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The Zul’Gurub Enchants and You

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On the Warcraft forums, Blizzard lackey Eyonix recently revealed some planned changes for the Zul’Gurub uber enchantments: “While it’s not completely in-line with your dream parody, I do believe that you’ll be happy to hear that in the next patch, the Dire Maul Librams will no longer be a requirement for the Zul’Gurub enchantments. Instead, a new item drop from either Bloodlord Mandokir or Jin’do the Hexxer, along with the class appropriate Voodoo doll will be all that is necessary, making these enchants much more accessible to players.” I will express reserved enthusiasm for this revamp, as I know sometimes “revamp” is just another word for nerf, and although it might seem like these enchants components couldn’t get any more annoying to collect, I know better: they could. (Furl archive of thread)

Lag is Good

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Struggling with the 45-minute Undead Stratholme Baron run, are ya? Use the instance server lag to your advantage to put the odds a bit more in your favor: Warcraft Forums “45 Minute Baron too hard? SOLUTION HERE!” Normally, I’d frown on such cheese, but this seems more like making lemonade. Plus, I’m tired of getting f’d over by Blizzard’s hardware problems that they’re always working 24/7 to correct, so I say: have your fun. (Furl archive of forum thread)

Now We Hate Patch 1.10

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And I had such high hopes for World of Warcraft’s Patch 1.10, the Patch that Would Save the Game!

Didn’t take long — a few days after the test realm players had time to get their hands dirty, just about everyone is pissed about something.

New Non-raider Epics. This is the gear that was added on the fly to Patch 1.10 to quell the rising shitstorm. (I’m guessing about that “on the fly”, the shitstorm is not a guess.)

What People Hate: New (even) lower raid limits on the Tier 0 Instances — those are your Scholo, the Strath twins, Blackrock Depths (BRD) and the two Blackrock Spires (UpperBRS/LowerBRS) areas. BRS limited to 10-man, all the others will be 5-man.

Translation: This time when you run these dungeons over and over again for your Tier 0 gear, you’re REALLY going to want a solid tank and healer.

The revamped Tier Crap instances will have new bosses, better drop rates and improved loot. Which is good, because you must have your Tier 0 set to turn in for the new epic set. You vendored it? Disenchanted maybe? Oh. Bummer.

(Seriously, just start raiding Molten Core, Blackwing Lair and Ahn’Queer. Life will be so much easier for you then.)

Here’s more from authorized Blizzard posters on the Dungeon changes: 90-minute runs, start re-farming Dungeon 1 pieces, dungeon sets are class specific.

What Foton Hates: Nothing. I’m in a raid guild so I dodged that bullet. Funny how that works out, huh? Being serious though, I’ve stopped asking, “WHY?? WHY??”, when it comes to design decisions. There often is no why.

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