3.1 so far

Well, I'm liking 3.1 so far.

I bought dual specs first thing and I decided to do 1 PvP and 1 PvE spec. It's nice being able to switch on demand.

I'm also liking the Queue from anywhere feature for BG's. It's nice to just be in the middle of icecrown and decide to do a BG.

The patch also brought Enemy Unit frames for arena. I tried these out in a couple skirmishes but decided I liked Gladius better.

I started using the new ultra video settings. I don't really notice anything looking better than it already did but whatever.

I also tried to use the new advanced quest tracking feature. It seems bugged because if I try to track any quests or achievements I get a "Full" message. This seems to be happening to a lot of people. Has anyone got this to work correctly?

The new LFG system looks nice. Haven't got a chance to use it yet though.

It's a sad day when you can't instance hearth from Stormwind anymore . At least hearthstone CD is reduced

I went out to the Argent Tournament to try it out. It's pretty cool I guess but I won't be one of those people that goes out there and does the dailies over and over again. It seems like the Holiday events to me (I don't participate in those either).

I went to VoA on Wednesday to try out the new boss. Alliance controlling WG is a small miracle on my server. Some guildies came along and we pugged the rest for 10 man. Archavon went down as usual but then we decided to go try out the new boss Emalon. We pulled the first trash mob and DPS couldn't kill it before it exploded. Wiped almost everyone. We then proceeded to do the same on the second mob. I looked up the strat guide posted on the forums and explained it to the raid. We tried multiple attempts to do it but we just couldn't kill the charged mob in time. We are badly geared plus it was a PUG. We eventually gave up and tried to find 25 people for heroic but my server is so underpopulated I had to go before we could get 25 people together.

The fact that they added a boss like that to VoA annoys me. A boss that's raid is unlocked through PvP shouldn't be a gear check. I doubt many PUGS will be able to down that boss. I'm fine with there being a lot of coordination required, but to make you kill something that fast is ridiculous from a PvPer standpoint. Raiders are going to start doing this as a guild instead of a PUG and that means they'll have access to S6 drops that PvPers can't even get (even though they fought the battle to be allowed access to the raid). Rage at AJ about this: http://www.arenajunkies.com/showthread.php?t=77268

Of course there was the scramble to update addons for 3.1. I'm ashamed to say I used wowmatrix and wowinterface/curse blocked it. I know wowmatrix is ethically wrong but it was too easy to pass up. If curse client and whatever wowinterface has was merged by them and made as easy as wowmatrix I wouldn't complain. I had curse client in the past and it was spamming, turned itself on all the time, and really didn't get many updates. I ended up manually updating everything and now I'm waiting for the last few addons to be updated. I'll probably reupdate them in a week or two just to make sure.

Everyone's been talking about Ulduar. I see a bunch of posts about it being too easy. I love how people who haven't even done the content complain. Until YOU clear it with all the hard modes, you can't complain.

My guild finally downed KT on 10 man last week. We've just started raiding recently so that's why we're really behind.

This week we got a group together for 10 man OS. We downed all of the drakes and headed to the boss. When the first wall came we all noticed something was wrong. It appears on the side, grows, then disappears. Then it reappears and grows again as it moves. It wasn't really a major problem since you should already know where to stand but it was just annoying. At around 50% health the world server crashed and came back an hour later. All the trash was back and we had to clear that again. We downed him and the flame walls were still bugged. I did OS 25 yesterday and they were still like that so it wasn't a one time thing.

Tonight I think my guild will be attempting the first boss in Ulduar since it's a vehicle fight. Other than that boss I doubt we can beat any enrage timers or even keep the tanks alive.

I've gone 17/51/3 (http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jfVMV...cuV0stc:kaNmMV) spec on my DK for PvP. It has good burst and once I get some decent gear I bet this spec will wreck face. I'm still working on the finishing touches (gear/playing) to get the most out of this spec. This morning I think I crit a 7k Obilterate followed by a 6k Frost strike in WSG. Very nice burst. I've been looking through the AH for the new Howling blast glyph but I haven't been able to find it. Maybe I'll just go with the hungering cold one instead. The play style is definitely more fun than the IT spam of shadowfrost spec. I'll probably be rethinking my keybinds as well. More on the spec here: http://www.arenajunkies.com/showthread.php?t=77497

I've been looking for a good PvE DPS spec for my DK. So far I've just copied the 3.1 unholy one from EJ. I would love for some DK's to give me some advice on which tree puts out the most DPS and a talent calc for it

What's your take on 3.1?