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If you're looking for your arenas in World of Warcraft, you won't be finding them. As our sister site WoW Insider has found, Blizzard has temporarily shut down the arena servers.

The problem seems to stem from the ratings calculation system, which seems to be generating inconsistent results. Until this problem is resolved, arenas will be remaining offline. This is, of course, in addition to all the other bugs that have been introduced with patch 3.0.8, including the bug that has caused Blizzard to completely close off the zone of Wintergrasp as well.

Currently there is no estimated time for the arenas to come back up, but we'll keep you informed as to any breaking developments.

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It's finally here, the first post-Wrath patch-of-important-things for World of Warcraft. And by "important things" we mean changes like allowing players to create a Death Knight on any server, so long as they have a level 55+ character on at least one server. There are also a bevy of class changes, as well as a pretty nifty launcher update that's added plenty of utility plus style. Overall, the 3.0.8 patch was quite beefy -- now we just have to sit tight for the eventual Icecrown patch to slam onto our harddrives.

If you really want to get the low-down on all changes both big and small, WoW Insider's got you covered. And if you're an Arcane Mage, then count yourself lucky as Blizzard saw fit to give out candies this go-around.
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MassivelyPatch 3.0.8 lands on World of Warcraft servers originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Death Knight is a pretty fun class, but anyone who's been playing one since launch knows it's a bit lacking in the tanking department at times. And for a class that wears only plate armor and has talent builds that focus on either giving damage or taking damage, it's kind of important to be able to take a few hits. So when the new Death Knight changes hit the public test realms, WoW Insider was all over it.

Overall it looks like each of the three talent trees have been tweaked to fall in line with what they're supposed to offer a player. Blood gives good singular-target damage, while healing the Death Knight, Frost is all about tanking and taunting and Unholy is a blend of support and area of effect damage spells. So, in other words, it looks as though Blizzard is making mostly positive changes here. We'll be curious to see if anything is changed as it's tested out by players, because well, that is the point of testing out an upcoming patch after all.
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MassivelyAnalyzing the upcoming changes to Death Knights in World of Warcraft originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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