I had a couple of people asking me about my impressions of 4.0.1 so I thought I’d quickly post how I think things are going

Note that I have been having major lag and d/c issues since the patch, which I’m hoping sorts itself out with the rolling restarts khaz’goroth have been having since patch day.

Gearing for the new haste cap is going to be important, I’m only just above 800 haste at the moment with the soft cap being about 1050 to get a sixth rejuv tick. Remember to reforge your gear to get the maximum haste out of it and you may even need to gem haste in your yellow sockets to get there with the current gear you have.

Loss of our regular tree form obviously was a bit of a downer but the treeform buff is pretty pro, smashing out regrowth raid wide and going oom in 30 seconds is great fun however not REALLY all that helpful in most content, especially with the changes to Innervate, majorly being nerfed is definately going to change our mana management.

Nourish cast time changes mean it’s going to get a lot less use in raid situation with our ‘top up’ spell being regrowth again. Nourish will propably be useful when tank healing but raid healing wise it’s simply too slow of a mini-oh shit button.

Lifebloom changes will take a little getting used to as well, also means making some choices over who’s likely to be the most squishy out of your tanks.

Mana wise, out of tree form, I had no issues at all but more mana intensive fights will be interesting (again with the changes to Innervate).

Increase of Rebirth cooldown to 30mins will mean there are less get of jail free cards for DPS, with Rebirths being held off for higher priority raiders rather than nubs standing in shit they shouldnt

In terms of UI, to date my unit frames are still borked (oUF_Freebgrid) so I’m rolling with the new Bliz frames which are MASSIVE and I hate it lol (BLIZZARD PLEASE READ MY POST ON WHAT YOU CAN DO TO FIX HERE), Grid (maybe not the plugins for it though), Vu and HB have all been updated I believe.

The changes to the guild management has also broken my UpysRaidTools (LibGuild is borked) so I’ll be working on that over the next few days too

The other news was the release of the new Treeform skins;

I have to say they are not what I expected but personally I think they look bloody cool! Bring it on Bliz

What about yourselves? First impressions? Kgo!