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Two Bosses Enter: Vaelastrasz vs. Illidan
Two Bosses Enter is recovering from a long holiday season full of booze and raiding -- and attempting to get back to its regular weekend schedule. So while our last match (Kel'Thuzad vs. Archimonde -- it's a close one, folks, so jump in and cast your vote!) isn't over until Monday, we're going to get right on to our next match. This week we have Vaelastrasz the Corrupt -- powerful member of the Red Dragonflight, corrupted by Nefarian to fight off heroes trying to enter Blackwing Lair -- and Illidan Stormrage -- Night Elf turned demon who now rules over the Black Temple. Join in our series of fantasy deathmatches by reading up on these bosses and casting your vote on which of the two would win out in a fight.
Phat Loot Phriday: Messenger of Fate
This week it's off to the Black Temple for a little stabby stab stabby.Name: Messenger of FateType: Epic One-hand DaggerDamage/Speed: 112-169 / 1.40 (100.4 DPS)Abilities: +22 Agility, +31 Stamina On equip: increases attack power by 44. Handmade for Rogues to use as an offhand. The speed makes up for all those offhand misses, and while Warriors who know what they're doing might like this one, too (since most of their abilities are all based on "next attack" procs), Rogues should get first pick on this one. This weapon was made for them. Also, while we're told the pic above is what this dagger looks like in 2.3, it used to look different. We're not sure why Blizzard changed it-- the old look is a little cooler. But then again, this new look is much closer to the icon. How to Get It: Drops from Gurtogg Bloodboil, a raging fel orc boss in Black Temple. The stats have it dropping at about 14 or 15%, but my guess is that it's a little lower than that. At any rate, if you can make it up to him in the Black Temple, and drop him about five or six times, it should pop up. Win the roll (or spend the DKP) and it's yours.Getting Rid of It: Disenchants into a Void Crystal, or vendors for 14g 22s 63c.
Around Azeroth: One on one with Illidan
Reader Quarla sends us this snapshot all the way from the Black Temple. Before you start the Illidan event, he just kneels in the middle of the room, apparently waiting for heroes to come by, take their snapshots, and then kill him. But in this shot, it hardly looks like Quarla has the strength of a raid behind her. Is Illidan soloable yet?Do you have a unique shot of Azeroth or Outland that you'd like to show off to the rest of the world? Tell us about it by e-mailing a copy to aroundazeroth@wow.com, with as much or as little detail as you'd like to share with us. %Gallery-1816%
Phat Loot Phriday: Black Bow of the Betrayer
You want a bow that will make people sit up and say "whoah?" You want a bow with a neat mana proc? You want a bow that requires a really, really good PvE guild to get? Here you go.Name: Black Bow of the BetrayerType: Epic Ranged Bow (where are the Legendary Ranged weapons, by the way?)Damage/Speed: 201-374 / 3.00 (95.8 DPS)Abilities: Increases attack power by 26, always very nice On Equip: Succesful melee or ranged attacks will grant 8 mana and if possible drain 8 mana from the target. That's incredible-- it's basically 40-45 mana per five seconds, which allows any Hunter to keep up their DPS for almost twice as long as normal. And if you want even more mana, there is a set of mail gloves created by Blacksmiths (dropped by Moam in AQ, I believe) called Black Grasp of the Destroyer that have the exact same proc. And while I haven't tried it out in game, I'm told that the effects of both stack. So with both the gloves and the bow, you'll never need mana again! If only Shamans could equip bows... How to Get It: Such a bow isn't going to be easy to get, and as the name might have already told you, this drops from the Betrayer himself, Illidan Stormrage, at the end of the Black Temple. There is a good argument made that if you're a Hunter able to get to Illidan, you probably aren't going to be worrying about mana problems anymore anyway. But to the victors go the spoils, so kill Illidan, be a Hunter (the mana proc on the weapon makes it just for you animal lovers), and win the roll and the bow is yours. The rest of the world gets to stare in awe at how frighteningly pointy this baby looks.Getting Rid of It: As far as I can possibly tell, no one has. But maybe there's a guild out there who has Illidan on farm, and just doesn't need it any more. In that case, it's the usual Void Crystal, or 10g 82s 33c if sold to a vendor.
Around Azeroth: That's no moon...
I admit, I've seen pictures of this part of the Black Temple well before Soundwave of Nazjatar sent in this screenshot. However, I'd always thoughtlessly presumed that the silvery orb in the sky overhead was the moon. After all, I'm used to seeing the moon in real life, and it seemed to be the most natural thing to sit in the sky above Illidan. But, as Soundwave points out -- that's no moon... it's Azeroth!Do you have a unique shot of Azeroth or Outland that you'd like to show off to the rest of the world? Tell us about it by e-mailing aroundazeroth@gmail.com! Or perhaps you'd just like to see more of your pics from Around Azeroth. %Gallery-1816%
New site tracks guild raid progression
Tracking guild raid progression has always been tricky business. Every realm has to have a dedicated player usually kept an updated thread on their server forum and relied on guilds reporting their most recent activities. If that player stopped playing, then it had to be started all over again.WoW Jutsu has an automated solution. This site tracks raid progression by scouring the Armory for players with equipped raid drops. It accounts for players with raid equipment who move guilds, but can't account for joint raids, yet. Not a perfect system, but a usable one for automating an otherwise time-consuming process.The site is well designed with a clean look (important for an information site.) On it, you can track by realm or see game-wide statistics. The owner also provided a well-written FAQ explaining how the rankings are compiled and what to do if you feel your guild's listing is inaccurate.WoW Justu is also good for seeing how much raid content has been finished world wide. For example, less than 2% of the guilds tracked have entered the Black Temple, but almost 66% have finished Karazhan. It will be interesting to see how much raid content is finished before the Wrath of the Lich King expansion goes live and another set of content becomes obsolete.
Blizzard interviews Nihilum at Leipzig
In the last four days, we've reported on interviews with Lead Designer Jeff Kaplan at the European Game Conference going on currently in Leipzig, Germany. So far he has dropped many new bits of information about the Wrath of the Lich King and some new patch content coming before that. Turns out, Blizzard is reporting on its own activities at Leipzig on its official European page. In addition to the Wrath and Starcraft II demo stations, Blizzard hosted the demise of Illidan Stormrage. Uberguild Nihilum performed a Black Temple raid live at the Blizzard booth in front of 5,000 spectators. Afterwards, Blizzard gave away the keyboards signed by members of Nihilum to the crowd. Blizzard also interviewed the guild. You can read it here.With the convention wrapping up today, we'll have to start looking elsewhere for more news on the upcoming expansion.
Four endgame guilds on WoW Radio today
Our friend Totalbiscuit of WoW Radio sends word to remind us that today at 2 pm EST (in just about an hour and a half from now), he'll be hosting a roundtable with members of Nihilum, Death and Taxes, Forte and Method-- in other words, pretty much every endgame guild that matters. I guess he could probably go for Curse as well, but "Four Horsemen" just sounds better.On the menu is supposed to be "all aspects of the endgame," so it'll be interesting to see what gets talked about. Expect to hear about what they thought of the Black Temple and the attunements being lifted from the Eye and SSC, and TB would probably be remiss if he didn't ask what they think is coming next (even though no one but Blizzard has anything but speculation about that right now, probably until Blizzcon). But nevertheless, WoW Radio always does a good interview, and this should be a good listen for sure.
First US Illidan kill
US guild Death and Taxes has managed to snag the US-first Illidan kill and thus finish all available raid content in the game. Their US-first puts them world-sixth, behind European guilds Nihilum, Forte, Last Resort, Curse, and For the Horde. So I'm thinking the process has to go something like this.... Kill Illidan Farm status .... Profit! Regardless of what step three may be, I'd like to congratulation Death and Taxes on their accomplishment!
Warglaive of Azzinoth dropped
Previously thought to be a mere rumor, or possibly used in the Illidan fight (like the many legendaries used in the Kael'thas fight), Forte (A-Kazzak-EU) have looted the first drop of the (right) Warglaive of Azzinoth, from their world-third kill of Illidan. Here's the lowdown on the weapon: Name: Warglaive of Azzinoth Type: Legendary main-hand sword Damage/Speed: 214–398/2.80 (109.3 dps) Abilities: +22 Agility +22 Stamina Classes: Warrior, Rogue Equip: improves hit rating by 21 Equip: improves attack power by 44 Set: The Twin Blades of Azzinoth (2) Set: Your melee attacks have a chance to increase your haste rating by 450 for 10 sec. (2) Set: Increases your attack power by 200 when fighting Demons It has an ilvl of 156, and sells for (apparently) 24.3g. The other weapon in the set is also called the Warglaive of Azzinoth, and you can see its details here. It's a safe bet that it drops from Illidan as well. This is, to my knowledge, the first take-away legendary anyone's gotten in BC. The Twin Blades of Azzinoth are, of course, Illidan's own weapons.[via MMO-Gaming]
WoW Moviewatch: Nihilum vs. Illidan
You've seen the screenshots. You've debated the impact. Now, you can watch the movie. All 711mbs and 21 minutes of it. It's the world first kill of the bad boy of Patch 2.1, Illidan Stormrage of the Black Temple by European raiders extraordinaire Nihilum.I'm grateful that Nihilum took the time and resources to record this event and make it available to those of us who will never see this content, but 21 minutes? How about a highlight reel? In fact, how about a highlight reel of all the bosses in 2.1 they smacked down cut down to, oh say, 2-3 minutes? Anyone got one of those coming down the pike?
WoW Moviewatch: Nihilum vs. Essence of Souls
I don't care how you feel about Nihilum as a guild, this looks like a great fight. Props to the art folks at Blizz for the animations; this is definitely the coolest-looking boss I've seen in a while. One warning, though: the video is rather long. If you want to download the full 365-MB WMV version, head over to WarcraftMovies.[via World of Raids]Previously on Moviewatch
Blizz increases difficulty of Hyjal and Black Temple
Daelo, Blizzard's lead encounter designer, posted today on the forums that they had decided to ramp up the damage of six bosses in Hyjal and Black Temple: Gurtogg Bloodboil, Teron Gorefiend, Mother Shahraz, The Illidari Council, Illidan Stormrage and Archimonde. This contradicts Tigole's earlier statements that the raid game was where they wanted it to be. Daelo also said, "Our intent is not to make the encounters impossible. Even with the increased difficulty, I do expect some of them to be quickly beaten again after guilds experience the changes and adapt." But it's hard to see this as anything other than a slowdown of progression for high-end guilds. There's some discussion about this on the Elitist Jerks forums. What do you think? Image from Nihilum via the Elitist Jerks boards.
WoW Moviewatch: 1up's Black Temple tour
Jeff Green and Sean Molloy of 1up have gone where I know I have never gone before: the Blizzard offices for a tour of the Black Temple. Knowing that it's not likely that I will ever set foot in the instance, this peak into the world that is Illidan's lair is fascinating. To me it looks like a combination of all the Outland instances rolled into one. I caught glimpses of everything from the Hellfire orcs to the Blood Elves of Tempest Keep. Heck, I don't think I'll ever be prepared.Previously on Moviewatch..
Nihilum takes down Mother Shahraz
Nihilum have scored another in their seemingly endless string of world-firsts: the Black Temple boss Mother Shahraz. Dang, guys. Give old North America a chance, huh? Nah, I'm just kidding -- congratulations once again, of course! This only leaves two encounters left undefeated in the Black Temple: the Illidari Council, and Illidan himself.As with the Essence of Souls, nobody really seems to know much about the fight, although the boss appears to be a six-armed demon. And like EoS, they got their loot, with no bugs to get in the way there. Here's what dropped: [via MMO-Champion and World of Raids]
Essence of Souls killed by Nihilum (world first)
Nihilum is really on fire these days. Fresh from seven world firsts in the past week or so, they have now achieved the world-first kill (on the live realms, anyway) of the Essence of Souls, a Black Temple boss. No details have emerged about the fight that I've been able to dredge up, although WoWWiki speculates that the boss has a different phase for each of its three different faces.In their comments thread, Nihilum deem the Essence of Souls "the hardest encounter we've met so far in WoW, ever" and "likely the hardest and most intense encounter in the history of world of warcraft," so my guess is it was probably pretty hard. Congrats! And in an unusual turn of events, they actually got their loot upon killing the boss: MMO-Champion has this boss's full loot table, thanks to PTR kills.
Nihilum - Four world kills in one day
Nihilum, never ones to rest on their laurels, tore through Tempest Keep and claimed the head of Kael'thas Sunstrider in a bold sweep that landed them the world first kill on live servers. From there, they finished the Mt. Hyjal attunement quest, and then proceeded to peek their heads in and see what was up in Hyjal. Just to send a warning shot to the other bosses that it was just a matter of time, they decided to tear Rage Winterchill a new one and leave his corpse behind as a warning. Due to a bug in that fight, Tigole had to get involved and reimburse them as only one of the items for Black Temple attunement dropped -- as opposed to the 25 expected.With those items in hand, they headed towards the Black Temple, finished up the attunement chain, and then took down both High Warlord Naj'entus and Supremus in a one-two punch based on their hard work learning the strategies on the PTRs. In one evening, they secured four World First kills on live servers, thereby proving their dedication to the destruction of endgame content.[via Nihilum]
Where to start with 2.1 content
The 2.1 patch this week introduced enough new quest lines, top-end raid content, flying mounts, and L70 solo & small group content to qualify as its own game. With a three day weekend looming I didn't even know where to begin. So I scoured the web and found the where to go and what to do to get me started. THE BLACK TEMPLE: Already planning to strut around Shattrath in your T6 Raid gear? Don't bank that T5 set too quick. The Black Temple attunement quest is ... epic. And it hasn't even been fully discovered so far. What is known is that you will have to slog through a great deal of the Burning Crusade raid content that comes before it: Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, Magtheridon's Lair, Serpentshire Cavern, The Eye and The Battle of Mount Hyjal. And many of those raids require extensive attunement quests of their own. If you are still itching to begin, you can dig in with the Tablets of Baa'ri chain out of Shadowmoon Valley to start grinding that Ashtongue Deathsworn rep. NETHERDRAKE EPIC FLYING MOUNT: First, don't confuse this with the Swift Nether Drake top Arena teams are awarded with at the end of every season. That one has a speed increase of 310% and has an armored appearance. This is the normal epic nether drake with a speed increase on par with other epic flying mounts: 280%. What's special about this epic flying mount is that it can be obtained through solo and small group quests. No raid required. What is required is a great deal of dedication.The first steps on your journey is to dig yourself out of Hated reputation with the Netherwing clan and get all the way to Exalted. This is accomplished through solo, 5 man and 3 man daily quests. Head to the south east corner of Shadowmoon Valley and speak to Mordenai in the Netherwing Fields. A complete write up can be found here.
Patch 2.1 is here
As announced yesterday, patch 2.1 has gone live this morning. It brings many, many changes; here are some highlights: Almost every level 70 epic buffed Big Alchemy changes Black Temple and Mount Hyjal raids Druid epic flight form New zones: Ogri'la, Skettis, Etherium Prison Netherdrakes Talent changes for Paladins, Shamans, and Rogues Battleground matching system Ruins of Lordaeron arena That's just the big stuff -- there's tons more. For well-organized compendia of 2.1 information, check MMO-Champion or World of Raids. The full patch notes are as usual available at Blizzard's site; if you can't get there, I have them mirrored on our site (in three parts, because the notes are ridiculously long: 1, 2, 3). And if you can't get the patch downloader to work, WoWWiki has a list of patch mirrors.Most realms were supposed to come back up at 11:00 AM PDT; there was a bit of a delay, although most realms appear to be up now. However, some realms needed extended maintenance, and are expected to come up at 2:00 PM PDT. Those realms are listed after the cut.
2.1 patch notes (part 3)
Continued from part 1, part 2Tempest Keep: The Botanica Bloodwarder Protector's Crystal Strike may now be dodged and parried. Tempest-Forge Peacekeepers now deal Physical melee damage instead of Arcane, and now longer perform the Arcane Blast ability on Heroic difficulty. The duration of Vial of Poison has been reduced significantly. Greater Frayer's do more damage in Heroic difficulty. Nethervine Reapers and Inciters' damage has been reduced in Heroic difficulty. Thorngrin the Tender's damage has been reduced in Heroic difficulty. Mutate Fleshlasher's damage has bene reduced in Heroic difficulty. The Sunseeker Gene-Splicer's Death & Decay will occur less frequently and the damage has been reduced on Heroic difficulty. Mutat Fear-Shrieker and Mutate Horror hit points are reduced Warp Splinter's Arcane Volley damage has been reduced on Heroic. The Bloodwarder Protector's involved in the fight with the Mutate Horror's and Mutate Fear-Shrieker's in The Botanica no longer remain at 1 health and will properly be killed Tempest Keep: The Mechanar Bloodwarder Physicians now have more mana. Nethermancer Sepethrea will no longer break nearby players' stealth when engaged. Tempest Keep: The Arcatraz Protean Nightmare,and Arcatraz Defenders damage has been reduced in Heroic difficulty. There are less Arcatraz Sentinel corpses in the dungeon. Zereketh the Unbound's Seed of Corruption will not knock players back as far. Zereketh's melee damage has been reduced on Heroic difficulty. Zereketh's Shadow Nova and the Death Watcher's Death Blastdamage has been reduced.. The Arcatraz Sentinel's Energy Discharge damage has been reduced.. Negaton Screamer and Negatron Warp-Master melee damage has been reduced on Heroic difficulty. Eredar Deathbringer's Diminish Soul damage has been reduced. Eredar Soul-Eater's Soul Chill damage has been significantly reduced. Skulking Witch's Chastise ability damage has been reduced on Heroic difficulty. The Unbound Devastator will no longer be able to use the Devastate and Deafening Roar abilities at the same time. A small shared cooldown has been added to both abilities. Ethereum Wave-Casters, Ethereum Life-Binder, and Gargantuan Abyssal melee damage has been reduced on Heroic difficulty. Unchained Doombringer's War Stomp now deals less damage. Harbinger Skyriss's Mind Rend will be used less frequently and the damage has been reduced. Harbinger Skyriss's Domination duration has been changed to 6 seconds. Harbinger Skyriss's Mana Burn drain has been reduced on Heroic. Akkiris Lightning-Waker's Lightning Discharge damage has been reduced on Heroic. There are fewer Protean Nightmares roaming the halls of the Arcatraz. User Interface Players will now be able to access the Looking For Group Channel by joining the Looking For Group/Looking for More tool. Using abilities and casting spells that cannot be used while mounted will now auto-dismount players as needed. This can be disabled by turning off the auto-dismount option in the UI options. Spells that have reagent costs will show the number of uses left in the lower right corner of the action icon, just like consumable items on the action bar. Holding down the shift key while mousing over an equippable item that you can use will now show you the tooltip for the item you currently have equipped in that slot as well (much like how the auction house currently works). The network performance meter now shows framerate and how much memory AddOns are using. You can socket items while in flight. When consuming reagents or using items on the action bar, smaller stacks will be used before larger stacks. Players who feign death no longer appear dead to party and raid members and friendly spells will not be interrupted. Sending item links with invalid enchantments will disconnect you. Equippable items displayed as quest rewards will always show you the tooltip of the item you are currently wearing in that slot. The area of interest while on a flight path is farther along the path instead of in front of you. Your current target will now display all of the duration based spells that you have cast on them with cooldown rings so you will know how much longer they will last. Very useful for warlock damage over time spells and druid healing over time spells as well as many others. Raid Windows now remember their position in the gamefield between sessions. A Main tank and Main assist window have been added to the raid UI that can be pulled out into the gamefield. These windows automatically show the main tank/main assist's target by default. Profession UI now has a search field. Text that is entered into the search field searches against item names, reagent names and item levels (if you include a level). For instance you can type Peace into the search field to see all of your recipes that use Peacebloom, or type in 20-30 to see all of you level 20-30 recipes. This search field only appears once you have more than 75 skill in your profession. Profession UI now has a checkbox that allows you to search by only items that you have the materials to make. Active corpses or objects (ones with loot on them) now can be selected and looted, even if they are underneath another corpse that does not have loot on it. While flying or swimming the 'X' key will now make you move down. Hunter Pets now display their spell damage bonus on the pet pane. The actual effect will nearly always be less than the bonus listed as it depends on the bonus coefficient of the spell the pet is using. Hunters now have a UI option Auto Attack/Auto Shot that if turned off means that the hunter will not automatically switch between ranged attack and melee attack difficulty when the range changes. Party members will no longer see a hunter who is feigning death as actually dead. Shamans are now a darker blue in the raid UI so they have a more distinct color. Items that have additional armor on them higher than standard for an item of that quality and level will have the armor value displayed in green. Gems are now searchable in the Auction House under the heading of Gem with the gems then broken up by color so you can search for all gems of a specific color. When items are being put up for sale on the Auction House, if the item you are putting up for bid is the same item and quantity as the previous item you put up for bid, it will automatically fill in the price and buyout for you with your previous price. The 'Status Bar Text' option in the interface options UI will now display numeric values for all party members health/mana bars in addition to your own. Raid and Battleground chat options have been added to the chat button that is attached to the chat log. New Tips of the day have been added. You can now link recipes into chat. If you have chat input open and you shift-click on one of your recipes in your profession UI then it will put a link to that recipe with the reagents it requires to make into chat. Raid assistants can now start a ready check. You can now display the amount of healing you do to a target in the gamefield. This option can be turned on with the Healing option in the floating combat text section of interface options. The Auction House now has a reset button that will reset all fields you have entered to allow you to quickly try a different search. Movement now interrupts the usage of the Evergrove Wand. Casting beneficial spells while using the Overseer Disguise will now drop the disguise. The Overseer Disguise now has a 1 second casting time, and can no longer be activated while in combat. The Triangulation Device from the Triangulation Point quests in Netherstorm will no longer allow the character to see Ethereum Relays. The directional indicators on the minimap for the towns have been added in Outlands. Searches in the auction house for French, German, and Spanish now do character swapping for some accented characters to yield better results. There is now a Rotate Minimap feature. You can now enable target of target in raid windows New interface option: Open Loot Window at Mouse New interface option: Disable Lua Errors You now see the season stats instead of weekly stats for arena teams when you inspect another player Guild names now appear in player tooltips Stackable items retrieved from mail will automatically stack in your inventory You are now able to right click a player name to report them to GMs. User Interface Scripting Macro Features: New conditional [flyable] which is true if you're in a location where you could use a flying mount You can use %f in chat text to refer to your focus, the same way %t or %n refers to your target. Added macro option support for /dismount Macros containing conditionals will automatically update their visual feedback as appropriate during play. #show and #showtooltip can be given conditionals and will update dynamically #show and #showtooltip can be given a slot number, to display the appropriate feedback for that slot Added bag and slot number support to: /castsequence, /cast, /castrandom, /use, /userandom, /equip, /equipslot New slash command /cancelform The /equip command can take item identifiers specified as item:: e.g. /equip [modifier:alt] item:25640 You can provide several conditional clauses for a single action, which will be performed if any of the clauses evaluates to true. e.g. /cast [target=target,help,nodead] [target=targettarget,help,nodead] [target=player] Flash of Light For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum. World Environment Two new graveyards have been added to Blade's Edge Mountains. Wandering NPCs will turn to face you more quickly when you interact with them. The Fel Cannons in Outland should no longer be falling thru the terrain. Obsidian Elementals are now correctly immune to bleed effects. The casting of the Sun Shield" spell used by Firewing Warlocks will now show up in the combat log. Void Baron Galaxis will no longer despawn 10 seconds after death. Uvuros now moves considerably faster than before. Arch Mage Xintor now has pickpocket loot. Auchenai Crypts: Creatures here will no longer occasionally drop aquatic-oriented items, Fish Scales, etc. Boulderfist Warrior: Mages can now Blink when stunned by this creature. In addition, its "Shoulder Charge" ability now has a minimum range. Dark Worg: This creature no longer drops cash. Dragonhawks: Some of these creatures were unskinnable. Almost all are now skinnable. Exception: Feral Dragonhawk Hatchlings. Dust Howler: This creature's "Howling Dust" ability is now correctly removed by "Cloak of Shadows". Earthcaller Ryga, Eclipsion Cavalier,Eclipsion Soldier,Vyral the Vile, Eclipsion Spellbinder,Gan'arg Sapper,Grillok Darkeye, Hand of Kargath, Mag'har Grunt, Unliving Caretaker, Unyielding Sorcerer,Worg Master Kruush, Z'kral, Blacktalon the Savage and Debilitated Mag'har Grunt all now have pickpocket loot. Fel Cannons: These creatures now drop loot. Krellack can now be skinned. Lady Shav'rar: Druid shapeshifting now breaks the creature's freeze affect. Mana Wraith: This creature is no longer immune to the hunter pet ability Warp. Mennu: The boss's healing ward totem will no longer trigger kill procs when killed. Mosh'ogg Witch Doctor: The Ward of Laze totems summoned by this creature can no longer be destroyed by area attacks. Motes of Mana: Several water-themed creatures were dropping Motes of Mana; they now drop Motes of Water. Murkblood Scavengers: The cash dropped by these creatures has been drastically reduced. Rockflayers: All creatures of this type now have pickpocket loot. Scarshield Spellbinder: The fire resist buff from this creature will no longer work on targets over level 63. Skettis Arakkoa: These creatures will now drop Arakkoa Feathers as intended. Unbound Devastator: The disarm from this creature now fails against disarm-immune targets. Throne Hound: This creature now has elite-quality loot. Throne of Kil'jaedan: Elite creatures in this area now drop elite-quality loot. Veil Lithic Arakoa: These creatures will now drop Arakkoa Feathers as intended. Area 52: Added a guard near an exploitable dead zone in town. A new flightmaster has been added to Forest Song in Ashenvale. New flight points have been added: --Felwood, Emerald Sanctuary (Both) --Ashenvale, Forest Song (Alliance) New flight paths added: --Stormwind <-> Thorium Point --Grom'gol Base Camp <-> Flame Crest --Ratchet <-> Gadgetzan, Astranaar, Brackenwall Village --Brackenwall Village <-> Ratchet, Camp Taurajo, Freewind Post --Thunderbluff <-> Zoram'gar Outpost --Evergrove <-> Toshley's Station --Honor Hold <-> Shattrath Many flight paths have been adjusted to be shorter, faster flights. Several flight paths which clipped thru objects have been adjusted. An Inn and mailbox have been added to Evergrove in Blades Edge Mountains. A Forge and Anvil has been added to Cosmowrench in Netherstorm. Improved combat movement for flying creatures. Apothecary Azethen, Ryathen the Somber, Arcanist Calesthris Dawnstar, Magister Duskwither, Tethik, Darnassian Protector, and Groggeroc no longer get loot sparkles when killed. Antilus the Soarer: This creature can now be skinned. Mac Added 'maxfps' game variable, when set to a non-zero value it will limit the game's frame rate when the game is the frontmost application or full screen. Also added 'maxfpsbk' game variable, when set to a non-zero value it will limit the game's frame rate when the game is not in the foreground. Each of these variables can be left set to '0' which disables them, or an integer value representing the desired frame rate limit. Bug Fixes Nazan in the Hellfire Ramparts is no longer affected by Disarm. Tainted Cores in Serpentshrine Cavern are now unique. Fixed several combat log issues where certain types of damage were not being reported. Many quests were incorrectly shareable even when items were necessary for accepting the quest. These quests are no longer shareable. Fixed an error where the G15 Keyboard LCD screen will sometimes not display the correct battleground name when Alt+Tabbing back into World of Warcraft. Fixed some sound errors in which some sounds were either repeating or were not playing properly. Fixed many locations in which players had been getting stuck. Fixed an issue in which gnomes were unable to surface properly after being underwater. Fixed various graphical errors. Coral Sharks will no longer attack players standing at the edge of the docks high above the water on Theramore Isle. The bleed effect from the druid ability Pounce will now properly apply to targets who are immune to stun. The Exodar Peacekeeper guards will now give the correct directions to the auction house. Fixed an error where tauren males and gnomes were unable to gain the benefit of drinking water when in areas of shallow and deep water. Fixed an error where some characters appeared to be drinking while standing up. The target Spell Cooldown Timer has been improved. Using Tome of Conjure Water IX on another Mage will no longer teach that Mage Conjure Water (Rank 9). The quest item Felsworn Gas Mask is no longer sellable. Thorngrin the Tenderwill no longer Sacrifice totems and pets. The game will now end properly in the Eye of the Storm Battleground if you cap the flag and it puts you over 2000 resources. Fixed an issue where creatures who were killed would disappear before ever becoming a lootable corpse. Stoneclaw Totem,rank 3, will now pulse correctly. General Vorpal in the Shadow Labyrinth will no longer evade when standing on a particular spot. The Dragon, Vhel'Khur, will no longer evade when pulled in Shadowmoon Valley. Players will no longer crash out of the game when resizing the game window with the Auction House menu open. Shattrath City Peacekeepers will now attack players who attack others from a distance. The Burnoose of Shifting Ages can now be disenchanted. Adjusted many quest rewards for better consistency. Zoning into an expansion dungeon and changing the difficulty at the same time will no longer cause players to disconnect. If a player is casting a spell when the debuff Shadow of Death fades from them, they will no longer die when the spell completes. Fixed many interface graphical errors. Force-quitting or crashing out of the WoW client while taxiing across zone boundries can no longer cause the player to be locked out of zone-specific chat channels. Player pets can no longer attack PvP players while not being flagged for PvP. In battlegrounds, pets with a damage over time spell will no longer continue to attack the caster after Resurrection. There is now a message telling players that the replacement for their final Violet Signets will cost 100 gold. Fixed an issue where quest items were remaining in a player's inventory even after abandoning the quest. Fixed several raid UI errors. In the Black Morass, gnomes are now able to run through the water like other races. Male gnome /cheer animation is no longer incomplete. Numerous performance optimizations have been made across all platforms. Performance improvements for systems without vertex shaders has been enabled. Proper recognition of SSE support for Pentium III has been implemented resulting in improved performance on this platform. The Warrior ability Spell Reflection can no longer be used if a shield is unequipped. Players will no longer be able to use Charge types of abilities to port the user up to flying-mounted characters. Players can no longer be feared when using the Zephyrium Capacitorium during the Test Flight quests out of Toshley's Station.
