Patch 5.0.4

Patch 5.0.4
“Mists of Pandaria”
Release date	2012-08-28
Initial version	15972 (Beta) ? (Test)
Interface .toc	50001 (changes)
Highlights & notes
Attack on Theramore Isle
Documented changes Undocumented changes
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Patch 5.0.4 is the next phase within the Beta of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. It refers to the first patch of the expansion World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. following World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. The patch will bring a world event before the expansion, which should be released with a "meaningful difference" in the release timeline compared to previous expansions.

General

Account-wide Achievements, pets, and mounts

• In Patch 5.0.4 and beyond, the majority of your character's Achievements, pets, and mounts will be shared with your other characters. Please read: Bringing Achievements to the Account Level, by Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street

World Event: Attack on Theramore Isle

• Warchief Garrosh, obsessed with assuring the Horde’s supremacy over Kalimdor, launches an all-out attack against Jaina's island home of Theramore. Though valiant Alliance defenders rush to repel the sudden onslaught, they’ll soon find themselves unprepared for the terrible scope of Garrosh's true plans…
  • In the Public Test Realm, we will be testing this event at specified intervals. Keep an eye on our PTR Feedback forum for more details as they become available.

AOE Looting

• Area of effect looting comes to World of Warcraft with this patch. After killing a group of enemies in close proximity, when you loot one of their corpses, the loot window will include items from all of the nearby corpses for which you have loot rights.

BattleTag support in World of Warcraft

• Players who have enabled their BattleTag will now be able to:
  • See BattleTag friends in your friends list.
  • Add and remove BattleTag friends.
  • Send BattleTag invites to other players via right-click.

Classes: General

See also: Patch 5.0.4 (class changes)

• All classes have been updated with a new talent system, improved abilities, and spells (accessible throughout levels 1-85). Your character's talents have been reset.
  • Many old talents have been converted to specialization abilities.
  • Druids now have access to a fourth class specialization: Guardian.
  • New spells are now learned automatically. Class trainers are only needed to change talents, glyphs, class specialization, or to utilize the dual specialization feature.
  • All characters now take 30% less damage from other players.
  • Hunters lose their ranged slot, the item in this slot when the patch goes live will be placed into their backpack. Ranged weapons will now have to be placed into the Main Hand slot. The off-hand slot cannot be used if the Main Hand holds a Bow, Crossbow or Gun.

Currency Conversion

Chef's Award and Dalaran Cooking Award has been removed. Existing awards have been converted to Epicurean's Award at a rate of 1:1.

Valor, Conquest, Justice and Honor point conversion:

Currency Conversion Before and After Mists of Pandaria | 2012-08-21 01:00 |  Blizzard Entertainment

The currency conversion coming with Mists of Pandaria is going to happen in three stages, and this is how we plan for it to progress:

With Patch 5.0.4 on August 28

• Valor points will be converted to Justice points, and Conquest points will be converted to Honor points.
  • Neither of the resultant currencies (Justice and Honor) will have an enforced hard-cap at this time.
• The current Arena season will end.
• Players will no longer be able to earn Valor or Conquest points (bosses will drop Justice, Arenas will be closed).
• Items formerly purchasable for Valor/Conquest will be available for Justice/Honor.

With Mists of Pandaria on September 25

• Valor can be earned again.
  • Characters can earn up to 1000 Valor per week, and carry a maximum of 3000 Valor.
  • Daily quests, random Scenarios, random Heroic dungeons, and all levels of raiding will reward Valor.
  • Valor will be used to purchase ilvl 489 gear in Mists of Pandaria.
    • The Klaxxi, Golden Lotus, Shado-Pan, and August Celestials factions will sell this gear.
    • Revered reputation with each faction will be required.

• Conquest will become earnable.
  • There is a cap of 4000 Conquest points.
  • Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds reward Conquest.
  • It will be used to purchase ilvl 483 gear from Pandaren battlemasters on the Great Wall.

With Mists of Pandaria, Patch 5.1

• We currently plan to upgrade the Valor system as Ghostcrawler described in Mists of Pandaria Looting Explained in the 5.1 patch, allowing you to upgrade your gear using Valor points. We’ll have additional information once Mists of Pandaria launches and we get closer to the 5.1 patch release.

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Items

• Spell Penetration has been replaced by PvP Power on existing items.
• Head enchants removed
  • Enchants that modify the gear in your head slot have been removed from the game. This includes older head enchants of every type.
  • Enchantments already on your Head slot appear to still be there in the PTR
• Relics, ranged, and thrown items
  • The slot in which ranged, relics, and thrown items were previously equipped has been removed. All weapons should now be equipped in the weapon slot.
  • Ranged weapons, including wands, have been adjusted to be more powerful.
  • Ranged weapons no longer have a minimum range.

Glyphs

• The glyph system has been updated. Many class glyphs have been added, altered, or moved to different glyph types.
• Prime glyphs have been removed.

User Interface

• There is a new user interface for your mounts and pets.
• Character creation screens have been updated.
• Buffs have been consolidated in the UI.
• New roll results frame added. This new feature can be accessed by clicking the word "[Loot]" in chat, or by typing "/loot".
• The PvE queue frames have been unified. You can now queue for dungeons, raids, and other queue-able content in one handy place.
• Vendors now offer item filtering.
• Spellbooks have been updated to reflect changes to core abilities, and now include a brief overview of specializations.
• The Dungeon Journal has been expanded with information on all pre-Cataclysm encounters.
• A new help system has been added to many frames. You can toggle this on and off by clicking the "i" button in the upper left corner of the frame.