Video

As stated above here is the new Ghost Wold glyph in action. As you can see the new form looks exactly like Feral Spirit.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Another glyph that got changed was Chain Heal, you can make the look more watery than ever. The first thought that came to my mind was “the drowned god would like that” if you can relate that to the Song of Ice and Fire (“Game of Thrones”). It looks really watery, almost as if you were standing on top of a water hydrant. Forgot to make a video of that hence the 2 screenshots below.

Chain Heal Cast

Chain Heal Beam

Related Posts

• Ascendance Model
• Enhancement Shaman Changes for the latest MOP Beta Build 15544
• The Enhancement Shaman 4.0 Guide
• State of Enhancement Shamans – Beta Build 15662
• First look at Enhancement MOP BETA

Invincible on Alt

Here is a screenshot with my old-school Rogue Slant, Level 75, riding Invincible.

Notice the funny icon in the top left corner of the moun-ui?

Mount Farming

This is great news for mount farmers, you can finally start farming mounts especially in raid instances on more than 1 character. For the always elusive Karazhan Mount

Beta Bugs

When I first played the new build I lost all my mounts which seems to be related to zoning before you log out. I can imagine that it works like macros/action bars, those get saved once you log out. If you want to avoid all issues do this:

• log all chars
• before you do anything (especially zone) log out again

I was able to restore the missing mounts by copying my characters once more from live realms.

Update

Blizzard posted:

There is a display issue, you haven’t lost your mounts. Logging in and out and switching between characters seems to resolve the issue temporarily. We’ll be researching this further to get this resolved soon.

Mounts set randomly to 0, but repeatedly zoning helps

Faction Mounts

It appears that faction based mounts are not account wide. That means, we won’t see allies riding wolves or horde on tigers.

Rewarded Mounts

Mounts that are rewarded via achievements, quests, drops appear to be shared over all factions/characters at the moment. For example:

• Invincible
• Plague Proto Drake
• Swift Razashi Raptor
• Swift Zulian Tiger
• Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth
• Violet Proto Drake

Related Posts

• MoP BETA: Glyph of (large) Spectral Wolf
• State of Enhancement Shamans – Beta Build 15662
• Ascendance Model
• Enhancement Shaman Changes for the latest MOP Beta Build 15544
• First look at Enhancement MOP BETA

Build 15662

It is not Blizzard-like to have this kind of thrashy builds, can only guess that the D3 stress/beta-event was one of the reasons for the delay so far and that future builds will be a lot more playable.

The new level cap is 88 and can easily reached easily in Kun-Lai Summit zone. While it might have happened in vanilla or TBC that you might run out of quests when leveling up Mists of Pandaria Quest design takes the opposite turn with an abundance of quests. While Valley of the four winds seemed somewhat slow paced Kun-Lai Summit appears more fluent.

Quest hubs are not linear, instead they are marked on your map and you can choose yourself where to proceed. It took about 30-40% of the zone to ding 88.

It is a bit difficult to judge with all the crashes, but I guess it won’t take more than a few hours for Level 87 to 88. 135k experience at the entrance of the zone and roughly 170k experience further in means you’ll have to do around 80-90 quests to reach the 14,6 million xp required for level-up.

Green quest rewards are around item level 414 and blue items at 434. This means it is the end of your heroic Dragon Soul gear. For example blue bracers with 383 agility and 250ish secondary stats. Pretty nice, right?

Speaking of stats, the rating vs stats decay when leveling up is quite harsh, even with the quest rewards my stats appear quite low. Mobs are between 300 and 860k hp and hit you for 9k-12k. Fortunately I am a defensive player, but if I look at others HP the are usually around 40-50% at the end of a fight. Some monsters hit really hard and 2-3-4 can turn out to be quite a challenge.

Enhancement Shaman

Yeah, you might have guessed with the general talk above. There isn’t much to say at the moment. Just some minor tweaks to mana costs. Everything else is like Build 15544.
There are a lot of complaints that Enhancement Shamans suck at the moment. While this is somewhat true let me explain the reason for that.

• Attack Power Buff – Enhancement Shaman gives Spell Power (but does not benefit from it, complain on forums and we might get AP back)
• Strength of Earth Totem – removed
• Yellow Attacks – Stormstrike and Lava Lash damage has been decreased
• Stat Decay – For example at Level 88 it takes 406 crit rating to increase your crit chance by +1%, leveling up makes you weaker with the same gear
• Stormstrike – spellcrit +10% from glyph, removed
• Lava Lash – damage +20% from glyph, removed
• Feral Spirit – additional attack power from glyph, removed
• Talents – Elemental Acuity, Concussion, Elemental Precision, Elemental Weapons, Focused Strikes, Elemental Devastation, removed

As you can see, a lot of spells/abilities/talents/glyphs have been removed or replaced without any form of compensation and this will not happen any time soon. Number tuning is usually the very last step, towards the end of the beta.
Just load your character in Rawr, and deselect above abilities off My DPS dropped from 38k to ~20k. On top of that remove the stat decay.

Here is Blizzard’s comment on Enhancement Shamans:

Enhancement Damage

It is worth pointing out that one of our goals is for nobody’s damage to drop when you convert your Cataclysm level 85 character to a Mists level 85 character. The sources of your damage may change as rotations change somewhat, but once you’re comfortable with those new rotations, your damage should be similar.

Also remember that number tuning is one of the last things we do. There is no point in spending hours testing numbers if we decide that a particular ability or mechanic was a boneheaded idea and needs to be redesigned. We try to keep the numbers sane enough that players still feel like they can give feedback though.

Don’t judge Enhancement Shamans in their current state! We will get our pass once our abilities are fixed. THEN you can start to whine and not look like a fool.

Positive Changes

Now that we heard enough about nerfs, let us look at the positive side! Even though we are kind of underwhelming in our performance, I still love to play the class. Here a few minor changes, but I welcome them nevertheless:

• Lightning Shield, lasts 1 hour, has no charges and cannot be dispelled!
• Weapon Imbue (Windfury, Flame Tongue Weapon), lasts 1 hour!
• Grace of Air, passive mastery auraGrace of Air
  Level 90

  Empowering winds swirl around the Shaman, granting all nearby party and raid members 3500 Mastery [Rating].

• Burning Wrath, passive spellpower auraBurning Wrath

  Fiery elemental energy emanates from the Shaman, empowering all nearby party and raid members and increasing their spell power by 10%.

• Unleashed Rage, passive melee haste auraUnleashed Rage

  Increases the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10%.

• Spirit Walk, no longer tied to Feral SpiritSpirit Walk
  1.5% of base mana
  Instant; 2 min cooldown

  Removes all movement impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 15 sec.

It is interesting to observe other classes, how they handle stuff and even if they have a better kill rate at the moment, they have their own issues. As mentioned above the mobs hit quite hard and if you get an unexpected add it is easy to run into problems.

Not so for us. Even though Greater Healing Wave and Healing Wave have been removed, there is still Healing Surge, Healing Rain and Chain Heal as direct heals. Add Healing Storm Glyph (+20% healing per stack of Maelstrom Weapon) & Echo of the Elements (duplicates a spell effect, procrate seems quite high for Enhancement Shaman) our healing still seems quite powerful. Healing Surge on Beta heals for more than Greater Healing Wave now on live realms. Blues posted that this is intended, due to increased health pools in MoP.

• Healing Surge = 20k
• Healing Surge + Echo of the Elements = 40k
• Healing Surge + Healing Storm Glyph = 40k
• Healing Surge + Healing Storm Glyph + Echo of the Elements = 60k
• Healing Surge crit + Healing Storm Glyph = 80k
• Healing Surge crit + Healing Storm Glyph + Echo of the Elements = 100k

Not so bad, is it? But it is not the only tool we have.

Offensive Abilities

• Stormlash TotemStormlash Totem
  5.9% of base mana
  Instant; 5 min cooldown

  Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster, empowering allies within 30 yards with lightning. While empowered, allies’ spells and attacks will trigger bursts of electricity, dealing additional Nature damage to their target. Lasts 10 sec.

• AscendanceAscendance
  5.2% of base mana
  Instant; 3 min cooldown

  The Shaman surrenders his physical form to the power of the elements, transforming into a being of raw elemental energy for 15 sec.

  While in the form of an Air Ascendant, auto-attacks and Stormstrike deal pure Nature damage and have a 30-yard range.

• Feral Spirit’s Spirit BiteSpirit Bite
  Melee Range

  Bites the enemy, causing Nature damage.

• Frozen PowerFrozen Power
  Talent

  Your Frost Shock now also roots the target in ice for 5 sec.

Defensive Abilities

• Shamanistic RageShamanistic Rage
  1 min cooldown

  Reduces all damage taken by 30% and causes your skills, totems, and offensive spells to consume no mana for 15 sec. This spell is usable while stunned.

• Stone Bulwark TotemStone Bulwark Totem
  Talent
  8.0% of base mana
  Instant; 1 min cooldown

  Summons an Earth Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 30 sec that grants the caster a shield absorbing (cond($gt(AP * 0.625, $SP), AP * 0.625 * 0.7, $SP * 0.7) * 3) damage, and up to an additional (cond($gt(AP * 0.625, $SP), AP * 0.625 * 0.7, $SP * 0.7)) every 5 sec thereafter.

• Capacitor TotemCapacitor Totem
  5.0% of base mana
  Instant; 45 sec cooldown

  Summons an Air totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that gathers electrical energy from the surrounding air and then explodes after 5 sec to stun all enemies within 8 yards for 5 sec.

• Healing Stream TotemHealing Stream Totem
  23.5% of base mana
  Instant; 30 sec cooldown

  Summons a Water Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 15 sec that heals the most injured party or raid member within 40 yards for (31 + ($SP * 0.3124) * 1 * 1) every 2 sec.

• Healing Tide TotemHealing Tide Totem
  Talent
  8.0% of base mana
  Instant; 3 min cooldown

  Summons a Water Totem with 10% of the caster’s health at the feet of the caster for (11 sec) sec. The Healing Tide Totem pulses every 2 sec, healing the 5 most injured party or raid members within 40 yards for 4932.

• Glyph of Shamanistic RageGlyph of Shamanistic Rage

  Activating your Shamanistic Rage ability also cleanses you of all dispellable harmful Magic effects.

• Glyph of Capacitor TotemGlyph of Capacitor Totem

  Reduces the charging time of your Capacitor Totem by 2 sec.

• Glyph of Healing Stream TotemGlyph of Healing Stream Totem

  When your Healing Stream Totem heals an ally, it also reduces their Fire, Frost, and Nature damage taken by 10% for 6 sec.

Other Tools

• Totemic ProjectionTotemic Projection
  40 yd range
  10 sec cooldown

  Relocates your active totems to the specified location.

• Windwalk TotemWindwalk Totem
  Talent
  6.0% of base mana
  Instant 1 min cooldown

  Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 6 sec, granting raid members within 40 yards immunity to movement-impairing effects.

• Earthgrab TotemEarthgrab Totem
  5.0% of base mana
  Instant; 30 sec cooldown

  Summons an Earth Totem with 100 health at the feet of the caster for 20 sec. The totem pulses every 2 sec, causing roots to ensnare the legs of all enemies within 10 yards for 5 sec, preventing movement.
  Enemies that have already been rooted once by the totem will instead have their movement speed reduced by 50%.

  Replaces Earthbind Totem.

• Call of the ElementsCall of the Elements
  8 min cooldown

  When activated, immediately finishes the cooldown on all totems with a base cooldown shorter than 5 minutes.

• Glyph of Spirit WalkGlyph of Spirit Walk

  Reduces the cooldown of your Spirit Walk ability by 25%.

These abilities do not look very powerful, but using them in combination they become quite interesting. With Shamanistic Rage, Stone Bulwark Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Healing Tide Totem, Capacitor Totem and then on top Call of the Elements to reset all Totem cooldowns you can chain a lot of Healing, Absorbs.
Totemic Projection is also a good example. It looks pretty useless at first, but combined with Earthgrab or Capacitor Totem you get a real interesting tool.
For me as PvE oriented Shaman who loves to solo old raids, the changes are really great and I am looking forward to Mists of Pandaria. If they’d just give us our attack power buff back

Btw, the beta realms are currently down for maintenance and a new patch. If there is anything new, I’ll update.

Videos

At first, here is a Playlist with all MoP Shaman Videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEB4780795A501B8A

Ascendance Model

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Talent Visuals

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Other Shaman Abilities

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Source

• Blizzard Forums – http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4366249705?page=1#3
• YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEB4780795A501B8A

Related Posts

• MoP BETA: Glyph of (large) Spectral Wolf
• Ascendance Model
• Enhancement Shaman Changes for the latest MOP Beta Build 15544
• First look at Enhancement MOP BETA
• The Enhancement Shaman 4.0 Guide

Ascendance Spell

We have been waiting for this a long time! Ascendance is the new Level 87 ability for Shamans. Depending on your spec you can transform into an Acendance, a powerful Elemental, of an Element. Elemental turns to Flame, Restoration to Water and Enhancement into an Air Ascendant. Let us take a look at the spell:

Ascendance

5.2% of base mana
Instant 3 min cooldown

The Shaman surrenders his physical form to the power of the elements, transforming into a being of raw elemental energy for 15 sec.

Elemental:

While in the form of a Flame Ascendant, Lava Burst has no cooldown and Chain Lightning is empowered to become Lava Beam.

Enhancement:

While in the form of an Air Ascendant, auto-attacks and Stormstrike deal pure Nature damage and have a 30-yard range.

Restoration:

While in the form of a Water Ascendant, all healing done is duplicated and distributed evenly among nearby allies.

At first it does not seem like such a big thing. But if you take a closer look you will see that our Stormstrike and Melee damage is mitigated by Armor. So basically by converting these attacks to nature damage it is like fighting an unarmored target and getting full benefit from mastery, ~ easily +50% extra damage, even with bad gear.

The combat log shows Stormstrike as Stormblast and Autoattacks as Wind Lash. (See a sample log here)

Video

And here is what you most likely came for! A short video featuring the Model and showing Ascendance in action.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Related Posts

• Enhancement Shaman Changes for the latest MOP Beta Build 15544
• The Enhancement Shaman 4.0 Guide
• MoP BETA: Glyph of (large) Spectral Wolf
• Patch 4.3 General and Enhancement Shaman changes
• A look at the first PTR 4.3 Changes

BETA Build 15544 Changes

As afore mentioned Stormstrike and Lava Lash have been mostly fixed. Their mana costs were lowered (Stormstrike down from 2800 to 2200 Mana) and they can both proc Primal Wisdom now. Stormstrike can proc it even twice. This makes the mana situation so much better already. In general we still use a bit too much mana now but we aren’t totally starved 24/7 now.
Stormstrike and Lava Lash still proc Flame Tongue, Stormstrike however does still not proc Windfury (Bug!)

Fire Elemental

The Fire elemental Glyph has been fixed. It does really lower CD and Duration of Fire Elemental, booo. I kind of hoped it was intended to be reduce CD and increase its duration as incentive to use it more often and to make the Level 90 Talents a bit more useful.

Healing

Healing has been buffed across all classes I hear … for Enhancement Healing Surge was buffed from 8000 to 13000 and now to 21000 per cast … with Healing Storm we are getting 40000 Health per cast which is almost too good to be true. Should that be intended we have no longer and soloing issues.
Healing Rain, Healing Stream Totem and Healing Tide Totem were buffed a lot aswell
Fixes:
Healing Rain’s first tick was fixed for Enhancement, with Healing Storm glyph it does full healing from the start.
Constructs get no longer the “immune” when Healing Tide Totem is dropped next to them!

Feral Spirit

Feral Spirit got last patch an ability called Spirit Strike. Its tooltip said 16000-18000 damage, but the wolves did only 900 damage with it. This spirit Strike has now been renamed to Spirit Bite and the Damage tooltip was replaced with “5 seconds cooldown”, the damage stayed at 900-1000, so it is not really turning our wolves into a DPS cooldown … no clue what they are meant to be at the moment sadly.
Bug: Spirit Bite is also cast only by 1 of our 2 summoned wolves.

Video

Anyway here is a Video of these changes, not much to see, but sometimes it helps to get the visuals.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Related Posts

• Ascendance Model
• The Enhancement Shaman 4.0 Guide
• MoP BETA: Glyph of (large) Spectral Wolf
• Patch 4.3 General and Enhancement Shaman changes
• A look at the first PTR 4.3 Changes

Enhancement Shaman Changes for the MoP Beta

This is a list of compiled changes for Enhancement Shamans for the upcoming World of Warcraft Expansion Mists of Pandaria in a nutshell.

Updated for Build 15544:

Spells

• Lava Lash – damage reduced to 200%, +40% if offhand is imbued with Flame Tongue
• Stormstrike – +25% spell crit with nature spells
• Spirit Walk – sprint, removes snares/roots 2 min cd, formerly from Feral Spirit
• Feral Spirit – Wolves are no longer controllable and attack like searing totem, new ability Spirit Bite
• Lightning Shield – duration 60 minutes!
• Flame Shock – duration 24 seconds
• Greater Healing Wave – Resto only
• Healing Wave – Resto only
• Earthliving Weapon – Resto only
• Cleanse Spirit – removes all curses, 8sec cd
• Water Breathing – removed
• Water Walking – no more reagents required
• Ascendance – 3 min cd, duration 15 seconds, while in the form of an Air Ascendant, auto-attacks and Stormstrike deal pure Nature damage and have a 30-yard range.

Passive Abilities

• Grace of Air – 5 mastery to nearby raid members
• Burning Wrath – 10% spell power to nearby raid Members
• Echo of the Elements – chance to duplicate a spell, can crit separately
• 15% Movement Speed – removed
• Unleashed Rage – removed (+20% AP)

Totems

• Healing Stream Totem – 30 sec cd, 15 sec duration – single target
• Fire Elemental Totem – 5 min cd, 1 min Duration
• Fire Elemental Totem – creates Searing Totem stacks!
• Earth Elemental Totem – 5 min cd, 1 min Duration
• Earth and Fire Elemental Totem – can’t use both at the same time, 1 min cd on the other on activation
• Capacitor Totem – NEW 5 Sec AoE stun, 8 yards, 45 sec CD
• Stormlash Totem – New 1ß sec duration, 5 min CD; spells and attacks will deal additional Nature damage
• Strength of Earth – removed (+550 AGI/STR)
• Mana Stream Totem – removed
• Windfury Totem – removed
• Elemental Resistance Totem – removed

Glyphs

• Feral Spirit – no more damage increase, Wolves heal for 40% more
• Glyph of Lightning Shield – now a minor glyph, it does still exist

Echo of the Elements

This is what I have seen Echo of the Elements proc

• Lightning Bolt
• Chain Lightning
• Lava Burst
• Flame Shock
• Earth Shock
• Frost Shock
• Fire Nova
• Iceblast, Flameblast (Nokaled)
• Healing Surge

This is what I have not seen Echo of the Elements proc

• Melee Attacks
• Stormstrike
• Lava Lash
• Static Shock – should proc this one
• Flame Tongue – should proc this one

Bugs

These are the bugs I came across so far – updated for the latest build. Would be nice if you could bump this thread, so they don’t go live: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3553608745

• Healing Storm – does not work on Healing Stream Totem, Healing Tide, Gift of the Naaru
• Static Shock – does not proc from Echo of the Elements
• Flame Tongue – does not proc from Echo of the Elements (could be related to the hyldnir axe fix from early wotlk)
• Feral Spirit – Spirit Bite … Combatlog tooltip said in previous build ~16-18k, but the actual damage is at 900, 2000 crit
• Feral Spirit – Spirit Bite … 2 Wolves are summoned, but only 1 Wolf casts Spirit Bite
• Stormlash Totem – Spirit Wolf unaffected, Earth Elemental unaffected
• Windfury Weapon – buffing the weapon gives a green gfx, should be grey? (assuming flame tongue = red, frost brand = bluewhite, earthliving = green)
• Fire Nova – possibly unaffected by Mental Quickness

Videos

These are all my Mists of Pandaria Beta Videos, convenient as playlist.

Build 15544: Video 1/1

Here are the Changes I found so far for the new Beta Build 15544.

• Stormstrike
• Echo of the Elements
• Healing
• Feral Spirit – Spirit Bite

Click here to view the embedded video.

Videos from previous builds

The site looked overloaded and started to load slow with all the following videos embedded. But you can still watch them by following the links below.

Build 15464: Video 1/2

This video shows visuals of the currently available Shaman Talents. I find it rather boring, but players asked for it.

Tier 1 Talents:

• Natures Guardian, Stone Bulwark Totem, Astral Shift

Tier 2 Talents:

• Frozen Power, Earthgrab Totem, Windwalk Totem

Tier 3 Talents:

• Call of the Elements, Totemic Restoration (no visible Effect), Totemic Projection

Tier 4 Talents:

• Elemental Mastery, Ancestral Swiftness, Echo of the Elements

Tier 5 Talents:

• Healing Tide Totem, Ancestral Guidance (no visible Effect, no gcd),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5mHax3dKPI

Build 15464: Video 2/2

This video shows the following abilities in action:

• Stormlash Totem – 10 sec duration, 5 min cd; allies do additional electrical damage on melee hits and spells
• Feral Spirit – Spirit Bite, 16,500-18,500 damage, don’t know what triggers it, saw 0-3 procs per summon
• Healing Surge – increased healing
• Healing Storm Glyph – Healing Surge + Healing Rain (+20% healing per charge of msw)
• Lava Lash – still spreads Flame Shock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8Ks4pN6q8

Build 15464: Video 1/3

• Lightning Capacitor, 5 sec charge, 8y 5 sec aoe STUN Totem
• Stone Bulwark Totem, 18k shield, +6k each 10 seconds
• Healing Stream Totem, single target, 15 sec, 30 sec cd heal on lowest target
• aoe Looting (not shaman specific, yeah but nice nevertheless)
• normal heals vs Healing Storm glyphed heals (+20% healing per charge of msw)
• Echo of the Elements procs – Healing, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Earth Shock, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt6g-QXc8DY

Build 15464: Video 2/3

• Imbues and Lightning Shield with new duration!
• Feral Spirit (no Pet Bar), Wind Walk (new ability separate from Feral Spirit)
• Glyph of Totemic Encirclement, Totemic Projection
• Conductivity Talent
• Ancestral_Guidance
• Echo of the Elements procs on AoE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ODvoy47Ws

• Soloing Archavon the Stonewatcher in MoP Beta (showing the new Talents) – Video – Build 15464 3/3

Other Stuff

• Enchant Weapon, Windsong (550) – when dealing damage 1500 haste/crit/mastery rating for 12 sec (Etheral Shard 3, Spirit dust 3)
• Enchant Weapon, Dancing Steel (600) – when dealing damage +1650 Agi/Str (Sha Crystal 10, Spirit Dust 6)
• Enchant Chest, Glorius Stats (575) – all stats +80

Related Posts

• The Enhancement Shaman 4.0 Guide
• MoP BETA: Glyph of (large) Spectral Wolf
• State of Enhancement Shamans – Beta Build 15662
• Ascendance Model
• Enhancement Shaman Changes for the latest MOP Beta Build 15544

Troubles

I had so much trouble with annual pass, had to order the annual pass 6 times so far. When Blizzard threatened to put our real names on the forums it seemed that parental controls with the posibility to opt out of real-id was the best way to not get plastered all around the web.
Haven’t touched or bothered with Parental controls ever since. The main account was protected by parental controls and the second account eligible for annual pass so they did not even ask me, or let me choose and attached the pass to the wrong account
this was the first change I had to get done. Since then I lost the annual pass 5 more times, parental controls were removed twice. The pass kept vanishing and the worst part Blizzard did not bother to notify you about it.
A little bird whispered me that the BETA invites were rolling out “soon” and I happened to check the Account Management just to be sure. And yeah Annual pass was gone :-/ Since last saturday I had to order Annual Pass 3 times … the shortest one lasted a whole 60 minutes on my account.
The worst part is that Blizzard does not know what is causing this and there are many accounts affected. You better check your status.

“Referring to your call, we would like to confirm once again that you have entered the annual pass now and again we have changed the expiration date back to October 2011.

We deeply regret that the annual pass was removed again and again for no apparent reason, but please do not hesitate to contact us again.”

So I know you did not come for this, but I had to get it off my chest and maybe it helps some of you, who are no doubt eagerly awaiting your beta invitation.

Beta Invitation Mail

Here is how the invitation Mail looks. Iw as able to see the Beta Status a couple of hours sooner via the Account Management, might be faster to check there. Beware of SCAM Mails. Always check for the header of these Mails:

Received: from mx2.blizzard.com ([12.130.201.10]) by mx-ha.web.de (mxweb104) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M3QUe-1SS6uu1J20-00r1WM for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:53:53 +0100

Scammer mails origin usually from gmail, yahoo, etc. Your best option is to never click links in blizzard mails and instead go to the account management!

Account Management

Here is what the Account management should look like. A new WoW Account should appear, labeled

“World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria
[WoW]
Public Test Realm (PTR)”

Client Download & Character Copy

The next step is to select client download option and do initiate a character copy via account management. It appears that we have 5 character copies available at this stage. For now we can select only 1 Realm in the EU – Mekkatorque. I fear it is going to become really crowded

Anyway expect some shaman stuff, soon!

Related Posts

• MoP BETA: Glyph of (large) Spectral Wolf
• Account-wide Mounts on Beta!
• State of Enhancement Shamans – Beta Build 15662
• Ascendance Model
• Enhancement Shaman Changes for the latest MOP Beta Build 15544

Blue Post

“If you are currently testing the 64-bit client, in order to patch up to 4.3.3 you will need to remove the 64-bit files to allow the patching process to complete. With the 64-bit client files in place you will receive the error: Blizzard Updater failed with an internal error.

Simply delete the 64-bit files listed below from the World of Warcraft folder, and the patching process will resume after going through a short repair process.

Windows

Battle.net-64.dll
MovieProxy.exe
WoW-64.exe

Mac

World of Warcraft-64.app

A new version of the 64-bit client files will be available for 4.3.3 after the patch is live. Please keep an eye on the 64-bit client forum thread for updated files.”

Source

• http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4079625547
• http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3988300405

I’ll post the new files as soon as they are up.

Updated for 4.3.4

>> Download the new files here (PC) !! (MAC) <<

Install

In case you need a quick reminder on how to install the 64-bit client check here.

Source

• http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3988300405

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• Ascendance Model
• Enhancement Shaman Changes for the latest MOP Beta Build 15544
• WoW 64-bit Client now available!
• Patch 4.3 General and Enhancement Shaman changes
• A look at the first PTR 4.3 Changes

Tactics

The fight is a bit extreme, especially when the add joins the fight. The add will place a dot on you, hurting a lot once it stacks up. The way I’ll kill him next reset is to start off with shamanistic rage (maybe it is wiser to wait with that until the wolves run out) and pop wolves as soon as the add spawns and to kill him asap. I’d save heroism for that point, too.
The rest of the fight is about RNG a dodge/parry might make the difference. Make good use of Stoneclaw Totem (glyphed).

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Tactics

As mentioned above, it is an easy fight and quite short. I just zerged into the Boss … spread Flame Shock to the adds and simply killed them with Fire Nova, while dpsing the Boss. That is it … Easy 180g!

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Tactics

The tactics haven’t changed since the first kill, in fact the current level of loot makes it even easier than before. Basically it is a tank and spank fight and the only thing you need to look out for are the walls of fire that spawn at the right or left once in a while. Make sure you – and Sartharion’s little adds – do not get hit by it or you will take extra damage, adds would enrage.

Shadron

Killing Sharon, one of the other Minibosses, solo is a bit tricky. Unless you have the required dps to burst Shadron down before the shadow add spawns (he becomes immune to damage the boss will despawn once you enter the shadow realm to kill the add) you will need the following trick to get past this problem:

• engage and dps the boss
• wait for shadow add to spawn
• enter the shadow realm
• shadron will despawn
• now place either Fire Elemental or Earth Elemental before the boss spawns again
• Shadron will spawn and you will dps him
• the shadow add will spawn again
• but now as you enter the shadow realm the boss will turn towards the elemental and you can kill the shadow add
• kill shadron

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Tactic

Razorscale flies above the raid and shoots fireballs at raid members, read: YOU! Those hit for ~5k and are not much of a threat, especially if you make good use of Stoneclaw Totem, Shamanistic Rage and such.
There are also adds that will spawn, they can be quickly killed and do not hurt much more than the average normal Level 85 NPC.
Close to the entrance are 2 harpoons that you can activate roughly after 1 minute into the fight. This will pin Razorscale down for Phase 2.

There is nothing special here for soloing, Razorscale will take increased damage, but you want to save your cooldowns for the last phase. Use this phase instead to get your mana back up and to heal you up. This phase ends after some time and Razorscale will throw you in the air and then Phase 1 starts over again until you bring Razorscale to 50%.

Razorscale will break free from the harpoons and start whacking you good … hits for 20k in addition to remaining alive adds (hopefully you cleared those up) … but if you were a good boy and saved your cooldowns you can burst him down before he can kill you …

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