The Tuesday Morning Post: Is it 3.0 time yet?
Good Tuesday morning, everyone! The servers will be down for a short maintenance today, from 5 AM to 11 AM PDT. During this time, Blizzard plans to upgrade some of their hardware to prepare for the Wrath of the Lich King. While some people are hoping for 3.0 in addition, there's no word of it as of this writing, and I wouldn't hold my breath. I don't think they'd want to patch and upgrade hardware at the same time, and if they did, they'd definitely have planned for a 3 AM to 11 AM extended downtime.
So I'm guessing we have at least another week before we see the patch. In the meantime, you can keep yourself occupied by reading up on all of our Wrath Beta and 3.0 PTR news. Here's some of the best stuff from the past week:
Hot News and Features
Moo Money, our favorite machinima maven, has moved on from WoW Insider, but not from our hearts. Check out her farewell post as she looks back at some of her favorite WoW movies.
If you were planning on saving up Honor and Arena points for Wrath, you'd better make a new plan, Stan. They aren't sticking around for Wrath. There's going to be new stuff to buy with them in 3.0 though.
Haven't upgraded to a DVD drive yet? Plan to play Wrath of the Lich King? You may have a problem.
New Skill Mastery articles for this week include Thunderstorm and Guardian Spirit.
You want epic stories in Wrath? You got them. Warning: Huge spoilers and even huger spoilers.
As always, be sure to check out Ask A Beta Tester for all the latest news on the Wrath Beta delivered in the form of answers to your questions. Go ahead, go to the latest post and ask one in the comments.
Wrath and 3.0 Class News
Crushing blows will soon be a thing of the past, and Shifting Perspectives reflected on that though this week.
Tanking news was pretty heavy this week. Here's a bombshell: Ghostcrawler says that the dev team wants to get away from +threat moves.
In addition, Warriors got some very, very nice tank buffs too.
Druids weren't left out either. In fact, all Tank classes now have a very nice unlimited target AE ability. What could this mean?
Since we can't let tanks get all the coverage, check out Alison Robert's discussion on healing 5-mans in Wrath.
Also, Encrypted Text continues discussing Rogue Glyphs.
Here's some of the latest Priest changes from Beta.
Shamans also got some changes, including a new totem protection mechanic on Stoneclaw.
Here, have some Paladin changes while we're at it.
The latest Warlock changes might be cool, if they actually worked.
As Alex so memorably said: Everyone gets a turn at being overpowered for a little while. Balance Druids, this was your turn.
Wrath and 3.0 Miscellany
Unfortunately, Tabards aren't getting their own UI tab any time soon, but Blizzard is working a bit at making them less of a bag space hog.
When it's Tigole's turn to write the patch notes, Shenanigans ensue.
Sylvanas has been going through some changes in Beta. But with this latest patch, she and some of the other faction leaders are looking cooler than ever.
Good news for mount and/or achievement collectors: You now only need 50 mounts to get your Albino Drake.
Other News
Wait, so does the Alliance QQ Nullifier comfirm or refute our supposed massive Horde bias?
