Patch Time is Upon Us

It's that time again. The glorious day of a new patch awaits us not far on the horizon. I'm really excited about this one. Usually I dread patches and they inevitably make silly changes to classes and abilities, however this one is not that bad. Druids are getting a slight nerf with some of the cat abilities, but it's not too terrible. I'd say it has a lot to do with feral druids easily hitting 5k dps in most of the raid dungeons.

I'm really excited about the new druid skins. Nothing new for Boomkins and Trees yet, but from what they say it won't be too far off. Night elves still look amazingly better than Taurens, but the new forms are a vast improvement from the old, so I'm very excited.

Along with the patch comes new dungeons, new raids, new mounts, tabards, vanity pets, and achievement's galore! Definitely a lot to look forward to. This also means I'm going to have to get my rearend in gear and get the mounts, pets, and tabards from the current tournament quests so I'm not too far behind on the new content.

I'm currently sitting at 77 of 101 possible pets. Not too bad if I do say so myself. I'd, of course, like it to be higher, but I'm getting down to only the pets I have to farm again and I'm really dreading that.

The new patch is also bring a few interface changes which could be very neat. One of the things is a in-game item comparision. If this works the way I hope, there's one last add-on I'll have to worry about updating at patch time.

Fishing's getting a new item available as a reward from the dailies. 100 gold for a grey item? Bring it on!

Cooking is getting a few nice changes. The Chef's Hat, a worthless item except for the ach before, now allows players to cook faster while wearing. That's pretty neat. At least it does something.

Mounts are now available at lower levels and a few have had their speed increased. That's definitely good news for alt lovers. They're also lowering the gold required for training and purchasing mounts as well as including mounts in faction discounts. Too bad I already rounded up all those! :-( Mounts are also down from a 3 second cast to a 1.5 second cast.

Players can now get experience from battlegrounds. Good news for PVP lovers.

They're also adding in an available 'turn off experience' for a 10 gold fee. Now this could be pretty cool, especially for those who like to raid old world content and those who like to have twinks for pvp. The way I understand it is you pay a fee to this dude, he turns off your experience, then you go on your merry way to gain no more xp. If you decide you would like to lvl some more, you go back to said dude, pay 10 gold, he turns xp back on and you go on your merry way to lvl. You will not receive anything for xp you might have missed while you were in 'no xp mode'.

Pretty neat idea. I guess we'll see how it plays out.

Also new mailboxes, ports, and flight paths. I'm definitely excited they're adding in a port to the Dark Portal. That will make me go finish out my BC reps fo' sho'.

We're also getting a new Children's week in Dal. Woo hoo! Does this mean three more years before we can own all those pets? I suspect so!

That's not everything. For a completely list check out Wow Insider's list here or visit Wow's website and check out the PTR notes.

The future looks bright friends!