The other day, I was explaining to some friends in the game that the current dungeon daily quests will be replaced by the random dungeon feature of the new Dungeon Finder LFG tool coming out in patch 3.3. One of them reacted with something like this, “Oh no I have to do PuG’s now?” I think this shows that a lot of people equate anything that has something to do with LFG with PuG’s. While it’s true that this tool will make PuG’s easier to do with the cross-realm feature and the rewards for using the Dungeon Finder, it’s not …read more

The more the PTR reveals about the upcoming patch 3.3, the more it feels like the patch is really getting closer. We still don’t know exactly when it’s coming out so we’ll have to settle for the latest bit of info that just popped up. MMO Champion was able to get hold of more details about things we already know are coming out but don’t know specifics of. We know that the Quel’delar is coming out, an epic weapon involving a en epic quest chain from 5 man dungeons. We know that we’ll be getting more loot from the next …read more

The other day I mentioned that Blizzard really has been going aggressive with releasing non combat pets into the game. Their latest release is from the Blizzard Pet Store where they offered players two new and cool pets, Lil K.T. and the Pandaren Monk. This is after offering players Mr. Chilly for the battle.net conversion and announcing the Perky Pug pet from the patch 3.3 LFG system. But that’s not the end of it. Apparently we’ll be seeing two even newer non combat pets in patch 3.3 and the best part is that everyone willing to spend a small …read more

We’ve been talking quite a bit about the new LFG system that will be in place when patch 3.3 comes out. Basically it’s a new tool that will allow players a few more features other than simply finding other people to run dungeons with. You’ll be able to do dungeons with other players from different servers in your battlegroup. You’ll also be able to do random dungeons for both normal and heroic difficulty and get rewarded for it. The more random the make up of your group is, the better your reward.

I can see more reason for players to do …read more

Data mining the game files every time a patch is in the PTR is a great way to find out cool things Blizzard has in store for us. It’s the way we got a hint that Worgen and Goblins were the new races for the next expansion. MMO Champion has been doing this for as long as I can remember and they have another surprise for us.
MMO Champion was able to uncover a new character model called the Lava Man which can be seen by following this link. It looks like a stony looking character wearing some pieces of plate …read more

For all of vanilla WoW, shaman totems looked the same no matter what race you were. Of course back then the class was restricted to the Horde so it wasn’t much of a big deal. I think it’s when the shaman class opened up to the Alliance faction, specifically for the Draenei race, that things started to change. They got a different totem art while the Horde races still had the same totem art for the whole faction. You could write it off as “a faction thing” at least until now.

Patch 3.3 is going to see changes in the totem …read more

A few days ago I wrote about the leaked information posted by MMO Champion about the supposed next expansion for World of Warcraft called Cataclysm. In my post the other day, I focused more on the news that new race/class combinations will be made available such as the Dwarf Shaman, Gnome Priest and the Tauren Paladin, Orc Mage and others. I wrote about how this piece of news could go either way in being true or false, considering how mind boggling the decision is but also could be true because of clues in the form of quests that already or …read more

If you thought the rumor about Goblins and Worgen as new playable races huge news, that’s nothing compared to the stuff that’s written in MMO Champion right now. It’s a veritable gold mine of leaked information that has been data mined about the supposed next expansion, Cataclysm. Now the whole thing could pass for bogus information especially when you read about some of the far out stuff but then some of it actually looks like something Blizzard could do to the jury is still out. We’ll just have to wait on Blizzard’s announcement which could come soon since Blizzcon is …read more

Patch 3.2 will bring us the Crusader’s Coliseum and with it a new tier of gear for all players. According to the PTR patch notes, the new emblem gear will be purchasable by the new emblem type Emblem of Triumph which drops off the Coliseum raid bosses (and I guess the upcoming new boss in Vault of Archavon). But here’s where things get interesting. unlike the other emblem types, the Emblem of Triumph will also be a reward for doing the normal and heroic dungeon daily quests!
This move is quite creative in my opinion because it gives players a certain …read more

The upcoming patch 3.2 is filled with a lot of cool content and features as it is and we’re finding out quite a bit more from the PTR. A few days ago we learned about the feature that will allow us to trade BoP items to other eligible players for a duration of time. Now we find out, again through MMO-Champion, that we’ll be able to extend the lockout period of our raids by one more week if needed.
As we all know, raids currently have a lockout period of one week where the raid timer resets every Tuesday. This means …read more