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The Sunwell Isle
* The Sunwell Isle is now available for play. This area includes a new quest
hub and 5-player and 25-player instances. Join the Shattered Sun Offensive in
shutting down Kael'thas' nefarious operations. This new force is comprised by
both the Aldor and Scryers and is led by the Naaru. Players will take part in
claiming Sun's Reach and setting up a larger base of operation to stop Kael'thas
and the Legion.
Combat Log Improvements
* The combat log has undergone improvements that allow more robust combat
filtering including the ability to define custom colors for enemies and friends
as well as combat filtering for self and others.
General
* The combined forces of Shattrath have launched an attack on the Isle of
Quel'Danas, to confront Kael'thas and the Legion at the Sunwell and surrounding
areas. Players will now be able to gain reputation with the Shattered Sun
Offensive and participate in a new set of daily quests.
* A representative of the Keepers of Time has been spotted at the World's End
Tavern in Shattrath. Players in good standing with the faction will be granted
ease of passage to the Caverns of Time.
* Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do
not have to relearn the spells from trainers.
* Spell Haste: Spell haste now reduces the global cooldown on spells, down to a
minimum of 1 second. This change does not apply to melee and ranged abilities.
* Item Cast Spells: Many spells cast by items were being cast as if the caster
were the same level as the item. Most of those will now cast at the player's
level, giving them a reasonable chance to miss, be dispelled, or be resisted.
* Spirit-Based Mana Regeneration: This system has been adjusted so that as your
intellect rises, you will regenerate more mana per point of spirit.
* Weapon Skill: Points will be gained faster in weapon skills for levels 1
through 59.
Racials
* Find Treasure: This ability no longer deactivates upon death.
Druids
* Empowered Rejuvenation: This talent now properly affects the final heal from
Lifebloom.
* Gift of Nature: This talent now properly affects the healing from
Tranquility.
* Insect Swarm: Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized
like other healing and damage effects.
* Lacerate: This ability now deals additional damage based on the attack power
of the Druid.
* Mangle (Bear) now properly triggers a 1.5 second global cooldown, increased
from 1.0.
* Natural Perfection: This ability will no longer be triggered by taking
critical strikes while sitting. In addition, it is now affected by the Subtlety
talent.
* When a Druid in cat form casts Pounce it will now properly animate.
Hunter
* Equipping a thrown weapon while in the middle of an Auto-Shot will no longer
cause animation issues.
* Casting Flare while in any way not visible, will no longer cause your flare
to be invisible to other players.
* Hunter's Mark: Hunters with Improved Hunter's Mark will now properly
overwrite Hunter's Mark cast by Hunters without the talent.
* The stamina tooltip for hunter pets will now display the proper health
increase.
Mages
* Using low ranks of Fire Ward and Frost Ward spell will now be penalized the
same way healing spells are penalized.
* Fire Ward: Using low ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other
healing spells are penalized.
* Frost Ward: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way
healing spells are penalized.
* Frostbite: When a frost spell is reflected back at a Mage, it is now possible
for the Mage to suffer from the Frostibte effect.
* Ice Barrier: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way
healing spells are penalized.
* Permafrost: This talent will now correctly increase the movement slowing
effect of frost Armor instead of the attack speed slow.
* Spellsteal will no longer overwrite a longer duration buff.
Paladins
* Avenger's Shield, Holy Shield and Holy Shock: Casting lower ranks of these
spells is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
* Divine Illumination: The mana energize from this talent no longer has a
chance to set off other triggered effects.
* Holy Shield and Holy Shock: Casting lower ranks of these spells is now
properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
* Judgment of the Crusader: It is no longer possible to have icons for two
different ranks of Judgment of the Crusader appear at the same time when judged
by multiple Paladins.
* Judgment of Wisdom: Some abilities (such as Frostbolt) were not triggering
the mana energize effect from this spell. This has now been fixed.
Priests
* Fear Ward is now usable while in Shadow form.
* Inner Focus: Chastise now benefits from Inner Focus. In addition, Starshards
no longer consumes Inner Focus.
* Power Word: Shield: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the
same way healing spells are penalized.
* Prayer of Mending: This spell will now fade from players who leave or enter
an instance, change continents, or exit the game.
* Reflective Shield: The reactive damage from this talent no longer breaks
crowd control affects which break on taking damage.
* Shadowguard: No longer consumes the charge of Inner Focus when triggered.
* Silent Resolve:This talent is now affects Surge of Light, Power Infusion,
Inspiration, Spirit Tap, Blackout, Levitate, Shackle Undead, Touch of Weakness,
Hex of Weakness, and Symbol of Hope.
* Touch of Weakness: No longer consumes the charge of Inner Focus when
triggered. It will also function properly even when the Priest with Touch of
Weakness on is silenced or stunned.
* Vampiric Touch: Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized
like other healing and damage effects.
Rogues
* Cheat Death: A combat log message will now show when this ability activates.
* Vanish: This ability will no longer sometimes cause the UI to display
Shadowmeld as active when it has been cancelled.
* Abilities that can be used while stealthed, without breaking stealth, can now
be cast without breaking Vanish when used at the same time.
* Sap mechanic changed from "Incapacitate" to "Sap". This will allow more
humanoids that were previously immune to Sap to be vulnerable to Sap, but still
immune to Gouge. Note that anything that removed Sap previously will still
remove Sap after the change.
Shaman
* Call of Thunder: (Rank 5) now gives 5% critical strike chance.
* Earth Shield: Mana cost reduced roughly in half, and charges reduced from 10
to 6.
* Elemental Focus: This buff will no longer be removed when Shamanistic Focus
is triggered.
* Healing Grace: This talent now reduces the chance your spells will be
dispelled by 10/20/30%.The resistance to being dispelled modifier from this
talent now applies correctly to Water Breathing.
* Rockbiter Weapon: Tooltip and error messages have been adjusted slightly.
* Stormstrike has a new icon.
* Totem timer icons will now show up under your player portrait when you cast
totem spells. Right-clicking a totem timer icon will destroy that totem.
* The Shaman spell Fire Nova Totem will no longer sometime detonate without
doing any damage.
Warlocks
* Demonic Knowledge: This buff will no longer remain on enslaved demons when
Enslave Demon is removed.
* Pyroclasm: This talent now works correctly again with Rain of Fire.
* Ritual of Summoning can be used to summon players into instances if they meet
the instance requirements.
* Shadow Ward: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way
healing spells are penalized.
Warriors
* Endless Rage will now give the correct amount of rage as intended from damage
dealt by a Warrior.
* Stances: It is no longer possible to accidentally change into a stance you
are already in via macros (resulting in a global cooldown and loss of rage).
* Whirlwind: Critical strikes with the off-hand weapon from this ability can
now trigger Flurry and Rampage.
* Flurry will properly refresh if a crit occurs with 1 charge left.
* Improved Hamstring (Arms) effect is now subject to diminishing returns when
used in PvP.
PvP
* Diminishing returns on honor for kills is being eliminated.
* Honor will now be instantly calculated, and available for player use.
* Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will be worth no honor.
* Added new PvP daily quests that send players to Halaa and the Spirit Towers
of the Bone Wastes. These quests are available for Alliance and Horde at their
respective local quest hubs.
* Arenas
o Shadow Sight now increases damage taken by 5% rather than dealing damage over
time. Duration has been reduced from 21 seconds to 15 seconds.
* Battlegrounds
o If a player dies 50 times or more in a battleground, they will no longer be
worth honor for the remainder of that battle.
o When you first enter a battleground, messages about other players joining the
battleground will be linked together for the first minute. You will see a
message in AV like "28 players joined" rather than a line for each player that
joined. After the first minute, it will work as it always has. In addition all
of the messages about other players leaving the battleground and getting marks
of honor once the battleground is complete have been removed.
o Alterac Valley
+ Captain Balinda Stonehearth's spells have been simplified, and she can no
longer be slowed or locked out of a school with interrupts (although she can
still be interrupted).
+ Vanndar Stormpike and Captain Balinda Stonehearth have had their health
totals reduced.
+ Warmasters/marshals in Alterac Valley now increase each other's maximum
health and damage by 25%. This is a stacking effect.
+ Horde players will now start the battle closer to Drek'Thar and Frostwolf
Keep.
o Warsong Gulch
+ When both flags are held, the flag carriers will receive 50% increased damage
done to them after approximately 10 minutes and 100% increased damage after
approximately 15 minutes.
+ Flag carriers can now be tracked 45 seconds after picking up the flag.
Professions
* Added several new tradeskill items to the new Sunwell Daily faction vendor:
o Enchanting recipe to shatter a Void Crystal into two Large Prismatic Shards.
o Enchanting recipe to increase Defense Rating by 15 for chest armor.
o Three jewelcrafting recipes to cut gems with spell haste from Dawnstones,
Talasite, and noble Topaz.
o Two new meta gem recipes.
* Alchemy
o Gift of Arthas now stacks to 20.
* Cooking
o Broiled Bloodfin now increases resistances to all schools of magic instead of
increasing Stamina and Spirit.
o New recipes, Charred Bear Kabobs and Juicy Bear Burgers, can be purchased
from either Bale (Horde) or Malygen (Alliance) in Felwood. These recipes
requires 250 skill to learn, and are created from meat found on level 48-56
bears. This will aid players in leveling up their cooking skill to 300 without
fishing.
* Enchanting
o Reduced the materials required for Enchant Shield – Resistance
* Engineering
o Gagsprocket in Ratchet now sells the plans for the Minor Recombobulator.
o Goblin Jumper Cables and Goblin Jumper Cables XL now display cooldown
information in their tooltips.
o Removed the level requirement for the Craftsman's Monocle.
o The stun caused by engineering Bombs and Grenades is now considered an
Incapacitate effect and uses the appropriate Incapacitate diminishing returns.
Bomb and Grenades can now inflict damage to targets immune to Stun and
Incapacitate effects.
o A new recipe has been added for Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite, a cloth version of
the Rocket Boots Xtreme. This pattern drops from Mechano-Lord Capacitus.
o Rocket Boots Xtreme now have all their stat points allocated toward Attack
Power, and will no longer have Stamina.
o Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite will cause players to drop a
PvP flag if used while carrying one. (Warsong Gulch, Eye of the Storm, and
Zangarmarsh)
* Fishing
o New Fishing Daily Quests! Visit the mysterious old man fishing at Silmyr Lake
outside of Shattrath City to discover what treasures he has to offer.
o Find Fish now correctly tracks Schools of Tastyfish and Muddy Churning
Waters.
* Herbalism
o Ancient Lichen now has a chance to drop a Fel Lotus where it used to drop a
piece of random green jewelry.
o Black Lotus replaced by Fel Lotus in herbalism skinning tables for Outland
creatures.
o Increased the chance that Felweed, Dreaming Glory, Ragveil, and Flame Caps
will contain a Fel Lotus.
o Warp Splinter can now be skinned with Herbalism in heroic difficulty.
* Leatherworking
o Shadow Oil will now fit into Leatherworking Bags.
* Mining
o Increased the skill up potential for most smelting recipes.
Quests
* New Daily Dungeon quests for both the heroic and non-heroic five-person
Magister's Terrace dungeon at the Sunwell.
* Dungeon and Group Quest Experience: The amount of experience awarded for
dungeon and 5-person group quests in Outland has been increased in almost all
cases.
* The number of elite Shadowsworn Drakonid patrollers on the Ata'mal Terrace
has been cut in half. Most of the remainder have had their patrol paths
lengthened.
* Increased the slots on Old Blanchy's Feed Pouch to 8.
* The Thunderspike no longer sparkles for Alliance characters, nor does it show
up on the mini-map when Find Treasure is in use.
* "Zapper Fuel" is now flagged as a Sunken Temple dungeon quest.
Dungeons and Raids
* All 25-player raid bosses have had their cash drops increased!
* All 25- player raid bosses that drop set tokens will now drop an additional
token!
* Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter Hyjal.
* Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter the Black
Temple.
* Players who have completed the attunement quests for Black Temple and Hyjal
will be granted the title of "Hand of A'dal".
* You may now fight Prince Kael'thas and Lady Vashj without first killing all
the other bosses in their respective dungeons.
* The Unstable Cloud and Frost Breath spells are now treated properly as a
movement impairing spells.
* Non-corporeal Undead and Mechanical creatures are now susceptible to bleed
effects.
* Elemental creatures are no longer explicitly immune to poison and disease
effects. Elementals with nature school immunities will still be immune to
nature-based poisons, however.
* Gems obtained through Heroic difficulty instances are no longer
Unique-equipped.
* Loot dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker has been changed to Bind on
Equip. In addition, the cash dropped by these bosses has been significantly
increased.
* Scale of the Sands reputation will now be awarded in Hyjal at a much higher
rate.
* Caverns of Time: Heroic Black Morass
o Rift Keepers and Rift Lords now have reduced hit points.
* Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal
o The Vials of Eternity quest is no longer necessary for entry to Hyjal. This
quest is still required for faction rings.
o Azgalor's Rain of Fire now affects a smaller area.
* Caverns of Time: Old Hillsbrad
o The Human Illusion effect will now always be removed properly when a player
leaves the instance.
* Hellfire Citadel: Magtheridon's Lair
o Many gameplay elements of the encounters in Magtheridon's Lair have been
changed to decrease their overall complexity and difficulty.
* Tempest Keep: Kael'thas
o The Vapor Clouds in the Kael'thas encounter are significantly easier to see.
* Tempest Keep: The Mechanar
o The Mechanar: It is no longer possible to gain an additional Badge of Justice
by bringing Cache of the Legion keys obtained in other copies of the instance.
* Tempest Keep: The Eye
o Void Reaver is now immune to Vindication again.
Items
* Players will now be able to purchase level 70 Superior quality PvP items from
reputation vendors.
* Avatar Regalia: The two-piece bonus from this set will now be consumed by
Vampiric Embrace as intended.
* Bloody Brass Knuckles, Eerie Stable Lantern, Baelog's Shortbow, and Snakeskin
Bag have been upgraded to Superior items.
* Blue Suede Shoes can now be disenchanted.
* Crystalforged Raiment: The two-piece set bonus will now work properly.
Additionally, the four piece bonus will now only work on the next Holy Light
cast, as intended.
* Cyclone Regalia: Trade skills will no longer consume the Energized effect.
* Deadman's Hand: This item's effect now works while the victim is sitting. In
addition, its effect is now properly considered a root for purposes of being
dispelled or removed.
* Discombobulator Ray: This item will again not work on mounted players.
* Frostfire Regalia: The resistance bonus from this set now works with the
Burning Crusade ranks of Mage Armor.
* Gladiator's Leather Gloves: This arena bonus will now properly school lock
enemies when the damage from Deadly Throw causes them to stop channeling.
* Gnomish Mind Control Cap: Victims of the Gnomish Mind Control Cap will no
longer get Forbearance when the mind control is terminated due to Blessing of
Protection.
* Gnomish Poultryizer: This item will again not work on mounted players.
* Goblin Rocket Launcher: Creatures will no longer gain health while affected
by the Stun from this item.
* Heavy Netherweave Bandage: It is no longer possible to have two players
bandage the same target simultaneously using this item.
* Netherweave Bandage: It is no longer possible to have two players bandage the
same target simultaneously using this item.
* Idol of the Crescent Goddess: The mana discount on Regrowth has been
increased.
* Idol of Feral Shadows: The bonus damage to Rip has been increased.
* Idol of the Raven Goddess: The bonus healing, critical strike rating, and
spell critical strike rating from this item have been increased. In addition, it
no longer sometimes fails to apply the healing bonus.
* Idol of the Unseen Moon: The cooldown added in a previous patch has been
removed.
* Idol of Ursoc: The bonus damage to Lacerate has been increased and the
tooltip clarified to indicate it applies to both initial and periodic damage.
* Idol of the White Stag: Duration increased.
* Items intended for Retribution Paladins have had their stats adjusted.
Retribution Paladins should see an increase in dps as a result.
* Jade Pendant of Blasting: This item no longer increases physical damage
dealt.
* Libram of Absolute Truth: The Holy Light mana discount has been increased.
* Libram of Divine Purpose: The bonus damage on Seal and Judgment of
Righteousness has been increased.
* Libram of Mending: The mana regeneration buff has had its duration increased.
The name of the buff granted by this item changed to Grace of the Naaru to avoid
having the same name as the Light's Grace talent.
* Libram of Righteous Power: The bonus damage for Crusader Strike has been
increased.
* Libram of Souls Redeemed: The bonus for Flash of Light has been decreased and
the bonus for Holy Light has been increased.
* Libram of Wracking: This item now increases the damage on Holy Wrath and
Exorcism instead of decreasing their mana cost.
* Masquerade Gown: The spirit bonus from this item will now properly trigger
all benefits from the Tree of Life talent.
* Mojo: A pvp-flagged player can no longer kiss Mojo and cause non-flagged
players to become flagged.
* Moongraze Stag Tenderloin can now be consumed by hunter pets that eat meat.
* Noggenfogger Elixir: It is no longer possible using this item to keep the Old
Hillsbrad human illusion outside of the instance.
* Pendant of the Violet Eye: Paladin Judgment spells will again properly
trigger this item.
* Players can now only carry 80 Conjured Manna Biscuits at a time.
* Steam Tonk Controller: This item can no longer trigger the Warrior talent
Second Wind when it is driven out of range by the Warrior.
* The On Use effect has been properly changed to passive for the following
items: Blue Overalls, Brantwood Sash, Firewalker Boots, Gloves of Kapelan,
Hellion Boots, Hibernal Gloves, Hibernal Pants, Kimbra Boots, Mistscape Gloves,
Nightsky Trousers, Sacred Burial Trousers, Turquoise Sash, and Woolen Boots,
Spinesever.
* Tome of the Lightbringer: The block value and buff duration have been
increased.
* Totem of the Pulsing Earth: The mana discount for Lightning Bolt has been
increased slightly.
* Weightstones and Sharpening Stones: The bonus damage from these temporary
enchantments now works while shapeshifted.
* Winterfall Firewater: The tooltip no longer specifies only melee attack
power.
User Interface
* The Interface Options screen has been completely redesigned. AddOns that
interact with the Interface Options screen will need to be updated.
* Combat Log Improvements
o New tabs are available for sorting combat messages.
o ctrl-right clicking functionality has been added for individual information
sorting
o Colors may now be assigned for friends and enemies
o The WoWCombatLog.txt file format has been changed to make it easier for
programs to read.
o The ability to chat-link player spells and talents.
* Cast sequences work with slot numbers again.
* GM messages now appear with a Blizzard icon near their name.
* You can now declare war on a faction in the reputation UI while you are in
combat.
* Spell haste and Armor Penetration will now display on the character sheet.
(Armor Penetration displays in the hit rating section). Spell Penetration now
displays under the spell hit section.
* Weapon enchants are now shown at the character selection screen.
* The friends list now has a notes field per friend. Click on the note icon to
add a note for a particular friend.
* There is now a UI option to display free bag space. When turned on, your
backpack will display the total number of free spaces available in all your
bags.
* You can now link quests into the chat log by Shift-Clicking on the quest name
in the chat log.
* Merchants now display how many pages of merchandise they sell (Page 1 of 2).
* Guild Bank Changes
o Ranks can now be set to allow withdraw of funds or allow repair with funds or
both.
o When purchasing a bank tab, it takes money out of the guild bank before it
takes your personal money. This is logged as well.
o Each Tab now has an info pane. This pane can be used for requests or for
rules about the tab or anything at all really.
* When looting Bind on Pickup items, the confirmation dialogue now lists the
name of the item in the dialogue. You can now verify that you are picking up the
correct bind on pickup item.
* Bind on Pickup items that only you can pick up (Heroic Badges for instance)
will no longer bring up a confirmation dialogue.
* Players can now opt out of looting for group loot, round robin and need
before greed looting styles. If a player turns this on, they will not get a
looting turn in the loot cycle. This can be turned on from the right-click menu
on your own portrait.
* In Master Loot mode, all players in the group will see sparkles on corpses
that have loot above the master loot threshold. This lets everyone see what the
master loot items are, though they cannot interact with them. Only the master
looter can loot those items still.
* The names over the heads of nearby players who are on your friends list will
appear in a different color now so you can tell when they are nearby.
* Stacked items for sale at the auction house now display the per unit price
and per unit buyout price in the item mouseover.
* The profession UI search field has been improved and now allows for searching
of more types of things. For instance you can search for items by socket color,
by effect ("Critical Strike" for instance) or search gems by their effect
("Strength" for instance). In addition, the searching of items by level has been
made more intuitive. You can now search for items by level with "15-20" to
search for items that you can make that have a minimum level required of 15 to
20.
* The Tooltip for player Dodge/Block/Parry in the character sheet has been
changed slightly.
* Optimized particle system rendering for improved frame rates.
* The casting bar will now display properly when casting Blizzard (mage) or
Rain of Fire (warlock) with spell haste.
* For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros
Forum.
World Environment
* Alterac Valley, Arathi Basin, Warsong Gulch, Blade's Edge Arena, Lordaeron
Arena, and Nagrand Arena: Players who fall below the world in these environments
will now die instead of being stuck.
* Creature versions of Intimidating Shout have been changed to Frightening
Shout, and the primary target of the ability is now feared instead of stunned.
* Goreclaw the Ravenous can now be skinned.
* Interacting with objects (chests, mining nodes, herbs) should no longer aggro
neutral creatures.
* Monstrous Kaliri have learned how to chase players going straight up.
* Shardtooth Mauler: This creature now drops meat like other bears.
* Outland Rare Spawn
o The following creatures have had their hit points and damage significantly
reduced: Collidus the Warp-Watcher, Fulgorge, Hemathion, Kraator, Marticar,
Morcrush, and Nuramoc
Bug Fixes
* Fixed an error that was causing many auctions to never complete due to the
item no longer being on the auction house.
* Splintertree Raiders will now respawn with Torek if Duriel Moonfire and her
guards are killed while the Raiders are still alive.
* Female Draenei can no longer become stuck under a root in the tunnels leading
to Blackfathom Deeps, Ashenvale.
* The quest description text for "The Corpulent One" no longer refers to it
being a group quest.
* Saber/Tiger Mounts will now make footprints when walking backwards in snow.
* Ogri'la Peacekeeper's weapons have been scaled properly.
* Unplugging speakers/headphones during the opening cinematic will no longer
freeze the cinematic until canceled.
* Pets are now able to properly attack mobs near the walls on the ramps in
Zul'Aman, Bear Wing.
* The flag on the battle map in Eye of the Storm will no longer show up as
Horde controlled even if an alliance player has picked it up.
* Channeling spells will no longer continue to show the channeling bar after
zoning into arena battlegrounds.
* Blood Elf corpses now properly have loot in Alterac Valley battlegrounds.
* Nazan in Hellfire Citadel: Ramparts will no longer sometimes not land on the
ground until after Vazruden the Herald is killed or Nazan is heavily damaged.
* It is no longer possible to be saved to a Heroic instance while not meeting
the requirements to get into it.
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