Items
* The following set items have had their art updated:
o Devout Crown and Mantle, Magister's Crown, Circlet of Prophecy, all parts of the
Warrior "Might" set, Lightforge Helm, Helm of Valor, Dreadmist Mask, Wildheart Cowl and Pauldrons, and Coif of Elements. Other class sets will receive updated art in future patches.
* Random world items that had increased healing effects were mislabeled, and the amount of increased healing appeared to be half of what was actually occurring. The amount shown on the item is now an accurate representation of the healing increase.
* The Celestial Orb and Robe of the Archmage will no longer trigger the cooldowns of a
Mage's mana gems. Mana gems are now on their own unique cooldown category.
* Tiny Black Whelping item changed to Dark Whelpling to reflect the name of the creature summoned.
* Fixed a typo in the aura description for the Mighty Rage potion.
* +Spell damage and +Healing effects have been increased in effectiveness to make them more attractive to players. Effects that increased damage and healing done by all magical spells received the largest increase, especially
if the previous amount was small. We also fixed a couple bugs relating to these effects.
* Pimgib's Collar is now unique.
* Frayed Abomination Stichings are now considered to be uncommon items.
* Fordring's Seal has been improved with additional Stamina and Intellect.
* Ring of Protection's armor has been lowered, but the ring's Stamina has been increased.
* Voodoo Band has been slightly improved.
* Underworld Band is no longer unique.
* Filling jars of ooze no longer puts you into combat.
* The Rod of the Ogre Magi properly sheathes now.
* Changed the tooltip of the Bloodfang Hood's effect to properly indicate the duration of the stun.
* The Demon Forged Breastplate effect no longer requires channeling.
* Tooltips for the Blazefury Medallion, Storm Gauntlets, Fiery Plate Gauntlets Blessed Sunfruit, Blessed Sunfruit Juice, and ragged John's Neverending Cup modified to more appropriately describe their effects.
* The Amberseal Keeper's melee
DPS has been reduced, but an additional +Spell Damage effect has been added instead.
* Onyxia Hide Backpacks are now 18 slot containers.
* Warstrike Shoulder Pads have been improved.
* Living Leggings, Breastplate, and Shoulders now have Stamina, but had their Nature Resistance lowered.
* Legplates and Legguards of the Chromatic Defier have been improved.
* The drop rate of Essence of Undead has been lowered.
* The drop rate for Gift of the Wild and Prayer of Fortitude has been considerably increased.
* General Drakkisath will now drop 2-4 Blood of the Black Dragon Champion instead of 1.
Professions
* A significant number of additional engineering devices have been added to the world both as new recipes on vendors and as drops on monsters in the higher level (50+) dungeons and in raids.
* Seven new blacksmithing recipes are available to seasoned blacksmiths via a series of turn-in quests.
* Three new armorsmithing recipes are available to master armorsmiths. All 3 recipes are gained via quest.
* The Turtle Scale gloves recipe has been changed to have a white name rather than green since it can now be purchased at the store. Generally, recipes with white names are store-bought and ones with green or blue (or purple) names are drops from monsters.
* Some Blasting Powder icons Changed.
* Leatherworkers can now make throwing balls (as a toy).
* Ghostweave Belt pattern is no longer bind on acquire.
* Randal Worth in Stormwind now only teaches apprentice level leatherworking.
* Expert Blacksmithing Trainers will now point you to the appropriate artisan smith when you get a high enough skill.
* Bombs now cause a disorient effect when they go off, this was not working correctly previously.
* Flame Deflector and Frost Deflector now do an elemental damage absorb rather than a resistance increase.
* Minor Recombobulator now restores health and mana as well as removing polymorph effects.
* Target Dummies now generate an initial
taunt pulse so creatures will attack them for the first 5 seconds after they are dropped.
* Gnomish Death Ray damage increased slightly and cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
* The level of the Mechanical Dragonlings, Battlechicken, and Bombs dropped by the Goblin Bomb Dropper now scale with your engineering skill, so they will be always useful against enemies. Their damage and health has remained the same.
* Requirements to make the Helm of Fire were reduced.
Raids & Dungeons
* Azuregos now has a new ability - Mark of Frost. A player who is hit with the Mark of Frost will be temporarily frozen in a block of ice should they attempt to re-engage Azuregos. Mark of Frost is extremely powerful and will persist through death and resurrection.
* Bael'gar, Lord Incendius, and Golem Lord Argelmach are now slightly lower level than previously. This will provide a much better progression of creature and boss levels in Blackrock Depths.
* The Baroness Anastari encounter has been changed. Players who become unpossessed will now have full health, and after the Baroness unpossesses a player there will be a much longer cooldown before she can cast possess again. These changes should make her a more balanced encounter for a 5 man group.
* Lava Surgers no longer
respawn once you kill Garr.
* When Majordomo Executus submits, a chest is spawned next to him. This chest should only spawn the FIRST time he is defeated in a saved instance.
If a guild tries him a second or third night, no chest should spawn.
* Ragnaros now stays up 2 hours rather than 1 after being summoned.
* The Golemagg and Shazzrah encounters in the Molten Core has undergone some changes.
* Scholomance Itemization
o 20 new Rare items have been added to Scholomance.
o Several Uncommon items have been upgraded to Rare quality.
o Rattlegore, Jandice Barov, and Lord Alexei Barov will now always drop at least one Rare item.
o Ras Frostwhisper will always drop at least two Rare items.
* Stratholme Itemization
o 26 new Rare items have been added to Stratholme.
o Several Uncommon items have been upgraded to Rare quality.
o Archivist Galford, Baroness Anastasi, Nerub'enkan, and Maleki the Pallid will now always drop at least one Rare item.
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Raid Itemization
o Onyxia, Azuregos, Lord Kazzak, and all Molten Core boss creatures have all received some new items on their
loot tables.
o Onyxia will once again drop two upper tier class set helms.
o Most of the non-class set items that dropped from Molten Core and Onyxia have had their effective levels increased, resulting in higher
DPS weapons, and/or better stats and effects.
o Players who defeat the Majordomo Executus encounter will now be rewarded with new epic items. This reward will only be granted the first time the encounter is defeated during the 6 day lifespan of a Molten Core instance.
o The
loot tables for some of the Molten Core bosses have been improved so they drop an additional epic item per kill.
o World bosses such as Onyxia, Azuregos, and Lord Kazzak will no longer drop random blue items of a level lower than 50.
o Prior to this patch, Molten Core boss creatures could drop items from one of two different tiered sets for every character class. The
loot tables have been changed so Molten Core bosses will now only drop items from the lower tier class sets. However, some of the items from those sets were not previously dropping in Molten Core. These missing class set items will now drop in Molten Core, allowing players to complete their lower tier class sets. The higher tier class set pieces that once dropped in Molten Core will be found once again in Blackwing Lair, the next raiding zone scheduled for release in a future patch.
o Future patches will include even more item rewards for these
raid encounters, as well as improvements to the statistics, effects, and set bonuses for both tiers of the
raid armor sets.
Quests
* Party quest share information is now working.
If you mouse over a quest that multiple party members have, it will display a mouseover tooltip indicating what nearby party member are on that quest. Also, to the left of the quest name in your quest
log it will list a number in parenthesis indicating how many other players in your party have that quest.
* Quest givers who have repeatable quests now display with a blue question mark over their head instead of the standard yellow exclamation point/question mark.
* The Molten Core discovery quest has had its objective moved from inside the Molten Core to Blackrock Depths.
* Lunaclaw's spirit should stay around longer before despawning, and the spirit should simply despawn as oppose to "die".
* The description text for both the Horde and Alliance versions of the "Rabine Saturna" quest have been clarified.
* The reward text for the "Hive in the Tower" quest has been clarified.
* Fixed the Resonite Crystal not spawning in the Stonetalon Quest "Earthen Arise."
* Kinelory in Arathi Highlands is now
PvP-enabling, so Horde players who attack her will be flagged for
PvP.
* Quickened Ana'thek the Cruel's (quest target in Stranglethorn)
respawn rate. He and his entourage now spawn every 5-8 minutes.
* Removed Stormwind Faction reward from the Greenwarden quest line in the Wetlands.
* The time Decrepit Guardians stay spawned (they're the mobs trapping the Annals of Darrowshire in Andorhal) increased from 1 minute to 2 minutes.
* The elementals in the plaguelands no longer attack the Spectral Defenders.
* The "haunting" radius of Pamela's doll pieces in Darrowshire was reduced. You must now be closer to a doll piece before ghosts appear.
* Increased the
respawn time of Mok'rash in Stranglethorn Vale from 9 hours to 2 hours on average.
* Fixed a bug that caused Razzle in Dun Morogh to become non-interactable.
* Added text to the Fresh Zhevra Carcass to clarify it's use in the Ishamuhale quest.
* Typos in various quests have been corrected.
User Interface
* Temporary weapon enchantments will now display as
buff icons to the right of your normal
buff icons.
* Recipes you already know will not show up in the auction listing
if "Usable Items" is checked.
* The mouseover UI in the bottom right corner will no longer overlay the extra action bars
if you have them up.
*
If the subject line is not filled in when you put an item in a piece of mail, it will automatically be filled in with the item being sent.
* Mousing over the interface options menu will no longer count as a mouseover on objects underneath the interface window (Thus making it hard to set your chat windows to be fully transparent among other things).