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Hello, friends, welcome to World of Warcraft, to have a look at news, tips and strategy for the death knight class. Yeah, today's topic is about Tweaking your WoW frost DPS talent build. Let's check out below:

Last week, we took a look at WoW frost DPS. At that time, I posted a basic DPS build for beginning frost DPSers to provide a good balance of DPS and utility. As I mentioned back then, though, the basic WoW frost DPS build is pretty nice in that it does allow a bit of flexibility in your build; that is, there are a few places where you can swap around points a bit depending on your gear level and personal needs. We'll also take a quick look at optimizing sigil usage, which should come in handy for blood and unholy DPS as well. But first, let's take a look at those frost talents.

• Subversion Subversion is a cornerstone of many a DPS build, thanks to the threat reduction. While threat reduction seems a bit laughable in the era of quick-and-frantic AoE DPS runs where it seems like most tanks can keep aggro by spamming a few buttons, it can come in handy, especially at later gear levels where DPS attack power starts to drastically outpace a tank's ability to keep aggro. That said, Subversion is not great for frost DPS. We generally get enough crit power from Killing Machine and gear. If you don't need the threat reduction, you should take the points out of it.
• Blood-Caked Blade While this is the easiest place to remove points if you want to bolster Black Ice or Subversion, it's also the best place to put points back into if you want more DPS. Frost DPS does a whole lot of damage via weapon strikes, and a chance to do more damage on each strike is nothing to sneeze at. If you have no threat issues, just take those points out of Subversion and put them here. It's going to be the best place to spend them if you want more DPS.
• Killing Machine Killing Machine itself is awesome. A free crit every so often is extra DPS in the bank. That said, there is too much of a good thing. If you don't use the Killing Machine buff, that's wasted talent points. If you have so much critical strike rating that many of your hits are critical strikes anyway, you may be wasting talent points. As a general rule of thumb, it's probably safe to take one point out of Killing Machine some time after you reach 30-40% critical strike chance, but your mileage may vary. When you remove that point, it can easily go into either Black Ice or Subversion.
• Chill of the Grave This talent provides extra runic power, which is key for maximizing your DPS. Frost Strike is a very significant part of frost DPS, and you need the runic power to churn out as many of them as possible once your runes are on cooldown and when you have a KM proc to spend. Again, though, you can have too much of a good thing. If your runic power is consistently sitting at high levels instead of being spent on Frost Strikes, you're essentially wasting your Chill of the Grave talent points. This can happen if you're consistently getting healed by a restoration druid or discipline priest, or if you're consistently getting lots of runic power from using Anti-Magic Shell. Keep an eye on your rotation, and if you find you're flush with runic power, you can consider taking a point or two from this talent and apply it to one of the others on this list.
• Black Ice Black Ice is a pretty easy skill to leave half-full if you'd rather max Subversion or Blood-Caked Blade, but it's still relatively valuable. You will be doing a pretty decent amount of frost and shadow damage, especially if you're AoEing. If you don't need the extra points from Killing Machine or Chill of the Grave anywhere else, put them in Black Ice.

In other words, let's say you're looking at your spec. You do a few dungeon runs. It feels like you have a decent amount of critical strike, so you take that one point out of Killing Machine and stick it into Black Ice. You also notice that you pretty never pull aggro off of just about any tank you run with, so you pull those three points out of Subversion and throw them over to Blood-Caked Blade. That gives you a talent build that looks something like this. You'll have to watch your threat a bit more, but you'll definitely do better DPS.

Sigil choice

We didn't go into sigil choice too in depth last time, but there were a few questions people had, so it's probably a good idea to explain it somewhat more in depth. While in the past Sigil of Awareness and Sigil of the Vengeful Heart provided enough of a base damage boost to certain weapon strikes to make them worthwhile in the past, testing for Patch 3.3.3 thus far has indicated you're best off now sticking with the straight strength boosts, that is, either Sigil of the Hanged Man or Sigil of Virulence.

Sigil of the Hanged Man is the clear winner in the straight-up buff race, all things being equal, providing 219 strength when fully stacked. If you have a solid rotation that allows you to keep hitting Obliterate consistently and don't have to move around much, this sigil is the one you want to have.

That said, it's not common that a boss is just going to let you sit around and spank it, especially at raid level content. That's where it may become worth it to stick with the Sigil of Virulence. Since the sigil only requires one hit to reach full power and keeps the buff up for 20 seconds, it's much more forgiving than the Sigil of the Hanged Man. You can move around a bit more or flub your rotation a bit without having the buff fall, and if it does fall, you 'll get back to full strength almost instantly. Another advantage is that the Sigil of Virulence will only set you back a few Emblems of Triumph, whereas the Sigil of the Hanged Man will cost you Emblems of Frost. Therefore, you may find it worthwhile to keep using the Sigil of Virulence while you spend your frost emblems on tier 10 armor instead.

In short, feel free to stick with the Sigil of Virulence for cheapness and ease of use. Once you've got a few extra Emblems of Frost to spend, however, you can squeeze out a bit more DPS by buying a Sigil of the Hanged Man for use in more stationary battles.

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Hello, guys, welcome to here, World of Warcraft, we will talk about WoW Class Homogenization and the Cat in today's article. If you are interested in WoW, i think maybe you can know more details from this article.

Before the class announcements hit, I had drafted an article on what I would have loved to see Blizzard do for bears, cats and trees in Cataclysm. You've already seen the expanded bear portion, which was published a few days before the druid announcement was made (no one's ever accused me of great timing), but the cat and tree bits have been (as we say) overtaken by events.

We've already looked at the feral information released, so I don't think it's necessary to recap that. However, I'd like to take a closer look at the cat this week, in much the same way that we turned a critical eye to the Tree of Life's impending disappearance. As much as I generally counsel against reading my own work without access to a prescription stimulant or at least hard liquor, you may find the first portion of the Tree article helpful in giving some background on Cataclysm's class goals.

As a TL:DR on our previous feral analysis, seen through the lens of the tree article's conclusion on Blizzard's design intentions:

1. Cat damage is in a good place, druids are happy that it's not a "faceroll" spec, and I think Blizzard is happy with that as well. PvE-wise, I don't think we have a lot to worry about.
2. Many of the changes I saw have more interesting implications for PvP. This is the third expansion in a row where cats are getting more versions of rogue skills, in implicit recognition (I would argue) of the spec's uninspiring arena performance relative to its parent class.

Which leaves us with this week's question: When a spec is literally designed as a copy of a pure class, is a certain amount of class homogenization a good thing? Beware, readers -- arm-waving ahead!

As a general rule, players aren't fond of what's termed "class homogenization," or the duplication of one class' abilities for the benefit of others. Many feel, and not without reason, that this defeats the purpose of having 10 classes in the first place. It's boring to level a class that feels exactly the same as another you've already leveled. In the end game, if Class A can do most of what Class B can do more easily, there's not much reason to bring Class B to a raid, and so on and so forth.

However, the anti-homogenization impulse tends to conflict with players' demands for abilities that are felt to confer a disproportionate advantage to certain classes and specs. Mortal Strike is probably the best example of this. For many years it was the signature ability of the arms warrior -- a consistently successful spec in PvP -- but it was eventually farmed out to hunters during Burning Crusade in an effort to shore up the latter's abysmal performance in arena. For a while, developers even considered giving the ability to shamans -- another class with middling-to-dreadful arena performance -- but eventually nixed the idea. Fortunately, this didn't happen before players were allowed their own, often funny, input on the process ("Is there some sort of Mortal Strike nonproliferation treaty that stops me from having Mortal Strike on my priest?").

In the transition to WoW Wrath, a lot of other signature raid buffs or abilities like Thunder Clap and Replenishment were handed around to different classes, and we're seeing the few holdouts like Sunder Armor scaled back as the game moves on to Cataclysm. While players grumble, I think most have recognized that having to build a group or raid around class- or spec-exclusive buffs is not only a pain in the ass, but it also gives certain classes an uncomfortable amount of influence over the outcome of encounters. In BC, if your hunter was sick, encounters like Void Reaver and Gurtogg Bloodboil were considerably more painful. If your shamans were out for the night, you could forget about pretty much all of Sunwell. Even today, if your warrior doesn't show up, you have no Sunder, and your raid's physical DPS takes a nosedive.

When it comes to "class homogenization," there's a fine line between diluting what makes each class different, fun and exciting, and recognizing that sometimes players need similar tools to deal with PvE and PvP content without being at an unfair disadvantage. What made me want to take a closer look at this as it relates to the cat was an offhand observation in the Tree of Life article concerning RMP teams. Fighting classes who were designed to be the best at what they did is a lot harder than fighting hybrid DPS who can approximate their damage, but not their ability to control a fight. Where PvE's concerned, I think we've reached the point where a good player of any spec or class has a chance to get a raid slot -- and this is certainly true of a gifted cat player -- but I'm not sure that PvP is in the same ballpark, let alone the same universe.

 

The druid's always been in an odd place when it comes to this issue, because one of its defining features is being built around class homogenization:
 

• The bear is a copy of the warrior, with most bear abilities having a direct counterpart in the warrior skill set.
• The cat is a copy of the rogue, with most cat abilities having a direct counterpart in the rogue skill set.
• The moonkin is a somewhat odd hybrid of the mage and warlock ... that used to be able to, uh, melee for mana ... with bear ... armor, that ... okay, moonkin are weird, and they are not necessarily the better for it in arena.
• Restoration is probably the most unique of the four specs in that it was deliberately built around HoT-style healing, a niche that really hasn't been challenged even to this day.

People have occasionally expressed surprise (or pique) at the extent to which "new" druid skills are direct clones or modifications of abilities already given to their pure class counterparts, but it's not really surprising.

If it makes the warrior work, it will probably help the bear. Of course, the opposite is also true (they said, nervously awaiting the results of rage normalization).

If it makes the rogue more effective, it will probably help the cat. Both are melee classes who are fairly fragile in PvP without access to a set of abilities that allows them to control a fight (the rogue) or outlast an opponent (the cat). To a certain extent, I think "hand-me-down" skills from the warrior and rogue are all but inevitable as a result.

PvP is an area in the game where the feral spec has consistently failed to perform well. While you will see fantastically talented feral PvPers out there (and I am still in awe of what players like Azgaz managed to pull off before Wrath), the spec has yet to enjoy the wider success that has embraced our pure-class counterparts, and even the underperforming classes we mentioned earlier (amusingly, the hunter and enhancement shaman seem to have solved a few of each others' arena issues by teaming up to create the dreaded "beast cleave").

The problem with the cat is that it's a copy of a rogue utilizing rogue mechanics without the skills and talents that have allowed the latter to survive situations that aren't favorable to them. The cat inherited the rogue's armor class, combo point system, resource and basic gameplay, but it didn't inherit things like Kick, Preparation, Cloak of Shadows, Blind, Sap, Shadowstep, Dismantle, Vanish or Deadly Throw. For survivability, it's generally assumed that the cat will simply jump into bear form, and to a certain extent that's fine; the feral spec is meant to be played as an amalgam of two animals, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The cat may lack options, but the justification is that the class as a whole doesn't.

But the bear is the solution to problems the rogue would have answered with an ability that allows him/her to exercise control over an opponent -- and the bear doesn't allow you to do this. While the rogue will blow a cooldown in the effort to reset a fight, a cat will shapeshift into a warrior without the warrior's stuns, Mortal Strike or interrupts. Essentially, we are kept busy shifting from a form that lacks the rogue's control over a fight into a form that lacks the warrior's pressure on an opponent. While the addition of Infected Wounds, Feral Charge in cat form, and especially Predator's Swiftness during Wrath has gone a long way toward improving the feral PvP experience, something still feels vaguely off about the cat, as if it's designed to make use of skills that aren't there.

Rogues are now confirmed to be facing the loss of the stun lock in return for more innate survivability in Cataclysm. The ultimate irony of WoW class homogenization may be, not that we need to become more like rogues, but that rogues are becoming more like us.

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Hello, guys, welcome to here, World of Warcraft, we will talk about WoW Class Homogenization and the Cat in today's article. If you are interested in WoW, i think maybe you can know more details from this article.

Before the class announcements hit, I had drafted an article on what I would have loved to see Blizzard do for bears, cats and trees in Cataclysm. You've already seen the expanded bear portion, which was published a few days before the druid announcement was made (no one's ever accused me of great timing), but the cat and tree bits have been (as we say) overtaken by events.

We've already looked at the feral information released, so I don't think it's necessary to recap that. However, I'd like to take a closer look at the cat this week, in much the same way that we turned a critical eye to the Tree of Life's impending disappearance. As much as I generally counsel against reading my own work without access to a prescription stimulant or at least hard liquor, you may find the first portion of the Tree article helpful in giving some background on Cataclysm's class goals.

As a TL:DR on our previous feral analysis, seen through the lens of the tree article's conclusion on Blizzard's design intentions:

1. Cat damage is in a good place, druids are happy that it's not a "faceroll" spec, and I think Blizzard is happy with that as well. PvE-wise, I don't think we have a lot to worry about.
2. Many of the changes I saw have more interesting implications for PvP. This is the third expansion in a row where cats are getting more versions of rogue skills, in implicit recognition (I would argue) of the spec's uninspiring arena performance relative to its parent class.

Which leaves us with this week's question: When a spec is literally designed as a copy of a pure class, is a certain amount of class homogenization a good thing? Beware, readers -- arm-waving ahead!

As a general rule, players aren't fond of what's termed "class homogenization," or the duplication of one class' abilities for the benefit of others. Many feel, and not without reason, that this defeats the purpose of having 10 classes in the first place. It's boring to level a class that feels exactly the same as another you've already leveled. In the end game, if Class A can do most of what Class B can do more easily, there's not much reason to bring Class B to a raid, and so on and so forth.

However, the anti-homogenization impulse tends to conflict with players' demands for abilities that are felt to confer a disproportionate advantage to certain classes and specs. Mortal Strike is probably the best example of this. For many years it was the signature ability of the arms warrior -- a consistently successful spec in PvP -- but it was eventually farmed out to hunters during Burning Crusade in an effort to shore up the latter's abysmal performance in arena. For a while, developers even considered giving the ability to shamans -- another class with middling-to-dreadful arena performance -- but eventually nixed the idea. Fortunately, this didn't happen before players were allowed their own, often funny, input on the process ("Is there some sort of Mortal Strike nonproliferation treaty that stops me from having Mortal Strike on my priest?").

In the transition to WoW Wrath, a lot of other signature raid buffs or abilities like Thunder Clap and Replenishment were handed around to different classes, and we're seeing the few holdouts like Sunder Armor scaled back as the game moves on to Cataclysm. While players grumble, I think most have recognized that having to build a group or raid around class- or spec-exclusive buffs is not only a pain in the ass, but it also gives certain classes an uncomfortable amount of influence over the outcome of encounters. In BC, if your hunter was sick, encounters like Void Reaver and Gurtogg Bloodboil were considerably more painful. If your shamans were out for the night, you could forget about pretty much all of Sunwell. Even today, if your warrior doesn't show up, you have no Sunder, and your raid's physical DPS takes a nosedive.

When it comes to "class homogenization," there's a fine line between diluting what makes each class different, fun and exciting, and recognizing that sometimes players need similar tools to deal with PvE and PvP content without being at an unfair disadvantage. What made me want to take a closer look at this as it relates to the cat was an offhand observation in the Tree of Life article concerning RMP teams. Fighting classes who were designed to be the best at what they did is a lot harder than fighting hybrid DPS who can approximate their damage, but not their ability to control a fight. Where PvE's concerned, I think we've reached the point where a good player of any spec or class has a chance to get a raid slot -- and this is certainly true of a gifted cat player -- but I'm not sure that PvP is in the same ballpark, let alone the same universe.

 

The druid's always been in an odd place when it comes to this issue, because one of its defining features is being built around class homogenization:
 

• The bear is a copy of the warrior, with most bear abilities having a direct counterpart in the warrior skill set.
• The cat is a copy of the rogue, with most cat abilities having a direct counterpart in the rogue skill set.
• The moonkin is a somewhat odd hybrid of the mage and warlock ... that used to be able to, uh, melee for mana ... with bear ... armor, that ... okay, moonkin are weird, and they are not necessarily the better for it in arena.
• Restoration is probably the most unique of the four specs in that it was deliberately built around HoT-style healing, a niche that really hasn't been challenged even to this day.

People have occasionally expressed surprise (or pique) at the extent to which "new" druid skills are direct clones or modifications of abilities already given to their pure class counterparts, but it's not really surprising.

If it makes the warrior work, it will probably help the bear. Of course, the opposite is also true (they said, nervously awaiting the results of rage normalization).

If it makes the rogue more effective, it will probably help the cat. Both are melee classes who are fairly fragile in PvP without access to a set of abilities that allows them to control a fight (the rogue) or outlast an opponent (the cat). To a certain extent, I think "hand-me-down" skills from the warrior and rogue are all but inevitable as a result.

PvP is an area in the game where the feral spec has consistently failed to perform well. While you will see fantastically talented feral PvPers out there (and I am still in awe of what players like Azgaz managed to pull off before Wrath), the spec has yet to enjoy the wider success that has embraced our pure-class counterparts, and even the underperforming classes we mentioned earlier (amusingly, the hunter and enhancement shaman seem to have solved a few of each others' arena issues by teaming up to create the dreaded "beast cleave").

The problem with the cat is that it's a copy of a rogue utilizing rogue mechanics without the skills and talents that have allowed the latter to survive situations that aren't favorable to them. The cat inherited the rogue's armor class, combo point system, resource and basic gameplay, but it didn't inherit things like Kick, Preparation, Cloak of Shadows, Blind, Sap, Shadowstep, Dismantle, Vanish or Deadly Throw. For survivability, it's generally assumed that the cat will simply jump into bear form, and to a certain extent that's fine; the feral spec is meant to be played as an amalgam of two animals, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The cat may lack options, but the justification is that the class as a whole doesn't.

But the bear is the solution to problems the rogue would have answered with an ability that allows him/her to exercise control over an opponent -- and the bear doesn't allow you to do this. While the rogue will blow a cooldown in the effort to reset a fight, a cat will shapeshift into a warrior without the warrior's stuns, Mortal Strike or interrupts. Essentially, we are kept busy shifting from a form that lacks the rogue's control over a fight into a form that lacks the warrior's pressure on an opponent. While the addition of Infected Wounds, Feral Charge in cat form, and especially Predator's Swiftness during Wrath has gone a long way toward improving the feral PvP experience, something still feels vaguely off about the cat, as if it's designed to make use of skills that aren't there.

Rogues are now confirmed to be facing the loss of the stun lock in return for more innate survivability in Cataclysm. The ultimate irony of WoW class homogenization may be, not that we need to become more like rogues, but that rogues are becoming more like us.

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Today this topic is about WoW Warriors, those lovable, squeezable, strokable bundles of pure joy who seethe with a burning inner fire, a rage that can only be quenched in blood. Matthew Rossi tries quenching it in delicious caffeinated beverages. You'd be surprised how often that works. Here you will know about Protection WoW Glyphs, Enchants and Gems.

Amazingly, this week I'm not going to talk about Cataclysm. Back during the 101 guides, I promised to go over glyphs, gems and enchants for the various specs. While a lot is in flux, we're still playing Wrath of the Lich King and not Cataclysm right now, so it's fair that I should finally get off of my duff and talk about these things. This week, we'll loot at gemming, enchanting and glyphing for the protection warrior.

One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of these options come down to your own personal gear level and what you're actually doing in game. Tanking heroic Saurfang-25 takes entirely different skills, gear and glyphs than tanking Halls of Reflection, which takes a different setup than tanking Nexus as a fresh early 70s warrior. We'll cover a variety of glyphs of use to a warrior seeking max survivability, AoE threat, or even special case uses and discuss gems and enchants, as well.

WoW Glyphs

Major glyphs that are most useful as part of a threat glyph set include the Glyph of Blocking, Glyph of Cleaving, Glyph of Devastate, Glyph of Sunder Armor and Glyph of Vigilance. Frankly, the Glyph of Blocking is really only good if your gear is fairly low on block value when using it as a threat glyph, since the changes to block value and Shield Slam. Blocking works as a decent threat glyph when your block value is 1,500 or lower, but above that I wouldn't use it for threat. (It's still useful for mitigation, but in the end, there are probably better choices for you there, too.) Cleaving and Sunder Armor are pure "multi-mob threat" glyphs, and both are fairly solid for that, especially if combined with the Glyph of Devastate so that not only will your Devastate stack two sunders on a target at once, it will also apply sunder to a second target. It does not appear to stack two sunders on two targets, however. As a result, you might prefer Cleaving/Devastate/Vigilance for your threat glyphs.

Glyphed Devastate is a really solid threat generator right now, with Devastate having had its damage output increased recently.

Now, if you end up low on rage for whatever reason while tanking, and only if this is the case, then the Glyph of Revenge and Glyph of Heroic Strike are useful. Frankly, I'm not tanking on a warrior in a situation where I feel like I need the rage, but when I first started tanking and my gear was a lot worse, then this combination of glyphs had absolutely beautiful synergy. Revenge will give you a free HS, and then HS can end up actually giving you rage instead of costing it. But once you're tanking any raid content, these two glyphs will be definitively outperformed by Vigilance/Devastate. Likewise, if your hit is very low (like mine was when TotC/GC was the highest level raid in the game), then the Glyph of Taunt is very useful for fights where taunt-switching is essential. As tanking gear escalates in hit rating (I actually have to work to be below 263 hit rating, for instance), this glyph goes from essential to completely worthless. At 263 hit rating or above, I'd never use it.

The Glyph of Shockwave is very useful if you know you'll be doing a great deal of AoE tanking, possibly alongside Resonating Power and the minor Glyph of Thunder Clap. I personally like either Shockwave/Cleaving/Sunder or Cleaving/Sunder/Devastate for my threat setup, but I don't end up tanking a lot of heroics (and even if I do, I'm not at the gear level those instances were designed for).

For tanking cooldowns (very useful for raid tanking), I find Last Stand and Shield Wall to be very hard to do without if I expect to be taking serious amounts of damage. Tanking heroic Saurfang, for instance, I was very very glad to have a cooldown available every minute. (This is possible since Last Stand glyphed is two minutes, and Shield Wall with Improved Disciplines glyphed is two minutes, so you can use LS and SW once a minute interchangably. Combined with trinkets, you can effectively have Super Last Stand and Super Shield Wall by timing a trinket to use at the same time.)

Minor glyphs that you want to consider as a prot warrior including Thunder Clap (mentioned above), Bloodrage, Charge and Command. I'm personally running Charge, Thunder Clap and Command right now. (Four-piece tier 10 bonus makes the Bloodrage glyph useless, since it not only duplicates the effect but also gives you another tanking cooldown. But if you don't have that yet, Bloodrage is a very useful glyph.) Frankly, with fury warriors in the raid, Battle and Command feel like a little of a waste -- but I'm not really using Mocking Blow enough to want that glyph, either. For someone primarily tanking fives (where you might well be the only warrior), either shout glyph could be a fine choice.

WoW Gems

Gems are actually fairly simple. You gem stamina, with dodge, parry and defense gems used only if you need them to reach targets or to hit set bonuses if you particularly like the bonus on a piece. For instance, if you have a piece of armor with a red socket and a blue socket and a 9 stamina bonus for matching, you can pop in a dodge/stamina gem and only lose 6 stamina compared to using two +30 stamina Solid Majestic Zircons. If you are a JC, you will obviously have access to gems with higher stats, but non-JCs will be confined to the universal epic gems.

Likewise, hit and expertise gems will mostly be used only if you're very low on those stats. You want to at least be fairly sure a taunt will always land, and you want to at least push dodges off of the attack table. If you're at 263 hit rating and 26 expertise, you don't need to gem for either and should either gem for pure stamina or avoidance/mitigation stats if you very much want to hit a set bonus. Frankly, if there were an armor/stamina gem (and yes, technically agi/stam does that), I'd recommend gemming that. I personally prefer agi/stam over dodge or parry/stam, but that's very much a personal choice and at this point, I don't really even do that very often, as my set bonuses are usually not worth it.

So I'd recommend looking at your gear. What are you deficient in? Are you able to be critically hit in the heroics or raids you're running? Gem for defense. Are you woefully low on hit or expertise? Gem for those. Otherwise, stamina is probably your safest bet.

For a meta gem, I almost always use the Austere Earthsiege Diamond, as armor is just that attractive as a stat now. If you're hurting on defense, the Eternal Earthsiege Diamond is a possibility. (It's also useful in gimmick unhittable sets, but so far, thankfully, ICC hasn't really had a fight that relied on one of those.)

WoW Enchants

Enchants aren't just enchants, technically speaking. Leatherworking makes leg armor kits that work as an enchant, and there are shoulder and head enchants sold by various factions. Inscriptionists have access to superior enchants, and if you are a scribe you should be looking at those for your tank. You can only use them on the character with the profession, but they're worth it if you have it. Otherwise, the Sons of Hodir sell the primary tanking shoulder enchant. However, if you feel like you'd rather have stamina over dodge and defense, this level 70 shoulder enchant is still quite good. The Greater Inscription of the Gladiator is a PvP enchant, but 30 stamina is basically a free epic stamina gem at level 80, so if you feel like you would rather have the health than the dodge and defense, it's one to keep in mind.

The standard head enchant, the Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector, actually adds more health than the various PvP enchants, so it's generally superior even without taking the defense on it into account. (Since defense reduces chance to be crit and hit and adds to all forms of avoidance/mitigation, it's almost universally considered superior to resilience for PvE tanking). The Frosthide Leg Armor adds pure stamina and agility (armor and dodge) for a tank's leg slot.

Since most prot warriors take Deep Wounds for threat, Blood Draining is actually a fairly attractive weapon enchant for a tanking warrior. Other options (if you happen to be specced so that your bleed damage is minimal) include Superior Potency and Accuracy. I generally find Blood Draining more useful overall, as it is basically a free smart health potion that can go off more than once during a fight. Even if you spec out of Deep Wounds, Blood Draining is still useful; while it can stack from bleeds, it also stacks from your melee attacks striking an enemy.

For a boot enchant, you can either go with the solid workhorse of pure stamina or get stamina and movement speed, which in today's Aaah ahhagh OMFG the floor is spewing forth death and there's a giant monster about to charge into me which will make him grow 100 times larger and instantly kill half the raid game is pretty attractive. The loss of 7 stamina in return for the ability to move faster when needed is a pretty solid trade for a tank. Meanwhile, for a glove enchant I recommend Armsman, because while attack power or expertise enchants provide static benefits, Armsman scales as your gear and threat improves. For a cape enchant, there's nothing tremendously compelling: you'll go with either 22 agility or Titanweave.

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Hello, friends, welcome to the World of Warcraft, today we are going to talk about the topic of WoW Cataclysm Mount Changes. Here you will know obout something by their question and answer.

During the Twitter Dev Chat, we learned that in Cataclysm, 310% speed flying mounts will be handled differently.

BlizzChat Developer Chat on Twitter 4/16

Q: Do you intend to have all 280% flying mounts scale to 310% when a 310% mount is earned, or will only purchased mounts do so?
A: Our current plan, is that in Cataclysm, you can learn a new rank of flying that lets all flying mounts move at 310% (even current 280% mounts). That will probably be as fast as mounts will ever get. We don't like it that when you get a 310% mount that you stop using your old ones.


Q: If 310% speed is becoming trainable, does that mean we'll be able to fly in Azeroth from the get-go?
A: We have considered the concept of "Old Weather Flying." Just kidding. More than likely, you'll just be able to fly from the beginning.
 

No word yet on if players with current 310% speed mounts will still have to learn this new rank of flying skill or not. Previously, 310% speed mounts were seen as status symbols and prizes to be gained via achievements, PvP, rare drops or so on. Personally, I'm hoping people with 310% speed mounts are at least grandfathered in as it would be annoying otherwise to not even be able to ride your mount once the change went live.

On the up side, at least we'll be able to fly in Azeroth right away instead of having to train yet another rank of flying.

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Welcome, below are the contents that we had a brief interview with Aion Producer Chris “Kinslon” Hager about Two-Handed Armsfusion and the Mist Item Rental system coming to Aion in May with the Aion 1.9 update. Let us check out:

Aquilanius: How does this system differ to the Daily Quest reward rental system?

 Kinslon: The items you receive from the daily quest reward system are rarer and have a wider variety of time limitations (3, 7 and 14 days). For the longer time lengths, it will take a lot more daily quest completions to be able to get these.  The Mist Rental weapons are all 14 day weapons and are available every 5 levels so players can use them at a wide range of levels. Also, they are great for players who want to rent a good weapon to power through a weekend or instance instead of completing several daily quests to get the higher stat weapons or paying potentially a lot more for a weapon they would shortly outgrow.

Aquilanius: What are the limitations of the items?

Kinslon: Items from the Mist rental shop can’t be stored, sold or traded, and will disappear once theirtime has expired.  They also can’t been hanced in any way (enchants, godstone or manastones can’t be added).

Aquilanius: What are the stats and quality of the items? Can you give us a few examples?

Kinslon: The stats and quality of the items range depending on level, but all are of Heroic (blue) level.  The specific stats will vary from level to level, but below is a couple of examples of the Mist items.  It’s important to note that all armor/weaponitems within the same level and type are the same price.  For example, you’ll pay the same amount for alevel 35 Mist cloth Tunic as you would for a level 35 Mist Breastplate.  The same is true for weapons.  (Please note these prices will vary as the influence ratio for each world changes – similar to current item prices on the live servers.)

Aquilanius: How does the Armsfusion and Armsbreaking system work? Which stats are kept after two weapons are fused together?

Kinslon: Before a player performs an Armsfusion, there are a couple of pre-reqs.  The weapons must be the same type (IE 2polearms, 2 two-handed swords, etc). Additionally the ‘main’ two-handed weapon level must be higher or equal to the secondary weapon items level. With all this in mind, once the fusion takes place, the following changes will occur:

·        20% of the secondary weapon’s basic attack power andmagic boost are added to the main weapon (stats lower on secondary weaponaren’t changed)

·        The secondary weapon’s options are added to the main weapon (in the event that both weapons have the same stats like attack speed,casting speed, etc only the higher value is applied)

·        All manastone slots from the secondary weapon are added to the primary weapon (as are any manastones currently equipped on the secondary weapon)

Aquilanius: What happens to the existing manastones and godstones on the weapon after the transformation?

Kinslon: Manastones are kept for both weapons.  In the case of the secondary weapon, if manastones are equipped they are transferred over to the main weapon.  Also, when you add manastones or god stones to a weapon that has already been fused, you can pick which weapon you want to socket the stones to (primary or secondary). Godstoneswill always be added to the primary weapon. Once the weapon is broken apart, it will still be attached to the mainweapon.  Enchant stones will function thesame way as godstones do, where they will be added to the primary weapon only,and will remain on the primary weapon after the weapon has been broken down.

Aquilanius: Can I revert the process? If so, what happens if I want to use the base weapon again but with a different weapon, what happens to the initial 2nd weapon?

Kinslon: The secondary weapon is destroyed in the armsfusion process. You can undo the fusion and return the main weapon back to the way it was before, but you will lose the secondary weapon in the process.  Undoing the process will allow you to redo the process with another secondary weapon of the same type if you choose.

Aquilanius: Are there any limitations to the weapons that can utilize the Armsfusion system?

Kinslon: Thereare some weapons that, although they fit into the 2 handed category, will notbe combinable with other weapons.  Theseweapons include Mist items, timed daily quest reward items, and skin changeitems.  Aside from that as long as thegoverning rules for the two weapons being fused are met, combine at will!

 Aquilanius: Thanks Kinslon! We’re allout of time, but next week we can discuss Energy of Salvation and the new stats being added. Cheerio for now!

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