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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.)

Originally Posted by Zarhym (Blue Tracker)
Good thread, Sammew. Aside from content, also included in the upcoming patch are several class balance changes and bug fixes. Due to several talent revisions for select classes, druids, paladins, priests, and shaman will have their talent trees reset.

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

You'll also get the Cataclysm introductory cinematic and new login screen.

Your Fortune Awaits
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
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Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Stood in the Fire Feat of Strength
It'll be virtually impossible to predict when and where he'll show up. Deathwing does what he wants. Waiting in a random zone for him to show up is not going to be very effective. It could literally take days for him to hit the zone you're in. (Source)

Official Forums
All forums are now read only. We'll see you over at the new site! (Source)

Onyxian Whelpling
It was a pet rewarded to any characters that logged on during the 5th year anniversary. While some special pets are account-wide and mailed on new character creation, the Onyxian Whelpling was not one of them. (Source)

Loremaster in Cataclysm
We hope to release more details about Loremaster tomorrow. Stay tuned! (Source)

Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Horn of Winter
The behavior you're describing is the result of a bug which will be fixed in the next patch prior to the release of Cataclysm. You will again be able to toot your own horn to gain runic power, you just won't get the Attack Power benefit if a similar buff is already present. (Source)

Fan Art
A new Fan Art has been added to the official site.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Darkmoon Faire Fortune, Patch 4.0.3a content, Blue Posts, Fan Art started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 132 Comments
  1. Millennía's Avatar
    With this patch, does the new quests for the low level zones come as well?
  1. Punks's Avatar
    Yes they do, even I Punched Deathwing (or whatever is it called) in Badlands, also the third goblin area (Azshara) has all the quests, I recommend doing them, they are a ton of fun!
  1. Millennía's Avatar
    Sweet, then I can make a new alt and delete my 65 Hunter and start over to experience the new stuff. Or start on another server, havent decided
  1. Alraml's Avatar
    2 weeks on Tuesday

    /squeel
  1. Ruzan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Punks View Post
    Yes they do, even I Punched Deathwing (or whatever is it called) in Badlands, also the third goblin area (Azshara) has all the quests, I recommend doing them, they are a ton of fun!

    The quest is titled "The Day that Deathwing Came". It is so epic, I wish it was available to do multiple times on one character.
  1. mmoc78f00c5871's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Specops View Post
    Someone mind explaining why just these selected classes? What am I missing here? :3
    those classes suck and the players who play those need some sorta compensation.
  1. wildcard's Avatar
    They better put a damn AH in Dalaran and Shat as well.
  1. fangless's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Specops View Post
    Someone mind explaining why just these selected classes? What am I missing here? :3
    Mine was reset as a DK, at least on PTR, but that may be standard.
  1. Entyice's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by wildcard View Post
    They better put a damn AH in Dalaran and Shat as well.
    They are putting an AH in dal
  1. DOOMTOWNE's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Entyice View Post
    They are putting an AH in dal
    Where did you read this? Where is that information coming from? They just said that there were going to be class trainers where the portals used to be.
  1. Willelm's Avatar
    Fuck Blizzard and their fucking system. They removed all class-specific quests - you can pick up the Paladin quest chain - but you can't complete it because the quest disappears if you enter the dungeon you need to do to finish it. GOD FORBID they let you do a fucking quest chain you can pick up.
  1. Gossipgirlxo's Avatar
    I got a priest because of my empathy... Im so nice.
  1. deanmoney's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by DOOMTOWNE View Post
    Where did you read this? Where is that information coming from? They just said that there were going to be class trainers where the portals used to be.
    I wish they put a neutral AH in both those cities. Since they are main resting towns for 2 expansions now. It will boost up cross fraction AH translations by a lot. If your on a low pop for your side you might find the same item cheaper from the other side.
  1. Brittany's Avatar
    I got priest on the personality test.

    Wasn't trying for it. Is my class and only class that interests me. It works pretty well.
  1. Hydra's Avatar
    Seriously what's the news on the revision changes? All this talk about 20% XP increase (k it's 20% increase, all you need to know). Really curious as to why that's being listed with absolutely no detail on what is being changed.
  1. mmoc7055f9f47f's Avatar
    reeeeeeeallly like the Darkmoon Faire Art it just represents what Blizzard is able to do in these days...great things are commin up!
  1. xxrandoxx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by UraRenge View Post
    that's....not 100% true.

    If you have the item for the onyxian whelpling, but never USED it, the item itself is BoA, so you can still give it away if you want. It just disappears on use.
    I don't think that's entireley accurate.
    The onyxian whelpling does not disappear on use, at least not for me.
    Yes it is BoA though.
    My bank character has one and i trade it to every alt i make, learn the whelpling, and then trade it back to my bank toon.
  1. mmoc03681bd6ed's Avatar
    cant wait for cata to come out looking forward to playing my druid again
  1. mordras's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by DOOMTOWNE View Post
    Where did you read this? Where is that information coming from? They just said that there were going to be class trainers where the portals used to be.
    I can confirm that on the Beta the Steam Powered Auctioneer that is currently engineer only is usable by everyone.
  1. TitanTyr's Avatar
    wait a min what is that in the worgens hand? It looks like that wdjat from yugioh

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