News Roundup: Dungeon Level Ranges, Holiday Contest, Explorer's League Journal and More!

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VengeanceBlizzard Posts Updated Dungeon Level RangesScholomanceMaglio Infausto

The Cataclysm has wrought changes to many facets of Azeroth and the dungeons found across the world are no exception. As many of the zones throughout the world now have new level ranges, the dungeons within their borders have been adjusted to match, and the items that drop within those dungeons have had their stats changed accordingly.

Dungeon

Level Range

Min. Level

Miniere della Morte

15-21

Baratro di Fiamma Furente

15-21

Caverna dei Lamenti

15-25

Forte di Zannascura

16-26

Segrete di Roccavento

20-30

Abissi di Fondocupo

20-30

Gnomeregan

24-34

Monastero Scarlatto - Graveyard

26-36

Monastero Scarlatto - Library

29-39

Monastero Scarlatto - Armory

32-42

Monastero Scarlatto - Cathedral

35-45

Gallerie di Lamaspina

30-40

Maraudon - Wicked Grotto

30-40

Maraudon - Foulspore Caverns

32-42

Maraudon - Earth Song Falls

34-44

Uldaman

35-45

Maglio Infausto - Warpwood Quarters

36-46

Scholomance

38-48

Maglio Infausto - Capital Gardens

39-49

Sotterranei di Lamaspina

40-50

Maglio Infausto - Gordok Commons

42-52

Stratholme - Main Gate

42-52

Zul'farrak

44-54

Stratholme - Service Gate

46-56

Sotterranei di Roccianera - Prison

47-57

Sunken Temple

50-60

Sotterranei di Roccianera - Upper City

51-61

Lower Blackrock Spire

55-65

Upper Blackrock Spire

55-65

Tanking With A Vengeance Follow-Upprevious roundupVengeancehttp://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1293873

Responses and clarifications following Wednesday's developer blog entry on the Vengeance ability.

I.

One thing we should have mentioned is that the level 80 experience with Vengeance is probably pretty different than what you’ll experience at 85 (in only a few days!). The reason is because the dps classes have very large combat ratings right now for things like crit and haste that they won’t have once they start leveling. (This is particularly true for melee that had their armor pen converted into other stats.) Even at 85 -- even in the final tiers of 85 -- those combat ratings shouldn’t be as high as they are today. We corrected the rating conversions and also removed talents and other sources of crit and haste that let those stats get, for want of a better word, gratuitous. Our combat mechanics just don’t work right when characters get to 60%+ crit chance. While dps specs will still have much higher crit and haste than tanks, the delta will go down at higher level, which should make tank threat feel even less dependent on Vengeance. Remember that Vengeance is a rolling average, so it shouldn’t be very sensitive to avoidance streaks in the first place, especially beyond the first few seconds.

II.

Remember, to fix the problem of gear scaling, tank threat has to improve with gear. You can’t just bake the threat into Defensive Stance, Blood Presence, Righteous Fury or Bear Form because those threat multipliers will only scale with tank dps. Sadly, tank dps doesn’t improve as much as that of other characters because tank gear is loaded with things like dodge and parry and missing a lot of haste and crit. We discussed other ways to solve the problem. One was just to remove tank gear (which sort of works for Feral druids) and expect warriors, paladins and DKs to wear dps plate. We ultimately didn’t think that would be fun for tanks, and we know there are Feral druids today who wish we still made legitimate bear armor. We could have just put both dps stats and survivability stats on tank gear, but that would make that armor overpowered and probably attractive to dps specs. Another option was just to let tank dps scale with survivability stats all the time. That seems unfair to the dps classes though if the tank gets to do competitive damage and have all that survivability. Why choose a dps spec at all then? Ultimately, we didn’t want tanks to always hit like a truck. We wanted it to happen when they were being hit hard by someone. A mechanic that scaled with gear but was dependent on taking lots of damage seemed like the right solution, which is ultimately what Vengeance is.

III.

We see some concerns from players about avoiding making Vengeance fall off. Vengeance currently loses 10% of its value every second when you are not being attacked, and 5% a second if you are being attacked (even if you avoid or absorb the damage). Obviously if you take damage then Vengeance won’t fall off at all. We went with 10 seconds because we thought that was a reasonable number that would discourage tanks from feeling like they were forced to engage in bizarre and not fun behavior. Imagine if Vengeance lasted for 30 or 60 seconds or more, then you might try to drag along a weak add to periodically hit you and keep the buff going. Alternately, maybe you’d get a slew of Prot specs in your raid all trying to keep Vengeance up all the time in order to do higher dps than they would have with a legit dps spec. Contrived perhaps, but those were the concerns -- you guys can be devious at finding clever uses of mechanics. :) That said, it’s easy to tweak if the fall off is too fast. Now it is true that avoids early in a fight will keep Vengeance from stacking up as quickly, but you shouldn’t need Vengeance in the first few seconds of a fight. We gave all tanks powerful attacks to generate burst threat, and Tricks of the Trade and Misdirect are also still great for establishing initial aggro – they just don’t make threat trivial to maintain through the entire fight as they did in Lich King. The mage also doesn’t need to pop Time Warp and Pyroblast on the first global cooldown of a boss fight.

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Signed Collector’s Edition of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (drooooooooooool...)

There's a tradition at Blizzard Entertainment of creating a very special holiday treat each year to share the warmth of the season, but with a uniquely Blizzard touch. We invite you to help us spread the holiday cheer this year by entering our second annual Blizzard Holiday Card Contest or our Blizzard Holiday Dessert Contest. You can win great prizes from Razer as well as special autographed copies of Blizzard titles by crafting a Blizzard themed holiday card or dessert. Want to learn more? Pack your creativity and visit the contest pages.

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Explorer's Journal IIICataclysm New Zones preview

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1316156

Cataclysm WoW Marathon for Free Wheelchair Mission CharityWorld of Warcraft charity marathonFree Wheelchair Mission

Giving the Gift of Mobility, One Level at a Time

On December 6th, the First Annual Wowmarathon.com Video Game Marathon will
attempt to become the world’s first level 85 character. We will be playing for 48 hours
straight, hosting various contests, and information about our journey. We will also be
helping to raise money for Free Wheelchair Mission.

Visitors are encouraged to come watch a team of dedicated gamers race through the new
expansion for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Visitors will also be encouraged to donate
money through the site to Free Wheelchair Mission, a nonprofit organization that
provides a low-cost wheelchair, free of charge, to people with disabilities living in
developing countries.

We have set up various levels of donations to help entertain and encourage donations for
our viewers. We will have various contests throughout the marathon, and plenty of free
gifts for our viewers, that will be sent out to the winners at the conclusion of the
marathon at no charge to them. We will be streaming live, and interacting with the
community via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail and our online live stream chat.

For more information, go to http://www.wowmarathon.com

December 6th, 2010 @ 9 AM PST

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