About the Difficulty to Write Steady Wrath Beta Commentary: DK Tanking Talents
I probably should have known better. I actually used to.
With the latest beta build, DK tanking talents appear again to spread across all three trees. Again, not much of an issue in general (except that now you actually will have to make some choices as currently not every single of them can be picked anymore), just that with the rate of changes, the class is currently too unstable to try and predict much about it.[...]
Some Blue Posts on Tanking Design Philosophy for Wrath
Looking through recent Blue posts, here are a few interesting tidbits regarding Tank design for Wrath.
Death Knight Talents Revamped, Tanking Now in 2 Trees
In the newest Beta build, it appears that Blizzard decided to reshuffle tanking talents. Where previously these were scattered over the lower tiers of all three trees, we now find them only in Frost and Unholy.[...]
Early Healadin Reports: Holy Shock Becomes Viable
To follow up on my previous post, via the EJ thread linking to it, someone wrote about his experiences group healing in the Wrath beta on the o-bards:[...]
Wrath Paladins: Significant Changes in Healing Techniques Ahead?
From a first look at the paladin spells from 70-80 as displayed on MMO Champion, I was struck by the jump in mana costs for the new two ranks for both Flash of Light and Holy Light.[...]
Official Wrath Talent Calculators Online
Just a quick heads-up, Blizzard has put official talent calculators for Wrath up for playing. Here’s the EU version, and here the US one. The latter has a nice landing page, too.[...]
Wrath of the Lich King: NOW We Can Talk
Unless you have been removed from the news cycle, you allready know these two important tidbits of information:
The Wrath Beta has started
The NDA has been lifted.
In other words, any proposed changes are now public, in the open, and up for legit discussion.[...]
Quick Glance at Death Knight Tanking Talents
Wowhead (no, I’m still not linking to them) put up a WWI-based talent calculator for DKs. From a quick survey, it appears Blizzard wants indeed not to typecast each talent tree to specific roles, as talents fit for tanking appear in all three.[...]
Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday
So after a significant slowdown to my posting activities, this is my 300th post on Altitis. Incidentally, the blog is also 1 year (and 10 days) old now.
WWI: Totems to Effect Entire Raid
Just a few quick notes, while other class news look good as well, shammies get a few much needed enhancements coming their way:
- As per the post title, totems will now be raid-wide instead of just party
- Some totems will get merged (Grace of Air + Strength of Earth)
- Totems are confirmed to become physical [...]
Blizzard Splash Page Speculation
Most of the people’s money appears to be on Diablo 3 at the moment. At the risk of eating crow tomorrow, my take is much more prosaic:
WotLK Beta starts tomorrow.
EDIT: Crow eating time. According to MMO-Champion, it’s Diablo 3.
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