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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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News: Season 3 Armor, Glove Bonuses and more Hunter love?
October 17th, 2007 by Magog · 18 Comments

arena season 3 vendorThe Season 3 armor pieces appeared on my test server, albeit briefly — gg at Blizzard putting only one vendor in that tiny hut. Luckily the folks over at MMO-Champion got all the goods on the armor pieces.

If you’ve been feeling a little metro from wondering about the color of the Season 3 sets more than anything else, don’t worry you probably weren’t alone.

Although the armor penetration is a welcome addition to the melee sets, the rest of the Season 3 sets are just S2 with 10 item levels of stats sprinkled in. Nothing too surprising for anyone with rudimentary powers of extrapolation.

Although taking a closer examination, we noticed some interesting updates to the glove bonuses…

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Article: 2v2: Rogue & Holy Priest Explained, Part 4½
October 14th, 2007 by Ziss · 14 Comments

Although I was supposed to follow up with this article a lot sooner, things have been hectic with the site and work. We do have some very exciting features coming out next week, so make sure to check back!

To start things off from where we had left off, we ended the last article with different methods of dealing with Rogue’s hardest match, the Warrior. Although we have covered how to deal with the Warriors, it is still a must to understand how different each fight can be upon change of their healing partner.
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News: Season 3 Item-levels, Priest Racials and Deadzones
October 14th, 2007 by Magog · 13 Comments

Just a quick weekend blurb on the discoveries that’s been going on PTR. Some Arena Season 3 pieces that have been unearthed and we have the tooltips for the new and updated Alliance priest racials. Also, big news for hunters…
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News: 2.3 PTR: New Cloaks, Trinkets, Relics, 4-pc Bonuses
October 12th, 2007 by Magog · 11 Comments

2.3 PTR Elemental Shaman 4pc BonusThe S3 Arena pieces are nowhere to be found on the PTR, but we do have the PvP cloaks, trinkets and relics mentioned previously that require badges.

And as promised, several 4-piece bonuses on the arena gear have been changed. Some solid changes for Hunters, Druids, Mages and Shaman (click on image)… the Elemental Shaman 4-piece bonus is just jaw dropping.

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