WoW updated to 2.3

By Robert Purchese Published 14 November, 2007

Zul'Aman and lots more.

Blizzard has rolled its latest content update out across US World of Warcraft servers. Its European counterparts will follow soon.

Patch 2.3 brings with it a whole host of goodies, including a new dungeon called Zul'Aman; guild banks; faster levelling from 1-60; fresh Honour, Badge of Justice and gladiator rewards; and schematics for Engineers to build their own flying mounts.

There are also lots of fixes and tweaks to absorb, including the usual class, item and world fiddles. Better pop over to the official site for those, because it will take me all day to describe them.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Danoxth #1 5 years ago

    It's already out in Europe btw :)

  • Freelancepolice #2 5 years ago

    Big changes there, still not going to tempt me back though

  • rudedudejude #3 5 years ago

    I'd rather be playing..

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  • FunkyRenegade #4 5 years ago

    Already seen loads of people with the Engineering flyers, they look so awesome ^_^

  • AOFanboi #5 5 years ago

    They are adding more hand-holding though; questgivers appear as ! and ? on the minimap, fishers can learn a tracking skill for fishing spots, and quest interaction objects have a visual indicator (sparks-like effect) probably inspired by the "WoW clone" known as LotRO (where the effect is that the object is "shiny" if memory serves - I no longer play it).

  • Kami #6 5 years ago

    No problem with that.

    The problem is they added quests to an area bugger-all people bother with. Dustwallow is usually fucking dead in the water bar a few quests that take you in there. Why the fuck they expanded the place is beyond belief - if they want to excpand, why not add 60+ content to old 55-60 areas, like Winterspring? A new instance perhaps, or something worth sticking around for.

    Blizzard have no clue... at 58, there's no reason to stay in Azeroth. I think it's about time they did some work pulling people back from Outlands for things worth doing, quests worth completing...

  • Shinji #7 5 years ago

    Dustwallow is usually fucking dead in the water bar a few quests that take you in there.

    Which is why they've finally fixed that and completed some of the quest chains in that area that just dwindled into nothingness.

    There are still a LOT of people buying WoW and starting for the first time, or levelling their first alt. Hence some of the stuff in this patch was focused on improving things for those guys - they've made levelling from 20-60 much faster, fixed some of the old broken quest chains, and made Dustwallow into a useful zone for the first time. Not all content has to be for the lvl70s :)

  • Shinji #8 5 years ago

    (Although that said I do think it's a crying shame that all the previous endgame content at 60 has been left to die, rather than being updated with Heroic versions of the instances or whatever. Ho hum.)

  • drunkymonkey #9 5 years ago

    "The problem is they added quests to an area bugger-all people bother with. Dustwallow is usually fucking dead in the water bar a few quests that take you in there. Why the fuck they expanded the place is beyond belief - if they want to excpand, why not add 60+ content to old 55-60 areas, like Winterspring? A new instance perhaps, or something worth sticking around for. "

    Because 60+ content is no use for people in the level 30+ grind.

  • Kami #10 5 years ago

    But having reduced the exp grind from 20 to 60, why would anyone go to Dustwallow? Honestly, there're better places to go - always have been. It's why people overlook the bloody place!

    Yes, I'm sure the new Dustwallow content is brilliant but it's a fucking waste of their time, it's a pointless addition and their time could and SHOULD have been used, as SHinji said, on expanding the old end-game stuff to make it more in tune with Outlands.

    Blizzard have shitty prioritising skills. 20 to 60 is enjoyable enough and has never been a problem, there are plenty of quests elsewhere to get you through and with less exp required and more exp from quests, content for this level zone is - frankly - pointless. Azeroth is just crying out for 60+ content, and that's what they should be focusing on - not making it even fucking easier to grind to 60 to be thrown into Outlands...

    Forget 70 content. Why not update old raid instances, make tier 1-3 worth getting? The old instances like Stratholme and Scholomance, why not bring them into line with Hellfire Ramparts? This isn't rocket science. This is stuff that has been crying out, since the release of TBC, for some love.
    Edited by Kami at 15/11/07 @ 01:14

  • foamy #11 5 years ago

    Do people still play this? :|

  • jonnyreb #12 5 years ago

    Zzzzzzzzzzz, grinding is so.....2006.

  • Hamflank #13 5 years ago

    @Kami

    The faster 20 - 60 levelling comes as a blessing for many casual players, who don't have time to grind for hours to play catch-up. Blizzard will likely pull in some new players who want to play the expansion as well. Obviously Blizzard has a clue and know what their doing, like they have known for the last two and a half years.

  • Charroux #14 5 years ago

    Personally I think the changes to the 20-60 content are great. Dustwallow Marsh looks like a lot of fun. Many of the levelling quests were designed before Blizzard really honed the MMORPG experience, and it often shows. Gathering quests with incredibly low drop rates, useless green quest rewards ("cloth with int + agility? Awesome!";), travelling quests that take 30 mins and give bugger-all XP, and so on...

    There's already plenty of decent 58-60 content in Outland, so adding extra stuff to Winterspring would be pretty pointless. Personally I'd love it if they added extra quests to all the 20-60 zones - with all their oodles of cash I don't see why they couldn't have a 5-person team dedicated to this.

  • hoof #15 5 years ago

    I am glad about the new stuff in Dustwallow. Kami, you seem to be suggesting that Blizzard should ignore every player below 60. I have a few alts I want to try the new faster leveling with, and doing some new quests for new rewards in a zone I have hardly spent any time in is much more appealing than kill yet another 100 tigers in STV.

    I do agree that they should add heroic versions of the old end game dungeons though, I feel sorry for the poor monsters in there, so neglected.

  • MBar #16 5 years ago

    dear blizzard, please unfuck AV, thanks.

    lol.

    I believe it's a tenuous Bad Boys reference, so: +1.

  • Velios #17 5 years ago

    Calm down

  • suzakuseven #18 5 years ago

    Faster levelling: Good. The sooner people can get to outland, and raiding, the better.

    Quest givers showing on map: Very good. Now I don't need to slog round every building in a city to find that one person hidden away with a quest.

    Guild banks: Finally! We don't need to wait for whoever plays our guild bank to log in anymore!

    The whole point of this patch seems to be making it easier to get yourself into outland and tanked up ready for WotLC. If you have a high level character it doesn't effect you much. If you're currently levelling, it benefits you. If you'd rather it took longer, and you love the grind, go play Lineage or something.