Post-patch reaction.

[berggeist]

So, everyone. Get on your soapbox and tell the world!

Personally, I like it (at its core). The new honour system is fantastic and is going to make getting PVP gear much more enjoyable. It's a shame that most mods are broken, but at least it's pushing me to experiment with ACE. However apparently Blizzard botched certain details of the patch, so expect a smaller patch soon. Specifically they released an older version of the test realm patch. Apparently they forgot to inflate the stamina too so a lot of people are getting one-shotted. Basically Blizzard might have made a booboo.

I'm also amused to hear that jewelcrafting recipes and cross-faction loot is already dropping. If you get any shaman gear that isn't bind on pickup, or recipes, save them in a nice little area so when you do make a shaman or jewelcrafter, you have a nice little care package waiting for you.

Also: the NPC who gives a quest for Exedar reputation is in Southshore inn. Said quest is level 44.

Edit: With additional playtime I have to say that while I still love the new honor system it'd be lovely if things worked. But then this is a large scale operation and as anybody who has developed software can tell you, things crop up sometimes. However a few of these leave me genuinely puzzled (apparently some talents don't work right and the stamina change is not applied).

[starlets]

As far as the new honor system goes, it's not worth messing with for a day or two at least. Having had my honor for the day wiped, I'm kind of skeptical about entering anymore battlegrounds until they've straightened everything out.

Which is a good thing, because they've gone ahead and disabled battlegrounds entirely!

But I can't really complain, as a Warlock I'm nigh invinsible if I'm not overcome by numbers, and it's feeling good.

[berggeist]

Since respeccing to holy every battleground has become hilarious for me. I just sit there healing everyone and it takes forever for people to die unless they're largely outnumbered. More than once it came to the point where the horde sent a couple people specifically to kill me, repeatedly, and the game slowly evolved into Protect Berggeist.

It was like I was the Pope and my papal army was fighting militant athiests.

[lanta]

All I can say is that the new hunter talents are awesome

pet attack speed increase talent and traps in combat

[sorilea]

I just recently switched to ret spec for battlegrounds. I noticed that i do a ridiculous amount of damage. Every 3 hits or so i crit(Causing Vengeance to proc) Having Bonebiter(Sm quest axe) With fiery enchant Add on 3/4 of the Scarlet set. I can take any classes on two on one. I dont even want to imagine the possibilities with Crusader enchanted. Heh so i think they did sometin to ret pally's. Oh Im level 39 btw.

*Sorilea*