Armor Penetration Nerf Incoming

Yesterday evening Ghostcrawler announced in the Damage Dealing forum that a nerf to Armor Penetration was likely going to be on the horizon for Patch 3.2.2. The news wasn’t received so well by the forum community, and as a result, the thread has reached 13 pages. Needless to say, we’re not talking about 13 pages of “thank you Blizzard”. 😉 The nerf to armor pen in 3.2.2 is intentional. Compared to the recent buff where we increased the value of …

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Ghostcrawler Speaks and Other Hunter News

During the class panel at today’s BlizzCon festivities, Ghostcrawler announced some of the major changes in store for Hunters with the next expansion, “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm”. They are: Mana will be gone. Hunters will now utilize focus. Intellect will be a needless stat for Hunters. Focus will regenerate at a rate of 6 focus per second. Steady Shot improves the rate of focus regeneration to 12 focus per second. Shots are estimated to cost between 30 and 60 focus. …

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New Shinies

Now that I’m hooked on running Heroics, I managed to get a couple new items over the past few nights. First was the Incisor Fragment from King Dred in Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep, and the second item was Pendant of the Outcast Hero which I purchased with the Emblems of Heroism I’d amassed in the past week. The new neck was a pretty decent PvE upgrade over my Hateful Gladiator’s Pendant of Triumph, giving me an additional 45 AP and a …

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