World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.3.5

[Cairenn]

Assault on the Ruby Sanctum

For ages the red dragonflight and its noble matriarch, Alexstrasza the Life-Binder, have dedicated themselves to preserving all life on Azeroth. Recently, the very heart of this virtuous dragonflight has come under threat.

An eerie silence has settled over the Ruby Sanctum, the red dragonflight's sacred lair within the Chamber of the Aspects. This troubling development has led to fears that the sanctum, home to Azeroth's largest clutch of red dragon eggs, has been breached by an unknown, sinister force. If these claims are true and immediate action is not taken, the benevolent red dragonflight might be crippled forever.

Real ID: A New Way to Connect With Your Friends on Battle.net

One of our goals for the new Battle.net is to create the framework for an online gaming experience that is even more accessible, more engaging, and more entertaining than the previous Battle.net. The newly released Real ID feature, available to World of Warcraft players as part of patch 3.3.5, is an integral part of this effort, providing you with advanced ways for forming and maintaining meaningful relationships with your friends on the service.

Real ID is a completely voluntary and optional level of identity that keeps players connected across all of Battle.net. When you and a friend mutually agree to become Real ID friends, you'll have access to a number of additional features that will enrich your social gaming experience in new and exciting ways. Go here for more details.

General

• The Ruby Sanctum, an all-new 10- and 25-player raid dungeon featuring normal and Heroic difficulties, has been added! Players will find the dungeon entrance below Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight. Please note due to the way this patch is being applied in all regions, this dungeon will not immediately be available in North America. Stay tuned to our General Discussion forum for an official announcement on the opening of the Ruby Sanctum.
• The functionality of the Vote Kick feature in the Dungeon Finder will now behave differently according to a player's history with the system. Players using the Dungeon Finder who rarely vote to kick players from a group, or rarely abandon groups before a dungeon is complete, will find that the Vote Kick option will have no cooldown. For players who frequently abandon groups or vote to kick other players, the Vote Kick option will be kept on a cooldown. This functionality will adjust itself as a player's behavior while using the Dungeon Finder changes.

User Interface

• Chat Frame
  • Players can now right-click on any chat type (Whisper, Trade, General, Party, Raid, etc.) and choose to move conversation types into separate windows. This will move that chat type to a separate tab in the Chat frame which can be undocked and moved anywhere on the screen.
    • Using the Move to Whisper Window option on a Whisper will place the conversation with that player in a separate tab.
    • Any time a conversation with another player is put into its own tab, the tab will glow when a new message is received.
  • Hovering over the Chat Frame and using the mouse wheel will allow players to scroll through chat text.
  • Players can select Classic Mode under Interface Options to keep the Chat Frame functionality closer to what it was prior to patch 3.3.5.
  • The Simple Chat User Interface option has been removed.
• Friends List
  • A new icon has been added to the top left of the Chat Frame which will open up the Friends list.
  • In addition to its current functionality, the Friends List will now allow players to add Battle.net accounts (Real ID). Players will have to confirm that they are friends in order for a Real ID to be added. Once Real ID friends, players can communicate cross-game, cross-faction and cross-realm.
  • A new Pending tab has been added where players can accept or decline a Real ID friend request, or select the Report Spam or Block Communications buttons.
  • Players can now select from three statuses which will be visible to their friends: Available, Away and Busy.
  • A Broadcast window has been added to the top of the frame. Players can use this to broadcast a message to all of their Real ID friends online. This message will also be displayed under the broadcaster's Real ID information in each friend's list.

For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patch...atchnotes.html

[voodoodad]

Patch Day!!!! Everybody Panic!!!

[mankeluvsit]

ohh i cant wait!

[Xrystal]

Originally Posted by voodoodad Patch Day!!!! Everybody Panic!!!

Rofl, you're saying that voodoo... did you see how the new chat frames effect nUI ? rofl

[voodoodad]

Well, no... Since I haven't played on the test realms, and I can't log into the regular realms yet...

Duh!!

Pshaa!!

[voodoodad]

Aaaaand they just bumped maintenance up another two hours...

[xandora]

Girlfriend just got up for work, made an awful racket, now I'm stuck awake without anything to do for an hour until servers hopefully come back up... Should I venture outside?

[tyeni]

Originally Posted by xandora ... Should I venture outside?

What's this "outside" you speak of?

[mankeluvsit]

Originally Posted by voodoodad Aaaaand they just bumped maintenance up another two hours...

another hour to the two..

[Bluspacecow]

Originally Posted by voodoodad Well, no... Since I haven't played on the test realms,

The PTR realms now use the same authentication server system as Live.

I was able to change my password and login using the new password on the PTR.

Unfortunately this means the PTR realms are down as well as theres no battle.net servers up to login on.

[Ferous]

Originally Posted by voodoodad Patch Day!!!! Everybody Panic!!!

QFT - I hate Patch day >.>

[QuestorWI]

Well it's 4:00pm PDT and no news as to when they are going to bring the realms up. I think they should give us all a gift for our patients. I'll take a Battered Hilt for all of my toons or Tier 10.5 armor set for all of my lvl 80's.

[mankeluvsit]

i guess well be playing tomorrow, i forgot its actual patch day it was first 11,12,3,4,5.....

[voodoodad]

I don't think anybody realized today was patch day...

[Ferous]

Yeah I was thinking it was patch day, but you can never be too sure until its actually official :P FINALLY My realm is up! Time to try out Hallion! /gasp....

Unless the instances are down >.> I'm on Emberstorm (Hydraxis), and it always seems to have the most problems (as well as Whirlwind BG)

[xandora]

Ruby Sanctum won't be active until 3.3.5 is live in all regions. So far only the US servers have 3.3.5.

[Ferous]

Originally Posted by xandora Ruby Sanctum won't be active until 3.3.5 is live in all regions. So far only the US servers have 3.3.5.

yeah.. I just realized that :P

[voodoodad]

Originally Posted by xandora Ruby Sanctum won't be active until 3.3.5 is live in all regions. So far only the US servers have 3.3.5.

Soooo... We'll have ANOTHER patch day added on to the patch day we've already suffered through.... Greeeaatttt!

Turns out my first post in this thread wasn't that far off base...

[Xrystal]

rofl maybe not voodoo. the instance may be there already and running. We just can't get in there to run with it

It all depends on how they dealt with it inside the US update.

[voodoodad]

Originally Posted by Xrystal rofl maybe not voodoo. the instance may be there already and running. We just can't get in there to run with it It all depends on how they dealt with it inside the US update.

Well I know the patch download wasn't very big, took less that 1 minute. And I'm thinking it would've been quite a bit bigger for RS to already be included, but I might be wrong... That happens every once in a while...