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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07)<
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Battlegrounds arrive!<
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The Warsong Gulch and Alterac Valley battlegrounds are now available. <
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The Warsong Gulch entrances may be found in the northern Barrens near <
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the Mor'Shan Rampart (Horde) and south of Silverwing Outpost in <
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Ashenvale (Alliance). The Alterac Valley entrances may be found east <
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of Sofera's Naze in Alterac (Horde), and in the Headlands of Alterac <
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(Alliance).<
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General<
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- Wands - The Shoot Wand ability is now a toggle. While active, it will <
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continue attacking with the equipped wand until some other action is <
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taken (movement, spellcasting, item use, etc...).<
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- Pet speed has been increased when out of combat and following their <
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master.<
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- Berserking (Troll Racial) - Updated tooltip to clarify ability only <
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usable following a melee critical.<
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- Hardiness (Orc Racial) - Fixed a bug that caused many abilities to <
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ignore the additional resistance.<
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- It should no longer be possible to disarm traps created by friendly <
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players.<
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PvP<
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- Honor system<
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Dishonorable kills - gained by killing a trivial Civilian NPC - now <
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has a negative impact on a player's honor. Enough dishonorable kills <
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will reduce a player's rank all the way to zero.<
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Players may now see an "estimated contribution point value" in the <
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combat log for an honorable kill. Note that this value does not <
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take diminishing returns against the same player into account, and <
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is therefore "estimated".<
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"Team Contribution Points" has been renamed to "Honor"<
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Added tooltips to the different elements of the Honor System UI.<
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Players will see their last week's kill data in the "Last Week" <
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section of the Honor System UI even if they did not achieve the 25 <
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honorable kills required to gain standing or rank.<
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Fixed a bug where the PvP trinket rewards were not always removing <
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the effects they were designed to remove (e.g. Polymorph, Fear, <
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Stun).<
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- Sitting characters will now stand up immediately after an attack, <
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even if stunned.<
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- Players can no longer swap inventory gear while dueling.<
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- Dueling is now allowed within Everlook.<
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Hunters<
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- The Hunter Epic quest has had some of its Demonic Corrupters retuned. <
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It should also be noted that Hunters that attempt to bypass the <
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single player portion of the encounter by using another class to do <
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their tasks will fail the quest in a most glorious fashion.<
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- Tranquilizing Shot - Is now properly affected by Efficiency and Hawk <
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Eye talents.<
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- Unleashed Fury - Fixed a bug where the damage increase was lower than <
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stated in the tooltip. It should now increase damage by the listed <
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amount.<
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- Growl - Rank 1 effect improved.<
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- Volley - Damage increased.<
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- Pet speed has been increased when out of combat and following their <
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master.<
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- Spirit Guides in Battlegrounds will now summon/resurrect your current <
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pet when the Hunter is resurrected.<
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- Unstabling dead pets no longer puts players into a degenerate state <
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where their pet only partially exists. Unstabled dead pets can now be <
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properly revived, and players can no longer train more pets than <
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their stable can hold.<
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- Fixed a bug where magic shots were missing too frequently when used <
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on a target with Blessing of Protection active.<
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Mages<
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- Mage Armor - Now has a new, unique icon.<
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Paladins<
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- Fixed a bug where a Hunter's magic shots were missing too frequently <
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when used on a target with Blessing of Protection active.<
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Priests<
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- Inner Fire - Now stacks with other effects that increase attack power <
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and armor.<
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- Holy Nova - Cooldown decreased.<
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- Feedback - Casting a higher rank of the spell will now replace an <
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existing, lower level effect.<
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- Un
eakable Will - Fixed a bug that caused many abilities to ignore <
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the additional resistance.<
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Rogues<
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- Riposte - Fixed a bug where the ability was not usable against a <
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disarmed or unarmed target.<
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- Vanish - Should be a lot more responsive when used to avoid incoming <
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attacks.<
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Shaman <
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- Fixed a bug where Fire Nova, Flametongue, Stoneclaw and Windfury <
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Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman. <
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All totems should now be summoned at the level of the caster.<
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- Flametongue Totem - Tooltip updated to clarify that only the <
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main-hand weapon is enchanted.<
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- Windfury Totem - Tooltip updated to clarify that only the main-hand <
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weapon is enchanted.<
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- Fire Resistance Totem - New icon.<
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- Frost Resistance Totem - New icon.<
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- Grounding Totem - Fixed a bug that allowed some area of effect spells <
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to be "grounded" and/or destroy the totem.<
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Warlocks<
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- Improved Drain Mana - Damage caused is now considered Shadow damage <
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and is no longer reduced by armor.<
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- Improved Voidwalker - Now increases all Voidwalker spells (now also <
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including Sacrifice) by 10/20/30%.<
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- Improved Succubus - Now increases Succubus spells by 10/20/30%.<
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- Master Summoner - In addition to decreasing casting time of summoning <
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the Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus and Felhunter, it now reduces mana cost <
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by 20/40%.<
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- Improved Enslave Demon - In addition to reducing the attack speed and <
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casting speed penalty of enslaved demons, it now reduces the resist <
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chance of Enslave Demon by 2/4/6/8/10%.<
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- Demonic Sacrifice - Is now instant cast.<
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- Improved Firestone - Now also improves the bonus Fire spell damage of <
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Firestones by 15/30%.<
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- Inferno - The summoned Infernal will now be enslaved for 5 minutes <
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before turning on its summoner.<
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- Drain Mana - Targets with no mana will no longer be valid for Drain <
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Mana (Rank 4), making it consistent with all other ranks of the spell.<
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- Improved Drain Mana - Damage caused by this talent is now improved by <
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the Shadow Mastery talent.<
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- Conflagrate - Range increased.<
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- Siphon Life - Is now instant cast, damage increased.<
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- Paranoia - No longer causes threat when cast.<
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- War Stomp (Doomguard) - Now has a maximum of 5 targets.<
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- Pet speed has been increased when out of combat and following their <
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master.<
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- Honorable kills will now generate a Soul Shard when Drain Soul and <
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Shadowburn are used.<
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- Spirit Guides in Battlegrounds will now resurrect your last Imp, <
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Voidwalker, Succubus or Felhunter. If the Doomguard or Infernal were <
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the last active pet or the previous pet was killed before the Warlock, <
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an Imp will be summoned.<
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- Improved Curse of Agony - Fixed a bug where Curse of Agony (rank 1) <
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was not improved by the talent. The talent will now work properly <
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with all ranks of Curse of Agony.<
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Warriors<
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- Overpower - Fixed a bug where the ability was sometimes blocked.<
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- Improved Cleave - Now increases damage bonus by 40/80/120%.<
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- Blood Craze - Talent design changed. It now regenerates 1/2/3% of <
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the warrior's total health over 6 seconds after being the victim of a <
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critical strike.<
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- New Fury Talent: Dual Wield Specialization - Increases damage with <
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the off-hand weapon by 5/10/15/20/25%. Note: the additional damage <
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also increases rage generation significantly.<
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- Iron Will - Fixed a bug that caused many abilities to ignore the <
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additional resistance.<
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- Enrage - Increased the number of charges to 12. Decreased the <
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duration to 12 seconds. The new duration is the limiting factor for <
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slower weapons (e.g. Arcanite Reaper will typically get one less <
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swing), while dual wielding and faster weapons will make better use <
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of all of the charges over the duration of the ability.<
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- Concussion Blow - Changed to an instant, stunning attack and removed <
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the damage portion.<
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- Shield Specialization - In addition to increasing % chance to block, <
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it now gives the warrior a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to generate 1 rage <
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on a successful block.<
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Items<
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- The following item sets have had their statistics, effects, and set <
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bonuses updated:<
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- Arcanist, Netherwind, Prophecy, Transcendence, Felheart, Nemesis, <
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Cenarion, Stormrage, Nightslayer, Bloodfang, Giantstalker, <
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Dragonstalker, Earthfury, Ten Storms, Might, Wrath, Law
inger, and <
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Judgement.<
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- Mature Blue Dragon Sinew and The Eye of Shadow can both now drop off <
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appropriate level demonic and blue dragonkin monsters. It should be <
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noted that both Lord Kazzak and Azuregos will guarantee a drop of the <
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aforementioned items but to get the items from the lesser creatures <
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will be a much rarer occurrence.<
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- Essence of Eranikus now has a poison cloud graphic around it when <
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used.<
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- Murloc Scale Belt and Breastplate recipes now are white items instead <
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of green since they are vendor bought.<
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- Gryphon Mail Gauntlets now have a proper inventory icon.<
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- Ogre Toothpick Shooter now uses the proper attack animation.<
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- Distracting Dagger now sheathes properly.<
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- Mountain Giants in Feralas now drop loot more appropriate to their <
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elite status.<
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- The Druid of the Claw quest in Teldrassil will now provide a weapon <
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choice more appropriate for low level Night Elves.<
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- The Dreadmist set now has a bonus for wearing all 8 pieces of the set.<
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- Cutthroat's Loincloth name changed to Cutthroat's Pants.<
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- Ritual Kilt name changed to Ritual Leggings.<
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- Felstriker effect's name changed to Felstriker to reflect the <
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previously patched item name change.<
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- Ogre Pocket Knife, Peacemaker, and Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient <
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Keepers now sheathe properly.<
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- Dragon
eath Chili's effect visual fixed.<
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- The Oblivion's Touch wand properly shoots now.<
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- Deepstrider Tumors are now a 100% drop off Deepstrider sea giants <
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in Desolace.<
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- New art has been added for Nightslayer, Law
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Beaststalker's item sets.<
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- The Arcanist Crown has updated art.<
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Professions<
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- New Engineering firework recipe added.<
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- Added leatherworking recipe for mid level blue
acers.<
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- Dragon
eath Chili proc rate has been reduced.<
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- Restorative Elixir name changed to Resorative Potion with potion <
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cooldown timer. Functionality has been changed so it should be more <
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effective as it now dispels one harmful effect every 5 seconds for <
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30 seconds.<
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- Two new transporter recipes have been added, with one for gnomish and <
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one for goblin engineers. Gnomish engineers can get their recipe <
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from Gadgetzan, Goblin engineers from Everlook.<
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- Tribal Leatherworkers who have restarted their profession are now <
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able to relearn the various Wild Leather patterns if they've already <
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completed the quests prior to restarting the profession. Speak with <
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Pratt McGrubben (Alliance) or Jangdor Swiftstrider (Horde) in Feralas <
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to relearn what you once knew!<
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- Small Throrium Veins now sometimes will have Emeralds or Diamonds.<
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- Engineering Vendors now sell Blacksmith's Hammers.<
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- Both types of the engineer made Jumper Cables now share a cooldown. <
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It was never intended to allow a player to use jumper cables XL and <
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jumper cables within the same period of time.<
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- Solid Dynamite was inadvertently
oken in the 1.4 patch to require <
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harder materials than it should. This has been fixed.<
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- Wicked Leather Bracers Plan is no longer bind on acquire.<
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- Jumper Cables no longer have a chance to
eak when they fail.<
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- Elemental Flux added to blacksmith vendors.<
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Raids & Dungeons<
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- Molten Core<
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Firesworns that are moved too far away from Garr will now become <
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quite enraged until they move closer to Garr.<
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The eruptions from the lava in Ragnaros's Lair will now always <
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happen while Ragnaros is in combat. However, these lava eruptions <
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occur less frequently, do less damage, and the damage they inflict <
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is now resistable.<
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The maximum range of the Wrath of Ragnaros spell has been increased.<
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- Additional new raid items have been added to the treasure lists for <
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Azuregos, Lord Kazzak, and bosses in Molten Core.<
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- Onyxia - Fixed a bug that was causing Onyxia's Tail sweep to no <
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longer cause knockback.<
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Quests<
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- Searing Gorge has a new quest hub for both Alliance and Horde players <
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called Thorium Point. The supported level ranges are 45-52. Craftsmen <
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will be happy to know that the Thorium Brotherhood has opened up many <
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new opportunities to gain favor amongst their clan (even for level <
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60 players).<
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- The Hinterlands has a new Horde quest hub known as Revantusk Village, <
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located on the eastern coastline. Horde players level 44-52 are <
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encouraged to visit Revantusk Village and assist the Revantusk with <
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their myriad problems and tasks!<
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- All members of both the Horde and Alliance are reporting low <
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stockpiles of various textile resources! Donations of cloth are now <
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being accepted in the following locations: Darnassus, Stormwind, and <
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Ironforge for the Alliance; Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thunder Bluff <
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for the Horde. Seek out an official Cloth Quartermaster for more <
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information.<
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- Several quests have been added to Feralas for level 45-52 characters.<
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- Krueg Skullsplitter has moved from Thousand Needles to a more <
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appropriate location at Camp Mojache in Feralas.<
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- Highlord Demitrian is back! For those players unraveling the <
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mysteries of Thunderaan, you may once more speak with the Highlord.<
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- Dwarven Priests may now undertake the Molten Core discovery quest; <
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"Attunement to the Core." By fixing this bug, we had to open the <
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quest to all players once more. If you have already done the quest, <
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you will not be required to do it again in order to access the Molten <
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Core via the portal.<
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- Highlord Bolvar Fordragon should no longer despawn when "The Great <
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Masquerade" is activated.<
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- Characters on the "A Strange Historian" quest are now correctly <
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prompted to find Chromie in the northwest corner of Andorhal, where <
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she and the ruined inn have been moved to.<
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- The Gordok Courtyard Key and the Gordok Inner Door Key are now zone <
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bound items. These items only exist within the Dire Maul zone <
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instance, and players will lose these keys from their inventory if <
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they leave the zone.<
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- Everyone's favorite Alliance quest, "Deep Ocean, Vast Sea" now gives <
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a substantial coin reward in addition to the choice of item.<
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- Rage Scar Yetis in Feralas no longer give the quest item for the <
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"Mark of Quality" quest.<
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- Completing the "Mark of Quality" quest now gives Darnassus and <
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Thunder Bluff faction increase where appropriate.<
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- Merideth Carlson should only hand out her free horse feed now to <
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people who have already completed the quest for it.<
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- The "Unfinished Gordok Business" quest has been fixed to allow <
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certain Human Priests access to it who had difficulty previously.<
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- Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays in Feralas should now be giving out <
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the proper version of Oglethorpe's distress beacon.<
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- The end of the Paladin Epic Mount quest "Grimand's Finest Work" now <
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makes it clearer that Lord Shadow
eaker's acquisition of the <
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Arcanite Barding is only temporary.<
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- Jeziba in the Ruins of Andorhal now faces the correct direction when <
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pointing to his Catalogue of the Wayward.<
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- Fraggar Thundermantle now correctly tells you to return to him, and <
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not his evil, two-eyed twin, Frobe Thundermantle when completing the <
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Skull Rock Clean-up quest.<
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- The Branch of Cenarius no longer drops off of Prince Raze. It now <
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properly only drops off of Geltharis for the quest, The Branch of <
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Cenarius.<
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- Failed quests will now indicate (Failed) in the quest log so it is <
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easier to see them.<
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- Typos fixed in the Paladin Epic Mount quests.<
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User Interface<
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- Innkeepers around the world now have a gossip option that lets you <
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join a meeting stone directly from the innkeeper rather than going to <
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the location of the meeting stone. Also these Innkeepers will now <
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have background lore about each of the dungeons.<
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- Levels Required for meeting stones have been increased. The intent is <
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that a group will not receive party members from a meeting stone that <
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don't really have a chance of completing the dungeon.<
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- Meeting Stones have had their rules for what players are grouped with <
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what other players relaxed. This means groups who use meeting stones <
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(or innkeepers) should have their groups formed much more quickly <
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than they were previously.<
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- Pets of other party members will now display in the party UI. You can <
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see pet health and harmful effects on the pet. You can turn this<
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functionality on and off in the Interface Options menu.<
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- Players can now target other players in a raid by clicking on their <
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name in the raid window. Additional Raid UI improvements coming soon.<
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- Added visual effects for healing power and spell power enchantments.<
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- Your main action bar now displays the number of the bar that you are <
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currently displaying.<
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- In Master Looter mode, items are no longer opened up for looting by <
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all party members after the round-robin looter closes their loot <
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window. The Loot Master always distributes items over the loot <
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threshold.<
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- Rolling on items while charmed/hexed/etc. now works, as does /random <
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and receiving items from the master looter.<
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- When a player dies in an instance and then uses the spirit healer, <
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the body in the instance now turns to bones.<
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- Players can no longer mail or auction an item that they've just <
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disenchanted.<
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- When a ghost player is resurrected into an instance that has become <
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full, they no longer come to life wherever their ghost happens to be <
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standing. Instead, they get ported to the closest graveyard.<
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- Players must now bind a bind-on-equip bag to put in into a purchased <
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bank bag slot.<
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- Items split from stacks can now be dropped directly into (or onto) <
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bank bags without any mysterious error messages.<
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- Added a "Maximize" windowed video option which will maximize the game <
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window and remove the borders for a fullscreen experience which <
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allows popup windows.<
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- Trying to use a hearthstone, consumable, etc. while logging out now<
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displays a more appropriate message: "Another action is in progress."<
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- The login interface files are now checked to make sure they haven't <
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been tampered with or corrupted. This is to improve account security <
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in public game rooms.<
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- Added the function TargetNearestPartyMember() to the UI scripting <
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system.<
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World Environment<
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- The Thorium Brotherhood faction is now peaceful - players cannot go <
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to war with them.<
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- The Wildhammer Clan in the Hinterlands is now a peaceful faction to <
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the Alliance, meaning Alliance players cannot intentionally declare <
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war on them.<
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- A new graveyard has been added near the east coast of the Hinterlands <
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at the Overlook Cliffs.<
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- The two Hinterlands graveyards are now using a system that will <
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ensure that the spirits of dead characters go to the closest <
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graveyard.<
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- Buliwyf Stonehand, the dwarven weapon master in Ironforge, now <
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properly tells you about the weapons that Woo Ping can train you in, <
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instead of talking about himself. He does like going on about his <
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own martial prowess.<
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- Krinkle Goodsteel of Gadgetzan submitted a complaint to the local <
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Repairer's Union and has had his ability to repair durability <
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reinstated.<
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- Brave Wildrunner of Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore no longer patrols <
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through the kodo mounts.<
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- Added new load screens for Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, Uldaman, <
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Razorfen Downs, and Zul Farrak.<
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- Discovering Valor's Rest now also pops the Southwind Village puzzle <
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piece on the Silithus area map.<
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- Many of the Swift Mounts have gained eye glows and some have had <
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other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.<
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- Additional mithril nodes have been added in Un'Goro crater<
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- Genavie Callow in Undercity is now properly on the Undercity faction.<
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- The Grow effect that Bom'bay in Sen'jin Village would sometimes cast <
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on characters was reduced from 100% to 50% growth.<
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- The Lazy Peons in The Valley of Trials now make a wood chopping sound <
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when they are hacking at the trees.<
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- The Dark Summoners of the Eastern Plaguelands have finally fully <
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materialized and are no longer ghostly in appearance.<
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- In Silverpine Forest on Fenris Island, moved a Rot Hide Plague <
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Weaver's spawn point from inside a tree.<
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- Neeka Bloodscar of Kargath no longer speaks as if she is in the <
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Barrens.<
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Flight Paths<
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- New Horde Flight Paths<
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Valormok in Azshara - Bloodvenom Post in Felwood<
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Kargath in Badlands - Thorium Point in Searing Gorge<
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Flame Crest in Burning Steppes - Thorium Point in Searing Gorge<
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Tarren Mill in Hills
ad - Revantusk Village in Hinterlands<
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Undercity - Revantusk Village in Hinterlands<
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- New Alliance Flight Paths<
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Ironforge - Thorium Point in Searing Gorge<
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Morgan's Vigil in the Burning Steppes - Thorium Point in Searing <
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Gorge<
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- The flight path from Undercity to Kargath no longer clips into the <
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ground just south of Dalaran.<
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<
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Bug Fixes<
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- Fixed bug causing all tailoring recipes to show up as "orange"<
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