Showing posts with label patch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patch. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Gasp! Patch! And I'm back.

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Just like Deathwing torching the world, WoW has chased me down once more.  So, I'm back! Wooh!

With this Tuesday's maintenance came something fun - a new patch!  

Rage of the Firelands, patch 4.2.0, came out on the 28th, bringing new Daily quests, raids, legendary items, and - what's this?  A Dungeon Journal?

Well, there goes my need for Atlasloot.

Not only do we get all these fancy things with the new patch, but we also get a bonus to Recruit-A-Friend rewards.  Bonus experience and free level grants go all the way up to level 80 now, up from level 60.  Hooray!

One of my favorite things to come out of this patch is this: 

"If a player wins a Need roll under the Need Before Greed system on a Bind on Equip item, the item will become Soulbound to that player. The item will remain unbound if won via a Greed roll."

Hooray! Less ninja-ing, at least on BOEs.  

Here are just a few of the interesting things this patch has brought us:
  • Pets have lost their Aggressive stance and have gained the Assist stance, causing the pet to attack the player's target only
  • Multi-Shot damage has been reduced to 120% weapon damage instead of 137%
  • Arcane Blast has been nerfed by 5% 
  • Spellsteal's mana cost has been increased by 100% 
  • Divine Shield, Rebuke, and Divine Protection have new icons to confuse you with
  • Cloak of Shadows CD is 2 mins, up from 90 seconds
  • Blind keeps NPCs occupied for 1 minute now
  • All Conquest Points were converted to Honor Points
  • All Valor Points have been converted to Justice Points
  • Guilds level 3 or above can no longer be disbanded.
  • They fixed the Guild Finder long comments bug.
  • Reins of the Dark Phoenix art looks less transparent. 
  • Keyring is gone! 
  • All races have a /roar sound now!
  • Your character now physically takes out and looks at a map when you push m.
How fancy is that.  

Monday, October 11, 2010

Das Patch!

The patch is coming tonight... I'm really excited.  The game's been feeling pretty slow lately (though I did get my mage to level 70 recently!).  The class changes and other crazy stuff that will happen will definitely change things up a bit, which might be just what we need.

I shall now point you to some blog posts on MMO-Champion and WoW Insider, because they are excellent resources for information and definitely will help clear things up for you.

MMO-Champion: Patch 4.0.1 on live servers this week
WoW Insider: Patch 4.0.1 introduces reforging into the game
WoW Insider: Upcoming changes to glyphs in patch 4.0.1
WoW Insider: Upcoming class mechanic changes in patch 4.0.1

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

I'm not really a "Dailies" sort of person.

My dearest warlock certainly has been busy lately! Like the title says, I've never really bothered with doing daily quests often (probably the reason why I still haven't gotten my Chef's hat and why I ended up dumping Jewelcrafting for Engineering...)... I don't know what inspired me, but I figured that since I don't have the recipe for Delicious Chocolate Cake yet, that I'd give dailies a chance. I did the Cooking dailies for Dalaran and Shattrath, and figured I'd try the Fishing dailies for the both of them as well.

I found this little guy in one of my reward boxes, so I'm quite the happy camper.  I'm always trying to find new little pets to add to my collection, so I was very glad to get the chance to meet him.

I (finally!) got my "the Explorer" title.  I was going through my achievements last night looking for stuff to do, when I came across the Exploration section and found that I only had a few more zones to do before I was finished.  Knocked those out in about an hour, and sha-bam.  Mandaconda the Explorer, proud owner of really cute baby crocolisk Snarly.

I'm also trying to up my reputation with the Zandalar Tribe by doing Zul'Gurub a bit, grabbing those Bijous and coins, while attempting to grab some neat mounts before they get rid of the raid instance altogether on December 7th. I just hit Honored before the server shut down, so wish me luck.

Brewfest is over now, and my hopes of getting that ram or kodo on my warlock have subsequently gone down the tubes until next year. My hunter is very happy though, the only one out of 5 toons that ended up with any mount at all from Brewfest (actually she ended up with 2 rams and 2 kodos).  Still, it was fun while it lasted, and while I didn't think to grab another 80 or so coins on my lock for the little pet, I'm still happy that she got her Brewmaster title, and is one step closer to her proto drake.

Speaking of, I'm still working on setting myself up for the last leap in my What a Long, Strange Trip it's Been achievement and mount. I've only got Merrymaker left, so I decided to grind a few quests out and make it so I can do the Fa-la-la-la-Ogri'la part of the achievement.  I even invested in a pretty handy little addon, called "Ogri'lazy" or something to that effect... Hey, in my defense, it was late, I was tired.

Enough about me though, what's next on the schedule?  Patch 4.0.1?  I've heard it's doubtful it will drop tonight, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.  The game feels like it's starting to grind to a halt, with everyone waiting for something new to happen.  The holidays can only distract us for so long...

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