According to wowwiki, it's available after the monument is completed. I still think it would be cooler if it was a limited time event. Oh well, off to donate to the widows and orphans fund!

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That should mean the only thing left to do is unlock the alchemist. Which won't happen unless Blizzard does it automatically. I'm also kinda wondering which of the 19 SSO dailies can be done with a partner or in a 5-man group. And what the proc rate/cooldown is on [Righteous Weapon Coating]. It's supposed to proc with ranged attacks and feral attacks, is easy to get, and is BoE. The [Blessed Weapon Coating] is almost a [Superior Mana Oil] - my quick tests of it gave a 45 second cooldown with an average proc-rate of once/minute while spamming a GCD spell.

I can't believe there was a two-page side track discussion of mass dispel. Anyway, following-up with the poster above, I'd like to take a second to encourage people to do the 'Discovering Your Roots' daily quest on the PTR so we can see if indeed there is a gem transmute that it unlocks. Progress is extremely slow and it is currently only at 32% on the PvE PTR.

I'm pretty much hoping they won't allow us to test M'uru and Kil'jaeden. This PTR testing takes out a lot of fun about the encounters and the race for them in my opinion. The first 3 will fall in 1 or 2 days for most guilds and it's kind of disappointing. Not intended as a whine, but moreso a hope that they follow my train of thought. Sapphiron and Kel'thuzad were not tested either as far as I'm aware and they turned out fine. If you disregard the despawning bug, that is.

I'm personally kind of curious of Deathfrost myself; if it's proc rate is good enough it might make a pretty good survivability enchant choice for tanking Paladins and Druids (With the fact that it procs from spells too I'm assuming a bear druid can proc it as well).

Edit: Though it doesn't help that this enchant's source still appears to be unknown. Wonder if it got scrapped...

I'm willing to bet that deathfrost wont work for ferals, based on the wording. Deathfrost text:

Permanently enchant a weapon so your damaging spells and melee weapon hits occasionally inflict an additional 150 Frost damage and reduce the target's melee, ranged, and casting speed by 15% for 8 sec. Requires a level 60 or higher item.

Versus the righteous weapon coating:

Use: While applied to target weapon, wielder has a chance to gain 300 attack power on every melee or ranged attack for 10 sec. Only functions on the Isle of Quel'Danas, on the Magisters' Terrace, and on the Sunwell Plateau. Lasts for 1 hour.

The difference between those two bolded statements is quite large in blizzard terms. Ferals attack with a innate paw weapon, so any enchant that effects weapon damage that is on the weapon doesn't work. Plus weapon damage does work in other slots though, as well as procs for "on hit" effects, as long as it isn't the weapon slot.

I really wish they would simplify this and allow a weapon enchant to directly carry over to a feral druids attack though, even if that means adjusting the damage we do accordingly. Much less confusion of this kind.

There was a brief time when it worked during pre-expansion closed alpha/beta. I remember playing around with it.

As I recall, the truly brutal problem was on abilities that could proc, when used with Swipe. The proc rate was based on the bear's swing speed, and when you combined that with a spammable ability that landed three hits at a time... I think effects would proc at roughly six times the rate they were tuned to.

(I don't know how simple the solution of "...but Swipe can't proc" would have been. I suppose they probably would have implemented it as "only autoattack and on-next-swing abilities can generate procs" rather than making a one-ability special case, and then we'd have gotten howling from the rogue/warrior community.)

This, on the other hand, was obviously sarcastic. And funny.

If it helps any, the only other enchantment that requires a level 60 or higher item drops in Z'A. But looking at the materials cost for Deathfrost, I don't see how it can be in the game. Two Primal Shadow and two Primal Mana is way too cheap for a weapon enchantment - every TBC weapon enchant requires multiple large prismatics and every weapon enchantment in the game requires shards (past Enchanting 120).

Does Blizzard have a conscious "lets try and avoid using the word trash" policy, or does it genuinely appear they believe they deserve titles like this - to imply its something other or more than t-r-a-s-h.

Either that or we'r going to experience some fun trash for once. I would say pre TE trash (AQ40) was worthy of more then just 'trash'.

You mean equally interesting yet non-epic-dropping non-bosses.

If they did that, those might as well be boss encounters, it's quite difficult to balance difficulty and entertainment, while at the same time making them easy enough to still be "trash", unworthy of dropping epics.
No new Mind Slayers packs, please.

Err, I think you mean pre-C'thun?

Blizzard has been trying for a while to cure people's issues with trash and trash-clearing by making it more innovative, or engaging, or difficult, or require more planning, and so forth. They've started learning that, for whatever reason, the idea that non-boss mobs are "trash" is so deeply ingrained in the raider's mind that there's basically nothing from a design perspective you can do to correct it, except perhaps make it a time challenge.

No, I cant think of anything more worthy of the name 'trash' than that.

Pre TE trash was speedy when executed properly but would definitely wipe you (or massively slow you down) when you messed up. Exactly what I expect from non-boss encounters.

edit: to clarify, for me the difference between an 'encounter' and 'trash' is the ability to do an encounter speedy when you know what you're doing, but a hundred times slower when you're messing around and not paying attention. Whereas with almost all trash, you try to CC something and just tank/burst stuff down with close to no awareness and very little wiping danger.

The difference between an 'encounter' and a 'boss' is the amount of focus needed. (and the duration and such)

Of course, in my opinion.

Kalgan said Season 4 is gonna be a while, Season 3 gear still has alot of stream in it.

WoW Forums -> Season4 Guesstimate

This is just another symptom of the resilience cap causing PvP itemization issues. Armor penetration was the first victim, now it seems hit rating is joining the club.

75 hit on the set plus 10 from Surefooted still puts him 6 hit over the cap.

Blink seems to have gone up to 336 mana (from 224) from the last time I checked PTR.

Sunwell Raid instance will be closing shortly

The tooltip used to say 224, however the actual mana cost was 336 even then.

I apologize if this is against the sticky, but can someone detail what part of the Twin Eredar trash is bugged and what part isn't?

When we pull the initial pack, it seems all 4 summoners up the ramp are activating and sending down waves of demons. I am not sure if this is intended behavior or not.