The Queue: Road dog
by Michael Sacco 
Sep 19th 2010 at 9:00AM
Don't ask how this worgen got his hands on a goblin trike. Just don't. Because it's not very interesting. ... Fine. He got it by accident, thanks to Blizzard's messing around with worgen mount stuff this beta patch. There. Are you happy now? Way to ruin the magic. Your mother and I are very disappointed in you.
Rin asked:
What are player health levels looking like in Cataclysm? I would assume they're getting pretty ridiculous at this point. I saw a video with a warlock with 80,000 health ...
My level 83 rogue has 55k HP. A tank in level 85 gear with buffs has roughly 100k.
Charon asked:
Do we know how many new factions there will be to gain rep with in Cataclysm? I need seven more for the exalted.
So far, we know of the following:
- Therazane
- Ramkahen
- Guardians of Hyjal
- Earthen Ring
- Wildhammer Clan/Dragonmaw Clan
- Baradin Wardens/Hellscream's Reach
Skurfer48 asked:
I have a question about mastery. From what I have heard, it's pretty well implemented in the beta, but I am wondering about one thing in particular. If I remember correctly, Blizzard initially intended mastery to be something that made people have a reason to wear their best type of armor. (i.e. warriors and hunters not using leather gear because it was BiS due to the stats it had and what they wanted for their spec.) So I am wondering if this is still involved in mastery somehow? From what I have heard, it is just a stat like any other, which would lead me to believe it won't change anything about people sometimes wearing a lower class of armor; if anything, it might further it because someone might want a lower class or armor because it has more mastery and their mastery bonus is really nice. Am I missing something, or did they kind of scrap the idea of mastery effecting you wearing the best class or armor you can?
Your extremely long question can be answered thusly: You receive a 5 percent bonus to your main stat (agility, strength, intellect, etc.) for wearing your proper armor class in all available slots. Mastery, the stat, has nothing to do with that bonus.
Levx3 asked:
Since worgen are going to be their own mounts, will we tauren get our Plainstriding back? I remember the problems it had in early WoW, but they seem to have fixed them.
No.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Deathknighty Sep 19th 2010 9:03AM
What's going on with all these annoying adds on every single comment I make? Do you know why that seems to be happening so much more recently?
Deathknighty Sep 19th 2010 9:10AM
ads*....
Goddamn WoW. >_
Helston Sep 19th 2010 9:24AM
*sigh*
Who pulled the pat?
Xantenise Sep 19th 2010 10:39AM
You buy cat? 50 MSK!
Xirifus Sep 20th 2010 4:03PM
Cat very good quality!
Outis Sep 19th 2010 9:07AM
I notice a lot of people confusing Mastery and Armor Specialization. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
How's the tuning progressing on Cataclysm dungeons? Are they still the multi-hour wipefests of legend (which is to say, a week or two ago) or are the 85 dungeons more reasonable in duration and difficulty?
Helston Sep 19th 2010 9:26AM
That's because Blizzard initially said Armor Specialization would give extra Mastery. No idea about the dungeons.
hawaiiansouljah Sep 19th 2010 10:03AM
The tuning as far as the level 85 REGULAR dungeons are relative to the difficulty of the lower level ones (ToTT, etc), in other words....they are still difficult enough and are not for the feint of heart. Granted that right now, its probably due to the mish mash of available gearing but they are still difficult enough that people cannot and should not take them lightly.
Hih Sep 19th 2010 12:01PM
"I notice a lot of people confusing Mastery and Armor Specialization. There's a lesson in there somewhere."
Because Blizzard originally announced that the correct armor type of your class would give you bonus mastery rating. Then they changed that idea and made it the 5% it is today.
Drakkenfyre Sep 19th 2010 6:11PM
What's funny for Armor Specialization is Mages don't train it. You get something called "Wizardy" instead. Give 5% Intellect. I was trying to figure out why they would give that to us. Then it dawned on me, it would look real stupid to say "Gives 5% bonus to Intellect while wearing all cloth items", since we can't wear anything but cloth.
I assume Warlocks and Priests get the same bonus.
jbodar Sep 20th 2010 5:39AM
Warlocks should obviously get BadAssery
Sinthar Sep 20th 2010 11:12AM
Locks already have bad asses - thats why the only pets they have stink of sulphur n brimstone
bighead7421 Sep 20th 2010 9:35AM
Then what about warriors and paladins at level 40? When they finally train "plate wearing", do they lose their 5% bonus immediately until they've replaced all their mail items with plate? It seems so discouraging to see your stats drop 5% instantly.
Outis Sep 20th 2010 9:47AM
I believe armor specializations don't come into play until level 50 or so.
Zef Sep 19th 2010 9:10AM
Do we know of any reputations that will no longer be available come Cataclysm? Or are there any that we should be watching carefully that are likely to no longer be available?
ecwfrk Sep 19th 2010 11:03PM
With ZG being removed, it seems likely Zandalar tribe rep will be going away. So that's one.
Thundrcrackr Sep 20th 2010 4:24PM
I remember reading that they were moving the Zandalar rep NPCs from the annoying inconvenient island off the coast of Stranglethorn to a camp near ZG, which at first i thought was awesome, but then i later heard ZG was going away as a raid, so i don't know what the point of moving their rep NPCs would be if the only way to obtain rep with them was also going away.
Maybe its just for people who still have tokens to turn in...
Or maybe there will be another way to gain rep with them...
Or maybe those NPCs are going to be involved with the new quests in ZG now...
Anyone else heard anything about this?
akiva Sep 19th 2010 9:11AM
There's also Bilgewater Cartel/Gilneas. So that's 7!
Running WIld means there will be no Worgen racial mount available to players. Any word on how they plan to address the imbalance on the number of mounts available?
Zalvi24 Sep 19th 2010 9:29AM
this is going to be blizzard easy way out of this, they will give alliance 2 more mounts from the other races just different color, and goblins will only get 1 regular mount and 1 epic mount, and problem solve
Ronin Sep 19th 2010 9:33AM
They've said "we can always add more".