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Sapphiron Down
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Written by MongoJerry   
Saturday, 02 September 2006

Death & Taxes getting world firsts seems as inevitable as, well, death and taxes.  Last night, they got the first world kill of Sapphiron.  Congratulations!

Official Skill and Talent Previews
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Written by MongoJerry   
Tuesday, 29 August 2006
After days of leaks and false talent and skill reports coming out of the "friends & family" alpha testing, Blizzard has finally decided to officially release the real new skill and talent trees that will be coming in the Burning Crusade.  Thanks to Legedi for spotting this first!
Four Horsemen Down!
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Written by MongoJerry   
Friday, 25 August 2006
Congratulations to Death & Taxes for beating the Four Horsemen in a world first!  Despite protestations by D&T and even Tigole to the contrary, there was a recent change to the encounter -- a bug that was causing Lady Blameux's Void Zone to not be displayed was fixed.  However, that should definitely not take away from D&T's accomplishment, as this bug fix could hardly be considered a nerf to the encounter.  Congratulations!
Patch Note Additions
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Written by MongoJerry   
Thursday, 24 August 2006
Eagle eyed observers (in other words, not me) noticed a few differences between the patch notes posted by Nethaera and those that were included with the download of the patch.  Two items that were added in Nethaera's post were:

Flasks and player buffs should now be behaving according to the priority system. This means flasks should no longer be the first buff erased when a player exceeds the current 32 buff limit. The general buff priority philosophy is: Flasks, Stances and Shapeshifts > All other Buffs.

This is a big and very needed change for guilds attempting difficult raid encounters, where main tanks are buffed up to the very limit -- such as when guilds attempt Patchwerk or Maexxna in Naxxramas.  In addition to the visible buffs on players, there are hidden buffs associated with things like shapeshifting and stances.  For example, warrior Defensive Stance actually causes three hidden buffs on the player related to damage reduction and threat generation.  This is fine and is a mechanism normally hidden to the player.  However, in encounters where guilds attempt to maximize all buffs on their tanks, it was possible for procs such as Inspiration to knock buffs such as flasks and Defensive stance off the main tank, frequently with disasterous results.  This is definitely a good change.

We added Auto Self Cast as an option that if checked makes all friendly target spells automatically cast on self if you dont have another valid target selected when you cast it. (You can be fighting an enemy and stun them and use a bandage and it knows automatically that you meant to use it on yourself, even though you dont have yourself targeted).
This is an interesting new option.  I'm not sure if I'll use it, but it's nice to know it's there.
The 1.12 Patch Is Released!
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Written by MongoJerry   
Tuesday, 22 August 2006
The 1.12 patch is here!  Check out all the excitement in Brista's Lurker Lounge thread.
40 Debuff Slots in the Expansion
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Written by MongoJerry   
Sunday, 13 August 2006

The debuff limit will be increased to 40 with the release of the Burning Crusade, according to Eyonix:

I will say this, for expansion the debuff limit is being increased from 16 to 40, combined with the focus on smaller raid dungeons, Warlock players will have more freedom and opportunity to use their debuffing abilities with less limitation. Beyond this, all classes will have new spells, talents and abilities that they will bring to the table by the time level 70 is achieved.

That's great news for everybody but especially for warlocks.  What took them so long?

No More 40-Player Dungeons
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Written by MongoJerry   
Friday, 11 August 2006

ImageIn a stunning announcement, Blizzard revealed today that with the release of the Burning Crusade, raid dungeons will no longer be designed with more than 25 players in mind.

It's true, the plan is for five-player capped grouped dungeons. Ten-player capped raid dungeons. As well as Twenty-five-player capped epic raid dungeons. We wanted to focus on smaller raid environments, primarily to allow for greater individual player contribution. Also, in these smaller environments, hybrid classes have more opportunity to shine.

Oh, and there's much much more to be found in the original 1up.com article, including news about PvP improvements coming in the Burning Crusade as well as new abilities for shaman and paladins.

1.12 PvP Preview
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Written by MongoJerry   
Monday, 07 August 2006
Monkey has posted an excellent review of some of the new PvP features to be added in the 1.12 patch.  Check it out!
Quite a Yarn
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Written by MongoJerry   
Friday, 04 August 2006
How many nits can a nitpicker pick if a nitpicker could pick nits?
Dungeon Difficulty Settings
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Written by MongoJerry   
Friday, 28 July 2006

Among the innovations that will be introduced in the Burning Crusade are difficulty settings that the party leader can choose when starting up an instance:

A new feature is the difficulty settings and the group leader can select between five modes, of "easily" to "super+heavily". Loot is also variable depending on the degree of difficulty you undertake. The harder the difficulty, the better the loot.

The article also reveals where the Blood Elf and Dreinei starting zones will be and discusses many other aspects of the Burning Crusade.  Read all about it and then discuss it with your fellow Lurkers!

There Goes the Neighborhood
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Written by MongoJerry   
Friday, 21 July 2006
ImageIn a stunning announcement, Blizzard officially revealed today that Draenei players will be able to choose to become shaman and that Blood Elf players will indeed be able to choose to become paladins when the Burning Crusade is released.  The idea of allowing Alliance players to become shaman and Horde players to become paladins has been kicked around for a long time, but most players, including yours truly, dismissed the idea that Blizzard would actually go through with the idea out of hand.  This change will have far reaching consequences in both PvE and PvP encounters.  Discuss it all with your fellow Lurkers!
Upcoming 1.12 Changes
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Written by MongoJerry   
Tuesday, 18 July 2006

A change to Windfury that was mentioned in the 1.12 beta patch notes sparked a furious backlash against the Shaman totem system and sparked a serious debate about the relative advantages between the two factions in raid environments.  Luckily, as Quark reports, the proposed change to Windfury has been reversed:

I've spoken with the developers and they let me know that they're not satisfied with the impact the windfury totem change is having on current end-game content balance, and plan to undo the change. Please remember that the testing phase of any patch is precisely to test such changes and evaluate their possible impact on the game, whether or not they eventually go into the final release build.

In short, no change to Windfury Totem is planned at this time.

Thank God.  In other news, rogues and fury warriors rejoice, because Thunderfurycan now be used as an off-hand weapon.

Battleground Groupings Released
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Written by MongoJerry   
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Blizzard released tables showing how realm servers will be grouped with the release of the 1.12 patch.  Check what battlegroups your characters are on and then compare them with your fellow Lurkers!
The Seventh Sign
Lurker Lounge News
Written by Bolty   
Saturday, 15 July 2006

July 15, 1999.  That's when the Lurker Lounge was born, and here we still are a whopping seven years later.

How far we've come!  Happy Birthday, Lurker Lounge!  And hello to any of you who have been here since the beginning.  Hope you'll be here for the 8th birthday.

1.12 Test Patch Available for Download
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Written by MongoJerry   
Friday, 14 July 2006
As spotted by Lemekim, the 1.12 test patch is available for download off the player test realm site.  Horde lament the loss of windfury!
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