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3.1 Beyond Ulduar

Ulduar is drawing near and Blizzard is releasing changes they are making to the game beyond Ulduar. First things first, duel specs do not require a Lexicon of Power anymore! The talent switch will take five seconds and will reset your mana/energy/runic power/rage to zero. You can’t switch during combat, arenas or battlegrounds, which is reasonable. Being able to switch during combat would be ridiculous, arenas would be entirely too hard, and battlegrounds are just zerg fests, where spec barely matters. When you change specs you also get a new set of glyphs to go along with it, which is going to be a great money saver as well.

Blizzard is slowly but surely ruling out third party add-ons, starting with Outfitter and Proximo. Equipment Manager is taking the place of Outfitter, allowing you to switch sets of equipment with a single mouse click. They are also in the process of adding in unit frames that show your enemies in arenas, just like Proximo. They haven’t said if you will be able to set focus targeting and macros to mouse clicks on this new unit frame like Proximo, but most likely you will be able to.

The Objective tracker is being improved allowing you to track more quests and achievements, and if an item is needed for a quest it will be clickable next to where it’s tracked, so you don’t have to search through your bags anymore. The Looking For Group UI is being updated to allow you to choose which roles you are able to fill, which will make finding who you need easier. Finally, there is the “Warhammer BG queue system” which will allow you to queue to any BG from any location, then return you to the location where you queued when the BG is over.

Now we just sit and wait for the patch to drop till we can enjoy these new toys to play with.

-Jon