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2.2 Undocumented Patch Notes

News | Sept. 26, 2007 (11 months ago) | by Xonia | via forums.worldofwarcraft.com | Filed in World of Warcraft

As always, there are plenty of things that never made it into the official patch notes. This go around, Viral from Stormrage, along with the WoW community, has put together a list (source):

World

  • New music added to Honor Hold as well as the inns of Ironforge, Stormwind, and Ratchet
  • Cho Threadstrong has new sayings he shouts at the fruit vendor (poor fruit vendor)
  • Griftah unceremoniously ousted from Shattrath. Now sadly selling his fine wares (at unreasonably cheap prices!) in Terrokar Forest, just outside of the city's south-eastern tunnel at 36, 30 (Thanks, Meadows)
  • Flavor text added to goblins at zeppelin flight points
  • Chests in Tempest Keep: Mechanar have had their spawn locations change slightly making it impossible (or more difficult...never underestimate a players's tenacity) to solo
  • Boats received new music (again? confirm?)

Character Models, Animation, & Spell Effects

  • Orc shoulders and off*hand weapons fixed (possible overcompensation for previous bug?)
  • Male night elf shoulders arc differently (possible bug? No one seems to mind)
  • Cyclone graphic changed to, and I quote, "look more awesome." Awesomeness confirmed
  • Evocation's graphic effect updated, seems to be a blue version of the confirmed*awesome cyclone update
  • Windfury finishes the updated cyclone trilogy, now larger and darker; fans are divided!
  • Prayer of Mending received a new animation
  • Hurricane visually seems more selective, targeting victims with bolts of lightening bolts followed by loud booms
  • Nethermine Ravager's rock shell ability received a new spell effect
  • Druid Moonkin form has a new bandaging/crafting/using animation
  • Undead epic horse mount trails longer flames
  • Murloc Suits can now /kneel, /laugh, /point, /sit, /talk, and /cheer
  • Shaman ghost wolf no longer holds weapons or shield while attacking
  • Weapons while in moonkin form appear to have shrunk
  • Mass Dispel no longer has a graphic, just shows the dispel animation on anything in the area
  • New, flashier graphic for Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Freedom
  • Thunderfury' proc does the same thing as Evocate, Cyclone and Windfury (consider it an epilog)
  • Spectral Tiger Mount (and Swift Spectral Tiger) updated with brighter armor and fewer seems
  • The Astromages inside of the Mechanar had their fire aura effect changed in appearance. Much taller now and has a different graphic surrounding them
  • Druid basic flight form flaps it's wings slower now

Items

  • Red Ogre Suit is now fixed; weapons scaled down and now seat properly when sheathed
  • Non*combat pets now have a 1-second cool*down between summoning and unsummoning
  • Aquadynamic Fish Attractors now officially say the duration is 10 minutes as opposed to 5
  • Crashn' Thrashn' Robot now will walk around a small area instead of standing in one spot
  • Merciless Gladiator's Satin Gloves graphic has been changed from slim and tight to look like the bulky Merciless Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves
  • Sha'tari Skyguard's Enriched Terrocone Juice reputation reward vendor item price increased from 40 copper to 36 silver
  • Farmer's Broom 100% beefier
  • Moonsoul Crown has been changed from miscellaneous to a cloth item, receiving 39 armor, 50 durability, and a need to be repaired
  • Accurate Scope is now a green item instead of white
  • Mana potion injector gained charges and flavor text: "They just dont make 'em like this anymore..."
  • Merciless Gladiator Shoulders are now orange on dark brown instead of orange on pink
  • Coronet of Verdant Flame has been changed from miscellaneous to a cloth item, receiving 138 armor, 60 durability, and a need to be repaired
  • Icy Blasting Primers are now made 10 at a time instead of 2, resulting in This results in 1 primal water making 50 frost grenades! Materials remain unchanged
  • Goblin Gumbo is now unique, and the kettle has unlimited charges for the 15 minutes
  • Nightstaff of the Everliving's texture has changed. It is now blue/gray where it was white
  • Gladiator rogue daggers reduced by about 60% in size on blood elf females
  • Druid Merciless Gladitor Leggings are now a kilt and have slightly been recolored

Professions

  • Fishing: Bobber splash at the end of the timer is adjusted so you don't have to instantly click for fear of missing
  • Fishing: The fishing line now instantly appears when you cast
  • Enchant Ring - Spellpower materials required changed. Now requires 2 large prismatic shards and 2 greater planar essences

Quests

  • Relic's Emanation daily quest money reward decreased while the Ogri'la faction reward was increased (documented somewhere but apparently not well known so here it is. Huzzah!)
  • Skettis escort quest reward reduced to 9 gold from 11 gold, 99 silver

UI & Game Mechanics

  • Disenchant received a new icon
  • Wide screen UI scales differently
  • UI Scaling in general appears to be a bit funky and requires some tweaking (Bedemus has generously posted a possible fix at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778025846&sid=1&pageNo=1 )
  • New Auction house alert: "A buyer has been found for your auction of X"
  • Error speech re-enabled by default. You require more vespene gas
  • One hour delay on receiving currency from successful auctions (there seems to be confusion as to where this note was actually posted so for sanity's sake here it is, possibly again)
  • Windowed game begins in the center of the screen instead of the upper*left corner
  • New software reverb audio option
  • Ogri'la reputation now goes to 999/1000 exalted
  • Voidwalker's Suffering spell seems to work immediately when button is selected (what, no more "I can't do that yet?")
  • Blessing of Sacrifice is on a 30 second cooldown, not the 1 minute listed in the patch notes
  • Targeting for Skettis bombing run improved
  • Tracking abilities such as "Find Minerals" now last through death
  • Unable to fly into the water while on a mount or in flight form
  • Warlock pets no longer revert to soul shards when boarding a mount at a flight point
  • Druids can use booterang while in flight form
  • The debuff from the druid Pounce ability now shows a seperate debuff for the stun and the bleed DoT
  • Druids in flight form can now perform herbalism provided they are on the ground
  • Earth elemental corpses (in Nagrand at least) are now minable
  • /mountspecial cannot be used while moving
  • The World Defense Channel is once again open to the masses
  • Disobedient Dragonmaw Peons are now spelled correctly, it was 'Disobediant'
  • Shifting now removes Shabby Arakkoa Disguise
  • Buffs now have a new grey dot if players are in range of your spell, as well as the red dot that indicated someone is out of range
  • Auto-loot button setting in Interface options has reverted to the default option
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11 months ago

"Mass Dispel no longer has a graphic, just shows the dispel animation on anything in the area" Not true as I have just tested it, the graphic is the same as it was pre-patch.

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11 months ago

I think it's possible you misunderstood the shaman ghost wolf thing. I think you still get the effects of the shield/weapon while in ghost wolf, you just don't see it anymore. There was a (glitch?) effect that when you were in ghost wolf if you attacked something, your weapon/shield (shrunken) sort of floated off to the side of your paws. I'm pretty sure this wasn't intended, but was some sort of artifact of how the weapon drawing and form morph systems interacted. I think all they did was set a flag that hides weapons/shields while in ghost wolf, so this isn't a nerf at all, just a visual change.

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11 months ago

Ghostwolfed shaman not holding weapons/shield anymore = huge nerf for mid-ranks PvP :_( Once again, shammies get shamed. Give shaman totems' effects the ability to affect nonparty raid members, and we'll call it even.

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11 months ago

I'm in agreement with Kody on this.

Half of these are very comical in nature. Most of them are "Who cares?" with laughter.

  • Boats received new music (again? confirm?)
  • Druid basic flight form flaps it's wings slower now
  • Disobedient Dragonmaw Peons are now spelled correctly, it was 'Disobediant'
  • Shaman ghost wolf no longer holds weapons or shield while attacking
  • Weapons while in moonkin form appear to have shrunk
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11 months ago

Well, I was mostly talking about the Gruul and Maulgar aggro changes.

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11 months ago

"Fishing: Bobber splash at the end of the timer is adjusted so you don't have to instantly click for fear of missing"

"Tracking abilities such as "Find Minerals" now last through death"

These are good things, definitely, and long overdue.

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11 months ago

"The debuff from the druid Pounce ability now shows a seperate debuff for the stun and the bleed DoT"

This has always been true :)

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11 months ago

"Warlock pets no longer revert to soul shards when boarding a mount at a flight point " So what happens to the pet? Is it lost and so is the soul shard made to use it?

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11 months ago

The Warlock Pet disappearing on getting on a mount/flying mount/taxi has been around a while. I *think* it came out in 2.1... The concept is that it's basically "put away" and it reappears when you dismount. This pretty much put a version stamp on anything video you see where the poor pet is skittering all over the place trying to keep up to your mount. This has the side effect of 'locks getting off the taxi with their pet already ready to to go. Not a big deal to Normal Servers, but probably is important on the PvP servers. There have been some minor tinkerings with it since release and suffice it to say, it's still not working properly, more now than before, IMO, and they appear to have forgotten about it.

When it was first introduced, my hurt VW was healed to full just by mounting and dismounting. Now, they must have seen this and thought it wasn't particularly "fair". At the moment (well, according to 2.1.something as I haven't really tested 2.2 on this yet), I can fully heal my VW after a fight, mount up, and on dismounting, the VW will have the health before I healed it. Now, my Health bar is STILL down from Health funnel, but the health on my VW has disappeared. How fair is THAT!?

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11 months ago

Warlock mount summon has changed too? Sometimes it sounds like a wolf having a bad day. Can't hear anything when you get your mount to rear up too.

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11 months ago

Raid and Instances:

-Maulgar's aggro radius has been increased to about 40-41 yards (hunters can no longer fire from outside his aggro radius). -Gruul's aggro radius has been increased slightly.

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11 months ago

Those seem like rather silly and pointless changes to me.

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11 months ago

Enchant Ring - Healing Power became cheaper as well: - 2 Large Prismatic Shard - 3 Greater Planar Essence - 5 Arcane dust

Beats me why it's still more expensive than the +dmg version though, they are almost equal (+dmg 60% of +healing)