My Dual Specs

Patch 3.1.0 is finally here and we now have our Dual Specs. All the Hybrid classes are all excited to be able to swap between Tank/Healer/DPS specs with ease. Just because we can only DPS, doesn’t mean Dual Spec isn’t worth it for us. Now we can bring two different PvE specs to a raid, [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Newest Build Give Mages Buffs

The newest PTR Build (9733) gives Mages a passive buff for our Improved Scorch and Winter’s Chill talents, as well as buff the new version of Molten Armor. The list of all changes can be found at MMO-Champion as always.

Fire

Living Bomb AoE damage has been greatly increased. Rank 3 now deals 690 Fire damage (up [...]

Attention Mages: Calm Down About Spirit!

To: Raiding Mages
From: Tuna
RE: Calm the $#@^ down about Spirit!
Again, with my current gear, unbuffed, and only Rank 1 Student of the Mind, I’m at 517 Spirit. 7 pieces of my gear have Spirit on them (including 2 pieces T7.5), 10 pieces of the rest of my gear, have zero Spirit. 15.57 of that Spirit [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – New Non-Combat Pet Icons

For those of you who care, new pet icons! These are the only ones I have noticed so far on the PTR, but the new changes makes it easier to find these pets in your pet tab. No more mistakenly summoning Eggbert when you wanted to summon Pengu. No more summoning the Netherwhelp when you [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Random Screenshots

Here are a few screenshots taken from the Public Test Realm for the upcoming Patch 3.1.0. Some of them are just to show some of the new stuff coming out, and some are of how nice the inside of the new raid instance, Ulduar, looks.
New Look for Tier 7.5 Shoulders

There is a new metallic look [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Set Bonuses and Crit Nerfs

Last night Blizzard hit us with the latest PTR Build (9704), which revealed all the set bonuses for the Tier 8 gear of all classes. You can take a look at all the set bonuses here at MMO-Champion.

Mage Tier 8 Set Bonuses:

2 Pieces: Your Arcane Blast, Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt, and Fireball spells have a chance [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – The Flame Leviathan

I had a chance to test out one of the new Ulduar bosses on the Public Test Realm the other night. It was a full guild run, and the boss we were after was The Flame Leviathan. We were attempting the 10 man version of the fight, and the encounter was… interesting. You won’t be [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Equipment Manager

Another new feature to be released with Patch 3.1.0 is the ability to store equipment sets for your character. Pretty much Blizzard’s version of the popular mod, ItemRack, which I currently use today. The new feature is the Equipment Manager.

To enable this feature, you need to go into your Interface option menu. Select “Control”, and [...]

Is Dual Spec Worth 1000g?

If you have been on the Public Test Realm lately to test out Patch 3.1.0, or if you have been on the WoW>PTR Forums, then you will most likely have read a lot of player’s opinion about the whole Dual Spec feature.
Some players are looking forward to the new feature, some could care less, and [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – New Features

You’re probably tired of reading about Patch 3.1.0 already, so this is for those of you who have no luck with PTR and want to see some of the new features.
Dual Spec

This new feature will allow players to pay a one-time fee (currently 1000g), to be able to have two different specs which they could [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – New Mage Glyphs

More Mage changes were up on MMO-Champion.com, this time some changes to existing Glyphs, as well as some new ones. Once again you can look at them here at MMO-Champion.com.

Glyph Changes:

Glyph of Ice Lance: Your Ice Lance now causes 4 times damage against frozen targets higher level than you instead of triple damage. (Old: Increases [...]

PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Frost Mage Replenishment

Instead of sleeping like I said I was going to do, I logged into my WoW account and copied my Mage over to the Public Test Realm (both PvP and PvE servers). Then opened up my PTR Client, logged in, and it started the download for the next PTR build. Weighing in at 733mb, it [...]