overwhelming.jpgOK OK OK. There’s more 2.4 goodness than we can summarize, so we’re not going to try. A few quick notes, though:

All our addons updated nicely and worked without incident, except Omen2. The thing makes our screen flash and sirens to blare and we didn’t see how to turn that off, so we disabled it. We still like WoWMatrix, it worked really well and updated all our addons perfectly.

But that Omen2 crapola has got to go.

ZOMG! The AV claxon that sounds when we get aggro/targeted? That’s from Perl. We realized that since we’ve switched to ag_UnitFrames, the claxon is gone. We’ll be trying PitBull soon, as we’re just not satisfied with ag_UnitFrames. The lack of a pet-happiness indicator is a total no-go in our book.

The new Horde starting point in AV is more conducive to Horde playing Defense, there’s no question. We used to pass them at Belinda, now we’re almost meeting them at Iceblood Graveyard. Yikes. We went 0-2 due to running out of time, not due to the Horde Offense taking out Vann. The Horde Defense was too thick for Alliance O to get past Frostwolf. We’ll see how this progresses.

We got our Vengeful Gladiator’s Chain Armor and a Vindicator’s Band of Triumph, huzzah! Resilience is now 274, do you approve? Almost 11K unbuffed health while in our raid-spec. You know what really tickles our oysters, though? We have +413 to Ignore Armor. Perhaps we shouldn’t care so much about that stat, but we love it. Welcome to Squishy-Beatdown City, population Us.

Our six-person 3v3 team split into two groups, and we’re now working with a Frost Mage and Feral Druid full-time. No more splitting matches, and everybody seems to be happy with more time to work together.

We didn’t get to run the new 5-person instance as we had to work late. However, we did do some of the new daily quests in Hellfire, and we have a question:

Just WTF happened to hunter-pets?!! Hobbes died and died and died again! The beatings he took we’re brutal to say the least. Holy bat-dung, this had better be us just playing like a complete and total noob. We used the crystal thingie to make the elves “dimished”, or whatever they became, but still each one could remove half of Hobbes health before we killed it.

This… shall not stand.

Oh. And if you make your little fel-ball into a big-fel-ball, do NOT mount up and fly back to the quest-giver. The big-fel-ball hates that, and you’ll have to start all over.

And finally, Battlechickn, our purple Tallstrider, has been released back into the wild. Goodbye Battlechickn, we hardly knew ye.

To replace him, we picked up one of them new-fangled green Ravagers to play with. We had an orange one and hated it, but perhaps greenie will be more to our liking. Is he taller than the oranges ones from the Netherwing mine? We think so.

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