Undocumented Patch Notes.Follow

http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/wiki/2-0-3-undcoumented-changes/

Don't think I noticed it in the other Patch related thread, so here goes. Took me an hour to get that page working, so here's a copy paste valid at the time of posting:

General

-Several classes have gotten updated changes to match current beta patches.
-The Map icon has a new, more brown, icon. No longer a Globe.
-Everlook Guards now level 67. (Possible for all steamwheel guards)
-Spirit Healers now appear on minimap while dead
-Player can now right click on thier portants to enable or disable PVP mode (PvE severs)
-New option for LFG tool: Heroic Dungeons
-All abilities have had their base mana cost reduced.
-Priest and Druid tier 2 bonus changed to "Restores 20 mana per 5 second" from "allows 15% of your mana to continue while casting"
-Epic Mount training cost reduced to 540g with honored discount.
-Noggenfogger is now on a 2 minute cooldown.
-New vendors selling level 70 pvp rewards added in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.
-Tauren Can now ride Black War Raptors, but not other Raptors.
-Snipers added to Gadgetzan rooftops. (Unknown if they are in other towns atm)
-Wyverns, bats, griffons, and hippogryps now make noices while in flight.
-New title "Scarab Lord" available to first opener of the AQ gates.
-Elite rare spawns now have a Silver Dragon around their portrait to show their correct status.
-Improved character stat (spirit now displays how much health and mana is recovered per tick)
-All Blackwing Lair Trinkets that used or Modified %s Have been reduced to flat numbers (Check thottbot/beta for the certian numbers.)

Battlegrounds

-Eye of the Storm battle master added.
Only one bracket, 61-70
-No faction affiliated with this battleground at the moment.

Rogue

-Shadowstep as 41 Talent Point
-Imp Sap switched out with Elusiveness
-Imp backstab and imp SnD have switched places.
-Imp Sap is now a 2 point talent - 50%/100%
-Surprise attack is now 10% and finishing move can no longer be dodged
-Weapon expertise changed to +10 weapon skill.
-Combo points preserved on previous target if target is changed during combat.
-Evasion (Rank 2) now trainable.
-Stealth Animation Fixed.

Druid

-Bear gives 450% armor bonus and 25% HP
-Barkskin now usable while stunned and no longer contains a casting penalty, cooldown increased to 2 minutes.
-Several talents have had their costs reduced in the balance tree (Such as imp moonfire)
-Tranquilty changed.
Cooldown Increased back to 10 minutes (as such pre-1.8)
Now untalented heals for 1092 every second at max rank.
-Pounce no longer requires facing
-Mangle (cat) now includes a +30% dmg to shred.
-Natures Grasp USABLE in forms (To clear up confusion)
-Can now talk to NPCs while in forms.
-Tree of Life Aura Now only applies 25% of spirit as extra healing on party members.
-Mana cost of regrowth reduced to 720 mana at max rank. (Untalented)

Shaman

-Totemic Call added
-Rockbiter now increases specifically DPS
-Rockbiter and earthshock no longer cause additional threat.

Warriors

-Rampage at 20 rage Cost
-Slam no longer interrupted by damage.

Hunters

-Pet Speed Normalized. All Pets have a 2.0 attack Speed.
-Several Pet Abilities' Icon have changed.
-Mana cost of Mutli-Shot Reduced (To Pre-2.0.1 costs)
-No Hunter's Mark casting animation

Mage

-The demage coefficient for area of effect spells has been increased(ae is 25% now).
-Now if more then 10 mobs are hit with an area of effect spell the damage done is reduced according to how many mobs were hit.

Warlocks

-Soullink now has 20% of dmg split with pet, damage incrased to 5%
-Shadowfury is now on a 20 second cooldown.
-Infernals are no longer enslaved when first summoned (Possible bug, Tooltip does not reflect the
change)
-Arena Preparation Buff in the arenas now remove soul shard costs of spells and abilities.
-Pet Revival now has a "whoooise light from above" animation at its end.

Paladins

-Improved Righteous Fury: talent changed to also reduce all damage taken by 2/4/6% while Righteous Fury is active.
-Improved Divine Shield: talent renamed to Sacred Duty, talent now also increases the Paladin's stamina by 3/6%.
-Spell Warding: talent changed to now reduce all spell damage taken by the Paladin by 2/4%.
-Crusader Strike: cooldown increased to 10 seconds.
-Vengeance: damage bonus reduced to 10%.

Bug Fixes.

-Enchants are now green again.
-Felguard no longer makes the succubus noise when summoned.
-Duel core processing bug fixed
-Map errors mentioned in 2.0.1 Patch notes Fixed.
-Zandalarian Hero Charm now properly uses its charges.

Items

-Netherwind Mantle now has the correct (Pre 2.0) graphic. (Swirly Balls)
-Idol of Ferocity and idol of Brutality changed. Now added damage to Maul and Swipe and Claw and Rip.

Profesions

-Player can learn past 300 of secondary professions from books. (Purchasable in Outlands,
So Non-expansion owner can use them, but expansion owners need to buy them and put them on AH
-Players require the expansion pack in order to get main professions past level 300.
-New Armorsmithing Recipes: (learnable at Armorsmith Trainer)
-Players can now change Blacksmithing/Engineering Specializations For a Fee.

I remember when Blizzard was stating they were reducing dmg on aoes with multiple mobs and all the mages were crying nerf. More than 10 mobs is hardly a kick in the pants. If you're killing more than 10 mobs at once you need to be brought down a notch or two or a group without a mage should be able to handle the same amount of mobs using different tactics. Good move on Blizz and 10 mobs is very reasonable.

AoEs are what mages do! I, for one, am grateful when they reduce the number of mobs roaming around the screen.

Those notes are incomplete. That is true for Leatherworking as well.

Most of those changes were in the patch notes, by the way.

It means as a Tribal Leatherworker, I can make all Tribal/Elemental/Dragonscale Patterns that do not come out in TBC. As a Tribal, I am now able to make Stormshroud, Living, Black/Green/Blue Dragonscale, Every leather pattern available from CC rep, TBros Rep, and all the patterns that come out of knott's cashe in DMnorth.

As a collector, I am happy. As a person that used to make Hides of the Wild for money, I am kinda nervous. Ofc, how good with Hides of the Wild really be now after TBC comes out?

Now, that being said, Tribals will only be able to learn new Tribal Patterns once the Expansion goes live. Same for Elemental, and Dragonscale.

All the same apply to Blacksmithing, not too sure about Engineering.

About paying a cost the unlearn a specialization, before, you had to completely unlearn LW to drop a specialization. This patch seems to make it where you only unlearn Specialized patterns, and keep your 300 skill.

And they take the form of the exact same coffin thingy that marks your corpse. Confused the hell out of me :)

Glad to see I'm not the only person who was equally confused about both of these... :)

umm i still dont get what this means =P

I'd like to add that the shapeshifting costs for Druids have been reduced. I am unaware of the exact figures, but it's definately noticeable.

No. Before, you picked one, you stayed that one, wether you unlearnt and relearned or not, since the quest to choose one could only be done once.

mages were intended as the primary aoe class.

i can think of several places where you may be hitting more than 10 targets and have to do so due to encounter design. the problem is that you cannot choose which 10 targets to hit. so any adds slipping in will reduce my effectiveness killing ALL the targets i'm aiming for.

i presume it also affects warlocks. if not, why?


how is that an incresase? it used to be 33%...

1.) Bear gives more armor, which is always nice, I suppose, but what about the health bonus? More or less? 25%? So if I have 1000 health in caster form, I have 1250 in Bear/Dire Bear form? And if I have 3500 health (like my Druid does), I get 4375 health in Dire Bear form? Bummer, that's a kick in the groin for me. I used to have 5000 health.

EDIT: I know it'll be a buff once I get better gear. Scaling > everything.

2.) Tranquility heals for 1092 every second at level 70?! Holy sh*t...

3.) Pounce changes made me wet myself. Mangle change is useless seeing as I never use Shred (I do more damage with Mangle, using less energy).

4.) Talking to NPCs while in forms is uber.

5.) The Map icon is still annoying as hell. You can't move it and it ruins my icon settings for all my addons. Who needs an icon for the Map anyways? It's not like we haven't gone 2 years with the M-key only...

Edited, Jan 11th 2007 12:25pm by Mazra

I think CT_Core can remove that. Removes it for me at least.