Patch 3.3

[WindupAtheist]

Yeah I signed up as DPS for a random heroic and was finished with Azjol-Nerub like fifteen minutes later. Thumbs up.

[March]

Dungeon Finder was borked all night for me... but I was impressed with how quickly it put together a group before it crashed the dungeon.

[Sheepherder]

Took me like 10 minutes to find my mage a group, was pretty cool until I disconnected because the other PC in the house was being manned by a retard.

[JWIV]

Ran around with my shaman, got a group fairly quickly (tanks and healers go quick, DPS takes awhile it seems).  PUG wasn't too bad at all (I was all but facerolling healing).  We did hit a glitch though about mid-way through the dungeon and the party got disbanded and all of us kicked out.

[Ashamanchill]

Damn you all! I can't get a single dungeon to work, whatsoever. Ah patch day.

[Rasix]

Hah, yah. I did the random dungeon and it's just sitting here at loading.  I think I'll level the rogue.

[Selby]

We're raiding and having such fun on learning new content ;-)

[Musashi]

Yea, so towards the end of the night the new instance server took a huge shit.  I think I heard its cry for help.  It was like, "Cough."  Splat.  Got to the part of the thing were Arthas is chasing you and it bugged.  So it's patch day.

[Sjofn]

I'm not calm or rational, and I'm barely competent. :(

One thing to remember about raid leaders is that sometimes they wind up being the leader 'cause no one else will frickin' do it.

[Rasix]

Did a random OK with little trouble at all.  Even got the wand for my warlock. 

It did an "instance not found" and wouldn't port us initially to the instance.  We ended up having to fly there but it worked just fine when we did.

[Ashamanchill]

My server cluster must be fucked or something. I haven't gotten a dungeon once today. Just the instance loading screen of death. And i wasn't just playing at peak hours. I'm writing this at 4 am (1 am server) while I stare at the ToC loading screen bar not moving.

[Zetor]

Yeah, I logged in to get my daily 1h of playtime in before going to work (which is late night for my US guildmates, yay timezones!), and all instance servers were dead. We were able to do a (really laggy) Wintergrasp and do the Zul'drak arena on our alts, but that was about it.

... it's patch day, I think we should be glad we were able to log in at all! 

[apocrypha]

EU servers are still down, patched and waiting. You never know, all you 'mericans testing it out for us might mean our servers come up and work fine...... hahahahha who am I kidding 

[apocrypha]

Servers came up at 10.20am, no problems whatsoever! Instances working fine, no lag, everything smooth as silk 

Done 2 random dungeon groups, got into groups in under 5 mins (as DPS) each time, fantastic. 

[Dren]

Patched during lunch yesterday and launched the game with no issues (no servers, but it launched.)  Came home late last night from a work function at 12:30 a.m. and couldn't get the game to start up at all even after a reboot.  Figured patch day didn't go so well.

[K9]

The new instances are cool. 1-shot our way through them on heroic, but had fun.

Discovered that you can get up the bugged ramp to the airship if you have a priest for levitate.

We got 3 hilts off the trash as we went through the three instances; 1 in the first, none in the second, 2 in the last.

[Draegan]

I had a quick question.

I only got to play a little bit last night on my young level 22 rogue.  I was mostly playing around with addons.

I clicked on the dungeon finder, checked off DPS, and hit "Find a Group".  I didn't get any feedback from the game saying "Ok Looking!"  It really confused me.  It was like I was clicking a broken button.

Then I unchecked the dps box and went to get into a battlegroup and it was saying I couldn't join while in a LFG queue.

I was confused.  Someone help me please.

[Sheepherder]

The magic eightball says "mod incompatibility, rename your interface folder and try again."

[Delmania]

Between the fishing and cook dailies, the fact that the daily BG awards Arena Points, Wintergrasp, and the new functionality of the LFG system, I see Blizzard has managed to make my limited playtime full!

[fuser]

I'm on a low pop alliance server and the new LFG really has saved my subscription. Some issues;

The cross realm trading breaks Udaman's secret room (staff/medallion) unless everyone ignores the box and the person who loots the staff off the miniboss gets the box with the medallion.

If the random dungeon loot bag is suppose to be random loot its really broken. After 6 sucessful pugs last night every bag always a pair of shoulders with like maybe ~3stats shuffled around (except for one type which was a reduction of -6 but +20 AP).

If they send me to Maraudon (orange) one more time I'm going to shoot myself. It's the worst dungeon ever for trash clearing and getting sent there in a group of 41-43's when mobs are 45+ is very very cruel. At least for a successful random loot bag they consider Razorlash the dungeon success and I drop group every time as newbs seem to want to complete the whole dungeon which would take at least an hour or two.

[Draegan]

The magic eightball says "mod incompatibility, rename your interface folder and try again."

Sound advice.  I'll try later tonight.

[Soulflame]

I may be mistaken, but it seems to me if you need to clear those new heroics for the loot, you won't be able to.

[Delmania]

I may be mistaken, but it seems to me if you need to clear those new heroics for the loot, you won't be able to.

I thought that the new 5 man heroics were just that, 5 man heroics meant to help the new level 80s acquire gear before moving onto the 10 and 25 man raids.  Have we reached a point where  you need to have completed the ToGC to get into the 5 man heroic dungeons?

[K9]

I'm in a mix of 232 and 245 loot going in as a priest healer and I found some of the fights pretty fierce to heal; although in hindsight, a lot of the damage will be avoidable once you know how it works. It's probably comparable to ToC5 hc in terms of difficulty

[AutomaticZen]

I thought that the new 5 man heroics were just that, 5 man heroics meant to help the new level 80s acquire gear before moving onto the 10 and 25 man raids.  Have we reached a point where  you need to have completed the ToGC to get into the 5 man heroic dungeons?

No, but you probably should've done H ToC or the other harder Heroic 5-Mans before then.

There was some QQ on the boards about Cross-Server LFG having a lenient gear check.  People in leveling blues/green complaining that it won't let them run H ToC.  (You still can, you just have to make the group yourself, it will not automatically put you in a group with people from other realms)

[Delmania]

Well I've done HToC before.  I will just queue up and see what happens, I guess.

[Shrike]

Skipped last night, due to usual patch day follies. Might skip tonight as well. No tolerance for quirky servers and Borderlands is calling for one more night at least.

I'm too lazy to look; how's the addon situation? Usually it's a mess after a major patch. Another reason to wait another day to jump into ICC.

[Soulflame]

I went in with a fully 245 geared out group, and was bored quite a bit of the time.  The mobs have quite a bit more health than normal heroics, and even with three dps putting out 4.5k dps or more, clearing all three instances took well over an hour.  For maybe seven bosses all told.

The final instance is utterly ludicrous.  It consists of waves of mobs, followed by a boss, then more waves of mobs, followed by another boss.  All of them do 4k+ damage, and you have to deal with 4+ of them per wave.  Hope your tank is really good on AE threat, or your healer will simply vaporize.

We managed all three instances with only one wipe, but still.  All I can say is good luck finding enough healers that can push 3k hps, in a heroic, in order to gear people up.

In my opinion, you'll probably be able to carry one person.  So long as you have a geared tank, a geared healer, and two geared dps.  And you'll be questioning why you're killing trash, some of which has upwards of 200k+ hps, just for a shot at having a boss drop a 232 item that might be an upgrade.

[Jayce]

I enabled out-of-date addons, then found that my x-perl settings were all reset. When I clicked the settings button, hard crash to desktop.

I suppose I'll wait on the updated x-perl.  Titan bar seemed to work ok though!

[Zetor]

I played around with the instapug feature, and it's pretty good. Plus you get to meet interesting cross-server people and kill themdefeat them in furious epeen battles on the damage meter (not me, I play tank and healer).  

edit: xperl is sorta borkt for me too, but the alpha version on wowace at least works without crashing, most of the time...

[Lakov_Sanite]

The new heroics are supposed to be harder than heroic toc...what were you expecting? Honestly some people think just entering a dungeon they should get loot.  Using consumables for a 5man? unheard of! Bosses you might not be able to one-shot without even knowing their mechanics? Obscene! An hour to complete three dungeons? Ludicrous!

whiny. bitches.

[Sjofn]

I haven't done heroic of the new five mans (we went on a fact-finding mission in the regular version). We didn't get to finish the third one 'cause our instance server threw up all over the place. We had a couple of moments where people didn't realise WHAT IS KILLING US OH GOD but on the whole it was pretty fun and not too hard. If people are all OH GOD MY GEAR IS SHIT, I don't think it's crazy to expect them to do the normal version of that and ToC a few times first. :P


EDIT: Also, complaining it took an hour to clear all three heroic dungeons is sort of odd.

[Jayce]

EDIT: Also, complaining it took an hour to clear all three heroic dungeons is sort of odd.

No, no.... well OVER an hour!! 

[Rasix]

So, does this patch mean I can kill QH off?  Is that nifty map shit all WoW's work?

[Ingmar]

So, does this patch mean I can kill QH off?  Is that nifty map shit all WoW's work?

It appears to be, yeah.