Good times on the WoW Insider Show last Saturday — even though Turpster was AFK for the week, we had a packed show, with Matthew Rossi, Chase Christian, and Eddie “Brigwyn” Carrington all jumping on to share some opinions. We talked about the new instances already testing over on the PTR, as well as what we’ll find in Icecrown (we kept the story spoilers out of it, though we did talk about some bosses and their abilities). And we hit up the character selection and creation screens and chatted about what might be better on those.
Make sense? Just because you don’t see, say, Attack Power on gear doesn’t mean you won’t have an Attack Power number governing how much damage you do. It just means that the AP you have will come from stats like Agility and Strength (depending on your class and a
sinizuh asked…

“With the simplification of stats in Cataclysm, are websites/communities like Elitist Jerks going to have nothing to do?”

Elitist Jerks predates the dark voodoo that is the math behind Armor Penetration. Coding arcane magicks into World of Warcraft isn’t what fuels theorycrafting and places like EJ. It’s the drive to get the absolute most out of your game. As long as there’s a game, there will be people that have fun reaching the highest heights of it. There are websites online that teach you how to get the most out of playing Connect Four. It would be pretty hard to turn WoW into a game that gives Elitist Jerks nothing to do.

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