14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard Entertainment has officially released Patch 3.2.2 for players of its immensely popular MMORPG for Mac and PC, World of Warcraft. With dragon Onyxia reborn, the patch brings players back into the darkest times of Azeroth.
As usual, the development team has posted a mile-long changelog for the patch. Luckily, the list also contains a number of “general” changes, as well as specified “user interface” tweaks. Changes that both PC and Mac gamers will be experiencing include the return of Onyxia, described by Blizzard as follows:
The Brood Mother Returns
After years of lurking in her lair battling the many brave adventurers who travelled from afar to challenge her, Onyxia returns stronger than before to commemorate World of Warcraft's five-year anniversary.
- Onyxia has been scaled to offer new challenges to level 80 players in 10- and 25-player modes. - Adjusted for modern raiding, but with the fundamental experience of fighting the Brood Mother still in effect, including the horrors of her Deep Breaths! - Onyxia will now drop level 80 item versions of some classic loot items from the level 60 encounter. - Brood of Onyxia, a very rare 310%-speed mount modeled after Onyxia herself will be available for the luckiest of challengers.
Also noted among the general changes, “The amount of armor penetration gained per point of this rating has been reduced by 12%,” Blizzard reveals.
Battleground Queuing tweaks make up most of the aesthetic changes brought by WoW Patch 3.2.2, with players now being able to queue for no more than two Battlegrounds at a time, while the dialog box for entering a Battleground match has been changed to reflect options like “Enter Battle,” “Leave Queue,” and “Minimize.”
“The time a player has to enter a battle when selected has been reduced to 40 seconds when not already in a Battleground and 20 seconds when in a Battleground,” Blizzard continues to note on its “patchnotes” web page. “Players already in a Battleground can now choose ‘Enter Battle’ for a new Battleground under any circumstance (i.e. while dead, in combat, falling, etc.),” the giant video-game developer adds.
Several other noteworthy (visual) changes are included, therefore we encourage you to see the full patch notes here.