PATCH DAY PATCH DAY PATCH DAY!

Hey, just because I put Ray on hiatus doesn’t mean I’ve given up on playing. I’m guilty of alt creation and I did just that: Went back to Eredar and made yet another Death Knight. This time a cow named Cailenn. Now, with the patch being here, I’m not so sure she’ll keep getting played. But we’ll see.

Complete 3.1 Patch Notes can be found here!

I’m just going to go over a few notes and what I think about them for now since I can’t play the game while patching.

All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.

Not much of a problem for my Death Knights, but incredibly annoying with my other characters. I LOVE this change since I can mistime a jump across the river and not get dumped off my cat/wolf. Yee!

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Yeah, okay, the whole bloody Death Knight section is full of things that make me go YEE and then go WTF?! Like Rune of the Fallen Crusader. GG taking away the heal ability it had. Still nice to have for the strength buff, but I guess the heal is compensated elsewhere. Still blargh. Blood Tanking got a little more of a boost, so hopefully we’ll see some more Blood Tanks out there. I may give it a try on my cow since Ray doesn’t have the gear to even try tanking. He’s pure DPS baby. Pure DPS.

The return of Shadow to Black Ice is a nice change. It was a bit of an upset when they took it out of the talent, although I can see why they did back then. DKs where a wee bit OP back then. We’ve balanced out a bit since then :).

The irritating Shadow of Death has been removed as a prereq for Master of Ghouls. Thank God. It was great when it didn’t have an internal cooldown, but once in, it was just plain stupid to have as a prereq. Useless, actually. May that talent rot in hell.

I’m not too sure about the swap of Unholy Blight and Gargoyle. I mean, it’s great that I can get my RP dump sooner in the tree, but the Gargoyle is kinda….meh. I use it in situations where I need an emergency long term dps boost and a quick RP dump, but I can easily get the burst I need from an emergency dump with death coil. Oh well, can’t win them all.

Now as far as Hunter talents go, well this isn’t a Hunter blog but dammit I’m all giddy about the pet changes! I’ll have to get my Hunters to 80 though to see if Beast Mastery is still my lovable talent tree. But for now, I must go to a 2-hour long meeting and WoW must wait.

/sadface

Oh yeah, and there’s that Ulduar thing…

~ by Raydis on April 14, 2009.