Patch Notes

Classes: General

  • Vengeance is no longer triggered by receiving damage from other players.

Druids

  • The Tier 13 Balance Druid 4-piece bonus now also increases the damage of Starsurge by 10%, in addition to its current effect.

Hunters

  • Aspect of the Hawk now grants roughly 35% more attack power.
  • Deterrence now also reduces damage taken by 30% while active.
  • Black Arrow now ticks every 2 seconds for 20 seconds, as opposed to every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. The total damage dealt by the ability is unchanged.
  • Lock and Load no longer benefits Arcane Shot, nor is it consumed by Arcane Shot.

Mages

  • Fireball damage has been reduced by roughly 6%.
  • Pyroblast damage has been reduced by roughly 6%.

Paladins

  • Holy Radiance now costs 40% of base mana, up from 35%.

Priests

  • Mass Dispel should again prefer dispelling targets that have magic effects that can be dispelled.

Dungeons & Raids

  • You can now form same-faction raids with Real ID friends, allowing you to enter Raid Finder in groups larger than 5, run older normal or heroic raids, or participate in Battlegrounds. You will not yet be able to run normal or heroic Dragon Soul with cross-realm raids of Real ID friends.
  • Several typo fixes and clarified descriptions have been added to the Dungeon Journal entries for Dragon Soul.
  • Players can no longer win multiple copies of the same item on a single Raid Finder boss kill. For example, a player who chooses Need on two set piece tokens or two weapons and wins the first, will not be eligible for the second on that particular boss.

The 1.0.2 patch is now live, here’s the notes:

General

  • Guilds that are currently leaderless will have an Officer chosen and promoted to Guild Leader.

Classes and Combat

    Sith Inquisitor

    • The Darth title is now properly granted to Sith Inquisitors.

    Bug Fixes

    • Corrected an issue that could prevent players from taking cover when targeting large NPCs.
    • Fixed a bug that caused some abilities with activation times to be interrupted when used from cover.

Crew Skills

    Gathering

    • Removed some high-level harvesting nodes from Tatooine, Corellia, and Ilum.

Flashpoints and Operations

    Flashpoints

      Cademimu

      • General Ortol can no longer be pulled out of his room.

      Maelstrom Prison

      • Corrected an issue that could cause Kilran to behave incorrectly when defeated in cover.

      Taral V

      • General Edikar now has the correct loot in Hard Mode and no longer enrages in Normal Mode.

    Operations

      Eternity Vault

      • Gharj can no longer be pulled out of his encounter room.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue that could cause choosing Nightmare Mode to not set enemies to Nightmare difficulty.

Items

    General

    • PvP lockboxes now cost 70 commendations, contain more consumables, and always contain an item.

    Bug Fixes

    • Corrected several PvP items that were Bind on Equip. They are now Bind on Pickup.
    • PvP vendors on Capital Planets now offer the correct PvP items.
    • Commendations received via in-game mail are now correctly added to the Currency tab.

Missions and NPCs

    Missions

      Imperial

      • Number One with a Bullet: Players who choose dark side options now correctly receive the mission First Strike after completing this mission.
      • First Strike: Players who did not receive this mission will now receive it upon entering their personal starships.

      Republic

      • Death Cloud: Players can now complete the “Toxic Waste” bonus objective regardless of how quickly they complete this mission.

      Bug Fixes

      • Corrected mission steps on several planets that could cause client instability.
      • Fixed issues with some missions that could prevent pending rewards from being accepted.

Space Combat

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue that caused a client crash if a space station was destroyed in Space Combat.

UI

    Maps

    • Group members no longer appear on all planets on the Galaxy Map.
    • Corrected an issue that could cause map notes to disappear after logging out and back into the game.
    • Corrected some map notes that referenced the incorrect map.
    • Updated map notes for “travel to planet” steps in class missions on Nar Shaddaa, Hoth, and Belsavis to indicate the planet’s space station.

    Bug Fixes

    • Group members outside of a player’s phase are no longer prompted to roll on items.
    • The In-Game Customer Service Portal no longer appears to hang while the “updating” message is displayed.
    • The Guild interface now properly displays the guild member list when it is sorted.
    • The “Show Sith Corruption” option no longer toggles off when transitioning between areas.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

  • Taxi rides are no longer occasionally interrupted, causing the player to be dropped from the taxi.
  • Using the /dismiss command now correctly dismisses a vanity pet.
  • Corrected some issues that could cause players to become stuck on the loading screen when logging into a character.
  • Players can now use emotes while riding a vehicle.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented some text-only mail messages from being received.
  • Graphics preferences in settings files are now consistent with actual settings in use.
  • Being in Do Not Disturb mode no longer prevents characters from being logged out for being away.
  • Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on some machines in indoor areas with shadows enabled.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent players from being logged out for inactivity.

The first patch of The Old Republic comes on 12/27, and with it comes a lot of bug fixes and a nerf to slicing’s rewards. The performance issues for some people on Taris has been addressed and stated to be resolved, as well as other notable issues such as harvest-able nodes being unable to be clicked and flashpoint/operation bugs. Below is the official notes (which can be located on SWTOR.com’s website here).

 


 

1.0.1 Patch Notes 12/27/2011

Classes and Combat

  • Combat Bug Fixes
    • Fixed a bug that could cause the global cooldown to display incorrectly in the UI.
    • Abilities that require Companion Characters now always correctly require a companion.
    • NPCs no longer attempt to engage vanity pets in combat.
  • Imperial Agent
    • Operative - The tooltip for Acid Blade now displays the correct information.
  • Companion Characters
    • Kira Carson - Fixed an issue that could cause Kira’s affection progression to become blocked.
  •  Bug Fixes
    • Companion Character dialogue now plays at the correct volume.

 

Crew Skills

  •  Gathering Skills
    • Slicing
      • Rewards from Slicing have been reduced to bring them into balance with other skills.
      • Adjusted incorrect values for medium slicing boxes.
  •  Bug Fixes
    • Corrected an issue that could cause some gathering nodes to appear as unharvestable.

Flashpoints and Operations

  •  Flashpoints
    • Mandalorian Raiders - Crowd control immunity has been removed from several members of the Enemy Boarding Party.
    • Colicoid War Game - An issue that prevented some players from mounting turrets in this Flashpoint has been corrected.
    • The Red Reaper - Darth Ikoral now uses his abilities correctly.
    • Directive 7 - Mentor now resets correctly if he defeats the player group.
    • Bug Fixes
      • All players in a group who have a daily Flashpoint mission now get credit for completing that Flashpoint.
  •  Operations
    •  Eternity Vault
      • Fixed an issue that could cause players to instantly die when affected by Soa’s knockback.
      • Turrets in Normal Mode no longer behave as turrets from Hard Mode.
      • Players are now able to properly obtain loot from chests.
      • The Ancient Pylons now spawn enemies at the correct intervals.
    • Karagga’s Palace
      • Players no longer need to reset this Operation if they do not defeat Bonethrasher.
      • Corrected an issue that caused some players to become stuck at the throne room door.

Items

  •  Bug Fixes
    • PvP lockboxes can no longer be sold for credits.
    • Fixed incorrect item rewards from PvP leveling lockboxes.

Missions and NPCs

  •  Missions
    • Imperial
      • A New Master: Defeating Teeno no longer causes him to surrender on top of Phyne, making him difficult to interact with.
      • General Faraire: All of Khourlet’s Elite Guards are now accessible by the player.
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fixed a mission-related issue that could cause poor performance and client crashes on Taris for some players.
  •  NPCs
    •  Bug Fixes
      • Corrected several instances of non-interactive NPCs appearing and disappearing from the player’s view.

PvP

  •  Warzones
    • General
      • Rewards for winning Warzones have been increased.
      • Warzone completion rewards have been decreased.
  •  Bug Fixes
    • Voidstar
      • Corrected an issue that could prevent some players from entering the Voidstar.
      • Made adjustments to prevent attacking players from reaching the doors in the reactor core before bridges are extended.

UI

  •  Bug Fixes
    • Fixed a bug that could prevent players from accepting pending mission rewards.
    • Targeting a friendly player no longer occasionally displays incorrect text for the character’s name.
    • Corrected an issue that could cause some auction expirations to behave incorrectly.
    • The splash screen no longer displays longer than the “accept changes” dialogue when changing resolutions on some computers.
    • Master Looter now works correctly for items being looted from chests.
    • The server select screen no longer displays over the character select after being disconnected for being away.
    • Corrected an issue that could cause mission mapnotes to disappear when a new mission is obtained.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

  • Special characters no longer display incorrectly in the French credits.
  • Remaining baby names have been added to the credits.
  • Corrected a link that displayed in French and German versions when the servers are unavailable.

Over the last few weeks since the 4.3 patch to Word of Warcraft there have been numerous tweaks and hot-fixes. Here is a complete list of all of the changes made to the 4.3 patch since its release.

December 20

  • General
    • Algaefin Rockfish no longer swim in schools, and schools of Deepsea Sagefish have taken their place along many coastlines.
  • Classes
    • Hunters
      • Multi-Shot, modified by the talent Serpent Spread, should now properly spread Serpent Sting to other targets that are within range when a nearby player is affected by Serpent Sting.
    • Paladins
      • Horde Paladins should find that Judgement of Truth now properly triggers item procs that it is intended to trigger.
  • Dungeons and Raids
    • Deadmines
      • Helix Gearbreaker’s Stickybomb should no longer break Stealth.
      • Vanessa VanCleef’s Vigorous VanCleef Vindicator achievement should no longer break Stealth.
    • Vortex Pinnacle
      • Minister of Air
        • The knockback for Lightning Nova has been reduced from roughly 12 yards to 8 yards on normal difficulty, and from18 yards to 12 yards on Heroic difficulty.
    • Well of Eternity
      • Mannoroth
        • Felhounds, Doomguard Devestators, and Felguards are no longer capable of dealing critical hits.
    • Zul’Aman
      • Amani’shi Warbringer’s damage has been reduced by 12%.
      • Amani’shi Medicine Man’s summoned Protective Ward health has been reduced by 60%.
      • When an Amani’shi Scout is alerted, he now idles for 1 second before running to summon reinforcement.
      • Amani’shi Reinforcement’s damage has been reduced by 15%.
      • Amani’shi Flame Casters’ Fireball Volley now inflicts less damage.
      • Jana’lai’s Flame Breath ability now inflicts less persistent fire damage.
      • In Dragonhawk form, Daakara’s Flame Whirl spell increases fire damage taken by a lesser amount.
      • Daakara’s Creeping Paralysis now inflicts less damage.
    • Zul’Gurub
      • Berserking Boulder Roller’s Boulders now inflict less damage.
      • Bloodlord Mandokir’s Decapitate cooldown has been increased by 5 seconds.
      • Gurubashi Shadow Hunters are now immune to Disarm.
      • Gurubashi Shadow Hunter’s Shadowed Shot ability now inflicts less damage.
      • Gurubashi Blood Drinker’s Blood Leech ability now inflicts less damage.
      • Lesser Priest of Bethekk’s Shadowflame ability now inflicts less periodic damage.
      • High Priestess Kilnara’s Wave of Agony now deals less damage.
      • Jin’do’s Twisted Spirit health has been reduced.
      • Jin’do’s Twisted Spirit damage has been reduced.
      • Jin’do’s Shadows of Hakkar now inflicts less damage.
    • Dragon Soul
      • Morchok
        • Double Stomp damage should now only come down on the heads of the two players closest to the boss.
      • Hagara
        • Ice Waves will not spawn until Hagara finishes casting Frozen Tempest.
        • Spell immunity mechanics such as Ice Block and Divine Shield should now temporarily block damage from Watery Entrenchment, but should not remove the debuff.
        • Ice Tomb can no longer be avoided by a raid of players all standing within a smokebomb.
      • Yor’sahj the Unsleeping
        • Yor’sahj now deals triple melee damage to player-controlled pets and targets them with Void Bolt.
        • The Firebloom heal triggered by the Druid tier-12 should no longer cause Deep Corruption.
        • Yor’sahj’s damage has been reduced by up to 10% on 25-player Heroic difficulty, bringing the difficulty of the encounter closer to that of 10-player Heroic difficulty.
      • Spine of Deathwing
        • A Safe Fall aura has been added to the start of the encounter, preventing players from taking falling damage, should their parachutes end early.
        • Corrupted Bloods now use Burst regardless of crowd control conditions, including silence.
      • Madness of Deathwing
        • Deathwing should no longer fire two Elementium Meteors when a limb tentacle is destroyed at the same time that Deathwing is casting Elementium Meteor.
  • Items
    • Timepiece of the Bronze Flight has been given an additional red socket.
  • Quests
  • Players on the quest Patricide can no longer receive the Fragment of Deathwing’s Jaw while in a Raid Finder group.
  • Graham Van Talen should no longer incorrectly offer Gnome Engineering and Goblin Engineering once the player has sufficient Engineering skill level.
  • Pelturas Whitemoon should now be quite willing to complete the quest Orendil’s Cure for multiple players.
  • Players are now able to complete the quest Trial of the Naaru: Mercy by beating the 55-minute timer.

These are the current patch notes for WoW 4.3 as of time of this post. If things change once Blizzard lists them as “Official”, we will be sure to publish any updates.

General

New Dungeon & Raid Content

  • End Time is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback here is appreciated.
  • Hour of Twilight is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback here is appreciated.
  • Well of Eternity is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback here is appreciated.
  • The new Baradin Hold boss, Alizabal, is now available for testing. Your participation and feedbackhere is appreciated.
  • Dragon Soul is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback is appreciated. For the latest testing schedule, please visit the PTR Discussion forum here.

Raid Finder

  • This new grouping feature allows players to quickly and easily form a pick-up raid for a specially tuned version of the current tier of endgame content: the Dragon Soul raid. Raid Finder is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback here is appreciated.

Transmogrification

  • This new feature allows players to customize their gear like never before. You’ll find Transmogrification, Void Storage, and Reforging vendors in Cathedral Square, Stormwind and The Drag, Orgrimmar. The costs associated with this service are not yet final.

Void Storage

  • In addition to the bank, players will now have access to a new “deep storage” system, allowing characters to free bag space by setting aside coveted gear. You’ll find Transmogrification, Void Storage, and Reforging vendors in Cathedral Square, Stormwind and The Drag, Orgrimmar. The costs associated with this service are not yet final.

Reforging

  • The former Reforging vendors have been… retired. The ethereals have chosen to take over the business and joined their Transmogrification and Void Storage service providers. You’ll find them in Cathedral Square, Stormwind and The Drag, Orgrimmar.

Outland & Northrend Quest Flow

  • The amount of experience needed to gain levels 71 through 80 has been reduced by approximately 33%.
  • Many Group quests in Outland and Northrend have been re-tuned to allow players to complete them solo. They are no longer labeled as Group quests.
  • Relevant questgivers have been moved into Outland and Northrend dungeons. The majority of dungeon quests for these zones are now available from within their respective dungeons.

North American realms (excluding Brazilian, Latin American, and Oceanic realms) no longer permit letters with accents in character or guild names. Existing character and guild names with special characters will be unaffected by this change.

Achievements

  • The achievement Master of Alterac Valley no longer requires the Alterac Valley Blitz achievement.
  • The achievement Tol Barad Veteran now requires 25 victories in Tol Barad, down from 100.

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