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Blizzard employees are already back to work and there are already a handful of blue posts related to the expansion.
Shadowmourne is not for hunters!
Turns out that Shadowmourne for hunters was another misinterpreted joke from Blizzard. (Don't blame it on me, it even was in the official recap of the panel!)
Quote from: Ghostcrawler Anyone capable of using a two-handed axe can use Shadowmourne.
The stat allocation may not benefit hunters or shamans as much as warriors, DKs or paladins.
There is NO Cataclysm Beta for the moment
The first Cataclysm beta scam reached my mail today, time for a small warning.
Quote from: Nethaera As always, when there is a beta, we will announce it. Please be wary of any and all claims of a beta or alpha for the new expansion being held.
Blue posts
Quote from Blizzard staffStats simplification
What we were finding is that in many cases things had just become so complicated that players were not making intelligent decisions based on their knowledge of how various stats benefited them. That sounds like what you wanted to have happened, but it really wasn't. Instead players would pull up a BiS list, or plug the item into a spreadsheet. If the answer was "upgrade" they equipped the item. We could pretty much just give the items a name and art and make all the stats not displayed.
If you were one of those players who picked up a piece and understood how armor pen vs. attack power benefited you or whether defense was still worth collecting after you had hit crit immunity, then you were in the minority. Hopefully we can get back to a system where eyeballing an item's stats has some chance of being right.
