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Good: Tier 8 Set Piece Bonuses


Druid
  • Balance 4Piece Bonus -- Each time your Insect Swarm deals damage, it has a chance to make your next Starfire cast within 10 sec instant.
  • Feral 2Piece Bonus -- The periodic damage dealt by your Rake, Rip, and Lacerate abilites has a chance to cause you to enter a Clearcasting state.
  • Feral 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the duration of Savage Roar and Survival Instinct by 8 sec.
  • Restoration 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the healing done by your Swiftmend spell by 10%.
  • Restoration 4Piece Bonus -- Your Rejuvenation spell also instantly heals your target for its periodic healing amount.
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Tier 8 armor images here

Hunter
  • 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by your Serpent Sting by 10%.
  • 4Piece Bonus -- Your Steady Shot has a chance to grant you 600 attack power for 15 sec.
Mage
  • 2Piece Bonus -- Your Arcane Blast, Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt, and Fireball spells have a chance to grant you 350 spell power for 15 sec.
  • 4Piece Bonus -- You have a chance for the effect of your Missile Barrage, Hot Streak, or Brain Freeze talent not to be consumed when you cast the spells which benefit.

Warlock
  • 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by your Unstable Affliction and Immolate spells by 20%.
  • 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the critical strike chance of your Shadow Bolt and Incinerate spells by 5%.
Rogue
  • 2Piece Bonus -- Your Deadly Poison causes you to gain 1 energy each time it deals damage.
  • 4Piece Bonus -- The damage dealt by your Rupture can now be critical strikes.
Paladin
  • Retribution 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by your Exorcism and Hammer of Wrath abilities by 10%.
  • Retribution 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the critical strike chance of your Divine Storm and Crusader Strike abilities by 10%.
  • Protection 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by your Seals by 10%.
  • Protection 4Piece Bonus -- Shield of Righteousness now increases your shield block value by 225 for 3 sec.
  • Holy 2Piece Bonus -- Your Holy Shock critical heals now also place a periodic healing effect on the target, healing for 15% of the Holy Shock's heal amount over 9 sec.
  • Holy 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage absorbed by your Sacred Shield by 10%.
Priest
  • Shadow 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by your Devouring Plague by 15%.
  • Shadow 4Piece Bonus -- Your Mind Blast also grants you 15 haste rating for until cancelled.
  • Healer 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the critical heal chance of your Prayer of Healing by 10%.
  • Healer 4Piece Bonus -- Casting Power Word: Shield also grants you 15 spell power for until cancelled.
Warrior
  • Protection 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the critical strike chance of your Devastate ability by 10%.
  • Protection 4Piece Bonus -- Shield Block also grants you 20% reduction to magical damage taken.
  • DPS 2Piece Bonus -- Heroic Strike and Slam critical strikes have a chance to grant you 150% haste rating for 5 sec.
  • DPS 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the critical strike chance of Mortal Strike and Bloodthirst by 10%.
Death Knight
  • DPS 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the critical strike chance of Death Coil and Frost Strike by 5%.
  • DPS 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the bonus damage done per disease by 20% on Blood Strike, Heart Strike, Obliterate, and Scourge Strike.
  • Tank 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by Rune Strike by 5%.
  • Tank 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by Rune Strike by 10%.
Shaman
  • Enhancement 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by Lava Lash and Stormstrike by 20%.
  • Enhancement 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the frequency of Maelstrom Weapon being triggered by your melee weapon attacks by 20%.
  • Restoration 2Piece Bonus -- Reduces the cooldown on Riptide by 1 sec.
  • Restoration 4Piece Bonus -- Reduces the cast time of Chain Heal by 0.2 sec.
  • Elemental 2Piece Bonus -- The periodic damage dealt by your Flame Shock can now be critical strikes.
  • Elemental 4Piece Bonus -- Your critical Strikes from Lightning Bolt cause the target to take nature damage equal to 8% of the Lightning Bolt's damage over until cancelled sec.
  • Enhancement 2Piece Bonus -- Increases the damage done by Lava Lash and Stormstrike by 20%.
  • Enhancement 4Piece Bonus -- Increases the frequency of Maelstrom Weapon being triggered by your melee weapon attacks by 20%.
  • Restoration 2Piece Bonus -- Reduces the cooldown on Riptide by 1 sec.
  • Restoration 4Piece Bonus -- Reduces the cast time of Chain Heal by 0.2 sec.
  • Elemental 2Piece Bonus -- The periodic damage dealt by your Flame Shock can now be critical strikes.
  • Elemental 4Piece Bonus -- Your critical Strikes from Lightning Bolt cause the target to take nature damage equal to 8% of the Lightning Bolt's damage over until cancelled sec.

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Good: World of Warcraft Mountain Dew


It seems that Mountain Dew is continuing on their success of their Halo 3 branded soda, Game Fuel, with not one, but TWO, World of Warcraft inspired soft drinks.

The beverages, seen above, come in two flavors - Alliance Blue (wild fruit flavor) and Horde Red (citrus cherry flavor).

Just like the last one, these flavors will only be available for a limited time. They plan to announce more details "in the coming months".

Personally, I thought the Halo 3 drink was awesome, and I even saved a bottle for months that my girlfriend and I poured into wine glasses and drank(you know how they say wine tastes better the more it ages? It doesn't work the same way for soda). Needless to say, I'm very excited to see how these new ones taste. Continue Reading»

Good: New Spirit Beast Preview: Gondria



This guy loves this cat. He's playing in the PTR so don't try and find him just yet. At least we can pronounce the name of this one. Continue Reading»

Interesting: Ulduar Dungeon Maps


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Good: WoW Ulduar Tier 8 Armor



With the 3.1 patch around the corner, Blizzard has released images on the upcoming tier 8 raid sets available in Ulduar. Usually one or two sets don't get as much attention as some other really impressive ones in that set but not this time. Blizzard made sure that all sets are sick and mission accomplished. To see all sets


(click images to see all 4 variants)

Mage

Warrior

Warlock

Shaman

Rogue

Priest

Paladin

Hunter

Druid

Death Knight

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Funny: WoW Easter Eggs


The World of Azeroth is littered with references from all sorts of places, like movies, other games, t.v. shows like lost and even Paris Hilton. Here I've compiled some screenshots, a video and a site all containing some of the different WoW easter eggs hidden just about everyhwere. Continue Reading»

Good: Blizzard Announces Priest, Rogue and Shaman Changes


As Blizzard gets ready for the 3.1.0 patch to drop they have begun releasing class changes. They look slightly similar to the leaked patched notes I recently posted so maybe they could be legit. Hit the jump for the changes.


PRIEST
# Divine Spirit – this spell is now a core ability available to all priests.
# Discipline has access to a new talent, Power Word: Barrier. (Think of it as Power Word: Shield for your whole group).
# Several area of effect (AOE) heal spells have been improved: Prayer of Healing can be cast on any groups in your raid party. Holy Nova's mana cost has been reduced. Circle of Healing now heals for more.
# Shadow priest PvP survivability has been improved: Shadow Form now reduces magic as well as physical damage. Dispersion now removes snares.
# Penance – this spell can now be targeted on the priest.
# Serendipity – this talent now reduces the cast time of Greater Heal and Prayer of Healing when Binding Heal or Flash Heal are cast.
# We are also working to give Holy additional PvP utility.

ROGUE
# Hunger for Blood – instead of a self-buff, this ability can only be used when there is a bleed effect on the target. However, it has no stacks and grants a 15% damage bonus.
# Adrenaline Rush – the cooldown on this ability has been lowered.
# Lightning Reflexes – reduced to 3 ranks. In addition to 2/4/6% dodge, this talent now also grants 4/7/10% passive melee haste.
# Killing Spree – while this ability is active, the rogue does 20% additional damage.
# Savage Combat – now causes 2/4% physical damage done.
# Mace Specialization – this talent now grants haste in addition to armor penetration.

SHAMAN
# Chain Lightning – now jumps to 4 targets but does less damage. We wanted to make the distinction between Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning more clear.
# Storm, Earth and Fire – this talent now increases all damage done by Flame Shock, not just periodic damage.
# Spirit Weapons – now reduces all threat, not just melee threat.
# Unleashed Rage – reduced to 2 ranks, now also increases your critical strike chance with melee attacks by 1/2%.
# Totem streamlining: The Mana Spring and Healing Stream Totems have been combined. The Disease Cleansing and Poison Cleansing Totems have been combined.
# We are also working on giving Enhancement and Elemental more PvP utility.


I'll keep you posted with more class changes as they are released.
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