We’ll be straight with you, Guildwatch readers. Your intrepid blogger has been at E3 all day, writing like mad, and not only that, but is now surviving on his third day of sleep deprivation. So this week’s Guildwatch is a little shorter than usual — we still stayed up to get it out, and there’s still the drama, downed, and recruiting news that you’d expect, but we realize that there may not be as much of it.

Worry not, though — next week, after your intrepid blogger has returned home and refilled his sleep meter, we’ll have an extra long edition of Guildwatch, and all of the tips sent in (to wowguildwatch@gmail.com, if you want to send us one) that we didn’t get to will be published. Thanks for putting up with us, enjoy this week’s GW right after the break.

Continue reading Guildwatch: “Darkwind not anymore exist”

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The patch went live today, and Blizzard wasn’t kidding about the Cheat Death Nerf. In case you missed it, here’s how it reads:

Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes.

Needless to say, Rogues are pretty unhappy, especially since Blizzard hasn’t taken much interest in fixing the “vanish bug.” Skudo of Altar of Storms takes this as proof that Blizzard hates Rogues. On top of that this must mean that Blizzard favors Druids since they rescinded their decision to make Scare Beast an instant ability.

Continue reading Forum post of the day: Rogues are unhappy

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Brad Justice (let me say that again, Brad Justice!) sent us a valuable tip about Titan Panel, and it’s easily confirmed by a casual look over at the official forums. Let me explain. No, there is too much — let me sum up.

If you use Titan Panel, you may see an unexplainable GM ticket open in the upper right corner of your screen. You may open that empty ticket, and then Abandon it. Your attempt will fail. But don’t worry — it’s not your fault. It’s Titan Panel. That ticket will linger there like some kind of horrific nightmare. But there’s hope.

You can either simply disable the AddOn until they get the problem sorted out or attempt a “full UI reset.” (A full UI reset is the process by which you basically delete the WTF folder, Cache, and Interface folders and more or less start all over again.) I personally went for the slightly less-intense “disable” option.

Anyway, good luck fixing it — we just wanted to let you know this is what’s up, since Titan Panel’s pretty popular.

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With the release of Patch 2.4.3 today, construction has commenced at the docks in Stormwind. It’s located between Cathedral Square and The Park, at the end of the canals. If you talk to the workers in the area, they’ll tell you that they are preparing to bust out the wall to create a new entrance to the city. There’s lots of life bustling around the construction site, and here’s your first tour.

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We had a very special WoW Insider show last Saturday. With the usual suspects out of town Daniel, Robin, Duncor and I had a blast talking about all kinds of juicy goodness. You can download the show and listen to it whenever you like.

• I’ve recently gotten my new Blizzard authenticator, and I’m really happy about it. Other folks are not quite as enthusiastic about it.
• We discussed the current state of Mages and Paladins.
• We had a number of great emails from our listeners. Daniel told us all about Death Knight Role-Playing.

I didn’t talk about my car once, but I did throw a motorcycle reference in there. I got a chance to play the role of host, sorry folks, no giggling or flirting involved. Was it as good for you as it was for me? We shall have another special guest host for the next podcast. Be sure to join us every Saturday on WC Radio at 3:30 PM.

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