Guilds who’ve been slower making the climb are having a harder and harder time finding raiders willing to commit to the final stretch. Everyone’s worried how the expansion’s changes to raid drops and incentives are going to affect the guild’s motivation and team spirit. The community is holding its collective breath, waiting for Cataclysm … How is your guild holding itself together during this time of transition? Our website is looking for an article on how guilds can keep from disintegrating during this pre-expansion period of transition. We’re looking for thoughtful strategies and suggestions, between 500 and 1,000 words, on ways that guilds can successfully survive the period linking the end of Wrath with the launch of Cataclysm. What is your guild doing? What alternatives are working for other guilds and raiding groups? Preferably, you’re the GM or an officer of a guild or the leader of a regular raiding group (although we won’t discount submissions from other types of players). As with all guest post call-outs, only the best submission will be accepted. Here’s what to do: read up about the Seed guest writer program, sign up and then submit your article (you can’t
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Foxlight is now even more aptly named, now that you have chosen holy for his talent tree. You also voted for jewelcrafting/mining, so he will be making pretty, sparkly things. But, while most of you find Fox Van Allen’s shirtless pally fabulous, you’re really here to vote on the class and race of WoW.com’s prom queen, Christian Belt. You’ll also get to vote on the questing zone for next week, if you so choose. But first, the schedule: * Matthew Rossi as Andrenorton, his new troll mage: Some time Saturday * Fox Van Allen as Foxlight, the blood elf paladin: Saturday, 8 p.m. EDT * Amy Schley as Patent, the troll rogue, Adam Holisky as Adammentat, the tauren druid, and Gregg Reece, the orc warlock, will be making appearances as they can. The polls are after the break. We’ve been questing all over Stonetalon Mountains for the week. Should we move to another quest area? I have listed our other zone choices in order of how much of a change they are likely to go through in Cataclysm, from most to least.
Our website brings you another leak of Cataclysm information, this time provided to us by our friends that ran WotLK Wiki, who are now setup under Nihilum Cataclysm Wiki. The information is the first look at the new user interface strings. These provide key glimpses into what the UI[User Interface], and thus the player, will be doing in Cataclysm. Obviously, they are not complete and there will be tons more added throughout the alpha and beta phases. We want to be sure not to give any spoiler content for those that concerned about such things, so everything of substance is after the break. Don’t read on if you don’t like spoilers. This post is currently being updated. Thank you for your patience. UI Changes Moonkin Eclipse bar added Warlock Shard bar added Flightpath window enlarged String ID String Data BALANCE_NEGATIVE_ENERGY Lunar Energy BALANCE_NEGATIVE_ENERGY_COST %d Lunar Energy BALANCE_POSITIVE_ENERGY Solar Energy BALANCE_POSITIVE_ENERGY_COST %d Solar Energy BINDING_NAME_TOGGLEPROFESSIONBOOK Toggle Profession Book ERR_BG_DEVELOPER_ONLY This battleground is only available for developer testing at this time. ERR_CURRENCY_SPELL_SLOT_MISMATCH The currency can’t be used in that
We are proud to welcome a new generation of trees whatever we’re going to be in Cataclysm. Before I do anything else, I want to draw some attention to a guide on restoration healing recently published by Tree Bark Jacket that is an incredibly impressive work. It’s comprehensive and fun to read, and for anyone who’s getting started with the spec, I highly recommend heading both there and to Lissanna’s guide to restoration healing in patch 3.3. We’re continuing our updated and expanded series on how to gear a new druid at 80, and this week we’re going to tackle restoration druids. Frankly, a lot of the desirability for the listed pieces depends on your spec and current level of +haste (if you’re wondering why that is, you’ll find an explanation in our Restoration 101 post). If you are planning to raid on your resto druid, this is a bare-bones guide to what you need to look for: * If you have 3/3 Celestial Focus and are below 735 haste, prioritize haste. Look for +haste pieces and gem Reckless Ametrines. * If you have 3/3 Celestial Focus and are at or above 735 haste, you can either prioritize/gem spellpower or (much better) move points into more throughput talents in the restoration
The Cataclysm beta character copy page is available for those select few who have keys. Our understanding is this is a very small group. You’ll know that you have a key and can copy your character over. If not, then you’re not in it, yet. Don’t fall for any scams. Blizzard has not announced the opt-in procedures or any ways to get into the beta. When they do announce it, you’ll hear it here. The page is accessible at: https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/beta-charcopy/ UPDATE: Zarhym has confirmed the Cataclysm Friends and Family Alpha begins this week.
Well, the day has come: I finally decided to put together a gear guide for fresh level 80 healing priests. Many readers have been requesting this, and I figured I ought to stop teasing everyone with promises of it. I hope that this list, combined with the 101 guides we published in the past few months, will be enough to help my fellow fledgling priests find themselves somewhere in Azeroth. I can’t have you all getting lost before you have a chance to dive into that new, shiny Cataclysm water. Before I get started, let it be known that this is not a list of any and all healing upgrades you can get after you hit 80. Instead it is a list of gear I would recommend to a healing priest who is trying to get the best gear he or she can without raiding or is trying to get enough gear to start healing in the current raiding content (Trial of the Crusader and Icecrown Citadel.) Since this is not a complete list, feel free to deviate from it when you find upgrades that work for you. A lot of items you find in heroics will be be better than the gear you are wearing from questing. Now, let’s get started. First off, please know that I will not and do not encourage you to spend your Emblems of Triumph on items from badge vendors