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Racial Abilities

• Arcane Torrent (Blood Elf) global cooldown removed.

Death Knight

• Death Knight spells that cost runes will now display the rune cooldowns on the spell buttons.

Mage

• Arcane Blast effect duration reduced to 3 seconds, and now increases damage by 15/30/45% instead of reducing cast time.
• Arcane Impact renamed Spell Impact and now affects Blast Wave, Fire Blast, Cone of Cold, and Ice Lance.
• Arcane Potency now applies when Presence of Mind is active, talent prerequisite changed to Presence of Mind.
• Conjured mana gems no longer disappear from your backpack after being logged out for more than 15 minutes. Higher ranks of Conjure Mana Gem will recharge an existing mana gem to maximum charges.
• Empowered Arcane Missiles renamed Arcane Empowerment and no longer increases mana cost. It now also increases damage caused by Arcane Blast. Read the rest of this entry »

I was doing my usual browse through the Blue posts found on the WoW forums, and stumbled across a very interesting “predicament”. Here is the Original Post from a concerned Beta player over the Death Knight Starting Zone quest lines.

Original Post by Orophino:

“I don’t want to give out all the cool parts of the death knight starting area. But at the same time I think people need to be aware of something.

Unless the quests change radically, I won’t be rolling a death knight in the expansion.

The problem is that the quests are unambiguously evil. And you have no option to make moral choices. What I’m talking about here isn’t the usual Warcraft. You are forced to steal, murder, and torture, and it is presented as such. The quest text goes out of it’s way to make sure you don’t misunderstand what’s going on.

There were several quests last night in beta where I almost decided not to continue. Specifically -

- The quest where I am forced to murder civilians who don’t fight back.
- The quest where I am forced to torture people to extract information.
- The quest where I am forced to murder my unarmed friend.

I understand that it’s called World of *Warcraft*. And I understand that for the last 3.5 years I’ve been slaughtering creatures who did nothing other than carry loot I wanted. But this seems to have been designed with the sole intent of making sure I’m evil. Well……. I’m not evil. If the bridge will explode if I don’t torture someone, then the bridge will explode. If the mission fails because I won’t murder civilians who don’t fight back, then the mission will fail. Read the rest of this entry »

Obviously Blizzard isn’t going to simply hand you a bunch of 24 slot bags just for buying the new expansion when it comes out. Instead they are finding other ways of doing a similar feature.

Mounts Now Learnable

No longer will you need to take up at least two bag slots with your mounts (one land and one flying). Lets not kid each other though, most of us carry around at least 4 mounts or more right now. I mean you never know when you might want to ride the Cenarion War Hippogryph instead of the Netherdrake; or when you might want to ride the Skeletal War Horse instead of the Black War Kodo.

In WotLK none of that will matter at all. You will learn all of your mounts along the way. Meaning you can “carry” all of them with you. Mounts will no longer be taking up bag space or in your bank space. They will be included on a new chracter tab that will allow you to summon the mount.

I know this is going to save me all of these bag slots on my main character:

1.Nether Drake
2.Nether Ray
3.Regular Epic Flyer
4.Cenarion War Hippogryph
5.Those silly Scarab Mounts from AQ40…in every color of course!
6.Black War Kodo
7.Black War Raptor
8.Regular Epic Land Mount
9.Big Giant Chicken (BE Mount)

So thats a total of 9 free bag slots…and they aren’t stopping there!

Summonable Vanity Pets Too!

Thats right players will be to carry every single vanity pet with them also without taking up a single bag or bank space. Now I wish I didn’t throw all of my vanity pets away…I am just always so pressed on back and bag space taht my wealth of epics seemed more important! Read the rest of this entry »