Recently –Especially prior to the Hunger for Blood nerf – players have been going nuts for assassination because of Deadly Brew. For those of you who do not know, the new talent Deadly Brew will make all poisons apply crippling in addition to their normal poison. This being the case, when one procs wound or mind numbing poison crippling will also be applied. This makes it easy to cover wound by almost always having Wound + Crip + Mind Numbing on the target. Moreover, poison proc rates for wound, mind numbing, and crippling have been increased to 50% per hit. This being the case any target a rogue is on should permanently be wounded, have mind numbing, and crippling on it. This is a great and very advantageous buff to rogues.

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Hello everyone, it has been a while since I’ve blogged – it turns out that shadow-gaming (a site I ran with Dahis and blogged on) burned the heck out of me for quite some time. I am back now, however, and with a lot more free time than previously—so, ideally, I’ll have more endurance so to speak. Moreover, WoW is currently full of interesting changes, yielding lots of discussion on topics ranging from WOTLK to the current sponsor + tournament craze going on across the community. I don’t recall a competitive surge like this in the history of the game. While many may disagree – especially Serennia who argues that WoW is dying off and no one cares to play anymore — I think there is no doubting the fact that there are more tournaments now than ever, bigger prizes, more locations, and more teams getting sponsored. Not to mention the recent surge in activity revolving around WOTLK, beta keys, flaming forum nerf posts, and the usual ming hate.

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