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The Instance is giving away two limited edition Chen Stormstout statues to lucky (and talented) listeners this week. Listen to win!
Big News Of The Week
Patch 3.3 Is On The Way, Are You Ready?
And what does it really mean to be ready for 3.3, anyhow? Ready or not, it’s coming, and probably coming out this next Tuesday, December 8. That is, unless Blizzard needs one more week to get the change to the game ready. We’re betting on December 8.
So we’ve talked a lot about patch 3.3 for the last couple of months, but we’ve not yet speculated on what players can do to make the most of it when it hits. The usual routine for many players just after patch day is buy-what-I-need-now and worry-about-the-cost-later. Players ofter spend thousands of gold needlessly just after a patch, or lose fortunes speculating the wrong way in the game market. We’ve got some general tips for you that might help.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Darkmoon Faire Las Vegas
That venerable card-game-centric tournament and meet-up that we know and love so much is coming to Sin City this week, and if you can make it, you don’t want to miss this one. It’s a rare chance for players to test their battle hardened army against the best in the game. Each player will bring their army of three and compete against other players’ armies for prizes and fame. The tournament will be run in flights with the top players moving on to the second day playoff on Sunday. The top 8 finishers will ride out of the event with the elusive Spectral Tiger Loot card, and the winner will walk away with an Apple Macbook Pro!
- The event takes place this weekend, Dec. 4-6 at the Rio.
- In addition to great prizes and loot cards, Top 16 finishers in the championship will go home with a brand new Ruins of Alterac map.
- All participants in the Minis Championship events during the weekend get their very own “Mortimer the Malign” mini-statue.
- Nice prizes in the Gadgetzan challenge.
Town Cryer
Kuam from the Wyrmrest Accord realm writes: Recently I have been playing a Balance druid and I’ve been wondering about haste, the druid has several talents that increase spell haste by X%. if I have no base haste do I gain any thing from this Talent? Logically, no, +1% of 0 is 0, right?
Krista J. writes: Why does everyone automatically assume I’m a guy playing girl toons? … It’s kind of annoying always being a called a dude.
Drop Of The Week
The Pandaren Chen Stormstout Statue
The first pandaren collectible ever! Capturing the elusive (and world-celebrated) Chen Stormstout for the first time in 3D, the Pandaren Brewmaster Deluxe Action Figure is a limited edition, one-of-a-kind Blizzard online store exclusive! This premium-sculpted piece stands at a colossal 8″, features Chen’s signature bamboo Bo staff and Brewmaster’s keg and comes packaged in a 4-color, spot UV collectors window box.
Art Directed by Blizzard Cinematic Creative Director Nick Carpenter. Exquisitely sculpted by Ray Villafane and painstakingly painted by Eddie Wires.
And Giveaway!! That’s right, we’re giving away not one but two of these beautiful statues, courtesy of Blizzard this week. Listen to win!
Additional show content provided by Darrell the Tipgiver, Steve “Buxley” Pietrowicz and the outstanding Instance Community.
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Ive just finished listening to the show (yes, I know its a bit late
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But anyhow, you were talking about the new patch 3.3 and potential for making money.
I’m a raider and I have a number of alts, these alts simply make things to support my raider. I do sell excess stuff.
So, as I’m pretty much topped out with gear and have been for a little while now, I have been making excess stuff that I know the raiders will want.
Gems: making many REDS +spell and +strength, YELLOWS +int, BLUE +stam (not cutting any as yet).
Flasks & Pots: not making any here, just simply saving HERBS, only making enough to support my raiding.
Enchants: Getting all the mats together for all my raiding chants + others.
Mining: storing Saronite, prospecting cobalt and titanium. Making and Selling (now) as many titantium Steel bars as I can, not stocking it, making one daily and selling it. Because I think it won’t be worth as much after patch.
Inscription: making many vellumns, plus the Raiding glyphs for all classes.
All my herbalists are out herbing whenever they can. Getting tons of stuff but I’m not selling it yet. Same with my miners … they are getting ore … lots of it! All levels of herbs and ore.
Plus I’m doin dailys and earning gold now.
I’m trying to spend 2 hours per day just doing this stuff.
I don’t get this weeks title “That Panda Punched Me In The Face!”
I didn’t hear anything related to it in the podcast. Did I miss something?
Just a heads up…the quickfire question “I’m coming at your base with two rockvees and an ambo…” is a quote from the internet show Pure Pwnage (www.purepwnage.com) which is also where BOOM Headshot comes from. It’s hilarious!
During the Quick Fire Question segment, Randy says “you skipped a question.” I thought premise of QFQ is that questions are not shared before hand so answers are spontaneous.
Normally I will let stuff like this pass, but the amount of people who hear this podcast concerns me when you guys start putting out misinformation. Haste is NOT GOOD for Hunters!
All Hunter shots except Auto Shot and Steady Shot are instant. The Hunter’s Global Cooldown IS NOT AFFECTED BY HASTE. It is 1.5 seconds and stays that way. Therefore, as a Hunter, if you have enough Haste to bring Steady Shot’s cast time down to the GCD, it becomes a nearly useless stat.
I know this isn’t a theorycrafting podcast, but when I hear information like this, all it does is contribute to misinformed players.
**Yes, this will change in Cataclysm, but for anyone playing a Hunter right now, Haste is only marginally useful**
I’m going to add to sherretz comment and say that the statements made about haste are 100% false. It does not chop off X% of the cast time of a spell or ability. It merely allows you to cast that % more spells in the time it took to cast 1. In other words, 1% haste really means you can cast 101 spells in the time to cast 100.
Or to put in better terms to understand why they were wrong, 100% spell haste would mean that you could cast 2 spells in the time to cast one (which is equivalent to 50% reduced casting time).
Check out WoWwiki to check out the real info on haste.