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There are a few things in there that make it seem bunk though... for instance:

“This is Outland!” now properly rewards 300 reputation with Kurenai.

There is no such quest according to Wowhead, not to mention the obvious 300 reference.

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"Confused guards in Silvermoon City, Exodar, and other places no longer give directions to locations in Stormwind City."

Hotfixed already, I believe.

"Flying Machine” mounts useable only by engineers."
I doubt this.

"NEW: KDM() - Now functions for Tauren Druid characters."

" “Clever Traps” now also increases the damage of “Snake Trap” by 15/30% against flying targets."
lolz.

Gonna go ahead and call this one a fake.. there could be more funky notes in there I didn't find, but, a lot of these notes seem believable, so in my opinion, its a good fake.

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I think it's fake, mainly due to engineering having mounts. It's highly unbelievable, and there are some other slightly unbelievable things as well.

They are very good fake notes though, many of this stuff will probably be implemented. Very observational person who wrote this.

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But if they REALLY wanted to get alot of people to re-roll Engineering, that for sure would do it.

Many would JUST for the mount :P

I'd say it plausible given the shafting Engineering has gotten.

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The other bit that gave it away was the addition of craftable mana-restoring water. That's been in every set of fake patch notes I've ever seen.

It's a very good fake, though. Imitates Blizzard's style well, includes everything they've said they would and nothing they said they wouldn't, and has a good amount of minor bug fixes and tweaks.

And I'd certainly be thrilled if those Druid changes were real.

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I've gotta say, if they're fake, then they're extremely well done. But they're probably fake, which is a shame because those are some excellent updates.

I wasn't aware that there was an issue with Rockbiter and Maces - haven't seen any mention of it on the shaman forums, and you know how they love to bitch. There's also no mention of fixing Windfury down-ranking.

Craftable mana drinks would be very nice. Sure, they've been in many other fake patch notes, but they are concentrating on adjusting the professions right now.

Specialized ammo and BOP gun plans certainly sound intriguing...I suppose by "specialized" they mean ammo that would cause magic-based damage, or something like that. Craftable mounts are plausible, but a steam tank and a flying machine would be way too big to be mounts.

Some of it seems too detailed to be fake though, like all the macro stuff. This person (or these people) would need to have extensive knowledge of every little thing mentioned for fixing on the forums, and all the new macro stuff being added.

I'm crossing my fingers that it's all real, but I doubt it is.

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Saw this on the WoW Forums too, makes sense.

"
Yep I'm Spybot. Well, I should say we’re Spybot. My co-worker and I are responsible for the 1.8, 1.12, fake druid BC talent screenshots, and the latest 2.1.0 patch notes. Writing these really pass the time at work :P

I don’t think I need to tell most of you that they’re all fake. The reason we write these is to present a list of suggestions that we think would improve the game. I’m sure Blizzard would rather us use the suggestions forum :P but obviously fake patch notes will get much more exposure. If you're curious at how we were able to put so many obscure bug fixes and technical stuff, we copied and pasted everything from the UI + Macros and Bug Reports forums. The rest was blue posts and our own input. The “KDM” shoutout was for Caydiem - sorry for all the headaches with the other patch notes. Anyhow while these patch notes are 100% fake, I hope you at least had fun reading it.

-Spybot "

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I just want Booty Bay to be flagged as outside . . .

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haha, feign death....buffed to near God status. Right....

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Fake. Very very fake.

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(and probably written by a Hunter)

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I think these guys as Spybot have some very good (and reasonable) ideas, as well as some not-quite-so reasonable, such as an armor buff for treants.

The engineered mount really caught my attention, and I don't think it's one of the most not-quite-so reasonble ideas as long as it's still required that the engineer pay for riding lessons.

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Okay, I'll agree that steam tanks are unreasonable- those things are the size of, well, tanks. But for those of you who balk at the idea of crafted flying mounts? I play a gnome, and need I remind you...I'VE GOT A FLYING MACHINE.

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Imp Feign Death=Cloak of Shadows.... that would be uber :P

and the stacking crit thing from master tact isnt plausable

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Wait a second, I thought we could already cast faerie fire in feral forms.....

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Additional stacks of Lifebloom benefit from bonus healing? Remove Curse, Cure Poison, and Abolish Poison can be cast in Tree of Life form? Oh, pleasepleaseplease let these be real... If these were real my little resto druid heart would be filled with happiness, even without an OOC res (though if they wanted to make that a 41-pt talent that would be fine with me as well).

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LOL! Someone has way too much time on their hands.

Those are some massive hunter buffs. It makes the survival tree kick all kinds of ass...right now it totally blows.

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"The talent Clever Traps now also increases the damage of Snake Trap by 15/30% against flying targets"

Somebody get these motherf**king snakes off my motherf**cking flying mount?

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It's BINDING heal, not Blinding! :D
And it's fake imho.

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I think it's fake. 5/10% reduced threat from using an increased distance skill?

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