WoW 2.4 Undocumented Changes

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]General

• Some NPCs at the Sanctum of the Stars, including Commander Hobb, have had their bow models updated.
• The buildings that connect the various parts of Thunder Bluff no longer dismount players, or take Druids out of Travel Form.
• There are new loading screen tips.
• Some game physics have been changed to prevent players wall climbing/wall jumping.
• When landing in water you now sink enough to have to hold your breath.

Druid

• Druids that were in Tree of Life Form or Moonkin Form will now be able to auto-shift out to mount up.
• Moonkin Form is now affected by the Fel Orc Costume buff.

Hunter

• Ammo Pouches and Arrow Quivers can no longer be simultaneously equipped in your character's bag slots.
• Pet Boar's Charge ability generates a lot less threat compared to post-2.4 threat lists.
• Snake Trap and snakes spawned from the trap will no longer despawn when the hunter dies (same mechanic as other traps).

Mage

• Icy Veins now has a sound when cast (crackling sound, similar to new Priest Power Word: Shield spell).
• Ice Barrier now absorbs more damage.

Paladin

• Righteous Defense can now be cast on all friendly targets.
• Items intended for Retribution paladins have been rebalanced. Spell Damage has been replaced with stats such as Critical Strike Rating, Haste Rating, and Strength on Season 1 and 2, Tier 4, Tier 5 and Tier 6, and other miscellaneous Retribution gear (Season 3 was already changed in patch 2.3).
• The animation and flight speed of Avenger's Shield has been increased.

Priest

• Touch of Weakness no longer interrupts channeling when it procs.
• Mind Vision can no longer be used in Arena. It also doesn't interrupt drinking/eating.
• Power Word: Shield now has a different sound when cast.

Rogue

• Attempting to pickpocket a target that has been picked will produce a message informing that the target's pocket has been picked.
• Cheat Death ability now properly reduce incoming damage (was bugged since 2.3.2 patch and absorbed too much damage: it decreased all incoming damage by 90% and then absorbed 90% of damage taken. In sum it is 99% of absorption for 3 seconds.)
• If a rogue hits an immune enemy, he will not lose his combo points.
• Performing Deadly Throw no longer automatically turns you towards your target.
• Sprint has a new animation.

Warlock

• The animation for the Shadowbolt seems to move faster than before.

Warrior

• Whirlwind has a new sound.
• Charge and Intercept will now move the player to his target (not miles away).

PvP

• Temporary buffs from Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and Eye of the Storm now count as buffs instead of debuffs, in line with the change that opposite factions can see your buffs.

Professions

• Alchemy
  
  
  • Four new Alchemy Stones added, all need the previous Alchemist's Stone.
    
    
    • [item]Assassin's Alchemist Stone[/item] confers +108 AP, Increases effect of Healing and Mana potion +40%.
    • [item]Guardian's Alchemist Stone[/item] confers +54 Defense Rating, Increases effect of Healing and Mana potion +40%.
    • [item]Sorcerer's Alchemist Stone[/item] confers +63 Damage/Healing, Increases effect of Healing and Mana potion +40%.
    • [item]Redeemer's Alchemist Stone[/item] confers +119 Healing (+40 Damage), Increases effect of Healing and Mana potion +40%.
• Blacksmithing
  
  
  • All grinding stone recipes have now been correctly categorized.
• Engineering
  
  
  • Engineering pets no longer scale with Engineer skill, but levels instead.
  • Engineering Skill 350 Epic goggles now have a L62 requirement.
• Herbalism
  
  
  • Nightmare Vine now has spawn points at both Forge Camp: Wrath and Forge Camp: Terror in Blade's Edge Mountains.
  • When gathering Nightmare Vine there is an increased chance of gaining the Nightmare Pollen debuff.
• Mining
  
  
  • Mining nodes now drop more rare quality gems than before.

Quests

• Dragonmaw Transporters now stay on their mounts, and are now likely to evade more.
• The quest The Deadliest Trap Ever Laid has had the gold reward increased from 7 gold 28 silver to 18 gold, 28 silver.
• Nethermine Ravagers in the Netherwing Mine spawn more frequently, and there are a lot more of them.
• The number of Netherwing Crystals required for the daily quest Netherwing Crystals has been dropped from 40 to 30.
• Players are now only required to kill 6 Bloodscale Enchantresses in the Sporeggar repeatable quest Now That We're Still Friends...
• The quests for giving players Stormpike Insignia or Frostwolf Insignia had their level adjusted for level 70 players. As a result each trinket upgrade will additionally give 11 gold, 40 silver at level 70 due to increased experience gain.

Dungeons & Raids

• Black Temple
  
  
  • Reliquary of Souls is bugged and isn't casting Deaden nor shielding in Phase 2.
  • Supremus has had his size increased. The hitbox of Supremus has also been reduced significantly.
• Mount Hyjal
  
  
  • Regular mob kills now give 12 reputation per kill.
  • All boss kills now give 375 reputation.
  • Defeating Archimonde now gives 1500 reputation.
  • Horde Camp Witch Doctors no longer put down healing totems.
  • Archimonde's hitbox is now about the size of the one on ROS.
  • Warriors can no longer Intercept back on air bursts.
  • Mining nodes in MH don't appear to drop Uncommon (green) quality gems any more, have a higher droprate on Epic quality gems and now drop a grey fragment that sells for 30g/stack (20 stack).
  • The area around Archimonde in Battle for Mount Hyjal has been decreased in size and players are no longer able to go into the hills around his area in order to use a geographical exploit.
• Tempest Keep
  
  
  • Void Reaver no longer targets a player before casting an Arcane Orb, so boss Add Ons such as BigWigs or Deadly Boss Mods are no longer able to warn of incoming Orbs.
  • Flame patches in the second phase of the Al'ar encounter can no longer be killed with Spell Reflection by warriors.
  • Al'ar's hitbox size has been decreased.
• Magtheridon's Lair
  
  
  • The duration of the Mental Exhaustion debuff has been reduced, such that you only need one person to per cube.
  • There can only be one Infernal per Channeler (5 total).
• Karazhan
  
  
  • Releasing a chess piece in Karazhan sometimes bumps you back to Curator's room now.
  • The Prince Malchezaar encounter in Karazhan has had its safe spots on the left side of the room removed as of 3/26/08.

Items

• Items with cooldowns now have text "Cooldown Remaining: mm:ss" at their tooltips.
• Corrected tooltips for most trinkets to show more accurate cooldowns (only tooltip text change). For instance, [item]Bladefist's Breadth[/item] now show correct cooldown of 1.5 minutes instead of 2 minutes.
• The [item]Zapthrottle Mote Extractor[/item] has a new on-use animation.
• Stats of [item]Shifting Tanzanite[/item] changed from +5 STR and +4 AGI to +5 AGI and +6 STA.
• The Fists of Fury (Weapon set: [item]Claw of Molten Fury[/item] + [item]Fist of Molten Fury[/item]) added to Hyjal loot table.
• The PvP mounts [item]Swift Warstrider[/item] and [item]Reins of the Black War Elekk[/item] have been added to the game.
• [item]Golden Cenarion Greaves[/item] - Blizzard has removed 35 spell damage and healing from this item.
• [item]Philosopher's Stone[/item] is now a trinket with +5 to all stats (level requirement 35)
• [item]Battleworn Tuskguard[/item] - Changed from 40 block rating to 40 defense rating.
• [item]Stratholme Holy Water[/item] does less damage. Most likely a cause of no longer being affected by Spell Damage bonuses.
• [item]Brewfest Pony Keg[/item] now lets you choose where to put it.
• [item]Mechanical Dragonling[/item] and [item]Mithril Mechanical Dragonling[/item] now have a cooldown of twenty minutes instead of an hour. They are also caped at level 40 (Mithril) and 50 (Arcanite).
• [item]Corpsemaker[/item] has had its required level drop from 29 to level 27.
• [item]Mystical Skyfire Diamond[/item] now grants 320 Spell haste, which is 20% faster casting instead of cast in half time, and the focus effect from it lasts 4 seconds, down from 6.
• Rare quality (blue) gems can now be pick-pocketed.
• Paladin's Merciless Gladiator shoulders have changed colour slightly.
• The faceguard portion of the Druid Gladiator armour set have gotten a change of colour to match the other parts of the set.
• Warlock Season 3 Gloves have have a graphics change.
• On both the normal and epic Night Elf sabers, the rider has been shifted forward.
• [item]Captured Flame[/item] is now a Rare item, instead of Common.

User Interface

• Tutorial hints (after clicking on the yellow exclamation mark at the bottom of the screen) are now displayed in the centre instead of at the bottom.
• Separate options added to display names of pets, companions, or creations for friendly or hostile units.
• Raid Window in default Blizzard UI will no longer be empty or locked if opened during combat.
• Players can now show the raid icons in chat, by typing {} around the name of the symbol, eg {skull}.

Sounds

• There is new music in Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff inns.
• Equipping a fishing pole will now mute the music.
• Soulwell now make an ambient sound around it.
• Portals now have an ambient sound.
• Ritual of Refreshment now has a different sound.
• All Dragonwhelp pets now have sounds when clicked (previously only Black and Nether ones).
• Blood Elves' racial mount, the Hawkstrider, now makes a sound when the spacebar is pressed and the mount is stationary.
• Many places and zones have new background music.
• Frog pets now play a sound when clicked.

World Environment

• Monstrous Kaliri now fly way more quickly and more or less dismount you with one hit.
• Dragonmaw Transporters will now hover above you and shoot you full of arrows before finally descending into melee range.
• Winged Demons in the Blade's Edge Mountains (Ogri'la plateau) and Hellfire Peninsula (Pools of Aggonar) have started to use their wings instead of walking back and forth.
• All Lightning Wasps have been removed from Bash'ir landing, there are only ethereals and elementals left there.
• The Fel Orcs on Netherwing Ledge now speak like other NPCs do with voice emotes.
• Skyguard Khatie in Skyguard Outpost in Blade's Edge is now mounted and flying on a nether ray.
• Domesticated Felboar no longer give experience when killed.
• Lor'themar Theron has had his dialogue changed to acknowledge Kael'Thas has betrayed the blood elves.
• Arcane Guardians now say "Remain strong. Kael'thas will -- error -- Lor'thermar will lead you to power and glory!".
• There is now a direct flightpath from Ratchet to Orgrimmar (it used to go by way of Crossroads).
• Many mobs in Netherstorm have had their health reduced slightly.
• Battlemasters have increased in size.
• An outhouse and various flavor NPCs have been removed from the Farm node of Arathi Basin.

Graphics

• Character models have been updated to increase performance. Only visible on human female characters.
• Human female's weapons appear much larger when sheathed.
• Dwarf weapons have increased in size when sheathed.
• Dwarf male shoulder pads have decreased in size.
• Male Tauren weapons had their size reduced while on the character's back.
• Will of the Forsaken animation was changed.

Bug Fixes

• The Falthrien Academy is now correctly displayed as a subzone of Eversong Woods, not as a zone (which has a bigger fade text on entering).
• Some mounts (like the epic Hawkstrider) now make a sound, when standing still and pressing the space bar.
• Wind Rider Master Urda, in Hammerfall, is now standing on her platform instead of under it.
• The cost of flight paths will now be properly reduced if your reputation is Friendly, Revered or Exalted.
• Vanndar Stormpike and Drek'thar no longer give info about how many elite NPCs are left at Alterac valley.

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[Kothnok]

[blizzard]Releasing a chess piece in Karazhan sometimes bumps you back to Curator's room now.[/blizzard]

Why?  I liked being able to play against another player, one on one.  This will make that impossible.
I would also release during the event when I just wanted to get a pawn moved out of the way and then move to another piece.

*grumble*

How fun will this be after the event is won and releasing your piece ports you to Curator's and you have to run back to loot the chest?

[Melonni]

Believe it's a bug, Koth. In my last run, only one person (Dagii) got dropped into Curator's hallway.

[un4]

[blizzard]Performing Deadly Throw no longer automatically turns you towards your target.
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Bleh.