Hope you have a mage

[Oatboat]

What's in Patch 4.0.3a
Sammew posted an interesting list of the features you should and should not expect in Patch 4.0.3a on the official forums. Zarhym also jumped in, and announced a 20% reduction to the XP required to gain levels from 71 to 80.

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+)

What is in:

• Portals in Dalaran/Shattrath 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 existing pet classes.)

[Lyonheart]

Iza dooze haz a Mage!

[Buetzel]

yeah.. in ... 2 or 3 teams i believe... the rest... well... not so happy...

[BrothelMeister]

Lol, even with the bold underlined part i had re-read to find where u referenced mages

[Daeri]

But in addition to the class trainers in Dalaran & Shattrash, Blizzard promised a AH as well back in September. Not sure this promise will be kept though : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...eNo=2&sid=1#20

[Oatboat]

on a positive side though....

71-80 exp needed down 20%.

Thats kinda exciting.

[Boylston]

Honestly, this is great for us. Here's why:

Easy, all-city, portal access in Dalaran/Shattrath for the last two expansions caused a situation where the entire playerbase congregated to the same city. This just creates lag and congestion for people, magnified even more by multi-boxing.

I think their approach is going to be to allow the player base to disperse among capital cities more evenly. Tools like the LFDungeon tool, BG queues, and summoning stones mean that you don't need to have everyone's home hearthstone site be conveniently located to PvE/PvP end-game activities.

Pick a town based off flavor and other convenience factors, and don't worry about having to hearth with 99% of the server population. Win for boxers, IMO!!

[blast3r]

"Experience required to gain levels 71 through 80 is being reduced by 20%"

OMG, this is awesome!

[blast3r]

Sucks about removing of portals, though. Oh well, such is life.

[Owltoid]

Honestly, this is great for us. Here's why:

Easy, all-city, portal access in Dalaran/Shattrath for the last two expansions caused a situation where the entire playerbase congregated to the same city. This just creates lag and congestion for people, magnified even more by multi-boxing.

I think their approach is going to be to allow the player base to disperse among capital cities more evenly. Tools like the LFDungeon tool, BG queues, and summoning stones mean that you don't need to have everyone's home hearthstone site be conveniently located to PvE/PvP end-game activities.

Pick a town based off flavor and other convenience factors, and don't worry about having to hearth with 99% of the server population. Win for boxers, IMO!!

I totally agree. Other than questing there isn't a whole lot of use to portals right now. I use them to go back to the old world, but now I can just set my hearth to Ironforge and call it good. The queue system for everything has made mages and warlocks utility much less needed, which is great IMO.