3.3.5 is here

Overheal

......well kinda.

That is, they patched it this morning, and now they've gone and blown everything up. Henceforth, all US realms are offline.

As well as that, to pander to pinko liberal europe, Ruby Sanctum will not be unlocked until sometime next week or whenever EU gets the patch localized.

Battle.net Terms of Use have also been updated, in case you havent logged into your management in a while.

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.3.5
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
Assault on the Ruby Sanctum
For ages the red dragonflight and its noble matriarch, Alexstrasza the Life-Binder, have dedicated themselves to preserving all life on Azeroth. Recently, the very heart of this virtuous dragonflight has come under threat.
An eerie silence has settled over the Ruby Sanctum, the red dragonflight's sacred lair within the Chamber of the Aspects. This troubling development has led to fears that the sanctum, home to Azeroth's largest clutch of red dragon eggs, has been breached by an unknown, sinister force. If these claims are true and immediate action is not taken, the benevolent red dragonflight might be crippled forever.
Real ID: A New Way to Connect With Your Friends on Battle.net
One of our goals for the new Battle.net is to create the framework for an online gaming experience that is even more accessible, more engaging, and more entertaining than the previous Battle.net. The newly released Real ID feature, available to World of Warcraft players as part of patch 3.3.5, is an integral part of this effort, providing you with advanced ways for forming and maintaining meaningful relationships with your friends on the service.
Real ID is a completely voluntary and optional level of identity that keeps players connected across all of Battle.net. When you and a friend mutually agree to become Real ID friends, you'll have access to a number of additional features that will enrich your social gaming experience in new and exciting ways. Go here for more details.
General

• The Ruby Sanctum, an all-new 10- and 25-player raid dungeon featuring normal and Heroic difficulties, has been added! Players will find the dungeon entrance below Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight. Please note due to the way this patch is being applied in all regions, this dungeon will not immediately be available in North America. Stay tuned to our General Discussion forum for an official announcement on the opening of the Ruby Sanctum.
• The functionality of the Vote Kick feature in the Dungeon Finder will now behave differently according to a player's history with the system. Players using the Dungeon Finder who rarely vote to kick players from a group, or rarely abandon groups before a dungeon is complete, will find that the Vote Kick option will have no cooldown. For players who frequently abandon groups or vote to kick other players, the Vote Kick option will be kept on a cooldown. This functionality will adjust itself as a player's behavior while using the Dungeon Finder changes.

User Interface

• Chat Frame
  • Players can now right-click on any chat type (Whisper, Trade, General, Party, Raid, etc.) and choose to move conversation types into separate windows. This will move that chat type to a separate tab in the Chat frame which can be undocked and moved anywhere on the screen.
    • Using the Move to Whisper Window option on a Whisper will place the conversation with that player in a separate tab.
    • Any time a conversation with another player is put into its own tab, the tab will glow when a new message is received.
  • Hovering over the Chat Frame and using the mouse wheel will allow players to scroll through chat text.
  • Players can select Classic Mode under Interface Options to keep the Chat Frame functionality closer to what it was prior to patch 3.3.5.
  • The Simple Chat User Interface option has been removed.
• Friends List
  • A new icon has been added to the top left of the Chat Frame which will open up the Friends list.
  • In addition to its current functionality, the Friends List will now allow players to add Battle.net accounts (Real ID). Players will have to confirm that they are friends in order for a Real ID to be added. Once Real ID friends, players can communicate cross-game, cross-faction and cross-realm.
  • A new Pending tab has been added where players can accept or decline a Real ID friend request, or select the Report Spam or Block Communications buttons.
  • Players can now select from three statuses which will be visible to their friends: Available, Away and Busy.
  • A Broadcast window has been added to the top of the frame. Players can use this to broadcast a message to all of their Real ID friends online. This message will also be displayed under the broadcaster's Real ID information in each friend's list.
• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.

copeyhagen

interesting, looking forward to ruby sanctum

any class changes or just small content / ui changes

nix

Dont think there is any class changes, no point since they will be changing alot come Cata.

I thought they were doing the gnomeragan/sinjin recapture thing this patch? Was looking forward to some new dailies or somethin..

TechnoPool

Meh, needs the new expansion! not another different colored dragon!

Falcon.ie

TechnoPool wrote: »

Meh, needs the new expansion! not another different colored dragon!

Racist!:P

Looking forward to it, it will mean that EVERYONE will be going into Cataclysm fully geared.

Columc

nix wrote: »

I thought they were doing the gnomeragan/sinjin recapture thing this patch? Was looking forward to some new dailies or somethin..

They only tested it in the PTR, it is actualy for the next major part(3.9 I think) a few weeks/months befor cata is released.

Overheal

copeyhagen wrote: »

interesting, looking forward to ruby sanctum

any class changes or just small content / ui changes

no class changes that im aware off. Couple dungeon exploits fixed; Chat interface upgrade, etc.

The Wyrmrest Wardens usually channeling energy at the Sanctum entrances; the ones guarding RS have apparently been slain, their corpses left to rot on the stairs. Attempting to enter the instance in a raid group gives you the error "You must be level 80 or in a raid group to enter" - ie. '**** off, come back next week.'

When typing in Guild Chat, your text-bar highlights in a green border now, etc. And you can set it up so usernames are color coded based on their Class. Chat panels can now be detatched and moved around the screen, so you could keep combat text on the other side of the screen, change font size, background color, etc. and RealID is now available.

To add a friend to realchat you need their battle.net email address (...) obviously I think thats another security issue. You can also set a Friends list Broadcast up, kind of like a guild MOTD; when they sign on or if they are on they will receive your broadcast. "Boobs" seemed like a nice thing to broadcast until I realised my Boss's daughter logged in.

Aaaand Ping in Dal is up about 250% so good luck if you need your torch juggling achievement for the meta in the next couple days.

Obviously, Real ID is set up for people you know in Real Life, and would actually trust say, with your email address. Not exactly a list I would fill up with a bunch of people I only knew from WoW.

Columc

Overheal wrote: »

The Wyrmrest Wardens usually channeling energy at the Sanctum entrances; the ones guarding RS have apparently been slain, their corpses left to rot on the stairs. Attempting to enter the instance in a raid group gives you the error "You must be level 80 or in a raid group to enter" - ie. '**** off, come back next week.'

When typing in Guild Chat, your text-bar highlights in a green border now, etc. And you can set it up so usernames are color coded based on their Class. Chat panels can now be detatched and moved around the screen, so you could keep combat text on the other side of the screen, change font size, background color, etc. and RealID is now available.

From what im aware, europe still dosent have 3.3.5 so thats why RS is down. they want to release it same time as europe, because all of the world first guilds will start complaining that america get it early.

And friom the chat panels, i know they changed it a bit. but im pretty sure the chat panels can be detatched befor, and usernames can have the colour of their class. background, font were also there, just options in interfaces.

Nehaxak

Sounds like they just integrated a system similar to the Prat Chat addon by deault.

No new 5 man dungeons though no ?

Overheal

Not that Im aware of Nex.

I understand why they want to streamline the raid launch though. Hardcore Raiding Guilds are quite anal about their attempts at World Firsts. To each their own

Only other change is a couple bugs, and they added Northrend Bonfires for the summer festival. These don't link to any achievement though and aren't required for the meta. Just another way to get holiday loot and a little extra gold. And PvP. Fun times were had in Everlook.

Columc

Overheal wrote: »

Only other change is a couple bugs, and they added Northrend Bonfires for the summer festival. These don't link to any achievement though and aren't required for the meta. Just another way to get holiday loot and a little extra gold. And PvP. Fun times were had in Everlook.

I wounder do the bonfires give points to the 3k quests completed? these are a great way to increase your quests comopleted to get the seeker title

Overheal

i was wondering that last night. ill have to check.

Nehaxak

One other thing I've read around the place that's worth mentioning I think is that the new patch comes with the new version of Blizzard's Warden, which should put an end (for a while anyway) to botters and hacks et all.

Columc

afaik, warden can be updated independently then the client. only thing that messes up client patches with "bot" programs are the offsets and values.

Overheal

i forgot to check the quests for loremaster or whatevr and im done with the bonfires

you could always ask on the blizz forums

Overheal

Nehaxak wrote: »

One other thing I've read around the place that's worth mentioning I think is that the new patch comes with the new version of Blizzard's Warden, which should put an end (for a while anyway) to botters and hacks et all.

There surely arent any specifics of the changes? Wikipedia just says its been released in 3.3.5 as Warden 2.0

Delighted though. caught some Cows (Tauren) using scripts in SB, screwing up my ore run. Happy to hear they were dealt with by a GM though. ****ing up the realm economy that they were.

Dustaz

Overheal wrote: »

i forgot to check the quests for loremaster or whatevr and im done with the bonfires

you could always ask on the blizz forums

Pretty sure they dont count.


3000 quests tho, surely everyone has that ach by now?

Overheal

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-achievements.xml?r=Nordrassil&cn=Cheesebread&gn=Dragons+of+Exile

nope! :pac: 1472

TechnoPool

hahah dranei male , whats your real character? common be honest and stop making stuff up!

Columc

Dustaz wrote: »

Pretty sure they dont count.


3000 quests tho, surely everyone has that ach by now?

was on 2921 moved alliance -> horde now at 1402 All bonfires from alliance scraped, all DK scraped, most of outlands scraped and lunar event scraped. quite annoyed with it

Overheal

TechnoPool wrote: »

hahah dranei male , whats your real character? common be honest and stop making stuff up!

first toon:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Nordrassil&cn=Nakimekatek

the gear on this one is really quite a disaster