TalonBot
03-13-2009, 07:03 PM
Filed under: Warrior (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/warrior/), News items (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/news-items/)
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From our friendly official patch notes (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html) for the PTR, we now have some news on new talents for Arms, which I complained about this morning (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/13/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-arms-waits-and-waits-and-waits/):
Improved Intercept (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29889) and Weapon Mastery (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=20505) have once again swapped places in the talent tree.
New Talent: Juggernaut: Grants the warrior the ability to Charge while in combat.
Unrelenting Assault (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46860): Now also increases the damage of Overpower and Revenge by 10/20%, and causes Overpower (when used to attack a casting target) to decrease the effectiveness of all the target's non-physical damage and healing by 25/50% for 6 seconds. Tooltip and visual updated.
Pretty obviously they switched Imp Intercept and Weapon Mastery because arms will not be expected to use intercept at all now that they'll be able to charge in combat, similar to the protection ability Warbringer. We've basically now seen two out of the three warrior specs given the option to dispense with Intercept altogether. In addition, fury warriors have lost the only 'expertise compensation' talent they had. While for warriors with sufficient expertise this is a non-issue, if you were using Weapon Mastery to fill a lower than necessary expertise stat, get some exp gear fast.
Unrelenting Assault sounds like a promising buff. I won't know how promising until I get back onto the PTR tonight, but a damage buff and an anti-caster function? Yes please. It does PvP and PvE duty, can't complain about that. All in all, it's a trickle, but a trickle is better than nothing. Not too thrilled about the loss of Weapon Mastery for fury warriors, but it's survivable.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/02/ah0209patch31swipeimg.jpg (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1) Patch 3.1 brings us Ulduar (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/ulduar), dual specs (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/dual-spec), significant changes to all the classes, and more! We've got you covered from top to bottom with our Guide to Patch 3.1 (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1/).http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Warrior class changes in patch 3.1 PTR build 9684 (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/13/warrior-class-changes-in-patch-3-1-ptr-build-9684/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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From our friendly official patch notes (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html) for the PTR, we now have some news on new talents for Arms, which I complained about this morning (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/13/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-arms-waits-and-waits-and-waits/):
Improved Intercept (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29889) and Weapon Mastery (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=20505) have once again swapped places in the talent tree.
New Talent: Juggernaut: Grants the warrior the ability to Charge while in combat.
Unrelenting Assault (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46860): Now also increases the damage of Overpower and Revenge by 10/20%, and causes Overpower (when used to attack a casting target) to decrease the effectiveness of all the target's non-physical damage and healing by 25/50% for 6 seconds. Tooltip and visual updated.
Pretty obviously they switched Imp Intercept and Weapon Mastery because arms will not be expected to use intercept at all now that they'll be able to charge in combat, similar to the protection ability Warbringer. We've basically now seen two out of the three warrior specs given the option to dispense with Intercept altogether. In addition, fury warriors have lost the only 'expertise compensation' talent they had. While for warriors with sufficient expertise this is a non-issue, if you were using Weapon Mastery to fill a lower than necessary expertise stat, get some exp gear fast.
Unrelenting Assault sounds like a promising buff. I won't know how promising until I get back onto the PTR tonight, but a damage buff and an anti-caster function? Yes please. It does PvP and PvE duty, can't complain about that. All in all, it's a trickle, but a trickle is better than nothing. Not too thrilled about the loss of Weapon Mastery for fury warriors, but it's survivable.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/02/ah0209patch31swipeimg.jpg (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1) Patch 3.1 brings us Ulduar (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/ulduar), dual specs (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/dual-spec), significant changes to all the classes, and more! We've got you covered from top to bottom with our Guide to Patch 3.1 (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1/).http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Warrior class changes in patch 3.1 PTR build 9684 (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/13/warrior-class-changes-in-patch-3-1-ptr-build-9684/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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