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Welcome to the second issue of the WoW Weekly Report!
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This week has been full of surprises in the World of Warcraft community. The first bit of major news is that the test notes for patch 2.4 are now up and are full of changes that should help improve gameplay, remove various aggravations, and makes a ton of positive changes. Some players, of course, have found some changes in regards to Paladin gear to be kinda “meh” or unsatisfactory, but as a whole the patch is absolutely fabulous in all regards.
We’ve got two holidays going on at the same time. Love is in the Air, the Valentine’s Day spinoff is currently ongoing while the Lunar Festival continues. If you look over to the side you’ll see links to all of our guides which includes two very detailed guides all about these two events.
Speaking of Valentine’s Day, Blizzard has unleashed a new commercial for everyone to enjoy. I found it quite comical and well worth the watch. You can read the news about it right here.
The 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide International will be held in Paris this year. If you’re a really big Blizzard fan then begin making plans to head out to Paris now since a trip from North America to Paris isn’t something that can be done overnight without massive expense. Read more about it.
A WoW miniature game is set to launch this fall. I’m not a big table top gamer so I’ve little clue how impressive this really is, but with Blizzard’s license you’ve got to know that it’s going to be good. Read more.
In this last week Blizzard has been nominated for the “Outstanding Pre-Rendred Visuals in a Video Game” for the introduction cinematic to WoW: The Burning Crusade. Not only that but they received accolades at the 2008 D.I.C.E. gaming conference where Mike Morhaime was inducted into their Hall of Fame and TBC was chosen as the MMOG of the Year.
With the news out of the way let us discuss patch 2.4. One of the major community upsets in this patch is the removal of attunement to some of the more difficult instances causing many players wanting to “purchase” a raid spot in order to attend the raid and loot one specific item if it drops. Strong raiding guilds can often carry one person into a raid if they’re able to successfully farm a boss so it’s not unreasonable that lower equipped/skilled players may soon be walking around with difficult to obtain gear. We’ll see how this plays out in the long run and personally I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.
Next up is Kael’thas’s loot. He drops a ring with 19 Stamina, 14 intellect, Red Socket (3 stam), Improves Spell Haste by 14, and healing 48/damage 16 with the phrase “Azerothian diamonds are eternal.” The phrase at the bottom almost makes up for Kael’thas’s final death being him overly corrupted by magic.
A change in 2.4 that isn’t listed in the patch notes is that drinking doesn’t restore your mana at even increments. For the first few seconds you’ll regain no mana and then shortly afterwards you’ll begin gaining increasing amounts. This change mostly affects people who attempt to drink in the arena since you’ll no longer be able to drink for 5 seconds and get a good bit of mana back. Water will still restore the same amount of mana, just has to charge up.
That’s about it for this week’s news and headlines. Check in next Tuesday morning for more here at WoW at Ten Ton Hammer. |
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