Threatmeter, Inscription, Training Dummies and the Gundrak mystery

Sep 03 (Sep 3, 08) | Csulok & Teza
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Threat meter

A new builtin threat meter frame has been discovered recently. By typing

/console showThreatMeter 1
/script function IsThreatWarningEnabled() return 1; end

into the console, a familiar threat meter is added to the user interface when needed, which shows colored bars under the name of the currently targeted enemy. The bars are colored as one would expect it, red for the aggroholder, and grey to orange shades for partymembers. Currently the bars don't change their length and there are other bugs, too.

Inscription

A few days ago we wrote about Inscription in general. Today we have another update on the unlock of glyph slots. Now we know at what level, what type of glyph slots are accessible.

level 15 unlocks 1 Major and 1 Minor glyph slot
level 30 unlocks the 2nd Minor
level 45 unlocks the 2nd Major
level 60 unlocks 1 Major and 1 Minor
Glyph Mastery - an Inscription only skill unlocks a 7th slot, currently unknown what skill level or what type of glyph

That means a Death Knight starts with 2 Major and 2 Minor slots.

Training Dummies

That's something we forgot mention in our previous build 8885 coverages, but Blizzard added training dummies to the game, you can find some of them in the sewers of Dalaran, thanks to them players can run DPS benchmarks and else. The training dummies became really popular on beta and they are getting an update in the next build:

Quote from: Kalgan (Source)

In an upcoming update one of the dummies will be level 80 with normal lvl 80 mob stats, the other will be a "boss" dummy with normal lvl 80 boss mob stats.

Gun'drak mystery

With the addition of Gun'drak, Akali's platform in Zul'drak has been upgraded. He is still chained and tortured by the Prophet of Akali to gain powers to fight the Scourge, but the platform itself is now see-through.

After exploring the dungeon, it is clear, that Akali's platform offers a peek into the central part of the instance. The level 76-78 instance has 2 separate entrances close to this platform, both start by taking players down below the surface using an elevator. Here they shortly come across the previously seen part where they must solve a puzzle to unlock the last boss, Prophet of Akali.

This makes us wonder, what does the currently unused main fortress of Gun'drak hold? Due to its massive size our best bet is on a raid instance that would be introduced after Naxxramas, Nexus, Chamber of Aspects and Ulduar or a second dungeon wing for high level players.