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• Voice Chat - The new Voice Chat feature is now available in game. Players will need to go into the Options menu under Sound & Voice to activate it. Volume sliders are available for the microphone, speakers, and game-audio fade (which automatically lowers the game audio when a voice communication is received), as is a “push-to-talk” setting. Right-clicking on a player’s name now includes the option to mute or unmute that player. Muting another player blocks all voice chat from him or her; the ignore feature now blocks both voice chat and text chat from that player. For the Voice Chat F.A.Q. visit the following link:
  30/08 Voice Chat FAQ
  
• Chat Channels- New Chat Channel controls and functionality are now available under the Chat tab in the Social window of the interface. The interface will now show the channels players are in or are available to them, depending on the area of the world they are in, along with the addition of new private channel controls.
  
• A new feature for reporting players as being AFK in battlegrounds by right clicking has been added. When enough reports are registered, a 60 second debuff will begin to count down. Once the timer is up a new debuff will appear that will prevent the player from gaining any honor while it is on. This debuff can be negated as soon as the player engages in PvP combat.
  
• Haste: Haste has been rebalanced. It has returned to the ratios from the launch of Burning Crusade. Melee attacks and spell casts will now benefit at identical rates from haste. This change results in a reduction in the benefit of haste for melee attacks and an increase in the benefit for spellcasters.
  
• Troll Berserk: The spell haste on this ability was incorrectly too high and has been corrected.
  
• Resilience Rating: The reduction to the percent chance to get a critical strike now also reduces the damage dealt by damage over time effects by the same percentage.
  
• Area Spells: In some cases guards in neutral areas would not aggro against pvp attacks from area spells. That is now fixed.
  
• Corrected the damage modifier calculation for Resilience when the attacker has bonus critical strike damage.
  
• Power Regeneration: Any effect which triggers a change in your rate of power regeneration (Mana, Rage, Energy, Focus) will now cause an immediate reward of some power at the old rate of increase, and then begin new “ticks” of power at the new rate approximately 2 seconds later. This was done to improve functionality of abilities such as Evocation and Innervate so that they did not have wasted “ticks”.
  
• Mac Movie Capture: the Mac client can now capture in-game video to QuickTime movie files using a configurable choice of codec, resolution, and frame rate. Two new entries have been added to the Key Bindings dialog for start/stop recording and for cancellation of a recording. For more detailed configuration options please see the Mac Options panel in game. Mac OS X 10.4.9 and QuickTime 7.1.6 or better are required. Not all machines have enough performance to smoothly capture video at high frame rates; end user experimentation will be required to find appropriate settings for each system.
  
• Pets are now affected by Paladin greater blessings.
  
• Kill Triggered Effects: Effects that trigger from killing your target will no longer trigger from killing your pet.
  
• Non-combat pets may not be selected as the target for spells or abilities.
  
• Non-combat pets now have the tag “Companion” instead of “Minion”.
  
• Being attacked by guardians, such as summoned Treants, will no longer automatically cause neutral guards to attack you.
  
• Meeting Stones can no longer be used to summon players that do not meet the level requirements.
  
• Damage and health leech effects always affect flying players even if they are immune to the rest of the spell’s affects while in flight.
  
• Dueling players may not use a Lightwell that they didn’t create themselves.

• Dueling players may not use a Lightwell that they didn’t create themselves.
  
• Battlegrounds
  • Eye of the Storm: The points awarded from capturing the flag now increase based on the number of bases the capturing teams owns.
  
  
• Arenas
  • Arena calculations have been modified. In addition, the penalty for smaller arena teams (2v2, 3v3) has been slightly reduced.
    
  • Items that are indicated as quest items in their tooltips and have a “use” or “equip” ability will not work in PvP arenas.
    
  • Players will no longer be able to change armor once an arena battle has begun. Changing armor will still be available during the one-minute prep time prior to the battle. Main hand, off hand and ranged weapon swapping in combat remains unchanged.

• Cat Form (Night Elf) melee attack range was too short compared to Tauren Cat Form and other attack ranges. It has been increased.
  
• Cyclone: It is no longer possible to Cyclone two targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
  
• Cyclone: Paladin Auras, Trueshot Aura, and Aspect of the Pack will now be automatically reactivated when Cyclone wears off of a victim who had one of the abilities active.
  
• Enrage: If this buff is clicked off early, the armor penalty it causes will now be removed as well.
  
• Enrage and Furor should no longer initiate combat, though it will prevent rage decay for the duration.
  
• Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible to have Entangling Roots on two targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
  
• Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible to have more than one rank of this spell active on a player.
  
• Force of Nature: Using this spell in a neutral town will no longer cause its victim to be attacked by town guards. It also will no longer cause nearby party members to lose stealth.
  
• Hibernate and Entangling Roots duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
  
• Hurricane: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus damage coefficients have also been increased.
  
• Hurricane: A tooltip error in rank 3 has been corrected.
  
• Lacerate: The damage from this ability will now stack properly when two different characters are applying Lacerate to a target.
  
• Mangle: The duration remaining graphic will now display properly for Mangle after it has been refreshed on a target. It will also no longer sometimes apply the Mangle debuff to nearby targets when the Mangle victim is killed by Mangle.
  
• Nature's Grasp: This ability can now trigger while the Druid is sitting.
  
• Tree of Life: The party aura from this shapeshift now extends the full 40-yard radius as stated in the tooltip.

• Aspect of the Cheetah: This ability will now cause Hunters to become dazed when struck while sitting.
  
• Aspect of the Pack: This ability will now cause party members to become dazed when struck while sitting.
  
• Aspect of the Viper: This ability has received a slight redesign. The amount of mana regained will increase as the Hunter’s percentage of mana remaining decreases. At about 60% mana, it is equivalent to the previous version of Aspect of the Viper. Below that margin, it is better (up to twice as much mana as the old version); while above that margin, it will be less effective. The mana regained never drops below 10% of intellect every 5 sec. or goes above 50% of intellect every 5 sec.
  
• Freezing Trap and Scare Beast duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
  
• Hunter's Mark: The duration remaining graphic will now display properly for Hunter's Mark after it has been refreshed on a target, and will properly consume mana when recasting it to refresh its duration.
  
• Kill Command will not charge the hunter mana if their pet is on passive.
  
• Kill Command no longer affects the Hunter’s current target.
  
• Misdirection: Items used while Misdirection is active will now consume a charge correctly.
  
• Steady Shot: The tooltip stating the percentage of Attack Power gained by Steady Shot was inaccurate and has been corrected. The damage remains unchanged.
  
• Volley: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus damage coefficients have also been increased. It also correctly consumes charges of Misdirection.
  
• Hunter Pets
  • Raptors can now learn Dash.

• Arcane Missiles: Some procs were not triggered by this spell and now will be (such as Eye of Magtheridon). The tooltip for this spell will now update correctly when a Mage is affected by spell haste.
  
• Blizzard: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus damage coefficients have also been increased.
  
• Dragon's Breath: The movement-slowing component of this spell is now properly considered a Snare. Immunity and clearing effects will now work properly with it.
  
• Frost Nova: This spell is now affected correctly by area damage caps.
  
• Molten Armor: This armor can now be triggered while the Mage is sitting.
  
• Polymorph duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
  
• Slow: It is no longer sometimes possible to Slow two targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
  
• Spell Steal now receives the proper amount of points from a stacked aura.

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• Tempest Keep and Coilfang raid bosses will now all drop at least 3 items each.
  
• Auchindoun- Heroic Sethekk Halls
  • Polymorph should no longer affect the main tank.
  
  
• Auchindoun-Shadow Labyrinth
  • The recast time for the Shadow Word: Pain cast by Cabal Shadow Priests has been increased.
  
  
• Black Temple
  • Players tanking Mother Shahraz will no longer be occasionally hit by Fatal Attraction or knocked in the air..
    
  • Mother Shahraz is now significantly less likely to cast the same beam many times in a row.
    
  • Mother Shahraz's Fatal Attraction now deals reduced damage when first applied.
    
  • Mother Shahraz's Prismatic Shield has been reworked.
  
  
• Caverns of Time- Battle of Mount Hyjal
  
  
  • Faction and loot rewards has been added to non-boss mobs in the Battle of Mount Hyjal raid event. The faction awarded by bosses has been decreased to balance this.
    
  • The health of Jaina and Thrall have been increased again from their temporarily lowered values. They should be able to absorb quite a bit more incidental damage during the event.
    
  • Archimonde has received several adjustments and fixes to prevent some of the harder to counter combinations of his abilities. Archimonde's Soul Charge silence has been lowered in duration to 4 seconds, and the death of the Priest with Spirit of Redemption will no longer create two Soul Charges. The casting time of Archimonde's fear has been increased to 1.5 seconds, and he should now use his Fear ability on a much more consistent interval. Archimonde will also no longer cast Grip of the Legion on very far away targets.
    
  • Archimonde will no longer cast Grip of the Legion on targets that have just been hit with Air Burst.
  
  
• Caverns of Time- Black Morass
  
  
  • Increased recast time on Shadow Bolt Volley on Rift Keeper, also reduced damage on Heroic.
    
  • Reduced hit points of Infinite Executioners on Heroic.
    
  • Decreases the maximum possible stacks of Temporus' Mortal Wound from 10 to 7.
    
  • Increased recast time for Temporus' Hasten spell on Heroic.
  
  
• Caverns of Time- Escape from Durnholde Keep
  
  
  • When the limit on Thrall respawns after event failure has been reached, the Epoch Hunter will now properly despawn.
    
  • Human Illusion: This effect in Old Hillsbrad will no longer be applied to Dwarf and Human Priests when they exit Shadowform.
    
  • The composition of the pulls around the barracks in Durnholde Keep is now more consistent. Players should no longer face more than two Riflemen, or more than one Warden.
    
  • The group of guards underneath the bridge has been removed in Heroic difficulty.
    
  • The Thrall escort event now allows 20 tries at completing the event instead of 3.
  
  
• Coilfang Reservoir: Serpentshrine Cavern
  • Coilfang Priestesses no longer perform Spirit of Redemption.
    
  • Underbog Colossus' Acid Spray is now somewhat less dangerous.
    
  • Underbog Colossus' Spore Quake now has a shorter duration.
    
  • Greyheart Tidecallers' Virulent poison is now less deadly.
    
  • Serpentshrine Sporebats now charge less frequently.
    
  • Greyheart Nether-Mages now blink less frequently.
    
  • Serpentshrine Lurkers have had their damage output reduced.
  
  
• Hellfire Citadel: Shattered Halls
  • The melee damage dealt by Shattered Hand Reavers, Shattered Hand Legionnaires, Shattered Hand Heathens, and Rabid Warhounds in Heroic Mode has been reduced.
  
  
• Karazhan
  
  
  • Nightbane's Distracting Ash can now be removed with Cloak of Shadows.
    
  • Tinhead in Karazhan is now immune to bleeds.
    
  • Romulo and Julianne now clear all negative effects on themselves before they come back from "death".
  
  
• Scholomance
  
  
  • Ras Frostwhisper's Frost Armor Chilled effect is now properly classified as a snare mechanic.
  
  
• Tempest Keep: Arcatraz
  • The Devastate cast by Unbound Devastators now does Physical damage.
    
  • The recast time for the Deafening Roar spell cast by Unbound Devastators has been increased on Heroic mode.
    
  • Wrath-Scryer Soccothrates' Knock Away can no longer be dodged or parried. This will help prevent the catastrophic placement of multiple flames on top of each other.
    
  • Harbinger Skyriss cast his Fear spell less often.
  
  
• Tempest Keep: Botanica
  • The time between casting of Thorgrin the Tender's Hellfire has been increased.
    
  • The time between casting of Thorgrin the Tender’s Sacrifice has been increased in Heroic Mode.
    
  • Thorgrin the Tender’s Enrage ability now increases his melee damage by 75% instead of 110%.
    
  
  
• Tempest Keep: Mechanar
  • Raging Flames in the Nethermancer Sepethrea encounter have had their movement speed reduced slightly in heroic mode.
    
  • The Arcane Servants summoned by Sunseeker Netherbinders are now properly classified as Arcane Elementals, deal less melee damage and have fewer hit points.
  
  
• Tempest Keep: The Eye
  
  
  • The spells cast by High Astromancer Solarian have been extensively reworked. Wrath of the Astromancer is a now completely different in function. Mark of the Astromancer has been renamed to Light of the Astromancer and no longer reduces Arcane resistance. A player's Arcane Resistance now also provides normal damage mitigation to Solarian's spells.
    
  • Phoenix-Hawk Hatchlings now use Wing Buffet less frequently.
    
  • Crimson Hand Centurions now deal less damage with Arcane Flurry.
    
  • Crimson Hand Battle Mages have had their Frost Attack damage reduced.

• Cast sequence macros no longer get stuck at feral druid abilities.
  
• Toggling the world map can be bound to an extended mouse button.
  
• Improved the handling of items with charges on the action bar.
  
• Fixed an issue where moveable frames would end up off screen after changing either to or from a widescreen resolution.
  
• Fixed an issue where moveable frames would end up off screen after changing the UI scale.
  
• Fixed issue where font strings would get clipped when the UI was scaled.
  
• The pitchLimit console command has been re-enabled.
  
• If you specify a target for a spell cast in a macro that does not exist, it will show an error instead of defaulting to your current target.
  
• Conditional macros with multiple targets will use the appropriate context sensitive target for visual range feedback.
  
• Conditional macro processing has been greatly optimized.
  
• Macros with specific cast targets will no longer cast on your current target if the specified target doesn’t exist.
  
• Warlocks can no longer get both Fel Stamina and Sacrifice Shield using a macro.
  
• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum.

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• The following old-world factions have had their acquisition rate significantly increased: Cenarion Circle, Argent Dawn, Timbermaw Hold.
  
• If you get a positive reputation from combat you also get the corresponding opposite reputation reduction.
  
• Adjusted Yowler's level to 20 (from 25).
  
• Adjusted the level of Redridge Bashers and Alphas.
  
• Arcane Missiles: When cast by creatures, this spell will now properly cause activation of pets set to defensive mode.
  
• Azuregos: The tooltip on this creature's Frost Breath now correctly indicates Frozen rather than impairing movement.
  
• Chieftain Mummaki: This creature can now be pickpocketed.
  
• Crypt Fiends around Azeroth and at Hyjal Summit are now more totem friendly.
  
• Doctor Maleficus: This creature can now be pickpocketed.
  
• Dragonmaw Peon: The creature now has the correct pickpocket loot.
  
• Fel Corrupters in Blade’s Edge Mountain are now less potent.
  
• Fixed an improper dialog option on Carolyn Ward, a Rogue Trainer in Undercity, when the player's Lockpicking was 300-324.
  
• Highlord Mastrogonde: This creature now always drops at least a good quality item.
  
• Kataru: The totem cast by this creature will now be treated as a totem, rather than as a creature.
  
• Markaru: This creature is now skinnable.
  
• Minor Fairbreeze Village fixes: The general goods vendor was moved from home to the lower inn, the pet vendor was moved from the upper inn to home, the upper inn is now flagged as an inn.
  
• Mo’arg Doomsmith: This creature now drops Marks of Sargeras rather than Marks of Kil’jaeden.
  
• Monstrous Kaliri: This creature now has loot and will give reputation.
  
• Quest target Fel Spirits are now considered undead.
  
• Vindicator Aeus in the Aldor bank is no longer attackable by players who are members of the Scryer faction.
  
• Sethekk Ravenguard: The Howling Screech from this creature is now properly considered a Snare, and is clearable by Escape Artist and other abilities that remove Snares.
  
• Skettis Windwalker: The Cyclone effect from this creature can now be cleared by PvP trinkets and Bestial Wrath/The Beast Within.
  
• Skulloc Soulgrinder in Blade's Edge now correctly summons Sundered Ghosts to aid him in battle.
  
• Void Reaver: The Arcane Orb ability used by this creature will now correctly Daze players affected by Aspect of the Pack or Aspect of the Cheetah.
  
• Void Terror: This creature is now skinnable.
  
• Wyrmcult Blackwhelp: This creature now can be skinned but can no longer be pickpocketed.
  
• Blackrock Spire: The gems for the Seal of Ascension are now a 100% drop from Overlord Wyrmthalak, War Master Voone and Highlord Omokk.
  
• Wailing Caverns: The Druids of the Talon will no longer permanently flee.
  
• Blackfathom Deeps: Several creatures will no longer permanently flee.
  
• Temple of Atal'Hakkar: Several creatures will no longer permanently flee.

• Additional graphic optimization utilizing AltiVec for PowerPC-Mac and SSE for Intel-Mac. This provides some performance benefit on systems where vertex animation shaders are either unavailable or disabled (recommended on systems with Intel integrated video).
  
• Mac Options dialog has been added to the primary options panel. This dialog offers configuration options for any features that are presently unique to the Mac client, such as iTunes Remote and Movie Capture.
  
• New iTunes Remote configuration options have been added to the Mac Options panel.

• Fixed problem where players could be disconnected by clicking on an item link in cross-server battlegrounds.
  
• Pets will no longer chase players that Vanish.
  
• Pets no longer follow enemies after being revived.
  
• Stacked items will no longer disappear from a player’s inventory when zoning multiple times.
  
• The WoW client on Windows no longer defaults to 800x600 video resolution if the WoW resolution is higher than the desktop resolution when going from fullscreen mode to windowed mode.
  
• The Temple Concubine's polymorph no longer has the pig icon appearing when it sheeps a player but now shows the proper sheep icon.
  
• Player using ranged attacks while under the shapeshift effects of Torment of the Worgen, will now play attack animations
  
• The Toxic Spore Bats in the Lady Vashj encounter will now properly despawn if the raid party wipes.
  
• Toxic Spores in the Lady Vashj encounter can no longer kill phase shifted imps.
  
• Anzu can no longer be kited far from his spawn point and will properly leash.
  
• The Doomguard Punisher will no longer hit players not involved in the Legion Ring Event.
  
• Dressing room models for females are now showing the correct head when transformed into a Fel Orc via the Dragonmaw Illusion.
  
• The trash pulls in the Grand Promenade will now shut off after the Blood Elf Council are killed.
  
• Players can now accept daily quests even after their daily quest limit has been reached.