Patch 4.0

Wow. My first pre-expansion patch day (yes, I'm aware that I'm a nub), and I'm not sure how to cope. Not only did all the talent trees change, almost all the abilities are different, and overall play style (at least on the druid) is totally backwards. With additions and subtractions, I will be forced to relearn how to play, so I'm starting with just the 2 main toons (*since I already didn't know how to play the other 4).

The hunter is kinda the same, I'll have to get used to the new way pets work (incl. collecting alot more different pets), and I'm missing a couple of the shots that I used to have in my regular rotation. I did spend a little time on the Heroic Training Dummy and saw a better number than before, even with the downtime added by waiting for focus to generate *MOAR HASTE*. I am curious to see what happens in a raid setting.

The druid... well lets just say that my whole world is upside-down druid wise. However, I'm still a beast in PvP, maybe even more so than before.  The new talents to proc a heal on yourself when under a certain health for free is awesome to get you out of those sticky 'Im stunned' moments, and they buffed the jargon out of rejuv, which is like so booya. So yeah, PvP resto = confirmed goodness. Idk what the new druid raid healing is gonna be like. Swiftmend has that new awesome AoE thing now that's gonna rival chain heal in its melee healing awesomeness, and the aforementioned rejuv happiness will do great for pulse aoe dmg on the ranged. But...  lifebloom now can only be applied to a single target (not that I used lifebloom an overwhelming lot, but they buffed it, and it's awesome) so we'll have to see how useful that one is gonna end up bein. Tree of Life form is now a cooldown, so some thought is gonna have to go into where/when to best use it to full effect, but that's no biggie.

Then there's the UI changes. In these 'in between' days (in between the patch and whenever the lazy addon developers get their updates out), I'm forced to run a nearly stock UI, which pains me.  Those of you who know me will understand that my deep, deep love for addons (or addon dependency, however you wanna phrase it...) will be causing me some performance issues. But Healbot works, X-perl is gold, and Bartender is only a 'bit' wonky... and that's all I 'really' 'need' I guess.  Step 1: show up  Step 2: mash healbot  Step 3: collect loots. Most missed in the last day? Auctioneer, ArkInventory, Postal, Autobar.

All things considered, I like the patch... for what it is.  I do understand that it's gonna be imperfect while they work out the kinks, and that the classes are gonna be unbalanced until they get the nerfhammer workin, so I will be able to cope with that.  I'll tell anyone, I believe change is inevitable, without change boredom would ensue.  When they change things all you hear is "zomg they changed XXX and I hate it"  but if they didn't change anything the same morons would be "zomg this is the same old crap and I hate it". So while I do have my gripes about my own struggle to adapt, I have a positive outlook, overall, to the coming changes and new content.