2.4.3

Cronocious

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Mar 24, 2007
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Interesting stuffs!

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: Apprentice Riding 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: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.
Nether Ray Fry (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.
You can no longer move backwards to stop racing rams.
When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.

Druids
Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.

Hunters
Growl: 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.
Scare Beast: This spell will now be limited correctly to one target.

Paladins
Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.
Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.

Priests
Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.
Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.

Rogues
Cheat Death: 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.

Shaman
Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its totem when pulled beyond 50 yards away.
Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.

Warlocks
Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.
Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire.
Demonic Sacrifice: This ability will now interact correctly with the Spirit Guide resurrection system in battlegrounds. A sacrificed pet will not be resummoned on death, and will not prevent keeping a record of the most recently created pet.
Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished.
Ritual of Summoning: The mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast.
Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.

Warrior
Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)

PvP
The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped.

Professions

Alchemy
Philosopher’s Stone now requires 200 Alchemy.
Cooking
Juicy Bear Burgers 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 Mooncloth.
Herb bags can now hold Un’goro Soil and Evergreen Pouches.
Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.
New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: Haliscan Jacket and Haliscan Pantaloons.

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.
 

Ayu

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Aug 26, 2005
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Cronosone said:
Warlocks
Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.
Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire.

Good for Mages, still sucks to be a Moonkin/Elemental Shaman.
 

Ayu

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Aug 26, 2005
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Careface said:
Arcane is a boomkins main source of damage.

Why complain about extra damage from IS and Wrath? <_<
 

Ayu

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That wasn't the point. The point was that they could have used this opportunity to merge all spell dmg increases into 1 Curse but they chose to leave Nature out. God knows why, Stormstrike is not even close of a replacement.
 

Anshrr

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Oct 7, 2005
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CERTAINLY NOT DENMARK EWW
So mounts at lvl30? Oook.
And they certainly made Cheat Death complicated. Can't even read the description without getting confused before I'm done. Way too late for maths :eek:
 

Joy

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Aug 26, 2005
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Well they obviously didn't included Nature because they want to keep the Stormstrike synergy.

But the CoS change is great, nice Mage buff, and allows for more flexible lineups, and ofcourse more damage curses \o/
 
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Cronocious

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Mar 24, 2007
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The NPC Haris Pilton located in Shattrah, is now selling the following items (1 bag and jewelry stuff):
* "Gigantique" Bag (22 slots bag) - 1200 gold
 

Joy

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Aug 26, 2005
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Cronosone said:
The NPC Haris Pilton located in Shattrah, is now selling the following items (1 bag and jewelry stuff):
* "Gigantique" Bag (22 slots bag) - 1200 gold
Such a cash drain, but gifv :D
 

Joy

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gemarenapoints.jpg
 

Joy

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ArlyKarlsen said:
Damnit, I just made Primal Mooncloth bags. Ah well :p

Those Gems worth 800 AP?
They are if you lose 1000 AP every week because you can't buy anything <_<
 

Arly

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Oct 3, 2007
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True, but they are BoP and I'd think ppl would have already gemmed their shit when they get it ?
 

Joy

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ArlyKarlsen said:
True, but they are BoP and I'd think ppl would have already gemmed their shit when they get it ?
Well yea, it's basically too late now, although people might gem in blues at the end of s4 then spend the weeks after gemming them with these.

End of season 4 is going to be interesting, when we get the 3.0 patch, all new talent trees and PVP balance in the middle of a season :eek: