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World of Warcraft

2.1 PTR: Patch Notes - 5/17/2007

Posted Sep 17, 2008 by Kody

There was another patch to the PTR's today, and it looks like this patch confirms a Tuesday release for 2.1.

One of the major changes: the "World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.1.0" was changed to read "World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.1.0" and the link directing you to the patch notes on the WoW website was changed to reflect it being a patch release.

You can check out the full patch notes here, but the additions for today are listed below.

General

  • Taunts: The taunt system has been adjusted so that Warrior Taunt, Druid Growl, and Paladin Righteous Defense will now grant the player the correct amount of threat even when the creature or its target is crowd controlled.
  • Dodge Rating: Low level players now calculate dodge from dodge rating at the same rate as level 34 players.
  • The negative effect of the orc racial ability Blood Fury no longer stacks with other effects that reduce healing (Mortal Strike, Wounding Poison, etc.)
  • Characters can now speak with Orphan Matron Mercy in Shattrath City during Children’s Week to mentor a draenei (Alliance) or blood elf (Horde) orphan. Shattrath orphans have a whole new line of sight-seeing requests across both Outland and Azeroth and three new pets to offer to their mentors.

Druids

  • Force of Nature: The Treants summoned by this spell will now correctly attack your target even if it is neutral or non-aggressive.
  • Swiftmend: The button for this ability will now be greyed out when your current target does not have Rejuvenation or Regrowth.

Hunters

  • Kill Command: This ability will now still work even when your pet is out of your line of sight.

Mages

  • Arcane Missiles: This spell will now obey line of sight restrictions during its entire casting. (NOTE: THIS WAS REMOVED)
  • Hypothermia: If this debuff would prevent you from casting a spell on a given target, the button for that ability is now grayed out.

Paladins

  • Blessing of Light: Paladins can now cast this as intended when they have Greater Blessing of Light on themselves.
  • Forbearance: If this debuff would prevent you from casting a spell on a given target, the button for that ability is now grayed out.

Priests

  • Power Infusion: This ability is now unuseable on Rogues or Warriors.
  • Shadowfiend: The Shadowfiend will now correctly attack your target even if it is neutral or non-aggressive.
  • Shadowfiend: Increased the Shadowfiend's chance to hit higher level enemies.
  • Shadow Weaving (Shadow): Effect reduced by 1% per rank.rank and Mana Burn will now correctly trigger this talent. (NOTE: Mana Burn note added.)
  • Weakened Soul: If this debuff would prevent you from casting a spell on a given target, the button for that ability is now grayed out.

Rogues

  • Added a visual, sound, and combat log message when the Cheat Death talent saves the rogue from death.
  • Sword Specialization: This ability now grants extra yellow attacks instead of extra white attacks. This change will make Sword Specialization no longer reset the weapon swing timer when it triggers off special attacks, and results in a net increase in damage dealt.

Shaman

  • Healing Way: This talent now correctly modifies the healing done after all bonus effects have been applied.
  • Windfury Weapon: A bug with this spell was making off-hand procs receive less bonus damage than intended. It is now fixed.

Warlocks

  • Conflagrate: The button for this ability will now be greyed out when your current target does not have Immolate.
  • Felguard: This pet will periodically check to see if you know the talent which allows you to summon it, and die if you do not know the talent.
  • Soulstones: Soulstones can no longer be used on targets not in your party or raid. In addition, the soulstone buff will now be removed if the target or caster leaves the party or raid.

Warriors

  • Sword Specialization: This ability now grants extra yellow attacks instead of extra white attacks. It also grants rage based on the speed of your weapon. This change will make Sword Specialization no longer reset the weapon swing timer when it triggers off special attacks, and results in a net increase in damage dealt.

Items

  • The majority of level 70 epic items have been upgraded to reflect their intended power.
  • Serpent-Coil Braid: The bonus spell damage from this trinket is now removed if the trinket is unequipped.
  • Argussian Compass: A bug where this trinket sometimes caused all the damage from an attack to be absorbed has been fixed.
  • General’s Dreadweave Boots: Now available for purchase from the PvP vendor as intended.
  • Malorne Raiment and Malorne Regalia: These sets no longer erroneously apply a reduction in cost to some Druid spells.
  • Cyclone Regalia: The chance for a mana cost reduction to occur has been reduced.
  • Warrior Tier 4 Tanking Set: The Blade Turning Bonus now prevents the correct amount of damage, 200.
  • Priest Tier 5 Shadow Set: The Sadist buff will no longer be consumed when casting a spell which does neither damage nor healing.
  • Priest Tier 4 Shadow Set: Mind Flay will now benefit correctly from the 4 piece bonus.
  • Shaman Tier 5 Spell Damage Set: The 4 piece bonus will no longer be triggered by Shocks and Chain Lightning.

Alchemy

  • Reduced the reagents required to make Ironshield Potions.
  • New cauldron recipes can now be discovered when making most major protection potions. Cauldrons can provide an entire raid with a major protection potion.

Engineering

  • Healing Potion Injectors and Mana Potion Injectors created by engineers now have new icons and the engineering requirement to use them has been reduced. (NOTE: Requirement reduction added.)
  • Gnomish Flame Turret now creates 3 turrets instead of 1. Thorium Tube requirement changed to Fel Iron Casing.

Fishing

  • Fixed a bug where you could catch 2 fish at once in some zones.

Jewelcrafting

  • Thorium Setting only requires 1 thorium bar now.
  • Several new recipes that use Jaggal and Shadow Pearls have been added to jewelcrafting trainers.
  • Increased the chance to find blue gems when prospecting.
  • Removed the 1 hour cooldown when cutting diamonds.
  • Reduced the matching requirements for some diamonds.

Leatherworking

  • Changed the socket bonuses on the Windhawk set to something more appropriate.

Additional Profession Changes

  • Reduced the time required to skin.
  • Motes of Shadow now primarily drop from void creatures and have been removed from nearly all demons.
  • Void Crystals maximum stack size increased to 20 from 10.

Quest

  • Zephyrium Capacitorium: This interactable object now makes a player immune to all attacks and spells while it is operating on them.
  • Reduced the number of Black Dragonscales required for the warlock mount quest.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Gruul is now more likely to use his Hurtful Strike and Ground Slam abilities on players instead of Cave-In.

User Interface

  • There is now a Rotate Minimap feature.
  • You can now enable target of target in raid windows
  • New interface option: Open Loot Window at Mouse
  • New interface option: Disable Lua Errors
  • You now see the season stats instead of weekly stats for arena teams when you inspect another player
  • Guild names now appear in player tooltips
  • Stackable items retrieved from mail will automatically stack in your inventory
  • You are now able to right click a player name to report them to GMs.

World Environment

  • Apothecary Azethen, Ryathen the Somber, Arcanist Calesthris Dawnstar, Magister Duskwither, Tethik, Darnassian Protector, and Groggeroc no longer get loot sparkles when killed.
  • Antilus the Soarer: This creature can now be skinned.
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  • byrd104 said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:31 AM ()

    Added a visual, sound, and combat log message when the Cheat Death talent saves the rogue from death.

    SWEEEEET :P

  • Denalian said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:31 AM ()

    New cauldron recipes can now be discovered when making most major protection potions. Cauldrons can provide an entire raid with a major protection potion.

    O_O cool.

  • Balsta said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Patch Notes 2.2 (Near Future)

    Shadow Priests All Damage reduced by 75%. New Talent added: Dirty Look, increases threat by 200%.


    I am not one to complain but, damn... A little love every once in a while would be nice.

    Nothing like a 5% damage reduction to make you feel all warm and cozy.

  • Denthor said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Hey, a GM promised me that the bug with Alliance and Hordes diffrence on their Generals/Marshals Leather Boots would be changed. But it aint! (Alliance's boots are better)

  • Lothaer said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    also i noticed whilst running through Orgrimmar that there are new NPCs there, there called Troll Roof Stalkers, they are lvl 70 Elites, their in stealth and when they see you they will trap you and range dps with bows for 2k+, im alliance thats how i know what they do, any1 else know about the other cities???

  • KAVURMA said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    what does hipothermia do? hope its not too bad:P

  • Prism said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Reading though the whole release notes it seems that the Nethereal escort quest (the one with the small forge camp sabotage) still isn't fixed. That quest is bugged since TBC went live...

  • Zexy said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    "You are now able to right click a player name to report them to GMs."

    So if you're not using a spam blocker of some sort, you will STILL see the spam. Thank you Blizzard for ignoring the basic problem people have with spam.

  • Lothaer said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Hypythermia is a CD on Ice Block, when i mage uses Ice Block they get Hypothermia witch stops them casting Ice BLock for about 10secs.

  • Kody said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Yeah, it's similar to the debuff caused by Divine Shield and Blessing of Protection.

  • hamor said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Some very cool, if minor, changes in this set! I'm greatly looking forward to not dieing because I don't notice the message that says I can't cast Divine Shield on myself (because I cast Avenging Wrath already and had forgotten), and sit there wondering why I'm still getting hit... lol

    Anyway, the new alchemy plans idea is cool, as are several of the Interface additions (Thank god items from mail will FINALLY stack automatically!).

    Now if only they'd actually make the blacksmithing BoPs worth making for a pally *grumbles*

  • Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    "Hypythermia is a CD on Ice Block, when i mage uses Ice Block they get Hypothermia witch stops them casting Ice BLock for about 10secs."

    pretty sure hypothermia is 30 sec. ?

  • amoa said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    "pretty sure hypothermia is 30 sec. ?"

    It is, quoted from the patch notes:

    "Ice Block: This ability no longer makes mages immune to Weakened Soul from Power Word: Shield. However, using this ability now causes Hypothermia, making the mage unable to cast Ice Block again for 30 sec"

  • Ch3vr0n said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Checked both the normal patchnotes url and the testream url. On the first one there is NO mention WHATSOEVER of 2.1.0 CLIENT patchnotes, and on the testrealm notes it still sais PTR notes. So might wanna change that /* One of the major changes: the "World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.1.0" was changed to read "World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.1.0" */. Dont give ppl false hope.

  • Guysun said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    The patch notes may not be live on the website yet, but the patch notes included with the latest PTR client did change their title from "PTR Patch 2.1.0" to "Client Patch 2.1.0" and a link to the URL that normally contains the latest client patch notes.

    It's not "false hope;" it's just not yet reflected in the live website.

  • Kody said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    Ch3vr0n:

    Please download the latest patch notes before claiming I'm giving people "false hope."

  • Ch3vr0n said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    in that case my apologies :) i skipped the latest ptr download.

    IF its true, cant wait to see it live on wednesday since im an eu player. Been waiting long enough ^^

  • Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    k i need help i downloaded the 2.1 and when i went to play i got logged on for about 30 seconds befor getting kicked off with an error that shut it down and now everytime i try to log it come up with the error and shuts it down can someone plz tell me whats wrong this is the error

    This application has encountered a critical error:

    ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 001B:0057774F

    The instruction at "0x0057774F" referenced memory at "0x3124523D". The memory could not be "read".

  • BigDoug said 
    Fri, May 18 2007 2:30 AM ()

    question of the day= when is the paladin ret tree going to get fixed ? as it stands, pallies are next to usless expect for healing, and that's just not right, should be a major contributor to any raid, not the left out stepchild, so , how do you , blizzard, fix it?

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