It's It's that time again! Time for WoW players to wake up, start a long download, and then fall back asleep again, perchance to dream of the wonders that await them in patch 2.1.0, The Black Temple. The 256MB patch introduces a slew of new content to the game, much of which we were pretty sure was going to come with the Burning Crusade expansion itself, but oh well. It's here now.

One of the main features is The Black Temple itself, where players can get a chance at taking down Illidan the Betrayer, whom I'm sure will be a bitch and a half to kill. You can almost hear the large raid guilds pre-typing out their "World First!" posts.

Also included is a good deal of faction-related content, the long-awaited non-PVP obtainable Nether Drake, a new PVP arena, changes and tweaks across all classes, and my personal favorite, epic engineering goggle recipes ranging from cloth to plate. The end-game has been sadly without goggles for far too long!

Speaking of far too long, hit the jump for the full patch notes, and hit the link below to pick up the patch from FilePlanet once you get tired of staring at the unmoving Blizzard downloader progress bar. Michael Fahey

World of Warcraft 2.1.0 Patch