This is me playing Eve Online for the first time, and comparing it to World of Warcraft. Hope you enjoy!

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1. SWoW is on long-term vacation due to the Leaving Cert. Which is not fun. It’s basically the hell of all school years.
2. Over the next four or five weeks I will be rolling out some content that I found burried in the file system that was meant to go into the third season of SWoW. This includes articles and screencasts.
3. To say sorry, I am including you all in a competition that was only meant to run on View From The Quad to win one of five copies of J.C Hutchins’s book, 7th Son. To enter, all you have to do is email Podcast@StartingWoW.com with the words “7th Son” as the subject.

In the video, I also mention that you can grab the first 10 chapters of the book for FREE! You can do so by clicking http://bit.ly/2snwOA . Order the book on Amazon for an astoundingly low price at http://bit.ly/3dA8Ju and enjoy the rest of the story long before those who win this competition get their copies of the book!

Stay subscribed to the show! If you miss the sound of my sweet voice, you can join me every week on View From The Quad, my other podcast, at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com where we talk about Science, Technology, Sci-fi and life. You might like it. Also, you will get the chance to enter the competition again!

Today on the show I mention the FAQ for the new Faction Changing service, talk about Howling Fjord and Uncrushability.

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Links

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faction-change/index.xml – Faction Changing FAQ

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Today on Starting WoW we have one topic, and one topic only. Cataclysim! It makes for a rather long topic though…

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Today on SWoW I inform you of Blizzard’s Comicon plans, I give you the word on The Nexus and define Runners.
This will be the last episode of SWoW for about three weeks.

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Links
http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/blizzard_at_2009_san_diego_comic_con/#When:18:33:46Z – Blizzcon

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Today on the show we talk about how Blizzard have trademarked Cataclysm, and what it could mean for the game, I Tell you all the info behind the Horde Expedition and the Word of the Day is actually a sentence: The Random Secondary Target System.

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Links

http://www.wow.com/2009/07/01/blizzard-files-trademark-for-cataclysm/ – Blizzard Trademark Cataclysm

http://www.wowwiki.com/Random_Secondary_Target_System – The Random Secondary Target System

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Today on the show our news item is Blizzard utterly and completely changing the game, we talk about the Kirin Tor and the Word of the Day is actually two words – Reactive Effects.

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Links
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18031079410&pageNo=1&sid=1 – Faction Changes in World of Warcraft
http://www.wowwiki.com/Kirin_Tor – Kirin Tor

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Today on Starting WoW, we talk about two news items, namely MORE Isle of Conquest news and Blizzard making life easier for everybody yet again, our topic this week is the Blue Dragonflight, and our word is BlueWalling.

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Links
http://www.wow.com/2009/06/25/exploring-azeroth-with-quest-icons-on-the-map/ – Exploring Azeroth with Question Icons on the map
http://www.wowwiki.com/Blue_dragonflight – The Blue Dragonflight

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Today on Starting WoW Season 3, I cover the news from the last few days (Lots of little bits and bobs which were dug up from the PTR 3.2 Patch notes), our topic is Death Knights, and our WoW Word (well, technically words) is Gear Check. Fun stuff!

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Links

http://www.wowwiki.com/Death_knight

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Today on the show, I premier the first episode of SWoW Season 3, explain how this new format works, talk about the News of the Day, AKA The Crucader’s Coliseum, we have an article all about Utgarde Keep and I explain Combo Points.

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Links
http://www.wow.com/2009/06/17/crusaders-coliseum-details-released/ – Info on the Crusader’s Coliseum
http://www.wowwiki.com/Utgarde_Keep – Info on Utgarde Keep

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In this episod of SWoW we discuss the many MANY changes to traveling Blizzard are going to make in the next content patch, and the lots of new info coming down the pipe about Isle of Conquest, the new Battleground coming soon in the next content patch.

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Links

http://www.wow.com/2009/06/11/class-travel-skills-changing-in-patch-3-2/ – Travel Skill changes in patch 3.2

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17730154175&sid=1 – Upcoming mount changes

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17730264627&sid=1 – Portals from cities to The Dark Portal

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9520915563&sid=1&pageNo=1 – Information on the upcoming BG

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As you may have noticed, I’m really busy this year. Next year shall be even MADDER! This is due to the joke of an Irish Educational System.

So how about this? For season 3, instead of a weekly episode, about about two or even three short episodes every week, each with either a single article or a few news stories? It would basically be taking the content of a normal in-season episode, and splitting it over the week.

What do you think?

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Hey there!

Today on Starting WoW, we have two main topics, but I do a fair bit of chatter, if you are into that aspect of the show. We talk about the just announce new content patch, Call of the Crusade, and lots of new Druid forms which will soon be avalible!

I also put out the call for help to fix a certain error message I keep getting… Which all of a sudden I can’t replicate. So once it happens next, I shall take a screenshot and throw it up on StartingWoW.com.

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Links

http://www.massively.com/2009/05/24/next-world-of-warcraft-patch-announced-call-of-the-crusade/ – Call of the Crusade

http://www.massively.com/2009/05/26/new-druid-forms-coming-with-next-wow-patch/ – Updated Druid Forms

Other places you can find me

www.ViewFromTheQuad.com – Life, Technology, Sci-fi, Liz

www.Scodio.com – The parent company of Starting WoW

http://strangerthings.tv/episodes/105/episode – The episode of Stranger Things you have to find me in. (I’m in it three times. One is easy to spot, one is medium, and one is almost downright impossible on the first watching. I only found it because I knew what cloths I was wearing.)

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Hey there! This week on SWoW I talk to a WoW podcaster named ZombieHead! Very very soon he will be starting a weekly live show over on GNET Radio, and I decided to hook up with him for a chat. We discuss lots of things such as the Blizzard Authenticator, if there is too much stuff to do in WoW, how he got into WoW and a lot more. Check him out at the links below!

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Links

http://www.zombiesworld.com/ – ZombieHead’s site with lots of fun reviews, videos and podcasts

http://www.mygnetradio.com/ – GNet Radio

http://www.whatsyourshow.com/ – What’s Your Show (Not yet online)

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Today on Starting WoW, Blizzard beats Nintendo at their own game (Geddit?), SWoW Star Trek references and BlizzCon. Also, I’m not yet dead!

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Links

http://www.massively.com/2009/05/12/blizzard-bumps-nintendo-off-1-spot-on-develops-top-100-studios/ – Blizzard Bumps Nintendo off Number 1 Spot

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/05/10/star-trek-references-in-the-world-of-warcraft – Star Trek WoW References

http://www.jchutchins.net Personal Effects: Sword of Blood

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Today on Starting WoW, I talk about the bizarre WoW Pod, my feelings on having completed Nobelgarden and getting the title, and a tiny bit more. A bit sized episode today! Stick around after the show for a promo for Epic Shardz.

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http://i.gizmodo.com/5221375/the-wow-pod-brings-porta+potties-to-azeroth

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This week on Starting WoW I talk about one thing, and one thing alone. NOBELGARDEN! Watch the little bunnies hop around madly! Capture the eggs! Make Sweet Bunny Love to level 18+ female characters! Don’t forget to email me about the discount (more information at the end of the show. Stick around.)

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http://www.wowwiki.com/Noblegarden – All you could ever want to know about Nobelgarden

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So I am thinking about Season Three, and realizing that I can provide a hell of an amount of extra content such as hours and hours of video (Estimated to be about 8 hours in total), all the scripts once they are done, separate audio recordings of the articles so you don’t have to fast forward through to find the one you are looking for, and ad free episodes. The question is, as a SWoW Super Fan, how much would you pay (once off, of course) to get all this content?
One thing to note: Much of this content will never see it’s way into the public feed, and for those of you who want to donate to SWoW, but want something to show for it, this might be what you want to do.

Another thing to note It is very likely that, as a member of the Extra Features portion of SWoW, you will have access to many articles and recordings that have not yet made it into the public feed. I’m still working this out, but it is certainly in my plans. This means you can hear the entire season while everybody else has to wait week by week!

So lets run down the benefits.

• All the scripts
• All the separate audio recordings
• All the episodes as they come out on the public feed (maybe sooner) ad free
• Many hours of video which will complement the podcast
• All of this, and more, available way before everybody else gets it.

Today on SWoW, I talk about patch 3.1, the upsides and the many MANY downsides to it.
Hah! Take THAT, twinks!

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So, yesterday, it all went down. The new patch came down the pipes, and then the servers started dropping. It just so happened that the instance server dropped as I was doing my first run of The Nexus. The results of which can be found in this video… Enjoy! (The Chat is quite fun, I find. Download the full quality to read it)

That said, it is ONLY for those who would consider themselves SWoW Super Fans. If you want to see if you would enjoy this video, watch the first minute or so using the flash player below, but to be honest, the video quality sucks, so to watch it in any detail at all, use the download link above to download it in nice quality.

Reading them could… well… take a while.

Secrets of Ulduar

Since discovering Ulduar in the Storm Peaks, adventurers have journeyed to the titan city to learn more about its mysterious past. Further exploration has revealed that the magnificent complex is above all a prison, intended to permanently confine the Old God of death, Yogg-Saron. This ancient horror has corrupted its guards, and now it is breaking through the last of its restraints. Faced with the peril of Yogg-Saron’s imminent freedom, a band of mortals has made preparations for a sweeping assault on the city. Overcoming the legions of iron minions and towering defenses at the city’s entrance will take tremendous strength, but even that great victory may not be enough to overcome the madness that dwells below.

The Argent Tournament Begins!

As the might of the Scourge wanes under the pressure of Azeroth’s heroes, the Argent Crusade have taken a foothold in Arthas’s back yard. Off the northeastern coast of Icecrown, the Argent Crusade have sounded the call for the most bold and brave adventurers of the Horde and Alliance to take part in the Argent Tournament. Representatives of all ten faction capitols, from Undercity to Exodar, have traveled to the tournament grounds to find champions among their heroes who will prepare for the inevitable battle against the enemy of all living beings, the Lich King.

General

• Due to significant talent tree revisions, all players will have their talent points reimbursed. Several new spells and abilities have been added for select classes. Players will need to visit their class trainer to learn new spells.
• The Argent Tournament, a permanent in-game event, has come to Icecrown. Players interested in taking part in this event should visit the Argent Pavilion located on the west side of the tournament grounds. Features include:
  • New ways of gaining reputation with capitol cities.
  • All new daily quests, achievements and titles
  • New rare and epic items, tabards, pets, banners, faction shirts and mounts
  • Mounted combat, and much more to come!
• All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.
• Players level 40 and higher will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent specialization feature.
• The achievement Brew of the Year has been removed from the Brewmaster meta-achievement. The achievement Brew of the Month has been added in its place.
• Noblegarden has been redesigned into a week-long holiday with new items, quests, and more. Various achievements have been added, including the meta-achievement Noble Gardener, which is now required for the meta-achievement What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.
• Applying a glyph no longer requires a Lexicon of Power. The same rules for switching between dual talent specializations now apply to switching glyphs and cannot be performed while in combat, Battlegrounds (except when Preparation is up), or Arenas (no exceptions).

PvP

Arenas

• Enemy Unit Frames: This feature is only available while in Arenas, with several options in the Interface Options.

Battlegrounds

• Battleground quests “Concerted Efforts” (Alliance) and “For Great Honor” (Horde) now require an Alterac Valley Mark of Honor in addition to the current requirements. These quests now award more honor upon completion.
• Players will now be able to queue for battlegrounds from any location. Leaving a battleground will return you to the location from which you entered.
• Seaforium Barrels can now be looted while mounted, seen from anywhere in the zone, and found at the Central Graveyard.
• Teleporters can now be used while mounted and can now be seen from anywhere in the zone.

Alterac Valley

• Drek’Thar, Vanndar Stormpike, the tower Heralds and Warmasters have received a hit point and damage upgrade in the level 80 version of Alterac Valley.
• Strand of the Ancients
• Capturing the Southern Graveyard will now automatically capture both the East and West Graveyards.

Lake Wintergrasp

• All players who attack a siege vehicle should now get credit if it is destroyed.
• Daily quests “Slay Them All!” (Horde) and “No Mercy for the Merciless” (Alliance) have had their PvP kill requirements reduced to 10 from 20. NPCs defending the fortress and south towers now count toward these dailies as well.
• The number of NPCs defending fortress has been increased.
• Siege Engines now have Steam Pressure as a resource type (replaces energy).
• Siege Engines now have the Steam Rush ability from Ulduar.
• The southern Siege Factories can be captured.
• The time between battles will be saved should a realm shut down. If Wintergrasp is active when a realm shuts down, the game will restart from the beginning when the realm is once again live.
• Towers in Southern Wintergrasp now have more defensive cannons.

Races: General

• Command (Orc Racial): Applies to shaman pets, and now correctly applies to death knight pets.
• Gift of the Naaru (Draenei Racial): The heal has been changed to an instant-cast heal-over-time.
• Stoneform (Dwarf Racial): No longer makes you immune to poison, disease and bleed effects for 8 seconds. Instead, using Stoneform will clear those effects when cast. Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes from 3 minutes.

Classes: General

• Armor Penetration Rating: All classes now receive 25% more benefit from Armor Penetration Rating.
• The damage threshold for Fear, Psychic Scream, Hex, Intimidating Shout, and Turn Evil to break early has been significantly reduced.
• Haste Rating: shamans, paladins, druids, and death knights now receive 30% more melee haste from Haste Rating.
• Hysteria, Tricks of the Trade, Enrage, Wrecking Crew, Death Wish, Arcane Power, Owlkin Frenzy, Beast Within, and Avenging Wrath damage bonuses no longer stack together.
• Mana Regeneration: The amount of mana regeneration derived from intellect and spirit has been reduced by 40%; however, talents that allow for mana regeneration while in combat have been increased. As a result, in-combat regeneration for classes with those talents will stay the same, while out-of-combat regeneration will be lower.
• The shaman’s Fire Elemental and Spirit Wolves, mage’s Water Elemental and Mirror Images, and druid’s Treants have all gained avoidance from area-of-effect damage similar to what warlock and hunter pets already have.
• Taunts: All player or pet-generated taunts now have a shared diminish category. In addition, Taunt-type effects from pets and from classes other than death knight, druid, paladin, and warrior have been set such that bosses can be made immune to them while still affected by death knight, druid, paladin, and warrior taunts.

Death Knight

• Anti-magic Shell: The amount of damage this ability can absorb is now limited to 100% of the death knight’s health.
• Blood Boil’s damage increased to make up for Pestilence no longer doing damage.
• Blood Boil now does some damage to undiseased targets and extra damage to diseased targets. Its radius has been decreased.
• Blood Plague: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.
• Blood Strike: Bonus damage for diseases is now a multiplier rather than a flat bonus.
• Death Pact: This heal cannot be critical.
• Death Strike: The amount of healing per damage done has been reduced by 20%.
• Frost Fever: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.
• Frost Presence: Now grants 5% damage reduction instead of 15% magic damage reduction.
• Obliterate: Bonus damage for diseases now increases damage done by a percentage rather than a flat amount.
• Pestilence does no damage and has only 1 rank.
• Plague Strike and Blood Plague no longer remove heal-over-time effects. Plague Strike’s damage increased quite a bit to compensate.
• Raise Ally now has a cooldown greater than 15 minutes and can no longer be used in Arenas.
• Raise Dead: Duration lowered to 60 seconds and cooldown lowered to 3 minutes. The cooldown on this ability now begins when the pet dies rather than when it is summoned.
• Rune of Cinderglacier now procs per minute instead of a 5% chance.
• Rune of the Fallen Crusader: This weapon enchant now provides only 15% strength, but its chance to proc is doubled.
• Rune of Razorice now affects Frost damage done by the death knight only, but stacks up to 10%.
• Strangulate no longer does damage and has been reduced to 1 rank.

Blood

• Abomination’s Might: This effect can now also be caused by Death Strike.
• Blade Barrier: Now grants 1/2/3/4/5% damage reduction instead of 2/4/6/8/10% parry.
• Blood Aura: Replaced with Improved Blood Presence. This allows the death knight to keep the healing-from-damage-done bonus of Blood Presence in any presence, and increases healing received while in Blood Presence.
• Blood-Gorged now grants armor penetration instead of expertise.
• Bloody Strikes: The bonus damage this talent grants to Blood Boil has been reduced to 10/20/30%.
• Bloodworms now heal more.
• Dancing Rune Weapon: Damage done by, and duration of this pet is reduced by 50%, but the cooldown is reduced to 90 seconds. Attack speed of pet increased from 2.0 to 3.5.
• New talent: Improved Death Strike: Increases Death Strike damage by 10/20%, and critical strike chance by 3/6%.
• Heart Strike: Bonus damage for diseases is now a multiplier rather than a flat bonus. No longer affected by Glyph of Blood Strike.
• Hysteria: This ability now causes the target to lose health rather than take damage.
• Might of Mograine: No longer affects Obliterate.
• Scent of Blood: Will now proc on a dodge, parry or when taking damage, and now grants 10 runic power per charge. Internal cooldown removed.
• Spell Deflection: This talent has been increased to 15/30/45% damage reduction from a direct damage spell.
• Sudden Doom now procs a free Death Coil instead of requiring you to push the button. Ranks reduced from 5 to 3.
• Vampiric Blood: Cooldown increased to 2 minutes from 1 minute.
• Will of the Necropolis: This ability now has a 15 second cooldown on how often it can occur.

Frost

• The following talents have moved in the Frost tree: Runic Power Mastery, Glacier Rot, Killing Machine, Chilblains, and Endless Winter.
• Black Ice: This talent now provides a 2/4/6/8/10% bonus to Frost and Shadow damage instead of 4/8/12/16/20% to Frost.
• Blood of the North: Now also increases damage dealt by Frost Strike by 3/6/9/12/15%.
• Chillblains: Now a 15/30/50% movement speed debuff up from 30%. Can no longer be dispelled.
• Frost Aura: Replaced with Improved Frost Presence. Allows the deathknight to keep the health bonus of Frost Presence in any presence, and decreases magic damage taken while in Frost Presence.
• Glacier Rot: 3rd rank added, and damage bonus increased to 7/13/20%.
• Howling Blast: Base damage and scaling doubled. This ability no longer deals bonus damage to targets with Frost Fever. 8-second cooldown. Swapped positions with Hungering Cold in the talent tree.
• Icy Talons and Improved Icy Talons: These talents now have new icons.
• Improved Icy Touch: Now increases Icy Touch damage by 5/10/15% instead of by 10/20/30%.
• Lichborne: No longer improves your chance to be missed. Now correctly grants immunity, and will break all effects to which Lichborne makes you immune.
• Rime: When this talent triggers, it also resets the cooldown on Howling Blast.
• Runic Power Mastery: Moved up to tier-1 and reduced to 2 ranks (15/30%).
• Tundra Stalker: Now increases the damage on abilities by 3/6/9/12/15% instead of 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Unbreakable Armor: Now grants damage reduction instead of physical damage reduction. Cooldown increased to 2 minutes from 1 minute.

Unholy

• Bone Shield: Cooldown increased to 2 minutes from 1 minute.
• Desecration: This talent now has a 100% chance to be triggered, works with Scourge Strike, and instantly snares targets within the Desecration area. Additional points in the talent increase the damage bonus and snare magnitude instead of increasing the chance it will be triggered.
• New Talent: Ghoul Frenzy: Grants 25% melee haste to your pet and heals it for 30% of its maximum health. Costs 1 Unholy Rune. Requires at least 30 points in the Unholy tree.
• Impurity: This talent is reduced to 4/8/12/16/20% bonus to attack power scaling.
• Magic Suppression: Now has 3 ranks (down from 5) for 2/4/6% magic damage reduction.
• Master of Ghouls: Now also reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 60 seconds. This talent now requires at least 25 points in the Unholy tree, and has Night of the Dead as a prerequisite.
• Night of the Dead: Redesigned to grant a flat reduction on cooldown to Raise Dead and Army of the Dead instead of a reduction from using abilities. Requires at least 15 points in the Unholy tree; prerequisite for Master of Ghouls.
• Outbreak: No longer increases Blood Boil damage. Now gives a 7/13/20% damage bonus to Scourge Strike. Plague Strike Bonus lowered to 10/20/30%.
• Reaping: Now procs on Blood Strike and Pestilence instead of Blood Strike and Blood Boil.
• Scourge Strike: Damage increased. Bonus damage for diseases now increases damage done by a percentage rather than a flat amount.
• Shadow of Death: This talent has been removed.
• Unholy Aura: Replaced with Improved Unholy Presence. Allows the death knight to keep the movement speed bonus of Unholy Presence in any presence, and increases rune regeneration rate while in Unholy Presence.
• Unholy Blight and Gargoyle have swapped places in the Unholy tree. Gargoyle is the new 51-point Unholy talent.
• Vicious Strikes: This talent no longer affects Death Strike.

Druid

• Abolish Poison: Now ticks every 3 seconds, up from every 2. Now lasts 12 seconds, up from 8.
• Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral): Now decreases armor of your target by 5%. Has a 5-minute duration, and a 40-second PvP duration.
• Feral Faerie Fire: The damage generated by this ability in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form has been increased substantially.
• Innervate: This spell no longer costs mana.
• Lifebloom: Mana cost of all ranks doubled. When Lifebloom blooms or is dispelled, it now refunds half the base mana cost of the spell per application of Lifebloom, and the heal effect is multiplied by the number of applications.
• Maim: This ability is now considered a stun, and shares a diminish category with all other stuns. It no longer has a chance to break from the target taking damage. Duration lowered to 1 second per combo point.
• Pounce: No longer affected by diminishing returns with other stuns, however, it now shares a diminishing return with Cheap Shot (Rogue).
• Savage Defense: Trainable at level 40 with Dire Bear Form as a prerequisite. When the druid deals a melee critical strike, it gains a physical damage shield equal to 25% of its attack power. The next hit completely consumes the shield, regardless of how much damage was done. Only active in Bear Form.
• Starfall: Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds.
• Swipe: The Bear Form and Dire Bear Form version of this ability no longer has a targeting requirement and hits targets behind the druid and to the sides.

Balance

• Celestial Focus redesigned: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Starfire, Hibernate and Hurricane by 23/46/70% and increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.
• Eclipse: The benefit to Wrath triggered by casting Starfire has been increased to 30% bonus damage.
• Insect Swarm: The bonus damage from spellpower on this damage-over-time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes.
• Mark of the Wild and Gift of the Wild can now be cast while in Moonkin form.
• Moonkin Form: Mana cost reduced.
• Nature’s Grace redesigned: All spell critical strikes have a 33/66/100% chance to grace you with a Blessing of Nature, increasing your spell casting speed by 20% for 3 seconds.
• Owlkin Frenzy is now properly considered an Enrage effect. Now also does not trigger from spell hits, only physical ranged and melee attacks.
• Typhoon: Now causes a 3-second daze.

Feral

• Heart of the Wild: Stamina bonus changed to 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Predatory Strikes: This talent no longer works when in Moonkin form.
• New Talent: Primal Gore: Grants the periodic damage from your Lacerate and Rip abilities the chance to critically hit.
• Primal Tenacity: The damage reduction while stunned effect now only works in Cat Form.
• Rend and Tear: The critical strike bonus for Ferocious Bite reduced to 5/10/15/20/25%, down from 10/20/30/40/50%.
• Savage Roar is now considered an Enrage effect and now increases physical damage done by 30% instead of increasing attack power.
• Survival of the Fittest: Bonus armor reduced to 11/22/33% instead of 22/44/66%.

Restoration

• Living Seed: This talent now accounts for total healing including overhealing.
• Improved Mark of the Wild: Now also increases all of your total attributes by 1/2%.
• Intensity: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.
• New Talent: Improved Barkskin: Increases the damage reduction granted by your Barkskin spell by 5/10%, and increases your resistance to Dispel mechanics by an additional 30/60% while under the effect of Barkskin.
• Improved Regrowth: This talent is renamed Nature’s Bounty. Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth and Nourish spells by 5/10/15/20/25%.
• Replenish: This talent is now re-named Revitalize and also works with Wild Growth.
• Tree of Life: Now receives 240% increased armor. You can now use Nature’s Grasp and Thorns while within this form. In addition, the discount on heal-over-time spells from this talent is now active at all times, whether or not the druid is in Tree of Life form. Mana cost reduced to match the cost of Travel Form.

Hunter

• Ammunition: All types of gun and bow ammunition now stack to 1000. All quivers and ammo pouches no longer provide haste. 15% ranged haste is now built into the hunter’s Auto Shot.
• Aspect of the Pack is now raid wide, and radius increased from 30 yards to 40 yards.
• Call Stabled Pet: This new ability lets the hunter remotely access the stable. 30-minute cooldown.
• Cunning, Ferocity and Tenacity pets now all have +5% damage, +5% armor and +5% health bonuses. This should make more pet families feel viable, while additional talents have been added to distinguish a pet’s abilities based on its specializations.
• Disengage: Cooldown increased by 5 seconds.
• Frost Trap: If the target who triggers Frost Trap is immune to its effect, the Frost Trap area effect will no longer be triggered. Now reduces speed by 50% (previously 60%).
• Pets now inherit more spell hit from the hunter. Pets with magic attacks should not require a player to stack additional hit compared to pets with physical attacks.
• Viper Sting redesigned: Stings the target, draining 4% of mana over 8 seconds (up to a maximum of 8% of the caster’s maximum mana), and energizing the hunter equal to 300% of the amount drained. Only one Sting per hunter can be active on any one target.

Beast Mastery

• Animal Handler: No longer reduces the cooldown of Master’s Call, but instead increases the duration of the Master’s Call effect by 3/6 seconds.
• Improved Aspect of the Hawk now has a new spell effect.
• Marksmanship
• Chimera Shot: Mana cost reduced from 16% to 12%.
• Concussive Barrage redesigned: 2-point talent. Now causes your Multi-Shot and Chimera Shot to have a 50/100% chance to daze the target for 4 seconds.
• Efficiency: Increased to 3/6/9/12/15% up from 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Piercing Shots redesigned: Your critical Aimed, Steady and Chimera Shots cause the target to bleed for 10/20/30% of the damage dealt over 8 seconds. The damage done by this talent no longer receives modifications from effects that increase or decrease damage done by a percentage.
• Ranged Weapon Specialization: Points reduced from 5 to 3, 1/3/5%.
• Rapid Recuperation redesigned: You gain 2/4% of your mana every 3 seconds while under the effect of Rapid Fire, and you gain 1/2% of your mana every 2 seconds for 6 seconds when you gain Rapid Killing.
• Silencing Shot: No longer on the global cooldown.
• Wild Quiver: Chance increased to 4/8/12%, up from 4/7/10%. Damage increased from 50% of an Auto Shot to 80%.

Survival

• Entrapment redesigned: When your Frost Trap, Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Snake Trap are triggered, you entrap all afflicted targets, preventing them from moving for 2/3/4 seconds.
• Explosive Shot: Base damage lowered by 10%. Attack power scaling reduced by 12.5%. The periodic damage from this ability no longer triggers Judgement of Wisdom and Judgement of Light.
• Hunting Party: This talent has been reduced to 3 points, and now increases your total agility by an additional 1/2/3%.
• Lock and Load redesigned: You now have a 33/66/100% chance when you trap a target with Freezing Trap, Freezing Arrow or Frost Trap and a 2/4/6% chance when you deal periodic damage with your Immolation Trap or Black Arrow to cause your next 2 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot spells to trigger no cooldown, cost no mana and consume no ammo. This now has a new spell effect and sound.
• New Talent: Black Arrow: Fires a Black Arrow at the target, increasing all damage done by you to the target by 6% and doing periodic shadow damage for 15 seconds. 30-second cooldown. Shares a cooldown with all other traps.
• T.N.T.: Increases damage done by Explosive Shot, Immolation Trap, and Explosive Trap by 2/4/6%.
• Trap Mastery: This talent has been moved up to tier-2, up from tier-9, and is now a 3-point talent.
• Trap Mastery, Resourcefulness and T.N.T. now all affect Black Arrow.
• Improved Wing Clip: This talent has been removed.
• Wyvern Sting: Duration increased from 12 seconds to 30 seconds. PvP duration reduced from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.

Pets

• Bullheaded now adds 20% damage reduction for 12 seconds along with its current CC-removal effect.
• Cornered: The critical strike reduction when this ability is active has been increased.
• Feeding Frenzy increased to 8/16% damage up from 6/12%.
• Furious Howl (wolf special ability) now stacks with Battle Shout and Blessing of Might, however, it only affects the wolf and hunter. Its effect and cooldown have been doubled so that it provides the same benefit but isn’t up 100% of the time.
• Gorillas now have a new family ability, Pummel, which works like the warrior ability and has a single rank.
• Grace of the Mantis and Roar of Sacrifice are now also available to Cunning pets.
• Great Resistance increased to 5/10/15% magic damage reduction, up from 3/6/9%.
• Roar of Recovery cooldown decreased to 3 minutes, down from 6 minutes.
• New Talent: Shark Attack: This new 2-rank talent is available to Ferocity pets. It increases pet damage.
• New Talent: Silverback: This new 2-rank talent is available to Tenacity pets. It heals the pet when Growl is used.
• Roar of Sacrifice can be used on the hunter only.
• Stampede (rhino) only affects 1 target, but adds a 25% bleed damage debuff (that does not stack with Mangle etc.) in addition to its knockback.
• Thunderstomp is no longer a gorilla-specific family ability and is now available to all Tenacity pets. It has been reduced to one rank.
• Turtles and Crabs now dwell in waters of and off Eversong and the Ghostlands, giving Blood Elf hunters access to local Tenacity pets.
• New Talent: Wild Hunt: This new 2-rank talent is available to all 3 pet trees. Increases the contribution your pets get from your stamina by 20/40% and attack power by 10/20%.

Mage

• Arcane Blast stacking effect is no longer considered a Magic effect and will not be dispelled.
• Mage Armor: Now grants 50% of mana regeneration while casting.
• Mirror Image: The images no longer cast Polymorph.
• Molten Armor: Chance to critically strike is now increased by a percentage of the mage’s total spirit.

Arcane

• Arcane Meditation: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.

Fire

• Ignite: The damage done by this talent no longer receives modifications from effects that increase or decrease damage done by a percentage.
• Improved Scorch: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of the Improved Scorch effect. In addition, the critical strike chance of Scorch, Fireball, and Frostfire Bolt is increased by 1/2/3%.
• Pyromaniac: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.

Frost

• Improved Water Elemental: Renamed Enduring Winter. Instead of the Water Elemental increasing mana regeneration for the mage’s party, casting Frostbolt now has a 33/66/100% chance to provide the Replenishment buff to up to 10 people in the mage’s party or raid.
• Winter’s Chill: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of Winter’s Chill. In addition, the critical strike chance of Frostbolt is increased by 1/2/3%.

Paladin

• Auras will now persist through death and affect a 40 yard radius.
• Blessing of Kings is now trainable at level 20. Removed from talent trees.
• Divine Plea can once again be dispelled.
• Exorcism: Now can be used on any target and has a 100% chance to be a critical strike when used on Undead and Demons.
• Hand of Sacrifice: The damage transferred by this ability is now capped by the paladin’s health.
• Forbearance reduced to a 2-minute duration.
• Sacred Shield: This effect cannot be cast on more than one friendly target at a time.
• Seal of Blood/Seal of the Martyr: The damage done by these two seals has been increased but the damage done by their judgements decreased. The balance is now roughly 60% from either seal and 40% from a judgement on total damage done. The total damage done should be roughly the same. Please note that the 3.0.9 tooltips had incorrect values for the damage done, but the tooltips should be much more accurate in 3.1.0.
• Shield of Righteousness: Base damage and scaling factor increased by 30%.
• Spiritual Attunement: Removed from trainers. It is now available deep in the Protection tree for 2 ranks at 5/10%.

Holy

• Aura Mastery: Now grants anyone affected by Concentration Aura immunity from Interrupt and Silence mechanics, and increases the effectiveness of all other auras by 100%. Lasts 10 seconds. 2-minute cooldown.
• Blessed Hands: Now reduces mana cost of Hand of Freedom, Sacrifice and Salvation by 15/30%, and improves the effectiveness of Hand of Salvation by 50/100% and Hand of Sacrifice by an additional 5/10%. Moved to tier-4.
• Enlightened Judgements: No longer increases the range of Judgement of Justice. Moved to tier-10.
• Improved Concentration Aura: The resistance to Silence and Interrupt mechanics granted by this talent now becomes active when any Aura is used, not just Concentration Aura.
• Infusion of Light: Now increases the critical chance of your next Holy Light by 10/20% instead of reducing cast time. Moved to tier-10.
• Judgements of the Pure moved to tier-9.
• Pure of Heart: Now reduces duration of all curse, disease, and poison effects by 15/30%.
• Purifying Power: Now reduces the cooldowns of Exorcism and Holy Wrath by 17/33% instead of increasing critical strike chance.
• Sacred Cleansing moved to tier-8.

Protection

• Ardent Defender: Reduced to 3 ranks for 10/20/30%.
• Avenger’s Shield: Base damage and scaling factor increased by 30%.
• Blessing of Sanctuary: Now only grants mana on dodge/parry/block. In addition, will only grant mana if that is the active power type of the friendly target (Bears and Cats won’t gain mana).
• Improved Devotion Aura: The additional healing granted by this talent now becomes active when any Aura is used, not just Devotion Aura.
• Divine Guardian: Now increases the effectiveness of Divine Sacrifice by an additional 5/10%, and increases the duration of Sacred Shield by 50/100% and the amount absorbed by 10/20%.
• Divine Protection: Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
• New Talent: Divine Sacrifice: Causes all party/raid members affected by one of the paladin’s auras to transfer 30% of all damage taken to the paladin (maximum of 150% of the paladin’s max health). Lasts 10 seconds. 2-minute cooldown.
• New Talent: Divinity: Increases healing done by and to you by 1/2/3/4/5% (tier-1).
• Guarded by the Light: Now makes Divine Plea 50/100% less likely to be dispelled.
• Improved Hammer of Justice: Reduced to 2 ranks for 10/20-second cooldown reduction.
• Holy Shield: Base damage and scaling factor increased by 30%.
• Judgements of the Just: Now also reduces the cooldown of Hammer of Justice by 10/20 seconds, and increases the duration of the Seal of Justice stun effect by .5/1 second.
• One-Handed Weapon Specialization: Reduced to 3 ranks for 4/7/10%.
• Sacred Duty rank 1 now increases stamina by 4%.
• Shield of the Templar: No longer increases the damage done by Holy Shield, Avenger’s Shield, and Shield of Righteousness. Now grants 33/66/100% chance to silence your Avenger’s Shield targets for 3 seconds.

Retribution

• Benediction now affects Hand of Reckoning.
• Divine Purpose: Moved to Improved Retribution Aura’s position.
• Divine Storm: Damage increased.
• Fanaticism reduced to 3 ranks for 6/12/18% bonus and 10/20/30% threat reduction.
• Judgement of the Wise: The immediate return of base mana from this spell has been increased to 25%, up from 15%.
• Repentance no longer resets the paladin’s melee swing timer.
• Improved Retribution Aura: This talent has been removed.
• Righteous Vengeance reduced to 3 ranks for 10/20/30%. The damage done by this talent no longer receives modifications from effects that increase or decrease damage done by a percentage. Now triggered by Crusader Strike as well.
• Sanctified Retribution: The bonus to damage done granted by this talent now becomes active when any Aura is used, not just Retribution Aura.
• Sanctified Seals: Renamed Sanctity of Battle. Now also increases damage done by Exorcism and Crusader Strike by 5/10/15%.
• Swift Retribution: Now grants its haste bonus while any aura is active.

Priest

• Abolish Disease: Now cleanses a disease every 3 seconds, down from 5. Duration reduced from 20 seconds down to 12 seconds.
• Devouring Plague: This spell now has a new icon.
• Divine Hymn redesigned: You recite a Holy hymn, summoning the power of the Divine to assist you in your time of need. Heals 3 nearby lowest-health friendly party or raid targets for 4960-5208 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds, and increases healing done to them by 15% for 8 seconds. Maximum of 12 heals. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell. Cooldown increased to 6 minutes, up from 5.
• Divine Spirit is now trainable at level 31.
• Holy Nova: Mana cost reduced approximately 20%.
• Improved Holy Concentration removed.
• Hymn of Hope redesigned: You recite a Holy hymn, restoring hope to those in despair. Restores 3% mana to 3 nearby low mana friendly party or raid targets every 2 seconds for 8 seconds, and temporarily increases their total maximum mana by 20% for 8 seconds. After the effect expires, the mana is lost. Maximum of 12 mana restorations. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell. Cooldown increased to 6 minutes, up from 5.
• Mental Agility, Inner Focus, Shadow Reach, Shadow Focus and Shadow Affinity now all affect Psychic Horror.
• Prayer of Healing: This spell now heals the target’s party, rather than being limited to just your direct party.
• Shadowfiend: Health scaling increased. Now receives 30% of the master’s spell power. Mana return increased to 5%, up from 4%. The Shadowfiend now returns mana when its melee attacks land, rather than when it deals damage. No longer has a 75% reduced chance to be hit by melee, ranged and spells. Movement speed normalized to player movement speed. Tooltip revised. New Shadowfiend ability, Shadowcrawl, teleports the Shadowfiend to an enemy target and increases its damage done by 15% for 5 seconds.

Discipline

• Divine Aegis: Divine Aegis effects will now stack, however the amount absorbed cannot exceed 125level (of the target). It will also now take into account total healing including overhealing.
• Improved Divine Spirit: This talent has been removed.
• New Talent: Improved Flash Heal: Reduces the mana cost of your Flash Heal by 5/10/15%, and increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal by 4/7/10% on friendly targets at or below 50% health.
• Grace: This talent no longer decreases damage done to the target, but the duration has increased to 15 seconds and the healing bonus has increased from 2% to 3%. This affect now cannot be applied to more than one target at a time.
• Improved Power Word: Fortitude: Now also increases your total stamina by 2/4%.
• Meditation and Improved Power: Word shield have changed locations with each other.
• Meditation: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.
• Mental Agility: Reduced to 3 points (4/7/10%), down from 5.
• New Talent: Soul Warding: Reduces the cooldown of your Power Word: Shield ability by 4 seconds, and reduces the mana cost of your Power Word: Shield by 30%.
• Penance: Damage increased approximately 30%.This spell can now be cast on yourself.
• Power Infusion: This effect now has a new spell effect.
• Renewed Hope: This talent also now allows you to proc the Renewed Hope buff on all party/raid members every time you cast Power Word: Shield, reducing damage taken by 3%. Lasts 20 seconds.
• Unbreakable Will:Increased from 3/6/9/12/15% to 6/12/18/24/30%.

Holy

• New Talent: Body and Soul: 2-point talent. When you cast Power Word: Shield, you increase the target’s movement speed by 30/60% for 4 seconds, and you have a 50/100% chance when you cast Abolish Disease on yourself to also cleanse 1 poison effect in addition to diseases.
• Circle of Healing: Healing increased by approximately 40%.
• Holy Concentration redesigned: Mana regeneration is increased by 16/32/50% for 8 seconds after you critically heal with Flash Heal, Greater Heal, Binding Heal or Renew.
• New Talent: Empowered Renew: Your Renew spell gains an additional 5/10/15% of your bonus healing effects, and your Renew will instantly heal the target for 5/10/15% of the total periodic effect.
• Serendipity redesigned: When you heal with Binding Heal or Flash Heal, the cast time of your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing spell is reduced by 4/8/12%. Stacks up to 3 times. Lasts 20 seconds.
• Test of Faith: No longer increases critical effect chance of your heals, but healing done on targets lower than 50% health is increased from 2/4/6% to 4/8/12%.

Shadow

• Blackout: This talent has been removed.
• Darkness: This talent is now in tier-1, moved up from tier-6.
• Dispersion: Now clears all snare and movement-impairing effects and makes you immune to them while dispersed.
• New Talent: Improved Devouring Plague: Increases the periodic damage done by your Devouring Plague by 5/10/15%, and when you cast Devouring Plague you instantly deal damage equal to 5/10/15% of its total periodic effect.
• Mind Melt: Now also increases the periodic critical strike chance of your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch spells by 3/6%.
• Psychic Horror: Has been redesigned and is now a 1-point talent. You terrify the target, causing them to tremble in horror for 3 seconds and drop all weapons (disarm effect: including bows) for 10 seconds. 2 minute cooldown. Instant cast. The horror effect can be dispelled, but the disarm cannot.
• Improved Spirit Tap: Now grants 17/33% of mana regeneration while casting.
• Shadow Affinity: Now also causes you to receive 5/10/15% of your base mana when your Shadow Word: Pain or Vampiric Touch spells are dispelled.
• Shadowform: Now reduces all damage taken by 15%, not just physical damage. Bonus damage from critical strike chance removed and replaced by the ability of those periodic damage spells to generate critical strikes.
• Silence: Range increased to 30 yards.
• Spirit Tap: Now grants 83% of mana regeneration while casting.
• Vampiric Embrace duration increased to 5 minutes, up from 1 minute. PvP duration is now 60 seconds. Cooldown removed.
• Vampiric Touch: When dispelled, Vampiric Touch will deal damage to the afflicted target.

Rogue

• Deadly Poison: The amount of damage this poison generates from the rogue’s attack power has been increased from 8% per application to 12%.
• Deadly Throw: Missile speed increased.
• Instant Poison: Redesigned to have its chance to be applied based on the speed of the weapon (frequency-based).
• Shiv: This ability can no longer generate a critical strike, and the poisons it applies cannot be critical strikes either.
• Tricks of the Trade: Will now begin following the first damaging attack.
• Wound Poison: Redesigned to have its chance to be applied based on the speed of the weapon (frequency-based).

Assassination

• Hunger For Blood: No longer stacks. Damage bonus changed to 15% for a single application. Requires a bleed effect active on the rogue’s target. No longer removes bleeds from the rogue. Now costs 15 energy and lasts for 60 seconds.
• Master Poisoner: Now also increases the bonus to apply Deadly Poison when Envenom is used by an additional 15/30/45%.

Combat

• Adrenaline Rush cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
• Killing Spree: Now also increases all damage done by the rogue while active by 20%.
• Savage Combat improved to 2/4% increased damage against poisoned targets.
• Lightning Reflexes reduced to 3 ranks for 2/4/6% dodge and 4/7/10% melee haste.

Subtlety

• Shadow Dance now opens a new action bar when used.

Shaman

• Bloodlust/Heroism: Cooldown reduced to 5 minutes, but Sated and Exhausted now last 10 minutes.
• Earth Elemental Totem: The summoned Earth Elemental should now have significantly more health and slightly more armor.
• Fire Elemental Totem: The summoned Fire Elemental should now have moderately more health and mana, and its damage scaling has been increased. In addition, the Fire Elemental’s spells now cost less mana.
• Flametongue Weapon: Bonus damage from spell power now based on weapon speed. Slower weapons will benefit more from spell power.
• Frostbrand Weapon: Damage increased by approximately 20%.
• Mana Spring Totem: This totem has been redesigned. It now provides the same mana benefit as Blessing of Wisdom to the entire party or raid, but is exclusive with that effect.
• Poison Cleansing Totem and Disease Cleansing Totem have been merged into Cleansing Totem. Cleansing Totem pulses every 3 seconds, down from 5.

Enhancement

• Earthen Power redesigned: Your Earthbind Totem has a 50/100% chance to also remove all snare effects and make you and nearby friendly targets immune to them for 5 seconds when it pulses.
• Flurry: Now provides 5/10/15/20/25% haste instead of 10/15/20/25/30%.
• New Talent: Frozen Power: Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Lash and Shock spells by 5/10% on targets afflicted by your Frostbrand Attack effect, and your Frost Shock has a 50/100% chance to root the target in Ice for 5 seconds when used on targets at or further than 15 yards from you.
• Lava Lash now has a new icon.
• Spirit Weapons: Now reduces all threat generated by 30%, not just physical attacks.
• Stormstrike charges have been increased by 2, and cooldown reduced by 2 seconds.
• Improved Stormstrike redesigned: When you Stormstrike, you have a 50/100% chance to immediately grant you 20% of your base mana.
• Toughness: No longer increases your armor. Instead, this talent now increases your total stamina by 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Unleashed Rage: Reduced to 3 points, down from 5. No longer increases agility, but instead increases your total expertise by 3/6/9.

Elemental

• New Talent: Booming Echoes: Reduces the cooldown of your Flame Shock and Frost Shock spells by an additional 1/2 seconds, and increases the direct damage done by your Flame Shock and Frost Shock spells by an additional 10/20%.
• Elemental Mastery redesigned: When activated, your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst spell becomes an instant cast spell. In addition, your Fire, Frost and Nature damage spells have a 15% increased critical strike chance for 15 seconds. Elemental Mastery now shares a cooldown with Nature’s Swiftness.
• Elemental Reach: Now also increases the range of your Flame Shock spell by 5/10/15 yards.
• Lava Flows: No longer increases the range of your Flame Shock spell, but now increases your casting speed by 10/20/30% when your Flame Shock spell is dispelled for 6 seconds.
• Lightning Overload: Reduced to 3 points (7/14/20%), down from 5.
• Storm, Earth and Fire: No longer increases the range of your Earth Shock or Wind Shock spells, but now also causes your Earthbind Totem to have a 33/66/100% chance to root all nearby enemies for 5 seconds when initially cast.
• Thunderstorm can now be cast while stunned.

Restoration

• Ancestral Awakening: This talent now accounts for your ineffective healing, rather than effective.
• Ancestral Healing and Healing Grace have swapped places in the Restoration talent tree.
• Cleanse Spirit now has a new icon.
• Mana Tide Totem: This spell no longer costs mana.
• Restorative Totems: Reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Increases the effect of your Mana Spring Totem by 7/12/20%, and increases the amount healed by your Healing Stream Totem by 15/30/45%.
• Riptide: This spell has a new icon.
• Tidal Force: Now has a new spell effect.

Warlock

• Banish: Now has a 6-second PvP duration.
• Curse of the Elements (Rank 5): Increased to 13% spell damage, up from 10%.
• Curse of Recklessness has been removed.
• Curse of Weakness: Now also reduces the armor of the target by 5%.
• Drain Soul: Each time Drain Soul deals damage to a target which can grant experience, it now has a chance to generate a Soul Shard.
• Enslave Demon: Spell haste penalty reduced by 10%. Melee haste penalty reduced by 10%.
• Doomguard: Cooldown reduced to 30 minutes, down from 60 minutes. Damage reduced approximately 30%, and health reduced approximately 30%.
• Warlocks now innately have an increased 10% spell hit chance on the Enslave Demon spell.
• Fire Shield (Imp): You can now cast this ability on raid members, rather than party members.
• Ritual of Summoning: The summoning of the initial portal is now instant cast, down from 5 seconds.
• Soul Shard: This item now has a maximum count of 32 in inventory.
• Voidwalker: The health bonus on this pet has been reduced from 60% to 10%.

Affliction

• Eradication: Whenever you deal damage with Corruption, you have a 6% chance to gain the Eradication effect. The Eradication effect increases your spell casting speed by 6/12/20% for 10 seconds. Internal cooldown removed.
• Haunt: Now only increases your shadow damage-over-time spells on the target.
• Malediction: No longer increases the effect of Curse of the Elements, but now also increases the periodic critical strike chance of your Corruption and Unstable Affliction spells by 3/6/9%.
• Pandemic: This talent has been reduced to a 1-point talent. Now grants your Corruption and Unstable Affliction the capability to critically hit.
• Shadow Embrace: Now only increases the damage done by your shadow damage periodic spells.
• Siphon Life: The Siphon Life spell has been removed. Siphon Life now causes your Corruption spell to instantly heal you for 40% of the damage done. In addition, the damage done by your Corruption, Seed of Corruption and Unstable Affliction damage-over-time effects is increased by 5%.
• Soul Siphon redesigned: Increases the amount drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by an additional 3/6% for each of your Affliction effects on the target, up to a maximum of 9/18% additional effect.
• Suppression: Now increases spell hit for all of your spells.
• Unstable Affliction and Immolation are now in the same exclusive category (both damage- over- time effects cannot be present at the same time by the same caster on a target).

Demonology

• Demonic Empathy has been removed.
• Demonic Empowerment: This talent now has a unique spell effect.
• Demonic Sacrifice: This talent has been removed.
• Fel Synergy has been moved to tier-1. No longer increases intellect, stamina and damage of your summoned demon.
• Improved Enslave Demon talent removed.
• Mana Feed: This talent is now a 1-point talent, down from 3 points. Now is the 21-point talent in Demonology, granting 100% mana return to your pet, up from 33/66/100%.
• Master Conjuror: Increased from 15/30% up to 150/300%.
• New Talent: Decimation: When you Shadowbolt or Incinerate a target that is at or below 35% health, your next Soulfire cast time is reduced by 30/60% and costs no shard. Lasts 10 seconds.
• New Talent: Nemesis: Reduces the cooldown of your Demonic Empowerment, Metamorphosis, Soulstone and Fel Domination spells by 10/20/30%.

Destruction

• Aftermath redesigned: Increases the periodic damage done by your Immolate by 3/6%, and your Conflagrate has a 50/100% chance to daze the target for 5 seconds.
• Backlash has been moved up to tier-5, up from tier-7. Now requires Intensity (pre-requisite).
• Cataclysm: Now reduces the mana cost of Destruction spells by 4/7/10%. No longer increases the chance to hit.
• Chaos Bolt: Damage increased approximately 15%.
• Conflagrate: Spell now works similar to Swiftmend, consuming an Immolate or Shadowflame effect on the target and dealing damage based on the strength of that effect. Reduced to a single rank.
• Improved Immolate: Now increases the damage done by your Immolate by 10/20/30%, rather than just the direct damage.
• Improved Shadow Bolt: Now increases the damage done by your Shadow Bolt spell by 1/2/3/4/5%, and causes your target to be vulnerable to spell damage, increasing spell critical strike chance against that target by 1/2/3/4/5%. Effect lasts 30 seconds.
• Improved Soul Leech: Now has a 50/100% chance to proc Replenishment.
• Molten Core: This talent has been moved to Demonology (tier-8).
• New Talent: Molten Skin: Reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6%.
• Pyroclasm redesigned: Now increases your Shadow and Fire spell power by 2/4/6% when you critically hit with Searing Pain or Conflagrate. Lasts 10 seconds. Also moved down to tier-7 from tier-5.

Warrior

• Battle Stance: Now increases armor penetration by 10%.
• Berserker Stance: Now increases damage taken by 5%.
• Charge: Duration of stun effect now lasts 1.5 seconds. This effect no longer has diminishing returns.
• Defensive Stance: Now reduces damage caused by the warrior by 5% (previously 10%).
• Disarm: This ability now disarms ranged weapons as well.
• Heroic Throw missile speed increased.
• Intimidating Shout: Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes.
• Shattering Throw: This new warrior ability, trainable at level 71, deals damage the same as Heroic Throw, but also causes the victim’s armor to be reduced by 20% for 10 seconds (stacking with Sunder Armor). If the victim is immune, it will remove that immunity instead of dealing damage and reducing armor. Costs 25 rage. Only useable in Battle Stance. 5-minute cooldown.

Arms

• Blood Frenzy improved to 2/4% increased damage.
• Deep Wounds: The damage done by this talent no longer receives modifications from effects that increase or decrease damage done by a percentage. The base weapon damage used in the calculation will still be modified by those effects.
• Improved Intercept and Weapon Mastery have once again swapped places in the talent tree.
• New Talent: Juggernaut: Grants the warrior the ability to Charge while in combat. Critical strike chance of next Slam or Mortal Strike increased by 100% following Charge.
• Taste for Blood: Will now proc 33/66/100% of the time with a 6-second cooldown.
• Unrelenting Assault: Now also increases the damage of Overpower and Revenge by 10/20%, and causes Overpower (when used to attack a casting target) to decrease the effectiveness of all the target’s non-physical damage and healing by 25/50% for 6 seconds. Tooltip and visual updated.

Fury

• Improved Berserker Stance: Now increases strength by 4/8/12/16/20% while in Berserker Stance.
• Titan’s Grip: While you have a two-handed weapon equipped in one hand, your physical damage done is reduced by 10%.

Protection

• Last Stand: Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
• Warbringer: Now also allows Intervene and Intercept to be used in any stance.

Professions

Alchemy

• All flasks now last 1 hour. To compensate, all flask recipes will provide 2 flasks for the same material cost.
• Blackmouth Oil and Fire Oil no longer require a vial.
• Elixir of Greater Firepower now grants spell power to all schools of magic.
• Flasks now stack to 20, and their vendor sell prices have been reduced to lower the Auction House deposits.
• Increased the health granted by the Flask of Stoneblood.
• Northrend flasks will be converted to mixtures. This includes the Flask of Stoneblood, Flask of Pure Mojo, Flask of Endless Rage, and Flask of the Frost Wyrm. Mixtures can create 2 flasks of the corresponding type. This allows players who stockpiled Northrend flasks to convert them to the new system without any loss.
• The Crazy Alchemist Potion is now correctly increased by Alchemist Stones.
• The Mercurial Stone is no longer required as a tool for alchemists. It is instead an uncommon quality bind-on-equip trinket.
• You can now sometimes find Alchemist’s Caches from bosses in Ulduar. Only players with an Alchemy skill of 425 or higher can loot these secret caches.

Blacksmithing

• Added a new recipe for the Titansteel Spellblade, an epic one-handed caster dagger, available from trainers.
• Added new recipes for epic gear, found rarely on Ulduar bosses. These recipes are unbound and can be traded.
• Most of the recipes in the 1-300 skill range of blacksmithing have received major stat updates to make them more useful.
• Added a new recipe for the Titansteel Spellblade.
• The Titanium Plating shield enchantment now reduces the duration of disarm effects by 50% as well as increasing your block value.

Cooking

• A new recipe has been added to cooking trainers for making Black Jelly, using several Borean Man ‘O War as ingredients. While it looks disgusting, it restores more health and mana than the highest level food.
• Flint and Tinder is no longer necessary for creating a campfire. You’re just that resourceful!
• Grub now sells the Dig Rat Stew recipe to players who completed the quest.
• Ingredients such as Spices, Apples, and the like have been removed from most cooking recipes.
• Players no longer need to complete the Clamlette Surprise quest to gain Artisan cooking. The quest now offers the unique recipe, Clamlette Magnifique. If you already completed the quest, you can visit Dirge Quickcleave in Gadgetzan to learn this recipe (for free).
• Prospector Khazgorm, found in Bael Modan in southern Barrens, now sells the recipe for Dig Rat Stew to the Alliance.
• Several Northrend recipes were given greater skill up ranges to make it easier to reach 450 cooking skill.
• You no longer need to learn cooking from books. The trainers have finally done their reading and are able to teach you the same thing.

Enchanting

• Added two new recipes for enchanting staves with spell power, available from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran City.
• Greatly increased the drop rate of recipes found in pre-Lich King dungeons and raids.
• Several recipes in the 250-300 skill range have been rebalanced, and the reagent requirements have been reduced.
• Some enchants now have level restrictions. Note: the enchant is never removed from the item to which it’s applied, however, players no longer receives its benefit until they reach the required level. Any enchants modified in this way have had their tooltips updated.
• The enchanting interface now correctly sorts grey recipes by skill difficulty.

Engineering

• Added a new Reticulated Armor Webbing engineering enchant that increases the armor on plate gloves.
• Added a new Springy Arachnoweave engineering enchant that grants passive spell power in addition to turning your cloak into a parachute.
• Engineers can now obtain the schematics for Lil’ Smoky and the Pet Bombling from certain creatures found in Gnomeregan. Specialized Gnomish or Goblin engineers can obtain both schematics equally. The repeatable quest that used to randomly grant these schematics has been disabled.
• Flexweave Underlay now grants passive agility in addition to its normal effect.
• Gnomish X-Ray Specs have a new model.
• Nitro Boosts now grant passive critical strike rating in addition to their speed boost.
• Nitro Boosts now make you drop PVP flags when used, as well as preventing you from picking them up while the effect is active.

Fishing

• A new (and very rare) special mount can now be caught from Northrend fishing pools.
• New fishing dailies are now offered from Marcia Chase in Dalaran City!
• Players are no longer required to do the Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme quest to gain Artisan fishing. The quest now offers a special superior-quality fishing pole instead. If you already completed the quest, you can visit Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh to receive this new fishing pole.
• The time needed to catch fish has been reduced.
• You can now fish anywhere, regardless of skill. Every catch has the potential for fishing skill gains, but you are likely to catch worthless junk in areas that are too difficult for your skill.
• You can now fish in Wintergrasp, and the fishin’ is good!
• You no longer need to learn fishing from books. The trainers have finally done their reading and are able to teach you the same thing.

Gathering Skills

• Toughness, Master of Anatomy, and Lifeblood now have level requirements equal to the level required for the corresponding skill rank: Apprentice (1), Journeyman (1), Expert (10), Artisan (25), Master (40), Grand Master (55).
• You can no longer fail when Mining, Herbing, and Skinning.

Herbalism

• Find Herbs no longer tracks Glowcaps.
• Northrend herbs now yield more herbs on average.
• The herbalism requirement for gathering Tiger Lily has been reduced to 375.
• The time it takes to gather herbs has been reduced.

Inscription

• Added a recipe to trainers for creating a level 70 superior-quality off-hand item.
• Added a recipe for creating a different level 70 superior-quality off-hand item. Scribes will find the recipe is dropped from residents of Silverbrook.
• Added around 50 new glyph recipes. These new recipes can be obtained from Books of Glyph Mastery found as world drops on Northrend monsters. Reading a Book of Glyph Mastery randomly discovers one of the newly-added recipes.
• Glyph icons have been updated so it is easy to distinguish between classes.
• Players will now learn 3 recipes the very first time they perform Northrend Inscription Research. This does not apply to players who have already discovered recipes from Northrend Inscription Research.

Jewelcrafting

• Added a new recipe to cut black diamonds.
• Added a recipe for Shifting Twilight Opal to the daily jewelcrafting vendor.
• Added recipes for superior-quality PVP rings and necklaces to Northrend jewelcrafting trainers.

Leatherworking

• Added a recipe for combining Borean Leather Scraps into Borean Leather. You can still use Borean Scraps from your inventory to combine them.
• Added new recipes for epic gear, found rarely on Ulduar bosses. These recipes are unbound and can be traded.
• Several lower-level items crafted by leatherworkers have received major changes to make them more appealing.
• Shadowskin Gloves and Dusky Boots no longer require Shadowcat Hide to create, but instead require an equal quantity of Shadow Silk. Shadowcat Hides can no longer be obtained from skinning.

Mining

• Northrend deposits now despawn 1 minute after mining them. This change was made to speed up respawning when nodes were partially looted.

Tailoring

• Added new recipes for epic gear, found rarely on Ulduar bosses. These recipes are unbound and can be traded.
• Added recipes for superior-quality PVP cloaks to Northrend tailoring trainers.
• The Lightweave tailoring enchant now sometimes grants a temporary spell power bonus instead of dealing direct damage to your target.
• Several lower-level items crafted by tailors have received major changes to make them more appealing.

Quests

• The fight event for the “Grim(oire) Business” quest at Vim’gol’s Circle in the Blade’s Edge Mountains now only requires one character to stand within a fire circle in order to summon Vim’gol the Vile. However, it still takes five characters, one in each of the fire circles, in order to interrupt Vim’gol the Vile’s Unholy Growth cast.
• Horde characters may now obtain the quest “CLUCK!” from Chickens. While Farmer Saldean won’t be selling Special Chicken Feed to the Horde, perhaps “Westfall” William Saldean in Brill might…

Dungeons and Raids

• New dungeon maps have been added for all Wrath of the Lich King dungeons.

Eye of Eternity

• Malygos will now properly delay before breathing after a Vortex on Heroic difficulty.

Naxxramas

• The Chains of Kel’Thuzad will no longer reset the raid’s threat.
• The Portal of Shadows created by Shade of Naxxramas will only persist for a maximum of one minute.
• Players with pets who attempt to use the Obedience Crystals in Naxxramas will have their pets dismissed automatically so they may possess an Understudy.

Vault of Archavon

• Archavon, Emalon, and their allies will now banish themselves 10 minutes prior to the beginning of a Lake Wintergrasp battle. A warning will be given 15 minutes prior to the start of Wintergrasp. They will not banish themselves if in combat.

User Interface

• New Advanced features for quest tracking are now available. Players will need to activate this option within the Interface panel.
• A new Color Blind option is available under the Interface panel.
• Spell Effect Level setting has been split into Particle Density and Projected Textures. Previously, Spell Effect Level controlled both of these features.
• Added new Video Mode Ultra (should only be used on the highest-end systems).
• Shadow Quality has a new higher level of detail. The slider for adjusting Shadow Quality remains the same, though there is an additional step at the high end of the spectrum.
• A new feature has been added allowing players to allocate talent points before confirming they’d like to spend them. This feature must be turned on in the Interface Options.
• A new Equipment Manager feature has been added. This feature can be turned on from the Interface Options, and will enable managing up to ten separate sets of equipped items.
• New high-resolution player textures for Northrend armor sets have been added. Players can enable this feature by setting Player Textures to High in the Effects Panel of the Video Options.
• Players can now return items purchased with an alternate currency back to the original vendor within 2 hours of the purchase time for the original cost of the item. Stackable items (such as Frozen Orbs and gems) and charged items that can be purchased with an alternate currency are not eligible.
• Confirmation boxes have been added to purchases over 150 gold.
• The calendar now supports a guild-wide sign-up sheet, allowing the event organizer to invite his or her entire guild.
• Class roles (i.e. damage, tanking, healing) have been added to the Looking For Group feature. Class roles will be displayed when sorting through the Looking For More section.
• Quest and Achievement tracking are now combined in a new Objectives Tracking window. Advanced features can be activated from the Objectives Options panel.
• On-Use items will display in the Objectives Tracking when tracking a quest that uses them. No more searching through your bags for that on-use quest item!
• Health and Fuel/Ammo bars have been added to the vehicle interface whenever operating a vehicle.
• The mini-map has been optimized for better performance. Displays for vehicles, class colors, and off-map pings have been added as well.
• Players first entering any dungeon that will result in a lock-out timer will be warned if they are going to be saved to the instance. This warning will include an option to port to the nearest graveyard before being saved.
• New elite mob frames have been added for V-Key frames.
• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.

Items

• Arena Grand Master Trinket: Dodge rating has been replaced with stamina.
• Badges and Emblems looted off of any dungeon bosses by a member of the party or raid will automatically be given to all eligible party or raid members. Party or raid members must still be inside the instance to receive Badges or Emblems.
• Enhancement Shaman PvP Set Bonus: The cooldown reduction of Stormstrike has been increased to 2 seconds, up from 1 second.
• Existing crafted resilience armor sets now offer additional stamina and resilience ratings through set bonuses.
• Gift of Arthas: Now considered a curse instead of a disease.
• Hearthstone: Cooldown has been reduced to 30 minutes down from 60 minutes.
• Darkmoon Cards of the North will now take three seconds per card to create.
• Divine Hymn will now trigger Illustration of the Dragon Soul.
• Frozen Scepter of Necromancy now sounds like other maces.
• Heavy Junkboxes will no longer have deprecated poison materials.
• Libram of the Sacred Shield: Increases block value.
• Magic Dust now has a 10-second PvP duration.
• Old Naxxramas Shoulder Enchants will now soulbind items.
• Outrider’s Lammellar Legguards and Sentinel’s Mail Leggings have had their costs reduced to the correct value.
• Pack of Endless Pockets can now be mailed.
• Paladin Healer PvP Set Bonus: The bonus for Holy Shock healing has been reduced to 10%.
• Patroller’s Pack now sounds like a bag.
• PvP Trinkets will now break Shackle Undead.
• Several beverages missing from the “Beverages Consumed” statistic have been added.
• Several foods missing from the Food Eaten statistic have been added.
• Sigil of Awareness: Now provides bonus damage to Death Strike as well.
• Sigil of the Frozen Conscience: The bonus to Icy Touch from this relic has been reduced to a value appropriate to the item’s level.
• Sprite Darter Eggs: May now (very rarely) drop from Sprite Darters in Feralas. Note that only Horde characters can attack and kill Sprite Darters.
• Three new mounts are available from Horde mount vendors, equalizing the number of purchasable normal and epic mounts: the Black Wolf, the White Kodo, and the Black Skeletal Horse (in Orgrimmar, Bloodhoof Village, and Brill respectively).
• Thunder Capacitor again requires four charges.
• Tiny Emerald Whelplings: May now (very rarely) drop from Adolescent Whelps in the Swamp of Sorrows.
• White Tickbird Hatchling is now classified as a Pet.

Clams

• A new clam, the Giant Darkwater Clam, can be obtained by fishing in Wintergrasp. This mighty clam has a greatly increased chance to drop pearls, and yields up to five times the regular amount of clam meat.
• Loot from clams now stacks correctly!
• Changed the icon for Succulent Clam Meat so it doesn’t look quite as disgusting. Now 100% more succulent!

Glyphs

Death Knight

• Glyph of Blood Boil: This has been replaced with Glyph of Heart Strike, which adds a snare effect to Heart Strike.
• Glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon: Increases the duration of Dancing Rune Weapon by 10 seconds.
• Glyph of Dark Death: Increases the damage done by Death Coil by 15%.
• Glyph of Death Strike: This glyph now increases Death Strike damage by 1% per 2 runic power, but has a limit of 25% increase.
• Glyph of Disease: Your Pestilence ability now refreshes disease durations on your primary target back to their maximum duration.
• Glyph of Howling Blast: Your Howling Blast ability now infects your targets with Frost Fever.
• Glyph of Hungering Cold: Reduces the cost of Hungering Cold by 10 runic power.
• Glyph of Icebound Fortitude: Icebound Fortitude now grants at least 30% damage reduction, regardless of defense skill.
• Glyph of Plague Strike: Bonus lowered to 20%.
• Glyph of Strangulate: This glyph has been changed to reduce the cooldown by 20 seconds.
• Glyph of Unbreakable Armor: Increases the amount of damage absorbed by Unbreakable Armor by 20%.
• Glyph of Unholy Blight: Increases the duration of Unholy Blight by 10 seconds.

Druid

• Glyph of Barkskin: Reduces the chance you’ll be critically hit by melee attacks by 25% while Barkskin is active.
• Glyph of Berserk: Increases the duration of Berserk by 5 seconds.
• Glyph of Monsoon: Reduces the cooldown of your Typhoon spell by 3 seconds.
• Glyph of Nourish: Your Nourish heals an additional 6% for each of your heal-over-time effects present on the target.
• Glyph of Rebirth: Target now returns to life with full health.
• Glyph of Savage Roar: Your Savage Roar ability grants an additional 3% bonus damage done.
• Glyph of Shred: Now increases remaining duration on Rip by 2 seconds each time it is used, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
• Glyph of Starfall: Changed to reduce the cooldown by 30 seconds.
• Glyph of Survival Instincts: Increases the percentage of your maximum health received from Survival Instincts to 40%.
• Glyph of Wild Growth: Wild Growth now affects up to 6 targets.

Hunter

• Glyph of Aimed Shot: Now reduces cooldown by 2 seconds.
• Glyph of Chimera Shot: Reduces the cooldown of Chimera Shot by 1 second.
• Glyph of Explosive Shot: Increases the critical strike chance of Explosive Shot by 4%.
• Glyph of Explosive Trap: The periodic damage from your Explosive Trap can now be critical strikes.
• Glyph of Kill Shot: Reduces the cooldown of Kill Shot by 6 seconds.
• Glyph of the Monkey: This glyph has been converted to Glyph of Mending, which increases the healing done by Mend Pet by 40%.
• Glyph of Raptor Strike: For 3 seconds after using Raptor Strike, you take 20% less damage.
• Glyph of Scatter Shot: Increases the range of Scatter Shot by 3 yards.
• Glyph of Snake Trap: Now reduces damage taken by snakes from area damage by 90%.
• Glyph of Wyvern Sting: Now reduces the cooldown by 6 seconds, down from 15 seconds. No longer reduces the damage done by Wyvern Sting’s effect.

Mage

• Glyph of Arcane Barrage: Reduces the mana cost of Arcane Barrage by 20%.
• Glyph of Deep Freeze: Increases the range of Deep Freeze by 10 yards.
• Glyph of Ice Armor: Now increases resistance and armor by 50%.
• Glyph of Ice Barrier: Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Ice Barrier by 30%.
• Glyph of Living Bomb: The periodic damage from your Living Bomb can now be critical strikes.
• Glyph of Mirror Image: This glyph has been redesigned and now increases the number of copies of the mage to 4.

Paladin

• Glyph of Beacon of Light: Increases the duration of Beacon of Light by 30 seconds.
• Glyph of Divine Plea: While Divine Plea is active, you take 3% reduced damage from all sources.
• Glyph of Divine Storm: Your Divine Storm now heals for an additional 15% of the damage it causes.
• Glyph of Divinity: Now Lay on Hands grants 100% bonus mana, and that amount of mana is granted to the paladin and their target.
• Glyph of Exorcism: Changed to 20% bonus damage.
• Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous: Your Hammer of the Righteous hits 1 additional target.
• Glyph of Holy Light: Can no longer critically strike and has had its range updated.
• Glyph of Holy Shock: Reduces the cooldown of Holy Shock by 1 second.
• Glyph of Lay on Hands: Now reduces the cooldown of Lay on Hands by 5 minutes.
• Glyph of Salvation: When you cast Hand of Salvation on yourself, it also reduces damage taken by 20%.
• Glyph of Seal of Blood: When your Seal of Blood, Seal of the Martyr, Judgement of Blood, or Judgement of the Martyr deals damage to you, you gain 11% of the damage done as mana.
• Glyph of Seal of Righteousness: Increases damage done by this seal by 10%.
• Glyph of Shield of Righteousness: Reduces the mana cost of Shield of Righteousness by 80%.

Priest

• Glyph of Dispersion: Reduces the cooldown on Dispersion by 45 seconds.
• Glyph of Fade: Now reduces cooldown by 9 seconds.
• Glyph of Fear Ward: Now reduces duration and cooldown by 1 minute.
• Glyph of Guardian Spirit: If your Guardian Spirit lasts its entire duration without being triggered, your Guardian Spirit cooldown is reset to 60 seconds.
• Glyph of Hymn of Hope: Now increases the duration of Hymn of Hope.
• Glyph of Inner Fire: Increases bonus armor by 50%.
• Glyph of Mind Control: Increases duration by 30 seconds.
• Glyph of Mind Sear: Increases the radius of effect on Mind Sear by 5 yards.
• Glyph of Pain Suppression: Allows Pain Suppression to be cast while stunned.
• Glyph of Penance: Reduces the cooldown of Penance by 2 seconds.
• Glyph of Psychic Scream: Increases duration by 2 seconds, but increases cooldown by 8 seconds.

Rogue

• Glyph of Adrenaline Rush: Now increases duration by 5 seconds.
• Glyph of Backstab: Now increases remaining duration on Rupture by 2 seconds each time it is used, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
• Glyph of Cloak of Shadows: While Cloak of Shadows is active, you take 40% less physical damage.
• Glyph of Crippling Poison: Poison chance bonus increased to 20%.
• Glyph of Deadly Throw: Increases the movement reduction by 10%.
• Glyph of Fan of Knives: Increases the damage done by Fan of Knives by 20%.
• Glyph of Hunger for Blood: Increases the bonus damage from Hunger for Blood by 3%.
• Glyph of Killing Spree: Reduces the cooldown on Killing Spree by 45 seconds.
• Glyph of Mutilate: Reduces the cost of Mutilate by 5 energy.
• Glyph of Pick Lock: Now reduces cast time by 100%.
• Glyph of Sap: Increases duration by 20 seconds.
• Glyph of Shadow Dance: Increases the duration of Shadow Dance by 4 seconds.
• Glyph of Sprint: No longer reduces the duration.
• Glyph of Tricks of the Trade: Your Tricks of the Trade grants an additional 10% bonus damage to your target.

Shaman

• Glyph of Earth Shield: Increases the amount healed by your Earth Shield by 20%.
• Glyph of Feral Spirit: Your spirit wolves gain an additional 30% of your attack power.
• Glyph of Hex: Increases the damage your Hex target can take before the Hex effect is removed by 20%.
• Glyph of Riptide: Increases the duration of Riptide by 6 seconds.
• Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem: Your Stoneclaw Totem also places a damage absorb shield on you, equal to 4 times the strength of the shield it places on your totems.
• Glyph of Thunder: Reduces the cooldown on Thunderstorm by 7 seconds.
• Glyph of Totem of Wrath: When you cast Totem of Wrath, you gain 30% of the totem’s bonus spell power for 5 minutes.

Warlock

• Glyph of Banish: This glyph has been replaced with Glyph of Incinerate, which increases the damage of Incinerate by 5%.
• Glyph of Chaos Bolt: Reduces the cooldown on Chaos Bolt by 2 seconds.
• Glyph of Demonic Circle: Reduces the cooldown on Demonic Circle by 4 seconds.
• Glyph of Haunt: The bonus damage granted by your Haunt spell is increased by an additional 3%.
• Glyph of Immolate: The bonus damage provided by this glyph to Immolate’s periodic damage has been reduced to 10%, down from 20%. The 10% reduction to Immolate’s initial damage has been removed.
• Glyph of Imp: Increases your Imp’s Firebolt damage by 20%.
• Glyph of Life Tap: When you use Life Tap, you gain 20% of your spirit as spell power for 20 seconds.
• Glyph of Metamorphosis: Increases the duration of your Metamorphosis by 6 seconds.
• Glyph of Shadowflame: Your Shadowflame also applies a 70% movement speed slow on its victims.
• Glyph of Siphon Life: Redesigned to increase the healing received from the Siphon Life talent.
• Glyph of Soul Link: Increases the percentage of damage shared via your Soul Link by an additional 5%.
• Glyph of Succubus: Redesigned to remove all damage-over-time effects from the target of Seduction.

Warrior

• Glyph of Barbaric Insults: Increases threat on Mocking Blow by 100%.
• Glyph of Bladestorm: Reduces the cooldown on Bladestorm by 15 seconds.
• Glyph of Enraged Regeneration: Your Enraged Regeneration ability heals for an additional 10% of your health over its duration.
• Glyph of Last Stand: Now reduces the cooldown of Last Stand by 60 seconds. The penalty on maximum health gained has been removed.
• Glyph of Overpower: Now provides 100% chance on all parries.
• Glyph of Shield Wall: Reduces the cooldown on Shield Wall by 3 min, but Shield Wall now only reduces damage taken by 40%.
• Glyph of Shockwave: Reduces the cooldown on Shockwave by 3 seconds.
• Glyph of Spell Reflection: Reduces the cooldown on Spell Reflection by 1 second.
• Glyph of Sweeping Strikes: Now makes Sweeping Strikes cost 0 rage.
• Glyph of Vigilance: Your Vigilance ability transfers an additional 5% of your target’s threat to you.

Mac

• Support for Logitech G-15 and G-19 keyboards with LCD displays has been added.
• A number of performance and smoothness enhancements have been implemented.
• The new high-res player textures are supported on dual processor systems running OS X 10.5.
• A crashing bug involving chat channel commands has been fixed.
• A problem involving window focus and foreground/background status has been fixed.
• Movie recording feature has had some user interface improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Leaving a group while in an instance will now port you to the nearest graveyard rather than your Hearthstone location.
• Yaaarrrr! now has a detailed tooltip.

Bug Fixes: Classes

Death Knight

• Acclimation: This talent will no longer sometimes grant nature resistance while fighting Sapphiron.
• Anti-magic Zone: This ability will no longer cause strange absorb messages in the combat log and floating combat text.
• Dancing Rune Weapon: Fixed a bug making it trigger an unusual number of effects from the weapon equipped by the death knight. In addition, it will now only echo death knight spells whose primary purpose is dealing damage. This pet will no longer break stealth on nearby targets and attack them. Also corrected a bug making the effect last 8 seconds longer than intended.
• Death Coil: This spell will no longer sometimes cause the death knight to animate a swing twice.
• Death Grip: This spell will no longer automatically cast on the nearest enemy when no valid target is selected.
• Death Runes: Fixed a bug where it was possible when using two abilities with the same rune cost to not get correctly granted a second Death Rune when appropriate.
• Ebon Plaguebringer: Multiple death knights can now use this debuff against a target without overwriting each other.
• Howling Blast: Each rank now properly shares a cooldown with the other ranks.
• Necrosis: The damage from this ability will no longer benefit multiple times from damage increasing effects.
• Pestilence: This ability will now spread disease centered on a position between the death knight and its target, rather than the target’s center position (for very large creatures, this used to cause no disease spread at all).
• Raise Ally: The buff from this ability can no longer be right clicked to cancel. In order to end the effect, the player controlling the Risen Ghoul must right click on the unit portrait and dismiss the pet. In addition, using this ability on a player whose level is too low will now give a “Target is too low level” error message instead of “You have no target.”
• Raise Dead: This pet now despawns instantly when it dies. In addition, this ability can no longer be used while riding any type of vehicle. The Risen Ghoul is also now properly immune to Charm, Fear, Sleep, and Horror.
• Rune of Cinderglacier: Charges of this will now only be used if the target actually took damage from the attack.
• Scent of Blood: This talent can no longer be triggered by environmental damage.
• Scourge Strike: The tooltip incorrectly stated it did 60% weapon damage increased by 9% from diseases, when it was actually 45% increased 11% from diseases. The tooltip has been corrected, but the damage done is unchanged.
• Sigil of Awareness: The tooltip on this incorrectly indicated it added much more damage than it actually did. The tooltip has been corrected to show the actual bonus.
• Summon Gargoyle: The Gargoyle will no longer re-attack rogues after they Vanish, or night elves who use Shadowmeld. Monsters will stop trying to chase a Gargoyle after it flies away. The debuff on the target indicating he or she is being pursued by a Gargoyle will no longer display the duration, and will be removed when the buff is removed from the death knight. Max duration in the tooltip changed to 40 seconds.

Druid

• Bash: This ability will now still interrupt casting even if the victim is immune to the stun due to diminishing returns.
• Feral Attack Power: Heirloom weapons now correctly grant the amount of attack power in Cat, Bear, and Dire Bear Forms that is stated on the weapon tooltip. In addition, the attack power bonus will now work properly for druids below level 60.
• Lifebloom: Corrected some bugs with the new blooming functionality and dispels.
• Predatory Strikes: This talent now properly affects the attack power gained from weapon enchants.
• Swipe: Now properly affected by area-of-effect damage caps.
• Thorns: This spell will now properly use the druid’s spell power to determine its scaling instead of the target’s spell power.
• Wild Growth: Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Wild Growth ranks from overwriting each other.

Hunter

• Cower: This pet ability will now display its cooldown correctly.
• Disengage: This ability can no longer be used while riding any type of vehicle.
• Froststorm Breath: This pet ability will now display its cooldown correctly.
• Heart of the Phoenix: Can no longer be set to autocast (which did not work).
• Hunter traps will no longer be able to be set off by totems.
• Rake: This pet ability will now always refresh when used by the pet.
• Savage Rend (raptor special ability): Fixed a tooltip error to correctly note this ability boosts damage rather than attack power.
• Spirit Strike: This pet ability now has its damage increased by Prowl as intended.
• Spore Cloud: This pet ability will now autocast properly at all ranks.
• Steady Shot: Now does correct damage with heirloom weapons.

Mage

• Arcane Potency: Fixed a bug where sometimes the benefit was consumed before altering the critical strike chance of the mage. In addition, will no longer benefit the critical strike chance of Molten Armor’s damage.
• Deep Freeze: Floating combat text will now display when this ability is able to be used.
• Focus Magic: When spell-stolen, this buff will no longer grant the originally casting mage a buff when critical strikes occur.
• Frostbite: Fixed a bug preventing this from overwriting the effect from the Frostbite talent.
• Ignite: The debuff from this talent now benefits properly from Arcane Subtlety. In addition, effects which modify damage done will no longer be applied a second time to the damage from this talent.
• Master of Elements: Now refunds the correct amount of mana when used with Arcane Missiles.
• Mirror Image: Mirror Images will now appear with maximum health and mana. In addition, this ability can no longer be used while riding any type of vehicle.
• Slow Fall: Can no longer be cast on NPCs.
• Torment the Weak: Now properly increases damage when used against victims of the snare from Hunter Frost Traps.

Paladin

• Beacon of Light: This spell no longer duplicates the heal on yourself if your target is currently immune to being healed due to being on a vehicle. It will simply not duplicate the heal. In addition, Divine Plea will only penalize the original heal instead of applying the penalty a second time on the duplicated heal.
• Blessing of Sanctuary: This spell can now overwrite a Greater Blessing of Sanctuary that has less than 10 minutes duration remaining.
• Blessing of Wisdom: It is no longer possible to have the icon for this spell and Greater Blessing of Wisdom active at the same time (which didn’t give any benefit, but was confusing).
• Combat Expertise: This talent will now properly increase spell critical strike chance.
• Hammer of Justice: This ability will now still interrupt casting even if the victim is immune to the stun due to diminishing returns.
• Hammer of the Righteous: Now does correct damage with heirloom weapons.
• Holy Shield: Damage from this ability now increases properly from attack power.
• Judgement of Command: Fixed incorrect combat log tooltips.
• Righteous Vengeance: Effects which modify damage done will no longer be applied a second time to the damage from this talent.
• Sacred Shield: Now scales properly from spell power granted by Sheath of Light.
• Seal of Vengeance/Corruption: The bonus damage applied a target which already has the maximum stack of debuffs is now properly affected by Judgements of the Pure. In addition, fixed some missing tooltips in the combat log.
• Sheath of Light: Critical heals from Lay on Hands will now trigger this talent.

Priest

• Inner Fire: Charges of this buff will now be consumed properly if the priest is attacked while using emotes.
• Mind Control: This spell can no longer be cast while it is already active.
• Misery: The tooltip on this talent was badly worded and implied a bonus much larger than it actually gave. The tooltip has been rewritten to be more clear.
• Prayer of Mending: This spell will no longer fail from “A more powerful spell is already active” errors. It will now always cast, including overwriting a weaker Prayer of Mending. In addition, trinkets which are triggered from casting a healing spell will now be triggered properly by Prayer of Mending.

Rogue

• Master of Subtlety: The amount of time remaining on the damage bonus for this talent is now displayed.

Shaman

• Cleanse Spirit is now properly in the Nature spell school.
• Tremor Totem: Now correctly pulses every 3 seconds, up from 1 seconds.

Warlock

• Dark Pact: Can no longer be cast when the warlock has an enslaved demon pet that does not have mana.
• Demonic Circle: Summon: This spell can no longer be cast while on a transport or other moving object.
• Fel Synergy: This talent will no longer heal vehicles the warlock is riding.
• Ritual of Summoning: This spell can no longer be cast while on a transport or other moving object.
• Unstable Affliction: Feedback damage from dispelling this debuff will no longer be modified by effects on the victim which modify the damage the victim does.

Warrior

• Concussion Blow: Now properly triggers a 1.5 second global cooldown.
• Damage Shield: Fixed a bug which caused this ability to benefit from Recklessness.
• Enrage: This ability can no longer be triggered by environmental damage.
• Enraged Regeneration: While this is active, the warrior is blocked from using abilities that trigger being enraged (which would do nothing and waste the cooldowns).
• Improved Revenge: This talent will now increase the damage done by Revenge by the proper amount.
• Rend: Now does correct damage with heirloom weapons. In addition, low ranks of this ability will no longer incorrectly gain a damage bonus against targets above 75% health.
• Slam: Slam will no longer sometimes show 2 miss messages.

Bug Fixes: Items

• Dartol’s Rod of Transformation has had its tooltip corrected.
• Glyph of Mocking Blow: Correctly increases damage of the ability by 25%.
• Glyph of Rejuvenation: Effects which modify healing done will no longer be applied a second time to the healing granted by this glyph.
• Glyph of Shocking: Tooltip has been corrected.
• Heirloom Items: The bonus spell power granted by these items has been redesigned to provide substantially more benefit for players lower than level 58.
• Hook of the Master Angler: Using this item to shape-change into a fish now cancels Shadowform.
• Justicar (T4) Retribution Set: The bonus to seals now works properly on Seal of Blood and Seal of the Martyr.
• Mace of Unending Life is correctly a two-handed weapon.
• Many Northrend maces now make correct noises when sheathed and unsheathed.
• Many items with 110 attack power now correctly grant 110 ranged attack power.
• Oracle Talisman of Ablution’s spell data has been clarified.
• Personal rating requirements for off-hand Deadly Gladiator items should now display correctly.
• Several Hateful and Deadly plate helms have had their stats correctly reduced.
• Several Naxxramas items with block values were not providing the correct stat amounts and have been fixed.
• Sigil of Arthritic Binding: The tooltip was incorrect for this item and overstated the bonus to Scourge Strike. This has been fixed.
• Thunder Capacitor’s cooldown functions.
• Wall of Terror, Fleshless Girdle, and Inexorable Sabatons have had their stamina values adjusted to the proper levels.

Bug Fixes: Racials

• Blood Fury: The tooltip on the attack power version of this ability will now tell how much attack power it grants to the orc.
• Shadowmeld: Using this ability will no longer cause friendly players to deselect the night elf.

Today on SWoW, Peta start a Seal Clubbing Protest in World of Warcraft (US Wintergrasp Relm), how more women then ever are playing WoW, how Game Designers are not Shakespeare and how Nobelgarden has been reschedualed.

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Links

http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/04/help_battle_sea.php – Peta tries to help Seals

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/09/nielsen-wow-is-most-played-core-game-by-25-54-females/ – WoW is most played core game by 25-54 year old women

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27/gdc09_jeffrey_kaplan_session/ – Game devs can’t write

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=176 -Sneak Peak of some totally new Season 3 Content

Contact details

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On SWoW Today we talk about the many April Fool’s Jokes Blizzard pulled on the community, some delays in Nobelgarden and Equipment management, Also, Blizzard were nominated for 6 advertising awards or other! W00ts!

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Links

http://bit.ly/YgQ1 – A screenshot I took of the RPing of the forums. QQ!

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/02/april-fools-2009-roundup/ – WoW Insider’s April Fools 2009 roundup

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/03/equipment-manager-will-not-be-in-3-1/ – Equipment Manager will not be in 3.1

You can contact Cian by emailing podcast@startingwow.com , you can follow him on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cianmm and you can go to http://www.twitter.com/scodio to follow Scodio Studios.

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Today on SWoW, I talk about how Blizzard now let you get the Authenticator for FREE, in some cases, anyway. (Hint: I am not one of those cases.) Also on the show is an email I got from Blizzard, makers of World of “Warcarft”, a new battleground which has been announced by Zarhym, details start rising about a totally new and never before spoken about game Blizzard are working on, how Streaming technology might make WoW a lot easier to have on your computer, and FREE CHARACTER RESPECS!

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Links

http://is.gd/pye3 – Get the Blizzard Authenticator for your iPhone or iPod Touch

http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/fifth-blizzard-game-in-the-works-update/ – Fifth Blizzard Game in the works

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15864858893&sid=1&pageNo=14#264 – New Battleground announced by Zahrym

http://www.massively.com/2009/03/27/the-daily-grind-will-streaming-technology-revolutionize-mmo-gam/ – How Streaming technology might make WoW easier to have on your computer

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/23/all-characters-to-receive-free-respecs-in-patch-3-1/ – Free respecs for all when 3.1 comes around!

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Today on the show, I talk about the Authenticator and how it may be coming to mobile devices (like the iPhone) very soon, some new details on the Ulduar raid which will hopefully be popping up in the next content patch, how Germany want to mark World of Warcraft and similar games as Adult Only and even ban them completely, and last, but not least, how World of Warcraft is only for hardcore male gamers. I call bull on that last one, I just am not really sure why.

Of course, when I say “And last, but not lease”, I am not including the random chitterchatter which usually goes on in SWoW episodes.

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Links

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=26109 – the FAQ page where it is reviled that you may soon be able to get the authenticator for your phone

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/3p1/ulduar.xml – New deets on Ulduar

http://www.massively.com/2009/03/22/world-of-warcraft-is-for-hardcore-young-male-gamers/ – Is WoW only for hardcore male gamers?

http://www.massively.com/2009/03/18/german-social-affairs-minister-wants-wow-classified-adults-only/ – WoW might soon be Adults Only in Germany

http://sethharwood.com/ – Seth Harwood’s Young Junius – Crime Podcast Novel. Check it out!

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Today on Starting WoW, we talk about a new way for Blizzard to steal all your creative impulses, and maybe give you something in return, how the Worlds.com CEO is a grumpy grumpy man, suing everybody in the MMO business, how China’s WoW distributor could go bankrupt very soon, that weird insurance thing for your server’s downtime, and a rumoured Diabolo 3 release date? I think not.

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Links

http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/contests/writing/ – Blizzard’s lore writing contest

http://www.massively.com/2009/03/10/wrath-of-the-lich-king-rejected-thus-far-by-chinese-government/ – Will the9 go bankrupt?

http://www.massively.com/2009/03/12/world-of-warcraft-and-second-life-are-next-says-worlds-com-ceo/ – Worlds.com CEO sues everybody in the room

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/11/youplayorwepay-opens-up-a-new-month-plans-to-add-eu-realms-soon/ – YouPlayOrWePay is back

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3112 – I am very skeptical about these Diabolo 3 rumors.

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You can contact Cian by emailing podcast@startingwow.com

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Today on SWoWwe talk about a fair bit including getting the Art of Wrath of the Lich King book a bit early, at a steep discount, Sociologists using WoW and other MMO games for social sciences, a great article from the Guardian about the work places of Gold Farmers, GM Dave heading to WoW World for a week, and some chatter about Blizzard’s goals.

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Links

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/sociologists-using-mmorpgs-to-conduct-research-556582 – Sociologists use MMO games for research

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/08/breakfast-topic-blizzards-patch-3-1-goals/ – Blizzard’s goals for 3.1

http://www.massively.com/2009/03/06/gm-dave-goes-for-a-ride-in-world-of-warcraft-finds-out-its-not/ – GM Dave tries WoW

http://kotaku.com/5161857/five-uses-for-this-wrath-of-the-lich-king-art-book – Book Review – Art of Wrath of the Lich King

http://is.gd/mpSO – Buy Art of the Wrath of the Lich King in the US with a really sweet discount

http://is.gd/mpU0 – Buy Art of the Wrath of the Lich King in the UK with a pretty sucky discount

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/05/virtual-world-china – Welcome to the Gold Mines – Article on Gold Sellers and their working conditions

Hey there! In this action packed episode of Starting WoW, we have lots of stuff to tell you about. We have Blizzard having an awesome themepark competition, WoW being more addictive then cocaine, getto hearthing being nerfed, better hearthstones, hunters, engeeners, and duel spec!

Enjoy!

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Links

http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/contests/themepark/ -  WoW Themepark competition

http://www.massively.com/2009/02/27/world-of-warcraft-as-addictive-as-cocaine-bullshit/ – is WoW as addictive as Cocaine?

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/26/hearthstones-down-to-30-minute-cooldown-in-3-1/ – Hearthstone cooldown

Today on the show, we have info about the Blizzard 4 Years in the EU competition which has some awesome prizes, Jeffrey Kaplan leaving the WoW Team for greater things and Duel Speccing.

Thanks for listening! Talk to you again next week. You EU people! Let me know what your favourite WoW moment and least favourite WoW moment in the comments!

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Links

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/contests/fouryear/ – WoW Four Years in the EU Competition

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/dualspec.html – Duel Spec FAQ with GhostCrawler

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14990474128 – Jeffrey Kaplan’s final words to the WoW community

The single most downloaded episode of SWoW ever was the first screencast that I did about how to create a new character. I have decided to do another this week, all about the plugin designed to get you as much money in the Auction Houses as possible, Auctioneer.

Now, to get a much more in debth view of Auctioneer, you might want to go check out Chranarak’s article he wrote on it a fair while back. But for a quite course, this is the video you want!

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Links

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctioneer.aspx – Download Auctioneer

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=12 – The first SWoW Screencast

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=63 – Chranarak’s article

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This is the full quality version of my rap which premiered not one week ago in episode 15. To get the lyrics as well, just click “Read More“. If you want to use it on your blog, just link to it! If you want to use it on your show, just let people know that I made the darn thing, and that they can find more of this madness at StartingWoW.com.

Lyrics

Now, this is a story all about how
My spec got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became a nerfed hunter and beast master

A west Kalimdor nelf born and raised
Questing in azeroth where I spent most of my days
killing’ noobs pwning’ relaxin’ all cool
And all shootin some Murlocs outside in a pool
When a couple of devs
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my class forums
I got in one little fight and Cianes got smaller
He said “Damn! now that I’m nerfed I can’t deal Ghostcrawler!

I begged and pleaded with him game after game
But he packed my spec nerf and send me on my way
He gave me a kiss and then he gave me my ticket.
I put big sword down and said, ‘I might as well kick it’.

Nerfed class, yo this is bad
Drinking mana juice out of a big ass glass.
Is this what the people of warlocks Living like?
this might not be alright.

I downloaded the patch 3.0.8
And I yelled to my leetness ‘Yo homes smell ya later’
I looked at my talents
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Nerfed hunter

In this episode of Starting WoW, Pranks pulled in WoW, a splurge of new european transfers, patch 3.0.8 dawns a new day, the Fresh Prince makes an appearance, the Official Wrath of the Lich King Guidebook and whatever else I can pull up. Which happens to be quite a lot, actually.

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Links

http://is.gd/hZVF – Wrath of the Lich King Official Guidebook: Play better

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/patchnotes/ – 3.0.8 patchnotes (Hunter Nerf!)

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=7700444629&sid=1 – EU Free Relm Transfers

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/29/breakfast-topic-pranks/ – WoW Insider topic on WoW Pranks

http://startingwow.ning.com/forum/topics/wow-pranks SWoW Social Network topic on WoW Pranks

http://kotaku.com/gaming/wow/wow-funeral-party-gets-owned-167354.php – info on the pwning of the WoW Funeral in a contested area

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJVolaC8pw – Video of the funeral pwning

For the last week I have had a terrible cold. This has resulted in me missing a week of school, so I hope that you lot will understand if this weeks episode has to be called off.

Why not join the social network at social.startingwow.com and complain about how irregular SWoW has been in the past while? I don’t mind!

This episode of SWoW is a tad short, due to a horrific illness I have. It’s the Common Cold, everybody!

So, not much babble here.

Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?page_id=4 – Sponsor SWoW

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/16/wow-insider-interview-you-play-or-we-pay-founders/ – Interview with You Play or We Pay

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=119 – Patch 3.0.8 notes

http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/14/gamerdna-and-massively-explore-death-knight-demographics/ – Death Knight data

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/contests/valentine2009/ – Valintine’s Day contest

General

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Achievements

• The Loremaster of Kalimdor Achievement has had its quest amount reduced.
• The Winds of the North has had its requirements changed. This achievement is now earned by getting Exalted with the Alliance Vanguard or Horde Expedition.

PvP

Enjoy, and let me know what you think of the new site!

This week on Starting WoW, I talk about Red 5 Studios, a group of ex Blizzard devs who claim they are going to make their own MMO, we talk about how simply giving to Charity can get you free WoW for the rest of your days, we also talk about the BLIND machinema I posted on the site, and we talk a bit about what I am up to in WoW at the moment.

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Linkshttp://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/26/former-blizzard-devs-at-red-5-studios-plan-their-own-mmo/">
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/26/former-blizzard-devs-at-red-5-studios-plan-their-own-mmo/ – Red 5 Studios plan their own MMO
http://pages.teamintraining.org/ctx/pfchangs09/kallen – Give to charity, win free WoW for ever
http://www.startingwow.com/?p=110 – BLIND, the most awesome WoW Machinema I have ever seen
http://social.startingwow.com – The Starting WoW Social Network

Take a look at this amazing movie from Parcula. He claims that it is only the second work he has ever shared, so I can’t WAIT to see what else he has ready to be put on Vimeo!

While wondering through Negrad, I found this. Where is Samuel Jackson when you need him?

Firstly, sorry for being late this week. Now, we shall never mention it again. Also, I recorded this episode after my mouth was assaulted by lots of chillies. So that is why I sound a bit weird.

This week in the show, we talk about Child’s Play, we talk about the feast of Winter Veil, we talk about how amazing a job at Blizzard would be and we talk about Judge Judy. Yes, Judge Judy.

Happy Whatever!

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Links

http://www.ChildsPlayCharity.org – Child’s Play

http://www.wowwiki.com/Feast_of_Winter_Veil – Feast of Winter Veil

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/employees-blizzard-company-2250480-sams-work – Interview with a Blizzard employee

http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/benefits.html – Benefits for Blizzard employees

http://tinyurl.com/yorou7 – Judge Judy and WoW

To keep up this idea, we have decided to instate mandatory polling of our listener-ship for some very serious and scientific tests. Playing World of Warcraft is serious business!

Please answer this poll as truthfully as you can, if you play World of Warcraft. Thanks!

Today on the show, we cover a lot and a lot of feedback, both through this site and the social network at Social.StartingWoW.com. I also cover the bases on how YOU can get a FREE SWOW BADGE! Which is great enough to be in caps. Which it is, dammit!

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Remember, send your address and name to podcast@startingwow.com and the first 10 applications I get will get a free SWoW Badge!

Links

Social.StartingWoW.com – the SWoW Social Network

Welcome to this Starting WoW Holiday Show!

For those of you who have not been around since the start of Season 2, a Holiday show is basically what I do when I’m between seasons. Season two just finished, and season three has not yet started. Therefor, Holiday show. (And since I’m not restarting the numbering of the Holiday Shows, this makes this #11 instead of going all the way back to #1. So there!)

Today on the show, I attempt to announce the winner of that copy of Wrath of the Lich King, talk about WoW addiction, announce a new feature on the site and have a chat with you all, something I havn’t had the chance to do in a fair while.

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=95 – See the results of the Friends Poll

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=100 – Place your vote in the latest SWoW Poll

http://Social.StartingWoW.com – Take part in the new Starting WoW Social Network

http://is.gd/947B – Read the TechRadar.com report on why MMO addiction is not all that it seems

Thanks for listening!

To keep up this idea, we have decided to instate mandatory polling of our listener-ship for some very serious and scientific tests. Playing World of Warcraft is serious business!

Please answer this poll as truthfully as you can, if you play World of Warcraft. Thanks!

So what advice would you give to guy trying to meet a girl in World Of Warcraft? Well, most of the female avatars in World of Warcraft are actually guys. So if you’re a guy looking to meet girls, you need to make sure to put the person you’re interested in through that vetting process. And if you’re a girl, be prepared to fight guys off with a stick because there’s a lot more of them than there are female gamers. You should join a large guild and pair with other people to go on missions. Try and meet people who are on your same level.

For more advice from the lady herself, check out the original post at Asylum!

As I mentioned in the last episode of season 2, this week SWoW will be taking the week off. This is our FIRST week off in two entire seasons, that’s about abouts 33 weeks. Proud of us, are you?

Anyhoo, the reason that a week has been taken off is that I was playing in a concert on saturday night, and got home at about 1 AM. As a result of this, about 60% of my homework for school has not been done, and I am way too tired to actually record an episode.

So instead, I’m going to remind you to both listen to last week’s episode to get the directions for how YOU can win a copy of Wrath of the Lich King, and to vote in the ongoing poll about how SWoW affects your social life.

We will be back next week, with the first Holiday show for the Season 2-3 gap.

Hey there, and welcome to the last episode of Starting WoW Season 2! Today we are giving you the chance of wining a copy of Wrath of the Lich King!

Today on the show, since Wrath of the Lich King has just been released, we focus on all the new goodnes which came with the expansion, starting on Death Knights and their runic system, the amazing new enviromental phasing which goes on in Northerend as well as the destructable buildings and siege weapons which promise that PvP in Northerend will be endless fun!

Talk to you in the Holiday show! Don’t forgot to listen to the end of the show to learn how you can win a copy of Wrath of the Lich King, and remember that the email address for that competiton is Podcast@StartingWoW.com

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=95 – Fill in our poll about your social life and Wrath of the Lich King!

http://www.startingwow.com/?page_id=88 – Visit the SWoW Store for all your World of Warcraft needs!

http://www.wowwiki.com/Death_knight – WoW Wiki info on Death Knights

http://www.wowwiki.com/Wintergrasp – WoW Wiki info on Wintergrasp and the new PvP Elements

http://www.wowwiki.com/Phasing – WoW Wiki info on Phasing

To keep up this idea, we have decided to instate mandatory polling of our listener-ship for some very serious and scientific tests. Playing World of Warcraft is serious business!

Please answer this poll as truthfully as you can, if you play World of Warcraft. Thanks!

While I’m all excited about the game, it hasn’t arrived yet. It is still somewhere in the great postal service, and I hope to have it by Friday. Either Friday or I am going to pick a copy up in the shops, and give my preordered copy away in a competition. Unfortunatly it would be an EU only competition, but that can’t be helped.

So have you got your copy yet? Leave your thoughts on what you like and dislike in the comments here, or email them to podcast@startingwow.com and I will turn them into an audio-montage in the next episode, if I get enough.

Happy gaming, and I hope I didn’t make too many iPod typos!

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Last week we spoke about the Alliance Races (check the Links for a link to download the episode) and this week we will be talking about the Horde ones. Also in the show, the last of the Stopping WoW 11 step program (don’t forget to email me telling me if it worked or not – podcast@startingwow.com) and

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?page_id=88 – SWoW US Store! Buy all your WoW related gear here!

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=84 – SWoW Season 2 # 10 – the Alliance races

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=83 – SWoW Poll #2 – WHEN do you play WoW?

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=55 – Places to preorder Wrath of the Lich King. AKA Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Game.co.uk and HMV.co.uk

Chranarak’s essential addons: Atlas

Hi guys and welcome to Chranarak’s add-on column. Each week I will bring you an add-on which improves my game play experience greatly. If you have any add-ons (except for class add-ons) that you wish I would talk about please write them in a comment and give me some time to test them out and I should write an article about it.

Heya and welcome to the fourth episode of my addon column. This week I’ll be talking about Atlas, the very friendly map mod that I just cant live without.

Atlas, which you can download from the link above, is a map mod which does a very different job from other ones such as cartographer. It basically displays high quality maps of many parts of the game which Blizzard doesn’t provide maps for and unlike some of the competitors, these maps don’t look like they are drawn by a two year old.

To continue reading, click “Read More”

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The maps it shows can be classified into a number of groups which are all in a drop down bar on the top left-hand side of the addon (which is shown above). These are

• Eastern kingdom instances

• Kalimdor instances

• Outland instances

• Battleground maps

• Dungeon locations

• Flight path maps

• Outdoor raid incounters

In the middle of the top part of the addon is another drop down list that is set to each area or type of map you select.

E.g. If you choose kalimdor instances the middle list will contain all the instances in Kalimdor from Ahn’Qiraj to Zul’farrak. While the instance maps will show you where the bosses are and what their names, it will also tell you whether they are a rare spawn or not.

Additional features such as the Flight Path Map are listed in a very clever way. For example the flight path maps will give you a list to choose from and it will have the following.

• Eastern kingdoms (alliance/horde)

• Kalimdor (alliance/horde)

• Outlands (alliance/horde)

Therefore when you go to a new area, you can just fly around and pick up all the flight points, which is very useful especially when you need to go between two very far points. This is also very useful for finding out where your factions base in the area is, as I am often confused between the horde and alliance bases when I’m entering a new area. So I check where our flight points are on the maps and viola, I know where to go.

Next week I will bring you an addon of an addon. It’s Atlas loot Enhanced.

In this episode of Starting WoW, I spent about three hours researching the lore behind all the Alliance races of Azeroth (Draenei, Gnomes, Humans, Dwarves and Night elves)  so that I could tell you about them.

Also on the show, how to survive in an area with Vampires in it as well as step ten of the Starting WoW Stopping WoW 11 step program.

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=62 – Results of the “What days do you play WoW?” poll. Thanks to the 27 people who voted!

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=83 – When do you play WoW?

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=81 – Chranarak’s Autobar addon article

http://tinyurl.com/42xlm8- Preorder Wrath of the Lich King from Amazon in the US

http://tinyurl.com/42ocxf- Preorder Wrath of the Lich King from Amazon in the UK

http://tinyurl.com/5v324g – Preorder Wrath of the Lich King from Game UK and get Free Shipping

To keep up this idea, we have decided to instate mandatory polling of our listener-ship for some very serious and scientific tests. Playing World of Warcraft is serious business!

Please answer this poll as truthfully as you can, if you play World of Warcraft. Thanks!

I’m pleased to announce that yes, I have got my Autobar updated and working and that I will tell you just what it is, how to set it up and why you need it. So on with the show! Autobar is an amazing addon that creates 1 or several on screen action bars. These bars do not replace your old action bars and are several steps advanced in terms of usefulness. You can download Autobar from the link above or you can check curse gaming for It.

So what is this magical addon then?

Click “Read more” to find out!

Basically Autobar, once installed and loaded, will create two on-screen bars. One will be a class bar and one will be a basic bar. It should look as follows:

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These bars are unique from your in-game action bars because these are pre-programmed to suit either your class or to work with your bag. The class bar will contain spells, stings, auras, buffs, aspects etc. while the basic bar will contain items from your bag, potions (mana and health have separate buttons), quest items, pets, mounts, hearthstone etc. These bars have a number of buttons on them. Each of them will have a different logo on it. For hunters there is an aspect button which when you mouse over it a drop-down or up list will appear, with all your aspects which should look as follows.

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Pretty cool eh?

This feature isn’t just for hunters only. It will work for all the classes. e.g. For paladins it will list all your seals and so on. This is also a feature in the basic bar. For example, if you have two or more different types of mana potions, autobar will display all the different types you carry when you mouse over the button.

Now the everlasting war between clickers and hotkeyers. This addon is usable with hotkeys. Although I don’t recommend it, you can still try it. You assign hotkeys in the in-game setup of your bars. However I tend to think that this is a addon made for clickers.

This addon will help free up loads of space on your action bars. Items which took up loads of space, e.g. Food, drinks, auras, weapon buffs, potions, even professions will now be on the bar. As a result you have less fiddling to do with your action bars. Now, I know someone will eventually ask,

“What if I am a mage? Will we still get the paladin buttons and what not?”

No! when you log on autobar will automatically detect what class you are and will give you a bar with the buttons for it. Also if you have spells that you have not yet learnt e.g. Aspect of the viper, it will not display it in you aspect bars. But when you do get it, it will automatically appear in your aspect button. Ta da!

The nice folks behind autobar have made it so easy to customize. If you do not like a button, or do not use it that much. Just click the autobar icon near your minimap. Go into the bar the button is on and select the button you want to remove from the drop down list. Then there should be a little tick thing with “enable this button” on it. Just untick it.

You can also have loads of bars up to 16 I think although you could probably fit all the buttons you’ll ever need on 3 bars.

Thanks a lot for reading and next week I will bring you a addon for those of you who love PVE. That’s wrong right, it’s Atlas.

EDIT – I was wrong in saying that this week’s plugin article is about auctioneer. It is actually about Cartographer.
Today on the show, the SWoW Studios are taken over completely by the living dead! We talk tactics on what to do if you are a zombie, what to do if you want to become a Class A Zombie Killer, (check the links below for where to buy the Zombie Survival Guide, and a link to view my 11 minute video on the subject) how to survive the zombie war, zombie lingo, continuing the Stopping WoW series and THEN we remind you to preorder your copy of Wrath of the Lich King! Busy episode, no?

Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=68 – Chranarak’s Cartographar article

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=62 – How long do you play WoW per week? Take part in a world wide science experiment! Yay! Science!

http://tinyurl.com/42xlm8- Preorder Wrath of the Lich King from Amazon in the US

http://tinyurl.com/42ocxf- Preorder Wrath of the Lich King from Amazon in the UK

http://tinyurl.com/6y36kp – Order the Zombie Survival Guide from Amazon. This is the book that I was talking about in the show.

The Zombie Invasion is OVER! It was announced by a blue poster over on the WoW Boards.

According to Tigole,

“While we recognize that the event could prove to be disruptive at times, we hope you made the most out of it while it lasted. Part of playing in a “living and breathing world” means that things are going to change from time to time. We meant no harm but only wanted to create a lasting impression on players as they head to Northrend to defeat the Lich King. The Lich King’s goals (as you will soon learn) are to turn the Horde and Alliance not only on one another, but on their own kind as well. I think the plague truly demonstrated this firsthand.”

Unfortunately I cant bring you the autobar add-on just yet. This is because I updated it with the patch and it turns out it has changed loads since I last updated it, so my apologies to anyone who might have been looking forward to it. In its place however I bring you Cartographer.

Cartographer is a very useful add-on. I have had it ever since I started World Of Warcraft and I must say I use it all the time! It is a map add-on that customizes your map. Instead of the traditional map which only shows you areas you’ve been to and not much else, cartographer shows you a whole lot more. It shows you places you haven’t been to, instances, battlegrounds, coordinates, waypoints and a whole lot more.

To continue my article (Let’s be honest, who WOULDN’T want to?) click “Read More”.

Now, Cartographer is a simple add-on, just simply extract it to your add-on file and enable it in game to let it work its magic. Personally I think it is a great add-on except for a few small bits where the maps are very amateurish, for example, some of the instance maps look like they were drawn by a two year old. But the rest of it works like clockwork. You can enable and disable many parts of the add-on.

Foglight is the part that controls the map in unexplored areas. If you haven’t been somewhere (say you’re alliance, and want to raid a horde town) just choose the place you want to raid in the map interface and it will show you the city, which should help with planning where to enter the place from.

Now apart from Foglight there are some sort of hidden goodies in Cartographer. One of which is the waypoint arrow. If you don’t use your map much, or you don’t have a add-on like Quest Helper which uses waypoints, you could go all your gaming life without noticing this tool. The waypoint arrows basically a massive arrow like you get on a TomTom or SatNav that points you towards your destination, it also tells you how many yards you have left to get there. This is great if you need to get somewhere and go around obstacles without wanting to open the map every 5 seconds. If you do have a add-on that does use waypoints like quest helper than all the better as you get so much more out of it. You can basically use both together to do all the quests you have without needing to go on websites like allakhazam.com and thottbot.com.

Finally there is the Guildie tracker tool and the Zone info. No matter where you are in the land of Azeroth you can see where your guildies, who also have cartographer, are hanging out. This is great for sneaking up on them, or knowing if they are lying when they say they are on the way to the instance or raid. As for the zone info, when you hover over a segment of the world map, it will tell you what instances, if any, are in it and what level the area is for. Personally I think that its a great help for when you are stuck on where to quest.

Thanks for reading and i’ll be back next week with the Autobar add-on, if you want to look into it ahead of the article go to It’s Curse Page

Today we talk about Hallow’s End, some of the highlights of Patch 3.0.2, surviving a snowball fight, some more lingo for you to put on flashcards and Step 8 of the Stopping WoW 11 Step Program.

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=63 – Chranarak’s Auctioneer article

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=62 – The SWoW Poll (how long do you play per week?)

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/10/17/hallows-end-2008-guide/ – WoW Insider’s Hallow’s End guide

http://www.wowwiki.com/Hallow%27s_End – WoW Wiki’s Hallow’s End guide

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=59 – Full Patch 3.0.2 notes

Auctioneer is one of the ultimate addons for World of Warcraft. In my and lots of other people’s opinion it is essential for any wow enthusiast. The addon itself has many functions, the most important of which lets you know how much money items will sell for on your server. It does this by compiling a database of info which is acquired by scanning the auction house. This data is then statistically analysed and voila; you have a price checker.

Okay so depending on which auctioneer addon you get you should have a number of other things apart from auctioneer only. Most auctioneer addons will give you a lot of things. I have auctioneer advanced which is great. Basically it contains everything you need to know about your items and programs to help you rule the AH.

Now so far everything sounds confusing and damn rite it is. When I first got auctioneer I was so pissed off with the way it worked because I didn’t understand it, that I deleted my whole addon file. Fortunately I stumbled across some help which told me how to operate it. What you do is download the addon, and extract it to you addon folder, (default C: Program files/ World of Warcraft/ interface/ addons in Windows and /Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface on Mac).

Start up the game, and before you log into any of your characters click the addon button. What you will have to do is check that the files that came in the zip such as Enchantrix and Btmscan are checked. Next thing you do is log into your character and get to the auction house. When you click on the people who work at the Auction House, you will notice that the interface for the AH has changed. Don’t worry! Even I hated it, but it’s all for the greater good (the gold that is). Now all you can see is a blank AH page and a nice button called scan. Click it! What this will do is it scans the auction house, takes note of the items in there and the prices. This process usually takes around 8-15 minutes depending on how much stuff is in the auction house.

After the scan is complete it will list a load of changes made to the database it had before, which if you’ve just downloaded auctioneer will be almost nil. In order get auctioneer to work properly you will have to scan the AH twice a day for around a whole week, except for Sunday where you will scan three times, mainly because Sunday is like market day for the AH. So scan it once at night and once in the morning and you should have nearly all items in the game by the end of the week.

If you mouse over an item, preferably something someone might actually bother selling in the AH like a Green or Blue, it will show up a list of numbers under the items description.  In the list you will find the lowest price its seen that item at, the highest, the suggested price, the median and a lot of other stuff. If you download an auctioneer suite which has the enchantrix addon, there’s even more info. It will display what the item can disenchant into, how much it should sell for, the minimum and maximum you can get from disenchanting and will also tell you the % chance that it will disenchant into that piece.

After all this it even suggests to you what to do with the item, like disenchant, vendor or auction. Apart from listing AH prices auctioneer also lists the price at which vendors buy items.

Another function of auctioneer is the btmscan part. Now this is actually genius. Given that your server’s AH prices are not wildly fluctuating this is extremely useful for those days when you need that little extra cash. Input your criteria (E.G. the type of item you want to browse through, the minimum profit you want to make and so on). Then it will scan the AH looking for items that are priced below their average and will alert you. It will then tell you how much profit you would make and lots of other little snippits of info. Now to rake up a lot of gold all you have to do is put the minimum profit value up high, buy the item and resell it. If you do not constantly scan your AH once a week after the initial scanning your prices can go out of date and btmscan might trick you into buying an item which wont sell well. So if your going to use it you have to remember to update your database often.

So I guess that’s is the end of auctioneer addon for now. Currently It is working perfectly in BC WoW but in the Wrath of the Lich King beta it isn’t working properly. Don’t forget to update your addons all the time and especially after Wrath is released.

Hopefully I will be back next week with Autobar!

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Please answer this poll as truthfully as you can, if you play World of Warcraft. Thanks!

Finally! The patch notes for the next update (coming tonight) of World of Warcraft are to be looked at! Take a peek!

Click “Read More” for the entire text of the patchnotes (really interesting stuff).

The most important stuff (not class related) is below though.

General

In this episode of SWoW we talk about how much BlizzCon 08 sucked for WoW players, we finish off the wonderful article from Chranarak about Mounts (check the links section below for links to the first two parts), how to survive on a iceberg, a very SPECIAL edition of Stopping WoW and some crazy guy spending $5700 on WoW every year

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=54 http://www.startingwow.com/?p=57 – Parts one and two of the Chranarak Mounts Article

http://gizmodo.com/5062237/world-of-warcraft-seems-like-kind-of-a-silly-hobby – crazy guy spending crazy money on WoW

Heya! Today on the show, we talk about Arenas, what they are, the rewards and how to start up an arena team. Next, we talk about preordering Wrath of the Lich King in order to save money and time. Check the links below for links to the preorder pages on Amazon.com.

Next on the list is the second part of Chranarak’s three part article on mounts. This guy just keeps churning them out! We talk about how to survive the Guild Picnic. Everybody hates them, but you just gotta go. Next, some lovely feedback from Charly in Scottland! Yay!

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Links

http://www.wowwiki.com/Arena_PvP_System#Arena_Point_Calculation – How the arena points are calculated

http://www.wowwiki.com/Arena_Rewards – Arena rewards

http://tinyurl.com/42xlm8- Preorder Wrath of the Lich King from Amazon in the US

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So why not do it in a way that helps Starting WoW as well? At the bottom of this blog post, you will see a few pictures of the Wrath expansion under different country headings. Click the one which is (or closest to) your country, and you can preorder from the page.

Use this link to buy your copy, and you will get WotLK as close to the release date as you can as WELL as helping Starting WoW bring you great content for free every week!

You can’t lose!

United States

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United Kingdom

Amazon

Game (Free UK shipping)

Preorder at Game.co.uk and get free shipping!

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Heya! Today we go into more detail with the first half of Chranarak’s Mount article, and talk all about the new Siege Weapons which will be showing up in the Wrath of the Lich King.

Next up is How to Survive while Lost in the Jungle.

Then we have some lovely feedback from Ben in Canada.

Links

http://www.wowwiki.com/Siege_weapon – More detail about the siege weapons spoken about on this show

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=53 – Season 2 Episode 4 in which we talk about getting lost in general

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=53#comment-59 – Ben’s lovely comment on Season 2 Episode4

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Heya kiddiechums! Today on the show, we talk about getting smashed at Brewfest, how to ram-race and I cover the new “Achivements” feature which Wrath of the Lich King will bring to the table. It sounds awsome.

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Links

http://www.PodcampIreland.com – Meet me in Podcamp Ireland this coming Saturday the 27th of September! The day after my birthday! I may have swag to be given out.

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I’m heading down to Podcamp Ireland on Saturday 27th of September. It’s a free event in Kilkenny city, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble getting there. Shoot me an email if you are coming and we can chat! Podcast@startingwow.com

Hey there! Today on SWoW we talk about raids, how to make them, how to take part in them and how not to piss people off in them. Next, we finish off the article on Twinks. Then come the usual bits and bobs which makes Starting WoW so very awesome, such as Lingo, survival and the like.

Talk to you next time!

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=49 – Episode 2 of Starting WoW featuring Twinks Part 1

http://www.gameolosophy.com/Games/RPG/World-of-Warcraft/Xenibas-Ultimate-World-of-Warcraft-Horde-29-Twink-Rogue-Guide.81875 – example twinking guide – horde 29 rogue

http://pwndepot.com/ – many more twink guides as well as forums

http://www.freewarcraftguides.com/wow_battlegrounds_twink_guide.php">
http://www.freewarcraftguides.com/wow_battlegrounds_twink_guide.php – really useful twink guide used in the creation of this article.

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Heya! Today on the show we cover the second part of that fantastic Player Vs Player article that Chranarak wrote. (Check the links for a link to the show in which the first part was played), we talk about Twinking, how to survive if attacked by a Crocolisk and we go through step 2 of the Stopping WoW 11 step program.

Of course, there is also news and lingo. Of course.

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http://www.startingwow.com/?p=48 – Season 2 Episode 1 of SWoW

http://www.wowwiki.com/Twink – WoWwiki.com – WoWwiki.com page on Twinks

http://www.gameolosophy.com/Games/RPG/World-of-Warcraft/Xenibas-Ultimate-World-of-Warcraft-Horde-29-Twink-Rogue-Guide.81875 – example twinking guide – horde 29 rogue

http://pwndepot.com/ – many more twink guides as well as forums

http://www.freewarcraftguides.com/wow_battlegrounds_twink_guide.php – really useful twink guide used in the creaton of this article.

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Hello there, and welcome to the FIRST EPISODE of SWoW Season 2!

Today on the show we talk about how to get money for your epic mount, I read out the first half of a listener contributed article on PvP, I talk about how to survive if attacked by a pack of wolfs and start our section on how to give up World of Warcraft.

No links this week, but Thanks for listening!

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Hello there! Why not have a listen?

Today on the show we cover a plethora o’ topics, and have a LOT of links for you to click on! First, I go over the news of the week, such as the release of the Cinematic Trailer for Wrath of the Lich King (Check the link below).

Next, I complete the scientific experiment started last week on the show. Next: News on how WoW is selling in game stores and a SHOCKING survay shows that surgeons who play WoW are better at their job then those who don’t.

Who would have thunk it?

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=46 – Watch the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic trailer at StartingWoW.com

http://www.wow-pro.com/general_guides/spec_and_general_hunter_guide – The spec guide I used to spec my hunter

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2006-11-27-spiders-photons_x.htm – Can spiders swim?

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/20/four-of-the-top-ten-pc-games-are-world-of-warcraft/ – WoW firmly in the top ten pc games

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/18/study-playing-wow-makes-you-a-better-surgeon/ – Playing WoW makes you a better surgeon.

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As always, the Blizzard Animation team have outdone themselves with the quality of this video, but some are complaning that it does not have a gnome in it. I’m told that you can see one in the army though, if you look REAL close.

Epix.

Welcome to this episode 8 of the Starting WoW Holiday show!

In this episode we talk about what people who don’t play World of Warcraft think of the game, SWoW CD news (if you are a graphics designer and want a free copy of the CD, email podcast@startingwow.com), some fellow who actually managed to get a wife and my last topic is science. And how more powerful computers run WoW better.

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Starting WoW Holiday Show 7 – Download at www.StartingWoW.com

Today in the show we talk about some Wrath news, a fellow who managed to tame a devilsaur and then let it loose in a city and the WoW version of the Olympics.

This episode is recorded in a country house during some crazy storm, so please forgive the slightly lower then usual sound quality. I try my best…

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http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/09/bigredkitty-devilsaur/ – Tamed devilsaur sounds AWESOME!

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/spiritofcompetition/ – InWoW Olympics!

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This music video, machinimafied by an Irish 13 year old is amazing. Try to ignore the music and watch the genius at work. This girl is headed for great things.

As for season 2, planning is starting to go ahead. It will be starting the first sunday of September, and will have a new segmant or two. Season two will be much more based on fun, now that we are not all newbies. The CD of Season 1 is still slowly progressing through the pipes. That will be avalible for purchase rediciously cheap very soon, and will have not a single ad on it.

Today on the show we talk about the latest news, WotLK release dates, chatup lines and my three weeks without WoW along with an audiodiary of said three weeks.

It feels great to be in front of the mic again, kiddies!

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http://tinyurl.com/59tdzg – Win a WotLK Beta Key with your WoW chat-up skillz!

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Today on the show we talk about some of the fandom in World of Warcraft. From blogs, fanfic (*shudder*) podcasts and music, we have… some of it.

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www.WoWInsider.com – WoW Insider blog

www.mmo-champion.com – MMO Champion Blog

wcradio.com – Warcraft Radio Podcasts

http://wow.catacombs.com/page.cfm?fanfiction, http://www.worldofwar.net/forums/archive/index.php/f-33.html – Two places to get… *shudder*… Fanfic

media.worldofwarcraft.com/blizzcon/iammurloc/L70ETC%20-%20I%20Am%20Murloc.mp3 – I Am Murloc

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Today in the Prerecorded Holiday Show, we talk about Alts, how much I dislike leveling in the low levels, and how to best troll in WoW.

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This week, my voice is fraked. It’s not working very well. So It is a short episode. We talk about the new EU Server, Blade’s Edge, and give a few hints as to what Season 2 will bring.

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Today on the show we cover the best of the news from the Blizzard Invitational. Please don’t forget to vote for us in the European Podcast Awards by using the link below!

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This episode was recorded BEFORE the Blizzard Invitational. Most of it, anyway.

This week we talk about the Blizzard Authenticator, some podcasty and websitey news, along with news of the Season 1 CDs, and ask a few questions about other games.

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First, an announcement. The first season of Starting WoW will soon be available on High Quality CD. On the cheap.

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In this episode we speak of the Midsummer Fire Festival, talk about the patchnotes for 2.4.3, hit the lingo and then I give a few last minute tips and tricks for the new WoW player

Links

http://www.wowwiki.com/Midsummer_Festival – Midsummer Festival
http://weohteelkah.we.funpic.de/emotes.html – New Emotes
http://www.startingwow.com/?p=28 – Patch Notes

Click “Read More…” to read the patch notes.

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.4.3

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

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

General

• Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.
• Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.
• Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!
• Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.
• Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded in their bats for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.
• Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.
• Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.
• Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha’tari Skyguard.
• Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.
• Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.
• You can no longer move backwards to stop racing rams.
• When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.

Druids

• Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.

Hunters

• Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet’s Growl.
• Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned.
• Scare Beast: This spell will now be limited correctly to one target.

Paladins

• Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.
• Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.

Priests

• Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.
• Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.

Rogues

• Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes.

Shaman

• Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its totem when pulled beyond 50 yards away.
• Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.

Warlocks

• Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.
• Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire.
• Demonic Sacrifice: This ability will now interact correctly with the Spirit Guide resurrection system in battlegrounds. A sacrificed pet will not be resummoned on death, and will not prevent keeping a record of the most recently created pet.
• Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished.
• Ritual of Summoning: The mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast.
• Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.

Warrior

• Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)

PvP

• The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped.

Professions

• Alchemy
  • Philosopher’s Stone now requires 200 Alchemy.
• Cooking
  • Juicy Bear Burgers now correctly increase healing as well as spell damage.
• Jewelcrafting
  • Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no longer be dispelled.
• Mining
  • Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. The drop rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged.
• Tailoring
  • Removed the cooldown from regular Mooncloth.
  • Herb bags can now hold Un’goro Soil and Evergreen Pouches.
  • Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.
  • New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: Haliscan Jacket and Haliscan Pantaloons.

Quests

• Bhag’thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate.
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased character AoE effects and vice-versa.
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly break off combat from unphased/phased opponents.

Dungeons and Raids

• Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons.
• Magister’s Terrace
  • The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard Glaive Throw has been removed and the Bounce range reduced.
  • Vexallus and Kael’thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode.
  • Vexallus’ damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased.
  • Kael’thas’ Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic mode remains unchanged.)
  • Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly.
  • Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health reduced slightly.
  • Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output reduced slightly.
• Sunwell Plateau
  • Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twins are in combat.
  • Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil’jaeden’s Shield Orb Shadow Bolts.
  • Vanish now correctly wipes threat on Kil’jaeden.

Items

• Bow of the Verdant Keeper’s Aim: This item’s triggered effect no longer breaks the effect of Scatter Shot.
• Brutal Gladiator’s Pummeler has had its Stamina value increased to the appropriate value.
• Clockwork Robot Bots fight amongst themselves again…without attacking people in the arena. Well… they’ll blow up other Bots in the arena, but you know what we mean.
• The Eredar Twins will now award the same items regardless of which order they are killed in.
• Invisibility Potions: These potions now are on the same cooldown as other combat consumable potions (such as mana potions.)
• Pendant of the Violet Eye: This item will again work correctly with Holy Light and Flash of Light.
• Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen: The triggered effect from this Item can now occur on periodic damage ticks.
• Thori’dal, the Star’s Fury is now Unique as intended.
• Vengeful Gladiator’s Baton of Light: This item now appears in the correct position on the vendor list.

User Interface

• The help interface has been simplified dramatically. Players will no longer be required to select a category when opening a GM ticket. In addition, players can use the “Talk to a GM” button to fill out a ticket that requires a GM response or the “Report Issue” button to fill out a ticket that does not require a GM response.
• Target buff/debuff timers that appear when you cast a spell are now more visible.
• Time Management features have been implemented! These features include an alarm clock, stopwatch, and viewing your computer’s local time.
• The new stopwatch feature can be accessed via the /stopwatch, /sw, or /timer slash commands. Inputting a time into the slash command will make the stopwatch count down. For example, /stopwatch 1:0:0 will make the stopwatch count down from an hour, /stopwatch 1:30 will make it count down from 1 minute, 30 seconds, and /stopwatch 30 will make it count down from 30 seconds.
• Added the following macro commands: /targetenemyplayer, /targetfriendplayer.
• Added key bindings for tab targeting players.
• Ctrl-Tab and other target nearest friend functions will no longer target you.
• Targeting using /target will prefer live targets over dead ones.
• You can no longer click the minimap to cast ground targeted spells.
• Invisible players with Hunter’s Mark can see the hunter that put the mark on them.
• Vendor items now show their Duration in Inventory.
• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum.

World Environment

• Winterspring Ice Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs may now drop Thick Yeti Fur.
• Skinning any Winterspring Ice Thistle yetis may now result in Thick Yeti Fur.
• Increased the drop rate of Pristine Yeti Horns from Winterspring Ice Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs.
• Goblin Weather Machine- Prototype 01-B weather changes will no longer force the affected character to stand.
• Collector’s Edition Pet Redemption NPCs/items/quests have been relocated/modified to/for towns with mailboxes (Goldshire, Razor Hill, etc.).
• Young Sporebats and Greater Sporebats in Zangarmarsh now drop Sporebat Eyes for the quest Gathering the Reagents.
• Blacksmithing Supplies vendor and repairer, Blazzle, in Area 52 is now next to the forge and anvil outside the inn.
• Banker Meeda, in Area 52 is now in the…well…the bank, along with a guild vault and guards. The other three Area 52 bankers are still located in the auction-house-turned-bank.
• Wastewander Bandits and Rogues should be more plentiful in the northern parts of Tanaris.

Bug Fixes

• The mage spell, Counterspell now shows in the combat log.
• Gan’arg Analyzers will no longer occasionally become friendly to players.
• Talented abilities that cost a percentage of base mana will no longer display an incorrect mana cost when inspected by a player of a different class or level.
• Guild leaders should now be able to properly promote a new guild leader regardless of their range.
• Druids: Mangle will no longer incorrectly indicate a 100-yard range on the tooltip.
• Hunters: Using an instant ability after Steady Shot will no longer lock out auto shot.
• Hunter Snake Trap will no longer break players out of stealth if the snakes pass near the stealthed character.
• Hunters: Concussive shot will now properly have a chance to proc Bow of Searing Arrows.
• Rogues: The talent Heightened Senses, Rank 1 and Rank 2 will now affect attacks from wands.
• Using Jewelcrafting figurines will no longer cause scrolling combat text to appear twice.
• Fixed an issue in which shadows were not appearing properly for users with GF4 video chipsets in Open GL mode.
• Corrected an issue in which users with Creative X-FI sound cards would sometimes hear a slight popping noise when running.
• Players will now correctly receive a Battleground Mark message for the marks that are received at the end of a battle.
• Corrected an issue where the initial trigger or activation sounds for Immolation Trap and Explosive Trap could not be heard by some players.
• Smelt Hardened Khorium will now properly require a forge instead of an anvil and hammer.
• Corrected a typo in the tooltip for the Druid spell Rip (Rank 4).
• Looting a Nightmare Vine will now properly no longer apply poison when the node is looted.
• The Figurine- Seaspray Albatross ability will now properly restore the correct amount of mana.
• First Aid bandages can no longer be applied to a player with the Recently Bandaged debuff. An error message of, “Could not activate more than one bandage” will be displayed.
• Corrected the tooltips to read properly for the flight paths from The Stormspire, Toshley’s Station, Blade’s Edge, and Area 52.
• Greater Elementals summoned by a shaman will now properly have a combat log entry.
• Players will no longer become stuck on the Nimboya’s Laden Pike when driving it into the ground.
• The quest, “Going Going, Guano!” will now have a more consistent level requirement for the dungeon.
• The quest, “Into The Scarlet Monastery” is now available to players of the appropriate level for the instance.
• Blueleaf Tubers can now be properly looted.
• The quest turn-ins for the Ahn’Qiraj war effort now give the appropriate amount of credit for each successful quest turn-in.
• Cloak of Shadows will now properly remove Shrink.
• Nightbane will no longer become unresponsive and unkillable during his air phase.
• Several items sold by the Consortium reputation vendor Paulsta’ats are now bind on pick-up: Formula: Enchant Weapon- Major Striking, Design: Delicate Blood Garnet, Design: Shifting Shadow Draenite, Design: Lustrous Azure Moonstone, Design:Thick Golden Draenite.
• It is no longer possible to delete a character that is an arena team captain without first promoting another player to captain.
• Taunts will now properly stick when a target is stunned while being taunted.

Today we talk all about Armor. This is the last of the Weapons and equipment episodes, thank the lords of cobal.

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Thanks for listening,

Cian

This week, we are staying in the technical side of things with basic info on Ranged weapons and Relics going abegging. Don’t forget to win a copy of Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies by signing up for the newsletter on the right of www.StartingWoW.com.

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Thanks for listening,

Talk to you next week, friends!

Cian

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