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Daily Quest: Of Unrelenting Assaults, Holy Paladin primers and the ABCs of being a Shadow Priest
We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. The Tanking Tips goes where few Warriors dare to tread and explores the Unrelenting Assault tanking spec. The Fear.Win blog gives us the A-Z Shadow Priest list. The Pally Bubble blog has written a three part primer on raiding for Holy Paldins: Part 1 - Holy Paladin Raiding Specs Part 2 - Holy Paladin Glyph recommendations Part 3 - Holy Paladin Gearing for Raiding The Druid Main blog has written their own raiding primer also, this time preparing Restoration Druids: Part 1 - Enchants for Raiding Resto Druids Part 2 - Gemming for Raiding Resto Druids Part 3 - Consumables for Raiding Resto Druids All Things Azeroth has their latest podcast up covering the latest AddOn controversy, the iPhone Authenticator app, the sample chapter from the upcoming Arthas novel and more. Submit a guide, post, podcast or resource for inclusion in TDQ and we'll consider it for a future post. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
Warrior class changes in patch 3.1 PTR build 9684
From our friendly official patch notes for the PTR, we now have some news on new talents for Arms, which I complained about this morning: Improved Intercept and Weapon Mastery have once again swapped places in the talent tree. New Talent: Juggernaut: Grants the warrior the ability to Charge while in combat. Unrelenting Assault: Now also increases the damage of Overpower and Revenge by 10/20%, and causes Overpower (when used to attack a casting target) to decrease the effectiveness of all the target's non-physical damage and healing by 25/50% for 6 seconds. Tooltip and visual updated. Pretty obviously they switched Imp Intercept and Weapon Mastery because arms will not be expected to use intercept at all now that they'll be able to charge in combat, similar to the protection ability Warbringer. We've basically now seen two out of the three warrior specs given the option to dispense with Intercept altogether. In addition, fury warriors have lost the only 'expertise compensation' talent they had. While for warriors with sufficient expertise this is a non-issue, if you were using Weapon Mastery to fill a lower than necessary expertise stat, get some exp gear fast.Unrelenting Assault sounds like a promising buff. I won't know how promising until I get back onto the PTR tonight, but a damage buff and an anti-caster function? Yes please. It does PvP and PvE duty, can't complain about that. All in all, it's a trickle, but a trickle is better than nothing. Not too thrilled about the loss of Weapon Mastery for fury warriors, but it's survivable. Patch 3.1 brings us Ulduar, dual specs, significant changes to all the classes, and more! We've got you covered from top to bottom with our Guide to Patch 3.1.
