Today in WoW: Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011

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Blue posts
August 4
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General
- Balloon pets can no longer be sold to vendors.
- Flight points in Outlands should correctly display for characters created after the release of patch 4.2.
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Classes
- Melee auto-attacks should properly trigger trinkets.
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Druids
- Primal Fury is correctly triggered when Rake gets a critical hit, and is putting an extra combo point on the target.
- Starfall should no longer strike targets with which the druid is not in combat.
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Hunters
- Burning Adrenaline is properly removing the focus cost of Arcane Shot.
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Rogues
- Mutilate should now properly trigger trinkets.
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Warriors
- Deep Wounds should no longer incorrectly apply double damage when certain buffs are present on the warrior.
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Dungeons & Raids
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Blackrock Spire
- The Scarshield Quartermaster is properly flagged as a quest NPC and not a rare spawn.
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Firelands
- Burning Orb attack range has been increased for the Majordomo Staghelm encounter.
- The criteria for the achievement Do a Barrel Roll! reset properly after a failed attempt on Alysrazor.
- Smoldering Essences are now properly applied to Firelands bosses and can be syphoned, even if the only raid member that is on step 13 of the legendary quest line dies during the encounter.
- Players should never get Rage of Ragnaros on Heroic difficulty. Rage of Ragnaros will only be given on normal difficulty if someone on the legendary quest line has 250 shards. Heart of Flame should always be given on Heroic difficulty, even if a player doesn't have Rage of Ragnaros, but does have 250 shards.
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Icecrown Citadel
- The Val'kyr will again despawn after the Lich King reaches 10% health. If they are in the process of carrying a player, they will first drop them to the ground before leaving.
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Zul'Farrak
- Player should no longer be unable to open the gates to complete the dungeon due to NPC allies dying during the troll invasion event.
- The Zul'farrak Zombies and Skeletons of Zum'rah, associated with Witch Doctor Zum'rah, now clean up properly when the encounter is reset or the boss dies.
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Blackrock Spire
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Items
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Item Sets
- The Burning Treant and Fiery Imp pets summoned by the Balance druid and warlock tier-12 sets now have reduced damage taken from area-of-effect spells, consistent with other combat pets.
- The Smoldering Rune buff from the death knight tier-12 2-piece set bonus is now properly cleared off of the character if he/she does not have the set bonus the next time it ticks for runic power.
- The Spirit buff gained from the 4-piece priest tier-11 set will be lost if the priest casts any spell or uses any ability while not wearing the set.
- The warrior tier-12 4-piece damage-dealing set bonus is now properly activating, even if a Mortal Strike or Raging Blow attack is fully absorbed.
- The weapon speed of the Masterwork Elementium Deathblade has been reduced to 3.5, down from 3.8.
- Ricket's Magnetic Fireball now shares a burst cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
- Unheeded Warning now grants 1926 attack power, instead of 680 weapon damage.
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Item Sets
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PvP
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Strand of the Ancients
- Stampeding Roar (druid spell) no longer grants a speed boost to Demolishers.
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Strand of the Ancients
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Quests & Creatures
- Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
- Molten Lords should no longer stay tapped by the first player who damages them while on the bombing run for the quest Fire in the Skies.
Quote:
I can't seem to find a blue post on this...
Casino's seem to have proliferated on my server and they are as annoying as hell, not to mention obnoxious when these people try to relieve kids of their gold who have no idea how probability/chance works. Am I wasting my time reporting these sp(sc)ammers?
Thanks for any info.
I can't seem to find a blue post on this...
Casino's seem to have proliferated on my server and they are as annoying as hell, not to mention obnoxious when these people try to relieve kids of their gold who have no idea how probability/chance works. Am I wasting my time reporting these sp(sc)ammers?
Thanks for any info.
Though I believe it's been covered I wanted to clarify: Using any method of communication in-game to advertise a casino or other form or gambling would be a violation of our policies. This includes /yell, /say and /whisper.
You may otherwise run or participate in one in-game as long as in doing so you are not violating other policies (i.e. spamming, scamming, etc...).
I think Eilethalua has the particulars pretty well covered.
WoW news from other sites
- Wowhead News Hotfixes (July 19-Aug. 15)
- MMO-Champion WoW Lost 300k Subscribers, Patch 4.3 this year, BlizzCon 2011 Tickets, Blue Posts
- The OverAchiever: Mountain O' Mounts and the Argent Tournament
- WoW Insider's chronological guide to Warcraft novels, manga, comics, and short stories
- Cataclysm Post-Mortem: Deepholm
- Gold Capped: Inventory balancing in TradeSkillMaster
- 15 Minutes of Fame: Knitting together a gaming life
- WoW Rookie: How to record game footage on a Mac
- Scattered Shots: Yes, beast mastery can raid
- World of WarCrafts: How to make Lynnora's decorative Horde pendant
- The Queue: Panda-free
- Addon Spotlight: Adding on to the Blizzard Raid Frames
- Valve leak
- Game of Thrones RPG (NSFW/Kingslayer + Cersei)
- Infinity Blade temporarily on sale
- Catherine sold 200,000 units this week
- FF Tactics release on the iPhone; iPad coming later
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David Aug 4th 2011 10:02PM
That Game of Thrones RPG made me LOL.
MusedMoose Aug 4th 2011 10:19PM
Seconded. Dear gods, that was hilarious.
Teaspoon Aug 4th 2011 10:13PM
temporar*i*ly
FF Ta*c*tcis
Yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
Zapwidget Aug 4th 2011 10:24PM
You know what's even sadder than trying to correct somebody else's typos?
Failing at it.
Teaspoon Aug 6th 2011 3:30AM
At the time my comment was written the article had those words spelled "temporaraly" and "FF Tatics", so the corrections I was asking for have been made. I'm not sure how this means I "failed at it". Perhaps it would be helpful if WoW Insider staff deleted the typo-correction posts when they were making the corrections so that people reading the comment later wouldn't bitch, moan and downrate.
Zapwidget Aug 8th 2011 5:18AM
What exactly is a a tactcis?
I suppose that instead of being comical about it I could have taken the low road, you know, the road you took, and blatantly pointed out that if you are going to be a pedantic asshat then the least you could do is correct correctly. It had nothing to do with you pointing out the typos, and everything to do with your haughty attitude in claiming to be "one of THOSE guys," whoever THEY are, and making a mistake identical to the one you were claiming to correct.
In closing, you know what's even worse than trying to defend yourself against my snark?
Failing at it.
David Aug 5th 2011 1:36AM
I don't know if this means anything at all, but judging from past experience the PTR Character Copy only comes up a short time before the PTR comes up.
Was randomly thinking of the PTR and decided to download the client, tried to copy a character, it let me choose my character, choose the Test Realm I want, and even said it was a success.
(If this does mean nothing just down-rate me into oblivion.)