It has been about 3 days since patch 1.2 went live. I must say it is a very welcome update so far. Zone Domination, class balancing, and much other goodness.
Zone Domination makes it so when one side caps all the BOs and keeps and holds them for a set time the zone gets locked. This might not seem like such a big deal, but on Monolith Order has been steamrolling Destro for a good long time lately. So before the patch, Destros would just run to their little hidey holes and not fight. This strategy kept Order from locking zones simply because we could not get enough Victory Points from skirmishing or scenarios. No Destros means no scenario points and no skirmish points. Without these points we couldn’t lock zones. It was basically Order trying to oRvR, but with nothing to fight.
Then comes the patch and Zone Domination! We have been to Inevitable City twice in 3 days since the patch. This is not the best part, though. There are actually Destro to fight now, because they come out to try to take BOs and keeps to keep us from domination. Order has to coordinate with large groups to keep all the BOs protected and the keeps. One good warband of destro can roll around a zone and ninja BOs to keep us from dominating. The fun is trying to keep every BO and keep covered. I love the tactics involved and the fighting that we get to do once again!
Class balancing as far as I can tell from my witch hunter glasses amounts to longer lives for the healers and no more chain disorienting. It used to be that I could sneak into the back of a group and snipe the healer in a few secs, but no more. Yeah, some healers still go down like a cheap date, but alot of them can actually stay up long enough for their buddies to take me out now.
The other big part of the patch was with crafting. An almost complete reworking of the crafting system. It looks like they have streamlined much of the items and skills. I don’t know much about this yet, though. I have been too busy sacking IC 
Also included in this were some new mounts, guild mounts, some crafting benefits for higher level guilds and some other stuff. All in all I think it is a great patch. Most people on the forums are saying that if you quit some time in the past, now is a good time to renew the account and check out the yummy goodness that is patch 1.2
Official Patch notes are here.
And here are some screenshots of me wandering around in IC. You get to destroy the statues in IC! How cool is that!
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