My Curse Client is checking in periodically as the patch updates. That’s a good thing, right? I only have a few add ons from them; Auctioneer, quest tracker and flight timer.
I’d say “upset” is putting it midly. 
I’m obscenely pissed off. Thanks for fucking over the majority of your raiders, Blizzard. Great idea there.
It’s times like these that I’m really happy I haven’t yet bothered to give my UI a complete customization overhaul. If individual bits and pieces don’t work, it won’t be fun, but it won’t be game-breaking in the same way. All the same, I’m not relishing finding out what tools I’ve come to rely on will be broken tonight–especially not while also trying to deal with a new way of tanking that involves such joys as Revenge allegedly being bugged so as to cause *negative *threat. :rolleyes:
You know, come to think, that one-week WoW vacation might be a blessing in disguise…
FWIW, most popular addons appear to be 4.0-ready already.
Bought an egg-timer today. Thinking of getting one of those boards that turns you upside down periodically…
If you can fasten your laptop to it in the right position, you would never have to stop playing! 
Wow.com (aka wow.joystiq.com now) has an article up with a list of addons that have been updated, and links to them on Curse. For the others, just try enabling out of date addons and it should be fine for most of them.
Hahahahaha! Or you could get one of those rigs that clamps around your ankles and hangs you upside down.
This would probably (though not always) work for a regular periodical patch (x.x.6 or whatever). The big number patches almost always change things so radically that most of the add-ons go kablooey. I remember first discovering this with 2.0.1. just before Burning Crusade and having to scrap the whole thing (Panther UI, waaaaay back when).
Whew, glad I only have a map coord add-on. Oh, and the mail thingy so I don’t have to open each unsold item at the mailbox. It’s sad enough already. 
I’ve got a two-week virtual vacation coming up starting this weekend, so I doubt I’ll even get my talents in order by the time they all change again.
I just checked that article out. It looks like everything but auctioneer (as far as what I use) should be working fine.
For Quasi:
Yep; what my sweetie was kind enough to tell me was:
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Shields. Get your shields up 3 times before you enter combat; you will notice that with one shield up, you have red things rotating around you; with two, yellow things; with three, green things and you’re good to go. They last a minute, so no worries about them fading real fast.
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Same goes for the other guy; you won’t strike a good hit unless his shields are down, but worry less about that at first and more about your own shields.
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Basically…Shieldx3, and then attack. Whatever attack you use <don’t forget to use the lance option on the left when he’s close in> do one attack, then do a shield, to keep your shields up. When he’s running away, throw a shieldbreaker at him, then try to hit charge before he does. Then put a shield up.
Rinse and repeat, and it more or less works for me.
Shield x 3; hit him; shield; hit him; shield; repeat until he gives up or you get a headache.
Well, like most of the free world, I’m downloading some part of the patch at the moment. The weather is bad here, and my estimated time remaining is bouncing all over the place. as little as 33 minutes remaining, then it jumps to 75 minutes remaining, then 54, back down to 30, etc.
Dunno if it will settle down enough for me to play tonight, or if latency will be to bad either, considering the weather. On the upside, if I’m not playing WoW, I think Caprica comes on tonight…
I must have the Collector’s Edition! This will be the first expansion launching while I play. So yes, I have an Electronics Boutique (Canada’s GameStop) and a lot of other electronics stores, but I also have to work that day and will not enjoy standing in line at midnight launch. I settled on ordering from the one online place that still had the Collector’s Edition in stock and hoping they’ll get it shipped promptly. An estimate is just an estimate, after all!
Are the new classes for old races unlocked? Can we make/race-change tauren pallies and troll warlocks yet?
I don’t think new race/class choices are included in this patch. Pretty sure that will happen when Cata drops.
The patch notes don’t say anything about new race/class combos.
I’m still in the middle of downloading the new launcher, so I haven’t played the new patch yet.
You guys aren’t missing anything.
Realms aren’t up; the up-time has been pushed back a few times now, with 5 pm. PDT <another 10 minutes> being the last guess.
Of course I keep trying anyway, but no cigar. SO FAR!!
And…my character list comes up, yay!
Now to see if I can get in…and open anything without lagging out the door…
Well, now I get for free what I had to spec all the way in arcane for, previously.
Guess it’s time to try another tree, as the arcane power that is now the penultimate spell is something I have never used, not once.