* August 2011 Hotfixes *

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]August 4

General

• Balloon pets can no longer be sold to vendors.
• Flight points in Outlands should correctly display for characters created after the release of patch 4.2.

Classes

• Melee auto-attacks should properly trigger trinkets.
• Druids
  
  
  • Primal Fury is correctly triggered when Rake gets a critical hit, and is putting an extra combo point on the target.
  • Starfall should no longer strike targets with which the druid is not in combat.
• Hunters
  
  
  • Burning Adrenaline is properly removing the focus cost of Arcane Shot.
• Rogues
  
  
  • Mutilate should now properly trigger trinkets.
• Warriors
  
  
  • Deep Wounds should no longer incorrectly apply double damage when certain buffs are present on the warrior.

Dungeons & Raids

• Blackrock Spire
  
  
  • The Scarshield Quartermaster is properly flagged as a quest NPC and not a rare spawn.
• Firelands
  
  
  • Burning Orb attack range has been increased for the Majordomo Staghelm encounter.
  • The criteria for the achievement Do a Barrel Roll! reset properly after a failed attempt on Alysrazor.
  • Smoldering Essences are now properly applied to Firelands bosses and can be syphoned, even if the only raid member that is on step 13 of the legendary quest line dies during the encounter.
  • Players should never get Rage of Ragnaros on Heroic difficulty. Rage of Ragnaros will only be given on normal difficulty if someone on the legendary quest line has 250 shards. Heart of Flame should always be given on Heroic difficulty, even if a player doesn't have Rage of Ragnaros, but does have 250 shards.
• Icecrown Citadel
  
  
  • The Val'kyr will again despawn after the Lich King reaches 10% health. If they are in the process of carrying a player, they will first drop them to the ground before leaving.
• Zul'Farrak
  
  
  • Player should no longer be unable to open the gates to complete the dungeon due to NPC allies dying during the troll invasion event.
  • The Zul'farrak Zombies and Skeletons of Zum'rah, associated with Witch Doctor Zum'rah, now clean up properly when the encounter is reset or the boss dies.

Items

• Item Sets
  
  
  • The Burning Treant and Fiery Imp pets summoned by the Balance druid and warlock tier-12 sets now have reduced damage taken from area-of-effect spells, consistent with other combat pets.
  • The Smoldering Rune buff from the death knight tier-12 2-piece set bonus is now properly cleared off of the character if he/she does not have the set bonus the next time it ticks for runic power.
  • The Spirit buff gained from the 4-piece priest tier-11 set will be lost if the priest casts any spell or uses any ability while not wearing the set.
  • The warrior tier-12 4-piece damage-dealing set bonus is now properly activating, even if a Mortal Strike or Raging Blow attack is fully absorbed.
• The weapon speed of the [item]70164[/item] has been reduced to 3.5, down from 3.8.
• [item]Ricket's Magnetic Fireball[/item] now shares a burst cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
• [item]Unheeded Warning[/item] now grants 1926 attack power, instead of 680 weapon damage.

PvP

• Strand of the Ancients
  
  
  • Stampeding Roar (druid spell) no longer grants a speed boost to Demolishers.

Quests & Creatures

• Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
  
  
  • Molten Lords should no longer stay tapped by the first player who damages them while on the bombing run for the quest Fire in the Skies.

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[Tolwen]

[blizzard]August 4


Items

• Item Sets
  
  
  
  • [item]Unheeded Warning[/item] now grants 1926 attack power, instead of 680 weapon damage.
  
  
  
  

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nerfed from the 4th best trinket to almost the 14th....

[Kothnok]

[blizzard]Starfall should no longer strike targets with which the druid is not in combat.[/blizzard]

Amazing, this is what, the fourth time this has been fixed? They should just put "we hope" at the end of that statement. 

Unheeded Warning nerf: this is why I try to keep all of my trinkets. Sometimes older trinkets become much more appealing than what I currently wear.

[Icemunch]

Blackrock Spire
The Scarshield Quartermaster is properly flagged as a quest NPC and not a rare spawn.


LOL after how long?

[Vengeance]

Would like to point out that despite the listed change, Unheeded Warning continues to give 680 weapon damage in both text AND actual buff. Perhaps they'll actually fix it, soon 

[Tolwen]

Perhaps they'll actually fix [bgcolor=#FF2222]break[/bgcolor] it, soon 

Unheeded Warning nerf: this is why I try to keep all of my trinkets. Sometimes older trinkets become much more appealing than what I currently wear.

Same here Koth, I wonder if I should start using the alchemy agi trinket instead now? haven't been able to find a chart where it's ranked against other trinkets 

[Cottonbaler]

Try Max DPS http://www.maxdps.com/ or Rawr at Elitist Jerks http://elitistjerks.com/rawr.php - they might give you the ranking you are looking for.

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]August 10

Classes

• Death Knights
  
  
  • Applicable death knight abilities are now using the correct amount of resources (and putting them on cooldown) when there are 4 Death Runes available and the Unholy Runes are depleted.
• Druids
  
  
  • Druids that shapeshift will now clear the [item]Potion of Illusion[/item] buff.
• Mages
  
  
  • Combustion damage from Ignite is no longer penalized by Resilience more than once, nor can it gain double benefit from Flashburn (mastery).

Dungeons & Raids

• Dungeon Finder
  
  
  • If a player is kicked by vote from a dungeon finder group, the leader of the group is no longer able to invite that player back.
• Firelands
  
  
  • Rogue Smoke Bombs cannot prevent the spawning of Magma Traps during the fight against Ragnaros.
  • Several creatures in the Firelands are no longer susceptible to snares or other immobilizing effects.
  • Unbound Pyrelords, Unbound Smoldering Elementals, Unbound Blazing Elementals, and Patriarch Fire Turtles now drop silver instead of gold.

Guilds

• The Recently Mass Resurrected debuff is correctly being applied to players who are in the process of logging out of the game.

Items

• [item]Brawler's Trophy[/item] and [item]Core of Ripeness[/item] cannot be active at the same time as each other, or other burst trinkets.
• [item]Eternal Ember[/item]s are now epic quality.
• Heirloom items can once again be linked in chat.
• Creating a macro to use the [item]Runestaff of Nordrassil[/item] multiple times will only trigger the use once.

Quests & Creatures

• Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
  
  
  • The Burning Treants summoned by the Druid of the Flame now disappear when the summoner is captured.
  • 3 different elementals spawn on any given day for the Death From Above achievement, up from 1.

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[Vengeance]

Druids that shapeshift will now clear the [item]Potion of Illusion[/item] buff.

PERFECT EXAMPLE OF DRUIDIC RACISM
/rage

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]August 16

Classes

• Threat
  
  
  • Threat generation for all tanks has been increased to 500%, up from 300%. This applies to warriors in Defensive Stance, death knights in Blood Presence, druids in Bear Form, and paladins with Righteous Fury.
  • Vengeance should no longer be generated when damage is fully absorbed by damage shields. When the shield breaks from damage or damage is partially absorbed, the amount of Vengeance generated is equal to the full amount of damage taken (including the damage absorbed.)
  • More information can be found in our latest Dev Watercooler.

Dungeons & Raids

• Baradin Hold
  
  
  • Occu'thar has come into a larger supply of PvE gear than he previously possessed.
• Firelands
  
  
  • Hell Hounds should now be nigh impossible for a single player to kill.
  • The first six bosses now have an increased chance of dropping a Crystallized Firestone on Heroic difficulty.
  • Baleroc
    
    
    • Baleroc should now always choose Inferno Blade the first time he casts Blades of Baleroc.
  • Beth'tilac
    
    
    • Beth'tilac now does slightly less damage on normal difficulty.
  • Lord Rhyolith
    
    
    • The explosion damage radius of each Magma Meteor just before Lord Rhyolith should now more closely match their spell effect visuals.
    • Volcanoes should no longer emit plumes of smoke while they are dormant.
    • Concussive Stomp should no longer knock nearby players back.
    • Magma Flow lines are now 30 yards long, down from 40 yards, on normal difficulty.
    • Rhyolith now activates volcanoes less often on normal difficulty.
    • Stepping on an active volcano now removes 16 stacks of armor, up from 10, on normal difficulty.
  • Majordomo Fandral Staghelm
    
    
    • All threat generated in this encounter has been reduced in Heroic difficulty.
  • Ragnaros
    
    
    • Ragnaros's Sons of Flame should now be immune to silence effects.
  • Shannox
    
    
    • Shannox, Riplimb and Rageface have all had their damage reduced slightly on normal difficulty.

Quests

• Players should now be able to keep the Quest Giver buff from the quest Welcome to the Machine in Hillsbrad Foothills.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]August 29

Classes

• Druid
  
  
  • Starfall should no longer hit enemies with whom the player is not in combat in Grim Batol or the Firelands.
  • The Feral druid 4-piece tier-12 set bonus (Item - Druid T12 Feral 4P Bonus) should now interact properly with Primal Madness and Euphoria.
  • The radius of effect of the Restoration druid 4-piece tier-12 set (Item - Druid T12 Restoration 4P Bonus) has been increased.
• Mage
  
  
  • Fire Blast now properly triggers Impact on the primary Fireblast target, even if that target was not yet in combat.
• Paladin
  
  
  • The radius of effect of the Holy paladin 4-piece tier-12 set (Item - Paladin T12 Holy 4P Bonus) has been increased.

Dungeons & Raids

• Firelands
  
  
  • A few of the Molten Surger patrols in the entrance area of Firelands have gone on vacation.
  • Shannox
    
    
    • The number of enemies that must be killed before Shannox spawns has been reduced.

Battlegrounds

• Isle of Conquest
  
  
  • Players should no longer take large amounts of damage when being launched from catapults.

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[Kothnok]

Lol, how many times have they fixed Starfall now? I've lost count.

[Shadowwolf]

Its still broken also. Just used it and almost died because it pulled 20 mobs I wasnt in combat with.