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Scattered Shots: Pets for raiding
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Jessica Klein wrote on 30th April 10pm
Scattered Shots is your weekly guide to improving your Hunter skill, brought to you by Jessica "Lassirra" Klein of The Hunter's Mark, covering a variety of Huntery topics. Today, we'll be discussing which Ferocity pets perform the best in a raid environment.
It's no secret (or shouldn't be!) that Ferocity pets are where it's at for raiding pets. They provide the most overall damage of the three pet types, and for Hunters there's no bigger priority in a raid environment than delivering dps like it's Dominos. There are a wide variety of Ferocity pets to choose from, though, and each have their own unique abilities. Which is the best type to give you the biggest boost to your damage? Let's do a quick comparison and find out.
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Amanda Miller wrote on 30th April 8pm
Kebina Trudough here, offering you the best gold making secrets they don't want you to know about! I was like you once, poor and homely, before I discovered my patented system. Now you too can fill your pockets with the good stuff without ever breaking a sweat! Why spend all your time toiling when you could be vacationing in the Hot Springs? I'm not offering these tips for 100 gold, or 90 gold, or even 50 gold! No, not even 20 gold! My system is yours for FREE! Satisfaction guaranteed or I'll give you a full refund (handling charges may apply).
A few weeks ago, I discussed the province of Storm Peaks and several of its gold-making opportunities. This week, we will be moving on to Sholazar Basin, a level 75-78 zone. This area is more accessible to mid-level Northrend characters, and doesn't require a flying mount to take advantage of most of the farming areas.
An Herbalist's haven
Sholazar Basin is an Herbalist's dream come true. Often, several herbs appear on my mini-map, even though it covers only a small area. In fact, I can seldom take three steps without running into more!
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Mike Schramm wrote on 30th April 9pm
Don't forget: if you haven't entered our Guild of the Month contest yet, do so now -- we'll be choosing April's winner in just a few days. All you have to do is send about 200 words on how awesome your guild is to guildofthemonth@gmail.com, and be from either the US or Canada (excluding Quebec -- sorry Quebecois and EU folks, them's the legal rules). The winner will get a profile of their guild right here on WoW Insider (our first group of winners, back in March, was doing some amazing things with both raiding and professions, but we're awarding the prize every month based on the criteria of performance in raiding, originality, and community), and they'll also pick up a raid pack for their officers from our friends at Warcraft.Swagdog.com.
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Allison Robert wrote on 30th April 9pm
All right, folks, we've got another sub-achievement needed for What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been (and thus the 310% speed Violet Proto-Drake) on our hands here. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that most of the achievements for Children's Week are fairly straightforward, and should be easy (and even fun) to complete. Appropriately enough for a mini-holiday, most of the achievements are simple, amusing, and not too time-consuming. The bad news is that one of the achievements may be a huge headache to get done, and unlike Noblegarden, your character has to be at least 75 in order to get all of the achievements needed for the year-long meta. UPDATE: shortly before this article is set to go live, we're getting emails from Oceanic players noting that two of the achievements may be bugged. I've included notes on the ones they've indicated, and we'll keep an eye on this tonight.
Children's Week runs from Friday, May 1st at midnight through Thursday, May 7th at 11:59 PM. And -- because we've been getting lots of warnings about this from tipsters, and we thought it was a good point too - please remember that YOU SHOULD NOT TURN IN YOUR ORPHAN WHISTLES UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE THESE ACHIEVEMENTS. You know how at the end of both the classic and Burning Crusade Children's Week questlines you drop your tot off and get a pet or a payoff? Don't do that. Do the achievements first, and then do the rest of the Children's Week quests, or you'll find yourself without the item/s needed to summon an orphan for most of the following.
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Lesley Smith wrote on 30th April 7pm
Over the last week the Martin Fury scandal has rocked the world ... of Warcraft. I got the chance to sit down with Karatechop, the player at the centre of the scandal, to hear his side of the story.WoW Insider: Who are you?
Karatechop: I'm Karatechop, the Guild Leader of The Marvel Family on Vek'nilash-US.
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Mike Schramm wrote on 30th April 7pm
Well, The9 is going down in flames, but if you're looking to make some money in the stock market lately, you could do like BRK and buy some stock in Activision-Blizzard. Goldman Sachs has upgraded ATVI to "buy," and even marked them out as a "conviction buy" -- while the stock price is almost $11 right now (it jumped up about .75 on this news this morning), GS says it's headed to $14 eventually. "Conviction buy" just means that the wily traders at Goldman Sachs expect the stock to outperform in the future -- Activision is already saying it will do well, but GS thinks it'll do even better.[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
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Adam Holisky wrote on 30th April 6pm
WoW Insider had a chance to sit down today and talk with Karatechop, the man at the center of the cheating scandal that has been rocking World of Warcraft to its core.We'll have the full interview up for you soon (later today hopefully, or tomorrow at the latest), however one thing we learned from the interview is that his account has been closed, permanently. While we cannot verify this with Blizzard directly, as there are privacy concerns that forbid them from talking about other people's accounts, we can verify that the account administrator who dealt with the closure is real, and that the template used in disseminating the account closure information is legitimate.
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Lisa Poisso wrote on 30th April 6pm
Two Bosses Enter ... but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider's series of fantasy death matches. This season's bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
While this week's Two Bosses matchup was a fairly straightforward victory for Ahn'Kahet's Prince Taldaram over the Maiden of Grief from the Halls of Stone, this week's scenario is a little farther off the beaten track: Herald Volazj (Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom) versus Novos the Summoner (Drak'tharon Keep). What insanity will ensue?
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Mike Schramm wrote on 30th April 6pm
We've very closely covered the lack of Gnomes in any of Blizzard's major cinematic pieces so far. We had hoped to see them in the Wrath cinematic, but of course Blizzard went a completely new direction with that one (retelling the story of Arthas rather than showing players fighting), and so they weren't there either. In fact, the problem has gotten so bad that at least one person has remade the Burning Crusade cinematic, filling it with Gnomes just to see what it would be like. And while we've gotten some snide comments from the Blues before ("they're there, they're just too short to fit in frame"), Bornakk has finally given us an honest answer as to why the Gnomes haven't been show in cinematic form: they're just not awesome enough?[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
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MMO-Champion wrote on 30th April 5pm
Ulduar not available on PTRs
Quote from: Dresorull (Source)Ulduar will not be available on the PTR. I will add this point to the PTR FAQ's since there will likely be more questions regarding this.
Patch 3.1.2 Ulduar Boss Changes
The new PTR patch updated most of the spell data for Ulduar bosses, we can finally see what's going on with boss changes in Ulduar. Most of these changes are from the hotfixes recently deployed on live servers.
Quote from Blizzard staffAchievement
Quote from: Dresorull (Source)Ulduar will not be available on the PTR. I will add this point to the PTR FAQ's since there will likely be more questions regarding this.
Patch 3.1.2 Ulduar Boss Changes
The new PTR patch updated most of the spell data for Ulduar bosses, we can finally see what's going on with boss changes in Ulduar. Most of these changes are from the hotfixes recently deployed on live servers.
Quote from Blizzard staffAchievement
- Heroic: He Feeds On Your Tears - Defeat Algalon the Observer without any raid member dying to Algalon at any point during that raid lockout period.
- Heroic: Observed - Defeat Algalon the Observer on Heroic Difficulty.
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New Movies
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wowfix.com wrote on 30th April 5pm
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| theDust Vs. Yogg-saron | IixxiI | Ignis | -?- | 620 Mb | 15min |  |
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| Cuties Only Ulduar 25 Live Yogg-Saron Three Watchers Up Warlock Perspective | Raisa of Kil'jaeden | Ignis | -?- | 363 Mb | 11min | |
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| This is the video from a Demo/Destro Warlock's perspective for Cuties Only's Yogg-Saron 25 with only... | |||||||
| Chimaera Vs. Yogg-Saron | Metalline | Ignis | -?- | 409 Mb | 18min | |
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| Server first kill of Yogg-Saron on Draenor EU | |||||||
| S E V E N Vs. Yogg-Saron 10 man, DK POV | Dkjedi | Ignis | -?- | 303 Mb | 13min | |
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| Yogg-Saron 10 man downed by S E V E N, first kill US-Detheroc. Death Knight POV that sees both up t... | |||||||
| Kologarn | Ignis | -?- | 202 Mb | 3min | |
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MMO-Champion wrote on 30th April 3pm
Update - Patch notes are now available in multiple languages. (English / German / French / Spanish / Russian)
Patch 3.1.2 PTR Patch Notes
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Patch 3.1.2 PTR Patch Notes
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- New art textures have been added for Argent Tournament mounts. Any mounts already purchased from the Argent Tournament vendors will be updated automatically. Argent Tournament mounts with the old textures will still be available for purchase from the Argent Tournament vendors for a small Champions Seal and gold cost (standard faction requirements apply).
- Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.
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Adam Holisky wrote on 30th April 4pm
I'm sure you all will be quite happy to hear that the Swine Flu has struck Azeroth. Yes, you read that right.
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Alex Ziebart wrote on 30th April 4pm
We were all taken by surprise this afternoon when we heard the PTR has gone live for Patch 3.1.2, because we had little indication that it was going to have a public testing phase at all. It makes some sense looking at the content of the patch, because it seems they're trying to implement the Equipment Manager again, rather than waiting for the next full blown content patch. This patch also contains the new round of Argent Tournament mounts described a short while ago.[View Remaining 1 Paragraphs]
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Mike Schramm wrote on 30th April 5pm
Gaviedrummer has exactly the problem that I have, only mine is probably worse: he has about 50 Badges of Justice left over from the last expansion. True, I've only got about 30, but I've also got stacks of Apexis Shards, Spirit Shards, Halaa Tokens, Obsidian Warbeads, and pretty much every other old reputation and currency item from the Burning Crusade sitting around clogging up my bank. And while some of it is just me being lazy (I could turn the Warbeads in, and I think I could probably grind out a few more Halaa tokens to pick up something there), as gaviedrummer finds out, most of it is completely useless. Yes, we can still trade for level 70 items, but who needs those any more?[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
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wowfix.com wrote on 30th April 4pm
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Adam Holisky wrote on 30th April 3pm
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.
This post is called The Queue, and it's about a queue, and the questions, but question is not the name of the post, that's just the name of the post, and that's why I called the post The Queue.
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Matthew Rossi wrote on 30th April 3pm
World of Warcraft has four classes that can heal and four classes that can tank. Two of the tanking classes are classes that can only tank or DPS, and two of the healing classes are classes that can only heal or DPS, leaving two classes as jacks of all trades who can heal, tank or DPS. In general, of WoW's 10 classes, we have therefore six or so classes that can perform at least two, if not three, roles. This leaves four classes with three talent trees each which only perform one role, that being DPS.
Should this be the case? Or should the remaining four 'pure' DPS classes... the Rogue, Mage, Warlock, and Hunter... be given the same 'hybrid' flexibility as the other six? We've seen great changes from the old days especially with the release of Wrath of the Lich King bringing real viability for hybrid classes to fulfill whatever role they spec and gear for, especially with tanking and healing: each tanking class can perform the MT role, for instance, although each can be said to have strengths and weaknesses to some degree in certain aspects (Warriors and Druids struggle with AoE tanking compared to Paladins and DK's, for instance). Some healing classes excel at group healing, others at tank healing, but all should be more than capable of solo healing a five man and all are valuable in raids.
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Matthew Rossi wrote on 30th April 2pm
It's been a remarkably grueling month for me, so I can't say I'll be sorry to see April finally end. As much fun as the new content is, a lot of personal issues (including a sick rabbit,vet trips and the like on the top as a kind of panic frosting to everything else) have made it hard to squeeze in the time to do anything but raid nowadays. I fell asleep trying to do the Argent Tournament dailies. I picked up the saddest ring ever last night (let the search for a sadder ring commence) and got to thinking about the peculiar way warriors have to rely on loot luck. (Yes, I'm aware all classes have to rely on luck for drops.) Since frankly I don't want to write the often threatened nerd rage post over fury (and I'm starting to be discontented by arms' performance, as improved as it is) I thought talking about gear less from a 'here are the stats of every drop you want in Ulduar' way could be interesting.
We all know eventually I'll be doing that, too. But since the instance still hasn't revealed all of its goodies, Ulduar loot discussions are always an exercise in finding out you missed something. It seems worth it to me to wait for more things to be discovered before tackling that job.
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MMO-Champion wrote on 30th April 2pm
Argent Tournament Mount Updates
In an upcoming content patch, faction mounts offered by vendors on the Argent Tournament grounds will be updated, and the mounts being offered will match the colors of the faction you choose to represent. What better way to champion the triumph of your legion than draping yourself in the colors and symbols of your allies?
Mounts already purchased at the Argent Tournament will be replaced with the updated mounts when this patch goes live. For those looking to get their hands on even more sweet rides, ten mounts using the original tournament look will be available for purchase from Argent Tournament vendors for 5 Champion's Seals and 500 gold (faction discounts apply). To purchase these original mounts at the Argent Tournament, players must be either members of, or exalted with, the corresponding faction.
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In an upcoming content patch, faction mounts offered by vendors on the Argent Tournament grounds will be updated, and the mounts being offered will match the colors of the faction you choose to represent. What better way to champion the triumph of your legion than draping yourself in the colors and symbols of your allies?
Mounts already purchased at the Argent Tournament will be replaced with the updated mounts when this patch goes live. For those looking to get their hands on even more sweet rides, ten mounts using the original tournament look will be available for purchase from Argent Tournament vendors for 5 Champion's Seals and 500 gold (faction discounts apply). To purchase these original mounts at the Argent Tournament, players must be either members of, or exalted with, the corresponding faction.
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Kody wrote on 30th April 7pm
Minor Content Patch - PTRs Coming Soon
The PTRs will be coming up soon, based on Dresorull's activity on the Blue Tracker. This is likely for the minor content patch that will introduce the Equipment Manager and Argent Tournament mount changes, but I'd expect some class changes as well. At any rate, stay tuned for additional news.
Argent Tournament Mount Updates
Quote from: Nethaera (Source)
You've already read about the updated Argent Tournaments mounts coming in the next minor content patch -- now you can get a glimpse at what these new mounts look like. Check out our Under Development page to see how they reflect the colors and symbols of their factions.
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It's worth noting, by the way, that some of these screenshots don't show off all the little visual features -- the wolf has the Horde symbol painted in white on its flanks, and the kodo's drums are painted orange and turquoise.
Upcoming Changes and Additions (Source)
Updated Argent Tournament Mounts
In an upcoming minor patch, faction mounts offered by vendors on the Argent Tournament grounds will have their visual appearances improved. You will find that the mounts being offered will better match the colors of the faction you chose to represent. Mounts already purchased at the Argent Tournament will automatically be replaced with the updated mounts when this patch goes live.
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Kody wrote on 30th April 7pm
Maintenance Downtime
We're going to have maintenance downtime today to move World of Raids to the same hosting facility Curse.com uses, which means much better hardware. While the site is down, you'll see a maintenance splash page with some content I've prepared for the downtime.
During this time RSS feeds and the blue tracker will not be functional, but once the site is back up everything should return to normal.
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Lisa Poisso wrote on 30th April 12pm
Two Bosses Enter ... but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider's series of fantasy death matches. This season's bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
Prince Taldaram of Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom managed to Embrace (of the Vampyr) victory in this week's matchup against the Maiden of Grief from Halls of Stone. Despite the Maiden's relentless shadow damage, Prince Taldaram's Bloodthirst, Flame Spheres, Vanish and Embrace of the Vampyr reduced the Titanic Maiden to rubble.
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Michael Gray wrote on 30th April 1pm
I plan to talk more about a recent gathering at Stanford, which was focused on the growth and trends of "machinima law." But for Moviewatch today, I wanted to highlight a small artifact of work that was displayed at Stanford. Specifically, Myndflame created this Best of Myndflame Machinima to help illustrate the power of machinima.
Like many nostalgia or memorial reels, "Best of Myndflame Machinima" recaps several different pieces. You might recognize them all, or you might see a preview of something new. I was definitely inspired to go back and re-watch some old favorites, like the Slim Jim commercial or HMS Theramore.
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Elizabeth Wachowski wrote on 30th April 11am
Sneaky Hordelings (from left) Unteeka, Cataca and Escargotage, all of <Initech> on Cairne, recently, uh, "found themselves" in the notorious Dancing Troll Village of Darkshore. Stumbling upon an abandoned boat, they decided to recreate the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River. It's not a perfect copy by any means, but you have to remember that Washington was totally exploiting when he got the river-crossing achievement. He's got twelve people in that ten-man boat, and look at how the rest of the raid is doing the work while he's just standing there AFK!
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Lesley Smith wrote on 30th April 9am
Gamesmasters have been in WoW news a lot recently. We've had reports that a GM mistakenly sent Martin's Fury out to a player leading to pawnage in Ulduar. For the last twenty four hours, my inbox and those of the rest of the team seem to be full of screenshots showing a weird new bug where player characters suddenly become GMs, if only cosmetically (they get the little Blizzard logo next to their names but none of the power).[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
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MMO-Champion wrote on 30th April 1am
Recent In-Game Fixes - 04/29
Quote from: Bornakk (Source)Keep in mind that some of these changes my require the realm to be restarted to take effect.
Blue posts
Quote from Blizzard staffArgent Tournament Champion's Seals
The current plan is to add more ways to get champion seals in future patch. How many? Even we aren't sure at this time. Yes, it takes a lot of seals to collect everything, but we are okay with that as players will prioritize what they want to get so not everybody will have everything in one month and players who want everything will be able to get it all... eventually. (Source)
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Quote from: Bornakk (Source)Keep in mind that some of these changes my require the realm to be restarted to take effect.
- Fixed an issue where Mimiron could randomly change targets while casting P3Wx2 Laser Barrage in phase 4. It is still possible for it to appear that he is turning quickly for an instant to shoot another direction, but this is just a visual bug that will be resolved in a future patch.
- The Auriaya encounter has received the following changes: the damage of Strength of the Pack has been increased, the duration of Terrifying Screech has been reduced, the damage of Sonic Screech has been reduced, and the damage from Seeping Feral Essence has been reduced.
Blue posts
Quote from Blizzard staffArgent Tournament Champion's Seals
The current plan is to add more ways to get champion seals in future patch. How many? Even we aren't sure at this time. Yes, it takes a lot of seals to collect everything, but we are okay with that as players will prioritize what they want to get so not everybody will have everything in one month and players who want everything will be able to get it all... eventually. (Source)
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Mike Schramm wrote on 29th April 10pm
The good news here: Blizzard may be planning to do more with the iPhone. The bad news: they're apparently trying to squelch useful iPhone apps that are out there right now. They've already sent out cease-and-desist orders to two Warcraft-related iPhone apps that were charging money (Armory Browser and the Warcraft Arena Calculator), and now we've heard from its creator that Warcraft Characters has gotten the C&D treatment as well (here's his post on the subject, though his site appears to be down at the moment). Just before he was set to announce the alpha of the 3.0 version of the app, Blizzard dropped him legal notice to stop distrbution. As of this writing, however, the app is still on the App Store, so get it while you can. Warcraft Chest and WoWTalent appear to still be available on the store as well, and WoWTalent is still charging 99 cents.[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]