First I noticed the changes to the mail system. You can now attach up to seven items to a mail message, making my use of the CT Mail Mod obsolete. Also, when you hover over the mail icon now, it tells you who has sent you that letter waiting for you in the mailbox. I know the new hover icons with NPCs were already on the PTR, but their addition to the game makes navigating cities a delight. Each icon tells you instantly who has a quest, who can repair, and who just wants to chat.
I also ran across some interesting things while running through my quests in Dustwallow Marsh. First, quest items laying around in the environment now sparkle to let you know where they are. This is super handy for searching through ship wreckage, for instance. Also, when killing mobs in a group, when you hover over the corpse it will tell you who can loot the corpse. It's a small refinement, but it made collection quests in a group substantially easier.
As I spent my a good amount of my time cruising around on my Flying Reindeer in Shattrath (huzzah for the ability to use Preserved Holly on flying mounts now, I knew I was saving that stuff for a reason) I didn't exactly get to experience a huge amount of game play last night. Have you found anything new since the patch went live that hasn't been mentioned anywhere? Upside down flying Draenei perhaps?
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11-14-2007 @ 3:05PM
Matt W. said...
Wow, you don't even read the site you write for.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:11PM
Ayatsumi said...
LOL yeah, wasn't this post already linked earlier today under a different name?
But then again, you can play the plaigarism game here too:
Copy sentences from just about ANY article on wowinsider and google it. 90% of the time, you can find the original article that was lifted (in some cases down to entire paragraphs) from other sites and reworked ever so mildly to be listed here.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:11PM
Ayatsumi said...
LOL yeah, wasn't this post already linked earlier today under a different name?
But then again, you can play the plagiarism game here too:
Copy sentences from just about ANY article on wowinsider and google it. 90% of the time, you can find the original article that was lifted (in some cases down to entire paragraphs) from other sites and reworked ever so mildly to be listed here.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:12PM
Ayatsumi said...
stupid double posting.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:12PM
RogueJedi86 said...
@#1/Matt W.
They also do work on the Massively blog too, so I can understand retreads. You should check out Massively, it's my new homepage. :D
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11-14-2007 @ 3:14PM
Khallah said...
CT_Mail is still useful for the Open All feature.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:27PM
hpavc said...
Truly these paid bloggers suck, they (as stated above) don't read the content on the blog.
Next someone is going to give us a list of engineering gear needed for the flying mount and tell us there are is an epic to be had from Doan.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:37PM
Umbrae said...
Actually, you can attach up to 12 items; the other five boxes become visible when you've already put 7 items into the mail frame. It's a pretty nifty feature.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:38PM
Basic said...
Actually it's 12 items per mailing, and thru careful use of the fabulous BulkMail2 mod you can have complete on-demand access to up to 600 items bounced from an alt... for the low low price of 1.8g per month (and a few hours of bouncing the items every month).
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11-14-2007 @ 3:48PM
teag said...
Everything listed has been previously "announced".
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11-14-2007 @ 3:52PM
Todd said...
Experienced huge spikes of lag, especially around Zul'Aman. Ugh, it'll take a few weeks for this to even out.
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11-14-2007 @ 3:57PM
Green Armadillo said...
As long as we're running a second undocumented change thread, here's one that fits the theme: High level Alliance now receive full reputation gain for quests in the Draenei starting areas. The Draenei and BE areas were excluded from the change in patch 2.0 that made low level quests award full rep because Blizzard was afraid that actual low level characters wouldn't be able to level on launch day. Why they kept that restriction in place for nine months thereafter is a separate question, but it's finally lifted.
I claimed over 10K rep to finish up exalted with Exodar, and some of the quests also award spillover with the rest of the Alliance, which is useful now that there's a 20% discount for exalted. I haven't tested the BE areas, but I'd imagine the same change may be in effect over there.
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11-14-2007 @ 4:03PM
vlad said...
"A few things though changed without any formal announcement"
read the patch notes.
now for some real unannounced suprises....
Transport ships now have full crews with food and repair vendors.
ships also rock side to side while moving.
i win. wowinsider please feel free to post my breaking news newxt week after everyone else has posted about it.
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11-14-2007 @ 4:18PM
Guy said...
I have to agree with these posters, these articles are getting old.
Not only that, but they're almost always ripped off the offical forums.
WoW Insider is HARDLY insider information and it amazes me still that it's editors would continue to pay these writers anything as it doesn't take much to copy and paste these days.
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11-14-2007 @ 4:37PM
jon b. said...
Another undocumented change:
WoW Community Forum trolls migrated to WoWInsider.com comment threads. Look at 'em go!
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11-14-2007 @ 4:41PM
Aaron said...
sucks that you can't hold ALT anymore to add items quickly, and instead have to drag&drop all the time :(
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11-14-2007 @ 4:44PM
guywired said...
/reported
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11-14-2007 @ 4:46PM
Frogonius said...
wow, you commenters are real jerks sometimes, huh? One miss post and suddenly the bloggers of wow insider loose all credibility? I don't know about everyone else, but i dont find this to be a criminal offense.
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11-14-2007 @ 4:52PM
guywired said...
whoa buddy, chill.
I don't think anyone said they were losing credibility...
We just noticed that they have like 4 of the same kind of articles up right now.
It's kind of the junky effect, we're used to seeing new information come flying at us just before the patch.
But now we're not getting new information, we're just rehashing the old.
We still trust the site, we're just getting bored with seeing the smae stuff over and over.
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11-14-2007 @ 4:54PM
JB said...
I always giggle at the people who complain about the site and the articles therein. You have to come to the site and read the articles to know they are copied/plagerized/etc.
If you are so unhappy with the writing, why do you keep coming to the site?
Sure I notice some repetition, but hey this site saves me time. I don't have to look at the Official Forums, I dont have to check all the different sites. I just come to wowinsider.com and get all the info in one central location.
As has been said before...if you can do it better, give it a shot.
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