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 Glaive Throw 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
Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil’jaeden’s Shield
Orb Shadow Bolts.
Vanish 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 Flame Darts
after casting Darkness of a Thousand Souls.
Items
- Bow of the Verdant Keeper’s Aim: This item’s triggered effect no
longer breaks the effect of Scatter Shot.
- Brutal Gladiator’s Pummeler has had its Stamina value increased to
the appropriate value.
- Clockwork Robot Bots 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 always award the same items(including bonus
items) regardless of which order they are killed in.
- Invisibility Potions: These potions now are on the same cooldown as
other combat consumable potions (such as mana potions.)
- Pendant of the Violet Eye: This item will again work correctly with
Holy Light and Flash of Light.
- Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen: The triggered effect from this Item
can now occur on periodic damage ticks.
- Thori’dal, the Star’s Fury is now Unique as intended.
- Vengeful Gladiator’s Baton of Light: 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 Hunter’s Mark 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 Thick
Yeti Fur.
- Skinning any Winterspring Ice Thistle yetis may now result in Thick
Yeti Fur.
- Increased the drop rate of Pristine Yeti Horns from Winterspring Ice
Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs.
- Young Sporebats and Greater Sporebats in Zangarmarsh now drop
Sporebat Eyes 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.