uncomfirmed patch notes

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=7354421&p=1&tmp=1#post7354421

looks legit

3/3/2006 2:03:40 PM

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

3/3/2006 2:15:33 PM

no fucking barrens weather???

but [wewt]

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"Previously, quest experience was wasted if one completed a quest at level 60. In this patch, any quests done at maximum level will have their experience reward converted to a healthy amount of gold, thus adding additional incentive to completing those quests in your log once you hit 60. "

[Edited on March 3, 2006 at 2:31 PM. Reason : *]

3/3/2006 2:30:56 PM

thats what i thought

thats like the first thing i thought of when they introduced weather...it just seems like plains africa. and random rain showers would be awesome out there in the open

3/3/2006 2:32:39 PM

jesus fucking christ. Yet Again.

I'll highlight the Improvements and not the minor corrections and nerfs.

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"Paladins Blessing of Light - Different ranks of this spell were stacking without causing additional effect. It was never intended for them to be able to stack, so they can no longer stack. Judgement of Justice - This judgement will now always hit. Righteous Fury - Righteous Fury will now always generate the correct amount of additional threat on all holy damage. There were some abilities, such as Retribution Aura, where this did not work correctly. Holy Shock - This ability now works with Divine Favor and Illumination. Holy Shield - Mana cost reduced approximately 15%. The effect now has a small bonus coefficient from spell damage items and effects. Eye for an Eye - This talent can now trigger while you are mounted. Blessing of Sacrifice - This Blessing can no longer be used to prevent the death of a target that is supposed to die for a spell effect (e.g.: Sacrifice, Demonic Sacrifice, Divine Intervention, Ritual of Doom). Seal of Command - Will now be able to proc when the Paladin is silenced. Improved Seal of Righteousness - Tooltip updated to reflect actual functionality. This talent increases Seal of Righteousness and Judgement of Righteousness by 3-15%. Lay on Hands - Range increased. Divine Intervention - Range increased. Holy Shield - Tooltip updated to reflect that damage caused by Holy Shield causes 20% additional threat. This has been active since 1.9, but was undocumented. All Greater Blessings now have increased range. Holy Shock - Mana cost reduced. Most creatures that were previously immune to Scorpid Sting are now also immune to the Paladin Talent Vindication. Fixed problem where occasionaly repeated casts of Consecration will not deal damage. If a paladin avoids damage with Divine Shield, Eye for an Eye will not react. Fixed stacking of paladin auras so they overlap, but only the best aura in a given category is in effect. "

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"Warriors Execute - This ability will now work with Sweeping Strikes again. If the second victim is below 20% health, they will be hit with the full Execute amount. If the second victim is not below 20% health, they will be hit with normal melee swing damage. Whirlwind - When this ability is used with Sweeping Strikes, it will burn only one charge of Sweeping Strikes and will generate only one additional attack. Flurry - Ranks 1 through 4 of this talent will now activate correctly again. Retaliation - This ability will now function correctly at full melee range. Intimidating Shout - The cowering in fear effect will no longer be applied when the target resists this shout. In addition, this shout will now affect a maximum of 5 targets. Flurry - Your haste will now last only the intended next 3 swings. Sweeping Strikes - The additonal attacks generated by this ability will now properly take into account the armor of the second target. "

[Edited on March 3, 2006 at 2:46 PM. Reason : g]

3/3/2006 2:44:37 PM

sweeping strikes and int shout got major nerfs. not that i'm terribly surprised.

3/3/2006 2:45:46 PM

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"Druids - Ravage - Can no longer be dodged, parried, or blocked. "

About damn time.

3/3/2006 2:55:13 PM

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"Stratholme, Scholomance, and Blackrock Depths now allow a maximum of five players inside, and Blackrock Spire allows a maximum of ten."

UBRS is ten man now? Jeeeez.

3/3/2006 3:09:47 PM

i guess to make tier .5 harder to get

3/3/2006 4:09:59 PM

Haha, so many people won't be able to do those instances 5man.

3/3/2006 4:13:56 PM

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"The Hexxer's Head is no longer a requirement for the Collection of Heads quest in Zul'Gurub."

hey i can turn this in on mal'ganis now..

i could've sworn ubrs was only ten man

[Edited on March 3, 2006 at 4:22 PM. Reason : ]

3/3/2006 4:21:46 PM

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" New High-Level Armor Sets! Adventurers of Azeroth can now quest to upgrade their previous Rare- quality Dungeon set to a new, higher-quality set, including epic gear! These tasks include all-new boss encounters, so prepare your finest group of dungeon-delvers and prepare for a challenge! "

That's lames, one of the reasons I was actually excited about that new armor sets was that I could get new shoulders while I wait for the BF shoulders. Except that I don't have the SC shoulders becuase that fucker in scarlet strat never drops them. At least I can upgrade my SC cap while I wait for another BF hood to drop.

As for Rogues, Remorseless Attacks and Blade Fury both got nerfed, and the rest of the shit is just fixing a few things that were broken. Yet again another boring patch for rogues...



UBRS was 10 man to rend and 15 man for full, at least it used to be.

3/3/2006 5:51:58 PM

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"exactly. ppl would think it was cool for like the first week it was out then once the 'newness' wore off they would probably be forgotten"

well....guilds could get plaqs and trophies for each times they kill a major boss, or they could have indicators of the sum of all the war efforts for the gates of the players....there are lots of ways to make the epeen measurment a competitive thing

3/3/2006 5:54:57 PM

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/ptr-contest/

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"Race to Level 50 Contest - Quality Over Quantity: Know all the sweet spots to level a character as far and fast as possible? Show us just how quick you are and level to 50 or higher on the Leveling Contest Realm! Up to 1000 players from each of the major regions (US, EU, and Korea) will become winners in this contest -- if there are more than 1000 who reach level 50, then those who reach 50 in the least amount of time will be chosen first, so be efficient! Click here for the official rules and additional eligibility requirements. Battle for Warsong Gulch: With the Honor Contest Realm level-capped at level 19, the battlegrounds are the place to be. Jump into the fray on this realm and face off against your fellow competitors -- the 500 players from each region (split evenly between Horde and Alliance, of course) with the highest honor totals by the end of the contest will be the winners! Click here for the official rules and additional eligibility requirements. Most Level-25 Characters Contest - Quantity Over Quality: We know you're out there -- you don't have a level 60, but you've got a dozen level-30ish characters on your account and simply can't decide on a "main" character. This contest, which also takes place on the Leveling Contest Realm, is for you! We're looking to see how many characters you can get to level 25 in the time provided. The top 1000 players from each region with the most level-25 characters on their accounts will win! Don’t worry if you fill up all 10 characters slots; simply delete one of the existing characters that you just leveled to 25 and keep on going! "

3/3/2006 6:00:40 PM

Jesus Christ. The contest lasts 20 days. Who the fuck can level to fifty in three week?


p.s. The answer is Koreans.

3/3/2006 6:10:48 PM

the queues on those servers are gonna be massive

3/3/2006 6:18:41 PM

^^You're joking right? you can get lvl 20 in a weekend. Lvl 50 in 3 weeks would be cake.

not sayin' i would do it, but its very very very possible

BTW, may as well weigh in on the trinket nerf. I find it funny that people think this will change anything. Any mage that could 1-2 you shot now, will still be able to 1-2 shot you. The only people this hurts are the people who NEEDED both trinkets and arcane power to do anything (my fireball crits for 2k with no trinkets/cooldowns at all, with +10% to crit rate from gear). The only thing that will change is that people won't be able to whine "lol no skill trinkets lol" anymore.

[Edited on March 3, 2006 at 7:02 PM. Reason : :]

3/3/2006 6:51:18 PM

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"not sayin' i would do it, but its very very very possible"

@ 8-10hrs a day

which is rediculous

3/3/2006 6:59:52 PM

meh its not that rediculous

3/3/2006 7:04:02 PM

^^Not sayin' it won't be detrimental to your health, but it can be done

[Edited on March 3, 2006 at 7:04 PM. Reason : :]

3/3/2006 7:04:23 PM

to play that much doing just repetitive levelling would be.

3/3/2006 7:04:42 PM

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"jesus fucking christ. Yet Again. I'll highlight the Improvements and not the minor corrections and nerfs. "

while i will agree with the palladins, warriors are getting a major nerf again. execute working with sweeping strikes was worded weird. its just going to work *differently* than it is currently (going back to how it used to be)
which imo was needed since they nerfed sweeping strikes last time, and if you read past the first line of the warrior notes, sweeping strikes is getting the crap nerfed out of it again this time with that one minor 'improvement' as well as other thing being nerfed.

the only 'improvements' warriors are getting is abilities working that werent working before

this has to be about the 3rd patch in a row now that warriors have gotten nerfed so dont say yet again. im not too worried tho. the whirlwind/sweeping strikes nerf is gonna be a huugggeee dps drop while fighting multiple ppl at once in pvp, and is gonna make that a lot more challenging for warriors. but ive been with a warrior since we were underpowered then overpowered then getting nerfed all over again, just gotta take what comes

[Edited on March 3, 2006 at 7:32 PM. Reason : ]

3/3/2006 7:28:10 PM

the problem with that is it will probably be bugged to fuck, and preform ala SS on a totem and come up immune on a target >20% hp and take up a charge.

3/3/2006 8:04:54 PM

I did not understand one word of that.

3/3/2006 8:08:16 PM

^^ wouldnt doubt it

3/3/2006 8:10:15 PM

i bet ganadar could poopsock it to 50 in well under 20 days

3/3/2006 8:46:06 PM

lol

3/3/2006 9:25:31 PM

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"Jesus Christ. The contest lasts 20 days. Who the fuck can level to fifty in three week?"

You can bot straight to 60 in under 15 days /played.

And the last 3-4 days are all 50-60, so it can be done with ease, especially on a mage.

3/3/2006 11:18:15 PM

i leveled to 59 on ma new serva in a little over 14 /played.

id be 60 tonight if i wasnt going to stay 59 for bg's.

3/3/2006 11:25:11 PM

Yeah, but 14 days /played in 20 real days means 17 hours played per day >.<


And yeah, i guess I don't know anything about botting.

3/4/2006 12:24:05 AM

Keep in mind, bots can't quest. They just kill. If you get your quests planned out, you'll probably gain more in doing those and grinding (even though you lose travel time) than you would just botting.

3/4/2006 12:29:53 AM

stein get me a working bot!

3/4/2006 2:24:13 AM

some blizzard employee is right now thinking this is the greatest idea ever to mass catch botters.

3/4/2006 3:20:31 AM

They pretty much caught all the ones they ever will catch. The ones left are coding their own versions of the bot on a pretty much daily basis to bypass the Warden Client.

Does anyone know of an effective way to solo farm librams? I got my Primal Hakkari Kossack tonight and Librams of Rapidity go for about 800g on the AH...

[Edited on March 4, 2006 at 5:47 AM. Reason : Death's Embrace]

3/4/2006 5:45:57 AM

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"Librams of Rapidity go for about 800g on the AH"

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH

i used to buy and sell those for 20g

[Edited on March 4, 2006 at 7:58 AM. Reason : =]

3/4/2006 7:58:30 AM

I remember putting a Libram of Focus on the AH for 2s once just to get it the fuck out of my inventory. Now they go for 700g minimum.

3/4/2006 9:37:56 AM

^ /cry

3/4/2006 10:36:08 AM

if you miss the day of the opening in the gates are you impossibly in the hole for rep there?

3/4/2006 11:16:17 AM

OMG Best interface

3/4/2006 12:27:39 PM

of course its alliance

3/4/2006 12:30:05 PM

sweet, you can choose a premade 60 on the test realm

3/4/2006 1:19:30 PM

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"if you miss the day of the opening in the gates are you impossibly in the hole for rep there? "

one guild on my server got 45 people to friendly (capped) during the gate events 10 hours.


but all the trash in the aq40 zone gives 100 rep each, the first 4 pack in the zone will give you 800 each time you do it, and if you want you can farm 2 of those packs and 3 obsidian eradicators every 20 minutes if you leave sekram up so you can play catch up with enough patience

3/4/2006 1:32:10 PM

aw thats pretty

3/4/2006 1:32:56 PM

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"if you miss the day of the opening in the gates are you impossibly in the hole for rep there?"

i wouldnt say so. each trash mob in AQ 40 man gives you 100 reputation up through neutral (or maybe friendly) so you'll get rep quick enough.

3/4/2006 2:54:13 PM

all of our consistant raiders all got to honor'd within the first 3 weeks of raiding it. so i'd say no

3/4/2006 3:58:28 PM

thanks for the replies.

3/4/2006 5:29:19 PM

how come there are no minigames in WoW?

3/4/2006 7:13:28 PM

/gems

3/4/2006 7:56:54 PM

there fucking needs to be minigames. Waiting at emps for the rest of the raid to get there is ... tedius...

but the number one need for minigames..... WAITING IN QUEVE

3/4/2006 10:33:47 PM

that whole BG queue system was a joke

3/4/2006 11:15:04 PM