Patch 2.0.3 (undocumented changes)
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 Patch 2.0.3 (undocumented changes)
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| “The Burning Crusade” | ||
| Release date (US) | January 9, 2007 | |
| Version | 6299 | |
| Interface .toc | 20003 | |
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This article lists all of Patch 2.0.3's undocumented changes. See the main article for the official list of documented changes.
Druid
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- Not all characters received a talent reset.
- When stealthed, there is now an indicator above the heads of mobs that can see through stealth.
- When in Aquatic Form, the view has changed to an above-the-water angle, instead of the previous below-the-water angle.
- Barkskin now has a 2 minute cooldown
- Tree of Life changes: Now has a dancing and eating animation. Backward movement animation fixed. No longer makes a bear roar when shifting into the tree. Changes to casting animations.
- Bears make Kitty sounds when performing Mangle.
HunterEdit
- Possible pet positioning bug. Need more information. (see Aoiran's post on page 2)
- Flare now has a longer time before it actually appears on the ground, but brings targets out of stealth just the same.
- Steam Tonk Controllers now work properly for hunters.
- Feign Death reaction time slowed down. Doesn't kick in until animation stops.
- Snake Ability 'Poison Spit' tweaked. Less damage, over less time, and with a longer cooldown.
- Mousing over your own stats now tells how much your pet's stats are improved.
- The Pet Info tab now provides the same detailed information that the character tab provides.
- Side note: Warlock pet spells now scale with gear and talents (instead of only melee attack power). Does this apply to hunter pets, too?
- The hunter pet ability "Gore" is now in game and can be learned from boars.
- All pet attack speeds have been normalized to 2.0.
- Hunter's Mark no longer has a casting animation.
- Feign Death no longer shakes off pets (bug?)
- Hunter no longer grows in size when under the effect of The Beast Within, he/she just gets red.
MageEdit
- Netherwind shoulder graphics have returned to normal and have a higher particle rate than before the original change.
- Polymorph Resist rate increased (?)
- Arcane missiles now does 25%less damage costing 15% less mana.
PaladinEdit
- Crusader Strike cooldown increased to 10 seconds, from 6 seconds.
- Vengeance talent is now 10% for 5 points, from 15%.
- Mana cost reduced for Judgment, Cleanse and Redemption
- Coefficients upped for Consecrate and Avenger's Shield
PriestEdit
- Holy fire's graphic is now back to original.
- Holy Specialization is now correctly displayed in the spell section of the character pane.
- Inner Focus now gets used up when casting Divine Spirit or Prayer of Spirit.
RogueEdit
- Not all characters received a talent reset.
- Venomous Totem changed/nerfed.
- Improved Backstab switches places with Improved Slice and Dice in the Combat tree.
- Improved Sap switched places with Elusiveness in the Subtlety tree
- Improved Sap now costs 2 points for a 100% chance to return to stealth.
- Auto-Loot now works with Pickpocket
- Blinding Powder has a new icon
- When stealthed, there is now an indicator above the heads of mobs that can see through stealth.
- Every rogue now has their own Deadly Poison debuff slot on monsters, instead of 1 for all.
ShamanEdit
- You can now speak to NPC's in Ghost Wolf form.
- Rockbiter ability now adds a set amount of dps (rank 4 is +9 dps). It also no longer procs on every hit.
- Casting shaman weapon buffs no longer have an animation
- Totemic Call added, to pick up totems.
WarlockEdit
- Demon Armor spell cost reduced 45%
- 10% Damage Reduction on Corruption & Curse of Agony
- 50% Damage Reduction on Curse of Doom
- Curse of Doom proc (summoned Doomguard) no longer despawns the current Warlock pet
- Mousing over your own stats now tells how much your pet's stats are improved.
- The Pet Info tab now provides the same detailed information that the character tab provides.
- Warlock pet spells now scale with gear and talents (instead of only melee attack power).
- Steam Tonk Controllers now work properly for Warlocks.
WarriorEdit
- The graphical effect on a mob when Devastate is used has been greatly increased in size
ItemsEdit
- Epic (all?) shields have had their armor and block values increased by 15%.
- Enchantments on items have now been returned to their original green color (were white for a while).
- Thunderfury's proc now sounds like Thunderclap.
- Steam Tonk Controllers got a new icon and now work properly for hunters.
- Kodos now have their 'space bar animation' back, where they look side to side and roar.
- Helm of Valor now displays facial hair when worn. Causes some clipping issues, could be a bug.
- The Zergling's chomping sound that was introduced in the previous patch was taken out.
- Tonk Controller icon changed to look like a remote control
- Tabard of Frost and Tabard of Flame are now epic.
PvPEdit
- High Warlord's Offhands cost reduced to 20 Marks of Honor (down from 40)
- Level 70 Rings doubled in honor cost.
- Mage HWL/GM Robe cost reduced to 30 AB Marks (down from 60).
- Tauren can now ride the Black War Raptor.
- They put the 1-minute 'gong' reminder back in to battleground queues.
- In the Battleground Stat screen, ranks are no longer displayed. Instead, icons representing the class of the character are now shown.
- Unused Battleground tokens can now be used to purchase Level 61 Healing and Mana potions. 2 Marks per potion.
- Estimated honor is now showing up correctly
Trade skillsEdit
- 'Design: Citrine Pendant of Golden Healing' is now BOP
- Unsmelted mineral ores (Copper, Iron, Thorium, etc) now stack up to 20, increased from 10.
- New level 1 cooking recipe "Spice Bread" available at cooking trainers
- New cooking ingredient "Simple Flour" sold at cooking vendors
- Charred Wolf Meat has had it's trivial level increased (still green at 84)
- Gold Ore has a new icon.
- Many enchantments that were previously dropped recipes can now be trained at the Master Enchanter in Uldaman.
- New Armorsmith recipes added (Earthforged Leggings, Windforged Leggings)
- New Dragonscale Leatherworker leg pattern added to Dragonscale trainer.
QuestsEdit
- Quest Items can now be removed from your bank upon completion of the quest. (no longer has to be in your character's backpacks)
- Wildhammer repeatable turn in quest removed.
- The drop rate of arcane crystals was boosted.(?)
- Thorium Shells are now green at 300 Engineering (was orange at 300 eng. before this patch).
InterfaceEdit
- 'Elite' quests renamed to 'Group' quests
- Initiating Auto-Attack on a target shows an animation where the targeting circle gets bigger and then shrinks.
- Before the patch, if you locked your toolbars, you could still move icons around using Shift + Left Click. That doesn't work now.
MiscEdit
- Riding Skill(150) cost reduced from 800g to 600g
- There is no longer a Shoot Crossbow, Shoot Gun, or Shoot Bow, there is only 'Shoot.'
- Ishar's J-Boots are slower. The ancient cyclops laughs approvingly.
- WoW no longer works at all on laptops with Intel 915gm video chip sets.
- Hippogryphs and Gryphons now make noises when flying,
- Wildhammer faction removed.
- Spirit Healers now appear on Minimap while dead.
- All Abilities that cost a % of base mana have had their mana cost reduced.
- Gadgetzan now has snipers on the roofs to stop people from rooftop camping.
- Sylvanas now has a normal dialogue even when she isn't offering a quest. Before, she had no dialogue when you clicked on her.
- Hemet Nesingwary moved from Stranglethorn Vale to Nagrand. In his place is now his son, Hemet Nesingwary Jr.
