Instead of waking up and playing Amnesia all day thinking it would take all day before the servers would be back on in WoW, I was asleep. Told myself that I have to at least get the patch installed, and got it done.<\/p>\n
Around 2:37pm I decided to check the Realm Status page, and got a thing that battle.net is down for maintenance. The patch is probably the culprit.
\nThen I saw this link that you can follow them on Twitter. Clicked on it, and I read a tweet from them showing at 2pm, all servers were back up.<\/p>\n
So I attempted to login, and went right in. When I saw Benie, I braced for the “LOL I IZ BROK!!” message to come up about my addons. But nothing popped up. Amazing. A patch that didn’t take all fucking day to get the servers back up. Blizzard actually did something right for a change.<\/p>\n
Some people were reporting broken addons, D\/Cing, and lagging. I’m having none of this. All of my addons work, I haven’t been disconnected yet, and I’m not lagging at all. I must’ve really lucked out.<\/p>\n
But the second thing that concerned me the most (first thing was the nerf of MultiShot but that’s worked out) about the patch, I had to accept. It’s the thing about the keyring is now gone. I was a bit worried that trying to get rep up for some faction just for the Heroic dungeon key was a waste of time.
\nAnd the answer … it is a waste. But it’s actually a good waste, and I’m glad I didn’t do it. Anyone, even if they never got a Heroic mode key, can access Heroic mode from any dungeon they want. All you do is right click on your avatar, go to Dungeon Difficulty, and select “5 Player (Heroic)”, and all dungeon portals with Heroic mode show a skull face. Just enter it and you can do the dungeon in Heroic. No more need to get rep to get the Heroic mode key.
\nThis is great. Now I can try to do SH Heroic to have a chance to get the Raven Lord mount from the final boss.<\/p>\n
I found out about the Heroic thing on my Druid, when I checked if he still had the keys he got, when Troy had control of him. He got several things in the mail from a “Keymaster”, that gave him 2g 50c for each, saying that he had keys that are no longer needed. Turned out those keys were all the Heroic keys.<\/p>\n
I even did Heroic Ramps today. It was somewhat challenging, but the loot was worth it. Lots of near or at Level 70 drops. Feels good soloing my first heroic dungeon.<\/p>\n
And as for Mount Hyjal’s new dailies… well, when I went back to SW to sell what I got from the run in the AH, I asked Trade chat if Hyjal is laggy due to all the people doing the dailies. Most had a “not at all” response. I’ll probably go there tomorrow and start doing all the quests to unlock them. Then do them with my Druid so he too can have access to the Molten Front.
\nHe still needs to hit 85 before he can enter. But the dailies will help him level as well. And with me assisting him, he can’t fail. Only thing that’s going to suck is the fact those badges are soulbound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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