Nice choice coming looks like. Should be able to extend the life of a raid instance for an extra week. I hope they allow you to change your mind during that 2nd week and start over fresh for that current week if you choose.

Lots and lots of changes coming in 3.2 as seen in the patch notes for the public test realm.

Tons of class abilities and talents are being redesigned.  Gameplay changes and one big change that will affect all our gear gathering ability (and sourse.. *cough* grind for gear) are the changes coming to the emblem system.

• Both the 10 and 25 player instances of the Crusaders’ Coliseum drop a new Emblem of Triumph.
• Any dungeons that previously dropped Emblems of Heroism or Valor, such as Naxxramas or Heroic Halls of Stone, will now drop Emblems of Conquest instead. Emblems of Conquest can still be converted to Valor or Heroism.
• The heroic dungeon daily quest will now reward 2 Emblems of Triumph and the normal daily dungeon quest will reward 1 Emblem of Triumph.
• The existing achievements to collect 1, 25, 50, etc. Emblems of Heroism, Valor, and Conquest have been converted to Feats of Strength since Heroism and Valor Emblems are no longer attainable.

New achievements have been added to collect various amounts of any combination of emblems.

What I’m curious about is what will happen to the emblems of Heroism and Valor that we already have.  Will they be transformed into Conquests?  Doubtful since the Conquests can be converted into Heroism or Valor.. so the items that are purchased with them currently will still require official Hero or Valor emblems and you’ll have to convert your new Conquest if you want to buy those items.  Make sense?  I did to me in my brain.. not sure if it came out that way on “paper” though.

Not all classes have as huge of changes coming as paladins do.. (just wow).. like rogues only have 2 changes, so far.  Can use axes (and sword specialization talent changed to include those axes) and a change to Shadow Dance in subtlety.  Paladins have .. well I can’t even begin.  Check out your class.

Echoes of Doom patch woes.. I feel a little doomed. I didn’t read everything about patch 3.0.2 for WoW.. but there were a bunch of things I was afraid of that wouldn’t be in any patch notes.. things that came true =(

World servers.. at least Hydraxis that kept coming down.  Every few minutes.  That made saving all the changes I’m having to make resetting up my UI a chore.. have to log completely out of the game to save them.  Not crash out.. camp out.  Most of my addons either still work or have updates for 3.0.  Switching over to Bartender4 though will take me a good bit of time to reset up all my buttons.. and I have a lot of new buttons for Rossa.  It’s the redoing all the keybinding and setting up every bar for dual-boxing that’s gonna be the time consuming bit.  Will be worth it in the end, but it sure is a hassle.  Bartender4 has a built in “snap to” setting.. the bar aligning functions that will allow exact positioning aren’t included yet.  Can’t go back to Bartender3, it doesn’t work so I’m just gonna wait out the inclusion of the aligning features.. unless it takes too long then I’ll try Xperl or go back to agUnitFrames *shrug*

The realization that I’m gonna have to do this all over again for every toon.. /shudder.

Mailbox lag.. AH lag.. Addons that are half borked.. like Auctioneer making it almost impossible to use the AH.. guess I’ll just disable them until they are stable.  Only addons that don’t really work right (seemingly) are ancillary ones, like Auctioneer, Arkinventory, Itemsync etc.. some I have installed but I really didn’t test before I gave up for the day like Baud Mark (my favorite raid icon assigner) or Pallypower.

At least I didn’t “lose” my mounts when I learned them as spells like a lot of hunters (others too?) did.  It’s really weird to hit “B” and only my backpack opens and the first panic of opening my bank and seeing only the few default spaces kinda freaked me out for a sec. /facepalm

I’m going to make a few very simple and basic profiles up for the massive quantities of kids alts and show them how to load profiles hah.  They can add in and sort all their own abilites.  Megan who just turned 10 yesterday and is allowed to play now.. well I’ll probably set her two characters up for her all nice and arranged so she can just figure out how to play and not have any UI worries.  The other two girls are savvy enough to figure out what and where they want their own stuff in the UI.