Highlights for the class changes include: Feral Druids getting their single target and group based taunts buffed by their +hit rating; Rogues getting Hemorrhage buff as well as a redesign of Shadowstep; and Priests receiving the Focused Will buff as well as Druids getting the Natural Perfection buff even buffer than we reported on earlier.
Chest spawns in Hellfire Ramparts, Karazhan: Chess Event and The Mechanar will not be lootable by anyone absent for a significant amount of the boss fights near the chests. On the upside, Heroic Ramparts and Heroic Mechanar chests will contain a Badge of Justice for every member in the party and the Karazhan cache will contain two! I can tell what two Heroic dungeons are about to get very popular.
Finally, special Engineered goggles are no longer necessary to see the gas clouds in Netherstorm for mote extraction. However, the goggles will now allow the gas clouds to be seen on the minimap in addition to whatever other tracking the player currently has up.
With Patch 2.3 background loading this week, one can only hope Zul'Aman will be available for all of us to enjoy soon and Patch 2.4 introducing the Sunwell Plateau will be served up on the PTR right after.
[Thanks Calypso!]
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11-03-2007 @ 8:53AM
robodex said...
Cool. Now if there was a reason to USE Volley, this change would be a bit more useful.
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11-03-2007 @ 9:23AM
pcj said...
It's not just druids getting their taunts buffed by +hit rating, all tanking classes are receiving that buff.
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11-03-2007 @ 9:27AM
csulok said...
maybe you didn't read the patch notes clear enough, but they are removing the boss-lootable badge of justices from 2 bosses in mechanar and replacing it with 1 from the chest. so it will stop being popular, instead of getting even more popular...
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11-03-2007 @ 12:10PM
Runstadrey said...
When I was doing boring (now WoW) stuff, I noticed an icon in my tray for the Background Downloader, when I clicked it it disappeared - like it was furtively hiding it's work.
So, I went looking for it in my WoW dirs and there it was, so I started it and it began downloading the 'WoW-2.2.3-to-2.3.0-enUS-patch'. I canceled the download because I'm not sure it's release time and don't want to get my version out of synch with the live servers.
Does anyone know where the downloader would store the file and what would cause it to be installed? Would it be safe to go ahead and download it now so that I don't have to endure the slowdown of 9 million other downloads?
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11-03-2007 @ 12:27PM
Runstadrey said...
*(non-WoW stuff)
Wish we could edit these posts, those of us with fat, uncoordinated fingers need that 'talent'.
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11-03-2007 @ 1:16PM
hpavc said...
Agreed, poor reading comprehension on the part of the paid bloggers again.
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