Echoes of Doom Is Almost Upon Us
iTZKooPA on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 47 Comments Tags: Achievements, Addons, Addons, echoes of doom, patch 3.0.2, specs, wotlk, wrath, wrath of the lich king 
Late yesterday afternoon the Player Test Realms were finally closed, marking the end of testing for patch 3.0.2. At the same time, players were met with the typical “Breaking News” window at the login screen. The latest in “Breaking News” was a message telling everyone that maintenance would be longer than normal. Gee, what could possibly make maintenance longer than normal. Oh, I know, Blizzard Entertainment is finally putting the Echoes of Doom patch live!
Just because we can't play World of Warcraft right now doesn't mean we should put it out of our minds. There is plenty to worry about and do while waiting for Blizzard's techies to finish their job. Hopefully most of you managed to empty out your inventories and cash out while you could. If not, be sure to do so right away. I expect that once the servers go live, the market will start its steady decline on those soon-to-be-replaced items. The patch may make many items relatively worthless, but it will also allow many players to get some epic quality gems on the cheap.
Thanks to the removal of BoP and unique-equipped tags on PvP gems, those epic stones can soon be purchased by your PvP-dominating main and socketed into your whimpy alt's gear. The change in PvP items – initially added because Blizzard was going to wipe Honor points and Battleground marks – is just one of the cavalcade of changes coming with Echoes of Doom. There is another thing you can do, put on your reading glasses and hit up the latest official PTR patch notes for 3.0.2.
Done reading that ridiculous amount of class changes? Well, then it is time to go lay out your new spec for your main and handful of alts. I am actually still working on that myself, although I am kind of stuck with dagger builds for the moment.
Last but not least, and this one is often torture, it is time to start collecting 3.0.2 ready addons. Many addons will be broken with the launch of 3.0.2, so updates will surely be needed for a handful of your mods. The most popular mods have already been updated for the beta of Wrath of the Lich King itself, and therefore work fine in 3.0.2. WoWWiki has a comprehensive list, complete with funny little icons, to keep us informed. Most of my favorite addons are ready such as the Auctioneer suite, FuBar and tons of its plugins, Bejeweled, Itemrack, Rating Buster. Some of my other favorites are in limbo right now, including the popular BankItems, AutoBar and Omen Threat Meter. To make matters a little less time consuming, you may want to install the BLASC Client, which will keep your mods up-to-date via WoWAce's database.
Oh, and how could we forget the Achievements. Which ones are you shooting for on day one?
Reader Comments (47)
vc
anyone got answer to my problem
@Coco
It says I failed to comply patces or something.
Is this ccuz the servers are down or what?
Is it the same thing as you?
my problem is i log on enter the info and tahn it says to the stuff conecting all the stuff than it says succes than i go whear theirs supostu be a char screen it tells me retrieving character list but it never does and when try to to make another it tells me error creating char i tryd another server and it tells me the same thing
they've been having problems all day and i doubt that things will be up and ready for playing until later tonight or tomorrow. Still the suspense is killing me too :)
that sucks i got the psat tomorrow damn this
problem solved
is anyone else having trouble with the patch it just says authenticating, when i enter my acount information, and wont load any further D:
cocopuffs, did you switch to another mmo or something, because I can't even authenticate now. This just shows they need to balance the creative type nerds with the computer type nerds because this seems to happen with every major patch. They look like monkeys f-in a football when after 16 hours everything is still down.
I CANT EVEN LOG ON THERES SO MANY PEOPLE IT CRASHED MY SERVER!!!!!!!!
I've respecced a bunch of times and im not even 70 yet, I wanna lvl so fast but queting is slow cuz I'm a priest, got any tips?
hopefully the problem will be fixed some time tonight
I MEAN THUNDERLORD HAS NEVER BEEN CRASHED THIS SUCKS I WISH I HAD A PERSONAL SERVER!
Yeah, the furthest I've gotten so far is to the Retrieving Character List screen....but it hasn't actually retrieved anything after several attempts, so yeah... Trying to d/l addon updates in the meantime and even that isn't going anywhere since the place I get them from (curse.com) is likely being hammered as the d/l speeds are in the pits.
And as I type this, my character list is found, so lets see if I can play...
kamuki are you on an apple 2 or something? I was able to get on one of my alts and mess around, I went back to my main got online after waiting forever only to find the only npc in town were the bankers. I'm guessing this means the server will be taking a nose dive again soon.
As luck would have it, my computer crashed the day before the patch went live.... two weeks and counting...
man... why can't blizzard make a rule that if patch days suck like today, they will give everyone 1000g
woot cant wait tomorrows a day off so i can't wait to play like crazy:)
Wow, anybody else freaked out by "spell power"? My "healing" and "shadow" sets are no longer really needed, they are about the same now... And some of the new priest spells look like fun... "Devouring Plague" a DOT that also HOT? can't wait to be using that in my dailies :)
The always sexy, Svenofnine
www.darkaeons.com
I'm downloading 3.0.2 now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It says: Downloading "World of Warcraft 2.4.3 to 3.0.2 TBC enGB Win Final"
1,59 GB of 1,62 GB :D
i just have a question i cant log in to the game server even though i finished downloading the patch..what am i gonna do?help is much appreciated..thnx