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News: Friday Update: Auto-attacking while Shooting?
October 26th, 2007 by Magog · 3 Comments

new hunter dead zone Just a couple items for the weekend… it’s been a slow back of the week for PvP news.

We’ve all seen pictures on the new 1-35 yd range on the hunter tooltips from this latest build on the PTR. After further testing by the community on the PTR (see this thread), it looks like there might actually be a bug with the wording on the hunter tooltips.

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News: PTR 2.3 Patch Notes Update
October 23rd, 2007 by Magog · 3 Comments

PTR 2.3 Notes have been updated with a couple of interesting changes. No, they didn’t give hunters guided and piercing arrows, but they did give a nice buff to Cheat Death — chance to trigger increased to 33/66/100% and now also causes the rogue to take 90% less damage for 3 seconds when the effect triggers — that might make it worth venturing deeper into the Subtlety tree.

Speaking of subtlety, you can see some of that in action in Neilyo’s latest video.

Another biggie (and relief for all casters) is that silence effects are now on DR.

Read more for a list of the PvP related changes.
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Article: Season 3 PvP Armor Upgrade Part 2: Cloth DPS Casters
October 22nd, 2007 by Ziss · 11 Comments

Continuing where we left off, the charts below shows the armor upgrade going from S2 to S3 for the Mage, Warlock, and Shadow Priest.

Mage	Armor	Spell Penetration	Int	Stam	Spell Crit	Spell Damage	Spell Hit	Resil
Neck			3	4	3	4
Ring		4	3	4		4
Cloak	10		3	1	16	1		7
Waist	10		3	4	3	3
Feet	11		3	4	3	3
Wrist	10		4	4	3	5
Hands	150		-2	4	3	4
Shoulder	152		-2	4	3	4
Chest	226		-6	4	3	4
Head	224		-3	7	4	5
Legs	224		-2	7	4	4
Total	1017	4	4	47	45	41	0	7

Tags: Mage · Warlock · Priest · Articles

News: Gameriot 3v3 Tournament Sign Ups Begin
October 19th, 2007 by Magog · 5 Comments

In the wake of WSVG’s collapse, Gameriot is hoping to fill the gap with it’s own community run tournament. Unlike the WSVG, this cross-battlegroup tournament will be held online with player-enforced rules within the current game.

To qualify, your team must be rated 2100 or higher in your battlegroup. A maximum of four players are allowed per team. Complete rules at the end of this post.

Sign ups end October 29^th. The start of the tournament will follow shortly afterwards — the exact date TBA.

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Article: Season 3 PvP Armor Upgrade Part 1: Rogue vs. Warrior
October 18th, 2007 by Ziss · 21 Comments

A lot of talk has been about the new Season 3 Armor Penetration and damage increase to melee, but what exactly are the changes and how much damage are we talking about? To understand this, we need to first look at what has been added to both Warrior and Rogue Season 3 sets. Ever wonder why your friend’s Warrior always have higher AP and Crit than your Rogue? What about all the speculations on Warriors taking more damage from Rogues that ’stack’ Armor Penetration in Season 3? Let’s take a quick look at what has been increased in the Season 3 PvP gears and everything will be clear as water.

To start things off, let’s take a look at these charts which break down every increment and decrement of every stat for Rogue and Warrior. Read More

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