Cataclysm hotfixes for Jan. 3

It's been a little while, but we've finally got another round of hotfixes. The changes were pushed live and published to the official World of Warcraft blog. This time around, there were only a couple of class changes; the major chunk of hotfixes address various dungeons and raids, including the following:
- In Deadmines, the Foe Reaper 5000 will not cast Harvest on players more than 70 yards away.
- In Grim Batol, Trogg Dwellers that players cannot reach via legitimate means no longer award experience or loot when killed.
- In Throne of the Four Winds, players now receive credit for the achievements Heroic: Conclave of Wind or Throne of the Four Winds if they are dead when the encounter is defeated.
Take a look after the break for the full list of changes.
- Classes
- Mages
- Flame Orb and Frostfire Orb no longer break any version of Polymorph.
- Paladins
- Righteous Fury is now unable to be dispelled.
- The Strength bonus from the Retribution version of Guardian of Ancient Kings now applies its bonus based on total Strength instead of just base Strength.
- Mages
- Dungeons & Raids
- Bastion of Twilight
- It was sometimes possible for Arion to instantly Chain Lightning the targets affected by Lightning Rod, with no time for them to react. This has been corrected.
- If one of the three most distant targets from Ignacious was 20 or fewer yards away and Ignacious picked that target for Inferno Leap, the spell would fail entirely, but the cooldown would be consumed. Inferno Leap can now be cast on players 20 yards or fewer away from Ignacious.
- The Elementium Monstrosity will now prefer ranged targets to melee targets with its Electrical Instability beams. If there are more beams active then there are ranged targets present, then the beams will start hitting melee targets.
- Flame Destruction cast during the Cho'gall encounter now does approximately 30% more damage per stack on Heroic difficulty.
- Blackwing Descent
- Sonar Pulse is now spawned on top of Atramedes' current location and will spawn regardless of where Atramedes is tanked. In addition, Sonar Pulse now idles for 1 second after being cast before they move away from their spawn location.
- It is no longer possible to use immunities to reset a player's sound bar while fighting Atramedes.
- Atramedes' Sonic Breath now properly ignores line of sight.
- Spirit of Ironstar's Shield of Light was taking too long to break and now absorbs less damage.
- Deadmines
- Divine Shield prevents all damage from the Sparks in the Mechanical Nightmare.
- The Foe Reaper 5000 will not cast Harvest on players more than 70 yards away.
- Grim Batol
- Trogg Dwellers which cannot be reached by players via legitimate means no longer award experience or drop loot if killed.
- Lost City of the Tol'vir
- Lockmaw's Frenzied Crocolisks have learned how to swim! In addition, Vicious Poison was doing too much damage and has been reduced slightly.
- Throne of the Four Winds
- Players now receive credit for the achievements Heroic: Conclave of Wind or Throne of the Four Winds if they are dead when the encounter is defeated.
- It is no longer possible to fully resist Wind Burst from Al'Akir, avoiding all damage and knockback.
- Al'Akir's Static Shock has been changed from a damage-over-time spell with interrupts on ticks (10-second cooldown), to a direct-damage interrupt spell (5-second cooldown).
- Bastion of Twilight
- Items
- Bloodthirsty and Vicious Gladiator's Chain Gauntlets had incorrect bonuses attached. Their bonuses now correctly reduce the cooldowns on regular traps and launched traps by 2 seconds.
- Bloodied Wyrmhide Gloves no longer have any expertise rating on them, and now grant Spirit instead.
- Professions
- Archaeology
- Select Archaeology nodes and dig sites have been updated to ensure the Map listings are correct and the nodes properly spawn within the dig sites.
- Cooking
- The cooking daily quest Chef's Awards no longer have a limit to how many players can hold at one time. Please note that the user interface will still say a maximum of 10 Chef's Award currency can be possessed until a client-side patch can be applied, but players can accrue more than 10.
- Tailoring
- Tailors with 400 skill or higher should now receive additional cloth drops 50% of the time from anything that drops cloth, up from 25%.
- Archaeology
- PvP
- Baradin Guards now correctly attack Horde players which enter their aggro radius or attack them.
- Tol Barad now awards 360 Honor Points for winning as the attacking faction, down from 1800. Further details can be found on our forums.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Magma Jan 4th 2011 2:55AM
"Tailors with 400 skill or higher should now receive additional cloth drops 50% of the time from anything that drops cloth, up from 25%." Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssiiiiiirrr!
Rakah Jan 4th 2011 3:10AM
agreed
Nynaeve Jan 4th 2011 3:50AM
Hooray for cloth!!
Baba Jan 4th 2011 4:21AM
/craps pants
/runs to AH to burn excess stock
Noyou Jan 4th 2011 4:53AM
That's awesome. I hit 85 on my main and just hit 83 on 2 of my alts and do not have a whole lot of cloth to show for it. It's nice to know when I do start leveling my tailor he will be able to loot more cloth than my previous toons.
Possum Jan 4th 2011 6:46AM
"Flame Orb and Frostfire Orb no longer break any version of Polymorph."
Wooo *starts casting at random*
Possum Jan 4th 2011 6:47AM
Oh god I wish someone would hotfix this comment system!
Plaguewood Jan 4th 2011 8:07AM
Thank God!
MusedMoose Jan 4th 2011 8:06AM
Seriously grateful for this. Cloth drops have been so gorramn low, I was wondering which I'd hit first - level 85, or 500 in tailoring. @_@
Heilig Jan 4th 2011 8:51AM
What bothers me most is that it was already a 25% boost and I had no clue about it. No mention in-game, no skill like we have for Northrend.
This seems like the kind of thing that Blizzard should really make known to the players well before it requires a hotfix. Kind of like the way they didn't tell us about the living elements transmute pattern until people started noticing it for themselves.
If a game mechanic changes the expected behavior of something we take for granted, we should be notified in the game somehow.
Moorit Jan 4th 2011 10:21AM
@MusedMoose:
It took me hitting 85 on *two* characters plus my husband donating all his cloth to get me to 500 in tailoring. The amount of cloth you need to get to 525 is just staggering.
I wouldn't mind buying it on the AH at the current price if people would stop listing it one piece at a time.
Celwynn Jan 4th 2011 12:37PM
@Heilig: The ability is called cloth scavenging, or something similar. You learn it from your tailoring trainer at 400 skill. So that boost is something that you may have forgotten you had, but you did pay for it at one point :)
Keruna Jan 4th 2011 12:38PM
Thank god,
The cloth drop rate has been so low that I thought I'd never get enough -even with several of my alts sending all their drops to my tailor- to reach max level without spending tons on the AH.
Celwynn Jan 4th 2011 12:41PM
@Celwynn: Oops, nevermind, re-reviewed my research and I am wrong on this one. I thought this was just a part of the same skill and it carried over into Cataclysm. Carry on!
BigBadGooz Jan 4th 2011 1:07PM
His cloth just got
*takes off sunglasses*
soiled
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
MisterRik Jan 4th 2011 1:41PM
This is awesome. Even with two other toons sending all their Embersilk to my tailor, she still has only gotten to 471 skill.
Dan Jan 4th 2011 5:04PM
Does this mean stacks of cloth will finally drop below 160g each on my realm?
Basil Berntsen Jan 5th 2011 12:14AM
When they say "up from", are they implying that this was already in game?
David Jan 4th 2011 3:39AM
Fantastic, I just dropped tailoring for enchanting yesterday!
Ahh well. Paladin tailors arent too cool anyway.
RetPallyJil Jan 4th 2011 3:59AM
No, but I bet they're very stylish.