The gaming and technological musings of a software developer

In case you’ve been living in a cave of late you’ll be aware that patch 4.0.1 is now live and that we’re all firmly set on our way to Deathwing’s violent return. I’ve been making some notes as I have struggled to come to terms with what appears to be a brand new set of healing slippers. Every now and then I find myself pining for my tattered tartan moccasins—the ones with the frayed piping—but I know I won’t be getting them back and so onwards I must go.
The Good
- Healing’s actually a fair bit more challenging now. I have a choice of spell and don’t have to spam Holy Light all day.
- My flying mounts are all 310% speed which pleases my Argent Hippogryph.
- The UI’s had a few tweaks. I really like the built in raid frames and hope they end up replacing my trusty Grid.
- Ooh… pretty water.
Rather then deluge you in a veritable torrent of content light image posts I’m just going to chuck all my screenshots into one Cataclysm imagery grab bag.

Meet Grokknome; he’s the character I created to make some real money on the AH. Actually, scratch that, he was originally created for a level 1 gnome hogger raid. You know, before they nerfed that particular piece of fun. If I recall correctly the 40 or so of us that had gathered managed to kill hogger just fine—we then went on a tour of Dalaran before jumping out of the sewer pipe in some sort of mass Gnomish suicide pact.