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• Totem Talk: The Wrath of the Shaman part 3 - Restoration and Synergy

  Filed under: Shaman , Analysis / Opinion , Expansions , Leveling , Talents , (Shaman) Totem Talk , Wrath of the Lich King As I promised you, our look at Wrath talents and skills for Shamans (started here and continued here ) concludes with a roundup of... Posted Jul 24 2008, 02:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, Talents, Shaman, Leveling, (Shaman) Totem Talk, wrath-beta, enhancement, restoration, skills, spells, wrath-beta-patch-notes, ElementalCombat, Elemental Combat

• Authenticator fails, removed from account without user's permission

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Forums , Account Security Think a Blizzard Authenticator will keep your account from being hacked? Think again -- we've got our first known report of someone who was protecting their account with one of... Posted Jul 24 2008, 09:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Forums, security, account-security, Account Security, tweet-this, blizzard-authenticator, reps, support, hacked

• Vehicle controls in Wrath

  Filed under: Items , Analysis / Opinion , PvP , Wrath of the Lich King WoW Insider tipster Dinnerbone sent in some interesting findings about the siege vehicles in Beta while spelunking through the LUA files. He notes that these are all viewable -- if... Posted Jul 24 2008, 08:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Items, PvP, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, wrath, beta, lua, siege-vehicles, Vehicle-controls, LUA-files

• Hunter pet aggro may be fixed in Wrath

  Filed under: Hunter , Analysis / Opinion , News items , Instances , Expansions , Leveling , Wrath of the Lich King The story of Hunter pets and aggro in Burning Crusade , especially since patch 2.4.2 or so, has been a very stormy one. Even deep Beastmastery... Posted Jul 24 2008, 06:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hunter, News items, Instances, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, tanking, Leveling, wotlk, hortus, pet, wrath-beta, wotlk-beta, hunter-pets, aggro, growl, tenacity, wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta, tanking-pet, Ghostcrawler, beastmastery, longevity, improved-growl, growl-nerf, taunt, kiting

• Breakfast Topic: WoW-related merchandise and spin-offs

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Breakfast topics I bought my daughter's 'Future Horde' onesie from J!nx long before she was even conceived. I knew when I got my 'For the Horde' shirt that I wanted myself to have a matching... Posted Jul 24 2008, 03:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast topics, Blizzard, WoW-TCG, merchandise, frostmourne, tcg, wow-comic, The-Bronze-Kettle, Shelbi-Roach, jinx, manaprincess, Action-figure, Spin-off, WoW-figures

• Deleting toons to make room for Wrath

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Expansions , Wrath of the Lich King I deleted four toons today. I know that Wrath of the Lich King is quite a ways off, but I wanted to be prepared. First of all, I wanted to ensure I had a character slot free for my... Posted Jul 23 2008, 05:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, Alts, characters, death-knight, delete

• The Art of War(craft): Dreaming about Death Knight PvP

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Death Knight , Wrath of the Lich King , (BG PvP) The Art of War(craft) I know, I know. It's too early to actually figure out how Death Knights will work in PvP . Humor me for a bit. The new class, with its juicy talents... Posted Jul 23 2008, 03:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King, (BG PvP) The Art of War(craft), Death Knight, death-knight, unholy-presence, chains-of-ice, raise-dead, unholy, frost, blood-strike, blood-presence, blood, frost-presence, death-and-decay, anti-magic-shell, strangulate, mind-freeze, Disease, Blood-Caked-Blade, Toughness, lichborne, blood-boil, scent-of-blood, hungering-cold, mark-of-blood, unbreakable-armor, Death-Pact, Rune-Tap, Death-Strike, Obliterate, Blade-Barrier, Degeneration, Icy-Touch, On-a-Pale-Horse, Ebon-Plaguebringer, Unholy-Blight, Will-of-the-Necropolis, Forceful-Deflection, Frigid-Dreadplate, Death-Grip

• Forced to choose

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Tips , Virtual selves , Guilds , Odds and ends , Instances I think everyone who's run an instance and a raid has been in this situation -- you wait all night for a Karazhan run , it fills, so you decide to go run... Posted Jul 23 2008, 02:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, Tips, Instances, Odds and ends, Guilds, Virtual selves, 5man, choice, replacement, 10man

• The joy of grinding

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Expansions , Leveling , Wrath of the Lich King I couldn't agree more with Mystic Chicanery -- despite the fact that most players consider the "level grind" to be the most boring part of the game... Posted Jul 23 2008, 11:30 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, Leveling, progression, content, Grinding, Stranglethorn-Vale, level, mystic-chicanery

• How to use the PvP trinket

  Filed under: Mage , Rogue , Warlock , Items , Analysis / Opinion , Tips , Guides , Buffs Yet Another Warlock Nerf has a terrific guide up to one of the most misused/underused pieces of gear in the game -- the PvP trinket. The cheapest version, Insignia... Posted Jul 23 2008, 10:30 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Warlock, Analysis / Opinion, Guides, Items, Mage, Tips, PvP, Horde, Alliance, Buffs, Rogue, guide, trinket, medallion-of-the-horde, insignia, john-locke, medallion, yet-another-warlock-nerf, kidney-shot

• The Wrath of the Shaman Part 2: Elemental Combat

  Filed under: Shaman , Analysis / Opinion , Expansions , Talents , Wrath of the Lich King Continuing our series on Shaman talents in Wrath , we're going to talk today about Elemental Combat, and the new talents for it. One of the first things I notice... Posted Jul 23 2008, 10:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, Talents, Shaman, wrath-beta, shamans, wrath-beta-patch-notes, ElementalCombat, Elemental Combat

• Wrath storage solutions

  Filed under: Items , Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , PvP , Expansions , Raiding , Mounts , Wrath of the Lich King , Forums , Battlegrounds , Achievements By now you have surely heard of the new Achievements system set up for Wrath of the Lich King . While... Posted Jul 23 2008, 09:33 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Items, Raiding, PvP, Battlegrounds, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, Mounts, Forums, epic, tigole, tabards, wrath-beta, trinkets, collectibles, beta-test, achievements, wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta, non-combat-pets, bg-tokens, heroic-badges, battleground-tokens, holiday-items

• Death Knight: Rune swapping gone, Runeforging to be powerful

  Filed under: Enchanting , Analysis / Opinion , News items , Death Knight , Wrath of the Lich King The introduction of runeforging to the Wrath Beta was a bit of surprise and slightly unexpected. Instead of rune swapping -- the idea of being able to change... Posted Jul 23 2008, 09:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, Wrath of the Lich King, Enchanting, wotlk, Death Knight, wrath-beta, wotlk-beta, unholy, frost, runeblade, blood, wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta, Ghostcrawler, runeforged-weapons, rune-of-the-fallen-crusader, runeforging, enchantments, tanking-talents, unbreakable-armor, crusader, mongoose-enchant, crusader-enchant, mongoose, sweeping-strikes, proc-rate, weapon-enchantments, sword-specialization, runeblades, bbffuu, runeforge, 222

• Wintergrasp still aiming to fix World PvP problems

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , PvP , Lore Zarhym, provoked by a pretty lame whine about two new Arenas and only one new BG in the next expansion, is expounding a little bit more on what Blizzard wants to do with World PvP and Lake Wintergrasp... Posted Jul 23 2008, 08:30 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, halaa, world-pvp, Blizzard, rewards, Lore, endgame, Lake-Wintergrasp, auchindouin, zarhym

• Wrath Hunter Talent Analysis, Part I: Marksmanship

  Filed under: Hunter , Patches , Analysis / Opinion , Expansions , Talents , Wrath of the Lich King Hunter talents are out , and there's definitely a lot to say about them, both good and bad. While we have discussed some of the changes to the lower... Posted Jul 23 2008, 08:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Patches, armor-penetration, Hunter, steady-shot, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, aimed-shot, Talents, hunters-mark, dps, survival, aspect-of-the-viper, wrath-beta, wotlk-beta, serpent-sting, ravager, tweet-this, viper-sting, improved-stings, bat, marksmanship, talent-points, scorpid-sting, wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta, mana-efficiency, beta-talents, efficiency, 51-point-talents, explosive-shot, auto-shot-clipping, conflagrate, focused-aim, kill-shot, improved-steady-shot, mana-drain, mana-use, mortal-shots, piercing-shots, beastmastery, ravage, mana-pool, improved-hunters-mark, joystiq-features, wild-quiver, sonic-blast, bear-trap, marked-for-death, careful-aim, chimera-shot, improved-concussive-shot