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We've bulked up to 5 regular instancing members, as I've mentioned previously, so I thought this was a good time to introduce you to them. Kllewdor is our new Warrior tank; Luzun is our new Rogue. Himalountain (my toon) was our Paladin Tank when we had only 3 people, but now he's healing and our previous healer, a Shaman named Chepi, has gone elemental dps.

Recently, we've been pushing through the 70s instances to help our new members level and some of us have been taking a little time off, but since we've been instancing every Saturday, I should also share some of those screenshots.

Usually, we 3-man instances, and we did plan to do so for the Wrath, but a friend leveled up and wanted to join us, so we're now 4-manning the Wrath of the Lich King dungeons. We started with Utgarde Keep, the nominally 70 instance, but when we moved on to Nexus, we actually found it much easier. Utgarde was doable with 4 except for the last boss which is just not tuned for your run-of-the-mill level 70 tank, and requires much more timing and precision than any pre-70 instance bosses. Frankly, I expect to see the final boss of Utgarde nerfed in the near future. Nexus was another story. It was fun, fast and furious. It changes so much through it different sub-zones, and you really have to learn the instance to do it well.

Today is the release of 3.0.2 and there's a landslide of info.

First off, start here because green is pretty: The 3.0.2 FAQ

Once you have your legs, you'll want to look at MMO Champion's excellent release announcement page, the full test realm patch notes (really long), and the MMO mirror of those notes.

There are major new features that you'll want to try out:

• Barbers (locations) for new hair styles
• A new profession: Inscription
• Completely re-designed talents! Check patch notes and talent calculators for details (MMO Champion, Wowhead, Blizzard)

Welcome to 3.0.2, the patch that contains nearly all of the code changes required for Wrath of the Lich King. You are, for all intents and purposes, playing the expansion as of tonight, modulo the ability to level to 80 or go to Northrend. I know I'm going to have a long night of re-speccing and deciding if I'm going to bother with inscription or not.... sigh.

Saturnalia took on the 3.0 PTR today, in our usual 3-man grouping style. We are all 65, so we decided to do Underbog which was a little low for us, hopefully counteracting the fact that we all had UI brokenness due to the loss of settings and mods. It was really enlightening, and we can see that some things are likely to change. Here's how it went.