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• Titan-Forged Spaulders of Triumph are purchasable by druids as intended.
• Lovely Charms now stack to 40.
• Any player who has a Lovely Charm Collector's Kit in their bags now has a chance to receive a Lovely Charm when in a group or raid and a group member gets a killing blow as long as they are within a certain range of the kill.
• In all difficulties of the Lich King encounter, players who are tanking raging spirits are no longer valid Harvest Soul targets during phase 3, Vile Spirits in phase 3 now spawn at a greater height, and Vile Spirits in phase 3 will not be spawned as often.
• In the 10 player Lich King encounter, Raging Spirits have had their health decreased in both normal and heroic versions and then fewer Vile Spirirts will be summoned in just the 10 player normal mode.
• Svala Sorrowgrave in Utgarde Pinnacle should no longer get stuck in the air during her transformation phase.
• The Blue Sack of Gems earned from completing a random heroic Occulus dungeon is no longer tradeable.
• The Tier 10 tanking plate gloves and chest pieces now have their appropriate durability on them.

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Paladins just lost 4% HP and DK's gained 2% HP (no change for warriors or druids) in a stealth hotfix tonight.

A couple hours after it was discovered, GC confirmed it:

It's an intentional change. Sorry that the fix went in before the announcement. The announcement should be up soon with more details.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22749003829&pageNo=6&sid=1#108

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• Blood Queen Lana’thel will now begin her flight phase a little earlier in 25 player mode, Vampiric Bite is no longer mitigated by armor, and the damage of Vampiric Bite has been reduced.
• Toravon will not be affected appropriately by Area-of-Effect damage spells.
• The Frost Orb corpses in the Toravon encounter will now despawn faster.
• Players who are dead will now get credit as intended when defeating the Valithira Dreamwalker encounter.
• Players can no longer zone in while the Valithria Dreamwalker encounter is active.
• Anti Magic Shell no longer resets the Mystic Buffet stacks in the Sindragosa encounter.
• The Val’kyr in the Lich King encounter are no longer affected by Death Grip and will head to ledges faster.

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For your drooling pleasure:

10-man:

• Normal mode
• Hard mode

25-man:

• Normal mode
• Hard mode

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Update to the update to the update: Thanks for watching. Good luck with Arthas and Hardmodes!

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE! We have a stream from Sixin, shadow priest: http://www.xfire.com/live_video/ep0c

UPDATE: Due to unexpected internet issues and hard drive crashes, neither streamer can stream tonight. Sorry for the very late notice :(.

Ahshift will again be streaming the raid tonight at http://www.stratfu.com/streaming

It will be ICC 10's, and we'll clear the first four first, and then move on to Dreamwalker and Sindragosa. Then we'll clear the other wings, and then hit up Arthas himself.

Starting at 7:30 EST (00:30 GMT): http://www.stratfu.com/streaming

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Today the final content opens in Icecrown: Valithiria Dreamwalker, Sindragosa, and the Lich King.

We have strats and videos to help you prep for tonight:

• Dreamwalker
• Sindragosa

Unfortunately all we have to help you with Lich King is this artist's conception of him, drawn from eyewitness reports. I hope it helps:

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Just wanted to update players on the hotfixes that have been applied recently to Icecrown Citadel...

Blood Prince Council

- Prince Keleseth will no longer melee players. So if you get knocked into Keleseth or happen to move by him, he won't swipe in between his casts and kill a non-tank.

- The first Shadow Resonance should appear earlier in the fight, which will allow the Keleseth tank to have more orbs on him or her if Keleseth is empowered second instead of third. We didn't want which Blood Prince was empowered second to be a major element of the difficulty in the fight.

- We reduced the melee damage for the Princes by 10% for the 10 player difficulty. They were doing less damage than the 25 player before the hotfix, but this change lowers the damage further.

- Empowered Flames will now run out of power after shooting fewer firebolts in the 10 player difficulty. We did not change the initial impact damage.

Blood-Queen Lana'thel

- The Blood-Queen is no longer spawned until the Blood Princes dies. This will prevent any unfortunate entry of her highness while a raid is fighting the Blood Princes.

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Thanks for watching this Tuesday, folks. I don't expect we'll be streaming again until the next gate opens, but I'll post here and on Twitter (#stratfu) if we are.

Ahshift, our moonkin, will be streaming tonight:

http://www.stratfu.com/streaming

Raid starts at 7:30 EST, we'll be starting with the 10-man, clearing the first four bosses and then heading to the new content.

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I hope you guys are as excited as we are for more bosses.

Based on the Plagueworks, I expect we'll be seeing some interesting fights that continue to be more challenging than the first four were.

As always, keep an eye out here as we add videos and strategies for the fight, as well as get some good discussions going in the StratFu forums.

• Blood Prince Council
• Blood-Queen Lana'thel

After this we just have Dreamwalker, Sindragosa, and Arthas himself -- and then it's on to the hard modes!

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We'd love to have more achievement videos, so if you have some up on Youtube already or are interested in making them, please visit Contribute to Stratfu for more information.

One of our rogues, Lolipokicake, found two videos for the Rotface and Festergut achievements. Unfortunately they're in Russian, but you can still see what's going on:

• Flu Shot Shortage (Festergut 25)
• Dances with Oozes (Rotface 25)

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