Patch 0.24.0c

General

  • Creature dodge, parry, and block chances now work the way they did in The Burning Crusade, which essentially means level differences aren't as extreme.
  • Pets and player summoned creatures are no longer considered NPCs in Dodge, Parry, Block calculations. This fixes an issue where pets were nigh unattackable when they were only a few levels above the enemy.
  • Fixed an issue where talents that granted active abilities that receive new ranks from a trainer would not remove those ranks when you unlearned your talents.
  • Orgrimmar and Stormwind now feature Boss training dummies for single target and cleave situations. In addition, outside of Stormwind and Orgrimmar you will now find special armorless training dummies that will only be available on test realms.
  • Lana Wellway now sells all class reagents, the Gyromatic Micro-Adjuster, and the Runed Arcanite Rod. Sorry if you already crafted it.
  • The 45 -> 60 levelling achievement requirement should now correctly trigger at 60 for all players. If you had previously met the requirements it should automatically unlock on next login.
  • Seal of Ascension now available at Lana Wellway test vendor.
  • Secret Plans: Fiery Flux may now spawn.
  • Overseer Maltorius can now spawn.
  • Witch Doctor Mau'ari should now spawn in Everlook.
  • Volchans spawn time will be set to 5 hours for the remainder of the beta.
  • Volchan has received a health buff, we intend the average group size to be 35+ to kill him.
  • Volchan's Ancient Flame orbs have been reworked to spawn more regularly, hit for far more damage per tick, but capped at 8 targets per tick.
  • Warsong Gulch has had its requirements lowered for beta only requiring 3 participants per team to start.
  • You can now boost your professions at levels where you get a second talent point.
  • Infested Legguards that drop from the Silithid Lurker now have the correct name.
  • The quest "Sister, Sister" in Valor's Rest can now be properly accepted.
  • Fixed a crash related to the quest The Art of Golemancy.
  • Increased drop rate of Flame Sack for Boom! Boom! Boom!
  • Soldier's Dagger now correctly has a level requirement.

Classes

Druid

  • Ferocious Bite's formula has been corrected.
  • Tree of Life now properly functions.

Paladin

  • Avenging Wrath and Divine Shield now properly apply Forbearance, and Divine Shield can no longer be used during Forbearance.

Warrior

  • Mortal Strike's changes from pre-Beta 3 now correctly affect all ranks of the ability.

Rogue

  • Mutilate now properly gets replaced in the spellbook when you learn a new rank.
  • Improved Poisons now actually increases the duration of your poisons, however it has been reduced from 100% at 5 ranks to 50%.
  • Deadly Poison now scales with a minor amount of Attack Power.
  • Lightning Reflexes (Rogue) has been overhauled. It now increases your Agility by 2% per rank, 5 ranks.

Mage

  • Improved Counterspell now correctly lasts 4 seconds.

Hunter

  • Beasts with non-typical melee damage schools now normalize to physical damage when tamed. The Reign of Lupos ends once again.
  • Cobra Reflexes (Pet Talent) now provides the mentioned damage reduction.

Warlock

  • Demon Portal now deals significantly more damage, and the demons should more reliably attack the last target you attacked.
  • Demon Portal's Felguard is now summoned from the first tick instead of the last tick, and now lasts 30 seconds, up from 15 seconds. All other demons remain unchanged.
  • Demon Portal's link to hold it open has been increased from 25 yards to 45 yards.

Instances

  • Many custom bosses can no longer be charmed or knocked out.

Upper Blackrock Spire

  • A GM should no longer be able to trigger The Beast while watching players complete a dungeon run.
  • The following encounters have received a stats adjustment, this should still mean UBRS is a notable "tier" above most dungeons:
    • The Beast
    • General Drakkisath
    • Gyth + Rend
    • Pyroguard Emberseer
  • The Beasts charge and knock up have been reduced in severity.
  • The Beasts should cast his knockback less frequently.
  • General Drakkisaths Conflagrate will now only target the second highest on the threat list, not randomly.

Blackrock Depths

  • GM's should no longer be able to activate many area triggers within the dungeon.
  • The doors into Magmus's chamber should now open / close in the fight no matter how far away Magmus is.
  • The door out of Magmus's chamber into the Throne Room should now open no matter how far away Magmus is when he dies.
  • Constructs within the Black Vault will now correctly wait for all coffer doors to open before engaging.
  • Tweaks to Emperor Dagran and Princess Moiras combat ability timings.
  • The Heart of the Mountain can now be looted by many people at once.
  • Various improvements to chests and interactible objects within the Black Vault.
  • The Seven should now chain between each of the Dwarves more reliably.
  • Emperor Dagran now has correct mechanic immunities.
  • Princess Moira Bronzebeard now has correct mechanic immunities.

Baradin Hold

  • GM's should no longer be able to activate many area triggers within the dungeon.
  • Improvised Cannon's main shoot spell should no longer cause spell pushback on damage.

Stratholme

  • Ramstein the Gorgers Disease Expulsion should cast slightly less frequently and has had its interrupt reduced to 1 second.
  • Grand Crusader Dathrohan now correctly grants credit for the Stratholme achievement, and drops loot.
  • Skul is no longer required for Stratholme: Main Gate.

Zul'farrak

  • Antu'suls script has received an overhaul with the following key changes:
    • Antu'suls Minions now correctly despawn on reset.
    • Antu'sul will now spawn 1 fewer wave of his minion adds.
    • Nerfed the Poison Charge of Antu'suls minions.
    • Adjusted combat timings of Antu'suls minions.
    • Antu'sul will now cast his ward 1 more time during the fight.

Sunken Temple

  • Further improvements to Weaver, Dreamscythe, Hazas and Morphaz spawning. Note these do not persist server restarts.
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