Patch 5.1.0 (undocumented changes)

Patch 5.1.0 (undocumented changes)
“Landfall”
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Release date	2012-11-27
Initial version	16309
Interface .toc	50100 (changes)
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Bug Fixes
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Classes

Monk

• [Enveloping Mist], [Zen Flight] and [Zen Pilgrimage] have new icons.
• Walking through a [Healing Sphere] or Chi Sphere has a new sound effect, resembling drinking.

Items

• Cloaks awarded via guild reputation can now be used for transmogrification.
•  [Anglers Fishing Raft] has a new icon.
•  [Pandaren Pottery Shard] and  [Mogu Statue Piece] have a new icon.
•  [Potion of Luck] now has a duration of 20 min, down from 1 hour. Also now requires only one  [Golden Lotus] (down from three).
• Spell Penetration has been removed on items that did not receive PvP Power in the Patch 5.0.4 conversion. This consists mostly of Level 60 Raid items.

Professions

Gathering

• Herbalism
  •  [Golden Lotus] now rarely drops from gathering other Pandaria herbs.
  • Herb node spawn rate reduced: "Mining and Herb spawn rates in Pandaria have been reduced by approximately 50% in patch 5.1, and this is indeed an intended change. These are in addition to the hotfix that was applied in 5.0.5 to lower the spawn rate of Ghost Iron. In all of these cases, the reduction was prompted because the resources were too abundant, resulting in ore and herbs being undervalued, and also therefore the effort that our herbalists and miners put in to collect each node. We’ll be monitoring the situation, though, and should the current rates prove to be too low then we’ll make further adjustments as necessary." (Source)
• Mining
  • Mining node spawn rate reduced, see note under Herbalism.

Primary

• Engineering
  •  [Volatile Seaforium Blastpack] will now only open boxes with a maximum skill requirement of 400, down from 525.
• Tailoring
  • Imperial Silk (spell) has a new icon and now creates  [Silkworm Cocoon].
  • Silkworm Cocoon has a low chance of containing an  [Imperial Moth] or  [Imperial Silkworm], in addition to Imperial Silk (item).

User interface

• Dungeon Finder and Raid Finder groups now feature a new "Instance" chat channel separate from the Party chat (anyway using /p or /raid to switch channel you will be redirect to the Instance channel.
• When you are in two separate groups (e.g. Party and Dungeon), an icon will be displayed over your character's unit frame.
• Item tooltip changes:
  • Item level is now displayed in orange under the item name, rather than in white after stats.
  • Enchant descriptions now have the word "Enchanted:" displayed before them.
  • Stats added by Reforging now display the stat that they were reforged from.
  • Secondary stats are now displayed in the same format as primary stats, e.g. "+405 Mastery" instead of "Equip: increases your mastery by 405".
• Mobs tapped by others now have a dark blue health bar in name plate.
• The Friendship reputation level of Best Friend now has no additional points, down from 999.
• The Friendship reputation bar displayed in dialogue windows now displays progress for the current reputation level, as opposed to the entire reputation progress.
• Greater Cache of Treasure has a new icon.
• The background of Character Pane now shows again.
• Queuing a Raid Finder raid no longer says how many bosses have been killed (like the Dungeon Finder).

World Environment

• The Flight Point at Halfhill has moved up the hill to next to the Inn.
• Crops now can be harvested when dailies reset to match Jogu the Drunk's predictions window.
• The entrance to the Black Temple has been partially boarded up (the portal is still usable).
• Stillwater Crocodiles have been renamed to Stillwater Crocolisks.
• The faction Conquest & Honor quartermasters are now marked on the map.
• The Valor & Justice quartermasters in Townlong Steppes are now marked on the map.
• Norlaxx the Outcast has been renamed Zai the Outcast.

Quests

• Quest:Blingtron 4000 is now only available once per account.
• Quest:In Ashen Webs now only requires killing 8 Ashweb Spiders, down from 10.
• Quest:Seeds of Fear now requires 5  [Dread Amber Shards], down from 20.
• Quest:The Eternal Vigil now only requires killing 8 mogu, down from 12.
• Quest:Sprite Plight now only requires killing 8 sprites, down from 12.

NPC

• Hillpaw's Chicken no longer spawns in Sunsong Ranch while on the quest Quest:Chasing the Chicken.
• Lil' Canny now works as a bank for engineers.
• Murphy Diremoor now provides repair.
• Some Shado-Pan Trainers in Setting Sun Garrison have had their pathing adjusted for Quest:Survival Ring: Blades. In particular, they now knock players off the pillars at the edge of the ring if they try to complete the quest by standing on them doing nothing.

Bugfixes

Classes

• Mage: The portal and teleport spells for Mages to travel to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms are now correctly placed in the portal and teleport pullouts, and not as independent spells in a Mage's general spell tab.

Quests

• The buffs gained during Quest:Chasing the Chicken can no longer be dispelled, they were making the quest easier and faster.

User Interface

• The reputation bars from the subfactions of the Tillers in the reputation frame and the XP bar (if the reputation is displayed with the XP bar) are always green now. It was yellow when the standing was between 0 and 2999 Stranger.
• Vale of Eternal Blossoms is now correctly a level 90 zone (it was a 90-90 one).