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WoW Insider is, as we may have mentioned before, your exhaustive source for all things World of Warcraft. The recent patch 3.0.2 has left folks with a lot of questions; even just yesterday we heard players wondering aloud about their class changes in open chat. Massively's big sister site has you covered, in a post linking out to all of their Echoes of Doom class guides.

Playing a Hunter? BigRedKitty has your number, with looks into talent tree changes and the addition of pet talent trees. If you're a fan of the Pally (and who-isn't, post patch?), check out a highlight reel of their now-super-OP selves. Rogues have a lot to crow about, with their highly-tweaked trees now making them all the more deadly in their assigned role. And of course, if you're a raider, you have a lot to think about. Check out the newest Ready Check on post-Echoes, pre-Wrath raiding. And good luck out there in Azeroth!
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MassivelyExplore your class changes in WoW's 3.0.2 patch originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite hopes that Blizzard would be able to bring servers back up promptly after the enormous patch 3.0.2, reality has proven that a bit of a false hope. As of 9:20pm EST, many - if not most - of the World of Warcraft servers are still down.

Massively's sister site WoW Insider has been following the issue, and notes "this target has been pushed back three times since being originally set for 2 PM PST/5 PM EST today, so I wouldn't count on being able to play any time tonight necessarily. And when the realms do come up, I wouldn't expect them to be super-stable; the few realms that are up right now are having all manner of crashes and other difficulties."

Keep your eyes on Massively and WoW Insider as we follow the continuing fallout from this enormous pre-expansion patch.
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MassivelyWoW's pre-Wrath patch still keeping servers down originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Massively's sister site WoW Insider is reporting that the upcoming mega-patch to World of Warcraft will include nerfs. But not to your precious Hunter or Warlock ... no, the nerfs are hitting the bosses of the Burning Crusade and Outlands. Major changes to the way fundamental game mechanics work have resulted in bosses that are significantly more challenging than they were intended to be when the BC expansion was released. To combat this, every boss in Outlands has had their health reduced by (in some circumstances) up to 30%.

Blogger Alex Ziebart runs down the numerous 'old style' raid tactics that, now deprecated, the Blizzard developers had to tune for. "Shaman stacking", and "Shadow Priest mana batteries" were just two of the tactics that neccessitated these changes. Alex views these changes as "an absolutely required retuning", and we're inclined to agree. Check out the discussion of the latest PTR patch to World of Warcraft, and plenty of analysis, at WoW Insider.

MassivelyBurning Crusade raids rebalanced in patch 3.0 originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In what could be considered another move intended to counter this week's upcoming Warhammer Online launch, the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm has been updated with the much-anticipated 3.0 patch. This is the last major patch slated for the game prior to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and includes many elements of the expansion that were previously considered 'back of the box' features for that content update. Massively's sister site WoW Insider has an exhaustive recap of everything you need to know about the patch.

Here are some thousand-foot-view highlights:
There's a ton more, of course, but WI has you covered. Go check em' out.
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MassivelyWorld of Warcraft patch 3.0 hits the PTR! originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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