So i am still leveling my mage at the moment… however its always good to see someone elses point of view when it comes to PVP. Found this one on the wow forums, looks like a two part series should be a good viewing. I have re-arranged the original post source to include the vids, i know it was hard work but hey makes for easier viewing and readage. The following vids and skill all belong to Nighttempest im not trying to claim any of his glory just promoting some good cata mage pvp skills Check it out:

DISCLAIMER: I don’t claim skill! I just happen to know what I’m doing (half the time).

Anyways out of sheer boredom I decided to make a mage guide I managed to get some good clips (all of it was filmed in one day other than the scene on the docks vs the boomkin and warlock which was 3.3.5), so I decided that I should probably put them to use… anyways it’s a 2 part movie just read the description, and it takes a while to load in from youtube since its popup so you can get the full quality.

As long as I don’t waste your time completely, and you guys get at least ONE thing out of it I’ll be happy.

Part 1

• Movement/Kiting
• Lining Up Burst
• Simple Exercises to increase your mage skill

Part 1 is essentially a very slow, very chill movie starts from the very basics of everything, and ends with some silly exercises of me doing stupid crap in IF. Anyways you can at least enjoy the music if nothing else. (WARNING: I was a “bit” drunk for the last bit of part 1 since it was the end of the day so expect some weird screen shaking.)

Part 2

-Class Specifics: Rogue

(Rules: No Water elemental, or mirror images allowed)

Notes: I was going to include warrior, but they are not a complete class until 85 in PvP so they won’t be on here despite the opening list on part 1. This movie is a lot more edited than the first part, and is not really in the “chill” mood.

I’m going to add a voice over (on a separate file that you can listen to while you watch) when I have access to my mic again (100$ mics seem to break down more than the 20$ ones), but till then read this:

Fedxx is a 2750 MMR rogue (ex glad on his UD), and we’ve been duel buddies for a while now, this is the 2nd time since the first day of 4.0 that we dueled so expect to see a learning a curve, and a few mistakes (mostly by me he makes like 3 in the entire movie).

His opener:

-Opens with a garrote without breaking sap so I can’t spin around to face him, into a KS while I’m still blanket silenced by garrote.

To trinket, or to not trinket the stun rules are simple…

-Did he use shadow dance?

Yes: trinket

No: Don’t trinket (derp)

Don’t worry about being blinded it’s better for him to reopen without shadow dance. (Some duels I eat the shadow dance since I don’t want to fraps his reset, so I save trinket for blind.)

-Why are you invising? It’s just going to break.

It gives me 2-3 globals of breathing time, and a possible freecast, but unfortunately I’ve been pro’d and sapped out of invis before >_>. That’s a minor issue though considering how many bleeds sub rogues have.

-Why are you taking so little damage?

I’m facing him as much as possible. The maximum amount of backstabs he gets per duel is 8-9, and max of 3 ambushes.

-Why doesn’t he just turtle for his CDs?

He does some duels, and those are the ones where I lose, but he was nice enough to do burn down duels as well.

-He wouldn’t be able to turtle as much if you used a pet.

I’m aware of that, but mages are such a hard counter to rogues with the pet atm that I found it cheap to use it so I decided to run without it.

-Won’t rogues smokebomb change the game of rogue vs mage?

Not really we can counter it with ring of frost, or just blizzard. Vs good mages smokebomb will mostly be for:

a.) Getting out of combat with blind, and then smokebombing off the pet (assuming pet nova is used). (No other rogue on beta has thought of this yet…. kudos to me?)

b.) Smokebombing as deep freeze goes off.

c.) Recup tick time, and energy regen.

Rogue vs mage has remained essentially the same formula since level 60 even.

Mage plays defensive until Cds are out, mage resets, rogue has jack. Rogue qqs about mages.

Alternatively: Mage plays defensive, but rogue outplays mage, and mage QQs about rogues.

Anyways as I mentioned earlier I hope you guys get at least ONE thing out of this, and I’ll be happy.

Check out the rest of the thread on: WoW Forums

So apparently Ghost Crawler has announced some pretty crazy priest BUFFS! it should hit the test realms soon!

Lets see what we have here. Oh yeah, disc wont suck anymore. /yay. (or maybe it was just me, heh) ah well im playing my mage now so eh. But still good news for disc pvp priests. Ill break down the official disc list here, ill skip the boring bits…

• PVP Buff: Focused Will now procs when the priest is critically hit, in addition to its current effect. : so that means that now it will stack?
• PVP Buff: Improved Power Word: Shield now also increases the amount absorbed by an additional 15/30% when cast on oneself. : but i did hear that the mana cost for shield is also being increased so you still cant spam it (too much).
• PVP Buff: Pain Suppression is no longer dispellable.
• Penance mana cost has been increased by 7%, but healing has been increased by 20%.
• PVP Buff: Strength of Soul now also causes the priest to become immune to silence, interrupt, and dispel effects for 2/4 seconds after using Inner Focus.
• PVP Buff: Glyph of Pain Suppression has been renamed Glyph of Desperation and now allows Guardian Spirit to be cast while stunned, in addition to Pain Suppression.
• PVP Buff: Glyph of Spirit of Redemption has been converted into Glyph of Prayer of Mending, which increases the healing done by the first charge of Prayer of Mending by 60%.

Now i have probably overlooked some of them so check out the official list below, but its looking good. Hmm do i want to go back to playing my priest or keep leveling the mage.

Here goes the list of changes for Priests happening in Patch 4.0.6:

• The duration of Levitate has been increased to 10 minutes, up from 2.
• The mana cost of Power Word: Fortitude has been reduced by approximately 68%, making it roughly equal to the cost of Mark of the Wild.
• The mana cost of Power Word: Shield has been increased by approximately 31%, but its effect has been increased by 208%.
• The mana cost of Renew has been reduced by 24%.
• The mana cost of Shadow Protection has been reduced by approximately 65%, making it roughly equal to the cost of Mark of the Wild.
• Mind Blast damage has been significantly increased. It should be roughly 50% greater than Mind Spike.
• Mind Control now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
• Mind Sear can now be channeled on friendly targets in addition to enemy targets. In addition, Mind Sear’s damage has been increased by roughly 15%.
• Prayer of Healing effectiveness has been reduced by 15%.

Talent Specializations

Discipline

• Divine Aegis: Critical effects from Prayer of Healing now award a bonus amount in addition to the default, always-proc Divine Aegis effect.
• Grace is no longer limited to one target at a time.
• Focused Will now procs when the priest is critically hit, in addition to its current effect.
• Improved Power Word: Shield now also increases the amount absorbed by an additional 15/30% when cast on oneself.
• Pain Suppression is no longer dispellable.
• Penance mana cost has been increased by 7%, but healing has been increased by 20%.
• Strength of Soul now also causes the priest to become immune to silence, interrupt, and dispel effects for 2/4 seconds after using Inner Focus.

Holy

• Blessed Resilience will now proc when the priest is critically hit, in addition to its current effect.
  Chakra
• Chakra states now last 1 minute, up from 30 seconds.
  Binding Heal and Holy Word: Serenity now refresh the duration of Renew on the target, in addition to the other direct heals.
• Binding Heal, Flash Heal, Greater Heal can now trigger Chakra: Serenity.
• Mind Spike can now trigger Chakra: Chastise.
• Circle of Healing effectiveness has been increased by 30%.
• Desperate Prayer now heals the priest for 30% of their total health, up from a very subpar value.
• Guardian Spirit: The absorb/heal from this ability can now never exceed 200% of the maximum health of the target.
• Holy Concentration now increases the amount of mana regeneration from Spirit while in combat by an additional 15/30%, down from 20/40%.
• Holy Word: Chastise now has a 30-second cooldown, up from 25. In addition, it properly breaks from damage.
• Lightwell’s health has been increased by 50% (for PvP purposes).
• Serendipity now has Spell Alert and Floating Combat Text feedback support.
• Surge of Light can now also proc from Flash Heal and Greater Heal, and can now also critically hit.

Shadow

• Shadow Orbs benefit from mastery has been increased by approximately 16%.
• Vampiric Embrace now lasts until canceled.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Mind Flay no longer requires Shadow Word: Pain to be on the target.
• Glyph of Pain Suppression has been renamed Glyph of Desperation and now allows Guardian Spirit to be cast while stunned, in addition to Pain Suppression.
• Glyph of Psychic Horror now reduces the cooldown of Psychic Horror by 30 seconds, down from 60.
• Glyph of Spirit of Redemption has been converted into Glyph of Prayer of Mending, which increases the healing done by the first charge of Prayer of Mending by 60%.

patch notes / talents come via Cataclysm Stuff

So what is it and how do i get it!? /sarcasm (semi on)

Provided that you are already past the level requirement of felwood, you should have no problems aquiring this tasty item.

1. Go To Felwood
2. Talk to Arcanist Delaris, pickup the Do the Imp-Possible Quest
3. Do all the following quests from this dude, until you come across the final quest of the chain Open Their Eyes

Once you have completed the quest Open Their Eyes you will recieve the (ZOMG) Rainbow Generator…

And yes it does hit for about 11 on a mob that is level 47. So watch out, Oh and it comes with a full 10 minute cooldown, just to stop u spamming the 11 damage ranbow and therefore overpowering your class…

So what is frostwire anyway?

FrostWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing program for the Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols. FrostWire is written in Java, and is a fork of LimeWire

Is frostwire safer than limewire?

Limewire is illegal, Frostwire isn’t. Frostwire is a lot better than Limewire, but they both use the Gnutella network. Searches won’t be any different.

The guys over at Frostwire originally designed Limewire, but it’s now managed by a different company. Frostwire has been updated a lot more though, and it isn’t illegally sold.

What people are saying about FrostWire

by iTony777 on March 30, 2010
Pros: Does everything that I want it to do.
Cons: There are none.
Summary: Does everything that I want it to do without any problems.

Dana1
5 out of 5
This is a great program and keeps getting better. I have been using Frostwire for a few years now and have yet to download a virus. Just have to pay attention to what yo click on before you download. All I download are mp3′s so it works for me. No hijacking or any other side effects that people write about. Best thing, it’s open source.

Landsnes
5 out of 5
Works great for me on both Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 64-bit! I’ve had no problems and during installation I UNTICKED the adware (i.e. toolbar, homepage, etc.) and none of that was installed. This excellent open source program should replace LimeWire totally in my opinion.

Highly recommended, full score!

Warning – even if you opt out of all the Ask com “extras” – the installer will hijack your browser and set Ask com as your default home page. And who knows what else.