SMTIPS  Before you play this you should consider that customer service is practically nonexistant. If you attempt to report a problem, or complain about an ongoing server issue that everyone complains about, such as constant lockups at a certain time of day, and you ask for a specific response and explanation, you will get a canned email from them and they do not consider individual users at all.

Also, if you're expecting a game that you can casually play as a solo gamer, forget this and find something else. The entire business plan of Blizzard with WoW is to promote group play, so you can only get to a certain level unless you like bowing to join some guild or join random groups with cheaters or people who have no clue how to play...or little children who just don't care who the screw. In other words, you will not get the really good items in the game without being a group player...you will be stuck at a high level with mediocre equipment.  (Version 2.4.2)

VEGGIEDUDE  This is the first time I've had serious problems with a game patch. It doesn't seem to be compatible with my year old iMac. The graphic card is ATI Radeon X1600. Now and then weird artifacts will be flashing on the screen, and at least two times the machine froze up and I had to do a force restart. Force quit the app was not possible, so until there is a fix, I am playing it in window mode (not full screen) so the next time the game freezes up, hopefully I can escape better.  (Version 2.4.2)

DREMWKR  Version 2.40 "Fury of the Sunwell", is out and I have played several hours on it. Besides the new content on the Sunwell Isle, there are a few things else I have noticed:

*Players skill up faster now in weapon and defense skill, making leveling up a little easier.

*It may be just me, but transactions on the Auction House seem to be less glichy and faster. Since I make most of my gold buying and selling on the AH, this is wonderful.

*It may be just because I play Alliance for most of my PCs, I find in the battleground Alteric Valley (AV) still unbalanced, on the other hand, if you play Horde, this may be a good thing.

*The fpm on my MBP has increased slightly, I suspect that Blizzard has done a little under the hood tuning.

*This may be just my imagination, but some of the weather effects, noticably sandstorms have been improved.

*Almost all the add-ons by now have been upgraded for the new patch, I strongly suggest you get and run the latest version of WowMatrix to do in it one shot. I have 33 or so add ons and modules so this is a real timesaver.

*The ingame chat seems to take up a little less of the processor, perhaps it is now multithreaded more effienctly.

Overall, this is an minor expansion combined with game enhancements that make Wow the most brightest and most polished MOG. This is truely a world class game made for the Mac. All Mac users, gamers or not should at least think about trying it, just to see what all the buzz is about. Remember, Blizzard supports Mac games better than anyone and has since System 7 and for that alone they deserve a second (or first) look at their products.  (Version 2.4)

DREMWKR  v2.33 upgrades the memory management of rendering core of the graphics engine so that the game, individual zones, instances, and charatures load noticebly faster. Also since v2.3 I have noticed slightly higher fpm even when the video settings are maxed out. In game voice chat has improved, but Vent still has it beat hands down. The in-game voice chat is still not good enough to replace in-game team texting, at least for me anyway. In the Battlegrounds, many teams are Vent only, I have not noticed any in-game voice teams only. My suggestion to Blizzard is to have an external app to do voice-chat, with links to the game (like Vent).

Playing with maxed out sound and video, I found was almost like playing the game again for the first time, I found myself amazed again at what wonderful and well done art and sound Blizzard has done in the game.  (Version 2.3.3)