what are people's thoughts on the new beta changes that showed up yesterday? no more soul link - replaced with Demonic Rebirth (you get 10 seconds to summon your pet if it dies in combat for 50/100% reduced cast time) and Demonic Aegis changed to only effect healing from Demonic and Fel Armors.

And for all their talk of wanting to get rid of boring +stat talents, we still have Demonic Embrace sitting there

Soul Link is now a trained ability which I think is good, 20% reduced damage taken will be quite usefull for all speccs.
Demonic rebirth is, well another version of our current almost instant summon pet, and imo I like that talent that if your pet dies you can ress it fast and I really think its needed.
I dont expect the Demonic Aegis change to have any real affect. Sure we dont get the bonus spellpower anymore but since spirit is being changed more to a mana regen stat I don't expect us to really have any of it besides our base stat (however I don't know if its only druids, shamans and priests that gets hit from spirit).

On another note I like the changes to increase the range of our spells, gives us some more options where to place us and should work great with our teleport.

Before the last patch, Unholy was the highest DPS regardless. Now, pre-shadowmourne Frost DW is hands down the best single target DPS, post shadowmourne it's fight dependant. Looking at WoL the only fight I see Unholy shadowmourne really outdoing Frost is Halion (Which data isn't going to be very accurate considering how long it's been out), most ICC fights they are about equal, more often that not Frost is slightly ahead.

You are comparing a 284 (legendary) weapon with a 277 and 271; of course SM will win. Compare it with 2 284 and frost should come ahead or at least similar (like ripebear said, depending on fight). The fact that frost is equivalent or even better than a spec with SM with same level weapon is already a bit disapointing (it's suposed to be a legendary weapon), you cant expect to beat it with some weapon 1 or 2 level behind.

can someone link the best pve fury warrior build please.

my death knight is only lvl 68 atm, i am trying to lvl tank, i am having trouble holding aggro in instances, can anyone recommend a tanking spec for me? and a rotation?

Holy Power is behaving strangely since the last download (I think 21 August).

Hammer of the Righteous does NOT yield holy power (but the buff appears and the tooltip says it should).
Crusader Strike yields 1 Holy Power (but does not appear as a buff or increment the buff if is pre-existing).
Shield of the Righteous consumes all Holy Power but does not remove the Holy Power buff icon.

In short, it's bugged - the Holy Power buff isn't being added/removed as you would expect from the tooltips.

The Holy Power meter has now been implemented - it's the rune-covered dangly thing hanging underneath your character profile. This is broken too.

Additionally, Holy Wrath currently has a 15 second cooldown, and with the Glyph of Holy Wrath, that's reduced to 0 seconds, so you can happily spam Holy Wrath every gcd. Since it's probably higher damage than all of your other abilities except Avenger's Shield, there's no reason not to.

Whenever a weapon with a proccable enchant is equipped, the timer on the ICD resets itself...weapon swapping for enchanting won't work. And even if it did, the white swing loss would be way too big to make it worthwhile anyway.

No, I tried and I can tell you that you can proc BM within 5 seconds when weapon swapping ( I tried with berserk, but i guess it's the same thing for mongoose ). And I didn't notice any important loss of swings, I would wait for calculus that can decide, and try to switch in a raid situation

All you have to see how well FF does as a threat generator is to take your bear to go one on one with a Boneguard commander without being mounted. The FF will pull him back to you without him running away to get a charge on you. it has allowed me to solo a single commander if unhorsed when no other toon I have heard of or seen has that capability.

hey all, bit new here so forgive me if i phrase this badly.
Im a little unusual in that i am a BM raider, i know its not putting out as high dps as MM and surv, but its my favourite spec, my own private little happy place. To be fair i have no issues with my dps, its actually very competitive with all the others im raiding with. However i do like to be the very best BM hunter that i can be But i'm a bit confused as to which pet would really be the best dps wise, i've had a wolf for quite a long time now, however i've read in a few different places that devilsaurs can be better (with high gear levels) and in the best possible dps spreadsheet thread thats running here it lists a raptor. i've tried my own comparisons with dummies with all 3 pets and the wolf is still leading the pack. So am i just reading old info that devilsaurs and raptors can do better dps than a wolf for a BM hunter or is this still the case and ive just had some bad luck with procs and my testing?

any assistance would be most appreciated