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In a great article 1up.com chats about the upcoming priest changes in patch 1.10.

If you’re one of the five million World of Warcraft players around the world, you’ve most definitely seen your fair share of the plea for help above. When players send out a request for a healer to join their party, what they really mean is they want a Priest. Blizzard, in the spirit of forcing people to play their class correctly (Sorry, Shadow Priests), posted the details to their upcoming Priest review today and everything is coming up healing.

If there is one thing to be said about the upcoming Priest changes (Due to take effect with the 1.10 Patch), it’s that if you’re not playing a Holy Priest now, it may be time to dump a few gold and reallocate your talent points, because the Shadow talent tree barely got touched. Besides, nobody likes having a wanna-be Mage, I mean, Shadow Priest hanging around any ways.

With the review come new talents and the Holy and Discipline trees are bursting with these goodies. The most remarkable new talent, “Spiritual Guidance”, is a passive talent that becomes available at the 21 Point mark of the Holy tree. “Spiritual Guidance” will permanently improve the Priests spell damage and healing by up to 25% of their total Spirit attribute. That’s a lot of holy healing.

Blizzard’s Eyonix remarked that “Spiritual Guidance” provides a, “Pretty nice boost”. Understatement of the year, my friends. Anyone else got that itch to reroll?

As with every class review, there are a ton of changes so we highly suggest that all Priest players take the time to read through Eyonix’s lengthy post on the official forums. The next class that will be undergoing a full review is another Mana burner, the Mage. Hold onto your butts and pray we get this kind of special treatment too!

While surfing the net today for updates to one of my favorite mods (possessions which still is not updated. Bummer) I found a cool hunter website that I thought I’d pass along.

It’s called Sparkle’s Hunter Collection 3.8 and lists all of their favorite hunter mods as well as some helpful tips on how to use it.

They also include a Hunter macro (listed below) which seems rather useful.

This macro targets your nearest enemy, sets pet out after it and casts concussive shot (you can alternatively have it do hunter’s mark or ?)

/script TargetNearestEnemy() (Or could use TargetLastEnemy() etc.)

/script PetAttack()

/cast Concussive Shot

or alternatively last line would read:

/cast Hunter’s Mark(Rank 3)

Simple but kinda helpful.

Here’s the link to see all the mods they say are helpful. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you can download the package.

Now here is something to laugh about… well as long as you aren’t on that server!

This is easily the coolest bit of MMOG news I’ve heard in a while. A guild on WoW’s Detheroc server has the key necessary to open up content for the entire server, but is refusing to invite everyone to the party unless the server comes up with 5,000 gold. Next, they’ll kidnap the President’s daughter and will only give her back in exchange for full rest XP.

Kotaku is calling them terrorists, but I wouldn’t go that far. They’re just a group of people using the content they’ve been provided to affect the world. Sure, it may be negative, but the sweet is never as sweet without the sour, is it?

But the real question is, how do we resolve this? Who is going to actually give in to extortion in a videogame? In WoW, and pretty much every other MMOG, everyone’s a hero. Someone’s has to step up and defeat these bad guys. But who? Who’s going to be our hero of heroes? Who’s going to unleash the content to everyone, rendering this dastardly guild powerless and broken?

I bet he’ll look like Harrison Ford.

If you’ve been playing for very long, you’ve noticed that each patch Blizzard focuses on a single class to tweak and (hopefully!) improve. While we all know that 1.10 will feature the priest review, the as of yet un-reviewed classes (mage, rogue, and shaman) have been wondering who’s next. On Saturday, Eyonix let slip that mages will be the next class up for review. Mages, let’s hope for good things in your future!

This better be good guys!

Ya’ll better watch out! My little shaman is finally reaching new a decent level. I think fairly soon I will try my hand at PvPing. Bullhonkey and I played yesterday for about 5 hours and had a blast. We finished up several quests, he got a buttload of upgrades and gear and I went up a level and a half. Woot!

Yurtrak joined us for a Scarlet Monestary run, which I wouldn’t recommend running at this level to most people. I got aggro at the drop of a hat! Cafelatte played party healer (it helped that Yurtrak is lvl 40+) and no-one died so GO ME!

Thanks gang for the fun time yesterday.

With the 1.10 patch two new craftable bag types will be available specifically for holding items related to either herbalism or enchanting. Tailors will be able to try their hand at crafting these new bags as the recipes will be found throughout the world. These new specialty bags will function similar to how a normal bag would, but with the restriction of holding only herbs or enchanting supplies. The recipes will be made available for crafting these bags in various sizes, the high end of each type being 24 slots. - Drysc

Hopefully this new change being implemented will make things vastly easier for everyone in the Warcraft World, and will make way for new “Proffession bags” to be created by Blizzard!

Eyonix from Blizzard shares a little info regarding what’s going on with the Priest Talent changes for patch 1.10. Have a listen…

We focused primarily on the Holy and Discipline trees, however, we did visit the Shadow tree as well (no, that doesn’t mean nerf - so don’t troll my post). I had already commented that the focus of Holy would be in providing throughput improvement, that Discipline would focus on staying-power and that Shadow would focus primarily on damage. I believe this statement caused a slight bit of confusion, and I wish to make two points of clarification.

First, this has always been the case. This isn’t a new direction for these trees.

Second, don’t overanalyze “focus”. All talent trees (for all classes) have a focus. The focus of a tree isn’t necessarily all it has to offer. For instance, just because I stated the focus of Holy was in throughput improvement, doesn’t mean you wont find staying-power or damage. One of our goals in streamlining the priest talents was to ensure that the class was viable in both PvE and PvP, despite a given build. Granted, certain builds are always going to be optimal for certain avenues of the game, as such is what occurs when you specialize your character.

But I ramble…

The changes look good, and I’m fairly excited to see your reaction when they are unveiled, although I don’t expect the best feedback to come until the PTRs are live. In any case, /cheers - to priests.

Thanks