Time for another round-up of the most interesting posts I’ve seen lately! But first I want to draw your attention to my newest blog addition, the “What Am I Reading?” page (shown in the top menu as “reading” so it will fit better). I’ll continue to highlight some of the best content in round-up posts (like this one) but the Reading page is a quick and easy way for me to share the hordes of neat little posts that I see each day.
I have a new and improved auto-updating blogroll on my Blogroll page! Check it out!
This is entirely off-topic for this blog, but I just had to share! I have finally figured out how to add labels to individual posts in Google Reader.
As I mentioned in my last post, the distance for hunters’ ranged attacks has been changed to “1-35″ yards according to the tooltip on ranged attacks.
This caused some concern among players about point-blank ranged attacks. But Blizzard responded: Kalgan posted a very short note on the Test Realm Forum that:
The tooltip will be corrected to indicate the 5 yard min range.
And then Drysc filled in more information on the General Forum:
There’s a tooltip error, it should be “5-35 yards”. We want melee and ranged to be kept separate, so that when in melee attack range you should not be able to use a ranged attack. There’s some amount of ‘give’ there, especially in fast paced PvP which can produce some temporary gray area but that’s fully known with this change.
Feeding the issue of the tooltip error is a bug currently where you can indeed range attack someone while being meleed, but that’s in the process of being resolved as well.
I’m a little slow off the mark this morning. Last night, just after midnight, while I was having fun slaughtering tigers in STV with Kaet my UPS died and took out my computer with it. A UPS is essential in Florida due to the frequent lightning storms, but mine was something like 7 years old and the battery had been acting up a little lately. I didn’t expect it to bomb out quite so spectacularly, though! There was no serious permanent damage to the computer (although I appear to have lost my DVD drive, which was also on the fritz) and I picked up a shiny new UPS (that’s also a good bit smaller and lighter, thank goodness!) this morning at Best Buy. But I’m only now getting back to my normal more-or-less-looped-in state.
At any rate, the Public Test Realm updated last night with a new 2.3.0 build. I am still sorting through the news, but WoWInsider has a good wrap-up on the changes.
As thuak reported in a comment, the distance for hunters’ ranged attacks has been changed to “1-35″ yards. In my quick testing, this eliminated dead zone entirely — there was no place where I could stand where I could not attack one way or another. However, this did not give me the ability to shoot at point-blank range — I’d still switch to melee when the enemy was close enough.
Unfortunately, as Gurluas reported in another comment, the Zul’Aman Bear can no longer be tamed. I’d like to hear from anyone who tamed the bear previously — do your pets still exist?