WoW Patch v1.8

I was on a business trip all of Wednesday, so I downloaded the v1.8 WoW patch only today, and haven't had the chance to see anything of it yet. But according to the patch notes there isn't anything world-shaking in there.

I do like their new approach to Alterac Valley battleground, starting it with 20 people instead of 30, and not letting more Alliance than Horde into it. I have to see how the other changes of that battleground work out in practice.

I couldn't care less about the new epic dragons. I find monsters on the world map which need a raid group to kill rather stupid. That only leads to problems if different guilds want to kill the mob at the same time.

Silithus I will have to check out, can't say yet if the changes there are good or bad. I'm a bit sceptic of their idea to create ways for solo players to achieve epic items by quests. Either the quest is easy enough that a casual solo player is actually able to do it in a reasonable time, and then you get an epic item mudflation. Or the quest is as difficult as the reward is epic, and then a casual player needs many weeks to grind something to achieve it. I hope they have gone for the mudflation version.

The changes to weapons are minor, and good in my opinion. I never liked the idea of rogues going for slow, heavy weapons and then using some sort of weapon switch macro for abilities that need a dagger. My rogue has a very nice level 20 blue dagger, received from a guild mate, and I don't plan to use swords in my main hand, only for the off-hand.

Druids got reviewed and are able to respec. But just by reading the patch notes the changes seemed minor to me. Long time I haven't played a druid, so I might be mistaken here.

All in all the v1.8 patch came very quickly after the v1.7 patch, but adds a lot less new content. Obviously I much prefer patches that add new dungeons and stuff. I still have to check out Silithus, but I had the impression that the amount of new content with this patch was limited.
- posted by Tobold @ 10:06 AM Permanent Link