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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.1.2
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The latest patch notes can always be found at
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
General
- Arena and Honor Rewards: As part of the inauguration of Season 2,
the costs of all Arena items and Honor items has been reduced.
- Improved Mend Pet, Abolish Disease, and Abolish Poison no longer
play sounds when there is nothing to dispel.
- Players can no longer fail with skinning at maximum skill.
- Spellcloth: Creating spellcloth will once again only summon one
Angered Nether-wraith.
- Some new cooking recipes are available from Kylene in Shattrath
City.
- A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored
to be held by the residents of Halaa.
- Procs: Most procs are set to trigger only from spells that cost
mana, but inadvertently disallowed spells that cost a percentage
of base mana. That bug has been fixed and so such spells will now
trigger many procs they did not previously trigger.
- Players will no longer slow down to walking speed when closely
following another player.
Druids
- Druids in Swift Flight form can no longer loot herb nodes.
- Force of Nature: This spell will no longer causes players it is cast
on to enter combat with nearby creatures. All of the treants
summoned will now attack a neutral creature they are summoned on.
- Tree of Life: The bonus-healing aura from this talent will
reactivate when a Banish effect wears off a Druid in Tree Form.
Hunters
- Fixed bug with Misdirection where sometimes only two attacks were
redirected instead of three.
- Entrapment: This talent will no longer causes Hunter to stand up or
stop eating and drinking when it procs.
- Improved Mend Pet: This ability will no longer cause Hunters to stand
or to interrupt eating and drinking.
- Poison Spit: These abilities will now appear in the correct order in
the pet training menu.
- Scatter Shot: This ability will now trigger Thrill of the Hunt.
- Thunderstomp: These abilities will now appear in the correct order in
the pet training menu.
Mages
- Molten Armor: This buff can now proc when the Mage is sitting.
Paladins
- Corrected the amount of damage done by Seal of Vengeance on a target
affected by Judgement of Crusader.
- Improved Concentration Aura: This ability now correctly reduces the
duration of silence and interrupt effects by 30%. In addition, the
reduction in duration of silence and interrupt effects from this
ability will no longer stack with other such reductions.
- Judgement of Blood: Effects that increase your damage by a
percentage will no longer cause Paladins to take excessive damage
from casting this spell.
- Seal of Blood: Effects that increase your damage by a percentage
will no longer cause Paladins to take excessive damage from this
spell's procs.
Priests
- Feedback: This buff can now proc when the Priest is sitting.
- Shadowfiend: This creature will now reset to full health when it is
summoned. It will also automatically attack your current enemy target
when it is summoned.
- Surge of Light: The buff from Surge of Light will no longer prevent
Inner Focus's charge from being consumed. In addition, it is no
longer possible to get two free Smites when this ability procs.
- Touch of Weakness: This spell can now trigger Surge of Light when it
does critical strikes.
Rogues
- Sword Specialization: The change to Sword Specialization making its
extra attacks appear in yellow has been reverted. Extra attacks will
appear in white and act like any auto-attack. They will no longer
reset the swing time of your weapon.
Shaman
- Focused Mind: This ability has been changed to reduce the duration of
silence and interrupt effects, rather than increase resistance to
them.
- Frostbrand Weapon Rank 5: The damage on this spell was reduced
slightly such that it will never do more damage than Frostbrand Rank
6.
- Lightning Shield: Procs from this buff will no longer cause neutral
town guards to attack the Shaman. In addition, Nightmare Vine will no
longer cause charges of this buff to be consumed.
Warriors
- Overpower dims on the action bar when the player is affected by
disarm spells.
- Sword Specialization: The change to Sword Specialization making its
extra attacks appear in yellow has been reverted. Extra attacks will
appear in white and act like any auto-attack. They will no longer
reset the swing time of your weapon. Rage awarded will be calculated
by damage dealt as with any normal auto-attack.
Items
- PvP Trinkets: Insignia of the Alliance, Insignia of the Horde,
Medallion of the Alliance, and Medallion of the Horde have all been
redesigned. The trinkets for all classes now have the same effect:
Dispels all movement impairing effects and all effects that cause
loss of control of your character.
- Many raid items have had their art improved.
- Clefthoof Mace: This item's name is now spelled correctly.
- Crystalweave Bracers: This item and its depleted counterpart now have
spell critical strike rating as intended.
- Ebon Mask: This item now has sound when moved in a player's inventory.
- Eye of Magtheridon: This trinket will now trigger when a Judgement of
Vengeance is resisted.
- Relentless Earthstorm Diamond: The bonus damage to critical strikes
from this metagem now applies to all types of damage, not just physical.
- Skyguard Rations: The stamina and spirit buff from this food has been
decreased, as well as its duration.
- Talisman of the Breaker: The reduction in duration of silence and
interrupt effects from this item will no longer stack with other such
reductions.
- Vestments of the Devout Set: The damage absorb set bonus on this set
will now absorb only 350 damage, matching its intended design and
tooltip.
- Voidheart Raiment Set: The two-piece set bonus will now trigger from
Death Coil.
- Voidstar Talisman: This item will now give the correct amount of
resistance to Warloock pets.
Quests
- Vim'gol the Vile now has a 30 second respawn cooldown.
- A problem with interrupting Vim'gol the Vile's Unholy Growth spell
has been fixed.
- Casting bar text was added when gathering a Corrupted Flower during
the quest, "Botanical Legwork".
- A distance-related issue was resolved when attempting to use the Fel
Crystalforges at Forge Camp: Terror and Forge Camp: Wrath in the
Blade's Edge Mountains to create 5 Unstable Elixirs of the Beast.
- A problem that could result in Obsidia, Rivendark, Insidion, and
Furywing not responding to their respective dragon eggs being used
has been resolved.
- Sky Sergeant Vanderlip at the Skyguard Outpost in the Blade's Edge
Mountains will no longer display her Exalted faction gossip to those
who have not attained that faction rank.
- All classes will now properly get credit for siphoning the crystal in
the quest "Bloodgem Crystals".
- Players will no longer fail to summon Insidion and Obsidia if the
dragons are in combat when a player summons them.
Dungeons and Raids
- Auchindoun: Sethekk Halls
Time-Lost Controllers no longer remove buffs from players who are
charmed.
Heroic Mode: Anzu, the Raven God may no longer be pulled far away
from the location where he is summoned.
Heroic Mode: Anzu's Spell Bomb is now a curse and he will no longer
charge.
Heroic Mode: The quantity and health of Minions of Anzu that spawn
have been reduced.
Heroic Mode: The frequency and duration of many of his abilities
have been retuned to make the fight more forgiving.
- Auchindoun: Shadow Labyrinth
The Cabal Summoner, Cabal Executioner, and Cabal Spellbinder mobs
that interact with Murmur in the Screaming Hall in Auchindoun Shadow
Labyrinth will no longer sometimes freeze their animations upon
death.
- Black Temple
It is no longer possible to engage the Shade of Akama without
completing phase 1 of the encounter.
Ashtongue Spiritbinders may now cast heals on Ashtongue Sorcerors,
Channelers, and the Shade of Akama.
The Illidan Stormrage fight encounter has received additional tuning
and improvements.
- Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal
The number of preliminary waves before each boss in the Caverns of
Time: Battle for Mount Hyjal event has been reduced from 12 to 8, and
some of the larger waves have fewer creatures than before.
- Karazhan
The door leading to the Celestial Watch in Karazhan now starts open,
and Netherspite does not path so close to the door.
The damage dealt by Netherspite's Nether Breath has been reduced.
Fixed a bug that caused the Karazhan chess events movement spell
cooldowns to not display correctly.
- Tempest Keep
When Kael'thas Sunstrider is engaged in combat, the doors leading
into his room will now properly close.
- Tempest Keep: Mechanar
Nethermancer Sepethrea's Raging Flames should now periodically change
their targets in Heroic mode.
Interface
- Fixed an issue with some AddOns where dropdown menus go away after
showing the world map.
- Fixed some Lua errors on /castsequence macros with conditionals.
World Environment
- Chief Overseer Mudlump, Dragonmaw Pitfighter, Forgus, Goblin Merc,
Gug, Horus, Lost Torranche, Officer Jaxon, Overlord Mor'ghor,
Rumbpus, Telaari Jailor and Uriku: These creatures are no longer
lootable.
- Darbel Montrose: This creature now always drops at least a good
quality item.
- Lost Torranche: This creature is now skinnable.
- Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer: This buff will no longer give
excessive critical strike rating to low-level characters.
- The Twilight Ridge: Burning Legion creatures in this region will now
drop Marks of Kil'jaeden, Fel Armaments, and Oshu'gun Crystal Powder
Samples.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a memory leak that may occur when a player alt-tabs out of the
game, engages a screensaver, or locks their machine.