[WoW] It's Patch day!

[Arilin]

So, it's 3.0.2 day. Huge patch, servers down for half a day because of it.

Who's doing what once the servers are up? respecing your numerous characters? Going to rocket up the inscription skill? Going to just play with the new talents, and learn the new skills added to various classes?

[Drayven]

We're hoping to be able to squeeze in a Karazhan run tonight but raids on patch days are always interesting.

[That Darn Kat]

If I manage to sell all the ridiculously priced stacks of herbs I put up yesterday as the server counted down it's last seconds, then I'll run around Azeroth today buying up all the pets and mounts I can. I suppose I ought to respec (as much as a level 45 can, anyway) and then get back to leveling.

[Quantum]

I've been saving up some money for the inscription tree. I might even drop my mining skill so I can pick up herbalism and level that and inscription together.

Or I could respec and go train one of the huge dinosaurs.

Decision, decisions.

[Arilin]

I'm undecided on inscription.

70 Warrior - Was 17/44 fury. He's going to go deep prot.
70 Hunter - Is currently BM, will stay BM until I get a chance to play around with the other trees.

61 Lock - He's going to stay demo I believe.
60 Paladin - Ret to play around
60 Shaman - Elemental possibly. Undecided. Maybe go resto again.
Other misc low levels. Have a 47 rogue too, though I haven't really followed ANY rogue changes lately.

Prot is very fun. I look forward to that.

[Troggles]

After 2 years, I'm respeccing my mage to Frost. The new talents just look like too much fun. Also, I plan on powerleveling my druid's herbalism/inscription.

[Quantum]

I think this patch makes it easier to level from 60-70 and also makes enemies in raid dungeons have about 30% less hp.

[Arilin]

Though I did just read this. Via Wowinsider.

Many people, including yours truly, was scratching their head in disblief this morning when the official patch notes for 3.0.2 looked rather off. There were spells and abilities missing, talents not enumerated, and generally the notes looked as if they were lifted from a version of the game done a few weeks ago.

Apparently this was intentional.

Ghostcrawler made a post moments ago stating that patch 3.0.2 does not have all the class changes in it. In particular, "those that affect high level abilities" and some more recent changes are not included. He goes on to say that people will get them before November 13th.

Bornakk has confirmed Ghostcrawler's post applies to the retail non-beta / non-ptr version of WoW.

[Drayven]

Though I did just read this. Via Wowinsider.

I've seen that quote all over but have yet to actually understand what it means. Is there a list of what didn't make it?

[TrackZero]

86% patch downloaded. C'mon.....

[TrackZero]

If I manage to sell all the ridiculously priced stacks of herbs I put up yesterday as the server counted down it's last seconds, then I'll run around Azeroth today buying up all the pets and mounts I can. I suppose I ought to respec (as much as a level 45 can, anyway) and then get back to leveling.

That's honestly one of my favourite improvements in the WotLK beta, no more pets or mounts taking up bag space. I can finally clean out that bag full of them I have in the bank as well.

[Blue]

Take my Druid from Resto to Feral, grab my polar bear mount, check out SW Harbor and maybe nab inscription on my Hunter. Been saving herbs on my Druid for a while now so that I can tinker around with it, so we'll see how that goes.

My Hunter also needs a serious haircut.

[fishbang]

Retrieving character list...

Any minute (hour?) now and I can get the Dwarf hunter a shave, tame some exotics and go fer a run up to Hillsbrad and gawk at the ginormous hole in the ground. Then maybe hit some AV to watch the other 79 people relearn their class as I do.

After that, I guess I'll log into the frost mage and respec him to, uh, frost some more. And then I can equip all those former-healing-now-spellpower items I've been hoarding in the bank bags.

[That Darn Kat]

Upon closer inspection, I'm thinking of getting rid of my cat *sniff* and taming a raptor sometime today, as their skill looks pretty nice. Though, heyenas might be nice for pvp with the slowing effect of tendon rip. So many choices!

[Blue]

Upon closer inspection, I'm thinking of getting rid of my cat *sniff* and taming a raptor sometime today, as their skill looks pretty nice. Though, heyenas might be nice for pvp with the slowing effect of tendon rip. So many choices!

Not sure if this matters or not for you, but the stable master can now hold two additional pets for a fantastic total of five. I almost got rid of my monkey Fuzzbutt the other day and read that and realized I didn't need to :) .

[That Darn Kat]

Oh, yeah, I saw that. I won't actually be getting rid of my cat, I just won't use it. Probably for quite some time, and then I'll get rid of it.

I might have to get a bat as well, for the 10 second cooldown stun. =D

Edit: Just read some conflicting info. Maaaybe the stun has a 60 second cooldown. >.>

[darkbase]

Started playing again last weekend after a year long hiatus. Got the new patch and loaded up- new character is gone. What the fuck.

[Blue]

I keep refreshing every minute...

[Shjinta]

Wooo new patch.. It's getting to the point where I want to quit now. Like Removing the Onyxia chain quest.. Yeah it was long, but you haven't really experienced wow until you did that quest line.. Now anyone can just walk into her lair... Another step towards blizzards new mentality.. Casual = Money. /sigh

Also.. there's not way blizzard will have those servers working.. After 5 years they still can't do maintenance properly..

[TrackZero]

Started playing again last weekend after a year long hiatus. Got the new patch and loaded up- new character is gone. What the fuck.

It's probably not gone, maintenance is still going, my characters listed on the servers keep appearing and disappearing (the server list with character numbers, not actually seeing them, which you can't do right now).

[TrackZero]

Also.. there's not way blizzard will have those servers working.. After 5 years they still can't do maintenance properly..

Maintenance is going until 2am PST as per the notice....

[Camel]

Wooo new patch.. It's getting to the point where I want to quit now. Like Removing the Onyxia chain quest.. Yeah it was long, but you haven't really experienced wow until you did that quest line.. Now anyone can just walk into her lair... Another step towards blizzards new mentality.. Casual = Money. /sigh

Well....the old girl wasn't exactly putting up much of a fight anymore. She was three or four-manned by some people in my guild the other day. I had no idea that was possible, and I'm sure she has been killed by even smaller groups (maybe).

I'm pumped for the patch! Lots of moonkin love.

[darkbase]

Never mind me, I'm retarded. Server just isn't up yet. Thought the maintenance was supposed to be done by now, though?

[Blue]

Never mind me, I'm retarded. Server just isn't up yet. Thought the maintenance was supposed to be done by now, though?

Technically in about 8 minutes...some servers are up, some aren't. On the sidebar it says they expect them all to be up by 3pm PST but my realm isn't up yet and there isn't much time to go.

Here's hoping.

[Arilin]

Bliz has said it may take up until 3p PST for all the servers to come up.

On this kind of day, they always run late typically. I usually expect like 1.5 hours late, give or take.

[Blue]

Well, they're nearing an hour and a half already. Maintenance was supposed to be over by 2 PST and it's now 3:15 PST. It looks like they just yanked a lot of the realms off of the "up" list as they're now mostly offline. Sigh.

EDIT: Apparently they're now saying they'll let us know what's going on by 4:30 PST. Balls.

[Inspector Fowler]

Wooo new patch.. It's getting to the point where I want to quit now. Like Removing the Onyxia chain quest.. Yeah it was long, but you haven't really experienced wow until you did that quest line.. Now anyone can just walk into her lair... Another step towards blizzards new mentality.. Casual = Money. /sigh


As somebody who started playing in 2007, I can say that making the game more accessible is great. High-level players are great and all, but my $15 is the same as anybody else's. The new expansion pack is geared almost entirely at high level players - giving people an incentive to stay in the game (via faster leveling) is a good way to keep getting their cash, and it doesn't hurt anybody that they're getting to 60 faster than others did.

After all, what's wrong with with casual? It's not like they're going to put Bejeweled into...oh, wait. :D

[That Darn Kat]

*sob* My favored realm still isn't up. I did log on to a much older character for a minute, and I noticed that my netherwhelp is no longer soulbound, he's account bound. I'm pretty sure they haven't implemented any special functionality for this yet, but will I eventually be able to move that pet around to other characters and teach them the netherwhelp spell? That would just rock, mainly because the character with the netherwhelp is a transfer from my boyfriend's account and I never actually had the CE edition of Burning Crusade, so it's the only character that has the pet. Has anyone seen any info on plans for account bound items?

[Arilin]

Mine be up, and all my add-ons are now totally inoperable.

[Blue]

Still not up. Not even on the list. 15 minutes to go technically...

I seem to be saying that a lot.

[sparkfizt]

login server down ?:P

[IIntrude]

Re-talenting my Enhance Shaman to get lolpups and a good dps increase.

Level my Inscription with the bankful of herbs i have stored.

Ditch my +Str stacked gear, hello Agil and Int and +Hit.

Go get a haircut.

Reclaim all my old vanity pets I have trashed over the years.

[Inspector Fowler]

Screw you guys who can get in. I'm still unable to connect. :p

[Blue]

I get in - lag a whole lot and then get stuck, logged out, can't get in, then i got in and the same deal. I hate huge patch days.

[IIntrude]

Hopefully tomorrow will be much smoother

[Camel]

Can't even bring up my character list. BOO!

[crispy951]

Keep logging on and getting kicked off ><

[mightbe]

Well....the old girl wasn't exactly putting up much of a fight anymore. She was three or four-manned by some people in my guild the other day. I had no idea that was possible, and I'm sure she has been killed by even smaller groups (maybe).

I'm pumped for the patch! Lots of moonkin love.

My first onyxia kill was a two man with me on my prot pally and him on his holy priest. 40 minutes of hilarity.

[Smoof]

So how is it? I'm pretty burned out on MMO's right now, but I've been involved in Warhammer before I totally burned out. I was thinking about going back for WotLK, so, worth it? I have a 70 Shaman and a 59 Hunter I was thinking about getting to 70.

[Knightsaber]

I patched it, got in it, re-talented all my characters, examined their newly changed items, picked up inscription, played with it, turned off General and Trade chat, looked at the hundred thousand people standing in Orgrimmar, whereas a month ago there were maybe ten people last I saw.

For some reason, I just told my guild 'bye' and logged out, uninstalled the game and cancelled my Wrath pre-order. I'm still not exactly sure why.

[Goronmon]

Another step towards blizzards new mentality.. Casual = Money. /sighNew mentality? WoW has been this way since day 1. I'm not sure why you think it's some new perspective you've discovered.

The Onyxia quest chain was ridiculous back when you actually had people who did the quest occasionally. Most people don't even level past 58 in the old continents. Removing the quest chain means that people who never leveled back in the old days actually might consider taking on Onyxia for fun.

I find your outlook on those types of changes puzzling.

[Inspector Fowler]

My God...so many new talents.....

My Shadow Priest. He becomes a PvE monster with each passing second. How I love it. :)

[SilentScreams]

Decidedly unimpressed with the new talents so far.
My Retri Pally is pretty good, but you're still better off just rolling a Warrior, my Mage still pretty much blows unless I suddenly become un-bored of Frost.

[Arilin]

I'm loving the affliction tree on my warlock now. It's very handy. Took the shaman resto and having fun with that, warrior is prot, hunter went survival again. Overall, I enjoy it all.

[Mr. Murphy]

Yeah, my affliction lock just became a lot harder to kill, and the first glyph I got increased my voidy's Sta by 20%. My solo game just got even better, and if I balance my afflictions right, I can maintain full health and mana with no downtime in PvE. I love it.

Now if only my server was up so I could play! :-D

[Troggles]

We did a raid of SSC last night just to try out our new stuff. I switched from deep fire to 11/0/50 and it raised my dps by 300. It was fun.

[Goronmon]

Thunderstomp + No Cooldown Volley + T5 Set Bonus = Level 66 Gorilla that can tank 6 level 68 mobs at once.

Hunters are now a solid AoE class, haha.

[sparkfizt]

Yeah, my affliction lock just became a lot harder to kill, and the first glyph I got increased my voidy's Sta by 20%. My solo game just got even better, and if I balance my afflictions right, I can maintain full health and mana with no downtime in PvE. I love it.

Now if only my server was up so I could play! :-D

I could never stand soloing with the blueberry. Generally as soon as I hit 20 I'd get my succy and use her all the way to max level. I always had a problem of the voidwalker running out of mana, requiring me to eithe re-summon or wait. Instead I'd just drain tank with the succubus and generally ended every fight full health/mana and every 4 or 5 mobs I'd spend a few seconds health funnelling for the succubus.

[Inspector Fowler]

Soooo, wanna hear something embarassing?

My main is an herbalist. After the patch I was going through my spellbook, rearranging all my icons, when all of a sudden I saw that herbalist healing spell thingy. 900 HP in 5 seconds, instant cast, no mana. Man, my priest only has 1400 HP, that's a great spell.

Aaaand apparently it has been there for some time. How the hell did I miss it?

[That Darn Kat]

If by some time you mean since the patch, then yeah. I was under the impression that was an undocumented change in 3.0.2. It was one of the first things I noticed in the new patch, and I know it wasn't there before. I also here there are skills for the other professions (as in, not the gathering professions), but I don't know if they made it in this patch or not. The only one I saw was the one they mentioned on wowinsider.com: Mixology. It lets an alchemist get a 25% boost in effect of any elixir or flask they use, if they know how to make it. I'm curious to see what some of the other professions

[SilentScreams]

I know Inscription gets you an extra Major Glyph spot.
Mining gets you extra HP.
I think Blacksmithing lets you put sockets in items.

Not sure on any others.

[Commissar Rob]

Gah. I gave this up last Spring, uninstalled and all that...and then I come in here and read this stuff. I miss my Shaman.

[Goronmon]

Protection spec for warriors is actually pretty awesome solo now.

[SilentScreams]

Protection spec for warriors is actually pretty awesome solo now.

Good in PvP too. My brother's Prot Warr was dueling people while we were getting a HC group together last night. He beat my fire spec Mage, he beat a Boomkin, he beat an enhancement Shammy and a destruction Lock. This is in full PvE gear too, except for his shield, which is S2 PvP.
The only guys that beat him were an affliction Lock, but they beat everyone, and a frost mage (only just).

[Inspector Fowler]

If by some time you mean since the patch, then yeah.

Oh thank God. I was starting to think I was some kind of retarded for never noticing that before. Shadow priests also get Holy Nova and that Plague spell now? I dunno.

[Savok]

My Retri Pally is pretty good, but you're still better off just rolling a Warrior
Are you high? Ret Pallies are the most overpowered class is the game right now. There's teams of 15 Ret Pallies steamrolling BGs as we speak. A Ret Pally has:

Unlimited Mana
High Burst Damage
Decent AOE
Potent Heals (I can heal almost my entire health bar in one go)
Unlimited Fucking Mana for those Potent Heals
Fucking Immunity during which you can still attack with all your abilities
Against Undead and Demons they have massive AOE damage WITH a stun

I lvled from 53 to 63 in about 4 days play because of this, I was knocking over things 4 lvls above me like they were nothing.

[SilentScreams]

Are you high? Ret Pallies are the most overpowered class is the game right now. There's teams of 15 Ret Pallies steamrolling BGs as we speak. A Ret Pally has:

Unlimited Mana
High Burst Damage
Decent AOE
Potent Heals (I can heal almost my entire health bar in one go)
Unlimited Fucking Mana for those Potent Heals
Fucking Immunity during which you can still attack with all your abilities
Against Undead and Demons they have massive AOE damage WITH a stun

I lvled from 53 to 63 in about 4 days play because of this, I was knocking over things 4 lvls above me like they were nothing.

Heh, yeah I should probably rectify that comment.
I hate the new mechanics with a passion, but the class itself is actually very powerful (switching from mostly +spell gear to Warrior gear has helped).
Boring as hell to play though. I'd rather level a Hunter, and that's saying something.

[Savok]

Yeah it's kinda annoying how they keep rebuilding the class but.... dude we're this close to being Thor when we throw our hammers.

I figure run with the good times till it's nerfed