Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries

What’s a nice undead like you doing all the way out in the Wetlands? Unless you’re a warlock looking to get a succubus, or a level 60 acquiring your Onyxia key for some reason, the Horde has no reason to be there. Alazor of <Ubiquity> on Defias Brotherhood-EU describes his journey: “This screenshot shows Stilva, a forsaken rogue. He walks through the Wetlands following the rising dawn, seeing the new day as a new fate for him, as he considers the murderous deeds of his past. Who knows if he looks back at them in regret, or sinister joy?” Not sure, Stilva, but I’ll note that “following the rising dawn” in the Wetlands is going to lead you into a big nest of angry elite dragons. I suppose that if one was an optimist, you could call that “a new fate.” It’s certainly some kind of fate.

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Filed under: Druid, Shaman, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King

Welcome back to Ask a Beta Tester, where for one glorious day, we don’t have any passenger mount questions! But I know, deep down, there are a thousand more on the horizon.

Elmo asked…

How are Enhancement Shamans shaping up? I heard silly things like Elemental gear is great for them or 2x fast weapons with Flametongue. Are we really gonna make that much of a turn around? In other words, is my hard earned gear all worthless? Not just the epic gems and Strength enchants.

Enhancement Shaman did hit a weird point where that was true, but I don’t think it was ever intended that the ‘final product’ would look that way. There were some Windfury bugs and wonky unfinished tuning that caused that, but as another reader mentioned, the devs are working on getting everything fixed and proper. Things will be a little different from Burning Crusade, but not so much so that Enhancement Shaman are wearing Elemental gear to melee.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King, Arena

Just moments ago, Eyonix posted some great news for arena players. Expected news, but still great. Due to the sweeping changes coming in patch 3.0.2, they’re going to take a snapshot of arena ratings and rankings on the day of the patch, and use that information for handing out title and rewards. As far as titles and Nether Drakes are concerned, that will be the end of the arena season.

The season will not completely end at that point, however. The Arenas will continue, and you will still be able to gain rating and arena points right up until the release of Wrath of the Lich King so you can finish getting whatever pieces of gear you’d like to take with you into Northrend.

I think we all knew they were going to do something along those lines. If they didn’t, the entire season would essentially have been blown. Turning class balance upside down and adding a whole ton of new abilities to the game right at the end of a competition is just a poor move. I think this is the best compromise, too. Ending the season while still letting people gear up for Wrath is great. Raid zones aren’t shutting down with 3.0.2, so it would be a little annoying for PvPers if the arena did.

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Filed under: Fan stuff, WoW Insider Business, Virtual selves, BlizzCon

Yes, folks, it’s almost October, and that means it’s time to start making those big plans for BlizzCon. And when you do, don’t forget to include us — just like last year, we’re having a blowout reader meetup right near the Convention Center in Anaheim. Save the date for the second annual WoW Insider BlizzCon Meetup: Thursday night, October 9, at 8pm PST in The Lost Bar near the Disneyland Hotel (1150 W. Magic Way, same place as last year). If Blizzard does things the same way they did last year, badges will be pick-up-able that Thursday, so we’ll all be awash in our goodie bags and passes already, and excited about what the rest of the ‘con holds.

Just like last time, we’ll bring lots of prizes (and you may even get another round of trivia questions from me), plus you’ll get the chance to meet and greet all your favorite WoW Insider bloggers (and commenters). And as you know if you were there last time, The Lost Bar has lots of great food and drink. And little boats to race!

So if you’re headed out to BlizzCon and will be in town on Thursday night, October 9th, at 8pm (or are in town anyway and want to come say hi), definitely come by our second annual reader meetup. And stay tuned for more — we’re planning on having at least one more live event at BlizzCon (we have to record the WoW Insider Show sometime that weekend, right?), so we’ll let you know more about our schedule there soon.

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