10-29-2007, 12:50 PM
New 2.3 changes:
- 5 new PvP trinkets, available for 30k honor plus 40 AV marks from the honor vendors, or for 75 Badges of Justice from G'eras.
- A new Priest talent in Discipline, called Focused Will. It sits right next to Power Infusion, and has no specific prerequisite.
- The Retribution Paladin season 3 arena set, Gladiator's Vindication, has had its spell damage stats replaced with physical damage stats.
- The Restoration Druid season 3 arena set, Gladiator's Refuge, has had its recently-added spirit reverted back to mp5.
- "The new pvp daily quest now rewards 11g99s and 4192 honor (up from about 2000), but it no longer rewards marks of honor."
- Zul'Aman's starting event "improved"
- It is no longer possible to have both a PvP title and a PvE title at the same time.
- The fish-tracking manual has been found (fished up), as well as an item that starts a (currently bugged) fishing quest.
- Many ZA weapons and armor pieces have been recolored.
- Hardware sound is back! Yeesh, thank goodness.
- Patch 2.3 and season 3 may not start on the same date, Blizzard plan to give a two week notice on the start of season 3.
My notes:
1) Oh noes, now we can't have a Horde character named Champion Champion, Champion of the Naaru.
2) Focused Will sucks. Blizzard hasn't thought it through. For one thing, reports are that it doesn't proc off of white hits like the other Priest defensive talents do (Blessed Resilience, Blessed Recovery, Martyrdom). Secondly, its effect is silly. The cap of reduction of crit damage is ~25% (493 resilience), so a talent that reduces crit damage by 30% does nothing. If you're geared for PvP, you already are at or near the cap as a Priest in order to survive more than 6 seconds against a Warrior or Rogue.
3) 2.3 is looking to be a heck of a huge patch. Blizzard just keeps adding more stuff, and I hope they just end Season 3 soon. It's getting up to, what, 6 months? All serious arena players have a full set of Merciless Gladiator gear by now and are just sitting around waiting.
-Bolty
- 5 new PvP trinkets, available for 30k honor plus 40 AV marks from the honor vendors, or for 75 Badges of Justice from G'eras.
- A new Priest talent in Discipline, called Focused Will. It sits right next to Power Infusion, and has no specific prerequisite.
- The Retribution Paladin season 3 arena set, Gladiator's Vindication, has had its spell damage stats replaced with physical damage stats.
- The Restoration Druid season 3 arena set, Gladiator's Refuge, has had its recently-added spirit reverted back to mp5.
- "The new pvp daily quest now rewards 11g99s and 4192 honor (up from about 2000), but it no longer rewards marks of honor."
- Zul'Aman's starting event "improved"
- It is no longer possible to have both a PvP title and a PvE title at the same time.
- The fish-tracking manual has been found (fished up), as well as an item that starts a (currently bugged) fishing quest.
- Many ZA weapons and armor pieces have been recolored.
- Hardware sound is back! Yeesh, thank goodness.
- Patch 2.3 and season 3 may not start on the same date, Blizzard plan to give a two week notice on the start of season 3.
My notes:
1) Oh noes, now we can't have a Horde character named Champion Champion, Champion of the Naaru.
2) Focused Will sucks. Blizzard hasn't thought it through. For one thing, reports are that it doesn't proc off of white hits like the other Priest defensive talents do (Blessed Resilience, Blessed Recovery, Martyrdom). Secondly, its effect is silly. The cap of reduction of crit damage is ~25% (493 resilience), so a talent that reduces crit damage by 30% does nothing. If you're geared for PvP, you already are at or near the cap as a Priest in order to survive more than 6 seconds against a Warrior or Rogue.
3) 2.3 is looking to be a heck of a huge patch. Blizzard just keeps adding more stuff, and I hope they just end Season 3 soon. It's getting up to, what, 6 months? All serious arena players have a full set of Merciless Gladiator gear by now and are just sitting around waiting.
-Bolty
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