Shia Lebouf as Yorick from Y: The Last Man...Now, I know Shia is getting thrown in tons of movies lately because he's a hot property, but he makes a LOT of sense for this part. The character is quippy and a bit of a dork and he has a pet monkey. The way Shia talked to that dog of his in Transformers really makes me think he'd work well with a monkey. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, click here and here.
The season premiere of the Sarah Conner Chronicles was wicked awesome. Better than most feature films I've seen. I hope this show gets to live long enough for Terminator Salvation to boost its ratings. I'm really digging it but its ratings aren't really stellar and Fox is known for canceling lots of shows every year. You could say that Fox is the network equivalent of "The Terminator" out to kill young television series before they have a chance to bloom. And I have a baaaaad feeling about Dollhouse.
The articles this week feel meatier than usual. That might be because I had to write a couple of them, like the Castle Crashers review for tommorrow and Spider-Manic Depression part 2 for Thursday. Action Flick Chick also returns for a review of Blade Trinity. In similarly related news, apparently Ryan Reynolds is just so awesome in this new Wolverine movie that they are already considering giving his character his own movie as a follow-up.
To shifts gears, I would like to talk about the Wrath of the Lich King beta. Specifically, let me reintroduce you to the Rogue...
So you World of Warcraft players might be thinking "OMG WUT AM I GOING TO DU WIT NEW TALENTS?" Here at the RLHQ, we know what you should do with them to make the optimal characters and I'll tell you exactly how.
ASSASSINATION IS THE NEW COMBAT
It's true. Assassination is an extremely viable build for raiding as a Rogue. I'll walk you through the new talents that you'll want to pay attention to.
Vigor- This increases your maximum energy by 10, but you already know that. What is truly revolutionary about this talent is that they moved it to be a 3rd tier instead of a 7th tier talent, making it quite attractive to even off-spec into.
Relentless Strikes- GONE. This talent now has a very different replacement located much deeper into the Assassination tree called...
Focused Attacks- An 8th tier talent. Gives 1 out of 3 of your critical hits to restore 3 energy. This really stacks up, but I didn't pick it up. You may want to, though. It is all just a matter of preference.
Overkill- Gives you a bonus damage buff during stealth and for 6 seconds afterwards. This is a very, very handy talent and only costs 1 point. This has taken up the spot where Vigor used to reside down at the tier 7 branch.
Infectious Poisons- It has a very interesting mechanic of causing your poisons to spread to those that try to heal it, but the big kicker here is the 20% bonus to the damage that your Instant and Deadly poisons deal.
All of the talents in the 9th, 10th, and 11th tier are too awesome to miss.
Master Poisoner- Your critical hit chance increases by 3% against targets that you have poisoned. This in conjunction with Improved Poisons makes this basically a permanent 3% critical hit chance boost. If that wasn't enough it also reduces the length of all poisons that you fall susceptible to by 1/2.
Turn the Tables- You get a buff that increases your critical hit chance by 6% whenever anyone in your party or raid dodge, block, or parries and attack. Unless you end up with a tank that is just horrible, this makes the buff basically indefinite.
Cut to the Chase- This talent is the reason Assassination is the new combat. It is just so ridiculous. If you have the Slice and Dice buff on you whenever you use Eviscerate or Envenom, the buff is refreshed to its maximum 5-combo point potential. If you spec a little bit into Combat to pick up Improved Slice and Dice to increase how long this buff lasts by 50%, Slice and Dice is basically lasts forever while you are out grinding. Truly crazy stuff.
Hunger for Blood- Oh yeah. This is the other reason. When it is used, it will remove a physical debuff and refund a little bit of energy. Not only that, it will increase all damage you deal by 3% for the next 30 seconds. This stacks three times for a maximum of a 9% damage boost. This is an ability that can basically just be refreshed in between fights unless you are raiding.
Heirlooms. They are introducing items that scale in power based upon your level and can be traded in between your characters on the same account. The reveal of this new kind of item shocked me in how utterly ingenious it is. This makes it to where you can have a much greater edge building up your alts without having to worry about finding new items to replace what you are currently wearing. This can make it so that you get really sick of seeing your character in the same armor for 60 levels, but with the new Recruit -a-Friend feature that might only be 20 hours of gameplay.
They said something about Herod's Shoulder transforming from mail to plate as you level up. This pretty much confirms that old dungeons will contain Heirloom items and that some of them might be familiar classics. Very exciting stuff.
THE SHAMAN STRIKES BACK
I take back what I said about the Death Knight being my new main. The new Shaman changes have me extremely excited, mostly because of the new ability called "Lava Lash" which is a new instant melee attack that deals fire damage. I will still make a Death Knight and level and raid with them, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be playing my Shaman more.
On friday we're going to cover the big new changes to the Warrior. Alex will cover that stuff. Sometime in the near future we'll have articles on the new Retribution Paladin, Protection Paladin, Survival Hunter, and an article called "The Pilgrimage through Northrend" which is basically a big tour of the new areas.
