WoW Patch 4.1 Announced

Today Blizzard announced that patch 4.1 is well underway and soon will be available for testing on the PTR. Apparently Blizzard saw the introduction of a level 85 heroic version of the old instances Shadowfang Keep and Deadmines as a success, something I cannot disagree with as the new Deadmines was a lot of fun, because they are adding in the old troll raids Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman as level 85 five man heroics. These two dungeons will be more challenging than the other 5 mans but will drop epic gear of the 353 item level which is just below current raid loot.

I am not really sure of what to think of this; it does seem like Blizzard just recycling old content but keep in mind in Wrath we didn't see knew heroics until later on so some new stuff is better than none. Also I really enjoyed those raids back in the day and feel they are great instances. One major thing that will excite some people is that new versions of the no longer attainable mounts, the bear, tiger, and raptor will drop in these new heroics. These new mounts will be different in some way from the originals meaning people who own the originals get to keep the unique mount they earned forever ago. As someone who has an Amani War Bear from the timed run back in Burning Crusade I am very happy that they didn't just make the same bear drop.

Moonkin is happy his bear stays unique.

These are not the only additions in 4.1. New raids are expected but have not yet been announced. There are a bunch of class changes incoming and warriors are getting a pretty nifty new ability. The last thing I saw on Blizzard's post is that they are working on an in game looking for guild system; I think this is a great addition especially with the focus on guilds Cataclysm has brought.

The Blizzard blog post can be found at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2356431#blog.