The Lords of Nordrassil

Patch 3.0.2 – the precursor to Wrath of the Lich King – is due today.

Wow-Insider has a good summary of the coming changes. I’ve summarised the most interesting changes in the list below:

• New talent trees and new skills.  You can now spec down to the new 51 point talents leading to some seriously unbalanced talent trees
• New profession – inscription
• Like many recent games, unlockable achievements are being added – 5 of which can be attained before WotLK.
• World changes in Azeroth.  I won’t say much more for the un-spoiled, but take a look around North West Stormwind and also out into Hillsbrad near the Lordamere Internment Camp
• Calendar added to the UI – hopefully this will be the end of needing to use the GEM addon – dependent on the quality of the group features in the new functionality.
• Haircuts.  Although this old dwarf wants to know if they’ve got any magic hair restorer – otherwise a haircut won’t be much use!
• For the PVP fans – new arenas – Dalaran & Orgrimmar
• In game threat-meter – again this may be the end of a popular addon – this time Omen, but again depends on the quality of the replacement
• More bag space!  – vanity pets, mounts, badges of justice and battleground marks no longer use up bag space (/hooray)