2.2 tomorrow

[Tinie]

Nethaera
Blizzard Poster

I asked my magic Imp Ball and it said "Concentrate and Ask Again".

So I closed my eyes and concentrated very very hard... (hard to do with only minimal caffeine this morning, I must say) and in the end it said, "Yes". I just hope it's right this time. You know how tricksy those Imp Balls can be...


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yay!

 

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2.2 patchnotes:

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.2.0
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The latest patch notes can always be found at
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General
- Voice Chat - The new Voice Chat feature is now available in game.
Players will need to go into the Options menu under Sound & Voice to
activate it. Volume sliders are available for the microphone,
speakers, and game-audio fade (which automatically lowers the game
audio when a voice communication is received), as is a “push-to-talk”
setting. Right-clicking on a player’s name now includes the option to
mute or unmute that player. Muting another player blocks all voice
chat from him or her; the ignore feature now blocks both voice chat
and text chat from that player. For the Voice Chat F.A.Q. visit the
following links:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=942815291&sid=1
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1272012664&sid=1
- Chat Channels- New Chat Channel controls and functionality are now
available under the Chat tab in the Social window of the interface.
The interface will now show the channels players are in or are
available to them, depending on the area of the world they are in,
along with the addition of new private channel controls.
- A new feature for reporting players as being AFK in battlegrounds by
right clicking has been added. When enough reports are registered, a
60 second debuff will begin to count down. Once the timer is up a
new debuff will appear that will prevent the player from gaining any
honor while it is on. This debuff can be negated as soon as the
player engages in PvP combat.
- Haste: Haste has been rebalanced. It has returned to the ratios
from the launch of Burning Crusade. Melee attacks and spell casts
will now benefit at identical rates from haste. This change results
in a reduction in the benefit of haste for melee attacks and an
increase in the benefit for spellcasters.
- Troll Berserk: The spell haste on this ability was incorrectly too
high and has been corrected.
- Resilience Rating: The reduction to the percent chance to get a
critical strike now also reduces the damage dealt by damage over time
effects by the same percentage.
- Daze: Defense skill will no longer reduce the chance players have to
receive the Daze effect when attacked from behind by enemies.
- Area Spells: In some cases guards in neutral areas would not aggro
against pvp attacks from area spells. That is now fixed.
- Corrected the damage modifier calculation for Resilience when the
attacker has bonus critical strike damage.
- Power Regeneration: Any effect which triggers a change in your rate
of power regeneration (Mana, Rage, Energy, Focus) will now cause an
immediate reward of some power at the old rate of increase, and then
begin new “ticks” of power at the new rate approximately 2 seconds
later. This was done to improve functionality of abilities such as
Evocation and Innervate so that they did not have wasted “ticks”.
- Mac Movie Capture: the Mac client can now capture in-game video to
QuickTime movie files using a configurable choice of codec,
resolution, and frame rate. Two new entries have been added to the
Key Bindings dialog for start/stop recording and for cancellation of
a recording. For more detailed configuration options please see the
Mac Options panel in game. Mac OS X 10.4.9 and QuickTime 7.1.6 or
better are required. Not all machines have enough performance to
smoothly capture video at high frame rates; end user experimentation
will be required to find appropriate settings for each system.
- Pets are now affected by Paladin greater blessings.
- Kill Triggered Effects: Effects that trigger from killing your target
will no longer trigger from killing your pet.
- Non-combat pets may not be selected as the target for spells or
abilities.
- Non-combat pets now have the tag “Companion” instead of “Minion”.
- Being attacked by guardians, such as summoned Treants, will no longer
automatically cause neutral guards to attack you.
- Meeting Stones can no longer be used to summon players that do not
meet the level requirements.
- Damage and health leech effects always affect flying players even if
they are immune to the rest of the spell’s affects while in flight.
- Troll Berserk: The spell haste on this ability was incorrectly too
high and has been corrected.

PvP
- Dueling players may not use a Lightwell that they didn’t create themselves.
- Battlegrounds
Eye of the Storm: The points awarded from capturing the flag now
increase based on the number of bases the capturing teams owns.
- Arenas
Arena calculations have been modified. In addition, the penalty for
smaller arena teams (2v2, 3v3) has been slightly reduced.
Items that are indicated as quest items in their tooltips and have a
“use” or “equip” ability will not work in PvP arenas.
Players will no longer be able to change armor once an arena battle
has begun. Changing armor will still be available during the
one-minute prep time prior to the battle. Main hand, off hand and
ranged weapon swapping in combat remains unchanged.

Druids
- Cat Form (Night Elf) melee attack range was too short compared to
Tauren Cat Form and other attack ranges. It has been increased.
- Cyclone: It is no longer possible to Cyclone two targets at
the same time in the outdoor world.
- Cyclone: Paladin Auras, Trueshot Aura, and Aspect of the Pack will
now be automatically reactivated when Cyclone wears off of a victim
who had one of the abilities active.
- Enrage: If this buff is clicked off early, the armor penalty it
causes will now be removed as well.
- Enrage and Furor should no longer initiate combat, though it will
prevent rage decay for the duration.
- Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible to have
Entangling Roots on two targets at the same time in the outdoor
world.
- Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible to have more than one rank
of this spell active on a player.
- Force of Nature: Using this spell in a neutral town will no longer
cause its victim to be attacked by town guards. It also will no
longer cause nearby party members to lose stealth.
- Hibernate and Entangling Roots duration against PvP targets has been
reduced to 10 seconds.
- Hurricane: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus
damage coefficients have also been increased.
- Hurricane: A tooltip error in rank 3 has been corrected.
- Lacerate: The damage from this ability will now stack properly when
two different characters are applying Lacerate to a target.
- Mangle: The duration remaining graphic will now display properly for
Mangle after it has been refreshed on a target. It will also no
longer sometimes apply the Mangle debuff to nearby targets when the
Mangle victim is killed by Mangle.
- Nature's Grasp: This ability can now trigger while the Druid is
sitting.
- Tree of Life: The party aura from this shapeshift now extends the
full 40-yard radius as stated in the tooltip.

Hunters
- Aspect of the Cheetah: This ability will now cause Hunters to become
dazed when struck while sitting.
- Aspect of the Pack: This ability will now cause party members to
become dazed when struck while sitting.
- Aspect of the Viper: This ability has received a slight redesign. The
amount of mana regained will increase as the Hunter’s percentage of
mana remaining decreases. At about 60% mana, it is equivalent to the
previous version of Aspect of the Viper. Below that margin, it is
better (up to twice as much mana as the old version); while above
that margin, it will be less effective. The mana regained never drops
below 10% of intellect every 5 sec. or goes above 50% of intellect
every 5 sec.
- Freezing Trap and Scare Beast duration against PvP targets has been
reduced to 10 seconds.
- Hunter's Mark: The duration remaining graphic will now display
properly for Hunter's Mark after it has been refreshed on a target,
and will properly consume mana when recasting it to refresh its
duration.
- Kill Command will not charge the hunter mana if their pet is on
passive.
- Kill Command no longer affects the Hunter’s current target.
- Misdirection: Items used while Misdirection is active will now
consume a charge correctly.
- Steady Shot: The tooltip stating the percentage of Attack Power
gained by Steady Shot was inaccurate and has been corrected. The
damage remains unchanged.
- Volley: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus
damage coefficients have also been increased. It also correctly
consumes charges of Misdirection.
- Hunter pets
Raptors can now learn Dash.

Mages
- Arcane Missiles: Some procs were not triggered by this spell and now
will be (such as Eye of Magtheridon). The tooltip for this spell will
now update correctly when a Mage is affected by spell haste.
- Blizzard: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus
damage coefficients have also been increased.
- Dragon's Breath: The movement-slowing component of this spell is now
properly considered a Snare. Immunity and clearing effects will now
work properly with it.
- Frost Nova: This spell is now affected correctly by area damage caps.
- Molten Armor: This armor can now be triggered while the Mage is
sitting.
- Polymorph duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10
seconds.
- Slow: It is no longer sometimes possible to Slow two targets at the
same time in the outdoor world.
- Spell Steal now receives the proper amount of points from a stacked
aura.

Paladins
- Auras: Changing auras will no longer trigger effects that occur when
you cast a spell.
- Blessing of Freedom cooldown increased to 25 seconds.
- Blessing of Protection: This spell can no longer be cast on others
when stunned. It can only be cast on self (to break the stun) under
those circumstances.
- Blessing of Kings, Light, Might, Salvation, Sanctuary and Wisdom
increased to 10 minutes.
- Blessing of Sacrifice now has a 1-minute cooldown.
- Consecration will now properly hit large creatures.
- Greater Blessing of Kings, Light, Might, Salvation, Sanctuary and
Wisdom increased to 30 minutes.
- Guardian's Favor now increases duration of Blessing of Freedom by
2/4 seconds.
- Eye for an Eye: This ability can now trigger while the Paladin is
sitting.
- Hammer of Wrath cast time reduced to .5 seconds, global cooldown
reduced to .5 seconds.
- Illumination: Paladins will now correctly gain mana from this ability
if they sit down to drink right after a healing crit, and receiving
mana from this ability will no longer cause a Paladin who is sitting
to stand up.
- Judgement: The Judgement spells will no longer cause triggered
effects to go off twice.
- Redoubt: This ability can now trigger while the Paladin is sitting.
- Reckoning: This ability can now trigger while the Paladin is sitting.
- Righteous Defense: In some cases this ability would fail to work
properly when the Paladin casting it had just been crowd controlled
by a creature. That is now fixed.
- Sanctified Judgement: This talent will now give the correct amount of
mana when used in conjunction with Seal of Justice.
- Seal of Righteousness: The tooltip for this ability has been
improved. It now displays a different number for one-handed weapons
and two-handed weapons, and adjusts to the speed of your current
weapon. It displays a single number, rather than a range of numbers
for different handedness and speeds.
- Seal of Vengeance: The damage from this ability will now stack
properly when two different characters are applying Seal of Vengeance
effects to a target.
- Seal of Vengeance duration increased to 15 seconds. In addition, when
Seal of Vengeance strikes a target that already has 5 applications
you will cause instant Holy damage.

Priests
- Focused Power: This talent now increases the hit chance of all
components of Mass Dispel correctly.
- Inner Focus: This ability will no longer lose charges when
Shadowguard or Touch of Weakness is triggered.
- Lightwell: The heals from this ability are now increased by the bonus
healing effects on the Priest.
- Mass Dispel: The portion of this spell that removes immunity effects
(Blessing of Protection, Ice Block, etc.), now has a chance to be
resisted, and will display correctly to the combat log. It will no
longer cause Rogues and Druids in Cat Form to lose stealth.
- Mind Control: Creatures immune to this spell will now cause an
immediate error message rather than make it seem like the spell
succeeded with no effect.
- Mind Control duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10
seconds.
- Pain Suppression: This talent will now reduce the chance for any buff
on the Priest to be dispelled, rather than reduce the chance of
dispelling buffs cast while it is active.
- Prayer of Mending: This spell can no longer jump to an Imp with Phase
Shift active. It will also no longer cause the healed target to stand
up.
- Prayer of Mending: This ability will now be triggered when a player
takes damage from effects placed on friendly targets.
- Shadowguard: This ability will now work properly even when the Priest
is stunned, fleeing, or incapacitated.
- Shackle Undead: It is no longer possible to have Shackle
Undead on two targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
- Surge of Light: This ability now properly grants its effects to one
and only one casting of Smite each time it activates. Interaction
issues with Inner Focus have been fixed.
- Touch of Weakness: This ability will now trigger properly if struck
while mounted.

Rogues
- Blade Flurry: This ability will now do damage to secondary targets
when the primary target takes no damage due to a damage shield (such
as Power Word: Shield).
- Cold Blood: This effect will now be consumed by all crits, including
those against targets with damage shields.
- Master of Subtlety: The bonus damage from this talent is now properly
removed when a Rogue loses stealth from zoning.
- Sap: It is no longer possible to Sap two targets at the
same time in the outdoor world.
- Sap duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
- Sword Specialization: This talent’s free extra attacks can no longer
trigger additional extra attacks.

Shaman
- Earthbind Totem: This totem will no longer break Rogue stealth.
- Earth Shield: It is no longer possible to Earth Shield two
targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
- Earth Shield is now canceled at logout.
- Elemental Focus: The free spell triggered by a Lightning Overload
will no longer consume this effect.
- Flametongue Weapon: Damage lowered slightly on rank 6 so that it is
never better than rank 7.
- Focused Mind (Restoration) now reduces duration of Silence/Interrupt
mechanics by 10/20/30%.
- Lightning Shield: This ability will now work properly even when the
Shaman is stunned, fleeing, or incapacitated.
- Nature's Guardian: This ability can now trigger while the Shaman is
sitting.
- Totems: Totems that grant only friendly beneficial effects will no
longer trigger attacks from neutral city guards.

Warlocks
- Banish, Seduction, Enslave Demon and Fear duration against PvP
targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
- Death Coil: Immunity to Horror effects no longer grants immunity to
the damage portion of this spell.
- Demonic Knowledge: This effect will no longer deactivate when the
Warlock's pet is Banished.
- Drain Life: The tooltip for this spell will now update correctly when
a Warlock is affected by spell haste.
- Inferno: This spell will now cause the Infernal's attacks to put the
Warlock into combat with neutral town guards.
- Intercept (Felguard) will now cause damage to targets that are immune
to stun.
- Nether Protection: This ability can now trigger while the Warlock is
sitting.
- Nightfall: This ability can now trigger while the Warlock is sitting.
- Rain of Fire: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its
bonus damage coefficients have also been increased.
- Seed of Corruption: Dead targets will no longer be erroneously
counted toward the damage cap on this spell.
- Shadow Embrace: The effect from this talent will no longer last
indefinitely if applied while charmed by an NPC.
- Unstable Affliction: This spell will no longer fail when a Warlock
deselects their target midway through the cast.

Warriors
- A Warrior's Overpower will properly become available when one of his
Sword Specialization procs is dodged by another player.
- Bloodrage should no longer initiate combat, though it will prevent
rage decay for the duration.
- Bloodrage: Warriors no longer remain in combat indefinitely if this
ability is active while zoning.
- Devastate: The duration remaining graphic will now display properly
for Sunder Armor after it has been refreshed on a target by
Devastate.
- Intercept will now cause damage to targets that are immune to stun.
- Sword Specialization: This talent’s free extra attacks can no longer
trigger additional extra attacks.

Items
- Adamantite Bound Chest: These chests found in the outdoor world now
contain level-appropriate loot.
- Adamantite Bound Chest: These chests will no longer contain
Adamantite Bars.
- Adamantite Figurine: This item is no longer affected by global
cooldowns.
- Airman's Ribbon of Gallantry: The tooltip for this item now lists the
effect duration.
- Alliance Shaman Level 60 PvP Items: These now have the correct costs.
- Ankhs now stack to ten.
- Ashtongue Talisman of Lethality: This trinket now works properly with
Kidney Shot.
- Avatar Raiment Set: The set bonus for Renew now increases the
duration of Renew by 3 seconds instead of increasing the target's
resistance.
- Black Qiraji Battletank: It is no longer possible to cast a spell
while boarding this mount.
- Blazefury Medallion: This item will no longer trigger against targets
affected by Sap.
- Blue Ogre Brew: This item now gives an error message when you attempt
to use it outside of the Blade's Edge Plateaus.
- Cerebral Cortex Compound: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts
as an elixir.
- Characters with a full inventory who turn in a Deathwing Brood Cloak
to Sky Commander Keller in exchange for an Apexis Crystal will now
receive the crystal in the mail.
- Corrected the sound made by many items when moved in players'
inventories.
- Corruptor Raiment Set: The pet healing bonus from this set is now
triggered from damage dealt instead of damage received, at a lower
percentage. Damage over time spells will trigger it correctly.
- Corruptor Raiment: The heal from this set bonus can no longer be a
critical heal.
- Crown of the Sun: This item now makes the correct sound when moved
in inventory.
- Crystalweave Bracers: This item now makes the correct sound when
moved in inventory.
- Cyclone Regalia: The tooltip on the Energize bonus has been altered
to state this bonus only reduces the base mana cost of the spell.
- Darkmoon Card: Madness: This item will no longer trigger from using
Demonic Sacrifice on a pet.
- Darkmoon Card: Crusade: This item can no longer trigger from Mind
Soothe, Soothe Animal, or Mind Vision.
- Deathmantle Armor Pieces: These items now make the correct sound when
moved in inventory.
- Defiler's Plate Spaulders: Honor cost of this item corrected to its
intended value.
- Demonic Bulwark: This item incorrectly had a base amount of bonus
healing in addition to its random stats. That base bonus healing has
been removed.
- Design: Mystic Dawnstone: This recipe for a +8 resilience-rating gem
will now always have a copy on the vendor initially when Halaa is
captured by a faction and when the vendor restocks.
- Enriched Terocone Juice: Using this item will no longer trigger a
cooldown for using all other food and drink. Its purchase price has
also been corrected.
- Essence Infused Mushroom: This item can now be disenchanted.
- Eye of Arachnida: This item's 3rd charge will now work correctly.
However, an item with 0 charges will remain, and this item is now
unable to be vendored or disenchanted.
- Faceplate of the Impenetrable: This item now makes the correct sound
when moved in inventory.
- Fel Reaver’s Piston: This item will no longer be triggered by the
healing generated by Vampiric Embrace.
- Figurine of the Colossus: This item is no longer affected by global
cooldowns.
- Figurine of the Colossus: This item is now useable when the user has
no mana.
- Flasks: Various tooltips have been adjusted for consistency.
- Formula: Enchant Chest - Major Resilience: Corrected a tooltip error.
- Formula: Enchant Cloak - Dodge: This enchanting recipe is now
available from the Lower City Quartermaster. The reagents required
have been adjusted to match the level 70 content.
- Formula: Enchant Cloak - Greater Fire Resistance: The reagents
required for this recipe have been adjusted to better match the level
70 content.
- Formula: Enchant Cloak - Greater Nature Resistance: The reagents
required for this recipe have been adjusted to better match the level
70 content.
- Formula: Enchant Cloak - Stealth: This enchanting recipe is now
available from the Cenarion Expedition Quartermaster. The reagents
required have been adjusted to match the level 70 content.
- Formula: Enchant Cloak - Subtlety: This enchanting recipe is now
available from the Thrallmar Quartermaster and Honor Hold
Quartermaster. The reagents required have been adjusted to match the
level 70 content.
- Formula: Enchant Gloves - Superior Agility: This enchanting recipe is
now available from the Keepers of Time Quartermaster. The reagents
required have been adjusted to match the level 70 content.
- Formula: Enchant Gloves - Threat: This enchanting recipe is now
available from the Sha'tar Quartermaster. The reagents required have
been adjusted to match the level 70 content.
- Formula: Enchant Weapon - Greater Agility: This enchanting recipe is
now available from the Violet Eye vendor.
- Gizzard Gum: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as an elixir.
- Greater Rune of Warding: Due to persistent bugs with its design, this
item has been redesigned for patch 2.2. It now enchants a piece of
chest armor so it has a chance per hit of giving you physical damage
absorption.
- Grips of Silent Justice: This item now makes the correct sound when
moved in inventory.
- Ground Scorpok Assay: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as
an elixir.
- Heavy Fel Iron Chest: These chests found in the outdoor world now
contain level-appropriate loot.
- Horde Paladin Level 60 PvP Items: These now have the correct costs.
- Increased the duration of the Mystical Skyfire Diamond’s cast speed
buff to 10 seconds.
- Incarnate Raiment Set: The Flexibility buff from this set is no
longer removed by taking damage.
- Insignia of the Alliance: This item now indicates it removes effects
instead of dispelling them.
- Insignia of the Horde: This item now indicates it removes effects
instead of dispelling them.
- Kronk's Grab Bag: This bag will now always contain some item.
- Leggings of Beast Mastery: The stamina and armor granted by this item
for your pet have been increased.
- Leggings of Divine Retribution: This item now makes the correct sound
when moved in inventory.
- Lesser Rune of Warding: Due to persistent bugs with its design, this
item has been redesigned for patch 2.2. It now enchants a piece of
chest armor so it has a chance per hit of giving you physical damage
absorption.
- Lesser Ward of Shielding: This item was not providing any benefit to
the user or placing a buff icon on them. It is now functioning
properly.
- Libram of Avengement: The tooltip for this item now specifies it only
works with the damaging Judgements (Command, Righteousness,
Vengeance, Blood).
- Lionheart Champion: This item now has a sound effect on its proc.
- Lionheart Executioner: This item now has a sound effect on its proc.
- Lung Juice Cocktail: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as
an elixir.
- Mark of Defiance: This item is now triggered from landing harmful
spells on a target, instead of just direct-damage spells.
- Marshal's Silk Cuffs: Critical strike rating on this item now the
same as General's Silk Cuffs.
- Medallion of the Alliance: This item now indicates it removes effects
instead of dispelling them.
- Medallion of the Horde: This item now indicates it removes effects
instead of dispelling them.
- Merciless Gladiator’s Barrier: This spell damage shield has been
added to the arena vendor.
- Merciless Gladiator’s Legguards: This item now appears as a kilt.
- Merciless Gladiator's Plate Helm: The melee hit rating on this item
has been changed to hit rating (it now applies to melee and ranged).
- Merciless Gladiator's Plate Helm will now properly hide facial hair.
- Merciless Gladiator’s Redoubt: This healing shield has been added to
the arena vendor.
- Merciless Gladiator’s Ringmail Helm: This item will disable
hair from being displayed.
- Merciless Gladiator’s Leather Spaulders: Critical strike rating was
too low and has been fixed.
- Merciless Gladiator's Touch of Defeat: This item now has a fire shoot
animation to match its damage type.
- Mr. Pinchy: Items received from Mr. Pinchy when your inventory is
full will now be mailed to you.
- Mystical Skyfire Diamond: Channeled spells will now properly consume
the Focus effect.
- Netherblade armor now has the correct sounds associated with it.
- Oil of Immolation: Tooltip error corrected.
- Pendant of the Violet Eye: This item will now trigger properly from
spells that cost a percentage of base mana.
- Power Infused Mushroom: This item can now be disenchanted.
- Red Ogre Brew: This item now gives an error message when you attempt
to use it outside of the Blade's Edge Plateaus.
- Rift Stalker Armor: The pet healing set bonus now heals for a
percentage of damage dealt by the Hunter.
- R.O.I.D.S.: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as an elixir.
- Sagefish Delight: The buff from this item has been modified to work
the same as all other mana per 5 buffs and displays correctly
on the character sheet.
- Schematic: Fused Wiring: Vendors who sell this recipe will now
properly restock it after a period of time.
- Sheen of Zanza: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as an
elixir.
- Shiny Red Apple: Druids in animal forms can no longer eat this food
item.
- Shuriken of Negation: Item level and stats increased to match other
items in from Gruul.
- Six Demon Bag: The damage spells cast by this item no longer benefit
from a player’s bonus spell damage effects.
- Skyguard Rations: Tooltip error corrected.
- Skyguard Silver Cross: The tooltip for this item now lists the effect
duration.
- Skyshatter Raiment: The bonuses in this set have had the spells they
affect swapped.
- Skyshatter Regalia: The Totemic Mastery set bonus will no longer
force the Shaman to stand up and stop eating and drinking.
- Slayer's Armor: The set bonus for Sinister Strike, Backstab, and
Mutilate now also works for Hemorrhage.
- Smoked Sagefish: The buff from this item has been modified to work
the same as all other mana per 5 buffs and displays correctly
on the character sheet.
- Spirit of Zanza: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as an
elixir.
- Spyglass of the Hidden Fleet: This item is now useable by
shapeshifted Druids.
- Staff of Natural Fury: Tooltip clarified to indicate it reduces the
base mana cost of shapeshifts, not the final cost.
- Stormstout: Corrected the tooltip due to capitalization inconsistency.
- Swiftness of Zanza: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as
an elixir.
- Talon of Al'ar: The bonus damage to all Shot abilities now provides
the full bonus to Scatter Shot and Silencing Shot.
- Talasite Owl: The effect from this item will now last its intended
full duration.
- The blood elf paladin quest reward Scourgebane now works against
demons as well as undead.
- Trappings of the Unseen Path Set: The buff on your pet from this set
bonus will no longer appear to be constantly running out and
refreshing.
- Trogg Ale: Corrected the tooltip due to capitalization inconsistency.
- Unstable Talasite: The tooltip on this gem now indicates it counts as
blue and yellow, and it behaves accordingly.
- Veteran’s Scaled Belt: Stats have been adjusted to correct budget.
- Veteran’s Scaled Greaves: Stats have been adjusted to correct budget.
- Voidheart Set: The tooltips for the two-piece bonuses have been
adjusted slightly so that there is no longer a blank set bonus. The
functionality of the set bonus was unchanged.
- Warbringer Armor Set: The bonus from Revenge will now apply correctly
to Shield Slam.
- Wild Draenish Vest: This item now makes the correct sound when moved
in inventory.
- Windrider Mounts: These items now make the correct sound when moved
in inventory.
- Winterfall Firewater: This item's tooltip now indicates it counts as
an elixir.
- Wolfshead Helm: This helm will no longer give twice the rage it was
intended to give.
- World Breaker: The bonus from this item being triggered will no
longer fade before it can provide its benefit.

Professions
- Various crafting recipes have been added to the Violet Eye faction
vendor.
- Triggered Effects: Tradeskill recipes will no longer trigger items
that are designed to be triggered by only combat spells.
- Alchemy
Flask of Shadow Fortification will transform into the Flask of Pure
Death. This new flask increases Frost, Fire, and Shadow spell damage.
Flask of Arcane Fortification will transform into the Flask of
Blinding Light. This new flask increases Holy, Nature, and Arcane
spell damage.
A new flask that increases all resists and stats has been added to
the Violet Eye reputation vendor.
- Blacksmithing
Changed the set bonuses afforded by Fel Iron Plate to increase hit
chance and Strength.
Added a new recipe for Ragesteel Shoulders that drops from an unknown
creature in Shadowmoon Valley.
Reduced the number of pieces required to get the benefits of the
Ragesteel set bonus.
- Enchanting
Nexus Transformation: This recipe to transform a Nexus Crystal into
a Small Prismatic Shard has been added to some Enchanting trainers.
Small Prismatic Shards: This recipe to transform a Large Prismatic
Shard into 3 Small Prismatic Shards has been added to some Enchanting
trainers.
Large Prismatic Shard: It is no longer possible to gain skill points
in Enchanting from this recipe.
- Engineering
Reduced the cooldown on the engineer-made Parachute Cloak.
- Jewelcrafting
Added a recipe for Steady Talasite to the Halaa vendors. This new
recipe requires Halaa Research Tokens to purchase and creates a
superior green gem that grants Resilience and Stamina.

Quests
- "Banish the Demons" now rewards either a Darkrune or a Fragmented
Darkrune. Five fragmented Darkrunes can be combined to create a
Darkrune.
- During the quest, "The Smallest Creatures", the marmot's stealth
ability is working once again.
- Firewing Warlocks are less likely to want to engage in melee combat.
- Fixed an issue wherein a character with a Darkrune would not be able
to turn it in to Gahk in return for a Crystalforged Darkrune unless
they first completed the daily quest "Banish More Demons" that day.
- In the "Bad Medicine" quest in Stranglethorn, Jungle Remedies can now
be found on Jungle Fighters.
- In Hillsbrad, additional Syndicate Papers were added to the Corahn's
Dagger subzone Syndicate camp. Quest text was changed to reflect this.
- In the "Bomb Them Again" quest, the cooldown of the Skyguard bombs
was decreased to 5 seconds (was 10).
- In the "Relic's Emanation" quest, the money reward was decreased while
the Ogri'la faction reward was increased.
- Mawg Grimshot's flavor events have been fixed.
- Resolved issues with Obsidia, Rivendark, Insidion, and Furywing
sometimes not responding to their eggs being used.
- The duration of the Apexis Relic and Apexis Monument beams was
slightly reduced, to more easily separate 2 back-to-back beams.
- The following Quest Objects will no longer briefly despawn when
looted: Mythology of the Titans, Compendium of the Fallen, Maiden's
Folly Charts, Maiden's Folly Log, Spirit of Silverpine Charts, Spirit
of Silverpine Log.
- Various issues breaking the "Showdown" quest fight have been resolved.

Dungeons and Raids
- Tempest Keep and Coilfang raid bosses will now all drop at least 3
items each.
- Auchindoun- Heroic Sethekk Halls
Polymorph should no longer affect the main tank.
- Auchindoun- Shadow Labyrinth
The recast time for the Shadow Word: Pain cast by Cabal Shadow
Priests has been increased.
- Black Temple
Saber Lash tanks will no longer be knocked back by Sinister Beam or
hit by Fatal Attraction, even if they dodge or parry the attack.
Mother Shahraz will now pick a new beam to cast after every 3rd beam
instead of after every 5th. This means she is much less likely to
cast the same beam many times in a row.
Fatal Attraction now deals 750 damage on the first tick, 1500 on the
second, 2250 on the third, and 3000 on all subsequent ticks.
Prismatic Shield is now more fun. Specifically, Mother Shahraz now
takes bonus damage from one school when she is resistant to its
opposite. Her resistances now change randomly every 15 seconds and
are capped at 25%.
- Caverns of Time- Battle of Mount Hyjal
Faction and loot rewards has been added to non-boss mobs in the
Battle of Mount Hyjal raid event. The faction awarded by bosses has
been decreased to balance this.
The health of Jaina and Thrall have been increased again from their
temporarily lowered values. They should be able to absorb quite a bit
more incidental damage during the event.
Archimonde has received several adjustments and fixes to prevent some
of the harder to counter combinations of his abilities. Archimonde's
Soul Charge silence has been lowered in duration to 4 seconds, and
the death of the Priest with Spirit of Redemption will no longer
create two Soul Charges. The casting time of Archimonde's fear has
been increased to 1.5 seconds, and he should now use his Fear ability
on a much more consistent interval. Archimonde will also no longer
cast Grip of the Legion on very far away targets.
Archimonde will no longer cast Grip of the Legion on targets that
have just been hit with Air Burst.
- Caverns of Time- Black Morass
Increased recast time on Shadow Bolt Volley on Rift Keeper, also
reduced damage on Heroic.
Reduced hit points of Infinite Executioners on Heroic.
Decreases the maximum possible stacks of Temporus' Mortal Wound from
10 to 7.
Increased recast time for Temporus' Hasten spell on Heroic.
- Caverns of Time- Escape from Durnholde Keep
When the limit on Thrall respawns after event failure has been
reached, the Epoch Hunter will now properly despawn.
Human Illusion: This effect in Old Hillsbrad will no longer be
applied to Dwarf and Human Priests when they exit Shadowform.
The composition of the pulls around the barracks in Durnholde Keep is
now more consistent. Players should no longer face more than two
Riflemen, or more than one Warden.
The group of guards underneath the bridge has been removed in Heroic
difficulty.
The Thrall escort event now allows 20 tries at completing the event
instead of 3.
- Coilfang Reservoir: Serpentshrine Cavern
Coilfang Priestesses no longer perform Spirit of Redemption.
Underbog Colossus' Acid Spray is now somewhat less dangerous.
Underbog Colossus' Spore Quake now has a shorter duration.
Greyheart Tidecallers' Virulent poison is now less deadly.
Serpentshrine Sporebats now charge less frequently.
Greyheart Nether-Mages now blink less frequently.
Serpentshrine Lurkers have had their damage output reduced.
- Hellfire Citadel: Shattered Halls
The melee damage dealt by Shattered Hand Reavers, Shattered Hand
Legionnaires, Shattered Hand Heathens, and Rabid Warhounds in Heroic
Mode has been reduced.
- Karazhan
Nightbane's Distracting Ash can now be removed with Cloak of Shadows.
Tinhead in Karazhan is now immune to bleeds.
Romulo and Julianne now clear all negative effects on themselves
before they come back from "death".
- Scholomance
Ras Frostwhisper's Frost Armor Chilled effect is now properly
classified as a snare mechanic.
- Tempest Keep: Arcatraz
The Devastate cast by Unbound Devastators now does Physical damage.
The recast time for the Deafening Roar spell cast by Unbound
Devastators has been increased on Heroic mode.
Wrath-Scryer Soccothrates' Knock Away can no longer be dodged or
parried. This will help prevent the catastrophic placement of
multiple flames on top of each other.
Harbinger Skyriss casts his Fear spell less often.
- Tempest Keep: Botanica
The time between casting of Thorgrin the Tender's Hellfire has been
increased.
The time between casting of Thorgrin the Tender’s Sacrifice has been
increased in Heroic Mode.
Thorgrin the Tender’s Enrage ability now increases his melee damage
by 75% instead of 110%.
- Tempest Keep: Mechanar
Raging Flames in the Nethermancer Sepethrea encounter have had their
movement speed reduced slightly in heroic mode.
The Arcane Servants summoned by Sunseeker Netherbinders are now
properly classified as Arcane Elementals, deal less melee damage and
have fewer hit points.
- Tempest Keep: The Eye
The spells cast by High Astromancer Solarian have been extensively
reworked. Wrath of the Astromancer is a now completely different in
function. Mark of the Astromancer has been renamed to Light of the
Astromancer and no longer reduces Arcane resistance. A player's
Arcane Resistance now also provides normal damage mitigation to
Solarian's spells.
Phoenix-Hawk Hatchlings now use Wing Buffet less frequently.
Crimson Hand Centurions now deal less damage with Arcane Flurry.
Crimson Hand Battle Mages have had their Frost Attack damage reduced.

User Interface
- Cast sequence macros no longer get stuck at feral druid abilities.
- Toggling the world map can be bound to an extended mouse button.
- Improved the handling of items with charges on the action bar.
- Fixed an issue where moveable frames would end up off screen after
changing either to or from a widescreen resolution.
- Fixed an issue where moveable frames would end up off screen after
changing the UI scale.
- Fixed issue where font strings would get clipped when the UI was
scaled.
- The pitchLimit console command has been re-enabled.
- Conditional macros with multiple targets will use the appropriate
context sensitive target for visual range feedback.
- Conditional macro processing has been greatly optimized.
- Macros with specific cast targets will no longer cast on your current
target if the specified target doesn’t exist.
- Warlocks can no longer get both Fel Stamina and Sacrifice Shield
using a macro.
- For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI &
Macros Forum-
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11114

World Environment
- The following old-world factions have had their acquisition rate
significantly increased: Cenarion Circle, Argent Dawn, Timbermaw Hold.
- If you get a positive reputation from combat you also get the
corresponding opposite reputation reduction.
- Adjusted Yowler's level to 20 (from 25).
- Adjusted the level of Redridge Bashers and Alphas.
- Arcane Missiles: When cast by creatures, this spell will now properly
cause activation of pets set to defensive mode.
- Azuregos: The tooltip on this creature's Frost Breath now correctly
indicates Frozen rather than impairing movement.
- Chieftain Mummaki: This creature can now be pickpocketed.
- Crypt Fiends around Azeroth and at Hyjal Summit are now more totem
friendly.
- Doctor Maleficus: This creature can now be pickpocketed.
- Dragonmaw Peon: The creature now has the correct pickpocket loot.
- Fel Corrupters in Blade’s Edge Mountain are now less potent.
- Fixed an improper dialog option on Carolyn Ward, a Rogue Trainer in
Undercity, when the player's Lockpicking was 300-324.
- Highlord Mastrogonde: This creature now always drops at least a good
quality item.
- Kataru: The totem cast by this creature will now be treated as a
totem, rather than as a creature.
- Markaru: This creature is now skinnable.
- Minor Fairbreeze Village fixes: The general goods vendor was moved
from home to the lower inn, the pet vendor was moved from the upper
inn to home, the upper inn is now flagged as an inn.
- Mo’arg Doomsmith: This creature now drops Marks of Sargeras rather
than Marks of Kil’jaeden.
- Monstrous Kaliri: This creature now has loot and will give reputation.
- Quest target Fel Spirits are now considered undead.
- Vindicator Aeus in the Aldor bank is no longer attackable by players
who are members of the Scryer faction.
- Sethekk Ravenguard: The Howling Screech from this creature is now
properly considered a Snare, and is clearable by Escape Artist and
other abilities that remove Snares.
- Skettis Windwalker: The Cyclone effect from this creature can now be
cleared by PvP trinkets and Bestial Wrath/The Beast Within.
- Skulloc Soulgrinder in Blade's Edge now correctly summons Sundered
Ghosts to aid him in battle.
- Void Reaver: The Arcane Orb ability used by this creature will now
correctly Daze players affected by Aspect of the Pack or Aspect of
the Cheetah.
- Void Terror: This creature is now skinnable.
- Wyrmcult Blackwhelp: This creature now can be skinned but can no
longer be pickpocketed.
- Wyrmcult Blackwhelp: This creature now can be skinned but can no
longer be pickpocketed.
- Blackrock Spire: The gems for the Seal of Ascension are now a 100%
drop from Overlord Wyrmthalak, War Master Voone and Highlord Omokk.
- Wailing Caverns: The Druids of the Talon will no longer permanently
flee.
- Blackfathom Deeps: Several creatures will no longer permanently flee.
- Temple of Atal'Hakkar: Several creatures will no longer permanently
flee.

Mac
- Additional graphic optimization utilizing AltiVec for PowerPC-Mac
and SSE for Intel-Mac. This provides some performance benefit on
systems where vertex animation shaders are either unavailable or
disabled (recommended on systems with Intel integrated video).
- Mac Options dialog has been added to the primary options panel.
This dialog offers configuration options for any features that are
presently unique to the Mac client, such as iTunes Remote and Movie
Capture.
- New iTunes Remote configuration options have been added to the Mac
Options panel.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed problem where players could be disconnected by clicking on an
item link in cross-server battlegrounds.
- Pets will no longer chase players that Vanish.
- Pets no longer follow enemies after being revived.
- Stacked items will no longer disappear from a player’s inventory when
zoning multiple times.
- The WoW client on Windows no longer defaults to 800x600 video
resolution if the WoW resolution is higher than the desktop
resolution when going from fullscreen mode to windowed mode.
- The Temple Concubine's polymorph no longer has the pig icon appearing
when it sheeps a player but now shows the proper sheep icon.
- Players using ranged attacks while under the shapeshift effects of
Torment of the Worgen, will now play attack animations
- The Toxic Spore Bats in the Lady Vashj encounter will now properly
despawn if the raid party wipes.
- Toxic Spores in the Lady Vashj encounter can no longer kill phase
shifted imps.
- Anzu can no longer be kited far from his spawn point and will
properly leash.
- The Doomguard Punisher will no longer hit players not involved in the
Legion Ring Event.
- Dressing room models for females are now showing the correct head
when transformed into a Fel Orc via the Dragonmaw Illusion.
- The trash pulls in the Grand Promenade will now shut off after the
Blood Elf Council are killed.
- Players can now accept daily quests even after their daily quest
limit has been reached.

In addition, if anyone is having trouble downloading the patch, please let me know and I can host it on our website. I'll be in-and-out through the day, but I'll try to check back when I have time.

 

[FiremanThul]

Am I the only one who's screen is all messsed up. I enabled out of date mods, they are all loaded, but everything on my screen is pushed to the right.

 

[faust]

Am I the only one who's screen is all messsed up. I enabled out of date mods, they are all loaded, but everything on my screen is pushed to the right.

Strange, no I haven't had any problems. Though I tend to be a bit cautious with major patches like going from 2.1.x to 2.2.x. I went ahead and deleted my WTF folder and downloaded all the addons I use that had updates.

Only real noticable incompatibility I found was that onebag's bank is messed up now. Lots of errors and I can't see updates to my bank's bags until I close the bank bag and reopen it.

 

[Durruck]

Undocumented changes:

World

* New music added to Honor Hold as well as the inns of Ironforge, Stormwind, and Ratchet
* Cho Threadstrong has new sayings he shouts at the fruit vendor (poor fruit vendor)
* Griftah unceremoniously ousted from Shattrath. Now sadly selling his fine wares (at unreasonably cheap prices!) in Terrokar Forest, just outside of the city's south-eastern tunnel at 36, 30 (Thanks, Meadows)
* Flavor text added to goblins at zeppelin flight points
* Chests in Tempest Keep: Mechanar have had their spawn locations change slightly making it impossible (or more difficult...never underestimate a players's tenacity) to solo
* Boats received new music (again? confirm?)

Character Models, Animation, & Spell Effects

* Orc shoulders and off*hand weapons fixed (possible overcompensation for previous bug?)
* Male night elf shoulders arc differently (possible bug? No one seems to mind)
* Cyclone graphic changed to, and I quote, "look more awesome." Awesomeness confirmed
* Evocation's graphic effect updated, seems to be a blue version of the confirmed*awesome cyclone update
* Windfury finishes the updated cyclone trilogy, now larger and darker; fans are divided!
* Prayer of Mending received a new animation
* Hurricane visually seems more selective, targeting victims with bolts of lightening bolts followed by loud booms
* Nethermine Ravager's rock shell ability received a new spell effect
* Druid Moonkin form has a new bandaging/crafting/using animation
* Undead epic horse mount trails longer flames
* Murloc Suits can now /kneel, /laugh, /point, /sit, /talk, and /cheer
* Shaman ghost wolf no longer holds weapons or shield while attacking
* Weapons while in moonkin form appear to have shrunk
* Mass Dispel no longer has a graphic, just shows the dispel animation on anything in the area
* New, flashier graphic for Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Freedom
* Thunderfury' proc does the same thing as Evocate, Cyclone and Windfury (consider it an epilog)
* Spectral Tiger Mount (and Swift Spectral Tiger) updated with brighter armor and fewer seems
* The Astromages inside of the Mechanar had their fire aura effect changed in appearance. Much taller now and has a different graphic surrounding them
* Druid basic flight form flaps it's wings slower now

Items

* Red Ogre Suit is now fixed; weapons scaled down and now seat properly when sheathed
* Non*combat pets now have a 1-second cool*down between summoning and unsummoning
* Aquadynamic Fish Attractors now officially say the duration is 10 minutes as opposed to 5
* Crashn' Thrashn' Robot now will walk around a small area instead of standing in one spot
* Merciless Gladiator's Satin Gloves graphic has been changed from slim and tight to look like the bulky Merciless Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves
* Sha'tari Skyguard's Enriched Terrocone Juice reputation reward vendor item price increased from 40 copper to 36 silver
* Farmer's Broom 100% beefier
* Moonsoul Crown has been changed from miscellaneous to a cloth item, receiving 39 armor, 50 durability, and a need to be repaired
* Accurate Scope is now a green item instead of white
* Mana potion injector gained charges and flavor text: "They just dont make 'em like this anymore..."
* Merciless Gladiator Shoulders are now orange on dark brown instead of orange on pink
* Coronet of Verdant Flame has been changed from miscellaneous to a cloth item, receiving 138 armor, 60 durability, and a need to be repaired
* Icy Blasting Primers are now made 10 at a time instead of 2, resulting in This results in 1 primal water making 50 frost grenades! Materials remain unchanged
* Goblin Gumbo is now unique, and the kettle has unlimited charges for the 15 minutes
* Nightstaff of the Everliving's texture has changed. It is now blue/gray where it was white
* Gladiator rogue daggers reduced by about 60% in size on blood elf females
* Druid Merciless Gladitor Leggings are now a kilt and have slightly been recolored

Professions

* Fishing: Bobber splash at the end of the timer is adjusted so you don't have to instantly click for fear of missing
* Fishing: The fishing line now instantly appears when you cast
* Enchant Ring - Spellpower materials required changed. Now requires 2 large prismatic shards and 2 greater planar essences

Quests

* Relic's Emanation daily quest money reward decreased while the Ogri'la faction reward was increased (documented somewhere but apparently not well known so here it is. Huzzah!)
* Skettis escort quest reward reduced to 9 gold from 11 gold, 99 silver

UI & Game Mechanics

* Disenchant received a new icon
* Wide screen UI scales differently
* UI Scaling in general appears to be a bit funky and requires some tweaking (Bedemus has generously posted a possible fix at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778025846&sid=1&pageNo=1 )
* New Auction house alert: "A buyer has been found for your auction of X"
* Error speech re-enabled by default. You require more vespene gas
* One hour delay on receiving currency from successful auctions (there seems to be confusion as to where this note was actually posted so for sanity's sake here it is, possibly again)
* Windowed game begins in the center of the screen instead of the upper*left corner
* New software reverb audio option
* Ogri'la reputation now goes to 999/1000 exalted
* Voidwalker's Suffering spell seems to work immediately when button is selected (what, no more "I can't do that yet?")
* Blessing of Sacrifice is on a 30 second cooldown, not the 1 minute listed in the patch notes
* Targeting for Skettis bombing run improved
* Tracking abilities such as "Find Minerals" now last through death
* Unable to fly into the water while on a mount or in flight form
* Warlock pets no longer revert to soul shards when boarding a mount at a flight point
* Druids can use booterang while in flight form
* The debuff from the druid Pounce ability now shows a seperate debuff for the stun and the bleed DoT
* Druids in flight form can now perform herbalism provided they are on the ground
* Earth elemental corpses (in Nagrand at least) are now minable
* /mountspecial cannot be used while moving
* The World Defense Channel is once again open to the masses
* Disobedient Dragonmaw Peons are now spelled correctly, it was 'Disobediant'
* Shifting now removes Shabby Arakkoa Disguise
* Buffs now have a new grey dot if players are in range of your spell, as well as the red dot that indicated someone is out of range
* Auto-loot button setting in Interface options has reverted to the default option

and

Enchant Ring - Healing Power became cheaper as well: - 2 Large Prismatic Shard - 3 Greater Planar Essence - 5 Arcane dust

Source

 

[awnold]

'The Thrall escort event now allows 20 tries at completing the event
instead of 3.'

Um, slight increase?

 

[Durruck]

Yeh, i thought that was a rather drastic change as well.