World of Warcraft

[zircon]

Warriors are a cool class, yes. They're not typecast into tanks only. In PvP of course you have more flexibility than PVE, where you're either a tank or a dps (2h or fury). While making friends with a healer isn't a bad idea, between various consumables, Warrior abilities, and trinkets, you may be able to counteract many forms of impairment without having a healer around.

[ellywu2]

If you like big numbers, roll a warrior

Execute ftw!

[ILLiterate]

Yay, WoW for Christmas

Level 16 now, Tauren Shaman, Stonemaul PvP Server, horray

Any tips?

Barrens chat for the win.

Indeed, Barrens chat is probably the best example of stupidity ever, how many times have I started an arguement over how Chuck Norris is better than Vin Diesel?

Anyways, almost lvl 20 now, much pwnt, I've only lost to rogues in PvP (cheap stealthy bastards) and I can't wait until I can Shadow Wolf ( no need for me to buy a mount )

[Julio Jose]

Anyone on Icecrown?

[suzumebachi]

ghost wolf is 40%

[ILLiterate]

ghost wolf is 40%

Doesn't matter, anything is better than the time it takes to normally run around

[lazygecko]

Teleport is pretty decent too, usually I can keep up with any hunters in my party.

[deltree]

Uh.

Is there any way I can have my character run up to melee range on her own?

Have right click to move turned on in interface options and just right click the enemy.

Teleport is pretty decent too, usually I can keep up with any hunters in my party.

Just watch out and don't teleport in front a tree or something like I'd always seem to do.

[zircon]

Warriors are a cool class, yes. They're not typecast into tanks only. In PvP of course you have more flexibility than PVE, where you're either a tank or a dps (2h or fury). While making friends with a healer isn't a bad idea, between various consumables, Warrior abilities, and trinkets, you may be able to counteract many forms of impairment without having a healer around.

It saddens me to see all the people in the game that always say a warrior sucks no matter what unless they're using 2h. I'm guessing they've never actually played a warrior beyond doing what everyone said was the "uber" build or whatever, or they've just never seen a good warrior doing anything else. I prefer dual-wield, and trying to use a 2h is rather boring, just attack...wait...attack...oh I have enough rage for an ability now!

Where as dual-wield is more like attackattackabilityabilityattackcritcritattackexecute.

Two words: Mortal Strike. Most powerful melee ability in the entire game, hands down. Massive, instant damage with a ridiculous debuff that screws up anyone from healers to flag carriers.

Fury warriors can be powerful too, but you need to have SICK weaponry for it to be effective. I'm talking Thunderfuries, Deathbringers, Brutality Blades, Chromatically Tempered Swords, that kind of thing. I know lots of Warriors in my guild who switched to fury (they are MC geared or better) and they went back to MS/2h. Fury is more of a PVE spec, ultimately, I think.

[GuitarNinja]

Handy link fer the rogues, no longer do I need to do the math in my head.

http://www.sk-gaming.com/wow/rogue/

[Triad Orion]

Warriors are a cool class, yes. They're not typecast into tanks only. In PvP of course you have more flexibility than PVE, where you're either a tank or a dps (2h or fury). While making friends with a healer isn't a bad idea, between various consumables, Warrior abilities, and trinkets, you may be able to counteract many forms of impairment without having a healer around.

It saddens me to see all the people in the game that always say a warrior sucks no matter what unless they're using 2h. I'm guessing they've never actually played a warrior beyond doing what everyone said was the "uber" build or whatever, or they've just never seen a good warrior doing anything else. I prefer dual-wield, and trying to use a 2h is rather boring, just attack...wait...attack...oh I have enough rage for an ability now!

Where as dual-wield is more like attackattackabilityabilityattackcritcritattackexecute.

Two words: Mortal Strike. Most powerful melee ability in the entire game, hands down. Massive, instant damage with a ridiculous debuff that screws up anyone from healers to flag carriers.

I dream of the day my Warrior will be high enough level to throw down the Mortal Strikes on anyone who gets in his way. Right now though, I've gotta fight my way through Hillsbrad, which is the equivilant of the hazing grounds in WoW. That's more than enough to worry about with all the gankers hanging around around there...

[Rodin]

Hillsbrad? Pssh. You either like dying, or are being very foolish.

Barrens has quests right up through level 22-24ish. Stonetalon Mountains will take you through about 25, Ashenvale through 30. Thousand Needles is 25-35ish.

It is possible to continually quest, on both factions, without ever setting foot in Hillsbrad. Unless there's a particular quest reward that you just have to have, I highly recommend leveling in a different zone.

[ILLiterate]

I say, if any of you are Herbalists and are Horde, a great way to get gold pretty fast at new low-ish levels is to farm stranglekelp in Merchants Coast (right on Ratchet). Easy to find, and somehow sells 6.5g for 20 packson, very quickly, constantly, at Auction House

Easy street from now on

[Raziellink]

Draenor server, 56 Orc warrior, 18 Undead Warlock

Victory...or death!

[TristorTrucido]

Does anyone else have the problem that every time a new patch comes out, a checksum fails somewhere and the game has to be reinstalled?

[The Author]

World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.9.0 (2006-1-3)

The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj

The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj will house two massive, unique dungeons -- the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, a 20-man raid dungeon, and the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, a 40-man raid dungeon. As players delve deeper into the mysteries of Ahn'Qiraj, they will discover revelations of the Silithid infestation and their shadowy masters, the Qiraji. Players will have to complete a world event of massive proportions before they can open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj on their realm.

Linked Auction Houses

Players will now be able to buy and sell goods with greater effectiveness using the Linked Auction House system. Auction Houses in Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thunder Bluff will now share the same pool of Horde player-created auctions, and Alliance players will find the same to be true when visiting Ironforge, Stormwind City, and Darnassus Auction Houses. This system has been expanded to support the neutral Auction Houses as well. Tanaris, Everlook, and Booty Bay will all be linked for players of both factions to access. In addition, the "Looking for Group" and "Trade" channels have been unified among the corresponding cities, meaning, for example, that you can trade your goods or look for groups in Ironforge while in Stormwind.

Multiple Battlegrounds Queues

Players will be able to enter multiple battleground queues. No longer must you make the hard decision of which queue to join -- when queued for all three, you can join the first one available or hold out for that particular battleground which you've really got your heart set on.

Soul Shard Bags

Tailors now can make soul bags to hold soul shards. The smallest is a 20-slot bag, the recipe for which can be purchased in Gadgetzan. The recipe for a larger bag can be found in Scholomance, and one for an even larger bag can be found in Molten Core. In the main UI, these soul bags will display how many shards they contain. So long as the soul bags have room, any soul shards a warlock creates will automatically go into the bag.

Raid Calendar System

The raid-lockout system has undergone a significant change. The new system will have all instances reset at a certain server time, regardless of when you were actually saved to the instance. The reset schedule is as follows:

Molten Core: Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance.

Blackwing Lair: Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance

Onyxia: Every 5 Days

Zul'Gurub: Every 3 Days

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (40-man): Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj (20-man): Every 3 Days

All resets will occur during off-hours, when the least amount of raids are active.

Important Note for Mac OS X Users

The minimum supported Mac OS X revision for WoW will be changed in a post-1.9.0 patch, from 10.3.5 to 10.3.9. If you are running 10.3.5 - 10.3.8 and need to get the free update, you can use Software Update or you can click here for the direct download. This change will make it easier for us to release future updates to the game, for example to support upcoming Mac models based on Intel processors.

General

* All Disorient effects have been renamed Incapacitate effects. This includes Gouge, Sap, etc.

* All Confusion effects have been renamed Disorient effects. This includes Blind, Scatter Shot, etc.

* Food and Drink are now in separate categories, so you can only have one food effect and one drink effect on you at a time. The only effect should be that foods that used to stack with each other (you could have two food effects on you at once) no longer will stack.

* On-next-swing abilities will no longer cause multiple weapon procs on a single swing.

PvP

* Several civilian NPCs, who previously would assist non-civilians, will no longer do so.

Druids

* Bear and Dire Bear form - Effects that lower armor will now lower armor by a percentage of the druid's full armor, rather than just base (caster form) armor. However, Enrage will still only remove 75% of base armor.

* Omen of Clarity - Special attacks will no longer consume their own clearcasting state. All melee attacks will now be able to trigger the clearcasting state.

* Nature's Grasp - This spell can now trigger from special melee attacks. It will no longer be possible to cast Entangling Roots at no mana cost immediately after Nature's Grasp procs.

* Nature's Grace - The Nature's Grace buff will now appear on the player upon completion of casting, before the travel time of the spell. So, Wrath crits will now benefit the casting time of the next spell cast.

* Insect Swarm - New icon.

* Improved Starfire - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).

* Omen of Clarity - This spell now works correctly with Bash, Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Demoralizing Roar, granting a decrease in the cost of the ability. Ferocious Bite will still use the entire energy bar to generate additional damage.

Hunters

* Arcane Shot - This spell can no longer trigger twice in one shot off of the Paladin's Judgement of Wisdom.

* Aspect of the Pack and Aspect of the Cheetah - Periodic damage will no longer trigger the Dazed effect.

* Aspect of the Wild - Radius increased. Tooltip updated to display radius.

* Improved Concussive Shot - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).

* Tame Beast - The hunter will now turn to face the target during the taming process.

* Bestial Wrath - Damage bonus reduced, duration increased.

* Unleashed Fury - Damage bonus increased.

* Pet Changes

o Turtles can now eat raw and cooked fish.

o Turtles can now learn Shell Shield, allowing them to reduces all damage taken by 50% for 10 sec.

o Hunters can now tame Sons of Hakkar. Sons of Hakkar are in the Wind Serpent family and will know Lightning Breath (Rank 6).

o Boars can now learn Charge, an ability that allows them to charge to an enemy, immobilize that enemy for 1 second, and add a large amount of Attack Power to the boar's next attack.

o Gorillas can now learn Thunderstomp, an ability that causes high threat area Nature damage.

Mages

* Impact - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).

* Netherwind Regalia - The 8-piece set bonus will now proc immediately upon completion of casting the spell, before travel time on the spell. This will allow the proc to affect the next spell cast as intended.

* Arcane Concentration - Blizzard will now be able to gain a Clearcasting state from this talent.

* Blast Wave - Will now show spell data in the talent page.

Paladins

* Due to significant talent changes, all Paladins' talent points will be refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell/ability replacements have been significantly reduced.

* Paladins can now learn Greater Blessings for the following spells:

o Blessing of Might

o Blessing of Wisdom

o Blessing of Kings

o Blessing of Sanctuary

o Blessing of Salvation

Greater Blessings will cast the associated blessing on all raid members that share the same class as the target. For example, if you cast Greater Blessing of Might on a warrior in your raid, all warriors in the raid party will receive Blessing of Might from you. Additionally, Greater Blessings have an increased duration of 15 minutes. These blessings require twice as much mana as the single target version, as well as a reagent. Paladins can purchase these new Greater Blessing spells from their class trainers.

* Seal of Fury - The seal and judgement have been removed and replaced with a new self-buff, Righteous Fury, which will increase threat from holy damage.

* Seals and Judgements - Added or increased damage per level so that these spells keep pace between replacements.

* Judgements - Judgements that place a debuff on their victim will now all have their duration refreshed when the judging paladin strikes the victim with his or her melee swings. All these debuffs have had their duration decreased to 10 seconds. In addition, Judgements that place debuffs can no longer be resisted.

* Seal of Righteousness - Now does holy damage on every swing. It can now proc correctly as well. The Judgement effect has been renamed "Judgement of Righteousness" to differentiate it from the Seal damage in the combat log.

* Judgement of the Crusader - The holy damage bonus has been decreased as part of rebalancing paladin damage (which is still increased overall).

* Seal of Command - The proc will occur more often, but will only do 70% of weapon-swing damage.

* Judgement of Command - Instead of placing a debuff on the victim, this spell now does immediate damage. If the victim is not stunned, they only take 30% of the total damage. The damage on this Judgement was increased significantly.

* Judgement of Wisdom - Arcane Shot will no longer cause this to proc twice on one shot. Channeling spells can now trigger this proc as well.

* Vengeance - Special ability critical hits can now trigger Vengeance.

* Judgement of Righteousness - The damage of this judgement was increased significantly. This judgement can now trigger procs.

* Holy Shock - Now heals friendly targets and damages enemy targets. Mana cost reduced. Bonus from spell damage and healing items increased.

* All Seals and Judgements have had their bonus coefficient from plus spell damage re-evaluated. Some holy damage effects had no coefficient before and now have a coefficient.

* Vengeance - Clarified the tooltip to indicate procs will not trigger Vengeance.

* Summon Warhorse - Mana cost reduced.

* Summon Charger - Mana cost reduced.

* Consecration - No longer displays a debuff icon on targets in the area of effect.

* Updated Aura tooltips to be more clear (include radius, fix grammatical errors etc...).

* Judgement - Range increased, cooldown decreased, mana cost decreased. Using Judgement will now initiate melee combat.

* Exorcism - Now usable on Demon targets in addition to Undead targets.

* Holy Wrath - Now usable on Demon targets in addition to Undead targets.

* Seal of Justice - Mana cost slightly increased. The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).

* Seal of Righteousness - Damage bonus from +Holy damage items increased, mana cost slightly increased.

* Seal of Command - Damage bonus from +Holy damage items increased.

* Seal of the Crusader - Mana cost slightly increased.

* Seal of Fury - Removed and replaced with Righteous Fury.

* Seal of Light - Mana cost slightly increased.

* Seal of Wisdom - Mana cost slightly increased.

* Seal of Command - Mana cost slightly increased.

* Hammer of Wrath - Missile speed of the flying hammer increased.

* Divine Protection, Divine Shield and Blessing of Protection - Targets of these spells will now receive the "Recently Shielded" effect, preventing another of these three spells from being applied to that target for one minute.

* New Spell: Righteous Fury (level 16) - Increases the threat generated by the Paladin's Holy attacks by 100%. Lasts 30 minutes.

* Blessing of Sanctuary - Now causes Holy damage to the attacker when the blessed target blocks an attack in addition to the current effect.

Priests

* Martyrdom - This talent will now trigger on melee special abilities as well as on melee swings. The tooltip has been clarified to indicate this ability only works on melee strikes.

* Mind Blast - Threat raised on ranks 7, 8, and 9. Incorrect data had been entered in those spells, resulting in less threat generated than designed.

* Blackout - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).

Rogues

* Mace Specialization - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).

Shaman

* Lightning Shield - This spell will now proc when the shaman is struck by elemental attacks.

* Stormstrike - Earthbind and Stoneclaw totems will no longer use up charges of Stormstrike.

* New Spell - Tranquil Air Totem. Creates a totem that reduces the threat caused by nearby party members by 20%.

Warlocks

* Searing Pain - Increased damage on all ranks of Searing Pain.

* Infernal and Doomguard - Increased armor 10% and damage 30% on both pets.

* Soul Link - This spell can no longer be partially dispelled off the warlock. In addition, Soul Link can no longer be used on non-demon pets.

* Hellfire - Victims of Hellfire are now able to resist properly. Warlocks continue (as designed) to be unable to resist their own damage.

* Curse of Shadow and Curse of the Elements - These curses can no longer cause resistance to become negative. To compensate, both curses now increases the damage taken from the appropriate schools by a percentage.

* Summon Felsteed - Mana cost reduced.

* Summon Dreadsteed - Mana cost reduced.

* Pyroclasm - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).

Warriors

* Execute - Improved Execute and other discounts to the Execute ability will now correctly convert the resulting extra rage into damage.

* Retaliation - This ability will no longer lose charges when the attacker is behind the warrior.

* Sword Specialization - Special attacks now properly trigger the chance to gain an extra attack.

* Sweeping Strikes - Whirlwind and Retaliation will now correctly consume the charges from Sweeping Strikes.

* Bloodthirst - The damage component has been increased to 45% of attack power.

* Enrage - The talent will now grant 5/10/15/20/25% extra damage when enraged, instead of 8/16/24/33/40%.

* Mace Specialization - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).

* Improved Revenge - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).

Racial Traits

* Troll Racial Abilities

Troll Berserking

o Is now triggered off any critical hit on you, including spells and ranged attacks.

o Melee/ranged haste bonus and duration reduced.

o Now adds spell damage in addition to the haste bonus.

o Berserking now ability requires a small amount of mana, rage, or energy (depending on your class) to activate.

Throwing Mastery

o Trolls now also receive a bonus to Bow weapons in addition to Throwing weapons.

* Orc Racial Abilities

Blood Fury

o Now applies a healing effectiveness debuff on the user instead of the attack power penalty. The healing debuff is applied immediately upon using the ability.

Hardiness

o Resistance is now applied to just Stun mechanics.

* Gnome Racial Abilities

Escape Artist

o Casting time lowered.

* Dwarven Racial Abilities

Stoneform

o No longer snares the user.

o Armor bonus increased.

o Duration lowered.

Items

* All of the Tier 2 Class Armor sets have been updated with new art.

* The following weapons and shields have been updated with new art : Perdition's Blade, Obsidian Edged Blade, Gutgore Ripper, Core Hound Tooth, Aurastone Hammer, Drillborer Disk, Staff of Dominance.

* Many of the pieces from the Tier 2 Armor sets have received updated statistics. The armor sets with the most extensive changes include the Netherwind, Nemesis, and Judgement sets. Other sets received fewer revisions, or none at all.

* Slimes have been latching on to more valuable items and they will now be dropping better loot than they used to, including coin drops and special bags.

* Drop rates of Darkmoon Cards 2-8 (Portals 2-8, etc..) have been reduced. Ace drop rates have been increased.

* The drop rate of Shadowcat Hides has been increased.

* The Lifestealing enchantment now does shadow damage rather than fire damage.

* Manna Biscuits now have two separate spell effects so they stack correctly with other food and water.

* Well Fed buffs from special foods will no longer stack with each other.

* The enchanter-made wands are now correctly flagged as Bind on Equip.

* Silithus air elementals have a slightly increased chance of dropping essence of air

* Stormshroud Shoulders have been fixed to be a superior item and have had the stamina on them slightly increased as well.

* Whistle of the Black War Raptor was changed to Bind on Acquire.

* The Runed Stygian Belt is no longer Unique.

* Bandages will now appears as "Consumable" in the auction house.

* Jadeanar humanoids and demons in Felwood and Winterfall Furbolgs in Winterspring can now drop Runecloth.

* Winterfall Furbolgs will not drop Winterfall Firewater as often.

* The Seal of Wrynn, Nogg's Gold Ring, and Talvash's Gold Ring have been improved to be superior items.

* All Giants in Azshara now drop cash and items appropriate for an elite creature.

* The attack speed slowing effect from Thunderfury has been reduced to 20%, and no longer stacks with other such effects such as Thunderclap.

* The Reckless Charge ability of the Goblin Rocket Helmet and Horned Viking Helmet is now considered a disorient instead of a sleep effect.

* Flamewaker Legplates and Sash of Whispered Secrets improved to have the proper stats of an epic item.

* Broken Silithid Chitin is now marked as a poor item.

* Albino Crocscale Boots now has the appropriate geometry attached.

* Darkshore Grouper now has an appropriate sound when moved in your inventory.

* The effect of the Freezing Band is now considered a Freeze effect.

* The Force Reactive Disk's and Cloak of Fire's effects will no longer gain a benefit from effects that increase spell damage.

* The Insightful Hood and Southsea Head Bucket will now cover hair properly.

* The proc ability of the Halberd of Smiting can no longer cause another proc.

* The Glimmering Mithril Insignia will no longer make a player immune to Death Coil.

* The Goblin Mortar's stun effect now has a description.

* Six Demon Bag tooltip changed to note that the target must be in front of the caster.

* The Fiery War Axe is now in fact, Fiery.

* The Abyssal Plate Gauntlets are now Bind on Equip.

* Items with the Frost Blast ability will now deal the correct damage listed.

* Gauntlets of Shining Light is now spelled correctly.

* The Pure Elementium Band now has a sell price.

* The Mendicant's Slippers now have the proper amount of stamina for the level of the item.

* Arcanist's Bindings had more resistances than proper for the item, and these were removed.

* Alcor's Sunrazor is now Bind on Equip.

* Transforming Thunderstrike and Shadowstrike will no longer consume additional copies of the item that might be in the inventory.

* Added a note to the tooltip for the Healing and Mana Draughts available in Alterac Valley that informs the player they are only usable in Alterac Valley.

* Incorrect amounts of abilities such as Attack Power, Increased Fire Damage, or Increased Healing Damage were being applied to all random item property world drops. Two handed weapons such as Staves had much lower amounts of these abilities, while ranged and one handed weapons had too much. All further drops of these items will have the correct amounts, but previously dropped items will not be affected by this change.

* The Shardtooth Meat quest item can no longer be fed to a Hunter pet.

* Blue Dragon Card - This trinket will no longer proc from non-combat abilities.

* Shield Spikes - Shield Spike damage will no longer occur on ranged blocks.

* Halberd of Smiting - This weapon will no longer proc multiple time off one swing.

Professions

* An Alchemy recipe to Transmute Heart of Fire into three Elemental Fires has been added at the Friendly level of the Thorium Brotherhood.

* Epic items that are level 51 and above will now disenchant into a Nexus Crystal. Also items that normally disenchant into Large Brilliant Shards have a very small chance of disenchanting into a Nexus Crystal. New more powerful enchanting recipes that require these Crystals can be found in the new Ahn'Qiraj content.

* Enchanters can now turn some of their dusts and shards into magical oils. These oils when applied to weapons add a temporary bonus to magical damage or mana regeneration that stacks with permanent enchantments. The lower levels of these recipes are found on normal enchanting vendors. The higher level versions are found on special vendors and are rewards for high Zandalar faction.

* The Enchanting Trainer in Cenarion Hold in Silithus sells some of both new types of enchanting formulae.

* Schools of fish have appeared around the world that can be fished from a few times before being fished out. These schools tend to contain valuable fish types such as Oily Blackmouth or Firefin Snapper. In some places, wreckage can be fished from for even better rewards.

* The cooking trainers around the world sell the recipe for Sagefish and Greater Sagefish. These two fish types can be found in schools in inland areas and provide health and mana regeneration as well as additional mana regeneration for 15 minutes after eating.

* Engineers with skill 250 or greater, who have completed Umi Rumplesnicker's 'Are We There Yeti?' quest line, should seek her out again in Everlook.

Quests & Reputation

* The Timbermaw Furbolgs have received a faction revamp!

o The Timbermaw Furbolg faction is now named "Timbermaw Hold."

o Certain named Deadwood and Winterfall Furbolgs are now giving more positive Timbermaw Hold faction when killed.

o Old quests have been revised, and several new quests involving the Timbermaw Furbolgs have been added.

* Reputation caps for killing monsters now happen at the end of a level, rather than in the middle of it. For example: if reputation gains for killing a monster were previously capped at the middle of the range for Friendly on a monster, then they are now capped at the end of Friendly.

* Reputation is now its own category in the chat window; you can change the color of reputation gains and losses as reported in chat without it affecting other miscellaneous information.

* All Alliance versions of the quest "Heeding the Call" now give uniform reputation increases.

* Warlock quests that teach imp summoning now all uniformly award reputation increases for respective racial factions.

* Spells now may have a casting requirement of current reputation with a faction.

* All versions of the quests "A Donation of Wool," "A Donation of Silk," and "A Donation of Mageweave" have had the level of the quest raised so that higher level characters performing them will be able to receive the full reputation gain. The minimum level requirement for the quests have not changed, though the amount of XP gained when completing any of these quests will be different than from before. Mageweave will continue to give more XP than Silk, and Silk more XP than Wool.

* The Alliance version of the quest "Centaur Bounty" now gives Stormwind faction for completion.

* The Horde version of the quest "Centaur Bounty" now gives the same amount of XP as the Alliance version (which means it was increased).

* The quest "Zaeldarr the Outcast" now gives an Argent Dawn reputation increase upon completion.

* A bug with the reputation system has been fixed that was preventing some awards to Horde and Alliance factions from being shared properly amongst all member factions of the team.

* The quest "Ledger from Tanaris" now gives a reputation reward for Gadgetzan upon completion.

* The quest "Supplies for Nethergarde" now has an additional reward of increased Stormwind reputation.

* Fixed typos in both quest versions of "All Along the Watchtower".

* Fixed typos in both quest versions of "Lessons Anew".

* A kobold has been moved away from Piznik so that it won't keep evading in the quest "Gerenzo's Orders".

* Fixed typos in the quest "Signets of the Zandalar".

* Fixed typos in the quest "Rotten Eggs".

* The cleansed plants of Felwood have been modified:

o There is no longer a gossip option to interact with them; simply right click on the plant to receive your buff or fruits.

o The amount of items you get from plants has been adjusted.

o A corrupted whipper root plant was bugged to require one fewer plant salves than intended to be cleansed; it's now fixed to require the salves just like the other whipper roots.

* Fixed two bugs where Pratt McGrubben in Feathermoon Stronghold was not offering to re-teach Wild Leather Shoulders and where he was not properly teaching Wild Leather Leggings.

* Fixed typos in both quest versions of "Power over Poison".

* The level of the quest "Piercing the Veil" has been increased from 3 to 4, bringing it in line with similar quests.

* Sayge's Dark Fortune of Damage buff now only increases damage from a randomly determined range of 1-10%.

* A coin reward has been added to the quest "Worth Its Weight in Gold".

* Vahlarriel in the second part of the quest series "Vahlarriel's Search" now has something to say when returning with the pendant.

* The level for the quest "Parts for Kravel" has been raised to bring it in line with the other quests of the Kravel series.

* You now need fewer Scorpashi Venoms to complete the second quest of the "Reagents for Reclaimers Inc." quest series.

* Baron Revilgaz now should be a little more vociferous.

* Fixed a bug with the Horde Hallow's End quest "Ruined Kegs" that allowed the Alliance to interact with the keg.

* Hallow's End Pumpkin Treats should no longer be on the same timer as combat-oriented potions. Really.

* Xabraxxis' Demon Bag will now last slightly longer in the world once he is killed (3 minutes, up from 2).

* The reward for the quest "An Audience with the King" " Seal of Wrynn - has been improved.

* The reward for the quest "Gnome Improvement" " Talvash's Gold Ring " has been improved. XP and reputation rewards for the quest have also been increased.

* The reward for the quest "Nogg's Ring Redo;" "Nogg's Gold Ring" has been improved. XP and reputation rewards for the quest have also been increased.

* The Horde Quest "Material Assistance" should no longer auto-launch an incorrect (deprecated) quest.

* The quest "Galen's Escape" now gives an additional coin reward upon completion, as well as an increase of reputation amongst the player's factional team.

Raids & Dungeons

* Noxxion in Maraudon now has the correct immunities.

* Noxxion is now social and will bring friends if pulled past other creatures.

* Abyssal Templars are no longer marked as Humanoid.

* Twilight Stonecallers in Silithus should now aggro properly.

* Gordok Reavers and Warlocks now have a slightly larger radius for detection and "call for help."

* Drop rate of Dark Runes in Scholomance has been reduced.

* The Altar of the Deeps in Blackfathom Deeps will now give players the Blessing of the Deeps.

* The abomination event in Stratholme was been reworked with new technology to insure there are no more premature resets.

User Interface

* The Guild UI has been significantly improved. Now when you click on a guild member, it will open up a side panel with all the information about that member including their note and officer's note.

* There is now a Guild Info panel for each guild. That panel allows a guild to enter long term information and messages about the guild that is too long for the message of the day. The guildmaster can use the guild control panel to determine who has access to change the text in this panel.

* Options have been added that allow raiders to not display their base party UI when the Raid UI is up. Also, you can choose to only display effects on players that you can dispel or ones you can cast. This is all in the interface options pane.

* A "tip of the day" feature has been added to loading screens within the game.

* Under Video Options there is now a slider to control the detail of spell effects. Lower settings can help to improve performance.

* Auction buyers/sellers will now receive a detailed invoice of the transaction.

* The casting bar has been brightened back up, it was appearing darker than intended due to a bug.

* A new option has been added to Interface options, "Sticky Targeting". When this is turned on, you will not deselect your current target when you click on empty space.

* A new interface option, "Detailed Loot Information" has been added that defaults to 'on.' If you turn it off you will only see the roll and Need/Greed option of the player who won the item rather than information for every player.

* Open bags that are in your bank will now have a bluish background to them to allow easy differentiation between inventory bags and bank bags.

* The Friends List and Guild UI will now display when a person is AFK.

* It is now possible to use the dressing room UI to model items that are being rolled for in the Group Lood/Need Before Greed Popup window.

* Add-ons, Macros and Keybindings can now be saved on a per character basis, so you can have different characters load different add-ons/macros/keybindings.

* The Ignore command will now ignore emotes.

* The Interface Options Pane has been split up into a normal panel and an advanced panel.

* In the initial loading screen there will be a tip displayed. This can be turned off from the interface options menu.

* Any time an item is distributed using the "Master Looter" system and the item is quality epic or above there will be a confirmation dialogue to confirm that the item is going to the correct person.

* Key bindings can now be saved either globally or on a per character basis.

* Add-ons can now be saved either globally or on a per character basis.

* In addition to the set of macros shared by all characters, each character gets an additional 18 macros available to them.

* Added the ability to link enchanting recipes in chat.

* Optimized UI event handling in raid situations.

* Optimized UI layout engine to improve loading times.

* The game will no longer accidentally load UI files that are dropped loose into the top level installation directory.

* The EquipCursorItem() script function uses slot numbers consistent with the rest of the inventory functions. Any macros which use this function should be updated by adding one to the slot number used currently.

* New TOC entry for dynamically loadable add-ons: ## LoadWith: Addon1, Addon2, etc. - Indicates that your add-on should be automatically loaded after ANY of the add-ons specified on the LoadWith line are loaded.

* The 8th return value from GetItemInfo() is no longer be localized, instead is one of a number of INVTYPE_* tokens.

* A new 9th return value from GetItemInfo() is the inventory icon for the item.

* debugprofilestop() will now return sub-milisecond (floating point) values.

* Added Texture:GetTexture() which returns the filename (without extension) of the file for the texture.

* Added FontString:SetNonSpaceWrap(true|false)

* Added Frame:GetFrameType() which returns the type of a frame.

* Added Frame:IsFrameType("typeName") which returns true if the frame is of type typeName, or a subtype of typeName.

* New 8-param form of Texture:SetTexCoord(ULx, ULy, LLx, LLy, URx, URy, LRx, LRy)

* Parent frame scales are cumulative instead of overrides.

* Textures and FontStrings now have IsVisible() and IsShown() functions with the same semantics as the frame functions of the same name.

* Added Button:SetFont(), which works like the equivalent FontString function.

* Added ScrollingMessageFrame:SetFont(), which works like the equivalent FontString function.

* Special honor awards show up in the combat log.

* Druids can preview different weapons in the dressing room while in moonkin form.

* The Disgusting Oozeling will share its disgusting aura with you even while you are PvP enabled.

* Emotes show up in the chat log file.

* Combat messages no longer show up in the chat log file.

* Resurrection spells will return pets to life with the appropriate amount of health and mana.

* Talent improvements to buffs will persist across instance boundaries and logging out.

World Environment

* Elven NPCs in Scholomance will now animate properly.

* Players should no longer be able to walk on steep terrain.

* Players should no longer be able to move slowly through some locked doors and gates.

* Nida Winterhoof in Thunder Bluff now sells Flowers for the sensitive Horde player.

* The Short John Mithril's chest in Stranglethorn Arena will now display an effect when it is being opened so its harder to open the chest unnoticed.

* Night Elf food vendors have changed their supplies slightly.

* Chests in Maraudon have been disabled for good.

* In Wetlands, Bluegill Murlocs will now be more plentiful and several other Bluegill camps have been thinned.

* All mount sounds, when standing still and pressing spacebar are now all in place.

* Tauren males now use their off-hand attacks animation.

* The Zeppelin's propeller from Under City should now animate properly.

* Flight Paths

o New flight paths added between Ironforge and Chillwind Point. Also, between Chillwind Point and Light's Hope Chapel.

o Fixed a problem with the flight paths between The Crossroads in The Barrens and Zoram'gar Outpost in Ashenvale.

o Fixed the flight over Yojamba Isle from Booty Bay in Stranglethorn to Sentinel Hill in Westfall.

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug that caused Crimson Templar to be doing much more damage with it's fireball attack than intended.

* Fixed a bug that could cause Guard Slip'kik to move while trapped in ice.

* Fixed a bug that caused Azure Templar, Earthen Templar, and Hoary Templar to be resistant to Fire.

* Fixed a bug that would cause Time Lapse to cause hate reduction even if the target resisted the effect.

* Fixed a bug that allowed pets to be targeted by "Wild Polymorph" during the Nefarian encounter.

[mecca]

Rogues get no changes and remain nerfed. GGWP Blizz.

[The Author]

Rogues get no changes and remain nerfed. GGWP Blizz.

Minor but important buff to rogues... the changing in classification of certain debuffs means that diminishing returns will be less annoying, like the mace spec/cheapshot overlap which was kinda annoying.

[piccskick06]

Rogues get no changes and remain nerfed. GGWP Blizz.

Maybe because in Battlegrounds, a rogue beats everyone in there even if they're 4/5 levels below a magic user (ie priests, warlocks, mages).

[Skilless]

Everytime a patch comes out for me, it says Im behind a damn firewall when I dont have one. The patches go extremely slow. 2 episodes of ATHF down and Im at 3%.

[The Author]

Rogues get no changes and remain nerfed. GGWP Blizz.

Maybe because in Battlegrounds, a rogue beats everyone in there even if they're 4/5 levels below a magic user (ie priests, warlocks, mages).

Crappy priest/warlock/mage then.

Warlocks have more stamina and life than a rogue, and a simple ambush does not cut it. A priest can shield as soon as the rogue is out (he can even fear us if he does not see us) and a mage's blink/ice armor is enough to kite a rogue for a while.

Then the rogue dies.

[piccskick06]

Rogues get no changes and remain nerfed. GGWP Blizz.

Maybe because in Battlegrounds, a rogue beats everyone in there even if they're 4/5 levels below a magic user (ie priests, warlocks, mages).

Crappy priest/warlock/mage then.

Warlocks have more stamina and life than a rogue, and a simple ambush does not cut it. A priest can shield as soon as the rogue is out (he can even fear us if he does not see us) and a mage's blink/ice armor is enough to kite a rogue for a while.

Then the rogue dies.

Fear is about a 2 second effect unless the feared victim has a pendant to stop it, and a priest's shield can hold up against about 2-3 rogue hits before it goes down and then they cannot be shielded again for 30 seconds or so. And pretty much all spell casts require uninterrupted casting time. Priest=dead.

Warlocks, maybe I could see holding their own against a rogue, that was a false claim on my part.

Basically if the rogue can stun the player, then they can get behind them and backstab/sap/whatever which generally takes away a good chunk of health.

[The Author]

Roll a rogue and learn how it works. You will have a new respect for rogues and their skills.

[piccskick06]

Roll a rogue and learn how it works. You will have a new respect for rogues and their skills.

I guess being a priest does give me a bit of a skewed viewpoint on melee classes.

[Stalwart Jester]

Everytime a patch comes out for me, it says Im behind a damn firewall when I dont have one. The patches go extremely slow. 2 episodes of ATHF down and Im at 3%.

Same here, man. I normally just remain patient though, and after like 40 minutes, it jumps from 2% to 100% in like .5 seconds flat. WTF indeed.