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Midsummer Fire Festival
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Its amazing how time flies in the good old World of Warcraft. the midsummer fire festival is here again!
The festival is a great time to jump back into WoW and relight that old flame every WoW player has. This year players can take part in the usual stuff which includes players collecting Burning Blossoms awarded by completing various quests in order to purchase Fire Festival-related merchandise, ranging from food to the coveted Brazier of Dancing Flames. /dance to that :p
The major addition this year is Ahune, the Frost Lord. He is a new special level 70 boss which can be summoned from within the Slave Pens dungeon. Killing him will result in several epic drops including event exclusive pets.
I’ve dropped off playing WoW again recently, this looks like a good time to jump back on the old WoW Train.
You can find all the info you need over at http://www.wowwiki.com/Midsummer_Fire_Festival
Armory Crawling Discovers Val’anyr Stats
Posted by: | CommentsA bit of digging through the official armory over at MMO-Champion has revealed the stats for the new legendary healer mace.
The stats have been updated into wowhead – but here they are anyway.
Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings
- Main Hand (93-298 dmg)
- 1.8 Speed/108.6 dps
- +52 Stamina
- +54 Intellect
- +47 Critical Strike Rating
- +46 Haste Rating
- +587 Spellpower
On Equip: Your healing spells have a chance to cause “Blessing of Ancient Kings” for 15 seconds, allowing your heals to shield the target, absorbing damage equal to 15% of the amount healed.
Tooltip: “The power of creation courses through this weapon”
Ghostcrawler’s comments included:
The proc is probably better than you guys are assuming (even for druids). I’m not going to spoil it though.
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It’s our intent that it is useful to all four healing classes. That’s about all I’m going to say.
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I’m not a healer myself, so I can’t pretend to know if this is amazing or poorly done … your thoughts?
NetEase to Take Over World of Warcraft in China
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A Chinese Internet company by the name of NetEase will be taking over the operation contact for WoW in china once The9’s contract expires in June this year. This was not exactly a shock given NetEase already holds the rights to run Battle.net in China. The big question is what will this do for our Asian friends playing WoW? They are still waiting on Wrath to drop due to various problems. Maybe NetEase can push forward to Chinese launch of Wrath. Who knows, only time will tell.
Talent Bug – 3.1 Talent Window Problems
Posted by: | Comments3.1 has brought many good changes to WoW nobody can honestly deny that. However there is one small yet extremely irritating problem I have come across. My talent window is broken. My level 71 Mage current has 9 talent points in total according to my talent window. My talents are not broken but this graphic glitch prevents me from spending my points. I have all the talent related skills from the base of my fire tree yet this is what my actual talent window looks like:

So given this problem I moved to contact in game customer support. They replied with this message (after the break).














