A number of steps have been taken to address Character Re-Customization issues, and we believe that many players previously unable to customize their character should be able to do so at this time. There are new graveyards being added in the next patch to ease leveling 1-80 a little bit. The idea is that any corpse run should be no longer than one minute on average.
Character Re-Customization issues
Should you still experience any difficulties with the Character Re-Customization process, we encourage you to follow the instructions below:
Log out of World of Warcraft and close it completely, and open the World of Warcraft folder. From here, try restarting the game from using the wow.exe launcher.
If the above initial step does not resolve the issue, we advise logging out and closing World of Warcraft for roughly 20-30 minutes, then logging back into the game. Read the rest of this entry »

Costs Honor points
Equivalent to 25-person raid items
Healing and mana management “too easy” for the moment
Mana management for healers in particular, and in large raids in particular, does seem to be really easy. This is interesting because so many players in beta had the feedback that they were having mana difficulties.
You can point at several mechanics that might make mana regen too easy: replenishment, int benefiting spirit regen, spirit offering so many other benefits, the content being relatively easy right now….
Ulduar will also be harder than Naxx.
Arena balancing and Season 5 launch
Healing and resilience effect on game balancing Read the rest of this entry »

Firebolt: To some extent imps are very weak. When you reach level ten and get your Voidwalker then you should probably shelf the Imp until you’re in an instance or group. Then pull it out and have it Phase Shift/put it into passive to share the Blood Pact buff with everyone. When someone has enough aggro feel free to command it to attack, although its damage will be pretty low.
Sometimes imp are useful for pulling enemies, although they are very weak and any kind of elite enemy will one or two hit an Imp on average.
Imp is the pet of choice if you go heavy affliction while soloing, too, since it has the largest mana pool out of all the pets. This means that you can use its MP to regain yours via Dark Pact, the talent deep in the affliction tree. It also means more HP for you to upkeep your life up via drain life tanking.
The imp’s superior mana regeneration helps quite a bit for this spec, too, and is ideal for any situation as an affliction Warlock.
Wrath of the Lich King brings more effectivity to the imp when it used in a Destruction spec; overall it will boost your damage, as well as your imp crit gives you a 20% chance of critting so it’s to your advantage, in particular, a fire Warlock can use an imp companion to burn enemies down fast! This only applies if you have gone down deep in the Destruction Tree and obtained Empowered Imp. Read the rest of this entry »

Tactics
In PvP the Voidwalker can really only be used as health batter for when you’re attacked. When, say a Rogue appears before you, simply Sacrifice the Voidwalker which will give you a very hefty damage shield and time to deal with the attacking enemy. Not only that, if you spec Demonology, you will be able to receive a LOT more damage with the Voidwalker out since it reduces damage taken by both of you by an amount - good PvPers know when to use a Felhunter or a Voidwalker for their PvP matches.

There are a lot of things you can do with a Voidwalker, although the majority of them involve the Voidwalker tanking enemies. That’s pretty much what it’s very good at, holding an enemy’s attention while you kill it. With light damage to start with (i.e. not unloading your non-DoT offense at the start) the Voidwalker will easily hold the aggro of any mob near your level.

It is also useful for sending into battle near a quest objective, have the Voidwalker take in all of the attention and use the quest objective (for instance, pick up a map). When finished you can get some distance then Sacrifice the Voidwalker for an easy escape, saving you from killing any enemies near a quest objective. Read the rest of this entry »

Tactics
The Succubus is great in instances where you can seduce enemies and keep them out of battle. It’s also great in PvP to seduce an enemy player to keep them out of combat for a little while. It’s not that great as a solo pet since it has little HP. It does decent amounts of damage, though, so you can let it attack in groups only after someone has aggro on something.

Remember to keep the succubus invisible in a safe spot in PvP so she can seduce people who are attacking you, but be wary of AoE damage that will pop her out of stealth and make her a quick kill.

Seduction: This skill takes 1.5 seconds to cast and a lot of the Succubus’s mana to “charm” a Humanoid for 15 seconds. This is similar to Polymorph, except it doesn’t regen the enemy’s health. Read the rest of this entry »

Tactics
In PvP use the Devour Magic ability as much as possible to keep yourself clean of debuffs (for instance, removing Polymorph) and use Spell Lock to stop enemy casters. It’s very weak against enemy melee classes so it may not always be the pet to bring out in PvP, but it’s a magic user’s bane.

Remember to also use Devour Magic on the enemy priests or mages, or whoever have barriers on to eat them and make them vulnerable to attack. Having the pet on them also makes it hard for them to let off a spell and gives you the edge to fear them or deathcoil them and finish them off.

In PvE it’s useful in instances were people will get a lot of debuffs. Since it can devour them (and heal itself) it makes a decent pet. If there is a lot of debuffs moving around then the Felhunter can off-tank and heal itself. It’s got decent HP and MP and could keep an enemy busy for awhile. Read the rest of this entry »

Avoidance:In PvE the Felguard is, pretty much, a replacement for the Voidwalker. Not all the way, obviously, but it’s a very rounded out melee fighter who can hold aggro slightly better then the Voidwalker due to it’s increased DPS causing more aggro generation. It’s not as tough as the Voidwalker, so it’s not going to take as many hits, but with all those points in Demonology that may not be an issue. He doesn’t have sacrifice, though, making him less attractive. Increases the chance for the pet to passively avoid AoE damage by 25-50%. Passive, what’s to hate?
Intercept: Same as the Warrior’s Intercept, the Felguard charges the target and stuns for it a second. Great for getting that initial aggro.
Role
The Felguard plays two different games, one is the PvE game and the other the PvP game.

Skills: Read the rest of this entry »

“I did want tp see more stuff that matched. When I hit Northrend, I had a full set of Frostsavage gear made and it was very…brown. Look at the Warlock T3 and T7 gear. The T3 is colorful, the T7 is urban camouflage. When running instances, it’s much harder to keep track of people since everyone is wearing the same black-brown Northrend uniforms.”But have we gone too far the other way? Does all of the gear look the same now? Personally, I just miss my Hunter’s mail kilt from the Argent Dawn world event rewards, but I think the gear has been much better looking in Northrend. I’m just happy none of it is pink, so if I have to choose between dark blue or straight black, that’s a choice I’m happy to make. What do you think?”

According to Lindelan, he told us that: “This is an interesting issue — Blizzard got some flak in Outland for the gear being a bit too colorful. “Clown” was a word that was used pretty often, thanks to all the glowing and neon extras that came on our gear last expansion. And in Northrend, we fortunately haven’t had that problem: the gear looks a little more badass, made up of dark steel and leather with pointy and ragged spikes on it. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the friends said that: “First thing in Dalaran: (Boring stuff) Set Hearthstone and get FP. Then (more fun stuff), check everything out, mount person, and bg place with Lake Wintergrasp.” How about you?

And how about the professions? How to level your professions with your guy? I’m sure many people have professions that they want to quickly hit 450 or have recently changed professions and want to level it quickly to 450. I will teach you here world of warcraft wrath of the lich king profession guide! Using these techniques, you can go from 1-450 very rapidly.

Before you start leveling, you want to find out what professions you want to stick with. If you can pick the ones you like now, you will have a much easier time leveling it than trying to cram it all in at once. While you are leveling your character, save the ingredients and materials you find that you can use to level your profession. If you can hit few levels for your profession every now and then, you will have a very easy time hitting 450. Now for the wrath of the lich king profession guide 1-450 if you are cramming everything in at once. This is going to cost you a lot of either time or gold. You want find the cheapest material costs for one skill, and buy a massive amount of materials for that one specific skill to level it. Read the rest of this entry »

If you can’t find the time to watch it now, you’ll have time in a little bit when the rolling restarts start. They start at 5 AM Pacific for American servers, 10 AM Pacific for the Oceanic servers. The music is fine. Awesome even. This is probably the most dynamic, well plotted, well choreographed WoW Movie to come across the desk here at WoW Insider, so even if you don’t watch WoW videos, you are going to want to give this one a watch. Also, I just realized that the title “Blind” refers to the rogue skill, so that’s cool too.

And once you’re finished watching that and you pop your jaw back into place, try some of these articles:

Class News and Guides

Death Knights are getting some interesting changes in 3.0.8. Last week’s Lichborne looked at some of them in depth. But we’re playing in the here and now, and some of us are even hitting 80.
Shamans should expect an Elemental DPS increase in 3.0.8. Retribution Paladins: Need Hit? Sure, Most people are winding down their Holiday celebrations now, but these Hunter gift ideas are still cool. Warriors, let’s talk Raid Gear. Discipline Priests: They’re Okay.

Odds and Ends

Enchanters rejoice. You may certain Northrend reagents easier to come by in 3.0.8. Tobold’s a pretty cool guy for a non WoW Insider blogger. Ever wonder about WoW’s GDP? Read and be enlightened. Having trouble getting around Storm Peaks on that loaner mount? Check out these flight paths.

Hot News and Features

Who says WoW and politics don’t mix?
Missing the Holidays already? Try these WoW Holiday movies for one last hurrah.
Interested in taking your controls up a notch? WoW Rookie helps you start on the path. Among this week’s Wrath 101 topics: Honor points and how to get them. Following that up, perhaps not completely by coincidence: Resilience! Ever wonder what’s up with Sartharion? Find out in the Queue or this week’s Ask a Lore Nerd.
Don’t like PvP? You might want to try Wintergrasp anyway.