Top 10 Best Things About the WoW 3.2 Patch

 There was something noticeably missing at the beginning of last May. Children's Week rolled around as usual but we found that it hadn't been entirely updated for Wrath of the Lich King. Granted, some of the achievements for the in-game event required certain things, like brownies and cake purchased from Dalaran, but something was still missing. When the Burning Crusade released the very first Children's Week introduced Draenei and Blood Elf orphans to escort through various areas of Outland and the new starting zones. We expected the same of the next post-Wrath of the Lich King children's week, but found that we still had to travel to Outland or the Old World to participate in any Children's Week events. Essentially, there were no Northrend Orphans. 

Finally in Patch 3.2 Blizzard made it up to us, and the week following the patch release was deemed Northrend Children's Week. The Matron showed up in Dalaran and sent us on a series of quests with our new Wolvar or Gorloc orphan. This also answered the call for a new non-combat pet - a baby Gorloc or baby Wolvar offered as rewards.

 A positive in some people's minds, a negative in others, the fact that Bind on Pickup loot from dungeons and raids is now tradeable for two hours after being looted is a big deal whether you're for or against. Much like the "buyback" feature added to items purchased with Emblems in patch 3.1, in patch 3.2 when a Bind on Pickup item is looted to a player that player has 2 hours to trade it to someone else. The conditions are that the person it is being traded to must have been eligible for the loot in the first place - meaning they must have been in the group when the boss was killed and looted.

A lot of players like this feature because it allows time for bartering to happen in PuGs without taking up the time of the master looter. You can win the item, then try to sell it off to other players while the raid continues on. The negative side of this is it creates moral dilemmas. Players who many not be planning on using an item might try to win it for the purpose of reselling. Groups consisting of mostly one guild may all try to win an item just to give it to a guildie. The problem is that all this can happen without anyone ever knowing they're being scammed or ripped off.

I, for one, am happy at least that I don't have to fight with GMs anymore to have mis-looted items given to their deserving recipient, so this change makes the top 10.