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[soonerproud]

Must resist urge to start playing again!! Must resist urge!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spookie]

what drakes are getting taken out

So far Its the Plagued (All Heroic Raid Achievements) and someone mentioned Black Drake (10 Man OS3D?)

Any others?

You appear to be confused.

The drakes being removed are:

- Plagued Proto Drake

- Black Proto Drake

Both are rewards for completing Glory of the Raider and Heroic: Glory of the Raider. You don't have to do ALL of the achievements related to the 10/25 mans only some.

The other drake you got confused over was Twilight Drake which is not being removed and is still a reward from killing Sarth+3D on either 10/25 man.

[gigapixels Veteran]

The black proto drake is by far my favorite, but there's no way I'll finish the achievement in time. Oh well. I still like the red one, which is by far the easiest to get anyway.

Are they going to have the drakes available in some other way after the patch? Or are they gone for good?

[Spookie]

Are they going to have the drakes available in some other way after the patch? Or are they gone for good?

Gone for good. Gone like The Ivory Raptor or like Amani War Bear.

But will they will be replaced by rewards from a stupidly lol hard version of the naxx achivements: Glory of the Ulduar Raider and Heroic: Glory of the Ulduar Raider

They both give armored proto drakes in 3.1

[gigapixels Veteran]

Wow, those two drakes are freaking sweet. Can't say I mind losing the current two to get these new ones. I still kind of want the black proto-drake though.

[Spookie]

Wow, those two drakes are freaking sweet. Can't say I mind losing the current two to get these new ones. I still kind of want the black proto-drake though.

Aye. I want the black one my self but due to my severs somewhat... erratic performance. It's out of reach at the moment.

The new drakes though will be most def for the best of the best. You won't be getting it via a PuG!

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

The temptation to start up my dormant sub is only offset by the fact I would have to reinstall WoW and all the patches again :p And I'm sure you guys will tell me that will take HOURS ;)

[ylcard]

Well, actually if you have Vannila + BC + WoTLK DVD's then you only need one patch (600mb~), so it's not so bad.

Not to mention that you have lots of mirrors of the patch on wowwiki, so you don't have to use Blizzard's P2P downloader.

[Spookie]

then you only need one patch (600mb~)

... And the 1GB patch for 3.1 which will arrive this week or next.

[Ran Sagy]

Didn't they release most of this already? There's a 850MB prep-patch released, Unless you mean there's an extra 1GB coming our way :p

[Prosidius]

Most of it was released but you can expect probobly another 200-400mb download at patch day.

[Spookie]

All sign points to the patch coming tomorrow.

Oh there is a 3.1 cinematic with the horde and alliance e-raging.

[CloudEngineer]

hey guys, whats the best professions for a mage?

At the momment i'm doing tailoring and mining however not really into mining..

suggestions?

[I am Redbeard]

tailoring/enchanting.

[MikeFu84]

Blue has confirmed on the forums 3.1 is coming down tomorrow.

[Prosidius]

Patching now. :)

[CloudEngineer]

realms have gone offline

whats the total download size of the patch? i've got ~714MB of pre patch downloaded

Edited April 14, 2009 by .hasan

[Ran Sagy]

The prep-patch was 850mb as said, And i assume a few hundred more are coming down.. updating now.

EDIT: ah, so nothing yet. Ingame news says extended maintenence for the patch on Wedensday.

[CloudEngineer]

yeah i read that mate :)

waiting on confirmation of total file size...

[Ran Sagy]

Well, Maintanence is due to end in about 5 hours or so, So i doubt you'll know before that :)

FINALEDIT: OK, Maintenance (even fixed spelling) is from 1am and 3am PDT till 11AM PDT. Which means about 5 hours from now, Assuming that im looking at the correct time - it is now 5:50 PDT at the time of this post.

Edited April 14, 2009 by chaosblade

[SakuraKira]

Well the pre-patch download was 714mb, so I'm assuming the final will be a bit more than that. MMO-Champion made a passing reference to it being "close to 1gb" in one of their posts about patch content.

The initial lag at the Argent Tournament will suck... not looking forward to it at all. I'm wondering if we'll even be able to hit Ulduar tonight with server stability issues being a concern.

Everyone loves patch day!

[Eric Veteran]

Has anyone tried this gold guide before? I've some reviews saying that it's good but not sure whether it's worth my money

http://www.wow-gold-guide.org/wow-gold-secrets

No. The best way to get gold is to loot mobs after you kill them or make stuff to sell on the auction house. I don't see how that sentence can take up a whole book. :)

[Lord Zog]

FULL patch for me is 740MB.. 3.1.0.9767 installed now. :D

[Eric Veteran]

FULL patch for me is 740MB.. 3.1.0.9767 installed now. :D

Yeah, I'm guessing today is the day, too, since my patcher is going too. :)

[Ran Sagy]

I've got nothing, aside from the 850mb prep-patch i already got.. So no idea.

Also, for my EU realm, everything is still live, so no maintenance here yet.