Patch not quite all there

Well as we all know by now, patch 3.2.0 went live. Blizzard had no choice but to get the patch out now, one reason being Blizzcon is coming up in two weeks time. If the patch wasn't out at Blizzcon, it would have interfered with what they wanted to talk about. The last thing they would want in their panels would have been questions about a patch. Instead they want to talk about what's coming up next year, not next week. So what they had to do to release the patch this week was to remove features that were on the test server.

One of these features was the in-game quest helper type thing which provided map logos which indicated where quest objectives were, as you can see from the below image.

The new raid instance also only has the first boss available at the moment. There will be five in the long run.

I went out and played around with all the new dailies. I then got roped into a couple of runs in the new 5 man, Trial of the Champion. The two different flavors of Trial of the Champion, heroic and normal, provide epic loot for all drops. The normal mode drops 200 level loot and the heroic mode drops 219 level loot. This is going to provide a brilliant way for characters to geer up. I will be attempting to run these instances on my alt as often as possible.

After some guild activities last night we also took the guild into the Vault of Archavon. We were all excited about seeing the new boss. Unfortunately, the new boss was out of town! Although the new section of the dungeon is there, it's completely empty! Apparently this guy will not be made available until season 7 of Arena ends.

We then headed off to face the first challenge in Trial of the Crusader. After three attempts, the Northrend beasts went down. We then went on to do the same thing in ten man mode and now we're left with the hard versions of both 10 and 25 man.