Patch 4.3.0 - "Hour of Twilight" (11/29/11)

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]General

• New Dungeon: End Time
  
  
  • This new 5-player Heroic dungeon begins the quest to save all with a look at the desolate future of Azeroth, should its defenders fail to stop Deathwing.
• New Dungeon: Well of Eternity
  
  
  • In this new 5-player Heroic dungeon, adventurers travel back 10,000 years in a brazen attempt to retrieve the Dragon Soul.
• New Dungeon: Hour of Twilight
  
  
  • This new 5-player Heroic dungeon sets the final stage by bringing players face-to-face with the Twilight's Hammer in present-day Dragonblight, where Thrall and the Dragon Soul must be safely escorted to Wyrmrest Temple so that the assault on Deathwing can commence.
• New Raid: Dragon Soul
  
  
  • Players have the opportunity to take the fight to Wyrmrest Temple and beyond, assisting Thrall and the Dragon Aspects as they seek to bring an end to the Black Dragonflight once and for all. 10- and 25-person raids will get to take on Deathwing himself, with three levels of difficulty to consider and epic gear to claim.
• New Baradin Hold boss: [npc]55869[/npc]
  
  
  • Alizabal presents an all-new boss challenge to player in 10- and 25-player arrangements who control Tol Barad. This boss will be available with the start of Season 11, one week after the release of patch 4.3.
• New Legendary Item: [itemset]1087[/itemset]
  
  
  • The most deadly and experienced rogues will play a central role in the fate of the world the rogue's way: by manipulating key events from the shadows. Players will travel across continents to accomplish crucial missions of reconnaissance, burglary, infiltration and, of course, assassination. Rogues who succeed will receive a paired set of daggers that will become increasingly lethal as their bearer progresses along the legendary quest. At the height of their strength, they will be imbued with the vile essence of the Old Gods, as well as the maddened fury of the Black Dragonflight -- bestowing great power upon their bearer. These powers include a stacking increase to Agility which builds until dark wings unfurl from the rogue's back, removing the combo point cost and increasing damage of finishing moves for a short time. In addition, the wings which can be spread on command (with no combat benefit) to slow a rapid descent, allowing the rogue to slowly fall to the ground... or enact a little death from above!
• New Feature: Raid Finder
  
  
  • This new grouping feature allows players to quickly and easily form a pick-up raid for a specially tuned version of the current tier of endgame content: the Dragon Soul raid.
• New Feature: Transmogrification
  
  
  • This new feature allows players to customize their gear like never before: copying the appearance of one magical item onto another.. You'll find Transmogrification, Void Storage, and Reforging vendors in Cathedral Square, Stormwind and The Drag, Orgrimmar.
• New Feature: Void Storage
  
  
  • In addition to the bank, players will now have access to a new "deep storage" system, allowing characters to free bag space by setting aside coveted gear. You'll find Transmogrification, Void Storage, and Reforging vendors in Cathedral Square, Stormwind and The Drag, Orgrimmar.
• Reforging
  
  
  • The former Reforging vendors have been... retired. The ethereals have chosen to take over the business and joined their Transmogrification and Void Storage service providers. You'll find them in Cathedral Square, Stormwind and The Drag, Orgrimmar.
• Darkmoon Faire
  
  
  • Make your way to Darkmoon Island during the first week of every month to take in the new Darkmoon Faire, complete with new quests, shows, games, recipes, toys, balloons, souvenirs, snacks, beverages, achievements, and titles.
• Improved Outland & Northrend Quest Flow
  
  
  • The amount of experience needed to gain levels 71 through 80 has been reduced by approximately 33%.
  • Many Group quests in Outland and Northrend have been re-tuned to allow players to complete them solo. They are no longer labeled as Group quests.
  • Relevant questgivers have been moved into Outland and Northrend dungeons. The majority of dungeon quests for these zones are now available from within their respective dungeons.

Achievements

• The achievement [achievement]1167[/achievement] no longer requires the [achievement]226[/achievement] achievement.
• The achievement [achievement]5417[/achievement] now requires 25 victories in Tol Barad, down from 100.

Classes: General

• All raid and party buffs which grant group members 10% increased attack power have been changed slightly. They continue to provide 10% increased ranged attack power, but now provide 20% increased melee attack power.
  
  
  • [spell]53138[/spell]: The melee attack power bonus from this raid buff has been increased to 10/20%, up from 5/10%. The ranged attack power bonus remains 5/10%.
  • [spell]19740[/spell]: The melee attack power bonus from this raid buff has been increased to 20%, up from 10%. The ranged attack power bonus remains 10%.
  • [spell]93743[/spell]: The melee attack power bonus from this consumable has been increased to 16%, up from 8%. The ranged attack power bonus remains 8%.
  • [spell]19506[/spell]: The melee attack power bonus from this raid buff has been increased to 20%, up from 10%. The ranged attack power bonus remains 10%.
  • [spell]30808[/spell]: The melee attack power bonus from this raid buff has been increased to 10/20%, up from 5/10%. The ranged attack power bonus remains 5/10%.
• Vengeance for Protection warriors, Protection paladins, Blood death knights, and Feral druids has been redesigned slightly. It no longer ramps up slowly at the beginning of a fight. Instead, the first melee attack taken by the tank generates Vengeance equal to 33% of the damage taken by that attack. In addition, as it updates periodically during the fight, it's always set to at least 33% of the damage taken by the tank in the last 2 seconds. It still climbs from that point at the rate it did previously, still decays when damage is not taken, and still cannot exceed a maximum based on the health and Stamina of the tank.
• Threat generated by classes in active tanking modes has been increased to 500% damage done, up from 300%. This applies to druids in Bear Form, death knights in Blood Presence, warriors in Defensive Stance, and paladins with Righteous Fury active.
• Spells which have an effect broken by taking damage past a threshold (Entangling Roots, Fear, Frost Nova, etc.) now count damage that was prevented by damage absorbs or other damage reducing effects.

[class]Death Knight[/class]

• [spell]49998[/spell] now heals the death knight whether or not the attack misses, or is dodged/parried. As a result of this change, [spell]49998[/spell] no longer refunds its rune cost if it fails to hit the target, as the death knight will still receive the healing effect.
• [spell]48263[/spell] now provides an armor bonus of 55%, up from 30%.
• Death Knight pets now properly inherit their master's crit and spell penetration stats.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Blood
    
    
    • [spell]49501[/spell]has been redesigned. It now passively reduces damage taken.
    • [spell]49222[/spell] now has 6 charges, up from 4.
    • [spell]50029[/spell] now reduces the cooldown of [spell]77575[/spell] by 30 seconds.
  • Unholy
    
    
    • The gargoyle called by [spell]49206[/spell] should exclusively use its ranged attack regardless of range to the target.
    • [spell]91107[/spell] now increases Strength by 25%, up from 20%.

[class]Druid[/class]

• [spell]5176[/spell] has a new spell effect.
• [spell]16914[/spell] has a new updated visual effect.
• [spell]62078[/spell] (Cat) has been reduced to 340% weapon damage, down from 415%.
• [spell]5487[/spell] now provides an armor bonus of 120% at all levels, up from 65% for characters below level 40, making it easier for lower level druids to tank dungeons.
• [spell]5487[/spell] now provides a Stamina bonus of 20%, up from 10%.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Balance
    
    
    • [spell]84738[/spell] now also reduces [spell]33786[/spell] spell pushback.
  • Restoration
    
    
    • [spell]48438[/spell] healing has been reduced by 20%.
    • [spell]84736[/spell] now also reduces [spell]33786[/spell] and [spell]339[/spell] spell pushback.
• Glyphs
  
  
  • [item]40901[/item] has been renamed Glyph of Bloodletting, and now also causes [spell]33876[/spell] to extend the duration of [spell]1079[/spell], in addition to its existing Shred functionality.
  • [item]45602[/item] now also increases the cooldown on [spell]48438[/spell] by 2 seconds.

[class]Hunter[/class]

• [spell]54680[/spell] now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Beast Mastery
    
    
    • [spell]87325[/spell] now increases Attack Power by 30%, up from 25%.
    • [spell]82654[/spell] now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%.
    • [spell]93433[/spell] now does approximately 20% more damage, and has an increased area of effect.
    • [spell]92380[/spell] now does approximately 20% more damage, and has an increased area of effect.
  • Survival
    
    
    • [spell]53301[/spell] damage has been increased by 15%.

[class]Mage[/class]

• [spell]92315[/spell]'s initial damage has been increased by approximately 26%, and its damage over time has been increased by approximately 100%.
• [spell]133[/spell] damage has been increased by approximately 17%.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Fire
    
    
    • [spell]44457[/spell] damage over time has been increased by approximately 10%, and explosion damage has been increased by approximately 120%.

[class]Paladin[/class]

• [spell]82327[/spell] now has a 3.0-second cast time, no cooldown, and requires a player target. That target is imbued with [spell]82327[/spell], which heals them and all group members within 10 yards instantly, and continues to heal them by a smaller amount every 1 second for 3 seconds.
• [spell]20165[/spell], when Judged, no longer returns 15% base mana to the paladin. Judging [spell]20165[/spell] still causes damage, and melee attacks will still restore 4% of base mana.
• [spell]31801[/spell], when Judged, now benefits from a multiplier of 20% per stack of [spell]31803[/spell], up from 10%.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Holy
    
    
    • [spell]85464[/spell] now also reduces the cast time of [spell]82327[/spell].
    • [spell]76669[/spell] (mastery) now also applies to [spell]82327[/spell].
    • [spell]53576[/spell] now applies its cast time reduction from [spell]20473[/spell] critical effects to [spell]82327[/spell], in addition to its current effects.
    • In addition to providing haste, the effect from [spell]54151[/spell] now increases mana regeneration from Spirit by 10/20/30% for 60 seconds.
    • [spell]85222[/spell] now affects 6 targets (base effect), up from 5.
    • [spell]93417[/spell] now lowers the cooldown of [spell]498[/spell] by 15/30 seconds, up from 10/20 seconds.
    • [spell]85499[/spell] no longer triggers from [spell]82327[/spell] and no longer lowers the Holy Radiance cooldown. [spell]85499[/spell] now only triggers from [spell]498[/spell].
    • [spell]85512[/spell], in addition to its current effects, now also causes [spell]82327[/spell] to always generate 1 charge of Holy Power at all times.
    • [spell]53563[/spell] is triggered by [spell]85673[/spell], [spell]20473[/spell], [spell]19750[/spell], [spell]82326[/spell] and [spell]85222[/spell] at 50% transference and [spell]635[/spell] at 100% transference. It does not transfer [spell]82327[/spell], [spell]20140[/spell] or other sources of healing.
  • Retribution
    
    
    • [spell]53376[/spell] now increases the critical hit chance of [spell]24275[/spell] by 2/4/6%, down from 20/40/60%.
    • [spell]20113[/spell] (passive) now increases damage by 25%, up from 20%.
• Glyphs
  
  
  • Glyph of Light of Dawn now lowers the number of targets to 4, instead of increasing targets to 6, but increases healing by 25%.

[class]Priest[/class]

• [spell]64843[/spell] now affects 5 targets, up from 3.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Discipline
    
    
    • [spell]81749[/spell] will now account for the target enemy's combat reach when calculating proper range, enabling it to be used on large creatures such as [npc]52409[/npc] and [npc]46753[/npc].
    • [spell]47515[/spell] has a new spell effect.
  • Holy
    
    
    • [spell]20711[/spell] has been rebuilt to address a few functionality issues and make it more responsive. [spell]20711[/spell] otherwise remains unchanged.
    • [spell]87431[/spell] has been redesigned and is now called Heavenly Voice. Heavenly Voice increases the healing done by [spell]64843[/spell] by 50/100%, and reduces the cooldown of [spell]64843[/spell] by 2.5/5 minutes.
    • [spell]47788[/spell]'s healing bonus has been increased to 60%, up from 40%.
    • [spell]88684[/spell] now has a cooldown of 10 seconds, down from 15 seconds.
• Glyphs
  
  
  • [item]42396[/item] now also increases the mana cost of [spell]34861[/spell] by 20%.

[class]Rogue[/class]

• [item]43235[/item] now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%.

[class]Shaman[/class]

• [spell]8024[/spell] no longer increases spell damage. It now increases all non-physical damage done by the wielder by 5%.
• [spell]403[/spell] has a new spell effect.
• [spell]57994[/spell]'s base cooldown has been adjusted to 15 seconds, up from 6 seconds.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Elemental
    
    
    • [spell]16160[/spell] no longer causes [spell]1535[/spell] to extend the duration of [spell]8050[/spell].
    • [spell]61882[/spell] damage has been increased by roughly 75%.
    • [spell]60188[/spell] now removes the cooldown from [spell]421[/spell].
    • [spell]16113[/spell] now reduces the cooldown of [spell]57994[/spell] by 5/10 seconds, up from 0.5/1 second.
    • [spell]62099[/spell] now increases the spell power benefit to [spell]403[/spell], [spell]51505[/spell], and [spell]421[/spell] by 36%, up from 32%.
  • Enhancement
    
    
    • [spell]77701[/spell] now causes [spell]60103[/spell] to spread a [spell]8050[/spell] debuff from the target to up to 4 nearby targets. This excludes crowd-controlled targets and those who already have a Flame Shock debuff from the shaman.
    • Improved Lava Lash no longer increases base Lava Lash damage by 15/30%. This increase has been rolled into the base Lava Lash skill.
    • [spell]30814[/spell] has been redesigned. Instead of granting the shaman spell power, Mental Quickness now causes Enhancement shaman spells to behave as though the shaman has spell power equal to 55% of attack power.  Enhancement shaman spells no longer benefit from spell power from other sources.
    • [spell]51530[/spell] can now also proc from fully absorbed melee attacks.
  • Restoration
    
    
    • [spell]16235[/spell] now also causes the shaman's heals to increase the target's maximum health by 5/10% of the amount healed, up to a maximum of 10% of the target's maximum health, for 15 seconds. This effect does not stack if multiple Restoration shaman are present, and does not apply to heals from procs.
    • [spell]61295[/spell]'s periodic healing coefficient has been increased by 50%. The initial direct heal is unchanged.

[class]Warlock[/class]

• [spell]686[/spell] has a new spell effect.
• [spell]6353[/spell] now scales with 72.6% of spell power, up from 62.5%.
• The Voidwalker ability [spell]17735[/spell] now works like the hunter pet talent Taunt.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Demonology
    
    
    • [spell]77219[/spell] now grants a base bonus of 18.4% and 2.3% per mastery, up from 16% and 2% per mastery.
    • [spell]85108[/spell] is now also activated by [spell]6353[/spell].
  • Destruction
    
    
    • [spell]47268[/spell] now increases the damage of [spell]29722[/spell] and [spell]50796[/spell] on Immolated targets by 5/10/15%, up from 2/4/6%.
    • [spell]85112[/spell] now deals damage equal to 25/50% of [spell]6353[/spell] and Imp's [spell]3110[/spell], up from 15/30%.
    • [spell]85112[/spell] damage cap has been raised.
    • [spell]17877[/spell] now deals Shadowflame damage, instead of Shadow damage.
    • [spell]18120[/spell] now lasts 20 sec, up from 15sec.
• Bug Fixes
  
  
  • Fixed a bug that caused Doomguard and Infernal to benefit dramatically more than intended from Demonology Mastery.

[class]Warrior[/class]

• [spell]100[/spell] (and related abilities) should now correctly path to a target even if the target moves during the Charge. This change should decrease the likelihood of the warrior Charging to a different location than the target.
• [spell]1464[/spell] now uses a new character attack animation.
• [spell]86346[/spell] now uses a new character attack animation.
• Talent Specializations
  
  
  • Arms
    
    
    • [spell]12294[/spell] now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%.
  • Fury
    
    
    • [spell]23588[/spell] no longer increases Physical damage by 5%. It continues to increase off-hand attack damage by 25%.
    • [spell]46910[/spell] now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%.

Dungeons & Raids

• Dungeon Journal entries have been added for the new dungeons: End Time, Well of Eternity, Hour of Twilight, and Dragon Soul.
• Players who use Dungeon Finder for a random Heroic dungeon will no longer be locked to that instance. Previously, players who entered an instance via the Random Dungeon option were then prohibited from queuing for that dungeon or entering the instance manually via the portal. Players should now always be able to complete a specific Heroic dungeon once per day regardless of any random dungeons completed.
• [zone]3429[/zone]
  
  
  • Bosses in Ruins of Ahn'qiraj now drop a rare-quality [item]76401[/item] which can be used to open the [object]180691[/object]s found within. These keys are zone-bound to Ruins of Ahn'qiraj and have a 17-hour expiration. This change also applies to [item]76402[/item] used to open [object]180690[/object]s.
• [zone]1977[/zone]
  
  
  • Players now only have to kill two of the four initial dungeon bosses ([npc]52155[/npc], [npc]52151[/npc], [npc]52059[/npc], and [npc]52053[/npc]) to face [npc]52148[/npc].
• [zone]3805[/zone]
  
  
  • Players now only have to kill two of the four Troll avatars before they may face [npc]24239[/npc].

Guilds

• Guild Standards are again useable in Firelands. Duration has been increased to 15 minutes, the effect has a 100 yard radius, and now affects dead players.
• Inactive Guild Leader Replacement
  
  
  • Guilds with inactive guild leaders can now usurp the leader under specific conditions.

Items

• [item]71086[/item]: The chance for this item's effect to be triggered has been reduced.

Races

• The orc racial [spell]33697[/spell] now increases spell power rather than only spell damage.

User Interface

• Archaeology areas of interest will now show on the mini-map, in addition to the World Map.
• Bag Search
  
  
  • A search field has been added to allow players to search bag, bank, guild bank, and Void Storage inventories for specific items.
• Guilds with inactive guild leaders can now usurp the leader under specific conditions. More information on this coming soon.
• The Reforging interface has been updated and improved.
• Quest Tracking areas or points of interest will now show on the mini-map, in addition to the World Map.
• The World Map now displays the expected character levels for each zone.
• Added a "promote everyone" checkbox that will automatically make all raid members, Raid assistants. This checkbox can be found in the Raid Frame and the Unit Frame "pull-out" tab.
• There are now commands for world markers & unit markers.
• Added new rotation, zoom, and pan controls are now available in all windows with player models in UI frames.
• Players can now unlearn profession specialization without unlearning the profession (Engineering & Alchemy).
• [Mac] Added functionality to allow using the Command key instead of the Control key on Apple keyboards.  This can be enabled in Mac Options.
• [Mac] Added functionality to disable Mac OS system keyboard shortcuts so that they do not interfere with keyboard shortcuts in WoW.  This can be enabled in Mac Options.
• Added a feature to interact with NPCs, game objects (mailbox, mining nodes, etc.), and corpses on left-click as well as right-click. There is now an option under Interface:Controls to turn this feature off.

General Bug Fixes

• Coming soon.

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