Patch 3.3.5 released

I think there is a good amount of anticipation for this patch which will be releasing the new boss Halion into the Ruby Sanctum. It will also be the end of AVR in it’s current form as well as the addition of Battle.net Real ID. There will not be any major changes to the classes however, which I’m sure some were wishing upon a star for. Let’s take a look at what we are getting.

Halion is a Twilight Dragon and will have the same basic abilities we see from the stereotypical “Dragon” bosses: cleave, tail lash and frontal cone spell attack. It’s a 3 phase fight that is going to test raids with a “don’t stand in fire” awareness check. Halion drops iLevel 258 items in the 10 player normal mode and iLevel 271 in the 25 player normal mode. I think Halion will be a nice booster shot for raiders that have been banging away at ICC since December. Happy hunting!

Battle.net Real ID is Blizzard’s new chat system that allows players to talk cross-realm and cross-game to each other. You will be able to send chat messages (whispers) to friends that you have accepted as well as update your status with a Twitter like feature. You can read more about this feature at Blizzard’s site by clicking on the link above.

AVR

Next we have the end of AVR in it’s current form. I say in it’s current form because there are smart people out there continually thinking of new ways to add modifications to your UI. There is already a mod giving similar radius life features called “HudMap” that you can find on Curse. For some the changes Blizzard has made to disallow drawing in the world will be a bummer, for some it will be met with great cheer.

There are quite a few other small changes like the dungeon vote-kick system, please see Blizzard’s official patch notes for all the details.

-MK