Now two new hunter taming challenges have appeared on the PTR, it's Skarr and Karkin. Skarr is an obsidian black cat with glowing eyes and a molten temper. He lives on some floating rocks beyond Fireplume Peak in the Molten Front and requires some tricky jumping. Since flying mounts are not usable in the Molten Front, you'd better do your best to jump. Skarr's attack start off weak but ramps up over time, so you had better get moving.
Karkin is a metallic-looking crab who has a crazy frontal fire cone attack, warding off tamers. His island is off of Skitterflame's Ledge, and since there are no flying mounts in the Molten Front, you'll need to jump from rock to rock to get in range to tame. Don't get too close, his nasty fire attack will quickly end your taming session.
6/16/2011
Do you have a thing for coordinating DPS? wanna win more wow gold? Then you'll want to raid lead this boss. This oversized rock guy is a fairly unique encounter that involves much driving. If you can navigate through those driving cones on a track, then you should be able to master this guy in a timely fashion. Some tight and precise control will be needed here for coordination. If even one person deviates and isn't listening properly, everyone dies.
Lord Rhyolith appears to be an elemental. Even though he starts with about 15 million health in 10-man, he's no pushover. For a raid composition, we went with one tank, three healers and six DPSers. The big gimmick with Lord Rhyolith is that he doesn't technically have a threat table right away. He lumbers along in a straight line. You need to attack his legs in order to move him. The best way to go about is to use melee players for this task. They'll discover quickly that despite the size of the legs. There is a new UI element in place that lets you see how tight of a turn Lord Rhyolith is making. The harder the DPS, the harder the turn.
6/16/2011
Season 9 of the arena and rated battleground PVP experience is coming to an end on June 21, and end-of-season rewards will be calculated a week after that. While there is a break in the PVP season, all rated battleground and arena matches will become unavailable to players, so get your wins and wow gold now.
Blizzard stresses that if you believe you are potentially going to get the Season 9 PVP rewards for being in the highest percentile of winners and think you might be eligible for the arena titles or Vicious Gladiator's Twilight Drake, you should refrain from transferring your character to a new server while the reward tabulation is going on. If you're a big PVPer, stay on your server until the winners have been announced. PVP Season 10 will begin one week after Season 9 ends. Get ready to win wow gold!
6/16/2011
Nozdormu, the leader of the Bronze Dragonflight and notable absent aspect, finally has a mortal form in preparation for the legendary quest line to forge Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest in patch 4.2. Nozdormu's model is based on the blood elf and night elf models with modified tier 6 shoulders and some cool tattoos he probably got during one of his time binges out beyond time and space.
Another interesting tidbit from this PTR update is the updated model of Sulfuras, which now has nicer textures and more polygons but still retains a healthy bit of the cool factor the original Sulfuras did. One thing is definitely for sure that Blizzard wanted to make the new Sulfuras very reminiscent of the old Sulfuras but updated, keeping the weapon's heart and soul. Come and get your wow gold now!
6/1/2011
Blizzard has already reduced the vendor price for cut green gems. While they left the uncut gems at 5g, it became much more profitable to shuffle all possible colors of gems into enchanting mats and blue jewlery or wow gold. The latest testing from the patch 4.2 PTR has reduced the price of uncut gems, too. On the live realms, they vendor for 100g a stack, leaving a decent vendor floor price for ore. Once this change goes live, they will be worth 50s each or 10g a stack. This should have the desired effect of causing fewer of these to end up vendored for inflationary vendor money with the potentially undesirable effect of making mining less profitable.
Bottom line is that the new "floor" price of Elementium Ore and Obsidium Ore is basically gone now. There are no more guaranteed sales, and if you flood a market by processing thousands of stacks of ore, you can't count on any vendor based fallback to at least get you your wow gold back.
6/1/2011