Breakfast Topic: What details did you notice in 2.3?
by David Bowers 
Nov 17th 2007 at 8:58AM
For my part, In the time just before and after Patch 2.3, I was busy working on the Netherwing quests in southeastern Shadowmoon Valley. I was having a great time with them, but a few things annoyed me. As a hunter, my pet wouldn't despawn properly when I summoned the temporary dragon mount that shows up whenever you go to do your daily quests on Netherwing Ledge. Sometimes, when my mount would change from a gryphon to a dragon in mid-flight, and my pet would fall to his death in the chasm below. This has now been fixed! Also I noticed then that everyone who was sitting on their Netherwing mounts on the ground was sitting a little bit tilted off to the side, and now everyone is sitting straight up again! Finally, the Netherwing mounts now trail their glowing nether energy effect as you fly around with them, and it's quite pretty.
Yes, that's a lot of Netherwing details, I know. But all of us notice the changes we happen to be focusing on at the moment, right? What were you focusing on, and what little things did you notice on patch day?
Filed under: Breakfast Topics, Quests, Mounts, Patches
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Shintar Nov 17th 2007 9:11AM
Disguises stack with shadowform now! It used to be that things like turning into a human in Old Hillsbrad or the Halloween wands would cancel shadowform, which made me sad because it meant that I could never join into the costuming fun in raids if I wanted to stay effective. Last night in AV a random stranger gave me a ninja costume... and I become a shadow ninja! Can't wait to run Old Hillsbrad like that.
kabes Nov 17th 2007 9:14AM
My Spectral Tiger mount now does a cool ghostly roar every time you press the jump button while standing still.
Zach Nov 17th 2007 9:16AM
My favorite little thing with 2.3 were the tooltip changes to Combat Mana Potions. It used to be a nightmare figuring out which stack (I keep 4 stacks of 10) I had depleted since they all had the same name and icon. It was a game of trial and error figuring which Mana Potion I was using for which Battleground. It's much easier now:
"An old bootleg recipe from the Arathi Basin farm."
"Extracted from the frozen waters of Alterac Valley."
"Sifted from the twisting nether of the Eye of the Storm."
"Distilled only within the hollow log of Warsong Gulch."
It's a small touch Blizzard really should have thought of in the beginning. Better late than never.
René Nov 17th 2007 9:17AM
The animation of the Apexis Relics around Orgi'la has been changed slightly. It will display a bright circle now when it's your turn to click the colors.
Clink Nov 17th 2007 9:31AM
Gnome females have larger shoulders and more importantly larger casting particles.
For example the fire surrounding your hands is bigger when you cast a fire spell, and the shield that pops over your head is bigger when you cast an armor spell. They are now equal to male gnomes in the respect and no longer have super tiny casting effects!
sirotrax Nov 18th 2007 12:17AM
Female Gnome shoulders are larger. :(
xzor Nov 17th 2007 10:09AM
the global cooldown change.
i also consider it interesting that wowinsider has chosen not to cover the biggest mess up blizzard has made in recent memory, considering the 3000+ post thread in the forums regarding the topic.
baudkarma Nov 17th 2007 10:15AM
The world map pulses red on the borders if you're attacked while you're looking at it.
And the L70 Elite Tauran Chieftan up on the balcony in Silvermoon. You can /wave and they'll wave back, /cheer... I'm still figuring out what other remotes they respond to.
David Bowers Nov 17th 2007 10:24AM
All these are really neat things I mostly hadn't noticed. With regard to #6's comment though, we have a long post coming up today about the global cooldown issue -- it's certainly not a "little detail."
Scott_D Nov 17th 2007 10:41AM
The hit box on the mail box in front of the org bank is smaller, its the only one I have tried but its damn annoying.
Slayblaze Nov 17th 2007 10:58AM
The ground foliage (ground "clutter" in the options) no longer 'pops' into view 20 yards in front of you while moving through wooded areas such as Felwood for example. This has bugged me since day 1 because that shouldn't happen when all graphic options are maxed out. It does still happen actually, but its waaaaaay far out almost to the horizon now, and barely noticeable.
Foxtir Nov 17th 2007 11:26AM
The little text in the chatbox that used to say you were getting tipsy, drunk, smashed etc now telling everyone exactly WHAT you were getting drunk from.
mike Nov 17th 2007 12:22PM
On my computer at least, enchanting/base item glows have gotten almost ridiculous. I don't mind, my Staff of Polarities looks like a black hole while I'm in shadowform.
Hollywood Ron Nov 17th 2007 12:23PM
Consecrate no longer shows up as a glowy circle on the ground.
Mir Nov 17th 2007 4:11PM
The class colors on the guild tab was a pleasant surprise, as well as the new sparkly hilight on herbs.
Skarlette Nov 17th 2007 1:39PM
On my priest I've noticed that the aura around me when I'm shielded sometimes disappears several seconds before the buff actually expires. I have to look at the icon up top with my other buffs to see if it's still working.
vlad Nov 18th 2007 2:40PM
Alliance ships now have a crew on board with food and water vendors and a repair vendor.
the happy part is that ships in water now bob and sway with the wayer.
Lori Nov 17th 2007 2:48PM
With the new gold ! on the minimap over available quests I have found new quests I missed before.
Katamarann Nov 17th 2007 3:04PM
The one thing that reeeeeally ticks me off, which is most noticeable in BG's, is that when you kill someone, the auto-select for the next person to go after defaults to whatever pet is nearest. Whether it's a lock's demon or a hunter's pet, it will skip the 5 people right in front of me to target the pet on the other side of the crowd. I have to hit tab multiple times to find a real character to target, and half the time, it just keeps going back and forth between pets. REALLY annoying, and has resulted in some bad pulls from pets not even interested in me.
Erixx Nov 17th 2007 3:45PM
Just noticed this last night (thought it was a bug) but the npc that previously stood between the two docks leading to the lifts in southern barrens (The Great Lift), was moved to the bottom of the lift, likely so alliance can travel south onto the lift and not get attacked/flagged by him just trying to get there.