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World of Warcraft PTR Client Patch 4.1.0

hereThese patch notes are not final. Additional updates will be made, and all existing changes are subject to revision during the course of the testing process. More information regarding patch 4.1 can be found here. Visit our Public Test Realm forum for more information about the testing process.General

Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.

Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.

Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.

Resilience scaling has been modified for linear returns, as opposed to increasing returns. Under the new formula, going from 30 resilience to 40 resilience gives players the same increase to survivability as going from 0 to 10. Resilience now scales in the same way armor and magic resistances do. A player with 32.5% damage reduction from resilience in 4.0.6 should see their damage reduction unchanged in 4.1. Those with less than 32.5% will gain slightly. Those with more will lose some damage reduction, increasingly so as their resilience climbs.

A dead player can now be resurrected by targeting them using the Party or Raid Frame even if they have released. No more hunting for corpses.

Achievements

A new feat of strength with an associated title, "the Camel-Hoarder", has been added for players that have bested Dormus the Camel-Hoarder and obtained the Reins of the Grey Riding Camel -- because there must always be a Camel-Hoarder.

PvP

Rated Battlegrounds

The achievements to win 100 rated Battlegrounds have been renamed to "Veteran of the Alliance" and "Veteran of the Horde", and now award those titles.

Achievements to win 300 rated Battlegrounds have been added, awarding the "Warbound" and "Warbringer" titles to the Alliance and Horde respectively.

The achievement "We Had It All Along *cough*" now requires the player to win Arathi Basin by 50 points or less, up from 10 points or less.

The achievement "Jugger Not" now requires the player to win The Battle for Gilneas by 100 points or less, up from 10 points or less.

The achievement "Out of the Fog" requires the player to defend 2 bases in a single battle, down from 3.

The achievement "One Two Three You Don't Know About Me" requires the player to assault 2 bases in a single battle, down from 3.

The achievement "Not Your Average PUG'er" now requires 10 total flag defenses, down from 50.

The achievement "Battle for Gilneas All-Star" now requires a single flag assault and flag defense in a battle, down from 2.

Classes: General

All non-damaging interrupts off the global cooldown will now always hit the target. This includes Pummel, Shield Bash, Kick, Mind Freeze, Rebuke, Skull Bash, Counterspell, Wind Shear, Solar Beam, Silencing Shot, and related player pet abilities.

Several persistent ground effects now display different visuals for hostile and friendly players. The following spells have the same visual effects for friendly players, but new alternate visuals for hostile players: Ring of Frost, Consecration, Desecration, Wild Mushroom, Flare, Ice Trap, Power Word: Barrier, Smoke Bomb, and Hand of Gul'dan. As a general rule, the alternate effects have a red tint or hue indicating they are created by an enemy player. There are currently some issues with this new change which are affecting several of these abilities and is not working as intended at this time.

ClassesDeath Knight

Dark Simulacrum now works on numerous additional spells in dungeon encounters.

Raise Ally has been redesigned to be a battle resurrection, analogous to Rebirth. It is instant cast, but costs 50 Runic Power to use, and has a 10-minute cooldown. It shares the same global battle resurrection cap with Rebirth and Soulstone.

Talent Specializations

Blood

Mastery: Blood Shield now only works while in Blood Presence.

Death Strike self-healing no longer generates threat.

Frost

(passive) now permanently converts both Blood Runes into Death Runes. There is no longer any proc interaction with Blood Strike required to activate Death Runes.

Frost Strike now deals 130% of weapon damage, up from 110%.

Howling Blast damage has been increased by 20%. To compensate, the area-of-effect splash now does 50% of the single-target damage, down from 60%. The net result of this change leaves the area-of-effect damage roughly the same as 4.0.6 numbers. In addition, Howling Blast now has a facing requirement.

Unholy

no longer triggers when an applicable strike hits a snare-immune target. This is primarily to avoid unnecessary spell effect clutter during boss encounters.

Rage of Rivendare again applies 15/30/45% additional damage to Plague, Scourge, and Festering Strike, up from 12/24/36%.

Glyphs

Charred Glyph is now Glyph of Death Gate, and makes Death Gate cast 60% faster.

Druid

has a new spell effect.

no longer increases physical damage taken.

Lacerate bonus threat has been removed and replaced with increased initial damage done.

Lifebloom's bloom effect has been reduced by 20%.

Prowl has a new icon.

Savage Defense has been redesigned slightly. Instead of a single charge absorption, it now places an absorption effect on the druid absorbing up to 35% of the druid's attack power (modified by mastery, if applicable) in damage and lasting 10 seconds. There are no longer any charges on the effect.

Swipe (Bear) cooldown has been reduced to 3 seconds, down from 6, and is now trainable at level 18 (training cost has been reduced). In addition, the bonus threat from this ability has been removed and replaced with increased damage done.

Swipe (Cat) damage has been doubled.

Thrash bonus threat has been removed and replaced with increased damage done.

Druids now innately have 100% pushback protection from damage while channeling Tranquility.

Talent Specializations

Balance

Starsurge damage has been reduced by 20%.

Solar Beam is now more responsive when enemies move into or out of it.

Feral

Berserk is no longer on the global cooldown.

now also causes Dash and Stampeding Roar to have a 50/100% chance to instantly remove all movement impairing effects from the affected targets when used.

Restoration

(passive) also reduces Tranquility's cooldown by 2.5/5 minutes.

has been redesigned. It creates a healing zone at the feet of a Swiftmend target, but this healing zone now restores health equal to 4/8/12% of the amount healed by Swiftmend to the three most injured targets within 8 yards, every 1 second for 7 seconds. This periodic effect now also benefits from spell haste, but the individual ticks cannot be critical effects. In addition, is no longer a prerequisite talent for Efflorescence.

now reduces the cooldown of Tranquility by 2.5/5 minutes.

Nature's Swiftness now also increases the healing done by the affected nature spell by 50%.

Glyphs

Charred Glyph is now Charred Glyph, which increases the range of Pounce by 3 yards.

Druid Bug Fixes

The troll druid models for Travel Form and Travel Form has slimmed down to be more in scale with other druid flight forms.

Hunter

Deterrence no longer requires a melee weapon to be equipped.

Explosive Trap now has a new spell effect.

Master's Call now has a new spell effect.

Multi-Shot damage has been increased by 250%.

Tame Beast now tames pets to match the hunter's level, rather than 5 levels below.

Pets

no longer generates Happiness.

no longer restores Happiness.

The Feed Pet ability now instantly heals 50% of the pet's health. Cannot be used in combat. Requires diet-appropriate food.

no longer causes Growl to generate additional Happiness.

The Happiness/Pet Loyalty System has been removed. Hunters will no longer have to manage Happiness for their pets, and the previous damage bonus for pets being happy will now be baseline for all tamed pets.

Glyphs

Glyph of Mend Pet is now Glyph of Greater Proportion, which increases the size of the pet slightly.

Hunter Bug Fixes

Hunters will no longer automatically acquire a new target if the current target dies in the middle of a cast.

Auto Shot now automatically turns off until reactivated once Freezing Trap is cast on an enemy player.

Deterrence: The area damage of the paladin ability Hammer of the Righteous will no longer hit Hunters with Deterrence active.

Distracting Shot and Multi-Shot are now properly 40-yard range.

Multi-Shot now properly has a 1-second global cooldown.

Scatter Shot's disorient effect should no longer sometimes be broken by the hunter's Auto Shot.

Mage

Arcane Blast damage has been increased by 13%. In addition, the stacking effect of Arcane Blast now increases the damage done by Arcane Explosion, and Arcane Explosion does not consume that effect.

Arcane Explosion damage has been increased by 30%.

Arcane Missiles damage has been increased by 13%.

damage has been increased by 70%.

Frost Armor has been reworked:

It now reduces physical damage taken by 15%, instead of providing 20% additional armor.

The Chilled proc from Frost Armor can no longer proc Fingers of Frost.

The attack speed slow from the Chilled proc is now 20%, down from 25%, but it also affects ranged attack speed.

Frost Armor also no longer increases Frost resistance.

FrostboltTalent Specializations

Arcane

Arcane Barrage damage has been increased by 13%.

now also reduces the mana cost of Arcane Explosion by 25/50%.

Fire

no longer has a global cooldown.

Mastery: Ignite is no longer triggered from periodic critical effects.

Frost

bonus damage applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 25%, up from 15%.

Ice Barrier base damage value has been increased by approximately 120%. In addition, the benefit from spell power has been increased by approximately 8%.

The root effect from now shares diminishing returns with the root from .

Glyphs

Glyph of Frost Armor (new glyph): also causes the mage to regenerate 2% of maximum mana ever 5 seconds.

Paladin

Righteous Fury now persists through death.

Word of Glory now has a 20-second cooldown.

Talent Specializations

Holy

Aura Mastery: This ability no longer increases the benefit granted by Crusader Aura.

shield duration is now 15 seconds, up from 8 seconds. In addition, Illuminated Healing has been increased to provide 1.5% effect per mastery, up from 1.25%.

(passive) removes the cooldown of Word of Glory.

Protection

cooldown is now 3 minutes, up from 2.

Grand Crusader will now generate a charge of Holy Power if the Avenger's Shield it procs is used within 6 seconds.

Retribution

Divine Storm now generates 1 point of Holy Power if it hits (i.e. successfully lands on) 4 or more targets.

's internal cooldown has been increased to 60 seconds, up from 30.

Paladin Bug Fixes

Avenger's Shield can no longer be blocked.

Judgements of the Just debuff can no longer trigger talents and other effects.

Seal of Truth: Fixed a tooltip error that stated swings at targets with Censure fully stacked dealt 9% weapon damage. They actually dealt 15% damage and the tooltip has been updated accordingly.

Priest

Divine Aegis duration has been increased to 15 seconds, up from 12.

Purify can only be used on the casting priest as a baseline effect.

Priests now innately have 100% pushback protection from damage while channeling Divine Hymn and Symbol of Hope.

Holy Fire damage has been increased to be approximately 30% higher than Smite.

and now last until canceled.

damage has been doubled.

Power Word: Shield duration has been reduced to 15 seconds, down from 30.

Talent Specializations

Discipline

(new passive) enables priests to use Purify on up to 2 harmful effects on friendly targets.

Atonement now works with Holy Fire in addition to Smite.

The direct damage portion of Holy Fire can now trigger .

Power Word: Barrier's cooldown has been increased to 3 minutes, up from 2, and its effect has been reduced to 25%, down from 30%.

It is now possible to remove Weakened Soul effects that were a result of another priest's Power Word: Shield through .

Holy

(new passive) enables priests to use Purify on up to 2 harmful effects on friendly targets.

now lasts until canceled, up from 1 minute.

can now also trigger from Binding Heal.

Glyphs

Charred Glyph now also affects Holy Fire in addition to Smite.

Rogue

base effect now heals 3% per tick, up from 2%.

Stealth base cooldown has been reduced to 4 seconds, down from 10, and the movement penalty from being in Stealth has been removed.

Tricks of the Trade now has a 100-yard range, up from 20.

Talent Specializations

Combat

Elusiveness now adds 0.5%/1% to the health restoration effect of , down from 1%/2%.

Subtlety

Nightstalker now reduces the cooldown of Stealth by 2/4 seconds, and instead of negating the movement penalty from Stealth, it adds a 5/10% movement speed bonus (stacking with other effects) while Stealthed.

Shaman

has been redesigned and decoupled from shaman Fire totems. Instead, it now pulses that same area-of-effect from each target that is afflicted by the shaman's own debuff. It now damages all enemies except the target hit by Flame Shock. The ability's cooldown has been reduced from 4 seconds, down from 10.

Grounding Totem cooldown has been increased to 25 seconds, up from 15.

Magma Totem now lasts for 60 seconds, up from 21.

's area-of-effect threat pulse no longer affects critters.

Talent Specializations

Elemental Combat

Earthquake is no longer a channeled spell. It now has a 2-second cast time, lasts for 10 seconds, and has a 10-second cooldown. Its damage has been reduced by 40% from its channeled version.

Enhancement

Improved Fire Nova has been redesigned and replaced by a talent called Seasoned Winds. When an enemy spell cast is successfully prevented with Wind Shear, the shaman gains magical resistance (in an amount equal to what a protection totem/aura would grant, stacking with such buffs) to the spell school(s) of the interrupted spell (except for Holy spells), lasting 10 seconds.

Restoration

Cleansing Waters now has a 6-second internal cooldown.

Mastery: Deep Healing now benefits all heals, not just direct heals.

Earth Shield healing done by Restoration shaman has been reduced by 20%.

Nature's Blessing has been improved to 6/12/18% bonus direct healing on Earth Shielded targets, up from 5/10/15%.

Spirit Link Totem (new talent) reduces damage taken by all party and raid members within 10 yards by 10%. This lasts 6 seconds, and every second it is active the health of all affected players is redistributed among them, such that each player ends up with the same percentage of their maximum health. This counts as an Air totem and has a 3-minute cooldown.

Glyphs

Glyph of Grounding Totem now increases the cooldown of the ability by 35 seconds, down from 45 seconds.

Warlock

Dark Intent: The friendly target of this ability now receives 1% (stacking 3 times to 3%) periodic spell damage and healing bonus instead of 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%). The casting Warlock still receives 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%).

Rain of Fire damage has been increased by 25%.

Seed of Corruption damage has been increased by 20%.

Talent Specializations

Affliction

Haunt damage has been increased by 30%.

Shadow Mastery (passive) has been increased to 30%, up from 25%.

Unstable Affliction damage done when it is dispelled has been doubled, but this damage can no longer be critical.

Demonology

now restores more mana (four times as much) when the warlock is using a Felguard or Felhunter.

Pets

Doomguard's damage has been increased by 50%. The Doomguard is intended to be the best guardian for single-target damage, and the Infernal the best when there are multiple targets.

Lash of Pain (Succubus) damage now scales with level, reducing the damage done at lower levels such that it will deal 50% damage at level 20, and 100% damage at level 80 and above.

Shadow Bite (Felhunter) damage and effect has doubled.

Glyphs

Glyph of Soul Swap now increases the cooldown of Soul Swap by 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds.

Warrior

Charge and no longer have diminishing returns on their stun effects.

now ignores 50% of a hostile player's armor (PvP), but continues to ignore 100% of a non-player character's armor (PvE).

Heroic Throw is now available from trainers at level 20.

is now available at level 56.

now has a 1.5-second stun, down from 3 seconds.

Overpower damage has been increased to 140% weapon damage, up from 125%.

Pummel is now usable in all stances.

Rallying Cry (new ability) is available from trainers at level 83. It temporarily grants the warrior and all party or raid members within 30 yards 20% of maximum health for 10 seconds. After the effect expires, the health is lost. It has no cost, no stance requirements, and is not on the global cooldown. It has a 3-minute cooldown, but also shares a cooldown with Last Stand.

has been removed from the game.

Spell Reflection cooldown has been increased to 25 seconds, up from 10.

Whirlwind now has its cooldown reduced by 6 seconds when it deals damage to 4 or more targets. The Whirlwind effect caused by Bladestorm remains unchanged.

Talent Specializations

Arms

now reduces the global cooldown on Hamstring by 0.25/.5 seconds in addition to its current effects.

increases Slam damage by 20/40%, up from 10/20%.

no longer adds 2 seconds to the Charge stun, but instead lowers the cooldown of Charge by 2 seconds (to 13 seconds total without the glyph).

now causes Mortal Strike to refresh Rend in addition to its current effects.

Mortal Strike damage has been increased to 175% weapon damage, up from 150%.

damage has been increased by 10% to keep stat parity with other strike changes.

value per point of mastery has been increased by 10%.

Fury

(passive) now increase auto-attack damage by 40%, in addition to the 3% hit it offers currently.

haste bonus has been doubled to 16/32/50%.

Raging Blow damage has been increased back to 120% weapon damage, up from 100%.

Mastery: Unshackled Fury now only grants 2 base points of mastery, down from 8. This change offsets the boost to better control Fury burst damage.

Protection

Bastion of Defense no longer affects the cooldown of Spell Reflection, however, it now allows Shield Block to reduce magic damage as well.

now only affects Heroic Throw.

Glyphs

Charred Glyph reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflection by 5 seconds, up from 1 second.

Dungeons & Raids

Dungeon Finder

The Dungeon Finder now attempts to avoid putting damage-dealing classes with the same armor type in a group.

Players will now get bonus rewards 7 times per week (while earning less than 980 Valor Points) instead of once a day when using Dungeon Finder.

When there is only 1 player left in a Dungeon Finder group, they will now be able to queue for replacements as long as they queue within 2 minutes or stay in the dungeon.

Satchel of Exotic Mysteries

New dungeons available for partial testing.

Zul'Aman has returned as a level-85 5-player Heroic dungeon featuring a revamp of the original dungeon and improved loot!

Zul'Gurub has returned as a level-85 5-player Heroic dungeon featuring all-new encounters, achievements, and improved loot!

Both dungeons will be in a new Dungeon Finder difficulty tier above the current level-85 Heroic dungeons and offer epic-quality item level 353 loot.

These dungeons may only partially be available for testing at this time. Stay tuned for additional updates.

Blackwing Descent

Atramedes

Searing Flames now causes a 6-second cooldown on Modulation.

Searing Flames no longer increases Sound on players.

Players should no longer be able to avoid the first period damage tick of Searing Flame, and Searing Flame now ticks every 2 seconds. The damage of Searing Flame has been increased to compensate for it ticking less frequently.

Flash BombMagmawMaloriak

The damage of Shadowflame Barrage has been reduced by 15% (10-player normal and Heroic difficulty only).

The damage of Tail Lash has been reduced by 20% (10-player normal and Heroic difficulty only).

The Bastion of Twilight

Dragon Siblings

Blackout can now be dispelled on Heroic difficulty.

Cho'gall

The health of Blood of the Old God on 10-player Heroic difficulty has been lowered by roughly 20%.

The health of Darkened Creation on 10-player Heroic difficulty has been lowered by roughly 20%.

Corruption: Accelerated on 10-player Heroic difficulty has been lowered slightly.

Knockbacks and Death Grip can now be used to interrupt players that are converted by Cho’gall.

Twilight Slicer is now less likely to target two helers at once.

Wrack will avoid jumping to tanks.

Dire Maul North

The Gordok Courtyard Key in Fengus's Chest is now replenished after several seconds.

Grim Batol

Bleeding Wound damge from General Umbriss has been lowered by 20%.

Encumbered Trogg now moves more slowly.

Encumbered damage bonus from Forgemaster Throngus has been reduced by 50%.

Invoked Flaming Spirits should prefer non-tank targets to fixate on.

The Twilight Flame Patch from the Twilight Drake has been removed.

The cooldown portion of the Twisted Arcane buff cast by Azureborne Seers has been removed.

Halls of Origination

Temple Gardian Anhuur should now properly go into his Shield Phase at 33% even if he was channeling his 66% shield phase.

Lost City of Tol'virThe Mechanar

The Cache of the Legion now unlocks when Gatewatcher Gyro-Kill is gyro-killed.

Stratholme

Postboxes no longer require keys to open, because really, who locks their postboxes anymore when they're all undead? It's just people sending coupons for brains anyway.

The Postmaster now spawns when 3 of any postbox are opened.

Uldaman

The Staff of Prehistoria is no longer required to open the door in the Map Room.

Baelog's chest has been given new loot. If it's grey it's good, right?

Zul'Farrak

Troll Cages no longer require the Executioner's Key to open.

The gold amounts on the following encounters have been substantially reduced: Flame Leviathan, Magtheridon, Gruul the Dragonkiller, Doom Lord Kazzak, and all encounters in Karazhan.

Guilds

The criteria on many of the profession-related guild achievements has been significantly reduced.

Guild Challenges are now available for testing.

These challenges can be found in the Info pane of the guild UI.

Guild Challenges fall into three categories: Guild Dungeon Run, Guild Raid, and Guild Rated Battleground.

Each challenge can be completed a set number of times per week. Guild groups participating in level-appropriate Heroic or normal difficulty dungeons and raids, or Rated Battlegrounds, will automatically qualify for challenge credit.

Each time a Guild Challenge is completed, the guild will be awarded experience and gold deposited directly into the Guild Vault, as well as the opportunity to earn all-new achievements. A popup or “toast” will be displayed to confirm a Guild Challenge has been completed (similar to achievement alerts).

Guild experience earned via Guild Challenges will be awarded above the daily cap. The experience cap will move forward relative to the amount of experience obtained through completing Guild Challenges (similar to rested experience for characters).

Guilds already at the level cap will be awarded substantially more gold in place of guild experience.

Gold rewards are now deposited into the guild bank once the guild reaches level 5. The text for the Cash Flow guild perk has been updated appropriately.

Items

All trade goods available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors have had their prices reduced by 50%.

Maelstrom Crystals are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors.

The PvP Horde and Alliance trinkets have a new spell effect.

Item Sets

The current damage-dealing death knight 4-piece raid set bonus now also grants increased attack power when Killing Machine triggers, as well as when the death knight gains Death Runes).

The current Holy paladin 4-piece raid set bonus now grants 540 Spirit for 6 seconds after casting Holy Shock.

The current healing priest 4-piece raid set bonus no longer requires a target to be under the effects of Weakened Soul for the priest to receive the Spirit bonus. Instead the benefit will be granted each time the priest's Penance spell heals a target.

The caster shaman 4-piece PvP set bonus now reduces the cooldown of Grounding Totem by 3 seconds, up from 1.5.

Professions

All major cities will now have every type of profession trainer and their associated trade supply vendors.

PvPArenas

The Ring of Valor has returned! It should now be playable again in the Arena map rotation.

New starting areas have been added for Ring of Valor. Players will no longer enter the Arena on the elevator. It's been removed. Instead players will start in a room at opposite ends of the Arena.

Battlegrounds

The Focused Assault and Brutal Assault buffs have changed.

After 3 minutes of both teams having the flag, both flag carriers will get Focused Assault, which increases damage taken by 10%.

Every minute afterward, an additional stack will be applied to increase damage taken by an additional 10%.

After 7 minutes, Brutal Assault will be applied in place of Focused Assault. In additional to the damage debuff, this debuff also caps the player's movement speed at 100%. The damage taken debuff works the same and will add 10% to the debuff up to a maximum of 100% damage taken.

Arathi Basin

Arathi Basin is now available as a 10v10-player rated Battleground.

Flags should now cap in 7 seconds, down from 8.

The Battle for Gilneas

Flags should now cap in 7 seconds, down from 8.

Graveyard Changes

Players who die at a control point that they own will now be teleported to the next closest graveyard, instead of the one at which they died.

If a player's team owns the Mine and Waterworks, and dies at Waterworks, they will be teleported to the Mine.

If an Alliance player's team only owns Lighthouse, and dies at Lighthouse, they will respawn at their base.

If a Horde player's team owns Waterworks and Mine, and dies at Lighthouse, they will respawn at Waterworks.

Twin Peaks

Graveyard Changes

Players will now only spawn at their base graveyard when they die in the enemy base.

Defending players will respawn at the middle graveyard.

Midfield players will respawn at the middle graveyard.

Attacking players will respawn at their base graveyard.

Quests & Creatures

New Cooking and Fishing Dailies have been added to Darnassus, Ironforge, Thunder Bluff, and Undercity.

A handful of quests have been added to Northern Barrens to provide more level 18-20 content. Look for new quests at Nozzlepot's Outpost and Darsok's Outpost.

Loot from the creatures Garr, Julak-Doom, Mobus, and Poseidus has been adjusted to be commensurate to their rarity and invested effort.

Races

The gnomish racial ability, Escape Artist, is no longer affected by the global cooldowns triggered by other abilities.

The human racial ability, Will to Survive, has a new spell effect.

User Interface

The Guild Finder has been implemented! While we are continuing to add final polish to this feature, we welcome all focused testers to give it a go. Feedback can be provided here.

Work has begun on a new Looking for Guild system. Further details will be provided when we are ready for feedback.

Like the Focus Frame, the character Unit and Target Frames can now be unlocked and moved to one's content.

Spells bound to a key now start to be cast when the button is pressed down by default, instead of waiting for the key to go up. This is an option that can be turned off in the Interface menu under Combat. Mouse clicking has not changed and operates on mouse click up.

Targets and focus targets now display on the mini-map.

Moved Video and Sound to a new "Options" screen.

Added a network category to the new Options screen and included the two network checkboxes.

The Network category contains the options "Optimize network for speed" and "Enable IPv6 when available". "Optimize network for speed" will be enabled by default, and will send packets more frequently at the cost of higher bandwidth. The higher bandwidth may lead to disconnects for some players who have limited bandwidth. Players getting disconnected frequently should try unchecking this box.

Removed the red bar preventing the overall graphics slider from going to ultra based on computer specs.

When the user moves the overall slider to a setting that would have previously been prevented, any option that can't go as high as that setting will get the warning icon with a tooltip explaining why it can't go higher. For example: The user sets the overall slider to Ultra and the water setting can only go to Fair. The water setting would automatically switch to Fair.

Support for DirectX 11 can now be found in the Advanced tab of the Options screen.

Moved the "Reset User Options" button from the popup window that appears when you click Options to the actual Options window.

Clicking Options now goes directly to the Video tab of the Options screen.

Removed the now-unneeded popup.

Cast action keybinds on key down (Combat)

Pick Up Action Key (ActionBars)

Nameplate Motion Type (Names)

Graphics API (Advanced)

Network category