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Sorry about the distinct lack of articles. Between Thanksgiving festivities and Finals season, along with the release of 3.3, my available time has dwindled quite a bit recently.

Not to worry, though! I have a number of posts that are backlogged and half-written. I plan to hammer out a number of these orphaned articles over the next week or so, as Finals start wrapping up.

To make up for this, I offer up some modern/retro/geek chic carols, found on the sidebar. Enjoy!

Until then, “May your blades never dull!”

(Wow, that was cheesy!)

Since 3.1’s buffing of the ArP rating conversion, a trend has been pushed on pretty much every physical DPS that values ArP highly – the “Armor Penetration soft-cap”. The only problem with this? It’s not the ultimate in gearing philosophy.

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We have two meta gems to choose from as DPS Warriors:

Chaotic Skyflare Diamond (CSD)
Relentless Earthsiege Diamond (RED)

Now, obviously Critical Strike Rating is a better stat for us than Agility. Given that the stats come in the same dose with either meta, the Chaotic seems to easily beat out the Relentless, and as such, has been hailed by many as the premiere meta gem for quite while.

However, all things are not equal. The winner is decided by the meta gem requirement.

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Here’s another fun post, because I’m being lazy. I’ll get a real post up Soon™.

The class forums are not dead, as evidenced by this very post.

Also, Int does in fact have value for Warriors – increased rate weapon skill gains (remains true, even though the data is old).

Edit: If you still have not voted in the new poll (the 4piece version of your DPS Warrior T10 reactions), make sure to do so. It’s not the same poll, even though it looks almost exactly the same as the previous 2-piece poll.

Tomorrow will be the first boss testing phase of the 3.3 instance, Icecrown Citadel. One big note I wanted to get out there is an issue that’s totally silent, and conspicuously invisible. I’m talking, of course, about The Mystery of the Missing Action Bar Mods.

Most custom Action Bar addons seem to render the entire action bars invisible for most users when signing on to the PTR, but no error is being thrown specifically about any bar mod. This includes all of the usual suspects: Dominos, Bartender4, Macaroon, and most any other addon that modifies the default action bars.

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