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An excellent compilation post by Sammew
What is not in:
- Creating worgen/goblin characters
- Worgen/Goblin start zones
- Archeology
- Professions past 450 (Illustrious Grand Master)
- Guild leveling
- Guild achievements
- Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor flight
- New Zones (80+)
- Race Changing to new class combinations
What is in:
- Portals in Dalaran Removed
- Class trainers in Dalaran where portals once were
- New race-class combinations (excluding worgen/goblin)
- New Gnome/Troll starting areas
- Changes to existing zones
- New cata load screens
- New cata intro cinematic
- New cata login screen
- New music
- City Quartermasters, with rep tabards
- Bug fixes
- Class balancing
- Druids, paladins, priests, and shaman will have their talent trees reset
- Experience required to gain levels 71 through 80 is being reduced by 20%
- New tamable hunter pets (Monkey, fox, dog, and beetle, as well as new skins for exsisting pet classes. Complete list here thanks to www.wow-petopia.com: http://www.wow-petopia.com/cataclysm/newlooks.html
- A steam powered auctioneer, similar to the engineering only one in the Like Clockwork store, has been added next to the justice point vendors in Dalaran. They are now usable by all non-engineers.
Altho probably not intended, the elemental invasion event is active on the PTR. IF is still bugged in the same way as on live, where no elementals spawn. In Stormwind, tha changes to the city make the even impossible. No sandbags can be placed in the park, as it has been demolished. Also, the primary event quest giver is in the exact same spot in live, which is now under 20 feet of stone. he is /tar-able, but not able to be interacted with.
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Good thread, Sammew. Aside from content, also included in the upcoming patch are several class balance changes and bug fixes. Due to several talent revisions for select classes, druids, paladins, priests, and shaman will have their talent trees reset.
Experience required to gain levels 71 through 80 is being reduced by 20%.
You'll also get the Cataclysm introductory cinematic and new login screen.
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hmm..not sure if ill keep my hearth in Dal now....will have to think about this.
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•Changes to existing zones posted:
I am guessing that means the Shattering is going to take place.
When is this patch going into effect? Tuesday?
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Sociop posted:
•Changes to existing zones posted:
I am guessing that means the Shattering is going to take place.
When is this patch going into effect? Tuesday?
I can only hope!
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•City Quartermasters, with rep tabards
I hope these will allow rep gains while in dungeons? I would rather gain rep this way then grind the low level quests and waste my time.
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Kriegprojekt posted:
•City Quartermasters, with rep tabards
I hope these will allow rep gains while in dungeons? I would rather gain rep this way then grind the low level quests and waste my time.
im hoping for the same thing...
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I don't know about the tabards thing but as far as when 4.0.3a will be deployed....most other sites are calling for Tuesday and I agree with them. The PTR already has the 'Release' build on it and it'd be smart of Blizzard to put it in before Thanksgiving weekend when the activity is sure to spike because of people with time off. The only downside would be that bugs would have to be discovered quickly so they could get fixed on Wednesday. Otherwise, tough, wait till Monday unless it's truly server-crashing critical.
So yeah, probably Tuesday.
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oh man the shattering is happening already!?!? i am not ready!
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Shenron_ posted:
oh man the shattering is happening already!?!? i am not ready!
then you should dual spec! 
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Vault_News posted:
New race-class combinations (excluding worgen/goblin)
Yay! I can roll my dwarf shaman.
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Foojo posted:
Vault_News posted:
New race-class combinations (excluding worgen/goblin)
Yay! I can roll my dwarf shaman.
Does this mean the ability to pay for race x-fers is also in? (Looking forward to my draenei shaman being shorter).
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So, there will still be portals in Shat? Wondering since my horde toons are all leveling and being hubbed is nice.
All my alliance toons (10 80's) are bound in dalaran, as are probably most 80's.
I'd imagine there will be a LOT of stranded toons in dalaran if the portals go away.
Sounds like a fine opportunity for poor mages to make some easy gold.
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Shatt portals will be gone too.
Which just made me realize that I'm going to have to revise all my guides because most of them depend on portals in Shatt. Grr!
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Rill_of_WE posted:
Shatt portals will be gone too.
Which just made me realize that I'm going to have to revise all my guides because most of them depend on portals in Shatt. Grr!
Ouch
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Why are they removing the portals? Were players complaining about the convenience and ease of travel?
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Rill_of_WE posted:
Shatt portals will be gone too.
Boo, hiss. I'd heard they were going away but since they weren't on that list in the first post I was hoping they were sticking for a short while. :P
Meh. Of all the cities, I dislike SW and Org the most. Both sprawl too much and are noob infested.
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The cities are changing though right (maybe not until 12/7?) so maybe you'll like the new versions better.
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They're certainly not going to get less sprawling or less crowded. 
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Shelendil posted:
They're certainly not going to get less sprawling or less crowded.
idk about this, I am hoping to see players actually start finding 'hangout' spots out in the world with the ability to fly in oldworld....unfortunately, I have a lot of hope for this expansion lol, we'll see how it plays out
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Arcilite_I posted:
Shelendil posted:
They're certainly not going to get less sprawling or less crowded.
idk about this, I am hoping to see players actually start finding 'hangout' spots out in the world with the ability to fly in oldworld....unfortunately, I have a lot of hope for this expansion lol, we'll see how it plays out
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I will eat your face 
I can't leave Deathwing, I've been at the character transfer page a couple times but can't commit.
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Start a Worgan come Cata
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Nah, I don't want to reroll a character right off. That killed my enthusiasm during both TBC/WotLK, once I hit lvl cap I was burned out and it really took away from my endgame experience. With my priest just hitting 80 recently, it just seems right to play her through this expansion from the start.
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I was just saving you some money, because when you do come to your senses and want to play with someone as cool as me on your server, not only will you have to pay for the transfer but you'll have to do a faction transfer as well.
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I've got a 62 paly I purposely left Ally side
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Arcilite_I posted:
I've got a 62 paly I purposely left Ally side
I knew you would see it my way. Apology accepted.
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rofl wtf ever
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No one is really stranded....just fly to BT and take the boat/zep back.
I hated Dalaran so I like this change.
It was way to small to house everyone on the server. Even it was for level 80's only, still too small, laggy and crowded.
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_Taebo_ posted:
No one is really stranded....
Unless you have an engineering bank toon who hearthstoned in Dalaran, is not high enough level to use the crystal, and doesn't have any flight points connected to Dalaran. =/
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Rill_of_WE posted:
_Taebo_ posted:
No one is really stranded....
Unless you have an engineering bank toon who hearthstoned in Dalaran, is not high enough level to use the crystal, and doesn't have any flight points connected to Dalaran. =/
/2 WTB Mage port to <city of choice>
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Arcilite_I posted:
/2 WTB Mage port to <city of choice>
Exactly why my mage will be parked at the portal hub
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Rill_of_WE posted:
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/2 WTB Mage port to <city of choice>
Exactly why my mage will be parked at the portal hub
That's thinking! I've started to work on a mage just because of the portal changes 
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Is shattrah losing portals too? May just park myself there and leave wotlk once and for all.
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Yeah man, Shatt/Dal are both going the way of the Dodo.
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Does the "Class balancing" include nerfing the rogue's one shot killing in the lower level battlegrounds? I heard a rumor that it would be, just hoping it's true.
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The damage and healing done by players from levels 1-79 has been retuned, with the base points of almost all spells and abilities reduced. This was done to bring combat times at low levels to a more reasonable length. For most abilities that deal weapon damage, the weapon damage percent now rises per level until level 80, and starts at a lower percent.
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Is there any confirmation this is going in today? The quest line doesnt seem to have built up to the destruction of the world just yet.
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Just patched, I tried logging in and it said it need to patch and started the launcher. ~27mb patch, Cata intro started when I launched the game, usually eula reset and the Cata login screen is up.
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Just patched, I tried logging in and it said it need to patch and started the launcher. ~27mb patch, Cata intro started when I launched the game, usually eula reset and the Cata login screen is up.
Yep. So this is 4.0.3. I just hope we dont login and everything is destroyed. I still hope they take the next 2 weeks to get to that point. I must admit though, Deathwing looks really, really awesome on the login screen.
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