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World of Warcraft Patch v2.4.2 - v2.4.3 (Chinese)

This is the latest World of Warcraft patch from Blizzard...

World of Warcraft Patch v2.4.2 - v2.4.3 (Chinese)

This is the latest World of Warcraft patch from Blizzard that will patch your game from version 2.4.2, to version 2.4.3. Read below for the patch notes.

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.4.3

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The latest patch notes can always be found at

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

General

- Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have

100% dispel resistance.

- Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players

will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive

stats at the same rate as level 34 players.

- Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her

out in the World’s End Tavern!

- Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now

available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.

- Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien

have traded their bats in for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.

- Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second

cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink

cooldown.

- Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified

to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk

hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of

summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.

- Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard

Quartermaster

- Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in

progress.

- Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently

in progress if the spell was cast by that item.

- When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the

last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.

Druids

- Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.

Hunters

- Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this

ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs

on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated

by the pet’s Growl.

- Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being

summoned.

Mages

- Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no longer

Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.

Paladins

- Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite

Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.

- Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.

Priests

- Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets

who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.

- Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent

refreshing Prayer of Mending.

Rogues

- Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing

blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health,

the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over

10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s

health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not

always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%,

depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction

will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against

critical strikes.

- Sinister Calling now increases damage to Backstab and Hemorrhage by

1/2/3/4/5%(down from 2/4/6/8/10% .)

Shaman

- Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its totem when

pulled beyond 50 yards away.

- Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage

when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.

Warlocks

- Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.

- Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow

damage, as well as Frost and Fire.

- Demon Skin, Demon Armor, and Fel Armor are no longer Magic effects

and cannot be dispelled.

- Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the

target pet is Banished.

- Ritual of Summoning: The mana cost of this spell will now be properly

deducted when cast.

- Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.

Warriors

- Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of

fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)

PvP

- The time available to accept the option to “Enter Battle” for a

battleground has been reduced to 1 minute and 20 seconds (previously

2 minutes) in order ot give each side more time to get a full

complement of players before the battle begins.

- The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as

a flag is capped.

- Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite can no longer be

used in the arena. These no longer have a failure chance.

- Zoning into an instance on a PvE realm will now drop your PvP flag.

Professions

- Alchemy

Philosopher’s Stone now requires 200 Alchemy.

- Cooking

Juicy Bear Burgers now correctly increase healing as well as spell

damage.

- Jewelcrafting

Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no

longer be dispelled.

- Mining

Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. The drop

rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged.

- Tailoring

Removed the cooldown from regular Mooncloth.

Herb bags can now hold Un’goro Soil and Evergreen Pouches.

Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.

New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in

Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: Haliscan Jacket and Haliscan Pantaloons.

Quests

- Bhag’thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate.

- For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the

Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased

character AoE effects and vice-versa.

- For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the

Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly

break off combat from unphased/phased opponents.

Dungeons and Raids

- Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons.

- Magister’s Terrace

The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard Glaive Throw has been

removed and the Bounce range reduced.

Vexallus and Kael’thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode.

Vexallus’ damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased.

Kael’thas’ Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His

Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the

damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic

mode remains unchanged.)

Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly.

Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health

reduced slightly.

Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output

reduced slightly.

- Sunwell Plateau

Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady

Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twins are in combat.

M’uru, Entropius, Shadowsword Berserkers, and Shadowsword Fury Mages

have all had their health decreased.

Kil’jaeden Encounter

Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil’jaeden’s Shield

Orb Shadow Bolts.

Vanish now correctly wipes threat on Kil’jaeden.

Sinister Reflections are now interruptible.

Sinister Reflections on Hunters now use normal Wing Clip instead of

Improved Wing Clip.

Kil’jaeden will now wait slightly longer before casting Flame Darts

after casting Darkness of a Thousand Souls.

Items

- Bow of the Verdant Keeper’s Aim: This item’s triggered effect no

longer breaks the effect of Scatter Shot.

- Brutal Gladiator’s Pummeler has had its Stamina value increased to

the appropriate value.

- Clockwork Robot Bots fight amongst themselves again...without

attacking people in the arena. Well...they’ll blow up other Bots in

the arena, but you know what we mean.

- The Eredar Twins will now always award the same items(including bonus

items) regardless of which order they are killed in.

- Invisibility Potions: These potions now are on the same cooldown as

other combat consumable potions (such as mana potions.)

- Pendant of the Violet Eye: This item will again work correctly with

Holy Light and Flash of Light.

- Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen: The triggered effect from this Item

can now occur on periodic damage ticks.

- Thori’dal, the Star’s Fury is now Unique as intended.

- Vengeful Gladiator’s Baton of Light: This item now appears in the

correct position on the vendor list.

User Interface

- The help interface has been simplified dramatically. Players will

no longer be required to select a category when opening a GM ticket.

In addition, players can use the "Talk to a GM" button to fill out

a ticket that requires a GM response or the "Report Issue" button to

fill out a ticket that does not require a GM response.

- Target buff/debuff timers that appear when you cast a spell are now

more visible.

- Time Management features have been implemented! These features

include an alarm clock, stopwatch, and viewing your computer’s local

time.

- The new stopwatch feature can be accessed via the /stopwatch, /sw,

or /timer slash commands. Inputting a time into the slash command will

make the stopwatch count down. For example, /stopwatch 1:0:0 will

make the stopwatch count down from an hour, /stopwatch 1:30 will make

it count down from 1 minute, 30 seconds, and /stopwatch 30 will make

it count down from 30 seconds.

- Added the following macro commands: /targetenemyplayer,

/targetfriendplayer.

- Added key bindings for tab targeting players.

- Ctrl-Tab and other target nearest friend functions will no longer

target you.

- Targeting using /target will prefer live targets over dead ones.

- You can no longer click the minimap to cast ground targeted spells.

- Invisible players with Hunter’s Mark can see the hunter that put the

mark on them.

- Vendor items now show their Duration in Inventory.

- For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI &

Macros Forum.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11114

World Environment

- Winterspring Ice Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs may now drop Thick

Yeti Fur.

- Skinning any Winterspring Ice Thistle yetis may now result in Thick

Yeti Fur.

- Increased the drop rate of Pristine Yeti Horns from Winterspring Ice

Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs.

- Young Sporebats and Greater Sporebats in Zangarmarsh now drop

Sporebat Eyes for the quest Gathering the Reagents.

- Blacksmithing Supplies vendor and repairer, Blazzle, in Area 52 is

now next to the forge and anvil outside the inn.

- Banker Meeda, in Area 52 is now in the...well...the bank, along with

a guild vault and guards. The other three Area 52 bankers are still

located in the auction-house-turned-bank.

- Wastewander Bandits and Rogues should be more plentiful in the

northern parts of Tanaris.

Bug Fixes

- The mage spell, Counterspell now shows in the combat log.

- Gan’arg Analyzers will no longer occasionally become friendly to

players.

- Talented abilities that cost a percentage of base mana will no longer

display an incorrect mana cost when inspected by a player of a

different class or level.

- Guild leaders should now be able to properly promote a new guild

leader regardless of their range.

- Druids: Mangle will no longer incorrectly indicate a 100-yard range

on the tooltip.

- Hunters: Using an instant ability after Steady Shot will no longer

lock out auto shot.

- Hunter Snake Trap will no longer break players out of stealth if the

snakes pass near the stealthed character.

- Hunters: Concussive shot will now properly have a chance to proc Bow

of Searing Arrows.

- Hunters: Scare Beast will now be correctly limited to one target and

has had its tooltip updated to display the proper cast time of 1.5

seconds.

- Paladins: Righteous Defense will now properly check for range when a

mob is selected.

- Rogues: The talent Heightened Senses, Rank 1 and Rank 2 will now

affect attacks from wands.

- Warlocks: The heal aspect of felhunter Devour Magic will now display

in the Combat Log.

- Warlocks: The Succubus will now behave properly while under the

effects of Lesser Invisibility.

- Warlocks: Demonic Sacrifice: This ability will now interact correctly

with the Spirit Guide resurrection system in battlegrounds. A

sacrificed pet will not be resummoned on death. Warlocks will still

be able to resurrect with the pet they last summoned (non-sacrificed

pets), even if it has since died.

- Using Jewelcrafting figurines will no longer cause scrolling combat

text to appear twice.

- Fixed an issue in which shadows were not appearing properly for users

with GF4 video chipsets in Open GL mode.

- Corrected an issue in which users with Creative X-FI sound cards

would sometimes here a slight popping noise when running.

- Players will now correctly receive a Battleground Mark message for

the marks that are received at the end of a battle.

- Corrected an issue where the initial trigger or activation sounds for

Immolation Trap and Explosive Trap could not be heard by some players.

- Smelt Hardened Khorium will now properly require a forge instead of

an anvil and hammer.

- Hardened Khorium Bars can now be placed properly into Mining bags.

- Corrected a typo in the tooltip for the Druid spell Rip (Rank 4).

- Looting a Nightmare Vine will now properly no longer apply poison

when the node is looted.

- The Figurine- Seaspray Albatross ability will now properly restore

the correct amount of mana.

- First Aid bandages can no longer be applied to a player with the

Recently Bandaged debuff. An error message of, "Could not activate

more than one bandage" will be displayed.

- Corrected the tooltips to read properly for the flight paths from

The Stormspire, Toshley’s Station, Blade’s Edge, and Area 52.

- The flight from Zul’Aman, Ghostlands to Sun’s Reach Harbor, Isle of

Quel’Danas and the flight cost from Emerald Sanctuary, Felwood to

Astranaar, Ashenvale will now cost the correct amount of money.

- Greater Elementals summoned by a shaman will now properly have a

combat log entry.

- Players will no longer become stuck on the Nimboya’s Laden Pike when

driving it into the ground.

- The quest, "Going Going, Guano!" will now have a more consistent

level requirement for the dungeon.

- The quest, "Into The Scarlet Monastery" is now available to players

of the appropriate level for the instance.

- Blueleaf Tubers can now be properly looted.

- The quest turn-ins for the Ahn’Qiraj war effort now give the

appropriate amount of credit for each successful quest turn-in.

- Cloak of Shadows will now properly remove the curse Shrink.

- Nightbane will no longer become unresponsive and unkillable during

his air phase.

- Several items sold by the Consortium reputation vendor Paulsta’ats

are now bind on pick-up: Formula: Enchant Weapon- Major Striking,

Design: Delicate Blood Garnet, Design: Shifting Shadow Draenite,

Design: Lustrous Azure Moonstone, Design: Thick Golden Draenite.

- It is no longer possible to delete a character that is an arena team

captain without first promoting another player to captain.

- Taunts will now properly stick when a target is stunned while being

taunted.

- Taking the Druid flight path from Moonglade will no longer dispel

buffs.

- Players who die on the Isle of Quel’Danas and release their spirit

will no longer be sent to the graveyard in Eversong Woods.

- Disabling some subtypes under the Combat Log Message Types in the

Combat Log Config menu will no longer cause main Message Types to be

disabled.

- Changes on the Desktop gamma options will now be properly discarded

when canceled.

- A message will now appear in the combat log if a debuff is removed by

normal melee attacks.

- Moving a quiver from one container slot to an empty container slot

will no longer reset the ranged attack speed.

- Fixed an issue where players could have two minimap tracking types

active at the same time.

- Corpses with money on them will now be able to be looted even when

all party members opt to pass on loot.

- Fixed an issue where ravager pets had all available pet skills.

- Players will no longer receive an error message while receiving money

and attempting to send mail to another player.

- It is no longer possible to be in a guild without a Guildmaster.

- Pets will now properly attack mobs when out of phase with the real

world.

- Players who have the Apprentice and Journeyman Riding skills trained

already will no longer show these as available to train despite

having the higher riding skill.

- It is no longer possible to dispel Shattered Sun Pendant buffs.

- Passive pets will no longer attack due to AoE taunt spells.

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