The guys over at MMO-Champion have high confidence that World of Warcraft's next patch, 4.3.2, will be coming out this week. Of course this hasn't been officially stated by Blizzard yet, but when has MMO-Champion been wrong?

This patch is bringing us Cross Realm raids for older content with RealID friends, a few item tweaks and new items, a few new achievements, and a reduced game client install size. It also brought testing of the 64-bit client which didn't appear to have widespread or major bugs, however I'm not really sure if it will be available on the live realms.

Cross Realm Raids is the biggest addition in this patch, which will allow players to group up and form raids from any server using the Looking For Raid tool in-game.

This will allow you to join up with your Real ID friends from other realms and:

• Form a cross-realm raid and use Raid Finder


• Jump in to any classic dungeon or raid and be automatically placed in the same instance


• Join forces and dominate the Battlegrounds

Please note, you will not yet be able to run normal or Heroic Dragon Soul with cross-realm Real ID raids.\

So, for you current players of World of Warcaft, what do you think of this new system? Will it help with getting those extra gear pieces when you can't find someone? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

As always, the official patch notes can be found over here or if you want a more in-depth look, check out MMO-Champions patch notes.

Update - It seems MMO-Champion may have been wrong for once.

I just received an update on the Patch 4.3.2, it seems that the update was postponed because of a very bad bug. As far as I know it means the patch won't happen tomorrow, however it might happen on wednesday in the US and thursday in Europe. If it's not the case it will be postponed to next week.

Stay tuned for when we get the official word out!