Patch 4.3.0 - Undocumented Changes

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]General

• Additional Brewfest decorations added.
• New laugh for worgen human form added.
• New hairstyles have been added for the following race/gender combinations:
  
  
  • Orc Male: Wedge
  • Orc Female: Bangs, Braided Hawk

Achievements

• [achievement]5853[/achievement] - New achievement added for Winter Veil.
• [achievement]5794[/achievement] is now worth 10 Achievement Points.
• [achievement]6006[/achievement] - New achievement added for Lunar Festival.
• Midsummer Fire Festival achievements added
  
  
  • [achievement]6013[/achievement]
  • [achievement]6007[/achievement]
  • [achievement]6009[/achievement]
  • [achievement]6012[/achievement]
• Feats of Strength added for [achievement]6002[/achievement] and [achievement]6003[/achievement], both of which have already been awarded but did not originally have Feats of Strength associated with them.
• Feats of Strength added for the Winter's Veil gifts, [achievement]6059[/achievement] and [achievement]6060[/achievement].
• The Guild Achievement [achievement]5812[/achievement] is now worth 15 guild achievement points again (4.2.0 set its value at 0).

Quests

• New quests added:
  
  
  • [quest]29608[/quest]
  • [quest]29609[/quest]

Classes

• [class]Hunter[/class]
  
  
  • [spell]Bombardment[/spell] changed to match description - it now ends on next [spell]Multi-Shot[/spell], instead of lasting its full duration and halving the cost of all Multi-Shots cast in that period.
• [class]Mage[/class]
  
  
  • [spell]Permafrost[/spell] tooltip changed. It no longer states the percentage by which the target's healing is reduced. As [spell]12294[/spell], [spell]46910[/spell] and  [item]Wound Poison[/item] have all been changed to cause a 25% debuff (back up from 10%) it's possible that this tooltip change reflects a similar change in the healing debuff provided by the talent.
• [class]Priest[/class]
  
  
  • Characters under the effects of [spell]1706[/spell] no longer use their run animation when moving.
  • [spell]83968[/spell] can no longer be cast by priests in [spell]20711[/spell] form.

Items

• Several items have had their durability increased.
• All equipable holiday items have been given durability amounts ranging from 16 to 25.
• [item]12735[/item] is now a poor quality item, and can be sold for 18s 75c.
• [item]45998[/item] now has a durability.
• All thrown weapons now have a durability.
• Stable Masters now sell  [Rope Pet Leash], which was previously only available at Breanni in Dalaran.
• The companion pets from Winter Veil no longer require a [item]Snowball[/item] to summon. However,
  
  
  • [spell]26533[/spell] and [spell]26541[/spell] are very busy and will complain before despawning themselves if summoned outside of the Winter Veil.
  • [spell]26045[/spell] is smaller than usual and will fall over and die after a few seconds of being summoned outside of Winter Veil.
  • [spell]26529[/spell] will not wear any of its holiday decorations outside of Winter Veil
• The Scourge Haunt from [item]40110[/item] now won't be active at the same time as a normal companion pet. In addition, whenever it is summoned or respawns after disappearing (outrun, zoned, etc) the character will do a /cower animation for a moment. This also affects taxi mounts; they stop every few moments and turn around while the character cowers at the haunt.
• A non-BoP version of [item]78348[/item] is now sold by [npc]19536[/npc] in [zone]3523[/zone].

Raids & Dungeons

• In the Dungeon Finder the Cataclysm Heroic Dungeons have been recategorized as follows:
  
  
  • Hour of Twilight Heroic consisting of End Time, Hour of Twilight and Well of Eternity
  • Cataclysm Heroic consisting of all level 85 Heroic dungeons (including Zandalari and Hour of Twilight)
• The new 4.3.0 Heroic Dungeons require an average item level of 353.
• Completing a Random Heroic now awards 150 Valor Points.
• Core Hounds and Core Hound Packs in Molten Core have had their size reduced by half.

Professions

• The Outland alchemy specialization quests (with Burning Crusade expansion mats) have been removed. The new ones (with Catalaclysm expansion mats) have been added to alchemy trainers.
• Basic Campfire has been renamed to [spell]818[/spell].
• The number of fragments from Archaeology finds has been increased.
• [item]18512[/item],  [item]20500[/item],  [item]20498[/item], and  [item]20501[/item] are now grey (vendor trash) quality. The Leatherworking patterns that used these have had their reagent costs adjusted.
• [item]77101[/item] can now be learned through [spell]61288[/spell].
• The icons for Enchanting scrolls have changed.
• Enchant Shield - Lesser Block is now called  [spell]13689[/spell]. Its effect had previously been changed from block to parry.

World Environment

• [npc]48737[/npc] now has a unique model.
• Darkmoon Island has been added and will replace the Darkmoon Faire.
• Ethereals have new interaction voices.
• [npc]54938[/npc] is no longer present at the Cathedral of Light. [npc]1212[/npc] reports that he has gone on a mission to Wyrmrest to aid in Deathwing's demise.
• [npc]56796[/npc] has replaced [npc]2327[/npc] as Stormwind's First Aid Trainer.
• Fire elemental corpses once again sparkle when they can be looted.

User Interface

• Raid Icons have been renamed to Target Marker Icon.
• Added some buttons to rotate and move your character in Character Info interface, including the dressing room.
• Mini-map Tracking has been reorganized and two new options have been added.
• Restore to Default button added to the Dungeon Journal.
• Added a Hide Bosses option in the lower-right corner of Dungeon and Raid Maps.
• Equipped item level is now displayed in the Character Info pane.
• The color that is used for displaying the levels on the Map depends on your current character level, ranging from gray (very easy zone) to red (very hard zone). The difficulty of the zone depends on its mob and quest levels.
• A slower animation is shown if you acquire new spells, either by buying or as a quest reward (from class quests in starting areas).
• You can no longer delete characters that have mail or heirlooms in their inventory or void storage.
• Brazilian Portuguese localization has been added.
• Report Spam now removes the offending item from the chat window.
• Auction House now shows more relevant information in the "Lvl" (Level) column for some categories: Containers - "Slots", Gems - "iLvl", Recipes - "Skill" (to learn)
• Users without the latest expansions now receive an "upgrade" button on the left of the character select screen to upgrade their account.
• The Raid Browser has been moved to the "Other Raids" section of the new Raid Finder.
• The Dungeon Finder eye near the Minimap displays how many players are joined in the group, when the number is lower than the maximum.
• The popup menu of the Dungeon Finder eye is now positioned under it, instead of left from it.
• The target portrait frame is less translucent (at least the Health, Mana and Energy bars and Combo points).
• When queuing for multiple specific battlegrounds, the player now retains its position in the queue of the other queued battleground after one of these battlegrounds has been completed.

Game Engine

• Added a more extensive Color Blind mode.

Game Client

• When the game is started from the WoW.exe and there is a patch available, it will start the Launcher.exe instead. (Previous behavior: after login, prompted the user with a button to quit and start the Launcher)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would cause certain animations (such as the animation from opening the world map) to interrupt fishing.

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Classes

• [class]Priest[/class]
  
  
  • [spell]83968[/spell] can no longer be cast by priests in [spell]20711[/spell] form.

Items

• The Scourge Haunt from [item]40110[/item] now won't be active at the same time as a normal companion pet. In addition, whenever it is summoned or respawns after disappearing (outrun, zoned, etc) the character will do a /cower animation for a moment. This also affects taxi mounts; they stop every few moments and turn around while the character cowers at the haunt.
• A non-BoP version of [item]78348[/item] is now sold by [npc]19536[/npc] in [zone]3523[/zone].

Professions

• Enchant Shield - Lesser Block is now called  [spell]13689[/spell]. Its effect had previously been changed from block to parry.

User Interface

• When queuing for multiple specific battlegrounds, the player now retains its position in the queue of the other queued battleground after one of these battlegrounds has been completed.

Game Client

• When the game is started from the WoW.exe and there is a patch available, it will start the Launcher.exe instead. (Previous behavior: after login, prompted the user with a button to quit and start the Launcher)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would cause certain animations (such as the animation from opening the world map) to interrupt fishing.

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