Patch 2.0.1

Premium members can download the patch here.

 

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.0.1
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The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/under...mplemented/

Looking for Group Interface Tool

A new Looking For Group tool designed to assist players in finding groups for instanced dungeons and quests will now be available. This interface gives players the option to be added to a pool of other players also looking for a
group, as a means to expedite the process. In addition, players will also be able to search for additional members in situations where they have a group and are simply looking to find more players.

For a complete overview of this new interface, please take a moment and read the information contained on our comprehensive Looking for Group preview.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcru...rgroup.html


General

- All players will have their talent points reimbursed and will have access to new talents throughout their trees; this includes the 41-point talents. Several new abilities have also been added for all classes.

- All pets will now receive a percentage of their master's armor, spell damage, spell resistances, attack power, and stamina.
- Low-level spells cast by high-level players will receive smaller bonuses from +healing and +spell damage.
- HoTs, DoTs, and channeled spells have been re-balanced to receive a more appropriate (higher) percentage of +spell damage and +healing.
- HoTs from different sources will now stack (i.e. multiple druids can cast the Rejuvenation spell on 1 target).
- New item property "Resilience" has been introduced. Resilience reduces your chance to be the victim of a critical strike, and reduces the amount of damage critical strikes do to you.
- Weapon Skill now does the following:
- Weapon skill will no longer reduce the percentage damage lost due to glancing.
- The player will gain 0.1% to their critical strike rating per weapon skill against monsters above their level.
- When casting a buff on a low level target, the appropriate rank of the buff will automatically be applied.
- In PvP, Crowd Control effects will last no longer than 12 seconds instead of the full duration, with a chance of a heartbeat resist.
- Players will no longer lose faction when under the influence of "Mind Control" or the Gnomish Mind Control Cap.
- Several improvements have been made to the Macintosh client, including support for Multi-Threaded OpenGL on Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.8 or higher.


PvP

- Honor System Revamp
- Current honor totals have been reset.
- Players may display their highest lifetime rank title (accessible from
character sheet).
- Honor points earned each day may now be spent as a form of currency.
- Check the PvP tab of your character sheet to see your honor information.
- PvP rewards are no longer unique.
- Marks of Honor earned from battlegrounds are no longer turned in for reputation or honor. They are now used in addition to honor points in order to purchase rewards.
- Two New Arenas are now available in three different modes.
- 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5 matches
- Players may queue up at Goblin NPC's in Stormwind, Ironforge,
- Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Gadgetzan


Druids

- The talent "Swiftmend" will now include bonus healing from the talents "Improved Rejuvenation" and "Empowered Rejuvenation".
- "Feline Swiftness" has been renamed "Feral Swiftness". Dodge % increase now also applies to Bear and Dire Bear Forms.
- "Improved Moonfire" has been reduced to 2 ranks, for a 5/10% bonus.
- "Insect Swarm" has had damage on all ranks increased. Mana cost of ranks 1,3 increased. Mana cost of ranks 4,5,6 decreased.
- "Nurturing Instinct" now grants the benefit at all times, but the bonus has been reduced to 25/50% of Strength.
- "Omen of Clarity's" duration has been increased to 30 min.
- "Improved Starfire" has been renamed to "Celestial Focus". It now also increases the chance to resist pushback when casting Wrath by 25/50/70%.
- "Blood Frenzy's" benefits have now merged with "Primal Fury".
- "Improved Leader of the Pack" has been reduced to 2 ranks for 2/4% total health healed.
- "Pounce" no longer requires the druid to be behind the target.
- "Barkskin" is now usable while stunned.

Hunters

- Traps can be set while in combat, but require a 2 second arming time.
- "Auto shot" will be automatically enabled if the Hunter steps out of melee range while in combat with target.
- 1 Agility will now grant 1 Ranged Attack Power.
- "Auto shot" is now reset when casting Aimed Shot.
- "The Beast Within's" Bonus damage caused has been reduced to 10%, but now also reduces the mana cost of all spells by 20%.
- Freezing Traps will now cancel combat when cast.

Mages

- "Frost Nova" (Water Elemental Spell) has now been renamed "Freeze".

Shaman

- Shaman with the appropriate talent spec are now able to dual-wield.
- Self-weapon buffs such as Windfury Weapon can be applied to both main and off-hand weapons.
- Rockbiter's weapon functionality has been changed. It is now a damage proc instead of a flat attack power bonus.
- Windfury Weapon and Rockbiter Weapon enchantments will only benefit the weapon with the enchantment on it.


Warlocks

- The range of "Drain Life" and "Drain Mana" spells have been increased.


Warriors

- Rage generation from dealing damage has been normalized.
- All Rage awards are averaged with our expected rage per swing (adjusted for weapon speed).


Items

- The "Far Sight" effect has changed so that the camera now zooms in to a distant location, rather than instantly showing the distant view. This also affects the items: Ultra-Spectropic Vision Goggles, the Ornate Spyglass, and the Hunter ability "Eagle Eye."
- Spells can now require either a totem item or a totem category item to cast a spell. This means that the Enchanting Rods now count as all of the lower level enchanting rods as well, so you only need a single enchanting rod instead of all six. This also means that "Finkle's Skinner" now counts as a Skinning Knife. Several weapons that are picks have been flagged as counting as a Mining pick as well.
- Items that give bonuses, such as critical strike percentage, have been modified to adhere to a combat rating system.
- All current items will provide the exact same benefit from ratings at level 60 as they provided before the ratings system.
- Thrown weapon items no longer stack, but use durability instead. One unit of durability is lost per throw, and these items can be repaired.
- The tool tip for the Great Staff of the Guardian now shows the proper increase of 28 to the party spell critical rating.
- Items that are useable from player inventory with a cooldown will now update the cooldown in real-time.
- Players will no longer be able to sell the "Blue Skeletal Horse" to vendors.
- The damage Proc from the item "Misplaced Servo Arm" will no longer break the Rogue ability "Gouge".
- The "Skull of Impending Doom" has been changed and will now increase run speed by 60% for 10 seconds, but deals damage equal to 60% of your maximum health and drains 60% of your maximum mana for over 10 seconds.
- The Backfire effect on the "Net-O-Matic" will no longer break on damage.


Professions

- All of the profession-made items that have been created up to now have been given proper stats based on the current expansion item level progression table.
- Most of the items made by Tailoring/Leatherworking/Blacksmithing have had their creation time reduced. Now the cap on time required to make an item in those professions is based on quality and level.
- New Max times required.
- Level 31+ Green Items at least 8 sec
- Level 31+ Blue Items at least 15 sec
- Level 31+ Purple Items at least 25 sec
- Skill level now determines what items you can disenchant.
- Skill 1= Level 1-20
- Skill 25= Level 20-25
- Skill 50= Level 25-30
- Skill 75= Level 30-35
- Skill 100= Level 35-40
- Skill 125= Level 40-45
- Skill 150= Level 45-50
- Skill 175= Level 50-55
- Skill 200= Level 55-60
- Skill 225= Level 60-65
- Players will no longer lose an item when attempting to disenchant on a boat
when the loading screen appears.


User Interface

- Meeting Stone gossip options have been removed from Innkeepers in preparation for the new LFG system.
- LFG/LFM UI
- Tips have been added to Loading Screen tips and new player tips
- Meeting Stones now function similar to a Warlock Summon spell.
- Players select party member to be summoned and right click the stone. A second party member then clicks the portal to summon.
- Enchanting UI has been vastly improved.
- Raid UI now supports frame for Main Tank.
- Spell Alert (Enemy Cast bar)
- Defaults to off
- Enabled through Interface Options
- Displays targeted enemy's cast bar when they are casting.
- May also be displayed with "V" key functionality.
- Auto-loot may be enabled with just one click in the Interface Options.
- Character sheet UI now displays more precise melee, ranged, and spell stats.
- Players can now cast item targetable spells on items that are in your action bar. For instance you can cast feed pet and have the food you want the pet to be fed in one of your action bars.
- Semi-charged items can no longer be placed in the Auction House.
- A knowledge base has been added to the in-game UI.
- Searchable database of FAQ's and common support issues.
- Keyrings have been expanded to hold more key-type items and will now size dynamically for the number of keys in possession.
- The Hunter ability, "Mend Pet," will now turn red when a pet is out of range.
- Players will now be able to disable ability messages in the floating combat text.
- Players will now be able to scroll down their ignore list if it extends beyond one page.
- The tooltips for the Show Dispellable Debuffs and Show Castable Buffs options will now specify they only apply to raid pullout groups.
- Significant changes have been made to User Interface customization.
- For specific details, please visit
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.htm...&sid=1.


Bugs

- The Rend Blackhand arena event in Upper Blackrock Spire will now properly reset after a wipe.
- Players will no longer resurrect with low mana and health if they died and released on a Zeppelin or Ship.
- Fixed an issue where effects with 100% chance to be applied were being resisted.
- Fixed an issue where high level players were not being properly credited the right amount of faction reputation.
- Party members will now be properly credited for completing the "Dead Man's Plea" quest when a totem or pet gets the killing blow on Baron Rivendare.
- Slowing abilities and spells will no longer decrease the speed of a player when traveling by Gryphon.
- Fixed an issue where players were re-taining talent based abilities even after re-training.
- Fixed an issue where the Warlock spell "Shadowburn" was improperly consuming two Soul Shards.
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to click on anything if they had any add-ons installed.
- Fixed an issue where players were able to use "Mana Burn" on mobs and players without mana.
- Fixed an issue where spells that proc while a player was standing would not proc if they were sitting or lying down. - Fixed many interface overlapping graphic issues.
- Fixed an issue where Seal of Justice (Rank 2) will now refresh with melee strikes.
- Blood Elf mobs in Azshara will now have the correct model.
- Fixed an issue where a spell with two procs would be reflected and one of the procs would still hit the player that reflected the spell.
- Fixed an issue that was putting Hunters back into combat when they have the "Spirit Bond" Talent or have the Cryptstalker set bonus.
- Fixed an issue where players were being awarded the wrong item when double looting a corpse under the master loot option.
- Fixed an issue where players interrupted while casting would have a longer cast time than normal.
- Fixed an issue where players could not see enchants when inspecting another player.
- Fixed an issue where extra attacks from "Windfury Weapon" would not proc "Flurry" when they crit.
- Fixed an issue where players that were killed in freezing traps would be stuck there until releasing.
- Fixed an issue where Warlocks were able to despawn a pet to gain a free "Soul Shard"in the Battlegrounds.
- Warrior "Shield Slam" and "Shield Bash" will no longer trigger a proc from an equipped weapon.
- Fixed an issue where players were able to consume a Mana Emerald at full mana.
- The totem, "Wrath of Air," will no longer be useable in "Ghost Wolf" form.
- Fixed an issue where Warrior "Battle Shout" was causing too much threat.
- Fixed an issue where computers with ATi video cards were sometimes having problems when displaying a certain texture.
- Fixed an issue where the Warlock spell "Death Coil" gained double the benefit from the talent "Shadow Mastery". - Player pets will no longer attack CC'ed targets while in Passive mode.
- "Prayer of Spirit" will no longer cast on the user if there is no other target selected.
- "Lightning Shield" will now have the appropriate cool-down time between uses.
- Fixed an issue where materials were being consumed if a player logged out before an enchantment had finished being applied.
- The Hunter, "Auto Shot," ability will no longer activate on resurrection.
- Fixed a bug where "Inner Focus" was not being consumed when using "Mind Soothe."
- Fixed a bug where Rogues were able to use the ability "Ghostly Strike" when not facing their target.
- Warlock pet dismiss sounds will now play properly.
- Fixed an issue where Fist weapons were sheathing improperly.
- Bags will no longer overlap the Bank UI when the game window is resized.
- Players will no longer be able to whisper to enemy players in Battlegrounds.
- The Skeletal Gryphon ride for the Eastern Plaguelands PvP event will now fly at its correct speed.
- Players will no longer be able to jump onto the top of the Dun Baldar Fortress in Alterac Valley and get behind the terrain to attack other players.
- Shapeshifting will now break "Nogginfogger Elixir" effect.
- You will no longer die when Feign Death is finished channeling.
- "Scatter Shot" will now properly do damage even if the target is immune to the confuse effect.
- "Aspect of the Cheetah" will now properly trigger with absorbed damage.
- Casting a lower rank polymorph on a target that is already under the effect of
a higher rank will cause an error message and not consume mana.
- The talent, "Master of Elements," will now properly proc off of totems.
- Players will no longer be attacked by same faction guards when using mind control on an enemy player to attack. - "Vanish" will now properly un-target the Rogue from the attacker when the attacker is in the same party.
- The talent, "Improved Chain Heal," will now properly add to the base healing done.
- "Healing Wave" Ranks 11 and 12 will now benefit from the Shaman talent, "Healing Way."
- "Improved Curse of Agony" will now properly increase the base and spell power.
- Warlocks will now be properly credited a Soul Shard from their pet when they take a flight path.
- Warlocks will now be properly credited a Soul Shard from their pet when they are dead at the end of a Battleground match.
- Warlocks will now be properly credited a Soul Shard from their pet when they enter an Arena.
- Casting "Dark Pact" after exiting combat will no longer put you back in combat.
- The tool tip for the "Great Staff of the Guardian" now shows the proper increase of 28 to the party spell critical rating.
- Several Chest spawns in Dustwallow Marsh will now properly spawn above ground.
- Items that can give +Stamina/Intellect from random suffixes will now properly apply while dead.
- "Beastmaster's Gloves" will now give the proper 2% crit chance for Hunter pets.
- Fixed a bug where you can end up with overlapping bags after resizing the window.
- Various graphical errors will be noticeable while viewing maps.

Mac

- Added support for Multi-Threaded OpenGL on Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.8 or higher. Depending on hardware, scene and graphicalsettings, this can raise frame rates up to a factor of 2X.
- Improved video hardware detection and default settings, especially with Intel video.
- Vertex Animation Shaders have been disabled for systems with Intel video.
- Improved iTunes key-binding feature for smoothness and track name display.
- Fixed a bug where Tutorial Tips would not be marked as viewed correctly on PowerPC Macs.
- Fixed a rare crash bug in the audio code.
- Improved support for Weather Shaders.
- Added support for changing the mouse sensitivity in WoW. Previously, the Mac version ignored the value from the slider in the Interface Options dialog.

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PvP Ranks
# Dec 12 2006 at 9:37 PM Rating: Decent
- Honor System Revamp
- Current honor totals have been reset.
- Players may display their highest lifetime rank title (accessible from
character sheet).
Does that basicly meen that you cannot gain in PVP rank anymore?
Mac People
# Dec 08 2006 at 11:15 PM Rating: Decent
Mac People: Are you seeing the increase in FPS that I am? I really am getting about 2X FPS. I have the 1st gen Mac mini...
not the right disenchant levels?
# Dec 08 2006 at 6:45 PM Rating: Decent
Quote:
- Skill level now determines what items you can disenchant.
- Skill 1= Level 1-20
- Skill 25= Level 20-25
- Skill 50= Level 25-30
- Skill 75= Level 30-35
- Skill 100= Level 35-40
- Skill 125= Level 40-45
- Skill 150= Level 45-50
- Skill 175= Level 50-55
- Skill 200= Level 55-60
- Skill 225= Level 60-65


that seems to be wrong. my enchanting is level 56, and i can't disenchant items above level 25.
Whiners
# Dec 07 2006 at 1:06 AM Rating: Decent
Doesn't seem to matter what class or what game people often seem to think that their class is hated the most by game developers. I've played various online games over the years and in every forum there are threads like this one. I don't think Blizzard hate any class. I suspect they probably take some pride in what I think is a very good game. So if they are proud of their creation they want to do the best they can for every aspect.
Whiners
# Dec 07 2006 at 4:17 PM Rating: Decent
You know, logical thought such as that does not seem to be the prevailing theme here. I agree whole-heartedly, but people generally forget the good and remember the bad. Human nature.
shut up please!
# Dec 06 2006 at 6:08 PM Rating: Decent
Come on now guys, you got nothing to ***** about. At least your guys changed more than nothing! I'm a preist and what did we get? NOTHING!! So shut your mouths.
Whine Whine
# Dec 06 2006 at 11:57 AM Rating: Decent
You bunch of whining morons...(not everyone) stfu about WAAAAAA my class sucks, Blizz sucks WAAAA, ffs grow some ******* balls and accept the fact the Blizzard has made the changes. They have far more wisdom into the game than you without a doubt, they have made their decision for a damn good reason...Stop whining and get on with the damn game.
blah
# Dec 06 2006 at 11:54 AM Rating: Decent
<sarcasm> Finally warlock's gets the increase of ways to kill people finally! I'm tired of having to put some effort into killing ppl but i can relax just alittle bit more due to destruction tree changes </sarcasm>
patch and cosmos
# Dec 06 2006 at 10:53 AM Rating: Decent
any cosmos users, notice they can't use coordinates on their maps anymore? The bags aren't integrated anymore either? What's the deal?
Oh boohoo
# Dec 06 2006 at 7:30 AM Rating: Decent
Try playing a priest, we get to l2play all over again.
AP
# Dec 06 2006 at 4:37 AM Rating: Decent
hunters got shafted with attack power
AP
# Dec 06 2006 at 10:09 AM Rating: Decent
Hunters got a mega boost with pets. I don't even want to hear a hunter complain about the patch.
Hey
# Dec 06 2006 at 4:25 AM Rating: Decent
I think there are something wrong with the site.. when I click on items by zone you know... and then I choose a instance then the items doesnt come.. I think its some bug with the site :S
10Gb Disk Space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# Dec 06 2006 at 4:18 AM Rating: Decent
The new patch ****** my wow because the game now needs over 10Gb disk space.

Install problems have limited me to re-install from scratch 5 cd's 8hrs of patch re-downloads.

Apparently the new patch needs 3.8Gb of disk space WTF, on the disk I had wow installed on there was 3.6Gb left on a 10gb partition all 6.4gb already taken by wow, seriously why does the game need more than 10gb its crazy.
I tried moving to another partition but failed and then received nothing but error messages telling me to re-install.

you think when they release a patch it would work.
10Gb Disk Space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# Dec 06 2006 at 12:27 PM Rating: Decent
You don't need to keep all the old patch files that get downloaded. Delete them or , better yet, put them on a cd in case you ever have to reinstall WoW. My WoW folder takes up less then 5gb (without Screenshots).
10Gb Disk Space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# Dec 06 2006 at 4:58 AM Rating: Decent
#1 you can copy the game folder to elshwere it still can be startable, just make a new shortcuts to yer desktop
#2 about space - clean up yer screenshtots folder
Ore and Herb Bug
# Dec 06 2006 at 3:14 AM Rating: Default
They said they were going to fix the bug that was keeping Miners and Herbalists from autosaving the Ore deposits and Herbs on the world map unless the attempt failed in patch 1.13, but they didn't come out with 1.13. Instead they came out with 2.0.1 and I dont see that fix listed. That sucks if they didn't fix it.
Talent Caluclators not updated
# Dec 06 2006 at 12:06 AM Rating: Decent
You would think that with a patch of this magnitude, where all talent points have been refunded, that Blizzard would update the talent calculators simultaneously with the release of the patch (if not sooner).

But, Nooooooo.

As a Druid I lose Omen of Clarity to the Resto tree, when I've always been a nearly pure Balance spec. I haven't figured out the tradeoffs of the new abilities in the Balance tree, but that's because THERE ISN'T AN UP-TO-DATE CALCULATOR, grrrr.

I'm sure Druids aren't alone in this, either.

Thanks, Bliz.
#REDACTED, Posted: Dec 06 2006 at 4:35 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) its in the BC talents. If you wernt so busy trying to talk trash about blizz, hould actually be able to find it.
warr talents
# Dec 05 2006 at 5:47 PM Rating: Decent
as i have looked at other pages the warr talent Tactical Mastery(arms three) and Iron Will (prot three) has changed places if this is a fact then i have to respec from my 31-5-15 build to something else this is one of the most stupid things that blizz have ever done and tactical mastery is in fact nerfed from 25 rage saved when you change stance to 15 rage if this also is true then blizz could just give taunt and charge over to palas
warr talents
# Dec 05 2006 at 7:00 PM Rating: Decent
really shows how much of an idiot you are....

at lvl 20 wars get an ability that alows them to automatically save 10 rage when switching stances, tact mastery increases that from 10 to 25, indicating the +15 rage

l2read
warr talents
# Dec 06 2006 at 10:36 PM Rating: Decent
the new abilaty with the talen keep it the same but the move it to a differet tree with was the bad part it f'ed over all arms and furry warriors not to mention what the did to rage with the normiazation. I have stoped playing my warrior. I will not start to play him again untill they do someting about this mistake. Oh and dont talk about how bizz knew what they were doing utill you try and play a warrior like they are now.
patch
# Dec 05 2006 at 5:14 PM Rating: Decent
i´m looking forward to the druidchance...since they are abit crappy as it is now
Disenchanting
# Dec 05 2006 at 4:02 PM Rating: Decent
If the enchanting skill determines what can be enchanted, Blizz better give enchanting skill gains for DE'ing higher end stuff.

... still d/l'ing the patch
Disenchanting
# Dec 06 2006 at 10:14 AM Rating: Decent
That is like saying I should get Gains for Smelting Mithril...oh, I guess I should, but they still don't give it.
Is this for real?
# Dec 05 2006 at 2:03 PM Rating: Excellent
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Quote:
- Skill level now determines what items you can disenchant.
- Skill 1= Level 1-20
- Skill 25= Level 20-25
- Skill 50= Level 25-30
- Skill 75= Level 30-35
- Skill 100= Level 35-40
- Skill 125= Level 40-45
- Skill 150= Level 45-50
- Skill 175= Level 50-55
- Skill 200= Level 55-60
- Skill 225= Level 60-65


WTF?? Is this for real? Enchanting mats are hard enough to come by as it is, and now our primary sources of mats will be eliminated? As a 250+ enchanter I'll now have to go to the Auction House or MC, BRS, etc, for mats?? And if this is true, Auction House prices will skyrocket in no time. This has to be a typo or something ... otherwise I'm finished as an enchanter ... thanks a lot Blizz ... >_<
Is this for real?
# Dec 05 2006 at 6:23 PM Rating: Decent
I think what this means is the level of the item your disenchanting, so if your skill 225 you can disenchant any item. but if your only skill l50 you can only disenchant items no more than level 50

I guess its a way to stop low levels that just started enchanting from dissenchanting high level items just like that
Is this for real?
# Dec 06 2006 at 6:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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After I was finally able to get in game last night and check this, you're correct hecspike. The level of my enchanting skill only limits the upper level of the items that I can disenchant, so over 225 you can disenchant anything that is able to be disenchanted. The patch notes are very poorly worded in this case, which Blizz should fix ... after all I wouldn't want to kill someone for the wrong reason. :P
Is this for real?
# Dec 05 2006 at 7:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Also an effort to try and stop people from hacking your account, then ditching a prof to get disenchant then disenchanting all your gear.
To "Unfair (life of mage hurts...)"
# Dec 05 2006 at 1:59 PM Rating: Default
Quote:
We have one of the best classes in the game, major dps, crowd control, morphs, ports, drinks and food, shield, blink


Hmm are we playing the same game? Or are u joking?

Major DPS, Compared to what? the pets? In Bc Blizzard says that Mages are the Main DPS class. Everyone that have tried the BC beta KNOWS that Mages have the lowest DPS of all DPS classes. (I have played the beta with my mage that has Full NW, FM set and alot of random epics, and before BC i usually was top 5 on total dmg done)No i have to struggle to even get in top 10.
Crowd control, hmm almost every class has a way to get out from nova or to dispel it.
Polymorph, We are the only class in the game that has a healing CC and that breaks all the time i might ad, compared to Fear where i can be killed during the time im feared.
Food/water Tbh i rather buy my food/water then have to put up with all "can i have some food, noobzzorr gifve food, Fu stupid mage ****** give me food etc etc.

Shield hmm it drains mana which is something we have to cut down on if we want to have atleast more then 3500 HP. Ice Barrier=Absorbs 850 damage (lvl60) which isnt that much if u look what kind of other ways we have to protect ourselves aginst Dots etc, and its a 31point talent.

Blink, Most bugged spell in game, if u are on a ledge,slope,edge etc u blink backwards!!

And i dont even want to get started on the other classes uppgrades...
that compared to the mage gets buffed to the skies.

Meh...
# Dec 05 2006 at 1:52 PM Rating: Decent
Good thing my alt is an alchemist. My warrior would be screwed without his moderate doses of rage! Btw, shamans don't need to dual-wield. . . they are powerful enough as it is
Resillience
# Dec 05 2006 at 12:46 PM Rating: Decent
Hurray, resllience...man i dunno what to spec in now for my rogue, I mean it's my first character and im at level 39, i pulled together a new tree cause i blew my other one to hell by speccing in subtley...

so i figured id retry with doing a improve crit chance/crit damage thing cause that seems popular but im wondering how much resillience will play as a factor for rogues...big? small? hmm..guess it just matters how you play.

But as for the nifty factor in this patch, Im lookin forward to the new LFG thing, especially since the meeting stone can act as a summoning now! :D this will make instances a lot less backbreaking, you know how we all want the items from it but can never find a good enough group in time...
Interesting patch problem...
# Dec 05 2006 at 12:17 PM Rating: Decent
I just finished patching my systems that I play WoW on and had a problem with the one system that had been doing background downloads. The systems which had not done any background downloads worked just fine. The one that had been trying to do the background download completely corrupted. The repair utility said that common.mpq was completely corrupted and was going to try to roll me back to a previous version. I'd been playing on 1.12, and we're all downloading 2.0.1. The version it tried to roll me back to was 2.0.0, which failed since it had never
been on that system, except possibly through the background downloader...

I'm now re-installing that one system, which appears to need to do the 1.12 patch before the 2.0.1 patch. It's going to take a long time.

Has anyone else run into this?

tsiv
Rogues
# Dec 05 2006 at 11:47 AM Rating: Decent
I'm sorry but I really do not like the way the talents have been moved around on the rogue's talent tree... It is keeping us from specing the way we would just because of the positions of the talent points on the tree.... They rearraged them in the last patch, but it is only getting worse.

And I think Every class got something except for a pally and rogue, and all they do is fix our "vanish bug" and we are suppose to consider it a great buff.

I just don't like the way it is heading.

But, only my opinion. I'd say most ppl STILL think rogues are overpowered in some fields.... I can promise you tho, Blizz is doing all it can to buff the other class and not us to make it "even".... They suceeded too, a lil' too well.


Oh well, yay new patch eh?
yea... yay.



Peace*
Rogues
# Dec 05 2006 at 12:46 PM Rating: Decent
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Honestly, QQ more. Rogues have never, and will never be weak to any other class. The changes made in the talent trees make total sense to me, and they're changes that the Rogue community has been clamoring about for a long time.
Warriors ouch
# Dec 05 2006 at 10:55 AM Rating: Decent
Well then i think the only class that really didn't get anything good updated and infact got owned was the warrior. They get less rage per swing now which means getting enough rage for a mortal strike or even sunder armor will take an extra swing or three. I'm still DLing this patch thou maybe its not as bad as i think it will be, i hope....OH and anyone that has a mule enchanter that they send greens to got slightly nerfed, thanks to the skill/lvl cap of disenchanting. Now you gotta get your mule to 10 even then you can't DE past lvl 50 items and that's at the max skill. Looks like im gunna need to lvl my mule a little higher jeez.
Warriors ouch
# Dec 06 2006 at 5:24 PM Rating: Decent
In my experience, the rage generation is actually better. Maybe I'm just imagining it, though; but it is definitely not worse. Personally, I love the talent tree changes. 100% chance to resist disarm? Two talents that increase the already *buffed* rage generation? Only thing I have to say is that the fury spec didn't get updated, and it probably should have been. But it's still good so I'm not complaining; I am an arms/protection warrior as it is.
Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 05 2006 at 9:22 AM Rating: Decent
So shamans get their dualvield Locks get longer spell range, pets now get bonuses from their owners... and so on... And what Mages get? A stupid and accualy unusefull spell name change... It's hard already to be a mage, I wonder who in blizzard hates so much Mages -and plss dont come with those "you're a master of AoE" cause AoE dmg are Crap (-and only thing they are usefulla t is menaging monster hate), casting time for most spells Humongous! not even mentioning the price in mana...
"oh you need a drink again? Why mages run out of mana so quick? Oh you done only 1k dmg in 4 sec and I did 700 in 2 then 400 in 1... "
I'm not crying or anything, but... It simply make's me wanna kill the person that is responsible fo 2.5k life at 60 lev with casting time of 3 when you accualy cant cast (if not for icebarrier) ,but you need to RUN!
I think the person that was responisble for Mages (or more propably a team that was) class did ****** their job.
Nth personal... but I wonder If any of those people ever played the class they created...
And for all who read read this: yes I do play a Mage, no... I wont change class, why? Because this class requires the most from player -to keep your char alive and advance.
Still... It's unfair...
Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 07 2006 at 10:45 AM Rating: Decent
Wow so you must not know how to play Mage class at all ... personally i have never played a mage .. well except my lvl 60 but that doesnt count i guess .. running out of mana well you got issue that is why god made you a walking vending machine so you dont have to blow a bunch of gold on mana juices .. 2.5k health get some better gear .. my mages has over 3k health not much but enough to effectivly stay alive ... and as for AoE dude i push out alot of damage i am normally sitting pretty in the 4th to 5th spot on a damage meter in MC or whatever other raid i am in depending on how many rogues are sitting there as well ...though it has been awhile since i played my mage i normally play my hunter now
but i will say Blizz did make some bad choices with this patch however there is no way i am gonna complain about it i love the new content Hunters BM and MM spec is sweet now plus i got a new pet outta the deal the Razzashi Adder from ZG is now tameable and has a wicked painful venom spit not to mention the ATI video card fix that has caused me alot of issues though they could have waited at least 2 more weeks to realease it i am still glad it came when it did





Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 06 2006 at 8:50 PM Rating: Decent
After spending ten minutes trying to decipher the tortuous attempts at grammar in your post, I have come to the following conclusion:

If you have a level sixty mage, you must have bought the account. Yesterday.

Most of your arguments are flawed. Running out of mana? When the hell does THAT happen? I have to wait for the priests, druids, and warlocks to finish drinking. You have issues with getting your spells cast? My friend, I get off at least two pyroblasts in each fight, unless whatever it is that I'm fighting dies before I get five Fire Vulnerabilites on it.

I have had two strangers ask me for water. Total.

As for your complaint about damage, that's not really a class-wide issue. That is a frost tree issue. Fire tree does massive amounts of damage, with occasional stuns.

You said you weren't crying. That is a BLATANT lie. Your entire post is basically one long, nonsensical whine.
Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 05 2006 at 6:28 PM Rating: Decent
We get even greater NERF in PvP...reduction in CC time to 12 seconds regardless of the time it should be. I am starting to get annoyed at the way we are treated.
Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 05 2006 at 1:59 PM Rating: Decent
I love my mage, don't have any gripes really... I think if you have gripes it's because you're still trying to work out how to play effectively, strategy and whatnot. But a name change this late in the game seems pretty ridiculous. I mean, we all know what Frost Nova is so wby bother?
Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 05 2006 at 11:17 AM Rating: Decent
you know.. I dont remember seeing Paladins being mentioned.. or Priests.. or Rogues.. so quit your ********** There's three other classes that didn't even get mentioned, and you're complaining about a stupid name change, jeez. I'm a Rogue and Shaman, I 'could' be complaining about the new "Resilience" factor.. but I'm not. I could say learn to play too, but not. I guess the only really to say is.. You can't please everyone. Someone always has to complain about something...
Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 05 2006 at 9:55 AM Rating: Decent
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I play a mage and I don't think we're shortchanged. We have one of the best classes in the game, major dps, crowd control, morphs, ports, drinks and food, shield, blink, etc.; it's fun to be a mage. What you are asking for is a super class that will outdo all the others, not a well balanced class like mages are now.
Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 05 2006 at 2:05 PM Rating: Default
Quote:
We have one of the best classes in the game, major dps, crowd control, morphs, ports, drinks and food, shield, blink


Hmm are we playing the same game? Or are u joking?

Major DPS, Compared to what? the pets? In Bc Blizzard says that Mages are the Main DPS class. Everyone that have tried the BC beta KNOWS that Mages have the lowest DPS of all DPS classes. (I have played the beta with my mage that has Full NW, FM set and alot of random epics, and before BC i usually was top 5 on total dmg done)No i have to struggle to even get in top 10.
Crowd control, hmm almost every class has a way to get out from nova or to dispel it.
Polymorph, We are the only class in the game that has a healing CC and that breaks all the time i might ad, compared to Fear where i can be killed during the time im feared.
Food/water Tbh i rather buy my food/water then have to put up with all "can i have some food, noobzzorr gifve food, Fu stupid mage ****** give me food etc etc.

Shield hmm it drains mana which is something we have to cut down on if we want to have atleast more then 3500 HP. Ice Barrier=Absorbs 850 damage (lvl60) which isnt that much if u look what kind of other ways we have to protect ourselves aginst Dots etc, and its a 31point talent.

Blink, Most bugged spell in game, if u are on a ledge,slope,edge etc u blink backwards!!

And i dont even want to get started on the other classes uppgrades...
that compared to the mage gets buffed to the skies.

Unfair (life of mage hurts...)
# Dec 06 2006 at 5:29 AM Rating: Decent
apparently we are not playing the same game...

I have 3 lvl 60s, a rogue, a warrior and a mage.

I have to say that i LOVE playing my mage. I've completly given up on my rogue(only use it to smelt Dark Iron now) and still in the process of gearing up my warrior in ZG. i honestly can't understand your whining about mages.

I'm top3 DPS in MC EVERY time even tho i'm still quite under-geared compared to the other people there.
Also, Icebarrier benefits from +spellDMG which makes it atleast 1100dmg for a new LVL60mage with decent gear.
In PVP i really have no problem except for some classes, but choose your battles when you're in BGs.
really, it's all about how well you play, mage is quite easy to play, but hard to master. think about that
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