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  • The Daily Quest: You had me at Sudowoodo

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    Alex Ziebart
    Alex Ziebart
    07.15.2009

    We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Big Hit Box gives a rundown of enchants for Enhancement Shaman. Gray Matter responds to the official Druid Q&A from the eyes of a Moonkin. 4 haelz responds to the Q&A from the eyes of a Resto Druid. Forever a Noob walks Rogues through Ulduar's Assembly of Iron. And OutDPS walks Hunters through General Vezax! Click here to submit a link to TDQ

  • Phat Loot Phriday: Fang of Oblivion

    by 
    Mike Schramm
    Mike Schramm
    06.12.2009

    We haven't done a dagger in a while, if my memory serves. Plus, this one is made of stars.Name: Fang of Oblivion (Wowhead, Thottbot, WoWDB)Type: Epic Unique One-hand DaggerDamage/Speed: 271-407 / 1.80 (188.3 DPS)Attributes: +47 Agility, +54 Stamina, and a Yellow Socket, which will probably let you add to crit, hit or haste, depending on what you need more of, with a +4 Agility socket bonus. +1869 Feral attack power, so you can do more damage in your new kitty form. %Gallery-33600%

  • The Light and How to Swing It: Retribution tips and tricks in Ulduar

    by 
    Zach Yonzon
    Zach Yonzon
    06.02.2009

    I know, it's another Retribution post, but since we got hit with the nerf bat again (ever so slightly) I decided to devote one last column to the spec before I rotate back to Protection. Besides, my past month or so has been spent raiding Ulduar as Retribution (with the first few forays as Holy) so I think that's what I'll talk about for now. Rather than talk about specific boss strategies, we'll talk about the little things we can do to perform at our best in Ulduar. Flame Leviathan First up is Flame Leviathan. Obviously, none of the usual strategies will apply here but one key point players should remember is that the vehicles scale with gear. This means having to prepare an outfit set optimized for the encounter. One thing to note about vehicle scaling is that it doesn't look at stats, just iLevel. Optimizing a gear set for this means putting the highest iLevel item you have in every slot. For "pure" classes, this is usually their normal set-up, but for Paladins who keep several sets of gear, an iLevel-optimized outfit can be composed of healing items, a few tank items, some DPS items, and even PvP gear. Players can use AddOns such as RatingBuster to determine an item's iLevel and outfit managers such as Outfitter or Blizzard's new in-game equipment manager to quickly swap gear.