Several years have passed since the Burning Legion's defeat at the Battle of Mount Hyjal - and the races of Azeroth have continued to rebuild their once shattered kingdoms. With renewed strength, the heroes of the Horde and Alliance have begun to explore the broken lands beyond the Dark Portal. What dangers or rewards await mortal champions in Draenor? And what will the Alliance and Horde do when they discover that the demons they thought vanquished have returned to renew their terrible Burning Crusade?
General[]
A stirring of events has begun throughout Azeroth and rumor points to the Dark Portal as its source.
The Auction House now sorts by buyout price first, then by current price. This should filter all of the items with outlandish buyout prices to the bottom of the list.
Players will now need to be level 58 to pass through the Dark Portal. (The Burning CrusadeExpansion must be installed.)
Collector Editionpets are now blue items and a confirmation dialogue will appear to prevent accidental deletion.
The title "[Scarab Lord]" can now be chosen in game for select players.
PvP[]
Players can use the /teamquit or /teamdisband command in order to leave an Arena team.
A new bracket has been added to Alterac Valley for level 61-70.
Added a sorting function so that the battleground and scoreboard can be sorted by any of the categories.
Healthstones and summoned warlock pets will no longer cost a soulshard to summon in the Arena preparation area. All summoned items and pets will be dismissed on leaving the arena.
The last pet a player had summoned will be resummoned outside the Arena upon leaving.
Druids[]
Due to various talent changes, all Druids will have all their talent points refunded.
"[Insect Swarm]" has had its damage on all ranks increased. The mana cost of ranks 1 and 3 has been increased. The mana cost of ranks 4,5 and 6 has been decreased.
"[Nurturing Instinct]" now grants its benefit at all times, but the bonus has been reduced to 25/50% of Strength.
"[Improved Starfire]" has been renamed to "[Celestial Focus]" and now also increases the chance to resist casting pushback when casting Wrath by 25/50/70%.
Druids now need substantially less agility per dodge.
"[Dire Bear Form]" armor bonus increased to 450% and health bonus changed to a 25% percent health increase instead of a flat increase.
The Health bonus of "[Bear Form]" has changed to a 25% percent health increase instead of a flat increase.
"[Swipe]" has had its threat bonus multiplier removed.
"[Maul]" has had its threat bonus multiplier changed to a flat value similar in threat per time to "[Heroic Strike]".
"[Regrowth]" has had its mana cost reduced by approximately 18%.
"Tree of Life (druid ability)" healing bonus now increases the healing received by your party members instead of the healing dealt by your party members.
The "[Tranquility]" base amount healed per second has increased by approximately 273%. The radius of effect has increased from 20 yards 30 yards. Mana cost has increased by 40%. The Cooldown has increased from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. The Duration has decreased from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
"[Mangle]" will not stack multiple copies from multiple forms or druids anymore. This was never intended behavior. The percentage modification on bleeds has increased from 25% to 30% and "[Mangle]" now increases the damage from "[Shred]" as well. In addition, "[Mangle]" will now benefit from the damage boost from "Tiger's Fury".
"[Enrage]" will now show up in the combat log and in floating combat text.
"[Lifebloom]" will now correctly consume clearcasting.
"[Predatory Instincts]" has had its tooltip adjusted to indicate it only works in feral forms, and that it increases damage by a percent, not damage bonus by a percent.
If a spell is resisted, it will no longer break stealth.
"Tree of Life's" bonus healing aura will now reactivate correctly when "[Banish]" wears off.
Shapeshifted druids will now be able to speak to npcs while shapeshifted.
Hunters[]
"[Multi-Shot]" has had its mana cost adjusted back to a value closer to its pre-2.0.1 version.
If your pet has been recently revived by using "[Call Pet]", it will no longer reset back to full health.
"Improved Divine Shield" (Protection Talent) has been renamed "[Sacred Duty]" and now also increases total Stamina by 3/6%.
"Improved Resistance Auras" has been renamed "[Spell Warding]", reduces all spell damage taken by the Paladin and is no longer tied to Resistance Auras.
We have fixed a bug where the damage bonus from "[Holy Guidance]" was being added to physical attacks.
There will no longer be a slight delay on receiving the buff from "[Light's Grace]" when it occurs.
Priests[]
"[Mass Dispel]" will no longer cause stealthed Rogues and prowling Druids to lose stealth.
"[Surge of Light]" (Holy Talent) can no longer be triggered by using items.
Rogues[]
Due to various talent changes, Rogues will have all talent points refunded.
"[Evasion]" (Rank 2) now reduces the chance that ranged attacks will hit the Rogue by 25%, reduced from 50%. It is now available at level 50.
The "[Cloak of Shadows]" cooldown has been reduced to 1 min, from 2 min. Now a trainable ability at level 66.
"[Shadowstep]" (New Subtlety Talent) attempts to step through the shadows and reappear behind your enemy. Your next "[Ambush]", "[Backstab]" or "[Garrote]" ability is increased by 20% and lasts 10 sec. This is only usable while stealthed.
"[Premeditation]" (Subtlety Talent) has had its range increased to 30 yards.
"[Wound Poison]" now causes damage and reduces all healing by 10%, stacks up to 5 times.
The Cooldown for "[Blind]" has been reduced to 3 min, from 5 min.
There is no longer a random chance the effect of "[Sap]" will end (i.e. removed the heartbeat resist check). The effect will still end early when the target is damaged.
Fire objects in the game world (bonfires, braziers) will no longer trigger "[Nether Protection]".
When a Warlock is under the effects of "[Backlash]" and "[Nightfall]", only one of the effects will be consumed by a "[Shadow Bolt]" cast.
Warriors[]
"[Weapon Mastery]" Rank 2 of this talent now grants full immunity to "[Disarm]" mechanics, and will properly display "Immune" when a "[Disarm]" is attempted.
"[Slam]'s" swing time is no longer slowed by damage taken.
Blacksmithing/Leatherworking specialization has changed with specialization providing recipes to make powerful items that only you can wear. You can now unlearn a blacksmithing or leatherworking specialization and learn a different one by finding the appropriate NPC, paying the fee to unlearn your old specialization, and then find the new specialist to learn a new one. Also, all of the old blacksmithing/leatherworking recipes that required specialization no longer require it and can be learned by any blacksmith/leatherworker.
Players will now be able to pull out a pet window to see all the pets in the raid.
Added Ranged and Spell stats as a display option for the G15 keyboard.
Updated the Sound Options menu to include a checkbox for Hardware Acceleration and a slider for Sound Channels.
PC default is "Hardware Acceleration = ON" and "Sound Channels = LOW".
Players that experience poor system performance can set "Hardware Acceleration=OFF" which may improve performance but will disable any EAX (reverberation) effects supported by their sound card.
Players with more powerful systems can raise the "Sound Channels" slider to increase the number of simultaneous sounds in the game, providing a more immersive soundscape.
Mac users will not have a checkbox or slider available due to the Mac's default setting of "Hardware Acceleration = OFF" and the "Sound Channels = HIGH".
NEW: button = GetMouseButtonClicked() -- Returns the name of the button that triggered a mouse down/up/click/doubleclick event.
NEW: hasMacro = CursorHasMacro()
NEW: "item", itemID, link = GetCursorInfo() OR "spell", slot, "spell" or "pet" = GetCursorInfo() OR "macro", index = GetCursorInfo() OR "money", amount = GetCursorInfo()
Macro Features
NEW: /dismount
/castsequence will equip items if they need to be equipped, and use them otherwise.
The following commands now support the [target=unit] macro option syntax: /startattack, /petattack, /target, /assist, /focus
If you add a #showtooltip line to your macro, it will show the tooltip of the item or spell in addition to the normal visual feedback.
A unit's name can be used anywhere a unit token can be used. e.g. if you had the player Desmondia in your party, /cast [target=Desmondia] Flash Heal, would cast Flash Heal on her. This will only work for the player, pet, party members and pets, and raid members and pets. You can use "-target" or "-pet" to indicate the target or pet of the named unit, e.g. /cast [target=Desmondia-target,harm] Shadow Word: Pain
Key Bindings
Holding down ctrl, alt, shift, x will check keybindings in the following order: ALT-CTRL-SHIFT-X, CTRL-SHIFT-X, ALT-SHIFT-X, ALT-CTRL-X, SHIFT-X, CTRL-X, ALT-X, X
Key bindings that directly cast spells or use items now respect the self-cast modifier.
Frame Methods
UPDATED: protected, explicit = Frame:IsProtected() -- New 'explicit' return value
Tooltip Methods
NEW: isUnit = Tooltip:IsUnit("unit")
NEW: name = Tooltip:GetUnit()
NEW: name, link = Tooltip:GetItem()
NEW: name, rank = Tooltip:GetSpell()
Added several script handlers which are called when the tooltip is set to a unit, item, or spell: OnTooltipSetUnit, OnTooltipSetItem, OnTooltipSetSpell
Cooldown Indicators
There's a new cooldown indicator frame that replaces the previous model file. The old syntax: <Model inherits="CooldownFrameTemplate"/> should be replaced by <Cooldown inherits="CooldownFrameTemplate"/>
Secure Templates
Added an action type "attribute" to secure action buttons which sets an arbitrary attribute on an arbitrary frame.
Added support for state header resizing and re-parenting on state changes.
Saved Variables
Arrays that are stored as saved variables are now saved using lua's array initializer syntax for optimal memory usage and performance on load.
Bug Fixes
Unit frames will respond to modified clicks by default.
Action buttons no longer use shift-click to pick up actions, but instead use shift-drag. This frees up the shift modifier for use in macros or as a self-cast modifier.
MovePad will work again.
Fixed taint issues with the unit menus (dueling, dismissing pets, etc.)
Addressed a graphics issue where changing the WorldFrame's coordinates would show a field of the fog color in the area outside of the world view instead of black, on NVIDIA GPU's, when indoors, with Full Screen Glow enabled.
Addressed a graphics issue affecting NVIDIA GeForce3 and GeForce 4Ti GPU's when certain particle effects were visible on screen such as Naxxramas loot.
Music looping is now fixed.
Bug Fixes[]
Characters on your friends list that are deleted will now properly be removed from the friends list.
Players will now be put back into the cross-realm battleground raid group after relogging from a force quit.
You will now be able to remove players from other realms from your ignore list after leaving the battleground.
Players who return from a disconnect in an Arena battle will now be correctly credited as being alive by the scoreboard.
When you craft an item with a random property, it will now display it has random properties in the crafting UI.
Characters will no longer be rooted in place until logout when being force-quit during the opening cinematic.
Pet statistics will now appear in green when being buffed by an outside source.
You should now get the mail indicator when your inventory is too full after leaving a battleground.
Spell penetration should now properly update on the character sheet.
Certain throwing weapons will no longer be consumed when used as a throwing weapon.
Certain throwing weapons have had a damage range added to their tooltip.
Reduced the cost of some battleground rewards.
The druid Restoration Talent "Tree of Life" healing buff is no longer being removed from the Druid if afflicted by a "[Banish]" spell.
"[Shadow Word: Death]" will no longer do damage to the casting priest when resisted.
"[Holy Fire]" (rank 9) cast time has been adjusted for consistency with all other ranks of "[Holy Fire]" to 3.5 seconds.
The priest Discipline talent "[Reflective Shield]" will no longer cause the recipient of the shield to perform a cast animation every time the shield reflects damage.
Pyroclasm will now properly function with all ranks of "[Soul Fire]" and "[Hellfire]" rank 4.
The warlock Demonology talent "[Fel Intellect]" (all ranks) will now properly affect Felhunter intellect.
Crit chance of the spell "[Incinerate]" is now being affected by the 2nd rank of the Warlock Destruction talent "[Devastation]".
Warlock pet "Felguard" will now use the appropriate sounds.
Using a grimoire to teach your demon pet a spell while it is under the effects of "[Banish]" will no longer consume the grimoire, but the pet is immune and will not learn the spell.
Warriors with full "[Weapon Mastery]" talent will now be shown to have immunity towards disarm.
The "[Shield Bash]" rank 4 daze effect will now properly slow the target and has had its tooltip updated.
Warriors will no longer being re-entered into a combat state if the character switches stances after killing a mob.
"[Second Wind]" will no longer improperly proc off of a mob's daze.