* February 2011 Hotfixes *

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]February 8

General

• Escape Artist again correctly removes movement impairing effects.
• Players who have used the Paid Race Change service to transfer to a goblin or worgen character post-patch 4.0.6 can properly use the Dungeon Finder again.
• Love Is in the Air has been extended by 48 hours. The in-game Calendar should now reflect it runs through February 20.

Classes

Druids

• Disentanglement (new passive specialization) is now properly functioning for Restoration druids, allowing them to get out of root effects by using Shapeshift. Logging out or changing zones no longer causes the spell to be unlearned.
• Attempting to use Warstomp while in Tree of Life form returns a "You can't do that yet" error and does not cast the spell.

Mages

• Rank 2 of Fingers of Frost now has the correct proc chance.

Shaman

• Elemental Overload (Mastery) procs of Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning correctly generate Rolling Thunder charges.
• Stormstrike is now correctly proccing Maelstrom Weapon.

Warlocks

• Refreshing Immolate with Hand of Gul'dan is now correctly augmented by the Inferno talent, refreshing Immolate to a 21-second duration instead of 15.

Dungeons & Raids

• Blackwing Descent
  
  
  • Maloriak's Aberrations should correctly spawn even if Vile Swills are still alive from the previous phase.
• Shadowfang Keep
  
  
  • Lord Walden again correctly uses Ice Shards and Toxic Catalyst.
• Throne of the Four Winds
  
  
  • Conclave of Wind bosses now correctly regenerate health out of combat.

Items

• The [item]Fire-Etched Dagger[/item] swing speed was too slow and has been updated. The tooltip will not reflect the updated time of 1.7 seconds until a client-side patch can be applied.
• Heroic and normal versions of [item]Magma Plated Handguards[/item] did not have enough Strength and have been updated.
• Heroic and normal version of Sapphirium Handguards did not have enough Strength and have been updated.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]February 9

Classes

• Haste is again properly increasing resource regeneration rates for applicable melee classes. This fix will require a realm restart to take effect. More information regarding the series of changes pertaining to this issue can be found on our General Discussion forum.

Death Knights

• The root that the Frost talent Chilblains gives to Chains of Ice is now properly affected by diminishing returns and shares diminishing returns with other root effects.
• Dark Transformation now increases pet damage by 60%, down from 80%.
• Death Coil damage has been reduced by 15%.
• The pet damage bonus from Shadow Infusion is now 6% per stack, down from 8%.

Priests

• Holy Word: Serenity is correctly granting Binding Heal an extra 25% chance to critically hit.
• Inner Focus now appropriately increases the critical heal chance of Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Greater Heal, and Prayer of Healing.

Dungeons & Raids

• [item]Bouquet of Ebon Roses[/item] and [item]Bouquet of Red Roses[/item] (Love Is in the Air) now properly drop from Cataclysm dungeons.
• The Bastion of Twilight
  
  
  • Players are no longer instantly killed when auras are removed after defeating Cho'gall.
  • Players affected by Conversion during the Cho'gall encounter will gain the correct amount of Corrupted Blood, and the Corrupted Blood mechanics correctly trigger at the appropriate times.
  • Burning Twilight is now bound to the raid dungeon and cannot be taken outside of the instance to affect other players.
• Blackwing Descent
  
  
  • Chimaeron no longer casts Caustic Slime on targets who are affected by Break. Chimaeron now casts Caustic Slime on a tank target if there are not enough players present without Break.
• Deadmines
  
  
  • Players should no longer get disconnected when dying in the Vanessa Vancleef encounter on Heroic difficulty.
• Shadowfang Keep
  
  
  • Deathstalker Adamant and Sorcerer Ashcrombe now have a gossip option for their respective factions to open the courtyard door while the Love is in the Air event is active.

Items

• Talismans of the Horde and Alliance are properly only available for purchase from their respective factions.

Professions

• Orgrimmar and Stormwind Cooking and Fishing daily quests are again granting the proper skill-ups when turned in.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]February 14

General

• Players who are exalted with 40 factions are again awarded The Exalted title. Note that the associated achievement does not state that this title will be awarded when it's earned. This will be corrected in a future patch. More information can be found here.

Classes

Druids

• Starfall will now hit any target in range which is in combat or not at full health (including the Exposed Head of Magmaw, which was causing issues with Starfall).

Paladins

• The hotfix to Beacon of Light and Light of Dawn on February 11 did not produce the intended results and has been reverted. Light of Dawn should still trigger Beacon of Light.

Dungeons & Raids

• Blackwing Descent
  
  
  • The Atramedes achievement Silence is Golden was incorrectly failing when any raid member's sound bar went over 30%. The achievement now requires no one's sound bar to go over 50% as advertised.

Professions

• Alchemy
  
  
  • The [item]Mysterious Potion[/item] was restoring the wrong amount of mana. It now restores 1 to 15,000 mana, instead of 1 to 30,000.
• Fishing
  
  
  • The Bone and Jeweled Fishing Pole quest rewards are now item level 15, down from 200.
• Herbalism
  
  
  • Whiptail was spawning too quickly in Uldum after patch 4.0.6. The spawn time has been reduced.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard author=Zarhym link=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2259389]February 15

General

• The amount of guild reputation and guild experience gained from killing a raid boss has been dramatically increased, as the previous rate felt too low compared to the difficulty of progressing through raid content. This change will require a realm restart to take effect, which will be next Tuesday's weekly scheduled maintenance at the latest.
  
• Shield of Velen guards in The Exodar are now consistent with other "royal" city guards in terms of health, level, and damage.
  

Classes

Mages

• Arcane Blast now costs 5% of base mana before stacking modifiers, down from 7%.
  

Dungeons & Raids

• Baradin Hold
  
  
  • Argaloth despawns and resets properly if the raid wipes during Fel Firestorm.
    
• Blackwing Descent
  
  
  • While flying around the Vault of the Shadowflame, Nefarian no longer forces everyone to stand up if engaged.
    
• Throne of the Tides
  
  
  • It should no longer be possible to summon a mount in certain areas of this dungeon.
    

Items

• [item]Shard of Woe[/item] (Heroic trinket) now reduces the base mana cost of spells by 205, with the exception of Holy and Nature spells -- the base mana cost of Holy and Nature spells remains reduced by 405 with this trinket.
  

Professions

• Engineering [item]4366[/item] are no longer able to taunt boss-level creatures.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard author=Zarhym link=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2259389]
February 16

Classes

Druid

• It is no longer possible for Skull Bash (Bear) to hit two targets at a time. A macro was previously circumventing the intended functionality of this ability.

Shaman

• Purification (Restoration passive) now grants a 25% bonus to healing effects, up from 10%. More information can be found here.

Priests

• In addition to its current effects, the Body and Soul talent now grants 12.5%/25% reduction to the base mana cost of Power Word: Shield. This is not reflected in the tooltip, but is reflected in the amount of mana used when Power Word: Shield is cast by Holy priests who have this talent. The tooltip update will require a client-side patch.
• Power Word: Shield now costs roughly 34% of base mana, up from 25%. This is not reflected in the tooltip, but is reflected in the amount of mana used when the spell is cast. The tooltip update will require a client-side patch.
• More information on these changes can be found here.

Dungeons & Raids

• Blackwing Descent
  
  
  • Maloriak will no longer cast Flash Freeze on anyone who is tanking Aberrations or anyone who has recently been hit by them.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard author=Zarhym link=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2259389]
February 18

Battlegrounds

• Demolishers were respawning too quickly in Strand of the Ancients. They are now on a 20-second spawn timer.

Classes

Death Knights

• Death knight Ghouls under the effects of Dark Transformation can no longer cast Gnaw while it's on cooldown.

Hunters

• Aimed Shot damage has been decreased to approximately 160% weapon damage (at level 80+), down from 200%.
• Aspect of the Hawk now provides around an additional 2000 attack power at level 85.

Paladins

• Light of Dawn no longer heals targets outside the paladin's party or raid. It correctly heals up to 5 targets in the paladin's raid.

Priests

• Body and Soul no longer reduces the mana cost of Power Word: Shield (the hotfix made on February 16 to provide this additional benefit has been reverted).
• Rapture now returns 2/5/7% of maximum mana when Power Word: Shield is consumed, up from 2/4/6%.

Warlocks

• Instant-cast Shadowbolts from Shadow Trance (both the talent and [item]Glyph of Corruption[/item] versions) should no longer consume charges of Backdraft if both procs are available. Shadow Trance will always take priority and be consumed first when Backdraft is active. Subsequent Shadowbolts will consume Backdraft stacks.

Warriors

• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization (Arms passive) now gives 20% bonus damage with two-handed weapons, up from 10%.

Dungeon Finder

• If a party member remains outside of a dungeon for more than 3 minutes, they become eligible for removal, regardless of other Vote Kick restrictions.
• When players queue as a group with a tank or a healer, and the tank or healer drops group (or is kicked) within the first 5 minutes, all of the other players who queued with them are removed from the group as well.
• If there is a group of 3 or more friends and someone in that group initiates a Vote Kick of a random party member, it now requires 4 votes to kick the player, instead of the standard 3 votes.
• The penalty for using the Vote Kick feature too often is not issued to a player who kicks someone with whom they queued for a dungeon (i.e. the party member being selected for removal is not a player randomly selected via the Dungeon Finder).
• The penalty for using the Vote Kick feature too often will be issued much more quickly to players who join as a party of 4 and kick the randomly selected 5th player.
• The penalty for using the Vote Kick feature too often will now not allow the player to initiate a Vote Kick for 2 hours, up from 45 minutes.
• These changes will require realm restarts to take effect. More information can be found here.

Dungeons & Raids

• When switching a normal raid dungeon over to Heroic difficulty, players were instantly becoming saved without warning. There is now a warning dialog box which will appear before the difficulty is changed.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard author=Zarhym link=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2259389]
February 22

Classes
        

Hunters

• Aimed Shot damage has been decreased to approximately 160% weapon damage (at level 80+), down from 200%.
• Aspect of the Hawk now provides 2000 attack power at level 85.

Dungeons & Raids

• Throne of the Four Winds
  
  
  • The Catch Fall aura is now removed whenever a player leaves the dungeon.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard author=Zarhym link=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2259389]
February 25

Dungeons & Raids

• Bastion of Twilight
  
  
  • Blackout will no longer hit players sent down to the Twilight Zone by either Valiona or Theralion.
  • Collapsing Twilight Portal should no longer close faster when a person uses it while on Heroic difficulty. It now has a set duration.
  • Devouring flame maximum damage has been reduced.
  • Theralion's damage should now be more consistent with Valiona's on 10-player Heroic difficulty.
  • Twilight Blast damage has been reduced on 10-player Heroic difficulty.
  • Twilight Protection now lasts 6 seconds, up from 3.
  • Players should now always receive the Twilight Protection buff when entering the Twilight Realm.
  • Twilight Sentries have slightly lower health on 10-player Heroic difficulty.
  • Twilight Zone damage has been lowered slightly.
  • Unstable Twilight's search effect has been lowered to a 1-yard radius, down from 2.

PvP

• Players in Battle for Gilneas and Twin Peaks who are Neutral with the associated factions should no longer experience issues resurrecting at the appropriate graveyards.

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