General
- Guild bank vouchers that players unlock as guild rewards now correctly state that they can only be used by Guild Leaders.
- Many rare creatures that went into hiding upon Deathwing's emergence into Azeroth have made a return! In addition to finding new homes in a post-Cataclysm world, they drop new, improved loot, provide a healthy experience bonus, and respawn much more quickly when killed. Happy hunting!
Dungeons & Raids
- Level 85 players can now choose any normal dungeon via the Dungeon Finder. Choosing Random Dungeon will still not add Blackrock Caverns or Throne of the Tides into the rotation.
- Caverne di Roccianera
now spawns with only two pups in Heroic difficulty. Not to worry though, the missing pup has been adopted by a wonderful, if not insane family.
Grim Batol Halls of Origination - The duration of the Custode delle Fiammes' has been reduced by 80%.
- 's now does 75% of weapon damage, up from 50%. In addition, the damage-over-time effect applied by this ability does 15,000 damage every 2 seconds, up from 9,000.
- 's Dardo delle Fiamme now deals more damage per second on Heroic difficulty.
- seeks a portal every 25 seconds, up from 20.
Lost City of the Tol'vir - no longer tolerates fighting in his treasure room.
Shadowfang Keep
Sadly, in his hubris he has forgotten how to .
- now deals more initial damage.
- Frost Mixture is now area-of-effect damage.
- Catalizzatore Tossico now deals less damage over time.
Nucleo di Pietra - She grew! She's now 175% the size of a human, up from 125%.
- Gravity Wells should kill Fedele Devotos more quickly.
- The cast time of Presa di Forza is now 1.5 seconds, up from 1.
- The size of the warning visual for Frammento Sismico has been increased to more accurately reflect the area it affects.
Scorzapietra - The ground phase lasts longer and has fewer stalactites.
- There is now a precast visual on the ground to make it clear how far away a player must get to be clear of .
- The cast time of has been increased to 3 seconds, up from 2.5.
- damage is now reduced by armor, but has been increased by 33.3% (repeating, of course) as a result.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that made Ozruk's knockback component 10-yard range while the damage had a 15-yard range. Both are 15 yards now.
Trono delle Maree Pinnacolo del Vortice - The visual effects in this encounter have been adjusted to make the wind direction easier to read.
- Cyclones now knock players straight up, and players hit by a cyclone cannot be hit again for a few seconds.
- His health has been reduced slightly.
- He now knocks away players standing too close to him when he retracts his Cyclone Shield, which now inflicts Nature damage if it touches players.
- The spell hit bonus previously given by (Unholy) has been rolled into the Runic Focus passive effect that all death knights possess.
- Talent Specializations
Blood
Bone Shield now has 4 charges, up from 3. - If Assalto della Morte is used while a Blood Shield is already active, the new absorb will stack with the old one instead of replacing it.
- Scarlet Fever now applies via Blood Plague, rather than Blood Boil.
FrostUnholy- Maestria: Lama dell'Oscurità (Mastery) has been redesigned and renamed Maestria: Lama dell'Oscurità. It increases all Shadow damage by 2.5% per point of mastery.
- (new talent): While both Unholy Runes are depleted, movement-impairing effects cannot reduce the death knight below 75/100% of normal movement speed.
- Condanna Improvvisa is now triggered only from main-hand auto attacks, and is normalized according to weapon speed rather than having a fixed percentage chance.
- has been redesigned. It now grants 10/20/30% additional disease damage.
Glyphs- Glyph of Dark Succor (new talent) raise the minimum healing done by Death Strike from 7% to 20% of maximum health, but only while in Unholy or Frost Presence.
RuneforgingFeralRestorationGlyphs- Cobra Shot cast time is now affected by haste.
- Concussive Shot duration has been increased to 6 seconds, up from 4.
- now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
- Tiro Stabilizzato cast time is now affected by haste.
- Wing Clip now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
- Talent Specializations
Marksmanship
(Mastery): Chance for this to trigger per mastery has been increased by approximately 17%.
SurvivalGlyphs- redesigned. It now limits the maximum run speed of the target while Concussive Shot is active.
Bug FixesFire- now allows the mage to cast Bruciatura while moving (regardless of which armor spell is used), and no longer eliminates 's critical strike chance reduction.
- Flashburn (Mastery) benefit per mastery has been increased by 12%.
- Bomba Vivente mana cost has been reduced by 22%.
Frost- damage done has been reduced by 20%.
- can no longer be dispelled and now also increases Ice Lance damage by 15%.
- now only grants 2 base points of mastery (instead of 8), reducing all Frost damage to frozen targets by 15% from previous values. However, Frost Specialization now increases base Dardo di Gelo damage by 15%.
- Forbearance
The duration has been lowered to 1 minute, down from 2. - Lay on Hands now causes Forbearance on the target. It used to only cause it when cast on the paladin. This was an old design from when Protezione Divina caused Forbearance and the paladin didn't want to prevent a tank from using their defensive cooldown.
- Lay on Hands cannot be a critical effect and will not be affected by most abilities which modify healing (such as Faro di Luce).
- Since only Divine Shield, Lay on Hands and Benedizione della Protezione cause Forbearance, the tooltips have been adjusted to better explain the mechanic.
Biasimo no longer counts nearby critters when dividing damage among its targets.
Seal of Truth: All single target attacks (including
Giudizio,
Martello dell'Ira,
Exorcism, and
Templar's Verdict) can now trigger this seal.
Talent SpecializationsProtectionRetribution- will no longer cause Cleanse to remove movement impairing effects from vehicles the paladin is riding.
Parola Sacra: Santificazione effectiveness has been increased by 30%.
Spirito Custode: The absorb/heal from this ability can now never exceed 200% of the maximum health of the target.
Shadow- Shadow Orbs' benefit from mastery has been increased by approximately 16%.
CombatSubtlety- Catena di Guarigione's effectiveness has been increased by approximately 10%.
- Hex now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
- Purge now dispels a single effect instead of two.
- Tremor Totem has been redesigned. The totem is now usable under Fear, Charm, or Sleep effects, and pulses much more rapidly, but lasts 6 seconds and has a 1-minute cooldown.
- Talent Specializations
Elemental Combat
Terremoto damage has been increased by approximately 10%.
Enhancement- Flametongue Weapon damage now scales from attack power instead of spell power (for Enhancement shaman only).
- Purge no longer has its mana cost reduced by Mental Quickness.
Restoration- no longer fires its heal effect twice when a shaman removes a Magic and a Curse debuff with a single cast.
- Deep Healing (Mastery) has been increased to 3% per point, up from 2.5%.
- Ondata di Cura mana cost has been increased by 10%; healing done has been increased by 20%.
- Mana Tide Totem has been redesigned. The totem no longer multiplies the Spirit of those affected by it. It instead gives a flat amount of Spirit equal to 400% of the casting Shaman’s Spirit, exclusive to short-term Spirit buffs affecting the shaman when the totem is dropped.
- Demon Armor and Fel Armor no longer cost mana and last until canceled.
- Fear now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
- Fel Armor now increases the warlock's maximum mana by 10% instead of regenerating health.
- Seduction (Succubus) now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
- Talent Specialization
Demonology
Demon Soul: Imp redesigned. It now increases the critical strike chance of all non instant cast Destruction spells by 30%, rather than increasing critical strike damage. Duration reduced to 20 seconds. - Viltempesta (Felguard) damage has been reduced by 20%.
- Immolation Aura damage has been reduced by roughly 30%.
- no longer increases the radius of Hellfire, but instead increases the duration of Immolazione by 6 seconds in addition to its existing effect.
- Maestria: Maestro Demonologo (Mastery) benefit from mastery increased by approximately 33%.
Destruction- damage has been reduced by 15%.
- Maestria: Energie Caotiche (Mastery) benefit from mastery increased by approximately 8%.
- Aftermath now increases Fire and Shadow damage done by 4/8%, rather than 7/15% spell haste. In addition, this talent has been moved to tier-3 Destruction, switching places with .
- Fendente damage has been reduced by 20%.
- Azzoppamento now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
- Inner Rage has been redesigned. It now reduces the cooldown on Heroic Strike and Fendente by 50% (to 1.5 second) for the next 15 seconds. 1-minute cooldown. It still cannot be used during . This ability was originally designed to help warriors with rage capping, but the Heroic Strike and rage normalization changes seem to have solved that problem on their own. This new design will still allow warriors to burn off excess rage faster, at their discretion.
- Contusione cast time is now affected by haste.
- Talent Specializations
Fury
Sete di Sangue damage has been increased by approximately 30%. - Colpo Furente weapon damage percent (at level 80+) has been increased from 110% to 145%.
Protection- Carica's stun continues to not trigger diminishing returns for Protection warriors who have the talent.
Professions
- Find Herbs, Fish, and Minerals are no longer canceled upon entering an Arena or rated Battleground.
- A socket has been added to all crafted epic armor pieces that did not already have one.
- Alchemy
Alchemist's Stones for Agility, Strength, and Intellect have been added. - The number of herbs required to create flasks has been reduced, while the Vita Instabile needed has been increased slightly.
- The drops from Tiny Treasure Chests have been improved slightly.
Archaeology
- Archaeology finds now grant a guaranteed skill point up to 50 skill, and then no longer grant skill gains, as opposed to granting up to 100 skill very slowly.
Engineering
Jewelcrafting
- Smeraldo Onirico Vivido (new gem) provides resilience/spell penetration and can be purchased for 3 Illustrious Tokens.
Leatherworking
Tailoring
Items
- Left Eye of Rajh: Chance of triggering increased.
- The PvE warlock 4-piece set bonus (Fel Spark) now increases the damage done by the next 2 Fel Flame spells by 300%, rather than increasing the critical effect chance of one by 100%.
- The PvP hunter 4-piece set bonus has been increased to 10% Focus regeneration, up from 5%.
- The PvP warlock 4-piece set bonus has been redesigned. It now reduces the cooldown of Death Coil by 30 seconds.
- The PvP warrior 4-piece set bonus has been redesigned. It now reduces disarm duration by 60% (does not stack with any Weapon Chains).
- PvP trinkets will now clear disarm and silence effects.
- Right Eye of Rajh: Chance of triggering increased.
- Weapon Chains now reduce disarm duration by 60%, up from 50%.
User Interface
- Character Info Window
The Character Info window (C) now saves the order and expand/collapse state of stat categories separately for each talent specialization. - Character movement speed is now displayed on the Character Info window (C) with all other stats.
Quests & Creatures
- Tol Barad Peninsula
Spawn rates at Rustberg Village have been increased.