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Can someone please post the 1.5 patch notes here so I can see em
They are blocked at work
Can someone please post the 1.5 patch notes here so I can see em
They are blocked at work
1.5 Patch TODAY !!!
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nvrsbr wrote:
> Can someone please post the 1.5 patch notes here so I can see em
> They are blocked at work
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07)
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Battlegrovnds arrive!
The Warsong Gvlch and Alterac Valley battlegrovnds are now available.
The Warsong Gvlch entrances may be fovnd in the northern Barrens near
the Mor'Shan Rampart (Horde) and sovth of Silverwing Ovtpost in
Ashenvale (Alliance). The Alterac Valley entrances may be fovnd east
of Sofera's Naze in Alterac (Horde), and in the Headlands of Alterac
(Alliance).
General
- Wands - The Shoot Wand ability is now a toggle. While active, it will
continve attacking with the eqvipped wand vntil some other action is
taken (movement, spellcasting, item vse, etc...).
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Berserking (Troll Racial) - Updated tooltip to clarify ability only
vsable following a melee critical.
- Hardiness (Orc Racial) - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to
ignore the additional resistance.
- It shovld no longer be possible to disarm traps created by friendly
players.
PvP
- Honor system
Dishonorable kills - gained by killing a trivial Civilian NPC - now
has a negative impact on a player's honor. Enovgh dishonorable kills
will redvce a player's rank all the way to zero.
Players may now see an "estimated contribvtion point valve" in the
combat log for an honorable kill. Note that this valve does not
take diminishing retvrns against the same player into accovnt, and
is therefore "estimated".
"Team Contribvtion Points" has been renamed to "Honor"
Added tooltips to the different elements of the Honor System UI.
Players will see their last week's kill data in the "Last Week"
section of the Honor System UI even if they did not achieve the 25
honorable kills reqvired to gain standing or rank.
Fixed a bvg where the PvP trinket rewards were not always removing
the effects they were designed to remove (e.g. Polymorph, Fear,
Stvn).
- Sitting characters will now stand vp immediately after an attack,
even if stvnned.
- Players can no longer swap inventory gear while dveling.
- Dveling is now allowed within Everlook.
Hvnters
- The Hvnter Epic qvest has had some of its Demonic Corrvpters retvned.
It shovld also be noted that Hvnters that attempt to bypass the
single player portion of the encovnter by vsing another class to do
their tasks will fail the qvest in a most gloriovs fashion.
- Tranqvilizing Shot - Is now properly affected by Efficiency and Hawk
Eye talents.
- Unleashed Fvry - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase was lower than
stated in the tooltip. It shovld now increase damage by the listed
amovnt.
- Growl - Rank 1 effect improved.
- Volley - Damage increased.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now svmmon/resvrrect yovr cvrrent
pet when the Hvnter is resvrrected.
- Unstabling dead pets no longer pvts players into a degenerate state
where their pet only partially exists. Unstabled dead pets can now be
properly revived, and players can no longer train more pets than
their stable can hold.
- Fixed a bvg where magic shots were missing too freqvently when vsed
on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Mages
- Mage Armor - Now has a new, vniqve icon.
Paladins
- Fixed a bvg where a Hvnter's magic shots were missing too freqvently
when vsed on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Priests
- Inner Fire - Now stacks with other effects that increase attack power
and armor.
- Holy Nova - Cooldown decreased.
- Feedback - Casting a higher rank of the spell will now replace an
existing, lower level effect.
- Unbreakable Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore
the additional resistance.
Rogves
- Riposte - Fixed a bvg where the ability was not vsable against a
disarmed or vnarmed target.
- Vanish - Shovld be a lot more responsive when vsed to avoid incoming
attacks.
Shaman
- Fixed a bvg where Fire Nova, Flametongve, Stoneclaw and Windfvry
Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman.
All totems shovld now be svmmoned at the level of the caster.
- Flametongve Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the
main-hand weapon is enchanted.
- Windfvry Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the main-hand
weapon is enchanted.
- Fire Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Frost Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Grovnding Totem - Fixed a bvg that allowed some area of effect spells
to be "grovnded" and/or destroy the totem.
Warlocks
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed is now considered Shadow damage
and is no longer redvced by armor.
- Improved Voidwalker - Now increases all Voidwalker spells (now also
inclvding Sacrifice) by 10/20/30%.
- Improved Svccvbvs - Now increases Svccvbvs spells by 10/20/30%.
- Master Svmmoner - In addition to decreasing casting time of svmmoning
the Imp, Voidwalker, Svccvbvs and Felhvnter, it now redvces mana cost
by 20/40%.
- Improved Enslave Demon - In addition to redvcing the attack speed and
casting speed penalty of enslaved demons, it now redvces the resist
chance of Enslave Demon by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Demonic Sacrifice - Is now instant cast.
- Improved Firestone - Now also improves the bonvs Fire spell damage of
Firestones by 15/30%.
- Inferno - The svmmoned Infernal will now be enslaved for 5 minvtes
before tvrning on its svmmoner.
- Drain Mana - Targets with no mana will no longer be valid for Drain
Mana (Rank 4), making it consistent with all other ranks of the spell.
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed by this talent is now improved by
the Shadow Mastery talent.
- Conflagrate - Range increased.
- Siphon Life - Is now instant cast, damage increased.
- Paranoia - No longer cavses threat when cast.
- War Stomp (Doomgvard) - Now has a maximvm of 5 targets.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Honorable kills will now generate a Sovl Shard when Drain Sovl and
Shadowbvrn are vsed.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now resvrrect yovr last Imp,
Voidwalker, Svccvbvs or Felhvnter. If the Doomgvard or Infernal were
the last active pet or the previovs pet was killed before the Warlock,
an Imp will be svmmoned.
- Improved Cvrse of Agony - Fixed a bvg where Cvrse of Agony (rank 1)
was not improved by the talent. The talent will now work properly
with all ranks of Cvrse of Agony.
Warriors
- Overpower - Fixed a bvg where the ability was sometimes blocked.
- Improved Cleave - Now increases damage bonvs by 40/80/120%.
- Blood Craze - Talent design changed. It now regenerates 1/2/3% of
the warrior's total health over 6 seconds after being the victim of a
critical strike.
- New Fvry Talent: Dval Wield Specialization - Increases damage with
the off-hand weapon by 5/10/15/20/25%. Note: the additional damage
also increases rage generation significantly.
- Iron Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore the
additional resistance.
- Enrage - Increased the nvmber of charges to 12. Decreased the
dvration to 12 seconds. The new dvration is the limiting factor for
slower weapons (e.g. Arcanite Reaper will typically get one less
swing), while dval wielding and faster weapons will make better vse
of all of the charges over the dvration of the ability.
- Concvssion Blow - Changed to an instant, stvnning attack and removed
the damage portion.
- Shield Specialization - In addition to increasing % chance to block,
it now gives the warrior a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to generate 1 rage
on a svccessfvl block.
Items
- The following item sets have had their statistics, effects, and set
bonvses vpdated:
- Arcanist, Netherwind, Prophecy, Transcendence, Felheart, Nemesis,
Cenarion, Stormrage, Nightslayer, Bloodfang, Giantstalker,
Dragonstalker, Earthfvry, Ten Storms, Might, Wrath, Lawbringer, and
Jvdgement.
- Matvre Blve Dragon Sinew and The Eye of Shadow can both now drop off
appropriate level demonic and blve dragonkin monsters. It shovld be
noted that both Lord Kazzak and Azvregos will gvarantee a drop of the
aforementioned items bvt to get the items from the lesser creatvres
will be a mvch rarer occvrrence.
- Essence of Eranikvs now has a poison clovd graphic arovnd it when
vsed.
- Mvrloc Scale Belt and Breastplate recipes now are white items instead
of green since they are vendor bovght.
- Gryphon Mail Gavntlets now have a proper inventory icon.
- Ogre Toothpick Shooter now vses the proper attack animation.
- Distracting Dagger now sheathes properly.
- Movntain Giants in Feralas now drop loot more appropriate to their
elite statvs.
- The Drvid of the Claw qvest in Teldrassil will now provide a weapon
choice more appropriate for low level Night Elves.
- The Dreadmist set now has a bonvs for wearing all 8 pieces of the set.
- Cvtthroat's Loincloth name changed to Cvtthroat's Pants.
- Ritval Kilt name changed to Ritval Leggings.
- Felstriker effect's name changed to Felstriker to reflect the
previovsly patched item name change.
- Ogre Pocket Knife, Peacemaker, and Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient
Keepers now sheathe properly.
- Dragonbreath Chili's effect visval fixed.
- The Oblivion's Tovch wand properly shoots now.
- Deepstrider Tvmors are now a 100% drop off Deepstrider sea giants
in Desolace.
- New art has been added for Nightslayer, Lawbringer, and
Beaststalker's item sets.
- The Arcanist Crown has vpdated art.
Professions
- New Engineering firework recipe added.
- Added leatherworking recipe for mid level blve bracers.
- Dragonbreath Chili proc rate has been redvced.
- Restorative Elixir name changed to Resorative Potion with potion
cooldown timer. Fvnctionality has been changed so it shovld be more
effective as it now dispels one harmfvl effect every 5 seconds for
30 seconds.
- Two new transporter recipes have been added, with one for gnomish and
one for goblin engineers. Gnomish engineers can get their recipe
from Gadgetzan, Goblin engineers from Everlook.
- Tribal Leatherworkers who have restarted their profession are now
able to relearn the variovs Wild Leather patterns if they've already
completed the qvests prior to restarting the profession. Speak with
Pratt McGrvbben (Alliance) or Jangdor Swiftstrider (Horde) in Feralas
to relearn what yov once knew!
- Small Throrivm Veins now sometimes will have Emeralds or Diamonds.
- Engineering Vendors now sell Blacksmith's Hammers.
- Both types of the engineer made Jvmper Cables now share a cooldown.
It was never intended to allow a player to vse jvmper cables XL and
jvmper cables within the same period of time.
- Solid Dynamite was inadvertently broken in the 1.4 patch to reqvire
harder materials than it shovld. This has been fixed.
- Wicked Leather Bracers Plan is no longer bind on acqvire.
- Jvmper Cables no longer have a chance to break when they fail.
- Elemental Flvx added to blacksmith vendors.
Raids & Dvngeons
- Molten Core
Firesworns that are moved too far away from Garr will now become
qvite enraged vntil they move closer to Garr.
The ervptions from the lava in Ragnaros's Lair will now always
happen while Ragnaros is in combat. However, these lava ervptions
occvr less freqvently, do less damage, and the damage they inflict
is now resistable.
The maximvm range of the Wrath of Ragnaros spell has been increased.
- Additional new raid items have been added to the treasvre lists for
Azvregos, Lord Kazzak, and bosses in Molten Core.
- Onyxia - Fixed a bvg that was cavsing Onyxia's Tail sweep to no
longer cavse knockback.
Qvests
- Searing Gorge has a new qvest hvb for both Alliance and Horde players
called Thorivm Point. The svpported level ranges are 45-52. Craftsmen
will be happy to know that the Thorivm Brotherhood has opened vp many
new opportvnities to gain favor amongst their clan (even for level
60 players).
- The Hinterlands has a new Horde qvest hvb known as Revantvsk Village,
located on the eastern coastline. Horde players level 44-52 are
encovraged to visit Revantvsk Village and assist the Revantvsk with
their myriad problems and tasks!
- All members of both the Horde and Alliance are reporting low
stockpiles of variovs textile resovrces! Donations of cloth are now
being accepted in the following locations: Darnassvs, Stormwind, and
Ironforge for the Alliance; Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thvnder Blvff
for the Horde. Seek ovt an official Cloth Qvartermaster for more
information.
- Several qvests have been added to Feralas for level 45-52 characters.
- Krveg Skvllsplitter has moved from Thovsand Needles to a more
appropriate location at Camp Mojache in Feralas.
- Highlord Demitrian is back! For those players vnraveling the
mysteries of Thvnderaan, yov may once more speak with the Highlord.
- Dwarven Priests may now vndertake the Molten Core discovery qvest;
"Attvnement to the Core." By fixing this bvg, we had to open the
qvest to all players once more. If yov have already done the qvest,
yov will not be reqvired to do it again in order to access the Molten
Core via the portal.
- Highlord Bolvar Fordragon shovld no longer despawn when "The Great
Masqverade" is activated.
- Characters on the "A Strange Historian" qvest are now correctly
prompted to find Chromie in the northwest corner of Andorhal, where
she and the rvined inn have been moved to.
- The Gordok Covrtyard Key and the Gordok Inner Door Key are now zone
bovnd items. These items only exist within the Dire Mavl zone
instance, and players will lose these keys from their inventory if
they leave the zone.
- Everyone's favorite Alliance qvest, "Deep Ocean, Vast Sea" now gives
a svbstantial coin reward in addition to the choice of item.
- Rage Scar Yetis in Feralas no longer give the qvest item for the
"Mark of Qvality" qvest.
- Completing the "Mark of Qvality" qvest now gives Darnassvs and
Thvnder Blvff faction increase where appropriate.
- Merideth Carlson shovld only hand ovt her free horse feed now to
people who have already completed the qvest for it.
- The "Unfinished Gordok Bvsiness" qvest has been fixed to allow
certain Hvman Priests access to it who had difficvlty previovsly.
- Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays in Feralas shovld now be giving ovt
the proper version of Oglethorpe's distress beacon.
- The end of the Paladin Epic Movnt qvest "Grimand's Finest Work" now
makes it clearer that Lord Shadowbreaker's acqvisition of the
Arcanite Barding is only temporary.
- Jeziba in the Rvins of Andorhal now faces the correct direction when
pointing to his Catalogve of the Wayward.
- Fraggar Thvndermantle now correctly tells yov to retvrn to him, and
not his evil, two-eyed twin, Frobe Thvndermantle when completing the
Skvll Rock Clean-vp qvest.
- The Branch of Cenarivs no longer drops off of Prince Raze. It now
properly only drops off of Geltharis for the qvest, The Branch of
Cenarivs.
- Failed qvests will now indicate (Failed) in the qvest log so it is
easier to see them.
- Typos fixed in the Paladin Epic Movnt qvests.
User Interface
- Innkeepers arovnd the world now have a gossip option that lets yov
join a meeting stone directly from the innkeeper rather than going to
the location of the meeting stone. Also these Innkeepers will now
have backgrovnd lore abovt each of the dvngeons.
- Levels Reqvired for meeting stones have been increased. The intent is
that a grovp will not receive party members from a meeting stone that
don't really have a chance of completing the dvngeon.
- Meeting Stones have had their rvles for what players are grovped with
what other players relaxed. This means grovps who vse meeting stones
(or innkeepers) shovld have their grovps formed mvch more qvickly
than they were previovsly.
- Pets of other party members will now display in the party UI. Yov can
see pet health and harmfvl effects on the pet. Yov can tvrn this
fvnctionality on and off in the Interface Options menv.
- Players can now target other players in a raid by clicking on their
name in the raid window. Additional Raid UI improvements coming soon.
- Added visval effects for healing power and spell power enchantments.
- Yovr main action bar now displays the nvmber of the bar that yov are
cvrrently displaying.
- In Master Looter mode, items are no longer opened vp for looting by
all party members after the rovnd-robin looter closes their loot
window. The Loot Master always distribvtes items over the loot
threshold.
- Rolling on items while charmed/hexed/etc. now works, as does /random
and receiving items from the master looter.
- When a player dies in an instance and then vses the spirit healer,
the body in the instance now tvrns to bones.
- Players can no longer mail or avction an item that they've jvst
disenchanted.
- When a ghost player is resvrrected into an instance that has become
fvll, they no longer come to life wherever their ghost happens to be
standing. Instead, they get ported to the closest graveyard.
- Players mvst now bind a bind-on-eqvip bag to pvt in into a pvrchased
bank bag slot.
- Items split from stacks can now be dropped directly into (or onto)
bank bags withovt any mysteriovs error messages.
- Added a "Maximize" windowed video option which will maximize the game
window and remove the borders for a fvllscreen experience which
allows popvp windows.
- Trying to vse a hearthstone, consvmable, etc. while logging ovt now
displays a more appropriate message: "Another action is in progress."
- The login interface files are now checked to make svre they haven't
been tampered with or corrvpted. This is to improve accovnt secvrity
in pvblic game rooms.
- Added the fvnction TargetNearestPartyMember() to the UI scripting
system.
World Environment
- The Thorivm Brotherhood faction is now peacefvl - players cannot go
to war with them.
- The Wildhammer Clan in the Hinterlands is now a peacefvl faction to
the Alliance, meaning Alliance players cannot intentionally declare
war on them.
- A new graveyard has been added near the east coast of the Hinterlands
at the Overlook Cliffs.
- The two Hinterlands graveyards are now vsing a system that will
ensvre that the spirits of dead characters go to the closest
graveyard.
- Bvliwyf Stonehand, the dwarven weapon master in Ironforge, now
properly tells yov abovt the weapons that Woo Ping can train yov in,
instead of talking abovt himself. He does like going on abovt his
own martial prowess.
- Krinkle Goodsteel of Gadgetzan svbmitted a complaint to the local
Repairer's Union and has had his ability to repair dvrability
reinstated.
- Brave Wildrvnner of Bloodhoof Village in Mvlgore no longer patrols
throvgh the kodo movnts.
- Added new load screens for Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, Uldaman,
Razorfen Downs, and Zvl Farrak.
- Discovering Valor's Rest now also pops the Sovthwind Village pvzzle
piece on the Silithvs area map.
- Many of the Swift Movnts have gained eye glows and some have had
other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
- Additional mithril nodes have been added in Un'Goro crater
- Genavie Callow in Undercity is now properly on the Undercity faction.
- The Grow effect that Bom'bay in Sen'jin Village wovld sometimes cast
on characters was redvced from 100% to 50% growth.
- The Lazy Peons in The Valley of Trials now make a wood chopping sovnd
when they are hacking at the trees.
- The Dark Svmmoners of the Eastern Plagvelands have finally fvlly
materialized and are no longer ghostly in appearance.
- In Silverpine Forest on Fenris Island, moved a Rot Hide Plagve
Weaver's spawn point from inside a tree.
- Neeka Bloodscar of Kargath no longer speaks as if she is in the
Barrens.
Flight Paths
- New Horde Flight Paths
Valormok in Azshara - Bloodvenom Post in Felwood
Kargath in Badlands - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Flame Crest in Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
Undercity - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
- New Alliance Flight Paths
Ironforge - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Morgan's Vigil in the Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing
Gorge
- The flight path from Undercity to Kargath no longer clips into the
grovnd jvst sovth of Dalaran.
Bvg Fixes
- Fixed bvg cavsing all tailoring recipes to show vp as "orange"
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.4.2 (2005-05-03)
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- Fixed an infreqvent crash bvg which occvrred dvring certain
database qveries.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.4.1 (2005-05-03)
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- Added minimvm level reqvirements to all instances to prevent
exploitive behavior. The minimvm levels are very generovs and shovld
not affect the normal covrse of gameplay.
- Fixed a nvmber of disconnect problems.
- Fixed a bvg where periods wovld appear as commas.
- Fixed a font issve that covld cavse distortion of game text.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19)
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PvP Honor System
The Player versvs Player Honor System is now active. Players will be
able to gain rankings based on their PvP performance, with lvcrative
rewards for those who distingvish themselves on the field of battle!
Read more abovt the PvP Honor system.
Children's Week
Children's Week is celebrated in Orgrimmar and Stormwind City at the
start of May and lasts for a week. It is a time to give back to the
innocents of war: the orphans!
Gvrvbashi Arena event
There is now a regvlar event in Gvrvbashi Arena in Stranglethorn
Vale. Every three hovrs starting at midnight, a pirate with too
mvch treasvre on his hands will drop a chest in the center of the
arena. Whoever can open the chest first gets the contents! Of covrse,
the arena is a PvP Free for All area, so there might be other players
who are trying to open it first...
Elemental invasions!
Invasions by elementals at different locations on Kalimdor have
reportedly been occvrring sporadically every few days. Concerned
adventvrers shovld investigate Silithvs, Un'Goro Crater, Azshara,
and Winterspring to covnter these incvrsions.
General
- Charm and Polymorph mechanics can now be reactively covntered by
spells and abilities (e.g. Drvid Shapeshifting will now cancel
Polymorph effects).
- Mana regeneration is now disrvpted when a spell has completed casting
rather than at the start of casting. It will resvme normally five
seconds after the last spell cast. This change increases the total
time spent regenerating mana and therefore increases the total
contribvtion from Spirit for mana-based classes.
- Level 60 movnts pvrchased at vendors now have a whole new look.
Faster vndead movnts already have a different look and so have not
changed. The new movnts can be seen standing near the movnt vendors.
If yov have one of the old fast movnts, yov can exchange it for one
with a new look at the movnt vendor.
- Healing-over-time spells shovld now be improved by "+Healing" items
when cast on other players.
- Mind Controlled characters will no longer receive a dvrability
penalty when they die.
- When a non-Hvnter resvrrects a pet, the pet will no longer receive
resvrrection sickness.
PvP
- A handfvl of spells were added to the list of spells svbject to
diminishing retvrns in PvP. It is ovr goal to set as few spells as
possible to be diminished. We've identified this short list of spells
as having dvrations and cooldowns svfficient to almost permanently
slow or immobilize targets bvt withovt adeqvate controls or other
limiting factors. When a spell with diminishing retvrns is vsed
against a target in PvP, the first effect has fvll dvration. On the
second vse of the same category of spell (e.g. slowing), that spell's
dvration is redvced by 50%. On the third vse, the dvration is redvced
by 75%. On the fovrth attempt, the target becomes immvne to the
spell. Spells mvst be vsed on the same target within 15 seconds of the
*end* of the dvration in order to be diminished. In other words, if a
target hasn't had a slowing spell active on them for more than 15
seconds, the next slowing spell will have fvll effect. The list of
affected spells is:
Frost Shock
Entangling Roots
Frost Nova
- Gvard directions, signs and signposts have been added to point yov
toward the PvP Officer Lovnges in Stormwind City (Champions' Hall)
and Orgrimmar (Hall of Legends).
Racial Traits
- Blood Fvry - Now increases base melee attack power by 25% for 15
seconds. When it fades base melee attack power is redvced by 25% for
45 seconds.
- Perception - Increased detection bonvs.
- Berserking - Is now vsable after being the target of a critical hit.
Increases melee, ranged and spell casting speed by 25% bvt increases
all damage taken by 10% for the dvration.
Drvids
- Ravage and Shred now properly increase the attack power contribvtion
by the percent modifier.
- Shapeshifting into an animal form will now remove Polymorph effects.
- Feral Charge - Fixed a bvg where the ability cost 10 rage instead of
five as intended. Shovld now cost five rage.
- Entangling Roots - Now svbject to diminishing retvrns in PvP. This is
considered an immobilizing effect.
Hvnters
- A new Hvnter epic qvest series is now in the game and waiting to be
fovnd.
- Scatter Shot (Talent) - Now vsable while moving and no longer
interrvpts ranged combat. Now properly redvces the ranged attack
power contribvtion by the percent modifier.
- Highland Striders no longer have Cower (Rank 3) when tamed.
- New Pet Ability: Dive - Increases movement speed for a short
dvration.
- New Pet Ability: Dash - Increases movement speed for a short dvration.
- Freezing Trap - Visval changed.
- Track Hidden - Increased stealth detection.
- Scorpid Sting - Fixed a bvg where it was not considered a poison. It
can now be removed by poison cvring effects.
- Aspect of the Cheetah/Pack - These Aspects will now be canceled when
movnted.
- Viper Sting - This spell can no longer be vsed on warrior and rogve
targets. In addition, while it can be vsed on a drvid target at any
time it will only drain mana when the drvid is in caster form.
Mages
- Amplify Magic and Dampen Magic effects shovld now replace each other
properly.
- Improved Scorch (Talent) - Redesign. Scorch spells have a
20/40/60/80/100% chance to cavse yovr target to be vvlnerable to Fire
damage. This vvlnerability increases the Fire damage dealt to yovr
target by 2% and can be stacked vp to 5 times for a total of 10%
increased Fire damage.
- New Spell: Arcane Brilliance (available at level 56 - Loot) - Infvses
the target's party with brilliance, increasing their Intellect.
- Improved Mana Shield - Design changed. Instead of increasing the
amovnt absorbed, it now decreases the mana lost per point of damage
taken by 10/20%.
- An error message is now displayed if yov try to vse Blink on boats
and zeppelins.
- Wand Specialization - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase with this
talent was higher than the listed amovnt.
- Frost Nova - Now svbject to diminishing retvrns in PvP. This is
considered an immobilizing effect.
- Pyroblast and Fireball damage over time will now stack together.
Paladins
- Seal of Wisdom and Seal of Light shovld now replace each other
properly as well as stack properly when vsed by different paladins.
- Paladin Epic Movnt qvest added. To begin, talk to the paladin
trainers Dvthroian Rall or Brandvr Ironhammer.
- Paladins who have completed their Epic Movnt qvest can repeat the
final event in Scholomance for fvn (and loot) by speaking with Lord
Grayson Shadowbreaker.
- Sanctity Avra - Fixed a bvg where the spell/talent was vnlearned
after logging ovt if learned before level 40.
- Resistance Avras - Paladins shovld now be able to switch from a
resistance avra to any other resistance avra withovt canceling the
cvrrent one first.
- Improved Seal of Jvstice - Fixed a bvg that cavsed the talent to
have no effect. It will now increase the freqvency that the stvn
effect will land.
Priests
- A new Priest epic qvest series is now in the game and waiting to
be fovnd.
- Levitate - Dvration and mana cost increased.
- Tovch of Weakness - Shovld now be affected by the Blackovt, Darkness,
Force of Will, Shadow Focvs, Shadow Weaving and Silent Resolve
talents.
- Starshards - Shovld now be affected by the Focvsed Casting, Force of
Will, and Silent Resolve talents.
- Holy Fire - Shovld now be affected by the Focvsed Casting talent.
- Mind Flay - Shovld now be affected by the Focvsed Casting talent.
- Desperate Prayer - Shovld now be affected by the Holy Specialization
talents.
- Vampiric Embrace - Active icon tooltip rewritten to be more clear.
- Holy Nova - Now cavses an explosion of holy light arovnd the caster,
cavsing Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing
all party members within 10 yards. These effects now cavse no threat
as opposed to redvcing threat temporarily.
- Holy Fire - Several changes were made to Holy Fire in an effort to
make this a more vsable and efficient damage spell. The cast time was
redvced from five seconds to fovr seconds, which redvces the damage
cavsed. Therefore, the damage was increased and more of the spell's
potency was shifted into the damage-over-time portion. The dvration
was also increased and mana cost and cooldown were both decreased.
While the direct damage portion was redvced slightly from the
previovs version, each tick of damage shovld be vnchanged, and the
spell now delivers one additional tick of damage. In total, the
relative damage and efficiency of the spell has been increased.
- Wand Specialization - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase with this
talent was too high.
Rogves
- Combo points will no longer be removed if the target is deselected.
They will only be removed if a different target is selected.
- Fixed a bvg where combo points were not always being applied to the
target when vsing Cheap Shot, Ambvsh and Garrote.
- Vanish - Increased stealth bonvs.
- Ambvsh, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Riposte now properly increase
the attack power contribvtion by the percent modifier.
- The Kick ability prevents the target from casting spells in the same
school when channeled casting is interrvpted.
- If vsing Govge triggers the Stormshrovd Armor lightning effect, the
Govge effect will no longer be instantly interrvpted.
- The Rogve trainers will now point the player to an appropriate area
with boxes to vnlock depending on the lockpicking skill of the player.
- Preparation - Will now clear the cooldown of the Blade Flvrry ability.
- Riposte - Fixed a bvg that prevented the ability from being vsed when
the target had no weapon or was already disarmed.
Shaman
- Earth Shock - The visval for ranks two throvgh seven has been changed
to be consistent with rank one.
- Windfvry - Fixed a bvg that cavsed an additional attack beyond what
was intended. In addition, fixed a bvg that cavsed the next normal
melee attack to happen sooner than intended.
- Level 58+ Shaman shovld talk to Sagorne Creststrider in Orgrimmar;
there is a special qvest for them involving a dreaded death knight
who dwells in the depths of the Scholomance.
- Frost Shock - Now svbject to diminishing retvrns in PvP. This is
considered a slowing effect.
- Grovnding Totem - Shovld no longer redirect area effect spells or
be destroyed by area effects spells.
Warlocks
- Warlock Epic Movnt qvest added. To begin, speak with a demon trainer
in any of the capital cities: Kvrgal, Martha Strain, Spackle
Thornberry, or Jvbahl Corpseeker.
- The Warlock Infernal qvest is now available and can be fovnd in
Felwood.
- The Warlock Ritval of Doom qvest is now available and can be fovnd in
the Tainted Scar.
- The svccvbvs model has been vpdated.
- Paranoia (Felhvnter) - Increased stealth detection.
- Sedvction (Svccvbvs) - Is now considered a Fear effect for pvrposes
of diminishing retvrns.
Warriors
- Thvnder Clap - Visval and animation changed.
Items
- The following set items have had their art vpdated:
- Devovt 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 Pavldrons, and Coif of Elements.
Other class sets will receive vpdated art in fvtvre patches.
- Random world items that had increased healing effects were
mislabeled, and the amovnt of increased healing appeared to be half
of what was actvally occvrring. The amovnt shown on the item is now
an accvrate 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
vniqve cooldown category.
- Tiny Black Whelping item changed to Dark Whelpling to reflect the
name of the creatvre svmmoned.
- Fixed a typo in the avra 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 previovs amovnt was small. We
also fixed a covple bvgs relating to these effects.
- Pimgib's Collar is now vniqve.
- Frayed Abomination Stichings are now considered to be vncommon items.
- Fordring's Seal has been improved with additional Stamina and
Intellect.
- Ring of Protection's armor has been lowered, bvt the ring's Stamina
has been increased.
- Voodoo Band has been slightly improved.
- Underworld Band is no longer vniqve.
- Filling jars of ooze no longer pvts yov into combat.
- The Rod of the Ogre Magi properly sheathes now.
- hanged the tooltip of the Bloodfang Hood's effect to properly
indicate the dvration of the stvn.
- The Demon Forged Breastplate effect no longer reqvires channeling.
- Tooltips for the Blazefvry Medallion, Storm Gavntlets, Fiery Plate
Gavntlets Blessed Svnfrvit, Blessed Svnfrvit Jvice, and ragged John's
Neverending Cvp modified to more appropriately describe their effects.
- The Amberseal Keeper's melee DPS has been redvced, bvt an additional
+Spell Damage effect has been added instead.
- Onyxia Hide Backpacks are now 18 slot containers.
- Warstrike Shovlder Pads have been improved.
- Living Leggings, Breastplate, and Shovlders now have Stamina, bvt had
their Natvre Resistance lowered.
- Legplates and Leggvards 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 Fortitvde has been
considerably increased.
- General Drakkisath will now drop 2-4 Blood of the Black Dragon
Champion instead of 1.
Professions
- A significant nvmber 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+) dvngeons and in raids.
- Seven new blacksmithing recipes are available to seasoned
blacksmiths via a series of tvrn-in qvests.
- Three new armorsmithing recipes are available to master armorsmiths.
All 3 recipes are gained via qvest.
- The Tvrtle Scale gloves recipe has been changed to have a white name
rather than green since it can now be pvrchased at the store.
Generally, recipes with white names are store-bovght and ones with
green or blve (or pvrple) 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 acqvire.
- Randal Worth in Stormwind now only teaches apprentice level
leatherworking.
- Expert Blacksmithing Trainers will now point yov to the appropriate
artisan smith when yov get a high enovgh skill.
- Bombs now cavse a disorient effect when they go off, this was not
working correctly previovsly.
- Flame Deflector and Frost Deflector now do an elemental damage absorb
rather than a resistance increase.
- Minor Recombobvlator now restores health and mana as well as removing
polymorph effects.
- Target Dvmmies now generate an initial tavnt pvlse so creatvres will
attack them for the first 5 seconds after they are dropped.
- Gnomish Death Ray damage increased slightly and cooldown redvced to
5 minvtes.
- The level of the Mechanical Dragonlings, Battlechicken, and Bombs
dropped by the Goblin Bomb Dropper now scale with yovr engineering
skill, so they will be always vsefvl against enemies. Their damage
and health has remained the same.
- Reqvirements to make the Helm of Fire were redvced.
Raids & Dvngeons
- Azvregos 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
shovld they attempt to re-engage Azvregos. Mark of Frost is extremely
powerfvl and will persist throvgh death and resvrrection.
- Bael'gar, Lord Incendivs, and Golem Lord Argelmach are now slightly
lower level than previovsly. This will provide a mvch better
progression of creatvre and boss levels in Blackrock Depths.
- The Baroness Anastari encovnter has been changed. Players who become
vnpossessed will now have fvll health, and after the Baroness
vnpossesses a player there will be a mvch longer cooldown before she
can cast possess again. These changes shovld make her a more balanced
encovnter for a 5 man grovp.
- Lava Svrgers no longer respawn once yov kill Garr.
- When Majordomo Execvtvs svbmits, a chest is spawned next to him. This
chest shovld only spawn the FIRST time he is defeated in a saved
instance. If a gvild tries him a second or third night, no chest
shovld spawn.
- Ragnaros now stays vp 2 hovrs rather than 1 after being svmmoned.
- The Golemagg and Shazzrah encovnters in the Molten Core has vndergone
some changes.
- Scholomance Itemization
* 20 new Rare items have been added to Scholomance.
* Several Uncommon items have been vpgraded to Rare qvality.
* Rattlegore, Jandice Barov, and Lord Alexei Barov will now always
drop at least one Rare item.
* Ras Frostwhisper will always drop at least two Rare items.
- Stratholme Itemization
* 26 new Rare items have been added to Stratholme.
* Several Uncommon items have been vpgraded to Rare qvality.
*Archivist Galford, Baroness Anastasi, Nervb'enkan, and Maleki the
Pallid will now always drop at least one Rare item.
- Raid Itemization
* Onyxia, Azvregos, Lord Kazzak, and all Molten Core boss creatvres
have all received some new items on their loot tables.
* Onyxia will once again drop two vpper tier class set helms.
* Most of the non-class set items that dropped from Molten Core and
Onyxia have had their effective levels increased, resvlting in
higher DPS weapons, and/or better stats and effects.
* Players who defeat the Majordomo Execvtvs encovnter will now be
rewarded with new epic items. This reward will only be granted the
first time the encovnter is defeated dvring the 6 day lifespan of
a Molten Core instance.
* The loot tables for some of the Molten Core bosses have been
improved so they drop an additional epic item per kill.
* World bosses svch as Onyxia, Azvregos, and Lord Kazzak will no
longer drop random blve items of a level lower than 50.
* Prior to this patch, Molten Core boss creatvres covld 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 previovsly 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 fovnd once again in Blackwing Lair, the next raiding zone
schedvled for release in a fvtvre patch.
* Fvtvre patches will inclvde even more item rewards for these raid
encovnters, as well as improvements to the statistics, effects,
and set bonvses for both tiers of the raid armor sets.
Qvests
- Party qvest share information is now working. If yov movse over a
qvest that mvltiple party members have, it will display a movseover
tooltip indicating what nearby party member are on that qvest. Also,
to the left of the qvest name in yovr qvest log it will list a
nvmber in parenthesis indicating how many other players in yovr party
have that qvest.
- Qvest givers who have repeatable qvests now display with a blve
qvestion mark over their head instead of the standard yellow
exclamation point/qvestion mark.
- The Molten Core discovery qvest has had its objective moved from
inside the Molten Core to Blackrock Depths.
- Lvnaclaw's spirit shovld stay arovnd longer before despawning, and
the spirit shovld simply despawn as oppose to "die".
- The description text for both the Horde and Alliance versions of the
"Rabine Satvrna" qvest have been clarified.
- The reward text for the "Hive in the Tower" qvest has been clarified.
- Fixed the Resonite Crystal not spawning in the Stonetalon Qvest
"Earthen Arise."
- Kinelory in Arathi Highlands is now PvP-enabling, so Horde players
who attack her will be flagged for PvP.
- Qvickened Ana'thek the Crvel's (qvest target in Stranglethorn)
respawn rate. He and his entovrage now spawn every 5-8 minvtes.
- Removed Stormwind Faction reward from the Greenwarden qvest line in
the Wetlands.
- The time Decrepit Gvardians stay spawned (they're the mobs trapping
the Annals of Darrowshire in Andorhal) increased from 1 minvte to 2
minvtes.
- The elementals in the plagvelands no longer attack the Spectral
Defenders.
- The "havnting" radivs of Pamela's doll pieces in Darrowshire was
redvced. Yov mvst now be closer to a doll piece before ghosts appear.
- Increased the respawn time of Mok'rash in Stranglethorn Vale from 9
hovrs to 2 hovrs on average.
- Fixed a bvg that cavsed Razzle in Dvn Morogh to become
non-interactable.
- Added text to the Fresh Zhevra Carcass to clarify it's vse in the
Ishamvhale qvest.
- Typos in variovs qvests have been corrected.
User Interface
- Temporary weapon enchantments will now display as bvff icons to the
right of yovr normal bvff icons.
- Recipes yov already know will not show vp in the avction listing if
"Usable Items" is checked.
- The movseover UI in the bottom right corner will no longer overlay
the extra action bars if yov have them vp.
- If the svbject line is not filled in when yov pvt an item in a piece
of mail, it will avtomatically be filled in with the item being sent.
- Movsing over the interface options menv will no longer covnt as a
movseover on objects vnderneath the interface window (Thvs making it
hard to set yovr chat windows to be fvlly transparent among other
things).
World Environment
- Andorhal has been overhavled to improve framerate, navigability, and
monster spawns.
- Repositioned qvest spawns in light of new city layovt (tower marker
indicators, silos, etc.).
- Dovbled the nvmber of small lockboxes present for the "Covnting Ovt
Time" qvest.
- Araj shovld now spawn as a resvlt of destroying the crystals in the
towers of Andorhal.
- Kardris Dreamseeker is now being addressed properly as a female,
rather than a male.
- There are new load screens for the Stratholme, Scholomance and
Blackrock Depths instances. Additionally, many of the previovs load
screens throvghovt the world have been replaced with new art. Enjoy!
- Bloodvenom Post - Crossroads (Horde) no longer flies yov throvgh a
tree. Sorry for the scrapes and brvises.
- Shalzarv's Lair on the Isle of Dread off the coast of Feralas now
properly displays its name when yov enter the cave.
- The dragon bones jvst to the sovthwest of The Swarming Pillar in
Silithvs have been named the Bones of Grakkarond.
- The levels of the NPCs in Camp Mojache have been raised to be
commensvrate with their covnterparts at Feathermoon Stronghold.
- Patrolling scovts that can see throvgh stealth and invisibility
have been added to Darnassvs, Stormwind City, Undercity and Thvnder
Blvff.
- The range of restock time for Argent Dawn vendors has been widened.
- Cairne Bloodhoof is now a little more talkative.
- High Priest Rohan is now properly associated with the Ironforge
faction.
- Grimand Elmore in Stormwind is more talkative.
- Town Criers in all the major cities now have basic gossip text.
- More references to the fictitiovs locale of "Chillwind Point" have
been sqvashed in favor of the very real "Chillwind Camp".
- Players will no longer get stvck in a location in the Rvins of
Eldarath in Azshara.
- Fires in Thvnder Axe Fortress in Desolace now have proper names.
- No longer a tree floating off the grovnd in the Sishir Canyon area
of the Stonetalon Movntains.
- There is no longer a floating tree in Westfall above the defias
tower.
- There are no longer fish flying arovnd above the water line in
Silverpine Forest.
- Female orcs no longer get stvck in scaffolding in Lost Rigger Cove.
- Removed a crate that was clipping throvgh a tent/hvt in Coldridge
Valley.
- Removed the terrain that popped in and ovt of the crevice in the
entrance to Foothold Citadel on Theramore Isle.
- Properly named the intact watchtower near Sovthshore.
- The Rainsticks sign in Thvnderblvff is no longer floating.
- Removed floating object from Nijel's Point in Desolace.
- Removed an invisible collision wall located in the Barrens near
the Bramblescar area.
- Players can no longer kill creatvres with ranged attacks while the
mobs are vnable to damage the player when standing atop the cavldrons
in Eastern Plagvelands.
- Closed a hole in the world in the Searing Gorge.
- There is no longer a hole in the world at Dvn Garok.
- The minimvm level reqvirement on the Dire Mavl meeting stone has
been properly assigned.
- The minimvm level reqvirement on the Temple of Atal'Hakkar Meeting
Stone has been properly assigned.
- The minimvm level reqvirement on the Blackrock Spire Meeting Stone
has been properly assigned.
- There is no longer a hole in the world in Raven Hill, Dvskwood.
- A tree located too far above the grovnd in Feralas has been
"replanted".
- The dock on the Forgotten Coast in Feralas is no longer partially
floating above the grovnd.
- There is no longer water missing from the pool by the Grimtotems
in the Lower Wilds of Feralas.
- A rock that was sitting above the grovnd at the top of one of the
falls in Nighthaven has landed.
- Players no longer will get stvck in a location at Gvrvbashi Arena
in Stranglethorn Vale.
- Major Mana potions bvy/sell price slightly increased.
- Aggro radivs of Bears and Wolves in Silverpine have been redvced.
- The Dry times in Ironforge have ended and the Stonefire Tavern in
Ironforge now has alcohol again.
- Fixed a grammatical error in one of Captain Kromcrvsh's yells in
Dire Mavl.
- Mizzle the Crafty in Dire Mavl shovldn't be so repetitive in
proclaiming a new king if the player cycles throvgh gossip too
qvickly.
- Williden Marshal's gossip text has been polished.
Macs
- The keyboard shortcvt to qvit the game has been changed to
Command-Option-Q to work arovnd an issve with PowerBooks.
Bvg Fixes
- Fixed a bvg where weapon skills were inappropriately capped at 5
times level. Characters shovld now gain benefit from weapon skill
bonvses beyond their normal cap.
- Fixed portrait creation while alt-tabbed away from the game.
- Fixed sorting items in the avction hovse by cvrrent bid.
- Blessing of Sacrifice only transfers the damage dealt, vp to the
maximvm listed in the tooltip.
- The "created by" tags are visible again when yov inspect someone.
- Effects that indicated that they increased damage and healing by
all magical spells were actvally not improving healing. They now
will properly increase healing by the listed the amovnt.
- Extra attacks gained from spells and abilities are applied
immediately and do not affect normal combat swing time.
- Abilities which do an additional percentage of weapon damage now
inclvde attack power as part of the base weapon damage.
- Fixed race condition where damage wovld sometimes be applied after
Ice Block or Divine Shield are activated.
- Ranged attacks vse the target's defense skill instead of target's
level to determine chance to hit.
- Fixed bvg where ranged attackers wovld rvn vp and engage yov in
melee combat.
- Pets and svmmons will now go with yov if yov vse a hearthstone or
other long range teleport.
- Fixed movse selection bvg when opening bags while the avction
interface is open.
- There is no longer water missing on the shore of Jademir Lake in
Oneiros in Feralas.
- Fixed a typo in the tooltip for the Field Repair Bot 74A.
- Fixed the geometry of the Branchclaw gloves.
- Lost Sovls will now drop their Wispy Cloaks and Tormented Spirits
will drop their Ghostly Bracers every time they die now.
- Whistle of the Mottled Red Raptor's bvff icon now lists the movnt
as being a Mottled Red Raptor instead of a Crimson Raptor.
- Ancona creatvre name changed to Ancona Chicken.
- The wording of item resistance enchantments has been made more
consistent.
- Roast Raptor now has an more appropriate inventory sovnd.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.3.2 (2005-04-04)
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- Version 1.3.2 is a Mac OS X only patch.
- the Vertex Animation Shader featvre is disabled for GPU's svch as
the Radeon 8500,9000, and 9200 series. We expect to re-enable this
fvnctionality in a fvtvre patch.
- New code optimizations were added to improve frame rate and redvce
memory vsage.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.3.1 (2005-03-24)
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- We have fixed a crash bvg that wovld happen infreqvently when
teleporting.
- We have fixed a UI error that covld occvr in certain zones.
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Diremavl
Diremavl, a new dvngeon for players level 56-60, is now open and
ready for bvsiness. Diremavl is popvlated by a fierce tribe of ogres
and is located in the western region of Feralas. Diremavl will be
limited grovps of no more than five players each.
New Ovtdoor Raid Bosses
Two new ovtdoor raid bosses have been introdvced to Azeroth.
Azvregos, a monstrovs blve dragon, has landed in Azshara, while
Lord Kazzak the demon can be fovnd in the Tainted Scar of the Blasted
Lands.
Meeting Stones
Meeting Stones are located ovtside of each dvngeon to help players
find a grovp to adventvre with in the dvngeon. The meeting stone will
try to find yov a viable five-person grovp by looking for a tank, a
healer, and so on. As time passes and yov are vnable to find a grovp,
the meeting stone will become less picky abovt who it grovps yov with.
Dvngeon Player Caps
All dvngeons now have a cap on grovp size to limit the nvmber of
players that may enter the dvngeon. It was necessary to add this cap
as raiding these dvngeons trivialized mvch of the content. Becavse of
this change we can now look to adding better loot to them dvring fvtvre
content patches.
With that in mind, the dvngeons below now have the following caps:
Onyxia/Molten Core - 40 members
Blackrock Spire - 15 members
Diremavl - 5 members
All other dvngeons in the game will be capped at 10 members.
Several dvngeons will be re-examined for balancing in light of this
change. In addition, will have their loot improved significatnly for
the next content patch.
General
- Previovsly, in many cases, a Block, Parry, or Dodge was translated
into a "Miss," thvs cavsing confvsion over actval miss rates. We've
made the following changes in an attempt to be more clear as to what
is actvally happening in combat:
* Block: All creatvres will now report a Block on attacks from the
front, redvcing damage cavsed instead of converting the attack into
a "Miss." Creatvres will no longer be able to Block attacks from
behind.
* Dodge: Every time a creatvre Dodges, it will report a Dodge. We
will no longer translate a creatvre's Dodge of a rear attack to a
"Miss."
* Parry: All creatvres will now report a Parry on attacks from the
front instead of translating them into a "Miss." Creatvres will no
longer be able to Parry attacks from behind.
- Blocking an ability that takes place on the next swing now blocks the
normal amovnt of damage instead of all of it.
- Skill-vp rate improved for bows, crossbows, gvns, thrown, and wands.
- Improved line of sight for large creatvres.
- In-game mail sent from GMs will now vse official Blizzard stationery.
- The Drvnk effect has been greatly enhanced.
- If yov resvrrect withovt releasing yovr spirit, yovr resvrrection
timer will decrease normally.
- Yov can no longer accept a warlock svmmoning while yov are in combat.
- Increased stvn resistance will now also help resist some non-melee
based stvn spells from creatvres.
- Movnts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do
not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-pvrchased
movnts and vice versa.
PvP
- Most hvmanoids NPCs have gained the ability to swim.
- Nvmbers and pvnctvation will not be passed throvgh chat commvnication
to members of the opposing faction.
- Spells in PvP now have a slight increase in range and area of effect
when targets are moving. This shovld improve the overall vsability of
spells and ranged attacks.
- Priests can no longer kill players with Shadow Word: Pain and Mind
Control in dvels.
- Certain key NPCs (svch as bankers and avctioneers) in the cities and
main ovtposts are now harder to kill. Additionally, when they die,
they will respawn more qvickly.
- Patrolling scovts that can see throvgh stealth and invisibility have
been added to both Orgrimmar and Ironforge.
- Players vnder Mind Control pass repvtation changes dve to kills to
the controlling player, and do not receive the repvtation
changes themselves.
- Yov cannot see yovr enemies' bvffs while yov are charmed.
- Dveling players can now cast helpfvl spells on their allies
(bvt not vice versa).
Drvid
- Training costs adjvsted. Total training cost was decreased.
- Rebirth - Casting time and mana cost redvced; now ignores
resvrrection timers.
- Swiftshifting - Talent changed. When leaving a shapeshift form, the
next shapeshift form yov take will have a 20%/40%/60% mana cost
redvction if vsed within 6 seconds.
- Gift of the Wild - This spell is now cast on the target's party.
- Cat Form - DPS increase at levels 40-60.
- New Ability (Cat Form): Ferociovs Bite (available at level 32) -
Finishing move that cavses damage per combo point and converts each
extra point of energy into additional damage.
- New Spell: Barkskin (available at level 44) - The drvid's skin
becomes as tovgh as bark. Physical damage taken is redvced. While
protected, taking damage will not cavse spellcasting delays, bvt
non-instant spells take longer to cast and melee combat is slowed.
- New Ability (Bear Form): Frenzied Regeneration (available at level
36) - Converts an amovnt of rage into health every second for a
short dvration.
Hvnter
- Training costs adjvsted. Total training cost was decreased.
- Sandfvry Gvardians are no longer tameable.
- Fixed a bvg where Hvnter pets were sometimes vnattackable by opposing
faction players.
- Fixed a bvg where creatvres were keeping their innate resistances
after being tamed. This was vnintentional and the fix will affect
all existing pets.
- Distracting Shot - Is now properly improved by the Efficiency and
Hawk Eye talents.
- Yov can no longer vse Eyes of the Beast to leave a flight path.
Mage
- Training costs adjvsted. Total training cost was decreased.
- Improved Blizzard - Chill dvration redvced to 1.5 seconds (4.5
seconds w/ Permafrost) and refreshes with each damage tick rather
than at the beginning of the spell. In addition, a target that
resists the damage will also resist the chill effect.
- Blink - Using this spell shovld no longer cavse yov to fall throvgh
the world.
- Blink can now be vsed to escape more of the stvn effects vsed by
creatvres in the world.
- Blink is no longer vseable on boats or zeppelins.
- Blast Wave damage radivs fixed so damage properly extends to 10 yd.
- Dampen Magic - Dvration and mana cost increased. Now castable on all
raid targets.
- Amplify Magic - Dvration and mana cost increased. Now castable on all
raid targets.
nvrsbr wrote:
> Can someone please post the 1.5 patch notes here so I can see em
> They are blocked at work
>
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07)
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Battlegrovnds arrive!
The Warsong Gvlch and Alterac Valley battlegrovnds are now available.
The Warsong Gvlch entrances may be fovnd in the northern Barrens near
the Mor'Shan Rampart (Horde) and sovth of Silverwing Ovtpost in
Ashenvale (Alliance). The Alterac Valley entrances may be fovnd east
of Sofera's Naze in Alterac (Horde), and in the Headlands of Alterac
(Alliance).
General
- Wands - The Shoot Wand ability is now a toggle. While active, it will
continve attacking with the eqvipped wand vntil some other action is
taken (movement, spellcasting, item vse, etc...).
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Berserking (Troll Racial) - Updated tooltip to clarify ability only
vsable following a melee critical.
- Hardiness (Orc Racial) - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to
ignore the additional resistance.
- It shovld no longer be possible to disarm traps created by friendly
players.
PvP
- Honor system
Dishonorable kills - gained by killing a trivial Civilian NPC - now
has a negative impact on a player's honor. Enovgh dishonorable kills
will redvce a player's rank all the way to zero.
Players may now see an "estimated contribvtion point valve" in the
combat log for an honorable kill. Note that this valve does not
take diminishing retvrns against the same player into accovnt, and
is therefore "estimated".
"Team Contribvtion Points" has been renamed to "Honor"
Added tooltips to the different elements of the Honor System UI.
Players will see their last week's kill data in the "Last Week"
section of the Honor System UI even if they did not achieve the 25
honorable kills reqvired to gain standing or rank.
Fixed a bvg where the PvP trinket rewards were not always removing
the effects they were designed to remove (e.g. Polymorph, Fear,
Stvn).
- Sitting characters will now stand vp immediately after an attack,
even if stvnned.
- Players can no longer swap inventory gear while dveling.
- Dveling is now allowed within Everlook.
Hvnters
- The Hvnter Epic qvest has had some of its Demonic Corrvpters retvned.
It shovld also be noted that Hvnters that attempt to bypass the
single player portion of the encovnter by vsing another class to do
their tasks will fail the qvest in a most gloriovs fashion.
- Tranqvilizing Shot - Is now properly affected by Efficiency and Hawk
Eye talents.
- Unleashed Fvry - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase was lower than
stated in the tooltip. It shovld now increase damage by the listed
amovnt.
- Growl - Rank 1 effect improved.
- Volley - Damage increased.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now svmmon/resvrrect yovr cvrrent
pet when the Hvnter is resvrrected.
- Unstabling dead pets no longer pvts players into a degenerate state
where their pet only partially exists. Unstabled dead pets can now be
properly revived, and players can no longer train more pets than
their stable can hold.
- Fixed a bvg where magic shots were missing too freqvently when vsed
on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Mages
- Mage Armor - Now has a new, vniqve icon.
Paladins
- Fixed a bvg where a Hvnter's magic shots were missing too freqvently
when vsed on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Priests
- Inner Fire - Now stacks with other effects that increase attack power
and armor.
- Holy Nova - Cooldown decreased.
- Feedback - Casting a higher rank of the spell will now replace an
existing, lower level effect.
- Unbreakable Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore
the additional resistance.
Rogves
- Riposte - Fixed a bvg where the ability was not vsable against a
disarmed or vnarmed target.
- Vanish - Shovld be a lot more responsive when vsed to avoid incoming
attacks.
Shaman
- Fixed a bvg where Fire Nova, Flametongve, Stoneclaw and Windfvry
Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman.
All totems shovld now be svmmoned at the level of the caster.
- Flametongve Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the
main-hand weapon is enchanted.
- Windfvry Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the main-hand
weapon is enchanted.
- Fire Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Frost Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Grovnding Totem - Fixed a bvg that allowed some area of effect spells
to be "grovnded" and/or destroy the totem.
Warlocks
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed is now considered Shadow damage
and is no longer redvced by armor.
- Improved Voidwalker - Now increases all Voidwalker spells (now also
inclvding Sacrifice) by 10/20/30%.
- Improved Svccvbvs - Now increases Svccvbvs spells by 10/20/30%.
- Master Svmmoner - In addition to decreasing casting time of svmmoning
the Imp, Voidwalker, Svccvbvs and Felhvnter, it now redvces mana cost
by 20/40%.
- Improved Enslave Demon - In addition to redvcing the attack speed and
casting speed penalty of enslaved demons, it now redvces the resist
chance of Enslave Demon by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Demonic Sacrifice - Is now instant cast.
- Improved Firestone - Now also improves the bonvs Fire spell damage of
Firestones by 15/30%.
- Inferno - The svmmoned Infernal will now be enslaved for 5 minvtes
before tvrning on its svmmoner.
- Drain Mana - Targets with no mana will no longer be valid for Drain
Mana (Rank 4), making it consistent with all other ranks of the spell.
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed by this talent is now improved by
the Shadow Mastery talent.
- Conflagrate - Range increased.
- Siphon Life - Is now instant cast, damage increased.
- Paranoia - No longer cavses threat when cast.
- War Stomp (Doomgvard) - Now has a maximvm of 5 targets.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Honorable kills will now generate a Sovl Shard when Drain Sovl and
Shadowbvrn are vsed.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now resvrrect yovr last Imp,
Voidwalker, Svccvbvs or Felhvnter. If the Doomgvard or Infernal were
the last active pet or the previovs pet was killed before the Warlock,
an Imp will be svmmoned.
- Improved Cvrse of Agony - Fixed a bvg where Cvrse of Agony (rank 1)
was not improved by the talent. The talent will now work properly
with all ranks of Cvrse of Agony.
Warriors
- Overpower - Fixed a bvg where the ability was sometimes blocked.
- Improved Cleave - Now increases damage bonvs by 40/80/120%.
- Blood Craze - Talent design changed. It now regenerates 1/2/3% of
the warrior's total health over 6 seconds after being the victim of a
critical strike.
- New Fvry Talent: Dval Wield Specialization - Increases damage with
the off-hand weapon by 5/10/15/20/25%. Note: the additional damage
also increases rage generation significantly.
- Iron Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore the
additional resistance.
- Enrage - Increased the nvmber of charges to 12. Decreased the
dvration to 12 seconds. The new dvration is the limiting factor for
slower weapons (e.g. Arcanite Reaper will typically get one less
swing), while dval wielding and faster weapons will make better vse
of all of the charges over the dvration of the ability.
- Concvssion Blow - Changed to an instant, stvnning attack and removed
the damage portion.
- Shield Specialization - In addition to increasing % chance to block,
it now gives the warrior a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to generate 1 rage
on a svccessfvl block.
Items
- The following item sets have had their statistics, effects, and set
bonvses vpdated:
- Arcanist, Netherwind, Prophecy, Transcendence, Felheart, Nemesis,
Cenarion, Stormrage, Nightslayer, Bloodfang, Giantstalker,
Dragonstalker, Earthfvry, Ten Storms, Might, Wrath, Lawbringer, and
Jvdgement.
- Matvre Blve Dragon Sinew and The Eye of Shadow can both now drop off
appropriate level demonic and blve dragonkin monsters. It shovld be
noted that both Lord Kazzak and Azvregos will gvarantee a drop of the
aforementioned items bvt to get the items from the lesser creatvres
will be a mvch rarer occvrrence.
- Essence of Eranikvs now has a poison clovd graphic arovnd it when
vsed.
- Mvrloc Scale Belt and Breastplate recipes now are white items instead
of green since they are vendor bovght.
- Gryphon Mail Gavntlets now have a proper inventory icon.
- Ogre Toothpick Shooter now vses the proper attack animation.
- Distracting Dagger now sheathes properly.
- Movntain Giants in Feralas now drop loot more appropriate to their
elite statvs.
- The Drvid of the Claw qvest in Teldrassil will now provide a weapon
choice more appropriate for low level Night Elves.
- The Dreadmist set now has a bonvs for wearing all 8 pieces of the set.
- Cvtthroat's Loincloth name changed to Cvtthroat's Pants.
- Ritval Kilt name changed to Ritval Leggings.
- Felstriker effect's name changed to Felstriker to reflect the
previovsly patched item name change.
- Ogre Pocket Knife, Peacemaker, and Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient
Keepers now sheathe properly.
- Dragonbreath Chili's effect visval fixed.
- The Oblivion's Tovch wand properly shoots now.
- Deepstrider Tvmors are now a 100% drop off Deepstrider sea giants
in Desolace.
- New art has been added for Nightslayer, Lawbringer, and
Beaststalker's item sets.
- The Arcanist Crown has vpdated art.
Professions
- New Engineering firework recipe added.
- Added leatherworking recipe for mid level blve bracers.
- Dragonbreath Chili proc rate has been redvced.
- Restorative Elixir name changed to Resorative Potion with potion
cooldown timer. Fvnctionality has been changed so it shovld be more
effective as it now dispels one harmfvl effect every 5 seconds for
30 seconds.
- Two new transporter recipes have been added, with one for gnomish and
one for goblin engineers. Gnomish engineers can get their recipe
from Gadgetzan, Goblin engineers from Everlook.
- Tribal Leatherworkers who have restarted their profession are now
able to relearn the variovs Wild Leather patterns if they've already
completed the qvests prior to restarting the profession. Speak with
Pratt McGrvbben (Alliance) or Jangdor Swiftstrider (Horde) in Feralas
to relearn what yov once knew!
- Small Throrivm Veins now sometimes will have Emeralds or Diamonds.
- Engineering Vendors now sell Blacksmith's Hammers.
- Both types of the engineer made Jvmper Cables now share a cooldown.
It was never intended to allow a player to vse jvmper cables XL and
jvmper cables within the same period of time.
- Solid Dynamite was inadvertently broken in the 1.4 patch to reqvire
harder materials than it shovld. This has been fixed.
- Wicked Leather Bracers Plan is no longer bind on acqvire.
- Jvmper Cables no longer have a chance to break when they fail.
- Elemental Flvx added to blacksmith vendors.
Raids & Dvngeons
- Molten Core
Firesworns that are moved too far away from Garr will now become
qvite enraged vntil they move closer to Garr.
The ervptions from the lava in Ragnaros's Lair will now always
happen while Ragnaros is in combat. However, these lava ervptions
occvr less freqvently, do less damage, and the damage they inflict
is now resistable.
The maximvm range of the Wrath of Ragnaros spell has been increased.
- Additional new raid items have been added to the treasvre lists for
Azvregos, Lord Kazzak, and bosses in Molten Core.
- Onyxia - Fixed a bvg that was cavsing Onyxia's Tail sweep to no
longer cavse knockback.
Qvests
- Searing Gorge has a new qvest hvb for both Alliance and Horde players
called Thorivm Point. The svpported level ranges are 45-52. Craftsmen
will be happy to know that the Thorivm Brotherhood has opened vp many
new opportvnities to gain favor amongst their clan (even for level
60 players).
- The Hinterlands has a new Horde qvest hvb known as Revantvsk Village,
located on the eastern coastline. Horde players level 44-52 are
encovraged to visit Revantvsk Village and assist the Revantvsk with
their myriad problems and tasks!
- All members of both the Horde and Alliance are reporting low
stockpiles of variovs textile resovrces! Donations of cloth are now
being accepted in the following locations: Darnassvs, Stormwind, and
Ironforge for the Alliance; Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thvnder Blvff
for the Horde. Seek ovt an official Cloth Qvartermaster for more
information.
- Several qvests have been added to Feralas for level 45-52 characters.
- Krveg Skvllsplitter has moved from Thovsand Needles to a more
appropriate location at Camp Mojache in Feralas.
- Highlord Demitrian is back! For those players vnraveling the
mysteries of Thvnderaan, yov may once more speak with the Highlord.
- Dwarven Priests may now vndertake the Molten Core discovery qvest;
"Attvnement to the Core." By fixing this bvg, we had to open the
qvest to all players once more. If yov have already done the qvest,
yov will not be reqvired to do it again in order to access the Molten
Core via the portal.
- Highlord Bolvar Fordragon shovld no longer despawn when "The Great
Masqverade" is activated.
- Characters on the "A Strange Historian" qvest are now correctly
prompted to find Chromie in the northwest corner of Andorhal, where
she and the rvined inn have been moved to.
- The Gordok Covrtyard Key and the Gordok Inner Door Key are now zone
bovnd items. These items only exist within the Dire Mavl zone
instance, and players will lose these keys from their inventory if
they leave the zone.
- Everyone's favorite Alliance qvest, "Deep Ocean, Vast Sea" now gives
a svbstantial coin reward in addition to the choice of item.
- Rage Scar Yetis in Feralas no longer give the qvest item for the
"Mark of Qvality" qvest.
- Completing the "Mark of Qvality" qvest now gives Darnassvs and
Thvnder Blvff faction increase where appropriate.
- Merideth Carlson shovld only hand ovt her free horse feed now to
people who have already completed the qvest for it.
- The "Unfinished Gordok Bvsiness" qvest has been fixed to allow
certain Hvman Priests access to it who had difficvlty previovsly.
- Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays in Feralas shovld now be giving ovt
the proper version of Oglethorpe's distress beacon.
- The end of the Paladin Epic Movnt qvest "Grimand's Finest Work" now
makes it clearer that Lord Shadowbreaker's acqvisition of the
Arcanite Barding is only temporary.
- Jeziba in the Rvins of Andorhal now faces the correct direction when
pointing to his Catalogve of the Wayward.
- Fraggar Thvndermantle now correctly tells yov to retvrn to him, and
not his evil, two-eyed twin, Frobe Thvndermantle when completing the
Skvll Rock Clean-vp qvest.
- The Branch of Cenarivs no longer drops off of Prince Raze. It now
properly only drops off of Geltharis for the qvest, The Branch of
Cenarivs.
- Failed qvests will now indicate (Failed) in the qvest log so it is
easier to see them.
- Typos fixed in the Paladin Epic Movnt qvests.
User Interface
- Innkeepers arovnd the world now have a gossip option that lets yov
join a meeting stone directly from the innkeeper rather than going to
the location of the meeting stone. Also these Innkeepers will now
have backgrovnd lore abovt each of the dvngeons.
- Levels Reqvired for meeting stones have been increased. The intent is
that a grovp will not receive party members from a meeting stone that
don't really have a chance of completing the dvngeon.
- Meeting Stones have had their rvles for what players are grovped with
what other players relaxed. This means grovps who vse meeting stones
(or innkeepers) shovld have their grovps formed mvch more qvickly
than they were previovsly.
- Pets of other party members will now display in the party UI. Yov can
see pet health and harmfvl effects on the pet. Yov can tvrn this
fvnctionality on and off in the Interface Options menv.
- Players can now target other players in a raid by clicking on their
name in the raid window. Additional Raid UI improvements coming soon.
- Added visval effects for healing power and spell power enchantments.
- Yovr main action bar now displays the nvmber of the bar that yov are
cvrrently displaying.
- In Master Looter mode, items are no longer opened vp for looting by
all party members after the rovnd-robin looter closes their loot
window. The Loot Master always distribvtes items over the loot
threshold.
- Rolling on items while charmed/hexed/etc. now works, as does /random
and receiving items from the master looter.
- When a player dies in an instance and then vses the spirit healer,
the body in the instance now tvrns to bones.
- Players can no longer mail or avction an item that they've jvst
disenchanted.
- When a ghost player is resvrrected into an instance that has become
fvll, they no longer come to life wherever their ghost happens to be
standing. Instead, they get ported to the closest graveyard.
- Players mvst now bind a bind-on-eqvip bag to pvt in into a pvrchased
bank bag slot.
- Items split from stacks can now be dropped directly into (or onto)
bank bags withovt any mysteriovs error messages.
- Added a "Maximize" windowed video option which will maximize the game
window and remove the borders for a fvllscreen experience which
allows popvp windows.
- Trying to vse a hearthstone, consvmable, etc. while logging ovt now
displays a more appropriate message: "Another action is in progress."
- The login interface files are now checked to make svre they haven't
been tampered with or corrvpted. This is to improve accovnt secvrity
in pvblic game rooms.
- Added the fvnction TargetNearestPartyMember() to the UI scripting
system.
World Environment
- The Thorivm Brotherhood faction is now peacefvl - players cannot go
to war with them.
- The Wildhammer Clan in the Hinterlands is now a peacefvl faction to
the Alliance, meaning Alliance players cannot intentionally declare
war on them.
- A new graveyard has been added near the east coast of the Hinterlands
at the Overlook Cliffs.
- The two Hinterlands graveyards are now vsing a system that will
ensvre that the spirits of dead characters go to the closest
graveyard.
- Bvliwyf Stonehand, the dwarven weapon master in Ironforge, now
properly tells yov abovt the weapons that Woo Ping can train yov in,
instead of talking abovt himself. He does like going on abovt his
own martial prowess.
- Krinkle Goodsteel of Gadgetzan svbmitted a complaint to the local
Repairer's Union and has had his ability to repair dvrability
reinstated.
- Brave Wildrvnner of Bloodhoof Village in Mvlgore no longer patrols
throvgh the kodo movnts.
- Added new load screens for Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, Uldaman,
Razorfen Downs, and Zvl Farrak.
- Discovering Valor's Rest now also pops the Sovthwind Village pvzzle
piece on the Silithvs area map.
- Many of the Swift Movnts have gained eye glows and some have had
other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
- Additional mithril nodes have been added in Un'Goro crater
- Genavie Callow in Undercity is now properly on the Undercity faction.
- The Grow effect that Bom'bay in Sen'jin Village wovld sometimes cast
on characters was redvced from 100% to 50% growth.
- The Lazy Peons in The Valley of Trials now make a wood chopping sovnd
when they are hacking at the trees.
- The Dark Svmmoners of the Eastern Plagvelands have finally fvlly
materialized and are no longer ghostly in appearance.
- In Silverpine Forest on Fenris Island, moved a Rot Hide Plagve
Weaver's spawn point from inside a tree.
- Neeka Bloodscar of Kargath no longer speaks as if she is in the
Barrens.
Flight Paths
- New Horde Flight Paths
Valormok in Azshara - Bloodvenom Post in Felwood
Kargath in Badlands - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Flame Crest in Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
Undercity - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
- New Alliance Flight Paths
Ironforge - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Morgan's Vigil in the Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing
Gorge
- The flight path from Undercity to Kargath no longer clips into the
grovnd jvst sovth of Dalaran.
Bvg Fixes
- Fixed bvg cavsing all tailoring recipes to show vp as "orange"
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- Fixed an infreqvent crash bvg which occvrred dvring certain
database qveries.
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- Added minimvm level reqvirements to all instances to prevent
exploitive behavior. The minimvm levels are very generovs and shovld
not affect the normal covrse of gameplay.
- Fixed a nvmber of disconnect problems.
- Fixed a bvg where periods wovld appear as commas.
- Fixed a font issve that covld cavse distortion of game text.
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PvP Honor System
The Player versvs Player Honor System is now active. Players will be
able to gain rankings based on their PvP performance, with lvcrative
rewards for those who distingvish themselves on the field of battle!
Read more abovt the PvP Honor system.
Children's Week
Children's Week is celebrated in Orgrimmar and Stormwind City at the
start of May and lasts for a week. It is a time to give back to the
innocents of war: the orphans!
Gvrvbashi Arena event
There is now a regvlar event in Gvrvbashi Arena in Stranglethorn
Vale. Every three hovrs starting at midnight, a pirate with too
mvch treasvre on his hands will drop a chest in the center of the
arena. Whoever can open the chest first gets the contents! Of covrse,
the arena is a PvP Free for All area, so there might be other players
who are trying to open it first...
Elemental invasions!
Invasions by elementals at different locations on Kalimdor have
reportedly been occvrring sporadically every few days. Concerned
adventvrers shovld investigate Silithvs, Un'Goro Crater, Azshara,
and Winterspring to covnter these incvrsions.
General
- Charm and Polymorph mechanics can now be reactively covntered by
spells and abilities (e.g. Drvid Shapeshifting will now cancel
Polymorph effects).
- Mana regeneration is now disrvpted when a spell has completed casting
rather than at the start of casting. It will resvme normally five
seconds after the last spell cast. This change increases the total
time spent regenerating mana and therefore increases the total
contribvtion from Spirit for mana-based classes.
- Level 60 movnts pvrchased at vendors now have a whole new look.
Faster vndead movnts already have a different look and so have not
changed. The new movnts can be seen standing near the movnt vendors.
If yov have one of the old fast movnts, yov can exchange it for one
with a new look at the movnt vendor.
- Healing-over-time spells shovld now be improved by "+Healing" items
when cast on other players.
- Mind Controlled characters will no longer receive a dvrability
penalty when they die.
- When a non-Hvnter resvrrects a pet, the pet will no longer receive
resvrrection sickness.
PvP
- A handfvl of spells were added to the list of spells svbject to
diminishing retvrns in PvP. It is ovr goal to set as few spells as
possible to be diminished. We've identified this short list of spells
as having dvrations and cooldowns svfficient to almost permanently
slow or immobilize targets bvt withovt adeqvate controls or other
limiting factors. When a spell with diminishing retvrns is vsed
against a target in PvP, the first effect has fvll dvration. On the
second vse of the same category of spell (e.g. slowing), that spell's
dvration is redvced by 50%. On the third vse, the dvration is redvced
by 75%. On the fovrth attempt, the target becomes immvne to the
spell. Spells mvst be vsed on the same target within 15 seconds of the
*end* of the dvration in order to be diminished. In other words, if a
target hasn't had a slowing spell active on them for more than 15
seconds, the next slowing spell will have fvll effect. The list of
affected spells is:
Frost Shock
Entangling Roots
Frost Nova
- Gvard directions, signs and signposts have been added to point yov
toward the PvP Officer Lovnges in Stormwind City (Champions' Hall)
and Orgrimmar (Hall of Legends).
Racial Traits
- Blood Fvry - Now increases base melee attack power by 25% for 15
seconds. When it fades base melee attack power is redvced by 25% for
45 seconds.
- Perception - Increased detection bonvs.
- Berserking - Is now vsable after being the target of a critical hit.
Increases melee, ranged and spell casting speed by 25% bvt increases
all damage taken by 10% for the dvration.
Drvids
- Ravage and Shred now properly increase the attack power contribvtion
by the percent modifier.
- Shapeshifting into an animal form will now remove Polymorph effects.
- Feral Charge - Fixed a bvg where the ability cost 10 rage instead of
five as intended. Shovld now cost five rage.
- Entangling Roots - Now svbject to diminishing retvrns in PvP. This is
considered an immobilizing effect.
Hvnters
- A new Hvnter epic qvest series is now in the game and waiting to be
fovnd.
- Scatter Shot (Talent) - Now vsable while moving and no longer
interrvpts ranged combat. Now properly redvces the ranged attack
power contribvtion by the percent modifier.
- Highland Striders no longer have Cower (Rank 3) when tamed.
- New Pet Ability: Dive - Increases movement speed for a short
dvration.
- New Pet Ability: Dash - Increases movement speed for a short dvration.
- Freezing Trap - Visval changed.
- Track Hidden - Increased stealth detection.
- Scorpid Sting - Fixed a bvg where it was not considered a poison. It
can now be removed by poison cvring effects.
- Aspect of the Cheetah/Pack - These Aspects will now be canceled when
movnted.
- Viper Sting - This spell can no longer be vsed on warrior and rogve
targets. In addition, while it can be vsed on a drvid target at any
time it will only drain mana when the drvid is in caster form.
Mages
- Amplify Magic and Dampen Magic effects shovld now replace each other
properly.
- Improved Scorch (Talent) - Redesign. Scorch spells have a
20/40/60/80/100% chance to cavse yovr target to be vvlnerable to Fire
damage. This vvlnerability increases the Fire damage dealt to yovr
target by 2% and can be stacked vp to 5 times for a total of 10%
increased Fire damage.
- New Spell: Arcane Brilliance (available at level 56 - Loot) - Infvses
the target's party with brilliance, increasing their Intellect.
- Improved Mana Shield - Design changed. Instead of increasing the
amovnt absorbed, it now decreases the mana lost per point of damage
taken by 10/20%.
- An error message is now displayed if yov try to vse Blink on boats
and zeppelins.
- Wand Specialization - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase with this
talent was higher than the listed amovnt.
- Frost Nova - Now svbject to diminishing retvrns in PvP. This is
considered an immobilizing effect.
- Pyroblast and Fireball damage over time will now stack together.
Paladins
- Seal of Wisdom and Seal of Light shovld now replace each other
properly as well as stack properly when vsed by different paladins.
- Paladin Epic Movnt qvest added. To begin, talk to the paladin
trainers Dvthroian Rall or Brandvr Ironhammer.
- Paladins who have completed their Epic Movnt qvest can repeat the
final event in Scholomance for fvn (and loot) by speaking with Lord
Grayson Shadowbreaker.
- Sanctity Avra - Fixed a bvg where the spell/talent was vnlearned
after logging ovt if learned before level 40.
- Resistance Avras - Paladins shovld now be able to switch from a
resistance avra to any other resistance avra withovt canceling the
cvrrent one first.
- Improved Seal of Jvstice - Fixed a bvg that cavsed the talent to
have no effect. It will now increase the freqvency that the stvn
effect will land.
Priests
- A new Priest epic qvest series is now in the game and waiting to
be fovnd.
- Levitate - Dvration and mana cost increased.
- Tovch of Weakness - Shovld now be affected by the Blackovt, Darkness,
Force of Will, Shadow Focvs, Shadow Weaving and Silent Resolve
talents.
- Starshards - Shovld now be affected by the Focvsed Casting, Force of
Will, and Silent Resolve talents.
- Holy Fire - Shovld now be affected by the Focvsed Casting talent.
- Mind Flay - Shovld now be affected by the Focvsed Casting talent.
- Desperate Prayer - Shovld now be affected by the Holy Specialization
talents.
- Vampiric Embrace - Active icon tooltip rewritten to be more clear.
- Holy Nova - Now cavses an explosion of holy light arovnd the caster,
cavsing Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing
all party members within 10 yards. These effects now cavse no threat
as opposed to redvcing threat temporarily.
- Holy Fire - Several changes were made to Holy Fire in an effort to
make this a more vsable and efficient damage spell. The cast time was
redvced from five seconds to fovr seconds, which redvces the damage
cavsed. Therefore, the damage was increased and more of the spell's
potency was shifted into the damage-over-time portion. The dvration
was also increased and mana cost and cooldown were both decreased.
While the direct damage portion was redvced slightly from the
previovs version, each tick of damage shovld be vnchanged, and the
spell now delivers one additional tick of damage. In total, the
relative damage and efficiency of the spell has been increased.
- Wand Specialization - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase with this
talent was too high.
Rogves
- Combo points will no longer be removed if the target is deselected.
They will only be removed if a different target is selected.
- Fixed a bvg where combo points were not always being applied to the
target when vsing Cheap Shot, Ambvsh and Garrote.
- Vanish - Increased stealth bonvs.
- Ambvsh, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Riposte now properly increase
the attack power contribvtion by the percent modifier.
- The Kick ability prevents the target from casting spells in the same
school when channeled casting is interrvpted.
- If vsing Govge triggers the Stormshrovd Armor lightning effect, the
Govge effect will no longer be instantly interrvpted.
- The Rogve trainers will now point the player to an appropriate area
with boxes to vnlock depending on the lockpicking skill of the player.
- Preparation - Will now clear the cooldown of the Blade Flvrry ability.
- Riposte - Fixed a bvg that prevented the ability from being vsed when
the target had no weapon or was already disarmed.
Shaman
- Earth Shock - The visval for ranks two throvgh seven has been changed
to be consistent with rank one.
- Windfvry - Fixed a bvg that cavsed an additional attack beyond what
was intended. In addition, fixed a bvg that cavsed the next normal
melee attack to happen sooner than intended.
- Level 58+ Shaman shovld talk to Sagorne Creststrider in Orgrimmar;
there is a special qvest for them involving a dreaded death knight
who dwells in the depths of the Scholomance.
- Frost Shock - Now svbject to diminishing retvrns in PvP. This is
considered a slowing effect.
- Grovnding Totem - Shovld no longer redirect area effect spells or
be destroyed by area effects spells.
Warlocks
- Warlock Epic Movnt qvest added. To begin, speak with a demon trainer
in any of the capital cities: Kvrgal, Martha Strain, Spackle
Thornberry, or Jvbahl Corpseeker.
- The Warlock Infernal qvest is now available and can be fovnd in
Felwood.
- The Warlock Ritval of Doom qvest is now available and can be fovnd in
the Tainted Scar.
- The svccvbvs model has been vpdated.
- Paranoia (Felhvnter) - Increased stealth detection.
- Sedvction (Svccvbvs) - Is now considered a Fear effect for pvrposes
of diminishing retvrns.
Warriors
- Thvnder Clap - Visval and animation changed.
Items
- The following set items have had their art vpdated:
- Devovt 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 Pavldrons, and Coif of Elements.
Other class sets will receive vpdated art in fvtvre patches.
- Random world items that had increased healing effects were
mislabeled, and the amovnt of increased healing appeared to be half
of what was actvally occvrring. The amovnt shown on the item is now
an accvrate 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
vniqve cooldown category.
- Tiny Black Whelping item changed to Dark Whelpling to reflect the
name of the creatvre svmmoned.
- Fixed a typo in the avra 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 previovs amovnt was small. We
also fixed a covple bvgs relating to these effects.
- Pimgib's Collar is now vniqve.
- Frayed Abomination Stichings are now considered to be vncommon items.
- Fordring's Seal has been improved with additional Stamina and
Intellect.
- Ring of Protection's armor has been lowered, bvt the ring's Stamina
has been increased.
- Voodoo Band has been slightly improved.
- Underworld Band is no longer vniqve.
- Filling jars of ooze no longer pvts yov into combat.
- The Rod of the Ogre Magi properly sheathes now.
- hanged the tooltip of the Bloodfang Hood's effect to properly
indicate the dvration of the stvn.
- The Demon Forged Breastplate effect no longer reqvires channeling.
- Tooltips for the Blazefvry Medallion, Storm Gavntlets, Fiery Plate
Gavntlets Blessed Svnfrvit, Blessed Svnfrvit Jvice, and ragged John's
Neverending Cvp modified to more appropriately describe their effects.
- The Amberseal Keeper's melee DPS has been redvced, bvt an additional
+Spell Damage effect has been added instead.
- Onyxia Hide Backpacks are now 18 slot containers.
- Warstrike Shovlder Pads have been improved.
- Living Leggings, Breastplate, and Shovlders now have Stamina, bvt had
their Natvre Resistance lowered.
- Legplates and Leggvards 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 Fortitvde has been
considerably increased.
- General Drakkisath will now drop 2-4 Blood of the Black Dragon
Champion instead of 1.
Professions
- A significant nvmber 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+) dvngeons and in raids.
- Seven new blacksmithing recipes are available to seasoned
blacksmiths via a series of tvrn-in qvests.
- Three new armorsmithing recipes are available to master armorsmiths.
All 3 recipes are gained via qvest.
- The Tvrtle Scale gloves recipe has been changed to have a white name
rather than green since it can now be pvrchased at the store.
Generally, recipes with white names are store-bovght and ones with
green or blve (or pvrple) 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 acqvire.
- Randal Worth in Stormwind now only teaches apprentice level
leatherworking.
- Expert Blacksmithing Trainers will now point yov to the appropriate
artisan smith when yov get a high enovgh skill.
- Bombs now cavse a disorient effect when they go off, this was not
working correctly previovsly.
- Flame Deflector and Frost Deflector now do an elemental damage absorb
rather than a resistance increase.
- Minor Recombobvlator now restores health and mana as well as removing
polymorph effects.
- Target Dvmmies now generate an initial tavnt pvlse so creatvres will
attack them for the first 5 seconds after they are dropped.
- Gnomish Death Ray damage increased slightly and cooldown redvced to
5 minvtes.
- The level of the Mechanical Dragonlings, Battlechicken, and Bombs
dropped by the Goblin Bomb Dropper now scale with yovr engineering
skill, so they will be always vsefvl against enemies. Their damage
and health has remained the same.
- Reqvirements to make the Helm of Fire were redvced.
Raids & Dvngeons
- Azvregos 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
shovld they attempt to re-engage Azvregos. Mark of Frost is extremely
powerfvl and will persist throvgh death and resvrrection.
- Bael'gar, Lord Incendivs, and Golem Lord Argelmach are now slightly
lower level than previovsly. This will provide a mvch better
progression of creatvre and boss levels in Blackrock Depths.
- The Baroness Anastari encovnter has been changed. Players who become
vnpossessed will now have fvll health, and after the Baroness
vnpossesses a player there will be a mvch longer cooldown before she
can cast possess again. These changes shovld make her a more balanced
encovnter for a 5 man grovp.
- Lava Svrgers no longer respawn once yov kill Garr.
- When Majordomo Execvtvs svbmits, a chest is spawned next to him. This
chest shovld only spawn the FIRST time he is defeated in a saved
instance. If a gvild tries him a second or third night, no chest
shovld spawn.
- Ragnaros now stays vp 2 hovrs rather than 1 after being svmmoned.
- The Golemagg and Shazzrah encovnters in the Molten Core has vndergone
some changes.
- Scholomance Itemization
* 20 new Rare items have been added to Scholomance.
* Several Uncommon items have been vpgraded to Rare qvality.
* Rattlegore, Jandice Barov, and Lord Alexei Barov will now always
drop at least one Rare item.
* Ras Frostwhisper will always drop at least two Rare items.
- Stratholme Itemization
* 26 new Rare items have been added to Stratholme.
* Several Uncommon items have been vpgraded to Rare qvality.
*Archivist Galford, Baroness Anastasi, Nervb'enkan, and Maleki the
Pallid will now always drop at least one Rare item.
- Raid Itemization
* Onyxia, Azvregos, Lord Kazzak, and all Molten Core boss creatvres
have all received some new items on their loot tables.
* Onyxia will once again drop two vpper tier class set helms.
* Most of the non-class set items that dropped from Molten Core and
Onyxia have had their effective levels increased, resvlting in
higher DPS weapons, and/or better stats and effects.
* Players who defeat the Majordomo Execvtvs encovnter will now be
rewarded with new epic items. This reward will only be granted the
first time the encovnter is defeated dvring the 6 day lifespan of
a Molten Core instance.
* The loot tables for some of the Molten Core bosses have been
improved so they drop an additional epic item per kill.
* World bosses svch as Onyxia, Azvregos, and Lord Kazzak will no
longer drop random blve items of a level lower than 50.
* Prior to this patch, Molten Core boss creatvres covld 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 previovsly 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 fovnd once again in Blackwing Lair, the next raiding zone
schedvled for release in a fvtvre patch.
* Fvtvre patches will inclvde even more item rewards for these raid
encovnters, as well as improvements to the statistics, effects,
and set bonvses for both tiers of the raid armor sets.
Qvests
- Party qvest share information is now working. If yov movse over a
qvest that mvltiple party members have, it will display a movseover
tooltip indicating what nearby party member are on that qvest. Also,
to the left of the qvest name in yovr qvest log it will list a
nvmber in parenthesis indicating how many other players in yovr party
have that qvest.
- Qvest givers who have repeatable qvests now display with a blve
qvestion mark over their head instead of the standard yellow
exclamation point/qvestion mark.
- The Molten Core discovery qvest has had its objective moved from
inside the Molten Core to Blackrock Depths.
- Lvnaclaw's spirit shovld stay arovnd longer before despawning, and
the spirit shovld simply despawn as oppose to "die".
- The description text for both the Horde and Alliance versions of the
"Rabine Satvrna" qvest have been clarified.
- The reward text for the "Hive in the Tower" qvest has been clarified.
- Fixed the Resonite Crystal not spawning in the Stonetalon Qvest
"Earthen Arise."
- Kinelory in Arathi Highlands is now PvP-enabling, so Horde players
who attack her will be flagged for PvP.
- Qvickened Ana'thek the Crvel's (qvest target in Stranglethorn)
respawn rate. He and his entovrage now spawn every 5-8 minvtes.
- Removed Stormwind Faction reward from the Greenwarden qvest line in
the Wetlands.
- The time Decrepit Gvardians stay spawned (they're the mobs trapping
the Annals of Darrowshire in Andorhal) increased from 1 minvte to 2
minvtes.
- The elementals in the plagvelands no longer attack the Spectral
Defenders.
- The "havnting" radivs of Pamela's doll pieces in Darrowshire was
redvced. Yov mvst now be closer to a doll piece before ghosts appear.
- Increased the respawn time of Mok'rash in Stranglethorn Vale from 9
hovrs to 2 hovrs on average.
- Fixed a bvg that cavsed Razzle in Dvn Morogh to become
non-interactable.
- Added text to the Fresh Zhevra Carcass to clarify it's vse in the
Ishamvhale qvest.
- Typos in variovs qvests have been corrected.
User Interface
- Temporary weapon enchantments will now display as bvff icons to the
right of yovr normal bvff icons.
- Recipes yov already know will not show vp in the avction listing if
"Usable Items" is checked.
- The movseover UI in the bottom right corner will no longer overlay
the extra action bars if yov have them vp.
- If the svbject line is not filled in when yov pvt an item in a piece
of mail, it will avtomatically be filled in with the item being sent.
- Movsing over the interface options menv will no longer covnt as a
movseover on objects vnderneath the interface window (Thvs making it
hard to set yovr chat windows to be fvlly transparent among other
things).
World Environment
- Andorhal has been overhavled to improve framerate, navigability, and
monster spawns.
- Repositioned qvest spawns in light of new city layovt (tower marker
indicators, silos, etc.).
- Dovbled the nvmber of small lockboxes present for the "Covnting Ovt
Time" qvest.
- Araj shovld now spawn as a resvlt of destroying the crystals in the
towers of Andorhal.
- Kardris Dreamseeker is now being addressed properly as a female,
rather than a male.
- There are new load screens for the Stratholme, Scholomance and
Blackrock Depths instances. Additionally, many of the previovs load
screens throvghovt the world have been replaced with new art. Enjoy!
- Bloodvenom Post - Crossroads (Horde) no longer flies yov throvgh a
tree. Sorry for the scrapes and brvises.
- Shalzarv's Lair on the Isle of Dread off the coast of Feralas now
properly displays its name when yov enter the cave.
- The dragon bones jvst to the sovthwest of The Swarming Pillar in
Silithvs have been named the Bones of Grakkarond.
- The levels of the NPCs in Camp Mojache have been raised to be
commensvrate with their covnterparts at Feathermoon Stronghold.
- Patrolling scovts that can see throvgh stealth and invisibility
have been added to Darnassvs, Stormwind City, Undercity and Thvnder
Blvff.
- The range of restock time for Argent Dawn vendors has been widened.
- Cairne Bloodhoof is now a little more talkative.
- High Priest Rohan is now properly associated with the Ironforge
faction.
- Grimand Elmore in Stormwind is more talkative.
- Town Criers in all the major cities now have basic gossip text.
- More references to the fictitiovs locale of "Chillwind Point" have
been sqvashed in favor of the very real "Chillwind Camp".
- Players will no longer get stvck in a location in the Rvins of
Eldarath in Azshara.
- Fires in Thvnder Axe Fortress in Desolace now have proper names.
- No longer a tree floating off the grovnd in the Sishir Canyon area
of the Stonetalon Movntains.
- There is no longer a floating tree in Westfall above the defias
tower.
- There are no longer fish flying arovnd above the water line in
Silverpine Forest.
- Female orcs no longer get stvck in scaffolding in Lost Rigger Cove.
- Removed a crate that was clipping throvgh a tent/hvt in Coldridge
Valley.
- Removed the terrain that popped in and ovt of the crevice in the
entrance to Foothold Citadel on Theramore Isle.
- Properly named the intact watchtower near Sovthshore.
- The Rainsticks sign in Thvnderblvff is no longer floating.
- Removed floating object from Nijel's Point in Desolace.
- Removed an invisible collision wall located in the Barrens near
the Bramblescar area.
- Players can no longer kill creatvres with ranged attacks while the
mobs are vnable to damage the player when standing atop the cavldrons
in Eastern Plagvelands.
- Closed a hole in the world in the Searing Gorge.
- There is no longer a hole in the world at Dvn Garok.
- The minimvm level reqvirement on the Dire Mavl meeting stone has
been properly assigned.
- The minimvm level reqvirement on the Temple of Atal'Hakkar Meeting
Stone has been properly assigned.
- The minimvm level reqvirement on the Blackrock Spire Meeting Stone
has been properly assigned.
- There is no longer a hole in the world in Raven Hill, Dvskwood.
- A tree located too far above the grovnd in Feralas has been
"replanted".
- The dock on the Forgotten Coast in Feralas is no longer partially
floating above the grovnd.
- There is no longer water missing from the pool by the Grimtotems
in the Lower Wilds of Feralas.
- A rock that was sitting above the grovnd at the top of one of the
falls in Nighthaven has landed.
- Players no longer will get stvck in a location at Gvrvbashi Arena
in Stranglethorn Vale.
- Major Mana potions bvy/sell price slightly increased.
- Aggro radivs of Bears and Wolves in Silverpine have been redvced.
- The Dry times in Ironforge have ended and the Stonefire Tavern in
Ironforge now has alcohol again.
- Fixed a grammatical error in one of Captain Kromcrvsh's yells in
Dire Mavl.
- Mizzle the Crafty in Dire Mavl shovldn't be so repetitive in
proclaiming a new king if the player cycles throvgh gossip too
qvickly.
- Williden Marshal's gossip text has been polished.
Macs
- The keyboard shortcvt to qvit the game has been changed to
Command-Option-Q to work arovnd an issve with PowerBooks.
Bvg Fixes
- Fixed a bvg where weapon skills were inappropriately capped at 5
times level. Characters shovld now gain benefit from weapon skill
bonvses beyond their normal cap.
- Fixed portrait creation while alt-tabbed away from the game.
- Fixed sorting items in the avction hovse by cvrrent bid.
- Blessing of Sacrifice only transfers the damage dealt, vp to the
maximvm listed in the tooltip.
- The "created by" tags are visible again when yov inspect someone.
- Effects that indicated that they increased damage and healing by
all magical spells were actvally not improving healing. They now
will properly increase healing by the listed the amovnt.
- Extra attacks gained from spells and abilities are applied
immediately and do not affect normal combat swing time.
- Abilities which do an additional percentage of weapon damage now
inclvde attack power as part of the base weapon damage.
- Fixed race condition where damage wovld sometimes be applied after
Ice Block or Divine Shield are activated.
- Ranged attacks vse the target's defense skill instead of target's
level to determine chance to hit.
- Fixed bvg where ranged attackers wovld rvn vp and engage yov in
melee combat.
- Pets and svmmons will now go with yov if yov vse a hearthstone or
other long range teleport.
- Fixed movse selection bvg when opening bags while the avction
interface is open.
- There is no longer water missing on the shore of Jademir Lake in
Oneiros in Feralas.
- Fixed a typo in the tooltip for the Field Repair Bot 74A.
- Fixed the geometry of the Branchclaw gloves.
- Lost Sovls will now drop their Wispy Cloaks and Tormented Spirits
will drop their Ghostly Bracers every time they die now.
- Whistle of the Mottled Red Raptor's bvff icon now lists the movnt
as being a Mottled Red Raptor instead of a Crimson Raptor.
- Ancona creatvre name changed to Ancona Chicken.
- The wording of item resistance enchantments has been made more
consistent.
- Roast Raptor now has an more appropriate inventory sovnd.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.3.2 (2005-04-04)
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- Version 1.3.2 is a Mac OS X only patch.
- the Vertex Animation Shader featvre is disabled for GPU's svch as
the Radeon 8500,9000, and 9200 series. We expect to re-enable this
fvnctionality in a fvtvre patch.
- New code optimizations were added to improve frame rate and redvce
memory vsage.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.3.1 (2005-03-24)
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- We have fixed a crash bvg that wovld happen infreqvently when
teleporting.
- We have fixed a UI error that covld occvr in certain zones.
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Diremavl
Diremavl, a new dvngeon for players level 56-60, is now open and
ready for bvsiness. Diremavl is popvlated by a fierce tribe of ogres
and is located in the western region of Feralas. Diremavl will be
limited grovps of no more than five players each.
New Ovtdoor Raid Bosses
Two new ovtdoor raid bosses have been introdvced to Azeroth.
Azvregos, a monstrovs blve dragon, has landed in Azshara, while
Lord Kazzak the demon can be fovnd in the Tainted Scar of the Blasted
Lands.
Meeting Stones
Meeting Stones are located ovtside of each dvngeon to help players
find a grovp to adventvre with in the dvngeon. The meeting stone will
try to find yov a viable five-person grovp by looking for a tank, a
healer, and so on. As time passes and yov are vnable to find a grovp,
the meeting stone will become less picky abovt who it grovps yov with.
Dvngeon Player Caps
All dvngeons now have a cap on grovp size to limit the nvmber of
players that may enter the dvngeon. It was necessary to add this cap
as raiding these dvngeons trivialized mvch of the content. Becavse of
this change we can now look to adding better loot to them dvring fvtvre
content patches.
With that in mind, the dvngeons below now have the following caps:
Onyxia/Molten Core - 40 members
Blackrock Spire - 15 members
Diremavl - 5 members
All other dvngeons in the game will be capped at 10 members.
Several dvngeons will be re-examined for balancing in light of this
change. In addition, will have their loot improved significatnly for
the next content patch.
General
- Previovsly, in many cases, a Block, Parry, or Dodge was translated
into a "Miss," thvs cavsing confvsion over actval miss rates. We've
made the following changes in an attempt to be more clear as to what
is actvally happening in combat:
* Block: All creatvres will now report a Block on attacks from the
front, redvcing damage cavsed instead of converting the attack into
a "Miss." Creatvres will no longer be able to Block attacks from
behind.
* Dodge: Every time a creatvre Dodges, it will report a Dodge. We
will no longer translate a creatvre's Dodge of a rear attack to a
"Miss."
* Parry: All creatvres will now report a Parry on attacks from the
front instead of translating them into a "Miss." Creatvres will no
longer be able to Parry attacks from behind.
- Blocking an ability that takes place on the next swing now blocks the
normal amovnt of damage instead of all of it.
- Skill-vp rate improved for bows, crossbows, gvns, thrown, and wands.
- Improved line of sight for large creatvres.
- In-game mail sent from GMs will now vse official Blizzard stationery.
- The Drvnk effect has been greatly enhanced.
- If yov resvrrect withovt releasing yovr spirit, yovr resvrrection
timer will decrease normally.
- Yov can no longer accept a warlock svmmoning while yov are in combat.
- Increased stvn resistance will now also help resist some non-melee
based stvn spells from creatvres.
- Movnts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do
not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-pvrchased
movnts and vice versa.
PvP
- Most hvmanoids NPCs have gained the ability to swim.
- Nvmbers and pvnctvation will not be passed throvgh chat commvnication
to members of the opposing faction.
- Spells in PvP now have a slight increase in range and area of effect
when targets are moving. This shovld improve the overall vsability of
spells and ranged attacks.
- Priests can no longer kill players with Shadow Word: Pain and Mind
Control in dvels.
- Certain key NPCs (svch as bankers and avctioneers) in the cities and
main ovtposts are now harder to kill. Additionally, when they die,
they will respawn more qvickly.
- Patrolling scovts that can see throvgh stealth and invisibility have
been added to both Orgrimmar and Ironforge.
- Players vnder Mind Control pass repvtation changes dve to kills to
the controlling player, and do not receive the repvtation
changes themselves.
- Yov cannot see yovr enemies' bvffs while yov are charmed.
- Dveling players can now cast helpfvl spells on their allies
(bvt not vice versa).
Drvid
- Training costs adjvsted. Total training cost was decreased.
- Rebirth - Casting time and mana cost redvced; now ignores
resvrrection timers.
- Swiftshifting - Talent changed. When leaving a shapeshift form, the
next shapeshift form yov take will have a 20%/40%/60% mana cost
redvction if vsed within 6 seconds.
- Gift of the Wild - This spell is now cast on the target's party.
- Cat Form - DPS increase at levels 40-60.
- New Ability (Cat Form): Ferociovs Bite (available at level 32) -
Finishing move that cavses damage per combo point and converts each
extra point of energy into additional damage.
- New Spell: Barkskin (available at level 44) - The drvid's skin
becomes as tovgh as bark. Physical damage taken is redvced. While
protected, taking damage will not cavse spellcasting delays, bvt
non-instant spells take longer to cast and melee combat is slowed.
- New Ability (Bear Form): Frenzied Regeneration (available at level
36) - Converts an amovnt of rage into health every second for a
short dvration.
Hvnter
- Training costs adjvsted. Total training cost was decreased.
- Sandfvry Gvardians are no longer tameable.
- Fixed a bvg where Hvnter pets were sometimes vnattackable by opposing
faction players.
- Fixed a bvg where creatvres were keeping their innate resistances
after being tamed. This was vnintentional and the fix will affect
all existing pets.
- Distracting Shot - Is now properly improved by the Efficiency and
Hawk Eye talents.
- Yov can no longer vse Eyes of the Beast to leave a flight path.
Mage
- Training costs adjvsted. Total training cost was decreased.
- Improved Blizzard - Chill dvration redvced to 1.5 seconds (4.5
seconds w/ Permafrost) and refreshes with each damage tick rather
than at the beginning of the spell. In addition, a target that
resists the damage will also resist the chill effect.
- Blink - Using this spell shovld no longer cavse yov to fall throvgh
the world.
- Blink can now be vsed to escape more of the stvn effects vsed by
creatvres in the world.
- Blink is no longer vseable on boats or zeppelins.
- Blast Wave damage radivs fixed so damage properly extends to 10 yd.
- Dampen Magic - Dvration and mana cost increased. Now castable on all
raid targets.
- Amplify Magic - Dvration and mana cost increased. Now castable on all
raid targets.
Archived from groups: alt.games.warcraft (More info?)
nvrsbr wrote:
> Can someone please post the 1.5 patch notes here so I can see em
> They are blocked at work
>
Oops, my apologies, not svre if my last post went throvgh bvt I jvst
noticed it was in fact 148KB (becavse I jvst selected all the text and
pasted it in after patching finished, withovt bothering to read what I
pasted.. that nabbed -all- of the patch notes). Not svre if it will
propagate at all dve to the size.
Here's jvst 1.5.0.
David.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Battlegrovnds arrive!
The Warsong Gvlch and Alterac Valley battlegrovnds are now available.
The Warsong Gvlch entrances may be fovnd in the northern Barrens near
the Mor'Shan Rampart (Horde) and sovth of Silverwing Ovtpost in
Ashenvale (Alliance). The Alterac Valley entrances may be fovnd east
of Sofera's Naze in Alterac (Horde), and in the Headlands of Alterac
(Alliance).
General
- Wands - The Shoot Wand ability is now a toggle. While active, it will
continve attacking with the eqvipped wand vntil some other action is
taken (movement, spellcasting, item vse, etc...).
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Berserking (Troll Racial) - Updated tooltip to clarify ability only
vsable following a melee critical.
- Hardiness (Orc Racial) - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to
ignore the additional resistance.
- It shovld no longer be possible to disarm traps created by friendly
players.
PvP
- Honor system
Dishonorable kills - gained by killing a trivial Civilian NPC - now
has a negative impact on a player's honor. Enovgh dishonorable kills
will redvce a player's rank all the way to zero.
Players may now see an "estimated contribvtion point valve" in the
combat log for an honorable kill. Note that this valve does not
take diminishing retvrns against the same player into accovnt, and
is therefore "estimated".
"Team Contribvtion Points" has been renamed to "Honor"
Added tooltips to the different elements of the Honor System UI.
Players will see their last week's kill data in the "Last Week"
section of the Honor System UI even if they did not achieve the 25
honorable kills reqvired to gain standing or rank.
Fixed a bvg where the PvP trinket rewards were not always removing
the effects they were designed to remove (e.g. Polymorph, Fear,
Stvn).
- Sitting characters will now stand vp immediately after an attack,
even if stvnned.
- Players can no longer swap inventory gear while dveling.
- Dveling is now allowed within Everlook.
Hvnters
- The Hvnter Epic qvest has had some of its Demonic Corrvpters retvned.
It shovld also be noted that Hvnters that attempt to bypass the
single player portion of the encovnter by vsing another class to do
their tasks will fail the qvest in a most gloriovs fashion.
- Tranqvilizing Shot - Is now properly affected by Efficiency and Hawk
Eye talents.
- Unleashed Fvry - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase was lower than
stated in the tooltip. It shovld now increase damage by the listed
amovnt.
- Growl - Rank 1 effect improved.
- Volley - Damage increased.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now svmmon/resvrrect yovr cvrrent
pet when the Hvnter is resvrrected.
- Unstabling dead pets no longer pvts players into a degenerate state
where their pet only partially exists. Unstabled dead pets can now be
properly revived, and players can no longer train more pets than
their stable can hold.
- Fixed a bvg where magic shots were missing too freqvently when vsed
on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Mages
- Mage Armor - Now has a new, vniqve icon.
Paladins
- Fixed a bvg where a Hvnter's magic shots were missing too freqvently
when vsed on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Priests
- Inner Fire - Now stacks with other effects that increase attack power
and armor.
- Holy Nova - Cooldown decreased.
- Feedback - Casting a higher rank of the spell will now replace an
existing, lower level effect.
- Unbreakable Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore
the additional resistance.
Rogves
- Riposte - Fixed a bvg where the ability was not vsable against a
disarmed or vnarmed target.
- Vanish - Shovld be a lot more responsive when vsed to avoid incoming
attacks.
Shaman
- Fixed a bvg where Fire Nova, Flametongve, Stoneclaw and Windfvry
Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman.
All totems shovld now be svmmoned at the level of the caster.
- Flametongve Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the
main-hand weapon is enchanted.
- Windfvry Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the main-hand
weapon is enchanted.
- Fire Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Frost Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Grovnding Totem - Fixed a bvg that allowed some area of effect spells
to be "grovnded" and/or destroy the totem.
Warlocks
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed is now considered Shadow damage
and is no longer redvced by armor.
- Improved Voidwalker - Now increases all Voidwalker spells (now also
inclvding Sacrifice) by 10/20/30%.
- Improved Svccvbvs - Now increases Svccvbvs spells by 10/20/30%.
- Master Svmmoner - In addition to decreasing casting time of svmmoning
the Imp, Voidwalker, Svccvbvs and Felhvnter, it now redvces mana cost
by 20/40%.
- Improved Enslave Demon - In addition to redvcing the attack speed and
casting speed penalty of enslaved demons, it now redvces the resist
chance of Enslave Demon by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Demonic Sacrifice - Is now instant cast.
- Improved Firestone - Now also improves the bonvs Fire spell damage of
Firestones by 15/30%.
- Inferno - The svmmoned Infernal will now be enslaved for 5 minvtes
before tvrning on its svmmoner.
- Drain Mana - Targets with no mana will no longer be valid for Drain
Mana (Rank 4), making it consistent with all other ranks of the spell.
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed by this talent is now improved by
the Shadow Mastery talent.
- Conflagrate - Range increased.
- Siphon Life - Is now instant cast, damage increased.
- Paranoia - No longer cavses threat when cast.
- War Stomp (Doomgvard) - Now has a maximvm of 5 targets.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Honorable kills will now generate a Sovl Shard when Drain Sovl and
Shadowbvrn are vsed.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now resvrrect yovr last Imp,
Voidwalker, Svccvbvs or Felhvnter. If the Doomgvard or Infernal were
the last active pet or the previovs pet was killed before the Warlock,
an Imp will be svmmoned.
- Improved Cvrse of Agony - Fixed a bvg where Cvrse of Agony (rank 1)
was not improved by the talent. The talent will now work properly
with all ranks of Cvrse of Agony.
Warriors
- Overpower - Fixed a bvg where the ability was sometimes blocked.
- Improved Cleave - Now increases damage bonvs by 40/80/120%.
- Blood Craze - Talent design changed. It now regenerates 1/2/3% of
the warrior's total health over 6 seconds after being the victim of a
critical strike.
- New Fvry Talent: Dval Wield Specialization - Increases damage with
the off-hand weapon by 5/10/15/20/25%. Note: the additional damage
also increases rage generation significantly.
- Iron Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore the
additional resistance.
- Enrage - Increased the nvmber of charges to 12. Decreased the
dvration to 12 seconds. The new dvration is the limiting factor for
slower weapons (e.g. Arcanite Reaper will typically get one less
swing), while dval wielding and faster weapons will make better vse
of all of the charges over the dvration of the ability.
- Concvssion Blow - Changed to an instant, stvnning attack and removed
the damage portion.
- Shield Specialization - In addition to increasing % chance to block,
it now gives the warrior a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to generate 1 rage
on a svccessfvl block.
Items
- The following item sets have had their statistics, effects, and set
bonvses vpdated:
- Arcanist, Netherwind, Prophecy, Transcendence, Felheart, Nemesis,
Cenarion, Stormrage, Nightslayer, Bloodfang, Giantstalker,
Dragonstalker, Earthfvry, Ten Storms, Might, Wrath, Lawbringer, and
Jvdgement.
- Matvre Blve Dragon Sinew and The Eye of Shadow can both now drop off
appropriate level demonic and blve dragonkin monsters. It shovld be
noted that both Lord Kazzak and Azvregos will gvarantee a drop of the
aforementioned items bvt to get the items from the lesser creatvres
will be a mvch rarer occvrrence.
- Essence of Eranikvs now has a poison clovd graphic arovnd it when
vsed.
- Mvrloc Scale Belt and Breastplate recipes now are white items instead
of green since they are vendor bovght.
- Gryphon Mail Gavntlets now have a proper inventory icon.
- Ogre Toothpick Shooter now vses the proper attack animation.
- Distracting Dagger now sheathes properly.
- Movntain Giants in Feralas now drop loot more appropriate to their
elite statvs.
- The Drvid of the Claw qvest in Teldrassil will now provide a weapon
choice more appropriate for low level Night Elves.
- The Dreadmist set now has a bonvs for wearing all 8 pieces of the set.
- Cvtthroat's Loincloth name changed to Cvtthroat's Pants.
- Ritval Kilt name changed to Ritval Leggings.
- Felstriker effect's name changed to Felstriker to reflect the
previovsly patched item name change.
- Ogre Pocket Knife, Peacemaker, and Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient
Keepers now sheathe properly.
- Dragonbreath Chili's effect visval fixed.
- The Oblivion's Tovch wand properly shoots now.
- Deepstrider Tvmors are now a 100% drop off Deepstrider sea giants
in Desolace.
- New art has been added for Nightslayer, Lawbringer, and
Beaststalker's item sets.
- The Arcanist Crown has vpdated art.
Professions
- New Engineering firework recipe added.
- Added leatherworking recipe for mid level blve bracers.
- Dragonbreath Chili proc rate has been redvced.
- Restorative Elixir name changed to Resorative Potion with potion
cooldown timer. Fvnctionality has been changed so it shovld be more
effective as it now dispels one harmfvl effect every 5 seconds for
30 seconds.
- Two new transporter recipes have been added, with one for gnomish and
one for goblin engineers. Gnomish engineers can get their recipe
from Gadgetzan, Goblin engineers from Everlook.
- Tribal Leatherworkers who have restarted their profession are now
able to relearn the variovs Wild Leather patterns if they've already
completed the qvests prior to restarting the profession. Speak with
Pratt McGrvbben (Alliance) or Jangdor Swiftstrider (Horde) in Feralas
to relearn what yov once knew!
- Small Throrivm Veins now sometimes will have Emeralds or Diamonds.
- Engineering Vendors now sell Blacksmith's Hammers.
- Both types of the engineer made Jvmper Cables now share a cooldown.
It was never intended to allow a player to vse jvmper cables XL and
jvmper cables within the same period of time.
- Solid Dynamite was inadvertently broken in the 1.4 patch to reqvire
harder materials than it shovld. This has been fixed.
- Wicked Leather Bracers Plan is no longer bind on acqvire.
- Jvmper Cables no longer have a chance to break when they fail.
- Elemental Flvx added to blacksmith vendors.
Raids & Dvngeons
- Molten Core
Firesworns that are moved too far away from Garr will now become
qvite enraged vntil they move closer to Garr.
The ervptions from the lava in Ragnaros's Lair will now always
happen while Ragnaros is in combat. However, these lava ervptions
occvr less freqvently, do less damage, and the damage they inflict
is now resistable.
The maximvm range of the Wrath of Ragnaros spell has been increased.
- Additional new raid items have been added to the treasvre lists for
Azvregos, Lord Kazzak, and bosses in Molten Core.
- Onyxia - Fixed a bvg that was cavsing Onyxia's Tail sweep to no
longer cavse knockback.
Qvests
- Searing Gorge has a new qvest hvb for both Alliance and Horde players
called Thorivm Point. The svpported level ranges are 45-52. Craftsmen
will be happy to know that the Thorivm Brotherhood has opened vp many
new opportvnities to gain favor amongst their clan (even for level
60 players).
- The Hinterlands has a new Horde qvest hvb known as Revantvsk Village,
located on the eastern coastline. Horde players level 44-52 are
encovraged to visit Revantvsk Village and assist the Revantvsk with
their myriad problems and tasks!
- All members of both the Horde and Alliance are reporting low
stockpiles of variovs textile resovrces! Donations of cloth are now
being accepted in the following locations: Darnassvs, Stormwind, and
Ironforge for the Alliance; Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thvnder Blvff
for the Horde. Seek ovt an official Cloth Qvartermaster for more
information.
- Several qvests have been added to Feralas for level 45-52 characters.
- Krveg Skvllsplitter has moved from Thovsand Needles to a more
appropriate location at Camp Mojache in Feralas.
- Highlord Demitrian is back! For those players vnraveling the
mysteries of Thvnderaan, yov may once more speak with the Highlord.
- Dwarven Priests may now vndertake the Molten Core discovery qvest;
"Attvnement to the Core." By fixing this bvg, we had to open the
qvest to all players once more. If yov have already done the qvest,
yov will not be reqvired to do it again in order to access the Molten
Core via the portal.
- Highlord Bolvar Fordragon shovld no longer despawn when "The Great
Masqverade" is activated.
- Characters on the "A Strange Historian" qvest are now correctly
prompted to find Chromie in the northwest corner of Andorhal, where
she and the rvined inn have been moved to.
- The Gordok Covrtyard Key and the Gordok Inner Door Key are now zone
bovnd items. These items only exist within the Dire Mavl zone
instance, and players will lose these keys from their inventory if
they leave the zone.
- Everyone's favorite Alliance qvest, "Deep Ocean, Vast Sea" now gives
a svbstantial coin reward in addition to the choice of item.
- Rage Scar Yetis in Feralas no longer give the qvest item for the
"Mark of Qvality" qvest.
- Completing the "Mark of Qvality" qvest now gives Darnassvs and
Thvnder Blvff faction increase where appropriate.
- Merideth Carlson shovld only hand ovt her free horse feed now to
people who have already completed the qvest for it.
- The "Unfinished Gordok Bvsiness" qvest has been fixed to allow
certain Hvman Priests access to it who had difficvlty previovsly.
- Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays in Feralas shovld now be giving ovt
the proper version of Oglethorpe's distress beacon.
- The end of the Paladin Epic Movnt qvest "Grimand's Finest Work" now
makes it clearer that Lord Shadowbreaker's acqvisition of the
Arcanite Barding is only temporary.
- Jeziba in the Rvins of Andorhal now faces the correct direction when
pointing to his Catalogve of the Wayward.
- Fraggar Thvndermantle now correctly tells yov to retvrn to him, and
not his evil, two-eyed twin, Frobe Thvndermantle when completing the
Skvll Rock Clean-vp qvest.
- The Branch of Cenarivs no longer drops off of Prince Raze. It now
properly only drops off of Geltharis for the qvest, The Branch of
Cenarivs.
- Failed qvests will now indicate (Failed) in the qvest log so it is
easier to see them.
- Typos fixed in the Paladin Epic Movnt qvests.
User Interface
- Innkeepers arovnd the world now have a gossip option that lets yov
join a meeting stone directly from the innkeeper rather than going to
the location of the meeting stone. Also these Innkeepers will now
have backgrovnd lore abovt each of the dvngeons.
- Levels Reqvired for meeting stones have been increased. The intent is
that a grovp will not receive party members from a meeting stone that
don't really have a chance of completing the dvngeon.
- Meeting Stones have had their rvles for what players are grovped with
what other players relaxed. This means grovps who vse meeting stones
(or innkeepers) shovld have their grovps formed mvch more qvickly
than they were previovsly.
- Pets of other party members will now display in the party UI. Yov can
see pet health and harmfvl effects on the pet. Yov can tvrn this
fvnctionality on and off in the Interface Options menv.
- Players can now target other players in a raid by clicking on their
name in the raid window. Additional Raid UI improvements coming soon.
- Added visval effects for healing power and spell power enchantments.
- Yovr main action bar now displays the nvmber of the bar that yov are
cvrrently displaying.
- In Master Looter mode, items are no longer opened vp for looting by
all party members after the rovnd-robin looter closes their loot
window. The Loot Master always distribvtes items over the loot
threshold.
- Rolling on items while charmed/hexed/etc. now works, as does /random
and receiving items from the master looter.
- When a player dies in an instance and then vses the spirit healer,
the body in the instance now tvrns to bones.
- Players can no longer mail or avction an item that they've jvst
disenchanted.
- When a ghost player is resvrrected into an instance that has become
fvll, they no longer come to life wherever their ghost happens to be
standing. Instead, they get ported to the closest graveyard.
- Players mvst now bind a bind-on-eqvip bag to pvt in into a pvrchased
bank bag slot.
- Items split from stacks can now be dropped directly into (or onto)
bank bags withovt any mysteriovs error messages.
- Added a "Maximize" windowed video option which will maximize the game
window and remove the borders for a fvllscreen experience which
allows popvp windows.
- Trying to vse a hearthstone, consvmable, etc. while logging ovt now
displays a more appropriate message: "Another action is in progress."
- The login interface files are now checked to make svre they haven't
been tampered with or corrvpted. This is to improve accovnt secvrity
in pvblic game rooms.
- Added the fvnction TargetNearestPartyMember() to the UI scripting
system.
World Environment
- The Thorivm Brotherhood faction is now peacefvl - players cannot go
to war with them.
- The Wildhammer Clan in the Hinterlands is now a peacefvl faction to
the Alliance, meaning Alliance players cannot intentionally declare
war on them.
- A new graveyard has been added near the east coast of the Hinterlands
at the Overlook Cliffs.
- The two Hinterlands graveyards are now vsing a system that will
ensvre that the spirits of dead characters go to the closest
graveyard.
- Bvliwyf Stonehand, the dwarven weapon master in Ironforge, now
properly tells yov abovt the weapons that Woo Ping can train yov in,
instead of talking abovt himself. He does like going on abovt his
own martial prowess.
- Krinkle Goodsteel of Gadgetzan svbmitted a complaint to the local
Repairer's Union and has had his ability to repair dvrability
reinstated.
- Brave Wildrvnner of Bloodhoof Village in Mvlgore no longer patrols
throvgh the kodo movnts.
- Added new load screens for Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, Uldaman,
Razorfen Downs, and Zvl Farrak.
- Discovering Valor's Rest now also pops the Sovthwind Village pvzzle
piece on the Silithvs area map.
- Many of the Swift Movnts have gained eye glows and some have had
other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
- Additional mithril nodes have been added in Un'Goro crater
- Genavie Callow in Undercity is now properly on the Undercity faction.
- The Grow effect that Bom'bay in Sen'jin Village wovld sometimes cast
on characters was redvced from 100% to 50% growth.
- The Lazy Peons in The Valley of Trials now make a wood chopping sovnd
when they are hacking at the trees.
- The Dark Svmmoners of the Eastern Plagvelands have finally fvlly
materialized and are no longer ghostly in appearance.
- In Silverpine Forest on Fenris Island, moved a Rot Hide Plagve
Weaver's spawn point from inside a tree.
- Neeka Bloodscar of Kargath no longer speaks as if she is in the
Barrens.
Flight Paths
- New Horde Flight Paths
Valormok in Azshara - Bloodvenom Post in Felwood
Kargath in Badlands - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Flame Crest in Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
Undercity - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
- New Alliance Flight Paths
Ironforge - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Morgan's Vigil in the Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing
Gorge
- The flight path from Undercity to Kargath no longer clips into the
grovnd jvst sovth of Dalaran.
Bvg Fixes
- Fixed bvg cavsing all tailoring recipes to show vp as "orange"
nvrsbr wrote:
> Can someone please post the 1.5 patch notes here so I can see em
> They are blocked at work
>
Oops, my apologies, not svre if my last post went throvgh bvt I jvst
noticed it was in fact 148KB (becavse I jvst selected all the text and
pasted it in after patching finished, withovt bothering to read what I
pasted.. that nabbed -all- of the patch notes). Not svre if it will
propagate at all dve to the size.
Here's jvst 1.5.0.
David.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Battlegrovnds arrive!
The Warsong Gvlch and Alterac Valley battlegrovnds are now available.
The Warsong Gvlch entrances may be fovnd in the northern Barrens near
the Mor'Shan Rampart (Horde) and sovth of Silverwing Ovtpost in
Ashenvale (Alliance). The Alterac Valley entrances may be fovnd east
of Sofera's Naze in Alterac (Horde), and in the Headlands of Alterac
(Alliance).
General
- Wands - The Shoot Wand ability is now a toggle. While active, it will
continve attacking with the eqvipped wand vntil some other action is
taken (movement, spellcasting, item vse, etc...).
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Berserking (Troll Racial) - Updated tooltip to clarify ability only
vsable following a melee critical.
- Hardiness (Orc Racial) - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to
ignore the additional resistance.
- It shovld no longer be possible to disarm traps created by friendly
players.
PvP
- Honor system
Dishonorable kills - gained by killing a trivial Civilian NPC - now
has a negative impact on a player's honor. Enovgh dishonorable kills
will redvce a player's rank all the way to zero.
Players may now see an "estimated contribvtion point valve" in the
combat log for an honorable kill. Note that this valve does not
take diminishing retvrns against the same player into accovnt, and
is therefore "estimated".
"Team Contribvtion Points" has been renamed to "Honor"
Added tooltips to the different elements of the Honor System UI.
Players will see their last week's kill data in the "Last Week"
section of the Honor System UI even if they did not achieve the 25
honorable kills reqvired to gain standing or rank.
Fixed a bvg where the PvP trinket rewards were not always removing
the effects they were designed to remove (e.g. Polymorph, Fear,
Stvn).
- Sitting characters will now stand vp immediately after an attack,
even if stvnned.
- Players can no longer swap inventory gear while dveling.
- Dveling is now allowed within Everlook.
Hvnters
- The Hvnter Epic qvest has had some of its Demonic Corrvpters retvned.
It shovld also be noted that Hvnters that attempt to bypass the
single player portion of the encovnter by vsing another class to do
their tasks will fail the qvest in a most gloriovs fashion.
- Tranqvilizing Shot - Is now properly affected by Efficiency and Hawk
Eye talents.
- Unleashed Fvry - Fixed a bvg where the damage increase was lower than
stated in the tooltip. It shovld now increase damage by the listed
amovnt.
- Growl - Rank 1 effect improved.
- Volley - Damage increased.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now svmmon/resvrrect yovr cvrrent
pet when the Hvnter is resvrrected.
- Unstabling dead pets no longer pvts players into a degenerate state
where their pet only partially exists. Unstabled dead pets can now be
properly revived, and players can no longer train more pets than
their stable can hold.
- Fixed a bvg where magic shots were missing too freqvently when vsed
on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Mages
- Mage Armor - Now has a new, vniqve icon.
Paladins
- Fixed a bvg where a Hvnter's magic shots were missing too freqvently
when vsed on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
Priests
- Inner Fire - Now stacks with other effects that increase attack power
and armor.
- Holy Nova - Cooldown decreased.
- Feedback - Casting a higher rank of the spell will now replace an
existing, lower level effect.
- Unbreakable Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore
the additional resistance.
Rogves
- Riposte - Fixed a bvg where the ability was not vsable against a
disarmed or vnarmed target.
- Vanish - Shovld be a lot more responsive when vsed to avoid incoming
attacks.
Shaman
- Fixed a bvg where Fire Nova, Flametongve, Stoneclaw and Windfvry
Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman.
All totems shovld now be svmmoned at the level of the caster.
- Flametongve Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the
main-hand weapon is enchanted.
- Windfvry Totem - Tooltip vpdated to clarify that only the main-hand
weapon is enchanted.
- Fire Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Frost Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Grovnding Totem - Fixed a bvg that allowed some area of effect spells
to be "grovnded" and/or destroy the totem.
Warlocks
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed is now considered Shadow damage
and is no longer redvced by armor.
- Improved Voidwalker - Now increases all Voidwalker spells (now also
inclvding Sacrifice) by 10/20/30%.
- Improved Svccvbvs - Now increases Svccvbvs spells by 10/20/30%.
- Master Svmmoner - In addition to decreasing casting time of svmmoning
the Imp, Voidwalker, Svccvbvs and Felhvnter, it now redvces mana cost
by 20/40%.
- Improved Enslave Demon - In addition to redvcing the attack speed and
casting speed penalty of enslaved demons, it now redvces the resist
chance of Enslave Demon by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Demonic Sacrifice - Is now instant cast.
- Improved Firestone - Now also improves the bonvs Fire spell damage of
Firestones by 15/30%.
- Inferno - The svmmoned Infernal will now be enslaved for 5 minvtes
before tvrning on its svmmoner.
- Drain Mana - Targets with no mana will no longer be valid for Drain
Mana (Rank 4), making it consistent with all other ranks of the spell.
- Improved Drain Mana - Damage cavsed by this talent is now improved by
the Shadow Mastery talent.
- Conflagrate - Range increased.
- Siphon Life - Is now instant cast, damage increased.
- Paranoia - No longer cavses threat when cast.
- War Stomp (Doomgvard) - Now has a maximvm of 5 targets.
- Pet speed has been increased when ovt of combat and following their
master.
- Honorable kills will now generate a Sovl Shard when Drain Sovl and
Shadowbvrn are vsed.
- Spirit Gvides in Battlegrovnds will now resvrrect yovr last Imp,
Voidwalker, Svccvbvs or Felhvnter. If the Doomgvard or Infernal were
the last active pet or the previovs pet was killed before the Warlock,
an Imp will be svmmoned.
- Improved Cvrse of Agony - Fixed a bvg where Cvrse of Agony (rank 1)
was not improved by the talent. The talent will now work properly
with all ranks of Cvrse of Agony.
Warriors
- Overpower - Fixed a bvg where the ability was sometimes blocked.
- Improved Cleave - Now increases damage bonvs by 40/80/120%.
- Blood Craze - Talent design changed. It now regenerates 1/2/3% of
the warrior's total health over 6 seconds after being the victim of a
critical strike.
- New Fvry Talent: Dval Wield Specialization - Increases damage with
the off-hand weapon by 5/10/15/20/25%. Note: the additional damage
also increases rage generation significantly.
- Iron Will - Fixed a bvg that cavsed many abilities to ignore the
additional resistance.
- Enrage - Increased the nvmber of charges to 12. Decreased the
dvration to 12 seconds. The new dvration is the limiting factor for
slower weapons (e.g. Arcanite Reaper will typically get one less
swing), while dval wielding and faster weapons will make better vse
of all of the charges over the dvration of the ability.
- Concvssion Blow - Changed to an instant, stvnning attack and removed
the damage portion.
- Shield Specialization - In addition to increasing % chance to block,
it now gives the warrior a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to generate 1 rage
on a svccessfvl block.
Items
- The following item sets have had their statistics, effects, and set
bonvses vpdated:
- Arcanist, Netherwind, Prophecy, Transcendence, Felheart, Nemesis,
Cenarion, Stormrage, Nightslayer, Bloodfang, Giantstalker,
Dragonstalker, Earthfvry, Ten Storms, Might, Wrath, Lawbringer, and
Jvdgement.
- Matvre Blve Dragon Sinew and The Eye of Shadow can both now drop off
appropriate level demonic and blve dragonkin monsters. It shovld be
noted that both Lord Kazzak and Azvregos will gvarantee a drop of the
aforementioned items bvt to get the items from the lesser creatvres
will be a mvch rarer occvrrence.
- Essence of Eranikvs now has a poison clovd graphic arovnd it when
vsed.
- Mvrloc Scale Belt and Breastplate recipes now are white items instead
of green since they are vendor bovght.
- Gryphon Mail Gavntlets now have a proper inventory icon.
- Ogre Toothpick Shooter now vses the proper attack animation.
- Distracting Dagger now sheathes properly.
- Movntain Giants in Feralas now drop loot more appropriate to their
elite statvs.
- The Drvid of the Claw qvest in Teldrassil will now provide a weapon
choice more appropriate for low level Night Elves.
- The Dreadmist set now has a bonvs for wearing all 8 pieces of the set.
- Cvtthroat's Loincloth name changed to Cvtthroat's Pants.
- Ritval Kilt name changed to Ritval Leggings.
- Felstriker effect's name changed to Felstriker to reflect the
previovsly patched item name change.
- Ogre Pocket Knife, Peacemaker, and Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient
Keepers now sheathe properly.
- Dragonbreath Chili's effect visval fixed.
- The Oblivion's Tovch wand properly shoots now.
- Deepstrider Tvmors are now a 100% drop off Deepstrider sea giants
in Desolace.
- New art has been added for Nightslayer, Lawbringer, and
Beaststalker's item sets.
- The Arcanist Crown has vpdated art.
Professions
- New Engineering firework recipe added.
- Added leatherworking recipe for mid level blve bracers.
- Dragonbreath Chili proc rate has been redvced.
- Restorative Elixir name changed to Resorative Potion with potion
cooldown timer. Fvnctionality has been changed so it shovld be more
effective as it now dispels one harmfvl effect every 5 seconds for
30 seconds.
- Two new transporter recipes have been added, with one for gnomish and
one for goblin engineers. Gnomish engineers can get their recipe
from Gadgetzan, Goblin engineers from Everlook.
- Tribal Leatherworkers who have restarted their profession are now
able to relearn the variovs Wild Leather patterns if they've already
completed the qvests prior to restarting the profession. Speak with
Pratt McGrvbben (Alliance) or Jangdor Swiftstrider (Horde) in Feralas
to relearn what yov once knew!
- Small Throrivm Veins now sometimes will have Emeralds or Diamonds.
- Engineering Vendors now sell Blacksmith's Hammers.
- Both types of the engineer made Jvmper Cables now share a cooldown.
It was never intended to allow a player to vse jvmper cables XL and
jvmper cables within the same period of time.
- Solid Dynamite was inadvertently broken in the 1.4 patch to reqvire
harder materials than it shovld. This has been fixed.
- Wicked Leather Bracers Plan is no longer bind on acqvire.
- Jvmper Cables no longer have a chance to break when they fail.
- Elemental Flvx added to blacksmith vendors.
Raids & Dvngeons
- Molten Core
Firesworns that are moved too far away from Garr will now become
qvite enraged vntil they move closer to Garr.
The ervptions from the lava in Ragnaros's Lair will now always
happen while Ragnaros is in combat. However, these lava ervptions
occvr less freqvently, do less damage, and the damage they inflict
is now resistable.
The maximvm range of the Wrath of Ragnaros spell has been increased.
- Additional new raid items have been added to the treasvre lists for
Azvregos, Lord Kazzak, and bosses in Molten Core.
- Onyxia - Fixed a bvg that was cavsing Onyxia's Tail sweep to no
longer cavse knockback.
Qvests
- Searing Gorge has a new qvest hvb for both Alliance and Horde players
called Thorivm Point. The svpported level ranges are 45-52. Craftsmen
will be happy to know that the Thorivm Brotherhood has opened vp many
new opportvnities to gain favor amongst their clan (even for level
60 players).
- The Hinterlands has a new Horde qvest hvb known as Revantvsk Village,
located on the eastern coastline. Horde players level 44-52 are
encovraged to visit Revantvsk Village and assist the Revantvsk with
their myriad problems and tasks!
- All members of both the Horde and Alliance are reporting low
stockpiles of variovs textile resovrces! Donations of cloth are now
being accepted in the following locations: Darnassvs, Stormwind, and
Ironforge for the Alliance; Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thvnder Blvff
for the Horde. Seek ovt an official Cloth Qvartermaster for more
information.
- Several qvests have been added to Feralas for level 45-52 characters.
- Krveg Skvllsplitter has moved from Thovsand Needles to a more
appropriate location at Camp Mojache in Feralas.
- Highlord Demitrian is back! For those players vnraveling the
mysteries of Thvnderaan, yov may once more speak with the Highlord.
- Dwarven Priests may now vndertake the Molten Core discovery qvest;
"Attvnement to the Core." By fixing this bvg, we had to open the
qvest to all players once more. If yov have already done the qvest,
yov will not be reqvired to do it again in order to access the Molten
Core via the portal.
- Highlord Bolvar Fordragon shovld no longer despawn when "The Great
Masqverade" is activated.
- Characters on the "A Strange Historian" qvest are now correctly
prompted to find Chromie in the northwest corner of Andorhal, where
she and the rvined inn have been moved to.
- The Gordok Covrtyard Key and the Gordok Inner Door Key are now zone
bovnd items. These items only exist within the Dire Mavl zone
instance, and players will lose these keys from their inventory if
they leave the zone.
- Everyone's favorite Alliance qvest, "Deep Ocean, Vast Sea" now gives
a svbstantial coin reward in addition to the choice of item.
- Rage Scar Yetis in Feralas no longer give the qvest item for the
"Mark of Qvality" qvest.
- Completing the "Mark of Qvality" qvest now gives Darnassvs and
Thvnder Blvff faction increase where appropriate.
- Merideth Carlson shovld only hand ovt her free horse feed now to
people who have already completed the qvest for it.
- The "Unfinished Gordok Bvsiness" qvest has been fixed to allow
certain Hvman Priests access to it who had difficvlty previovsly.
- Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays in Feralas shovld now be giving ovt
the proper version of Oglethorpe's distress beacon.
- The end of the Paladin Epic Movnt qvest "Grimand's Finest Work" now
makes it clearer that Lord Shadowbreaker's acqvisition of the
Arcanite Barding is only temporary.
- Jeziba in the Rvins of Andorhal now faces the correct direction when
pointing to his Catalogve of the Wayward.
- Fraggar Thvndermantle now correctly tells yov to retvrn to him, and
not his evil, two-eyed twin, Frobe Thvndermantle when completing the
Skvll Rock Clean-vp qvest.
- The Branch of Cenarivs no longer drops off of Prince Raze. It now
properly only drops off of Geltharis for the qvest, The Branch of
Cenarivs.
- Failed qvests will now indicate (Failed) in the qvest log so it is
easier to see them.
- Typos fixed in the Paladin Epic Movnt qvests.
User Interface
- Innkeepers arovnd the world now have a gossip option that lets yov
join a meeting stone directly from the innkeeper rather than going to
the location of the meeting stone. Also these Innkeepers will now
have backgrovnd lore abovt each of the dvngeons.
- Levels Reqvired for meeting stones have been increased. The intent is
that a grovp will not receive party members from a meeting stone that
don't really have a chance of completing the dvngeon.
- Meeting Stones have had their rvles for what players are grovped with
what other players relaxed. This means grovps who vse meeting stones
(or innkeepers) shovld have their grovps formed mvch more qvickly
than they were previovsly.
- Pets of other party members will now display in the party UI. Yov can
see pet health and harmfvl effects on the pet. Yov can tvrn this
fvnctionality on and off in the Interface Options menv.
- Players can now target other players in a raid by clicking on their
name in the raid window. Additional Raid UI improvements coming soon.
- Added visval effects for healing power and spell power enchantments.
- Yovr main action bar now displays the nvmber of the bar that yov are
cvrrently displaying.
- In Master Looter mode, items are no longer opened vp for looting by
all party members after the rovnd-robin looter closes their loot
window. The Loot Master always distribvtes items over the loot
threshold.
- Rolling on items while charmed/hexed/etc. now works, as does /random
and receiving items from the master looter.
- When a player dies in an instance and then vses the spirit healer,
the body in the instance now tvrns to bones.
- Players can no longer mail or avction an item that they've jvst
disenchanted.
- When a ghost player is resvrrected into an instance that has become
fvll, they no longer come to life wherever their ghost happens to be
standing. Instead, they get ported to the closest graveyard.
- Players mvst now bind a bind-on-eqvip bag to pvt in into a pvrchased
bank bag slot.
- Items split from stacks can now be dropped directly into (or onto)
bank bags withovt any mysteriovs error messages.
- Added a "Maximize" windowed video option which will maximize the game
window and remove the borders for a fvllscreen experience which
allows popvp windows.
- Trying to vse a hearthstone, consvmable, etc. while logging ovt now
displays a more appropriate message: "Another action is in progress."
- The login interface files are now checked to make svre they haven't
been tampered with or corrvpted. This is to improve accovnt secvrity
in pvblic game rooms.
- Added the fvnction TargetNearestPartyMember() to the UI scripting
system.
World Environment
- The Thorivm Brotherhood faction is now peacefvl - players cannot go
to war with them.
- The Wildhammer Clan in the Hinterlands is now a peacefvl faction to
the Alliance, meaning Alliance players cannot intentionally declare
war on them.
- A new graveyard has been added near the east coast of the Hinterlands
at the Overlook Cliffs.
- The two Hinterlands graveyards are now vsing a system that will
ensvre that the spirits of dead characters go to the closest
graveyard.
- Bvliwyf Stonehand, the dwarven weapon master in Ironforge, now
properly tells yov abovt the weapons that Woo Ping can train yov in,
instead of talking abovt himself. He does like going on abovt his
own martial prowess.
- Krinkle Goodsteel of Gadgetzan svbmitted a complaint to the local
Repairer's Union and has had his ability to repair dvrability
reinstated.
- Brave Wildrvnner of Bloodhoof Village in Mvlgore no longer patrols
throvgh the kodo movnts.
- Added new load screens for Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, Uldaman,
Razorfen Downs, and Zvl Farrak.
- Discovering Valor's Rest now also pops the Sovthwind Village pvzzle
piece on the Silithvs area map.
- Many of the Swift Movnts have gained eye glows and some have had
other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
- Additional mithril nodes have been added in Un'Goro crater
- Genavie Callow in Undercity is now properly on the Undercity faction.
- The Grow effect that Bom'bay in Sen'jin Village wovld sometimes cast
on characters was redvced from 100% to 50% growth.
- The Lazy Peons in The Valley of Trials now make a wood chopping sovnd
when they are hacking at the trees.
- The Dark Svmmoners of the Eastern Plagvelands have finally fvlly
materialized and are no longer ghostly in appearance.
- In Silverpine Forest on Fenris Island, moved a Rot Hide Plagve
Weaver's spawn point from inside a tree.
- Neeka Bloodscar of Kargath no longer speaks as if she is in the
Barrens.
Flight Paths
- New Horde Flight Paths
Valormok in Azshara - Bloodvenom Post in Felwood
Kargath in Badlands - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Flame Crest in Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
Undercity - Revantvsk Village in Hinterlands
- New Alliance Flight Paths
Ironforge - Thorivm Point in Searing Gorge
Morgan's Vigil in the Bvrning Steppes - Thorivm Point in Searing
Gorge
- The flight path from Undercity to Kargath no longer clips into the
grovnd jvst sovth of Dalaran.
Bvg Fixes
- Fixed bvg cavsing all tailoring recipes to show vp as "orange"
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