World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.4.3 - Last updated on 07/15/2008 The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/ The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html General Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance. Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players. Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World's End Tavern! Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: (Spell #33389) and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold. Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded in their bats for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks. Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown. Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: (Item #29960), dragonhawk hatchlings ((Item #29958), (Item #29953), (Item #29956), (Item #29957)), moths ((Item #29901), (Item #29902), (Item #29903), (Item #29904)), owls ((Item #8500), (Item #8501)), parrots ((Item #8492), (Item #8494), (Item #8495), (Item #8496)), (Item #35504), (Item #23083), (Item #11474), and (Item #34478). (Item #38628) (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha'tari Skyguard. Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress. Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item. When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target. Druid (Spell #22812): The cost of this spell is now reduced by (Spell #33891) Form. Hunter (Spell #27047): Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet's Growl. Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned. Mage (Spell #7301), (Spell #27124), (Spell #27125) and (Spell #30482) are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled. Paladin (Spell #25890) (Rank 1): This spell will no longer overwrite (Spell #27145) (Rank 2). Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30. Priest (Spell #10909): This effect will now be canceled immediately on targets who use an (Item #9172) or (Item #4397). (Spell #15356): Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing (Spell #33076). Rogue (Spell #31230): This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue's health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes. (Spell #31220) now increases damage to (Spell #26863) and (Spell #26864) by 1/2/3/4/5% (down from 2/4/6/8/10%.) Shaman Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its (Spell #2062) when pulled beyond 50 yards away. (Spell #30681): This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with (Spell #25449) Ranks 2-10. Warlock (Spell #27229): This spell has been removed. (Spell #27228): This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire. (Spell #696), (Spell #27260), and (Spell #28189) are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled. (Spell #27259): This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished. (Spell #698): The mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast. (Spell #5784) is now available at level 30. Warrior (Spell #30357): Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.) PvP The time available to accept the option to “Enter Battle” for a battleground has been reduced to 1 minute and 20 seconds (previously 2 minutes) in order ot give each side more time to get a full complement of players before the battle begins. The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped. (Item #23824) and (Item #35581) can no longer be used in the arena. These no longer have a failure chance. Zoning into an instance on a PvE realm will now drop your PvP flag. Professions Alchemy (Item #9149) now requires 200 (Spell #3464). Cooking (Item #35565) now correctly increase healing as well as spell damage. Jewelcrafting Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no longer be dispelled. Mining Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. The drop rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged. Tailoring Removed the cooldown from regular (Spell #18560). Herb bags can now hold (Item #11018) and (Item #11020). Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags. New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: (Item #38327) and (Item #38328). Quests Bhag'thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate. For the quests Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased character AoE effects and vice-versa. For the quests Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly break off combat from unphased/phased opponents. Dungeons and Raids Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons. Magister’s Terrace The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard (Spell #46028) has been removed and the Bounce range reduced. Vexallus and Kael'thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode. Vexallus' damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased. Kael'thas' Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic mode remains unchanged.) Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly. Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health reduced slightly. Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output reduced slightly. Sunwell Plateau Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twins are in combat. M’uru, Entropius, Shadowsword Berserkers, and Shadowsword Fury Mages have all had their health decreased. Kil'jaeden Encounter (Spell #30302) will now correctly trigger from Kil'jaeden’s Shield Orb Shadow Bolts. (Spell #1857) now correctly wipes threat on Kil'jaeden. Sinister Reflections are now interruptible. Sinister Reflections on Hunters now use normal Wing Clip instead of Improved Wing Clip. Kil'jaeden will now wait slightly longer before casting (Spell #45737) after casting (Spell #46605). Items (Item #17753): This item’s triggered effect no longer breaks the effect of (Spell #19503). (Item #35071) has had its Stamina value increased to the appropriate value. (Item #34425) fight amongst themselves again...without attacking people in the arena. Well... they’ll blow up other Bots in the arena, but you know what we mean. The Eredar Twins will now award the same items regardless of which order they are killed in. (Item #9172): These potions now are on the same cooldown as other combat consumable potions (such as mana potions.) (Item #28727): This item will again work correctly with (Spell #27136) and (Spell #27137). (Item #34678): The triggered effect from this Item can now occur on periodic damage ticks. (Item #34334) is now Unique as intended. (Item #34059): This item now appears in the correct position on the vendor list. User Interface The help interface has been simplified dramatically. Players will no longer be required to select a category when opening a GM ticket. In addition, players can use the “Talk to a GM” button to fill out a ticket that requires a GM response or the “Report Issue” button to fill out a ticket that does not require a GM response. Target buff/debuff timers that appear when you cast a spell are now more visible. Time Management features have been implemented! These features include an alarm clock, stopwatch, and viewing your computer’s local time. The new stopwatch feature can be accessed via the /stopwatch, /sw, or /timer slash commands. Inputting a time into the slash command will make the stopwatch count down. For example, /stopwatch 1:0:0 will make the stopwatch count down from an hour, /stopwatch 1:30 will make it count down from 1 minute, 30 seconds, and /stopwatch 30 will make it count down from 30 seconds. Added the following macro commands: /targetenemyplayer, /targetfriendplayer. Added key bindings for tab targeting players. Ctrl-Tab and other target nearest friend functions will no longer target you. Targeting using /target will prefer live targets over dead ones. You can no longer click the minimap to cast ground targeted spells. Invisible players with (Spell #14325) can see the hunter that put the mark on them. Vendor items now show their Duration in Inventory. For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum. World Environment Winterspring Ice Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs may now drop (Item #12366). Skinning any Winterspring Ice Thistle yetis may now result in (Item #12366). Increased the drop rate of (Item #12367) from Winterspring Ice Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs. (Item #35227) weather changes will no longer force the affected character to stand. Collector’s Edition Pet Redemption NPCs/items/quests have been relocated/modified to/for towns with mailboxes (Goldshire, Razor Hill, etc.). Young Spore Bats and Greater Spore Bats in Zangarmarsh now drop (Item #24426) for the quest Gathering the Reagents. Blacksmithing Supplies vendor and repairer, Blazzle, in Area 52 is now next to the forge and anvil outside the inn. Banker Meeda, in Area 52 is now in the...well...the bank, along with a guild vault and guards. The other three Area 52 bankers are still located in the auction-house-turned-bank. Wastewander Bandits and Rogues should be more plentiful in the northern parts of Tanaris. Bug Fixes The Mage spell, (Spell #2139) now shows in the combat log. Gan'arg Analyzers will no longer occasionally become friendly to players. Talented abilities that cost a percentage of base mana will no longer display an incorrect mana cost when inspected by a player of a different class or level. Guild leaders should now be able to properly promote a new guild leader regardless of their range. Druids: (Spell #33917) will no longer incorrectly indicate a 100-yard range on the tooltip. Hunters: Using an instant ability after (Spell #34120) will no longer lock out (Spell #75). Hunters: (Spell #34600) will no longer break players out of stealth if the snakes pass near the stealthed character. Hunters: (Spell #5116) will now properly have a chance to proc (Item #2825). Hunters: (Spell #14327) will now be correctly limited to one target and has had its tooltip updated to display the proper cast time of 1.5 seconds. Paladins: (Spell #31789) will now properly check for range when a mob is selected. Rogues: The talent (Spell #30895), Rank 1 and Rank 2 will now affect attacks from wands. Warlocks: The heal aspect of felhunter (Spell #27277) will now display in the Combat Log. Warlocks: The Succubus will now behave properly while under the effects of (Spell #7870). Warlocks: (Spell #18788): This ability will now interact correctly with the Spirit Guide resurrection system in battlegrounds. A sacrificed pet will not be resummoned on death. Warlocks will still be able to resurrect with the pet they last summoned (non-sacrificed pets), even if it has since died. Using Jewelcrafting figurines will no longer cause scrolling combat text to appear twice. Fixed an issue in which shadows were not appearing properly for users with GF4 video chipsets in Open GL mode. Corrected an issue in which users with Creative X-FI sound cards would sometimes here a slight popping noise when running. Players will now correctly receive a Battleground Mark message for the marks that are received at the end of a battle. Corrected an issue where the initial trigger or activation sounds for (Spell #27023) and (Spell #27025) could not be heard by some players. (Spell #46353) will now properly require a forge instead of an anvil and hammer. (Item #35128) Bars can now be placed properly into Mining bags. Corrected a typo in the tooltip for the Druid spell (Spell #9752) (Rank 4). The flight from Zul’Aman, Ghostlands to Sun's Reach Harbor, Isle of Quel'Danas and the flight cost from Emerald Sanctuary, Felwood to Astranaar, Ashenvale will now cost the correct amount of money. Looting a Nightmare Vine will now properly no longer apply poison when the node is looted. (Item #35703) ability will now properly restore the correct amount of mana. (Spell #27028) bandages can no longer be applied to a player with the (Spell #11196) debuff. An error message of, "Could not activate more than one bandage" will be displayed. Corrected the tooltips to read properly for the flight paths from The Stormspire, Toshley’s Station, Blade’s Edge, and Area 52. Greater Elementals summoned by a Shaman will now properly have a combat log entry. Players will no longer become stuck on the (Item #9319) when driving it into the ground. The quest, "Going Going, Guano!" will now have a more consistent level requirement for the dungeon. The quest, "Into The Scarlet Monastery" is now available to players of the appropriate level for the instance. Blueleaf Tubers can now be properly looted. The quest turn-ins for the Ahn'Qiraj war effort now give the appropriate amount of credit for each successful quest turn-in. (Spell #31224) will now properly remove Shrink. Nightbane will no longer become unresponsive and unkillable during his air phase. Several items sold by the Consortium reputation vendor Paulsta'ats are now bind on pick-up: (Item #22552), (Item #23134), (Item #23146), (Item #23155), (Item #23150). It is no longer possible to delete a character that is an arena team captain without first promoting another player to captain. Taunts will now properly stick when a target is stunned while being taunted. Taking the Druid flight path from Moonglade will no longer dispel buffs. Players who die on the Isle of Quel'Danas and release their spirit will no longer be sent to the graveyard in Eversong Woods. Disabling some subtypes under the Combat Log Message Types in the Combat Log Config menu will no longer cause main Message Types to be disabled. Changes on the Desktop gamma options will now be properly discarded when canceled. A message will now appear in the combat log if a debuff is removed by normal melee attacks. Moving a quiver from one container slot to an empty container slot will no longer reset the ranged attack speed. Fixed an issue where players could have two minimap tracking types active at the same time. Corpses with money on them will now be able to be looted even when all party members opt to pass on loot. Fixed an issue where ravager pets had all available pet skills. Players will no longer receive an error message while receiving money and attempting to send mail to another player. It is no longer possible to be in a guild without a Guildmaster. Pets will now properly attack mobs when out of phase with the real world. Players who have the (Spell #33389) and (Spell #33392) skills trained already will no longer show these as available to train despite having the higher riding skill. It is no longer possible to dispel Shattered Sun Pendant buffs. Passive pets will no longer attack due to AoE taunt spells.