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General WoW stuff that doesn’t fit in any particular category.

Hunters hit with the nerf bat

Blizzard poster Ghostcrawler has made a rather detailed post on the official forums today listing upcoming changes to the Hunter class. Hunters of all specs, and particularly Beastmaster, are doing too much damage in PvE. We tested this a lot internally in beta and knew hunters were high but we hoped other classes would be [...]

Changes to the Arena system in WotLK

Blizzard poster Zarhym has listed the up coming changes to the PvP Arena system for WotLK: Upon the launch of WotLK all arena teams as well as ratings will be wiped and arena charter NPCs disabled. Players will find they are still able to access the Arena system at level 70 for rated matches. However, [...]

Upcoming changes to Death Knight tanking

Blizzard poster Ghostcrawler has made a detailed post regarding DK tanking. Highlights include: the death knight really suffers when attacks fail to land, especially opening attacks. Having a Plague Strike dodged or parried can throw off an entire rotation, eventually leading to bad Obliterates because both diseases weren’t up at the same time. Missing attacks [...]

Honor and Arena points will not be reset when WotLK is launched.

Blizzard poster Bornakk has announced that the previously mentioned wipe to PvP honor and points will no longer happen. We had hoped that the introduction of some new Honor rewards in the upcoming patch would give players a great opportunity to spend any of their remaining Honor. However, many players would still be surprised by [...]

Arena season 4 ending when Patch 3.0.2 is released.

Blizzard poster Eyonix announced that Arena Season 4 will be ending when patch 3.0.2 goes live (Due any time now). … the current arena season will end in respect to the ladder upon the release of our next major patch. What this means is, we’ll be taking a snapshot of the current season’s ladder just [...]

WotLK will be a DVD only release

Blizzard Poster Vaneras has stated on the official forums that Wrath of the Lich King will be available on DVD only. The previous 2 instalments have been released on both CD and DVD. Those without a DVD drive will either need to upgrade or wait for the digital download to become available after release.

Latest WotLK Beta build (8982) changes

Mmo-champion has a list of changes in the latest beta build. You can read the full list here.

New Honor Items announced for patch 3.0.2

As reported yesterday the list of new honor items has been announced by Blizzard poster Vaneras. Along with the items is a change to Gems: Please note that Gems that have been acquired through Honor will no longer be unique-equipped after the release of Patch 3.0.2. Also, they will no longer Bind on Pickup. You [...]

Free Character Migration for some PvP realms

Blizzard Poster Thundgot has announced that there will be free character migrations for players on realms Burning Legion, Kazzak, Stormscale to realms Karazhan and Vek’nilash The migration period is from September 24th to September 30th and as Thundgot points out: Please note that this migration may be closed at any time should a destination realm’s [...]

Tabards and Quest Item changes

Blizzard poster Tigole has given us some hints on further bag space reducing methods that are in the pipeline. Tabards will not be getting the same over haul as pets and mounts but a new Tabard vendor in Dalaran will be selling cheap replacements. In his own words: There really is no reason to hang [...]