Patch 3.3 has been up on the Player Test Realm for several days now, and over the past couple of days quite a bit of information has come out.  Some of it has been faultly, but now that some of the numbers have been corrected I think it's time to share with ya'll what's going on.  Good news is, Blizzard is considering some significant buffs to PVE Shadow Priests.  Bad news, these buffs are only being considered, they're not definate. The biggest proposed change is to finally allow some DoTs and HoTs to scale with Haste.  The Blizzard programmers have been busy coding the functionality for this change to the game mechanics, and have done so in a manner where they can apply Haste functionality to individual spells.  The current plan is to test this concept out on a ...

It's been a long while since I've posted.  Sorry about that.  To make up for it, I figured I'd post about not one, but two bosses and finish up this series regarding ToC.  So then, today we're going to talk about Twin Valkyrs and Anub'arak. Who Doesn't Love Twins? If you don't know about this fight, I suggest you watch the Tank Spot video, as it provides a great general over-view.  Rather than describe the entire fight for you, I want to focus on a few particular things I've noticed. 1) Be Warry of the Orbs Obviously you're dodging the orbs that are of the opposite color of your character, as they'll damage you.  However, if you happen to absorb an orb of the same color while you're casting Mind Flay, you're going to lose a tick of Mind Flay damage.  If yo...

Well, time for part three of my guide to Trial of the Crusader.  This time I'm going to cover the Faction Champions.  This is potentially a much tougher fight than the previous two, depending on just how much PVP experience you have.  Luckilly for you, I've done this fight several times now, and have some helpful tips to impart. So, a brief synopsis is in order.  Basically, this is a mock-pvp match.  Your group of 10 or 25 people will face off against 6 or 10 members of the opposing faction.  The NPCs that you're fighting will have a ton of health, will use a wide range of attacks and CC that would normally be available to their class, and will hit you for about as hard as a well geared PVPer would.  The fight ends when you kill all the opposing Faction ...

Time to continue my series of Shadow Priest strategies for the bosses of Trial of the Crusader.  This time we're going to take a look at Lord Jaraxxus.  This fight is actually a bit easier than the previous fight, but there are a few things you can do to really optimize your DPS. This is basically a Tank & Spank with adds and a lot of raid damage.  60 seconds into the fight, a Dark Portal is created.  If you're close to the portal, you take damage, so avoid it.  The portal also summons a Mistriss of Pain.  She has to be DPSed down fast, as she does some nasty damage, but she's not that big of an annoyance overall.  Keep your DOTs rolling on Jaraxxus while you kill her.  60 seconds later, you'll get an Infernal Volcanoe.  This will summon a ...