Tuesday August 4th sees a monumental chapter in gaming history, it'll be one of those things that the Moon Landing, When Michael Jackson died or when you got drunk or laid for the first time will echo around your memory in an unforgettable crescendo of.....erm let's start again.

It really isn't that momentous I'm just wasting time and words while waiting for the bloody servers to come back online....

OK, now I've got that out of my system, Blizzard have upgraded World of Warcraft up to Version3.2, which is a huge patch, that has been downloaded by everybody already via the WoW downloader and this magical patch has changed pretty much every aspect of the game.

Now, you can get a mount at level 20, so no more of that hard slog to 30 before getting your horse or ram etc, also epic mounts are now available at level 40, which personally makes me happy as I got there just in time!

Rogues can now use one-handed axes, presumably from behind too, which not only adds to the fun of being a rogue but should also make the impossible possible and make hunters hate them even more than they already do.

PVP experiences have been added too, which theoretically make everyone who like to beat seven shades of brown stuff out of each other, especially as there are options to turn off the system for those who don't want it.

And if that wasn't enough there are also new places for raiding guilds to play.

You think it all stops there? Well, in a word, nope! It gets even better.

We all know that the bane of many a WoW player's existence are the bind on pickup items that frequently crop up during dungeon quests and raids. Now, there is a glimmer of hope for those people in the fact that any bind on pickup item picked up in such quests can now be traded with other party members up to two hours after looting. This means no more ninja action and claims of the “cat stepping on the keyboard” or other such oh so convenient mishaps will be rendered pretty much pointless.

There are many more things that I could mention but if I did I'd still be here talking about them until patch 3.3 comes out. If you want to know more, then all the details are in the patch notes and you could do worse than check them out while waiting for the servers to come back to life again.