World of Warcraft Patch Released

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Written by BuckGB on October 14th, 2004

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• All armor and weapons have durability, but not trinkets, cloaks, shirts, guild tabards, necklaces and rings.
  
• Items remain at full effectiveness until they have no durability. Their power does not degrade.
  
• Items cannot permanently break.
  
• All armor/weapon vendors can repair durability in exchange for cash.
  
• When an item reaches zero durability, it no longer gives the player any benefit; it acts as though it does not exist until repaired.
  
• Professions cannot repair durability, but we will discuss ways for the professions to interact with them in the future.
  

• If you log out while in flight, you will continue flying when you log back in.
  
• All enemy targeted spells should now require the target to be in front of the caster.
  
• Starting characters will now have hearthstones automatically located in their inventory.
  
• Swimming has been tweaked. To dive, you have to tilt your direction downwards a certain amount with the right mouse button.
  
• Spirit no longer affects item proc percentage. Item proc percentages are now independent of stat attributes.
  
• The camera will now stay above or below water depending on which side you are on.
  
• Your camera view angle and distance are now saved when you exit the game.
  
• You won't accidentally skip gossip text if you double-click the NPC responses.
  
• You should no longer be able to breathe at the bottom of lakes and ponds.
  
• Pets swim underwater now, although not all pets have swimming animations.
  
• Pets no longer use combat abilities while in passive mode.
  
• Your corpse shows up underwater after you release, however it decomposes when you revive.
  
• Starting NPCs show their horde or alliance crest.
  
• Locked boxes show the word "Locked" in the appropriate color for their difficulty.
  
• Scarlet Sentinels will use their Overpower ability in combat.
  
• Looting range is now the same as melee range.
  

• Goblin guards will attack players who are fighting each other and not dueling - it's bad for business.
  
• Goblin guards no longer flag you for PvP and they may not be healed or buffed.
  
• When you finish a duel, debuffs applied during the duel will be removed.
  
• Resurrecting a PvP-enabled player corpse will flag you for PvP.
  
• Area effect spells and totems now work correctly in duels.
  
• Town guards will no longer follow dueling players.
  

• Scholomance, a level 57-60 instanced dungeon in Western Plaguelands is now open.
  
• Ashenvale has gotten a facelift to include more points of interest, and significant changes were made to make it easier to navigate.
  
• Ragefire Chasm, a low level instance dungeon in Orgrimmar, is now available.
  
• Deadmines: The Miners in the Deadmines are no longer elite monsters.
  
• Blackfathom Deeps has been moved to the Zoram Strand in Ashenvale forest near the border of Darkshore.
  
• More quests have been added for Eastern and Western Plaguelands.
  

• Runecloth added to the world as the high end cloth.
  
• Tailoring is now complete with recipes up to skill 300 available.
  
• The herbs needed to support high end alchemy have been added to the world.
  
• Rich Thorium Nodes will now drop Arcanite.
  

• All warlock talents are now available.
  
• Many talents for all classes have changed location in their tree or had their effects modified.
  

• Travel Form is now only useable outdoors.
  
• Cower, Growl and Challenging Roar are now useable against targets that are immune to physical attacks.
  
• New Spell: Hibernate (Level 18).
  
• Shapeshifting now breaks roots, snares, and freeze effects.
  
• All Shapeshift forms now include an immunity to polymorph effects.
  
• Bear Form - HP gain increased.
  
• Dire Bear Form - HP gain increased.
  

• Cower, Growl and Disengage are now useable against targets that are immune to physical attacks.
  

• Polymorph no longer affects Dragonkin or Giants.
  
• Blink now counters stun effects. Cooldown timer has decreased, and mana cost now scales with level.
  

• Resurrection and Redemption range has been reduced.
  
• New Spell: Seal of Freedom (Level 20)
  

• Holy Smite renamed to Smite.
  
• Holy Word: Fortitude renamed Power Word: Fortitude.
  
• Holy Word: Shield renamed Power Word: Shield.
  
• Resurrection and Combat Resurrection range reduced.
  

• Kidney Shot is now subject to diminishing returns.
  
• Vanish now breaks root and snare effects.
  

• Stoneclaw Totem is now useable against targets that are immune to nature attacks.
  
• Rebirth range reduced.
  
• Ghost Wolf is now only useable outdoors.
  
• Earthbind Totem movement slow effect has been reduced.
  

• Soothing Kiss, Suffering and Torment are now useable against targets that are immune to shadow attacks.
  
• Seduction now only works against Humanoids. Banish now works against Demons and elementals only. Cooldown timer and reagent removed, duration increased, replacement added. Curse of Agony - Now deals its damage in three stages, damage increased, mana cost slightly increased.
  
• Enslave Demon - Soul Shard cost removed, duration reduced.
  
• Life Tap no longer interrupts mana regeneration.
  
• Sacrifice now grants the Warlock damage absorption, rather than full immunity. Duration has been increased.
  
• Soulstones have been changed to now resurrect the soulstone holder automatically 5 seconds after death.
  

• Taunt and Challenging Shout are now useable against targets that are immune to physical attacks.
  
• Hamstring - Movement slow effect reduced.
  
• New Spell: Berserker Rage (Level 30)
  

• The Mac OS X client has all shader-based features disabled for this patch. The GUI for those preferences will be grayed out. A number of GPU driver issues are being addressed by Apple, ATI and NVIDIA - when these fixes have been completed and made available to the public we will re-enable these features in the game.
  

• You should no longer drown in the air while in certain caverns.
  
• Firegut Brute will use his Torch abililty.
  
• Fishing catches fish again, provides skillups, and doesn't leave bobbers around.
  
• Yorus Barleybrew no longer cheers for himself when you complete The Rethban Gauntlet.
  
• Colonel Kurzen won't engage you in melee combat at a distance after using a smoke bomb.
  
• You can access your user interface again while in flight.
  

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