In-game fixes for March 26th, 2010

- The Endless Healing Potion is no longer usable in arenas as intended.
- Warlocks using a lower rank of Life Tap will receive a reduced benefit from their shadow spell power.
- The damage done by the cannons in the gunship encounter in Icecrown Citadel has been increased and the rate at which their heat decays has been reduced.
- In Alterac Valley, the buffs that the Generals get from the Warmasters and Marshals now grant them negative enemy dodge. This means they will now ignore some of their target's total dodge percentage. The base health of the Generals has been increased and the buff also grants a slightly increased amount of damage and health.
- The cheese items in Dalaran as well as the Kvaldir Berserkers in Icecrown will once again respawn at a faster rate.
- The window that comes up when talking to an NPC should no longer close on its own.
- Some changes to the battleground queuing system have been made to improve performance and group queuing.
- The timer for when the next battle in Wintergrasp will occur should no long disappear
There are a lot of other problems still with addons and the "loading screen boss." When those will be resolved fully is anybody's guess.
The entire list of hotfixes for this patch so far after the break.
- The Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player) meta achievement no longer requires Neck-Deep in Vile to be completed.
- For the Sindragosa encounter, Frost Breath cast under 35% HP no longer has a snare component and there are no longer diminishing returns on Taunt effects.
- The High Test Eternium Fishing Line now correctly adds +5 fishing skill.
- The Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat now applies the +75 fishing buff as intended.
- Transmuting Spellweave, Ebonweave, and Moonshroud items no longer places a buff on the player.
- The NPC Halthenis is properly appearing again which allowing Hunters to complete the Beast Training quest.
- Horde and Alliance Master Engineers should once again be able access the Auction House through Reginald Arcfire and Brassbolt Mechawrench respectively.
- Druids are able to use Swiftmend on targets that have received a rejuvenation from their 4-piece Tier 10 bonus as intended.
- Pyroblast should correctly benefit from Torment the Weak for players with the Molten Fury talent.
- The Warrior 4-piece Tier 10 bonus should now have the appropriate chance to proc.
- The Endless Healing Potion is no longer usable in arenas as intended.
- Warlock'
s using a lower rank of Life Tap will receive a reduced benefit from their shadow spell power. - The damage done by the cannons in the gunship encounter in Icecrown Citadel has been increased and the rate at which their heat decays has been reduced.
- In Alterac Valley, the buffs that the Generals get from the Warmasters and Marshals now grant them negative enemy dodge. This means they will now ignore some of their target's total dodge percentage. The base health of the Generals has been increased and the buff also grants a slightly increased amount of damage and health.
- The cheese items in Dalaran as well as the Kvaldir Berserkers in Icecrown will once again respawn at a faster rate.
- The window that comes up when talking to an NPC should no longer close on its own.
- Some changes to the battleground queuing system have been made to improve performance and group queuing.
- The timer for when the next battle in Wintergrasp will occur should no long disappear.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
dynamitecandyman Mar 26th 2010 11:42PM
guess theyre trying to eliminate AV zergs. boo
JoeRandom Mar 26th 2010 11:49PM
If that means no more AV blitzing, I'm all for it. AV Blitzing is lame², a BG without PVP? No thanks.
Bvannas Mar 26th 2010 11:50PM
I now think that there is a Cheese and Kvaldir Factory in Icecrown Somewhere.
Mike Mar 27th 2010 12:10AM
The cheese was for the Glowergold quest, it didn't respawn very often, leading to 10 or more people prowling around the cheese shop.
The Kvaldir were the ones on the boats that normally never stop spawning, but since the patch once you kill one small batch, they wouldn't respawn for 10 minutes. At first I thought they were trying to save server capacity, since not many people do thhose quests anymore, but apparently it was a bug.
Banaoil Mar 27th 2010 12:42AM
Cheese and Berserkers? This is a conspiracy. Obviously a connection with SI:7. I believe Elling Trias must have something to say about this, but if you ask him, he may kill you.
Tomatketchup Mar 27th 2010 3:38AM
IT'S A TRAP
Ozzard Mar 27th 2010 5:06AM
"New! Improved! Icecrown Cheese!
Made to a months-old recipe by trained Kvaldir.
Special Offer: Buy some now and cheese the Lich King encounter*
* Only available on Tarren Mill-EU server"
RogueJedi86 Mar 26th 2010 11:51PM
So Blizz is giving the AV Generals something that works like Armor Penetration for Dodge? That's sure to be confusing. What will we call it, Dodge Penetration?
nyctef Mar 26th 2010 11:55PM
Expertise :P
rnekovei Mar 26th 2010 11:59PM
Yes,
That's when the enemy dodges, you blink, and then promptly stab them.
Mortiseraphim Mar 27th 2010 6:33PM
AV radiance.
Warren Mar 27th 2010 12:13AM
i hate load screen boss!
Brian Broom Mar 27th 2010 12:25AM
I've been having consistent loading issues since the patch, but its not every time. It will fail to load sometimes, then alt-f4 and reenter usually works. Has there been any consensus as to what the issue might be? Is there any way to tell what addon things are hanging on?
Hoggersbud Mar 27th 2010 1:39AM
It's not as far as I know an addon, but some random something or other, as it's hitting far too many people with far too many different addons.
Lemons Mar 27th 2010 5:07AM
Only way to tell for sure would be to disable all your addons and if it still hangs then you can effectively rule out addons altogether and start complaining in earnest. I've been thinking of doing this myself, but haven't got around to it yet.
I don't know if I agree with Hoggersbud about the problem being too widespread for it to be an addon issue. There are certain addons pretty much everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, seems to have. DBM being one of them...Recount is another. It could that this patch has simply broken a very popular addon and that is why we're hearing all the griping.
Camo Mar 27th 2010 8:03AM
Hmm I had that problem too and I think it happens if you have too many addons.
Where you logged out might also be an issue. So dala isn't the addon friendliest place to stay.
What I did was to check load times with warmup (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info4939-Warmup.html), again tekkub (tm).
You need to enable it every time you reload because it disables itself or you can use /rlnd (reload no disable), to open the load times screen you need to type /wu.
You can scroll up and look which addons need the most time and look for smaller addons or dismiss those that you don't really need.
Jay Mar 27th 2010 8:29AM
There is talk on our server that there was a corrupt patch for some people a little back, this is now causing that issue. Many people on my server are saying that a repair fixes the problem. But that is just heresay right now. Worth a try I guess before you start messing with addons.
Matt Mar 27th 2010 9:20AM
It's not an addon as far as I can tell. Unfortunately when I hit the load screen "boss" all I have to do is back out, relog in, and I'm in game. In effect, a one shot kill. It may not be enough to warrant a fix at this time.
I disabled all of my addons last night and attempted to log in this morning and it still sat there until I had to exit out, relog in, and then I got into the game. Maybe it has something to do with the mobile authenticator on the main screen rather than a different screen? I dunno... just reaching.
dracoamericanus9 Mar 27th 2010 11:29AM
its not an addon. i had this problem on the PTR and i didn't copy over my addons. Blizz just wasn't listening to the PTR users i guess.
Hanak Mar 27th 2010 12:30PM
For me it, it works if I first go through another char than the one preselected.
IE if my main is selected when I get to the character selection screen, I mark an alt instead. After having marked the alt, I can properly mark and log into my main without getting stuck at the loading screen.