Seeing Double

Seeing Double (slice)

There’s a mini-patch today in Lord of the Rings Online, which is good, cuz there was some NPC mischief going on — witness Athal_01 and Athal_02.

Or this unnerving sight, a gathering of deer outside the walls of Ost Guruth. If there was a deer faction in LOTRO, I’d be so dead right now.

A gathering of deer

Downtime expected until 1pm EDT; official patch notes are here. Full text after the jump.

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Blizzard to Alchemists: Retrain as Tailors

Blizzard giveth and taketh away. The details of the upcoming World of Warcraft profession changes are available, but there’s not a lot of giveth, plenty of taketh: “Profession Notes for 2.1”. As you read through these at work, try not to groan alot or plead “God no. Please stop.” because that would just freak out the nongamers among us.

The fishing changes, however, seem nice.

So does this one: “Profession recipes that had 24 hour or longer cooldowns, have had their cooldowns reduced by 1 hour.” I’m going to consider that one an early Christmas present, it’s that good.

World of Warcraft Patch something-after-2.0.9

FertheluvofChrist, learn to properly number versions. Don’t they teach that in coder school? I would have assumed they did.

Although. This seems a minor point at best when I consider the math lesson in the blog post just prior to this one.

The World of Warcraft patch, named 2.0.10, was pushed this morning. (Blizzard torrent was refreshingly speedy.) You may begin shaking your head sadly now.

Full, final, possibly complete notes after the jump.

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