Remember the Sunwell!

Finally some sense to the madness those blood elves shout! With the release of patch 2.4 there will be a new 5 and 25 man instances located on an island called Sunwell Isle. Maybe someday I'll find out why those Draenei NPC's want me to buy them a car.

The WoW insider has a link to the map of Sunwell Isle.

The patch has the usual nerfs and tweaks but it will add some new recipes that I look forward to. Interestingly, they seemed to have focused on the interface this time around. It looks like Blizzard has taken some hints from some popular addons.

You can make notes on friends to help you remember who they are... I had been hoping for that for a while now. I always mark someone on my friend's list when they have done something nice for me but I never remember what. There is another change related to friends that baffles me. Apparently if someone is on your friends list and they are near, their names glow a different color. No, not a different color on your friends list, but a different color over their heads! Do you really look someone in the face and wonder if they are your friend? "Oh yes, your name is in blue, you're my friend, I'll give you a few gold then." It seems like the colors would be more useful on your friends list. Then you can decide if you want to jump out from behind something and scare them or something. But I don't question the minds of the genious. I think it would be more fun to put sticky notes on their foreheads.

Tradeskill windows have some search options which hopefully will help locate things easier, especially if you don't remember the name but you remember the stats.

They also are making the combat log easier to read and giving you the ability to filter.

This one saddens me... "If a player dies 50 times or more in a battleground, they will no longer be worth honor for the remainder of that battle." How am I ever supposed to get honor? *cry* I took Ivoree with Grnpeace into the battlegrounds for the first time since she was in her 20's. I think I liked battleground more than Grnpeace at the time but back then there wasn't exactly any point to doing them unless you just wanted to wack on someone after a hard day at work. Needless to say I died a few times when I jumped into a mob of horde before I knew what spells I planned to cast.

You can read the full 2.4 patch notes here