Catriona R
8/29/2012 10:28:00 PM
Well that was better than expected! Servers up early and *most* addons
updated or at least working. Only ones with trouble atm are:
Auctionator (should be updated shortly according to the author)
Aloft (being worked on, phew)
EquipCompare (not a peep out of the author since Cata release, granted
it's an addon that never requires updates usually, hope someone
patches it up)
GFW Levelator (officially abandoned and *no* similar addon has been
updated, grrr! :-( )
Macaroon (abandoned and replaced with another one, with no migration
of settings between the two. Hoping the author adds a way to import
settings soon...)
RatingBuster (pretty badly messed up and silent author... no other
addon seems to have anything like the same level of detail)
So not too bad, but if anyone knows an addon which puts levels onto
quests in the log, quest tracker etc (and *only* does that, I don't
want 500 other bloaty features) which is actually updated, I'd be
grateful to know of it! ;-)
Other experiences:
Only talented and glyphed up my priest and druid, thinking I'll learn
the classes better if I play them relatively soon after sorting them
out rather than doing specs on day 1 and not playing for weeks
afterwards! Ran a few dailies on my priest to see how Disc is now, and
I'm really happy with it, should be pretty fun for levelling. Had a
look at my dps on the elites you kill with the 4 druid helpers on the
Molten Front, and wow, comparable dps to my shaman and warlock
(pre-patch), great! Yes, my dps characters have significantly lower
ilvl (they're both in the mid 360s, priest is 384), but still, to be
on a par with them is great, especially when I'm fully reforged/gemmed
into spirit, which does not benefit my dps lol.
Speaking of dailies, was stunned to see I got 60k guild exp per quest!
No wonder my guild seemed to have gained 10% of a lvl today (my bf was
questing an alt), it appears that every level of character will get
that much guild exp per quest completed (so long as it's appropriate
level, grey quests give nothing), plus the exp caps have been lifted
as well. Brilliant news for small guilds, I predict Orion's family
guild to hit 25 very soon now ;-)
Druid travel form is awesome btw, been having fun playing with that,
amazing animations and detail in it :-) Not so awesome was discovering
bears no longer get dodge from agility... having reforged every item I
owned into mastery so my cat and bear would both benefit, well...
ouch. "Only" lost 22% dodge chance... :-(
Glyph market is predictably crazy today, once I got my addons working
right (and that was fun in itself, AH was too full for get all to work
so it takes *forever* to get an overview of the prices of glyphs), I
found plenty at 200g each, nice money, although so much undercutting
that not many sell. I've already decided I didn't stockpile enough Ink
of the Sea, dammit. Plenty of everything else at least but those are
all the most expensive glyphs!
Auction house appears rather confused... sorting seems random and my
own auctions tab changes what way up it is every time something
changes - starts with sold at the top, one sells, they go to the
bottom. Another sells, back to the top... what? Lol.
Got an annoying crashing thing going on - "access violation" or
somesuch, happens randomly with no obvious trigger (I was afk at the
other side of the room one of the times it crashed), I never once had
this on the beta either, so a bit confused. Looking at tech support
forum I'm not alone, there's no obvious common thread between us
though so who knows what's causing it, hopefully it'll get fixed
anyway.
Mostly going well though, tomorrow I'll get out in the world some
more, maybe have a shot at LFR or something too. Although... my fps is
struggling in places in the Molten Front, so LFR may not be the
greatest idea after all. Oh well, have to test it out at least, find
out how bad it'll get (My xmas present to myself will be a new CPU so
it's only for a short while at least :-P)