Tag Archive: patch 4.0

Live from the PTR

As a (not so) proud member of the No Beta club, I was happy when I was finally able to copy Qieth over to the PTR servers. Downloading the 14 GB patch – twice – and trying to get my addons to work took quite a lot of time, but I eventually settled for going bare-naked with no addons, just to see how it went.

I had a lot of unanswered questions, and I really needed to get a feel for the new talents, rotations, glyphs and gems myself. Unfortunately, not all of the glyphs are working, and my stupid-math can’t quite cover gems, but I did discover quite a lot of niffy things which I would like to share with you guys.

As always, remember that this is all in level 80 gear, and nothing is finalized yet. Things may change before 4.0 hits the live servers, and before Cataclysm comes.

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On the topic of masteries

Blizzard recently released a bit of information on the Mastery stat, a stat that I have been slightly confused about. The information clears up a bit of the confusion though, and while they only released examples, it does seem like an interesting concept.

Keep in mind that the information we have on masteries is very limited. We will have to make some educated guesses and then simply wait and see who is right, before we can actually start theorycrafting much. But lets take a look at what we do know.

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