Shadow Priests seem to benefit from the druid form shifting addition. I can cast a holy spell in shadowform and automagically be brought out to cast it. No more de-form cooldown!

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My framerate tripled, don't know how or why but god bless them.

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Those planets had always been there, but i first noticed them about a week ago, and i actually think the blue one might be argus, because it kinda looks like argus in every picture we've ever seen, but blizz would never say :(

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Apparently Shadowform appears a bit broken:
- Arcane Shot is said to be dispelling Shadowform (which isn't a magic buff).
- Once you're in or out of Shadowform you can't switch to the other.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2855963710&sid=1
- Shadowform smoke is bugged (vanishing every now and then).
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2856024168&sid=1

Oh, and for a litle Holy breakage:
- Cannot overwrite your own PoM.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2856203728&sid=1

No, not QQ. Just informing my fellow Shadow Priests to flee in terror.

WTS [Shiny New QA Department] for Blizz.

Lucky I have a Hunter to dispell Shadowform with, horrah! :S

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This may not be new, but I certainly didn't notice before: the boats, at least the BB > Ratchet one rocks side to side. It's neat!

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Boomkin weapon scale has been fixed back to the normal, larger size!

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Ah yes.. pleasant surprises.. like every time I mine a node or get off or on my new engineer mount.. i disconnect. Like clockwork. Isn't that fun? I hope the 'new software' for tomorrow is going to fix that because as it is I can't get anything done.

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Biggest surprise? The retadin update. Even after knowing all the changes, I didn't expect it to help this much. Whenever I wasn't lagging, I was practically eating people alive.

Also, the update to the zeppelins was pretty unexpected too. I wandered downstairs to find a bunch of curious levers, a goblin, and a seemingly useless vending machine.

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My favorite thing I didnt notice before this patch?

The blacksmith hammer can finally go into the engineering toolbox!

Aong with any and all motes/primals.

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Music in Kara (and creepy music at that). I always thought it was too quiet in there. The new music sets a great atmosphere!

And...I can cast arcane brilliance more than once without having to sit down and drink! I knew this one was coming, but it was still a lovely surpirse to still have mana left after buffing my groups.

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I was surprised to find a crew on the boat from Menethil to Auberdine. The trip took considerably less time, too. Less time in sailing mode and less time in map mode.

I did some old quests in Silithus and was amazed at the gear & XP. I knew it would go up, but that was a lot. It seemed Azeroth mobs were dropping more gold in general.

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It may be my imagination, but I don't recall my Mantle of Three Terrors having large flaming dragon skulls before the patch.

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@5 totally noticed that too. so awesome!

this patch has revitalised wow for me.

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The time between FP's have been decreased. The flights are taking alot less time. I did a flight from TB to XR and according to the timer on Quartz it should have taken 2 min 38 secs, the flight now only took 1 min 30.

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While walking from Deeprun Tram towards the bird roost of Stormwind, I discovered a yellow ! on my map. Seemed to be in the keep.

I figured, "this is where the battlemaster is that gives the daily battleground quest. Better go check it out." Turns out it's a child, who has a simple quest: deliver a rather morbid poem to a woman on Aldor Ridge in Shattrath.

That's it. I figured this might be a hook to some new content; if it is, that content is not yet in the game, just this quest. If you talk to the night elf woman on Aldor Ridge, she will recite the poem to you again.

Not sure whether there is a different quest you get if you have the misfortune of being a Scryer.

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I'm loving all the pretty new icons. Also, I swear that my frame rate was doing better. I also noticed they changed things around in the video menu, and it might just be me, but it seems like there was at least one new option. Nonetheless, if my FPS can keep up at the levels it did upon login, I'll be super happy! ♥♥♥

I'll probably find other new things as I play some more. Hopefully they'll be good things, rather than bad.

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Tiger mounts now roar when you press spacebar. It only took them three years. Silly, but it's always bugged me that they didn't.

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@14/Rich: I noticed that too, although I didn't have any objective method of timing it. What a pleasant surprise!

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Nightsaber mounts now roar when you hit space bar and stand still. FINALLY.

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the water graphic. it is far more beautiful now. i just took my hunter alt for a nice swim around booty bay. how delightful! the new druid stuff it making me love my druid again. i believe this patch was a great boost.

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