WoW: Mr. Robot says two gem slots, Wowhead says one / Kalecgos comes to Stormwind

I’ve been trying to figure out why Mr. Robot tells me the Belt of the Dim Forest has two gem slots, when it only has one. Turns out I have to have a Belt Buckle, which is automatically added to all belts in Mr. Robot. Yet there is no indication of what you need. How is that helpful? Huh?

So I searched Wowhead, and found there is such a thing. An Ebonsteel Belt Buckle. Heard of this thing before. Checked its mats, saw two of them I could do, which is to make four Elementium Bars, and four Pyrium Bars. The last one, Volatile Earth, I had eight on me and needed four. So, the mats were covered.

So I flew to IF to grab the smelt recipes, then went to Uldum to mine Elementium (had enough Pyrite to make the four bars). During the mining, I notice how.. active the skies were over the nodes. Mostly, botters. But I found some and was able to make both bars. Then I had to fly to Theramore, get on the boat, then fly to SW and ask if someone could make the belt buckle.

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As I approached SW, I noticed something very weird in the skies above it. As I got closer, it was a large dragon; too big to be a flying mount. Then I noticed Blue Drakes flying around this massive, ram-like horned dragon. I noticed one of the Blue Drakes had a Talk icon when I moused over it, so I flew over and asked it what the hell is going on.

It’s funny how it asked “Yes, mortal?” in my dragon form. In an RP POV, it couldn’t see I was a dragon too? Should of been “Yes, friend?” instead of “Yes, mortal?”.

Anyway, it gives you a thing where you ask the fellow dragon what are they doing here. It says that Kalecgos has been chosen as the new aspect of the Blue Dragonflight, and how someone amongst the mortals made it happen by stopping Arygos’s betrayal to Deathwing, and they’re celebrating. This catches me by surprise. Reading the 4.2 PTR notes never mentioned this, that Arygos would attempt to stop it by allying with Deathwing.
I remember Arygos. He’s part of a very annoying quest chain on the Horde side. The one that was in love with a Spirit Healer.

In an RP POV, I congratulate Kalecgos. He deserves it. But does this mean the attacks of the Blues and the Reds at Wrymrest Temple, have stopped? That the Nexus War is over? I wish I can say they have, but no. I went to the temple the day after, and the blues are still attacking as usual.
Kinda wish they did this better. Maybe apologizing for the attacks on Wyrmrest (if you’re exalted with the temple, which I am) and with the Nexus War. Plus, there was never a server announcement. But the real thanks goes to the one that made this happen. Good for them.

I found the one that I believe is the reason why Kalecgos is here, sitting next to the SW AH. Another type of dragon form, except this one has no saddle for another rider. It has the same type of horns as Kalygos, but not the same type of wings. Its back is horn-less. Not sure if that’s a way to indicate it’s a female. In a way, it almost looks like Alexstrasza. If it was red and had the long horns, it would of been. Because its face almost looks like her.
The next day when I went to SW to get to Northrend, it’s like nothing happened. The massive dragon was gone and so were the blue drakes.

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WoW: Angry “returns” to WoW / Hallow’s End is over… someone tell that to the Horseman

A normal boring Sunday, waiting for my friend to get on so we can continue our RPing. Except today, angry unexpectedly came back to WoW. I assume he was driven by Blizzard’s new thing of being able to play up to Level 20 for free.
He rejoined as his new Steam name, “Yoplitein”, as a Dwarf Hunter. I flew there to help him out.

Though the “helping” was basically telling him what has changed since he last played. During this, the Headless Horseman is still spamming his “the bells have tolled!” thing, flying over Kharanos. Thing is, Hallow’s End is over. Everything Halloween-themed except him has been removed.

Angry does his usual AFK thing. So I go dragon and fly to Kharanos after seeing the Horseman spamming his thing again. When I got there, I saw no way to putting out the fires. Only him flying around at the roofs of the buildings on fire.
After ten minutes, the Horseman drops dead, then respawns, spamming again. … WHY?!?! He’s the most annoying thing of Hallow’s End!

I hope he gets removed on Tuesday. And also, Angry got logged for his AFKing. Justice is served. 🙂

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WoW: Server Maintenance in the afternoon now? / Changes in Hollow’s End

Blizzard has seemed to have changed when they do their Tuesday maintenance schedule. Now, servers are going down in the PM hours.
For the past month, it’s been like this. Servers going down around 1-2pm Eastern, but going back up in about a minute (sometimes taking 10 minutes). Does this mean they’re improving their maintenance? Maybe working on individual servers instead of all at once?

Still wish they would do it while I’m asleep, especially for as short of a downtime as they do. But, this beats getting on and knowing I have to wait ’till 2pm to play. So I have little reason to bitch about this. It’s only a tiny inconvenience.

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Also, something I forgot to mention because of RPing with my friend. There’s been some major changes to Hollow’s End this year. The ‘Tricky Treat’ is now the official currency for Hollow’s End (as well as being eatable). You can buy the Hollowed Helm and the Sinister Squashling with it (both 200 candy a piece.. and no, that wasn’t a pun), instead of being forced to kill the Headless Horseman in the dungeon event and having a chance for them to drop. My Tauren Hunter lucked out a year ago and got both in one go.

You can even get them as “drops” from the Candy Buckets found near Innkeepers all over Azeroth, which is also new. My friend got the Sinister Squashling about a week ago, and before server maintenance today, I got mine. So awesome, and minus the work I had to put in as my Tauren Hunter.

There’s also two new pets this year. The Creepy Crate (a crate that follows you around), and the Feline Familiar (a black cat with a witch’s hat riding a broom).
You get the Creepy Crate after completing a nice, new quest chain in SW, only available for Level 85’s (but I’ve seen 83’s with the crate, so..). The quest chain is easily soloable as the only guy you gotta kill is low health, but is an 84.

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BlizzCon 2011! What’s been said about WoW’s new EP and other shit

Currently watching the BlizzCon DirecTV event, they just now officially announced the new EP for WoW. Some found the name to be obvious. The “Mists of Pandaria”, or “MoP” for short.

What is known is there will be new content (of course), level cap will be increased to Level 90 (to help balance it from Cata). Some kind of “Pet Battle System”. This system was highly detailed later on. The way they described it, it sounded just like Pokemon. Pitting your pet against another, getting it leveled, naming it.
A new race and class have been announced for the new EP. The “Pandarian”, and the new class is “Monk”.
This time, there won’t be a overpowered threat to Azeroth. This time… …we, will be our own enemy, to the planet, due to the continuous fighting between the Alliance and Horde. Deathwing, will be defeated (they showed a clip of the Dragon Soul raid in Patch 4.3). But Azeroth will never truly be at peace while the two factions clash over this new land for its resources.

Ghostcrawler was there, and he mentions about the Pandarians will talk about why the fighting continues between the Alliance and Horde, and try to calm the tensions between the two. He also mentioned the new Pandarian race will be playable by both factions, making it the first cross-faction race. It’s mentioned later when you get to Level 10, you can choose which faction you want to be on. And no, this is not a new hero class.
In my opinion, I’m looking forward to the next EP. I was hoping this would put the series to bed, but it’s mentioned that isn’t even done past this one. That there will be more in the future.

Before the announcement, the CEO of Blizzard announced something that shocked everyone. What if you played WoW, but didn’t know if you wanted Diablo 3? Well.. now, you can get it, FOR FREE!!! “HOLY SHIT!!” was the first words that came out of my mouth.
The trick is, you have to subscribe your WoW account to this 12-month deal. And when Diablo 3 comes out, you get it, for FREE! No demo. THE FULL GAME!
Now, I never really cared for the Diablo series.. but I love free stuff.
Even better, when you do this, you will also be able to play the Beta of WoW’s new EP before it shows up on the PTR. And, get this new flying horse mount that beats the shit out of the Celestial Steed.

Ghostcrawler mentions the new EP is to “relieve the pressure” of the tension of the EP’s. With Illidan, The Lich King, .. and Deathwing. This is to “lighten the feeling” and make the game look more friendly. I now like him, and take back every mean thing I’ve said about Blizzard over the years. 🙂
Unfortunately, this comes with one bad thing… no flying ’till Level 90. They claim the reason is because how big the new continent will be, and they want players to stay on the ground and see it all; see the work they put into it. They know people like flying, but they don’t want them to miss content.
What they aren’t saying is where is this new island in Azeroth. That still seems to be hush hush to them.

Over at the Facebook feed, players are already voicing their opinions over the new EP. Some don’t like the new race (due to being the only new player race). Others say Blizzard is being too kind to new players.

The hammer Ghostcrawler was holding before the announcement of the EP, will be available on the Blizzard Store as an Epic weapon (the first ever buyable weapon outside of the AH). He mentioned about “we need something like this for the Alliance”.

A redesigned talent system will be shipped when the EP is, and was shown in detail what the (possible) new talents will be. Instead of having a full “cookie cutter” tree, all classes will pick a single talent from a tier of three talents. Every 15 levels, you’ll get another one. They are levels 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90. Hunters will start off at Level 15 with three never done before bullet types; frost, arcane, and poison.
The reason for this redesign of the talent system is to give players more freedom of how they wanna play, to allow them not to have the same type of talent tree as another to keep things fresh, and different. They want more player customization.

Other changes for WoW include two changes for PvE. With one that may ultimately replace the need for Group quests.
The first one is what they call, “Challenge Modes”, which is similar to what VALVe did for Portal. What they mean is having a timed dungeon, where people run in, do their thing, and beat it in an X amount of time, and you get medals for how well you do. These medals are basically for bragging rights. I don’t think I’ll be getting into that.
The second thing, they call “PvE Scenarios”. These might replace Group quests and will throw in a PvE version of a Battleground. Your buddies will work with you to help you complete these challenging quests. And what’s better, an improved LFG system just for it.

The Raid Finder that was announced with Patch 4.3 was mentioned again. They would like to see more people raiding. So as well as Valor Points, they offer a “Side of Fries” for completing a raid. I think this is just a dev joke. Pretty funny one, though.

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Day 2 of BlizzCon was mostly about PvP tournaments for WoW and Starcraft 2, with an amazing finish between two of SCII’s best Turren and Zerg players. It kinda makes me wanna look at RTS games differently. Maybe even give Starcraft 2 a chance.

They had a new Q&A for WoW for general questions, with six of the devs answering questions from players. There was some QQing about how Blood DK’s got nerfed. And someone even asked them “player housing… please?”, and their response is that as long as players want new dungeons, raids, and more content, they don’t have enough time to do it. But it’s not something they threw away. So there’s still hope.

At the closing ceremonies, L80ETC rocked the house with classics like “Power to The Horde” and “I Am Murloc”, and ‘leveled up’ before our eyes; becoming L90ETC to celebrate the announcement of the EP.
And the Foo Fighters helped to end the event. The event ended at 12:20am EDT.

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Seeing this is my first time watching BlizzCon, I really enjoyed it. Loved seeing the info of the new EP for WoW and what to expect, and the heavy details of every new feature mentioned to not keep players in the dark.
Next year, I’m just going to buy the Virtual Ticket instead of through DirecTV, since it wouldn’t show it. I was wrong about the shitty stream. It came in beautiful. Others, were complaining about it.

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WoW: Patch 4.3, small changes for the PTR

It’s official. Three younger versions of Alexstrasza will be a mount (no official name or reason for them yet). There’s a new icon for them. Currently, for the red version. The blue and purple versions don’t have one yet.
Achievements have been added, but not implemented. They mostly cover the raid and the Fall of Deathwing.

The price of Void Storage is being talked about, and Blizzard is thinking about giving players what they want (shock!) and lowering the price of creating a slot from 1k to 100g, the price of depositing an item may be reduced as well, but what the best thing is, they might make getting items out, for free. Yes, FREE. Blizzard knows it will piss people off when they can’t get out an item for not having the money. This will make Void Storage more promising to me if they do this.
These prices have yet to be put into the PTR, and the prices are subject to change before the release of 4.3.

As for the dungeons, Wowhead claims there’s new maps for End Time, but I see nothing different from what I saw in the PTR yesterday. Kinda wish they would show the pictures from the Dungeon Journal that show boss locations.

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WoW: Patch 4.3, in the PTR

I’ve seen alot. I’ve seen End Time, and I’ve also seen the Hour of Twilight. Took lots of screenshots, but got disappointed with a few areas.

First started figuring out how to move my char again. The PTR FAQ states that all chars will be wiped when the PTR shuts down, yet Benietest still stood. So I deleted him and got my newer Benie on. He still has his Dragon Form, so I’m happy about that.

First off, I noticed a few things different. All creatures have a “V” or “^” to the left of their names. I assume this is if they’re lower or higher than you in level. The Dungeon Journal has been updated, of course, with the three new dungeons and the raid. Took pictures of them. What’s strange is Deathwing and Murozond are like, half-bodied. Half their bodies are missing. This is either from the PTR or the fact I was still downloading critical data. Also, Murozond has a goatee, just to show how evil he is. Made me laugh.

The Tracking popup has been changed too. Now it has two sub-categories. One for Hunters, and the other for Townsfolk (which IMO they should change to “Services”).

So, I first flew to Dragonblight. Once there, I saw that everything has remained the same since WotLK was released. The blues are still a threat to all magic-baring mortals, and Malygos is still alive. Wyrmrest still stands tall, and everyone’s alive. Good to see that. Really calms my nerves. You see I’ve pictured 4.3 being the end. That if I wasn’t geared enough to do the dungeons, we would all die. This is not the case. So I can finally relax. And not stress so much over getting geared.

I then flew to CoT (Caverns of Time) to check out the new dungeons. Once there I got a bit lost in one area. There’s two new areas in CoT. The one I was trying to enter was the Well of Eternity, and it’s not ready for testing yet. Everytime I entered, it said “Heroic Difficulty requires you to be level 85”, which is funny because I AM 85. Didn’t bother to ask because I knew the answer.

I went into the other area. It was torched, burning, and blackened, so this had to be the entrance to End Time. It’s also the entrance to the Dragon Soul raid and the Hour of Twilight. Unfortunately I went the wrong way and stumbled into HoT. There I met Thrall who’s still in his Earthen Ring gear. Talking to him starts the event, but I didn’t. I just followed the path ahead of me. But it stops short of some sort of ice block. I assume Thrall helps to clear it. So I ran back and approached this Portal thing. When I clicked on it, the disk inside of it disappeared. Clicking on it again makes it re-appear. Very strange. So I got no way of getting back to CoT. Had to hearth out. Also, the minions of the Old Gods that are seen in the Hour of Twilight (the maul things that were seen in Twilight Highlands), aren’t accessible ’till you hit the raid. Found this out through the Dungeon Journal.

Coming back, I finally found the portal to End Time. Stepped through and immediately saw Deathwing impaled on the top of the temple. There are bones of dragons littering the landscape, and alot more than before. I don’t really want to know who were these dragons. They’re probably what’s left of the Red and Blue Dragonflights. There’s occasional lightning and thunder as well. It truly is the end. You can assume even you died, and will never be rezzed again. Yet you’re in the dungeon. Freaky, huh?

I wanted to explore the landscape and the temple closer, but there’s some sort of invisible wall that kept me from walking past the dungeon entrance platform. This really pisses me off, and I pray this isn’t going to stay like this when the patch goes live (but it probably will). I mean, come ON! Blizzard shows all of these pictures of the desolate Dragonblight from many angles, and you can’t go there in person?
Seeing how my options were limited to get screenshots I wanted, I needed to get my old Ornate Spyglass from the bank. So I left the dungeon by turning around and went in this familiar cave I remember doing a quest that took me there, and popped back in CoT. So at least that works. Then flew to Gadgetzan and got the thing, then went back to End Time and used it to see better.
The temple itself looks badly damaged, but the inside of it looks ok. Just wish I could see what the portal room looks like. Yet I saw something that made me wtf. New Hearthglen still stands. Wouldn’t that be reduced to a crater?
And as for how long it’s been since the Hour of Twilight, going by the fact Deathwing’s body still looks intact (and the other dragons are all bones), I say one year instead of five years. It also looks like half of Deathwing’s body has been ripped off. Maybe because it’s on the other side of the temple.

What I really don’t get is, why is Nozdormu just chilling? How come there isn’t a quest to enter End Time? Or is this just real early in the PTR that there isn’t any? He just seemed not at all urgent. What’s really strange is when I talked to him, he had a male Night Elf voice. Again, I assume this will all be changed later on.

Speaking of entering, the Dungeon Finder shows the three dungeons as their own group, called Hour of Twilight Heroic. But also shows the dungeons available in the regular Cataclysm Heroic area. It shows I can’t enter the Well of Eternity, but I can enter End Time and Hour of Twilight. Which means I’m geared enough to enter as a group.

My new Flameward Hippogryph has a new look, and new flight sounds. Similar to the Spectral Steed. Also has a burning sound.
As for the Transmogrification and Void Storage, I found the new location for them. It’s near the old barracks in Stormwind. The new Darkmoon Island isn’t ready for testing so I can’t go there yet.

So, that’s basically what I saw. Been lagging like crazy due to this server, but that hasn’t stopped me from learning about 4.3.

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WoW: Patch 4.3, a whole lotta info / Re-entering the PTR tomorrow

‘Read all about it! Wowhead releases new details of Patch 4.3!’
Looks like there was more news than I thought of for Patch 4.3, and it isn’t just about Deathwing. I need to pay attention to wowheadnews.com more often.

First off, for Blizzard to show that 4.3 isn’t the end of the world.. of warcraft, there’s new info about the new Darkmoon Island. PvP and PvE players will have quests to do there. There is even a legendary Rogue quest chain, where a skilled Rogue’s powers are required. Corastrasza (the dragon you saved in Twilight Highlands) will be assisting the player in these.
New games will be at the faire, and they are dailies to boot. They are “Whack-A-Gnoll“, “Cannon Blast“, “Ring Toss“, and possibly some kind of target shoot game. Can’t wait to play with these.
And that’s not all. You can now increase your professions by doing quests. How this works, is beyond me (no real details about it). But if you do one, the prof it’s attached to gets +5 in it.

Worgens will be able to finally stop running around on all fours and actually have a real mount. Two new horse mounts, the Mountain Horse and the Swift Mountain Horse, will be added in 4.3. The models look like regular horse mounts, which is a disappointment. The horses and the trainer will be found near the new Worgen area in Darnassus.

And that’s pretty much it (that I care about). The rest shows detailed info and pictures of the final dungeon in Cata; Hour of Twilight. It lists the bosses and how they can kill you, if you’re not careful. Also has pictures and info of the Well of Eternity.

There’s even some info of the raid. Namely how it starts. Players are on a gunship called The Skyfire, armed with cannons and harpoon guns. The guns will be used to kill the remaining Twilight Dragons and wipe them off the planet. Blizzard says the gunship is not indestructible. If it blows up, it’s considered a wipe for the entire raid. The twilight guys on the dragons will try to blow up the ship and players must kill them before they can. This is not listed as a boss fight.
I assume after they are defeated, the harpoon guns will be used to hold Deathwing so players can head down and dismantle him.

End Time apparently is still the only dungeon available for testing in the PTR, even though the pictures in the Hour of Twilight has players attacking bosses and trash mobs.
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And tomorrow, I will re-enter the PTR. I first got to figure out how to copy Benie, into it. This to me should help show me what I’m up against. Instead of being a spectator, I’ll be a viewer. I’ll have my own screenshots. Maybe even make a movie of what End Time looks like from my perspective.
And when Darkmoon Island, the Well of Eternity, and the Hour of Twilight open up, I’ll be there to see them.

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WoW: Almost geared up on Benie / Did my first Heroic since TBC

Time for some non-Patch 4.3 news. I hope to one day be in the three Heroic dungeons, so that’s one reason I’ve been gearing up.
So far I have every piece, except for the bracers. That means I can’t “quit my job” yet. I’ll have to work extra hard to get as much money as I can for enchanting / gems / and reforging. I have no idea how much everything is going to cost, but I’m sure it’s going to be more than 20k.

For enchants, I’ll have to buy the mats from the AH (or acquire them through my profs). That’s not going to be cheap. Though, getting reforging and gems was.. mostly.
When it comes to reforging, it’s nothing big. You spend less than 50g, depending what you want done. And gems, all I did was search for them in the AH. They had every gem I needed.

There was a bit of a problem. My new belt, [Belt of the Dim Forest], Mr. robot claims there’s two gem slots, when there’s only one. So I wasted money on a gem I didn’t need. Did get back said money.
Now I have to continue running dungeons. But not for JP, but for rep. Revered with Ramkahen and Exalted with Therazane to get two perm enchants.

All that’s left to do is get bracers, which require either killing Vanessa VanCleef in Deadmines, or Ozruk in Stonecore. Both are in heroic. Infact, I just got done doing DM in heroic. Was pretty fun, and brought me back. And no bitching about my DPS! Unfortunately, the bracers didn’t drop.
And what’s worse, it seems heroics are like raids. Except, I only have to wait a day instead of a week for them to reset. They reset at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific).

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WoW: Patch 4.3, the theories

Blizzard and Wowhead have been hush hush lately about the 4.3 patch. Not talking much about the Deathwing encounter, only the other less-interesting stuff like the Transmogrification and Void Storage features. Though I do wish I heard some more info of the new location of the Darkmoon Faire.

Now comes the time where we have all of this info from Wowhead datamining 4.3 and giving it to us, and turn it into wondering how things are going to work, and start to theorize. But that’s all we really got right now; what might happen instead of what will.

We have a fairly good idea about the End Time dungeon now. Five bosses. Two are random between runs. But that’s all we (well, I) know about it. We know nothing else of the other two dungeons, including the raid. Because the ‘Well of Eternity’ dungeon hasn’t hit the PTR yet. They’re still working on it.

But what they still will not mention is why is Deathwing impaled ontop of the tower. The notes of the Dragon Soul raid mention about his preferred outcome for Azeroth, End Time, that he too won’t survive it. Does something kill him?
Now I think it could be Murozond who killed him. This dragon can fuck with time, so he could of possibly teleported Deathwing there so he would be impaled. It’s likely he also caused the echos of the four former heroes to appear in Dragonblight, since the notes of End Time mentioned all four are “time-twisted”.

Now, we get to what we don’t know but guess what could happen. Such as the raid. What we know is 6/8 boss fights will be in Dragonblight, and the final two will be all Deathwing. But what we don’t know is how is boss 7, which is on Deathwing’s back, will be done. We know that the fight will be over Azeroth, but will non-raiders see it? Or will this be a gigantic phased version of Azeroth? No one knows. There’s also so very little info on the fight itself. It’s said players will be attempting to remove Deathwing’s elementium plating, and about tentacles showing up. But is that it? Wouldn’t he try to fly through trees to knock players off? He’s going to try to survive.

As for the final fight, according to a video I watched, they say that the fight will be outside of the Maelstrom, with what’s left of Deathwing trying to get back up. Did we chop off his wings during the last fight?

But the biggest thing I wonder is about the three new dragon mounts. These mounts, as I said before, look like younger versions of Alexstrasza. This is going to screw lore up the ass. Some people theorize that the Dragon Soul weakens all the aspects to the point they die at the end, and this is the end result. But if this is true, where are the younger versions of the other aspects?
Others think Alexstrasza secretly had dragons that look like her younger self so adventurers can use them to help her protect Azeroth (since she can’t be everywhere). This makes more sense to me, and it’s something she would do to make sure Azeroth remains safe.
What’s interesting is there was a video that shows these dragons being similar to the Sandstone Drake. As in, another type of dragon form. How is lore going to fit into this? Seeing something that looks like Alexstrasza in Goldshire, but actually isn’t (but will be ironic due to the server name), will seriously screw up lore. This is why I say the second theory seems more true.

And here’s another burning question (pun not intended). What will happen after Deathwing dies? Who will be the new Earth-Warder? A few say Thrall does, but others say it’s unlikely (since he’s not a dragon).

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WoW: Patch 4.3, the content (live on the PTR)

Wowhead has done it again! They have announced the PTR is back up with 4.3, free for testing! They explain the quests and show new maps, one of what Dragonblight will look like in the future (the “End Time” dungeon), if Deathwing wins (yet kills himself).

They also show pictures of what the dungeons look like, the dungeon of Wyrmrest Temple’s “portal room“, and even the new Darkmoon Isle; the new, permanent location for the Darkmoon Faire. And also, the new loading screens for the raid and the dungeons, showing a red line similar to boat journey nodes. What it doesn’t show is the actual raid (does show where Deathwing’s demise will be). Maybe they’re still working on it.

Some people of Wowhead have released a video of what they’ve seen from the first dungeon, End Time. They mention that even the fact it’s Heroic, the fights are “really easy”, but require a 378 ilevel. It could be possible I might do this in the future (I currently have a 351 ilevel). You can hear the new music in the dungeon, and it sounds really sad (because everyone’s dead). I got a better taste in what the dungeon music should sound like, from Quake 1. A more “oh my god…” depressed feeling. The one they got going now is probably the song before Deathwing wiped out every living thing on Azeroth.

Wowhead also shows new spell changes for all classes. For Hunters, Kill Shot will be buffed a bit. That’s great news for me. Marksman Hunters will also get two changes.
Remember, these are early and could change as the patch nears.

They also show pictures of the new mounts and NPC’s (some of Deathwing’s tentacles during the final two boss battles in the raid). There is one mount that looks like a younger version of Alexstrasza. I theorize this could be THE mount that could drop once Deathwing finally dies in the raid. You turn in the quest at Wyrmrest and get a choice of three mounts that look like her. It has to be. To have a mount that looks just like the queen of all dragons, would be super epic.
Then again, it could be a reward in the Darkmoon Faire. But that’s highly impossible. Alexstrasza is too wise to have something like that happen with her look-alike children.

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