids.

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Apothecary Trio-Easy guide

2010 February 7
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Easy boss. We 3 manned him multiple times on multiple toons.

You don’t need a tank, but probably need a heal or a dps that can heal if needed. You CAN two man this if that’s how you would like to farm it.

Take the quest from the goblin outside the room. Open your bag.

One person take the pink bottle, one the yellow. If you have 3 the 3rd person can use whichever. If you take the pink bottle, attack the pink mob. If you have yellow, attack the green. Simple.

Keep them spread apart and when they spray keep them away from your other party members. The main boss is untankable, untauntable, and will run around throwing flasks.

if you are pink, don’t stand in the green. If you are green, don’t stand in the pink. Again, simple.

The adds don’t do much, We didn’t focus them, if they died it was due to accidental AoE (divine storm, blah blah). Some will blow up and hurt a bit, just heal through it.

it doesn’t matter what order you kill them in. It’s very simple.

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Love is in the Air Guide

2010 February 6
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Time for the next holiday, and since my holiday posts get stupid amounts of attention I guess I’ll make one for this one too.

This event has been completely changed. 1st off, they added a new boss in SFK.

He will be dropping an amazing mount, and a pet, along with a few other cool things.

Love is in The Air – Apothecary Trio
The Love is in the Air world event just started and tons of stuff have been added to the event this year! The most interesting change is the addition of 3 bosses in Shadowfang Keep, for a headless-horseman like daily quest.

All you have to do to fight them is go to Shadowfang Keep in the Silverpine Forest.

Loot Table
ilvl Type Spec Slot Item
226 Misc. Spell MP5 Neck Winking Eye of Love
226 Misc. Spell Neck Heartbreak Charm
226 Misc. Tank Neck Shard of Pirouetting Happiness
226 Misc. Phys.DPS Neck Sweet Perfume Broach
226 Misc. Melee.DPS Neck Choker of the Pure Heart
1 Misc. Misc. Head Forever-Lovely Rose
1 Misc. Misc. Pet Toxic Wasteling
1 Misc. Misc. Misc. The Heartbreaker

The Heartbreaker on use effect just makes your character cry. The Toxic Wasteling seems to have a couple of abilities and might be an interesting pet!

According to the Big Love Rocket achievement, Apothecary Hummel also drops the Big Love Rocket Mount

Skills
Apothecary Baxter
Irresistible Cologne Inflicts 1620 to 1980 Nature damage to nearby enemies every second.
5 yds. Instant
Chain Reaction Inflicts 8550 to 9450 Fire damage to nearby enemies.
5 yds. 30 sec cast
Irresistible Cologne Spray 3150 to 3850 Nature damage inflicted every 1.0 sec to enemies in a cone in front of the caster.
5 yds. Instant
Apothecary Hummel
Alluring Perfume Inflicts 1620 to 1980 Nature damage every second.
5 yds. Instant
Alluring Perfume Spray 3150 to 3850 Nature damage inflicted every 1.0 sec to enemies in a cone in front of the caster.
5 yds. Instant
Chain Reaction Inflicts 8550 to 9450 Fire damage to nearby enemies.
5 yds. 30 sec cast
Apothecary Frye
Lingering Fumes Tosses vials of perfume or cologne around the caster. Caster cannot be controlled.
15 yds. Instant
Crazed Apothecary (Add)
Unstable Reaction Inflicts 2375 to 2625 Nature damage to nearby enemies, but kills the caster.
6 yds. Instant
Strategy

The fight might be confusing the first time but isn’t that hard (to give you an idea, I could heal it without too much problem with a rare-geared shaman alt that I rarely play).

The Standard Apothecary Serving Kit contains two potions :

The radius of the Alluring Perfume and Irresistible Cologne is fairly small, the player tanking each Baxter uses the Cologne Neutralizer and the one tanking Hummel uses the Perfume Neutralizer, making them pretty much immune to most of the damage they deal.

Apothecary Frye should be tanked by your main tank, he doesn’t have any auras but will throw vials of perfume and cologne on the group. The easy way to handle it for DPS / Healers is just to pick an immunity at the beginning of the fight and just stay in the clouds they’re immune to, if you feel like keybinding your potions you can just change your buff everytime the cloud color changes.

Make sure the apothecaries are tanked back to the group, their Alluring Perfume Spray and Irresistible Cologne Spray will hurt your group pretty badly if they are facing the raid.

Crazy Apothecaries will also spawn throughout the encounter, they do not hurt a lot but will eventually suicide with Unstable Reaction and deal some damage, they are a minor annoyance and most of the time you will probably just ignore them.

As long as you understood the tanking basics and if your group can avoid clouds or switch their immunities on time, the fight is pretty straightforward and it won’t take long to kill all 3 bosses.

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The event will be out tomorrow, and I will update this guide with all I can personally find and easiest ways to do them. Until then I will take what I can find from around the net and try and put it all together.

Quests

Something is in the Air (and it Ain’t Love) or Something is in the Air (and it Ain’t Love)
Start: Faded Lovely Greeting Card (Not sure where this is obtained yet)
End: Detective Snap Snagglebolt or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt
This quest leads into the event’s main questline, in which players aid the Steamwheedle Cartel in trying to thwart the Crown Chemical Co.’s plans to infect all of Azeroth with their perfumed plague (and gain back their established market exploiting holidays for gold)! This quest may not be necessary to start the main questline.

Main Event Questline

A new questline has been added in 2010’s Love is in the Air event involving the Steamwheedle Cartel and the Crown Chemical Company. The Steamwheedle Cartel suspects there’s something shady about these goblin newcomers, and investigators have been hired to get to the bottom of things – with your help! The final quest of this chain leads directly into the quest unlocking the daily quest to fight Apothecary Hummel, though I am not sure yet if this quest chain is required

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  • Uncommon Scents or Uncommon Scents
    Start: Unknown
    End: Detective Snap Snagglebolt or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt
    This quest asks Horde players to head out to Orgrimmar to find Detective Snap Snagglebolt and let him know you’re interested in helping the Steamwheedle Cartel investigate the Crown Chemical Co. and their actions. Alliance players are sent to meet Inspector Snip Snagglebolt in Stormwind Cit

    • Something Stinks or Something Stinks
      Start & End: Detective Snap Snagglebolt or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt
      The goblin investigator will provide you with Snagglebolt’s Air Analyzer which you must use to test the air around 6 heavily perfumed guards found throughout the city. Simply use the item on the guards and return to the investigator.

      • Pilfering Perfume or Pilfering Perfume
        Start & End: Detective Snap Snagglebolt or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt
        For this quest, the goblins will have you disguse as a package runner for the Crown Chemical Co., and you must head outside either Orgrimmar or Stormwind City where you’ll find a stockpile of the Company’s goods. Quickly run by it to have a parcel handed off to you before they notice you aren’t really on their side, and bring it back to the investigator.

        • Snivel’s Sweetheart or Fireworks At The Gilded Rose
          Start: Detective Snap Snagglebolt or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt
          End: Roka or Marion Sutton
          Turns out this crate you retrieved contained some sort of chemical-filled rockets, which the goblins recognize as having been crafted by Snivel Rustrocket. You are sent out to find Snivel’s alleged girlfriend to get as much information as you can on his wherabouts. Horde players are sent to Roka, at Gotri’s Travelling Goods in Orgrimmar’s Drag while Alliance players can find Marion Sutton at the Gilded Rose in Stormwind City’s Trade District

          • Hot On The Trail or Hot On The Trail
            Start & End: Roka or Marion Sutton
            Well, turns out Snivel has flown the coop! The distraught (but mostly annoyed) ladies send you on a hunt for that lying goblin Snivel and have you search the bank, auction house and barber shop of your faction’s respective city (Orgrimmar or Stormwind City).

            • A Friendly Chat… or A Friendly Chat…
              Start: Roka or Marion Sutton
              End: Snivel Rustrocket
              After no luck finding the goblin on any of his errands, the ladies suspect that he’s now on his way out for a nice escape to the South Seas – you’ve got to stop him! Horde players must head out to the East zeppelin tower (the one that leads to Eastern Kingdoms) and Alliance players to the Stormwind Harbor in attempt to stop Snivel and get some information before he’s gone for good. I assume that once finding him, you’re going to have to beat some information out of him until he eventually gives up Snivel’s Ledger. Bring this Ledger back to Snip or Snap and this chain leads into Man on the Inside or Man on the Inside, ending with the defeat of Apothecary Hummel, the new event boss.

Daily Quests

The Crown Chemical Company would like for you to share their new products with the denizens of Azeroth to help establish their role as a new provider of quality holiday goods. Three daily quests have been added asking users to sample their new holiday products with players. I’m not yet sure if all three of these dailies will be available at the same time, or if a random one can be obtained each day.

  • A Cloudlet of Classy Cologne
    Start & End: Unknown
    The Crown Chemical Company would like you to test out their Crown Perfume Sprayer on 10 different people. You will be rewarded with 5x Love Token.
  • A Perfect Puff of Perfume
    Start & End: Unknown
    The Crown Chemical Company would like you to test out their Crown Cologne Sprayer on 10 different people. You will be rewarded with 5x Love Token.
  • Bonbon Blitz
    Start & End: Unknown
    The Crown Chemical Company would like you to toss samples from the Crown Chocolate Sampler to 10 different people. You will be rewarded with 5x Love Token.

The Steamwheedle Cartel need all the help they can get in eradicating the Crown Chemical Co. and their sinister plot. Players level 5 and higher can obtain a daily quest pitting them against mobs their level. The quest you get is dependent on your current level, and your faction. For this daily, you must kill 5 of the Crown NPCs in the designated zone and use Snagglebolt’s Khorium Bomb to destroy a nearby chemical wagon.Horde QuestsStart & End: Detective Snap Snagglebolt

Alliance QuestsStart & End: Inspector Snip Snagglebolt

This year, instead of the complicated Gift Collections being gathered and presented to the respective faction leaders, players will instead be asked to create and turn in Lovely Charm Bracelets. These bracelets can be created by obtaining a Lovely Charm Collector’s Kit, which I presume will be available from an NPC located either nearby the respective faction leaders or at some sort of main event hub for the holiday. Once you have obtained this item, you will then be able to gather Lovely Charms from “worthwhile enemies” – what exactly this means I have no idea at this time. You will probably be able to gain these charms either from killing event NPCs close to your level (such as those found near the chemical wagons for Crushing the Crown), but I’ll find out as soon as possible give you guys an update! Combining 10 Lovely Charms will create a single Lovely Charm Bracelet, which, upon accepting a daily quest, can be turned in to the faction leader of your choice. I’m not sure if you can only complete one leader’s daily quest, or if all four will be available to be completed per day

.Horde Quests
Start: Unknown
End: Faction leader of your choice (depends on quest)

Alliance Quests
Start: Unknown

End: Faction leader of your choice (depends on quest)

I’m not sure if the Dangerous Love quest chains have been removed in 2010, so I have included information on these quests which can be expanded for view below. Obviously, if this quest chain is still available, this section will be re-included in full. :)

Seasonal Boss

Also new to this year’s Love is in the Air celebration is the of a special, event-only boss located in Shadowfang Keep – Apothecary Hummel! This boss can be battled upon completion of a short quest chain, though it is likely that the first step need not be completed and you can just accept the quest outside of Shadowfang Keep and zone in to complete it. This boss will most likely require a decently geared 5-man group to defeat, but this section will be updated with as much information about the boss as possible.

  • Man on the Inside or Man on the Inside
    Start: Detective Snap Snagglebolt or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt
    End: Investigator Fezzen Brasstacks
    After completing the quest A Friendly Chat… (Alliance version), you will receive Snivel’s Ledger to return to Detective Snap Snagglebolt or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt. Upon doing so, you will be able to obtain this quest, asking you to head out to Shadowfang Keep and speak to Investigator Fezzen Brasstacks.

    • You’ve Been Served
      Start: Investigator Fezzen Brasstacks
      End: Apothecary Hummel
      Investigator Fezzen Brasstacks will give you a Court Subpoena to serve to Apothecary Hummel, located deep inside Shadowfang Keep. The parcel he gives also includes an item to help with the fight against the Apothecary and his minions. This quest can be completed once per day, similar to other event boss summons.

Big Love Rocket

Seasonal Items

In the previous years, most of the fun, seasonal items were only obtained through random chance from Gifts and Pledges of Adoration and required extremely overcomplicated collection of items from all across Azeroth. As a result, many of the achievements and items related to them were a complete pain to get due to low drop rates and getting unlucky. In light of this, Blizzard has instead opted to make most of the items required for these achievements purchasable from new seasonal vendors, using a new currency – Love Token. This currency can be acquired through completion of the newly-added daily quests.

Lovely Merchants can be found in every capital city selling seasonal goodies.
I will (of course) update this list with full loot information and prices as soon as it is available!

Now onto the important part

Achievements

With each new event comes new achievements! For Love in the Air, there are 12 different challenges for players and a new player title granted to those who can achieve them all – the Love Fool! Thankfully, many of these achievements should be significantly easier than they were in previous years!

  • Fool For Love or Fool For Love
    This achievement can be found in the main World Events achievement category and is awarded upon completion of every Love is in the Air achievement except Perma-Peddle, Tough Love and Lovely Luck Is On Your Side. These achievements should be easier this year as most items required can now be purchased from seasonal vendors. This achievement awards the player title ‘The Love Fool’ and is a requirement towards completion of What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been (Alliance version) which rewards the Reins of the Violet Proto-Drake.
  • Be Mine!
    Eat the eight “Bag of Candies” heart candies listed below.
    For this achievement, you must eat one of each of the randomly generated message candies found inside a Bag of Candies. The Bag of Candies can only be used once every minute, each bag has 10 charges, and it can be purchased from a Lovely Merchant.
  • Charming
    Create 12 Lovely Charm Bracelets.
    For this achievement, you must create a total of 12 Lovely Charm Bracelet, which are created by combining 10 Lovely Charms each. In order to acquire these charms, you must obtain a Lovely Charm Collector’s Kit from (I assume) Kwee Q. Peddlefeet located near any of the major faction leaders.
  • Dangerous Love
    Assist the Steamwheedle Cartel in stopping the sinister Crown Chemical Co. plot.
    For this achievement, you must complete one of the Crushing the Crown daily quests offered by Detective Snap Snagglebolt in Orgrimmar or Inspector Snip Snagglebolt in Stormwind. There is a specific daily quest available to characters of every level range, with the lowest level quest being made available to players at least level 5 and the highest to players level 71 or above. This quest simply requires you to destroy a chemical wagon and kill five Crown Chemical Co. baddies found around it.
  • Fistful of Love
    Use a Handful of Rose Petals on each of the race/class combinations listed below.
    For this achievement, you must use a Handful of Rose Petals on each of the following race/class combinations. The Handful of Rose Petals can be purchased with Love Token from a Lovely Merchant.

    Gnome Warlock Orc Death Knight
    Human Death Knight Night Elf Priest
    Orc Shaman Tauren Druid
    Undead Warrior Troll Rogue
    Blood Elf Mage Draenei Paladin
    Dwarf Hunter
  • Flirt With Disaster or Flirt With Disaster
    Get completely smashed, put on your best perfume, throw a handful of rose petals on Jeremiah Payson or Sraaz and then kiss him. You’ll regret it in the morning.
    To complete this achievement, Horde players must get completely smashed, use a Perfume Bottle, throw a Handful of Rose Petals on Jeremiah Payson and the /kiss him. Alliance players must get completely smashed, put on a Perfume Bottle, throw a Handful of Rose Petals on Sraaz and then /kiss him. Obviously the best way to get completely smashed would be through massive consumption of Strong Alcohol, but enough of any alcoholic beverage will do the trick. Simply drink to your heart’s content until you receive the message that your character is smashed, and you’re set! The Perfume Bottle can be purchased from any innkeeper, and Handful of Rose Petals can be purchased from a Lovely Merchant.
  • I Pitied The Fool
    Pity the Love Fool in the locations specified below.
    For this achievement, you (or another player) must use Love Fool in each of the five listed zones, and then /pity the Love Fool that is created. The zones in which you must do this are Emerald Dragonshrine, Arathi Basin Blacksmith, Naxxramas, Battle Ring of Gurubashi Arena and The Culling of Stratholme. The Love Fool can be purchased from a Lovely Merchant.
  • Lonely?
    Enjoy a Buttermilk Delight with someone in Dalaran at a Romantic Picnic during the Love is in the Air celebration.
    For this achievement, you can either join someone in Dalaran who has used their Romantic Picnic Basket, or you can use your own and have someone else join you. Once you have used the Romantic Picnic and acquired the buff, you must then eat a Buttermilk Delight candy, which can be obtained from a Box of Chocolates.
  • Lovely Luck Is On Your Side
    Open a Lovely Dress Box and receive a Lovely Black Dress.
    For this achievement, you must loot a Lovely Black Dress from a Lovely Dress Box, which I assume has a chance to drop any of the Lovely Dresses offered as quest rewards in the previous years. This item might be purchased from a Lovely Merchant.
  • My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
    Obtain a Bouquet of Red or Ebon Roses during the Love is in the Air celebration.
    For this achievement, you need to obtain either a Bouquet of Red Roses or Bouquet of Ebon Roses. Both of these have a random chance of dropping from Maiden of Grief in Halls of Stone, Prince Keleseth in Utgarde Keep or Prince Taldaram in Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom in either Normal or Heroic difficulty.
  • Nation of Adoration or Nation of Adoration
    Complete the Lovely Charm Bracelet daily quest for each Horde or Alliance capital.
    For this achievement, you must complete each of the different ‘A Gift for the…’ quests available to your faction. To do this, you must obtain a Lovely Charm Collector’s Kit, collect a total of 40 Lovely Charms and create 4 Lovely Charm Bracelets, one for each of your faction’s leaders. This shouldn’t be a problem, as you will already want to be creating the Lovely Charm Bracelets for Charming and will want to complete these dailys to earn enough Love Token to purchase necessary event items!
  • Perma-Peddle
    Obtain a permanent Peddlefeet pet by procuring a Truesilver Shafted Arrow.
    For this achievement, you must purchase the Truesilver Shafted Arrow with Love Token from a Lovely Merchant. This item will teach you to summon the companion pet Peddlefeet.
  • Shafted!
    Shoot 10 players with the Silver Shafted Arrow.
    For this achievement, all you have to do is use a Silver Shafted Arrow on 10 players. You can purchase Silver Shafted Arrow from a Lovely Merchant.
  • Sweet Tooth
    Sample the Love is in the Air candies listed below.
    For this achievement, you need to consume each of the four candies found within Box of Chocolates.
  • The Rocket’s Pink Glare
    Shoot off 10 Love Rockets in 20 seconds or less.
    For this achievement, you need to use 10 Love Rocket in 20 seconds (or less). Simply hotkey the rockets and spam away! The Love Rocket can be purchased from a Lovely Merchant.
  • Tough Love
    Defeat the trio of Crown Chemical Co. apothecaries in Shadowfang Keep.
    For this achievement, you must complete the quest You’ve Been Served inside Shadowfang Keep and defeat Apothecary Hummel and his cronies. This is an event-only boss, similar to Coren Direbrew during Brewfest.
  • Big Love Rocket
    Obtain the Big Love Rocket from Apothecary Hummel in Shadowfang Keep during Love is in the Air.
    This is not an achievement, but a Feat of Strength awarded for obtaining the extremely rare Big Love Rocket, dropped by the event-only boss Apothecary Hummel in Shadowfang Keep. Spawning him will requires completion of a daily quest, limiting attempts to get this awesome ride, so good luck!

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Buff to Resto Tier 10 4 Piece

2010 February 6
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Well, more of a fix I guess. It IS a buff though.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator)

  • The rejuvenation procs from the Druid Tier 10 will now work better in a raid group and not avoid targets that have any rejuvenation spell on them though it will continue to avoid targets that have the casting druid’s rejuvenation on them.

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Ensidia Suspended?

2010 February 4
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I’m not an EU player, nor do I care what guild get world 1st, nor do I care if US>EU, or any other competitive bull shit this game has.

I can honestly say, I don’t think the suspension was deserved. I normally am a pessimist, and would assume people were in the wrong before I assume they were in the right, but 72 hours? Really Blizz? Take away their chance at world 1st and maybe their chance at going into hardmodes next week. This is obviously the only reasons they play this game. There are no more, take-a-month-to-kill bosses anymore, so amazing guilds only real achievements come from world 1sts. These people are basically on call for 1-3 weeks(however long it takes them to clear it) all day, everyday, when new content is released. This is the only reason they play. A bit too much to care about a game? Imo yes, but they have fun so who cares what I think.

Take their achieves away, take the gear, reset their attempts on him. You didn’t test it on PTR, your shit was bugged, they killed it without knowing what bugged it. Should they see the throne rebuilding and just stop trying to kill him? I think not.

Ensidia suspended for 72 Hours-MMO-Champion
A few hours ago, all the players involved in the Lich King 25 world first kill of Ensidia had their account suspended for 72 hours, Gamemasters also removed the achievements and loot acquired during yesterday’s raid.

Date of Violation: 03/02/2010
Type of violation: Exploitation – Abuse of in-game mechanics or glitches with intent to exploit or cheat in World of Warcraft.
Details: Use of Saronite Bombs to bypass The Lich King fight mechanics Consequences for Account: Account suspended for 72 hours, all items and achievements gained removed

This isn’t my place to discuss whether the ban is rightful or not, however Ensidia was nice enough to provide me with more information.

First, it seems that the bug was caused by a single rogue (always blame it on the rogues!) who used Saronite Bombs throughout the fight. Apparently the siege damage caused by the bombs bugged the encounter’s mechanics and respawned the platform destroyed by the Lich King during the encounter.

It results in the fight being fairly easier because you end up with more room to move and more importantly, you do not have to care about Valkyrs taking away your raid members anymore. (They will just land on the rebuilt platform when they fall down)

The problem with the Saronite Bombs is simple, a lot of rogues have been using them for the past months (and it’s been documented on ElitistJerks for quite some time now) and a lot of high-end rogues who like to maximize their DPS just consider it part of their normal DPS rotation.

Below are the WoL reports for all the boss fights in yesterday’s raid.


Blood Princes

Lanathel

Deathwhisper

Festergut

Marrowgar

Putricide

Rotface

Saurfang

Sindragosa

Valithria

Lich King
(Naihiko)

These logs clearly show that Naihiko uses Saronite Bombs all the time, and we’re talking about a raid who never saw the Lich King and couldn’t really know that it would bug the encounter. Additionally, I took the time to screenshot Naihiko’s damage report during his last 5 raids. (I realize that two raids are in the same week, this is only because he used his alt Naihika)


Jan. 14

Jan 20.

Jan 24.

Jan 27.

Feb 3.

Of course, all these screenshots are based on text logs and I do realize that they can be modified easily (but it does look like a lot of work to include so many entries). The only “wrong” thing Ensidia did is to keep going and kill the boss with the bug because they had no way to identify the source of the problem. Even going through raw combat logs wouldn’t help because it looks like they only show Saronite Bomb damaging NPCs.

I also want to make it clear that I’m not trying to defend or attack anyone here, I just thought it could be a good thing to bring some more information to the discussion. Hopefully, it will start a more interesting and mature discussion about the issue, you totally have the right to think that Ensidia should be banned, just don’t be aggressive about it in comments. (or in my mail)

This is only what Ensidia gave me; I can’t proove this is the complete information, nor this hasn’t been tempered. And knowing Blizzard, they won’t disclose any more information they may have on their side. So I can only relate Ensidia’s side of the story.

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Blood Queen, Put, and Val 10 vids

2010 February 3
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Why o why are they so fuzzy! I’ll have to mess around with my settings for Arthas.

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Weekly ICC raid qsts

2010 February 3
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BTW, if MMO-Champion is not on your bookmarks it should be!

Icecrown Citadel Weekly Quests
This patch finally activated the Icecrown Weekly quests datamined during Patch 3.3 PTRs. According to the posts on ElitistJerks a NPC will spawn at some point during your Icecrown Citadel run to give you the quest.

The following quests will be randomly available in the instance (one each week) :

Blood Quickening – Rescue Infiltrator Minchar before he is executed.
These Scourge bloodsuckers — San’layn they call themselves – give me the creeps. We’ve had one of our best men keeping an eye on them. But this morning he got sloppy and got himself taken prisoner. He’s being interrogated by the Queen herself right now, and his cries echo through the Crimson Halls. Please, save him before it’s too late!

Deprogramming – Defeat Lady Deathwhisper while ensuring that Darnavan survives.
We had hoped to place a man on the inside of the Cult of the Damned, to give us an inside angle on the Lich King’s machinations, but we… underestimated the persuasive powers of Arthas and his dark minister, Lady Deathwhisper. Our man, Darnavan, is one of them now.

If you plan on fighting your way through the Oratory ahead, please keep your eyes peeled for Darnavan. If you can bring him back to us alive, we can attempt to reverse the Cult’s brainwashing.

Residue Rendezvous – Return to Alchemist Adrianna while infected with Orange and Green Blight.
Professor Putricide has been holed up in his foul laboratory, experimenting and refining increasingly lethal strains of blight to be used against us. If only we could obtain pure samples of the toxins, our researchers could concoct an antidote that would save countless lives.

If you happen to come across live specimens, please return here immediately so that we can harvest them for study.

Respite for a Tormented Soul – Use the Life Crystals to preserve Sindragosa’s Essence.
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.

Securing the Ramparts – Slay the Rotting Frost Giant.
As if this place weren’t enough of a madhouse to begin with, we’re fighting a war on two fronts up here, with the Scourge on one side and those blasted Alliance dogs on our other flank!

We are here to clear a safe landing for our vessels, but a behemoth of a giant on the other side of the Ramparts is hurling debris at anything that comes close and keeping our smaller ships at bay.

I’ll be honest — he’s a bit much for us to handle, but you and your companions look up to the task.

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Minor patch 3.3.2 and last wing of ICC open this Tuesday! Notes

2010 February 1
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Patch 3.3.2 Official Notes
The notes below are the official version of the Patch 3.3.2 notes

Quote from Blizzard staff
World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.3.2

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

Dungeons & Raids
Halls of Stone

  • Brann Bronzebeard has been getting into shape and now feels comfortable walking faster when escorted.

The Forge of Souls

  • The Devourer of Souls will now cast Mirrored Souls less often.
  • The Spell Reflect ability has been altered on several creatures. It now has a cast time, only has 2 charges, and has a 75% chance of reflecting spells.

The Nexus

  • Anomalus will now use the Create Rift ability only once, down from 3 times.

The Old Kingdom

  • Elder Nadox now only gets one Ahn’Kahar Guardian during the encounter.
  • Jadoga Shadowseeker now only ascends once during the encounter.
  • Several enemies between the Befouled Terrace and The Desecrated Altar have been removed or had their pathing altered.

Pit of Saron

  • Players can now zone back into the instance if they are dead while encounters with Krick and Ick or Forgemaster Garfrost are in progress.

Utgarde Pinnacle

  • Skadi the Ruthless can now be removed from his drake with 3 harpoon strikes, down from 5.
  • Svala Sorrowgrave now casts Ritual of the Sword 1 time during the encounter, down from 3.

Vault of Archavon

  • Toravon, the latest boss to join the Vault’s giants and masters of the elements, is now accepting challengers in 10- and 25-player formats.

The Violet Hold

  • The time between a boss being defeated and a new portal opening has been decreased.

PvP
Arenas

  • Season 8 has officially begun featuring all-new rewards.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Balance

  • Earth and Moon: This talent now increases the druid’s spell damage by 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%.

Shaman (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Elemental Combat

  • Shamanism: This talent now provides 4/8/12/16/20% extra spell damage to Lightning Bolt/Chain Lightning, up from 3/6/9/12/15%, and 5/10/15/20/25% to Lava Burst, up from 4/8/12/16/20%.

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Affliction

  • Shadow Embrace: This effect can now stack up to 3 times, up from 2. However, the periodic healing reduction effect has been reduced from 3/6/9/12/15% to 2/4/6/8/10% per application.

Demonology

  • Demonic Pact: The damage bonus granted the warlock by this talent has been increased from 1/2/3/4/5% to 2/4/6/8/10%. The buff granted to a raid or party by this talent remains unchanged.

Destruction

  • Conflagrate: The damage-over-time effect of Conflagrate has been increased to 40% of the spell’s total damage, up from 20%.
  • Empowered Imp: The pet bonus damage provided by this talent has been increased to 10/20/30%, up from 5/10/15%.
  • Improved Shadow Bolt: Damage done by Shadow Bolt increased by 2/4/6/8/10%, up from 1/2/3/4/5%.

Warrior (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Protection

  • Shield Slam: The damage scaling from block value for this ability now diminishes faster and diminishes starting at a lower block value. The difference should be negligible for players in high-end tanking armor. In addition, the threat caused by Shield Slam has been increased by 30%.
  • Warbringer: This talent no longer allows Charge and Intercept to break roots or snares. Intervene remains unaffected.

User Interface

  • The party leader is now referred to as Guide in chat when a group is formed via the Dungeon Finder.
  • Fixed a bug where players with Raid Assist capabilities were unable to perform a Ready Check.
  • Fixed a bug where the first couple of tutorials were not displaying upon logging into the game.

Items

  • New strength-based melee DPS rings are now available from representatives of the Ashen Verdict.
  • Tier-10 Elemental Shaman 4-Piece Set Bonus: Redesigned. Successful Lava Burst casts now increase the duration of Flame Shock on the target by 6 seconds.
ALSO, MMO-Champion have released the last cut scene from the Arthas fight. If you don’t care about spoilers I suggest you go watch it!

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Trauma?

2010 January 31
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1) Trauma’s proc does not scale with spellpower.

2) Truama’s proc is party-bound.  That is, whatever toon gets the proc applied to them, the aura (it is an aura, NOT a hot) will ONLY heal people in that toon’s party.

3) The proc is a 1% chance with no internal CD.  However, it has been demonstrated in an overwhelming volume of logs that the weapon does not proc very often (even in constant-spam encounters, such as Twins 25 HM), and when it does, the proc is often wasted (as demonstrated by an average of 80% overhealing with the Fountain of Light aura shown in log after log).

There is a very good thread talking about Trauma in the general healing forums. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22418862558&sid=1&pageNo=1.

In the end, the general info about this weapon has come to:

No, it is not that amazing. If you are not max stat capped in almost every other area, not worth it. If you are not haste capped, the max, without 3/3 CF, do not take it.

If this is even slightly good for any class, it would be a raid healing druid, a raid healing priest, or a glyphed HL pally. Besides that, it’s crap. Even then, it doesn’t scale with SP.

It way under preforms the dps weapon proc, why? No one knows but Blizz openly said this proc is not good for certain classes/specs and said nothing of buffing it.

People now doing extensive testing on it, Crystal Spire off Illidan, yes a 70 weapon, is out healing Trauma. Someone with the 10 man Lockjaw did 500 more hps on average than with Trauma.

So yes, if your one of the people that OMGZTRAUMA….should probably have not wasted your dkp. If I was given this weapon bc it was going to be DeD, I would try it out. But, so far, it’s performing very very low for what people hyped it up to be.

Hopefully they will change it to match the Abacus and scale with SP.

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1 Shot Princes, 4 Shot Queen

2010 January 27
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by <3

Yayy

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