Okay so it’s pretty obvious that I’ve left this section of 60FPS totally dead but I haven’t been playing WoW for quite a while now. Regardless when the expansion finally does come out I do plan on giving it a go.

For all you number crunchers out there here’s the most up to date Talent Calculator from WoWHead for Cataclysm.

Cheers.

As always I keep my eyes on WoWHead to find out if they updated their PTR site with the next talent calculator for the next patch, and this isn’t just a patch, this is THE PATCH. Read the rest of this entry »

As always, WoWHead keeps us up to date with the latest items and tools for all our WoW needs. For all of you who are dying to start coming up with new speccs for some of the classes (Death Knights mostly have gotten there talent trees hacked again, big surprise!). Read the rest of this entry »

After almost 5 months since the release of Wrath of the Lich King the first real content patch finally has gone live and with it all our fears and hopes collide as everyone scrambles to try to get onto their respective servers. I’m not going to delve much into the details about errors and issues this patch has but I will say that so far it doesn’t seem to be as bad as Patch 3.08 considering the sheer amount of content that’s in this one. For the most part the few bugs I’ve encontered so far haven’t been too grim although there’s one issue with the new dual talent system and talent windows that I find amusing. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest PTR build came out a couple days ago and WoWHead updated their talent calculator according to the newest changes. Besides a few icon errors it’s displaying all the talents properly and in the correct tier positions. One notable change to the latest 3.1.0 Patch Notes totally hit me in the face was that they decided to move Master of Ghouls back up to tier 6 instead of 4 (so it’s back to where it was). So all that theorycrafting I was coming up with for a possible 51-2-18 build is gone out the window. Read the rest of this entry »

I know, I know, I’m a horrible blogger! Once again I’ve taken another sabatical from blogging and without any warning either. FAIL! Well once again another week has gone by and the much awaited patch 3.1.0 hasn’t been released yet. In my last post I went over the basics on Death Knight presences and when/how to use them. As some of you may or may not know Death Knight presence talents are being revamped. Currently each talent tree has a 2 point talent which applies an aura that gives affects similar to the Death Knight’s presence to the rest of the group/raid. They’re each a tier 7 talent in their respective talent tree: Blood Aura, Frost Aura, and Unholy Aura. Read the rest of this entry »

As we all should know, shamans are a hybrid class, and as such are a renaissance class capable of doing a little bit of everything. Powerful healers and damage dealers their only difference from the other 2 hybrid classes (druid and paladin) they can’t tank. The most important thing to keep in mind when alocating your talents is to know exactly what we want to do, whether it be healing (Restoration), melee damage (Enhancement), or mastery over the elements (Elemental); although it is also possible to construct a “hybrid” build which allows us to do a little bit of everything but poorly.

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Patch 3.1.O-Rama at WoWHead

The boys over at WoWHead.com have recently released a calculator with all the Patch 3.1 changes done so far on the PTR realms. Some of the classes have been changed very little others (such as Death Knights) have had trees rearranged almost completely. Frost has been turned upside-down practically and as I feared the 0/32/39 Dual Wield specc for Death Knights will be gone forever. Paladins lost their Blessing of Kings in protection as it is becoming a base ability and are left with a very naked Tier 1 in their Protection Tree. Read the rest of this entry »

(Insert Doctor Who or Twilight Zone music here)

For all of you who haven’t checked out the 3.1.0 patch notes that Blizzard has revealed, please do so now. There are quite a few upcoming class changes that are very easily going to turn the PvE and especially the PvP scenes upside down. I’m not going to get into all the nitty gritty details in this post because like all test realm patch notes they’re not definitive yet but I feel the need to discuss the changes that have been going on and what will happen to Death Knights, Blizzard’s experimental monstrosity. Read the rest of this entry »