Not wasting much time.

patch 3.3 is up on the PTR. looks like a lot of changes, many of witch are aimed at reducing mana costs of lower level spells. I'm guessing this is to help people leveling rather than to bring back downranking.

New totem graphics are in this patch.

Really? Axes? Now don't get me wrong as an orc I love my axes, but thats the best they could come up with for our totems?


Meanwhile the troll totems kick ass.


The dwarven totems are OK. Better than the orc, not nearly as cool as troll.

Class changes

Shaman
Elemental

•Fire Nova now Causes the shaman's active Fire totem to emit a wave of flames, inflicting 893 to 997 Fire damage to enemies within 10 yards of the totem.
•Elemental Reach now affects Fire Nova
•Improved Fire Nova now Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova by 20% and reduces the cooldown by 2/4 sec.
•Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt, Earth Shock, Flame Shock, Searing Totem, Frost Shock, Stoneclaw Totem, Magma Totem had the mana cost of their lower ranks reduced.

Enhancement

•Stoneskin Totem, Nature Resistance Totem, Strength of Earth Totem, Windfury Weapon, Fire Resistance Totem, Flametongue Totem, Frostbrand Weapon, Flametongue Weapon, Frost Resistance Totem had the mana cost of their lower ranks reduced.

Restoration

•Healing Wave, Chain Heal, Earth Shield, Healing Stream Totem, Lesser Healing Wave, Mana Spring Totem had the mana cost of their lower ranks reduced.

I'm wondering how the fire Nova change will work. Say I'm using magma totem... which of course I almost always am. Do I get an additional bit of fire damage? If so its pretty awesome. Fire Nova is the only thing changes aside from mana costs for us so far.

Crafting wise there are new Icecrown Citadel patterns coming.

•Legwraps of Unleashed Nature have been added to the game.
•Blessed Cenarion Boots have been added to the game.
•Bladeborn Leggings have been added to the game.
•Footpads of Impending Death have been added to the game.
•Lightning-infused Leggings have been added to the game.
•Earthsoul Boots have been added to the game.
•Draconic Bonesplinter Legguards have been added to the game.
•Rock-steady Treads have been added to the game.

They all take 6 icecrown thing of crafting things though. :p

A couple of new enchants added as well.

•Enchant Weapon - Black Magic now cause your harmful spells to sometimes increase haste rating by 250.
•Enchant Weapon - Unholy Weapon now inflicts Shadow damage in addition to the damage reduction effect.

Depending on the proc rate Black Magic might be replacing Beserking as the enchant of choice for Enhancement. With my curent EP for haste above 2.6 if the uptime is the same this is more than 50% better.

No new bosses downed last week. We had attendence issues and struggled to get the first 3 bosses in Heroic ToC 25 down. Took us dozen or so tries to get beasts down on Wednesday of this week. Hopefully Lord J and Champs go smoother this weekend or we will make no progress on Twins again. As consolation though I did get the best in slot cloak. Cloak of the Untamed Predator