Patch 4.1 hotfixes for June 1
by Matthew Rossi 
Jun 2nd 2011 at 12:05AM
Don't make the mistake of thinking that because the patch 4.2 PTR is up that patch 4.1 won't see any changes, because today's round of hotfixes will teach you otherwise. Once again, Blizzard's Zarhym brings us a grocery bag of class, raid, and other fixes, including the following.
- Warlocks will no longer be able to give people the increased buff from Improved Demonic Tactics when they switch specs or otherwise lose the talent, and their Glyph of Imp will now not affect all warlock pets.
- Maloriak in BWD is now going to prefer to cast his Flash Freeze on ranged players and won't cast it on a player specced to tank. Tanks can still have it chained onto them, however.
- Bountiful Bags guild perk will no longer create more keystone items from archaeology finds.
- The goblin racial Best Deal Anywhere will now only work with vendors you have reputation with and won't stack with exalted guild reputation dealing with guild vendors.
June 1
Classes
Warlocks
Dungeons & Raids
Blackwing Descent
Throne of the Tides
Professions
Archaeology
PVP
Arenas
Battlegrounds
Races
Quests & Creatures
Gilneas
Genn Greymane should now always correctly enter The Battle for Gilneas City, ensuring the event won't sometimes stall during the final phase.
Classes
- Stationary ground effects should no longer move with the casting character if he or she moves (or is moved) from his or her current location.
Warlocks
- It is no longer possible under specific circumstances for players to keep the buff from the now-defunct Improved Demonic Tactics talent.
- Glyph of Imp should not be increasing the spell damage of all warlock pets by 20%.
Dungeons & Raids
Blackwing Descent
- Maloriak now prefers to cast Flash Freeze on caster targets more than 15 yards away. Tank-specialized characters are not targeted, but Flash Freeze can chain onto them. If all the characters in the raid stack up within 15 yards of the boss, they can be hit by Flash Freeze.
Throne of the Tides
- Unstable Corruptions now award much less experience when killed on normal difficulty.
- Shadows of Hakkar can no longer be reflected or deflected.
Professions
Archaeology
- The Bountiful Bags guild perk should no longer sometimes incorrectly reward Archaeologists with multiple keystones from dig sites.
- Players can no longer continue gaining Skinning skill points using low-level creatures below the intended skill threshold.
PVP
Arenas
- It should no longer be possible under specific conditions for the Matchmaking Value shown at the end of an Arena match to be incorrect.
Battlegrounds
- Several changes have been made to Battleground queuing to improve the flow for those who queue for random Battlegrounds versus those who queue for specific ones.
- The ability for players to retain a second queue for a Battleground after they've already entered one has been removed. Previously, players were able to queue for two Battlegrounds, have one queue pop and retain their second queue while they decided if they wanted to join the one that was ready. This is no longer the case. When a Battleground queue pops players will automatically be removed from all other active queues. To queue for a different Battleground it will be necessary to finish the match and queue again. This solves a design issue in that the old system gave players an opening to abandon their teammates if things weren't going as well as they'd hoped; and it also solves some queue system inconsistencies that were being caused as a side effect of how the old system functioned.
Races
- The goblin racial Best Deals Anywhere should now only be applying to vendors with associated reputations. It no longer incorrectly applies to vendors with no attached reputations, nor does it apply to flight path costs. (Note: the displayed costs for flight paths require a client-side patch to update and are not currently reflecting this racial change). In addition, it is no longer possible for goblin characters exalted with their guild to receive an extra discount on top of the exalted faction discount from guild vendors.
Quests & Creatures
Gilneas
Genn Greymane should now always correctly enter The Battle for Gilneas City, ensuring the event won't sometimes stall during the final phase.
WoW Patch 4.1 is live, and WoW Insider has all the latest news for you -- from guides of the revamped Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub to new valor point mechanics and new archaeology items.
Filed under: News items, Cataclysm, Hotfixes
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
poggg Jun 2nd 2011 12:22AM
Aww, now all our other pets won't do more damage with Firebolt.
...waitaminute
razion Jun 2nd 2011 4:16AM
Naw, those Felhunter firebolts were doing WAY too much dama--
...
... Wait a second here...
Sacul Jun 2nd 2011 6:15AM
I didn't really understand it either. The glyph likely increases all of the imp's damage. Since the imp only has 1 damaging spell it only applies to firebolt. If the glyph can affect other pets the damage of all their spells would be increased too, since it's not specific to firebolt.
PictoKong Jun 2nd 2011 12:24AM
The goblin racial Best Deal Anywhere will now only work with vendors you have reputation with, and won't stack with exalted guild reputation dealing with guild vendors.
There goes the usefulness of the racial...
Zapwidget Jun 2nd 2011 12:58AM
Right, because the only use for the racial was saving 20% on repair costs when using a repair bot >_>
The name is "Best Deals Anywhere." It is not "Extra 20% Off." The best deal at a vendor that offers no discount id the non-discounted price. Just because it happens to be the only deal doesn't disqualify it from being the best deal there, as there is no other deal that's better.
Cataca Jun 2nd 2011 9:33AM
No, the real usefulness was using it to buy items like the 7th guild bank slot, or the engineer motorcycle parts or the mats for the Vial of Sands etc.
Goblins will no longer get a few thousand gold discount from those vendors.
Sleutel Jun 3rd 2011 8:44AM
Figured it was only a matter of time before they fixed this--I'm glad I got my Sandstone Drake finished a couple of months ago.
Fernita Jun 2nd 2011 12:32AM
Oh good, the goblin racial goes from a great little non-combat perk to a penalty for being exalted with people, or at least a discouragement. Congratulations little Timmy, you've turned 13 and here's your presents, but first fork over an old possession in payment.
I suppose we'll just have to grin and bare it if that was the original intent, but good grief did I just ever lose the urge to bother with those already boring rep grinds...
Ametrine Jun 2nd 2011 12:40AM
The intent was for you to get the same discount you would as if you were Exalted with a faction, even if you weren't. It was never meant to stack with other discounts, nor give discounts for things that didn't not have an associated faction with which to get Exalted.
Amaxe Jun 2nd 2011 1:40AM
How the hell is it a penalty for automatically getting the exalted discount from factions?
My Draenei will swap his +5 JC bonus for your nerfed "Best Deals Anywhere" any time.
Eros Jun 2nd 2011 5:05AM
Really, BDA is just like Diplomacy in that once your exalted with the faction it serves no purpose.
Noyou Jun 2nd 2011 2:02PM
@Amaxe
The Draenei racial is actually +10 to JC now! And the only thing I can say is I had to waste time and gold getting it to 535 to qualify for the guild JC getting to max level :( So the bonus turned out to be a big fat penalty. I was among the many that hoped racials would all become on par with the Goblin and Worgen. Hopefully they can address those soon.
Necromann Jun 2nd 2011 12:39AM
I thought the acheology keystone bonus was intentional, guess not.
thebitterfig Jun 2nd 2011 12:45AM
Still, boo to any Archaeology nerfs.
slim1256 Jun 2nd 2011 8:29AM
Agreed - as if they needed to penalize Archaeologists.
"Woohooh, guys - you're having too much fun with that... better tone it down a little." :P
Scooter Jun 2nd 2011 9:22AM
I don't know, I'm kinda tired of getting 12 night elf keystones every node in Kalimdor. You cant even sell these things anymore on my sever.
Personally I wish they would make it easier for me to grab the last Rare of a particular race. I have every night elf artifact except one and I've picked up 2000 fragments with no results. THAT my friends is annoying especially when nearly the entire continent of Kalimdor is for Night Elf Artifacts.
Drahken Jun 2nd 2011 1:40PM
Awww. I liked getting three keystones at once.
melonarius Jun 2nd 2011 12:42AM
There goes my Mechano-hog profit.
melonarius Jun 2nd 2011 2:00AM
...and I just get my Vial of the Sands recipe today too.
Drahken Jun 2nd 2011 1:37PM
Profit? On a Mechano-hog? I made one to sell recently and couldn't get rid of it. I ended up having to sell it at a loss just to make back some of my money. Apparently no one wants to buy a ground mount for 12k.