Patch 5.4.2 hits live realms this week

The realms will be coming down for an extended maintenance on the morning of December 10 to apply patch 5.4.2. The major new features of this patch are the cross-realm raid browser and cross-realm mailing of account-bound items. Also added in this patch is the jet-powered Iron Skyreaver mount, the source of which remains a mystery.

You will find the cross-realm raid browser in the raid tab of your social screen by clicking the "Other Raids" button. Here you will be able to list yourself as looking for a group for Siege of Orgrimmar flexible raids or Pandaria world bosses. Cross-realm mailing works for account-bound items only and won't work for gold or other items. To mail something to a character of yours on another realm, simply send the mail in the following format: CharacterName-RealmName.

Hit the break for the latest version of the patch notes.

• Mage

  • Talents

    • Temporal Shield's healing should now be correctly modified by effects that affect healing (Battle Fatigue, Mortal Strike, Dampening).

• Warrior

  • General

    • Intervene no longer removes movement-impairing effects on use. The talent Safeguard will continue to remove movement-impairing effects.

    • Improved checks on pathing for Intervene and Safeguard to address situations where Warriors may wind up under the terrain.

• Catch and Carry: Druids can no longer attempt to catch Sacks of Grain while in flight form.

• Lost Treasure: Resolved an issue where players may be unable to open Cache of the Legion.

• Cross-Realm raid browser now has new categories for Mists of Pandaria World Bosses (Celestials and Ordos) and Flexible raid difficulty for Siege of Orgrimmar.

  • The cross-realm raid browser is accessed through the 'Social Pane' (bound to the O key by default) and look for the 'Raid' tab on the bottom right.

  • From there you can set the character as looking to join a raid or browse players that are forming up for a raid.

  • For more information on this change, please see the thread titled Cross-Realm Raid Browser on the PTR Discussion forum.

• Players are now able to place raid markers in the world even while dead.

• Siege of Orgrimmar

  • Norushen

    • Resolved a situation where Quarantine Measures may sometimes fail to destroy all life within the Quarantine Zone.

  • Galakras

    • Resolved a situation that may cause demolition NPCs to stop opening the door to one of the towers.

  • Paragons of the Klaxxi

    • Resolved an issue where players may fail to gain Hisek the Swarmkeeper's special ability if they were in the middle of casting a spell while interacting with his corpse.

• Players are now able to mail account-bound items to other characters that reside on a different realm on the same account. To send cross-realm mail: enter the character's name, followed by a hyphen "-", followed by the realm name. Note that cross-realm mail can only send account-bound items, not other items or gold.

  • Additional information and testing discussion for this cross-realm mail can be found in this thread on the PTR Discussion forum.

• Crashin' Thrashin' Flyers should now be able to damage each other while in a sanctuary area.

• MiniZeps should now be able to damage each other while in a sanctuary area.

• The Customer Support button has moved. Customer support can now be reached in-game by selecting Help option through the Game Menu (Game Menu is bound to the Escape key by default).

• Resolved an issue that caused players to not receive credit towards the Drop It! and Drop It Now! achievements.