Yesterday Patch 1.12 (Drums of War) went live in US-Servers, and after last night, there were some things I really liked about the patch (some of them):
- Honorable Kills now diminish at a rate 10% per kill rather than 25% per kill.
- V key functionality has been improved in several ways.
- V key now shows summoned monsters (such as the gargoyles in Stratholme.)
- V key now shows both monsters and player enemies.
- V now shows enemies only (no longer shows friendly targets.)
- Shift-V now shows friendly targets only, not enemies (with a new bindable hotkey.)
- Control-V shows both friendly targets and enemy targets (with a new bindable hotkey.)
- There is now an option to turn on the display of your own name above your head. You can find the option in the interface options screen.
- The player inspect range has been increased to 10 yards.
- New API Functions.
- Neutral guards are now able to see through the rogue Vanish ability.
The things I didn’t like (some of them):
- Due to significant talent changes, Rogues will have all talent points refunded and can be re-spent. Training costs for all talent spell replacements have been significantly reduced.
- The options screen has be redone and expanded due to space required for additional options. Also the location of various options has been changed in the options screen. They should make more sense now, though they will not be in quite the place you remember them being.
The rogue review is good, but it’s going to be a pain to get a new spec, lol. Here’s a screenshot of the new Interface Options, the thing I don’t like is that it blocks all the screen (compared to other options).
But not everything was cool last night…
Servers had issues almost the whole night (with a couple of other servers having the same issue), after they came up it crashed three or so times, we got kicked before and while we were doing Ahn’Qiraj, which was rather stressful.
Not to mention the latency…
Because we started late and kept being interrupted (all because of server issues), we weren’t able to make as much as we wanted last night
[item]Amulet of Foul Warding[/item] — Skeram
[item]Beetle Scaled Wristguards[/item] — Skeram
[item]Robes of the Battleguard[/item] — Sartura
[item]Thick Qirajihide Belt[/item] — Sartura
One more [item]Qiraji Lord’s Insignia[/item] and I’ll reach Revered with Brood of Nozdormu (right now @ 11609/12000) ^_^
Patch 1.12 is a very good patch, addons work awesome (like CT_RaidAssist), since you don’t have to broadcast and stuff like that. ScrollingCombatText got updated with some nice options as well. A recap of those addons that I use that have been updated so far (as I’m writing this, not going to keep an updated list, tho):
• CT_RaidAssist v.1.54
• Natur EnemyCastBar v.5.0.0
• Pe rl Classic Unit Frames v.0.78
• Decursive continued v.1.9.8.RC2
• UseByName v.12
• ScrollingCombatText v.5.0
