The Queue: Who cares about 3.0.8, where's 3.1?
by Alex Ziebart 
Jan 21st 2009 at 3:00PM
The title above is only half-joking. Patch 3.0.8 didn't supply any real content which is what we're all waiting for, but at this point rolling out patch 3.1 too quickly would be a disaster. I think game quality is worse now than it was before 3.0.8, so I'd much rather see things working smoothly again before they throw patch 3.1 at us. Of course, I'm also pretty bored with Wrath already, so...
Zoidberg asked...
So, what do we know about 3.1? What do we know about dual spec? Anything about Ulduar? Anything about DK nerfs? Warlock buffs? Will I get any Silver Covenant rep?
We know very, very little about patch 3.1, but what we do know...
- It will contain the new raid zone Ulduar. Will there be a new 5 man? We don't know, but I personally find it unlikely. We tend to not get those until the current 5-man content has really played itself out, like the timing of Magisters' Terrace.
- Mounts will be able to swim
- Patch 3.1 was the estimate given for Dual Specs at BlizzCon, but since then they've been very careful about not giving an exact patch number for that. We'll probably see it, but if it's not working right then we might not.
- Hunter DPS will be getting an overhaul, and we can assume many other classes will see a lot of rebalancing here as well, but we don't know the details.
So now that 3.0.8 is out, when is the content patch being released?
When it's ready. (Alternate answer: Soon.)
Mark asked...
Raiding newbie question. Now that I am decently geared enough that I am starting to get invited into guild and pug heroics, I find myself having trouble remembering which ones I have already done this week. is there an addon or method of tracking which ones you have/have not done since the last reset?
There's a couple of really easy ways to see this. The first is to just type /raidinfo which will bring up the UI panel that shows all of the raids and dungeons you're locked into. The other way is bringing up the built-in calendar, and it has the reset time/date listed for everything you're locked into on display.
ElijahBaley asked...
What happened to the Naxx doodad door?
It was overpowered and thus needed to be nerfed. /sadface
DarkMoloko asked...
Does anyone know if Blizz has ever looked into external WoW mail? Like a website I could go to from anywhere(coughworkcough) to check and see if I won/sold anything on the auction house?
I don't know that this is anything that was ever considered, but that's one of the things that everyone thought was a pretty cool idea when Blizzard started looking into development for mobile phones. I don't think Blizzard has ever even talked about those kinds of features specifically, but I wanted to pull this question out just to say that I think it would be neat. I'd also love to be able to read guild chat on an iPhone or whatever.
Sandy asked...
Is the change to old instances part of 3.0.8? In reference to this post. just wondering, as our guild likes to run MC, but don't have enough quintessences to go around usually. I've been scouring the patch notes, and can't find anything at this time.
That should have gone in for patch 3.0.8, yes. I'm unfortunately not in a position to check right now, but I do know that yesterday I saw that the urn to summon Nightbane had been turned into a grey item, and an urn on his balcony has replaced it. Meaning that you don't need to do the full questline to get the item to summon him, you just go to the balcony and the urn is waiting for you. If that went in, I assume that all similar things went in as well. If that's not the case, hopefully our readers will correct me on it!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Will Jan 21st 2009 3:12PM
No, you're thinking of that other blogger whose name starts with A.
I'm sad to see the Urn rendered useless; guess I'll have to check my Mallet of Zul'farrak as well...
Dave Jan 21st 2009 3:15PM
The best part is getting all of the ore from a node in one "swing".
DCoW Jan 21st 2009 4:12PM
Agreed, the fact of the matter is, this should have been a long time coming.
beacuse this game has resources on a first come first serve basis. if you get there first for the first tick, you should have the entire node.
as an extra thing, I noticed my jewelcrafting prospects giving a ridiculous amount of blue gems, anyone else seen this happen at all?
Sentient Jan 21st 2009 9:46PM
@DCoW
It was a long time coming.
Silvann Jan 21st 2009 3:16PM
Is there any other armory tool that lists tradeskills of a guild, besides this one: http://armory.mmo-champion.com/guild_professions.php ?
Antiarc's does not seem to be working anymore.
Thanks!
Tushar Bharadia Jan 22nd 2009 5:36AM
I've just clicked on the link and it appears to be working perfectly fine.
Silvann Jan 22nd 2009 4:56PM
The link to Antiarc's tools is working, but whenever I submit a query (to get the results for a given guild), it just leads to a blank page.
Dobmeister Jan 21st 2009 3:16PM
I guess the direct removal of stuff like the Nightbane Urn would explain why I randomly got a Feat of Strength achievement addition on log-in today, proclaiming the fact I'd picked up an Acqual Quintessence back in the day. Woop-de-do.
peagle Jan 21st 2009 3:16PM
@Malignus
Apparently you failed to achieve even this, the smallest of feats, how pathetic.
@Patch 3.0.8 bug roundup
Does WI not raid at all? Because the bug round up is curiously missing note of the game-breaking unplayable lag that has plagued 25-man raids since it's release, and has reached some kind of pinnicle with the new patch whereby half your raid just gets d/c'd constantly.
Aerona Jan 23rd 2009 11:58AM
@ Salian:
I ran a 25 man OS a little after the EU realms came back up yesterday, no lag at all. Although our server has horrendus stability, The Maelstrom crashed twice on Tuesday and the Outland World Server went down as well, it's the sort of think I'd expect on a high pop realm not TM.
salian Jan 21st 2009 3:18PM
What about the lag?
It's worse than it's ever been after the patch that promised to fix it!
Yet not a single wow site dares mention it?
Did Activision pay too much for Blizzard? Are they going bakrupt? The game quality has collapsed entirely in the last month...
Alanid Jan 21st 2009 3:42PM
If you have played WoW for ANY long amount of time you would know that there is lag and disconnects abound on patch day (and sometimes the following couple of days), and sometimes bugs - for instance the wintergrasp bug.
And wowinsider HAS mentioned it today/yesterday somewhere, here since your probably too lazy here is the link to the post in question.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/21/breakfast-topic-fun-in-the-3-0-8-sun/
Keyra Jan 21st 2009 4:15PM
L ag? Wh a t la g?
Keyra Jan 21st 2009 4:19PM
Crap. That was to have been a joke, but all of the extra spaces were taken out. I'll do it with ellipses...
L..a..............g? W......ha....t la............g?
Not as funny. Not funny at all now that the first one died. Sigh...oh well. back to work, I guess. Break's about over.
Antonia Jan 21st 2009 3:18PM
WOW.. first paragraph and we get QQ from the writer.. cry me a river and just write... if you want to write about the games quality do a full post on the bugs/crashes, how they're effecting you and those around you and chill out.
screw the fact that elemental shaman (and DK's) got boosts in this patch and will probably love the game again, our writer here is bored with wrath already and wants content.. any one find this just as bad as the dude yesterday they wrote about who wants a blizzard run retro server so he and his guild can raid old school?
i guess that's what people get for playing the beta? occupational hazard?
what is it a lot of people say to whining like that? oh yea! "if you want to quit, quit.. not going to bother us".. quit and leave the writing to someone else.
Serrar Jan 21st 2009 3:18PM
"Naxx doodad door is OP!!!"
"Shhs, dont cry we nerf Fear again"
SaintStryfe Jan 21st 2009 3:19PM
Before I take an hour to get there and hack through LBRS, have they fixed it so you can summon the boss to get into URBS solo yet? I have three quests to kill General Drakk and I can't get a group to save my life.
Xcelsior Jan 21st 2009 3:53PM
Yep - soloed UBRS last night. You can just attack the channelers in the fire elemental's room directly rather than having to click that pedestal. Once the fire elemental is dead, the door opens and you have free access to Drak.
And as a nice bonus, they sped up the Rend event so the next wave comes as soon as the previous wave is dead.
Cyanea Jan 21st 2009 3:56PM
The Fire guy?
Yes...I did it by myself last night.
SMaxwell Jan 21st 2009 3:20PM
Pertaining to dual-spec, what are the ramifications of just doing away with respec cost entirely? Everything seems to be dependent on gear anyway regardless of talent point distribution (i.e. a healer cannot heal without healer gear, tank without tank gear, etc.). If the devs want to give people two (free) specs, why not just let people respec as many times as they want?