Posted on October 6th, 2008 by admin
Forum post of the day: Mobile love
Recently, rumors have been spreading about a mobile application for WoW. Blizzard has been trying to get some information through a series of mobile service polls on the forums. Bornakk began a poll regarding the number of times forum users have downloaded games or applications for cellular devices. In the cellular era, Blizzard appears to be making our favorite MMORPG more mobile friendly.
Many of the posters indicated that they have the latest in smartphones and thus are constantly adding new aps. This will likely encourage Blizzard to provide better mobile support. This will be handy considering that they have been resistant to third party mobile applications.
As it stands I have a hard time even accessing on my cell phone. I know my Blackberry 7250 is somewhat dated, but it handles most websites pretty well. In WoW’s current form I find the forums too cumbersome to read. It will be nice to see the mobile environment get some love. Now if I could just play the Auction House from my cell, I’d be all set.
The poll has been up for
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by admin
WoW Insider Show back live tomorrow
Ok, people, it’s time to get back on track. After a short vacation last week (we had to go prerecorded), the show is back live tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm Eastern, and after a few week’s absence, the inimitable Turpster is returning to the virtual airwaves with us. Amanda Dean will also be on, and planned topics of discussion include that whole Honor wipe deal (which some players aren’t happy about), the ongoing Brewfest holiday (how are your tickets coming), and anything else new in the beta we’d like to talk about.
Additionally, thanks to listener Spacenerd, we’ll have a giveaway — if you want to pick up some extra special loot, make sure to tune into WoW Radio tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm Eastern to listen to how it all will go down. And we’ll be in IRC live as well, at in the #wowradio channel. Finally, if you’d like to email us questions, concerns, words or praise or just something silly, feel free: the email address is .
Should be a great show tomorrow — it’ll be nice to get back
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by admin
Hunter changes in beta 8962
There are a slew of new updates to Hunters in the latest beta build, but the biggest one comes to Aspect of the Viper. Blizzard has been tuning this spell for a while — originally it gave Hunters back their ranged damage as mana (pretty overpowered), and then was tuned down to each shot giving back mana based on twice the base ranged weapon speed. Now it’s still based on the base ranged speed, but they’ve buffed it back up to a percentage of mana — if you have a base ranged weapon speed of 2, for example, you’ll get 4% mana back for every shot that hits. Not a bad deal, and hopefully Blizzard is getting close to settling on making itso that Hunters only need to switch to AotV sometimes, instead of leaving it up all the time.
Most of the other Hunter changes in 8962 are just tweaks — Kill Shot no longer does a knockdown and got a little damage buff. Tranq shot got added utility, in that it will remove enrage and magic effects rather than just the frenzy effect that was so hard to come by. Misdirection’s cooldown
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