Lich King weapon drop changes

Although this probably won’t affect too many of us in the near future, Blizzard is already tinkering with many of the stats supplied by the Lich King’s weapon drops. A community manager on the Korean site posted about upcoming changes to one Lich King-10 and four Lich King-25 weapons, and Boubouille’s posted a translation with help from user Locriani. A lot of raiders had been surprised at the itemization decisions, and as a raiding healer, I’ve seen a lot of commentary concerning the uninspiring presence of Mp5 on the Royal Scepter of Terenas II. Blizzard’s specifically addressing these concerns.

The following is the list of changes Blizzard’s planning to make to Lich King-25 weapons:

We’re not sure when these changes are going to go live, but we’ll update you when they do.

EDIT: The changes have been confirmed by Ancilorn on the EU forums now as well.

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Blood Pact: Affliction 101

Blood Pact is your weekly warlock digest brought to you by Dominic Hobbs. “I suppose you may stay as my guest for the time being. But you must be on some pressing business–perhaps you’re here seeking lost power? Maybe I’m mistaken. Maybe corruption isn’t too far away from you after all.” ~ Tabetha

You may have noticed a certain theme of class articles cropping up on WoW.com recently — various pieces giving a brief introduction to one spec or the other. While they are fairly basic guides, don’t be mislead by the titles, they are not “lol” articles, they’re one-on-one (except maybe the mage one). This week on Blood Pact I felt it was time to take a look at affliction. We’ve spoken about it many times and with great fondness but never really focused on it. As with the other lol articles this is not intended to be an in-depth guide but a taster or intro to the build. A “starting point” if you like. So, open your notebooks and turn to page 101, let’s get started.

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Insider Trader: Advanced Trade Skill Window

A tradesman without tools would be challenged to create any final product. WoW isn’t much different. If you’re looking to master multiple professions across multiple toons, and make the most of your crafting time, you may eventually consider picking up a mod or two to help you.

I was recently introduced to Advanced Trade Skill Window by a guild mate who, like myself, has multiple characters with many, many professions. The idea in my alt farm is that I’m trying to produce myself any final product I might need. This includes enchants, reagents, and even the transmutes required to produce gems. As we were chatting about this kind of set up, she immediately filled me in on the basics of ATSW. Gregg first looked at ATSW for AddOn Spotlight back in October. But considering how helpful it is to profession-hounds, I wanted to spend a little more time with it now.

Advanced Trade Skill Window replaces your standard in-game trade skill windows. Whenever you hit the action button for your profession, Advanced Trade Skill Window will automatically open. Right off the bat, you’ll get one of my favorite benefits of the mod. The screen is much, much bigger than the native interface, which gives you a lot more room to scroll through your recipes. But, obviously, there’s a lot more to the tool.

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Officers’ Quarters: Multiple personalities


Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.

Sharing accounts is an issue that I’ve talked about in the past (and I’m sure, in some people’s opinions, beaten to death). Previously I’ve covered a few different situations. First there was a general question about the issue, which I answered back in 2007. Then there was an officer who shared his account with his girlfriend (which is still a terrible idea in my opinion). Finally, a guild leader’s account was banned because he bought it from another player, and his guild’s progression subsequently skidded to a halt. As if those examples weren’t enough to convince you that account sharing can cause a lot of problems, here’s another one:

Recently, my fellow guild officers and I decided to kick a member from our guild, which also caused three other members to leave. The person who we initially kicked from the guild had asked our guild leader for a BoE Epic item in the “Ask an Officer” tab of the bank. Our guild leader responded by saying he’d ask the officers about it before handing the axe out.

Not less than an hour later he asked another guild member to take it out of the guild bank for him. Being a good guild member, they asked the guild leader if it was okay. It was instantly perceived as being an attempt to ninja the item from the bank by trying to avoid the guild leader.

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WoW Moviewatch: Craft of War: Blind rerun

Our intrepid Moviewatch host, Michael Gray, is fine but is dealing with the aftermath of far too much snow and has asked me to show a rerun. He tells me that he’s been receiving submissions again for Craft of War: Blind. Percula’s wonderful machinima is easily our most requested video and rather than try to fight it, we just succumb to reader pressure and show it every few months or so.

The history: Percula made this amazing movie and promised us more. He hosted it on Vimeo, who decided that it was gameplay footage (which they don’t allow) and deleted it without warning, taking all of the comments and views with it. Percula was able to get it rehosted with a promise not to delete it again. In the meantime, Percula has stopped playing WoW and is no longer planning on creating the much anticipated sequel. A sad, sad thing.

Of course, we’re mostly playing this again for our pleasure. We don’t really think our readers will stop submitting this, telling us it’s a crime that we’ve never posted it in Moviewatch before. But just to set the record straight, we showed it here first on December 26, 2008 and often since then. Enjoy!

Interested in the wide world of machinima? We have new movies every weekday here on WoW Moviewatch! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an e-mail at machinima AT wow DOT com.

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Scattered Shots: Grandpappy Frostheim on death knights


Scattered Shots is brought to you by Grandpappy Frostheim, who spends his evenings in an Ironforge tavern telling young hunters how much harder things were in his day, when they had to kite mobs up hill, both ways.

All I hear from kids these days is whining about death knights. Whining about how bad they are at tanking in their PUGs or how they can’t even do 2k DPS. You hunters these days should be grateful for death knights. You don’t know how good you got it, ’cause you have no sense of history!

Let me tell you, back in my day we didn’t have death knights. If we saw an undead servant of the Lich King walking around, we shot it on sight. In those days a bullet to the skull was redemption, not the sissy politically correct version you got now. We had redemption piled taller than your head over in the Plaguelands, I can tell you that.

So take a seat, put away your new-fangled dungeon finders and take a break from your crazy barber shop haircuts and let Grandpappy Frostheim tell you how things were back in my day, and why you should be thankful for those death knights.

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Around Azeroth: Team spirit

As a tauren druid, Kits didn’t mind working with Thrall and Sylvanas to clean out the Undercity, even if his own faction leader wasn’t there to fight. He didn’t mind guarding their backs while they fought their way through hordes of undead. And he didn’t even mind when Sylvanas started scratching him behind the ears and giving him fish treats. But he drew the line when she bought him the collar with bells on it. He still had some pride left.

Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next!

Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing — use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, Val’kyr on mounts, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran. Older screenshots can be found here.

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World of WarCrafts: A WoW-inspired grab bag of creativity

World of WarCrafts spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music and fan fiction. Show us how you express yourself; contact our tips line (attention: World of WarCrafts) with your not-for-profit, WoW-inspired creations.

It’s catch-up day at World of WarCrafts! We have all sorts of little goodies to pass along that have been piling up in the submissions box. So tuck in and get comfy with this snuggly little fellow from Serthida of US Bloodhoof, the crafter who brought us last year’s plush moonkin. Don’t worry, he won’t drain your mana … or your creativity.

More from the World of WarCrafts, after the break.

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Breakfast Topic: That damned race/class combo you can never find

In every holiday that has you chase after a specific race/class combo, there’s always that one, that elusive combo that makes the whole thing feel like a snipe hunt. For the Love is in the Air holiday, the Fistful of Love achievement requires us to shower 11 specific race/class combos with rose petals.

By the end of the holiday, you’ll inevitably be wanting to give a fistful of something to one combo, and it sure ain’t love.

For me it’s the troll rogue. I swear they don’t really exist, and it’s just a cruel prank played on us by Blizzard. I’ve even gone so far as to stage a James Bondesque infiltration of the Horde district, complete with helicopters and a dashing dwarf parachuting onto rooftops. It’s not that they just aren’t out in public, but that they don’t frickin’ exist at all!

On the other hand, as a dwarf hunter, I know what it feels like to be the hunted. I do get sick of being constantly showered with petals at times. I even found myself hanging out in out of the way places and disguising myself as a ninja to avoid it. Perhaps I am someone else’s troll rogue.

What race/class combo is your curse? Have you found yourself hiding from achievement seekers, and if so, how?

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Spiritual Guidance: Holy 101


Every Sunday (and the occasional weekday) Spiritual Guidance offers holy and discipline priests advice on how to wield the holy light and groove to the disco night. Your hostess Dawn Moore will provide the music.

There is this priest trial in my guild right now. He applied as a discipline priest but what we were looking for at the time was a holy priest. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know how to play holy, so I’m exploiting my veteran status and making him learn it. Coincidentally, the big bosses also want all of us here at WoW.com to work on these 101 columns, so this kills two anything-but-birds with one stone. I really like birds, by the way.

The following is meant to be an introductory guide to the priest holy tree. It is not going to tell you what to do step by step (at least not until you get to the enchants section) instead it intends to show you some options from which you can get started. If you’re already a veteran holy priest, feel free to add anything I left out in the comments so readers who use this column as a resource can get as much help as possible.

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