World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Megathread of DEATHWING ATE MY FAVORITE ZONE!

[Nferno]

I lol'ed, because it's true.

Pilgrim's Bounty is more important than defending our cities.

[Kaji Kitsune]

to bad honor gear cost like 20000 points, Fox had like 2500 honor and after the 4.x.x patch he only had 240... oh man did he flip.

totally off topic: don't you just love the word points it just flows over the keyboard p o i n t s, I can type that word all day!

[Boggle24]

I had a look and stuff like Furious gladiator gear only costs between 400 - 800 Honor points, not that bad.

What's honor gear supposed to be ?

[Nferno]

What's honor gear supposed to be ?

This:

I had a look and stuff like Furious gladiator gear only costs between 400 - 800 Honor points, not that bad.

Also, Wrathful gear and weapons.

[Boggle24]

Oh, well it's certainly not going for 20 000 honor points.

[Nferno]

Patch 4.0.3a is deploying on live servers. MMO-Champs says we only have a few hours left to enjoy old world before the Shattering, but don't give an exact time on when the patch will drop.

What's in Patch 4.0.3a?
Sammew posted an interesting list of the features you should and should not expect in Patch 4.0.3a on the official forums. Zarhym also jumped in, and announced a 20% reduction to the XP required to gain levels from 71 to 80.

What is in:

* Portals in Dalaran/Shattrath Removed
* Class trainers in Dalaran where portals once were
* New race-class combinations (excluding worgen/goblin)
* New Gnome/Troll starting areas
* Changes to existing zones
* New cata load screens
* New cata intro cinematic
* New cata login screen
* New music
* City Quartermasters, with rep tabards
* Bug fixes
* Class balancing
* Druids, paladins, priests, and shaman will have their talent trees reset
* Experience required to gain levels 71 through 80 is being reduced by 20%
* New tamable hunter pets (Monkey, fox, dog, and beetle, as well as new skins for existing pet classes.)

What is not in:

* Creating worgen/goblin characters
* Worgen/Goblin start zones
* Archeology
* Professions past 450 (Illustrious Grand Master)
* Guild leveling
* Guild achievements
* Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor flight
* New Zones (80+)

Portals removed from Shattrath and Dalaran
Blizzard doesn't want you to use Shattrath and Dalaran as portal hubs anymore, the latest beta update removed all the portal to the cities and replaced them with class trainers.


Race / Class Combinations
This patch will allow you to pick new classes with the existing races! Worgens and Goblins will not be unlocked with this patch, and will only be available on December 7th for people who bought the expansion.

[KalMaverick]

to bad honor gear cost like 20000 points, Fox had like 2500 honor and after the 4.x.x patch he only had 240... oh man did he flip.

totally off topic: don't you just love the word points it just flows over the keyboard p o i n t s, I can type that word all day!

If you read the thread you would know that the gear is actually cheaper now.

Besides being cheaper it is also actually easier to get.

Wrathful Gladiator's Greatsword for example. http://www.wowhead.com/item=51392

Would of taken you ages to get now can take about 2 days.

[Nferno]

I will miss you, bank roof. So many fond memories of jumping from your jagged, pointy-looking things, trying to jump on to the next while waiting for my raid group to fill up.

Or that time where I rolled a Blood Elf alt and danced naked on your tip, looking for handouts, but instead got propositioned for sexual acts.

You have been good to the people of Org, providing shelter from the elements and sanctuary for those low-levels who sought refuge from the Elemental Invasion.

You will be missed, old friend.

[vii]

What!? They're killing the bank roof?!

That was my hangout. Whenever I had business in org I'd be doing it on the bank roof.

I'm quite sad that the whole world is going to change... :/

[Nferno]

So not to spoil it for those who don't want to see it yet, here's Orgrimmar post-shattering.

[Boggle24]

I'm reading that 4.0.3a is going to be relatively tiny as it's basically just a switch that turns everything int destroyed mode ?

I hope this is the case, I don't like big patches.

[Nferno]

I'm reading that 4.0.3a is going to be relatively tiny as it's basically just a switch that turns everything int destroyed mode ?

I hope this is the case, I don't like big patches.

From what I understand, yes. I also don't like big patches :(

[Nferno]

Right, 2 things:

The Shattering patch is 141mb according to my launcher this morning. Patch up and dig into that bitch.

For those who don't have World of Warcraft yet, it's on promotion at 5 Euros for Vanilla and Burning Crusade (Each) and 10 Euros for Wrath of the Lich King. Very cheap, very nice.

http://eu.battle.net/en/promotion/

[Boggle24]

That's awesome, I'll tell my friend she needs to find someone with a credit card as soon as possible.

[Domanskip]

I spent more time on the Orgrimmar bank roof than I spent at university last year. Its sad to see it go. I'm gonna log in for the first time in a while to check out the changes.... however heart-broken I may be about the loss of my fantasy universe; change is always a good thing.

[Nferno]

It's lunch time and I decided to log in to see the changes.

Firstly, seeing the cinematic for Cataclysm in all it's HD glory was amazing. I'm really under the impression that Blizzard has got some of, if not, the most talented artists in the industry.

Then I checked out all the new class/race combos. Nothing spectacular, though it's weird seeing a Tauren Paladin.

Finally logged in to Orgrimmar and OMG WHERE THE HELL IS ERRTHING? It looks like Warsong Hold - Completely different. Hopefully the lag is still minimal as it was pre-shattering.

Right, I'm going to try find the Auction House.

[Yuri]

Just spent about an hour or so on....my ....mind....is ....blown:). I was exploring Azshara and the goblin presence there is awesome. The highway running through the whole zone is absolute genius.
Yes I am waxing lyrical about these changes:), from the little I've seen.......a round of applause for Blizzard.

[Boggle24]

So I completely finished Ungoro crater the other day, came back on my way to Silithus and everything is different, not to mention that there are a lot of new quests and I had to redo some I already did (like the crystals of power quest, Lar'kowi).

still loving how much everything has changed, I mean, 1K needles is -completely- under water :O

[Nferno]

still loving how much everything has changed, I mean, 1K needles is -completely- under water :O

Big, gaping chasm in The Barrens with lava bubbling in it pretty much made me go O_O

[Boggle24]

I'm confused though.

In the opening cinematic it looks like Deathwing was under the Barrens, but then, it looks like he busts out somewhere near Dragonblight or crystalsong forest, but I thought he was stuck in Deepholm (which is another plane of existance is it not ?)

The new areas look interesting, also can't believe the mealstrom is the gateway to deepholm, so awesome ! :O