Patch 2.2 Incoming

[Hammer]

I'm not entirely sure whether or not a Blue has confirmed that the patch is definatly coming out this week, but WoWInsider seems to think it is.

Some nice Buffs and nerfs going down in it:

• 10 Minute Paladin Blessings and 30 Minute Greater Blessings
• Haste is being rebalanced
• Accelerated Rep Gains for Argent Dawn, Timbermaw Hold (thank god) and Cenerion Circle
• New Enchants and Leatherworking Recipies
• 'One Click' Reporting in Battlegrounds to prevent AFK Honour Farming
• Voice Chat

And most importantly:

• The Orc Shoulder Bug is being fixed

Latest versions of the patch notes can be found here or at the above link.

So, what are folks looking forward to then?

[sjonit]

Oh my God I spent days and days grinding Timbermaw rep for the 15 agi 1H enchant and now they go and do this!!!!!

AD deffo needs a boost. Did it not use to be 5 rep a mob in Scholo and Strat? Now its 1. Pitiful. Was trying to get meh alts attuned to Naxx for some fun.


Oh noes to the no more AFK fest in AV. Sucks.

Pala's certainly needed longer duration on their buffs.

Not looked into haste so much as I'd like to have. Will do9 now though.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by sjonit

Oh my God I spent days and days grinding Timbermaw rep for the 15 agi 1H enchant and now they go and do this!!!!!

AD deffo needs a boost. Did it not use to be 5 rep a mob in Scholo and Strat? Now its 1. Pitiful. Was trying to get meh alts attuned to Naxx for some fun.

Yeah. It took me the best part of a month of running Strath to get AD rep to Honoured on my Pally.

My Tailoring/Enchanting Mage is very happy though. She's sitting at 51 at the moment so just about to start the various rep grinds and the chants and bags that you get from the Cen Circle and Timbermaw still sell well.

[sjonit]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Yeah. It took me the best part of a month of running Strath to get AD rep to Honoured on my Pally.

My Tailoring/Enchanting Mage is very happy though. She's sitting at 51 at the moment so just about to start the various rep grinds and the chants and bags that you get from the Cen Circle and Timbermaw still sell well.

Get your tailor up to 70 and make those mooncloth/soulcloth/spellfire bags or wotever they called. Sell for a gazillion goldz.

I wish they made Primal Nethers non BoP tho

[Wee Dave]

Originally Posted by sjonit

Get your tailor up to 70 and make those mooncloth/soulcloth/spellfire bags or wotever they called. Sell for a gazillion goldz.

I make the primal mooncloth bags on both my mage and my priest. Goes on Darksorrows AH for 400-600g each and all for about 20 mins grinding on my mage. Its great

[PapaZeb]

Timbermaw AND AD faction? Best news I've heard all morning (as I was about to log in and grind some more TH faction)

[Sublimation]

How's the voip working on your servers Zeb?

And also, great that they buffing pala buff duration (yeah i re-rolled again...this time pala). That will save a lot annoying rebuffing.

[PapaZeb]

No clue - I play so intermittently these days due to work I left the guild and just busy myself grinding and chatting to friends traditionally.

[Hammer]

Seriously, eh?

What the hell is the point in making us wait for our AH profits?

Also, voice chat is being enabled on a realm by realm basis, so you won't nessisarily be able to use it tomorrow morning.

[Hammer]

And now WoWInsider has a list of undocumented changes up:

World

• New music added to Honor Hold as well as the inns of Ironforge and Stormwind
• Cho Threadstrong has new sayings he shouts at the fruit vendor (poor fruit vendor)
• Griftah unceremoniously ousted from Shattrath. Now sadly selling his fine wares (at unreasonably cheap prices!) in Terrokar Forest, just outside of the city's south-eastern tunnel at 36, 30 (Thanks, Meadows)

Character Models, Animation, & Spell Effects

• Orc shoulders and off-hand weapons fixed (possible overcompensation for previous bug?)
• Male night elf shoulders arc differently (possible bug?)
• Cyclone graphic changed to, and I quote, "look more awesome." Awesomeness confirmed
• Evocation's graphic effect updated, seems to be a blue version of the confirmed-awesome cyclone update
• Windfury finishes the updated cyclone trilogy, now larger and darker; fans are divided!
• Prayer of Mending received a new animation
• Hurricane visually seems more selective, targeting victims with bolts of lightening bolts followed by loud booms
• Nethermine Ravager's rock shell ability received a new spell effect
• Druid Moonkin form has a new bandaging/crafting/using animation

Items

• Red Ogre Suit is now fixed; weapons scaled down and now seat properly when sheathed
• Non-combat pets now have a 1-second cool-down between summoning and unsummoning
• Aquadynamic Fish Attractors now officially say the duration is 10 minutes as opposed to 5
• Crashn' Thrashn' Robot now will walk around a small area instead of standing in one spot
• Merciless Gladiator's Satin Gloves graphic has been changed from slim and tight to look like the bulky Merciless Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves

Professions

• Fishing: Bobber splash at the end of the timer is adjusted so you don't have to instantly click for fear of missing
• Fishing: The fishing line now instantly appears when you cast

Quests

• Relic's Emanation daily quest money reward decreased while the Ogri'la faction reward was increased (documented somewhere but apparently not well known so here it is. Huzzah!)
• Skettis escort quest reward reduced to 9 gold from 11 gold, 99 silver

UI & Game Mechanics

• Disenchant received a new icon
• Wide screen UI scales differently
• UI Scaling in general appears to be a bit funky and requires some tweaking
• New Auction house alert: "A buyer has been found for your auction of X"
• Error speech re-enabled by default. You require more vespene gas
• One hour delay on receiving currency from successful auctions (there seems to be confusion as to where this note was actually posted so for sanity's sake here it is, possibly again)
• Windowed game begins in the center of the screen instead of the upper-left corner
• New software reverb audio option
• Ogri'la reputation now goes to 999/1000 exalted
• Voidwalker's Suffering spell seems to work immediately when button is selected (what, no more "I can't do that yet?")
• Blessing of Sacrifice is on a 30 second cooldown, not the 1 minute listed in the patch notes

Not much of note there, but the new auction house alert (bolded) sounds useful.

[Sublimation]

:@ at voip not being enabled!

[Wee Dave]

yeah not on DS yet, had a message today saying its gonna be up over the next few weeks.

[Sublimation]

Which translates too:

We got pressured into releasing the patch early.

[karbon14]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Seriously, eh?

What the hell is the point in making us wait for our AH profits?

this is my gripe as well.


i can understand that they want to track large sales and stuff to investigate for the possibility of goldselling. but surely that can be done retroactivley anyway?

[adrenalize]

What difference does an hour make, It is once again stopping Gold sellers, which can only be a good thing.