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More World of Warcraft Patch 2.4 Notes - News
By Emanuel Avram
Published: February 20, 2008
Print It's that time again! More upcoming changes directly from the test realms for you. These will most likely be included in World of Warcraft Patch 2.4.
General
- Resilience: Now reduces the magnitude of mana draining effects by the same amount that it reduces critical strike damage. The Tooltip has been revised to reflect this.
- The Daily Quest limit has been increased to 25.
- The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed. It will now take five seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.
Druid
- Lifebloom healing coefficient has been reduced.
- Many shapeshift form tooltips have been updated to be consistent with each other.
- Nurturing Instinct now increases your healing spells by 50%/100% (Rank 1/2) of your agility instead of your strength.
- Nurturing instincts now increases healing done to you by 10%/20% while in Cat Form and isn't affected by your Attack Power anymore.
- The speed bonus on Druid Feral PvP sets works with Travel Form once again!
Hunter
- Improved Mend Pet now has a 50/100% chance to remove one Curse, Disease, Magic, or Poison effect, up from 15/50%.
- Hunters will no longer spin around if they cast Aimed Shot or Steady Shot while facing away from their target.
Mage
- Arcane Fortitude now increases your armor by an amount equal to 100% of your Intellect, up from 50%.
- Blink, Slow, and Spellsteal have all had their mana cost
reduced. (Blink: ~630 to ~224; Spellsteal: ~650 to ~450)
- Improved Blink: For 2/4 (Rank 1/2) seconds after casting Blink, your chance to be hit by all attacks and spells is reduced by 25%.
- Icy Veins no longer stacks with Bloodlust/Heroism.
- Icy Veins: Hastens your spellcasting, increasing spell casting speed by 20% and gives you 100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting. Lasts 20 seconds.
- Improved Fire Ward has become Molten Shields.
- New Talent: Molten Shields will cause your Fire Ward to have a 10/20% chance to reflect Fire spells while active. In addition, your Molten Armor has a 50/100% chance to affect ranged and spell attacks.
- Arcane Explosion: The damage cap for area of effect damage on this spell has been increased by approximately 50%.
- Arctic reach now increases Ice Lance along with Frostbolt and Blizzard.
Paladin
- Resistance Auras: It is no longer possible for two Paladins in the same party to make it appear that players have two of the same resistance aura active.
- Righteous Defense: This spell will now always be castable on friendly npcs.
- Seal of Blood: This ability will no longer cause spell pushback for the Paladin with this seal active.
- Turn Undead(Rank 3):This spell has been reworked and has been renamed to "Turn Evil". It will now work on Demons in addition to Undead. Turn Evil is subject to diminishing returns, and lasts 10 seconds in PvP.
- Holy Shock: The healing, damage, and mana cost of this spell have all been increased.
Priest
- Chastise no longer disorients the target, but now is instant cast and roots the target for 2 seconds.
- Focused Will now reduces damage by 2/3/4%, down from 1/3/5%.
- Mana burns tooltip has been changed to change "Drains" into "Destroys". (Destroy 1021 to 1079 mana from a target. For each mana drained in this way, the target takes 0.5 Shadow damage.)
- Power Infusion now reduce the mana cost of all spells by -20%. (Infuses the target with power, increasing spell casting speed by 20% and reducing the mana cost of all spells by -20%. Lasts 15 seconds.)
Rogue
- Improved Backstab is now called Puncturing Wounds.
- Puncturing Wounds increases your critical strike chance with Backstab by 10/20/30%, and the critical strike chance with your Mutilate ability by 5/10/15%.
- Improved Sprint: This ability will now always remove Entangling Roots.
Shaman
- Ghost Wolf: Cast time reduced to 2 seconds, down from 3.
- The Ghost Wolf Speed bonus on a few level 60 PvP items no longer affects players above level 60.
- Nature's Swiftness and Elemental Mastery now share a 10 second cooldown.
- Tremor Totem now pulses every 3 seconds, down from 4.
- Shamanistic Rage is no longer a magic ability and cannot be purged or mass dispelled in any way.
Warlock
- Blood Pact now has a tooltip.
- Demonic Sacrifice: Now works properly in sanctuary regions (such as Shattrath City and the Stair of Destiny).
- Nether Protection: The buff from this talent will no longer interrupt capturing PvP flags and bases.
- Drain Mana: This ability no longer increases in power from bonus spell damage effects. Base points of the effect increased by 50%.
- Lifetap now converts a % of your base health and mana.
- Emberstorm (Rank 1) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 2%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 2%.
- Emberstorm (Rank 2) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 4%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 4%.
- Emberstorm (Rank 3) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 6%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 6%.
- Emberstorm (Rank 4) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 8%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 8%.
- Emberstorm (Rank 5) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 10%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 10%.
- Drain mana (Rank 1) now drains 42 mana every 1 sec from the target. (Was 63)
- Drain mana (Rank 2) now drains 68 mana every 1 sec from the target. (Was 102)
- Drain mana (Rank 3) now drains 99 mana every 1 sec from the target. (Was 149)
- Drain mana (Rank 4) now drains 136 mana every 1 sec from the target. (Was 204)
- Drain mana (Rank 5) now drains 169 mana every 1 sec from the target. (Was 254)
- Drain mana (Rank 6) now drains 200 mana every 1 sec from the target. (Was 300)
PvP
Arenas
- Matchmaking: If a queued player has a personal rating higher than their team rating, the matchmaking system will now use the highest personal rating of a queued member of that team for matchmaking purposes, instead of the team rating.
- Queue times for arena matches have been reduced. Players will now be able to enter matches faster than previously.
- Players feared outside of the Arena (through the world or outside the arena walls) will now be teleported back to the center of the arena map.
Alterac Valley
- There is now a Join as Party option.
Dungeons and Raids
- Badges of Justice have been added to all raid bosses who did not previously have them!
Zul'aman
- Jan'alai will now only teleport players to him if they are too far away.
Sunwell Isle - Magister's Terrace
- There is now a teleport orb located behind Kael'thas that will become active when he dies and will allow players to teleport out of the Magisters' Terrace.
Professions
Alchemy
- Transmute Arcanite no longer has a cooldown.
Fishing
- Feltail fishing nodes have been changed to Brackish Mixed Schools; they now produce mostly Golden Darters and some Feltail.
Items
- Darkmoon Card: Madness: The buffs from this item will no longer interrupt casting and channeling.
- Druid Restoration PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Regrowth.
- Shaman Elemental PvP Sets: The resistance on Lightning Bolt spell pushback has been reduced to 50%.
- Druid Balance PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Wrath and Starfire.
- Druid Feral PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form no longer applies to Travel Form.
- Druid Restoration PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Healing Touch.
- The Gladiator's Thunderfist 4 piece set bonus has been reduced from 70% to 50%.
- Nether Vortex are no longer Bind on Pickup and can no wbe purchased from G'eras for 15 Badges of Justice!
- Paladin Healer Gladiator Sets: The set bonus changing Hammer of Justice cooldown has been changed to a set bonus increasing the amount healed by Holy Shock.
- Primal Nether are no longer Bind on Pickup!
- Resilience has been added to all Retribution Paladin PvP gear.
- Added Shattrath Flask of Pure Death and Shattrath Flask of Blinding Light to the reputation flask vendors in Shattrath.
- Shattrath Flasks now work inside the Sunwell Plateau raid instance.
- Vengeful Gladiator's Waraxe: The weapon delay has been reduced.
User Interface
- Searching for an item in the tradeskill search box should now hide empty categories.
World Environment
- Eye of Culuthas and Hound of Culuthas now drop grey loot.
- The Ratchet bank now has access to the Guild Vault.
- A mailbox has been added to the inn in Darnassus.
Bug Fixes
- Leaving a 2v2 arena team and creating a new 2v2 team while on a 3v3 arena team will no longer result in incorrect rosters listed for each team.
- Joining a second arena match before a previous arena has closed will no longer result in personal rating not updating correctly.
- Attempting to promote an arena team member to Team Captain while that member is offline will no longer result in a "Player not found" error.
- Disbanding an arena team while inside an arena battle will no longer cause the arena UI to become corrupted until logout.
- The Arena Team Petition Window will now automatically close when the Arena Captain is out of range or offline.
- Switching arena teams after playing a game will no longer cause the PvP tab to incorrectly display your old team's rating.
- There is now a chat message given when logging in after attaining a new title.
- Spells that require targeting circles will now be castable on textures that would previously disallow their use.
- Alterac Valley quests will now properly show a golden ! or blue ? for players above level 65.
- Archimonde's Grip of the Legion will no longer target pets.
- There is no longer an area in Serpentine Cavern where using Field Repair Bot 74A will cause it to fall through the ground.
- There is no longer an area in Coilfang Steamvaults where ground targeting AOE effects cannot be cast.
- The proc from Black Bow of the Betrayer will no longer break crowd control effects such as Scatter Shot.
- Vengeful Gladiator's Mooncloth Hood and Vengeful Gladiator's Satin Hood will now display Troll Tusks.
- Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury will now display its bow animations correctly.
- The Legion Ring boundary markers no longer occasionally disappear.
- Monthly quests will now properly reset at midnight server time.
- Fixed an area in Netherwing Fields in Shadowmoon Valley where players on flying mounts could be dismounted and were unable to mount.
- It is no longer possible for players to use guild banks in opposing faction cities.
- The Clockwork Rocket Bot can no longer be buffed.
- Players with moderator status in custom channels will now properly lose moderator status when kicked by the channel owner.
- Mobs no longer regenerate health during the stun effect from the Goblin Rocket Launcher.
- Sending mail to a non-existent character will now result in players getting the message, "Cannot find mail recipient".
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