Remember [Blacksting Gloves] as gloves that you got at 60 and wore until you got level 70 blues?

Seems they didn't like that and made green armour have 3 stats and green weapons 2 stats (in addition to the DPS/FAP/SPower "stat") at most.
Blue items seem to have 3-4 stats to spread their budget.


Feels a bit awkward with quest greens having either no stamina, intellect or no haste/hit/crit rating.
Healing gear with spell power and regen (spi or mp5) have can only have either no stamina or no intellect.
Physical classes have only stamina as non-DPS stat to cater.


That does however have the advantage of forcing people into group quests / instances for blues, which I think is nice.

Has anyone noticed there isnt an achievement for 40-man KT kill, which would indicate that the achievements are not retroactive.

From just yesterday:

But if they aren't retroactive, what's the point of having achievements for all the other old raid bosses, instances from the Deadmines and up, heroic instances and such? There's not much achievement at all in zerging all the old content after 3.0 hits. The points they award also seem rather lopsided towards PvP, killing Illidan and winning one arena match both give 5 points. Though the points don't appear to do anything, so it's not much of a problem.

Feats of Strength don't include stuff like 40-man KT kills, and no pre-BC or even BC boss kills are registered on your character to automatically gain achievement credit. As an example of Feats of Strength, I have one each for owning WoW and BC Collector's Editions, and one each for being a Hand of A'dal and Champion of the Naaru.

It could be that they aren't fully implemented yet, which would make sense.

Death Knight gameplay available here:

Wrath of the Lich King - Death Knight - Videos

Either they have tuned up health regeneration on beta to get higher level Death Knights more quickly, or Death Knight health regeneration needs a serious nerf. Mowing down Anderhol of all places with zero downtime and about as much movement on the health bar is crazy.

The hunter pet tree talents are over at Mania's Arcania.

That seems to be a Blood Death Knight, those have an absolutely crazy amount of self-heal talents. The killing speed is pretty high too.

I had a feeling that it would be like this. Probably based on quests and stuff that's character-permanent(i.e. titles, PvP rank, etc.).

I wonder if there will be one for completing the endboss kill quests, like for Zul'Jin, Hakkar, etc.

This doesn't seem to be the case. Over at mmo-champion, they have stuff like killed Nefarian and such.

I'd guess that it takes the Blizzard data warehouse a good long time to process all the events of the last few years to see who's killed each boss. I'd guess that they go through all the data as few times as possible and extract as much during that one pass as they can. (Anyone want to guess how much data this involves?)

That means that someone else in beta might have the KT feat of strength already. I'd guess that you'll get it eventually.

On the actual beta realm the achievements are up, all of the old raiding achievements for BC/Classic are greyed out for me. So we have to go back and do them once achievements are put in the game.

You start playing a dk in plaguelands at lvl 57, it's already quite high for andorhal, half the mobs are green. Add to that a lot of self regen on blood talents and you definitely grind without ever stopping. Not much more impressive than a feral druid though, imp lotp and rejuv when needed, faster moving speed and insane killing speed with mangle. My DK can definitely grind fast though, killing speed is pretty decent for a melee class because of all the spells offsetting the miss/dodges. There might be some nerfing on the amount of healing though, with everything you do regen much more than what you can lose. Sadly a lot of that regen is from killing mobs, so it wouldn't translate in that much group healing with the aura in raids.

Tuskarrmageddon - Mindlessly slaughter 1,000,000 Tuskarr. Reward: Baby Seal Club

Blizzard is getting a call from PETA for this one.

Anyway, there is most assuredly achievements for killing old raid bosses, as seen on MMOC. Oddly though they aren't Feats of Strength, so it could be possible to say 5 man Nef and still get the achievement.

EDIT: There are also some cool "max crit/hit" things in there, sort of like a build in Critline. Very nice.

Has there been any kind of information as to whether the boss debuff cap is being raised in WoTLK? All of these new abilities that classes are being given (Seemingly for the glory of synergy) are going to fill the seemingly fixed-size boss debuff collection/array/linked list/whatever very quickly. I'm sure Blizzard's programmers are aware of this fact, but I thought it interesting.

Interesting blue info regarding the proposed new official addons (threat meters, etc.):

I'm not seeing the need for a Forbearance here. The duration is 12 seconds, the CD is 2 minutes. It'd take ten Paladins to keep it up 100% of the time. The average raid is more likely to have at most two or three available to use HoS, depending on whether the raid has a Paladin tank. All in all that comes to a 4-6% overall damage reduction on a tank, and the cost is having a non-tank take a significant amount of damage. If you're saving the tank enough damage to make it worthwhile, the healers will have to give as much attention to the Sacrifice as they would have done to the tank.

Depends on how good the Baby Seal Club is, how many quests target Tuskarr overall, how fast they respawn, and how good the drops are from those mobs. Depending on these factors, killing a million of them might just be impossible before the next expansion.

I suspect they are some sort of incredibly weak mob (like a bombing run quest or the weak adds in the Broken village in Nagrand). Still, 1,000,000 is a pretty huge number.

level from 70 to 80 purely grinding tuskarr? That, or just make a decent sized raid and camp evert tuskarr spawn point for a few days.

ither way, sucks to be tuskarr.

If you kill a tuskarr every 10 seconds, it will take you 115 days of continuous grinding to kill 1,000,000. There has to be something we're missing, here. Even killing 1 tuskarr per second is still 11 days /played, or about the time it takes to level a character from level 1 to 80. That's not dedication, that's straight-up madness.

Either there's going to be some way to slaughter dozens of them per second, or no one at Blizzard has done the math.