Now Enjoying 4.0.1 - Served Up on a Realm Near You

Hosed up. SNAFU. As good as Win98.

That was the immediate effect of patch 4.0.1 on most machines that comprise the 12,000,000 subscribers.

They hot-fixed it. They re-balanced classes. Aye.

What they did not catch, is that if you set in game the settings to use Windowed (Full Screen) and 1920x1200 resolution, you get what can only be described as the Black Screen of Death -- appropo given the apocalyptic arrival of Deathwing, prime leader of the Black dragons. The deed becomes double-visioned (see image) when you think you have out-smarted the in game menu and use the Game Preferences in the WoW Launcher menu. You switch it and find that it is exactly as you set it before you made any Launcher-based changes. So you smartly make the changes again using the in-game menu thinking you'll sync up the Launcher options and blamo! Double vision.

The good news is that there is a fix - or workaround: launch the game per usual and at the login screen, open the Options and make your changes there. Turns out that is one piece of the code that Deathwing did not screw up... for now.

I know. I could just play Full Screen - not in windowed mode. O.o  I "need" to see the vent window so that I can tell who the hell in the 25m pug is talking! Alright, maybe I do not need to see that. However, I have gotten used to it over the past 4 years.

I got used to Auctioneer, too and look what they did to THAT! You want me to single load every single auction??!! Forget QQ, I'm going straight to pew pew!!

No really. Post 4.0.1 is great. Once you get past the disruptions of what you knew and accept what you know, it is really quite impressive.

I've never seen a warrior or druid with so much rage - unless it was in Vanilla when a healer complained that pulls were too slow and then went AFK without telling anyone. Seriously, warriors with full rage bars all the time? /standing ovation. Now if only the dps they can do with all that rage wasn't worse than a Shadow priest's was in ICC. You'd think a healer with Thorns was doing more dps. However, we digress - the changes are great. Change is great.

Now, Blizzard, go change that I have to single sell each auction and give me more GD bag space!