So blizzcon’s almost over – you obviously have all heard the exciting news. A couple of things to consider, especially from the perspective of a warlock:

  • worgens have a 1% bonus damage racial – time to mass reroll if you’re serious about maximising your character’s dps potential?
  • paid race transfers – supporting the first point?
  • since warlocks have always traded some intellect for extra stamina, how will that affect the total damage/scaling since spell power will be directly gained from intellect in the new expansion?
  • path of the titans and mastery – providing extra damage?
  • icecrown and the raids in cataclysm will have their hard modes even easier than sunwell and/or yogg+0 – so they’re obviously wanting to make sure a higher % of their playerbase ends up clearing end-game
  • the soul shard mechanic will only affect gimmick/situational spells like summon demon and searing pain, or will we actually have boosts for our main nukes?
  • battleground-wide LFG, and rewards for leaders? I predict that will get axed asap, due to the fact that everyone will just insist to be a leader of an empty party
  • All in all, blizzcon raised almost as many new questions as it answered. I’m looking forward to the new guild leveling mechanics, to worgens and to flying around in the old world(speaking of that, I’ll have a guide for getting a cool mount coming up soon).

    Bring on the cataclysm!!!