Whoa! This last WoW patch weighs 492Mb, I think not even the cumulative patch from release till today wasn’t as big.
Of course I’m waiting for mirrors. I’ll have to download this twice, as lately I’m spending time mostly on the european version.
EDIT: My favourite patch mirror seems to work splendidly. With resumable downloads and all. They also have the patch notes.
Who knew that the LFG window took 400Mb of space? :)
In the last days it was also discussed the fact that the expansion will be released “unfinished” as not all dungeons that were planned will be ready. I don’t follow WoW’s beta so I don’t know exactly the number of dungeons that should be there, but this is one of the latest posts from Tigole:
Gruul’s Lair will ship with the expansion. It houses two raid encounters. Our Quality Assurance raid group has been testing the encounters for several months now.
Vashj’s Lair, Serpentshrine Cavern, will ship with the expansion. We just finished it and sent it to test. Hyjal Past is in the game and being tested internally. Tempest Keep (raid) with Kael and his buddies is in the game and being tested internally.
Black Temple is coming along great but won’t make day 1. We’d rather hold it and polish it. Zul’Aman will not ship with the Burning Crusade. We might patch it in at a later date.
Miscellanea:
Raid caps:
Karazhan = 10
Gruul = 25
Magtheradon = 25
TK Raid = 25
Coilfang Raid = 25
Hyjal = 25
Heroic Difficulty
For testing purposes, the reputation requirement for the Heroic Difficulty dungeons will be reduced to Neutral. The reputation will be returned to Revered when the game goes live. Our current intention is that Revered should be achievable by doing the Exterior Zone quests along with 4-5 dungeon runs.
Most the instances should be under 1:30. Most of the level-up dungeons should take closer to 1hr with an average group. Some instances are even faster, such as Caverns of Time — Opening the Dark Portal.
Our goal was to keep most 5-man instance runs to 1-1:30 with a few exceptions.
Of course the raging beast that is Karazhan is in a league of its own =P