Well, the patch has dropped!
I waited for the usual extra downtime, then hopped on good ol' Argent Dawn. First thing I did was log onto Emelyn to see if I'd got enough honour for my new gloves. I had, but what was waiting for me on my character sheet made me boggle.
I WISH I'd got that much in one day. I actually got around 5k. I hopped into AV later on with Nax before I went to bed, and the new instant honour thing is really nice. So is the join as group feature. Putting the Horde staring area a whole three feet further back hasn't changed a whole lot from what I could see, though.
After that I hopped on Aly and did the new daily fishing quest, which sent me to Stormwind. Took me about 15 casts but I caught a baby crocolisk from the canals and handed it in for my reward, which was some gold, a grey, and some fishing lures. Woot!
Then I pottered around a bit, fending off "come heal for me at Sunwell" requests until Mega got online. We formed up a group consisting of Maxinos (warrior), Autumntail (rogue), Kertatha (mage), Raecrister (healing-type pally) and myself on Emelyn.
The new instance is fun! We purposefully went in there without having read any strats. Kertatha had done the first two bosses on test, so he kept quiet except for when we had some trouble.
The room above was a lot of fun. The first couple of pulls involved me and Kert giggling madly as we AOE'd and then died horribly.
Kael'thas was a challenge, took us about five tries to get him down. The next-to-last try was exciting, I was the only one alive when he got to about 13%. Between my DoTs and life siphon/life drain, I managed to get him down to 1% when I misjudged one of the arcane spheres and died, with a howl of "NOOOOOOO!". We got him down the time after that.
Then me and Mega did some of the dailys, then gave up on them because there were just toooooo many people. It's all pretty good fun though, and I'm looking forward to trying all the rest of the new stuff.
I did make some brilliant glass on Eledith, and got a dawnstone out of it. It's on a cooldown though.
I'm loving the new mana regen. Intellect now gives you extra regen, the more int you have - the more regen you get per point of spirit. That coupled with the mana-cost reduction of regrowth ... oh man. I was in tree form, spamming regrowth on Mega to test it, and I felt like a paladin. I think with full raid buffs, I'll be able to spam regrowth all day without my mana going down much at all.
23 hour cooldown on glass? I hate that it has a cooldown at all, but I guess since most other professions have one.. we had to as well. Are the enchanters in the guild shattering some of those voids? It sounds to me like the MaT will be unfriendly to Medros, and no, I won't switch!
The void shatter is a recipe at honoured with Shattered Sun, so nobody has it yet. Well, maybe people who went nuts in the instance already.