Patch 3.0.2 and What We Do (or Don’t)

Obviously with Blizzcon, I didn’t get much of a chance to talk about the patch arriving today. Hopefully the servers will be up within a couple hours, but I’m ever doubtful. At this point, I think it’s rather pointless to say too much about it. With the new talent trees designed for Wrath and level 80 characters, both PvE and PvP balance will inevitably be broken at level 70. So arenas and raiding through the end of TBC will work as a collective comedy. Hopefully the humor will have me roiling in laughter.

I know I am probably going to get stomped in arenas as a druid at 70. I’ll have no feral charge without sacrificing tons of restoration talents. I’ll have only 70% pushback resistance on my crowd control abilities. I’ll have a lifebloom that heals for much less than it did previously. And I’ll have a 51-point talent that is all but worthless in arena. Meanwhile some classes and specs are getting large increases to their burst potential. Oh, and improved tree of life is great, so long as I never face a warlock. With all of this in mind, I’m tempted to go feral. And I just might!

Then comes the headache of reworking my UI. Not only am I faced with the possibility that many of my mods will break, but also that I have procrastinated on reworking my UI to include: more comprehensive and noticeable cooldown tracking, better HoT timers, a less intrusive raid frame, and cleaner unitframes. Pretty much everything.

Oh, and I never finished farming herbs to level inscrption on an alt. Whoops!

More WoW Blizzcon Information

So you have my recap and review of Blizzcon in the three entries prior to this one. However, my entries don’t provide information of every detail from every panel and event. Because of this, I’d like to make some recommendations: