Breakfast Topic: So, how's the patch?
by Eliah Hecht 
Dec 6th 2006 at 8:00AM
Talents! Arenas (soon)! Missing items! The 2.0.1 patch has now been live for a good twelve hours or so, and hopefully many of y'all have gotten a chance to check it out. What are your impressions? Personally, I haven't gotten a chance to log on, since my WoW-playing computer is in the shop. But between honor system overhauls, most of the significant add-ons being broken, new skills, new talents, meeting stones that appear to have a tiny warlock trapped in them, and a badly-needed new LFG system, I'm sure people have had some interesting reactions.I've also heard reports of items in banks and even bank slots themselves being deleted. I've only heard about this happening to 60s, and it may have to do with having bought all the bank slots, in which case I'd be saved through my own cheapness. And in any case, I'm sure Blizzard will restore the missing items, because if they don't, someone's going to figure out how to train Kazzak into Irvine.
So what do you think? Best patch ever, or not so much?
Filed under: Patches, Bugs, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Orin Dec 6th 2006 8:17AM
I planned ahead and downloaded as many 2.0 UI addons as I could find to replace what I knew would break (which was everything). I'm about 80% back up to speed right now...
Our guild raid of AQ40 was scrapped last night due to the outage extension. Oh well, most of us expected it.
Many of my guildmates were bombarded with tells from random people asking about our specs, including me. I suppose this was because we are THE end-game guild on the server...
For anyone else reading this, Discord is pretty much FUBAR right now. I am personally giving Trinity Buttons a try for my own custom layout.
Lets see, what else that isn't UI related. OH, for the bank slots, some of my guildmates were saying that they lost bags for some reason. Luckily I was not hit by this bug. I was happy to see that my new bank slot only cost 25g. I was expecting 200g... The auction house was sold out of 16slot bags. I think I'm going to craft a few this afternoon and see if they sell at an inflated price. :D
Gist Dec 6th 2006 8:40AM
Keep stroking that epeen, Orin...
But I can't wait for next tuesday, when they patch this patch.
Beth Dec 6th 2006 8:52AM
"I suppose this was because we are THE end-game guild on the server..."
i love it when people sound so full of themselves - you just can't help but feel sorry for them.
aaron Dec 6th 2006 8:53AM
Shaman items dropping in MC for alliance.
Eliah Hecht Dec 6th 2006 8:59AM
@4: Yeah, apparently that's Working As Intended. Blue is saying basically they patched in everything from the expansion that didn't pertain specifically to expansion content, so we'll be getting some useless drops till then.
See for instance:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=52857543&pageNo=1&sid=1#14
Shat Dec 6th 2006 9:12AM
I want my Discord :(
andy Dec 6th 2006 9:14AM
"I suppose this was because we are THE end-game guild on the server... "
AAHAHAHAHHA
sign up here with all your other friends http://www.youfail.org/
Flit Dec 6th 2006 9:16AM
The new Hunter-Marksmanship couldn't make me happier. All the sudden, my Arcane shot does damage! I was just on for a bit, didn't get to do any questing, but I'm excited to get on today.
Matt Dec 6th 2006 9:33AM
"I suppose this was because we are THE end-game guild on the server..."
Your server must suck if you only have one endgame guild.
Prauche Dec 6th 2006 9:40AM
My favorite part of last night was everyone's immediate excitement over seeing ###/415500 on the XP bar and thinking they were going to grind XP before January 17th. Then the crestfallen QQ when killed mobs that would garner xp to receive nothing. Seems we get a tease to remind us how we're not going to be getting any xp for another month.... muahahahahaha
On a side note: I miss Theorycraft.
On another side note: I have been debating junking Cosmos for a LOOONG time, but a few of my closest friends still use it so I kept it as well, but after not being able to properly feed my pet last night due to the Cosmos Alpha, it's now ADIOS COSMOS!
I will say I was like Orin in that I did make a preemptive strike and pre-downloaded the mods I wanted to use if they claimed to be 2.0 updated. Some worked well; some not so much. Oh well, maybe by Christmas Curse-gaming will be back up.
Wartoad Dec 6th 2006 9:49AM
BG after BG crashed for me last night. Locked up, I'd exit out, then couldn't log in. After an hour of so of frustration I threw in the towel, had a beer, and went to go read for the evening.
Orin Dec 6th 2006 9:48AM
Glad you folks like my commentary. :P Sorry one sentence out of my hopefully helpful comments distracted you so much that you had to give me crap for saying anything about it...
Tom Dec 6th 2006 9:52AM
Meh. I used to occasionally crit for 1400+ on aimed shots. Now I'm lucky to get 500+. I'm not sure I dig my pets getting a percentage of my agi & armor stats, especially since it detracts from my own same stats. Also, what's up with the 0% rating on ranged attacks? It doesn't make much sense since I'm specced heavily in Marksman, with the minor points being in beast. I dunno...Ultimately we're all going to have to live with the changes, so I'm just going to have to adjust my style of gameplay.
One thing I dig to no end: setting traps while in combat. Oh, you dwarf pallies and steeeenking nelfs are SCREWED.
Tom Dec 6th 2006 10:02AM
...and before anybody asks, yes, I did respec. I tried to emulate my old setup to the best of my recollection. Odds are it isn't the same though.
Best part of last night? AV.
Guildies: Hey, type in "/afk"
Me: Why?
Guidies: Just do it!
Me: *
Me: You guys are d*cks.
Dahlaine Dec 6th 2006 10:04AM
Critical Mass being bugged and not giving the extra 6% crit to fire spells sucks.
The incredibly small radius of Dragon's Breath sucks.
Seeing a warlock on my team banish a druid in treeform made it all worthwhile.
Extorn Dec 6th 2006 10:29AM
Right,
So Mutilate Is cool, With a Lobo, I got a main hand crit on a lock of about 1.1k, with a highest offhand crit [thunderwood poker] on the same lock for about 750.
I can now take down some Warriors, depending on circumstances.
Eviscerates and Kidneyshots are plentiful
Imp Kidneyshot + find weakness makes for about +20% damage, Plus Lethality and Opportunity It quickly adds up.
I gotta be honest, I miss my Imp Ambush, Imp Sprint, and the reduced Stealth Cooldown.
I have a feeling I will own Damage meters on our next raid.
I have been doing well in raids with a 16 / 12 / 23 because my Backstab crits for up to 1600 in raids.
Mutilate + Deadly poisons = ALOT of damage.
Current spec is 41 / 0 / 10
I may wind back up with my 16 / 12 / 23 to test out backstab rank 9.
My druid is in a pickle.
He requires Discord to function properly for me.
My UI was set up so complexly that I had Every single talent that I use regularly bound to the same set of keys, in such a way that it is layed out nice and sexy so it doesnt waste any space on my Screen.
I love the new Feral tree, but I have to have discord back, even if it takes me another 3 hours to set it back up. Not having a new stealth bar with automatically rebound keys for my cat Sucks ass.
Its like being a rogue with one bar for stealth and nonstealth.
I Love the whole "auto track humanoid" thing. Its fantastic, but there are too many things that I am not sure about with my druid to even begin complaining.
For starters, It does not display my AP in cat form anymore, My AP does not take my set bonuses into account in my Character chart screen, not even on my rogue, I havnt even got the chance to fight anything yet because Blizzard's UI Does not Cut it for Droods.
I am currently trying Trinity, although it has permanantly jacked up my Keybindings for my rogue, and I dont see any way to undo it without uninstalling the addon.
We shall see.
Jusk Dec 6th 2006 10:20AM
"Meh. I used to occasionally crit for 1400+ on aimed shots. Now I'm lucky to get 500+. "
Did you retrain to rank 6? My record pre-patch was 2900ish. Last night I got just over 3200 with rapid killing. Non-crit, no rapid killing, im hitting a little harder too.
And no, your pets stats dont take away from yours. I have more RAP and my pets DPS has almost doubled from the patch.
Tom Dec 6th 2006 10:33AM
The new pally powers ROCK. I tanked Strat with a PUG (I'm full Prot-spec), pulling with my Captain America shield throw, using the new snap-aggro power, and so forth. It kicked so much butt that I think my pally is my new main (was my hunter).
Kahja Dec 6th 2006 10:33AM
My water element destroys people... I was stunlocked and he beat up (and killed) the rogue for me... lol
he also beat on a lock while I was running around and then when the lock started on him I was free and promptly destroyed him.
Tom Dec 6th 2006 10:35AM
Hmm...I didn't train rapid killing cause I was trying
to replicate my old setup. I did use some of the new pet talents which were (strangely) in the marksman tree.
Wanna recommend a respec? I'd b eternally grateful.
The only reason I thought that some of my stats had gone to my pet was because I have less agi & armor now. Actually everything's a bit less then it was.