Hooo boy, I was like a kid in the candy store last night. Elissa got home just after the server came up, and I basically gave her a kiss and said "I'll see you tomorrow." She's so sweet to let me have my addictions. :-D
My server came up about 6pm PDT after 13 hours of downtime, but I managed to get in without having to wait in any queue once it was up (I'm on Malorne, btw). The first thing I did was go get my dual spec and fixed all my talent points. What's kind of funny though, is that I don't have a particular need for dual specs. As a hunter, I'm a pure DPS class. So it was mostly just a "gotta have it" way to waste 1k gold.
Once my talents were all fixed up, my guild started a 10-man raid for Ulduar and I was one of the lucky ones to come along. Yay for being a core raider! We did down Flame Leviathan, but it took us quite a few tries. He's actually bugged out for us on our server. He's supposed to target siege engines until they're all dead, but it turns out that (at least for us), he was targeting demolishers more frequently. So it took a while before we downed him, but we did do it! We wandered over to the second boss only to find out that no one on our server had downed him because he was also bugged out. So we didn't even bother trying -- instead, we went to the "new" VoA to check out how that had changed. You'll never guess what happened though -- yup, the new boss was bugged out. You couldn't target him, he was just standing there. No one could aggro him at all, he simply wouldn't engage. LoL, so needless to say, I've not been terribly impressed with the quality of the patch so far. It appears to have a ton of issues, go figure.
That being said, one thing I was happy about is that the nerf bat didn't affect me too bad this release. Yes, my Exploding Shot did get smacked with a straight-up nerf. However, I found that my DPS actually stayed the same as pre-patch because of Black Arrow. I still pull 2.5k DPS self-buffed, and I suspect I'll still pull 4.5k DPS in 25-man raids. It was nice to dodge that bullet for once!
Only other happy WoW news is that herbalists and alchemists got some serious love with this patch. We now pick more herbs per node, and can make twice as many flasks with the same amount of mats. It looks like I did a good thing by going herb/alch a few weeks ago. I made a killing selling flasks over the past two days (almost 1k gold from the AH). :-D
Since WoW is pretty much all I think about these days, it was kinda strange for me to come to your site thinking I'd be reading about coding only to find more WoW :D
Keep up the good work!