Anyone who reads WoW Insider regularly has probably already seen these patch notes, but there are a few that I want to mention here.
First up is something seemingly insignificant, but very beneficial to myself and fellow bloggers.
– Screenshots captured using the Print Screen key are now saved in JPG
format.
Awesome news, because I’m lazy. And it’s very annoying searching through all my screenshot files in Photoshop when I can’t get a preview of what they look like. Having them captured as jpegs is music to my Photoshopping ears.
Next up we have the introduction of new areas, quest lines, and factions.
– The Consortium and Protectorate need your help! Players with Honored
or higher reputation with the Consortium should seek out Protectorate
Advisor Rahim at the Stormspire in Netherstorm or Commander Ameer at
the Protectorate Watch Post in Netherstorm to get a briefing on the
most recent nefarious activities of the Ethereum.
– Skettis is now available. Players will need a flying mount to reach
this new area.
– Nether Drakes are now in the game and can be gained by continuing the
Netherwing faction and quest line.
– Ogri’la is now available. Level 70 players can find this new quest
line in Blade’s Edge Mountains.
I’m sure that plenty of people are very excited that The Black Temple will be opening up, but that doesn’t excite me as much as new quest lines and single player content. I’ll say that again. Blizzard is releasing new single player content (!!!) for level 70s. I love Blizzard for this. Now maybe instead of grinding my life away for an epic flying mount, I can follow the Netherdrake quest line (me and everyone else, amirite?) and actually experience something fun and meaningful along the way.
Also cool is this,
– Warlock and Hunter pets will now be automatically dismissed when
you summon a mount. These pets will return on dismount. This does
not affect pet happiness for Hunters.
While I don’t play a hunter with a mount, I actually ran into this problem last night while questing. My friend Dodin (70 dwarf hunter) and I were doing a quest, flying around on our mounts, and we wondered how he got into combat. We realized that though he was flying high, his cat was running around on the ground aggroing everything in sight. This was less than ideal. So, good for this new improvement.
Various other interesting fixes,
– You can now interact with wanted posters while mounted. (This was wicked annoying.)
– Sounds and voice-overs have been added to all Outland dungeons and
raid zones. (It annoyed me that there were nearly no sounsd in some of the dungeons.)
– Holding down the shift key while mousing over an equippable item
that you can use will now show you the tooltip for the item you
currently have equipped in that slot as well (much like how the auction
house currently works). (Basically stealing from EquipCompare, but it’s cool cuz now I don’t need another addon.)
So yeah. Woo for new patches with cool new stuff.
The Barracks 