In the latest Beta Patch Blizzard buffed the crafteable Bind on Pickup Weapons. They look really nice now, especially for Hammersmiths or Macerogues. Dragonstrike, Dragonmaw and Drakefist Hammer are important Weapons:
Burning Crusade Beta: Some more items from the TBC Beta
We did the first 2 Instances of the Hellfire Citadel. The atmosphere was pretty nice, the instances not very hard and the loot was decent.
Shifting Sash, Blood Etched Shoulders, Bloodstained Ravager Gauntlets, Auslese Light Channeler
Some Questrewards for killing Bosses in first intance:
Perfectly Balanced cape, Sure-Step Boots
Also I checked the Rogue Trainer in Stormwind, who was selling Eviscerate 9 and Deadly Poison 5 – those can currently only be trained from books that drop in instances. So its nice to know that You do not need to buy those overpriced books if You have patience to wait for release of Burning Crusade.
Burning Crusade Beta: Melee Token Turn In Rewards (Hard Mode)
The Scenery of Burning Crusade is really nice and different from the current environment. Take a loot at Zangamarsh here.
I also frapsed a Video that will give You some impressions from the Look and Feel of Burning Crusade. Its currently 16Gb of Data that I still need to cut together.
Since everybody in general chat seemed to imply that Shattrath City is THE place to go, I decided to make a little Trip. There are portals to every major City and its the perfect Heartstone location.
It is a real big place with several Levels of elevation. There was a central area, an area that made me think of the Slum part up to the higher Levels of the Aldor and the Scryer with thei futuristic looking Mechbots guarding the entrances.
I also found the Token Turn In NPC for Hard Dungeons. Here is a series of Melee rewards starting with an Offhand Dagger. More Melee rewards can be found by navigating.
To be honest I amnot really impressed with it … You seem to need 15 BoP Items to be able to turn them into an reward. I did not find any other weapons, or Tier IV set, yet.
Enchants like the one from Sapphiron (1% crit + some Attackpower) can be bought from the Quartermaster from different factions.
Even though its well designed, the navigation in the city seems rather complicated, due to the different level of elevation. Of course the Guards did not give hints to where trainers are and when I finally found the flight point I was really happy to find out that I did not know any connected flightpoint. So if You plan on riding there, stop by at some outposts first.
The other thing I noticed was thousand of new factions. I do not know if there will be an extensive grind to it, or if raising one faction will drop the other, but my decission to reroll a human Rogue might not be that bad after all 😉
Take a look at the Screenshots above or here in my Screenshot section and stay tuned for a small Video.
Burning Crusade: A mace rogues dreamweapons.
I just found the mainhands maces I need to get in BC. Apparently those maces are Hammersmiths only, but with the very uninteresting and dissapointing Engineering updates this might actually become an option after all 😉
Hand of Fate: BoP, Mainhand, 173-321 Damage, 2.80 Speed, 88 DPS
Hammer of Destiny: BoP, Mainhand, 159-296 Damage, 2.80 Speed, 81,2 DPS
Burning Crusade: Rogue Feedback
Ommra has posted some interesting Information in the World of Warcraft Forum concerning Rogues. You can read the article here.
It is about redesign of Rogue Talents, effects of increase stamina and crit damage reduction and certain skills and talents. Finally we got information on thrown weapons.
„The mechanic of thrown weapons is being changed in the expansion to be similar to a normal weapon. Once a stack is used it will remain in your inventory and can then be repaired to refill the stack, similar to repairing broken armor or weapons. This allows us to put stats on thrown weapons and itemize them as we would any other weapon.“Â
Burning Crusade: OMG!! Arena Reward Weapons leaked 111!!!1!!
RPG Beacon published the new Arena Weapon Rewards. Just look at them and wonder how much damage You must be able to do.
Damn what kind of damage will a fistweapon build with 321 Max damage cause … its almost the double damage of my current weapons and the extra crit from the fist weapon talents must make this an awesome alternative to the 0/8/15 Dagger/Sword Rogues.
As usually I linked only Rogue reward weapons, excpet maces. Click here to see other weapons.
Burning Crusade: Talent Changes
In addition to the introduction of druid talents a post on the official World of Warcraft forums indicated some changes to talents of other classes. I have listed the changes to Rogue talents below. Check this link for changes to the other classes.
Rogue:
Assassination
- Remorseless Attacks – Added Mutilate to the list of affected abilities.
- Mutilate – Description changed: “Instantly attacks with both weapons for an additional 44 damage with each weapon. Damage is increased by 50% against Poisoned targets. Must be behind the target. Awards 2 combo points.”
Combat
- Surprise Attacks – Added Shiv to the list of affected abilities. Now damage caused by the affected abilities is also increased by 5%.
Burning Crusade Talents and Spells revealed!
Blizzard has now published previews on the new spells, talent trees for level 60 – 70 and even included talent calculators on the Official Burning Crusade Website. You can find the new Rogue Talents and Spells here.
Rogues get a ranged-thrown-weapon-slow-and-finisher, a silence opener, evasion will also work for ranged attacks and shiv, an attack to apply poison from your offhand weapon.
Mages, Warriors, Paladins, Shamans, Warlocks and Warrior Talents can be found here as well.
There is no information yet on druids, hunters and priests.
(Fake?) Leaked Rogue talents for Burning Crusade
Apparently someone created most likely a fake, but nevertheless interesting to look at, Rogue talent tree for Burning Crusade. I love the stamina buff for combat Rogues as it would totally fit my playstyle. But unless its posted by Blizzard do not trust these kinds „leaked“ Information.
World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.12.0 Notes
Today the new patch 1.12.0 is being applied to European Realms. It can already be downloaded. I have included the html patch notes for you.
Drums of War:
- Cross-Realm Battlegrounds
- World PvP
- Rogue Review
Read all details here: Patch Notes
Do not forget: „Never play on Patch days!“