Low level quest tracking has been implemented:

Further attempts at documentation of the hair styles, or what were in theory the hairstyles:

Female: Resto4Life Blog Archive Wrath of the Lich King Female Hairstyles Preview!
Male: http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/07/31...-and-lichness/

I've seen some pictures of the new death knight appearance stuff but not an indication of whether there are several skin/hair/eye colors or just one stock one. Like I don't think I've seen anyone but Tauren with grey hair (the tauren had blue hair)

How does this interact with Pushback protection talents/abilities? Is a hit that would've counted as a "first hit" ignored only as pushback, but counted as a "first hit" - leaving us with almost a 50% chance of no-pushback at all with 70% resistance - or does it hold the counting of the first hit until a hit gets by the pushback protection?

There's about three or so different new faces and skin tones (typically a "frosty white", "corpsey grey/green", and "darkly decomposed") for the death knights, and each has three or four or so hair colors. Can mix and match the new skin tones and old faces (although the latter are generally bugged and show old skin tones), but currently not vice versa. You do have to choose from the new hair colors; generally a light grey, very pale blonde, or dark blue. Some races have additional hair colors; dwarves have a very pale red, night elves have greens and purples, and so on.

Currently no new skins/faces for Forsaken death knights though. Not sure if this is due to it being incomplete (you can't select facial options currently with troll and tauren DKs, a few hairstyles have missing polygons, and so on) or because forsaken are just dead enough already.

I am sorry if this is common knowledge, but..

The new shield Naxxramas Tank Shield - World of Raids Gallery (Naxx badge reward it says) is probably ilvl ~180.

Used calculation of:

Epic shield armor value = ilvl*40.70 + 191
Or ilvl epic shield = (armor value - 191)/40.70

Edit: only shield that didn't follow my formula was The Green Tower. Rest of epic shields do perfectly, so I am quite confident this formula is quite sound Only thing that is a bit strange is that the new shield should really have had 7517 armor, not 7530.

Wowhead gives a listed item level of 200 for the 3 crafted epic maces (1H DPS is borked though), the 6 plate epics and both Naxxramas shields.

Armour values for items past ilvl 115 have been pretty wonky.

Are the old hair styles still available or are these just the new ones? Because I think I prefer my current hairstyles.

Finally, this will make reputation grinding by doing low level quests that much easier. A much needed change.

Given that the "all epics" achievement wants players to have an average ilvl of 213, I believe, I doubt that Naxx loot wouldn't fulfill this criteria.

Low-end badge vendor loot then?

Based on the armor value (which as said has been constant throughout WoW and TBC with formulae posted above) these shields are approximately ilvl 180. If they are ilvl 213 then they significantly nerfed the amount of armor a certain ilvl gives to a shield.

That is certainly possible. But I posted it to maybe get an idea of what kind of ilvls we can expect early on.

I think a jump from 164 (Kil'Jaeden) to 180 (early badge rewards) is not at all unreasonable, myself.

Remember: Kel'Thuzad loot was 89-92, early badge loot (and Karazhan after a buff) was 110-115.

This is somewhat interesting, it has two different + ap mods and armour penetration rating. Does anyone know whether these recipies are datamined or linked from the beta servers?

I've seen someone link them ingame, so I guess they're avail/accessible ingame via the trainer at least, since iirc they prevented linking stuff that doesn't exist. Not sure if thye made saronite smeltable though.

Surprised I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Herbalism's new ability is Wild Growth - Spell - World of Warcraft

There's always stuff like... Season 7 in future to make it pretty easy. :P lv200+ -on average- would be pretty much a stretch for anything before the second raid tier or so, by my estimation.

Also about armor/dps values, remember that it's a beta, and a lot of stuff is/are placeholder. Remember Sunwell items and all the armor values being defaulted to lv141, some of the items of which weren't fixed till ~2 weeks before Live deployment?

It's (+discussion) over @ the Profession thread.

I had a chance to look at the death knight last night and tonight, and I have a couple of questions that really lingered in my mind after completing the starting area for DK's.



Edit:

I think they are in the process of converting armour penetration to rating, considering they changed how it's displayed in your character pane and also the fact that armour penetration on items doesn't actually work at the moment.

In the character pane where armor penetration usually is it currently says:

Enemy Armor Reduced by up to 0.00%

My items still say -175 armor etc. like normal. It feels like i'm not getting my old 1300 armor penetration bonus either. So currently its a bit bugged and they are playing with changing armor penetration to rating.

At the rate items gained ArP from what we saw they would have to increase base armor for everyone rather significantly if they left it in its current state.

Reducing target armor by a % will help protect casters from getting destroyed at base armor values (and to chop through plate users...) but unless it reduces armor before all other effects (FF / Sunder / Expose) it will be rather poor.

Gurgthock is back as well with a new Ring of Blood / Conquest Pit questline in the Amphitheatre of Anguish in Zul'Drak. Worm, magnataur, air elemental, tuskarr and vrykul bosses. No blues at the end though

Don't highlight if you don't like plot spoilers :P