Burning Crusade Intro Movie (High Quality)

For those of you who want to see the new intro movie introducing you to the Burning Crusade universe. Click this link.

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Rogue "revamp". New TBC Changes

Rogues

• Improved Backstab moved to tier 2 Assassination.
• Improved Slice and Dice moved to tier 2 Combat.
• Surprise Attacks changed to “Your finishing moves can no longer be dodged, and the damage dealt by your Backstab, Gouge, Shiv, and Sinister Strike abilities is increased by 8%”.
• Improved Sap and Elusiveness have swapped tiers.
• Improved Sap now 2 ranks, 50%/100%.
• Preparation changed to “When activated, this ability instantly refreshes the cooldown on your Evasion, Sprint, Vanish, Cold Blood, Adrenaline Rush, and Premeditation abilities.” Goodbye double Cloak of Shadows/Blind in arenas.
• Cloak of Shadows is now 1 minute cooldown instead of 2.
• Evasion ranged attack avoidance reduced from 50% to 25%.
• Blind changed to 3 minute cooldown from 5 minutes(is this new? never noticed it before).
• Wound Poison(all ranks) has been changed. Now has a 30% chance to instantly deal damage(increases with poison rank), and reduce healing effects used on target by 10% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Combo points are not lost when you change targets. However, you can only have combo points on 1 target at a time.
  
  Video showing CP not disappearing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qDI9qEXb8g

This opens up for the two ultimate dagger builds I will personaly try and abuse ;D.
There will be the most obvious dagger build of death. 30/0/31. I chose premed over vigor anyday. :)
However there's also the infamous shadowstep build 20/0/41. I'm going to try both to see what fits me the best.

This change was a change we really needed. With our new mortal strike (5stack wound) and Quick Recovery (+20% heal) we will be a really great asset in 2v2 arena's.
And yes. It is confirmed. Wound poison will stack with Mortal strike for a total of 75% less healing effect.

To bad Thistle tea is somewhat nerfed. At lvl 60 it will restore 60 energy and 40 energy at lvl 70. Renataki's charm of Trickery will be invaluable since you cant use potions of any kind inside arenas.

Shadowstep is according to blue's going to be buffed and we will recieve a replacement for weapon expertise. Let's just wait and see what this will be.

Lvl 70 - 30/0/31 Build:
Talents
Pro's: Cookie cutter combopoint builder with preparation and 10% attackpower.
Quick recovery which is great in 2on2 arena with a pvp healer.
Improved Expose armor for Premed-Ambush-EA on clothies ;D.

Lvl 70 - 20/0/41 Build:
Talents
Pro's: 10% AP and 15% Agility. Shadowstep for imba ambush dmg. And another +10% dmg from Master of Subtlety.

Lvl 60 - 30/0/21 Build:
Talents
Pro's: Same as lvl 70 just without premed and 10% AP for now.

Article reveals how to get a Nether Drake!

A recent article reveals how you can get yourself a brand new and shiny armored Nether Drake in The Burning Crusade ;)

Tom Chilton explains the workings: "With BC the Arena system gives rewards on par with the best you’ll find in the rest of the game. Any time we start new raids, we’ll start a new Arena season that gives us the opportunity to add a new set of Arena rewards to keep up with that. Each season lasts three months, and at the end of that, based on your position on the ladder, each person in the top team is going to receive an Epic armoured Netherdrake mount."

Go here for more information: http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=27&CIID=67480&p=3

I'm sure as hell getting one. Thats for sure!

Tier 4 and 5 Set-items for The Burning Crusade

There's lot of pictures flying around the net from these sets so I thought I might aswell post em here aswell for your viewing pleasure.

Tier 4:

Tier 5:

Rogue Tier 4 is awesome (look on the orc picture for the updated helm graphics).

However, rogue tier 5 looks retarded. Looks like something a kid could draw.

Current Beta Tier 4 Stats: http://www.thottbot.com/beta?s=tier+4

Arena Weapons for The Burning Crusade

As a dagger rogue it pains me to see that yet again the dagger graphics is fugly as always. :(
Just about every weapon obtainable looks really cool, especially the War staff (Top right Pic 2). Grats to whomever caster gets that ;). The dagger literally looks like something some kid found in the sewer who has been rusting there for centuries.

Atleast the damage on the thing is insane. Cant wait to Shadowstep Ambush with it :).
And I know there is quick offhand dagger aswell but I think im going to take two of the 191 daggers to test with Mutilate if it becomes good enough due TBC Retail.

Time will tell. And if arena battles is as fun as I think it's going to be I might aswell pick up 2 fist weapons for grind and amusement purposes. Wont hurt to have a pair :)

Allthough not released yet (Looks) the arena set are rumoured to be copies of the Tier 4 sets only with a different color scheme. The normal tier 4 sets looks really cool with its Black And Purple colors which is what a rogue is supposed to look like. Dark! I just hope they wont mess up the arena set color with something shiny. Paladins Anyone? :p