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You guys are slacking, its been posted for over 12 hours.... . I'm too lazy to format it and all like their page, its too long. So I'll just copy/paste for those who can't get to their website at work (like me).
Diremaul
Diremaul, a new dungeon for players level 56-60, is now open and ready for business. Diremaul is populated by a fierce tribe of ogres and is located in the western region of Feralas. Diremaul will be limited groups of no more than five players each.
New Outdoor Raid Bosses
Two new outdoor raid bosses have been introduced to Azeroth. Azuregos, a monstrous blue dragon, has landed in Azshara, while Lord Kazzak the demon can be found in the Tainted Scar of the Blasted Lands.
Meeting Stones
Meeting Stones are located outside of each dungeon to help players find a group to adventure with in the dungeon. The meeting stone will try to find you a viable five-person group by looking for a tank, a healer, and so on. As time passes and you are unable to find a group, the meeting stone will become less picky about who it groups you with.
Dungeon Player Caps
All dungeons now have a cap on group size to limit the number of players that may enter the dungeon. It was necessary to add this cap as raiding these dungeons trivialized much of the content. Because of this change we can now look to adding better loot to them during future content patches.
With that in mind, the dungeons below now have the following caps:
Onyxia/Molten Core - 40 members
Blackrock Spire - 15 members
Diremaul - 5 members
All other dungeons in the game will be capped at 10 members.Several dungeons will be re-examined for balancing in light of thischange. In addition, will have their loot improved significatnly forthe next content patch.
General Changes
(detailed information for each below)
General
Previously, in many cases, a Block, Parry, or Dodge was translated into a "Miss," thus causing confusion over actual miss rates. We've made the following changes in an attempt to be more clear as to what is actually happening in combat:
Block: All creatures will now report a Block on attacks from the front, reducing damage caused instead of converting the attack into a "Miss." Creatures will no longer be able to Block attacks from behind.
Dodge: Every time a creature Dodges, it will report a Dodge. We will no longer translate a creature's Dodge of a rear attack to a "Miss."
Parry: All creatures will now report a Parry on attacks from the front instead of translating them into a "Miss." Creatures will no longer be able to Parry attacks from behind.
Blocking an ability that takes place on the next swing now blocks the normal amount of damage instead of all of it.
Skill-up rate improved for bows, crossbows, guns, thrown, and wands.
Improved line of sight for large creatures.
In-game mail sent from GMs will now use official Blizzard stationery.
The Drunk effect has been greatly enhanced.
If you resurrect without releasing your spirit, your resurrection timer will decrease normally.
You can no longer accept a warlock summoning while you are in combat.
Increased stun resistance will now also help resist some non-melee based stun spells from creatures.
Mounts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-purchased mounts and vice versa.
PvP
Numbers and punctuation will not be passed through chat communication to members of the opposing faction.
Spells in PvP now have a slight increase in range and area of effect when targets are moving. This should improve the overall usability of spells and ranged attacks.
Priests can no longer kill players with Shadow Word: Pain and Mind Control in duels.
Certain key NPCs (such as bankers and auctioneers) in the cities and main outposts are now harder to kill. Additionally, when they die, they will respawn more quickly.
Patrolling scouts that can see through stealth and invisibility have been added to both Orgrimmar and Ironforge.
Players under Mind Control pass reputation changes due to kills to the controlling player, and do not receive the reputation changes themselves.
You cannot see your enemies' buffs while you are charmed.
Dueling players can now cast helpful spells on their allies (but not vice versa).
Druid
Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
Rebirth - Casting time and mana cost reduced; now ignores resurrection timers.
Swiftshifting - Talent changed. When leaving a shapeshift form, the next shapeshift form you take will have a 20%/40%/60% mana cost reduction if used within 6 seconds.
Gift of the Wild - This spell is now cast on the target's party.
Cat Form - DPS increase at levels 40-60.
New Ability (Cat Form): Ferocious Bite (available at level 32) - Finishing move that causes damage per combo point and converts each extra point of energy into additional damage.
New Spell: Barkskin (available at level 44) - The druid's skin becomes as tough as bark. Physical damage taken is reduced. While protected, taking damage will not cause spellcasting delays, but non-instant spells take longer to cast and melee combat is slowed.
New Ability (Bear Form): Frenzied Regeneration (available at level 36) - Converts an amount of rage into health every second for a short duration.
Hunter
Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
Sandfury Guardians are no longer tameable.
Fixed a bug where Hunter pets were sometimes unattackable by opposing faction players.
Fixed a bug where creatures were keeping their innate resistances after being tamed. This was unintentional and the fix will affect all existing pets.
Distracting Shot - Is now properly improved by the Efficiency and Hawk Eye talents.
You can no longer use Eyes of the Beast to leave a flight path.
Mage
Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
Improved Blizzard - Chill duration reduced to 1.5 seconds (4.5 seconds w/ Permafrost) and refreshes with each damage tick rather than at the beginning of the spell. In addition, a target that resists the damage will also resist the chill effect.
Blink - Using this spell should no longer cause you to fall through the world.
Blink can now be used to escape more of the stun effects used by creatures in the world.
Blink is no longer useable on boats or zeppelins.
Blast Wave damage radius fixed so damage properly extends to 10 yd.
Dampen Magic - Duration and mana cost increased. Now castable on all raid targets.
Amplify Magic - Duration and mana cost increased. Now castable on all raid targets.
Frost/Ice Armor - Mana cost reduced.
New Spell: Mage Armor (Available at level 34) - Allows for 30% of mana regeneration to function while casting and increases resistance to all magic schools. Does not stack with Frost/Ice Armor.
New Spell: Conjure Water (Rank 7) (Available through quest at level 60).
Arcane Missiles: Fixed a bug where the spell would not function properly against spell-reflecting targets.
Paladin
Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
Seal of Command - The damage effects can now be resisted instead of dodged, blocked, or parried.
Blessing of Protection - Now castable on all raid targets.
Blessing of Sacrifice - Now castable on all raid targets.
Blessing of Salvation - Now castable on all raid targets.
Divine Intervention - Now castable on all raid targets.
Priest
Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
Holy Fire - Fixed a bug with the bonus damage gained from +fire damage items. Such items now have a greater effect on this spell.
Prayer of Fortitude - This spell is now cast on the target's party.
Power Word: Shield - Now castable on all raid targets.
Rogue
A number of areas in the world now have footlockers in them. These areas are in place for rogues to visit to increase their lockpicking skills. The contents of these footlockers are only token amounts of treasure, but they should allow for a more interesting experience while increasing lockpicking skill. The difficulty of the locks in the area correspond to the level of the zone, so if your lockpicking skill is around 100, you would go to Durnholde Keep in Hillsbrad. But if your skill is 250, you might head to Tyr's Hand in Eastern Plaguelands.
Hillsbrad Foothills - Durnholde Keep
Redridge Mountains - Lake Everstill
Ashenvale Forest - Zoram Strand
Stonetalon Mountains - Windshear Crag and Associated Mines
Wetlands - Murloc Camps
Desolace - Sar'theris Strand
Badlands - Angor Fortress
Swamp of Sorrows - Pool of Tears
Searing Gorge - The Slag Pit
Tanaris Desert - Lost Rigger Cove
Azshara - Bay of Storms
Eastern Plaguelands - Tyr's Hand (elite)
Very high-end gems will no longer be acquired from junk boxes or pickpocketing.
Added a visual to Sword Specialization "proc" that will now show up in the combat log as well.
Shaman
Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
Tremor Totem - Now creates the appropriate looking earth totem; tooltip updated to clarify what effects it counters; radius of effect increased; now pulses more frequently.
Astral Recall - The tooltip now includes the home point the spell will recall you to.
We've changed the spell icon of several totem spells. They should now all be unique.
Searing Totem - Damage slightly increased.
Reincarnation - No longer causes resurrection sickness.
Warlock
Improved Drain Mana - Will now report to the combat log all damage caused.
Inferno - The duration the Infernal is enslaved when first summoned has been increased. The area of effect damage caused by the Inferno spell, and all threat generated by it, will now originate from the Infernal. The Infernal will now immediately attack targets within the radius of the spell.
Enslave Demon - Is no longer dispellable.
Curse of Agony - Now benefits from items that increase shadow damage.
Nightfall - Fixed a bug where the Shadow Trance effect was lost without benefit. Previously, the talent had a 3%/4% chance of triggering. It now has a 2%/4% chance of triggering, and the tooltips have been updated to accurately reflect this change.
Ritual of Doom - The death caused at the completion of the ritual no longer causes durability loss.
Firestone - Equipping Firestones will now increase damage caused by fire spells.
Spellstone - Equipping Spellstones will now improve your chance to get a critical strike with spells.
Fear - Mana cost changed to a percentage of base, which results in an increase in cost.
The Shadow Trance buff granted by the Nightfall talent will no longer be used up by a shadowbolt that was in mid-cast.
Warrior
Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was slightly increased.
Battle Shout - Rage cost reduced.
Bloodrage - Health cost reduced.
Heroic Strike - Damage increased.
Parry - Moved to level 6.
Thunder Clap - Now causes Physical damage instead of Nature damage; damage increased; duration increased with each new rank. Improved Sunder Armor - Now decreases rage cost by 1/1/1. Improved Thunder Clap - Now decreases rage cost by 1/1/2.
Execute - Full rage is no longer consumed when the ability does not hit.
Overpower - Should now be usable when a special attack is dodged.
Fixed a bug where rage was not being generated when normal melee attacks were parried, dodged, and blocked.
Charge has been improved so it will work through doorways and won't path you through an entire dungeon.
Sweeping Strikes bug fixed. It will hit more reliably and show up in combat log correctly.
Added a visual to Sword Specialization "proc" that will now show up in the combat log as well.
Monsters
Ogres in Azeroth have undergone a visual upgrade.
Yeti will no longer flee when at low health.
Mummified Atal'ai will no longer cast Fevered Plague so often.
Some outdoor creatures will now use their Fear abilities less often.
Reduced the number of pirates on the boats in Stranglethorn Vale.
Reduced the number of Syndicate in Strahnbrad.
Reduced the respawn rate of the troggs on the islands in Loch Modan.
Some wildlife that was stationary in Desolace should now be more active.
Mechanical Whelps have been boosted by five levels in order to be effective longer. Their damage has been slightly decreased to compensate for the additional damage that would have occured with the change.
Battle Chicken has had its level boosted by five.
The monster ability Skull Crack now only stuns for two seconds instead of six.
Warbringer Constructs now have less armor than before.
Items
The Reactive Mana set bonus effect on the Arcanist set had an incorrect tooltip. The proper chance of the effect triggering is 1%, not 100%.
Restorative Elixir tooltip is now more clear.
Weightstones may now be used on fist Weapons.
Postmaster's Treads now have stats more appropriate for clothwearers.
Crown of the Penitent effect made more appropriate for the quality and level of item.
Bloodlust Epaulets stats improved to the appropriate amount for the item's level and quality.
The effect of the Spirit of Aquamentas and Choker of Enlightenment has changed to a +damage and +healing of all spell schools effect.
Ramstein's Lightning Bolts effect reduced to 200 points of damage and a 10-yard radius.
Magister's Mantle, Robe, Belt, Crown, and Binding changed to include more stamina in lieu of spirit.
Gnomish earrings will no longer appear outside the Bloodlust Helm.
Deathstriker name changed to Felstriker.
The Lion Horn of Stormwind now properly gives AC to members of the party.
Priests can now use scrolls and the Heart of Noxxion while in Shadowform.
The costs of Enriched Manna Biscuits, Blessed Sunfruit, and Blessed Sunfruit Juice have been lowered to 60 silver per stack of five.
The buff effect of Blessed Sunfruit has been changed from Stamina to Strength.
Horn of the Arctic Wolf now correctly summons an arctic wolf (Instead of a light-gray one).
White Bandit Mask is now Uncommon and Bind on Equip.
Fixed a bug that was causing Judgement Sabatons to have two instances of Spirit.
Green Lens item can no longer call Stamina as one of its random properties. Existing Green Lens have not been changed.
Frenzied Striker is now Bind on Equip instead of Bind on Pick Up.
Sorcerer Sphere is no longer Warlock only.
Twilight Orb is no longer Warlock only.
Fixed a bug that was causing Dog Training Gloves to not be Bind on Pick Up.
Fixed a bug that was causing Thrash Blade, Flurry Axe, and Ironfoe to have an additional attack when the effect went off.
Fixed a bug on Gearforge Girdle (awarded by the Felwood quest, A Final Blow) that caused it to have more stats than it should. It no longer has +12 defense.
Shadowcraft Boots now have +21 Agility instead of +21 Intellect.
Fixed a bug with Jungle Remedy that was causing it to be on the non-combat potion timer of three seconds. It is now on the combat potion timer of two minutes.
Fixed a bug with Fist of Stone that caused it to have stats that it shouldn't have. Existing Fist of Stone items have not been changed.
Finkle's Skinner is now Main hand only.
Drop rates of gems have been increased at lower levels and decreased at higher levels.
Fixed a bug that was causing Outrunner's Cord to appear incorrectly on characters.
Fixed a bug that was causing Vosh'gajin's Strand to appear incorrectly on characters.
Fixed a bug that was causing Omokk's Girth Restrainer to appear incorrectly on characters.
Holy spell damage bonuses will no longer appear on random property items.
Silithus has been itemized.
Royal Seal of Alexis no longer drops off of Baron Bloodbane. It is now only obtainable via the quest Ramstein, no longer has a minimum level requirement, and is Bind on Acquire. Existing Royal Seal of Alexis items have not been changed.
16-slot bags are now set to Uncommon.
Razorlash Root should now restore mana as intended and should no longer apply the first aid debuff.
Re-worded tooltips on Shard of Afrasa and Demon's Blood to better explain their effects.
Changed the tooltip on random property items with the suffixes "of Concentration" and "of Regeneration" to more clearly state their effects.
Lunar Wands that drop should now have random properties.
Hurley Blackbreath's treasure table has been modified.
Rend's treasure table has been modified.
Goraluk Anvilcrack treasure table has been modified.
General Drakkisath treasure table has been modified.
Deathcharger's Reins can now be used by Tauren.
Items that periodically restore health and mana no longer show up in the combat log.
Vanquisher's Sword and Amberglow Talisman, the rewards for the quests Bring the Light (Alliance) and Bring the End (Horde), have been upgraded to be rare instead of uncommon.
Modified Crystal Charge, Crystal Force, Crystal Restore, Crystal Spire, Crystal Ward, and Crystal Yield to be on appropriate cooldown timers. Completing the Crystal Pylon quest to obtain them will now reward five each instead of three.
Mark of the Dragon Lord has had its visual changed to better fit its effect, and the tooltip has been corrected.