Patch First Impressions

Posted by admin on 04 16th, 2009

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I really need to update more. Servers were pretty unstable on Tuesday, but seem to have stabilized last night. We killed Flame Leviathan and then banged our heads against Ignis for a few hours. Good times. Lots of little things I like in this patch. In no particular order: Swimming mounts are great! No more getting randomly dismounted. I really like the changes to the Quest tracker. Being able to use quest items–as well as opening the quest log by clicking on the tracker–is extremely nice. As well, allowing multiple Achievements to be tracked is great. Previewing talents is awesome! If you haven’t enabled it yet, it’s in Interface Options -> Display -> Preview Talent Changes. This allows you to play with your talents before locking them in. Sadly, I forgot to enable it before doing my initial spec, promptly made a mistake, and had to pay 40g to fix it. I like the changes to fishing, especially the daily. Always catching something makes it a lot smoother than before, and using bait to catch better fish just makes sense. The Argent Tournament is pretty neat. I’m rather terrible at jousting, but it’s still fun. I really like the shield graphics. Using vibrant colours and graphics in that manner was excellent work. The Exorcism and Shield of Righteousness changes are very useful for Holy soloing. I still haven’t scrounged up the gold for dual-spec, but being able to use Exorcism more is a god-send. Also great is moving the page forward/back on the AH to the top part of the UI. Having to scroll down all the time was annoying. All in all, it looks to be a pretty good patch. Blizz just needs to resolve the server performance issues, and everything will be fine. As for Ulduar, the only thought I have is that there seems to be a lot of raid damage. We went in there with 4 Holy paladins, a Disc priest, and 2 Resto druids and it was pretty painful until we added a Resto shaman. As well, Flash of Light is almost totally useless now. It isn’t even strong enough for raid healing! I was half-tempted to just remove it from my cast bars. Also, I really miss multiple Sacred Shields.

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