World of Warcraft patch 3.0 hits the PTR!

by Michael Zenke Sep 14th 2008 at 9:00AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Patches

In what could be considered another move intended to counter this week's upcoming Warhammer Online launch, the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm has been updated with the much-anticipated 3.0 patch. This is the last major patch slated for the game prior to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and includes many elements of the expansion that were previously considered 'back of the box' features for that content update. Massively's sister site WoW Insider has an exhaustive recap of everything you need to know about the patch.

Here are some thousand-foot-view highlights:

Big class and raid ablity revamps, including the expansion of many abilities to a raid-wide level.
The addition of the Inscription profession, with numerous tweaks and changes to the way current abilities work.
An all-new addition to the city of Stormwind: the Harbor!
Barbershops in the capital cities, which will allow players to change their hairstyles at will!

There's a ton more, of course, but WI has you covered. Go check em' out.

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Tags: blizzard, breaking, ptr, world-of-warcraft, wow, wow-patch-3.0, wrath-of-the-lich-king

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ScytheNoire said on 9:06AM 9-14-2008

Shocking! The day the WAR CE head start begins and they roll out 3.0 on the PTR. I could of never predicted this.
:P

Brian! said on 9:31AM 9-14-2008

Whatever....

WAR!!! Is here!

Tasogare said on 6:47PM 9-14-2008

Wait...what?

Dread said on 5:54PM 9-14-2008

Someone at Blizz a tad worried??

;)

They should be. WAR isn't a WoW killer...but its certainly going to take a chunk of subscribers from them. WOTLK is an addon, but its still much of a much. WAR is a whole new innovative concept, in my opinion, and binds the whole package better than WoW does.

I doubt that this long term WoW raiding tank will fire his sub back up for WOTLK. Maybe the next expansion after that....if they can come up with a decent enough reason for me to...WOTLK is just more of the same that I already played to death and got bored with.

recursive said on 12:00PM 9-14-2008

Glad to see they're on schedule. Good timing too, after a month or two of WAR:Age of Brown and Blocky, this is going to be a relief.

Dave said on 11:18AM 9-15-2008

Bliz may add as much new content to WoW as they please but it will never change the fact that the only way to progress in the game is to do repetitive almost worklike tasks for hours on end on a day to day basis. It wasn't a pleasure doing business with you World of Workcraft.

Tasogare said on 6:49PM 9-14-2008

Man I can't wait for WotLK! I'm just SOOOOOO hyped about hating myself when I PvP again!

MeowCat said on 11:31AM 9-17-2008

It looks like WotLK will be adding a ton of great stuff. However, I will have to dislike WAR, avoid picking up Mines of Moria, and not get distracted by other games like FallOut3 to restart my account after almost 2 years off. As much as I loved WoW the end game was too grindy for me. The limited transportation bugged me too, making it feel like they were just keeping me at the computer longer. The worse was the huge time commitment required for good gear. Unreasonable.