Patch 4.2.0 hotfixes for Aug. 10, 2011

Chief amongst them are:
- If a player is kicked by vote from a Dungeon Finder group, the leader of the group is no longer able to invite that player back.
- Several creatures in the Firelands are no longer susceptible to snares or other immobilizing effects.
- Eternal Embers are now epic quality.
- Heirloom items can be once again linked in chat.
Classes
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Death Knights
- Applicable death knight abilities are now using the correct amount of resources (and putting them on cooldown) when there are 4 Death Runes available and the Unholy Runes are depleted.
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Druids
- Druids that shapeshift will now clear the Potion of Illusion buff.
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Mages
- Combustion damage from Ignite is no longer penalized by Resilience more than once, nor can it gain double benefit from Flashburn (mastery).
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Dungeon Finder
- If a player is kicked by vote from a dungeon finder group, the leader of the group is no longer able to invite that player back.
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Firelands
- Rogue Smoke Bombs cannot prevent the spawning of Magma Traps during the fight against Ragnaros.
- Several creatures in the Firelands are no longer susceptible to snares or other immobilizing effects.
- Unbound Pyrelords, Unbound Smoldering Elementals, Unbound Blazing Elementals, and Patriarch Fire Turtles now drop silver instead of gold.
- The Recently Mass Resurrected debuff is correctly being applied to players who are in the process of logging out of the game.
- Brawler's Trophy and Core of Ripeness cannot be active at the same time as each other, or other burst trinkets.
- Eternal Embers are now epic quality.
- Heirloom items can once again be linked in chat.
- Creating a macro to use the Runestaff of Nordrassil multiple times will only trigger the use once.
- Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
- The Burning Treants summoned by the Druid of the Flame now disappear when the summoner is captured.
- 3 different elementals spawn on any given day for the Death From Above achievement, up from 1.
The post's artwork is from the latest WoW TCG, and it's awesome.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Arrohon Aug 10th 2011 11:41PM
"3 different elementals spawn on any given day for the Death From Above achievement, up from 1."
That a chief hotfix? It by theory made an achievement three times easier to get! FL mobs being immune to snares is quite boring in comparison unless some of those mobs were bosses (which I doubt)
Bludstorm Aug 11th 2011 12:12AM
As someone who has waited 2 weeks for just Hatespark, I am fine with this change.
thegatherer Aug 11th 2011 12:16AM
I have been doing this quest for as long as its been available.. and I still need two of the elementals!
Thank you Blizzard Gods!!!!
Gennifurfur Aug 11th 2011 12:24AM
Well I'm 2 short, but mostly because I stopped doing dailies once I unlocked everything. This might make me go back in there if chances are good that it will only take a couple days.
trefpoid Aug 11th 2011 12:54AM
Blizzard had mercy on our souls!! The RNG was a bitch.. at least if we got the bombing quest everyday it would be so bad.. but every other day? and sometimes every 3 days? no.. that was way too evil. I appreciate this, now my GF will be a Flamebreaker too :)
Skarn Aug 11th 2011 2:22AM
Easily the best fix of the lot!
Finally finished my meta today. Yay!
razion Aug 10th 2011 11:45PM
I'm happy for the kick change--while I was fortunate to never be part of a group where I wish this sort of change was in place, I can see why it was needed and how it could have been abused.
Avan Aug 11th 2011 3:37AM
I, on the other hand, am most disappointed with it's removal. Some of my guildmates don't have the best internet connection, so they'll occasionally disconnect while we're doing LFD. In my experience, other random players will attempt to kick my disconnected guildmates, even though they've been offline for less than 15 seconds. Sometimes, regardless that I explained they WILL be back online momentarily, the kick passes. And then I ask for lead to be passed to me, if I don't already have it, and reinvite them. They might not get their VPs for the run, but at least they'll be able to roll for maelstrom crystals and the chaos orb.
Now? Now I'm going to have to say, "good job for not reading chat before blindly voting to kick, nitwits." And then I'll have to either drop group to continue running with my guildmate, or tell them to suffer a 45 minute dps queue while I finish the run.
hyasenwow Aug 11th 2011 5:50AM
Except that an offline player must be offline for 60 seconds before they can be kicked.
Jerks aside, in my experience most people are understanding about an occasional DC. But if it's happening frequently, you have to look at it from the other side, too.
Angus Aug 11th 2011 8:06AM
I was in a mood and queued as DPS on my paladin a few days ago. The tank sat the boss in the bad stuff and never moved, the rogue and I had to either accept eating a ton of damage or not DPS the boss. The rogue died because the healer (a guildmate of the tank) said "don't stand in bad" The rogue asked the tank to please move the boss. The healer then refused to heal the DPS, at all. Any of us.
We kicked him.
The tank brought him back.
We kicked the tank. The healer was the group leader.
he brought him back.
I healed the DPS through the rest of the run. While the healer mocked us.
The only rewarding thing was when the run end both of them were like "Hey, what happened to our VP?!"
elzogo Aug 10th 2011 11:46PM
I'm glad to see they fixed Combustion for the fire mages out there. Now Combustion will hit like a truck... a truck on FREAKING fire!
Zelph Aug 10th 2011 11:47PM
Out of curiosity, where did the paladin art work came from?
Adam Holisky Aug 10th 2011 11:58PM
WoW TCG. For some reason my credit line didn't save in the post -- been having backend issues all day with the CMS. Included it now, though.
StClair Aug 11th 2011 3:23AM
You're right, it IS awesome. :)
mewmaniac9999 Aug 11th 2011 8:57AM
Is there by any chance a link to the full version of this artwork? I poked around on the TCG gallery the other day, but didn't see it.
DrSlump Aug 13th 2011 1:19AM
The card is "Favor of the Light" from the "Twilight of the Dragons" set. It is indeed a very cool looking piece of art. That's one pally you don't want to mess with. D:
Animaneth Aug 10th 2011 11:50PM
I'm waiting for them to fix the 2pc t12 mage bonus... The image behaves like the old agressive mode for pets...
g2g591 Aug 10th 2011 11:50PM
"Druids
Druids that shapeshift will now clear the Potion of Illusion buff."
NOoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! explictives!!!! That just totally ruined potion of illusion for 2/3rds of druids (resto doesn't shapeshift) . I had soo much fun using it during raids and dungeons. Oh, and also flight form while potion of illusioned as random people in Orgrimmar made it look like I was fly hacking (swimming in midair), that was fun too.
Snuzzle Aug 11th 2011 1:14AM
Blizzard just loves to nerf fun :(
Fletcher Aug 11th 2011 5:10AM
Strangely enough, *my* response was elation. But then I really don't like druids.