The Light and How to Swing It: Tanking Beth’tilac and Rhyolith


Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]The Light and How to Swing It[/hide] for [hide]holy[/hide], [hide]protection[/hide] and [hide]retribution[/hide] paladins. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the benefit of 24 other people, obsessing over his hair (a blood elf racial!), and maintaining the tankadin-focused blog [hide]Righteous Defense[/hide].

In previous columns, I’ve talked about how to tank Shannox and Baleroc, two of the early bosses of Firelands. Three bosses remain before you can cross the bridge to the Sulfuron Keep: Beth’tilac, Rhyolith, and Alysrazor.

That latter of the three demands a column of her own, considering the nuances of that fight and the special requirements and responsibilities one assumes when tanking it. But the first two — a walk in the park, comparatively speaking. Despite the general breeziness when tanking them, they still have their own slate of nuances. Allow me to offer a raft of tips to make your tanking duties as breezy as they should be.[hide]Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: Tanking Beth’tilac and Rhyolith[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Paladin[/hide], [hide](Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It[/hide][hide]The Light and How to Swing It: Tanking Beth’tilac and Rhyolith[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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WoW TCG: Aftermath: Throne of the Tides adds monsters to the mix


As the [hide]Worldbreaker[/hide] series comes to an end, we now turn to the aftermath of Deathwing’s destructive awakening into Azeroth and the continued battle against the elements and the Twilight Hammer Cult. The newest WoW TCG expansion, [hide]Aftermath: Throne of the Tides[/hide], puts players in control of murloc, naga, and ogre heroes as exciting new additions to the WoW TCG hero lineup.

Playing as some of the more monstrous races in the World of Warcraft universe is pretty cool, with all new keywords and abilities to take advantage of during gameplay. In addition, Throne of the Tides has been built from the ground up to be a smoother draft and sealed play experience, preparing even the newest players for fun, engaging tournament play. Read on to learn about the Epic Collection and the new in-game goodies that await TCG fans.[hide]Continue reading WoW TCG: Aftermath: Throne of the Tides adds monsters to the mix[/hide]Filed under: [hide]WoW TCG[/hide][hide]WoW TCG: Aftermath: Throne of the Tides adds monsters to the mix[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide] | Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Today in WoW: Friday, Aug. 5, 2011


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Breakfast Topic: How do you choose your spec builds?

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I confess that when it comes to my specs, I am incredible lazy. I’m not dual-specced. I don’t have a PVP spec. I’m just a standard PVE frost mage. I didn’t even change to arcane when arcane was the only way to be a «proper» mage. I’m not into theorycrafting, and I would rather let someone else do all the work. I poke around the internet for awhile, find a spec I like, and copy it. I then stick with that spec until major changes are made and I have no choice but to fix the spec.

Some of my good friends are the total opposite. They loiter on theorycrafting websites, crunch the numbers, and constantly tweak the numbers until their spec seems ideal. A few days later, they are ready to tweak some more.

Where do you fall on this spectrum? Are you a theorycrafter who loves the numbers game and could spend hours trying to devise the perfect spec? Would you prefer to sit back and yank someone else’s perfect design? Or are you somewhere in the middle? Do you study the builds and then come up with something of your own, roughly based on the work you’ve seen?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: How do you choose your spec builds[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 06 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Around Azeroth: Tame the rainbow!

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Submitter [hide]Miacoda[/hide] of [hide]Black Phoenix[/hide] on Argent Dawn (US-A) recently noticed that the Molten Front hunter challenge spiders, when lined up, match the flavors of the [hide]blood-glucose-increasing[/hide] candy treat Skittles. From left to right, we have [hide]Skitterflame[/hide], [hide]Solix[/hide], [hide]Anthriss[/hide], [hide]Kirix[/hide] and [hide]Deth’tilac[/hide]. Is it all right if I eat all the Skitterflames and Deth’tilacs out of the bag and leave the rest for my guildmates?

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Tame the rainbow![/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Today in WoW: Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011


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Список срочных исправлений патча 4.2 от 4 августа

Опубликован [hide]список срочных исправлений[/hide] патча 4.2 к MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm от 4 августа 2011 года, сообщает компания Blizzard Entertainment. Этот вид обновлений устанавливается на стороне разработчиков и не требует скачивания дополнительных данных. Некоторые из исправлений появятся в игре сразу, другие – после перезагрузки игрового мира. Перевод будет опубликован позднее.

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General

Balloon pets can no longer be sold to vendors.
Flight points in Outlands should correctly display for characters created after the release of patch 4.2.
Classes

Melee auto-attacks should properly trigger trinkets.
Druid Primal Fury is correctly triggered when Rake gets a critical hit, and is putting an extra combo point on the target.
Starfall should no longer strike targets with which the druid is not in combat.

Hunter

Burning Adrenaline is properly removing the focus cost of Arcane Shot.

Rogue

Mutilate should now properly trigger trinkets.

Warrior

Deep Wounds should no longer incorrectly apply double damage when certain buffs are present on the warrior.

Dungeons & Raids

Blackrock Spire

The Scarshield Quartermaster is properly flagged as a quest NPC and not a rare spawn.

Firelands

Burning Orb attack range has been increased for the Majordomo Staghelm encounter.
The criteria for the achievement Do a Barrel Roll! reset properly after a failed attempt on Alysrazor.
Smoldering Essences are now properly applied to Firelands bosses and can be syphoned, even if the only raid member that is on step 13 of the legendary quest line dies during the encounter.
Players should never get Rage of Ragnaros on Heroic difficulty. Rage of Ragnaros will only be given on normal difficulty if someone on the legendary quest line has 250 shards. Heart of Flame should always be given on Heroic difficulty, even if a player doesn’t have Rage of Ragnaros, but does have 250 shards.

Icecrown Citadel

The Val’kyr will again despawn after the Lich King reaches 10% health. If they are in the process of carrying a player, they will first drop them to the ground before leaving.

Zul’Farrak

Player should no longer be unable to open the gates to complete the dungeon due to NPC allies dying during the troll invasion event.
The Zul’farrak Zombies and Skeletons of Zum’rah, associated with Witch Doctor Zum’rah, now clean up properly when the encounter is reset or the boss dies.

Items

The weapon speed of the Masterwork Elementium Deathblade has been reduced to 3.5, down from 3.8.
Ricket’s Magnetic Fireball now shares a burst cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
Unheeded Warning now grants 1926 attack power, instead of 680 weapon damage.

Item Sets

The Burning Treant and Fiery Imp pets summoned by the Balance druid and warlock tier-12 sets now have reduced damage taken from area-of-effect spells, consistent with other combat pets.
The Smoldering Rune buff from the death knight tier-12 2-piece set bonus is now properly cleared off of the character if he/she does not have the set bonus the next time it ticks for runic power.
The Spirit buff gained from the 4-piece priest tier-11 set will be lost if the priest casts any spell or uses any ability while not wearing the set.
The warrior tier-12 4-piece damage-dealing set bonus is now properly activating, even if a Mortal Strike or Raging Blow attack is fully absorbed.

PvP

Strand of the Ancients

Stampeding Roar (druid spell) no longer grants a speed boost to Demolishers.

Quests & Creatures

Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front

Molten Lords should no longer stay tapped by the first player who damages them while on the bombing run for the quest Fire in the Skies.

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Гильдия Ascendance первой выполнила «Славу рейдеру Огненных Просторов»

Гильдия [hide]Ascendance[/hide] с европейского сервера Alonsus первой в мире выполнила достижение «[hide]Слава рейдеру Огненных Просторов[/hide]» в MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm от компании Blizzard Entertainment. В награду все участники получили «[hide]Оскверненное яйцо Миллазор»[/hide], позволяющее призывать и отпускать летающее транспортное средство «Порочный огнеястреб». Наши поздравления героям!

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Blizzard не против гемблинга в WoW

На американских официальных форумах MMORPG World of Warcraft представитель Blizzard Entertainment [hide]разъяснил[/hide] политику компании в отношении казино и других азартных видов досуга. Как оказалось, сам гемблинг не противоречит правилам использования игры – пользователи WoW могут устраивать между собой различные розыгрыши и лотереи, делать ставки и т.п., если они не подпадают под определение спама, мошенничества и т.д.

Реклама же посторонних казино в World of Warcraft (в том числе – при использовании /yell, /say, /whisper и любого другого вида коммуникации) несомненно противоречит правилам и наказуема.

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Breakfast Topic: How does a guild win you over?


This [hide]Breakfast Topic[/hide] has been brought to you by [hide]Seed[/hide], the AOL guest writer program that brings [hide]your words[/hide] to WoW Insider’s pages.

When it comes to real (i.e., non-trade-chat-spamming) guilds, some people complain about the process. «It’s like finding a job,» or «There’s so much drama involved that I just stopped trying.» Often times, I find it easier to compare finding guilds to dating.

For example, one guild got me to join by slowly wooing me. They invited me to dungeon runs, PMed me just to chat, waved at me in at the auction house, and generally just made me feel like a guildmate before popping the question. It was so romantic … until I found out that the leaders weren’t treating their allies the same way.

I was stolen from another guild when the former guild started to treat people badly, both guild members and members of the server. In vanilla WoW, we ran raids with two other guilds. One of those guilds’ officers was my first PVP victim in another game (but it was an epic hunt). Another officer and I were co-class leaders who bonded over ninja-AFKing bio breaks when we were supposed to be instructing our underlings on things we’d already gotten them to do — oh, and having a very open guild system, as opposed to «the guild leader is God; obey his commands.» When the ship was ready to sink, I knew who to ask for a lifeboat.

More often than not, though, I’ve hit my server forums or even popular fan sites to see who’s active in the community and whose guild structure seems to fit my needs the best.

How have guilds won you over? Did you date? Were you mutual friends first? Or was it something you found in [hide]The Classifieds[/hide]?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: How does a guild win you over[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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