5 Reasons Why the PTR Sucks

What is the PTR? There’s all sorts of curiosity and questions about this PTR thing. One of my guildies affectionately refer to it as the patience test realm. The PTR as we know it is actually known as the public test realm. It’s several servers that contain upcoming content for players to test such as …

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Flame Leviathan Thoughts

Yeah there’s going to be a buttload of spoilers here. You probably don’t want to read any further than this. Tuesday afternoon, Blizzard announced the new PTR boss testing schedules for the week. Flame Leviathan (Normal) would be open from 4 PM onwards. But it looks like someone was trigger happy and they decided to …

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3.1 PTR and Shamans, Lodur’s Initial Thoughts.

So the PTR is upon us and Shamans have a few changes to contend with. For those of you who haven’t been following the changes I’ll post the notes here before I give my comments on them so far. I’ll only give a list of the ones that affect restoration shamans but the complete list …

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Thoughts on Rapture and Mana Regen

I wanted to put some thoughts together on the post 3.1 Rapture ability and our overall mana regen. A lot of players have contacted me and wondered why I thought it was a buff and asked what it meant for their mana regeneration. Why am I so optimistic about something that’s going to tank our …

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Hymn of Hope is Removed and New Power Infusion Graphic

I checked. I checked all possible trees (including Shadow but I didn’t screenshot that). Hymn of Hope is gone. Yes, I know there was a new glyph added: Glyph of Hymn of Hope *new*  — Your Hymn of hope provides 3 times the normal amount of mana per time, but its duration is 50% shorter. …

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