As a bear who still actively raids 20 hours a week but doesnt as much extra time to research anymore, I thank you. This is really going to help me prepare for raiding.

Long time reader and just a recent member.

My question is about the Horde Orc racial: Command, and if that applies to the water elemental now as well. Before Cata, it listed specifically that it worked for Hunter, Warlock and DK pets. As well as it was a 5% increase. Now it doesn't specify either. Of course, I'm assuming that it will also work for our Water Elemental but was curious as to if anyone has tested this yet? I gather this would have been easier on beta, and that I'm late to the party. From a min/max perspective between that and blood fury, that would seem to make orcs the superior race for frost mages on horde side, at least in my opinion. Thanks guys.

From blue post : "Razorgore and Chromaggus in Blackwing Lair will no longer cause an infinite loop of encounter mind control mechanics when pets or companions are present."

Has anyone tested how is the removal of infinite loop of mind control relevant with Razorgore's encounter? Does it essentially enable pet classes to now solo Razorgore (survivability permitting, of course) ?

Can we get updated talent spec links pls.

I just picked up a copy of Cataclysm after not playing since WotLK launch, I'm a bit out of the loop on current UI mods and I saw some I like, but couldn't find them in this thread.

Does anyone know what this player is using as his action bars, cast bar, cooldown bar, chat windows, and unit frames?

so i take that top profession for mages at lvl 85 is still JC and Tailoring?

I think you may be missing the thrust of my question, assuming your post was addressed to me (which it may not have been).

My confusion lies in that in the case of the red and yellow sockets, two different gems with two different ep ratings are shown as options. In the case of the blue socket, however, the same gem is listed twice. So I simply wanted to know if this is intentional.

Of course it's entirely possible that I'm missing something obvious (wouldn't be the first time). Again, thanks for any and all help. Very nice guide, and much appreciated.

edit: moved to more appropriate thread. Would have deleted if I knew how.

Armory links are broken, btw.

Hi there,

It's my first post, so I hope it's okay to post something that's a bit more general in here, but I think that since regen is such a concern for us now, it's relevant.

In-game, the game shows two values for mana regeneration under the spells category. The first is "Mana Regen" and the second is "Combat Regen".

What determines the value for "Combat Regen"? I understand that meditation adds half of your Spirit regen (what it says when you mouse over your spirit stat) but I don't know where the rest of that value comes from.

The formula at: Mana regeneration - Wowpedia - Your wiki guide to the World of Warcraft
seems to accurately describe the MP5 that spirit will produce, outside of combat. But that formula doesnt account for the rest of the "Mana Regen" value, only the spirit component. For reference, here's some data from my characters


Priest, lvl 70, disc spec, has meditation
Intel 594
Spirit 258 (increases mana regen by 175)
Mana Regen 306
Combat Regen 218

Wowpedia regen formula: MP5 = 5 * (0.001 + sqrt(Intel) * Spirit * Base_Regen) * 0.60
Where Intel = 594, Spirit = 258, Base_Regen = 0.009327
Result: 175.9476882

Since we know that half the difference between Mana Regen and Combat Regen here comes from meditation, we can derive that the baseline regen is 130.


Druid, lvl 73, balance spec, no meditation
Intel 564
Spirit 406 (increases mana regen by 231)
Mana Regen 366
Combat Regen 135

Wowpedia regen formula: MP5 = 5 * (0.001 + sqrt(Intel) * Spirit * Base_Regen) * 0.60
Where Intel = 564, Spirit = 406, Base_Regen = 0.007993
Result: 231.2076973

Since the druid has no meditation, 135 is its baseline regen.

The minor difference between both characters would seem to indicate a baseline regen value that is tied to your character level, though this is insufficient data to draw a general conclusion.

The second last line of the Brain Freeze talent specifies that an instant-cast FFB will benefit from FoF.