If you’ve been checking the official forums frequently over the years, you probably would have encountered several threads about rogues complaining about their Vanish ability being broken and that it should be fixed. This isn’t just pointless complaining as even Blizzard acknowledged that it isn’t working properly. Vanish has had several improvements over the years but never truly has been fixed. As it is now Vanish is on a three minute cooldown and instantly puts the rogue into an improved stealth while also removing movement impairing effects. That’s all fine and dandy… if it works all the time.
Ghostcrawler mentioned that …read more

We’re down to our last two class Q&A’s and it’s time for the rogue class to have the spotlight. As you know these class q&a’s are really more for knowing what the development team has in mind for the classes going forward especially in terms of design philosophy. You can see the whole Rogue Q&A here. As usual it’s Ghostcrawler giving the answers.
Rogues used to be the the class with the best dps but now Blizzard has been pushing them into being more normal and having some utility instead.
Blizzard is very happy with the combo point/finisher system that rogues use. …read more

MMO Champion tells of a patch 3.09 that could be coming out this week. Since I haven’t tried checking the PTR or even if it’s up at all and the PTR forum is currently out for me, I can’t really check if this is really true. There isn’t even a patch 3.09 PTR notes so that makes the situation a bit worse. In any case, there’s something out there and it’s going to change a few things, even glyphs. Some of the change entries I’ve seen before as legit changes for the future so that might lend some credence to …read more

Yesterday, I wrote about the announcement for class changes that are coming for patch 3.1. Ghostcrawler mentioned that they were working on a few things and that they would announce said changes soon. Now when Blizzard uses the word “soon” it actually usually takes a while so I’m very surprised that some of the changes are announced already. this must be the fastest “soon” ever.
According to CM Eyonix, they’ll be announcing the class changes in a three part series. This first one happens to be for priests, rogues and shamans. The changes are listed below and are subject to change …read more

I’m not really familiar with the exact classes that sit at the top of the DPS meters right now but I guess that really varies from case to case and who you run with. I know Death Knights are up there and i guess Ret Pallies, Warlocks, and Mages are also frequent chart toppers. But it seems like certain specs of certain classes aren’t doing so well in their dps output and Blizzard has taken notice. Blizzard is currently monitoring how the classes are doing so that they can potentially make some changes to help boost the output of those …read more

A few hours ago, I made a comment in guild chat about how sad it is that I got a froststeel lockbox but there aren’t any rogues in the guild who could open it. I belong to a medium sized casual raiding guild and we don’t have a single level 80 rogue. In fact it seems like we don’t have anyone anymore who’s main character is a rogue. Before WoTLK came out, my guild had pretty much only one rogue main but now even he rerolled as a death knight. I never thought I’d see the day I’d actually say …read more

Update: WoTLK Hunter and Paladin talents are out as well! Click here
Our friendly neighborhood WoW database Wowhead has been providing players with pretty much everything a player needs from quest information, loot information, maps, addon update info and even talent tree calculators and their very own forum. The latest Wowhead has for us are the talent calculators for each class (except hunters and paladins for now) from the Wrath of the Lich King Alpha.
Word about such talents especially the Death Knight ones have been circulating for some time now and finally we can see what Blizzard has in …read more

The World Wide Invitation has just ended recently, giving us players more information to digest about the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Most interesting to me are the class changes the developers have planned for all of us. I’m going to comment on some that I feel like eye popping or even just cool below. You can see all the changes that were released at World Of Raids.
Death Knight
Well it’s not a change since these guys will be new. But anyway, as stated before all races can be DK’s. No matter what talent tree they specialize in, the DK …read more

While are many people with level 70’s out there especially since the TBC expansion has been out for more than a year already, I’m sure there are lots of people who don’t or at least just did and don’t exactly know what to do. I was sitting around in Shattrath City earlier when someone asked the exact thing in trade chat, hinting that there might be a lot of people out there like this guy who don’t know what to do when you first hit 70. So what exactly do you do? After allocating your last remaining talent point an …read more

As a mage, I always have to remember to stock up on arcane powders for y arcane brilliance spell and runes of teleportation and portals to teleport myself and other people to the different major cities. I always remember to check if my stock of these things are fine. But I always dread the day I forget to do it. But even if I forget, the consequences aren’t that bad since they aren’t crucial to anything I do in combat. Snlper from Ysondre server wrote a complain about the blind and vanish abilities of rogues still needing reagents:
Really, why? Isn’t …read more