When it comes to the new talent trees, there are 3 types of people in the World… of Warcraft.

• The people who love it
• The people who hate it
• The people who couldn’t care one way or the other

For the purpose of this post, we’ll say goodbye to the 3^rd group. Don’t take it personally, however in this situation your opinion doesn’t add weight to either side of the spectrum. I still love you.

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One blue post that caught my eye today announced that Hunters would no longer need ammunition for their weapons. Nethaera posted,

A major change coming for the hunter is the removal of ammunition. Guns, bows, and crossbows will now do damage without consuming ammunition at all. There will be no more ammo slot on the hunter’s character display. Any ammunition that a hunter has at the time of the change will become gray sell-able items. Existing quivers will be converted into large bags — though each hunter can only have one and non-hunters will not benefit from this change — and we will not be making any additional quivers. Read more…

Special thanks to Derevka and Ava from Tales of a Priest! We had a great time chatting about all things healing on this week’s Priest Healing Round Table. The show is now available for download, via iTunes, RSS feed, or listen to it here!

Topics discussed:

• Priest Guide to Cataclysm Class Changes on Wowhead.com
• Ava’s blog on Horror-Extreme
• Ava and Deverka’s Guild: Dark Nemisis on US Bloodhoof

It’s official! Plans are underway for our next community round table Special Episode, featuring some of the World of Warcraft community’s most talented writers, players, and friends.

Come represent your class, bring your healing questions, interact engage, and completely derail Hafrot as often as possible!

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I understand the need to put demons into spec niches.  I respect it, and to be completely candid, I actually love it.  I like the idea that when I walk around with my cute little felpuppy everyone knows I am affliction without having to inspect me.  I wear my affliction spec like a badge of honor, and my felpuppy is my most recognizable badge.  I love the demonology locks who stroll around with their felguard, and the destro boys who have their little imps are just as proud of their mastery of fire as I am of shadow magic.

The problem has become the 2 factions of locks in WoW.  There are some, who like me, don’t really see a need for more demons because some of them are wasted as it is, and then there are some who feel like we deserve more demons to play with because we are locks and, you know, that’s what we do.  Sadly, I can’t really argue much with the other camp when Blizzard is pulling the shit they are pulling with one of our new learnable abilities. Read more…

Due to overwhelming the overwhelming feedback from our first installment of “Talking Tank”, we decided to RELOAD! This time around we are honored to welcome…

PALADIN: Lore from TankSpot.com
WARRIOR: Veneretio from TankingTips.com
DEATH KNIGHT: Arment from Reawaken on US-Staghelm
DRUID: TBD!

THIS FRIDAY – April 2nd at 7PM CST!

We are looking to discuss recent changes made to taking, threat, and mitigation, as well as chat about taking in Cataclysm!

If you have any questions for the panelist, please check our contact page!!

There was an interesting post concerning warriors last week in which the author could have filled up Lake Mead and put an embarrassing crack in Hoover Dam with all the tears being shed in the name of the hybrid tax.  Don’t get me wrong, I have shed my own hybrid tears, but some days, when it’s not a paladin doing the whining, I have no patience for such nonsense. As Stompalina pointed out on this week’s rawrcast, “it’s always those paladins causing shit.”  After a twitter discussion about the post, because you know those are always so productive, I started a healthier exchange with both Veneretio and Pinnick, and decided the only way to really understand the plight of the warrior was to roll one.

Warriors are the only class I can’t seem to get past level 20, and I have no clue why.  It could be the rage mechanic; it feels weird to me.  It could have been the heroic strike mechanic which I hated and could never really get a handle on until after I mastered, with the help of a macro of course, rune strike.  Hell, it could be my inner paladin refusing to play a class because we played bass and back up vocals to the super cool Kurt Cobain warriors for so long.  I have no clue why I have never been able to level a warrior, but this time I am determined to do so.  I decided to write about the leveling process and my perspective and actively seek advice through the comment system in an effort to have a better understanding of one of the archetypical RPG classes.

Race and Name Selection

I’m not one to get overly caught up in racials.  I think they are important, but I also know they are headed for an overhaul come Cataclysm, so the idea of making a decision like race when racials can change seems overly analytical.  Don’t misunderstand me, I think racials can be important to game play, but they are not so critical that all decisions should be based on them.

I knew I wanted a warrior in the spirit of the Aiel, a warrior society in the Wheel of Time.  The Aiel, like the Kaldorei, have a rich history with parts both would rather their people forget.  The Aiel, unlike the night elves, have been very successful in hiding the dark spots in their history from all but their leaders.  They are physically imposing with distinct eyes.  The Aeil have warriors of both sexes, but the night elves, historically, have had a society of women warriors.  This is still evident if you ever visit a night elf stronghold, as all of the guards are women.  Conveniently, the Aiel have a warrior society known as Far Dareis Mai, or maidens of the spear, so I hopped on over to browse a list of maidens until I was able to find a name I liked.  I settled on Beralna.

So, though not exclusive to this warrior journey, my first question is how do you pick a toon name?

This special episode of Rawrcast focuses on Stomp’s long-time love affair with the Warlock class. Stomp welcomes her friend, Nibuca from Mystic Chicanery and Twisted Nether Blogcast, along with Hinosilin (Rusty) and Darkchrono from the #1 US Guild – EXODUS. Together we we reviewed the basics of the class, spec, gear, stat choices, and look further into raiding mechanics, utility, tips, tricks and stories. We also addressed a few listener e-mails on the subject of pets and upcoming changes being discussed for Cataclysm, along with changes we would like to see in the game. Read more…