Clanless Fun

Testing still continues so a delay still can change these dates.

The start date for the release of patch 2.3, is currently scheduled for 13 November, and the start of Season 3 one week later on 20 November right after the weekly maintenance.

FAQ:

Q: Can I keep my title from Season 1 even if I haven’t participated in Season 2?
A: No, the seasonal titles are intended to be a reward for performance in the previous season. Similar to a sports title or award, it’s handed off or moved to different players/teams as their performance rises or declines throughout the seasons.

Q: What happens to my Nether Drake?
A: You will keep your Swift Nether Drake, and a new visually distinguishable Swift Nether Drake will be given to the top 0.5% of teams for their efforts in Season 2.

Q: So I’ve heard something about items having rating requirements?
A: Yes, the Season 3 weapons will have a personal rating requirement of 1850, and the shoulders will have a personal rating requirement of 2000.

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Second expension pack for World of Warcraft announced, named:

Wrath of the Lich King

Some features:

• Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight - World of Warcraft’s first Hero class.
• Quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way.
• Learn the craft of spell augmentation with the new Inscription profession.
• Brave the harsh new continent of Northrend, the icy domain of the Lich King.
• Engage in epic siege warfare, deploying mighty siege engines to lay waste to destructible buildings in your path.
• Transform your hero’s look with new character-customization options, including new hairstyles and dances.
• Explore perilous new dungeons filled with some of the deadliest creatures — and greatest treasures — on Azeroth.
• Blabla

More info and trailer: click

Yet another cashcow from Blizzard……..

Blizzard has released the latest World of Warcraft patch, updating the MMORPG to version 2.1.3. The patch has some minor changes:

General

• In-game mail containing money will now have a one hour delay and is no longer instantaneous. Auction House generated emails for successful auction sales are still instantaneous.
• Read in-game mail will now be kept for thirty days instead of three.
• The Warlock spell Incinerate has had the performance of its graphical spell effect improved.
• The “show launcher” option has changed so that it now defaults to “on”. Players will now see the launcher when running WOW by default.
• Abyssal monsters in Outland are now lootable.

User Interface

• Improved the performance of conditional macros, slightly increasing the framerate.
• Fixed a crash triggered by many unit frame AddOns.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the movement of Archimonde’s Doomfire.
• Fixed the wand missile art on most Shadow based wands to show the correct graphical effect.
• Infinity Blades will now despawn properly when the encounter with Kael’thas resets after a wipe.
• Gan’arg Underlings and Felhound Defenders are now properly classified as demons.

Due to the implementation of this patch, European realms will be offline until 15.00, Paris time (CEST).

With the latest patch Blizzard changed the arena and honor rewards. So it’s quite obvious I wanted to check out the new items.

I ignored the announcement by Blizzard that they copied the Arena vendor to the Alliance barracks in Stormwind and in the Horde Barracks in Orgrimmar, and went to Area52 in Netherstorm. Once there it seemed everybody ignored the announcement .

Krixel Pinchwhistle’s (NPC - Arena vendor) house never looked so small and deadly .

Blizzard has released the latest World of Warcraft patch, updating the MMORPG to version 2.1.2. The patch starts off Arena Season 2, resetting all ladders and offering new rewards. Additionally, the patch offers new art for raid items, and the usual balancing changes and bug fixes, like:

General

• Arena and Honor Rewards: As part of the inauguration of Season 2, the costs of all Arena items and Honor items has been reduced.
• Improved Mend Pet, Abolish Disease, and Abolish Poison no longer play sounds when there is nothing to dispel.
• Players can no longer fail with skinning at maximum skill.
• Spellcloth: Creating spellcloth will once again only summon one Angered Nether-wraith.
• Some new cooking recipes are available from Kylene in Shattrath City.
• A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored to be held by the residents of Halaa.
• Procs: Most procs are set to trigger only from spells that cost mana, but inadvertently disallowed spells that cost a percentage of base mana. That bug has been fixed and so such spells will now trigger many procs they did not previously trigger.
• Players will no longer slow down to walking speed when closely following another player.

The patch also includes changes for some classes, items, quests, dungeons, raids, the interface, world environment. Read the full list of changes here.

Lots of changes will be made with this upcoming patch:

• The Black Temple is now available for play and Illidan awaits. Are you prepared?
• Players with Honored or higher reputation with the Consortium should seek out Protectorate Advisor Rahim at the Stormspire in Netherstorm or Commander Ameer at the Protectorate Watch Post in Netherstorm to get a briefing on the most recent nefarious activities of the Ethereum.
• Skettis is now available. Players will need a flying mount to reach this new area.
• Nether Drakes (280% mount) are now in the game and can be gained by continuing the Netherwing faction and quest line.
• Ogri’la is now available. Level 70 players can find this new quest line in Blade’s Edge Mountains.
• New Arena: The Ruins of Lordaeron Arena is now available for play
• Changes to classes
• Changes to professions
• Etc etc ….

See these links for more info and all changes:

• Black Temple Preview
• Public Test Realm Patch Notes

To this day, there is no announced release date. The patch is already being distributed trough the Blizzard background downloader.