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by Adam Holisky 
Mar 26th 2010 at 11:30PM
Bornakk - In-game fixes- 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.
Bornakk- 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 3 of 3)
PeeWee Mar 28th 2010 4:15AM
Meh, a few ticks of Siphon'ed Corruption and we're fully healed anyway.
Robert Mar 27th 2010 3:27AM
"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."
All I have to say is "about @#$!ing time." The Alterac Blitz was supposed to be hard, not so faceroll easy that it was just about the only strategy used for the last two months.
Possum Mar 27th 2010 3:57AM
Wait... is AV supposed to be a battleground??? I thought it was a raid!
Nathanyel Mar 27th 2010 5:31AM
Why always dodge? Why not give the bosses a +hit, or a generic ignore of "avoidance"? Because unless these values are rather minimal, this will affect bears the most, once again. Seriously, how much dodge does a warrior or paladin have?
staffan.johansson Mar 27th 2010 6:16AM
Dodge is targeted because it's the only avoidance stat all tanks have. DKs don't have block, and Druids lack both block and parry. So if they want to reduce avoidance by 10 percentiles on a boss, they have to reduce Dodge.
As for how much dodge a paladin or warrior has, Paragon's (the guild who downed Heroic Lich King 25-man) paladin tank has 27.55% dodge (according to armory). I'm guessing a tank ready to enter ICC would have somewhat less, but still more than 20%, which means they'll feel the full force of Chill of the Throne.
mark Mar 27th 2010 6:27AM
as with the icecrown aura people have this wrong again
druids dont just have only dodge - we have less avoidance total - and more HP and a tiny bit more armour
but its not what you do have that matters as a tank - its what you dont
made up stats to demonstrate:
OP pala on 80% avoid - damage taken 20%->40% in ICC = 100% more taken
squishier druid on 60% dodge - damage taken 40%->60% in ICC = 50% more taken
we use less avoidance so its less of a nerf
less of a +X% to what we take
it actually makes it more even
Philip Mar 27th 2010 9:50AM
The latest patch has destroyed battleground queues even more than before.
I waited in a 30 minute queue for WSG last night. AT LEVEL 80 people.
For whatever reason, when they changed the queuing to only 2 bg's at a time, it's been downhill ever since.
Blizz, please stop "improving" battlegrounds.
Bronwyn Mar 27th 2010 12:00PM
I don't know if this has been fixed yet- they don't say specifically in the hotfix, but for what it's worth there was(is?) a bug where people who queue for specific bgs aren't getting thrown in with the people who queue for randoms. I imagine this will improve.
Soulink Mar 27th 2010 1:42PM
That's not Blizzard, that's your BG. Every single BG, morning, noon, evening on my Battlegroup, I que up, I got something in 5 minutes doing the dual que.
If you're that bent out of shape or the people on your group are that they're refusing to que than it's their problem. The tools are being provided. How and when people use them is something Blizzard can't control initially till longer testing has been done.
At least they TRY to improve there implementations as well. They can always give us WSG as is and tell us to deal with it. People will still play.
Al Mar 27th 2010 2:27PM
I don't know if it's intended or a bug, but amongst the vehicle quest changes is a mildly frustating one. The Bone Gryphon's poison (Ebon Blade daily) now also acts as a strong knock-back. So either kite and turn them around, or spend some time mount-dropping to water or cliff-sides to loot and convert them.