'A: The Sunwell would be an awesome idea an unconfirmed confirmation that the Sunwell will be the new raid content before WoLK "


That would be how it's looking, yes.

5v5 starting on the giga stream.

Itemrack where it doesn't take up bag space. $$

A few big things they said.

They are working on a itemrack type thing built into the UI but also have it provide extra space as well, a la Diablo with multiple gearsets.

They want to build threat meters into the game.

They want to build some sort of boss mods into the game.

They said they want to "do something about" fear ward.

Fix for fear ward for horde :P

Holy crap they're putting a threat meter into the default UI?

w00t!

Speculation on tanking in WotLC:

They say that the DK tanks by dual wielding or 2h sword but doesn't use a shield. To me this means one of three things.

A: Crushing Blows are being revised in the new expansion.
B: Death Knights get a special "shieldblock-esque" ability that doesn't require a shield. (Hokey)
C: Death Knights get severely boned in the tanking department vs bosses, and to try and rebalance either A or B occurs.

My guess is it's likely to be A or C. I wouldn't be surprised if come the expansion they take out CBs from bosses altogether. Or else they may change shield block to be a straight up absorb. But my guess is the mechanic will be changed, since it's counterintuitive and hard to balance around.

"What is a queue?"

Dear jesus...

His accent is HORRIBLE.

Think of the assassin in D2, she had an ability to block with dual weapons, no doubt there will be something like that for the DK.

Oh I'm so glad the guy who did the Leory video is MCing... It's so much better than the CBS Sports crap :P

So who is the guy talking who's never played wow before?

Anyone know why? I really don't see how you can get disqualified from a WoW tournament.

An unimportant guy from GiGA.de - who does the stream and reporting.

German dude from giga, who are doing the webcast. He's usually donig starcraft,wc3 commentatory I think. Dunno why they are doing this, kinda useless.
At least the quality is MUCH better then from the euro qualifier. And the hp bars for everyone rock.

It's possible that he's Canadian, IIRC Canucks can't participate in tourneys with cash prizes for online games which require a subscription, as it's construed as online gambling? Also, Noktyn's blog on gameriot said that he expected to lose harshly because they don't have their priest, so that's no surprise really that they lost to Warders.

I sure am glad this thread is filling up with useful information and not random commentary that could take place in IRC.

Nothing left for today sadly... R & D panel is over, but I'll refrain from continuing to derail the topic.

Off-topic, non-WoW conversations cost $10. Otherwise, wait for more info or comment on what's already out.

On that note, what do people think about this comment? Maybe my memory's flawed, but I seem to recall comments from Blizzard in the past indicating that they never intended to reveal true threat information to the players. Good approximations were one thing, but the true values were another. Is this a change in their position on the matter, or is Omen/Threat so good now that a Blizzard threat meter will be virtually identical anyway?

Probably same reason they added a cast bar. People who used castbar mods used them had an "unfair" advantage over those who didn't.

Well, they started the SC II panel. Can we talk about that at all (outside the benefactors bar)?

EDIT: Aww, back to the Giga loser.