Blizzard Entertainment has released World of Warcraft 1.11, an update to their popular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). The patch includes several Mac-specific enhancements, including with the developers describe as “conditional support for future OpenGL performance enhancements in Mac OS X.”
The 1.11 patch is downloaded and installed when you connect to Blizzard’s online service to play the game.
World of Warcraft puts you in the role of heroes of various races who fight for the Alliance or the Horde in the fantasy world of Azeroth, a land populated by frightful monsters and legendary creatures. You build up experience going on quests, collecting treasure and interacting with other characters, both player and computer-controlled.
The 1.11 update features a number of significant updates, including a new area known as Naxxramas, a 40-man raid dungeon that exists in the Plaguelands, an area populated by the Horde.
Many changes have been made to the game’s play balancing and to specific features of various character classes — you can read about all of them in the latest patch notes.
Blizzard has also incorporated a number of Mac-specific changes in this release, including:
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