I found my issue, it was video, advanced, UI scale.
Well, now I’m downloading yet another 1.4 GB. I’m at that red-yellow-green stage, in theory I should be able to log in at some minimal level of performance in about 53 mb.
Fuck me. Way too much shit left to download on patch day. Install took way too long. Whole process is an unacceptably high amount of ass pain. Boo Hiss @ Blizzard.
And yet, we all know I’m gonna vote with my wallet, keep paying for the game, and buy the expansion. Cause I’m hooked.
Fuck me again.
If that happens again, try deleting your Cache and Data/Cache files in your WoW folder (or move them off someplace else if you want to be extra safe). That’s what they told me to do when the beta kept crashing for me, and it worked like a charm.
Beats me - I just got home from work a bit after 8PM and haven’t actually got the game launched. I’m really not gonna be able to do much tonight anyway, what with needing to be back to work at 6AM tomorrow. And I’ll probably deal with my paladins first.
Curse Client is showing “New Version Available” for pretty much all of my addons.
Hey Quasi - on a similar note, I have a story about Dave Niehaus, the radio announcer for my baseball team, the Seattle Mariners. A few years ago he got a letter from a fan asking him to remember to mention the score a bit more often. The writer made a good point - Dave would tend to go a long time without mentioning the score, which is a big deal on the radio where you don’t have the score displayed on a screen all the time like TV. So Dave went and got himself an egg timer, and he keeps it in the radio booth to remind him to periodically tell the listeners what the score is. (Dave’s getting up there in years.)
I got home from work, launched the downloader, and had to go out to dinner. When I got back about 2.5 hours later it was all done (or almost - it was on stage 3 of the download, so I went ahead and logged in).
Only got on long enough to set one talent tree on one toon and no time to play, so I’ll have to play around tomorrow for real. Bummed to hear so many people are having problems, mine was easy peasy.
Hmm. Just looked at my pally main on the Armory … is this red socket on my Libram new? I don’t think I saw that before.
Yikes, I’m hoping the Armory is simply bugged right now - it’s showing that my draenei mage’s maxed Herbalism profession has vanished (it says “N/A”), and on my belf pally, it says “None” under the “Primary Professions” heading (she’s a skinner/herbalist).
In fact, looking at several of my toons, it appears all their gathering professions have gone poof. Crafting professions are still displaying correctly. Jabloo, my troll hunter, is a miner/skinner and shows no professions; my nelf hunter is a leatherworker/skinner, and it only shows his leatherworking.
And they’re all showing 0 (zero) achievement points.
Things are upfucked right left and center. SOP, especially for something this gigantic. 
I’m rediscovering areas like the Valley of Strength in Org, yeah.
Guild tabards are force-displayed over any other tabard or whether you’re wearing one or not. Looks right weird on my bank alt.
Thanks for the tip about the UI scale – that was looking seriously weird.
I am still downloading. But, with the new system, I was able to get in and look around a bit. Random observations follow:
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The conversion to justice points worked out well for me. Didn’t want to deal with doing the upgrade/gem/enchant thing tonight, but did check prices. I have 2400 justice points, and T10 Bloodmage gear costs about 1100 per piece for head and legs–the only pieces I need. Yesterday, I was hoping to be 4/5 T10 by the end of the month. Now, I can be 5/5 T10 tomorrow.
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Did the respec, followed that fire spec I mentioned earlier.
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Queued for heroic, d/c’d when it popped. Dunno if it was a bug, or related to still downloading stuff, or what. Didn’t queue again.
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Did go out to Sholazar Basin. Roasted Rhinos in various amusing (at least to me) ways. First fireball I cast crit for 10K. Saw a pyroblast crit around 13k. Living bomb will one shot a level 76 rhino reliably. Scorch while moving rocks. Nothing lived long enough to try Combustion. Dragon Breath is fun. Didn’t try blast wave/flamestrike.
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Didn’t see it announced or mentioned anywhere, but my unbuffed stats are much higher than they were pre patch. As a mage, I’m rocking 29K hit points and something like 30K mana.
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Mages get what appears to be a buff comparable to Hero at 85. Shares exhaustion timer with Hero, does a raid wide 30% haste for 30 seconds. Wondering how the hell we got that one by the Shammy Union. Nobody tell them.
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Haven’t filled all my glyph spots. Did add Pyroblast and Living Bomb as Prime Glyphs, not sure what i gonnado for major and minor glyphs.
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Somewhere, somehow, I obtained a minor glyph that claims it turns my sheep target into a monkey. Meant to test that, but I forgot. Do not remember ever having such a glyph, but it is in my spellbook.
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Riding mastery costs 5k. I don’t even know what it is, but I don’t have 5k, so it’s moot.
Looking forward to reading what other people like/dislike so far…
That’s 310% flying using any of your (flying) mounts, Blizzard wants you to be able to use any mount in your spellbook. Good change I think if a little pricey - anyone who already had a 310% mount gets this skill for free.
Any Holy Paladins tried patch 4.01 yet? I was wondering about spec, I think I’ll take the following in Holy:
Protector of the Innocent - Rank 2/3
Casting a targeted heal on any target, including yourself, also heals you for 2482 to 2854.
Judgements of the Pure - Rank 3/3
Your Judgement increases your casting and melee haste by 9% for 1 min.
Clarity of Purpose - Rank 3/3
Reduces the casting time of your Holy Light and Divine Light spells by 0.5 sec.
Last Word - Rank 2/2
Gives your Word of Glory a 60% increased critical chance when used on targets with 35% or less health.
Divine Favor - Rank 1/1
Increases your spell casting haste by 20% and spell critical chance by 20% for 20 sec.
Infusion of Light - Rank 2/2
Your Holy Shock critical hits reduce the cast time of your next Holy Light by 1.5 sec.
Daybreak - Rank 2/2
Your Flash of Light, Holy Light and Divine Light have a 20% chance to make your next Holy Shock not trigger a cooldown if used within 12 sec.
Enlightened Judgements - Rank 2/2
Grants hit rating equal to 100% of any Spirit gained from items or effects, and increases the range of your Judgement by 10 yards. In addition, your Judgement instantly heals you for 2481 to 2853.
Beacon of Light - Rank 1/1
The target becomes a Beacon of Light to all members of your party or raid within a 60 yard radius. Each heal you cast on party or raid members will also heal the Beacon for 50% of the amount healed. Only one target can be the Beacon of Light at a time. Lasts 1 min.
Speed of Light - Rank 3/3
Casting Holy Shock grants 30% spell haste for your next Flash of Light, Holy Light or Divine Light, and casting Holy Radiance grants you 60% movement speed for 4 sec. Also lowers the cooldown on Holy Radiance by 30 sec at all times.
Sacred Cleansing - Rank 1/1
Your Cleanse spell now also dispels 1 Magic effect.
Conviction - Rank 3/3
Gives you a 3% bonus to damage and healing for 15 sec after causing a critical effect from a weapon swing, spell, or ability. This effect stacks up to 3 times.
Aura Mastery - Rank 1/1
Causes your Concentration Aura to make all affected targets immune to Silence and Interrupt effects and improve the effect of all other auras by 100%. Lasts 6 sec.
Paragon of Virtue - Rank 1/2
Reduces the cooldown of your Divine Protection by 10 sec and the cooldown of your Avenging Wrath by 30 sec.
Tower of Radiance - Rank 3/3
Healing the target of your Beacon of Light with Flash of Light, Holy Light or Divine Light has a 100% chance to generate a charge of Holy Power.
Light of Dawn - Rank 1/1
Send a wave of healing energy before you, healing yourself and all friendly targets up to 30 yards away for 2016 to 2464.
But then what, Divinity in Prot and Crusade in Ret I guess?
Went to sleep, woke up to a finished patching - and 43 GB empty space on my computer. Holy crap, that’s a lot of temp files.
Ok, got in and played just a little last night.
Arcane seems to be the new ‘omg nerf!’ but I didn’t see it personally. Of course, this was while I was half asleep and I ended up leaving a BG cause I couldn’t keep my eyes open, but I’ll keep trying it for now. Have dual spec, with nothing else chosen yet, so will try fire as well, I’m sure. Right now, not having Arcane Missiles except as a proc is weird; I solo’d to 80 using those, and am glad I don’t have any levelling left to do without them.
Hunter did make it through a BG and…the changes are different. It felt like I was finally doing some damage <went from Beast to Survival> but at the same time it is weird to run out of ‘mana’ after only 3 or 4 shots. (Time to trade in my int stuff for sta; I was quite a mana-ho before, hehe) Also, my Dragonhawk aspect is gone, and without Serpent, no more stance dancing. It’s ‘Hiya, Hawk!’ and that’s it. It really seems very simplified now.
Star Wars did this simplifiying thing with Galaxies, and it killed the game. I hope that doesn’t happen here.
Edit…speaking of int on Hunters…I sure hope they change the crafted items for chain. It’s always seemed geared towards Shamans, nearly all of it, with int on fricking everything, but now that it’s useless for Hunters I hope they change things.
I updated all 4 of my add ons, but the game keeps giving me these very long and coded messages in red why they aren’t working, and one of them is Quest Helper (which in my Curse folder is up to date).
About Quest helper, its says something like “it’s been a good run, but now you’re on your own.”… WTF?
I don’t remember, but was QH in that “magnifying glass” in the upper right corner of the screen? Because all of that is gone now too and to see where I am going, I have to hit the yellow ! on the action bar, go to the quest and open the map THERE. All I get in the mag glass is a big yellow or red arrow and that’s no help at all.
Also, after I kill, I get a “Victory Rush” icon?
Anyone else?
Thanks
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I’m getting this, too. It’s really annoying.
The developer of Quest Helper stopped updating and supporting it a while ago. That’s just the message he put in when that happened. It will still work, at least until Blizzard changes any of the code it hooks into to give you the information it does. It just isn’t getting updated.
Victory Rush is an ability that procs when you kill something. It adds either attack power or damage to your hits for 14 seconds (I think).
Also, right before you hit “enter world”, Wolkie (who has heretofore not done this) goes through a little bit of “sword-swishing-around type stuff”. I don’t really mind it, since he eventually settles down, but just never saw that before and wondered where the setting for that are located?
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They changed all the character selection screen animations. Each class has its own animation. I don’t think those are controllable through a settings selection. They’re just there.
Yeah, he’s just showing off. 
Well, bad news and good news, in that order:
- I have to regem COMPLETELY, to the tune of seventeen delicate cardinal rubies. Raided my justice points to get 5, got another four from guild bank, but that’s that until the AH settles down.
- Carbonite is broken completely, ShockAndAwe claims to be functional but is not, Auctioneer is broken. The only serious UI mod that I have that’s properly updated is Domino.
Good news, though:
- Everything else seems to be working for me.
- My new rotation is actually significantly less precise and spastic, since haste isn’t what I’m gemming for anymore.
- Even without my timers add-on and my gems being messed up, I’m still pulling 5000-5500 dps on test dummies with no raid buffs or food/flasks. My real-world Heroic DPS is comparable to what it was pre-patch too. I should see some significant improvement once my UI is back and I get some practice.
- Did a heroic with guildies and it went smooth as butter, even with the tank still figuring his shit out and me ending up tanking probably half the instance.
