M’uru

We’ve changed the Negative Energy spells cast by M’uru and Entropius to no longer cause spell interruption on the target. This should ease the frustration of the encounter for those casting classes who can not obtain 100% resistance to spell interruption through talents and effects such as Concentration Aura.

This change is live immediately on the US realms, and realms in other regions will receive this change with the deployment of the 2.4.2 patch.

Considering phase two is the most difficult portion of this fight, I’m not at all devastated by this nerf. It really sucks watching people die to lack of heals caused by random pushback. However, this does mean phase one will be significantly easier. Less pushback on your casters means your raid can do more DPS in general. This will allow a lot more guilds to meet the DPS requirement in phase one, including mine. However, phase two still has a ridiculous DPS requirement. So we’ll see how that goes.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if M’uru turns out to be the most difficult fight in TBC. The only guilds that have killed him are those that raid at least as many hours a the average work week. Exodus spent their time raiding until 4AM every night just to kill him.

WoWProgress.com

I’ve been pretty frustrated with just how slow Wowjutsu has been updating. We killed the Eredar Twins on May 2nd and I put my guild in the queue the day after we killed them. However, we’re listed as having killed them on the 10th, because that’s how long it took for Wowjutsu to register the kill. There’s probably something bogging down their scanning process that makes it inefficient and inaccurate.

It’s such a pleasant surprise, then, to have discovered WoWProgress, which is much more efficient and accurate. However, it only keeps track of Sunwell loot, which is probably the reason it’s more efficient in tracking the higher-end kills. Wowjutsu keeps track of everything, so it has to scan every single character in a guild running anything from Karazhan to Sunwell. That’s a ton of characters to scan.

Blizzcon 2008

Blizzcon 2008 was announced this week. It’ll be on October 10th and 11th. I’ll be going this year. I might even try to score an interview with someone, but I am pretty ignorant regarding the protocol for that. I’ll have to email Blizzard’s PR department. Either way, I’ll be posting information to the blog, if I can. We don’t have raids on Friday and Saturday, so I might ask my guildie if I can borrow his computer to post videos and pictures.