Heirlooms are such great things for leveling alts because it does two cool things. It scales with your level so need not constantly find a replacement for the slot that you’re using an heirloom on. But more importantly it gives XP bonuses for your character while leveling up and the effect stacks with other heirlooms. If you have an alt you’re seriously leveling and you have some spare emblems lying around, it should be a worthwhile investment.
Right now the heirlooms state that they increase the experience gained from killing monsters and from completing quests. So it’s actually not that surprising …read more

As usual it’s not too surprising for me to miss out on something especially when it comes to patch notes and additions to the PTR. But at least now I caught it early enough, since the PTR is still up. Patch 3.2.2 is looking like a pretty good patch especially considering it’s a minor patch ushering in the Onyxia revamp, which is something you’d probably see in a major content patch rather than a minor one.
The entry that I saw only now is something concerning lowbies and the Battleground daily quests. I’m not a big fan of PvP and most …read more

There’s some talk right now in the forums about a system for Measured Battlegrounds because Blue poster Crygil admitted it’s something the development team is working on. As usual they don’t have a time table for this feature, which means that it would probably be a while before we can see it.
What is Measured Battlegrounds? I’m actually not sure exactly what it is but I seem to have an idea based on the discussion going on in the forums.I guess the vagueness also comes from the fact that we don’t have a system in place to define it. This is …read more

Blizzard recently released a Battlegrounds Q&A where the Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton talks about some of the things the development team has in mind for the future. The two main discussion points involve Battlegrounds and participation during the leveling process and the upcoming Battleground, Isle of Conquest.
The big thing that’s coming in patch 3.2 concerning Battlegrounds is that they’re going to make experience gain in battlegrounds available. This way players can do some leveling up by doing just battlegrounds, although at a slower rate than if you were to go out and quest. Experience gain will be not be …read more

For all those people who love to do Battlegrounds while playing World of Warcraft, CM Zarhym has some good news to tell us all. This news concerns the latest battleground in the game (at least until patch 3.2) Strand of the Ancients. The “coin toss” at the start of every fight to determine who starts out on defense on who’s on offense will correctly be implemented in patch 3.2.
Blizzard has said that they really intended Strand of the Ancients to make sides random but what they did just caused some bugs so they fixed it at Alliance starting out on …read more

I just noticed that CM Eyonix posted a poll a few days ago asking players what their favorite PvP battleground is. Exactly what Blizzard will do with this feedback is still unclear. Maybe this feedback will help them in designing future battlegrounds for future content. Or maybe they’ll use this info to see if they can improve on any of the current ones. or maybe they’re just curious for the heck of it!
In my case, I still haven’t tried Strand of the Ancients so I can’t comment on that. Making my judgment based on the other BG’s, I’d have to …read more

Like I said before, I’m not really a big fan of PvP. That’s one of the main reasons why I decided to roll on a PvE server and stuck with it. I’m still open to doing the occasional world PvP and battlegrounds but only when I feel like it. For WoTLK, I haven’t felt like it even until now.
The past few days I’ve been wondering about a problem my mage has been having. He got flagged the other day and while I’m not totally sure how, it might have been when I dueled a friend. Anyway, for the past few …read more

I’m not a big PvP fan and in fact, except for one or two times checking out Wintergrasp, I actually haven’t done any PvP at all since the Wrath of the Lich King expansion came out. Nevertheless, something PvP related caught my attention just a few minutes ago after reading one of CM Zarhym’s responses in the official forums.
Zarhym was talking about how they never really expected Arenas to become the more central focus of PvP for players and also how BG’s, unlike Arenas, aren’t really a good measure of PvP skill. He’s quite right since you can get great …read more

There’s an outburst in the druid community now because the class is getting some nerfs in patch 3.1. One of them is the change to the feral talent Heart of the Wild where at max rank, the stamina bonus it gives will be reduced from a 20% increase to just a 10% increase. According to Ghostcrawler, this is part of their effort to make all tanks’ HP pools closer together but of course a nerf is a nerf and this sucks for bear tanks.
The next change is the one to the resto spell lifebloom, the resto druid’s best friend …read more

In the latest PTR patch notes for patch 3.08, balance druids got the news that their talent Celestial Focus will no longer work with Starfall. As always you can see the latest PTR patch notes here.
I play a balance druid right now but only to get to 80 faster then I’ll be switching to Restoration. But I do know that that the stuns this talent brings can be pretty useful in PvP, especially with Starfall since you have so many stars amounting to potential stuns. I haven’t done any PvP on my druid and I don’t really intend to so …read more