The realms will be coming down for an extended maintenance on the morning of December 10 to apply patch 5.4.2. The major new features of this patch are the cross-realm raid browser and cross-realm mailing of account-bound items. Also added in this patch is the jet-powered Iron Skyreaver mount, the source of which remains a mystery.

You will find the cross-realm raid browser in the raid tab of your social screen by clicking the "Other Raids" button. Here you will be able to list yourself as looking for a group for Siege of Orgrimmar flexible raids or Pandaria world bosses. Cross-realm mailing works for account-bound items only and won't work for gold or other items. To mail something to a character of yours on another realm, simply send the mail in the following format: CharacterName-RealmName.

Hit the break for the latest version of the patch notes.

Rygarius

World of Warcraft Patch 5.4.2

Classes

• Mage
  • Talents
    • Temporal Shield's healing should now be correctly modified by effects that affect healing (Battle Fatigue, Mortal Strike, Dampening).
• Warrior
  • General
    • Intervene no longer removes movement-impairing effects on use. The talent Safeguard will continue to remove movement-impairing effects.
    • Improved checks on pathing for Intervene and Safeguard to address situations where Warriors may wind up under the terrain.

Quests

• Catch and Carry: Druids can no longer attempt to catch Sacks of Grain while in flight form.
• Lost Treasure: Resolved an issue where players may be unable to open Cache of the Legion.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

• Cross-Realm raid browser now has new categories for Mists of Pandaria World Bosses (Celestials and Ordos) and Flexible raid difficulty for Siege of Orgrimmar.
  • The cross-realm raid browser is accessed through the 'Social Pane' (bound to the O key by default) and look for the 'Raid' tab on the bottom right.
  • From there you can set the character as looking to join a raid or browse players that are forming up for a raid.
  • For more information on this change, please see the thread titled Cross-Realm Raid Browser on the PTR Discussion forum.
• Players are now able to place raid markers in the world even while dead.
• Siege of Orgrimmar
  • Norushen
    • Resolved a situation where Quarantine Measures may sometimes fail to destroy all life within the Quarantine Zone.
  • Galakras
    • Resolved a situation that may cause demolition NPCs to stop opening the door to one of the towers.
  • Paragons of the Klaxxi
    • Resolved an issue where players may fail to gain Hisek the Swarmkeeper's special ability if they were in the middle of casting a spell while interacting with his corpse.

Items

• Players are now able to mail account-bound items to other characters that reside on a different realm on the same account. To send cross-realm mail: enter the character's name, followed by a hyphen "-", followed by the realm name. Note that cross-realm mail can only send account-bound items, not other items or gold.
  • Additional information and testing discussion for this cross-realm mail can be found in this thread on the PTR Discussion forum.
• Crashin' Thrashin' Flyers should now be able to damage each other while in a sanctuary area.
• MiniZeps should now be able to damage each other while in a sanctuary area.

UI

• The Customer Support button has moved. Customer support can now be reached in-game by selecting Help option through the Game Menu (Game Menu is bound to the Escape key by default).

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue that caused players to not receive credit towards the Drop It! and Drop It Now! achievements.

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