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Braaaaains
There's a Zombie infestation / Scourge plague spreading across the lands currently. Be sure to join in and eat some brains ;)Also, there's some information on 3.0.3 which may be of interest to some ro...
A quicky on 3.0.3
Patch 3.0.3 is currently on the test servers as you can see here as well.Some of the main highlights include :* RET PALADINS ARE GETTING NERFED!!!! HA!!That is all...Well, no. There's more, but that o...
Beta build combat love
Blizzard is making (sort of) good on their word, and have improved combat a little. The latest build 9014 gives us the following, minor, changes.As always, there's more than just rogue changes, so be ...
Rogue Trees
I'm sure you've been following the updates as well, build 8982 currently on the beta servers.The combat tree still sucks, assassination got some nerfs from the original version. However, there's some ...
Nax lewtz
Unlike regular servers, blizzard tends to update the PTR at rather odd times. At least from a European point of view.Those "few weeks" in which we were said to receive the 3.0.2 patch on the live serv...
More rogue changes
More rogue changes have been announced. Some good (Precision buff) some not so good (Relentless Strikes nerf). Personally I'm not too happy with this yet, (combat is slowly being turned into shit by b...
Rogue tanking 101(.8)
As mentioned a couple of days ago in this post, this post is about rogue tanking.You may be thinking, leather, barely 10k health, we're doomed for sure! Not quite. With proper gear a rogue can actuall...
WotLK build update
Build 8885 is up, and there's some interesting rogue stuff this time. (At last ffs)The first few talent changes are in. Nothing to get too excited about yet though.AssassinationSkills* Mutilate no lon...
Rogue tanking 101 - In progress
Currently in progress: "Rogue tanking 101". It's another fairly large post, so it'll take a while to finish. Just tag the RSS and keep an eye on updates. If you hadn't already done so.Anyway, until I ...
New Beta Build
WotLK - Build 8820A new build for WotLK has been put on the test servers early yesterday. This time the level cap got raised to 80, so new dungeon loot and items will be rolling around.GlyphsNew rogue...
Guest post, Rogue HowTo
About a week ago I posted it'd be interesting to have a guest post or few up. Out of three responses one has so far submitted an article. The other two haven't been too responsive yet... Hopefully we'...
A deadly brew
This post was written late last night, but I seem to be missing a part, if I figure out what it was I'll edit it back in. Strange.Anyhow, I'm more of a combat rogue myself, but this one caught my fanc...
WotLK Beta
Is open, or rather closed. It's closed beta, but the NDA has been lifted. So you'll be seeing plenty of beta info pouring in trough the regular channels. This doesn't mean that deathknight.info will s...
Frutrations
I told Examino yesterday that I'd do some venting today, so here we go.Frustrations, annoyances, grief, emotions and all the usual riff raff you really don't want to deal with during raid time. It dis...
New Alpha Build - Rogue Talents
A new WotLK alpha build has been released and it finally includes the rogue and shaman talents.Also see this and this post on deathknight.infoThe new spell list posted on Neograf. Some of these are "h...
Illi-done?
We got the council down last night, which finally opens the path to Big-I.If you are wondering where in that picture my ugly troll face is at... well i'm sorting out the heavy task of masterlooting in...
Poor item design
Poor item design. Poor stat distribution on purpose or accidental? It's hard to say, but I'm sure many people have wondered why some items just suck so badly that nobody in the raid wants the item whe...
Hit and Expertise
It takes 15.77 Expertise rating to gain 4 expertise at level 70 which will lower your target's chance to dodge or parry your attacks by 1%. Basically 3.9425 rating per point.Boss mobs have a ~6.5% do...
Sunwell gear
So, with patch 2.4 coming a bit closer on a daily basis more and more items are unveiled on MMOC and WoR.Item prices are huge, but all 25 man instance bosses will be dropping extra badges for your spe...
Stealth and things
On stealth and thingsWhile stealth is a well known art, only a true artist shall know no fame.On the subject of stealth there are currently only two classes capable of this skill. Rogues and Druids, e...
2.4 Rogues
2.4 is on the PTR and both MMOC and WoR have their respective info about the new loot and the patch notesThe rogue changes are rather slim :* Cheat Death: A combat log message will now show when this ...
Preciousssss...
The Burning Crusade gave us a new feature to play with for gear optimisation.Gems, and obviously sockets to stick them in.Currently the game counts about :* 16 Meta gems.* 33 Red* 30 Yellow* 17 Blue* ...
