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3.3 Eclipse nerf?
2010-03-24
Quote:Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse.
Quoted from MMO Champ.
This seem to be a huge nerf to me. My eclipse 98 of the time is back to back lunar then solar respectively. I'm not all that knowledgeable about numbers in WoW. So, I'm looking for opinions here. How's this affect our rotations? Gear choices, if it does affect it? This seem like a retract from Blizz when they put both cycles on seperate
80 Tauren Boomkin
Borlax
Apprentic...
2010-03-24
Quote:Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse.
Quoted from MMO Champ.
This seem to be a huge nerf to me. My eclipse 98 of the time is back to back lunar then solar respectively. I'm not all that knowledgeable about numbers in WoW. So, I'm looking for opinions here. How's this affect our rotations? Gear choices, if it does affect it? This seem like a retract from Blizz when they put both cycles on seperate
80 Tauren Boomkin
Borlax
Apprentic...
Light at the end of a tunnel. (a little OT)
2010-03-03
If someone asks me in a polite and coherent fashion, I usually help 'em out. Questions like, "Does anyone know where- is?" or, "Can you help me kill
?" will usually elicit a "Sure, it's at or "Give me a moment to finish what I'm doing, and I'll be right there." (Or, if I'm not feeling sociable, they'll get "Sorry, I'm busy right now..."). Asking nicely really does help, and I remember what it's like being the lost newbie.
However, a "HAY CN I HV GOLDZ or, "Help me kill" or, "Would you loan me so I can buy from the AH?" generally meet with a, "Sorry, no, I'm saving for my flying mount," or "I'm on the other side of the zone, use the LFG tool." (There's a reason I do my banking through a nice, anonymous 1st level toon... avoids most of the beggars. )
If it...
2010-03-03
If someone asks me in a polite and coherent fashion, I usually help 'em out. Questions like, "Does anyone know where
However, a "HAY CN I HV GOLDZ or, "Help me kill
If it...
World of Warcraft Ulduar Trailer, 3.1 Test Patch Notes
2009-10-20
Blizzard has released a preview trailer for Ulduar, the new dungeon included in the anticipated World of Warcraft 3.1 patch. Please install Flash to view this Shackvideo var s1 = new SWFObject('/extras/flow4/player.swf','player','480','272','9');s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');s1.addParam('wmode', 'transparent');s1.addParam('flashvars','plugins=gapro-1&gapro.accountid=UA-8643273-2&gapro.trackstarts=true&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.tracktime=true&config=/extras/flow4/config.x?id=13775');s1.write('13775');Shackvideo users can use the HD Stream.
Check out the full 3.1 test patch notes below the fold:
World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.1.0
GeneralAll Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.Ulduar is now available for limited testing. Players at maximum level will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent specialization feature.A new Gear Manager feature has been added. Players will now be able to save gear sets for easy gear switching.
PvPBattlegroundsPlayers will now be able to queue for battlegrounds from any location.Seaforium Barrels can now be looted while mounted, seen from anywhere in the zone, and found at the Central Graveyard.Teleporters can now be used while mounted and can now be seen from anywhere in the zone
Classes: GeneralHysteria, Tricks of the Trade, Enrage, Wrecking Crew, Death Wish, Arcane Power, Owlkin Frenzy, Beast Within, and Avenging Wrath damage bonuses no longer stack together.
Death KnightsBlood Boil's damage increased to make up for Pestilence no longer doing damage.Blood Boil now does some damage to undiseased targets and extra damage to diseased targets. Its radius has been decreased.Blood Plague: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.Death Pact: This heal cannot be a critical.Frost Fever: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.Pestilence does no damage and has only one rank.Plague Strike and Blood Plague no longer remove hots. Plague Strike's damage increased quite a bit to compensate.Raise Ally now has a cooldown greater than 15 min and can no longer be used in Arenas.Raise Dead: Duration lowered to 60 sec. and cooldown lowered to 3 min. The cooldown on this ability now begins when the pet dies rather than when it is summoned.Rune of Cinderglacier now procs per minute instead of a 5% chance.Rune of Razorfrost now affects Frost damage done by the DK only, but stacks up to 10%.Strangulate no longer does damage and has been reduced to 1 rank. Talents BloodBlood Aura: Replaced with Improved Blood Presence. This allows the deathknight to keep the healing from damage done bonus of Blood Presence in any presence, and increases healing received while in Blood Presence.Blood-Gorged now grants armor penetration instead of expertise.Bloody Strikes now increases Blood Boil damage instead of Pestilence.Bloodworms now heal more.Scent of Blood will now proc on a dodge, parry or taking damage, and internal cooldown lowered to 10 from 20 sec.Sudden Doom now procs a free Death Coil instead of requiring you to push the button. Ranks reduced from 5 to 3. Frost The following talents have moved in the Frost tree: Runic Power Mastery, Glacier Rot, Killing Machine, Chilblains, and Endless Winter.Black Ice: Frost Damage bonus lowered to 4/8/12/16/20%Blood of the North: Now also increases damage dealt by Frost Strike by 15%.Chillblains: Now a 15/30/50% movement speed debuff (up from 30%).Frost Aura: Replaced with Improved Frost Presence. Allows the deathknight to keep the health bonus of Frost Presence in any presence, and decreases magic damage taken while in Frost Presence.Howling Blast: Swapped positions with Hungering Cold in the talent tree, and damage bonus to targets afflicted by Frost Fever reduced from 100% to 50%.Icy Talons: This talent now has a new icon.Runic Power Mastery down to 2 ranks.UnholyBlood-caked Blade: Now has a 3 second cooldown on the effect.Desecration: This talent now has a 100% chance to be triggered. Additional points in the talent increase the damage bonus and snare magnitude instead of increasing the chance.Magic Suppression: Now has 3 ranks (down from 5) for 2/4/6% magic damage reduction.Master of Ghouls: Now also reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 60 sec.Necrosis: Can now only be triggered by main hand attacks.Night of the Dead: Redesigned to grant a flat reduction on cooldown to Raise Dead and Army of the Dead instead of a reduction from using abilities.Outbreak: Increases the damage of Plague Strike by 15/30/45% and Scourge Strike by 10/20/30%.Scourge Strike: Damage increased.Unholy Aura: Replaced with Improved Unholy Presence. Allows the Deathknight to keep the movement speed bonus of Unholy Presence in any presence, and increases rune regeneration rate while in Unholy Presence.Unholy Blight and Gargoyle have swapped places in the Unholy tree. Gargoyle is the new Unholy 51 talent.
DruidsAbolish Poison: Now ticks every 3 sec, up from every 2. Now lasts 12 sec., up from 8.Maim: This ability is now considered a stun, and shares a diminish category with all other stuns. It no longer has a chance to break from the target taking damage.Talents BalanceOwlkin Frenzy is now properly considered an Enrage effect. Now also does not trigger from spell hits, only physical ranged and melee attacks.Feral New Talent: Primal Gore: Grants the periodic damage from your Rake, Lacerate and Rip abilities the ability to critically hit.Savage Roar is now considered an Enrage effect and now increases physical damage done by 30% instead of increasing attack power.Restoration Living Seed: This talent now accounts for total healing including overhealing.Improved Mark of the Wild: Now also increases all of your total attributes by 1/2%.Intensity: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.New Talent: Improved Barkskin: Increases the damage reduction granted by your Barkskin spell by 5/10%, and increases your resistance to Dispel mechanics by an additional 30/60% while under the effect of Barkskin.Replenish: This talent is now re-named "Revitalize" and now also works with Wild Growth.Tree of Life: You can now use Nature's Grasp and Thorns while within this form.
HuntersDisengage: Cooldown increased by 5 sec.Frost Trap: If the target who triggers Frost Trap is immune to its effect, the Frost Trap area effect will no longer be triggered.TalentsBeast Mastery Improved Aspect of the Hawk now has a new spell effect.Improved Wing Clip: This talent has been removed.Marksmanship Piercing Shots re-designed: Your critical Aimed, Steady and Chimera Shots cause the target to bleed for 10/20/30% of the damage dealt over 8 sec.Ranged Weapon Specialization: Points reduced from 5 to 3, 1/3/5%.Wild Quiver: Chance increased to 4/8/12%, up from 4/7/10%. Damage increased from 50% of an auto shot, to 80%.Survival Hunting Party: This talent has been reduced to 3-points, and now increases your total Agility by a...
2009-10-20
Blizzard has released a preview trailer for Ulduar, the new dungeon included in the anticipated World of Warcraft 3.1 patch. Please install Flash to view this Shackvideo var s1 = new SWFObject('/extras/flow4/player.swf','player','480','272','9');s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');s1.addParam('wmode', 'transparent');s1.addParam('flashvars','plugins=gapro-1&gapro.accountid=UA-8643273-2&gapro.trackstarts=true&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.tracktime=true&config=/extras/flow4/config.x?id=13775');s1.write('13775');Shackvideo users can use the HD Stream.
Check out the full 3.1 test patch notes below the fold:
World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.1.0
GeneralAll Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.Ulduar is now available for limited testing. Players at maximum level will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent specialization feature.A new Gear Manager feature has been added. Players will now be able to save gear sets for easy gear switching.
PvPBattlegroundsPlayers will now be able to queue for battlegrounds from any location.Seaforium Barrels can now be looted while mounted, seen from anywhere in the zone, and found at the Central Graveyard.Teleporters can now be used while mounted and can now be seen from anywhere in the zone
Classes: GeneralHysteria, Tricks of the Trade, Enrage, Wrecking Crew, Death Wish, Arcane Power, Owlkin Frenzy, Beast Within, and Avenging Wrath damage bonuses no longer stack together.
Death KnightsBlood Boil's damage increased to make up for Pestilence no longer doing damage.Blood Boil now does some damage to undiseased targets and extra damage to diseased targets. Its radius has been decreased.Blood Plague: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.Death Pact: This heal cannot be a critical.Frost Fever: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.Pestilence does no damage and has only one rank.Plague Strike and Blood Plague no longer remove hots. Plague Strike's damage increased quite a bit to compensate.Raise Ally now has a cooldown greater than 15 min and can no longer be used in Arenas.Raise Dead: Duration lowered to 60 sec. and cooldown lowered to 3 min. The cooldown on this ability now begins when the pet dies rather than when it is summoned.Rune of Cinderglacier now procs per minute instead of a 5% chance.Rune of Razorfrost now affects Frost damage done by the DK only, but stacks up to 10%.Strangulate no longer does damage and has been reduced to 1 rank. Talents BloodBlood Aura: Replaced with Improved Blood Presence. This allows the deathknight to keep the healing from damage done bonus of Blood Presence in any presence, and increases healing received while in Blood Presence.Blood-Gorged now grants armor penetration instead of expertise.Bloody Strikes now increases Blood Boil damage instead of Pestilence.Bloodworms now heal more.Scent of Blood will now proc on a dodge, parry or taking damage, and internal cooldown lowered to 10 from 20 sec.Sudden Doom now procs a free Death Coil instead of requiring you to push the button. Ranks reduced from 5 to 3. Frost The following talents have moved in the Frost tree: Runic Power Mastery, Glacier Rot, Killing Machine, Chilblains, and Endless Winter.Black Ice: Frost Damage bonus lowered to 4/8/12/16/20%Blood of the North: Now also increases damage dealt by Frost Strike by 15%.Chillblains: Now a 15/30/50% movement speed debuff (up from 30%).Frost Aura: Replaced with Improved Frost Presence. Allows the deathknight to keep the health bonus of Frost Presence in any presence, and decreases magic damage taken while in Frost Presence.Howling Blast: Swapped positions with Hungering Cold in the talent tree, and damage bonus to targets afflicted by Frost Fever reduced from 100% to 50%.Icy Talons: This talent now has a new icon.Runic Power Mastery down to 2 ranks.UnholyBlood-caked Blade: Now has a 3 second cooldown on the effect.Desecration: This talent now has a 100% chance to be triggered. Additional points in the talent increase the damage bonus and snare magnitude instead of increasing the chance.Magic Suppression: Now has 3 ranks (down from 5) for 2/4/6% magic damage reduction.Master of Ghouls: Now also reduces the cooldown on Raise Dead by 60 sec.Necrosis: Can now only be triggered by main hand attacks.Night of the Dead: Redesigned to grant a flat reduction on cooldown to Raise Dead and Army of the Dead instead of a reduction from using abilities.Outbreak: Increases the damage of Plague Strike by 15/30/45% and Scourge Strike by 10/20/30%.Scourge Strike: Damage increased.Unholy Aura: Replaced with Improved Unholy Presence. Allows the Deathknight to keep the movement speed bonus of Unholy Presence in any presence, and increases rune regeneration rate while in Unholy Presence.Unholy Blight and Gargoyle have swapped places in the Unholy tree. Gargoyle is the new Unholy 51 talent.
DruidsAbolish Poison: Now ticks every 3 sec, up from every 2. Now lasts 12 sec., up from 8.Maim: This ability is now considered a stun, and shares a diminish category with all other stuns. It no longer has a chance to break from the target taking damage.Talents BalanceOwlkin Frenzy is now properly considered an Enrage effect. Now also does not trigger from spell hits, only physical ranged and melee attacks.Feral New Talent: Primal Gore: Grants the periodic damage from your Rake, Lacerate and Rip abilities the ability to critically hit.Savage Roar is now considered an Enrage effect and now increases physical damage done by 30% instead of increasing attack power.Restoration Living Seed: This talent now accounts for total healing including overhealing.Improved Mark of the Wild: Now also increases all of your total attributes by 1/2%.Intensity: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.New Talent: Improved Barkskin: Increases the damage reduction granted by your Barkskin spell by 5/10%, and increases your resistance to Dispel mechanics by an additional 30/60% while under the effect of Barkskin.Replenish: This talent is now re-named "Revitalize" and now also works with Wild Growth.Tree of Life: You can now use Nature's Grasp and Thorns while within this form.
HuntersDisengage: Cooldown increased by 5 sec.Frost Trap: If the target who triggers Frost Trap is immune to its effect, the Frost Trap area effect will no longer be triggered.TalentsBeast Mastery Improved Aspect of the Hawk now has a new spell effect.Improved Wing Clip: This talent has been removed.Marksmanship Piercing Shots re-designed: Your critical Aimed, Steady and Chimera Shots cause the target to bleed for 10/20/30% of the damage dealt over 8 sec.Ranged Weapon Specialization: Points reduced from 5 to 3, 1/3/5%.Wild Quiver: Chance increased to 4/8/12%, up from 4/7/10%. Damage increased from 50% of an auto shot, to 80%.Survival Hunting Party: This talent has been reduced to 3-points, and now increases your total Agility by a...
New Patch is Now Live!
2009-09-25
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.2.3 (2005-02-15)
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PvP Duels
Dueling across factions remains intact in the patch, in consideration
of players' desires to duel members of the opposing faction.
*This is a minor patch to address localization issues discovered
during the European beta test. These changes affect localized text
strings for French and German versions of the game only, and players
in other regions will not see any changes to the game.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.2.2 (2005-02-15)
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Paladin
Seal of the Crusader: Fixed a bug where damage per swing was
increasing instead of decreasing when Seal of the Crusader was active.
This resulted in a dramatic increase in damage per second (DPS) that
was unintended. The tooltip for the spell displays the intent of
the spell:
"Fills the Paladin with the spirit of a crusader, granting additional
attack pow...
2009-09-25
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.2.3 (2005-02-15)
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PvP Duels
Dueling across factions remains intact in the patch, in consideration
of players' desires to duel members of the opposing faction.
*This is a minor patch to address localization issues discovered
during the European beta test. These changes affect localized text
strings for French and German versions of the game only, and players
in other regions will not see any changes to the game.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.2.2 (2005-02-15)
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Paladin
Seal of the Crusader: Fixed a bug where damage per swing was
increasing instead of decreasing when Seal of the Crusader was active.
This resulted in a dramatic increase in damage per second (DPS) that
was unintended. The tooltip for the spell displays the intent of
the spell:
"Fills the Paladin with the spirit of a crusader, granting additional
attack pow...
World of Warcraft 2.4.3 patch released
2009-09-11
World of Warcraft players are in for a special treat today. The 2.4.3 patch has finally arrived! The live servers have been updated to the latest build and the patch size is 27.2 megabytes. The full patch notes are available after the cut below, but some highlights from the patch notes with some additional commentary include:
Level 30 Mounts. Yep, characters only need to be level 30 now to qualify for an apprentice mount. Training costs 35 gold. For the pet collectors there is a new Nether Ray Fry (non-combat) available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. Exalted faction is required. Haris Pilton is still annoying and she has another use now: Gold-digging! Pilton is selling 22-slot designer handbags available for 1,200 gold each in Shattrath's Lower City. Other expensive and so hawt baubles are also available.
Epic gems can be purchased with Arena points and they are not unique-equipped. The new in-game loot from the Hunt for Illidan TCG expansion is now claimable. The D.I.S.C.O. ball and the new Ethereal Soul- Pet that doubles as a vendor of fun are just a few of the popular items players will be drooling over soon. Expect these cards to sell for a small fortune on eBay. The Rogue's class...
2009-09-11
World of Warcraft players are in for a special treat today. The 2.4.3 patch has finally arrived! The live servers have been updated to the latest build and the patch size is 27.2 megabytes. The full patch notes are available after the cut below, but some highlights from the patch notes with some additional commentary include:
Level 30 Mounts. Yep, characters only need to be level 30 now to qualify for an apprentice mount. Training costs 35 gold. For the pet collectors there is a new Nether Ray Fry (non-combat) available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. Exalted faction is required. Haris Pilton is still annoying and she has another use now: Gold-digging! Pilton is selling 22-slot designer handbags available for 1,200 gold each in Shattrath's Lower City. Other expensive and so hawt baubles are also available.
Epic gems can be purchased with Arena points and they are not unique-equipped. The new in-game loot from the Hunt for Illidan TCG expansion is now claimable. The D.I.S.C.O. ball and the new Ethereal Soul- Pet that doubles as a vendor of fun are just a few of the popular items players will be drooling over soon. Expect these cards to sell for a small fortune on eBay. The Rogue's class...
World of Warcraft: Survival Hunter PvP / Hunter Builds
2009-08-29
Hunters that spec or build their character for emphasis in the Survival talent tree are often looked down upon by other players. Since It takes a special breed of player to become a survival hunter, nobody really knows what to expect. They've never dealt with Survival Hunters before in groups, and they're taken back on why you'd specialize in Survival as opposed to Beast Mastery or Marksmanship. There are a lot of unique utility abilities and cool tricks that Surviva...
2009-08-29
Hunters that spec or build their character for emphasis in the Survival talent tree are often looked down upon by other players. Since It takes a special breed of player to become a survival hunter, nobody really knows what to expect. They've never dealt with Survival Hunters before in groups, and they're taken back on why you'd specialize in Survival as opposed to Beast Mastery or Marksmanship. There are a lot of unique utility abilities and cool tricks that Surviva...
Inscription Guide Covering Trade Skills in World of Warcraft
2009-08-15
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2009-08-15
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Inscription: 76 - 125
Journeyman Inscription
Visit one of the Inscription supplies vendor at any of the major cities and buy a "Virtuoso Inking Set". Keep this in your bag at all times since it is needed to make almost all types of Iscription recipes and Glyphs.
76 - 80: Grab 40 of Dusky Pigment and make 20 Midnight Ink
81 - 100: Use the Midnight Inks that you made and make any Glyph that is orange to you and requires 1 Midnight Ink. Glyphs turn yellow after 10 points here, so then learn new recipes and choose another Glyph. 20 x [Glyph of....]
101 - 105: Make 60 of these - Lion's Ink
106 - 120: Same as above. Use the Lion's Ink that you made and make Glyphs that are orange to you and require only 1 Lion's Ink. Glyphs turn yellow after 5 points here instead of 10, so once they do turn yellow, learn new recipes and choose another Glyph and continue till you reach 120.
121 - 125: Make any Glyph that is YELLOW to you, yes you read it right YELLOW. Orange recipes require 2 Inks instead of one, so at ...
I went into the arena I
2009-06-26
lol awesome. Everytime I went into the arena I got popped and I mean popped so hard that I ended up in the graveyard in Red ridge lol
No realC? Am I missing something or did you have 2 traps? I know trapping in MgT isn't as easy as most instaes due to the large amount ofasters, but itan be done withlever use of LoS. Grats on the drop anyway though.
Okay well I ran slabs aouple of weeks bk and mrosoft dided that right at the first boss to shut my system down to apply updates. When I got bk in party was gone so I returned to shatt...
2009-06-26
lol awesome. Everytime I went into the arena I got popped and I mean popped so hard that I ended up in the graveyard in Red ridge lol
No realC? Am I missing something or did you have 2 traps? I know trapping in MgT isn't as easy as most instaes due to the large amount ofasters, but itan be done withlever use of LoS. Grats on the drop anyway though.
Okay well I ran slabs aouple of weeks bk and mrosoft dided that right at the first boss to shut my system down to apply updates. When I got bk in party was gone so I returned to shatt...
friend of mine and I
2009-06-26
Well last night a good friend of mine and I joined onto a MagT group. I think the group set a rord for wes. Here is theonfig: Warrior (prot tree, my friend) Hunter (SV tree, but never really anned him) Hunter (me) Shaman (anned his talents and he was 35011 or something to that efft) First healer didn't stk around, but the heals were slow going Sond Healer (Druid,ompletely dked out for heals) Weleared half of the instae out, but dided to stop before the 3rd boss. We knew that we had no realC for the rest of the instae and it would be aom...
2009-06-26
Well last night a good friend of mine and I joined onto a MagT group. I think the group set a rord for wes. Here is theonfig: Warrior (prot tree, my friend) Hunter (SV tree, but never really anned him) Hunter (me) Shaman (anned his talents and he was 35011 or something to that efft) First healer didn't stk around, but the heals were slow going Sond Healer (Druid,ompletely dked out for heals) Weleared half of the instae out, but dided to stop before the 3rd boss. We knew that we had no realC for the rest of the instae and it would be aom...
are higher level than I have gotten
2009-06-10
This is just my opinion, and you are higher level than I have gotten yet, but Fire seems to be a broken tree with lk of Dirtion. Most people try to use Fire now adays to fish for Hot Streaks, but even this is not really that great. Ft of the matter seems to be that sie 3.0 Frost and Aane outdamage Fire in both realms of Solo and Group play. Ontop of that, both are better suited for PVP eounters as they both offer snares and better ways to prott yourself. That being said, I havn't figured out wh...
2009-06-10
This is just my opinion, and you are higher level than I have gotten yet, but Fire seems to be a broken tree with lk of Dirtion. Most people try to use Fire now adays to fish for Hot Streaks, but even this is not really that great. Ft of the matter seems to be that sie 3.0 Frost and Aane outdamage Fire in both realms of Solo and Group play. Ontop of that, both are better suited for PVP eounters as they both offer snares and better ways to prott yourself. That being said, I havn't figured out wh...