I moved Salthier to Stormwind and set his hearth there as well. I sent a couple of my other characters to Ironforge to see what the Dwarves are up to. But for Elionene, I took her to Ashenvale, so the first thing I'll be able to take a look at when I log in tonight are the changes to what I think of as her home and one of my favorite zones. For the rest of the night, it will probably be running around and saying, "ooh look at that!"
I was going to write about some of the things that are changing with this patch and what things still won't be available until you install Cataclysm on the 7th of December, but WoW Insider already has a pretty good summary up. Check it out here. Of the things that are mentioned in that article, here are the ones that stand out to me.
- Those NPCs that took cloth in exchange for city reputation are gone. In their place you can buy city tabards that will provide reputation from dungeon running, just like the Northrend faction tabards.
- Experience from level 71 - 80 is reduced by 20% making it that much faster to reach the level cap before Cataclysm actually hits. My lone horde Death Knight is currently 78, so this will help give me incentive to push on to 80.
- New hunter pets and new pet skins for old pets. Monkeys! Foxes! Beetles! Oh my!
- Dalaran and Shattrath portals are being removed, and replaced with class trainers. If you're someone like me, this might not affect you much because I don't do much in game besides leveling and running dungeons and raids. However, if you're doing dailies, and using the auction hall a lot, then the next two weeks are going to be very inconvenient because the quests and AH are separated by a lot of land and sea with no easy way to get back and forth.** If I had a level 80 mage, I'd park myself in Dalaran and advertise portals for all of the people that forget to set their hearthstones in other cities or are stuck in Dalaran after the patch. Might stand to make a few gold.
- What we won't be able to do until Dec. 7th is anything Goblin or Worgen related. The newest archaeology profession is not available. Old world flying is not going to be purchasable until the expansion is installed. Guild leveling and achievements won't be implemented, and of course, the new 80+ zones will not be accessible.
It seems like even with all of the changes there aren't a lot of new things to do with patch 4.0.3a unless you want to roll one of the new race/class combos like Dwarf shaman or a Tauren paladin. I'm not really interested in rolling any new toons until after I get my mains to 85 and start raiding. So tonight I'll just be observing the changes, and maybe knocking out the last few levels on my Death Knight. Incidentally, if you were farming the Cataclysm bosses for loot, Blizzard has made them available around the clock So there's that, oh, and a holiday world event. You can roast your turkeys over the burning coals of what used to be Stormwind!
**Edit: I was just reading this article on PC GAMER. Apparently there will be an auction hall in Shattrath and Dalaran. So even if you have to bribe a mage or take a plane, train, and boat ride to get to and out of those cities, at least you should have all the resources you need at hand while you're there. The article has a lot of other cool information straight from J. Allen Brack, Blizzard's Productino Director.
**Edit: I was just reading this article on PC GAMER. Apparently there will be an auction hall in Shattrath and Dalaran. So even if you have to bribe a mage or take a plane, train, and boat ride to get to and out of those cities, at least you should have all the resources you need at hand while you're there. The article has a lot of other cool information straight from J. Allen Brack, Blizzard's Productino Director.
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