Did you really read the 2.4.3 Patch Notes?

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I read every line and I found some inter­est­ing stuff in there that you might have missed. I’m not going to just paste them. You can find them here or here. Instead, I’m only going to extract the neat stuff and dis­cuss a bit about it.

Let’s see what we have.

Gen­eral

Haris Pil­ton has launched a new line of bags and jew­elry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!

Everyone’s favorite NPC came back with some new and cool items, like the 22-slot bag “Gigan­tique” Bag, 1 pair of gog­gles and 3 rings! Some say that the enour­mous prices on these are to reduce infla­tion in the WoW economy.

One thing is for cer­tain: really nice items to pimp up your bank char or to enrich your RP activity.

Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Appren­tice Rid­ing and mounts are now avail­able at level 30. Train­ing costs 35 gold.

HELLOKITTY! Say woot? Finnaly! It was rather stu­pid to run all over the place until level 40 and I have to admit it really slowed my lev­el­ing time. And buged the hell out of me also, because Druids got Travel Form, Shamans got Ghost Wolf and Hunters got Aspect of the Chee­tah way before 40. BUT NOW, it’s all over! Still, it costs 35 gold but that shouldn’t be a big prob­lem (I had over 100 gold on my Priest at level 30 from Min­ing). Also, for Pal­adins and War­locks it’s still (almost) free so in your face!

Warn­ing: long post ahead (aka Wall of Text) so if you have time, you can read more after the jump

• Numer­ous fly­ing non-combat pets have had their flight height mod­i­fied to no longer skim along the ground: [Cap­tured Fire­fly], drag­onhawk hatch­lings ([Blue Drag­onhawk Hatch­ling], [Golden Drag­onhawk Hatch­ling], [Red Drag­onhawk Hatch­ling], [Sil­ver Drag­onhawk Hatch­ling]), moths ([Blue Moth Egg], [Red Moth Egg], [Yel­low Moth Egg], [White Moth Egg]), owls ([Great Horned Owl], [Hawk Owl]), par­rots ([Par­rot Cage (Green Wing Macaw)], [Par­rot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw)], [Par­rot Cage (Sene­gal)], [Par­rot Cage (Cock­atiel)]), [Phoenix Hatch­ling], [Cap­tured Flame], [Sprite Darter Egg], and [Tiny Spore Bat].
• [Nether Ray Fry] (a non-combat pet) is now avail­able from the Sky­guard Quar­ter­mas­ter. This requires an Exalted rep­u­ta­tion with Sha’tari Sky­guard.

Good news for the non-combat pet col­lec­tors. Not only will the old fly­ing pets behave cor­rectly (now they will actu­ally fly!), but another pet is also added to the game. And let’s face it: who wouldn’t want a mini Nether Ray?

Pal­adin

Sum­mon Warhorse is now avail­able at level 30.

Muhaha!

Rogue

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.

Kind of an inter­est­ing move to change this tal­ent. Some say it’s a nerf for PvE Rogues going Arena, some are glad to see it imple­mented. I really don’t know what to make of it. Appar­ently, you’ll need 492 Resilience to keep the old 90% dam­age reduc­tion, but take this infor­ma­tion with a very big pinch of salt as I’m not sure it’s accu­rate (so cor­rect me if I’m wrong).

War­lock

• Curse of Shadow: This spell has been removed.
• Curse of the Ele­ments: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow dam­age, as well as Frost and Fire.
• Sum­mon Fel­steed is now avail­able at level 30.

Prob­a­bly the biggest change in this patch in my opin­ion. You can look at this in two ways: as a War­lock nerf (see­ing now only a min­imim of 2 War­locks are needed in a 25-man raid) or as a Mage/Shadow Priest buff (replac­ing the extra War­lock). Also, the Fel­steed as avail­able at level 30 so gg.

Min­ing

Green qual­ity gems can be found in min­ing nodes again. The drop rate of blue gems from min­ing nodes remains unchanged.

Cheers for this, I was really get­ting low on my green gems supplies.

Tai­lor­ing

• Removed the cooldown from reg­u­lar Moon­cloth.
• Herb bags can now hold [Un’Goro Soil] and [Ever­green Pouch].
• Mycah of Sporeg­gar has dis­cov­ered how to cre­ate 28 slot herb bags.
• New Tai­lor­ing pat­terns are avail­able from Haughty Modiste in Steamwhee­dle Port, Tanaris: [Pat­tern: Halis­can Jacket] and [Pat­tern: Halis­can Pan­taloons].

Pretty impor­tant changes here also with a poten­tial for rev­enue from the Herbal­ism Bag or even craft­ing the Halis­can “set”. And whoohoo! finnaly a replace­ment for the Tuxedo set. Our banks will look even bet­ter than our mains I tell you. Com­bine it with Halis­can Brimmed Hat and whoop! sexy new bank. Although I really don’t know who still uses Moon­cloth (I tried farm­ing the regents once to level my Tai­lor­ing — VERY low drop rate), I guess it’s a good thing that the cooldown is now lifted.

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.

This is a nerf that wasn’t needed. Cur­rent MgT in heroic mode is not that hard. Sure, it requires a bit more gear and some skill, but it can be done fairly easy. I remem­ber back in the old days when I con­sid­ered Shat­tered Halls Heroic to be impos­si­ble. Or back when com­plet­ing Black Morass on Nor­mal was an achieve­ment for my guild. Now I can do both with my eyes closed. Why? Because I geared myself and learned how to be a bet­ter player in the process.

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.
• Ven­dor items now show their Dura­tion in Inventory.

Hello! Some very nice improve­ments right there. First, I’ve always found that inter­act­ing with a GM can be a bit hard at first, so hope­fully this fea­ture will help in that mat­ter. Also, some new and nifty macro com­mands will be added and I per­son­ally know at least 2 peo­ple with a fetish for macro pro­gram­ming. I’m sure their imag­i­na­tion is fly­ing right now as to what poten­tial are in those new slash com­mands. Time man­age­ment finally being imple­mented is really cheer­ing me up. I have a prob­lem man­ag­ing my time (time fly’s when you’re hav­ing fun) and I’m sure some of you have also. So far I’ve man­aged to screw over some meet­ing for Arena because of the time dif­fer­ence between the server and Roma­nia so view­ing the local com­puter time in game makes me happy.

Appar­ently there are also some undoc­u­mented changes, which you can see below or fully check them out on mmo-champion’s ded­i­cated thread:

• Con­struc­tion has began in Stormwind for a Har­bour. Prob­a­bly it’s going to allow acces to Northrend;
• You can now buy epic gems at the cost of Arena Points (800 points / gem);
• Don Car­los in Gad­get­zan gives you a quest to kill his past image in Old Hills­brad and you get a nifty hat as reward. Appar­ently, in heroic mode he also drops the same hat but of blue qual­ity, which has the abil­ity to sum­mon a Coy­ote Spirit as pet;

I’m pretty excited about the new patch. It will bring some new stuff and improve on the qual­ity of the game play.

What are you look­ing for­ward to in the patch?

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