Na'vi/Night Elf Hunter

I’ve just read an interesting article detailing 5 similarities between James Cameron’s Avatar and the World of Warcraft.

If you play WoW, I think you’ll agree he has a point…

I know there are still a lot of hits to the page dispite the fact that it was out of date and incorrect, and there may be some people who still use the figures to project base damage between the two abilities, but I thought it wasn’t fair on the community to keep it here.

If you have a dire need to use the formulas that were previously on the page, send me a message or post a comment and I’ll give you access to the page through a registered account.

Thanks everyone, and I’m sorry it has been here for so long with such incorrect formulas!

As a side note, I was listening to the Blizzcast last week that discussed some stuff about WotLK and the new sets that are to be introduced. Finally, they’ve realised that different people want different looks:

Something that I am excited to talk about is that the PvP armor will be different from the PvE armor entirely in looks and colors this time.

(source: Blizzcast 3 Transcript)

With only 34K Honor sitting on my character, and a list totalling to more than 120K Honor of things I need to buy, I’m probably going to lose a bit of sleep until the 26th (Europe patch day)!

It’s now nearly 4 months after the Gladiator gear was moved from arena vendors to honor vendors, which coincided with the release of season 3, and now Blizzard have announced that season 4 will do the same, bringing Merciless Gladiator gear to those very same vendors. More information on WoW Insider.

The start date of season 4 is expected to be just after the release of the 2.4 patch.

This of-course means that the season 1 armor will not appear on the honor vendor until that same date. I think this is a good thing for me, since I stopped grinding honor at 41K, and I still have a hefty amount to get!

See the post at WoWInsider for details.

Take the second item in that post: “The team must have at least one player that has played in 20% or more of the total games for that team”. When a team is sold off or transferred to a completely new set of players, none of the players would ever meet this requirement until they play at least 25% more of the current team’s number of games played. So a team with 1000 games played would need a player to get through 250 games before the season closes to qualify. Since some teams have thousands of games played, I very much doubt a lot of these teams in question will meet the requirements, and hope that none ever will.

Well done Blizzard! Finally, a way to stop these gold/item/team buyers from getting what they wanted

I’m not sure how accurate this is, but here’s the expected price list for each set item:

• Chest: 14,500 honour and 30 Arathi Basin marks of honour
• Gauntlets: 10,500 honour and 20 Alterac Valley marks of honour
• Helm: 14,500 honour and 30 Alterac Valley marks of honour
• Leggings: 14,500 honour and 30 Warsong Gulch marks of honour
• Shoulders: 11,250 honour and 20 Arathi Basin marks of honour

This list makes it 65,250 for the full 5 piece set. The guys over at elitist jerks also claim 65,250 for the full set on their Season 3 consolidated list, so its authenticity is a little more respectable.