Patch 5.4 patch notes
Virtual Realms feature revealed
The Proving Grounds are coming
The latest patch 5.4 newsPatch 3.3.5 known issues
by Adam Holisky 
Jun 22nd 2010 at 5:57PM
- Performing the /eat emote while dancing as a male Blood elf can cause some very unnatural character movement.
- Pit of Saron - Scourgelord Tyrannus can remount Rimefang during the encounter.
- The last remaining player in a random instance group can miss out on Random Dungeon loot.
- Players from different servers can't trade dungeon items necessary to progress through the dungeon.
- The Twilight Orbs periodically disappear during Phase 2 of the Halion encounter.
- It is possible for a level 70 to receive the Wrathful Gladiator's Tabard.
- You cannot get the "Call To Arms" Achievement through the Looking for Battleground feature.
- Mage Summon Water Elemental does not fully function as a permanent pet when glyphed with Glyph of Eternal Water.
The complete list after the break.
World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.3.5 Known Issues This is a listing of some of the known issues for World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.5.
General Issues
Battle.net
Dungeons & Raids
Items
PvP
Classes
- This list is not complete, and will not include all issues.
- The issues listed here are frequently reported issues that will be addressed at a later date via a client patch.
General Issues
- Changing a character's model during a weapon swing will result in your off-hand weapon disappearing.
- The proc on Deathbringer's Will causes shapeshifted female tauren druids to change fur colors.
- Shoulder armor does not attach correctly to Blood Elf Male characters.
- Players have the Shattered Sun Staging Area available as a taxi destination before having gone to the Isle of Quel'danas or reaching the appropriate level.
- Gender specific titles are affected by spells that change a character's gender.
- Performing the /eat emote while dancing as a male Blood elf can cause some very unnatural character movement.
- Achievement Criteria for Call in the Cavalry resets after logging.
- Casting Levitate while standing on top of a chest after it disappears will cause the player to disconnect.
- The attachment point for shoulders on female Tauren appear to be rotated too far forward.
- You are not able to gain the buff from "Drums of the Forgotten kings" if you have a blessing from a paladin currently active.
Battle.net
- The Last Online time in the Friends List does not dynamically update.
- It is possible to have 2 or more windows of the same conversation open.
- Clicking on Broadcast toast from a RID friend that has been removed from your friends list will cause a Lua error.
Dungeons & Raids
- Pit of Saron - Scourgelord Tyrannus can remount Rimefang during the encounter.
- The last remaining player in a random instance group can miss out on Random Dungeon loot
- Icecrown Citadel - Kinetic Bombs will occasionally spawn outside of the encounter area.
- Players from different servers can't trade dungeon items necessary to progress through the dungeon.
- Ambassador Hellmaw is invisible while affected by Banish.
- Frostwing Whelp's will aggro players who stand next to the wall on the upper ledge of The Frost Queen's Lair.
- The Twilight Orbs periodically disappear during Phase 2 of the Halion encounter.
- Halion has an incorrect attachment point for Hunter's Mark.
Items
- It is possible for a level 70 to receive the Wrathful Gladiator's Tabard.
- Abacus of Violent Odds cannot be rolled 'Need' upon by rogues.
- Charred Twilight Scale and Sharpened Twilight Scale is proccing off of reflected damage.
- Replacing an existing enchantment with High Test Eternium fishing line displays the replacement enchant as "+2 Fishing"
PvP
- It is possible for boats to not phase out completely upon the start of round two in Strand of the Ancients.
- You cannot get the "Call To Arms" Achievement through the Looking for Battleground feature.
- Orgrimmar Arena: It is possible for players to get their pets stuck on the large pillars in the Orgrimmar Arena.
- Heart of the Phoenix's cooldown is not being displayed correctly when used in arena.
- Both airships in the Isle of Conquest do not have icons that appear on the game map.
Classes
- Hunter
- The tooltip for all of the Hunter's trap spells state that only one trap can be used at a time. [ul]
- Pet talent stat modifications are not being reflected in the Player Sheet.
- Mage
- Different ranks of Arcane Empowerment will display additional buffs on Mages in the same group.
- Mage Summon Water Elemental does not fully function as a permanent pet when glyphed with Glyph of Eternal Water.
- Paladin
- The Paladin mount Warhorse is not granting credit towards the achievement Stable Keeper.
- Warlock
- Infernals summoned by the Warlock's Inferno spell are not being summoned at full health.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 12)
Usdom Jun 22nd 2010 8:14PM
I made this just for blizzard. Here is what we all expect at this point.
http://worldofwarcraft.mmocluster.com/img_achievements/1198832_8b56326d7f0bb6cd93fa7bbd5d1def3f.jpg
bdaneila Jun 22nd 2010 6:06PM
The main issue with Patch 3.3.5 seems to be that yet again the maintenance has been broked up and has had to be extended until 4pm Pacific.
Fail.
Piraka Jun 22nd 2010 6:33PM
What's fail is your use of the word broked.
SamLowry Jun 22nd 2010 7:02PM
What's fail is that Blizzard's had 13 hours to work on the servers and at 7pm, EST, they're still down.
Applying a bug-ridden patch during a holiday? Are they really that stupid?
ltdigg Jun 22nd 2010 7:10PM
now we are add another hour of waiting...FAIL
Servetus Jun 22nd 2010 7:25PM
@SamLowry, Blizzard is not stupid. They are a bit arrogant, honestly. (I'm sure the fanbois will vote me down for saying that, but it's the absolute truth. I have known, personally known, like in real life, four people who have worked or are still working for Blizzard. It's a very Apple-like bunch. They are completely convinced that they are extremely smart, smarter than you and I, and it does lead to a wee touch of arrogance. I'm guessing that developing the world's most successful PC games will do that to you.)
Anyway, as has been mentioned elsewhere, the impending release of Starcraft II forced Blizzard into taking Real ID live. Clearly, it wasn't ready yet. But they simply did not have a choice. They'd committed to this cross-game chat capability and the first title out the door to have it is almost on shelves. Ergo, time for WoW to get it. /shrug
I'm wondering what the urgency for cross-game chat was. Is it that Blizzard fears SC2 will pull players from WoW, and they want to give that "Big Blizzard World" feeling, so that people keep their WoW subs active even when playing SC2? What's driving this? I can only speak for myself, but I've never once cared what someone is doing on a server other than the one I'm logged in to at the moment.
So it's time to watch TV. Or, actually, in my case play a little LOTRO. Remember, folks, TRUE addicts have a backup game!
Kaylek Jun 22nd 2010 7:36PM
Their want for cross game chatting comes from Activision wanting Battle.net to compete with Xbox Live (which has cross game chatting). So, Battle.net must have Xbox Live has. I wonder if we can expect to see a community arcade down the line too.
SamLowry Jun 23rd 2010 1:24PM
You'd think a bollixed patch like this one would erode some of that arrogance--especially if Blizzard would actually impose some punishments on programmers who screw up so badly.
It's rather astonishing to go back and read the account in Levy's "Hackers" about how Steve Jobs found a 15-second startup time for the prototype Mac to be completely unacceptable, and would harangue the programmers about how each wasted second would force millions of Mac users to just sit there, staring at a blank screen, wasting precious seconds of their life each and every day until the computer was finally functional. Only ten seconds was good enough, and he kept at them until they indeed got it down to ten.
I'm assuming Bill Gates never had that conversation with his programmers.
NobleArc, The Lazy Canadian Jun 22nd 2010 6:05PM
Oh yeah, so now my Glyph of Eternal Water is useless. I just wish I could log in at all, now it's saying that it'll be 4 PM 'til maintenance is done. Possibly.
Zhiva Jun 22nd 2010 6:16PM
Don't worry, nothing changed - it always was that way.
Sleutel Jun 22nd 2010 6:41PM
Without actually seeing what's going on, this appears to simply be an articulation of the issues that have been appearing since the glyph was introduced (e.g., the pet doesn't disappear when you mount).
fish Jun 22nd 2010 6:06PM
it's patch day, you know it's gonna be a long one.
TR Jun 22nd 2010 6:10PM
Yep. They just did an update to the ETA: They're now shooting for 4 PM PDT instead of 3 PM PDT.
TR Jun 22nd 2010 6:21PM
My bad. It's not an ETA at all. It just says they'll provide another update at 4 PM EDT. Kinda saves them the "oops" of having said it'll be up if it's still down at 4:30 PM EDT.
Daethar Jun 22nd 2010 6:31PM
See, Blizzard, this is what happens when you take the scorchling pet out of the game! Everything goes haywire!
I'm sure if you put the little pet back, all these issues will be fixed.... yes... >.>
naseem jones Jun 22nd 2010 6:05PM
how do you know this issues exist when we cant even log on to the game?
TR Jun 22nd 2010 6:07PM
That's another known issue they're working on. :)
Aslives4hockey Jun 22nd 2010 6:08PM
This is pretty pathetic, why launch a patch with bugs that can be game breaking to many people. I really thought Blizzard was beyond the point of releasing half-baked patches.
Marky Jun 22nd 2010 6:18PM
I agree, it's pretty pathetic. I've been saying for a while now it's time Blizzard started laying out some corporate standards and sticking to them like the other businesses in their industry do. They produce some great stuff, but to be completely honest the developers and community managers act like spoilt children far too often. Clear timelines need to be established and Blizzard employees need to learn how to follow them WITHOUT a hundred bugs.
This is just disgraceful.
Magma Jun 22nd 2010 6:35PM
They have no choice due to starcraft launching in a week. B.net needed to be up and running. Obviously it doesn't help that they waited so long before even doing this patch.