1.9.0 PreNotes

[Morgrym]

Lots of interesting things here. These notes have been confirmed by Blizzard although they state that things may be added to or removed from them prior to the official patch.

The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj
The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj will house two massive, unique dungeons -- the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, a 20-man raid dungeon, and the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, a 40-man raid dungeon. As players delve deeper into the mysteries of Ahn'Qiraj, they will discover revelations of the Silithid infestation and their shadowy masters, the Qiraji. Players will have to complete a world event of massive proportions before they can open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj on their realm.
***During the public test of Ahn'Qiraj, the world event to open the gates will be accelerated to allow testing of the dungeon content.***
Linked Auction Houses

Players will now be able to buy and sell goods with greater effectiveness using the Linked Auction House system. Auction Houses in Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thunder Bluff will now share the same pool of Horde player-created auctions, and Alliance players will find the same to be true when visiting Ironforge, Stormwind City, and Darnassus Auction Houses. This system has been expanded to support the neutral Auction Houses as well. Tanaris, Everlook, and Booty Bay will all be linked for players of both factions to access. In addition, the "Looking for Group" and "Trade" channels have been unified among the corresponding cities, meaning, for example, that you can trade your goods or look for groups in Ironforge while in Stormwind.
Multiple Battlegrounds Queues

Players will be able to enter multiple battleground queues. No longer must you make the hard decision of which queue to join -- when queued for all three, you can join the first one available or hold out for that particular battleground which you've really got your heart set on.
Soul Shard Bags

Tailors now can make soul bags to hold soul shards. The smallest is a 20-slot bag, the recipe for which can be purchased in Gadgetzan. The recipe for a larger bag can be found in Scholomance, and one for an even larger bag can be found in Molten Core. In the main UI, these soul bags will display how many shards they contain. So long as the soul bags have room, any soul shards a warlock creates will automatically go into the bag.
Raid Calendar System

The raid-lockout system has undergone a significant change. The new system will have all instances reset at a certain server time, regardless of when you were actually saved to the instance. The reset schedule is as follows:
Molten Core: Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance.
Blackwing Lair: Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance
Onyxia: Every 5 Days
Zul'Gurub: Every 3 Days
Temple of Ahn’Qiraj (40-man): Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance
Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj (20-man): Every 3 Days
All resets will occur during off-hours, when the least amount of raids are active.
Important Note for Mac OS X Users

The minimum supported Mac OS X revision for WoW will be changed in a post-1.9.0 patch, from 10.3.5 to 10.3.9. If you are running 10.3.5 - 10.3.8 and need to get the free update, you can use Software Update or you can click here for the direct download. This change will make it easier for us to release future updates to the game, for example to support upcoming Mac models based on Intel processors.
General

All Disorient effects have been renamed Incapacitate effects. This includes Gouge, Sap, etc.
All Confusion effects have been renamed Disorient effects. This includes Blind, Scatter Shot, etc.
Food and Drink are now in separate categories, so you can only have one food effect and one drink effect on you at a time. The only effect should be that foods that used to stack with each other (you could have two food effects on you at once) no longer will stack.
On-next-swing abilities will no longer cause multiple weapon procs on a single swing.
PvP

Several civilian NPCs, who previously would assist non-civilians, will no longer do so.
Druids

Bear and Dire Bear form - Effects that lower armor will now lower armor by a percentage of the druid's full armor, rather than just base (caster form) armor. However, Enrage will still only remove 75% of base armor.
Omen of Clarity - Special attacks will no longer consume their own clearcasting state. All melee attacks will now be able to trigger the clearcasting state.
Nature's Grasp - This spell can now trigger from special melee attacks. It will no longer be possible to cast Entangling Roots at no mana cost immediately after Nature's Grasp procs.
Nature's Grace - The Nature's Grace buff will now appear on the player upon completion of casting, before the travel time of the spell. So, Wrath crits will now benefit the casting time of the next spell cast.
Insect Swarm - New icon.
Improved Starfire - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).
Omen of Clarity - This spell now works correctly with Bash, Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Demoralizing Roar, granting a decrease in the cost of the ability. Ferocious Bite will still use the entire energy bar to generate additional damage.
Hunters

Arcane Shot - This spell can no longer trigger twice in one shot off of the Paladin's Judgement of Wisdom.
Aspect of the Pack and Aspect of the Cheetah - Periodic damage will no longer trigger the Dazed effect.
Aspect of the Wild - Radius increased. Tooltip updated to display radius.
Improved Concussive Shot - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).
Tame Beast - The hunter will now turn to face the target during the taming process.
Bestial Wrath - Damage bonus reduced, duration increased.
Unleashed Fury - Damage bonus increased.
Pet Changes
Turtles can now eat raw and cooked fish.
Turtles can now learn Shell Shield, allowing them to reduces all damage taken by 50% for 10 sec.
Hunters can now tame Sons of Hakkar. Sons of Hakkar are in the Wind Serpent family and will know Lightning Breath (Rank 6).
Boars can now learn Charge, an ability that allows them to charge to an enemy, immobilize that enemy for 1 second, and add a large amount of Attack Power to the boar's next attack.
Gorillas can now learn Thunderstomp, an ability that causes high threat area Nature damage.
Mages

Impact - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).
Netherwind Regalia - The 8-piece set bonus will now proc immediately upon completion of casting the spell, before travel time on the spell. This will allow the proc to affect the next spell cast as intended.
Arcane Concentration - Blizzard will now be able to gain a Clearcasting state from this talent.
Blast Wave - Will now show spell data in the talent page.
Paladins

Due to significant talent changes, all Paladins' talent points will be refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell/ability replacements have been significantly reduced.
Paladins can now learn Greater Blessings for the following spells:
Blessing of Might
Blessing of Wisdom
Blessing of Kings
Blessing of Sanctuary
Blessing of Salvation
Greater Blessings will cast the associated blessing on all raid members that share the same class as the target. For example, if you cast Greater Blessing of Might on a warrior in your raid, all warriors in the raid party will receive Blessing of Might from you. Additionally, Greater Blessings have an increased duration of 15 minutes. These blessings require twice as much mana as the single target version, as well as a reagent. Paladins can purchase these new Greater Blessing spells from their class trainers.
Seal of Fury - The seal and judgement have been removed and replaced with a new self-buff, Righteous Fury, which will increase threat from holy damage.
Seals and Judgements - Added or increased damage per level so that these spells keep pace between replacements.
Judgements - Judgements that place a debuff on their victim will now all have their duration refreshed when the judging paladin strikes the victim with his or her melee swings. All these debuffs have had their duration decreased to 10 seconds. In addition, Judgements that place debuffs can no longer be resisted.
Seal of Righteousness - Now does holy damage on every swing. It can now proc correctly as well. The Judgement effect has been renamed "Judgement of Righteousness" to differentiate it from the Seal damage in the combat log.
Judgement of the Crusader - The holy damage bonus has been decreased as part of rebalancing paladin damage (which is still increased overall).
Seal of Command - The proc will occur more often, but will only do 70% of weapon-swing damage.
Judgement of Command - Instead of placing a debuff on the victim, this spell now does immediate damage. If the victim is not stunned, they only take 30% of the total damage. The damage on this Judgement was increased significantly.
Judgement of Wisdom - Arcane Shot will no longer cause this to proc twice on one shot. Channeling spells can now trigger this proc as well.
Vengeance - Special ability critical hits can now trigger Vengeance.
Judgement of Righteousness - The damage of this judgement was increased significantly. This judgement can now trigger procs.
Holy Shock - Now heals friendly targets and damages enemy targets. Mana cost reduced. Bonus from spell damage and healing items increased.
All Seals and Judgements have had their bonus coefficient from plus spell damage re-evaluated. Some holy damage effects had no coefficient before and now have a coefficient.
Vengeance - Clarified the tooltip to indicate procs will not trigger Vengeance.
Summon Warhorse - Mana cost reduced.
Summon Charger - Mana cost reduced.
Consecration - No longer displays a debuff icon on targets in the area of effect.
Updated Aura tooltips to be more clear (include radius, fix grammatical errors etc...).
Judgement - Range increased, cooldown decreased, mana cost decreased. Using Judgement will now initiate melee combat.
Exorcism - Now usable on Demon targets in addition to Undead targets.
Holy Wrath - Now usable on Demon targets in addition to Undead targets.
Seal of Justice - Mana cost slightly increased. The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).
Seal of Righteousness - Damage bonus from +Holy damage items increased, mana cost slightly increased.
Seal of Command - Damage bonus from +Holy damage items increased.
Seal of the Crusader - Mana cost slightly increased.
Seal of Fury - Removed and replaced with Righteous Fury.
Seal of Light - Mana cost slightly increased.
Seal of Wisdom - Mana cost slightly increased.
Seal of Command - Mana cost slightly increased.
Hammer of Wrath - Missile speed of the flying hammer increased.
Divine Protection, Divine Shield and Blessing of Protection - Targets of these spells will now receive the "Recently Shielded" effect, preventing another of these three spells from being applied to that target for one minute.
New Spell: Righteous Fury (level 16) - Increases the threat generated by the Paladin's Holy attacks by 100%. Lasts 30 minutes.
Blessing of Sanctuary - Now causes Holy damage to the attacker when the blessed target blocks an attack in addition to the current effect.
Priests

Martyrdom - This talent will now trigger on melee special abilities as well as on melee swings. The tooltip has been clarified to indicate this ability only works on melee strikes.
Mind Blast - Threat raised on ranks 7, 8, and 9. Incorrect data had been entered in those spells, resulting in less threat generated than designed.
Blackout - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).
Rogues

Mace Specialization - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).
Shaman

Lightning Shield - This spell will now proc when the shaman is struck by elemental attacks.
Stormstrike - Earthbind and Stoneclaw totems will no longer use up charges of Stormstrike.
New Spell - Tranquil Air Totem. Creates a totem that reduces the threat caused by nearby party members by 20%.
Warlocks

Searing Pain - Increased damage on all ranks of Searing Pain.
Infernal and Doomguard - Increased armor 10% and damage 30% on both pets.
Soul Link - This spell can no longer be partially dispelled off the warlock. In addition, Soul Link can no longer be used on non-demon pets.
Hellfire - Victims of Hellfire are now able to resist properly. Warlocks continue (as designed) to be unable to resist their own damage.
Curse of Shadow and Curse of the Elements - These curses can no longer cause resistance to become negative. To compensate, both curses now increases the damage taken from the appropriate schools by a percentage.
Summon Felsteed - Mana cost reduced.
Summon Dreadsteed - Mana cost reduced.
Pyroclasm - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).
Warriors

Execute - Improved Execute and other discounts to the Execute ability will now correctly convert the resulting extra rage into damage.
Retaliation - This ability will no longer lose charges when the attacker is behind the warrior.
Sword Specialization - Special attacks now properly trigger the chance to gain an extra attack.
Sweeping Strikes - Whirlwind and Retaliation will now correctly consume the charges from Sweeping Strikes.
Bloodthirst - The damage component has been increased to 45% of attack power.
Enrage - The talent will now grant 5/10/15/20/25% extra damage when enraged, instead of 8/16/24/33/40%.
Mace Specialization - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).
Improved Revenge - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc...).
Racial Traits

Troll Racial Abilities
Troll Berserking
Is now triggered off any critical hit on you, including spells and ranged attacks.
Melee/ranged haste bonus and duration reduced.
Now adds spell damage in addition to the haste bonus.
Berserking now ability requires a small amount of mana, rage, or energy (depending on your class) to activate.
Throwing Mastery
Trolls now also receive a bonus to Bow weapons in addition to Throwing weapons.
Orc Racial Abilities
Blood Fury
Now applies a healing effectiveness debuff on the user instead of the attack power penalty. The healing debuff is applied immediately upon using the ability.
Hardiness
Resistance is now applied to just Stun mechanics.
Gnome Racial Abilities
Escape Artist
Casting time lowered.
Dwarven Racial Abilities
Stoneform
No longer snares the user.
Armor bonus increased.
Duration lowered.
Items

All of the Tier 2 Class Armor sets have been updated with new art.
The following weapons and shields have been updated with new art : Perdition's Blade, Obsidian Edged Blade, Gutgore Ripper, Core Hound Tooth, Aurastone Hammer, Drillborer Disk, Staff of Dominance.
Many of the pieces from the Tier 2 Armor sets have received updated statistics. The armor sets with the most extensive changes include the Netherwind, Nemesis, and Judgement sets. Other sets received fewer revisions, or none at all.
Slimes have been latching on to more valuable items and they will now be dropping better loot than they used to, including coin drops and special bags.
Drop rates of Darkmoon Cards 2-8 (Portals 2-8, etc..) have been reduced. Ace drop rates have been increased.
The drop rate of Shadowcat Hides has been increased.
The Lifestealing enchantment now does shadow damage rather than fire damage.
Manna Biscuits now have two separate spell effects so they stack correctly with other food and water.
Well Fed buffs from special foods will no longer stack with each other.
The enchanter-made wands are now correctly flagged as Bind on Equip.
Silithus air elementals have a slightly increased chance of dropping essence of air
Stormshroud Shoulders have been fixed to be a superior item and have had the stamina on them slightly increased as well.
Whistle of the Black War Raptor was changed to Bind on Acquire.
The Runed Stygian Belt is no longer Unique.
Bandages will now appears as "Consumable" in the auction house.
Jadeanar humanoids and demons in Felwood and Winterfall Furbolgs in Winterspring can now drop Runecloth.
Winterfall Furbolgs will not drop Winterfall Firewater as often.
The Seal of Wrynn, Nogg's Gold Ring, and Talvash's Gold Ring have been improved to be superior items.
All Giants in Azshara now drop cash and items appropriate for an elite creature.
The attack speed slowing effect from Thunderfury has been reduced to 20%, and no longer stacks with other such effects such as Thunderclap.
The Reckless Charge ability of the Goblin Rocket Helmet and Horned Viking Helmet is now considered a disorient instead of a sleep effect.
Flamewaker Legplates and Sash of Whispered Secrets improved to have the proper stats of an epic item.
Broken Silithid Chitin is now marked as a poor item.
Albino Crocscale Boots now has the appropriate geometry attached.
Darkshore Grouper now has an appropriate sound when moved in your inventory.
The effect of the Freezing Band is now considered a Freeze effect.
The Force Reactive Disk's and Cloak of Fire's effects will no longer gain a benefit from effects that increase spell damage.
The Insightful Hood and Southsea Head Bucket will now cover hair properly.
The proc ability of the Halberd of Smiting can no longer cause another proc.
The Glimmering Mithril Insignia will no longer make a player immune to Death Coil.
The Goblin Mortar's stun effect now has a description.
Six Demon Bag tooltip changed to note that the target must be in front of the caster.
The Fiery War Axe is now in fact, Fiery.
The Abyssal Plate Gauntlets are now Bind on Equip.
Items with the Frost Blast ability will now deal the correct damage listed.
Gauntlets of Shining Light is now spelled correctly.
The Pure Elementium Band now has a sell price.
The Mendicant's Slippers now have the proper amount of stamina for the level of the item.
Arcanist's Bindings had more resistances than proper for the item, and these were removed.
Alcor's Sunrazor is now Bind on Equip.
Transforming Thunderstrike and Shadowstrike will no longer consume additional copies of the item that might be in the inventory.
Added a note to the tooltip for the Healing and Mana Draughts available in Alterac Valley that informs the player they are only usable in Alterac Valley.
Incorrect amounts of abilities such as Attack Power, Increased Fire Damage, or Increased Healing Damage were being applied to all random item property world drops. Two handed weapons such as Staves had much lower amounts of these abilities, while ranged and one handed weapons had too much. All further drops of these items will have the correct amounts, but previously dropped items will not be affected by this change.
The Shardtooth Meat quest item can no longer be fed to a Hunter pet.
Blue Dragon Card - This trinket will no longer proc from non-combat abilities.
Shield Spikes - Shield Spike damage will no longer occur on ranged blocks.
Halberd of Smiting - This weapon will no longer proc multiple time off one swing.
Professions

An Alchemy recipe to Transmute Heart of Fire into three Elemental Fires has been added at the Friendly level of the Thorium Brotherhood.
Epic items that are level 51 and above will now disenchant into a Nexus Crystal. Also items that normally disenchant into Large Brilliant Shards have a very small chance of disenchanting into a Nexus Crystal. New more powerful enchanting recipes that require these Crystals can be found in the new Ahn'Qiraj content.
Enchanters can now turn some of their dusts and shards into magical oils. These oils when applied to weapons add a temporary bonus to magical damage or mana regeneration that stacks with permanent enchantments. The lower levels of these recipes are found on normal enchanting vendors. The higher level versions are found on special vendors and are rewards for high Zandalar faction.
The Enchanting Trainer in Cenarion Hold in Silithus sells some of both new types of enchanting formulae.
Schools of fish have appeared around the world that can be fished from a few times before being fished out. These schools tend to contain valuable fish types such as Oily Blackmouth or Firefin Snapper. In some places, wreckage can be fished from for even better rewards.
The cooking trainers around the world sell the recipe for Sagefish and Greater Sagefish. These two fish types can be found in schools in inland areas and provide health and mana regeneration as well as additional mana regeneration for 15 minutes after eating.
Engineers with skill 250 or greater, who have completed Umi Rumplesnicker's 'Are We There Yeti?' quest line, should seek her out again in Everlook.
Quests & Reputation

The Timbermaw Furbolgs have received a faction revamp!
The Timbermaw Furbolg faction is now named "Timbermaw Hold."
Certain named Deadwood and Winterfall Furbolgs are now giving more positive Timbermaw Hold faction when killed.
Old quests have been revised, and several new quests involving the Timbermaw Furbolgs have been added.
Reputation caps for killing monsters now happen at the end of a level, rather than in the middle of it. For example: if reputation gains for killing a monster were previously capped at the middle of the range for Friendly on a monster, then they are now capped at the end of Friendly.
Reputation is now its own category in the chat window; you can change the color of reputation gains and losses as reported in chat without it affecting other miscellaneous information.
All Alliance versions of the quest "Heeding the Call" now give uniform reputation increases.
Warlock quests that teach imp summoning now all uniformly award reputation increases for respective racial factions.
Spells now may have a casting requirement of current reputation with a faction.
All versions of the quests "A Donation of Wool," "A Donation of Silk," and "A Donation of Mageweave" have had the level of the quest raised so that higher level characters performing them will be able to receive the full reputation gain. The minimum level requirement for the quests have not changed, though the amount of XP gained when completing any of these quests will be different than from before. Mageweave will continue to give more XP than Silk, and Silk more XP than Wool.
The Alliance version of the quest "Centaur Bounty" now gives Stormwind faction for completion.
The Horde version of the quest "Centaur Bounty" now gives the same amount of XP as the Alliance version (which means it was increased).
The quest "Zaeldarr the Outcast" now gives an Argent Dawn reputation increase upon completion.
A bug with the reputation system has been fixed that was preventing some awards to Horde and Alliance factions from being shared properly amongst all member factions of the team.
The quest "Ledger from Tanaris" now gives a reputation reward for Gadgetzan upon completion.
The quest "Supplies for Nethergarde" now has an additional reward of increased Stormwind reputation.
Fixed typos in both quest versions of "All Along the Watchtower".
Fixed typos in both quest versions of "Lessons Anew".
A kobold has been moved away from Piznik so that it won't keep evading in the quest "Gerenzo’s Orders".
Fixed typos in the quest "Signets of the Zandalar".
Fixed typos in the quest "Rotten Eggs".
The cleansed plants of Felwood have been modified:
There is no longer a gossip option to interact with them; simply right click on the plant to receive your buff or fruits.
The amount of items you get from plants has been adjusted.
A corrupted whipper root plant was bugged to require one fewer plant salves than intended to be cleansed; it’s now fixed to require the salves just like the other whipper roots.
Fixed two bugs where Pratt McGrubben in Feathermoon Stronghold was not offering to re-teach Wild Leather Shoulders and where he was not properly teaching Wild Leather Leggings.
Fixed typos in both quest versions of "Power over Poison".
The level of the quest "Piercing the Veil" has been increased from 3 to 4, bringing it in line with similar quests.
Sayge’s Dark Fortune of Damage buff now only increases damage from a randomly determined range of 1-10%.
A coin reward has been added to the quest "Worth Its Weight in Gold".
Vahlarriel in the second part of the quest series "Vahlarriel's Search" now has something to say when returning with the pendant.
The level for the quest "Parts for Kravel" has been raised to bring it in line with the other quests of the Kravel series.
You now need fewer Scorpashi Venoms to complete the second quest of the "Reagents for Reclaimers Inc." quest series.
Baron Revilgaz now should be a little more vociferous.
Fixed a bug with the Horde Hallow’s End quest "Ruined Kegs" that allowed the Alliance to interact with the keg.
Hallow’s End Pumpkin Treats should no longer be on the same timer as combat-oriented potions. Really.
Xabraxxis’ Demon Bag will now last slightly longer in the world once he is killed (3 minutes, up from 2).
The reward for the quest "An Audience with the King" " Seal of Wrynn - has been improved.
The reward for the quest "Gnome Improvement" " Talvash’s Gold Ring " has been improved. XP and reputation rewards for the quest have also been increased.
The reward for the quest "Nogg’s Ring Redo;" "Nogg’s Gold Ring" has been improved. XP and reputation rewards for the quest have also been increased.
The Horde Quest "Material Assistance" should no longer auto-launch an incorrect (deprecated) quest.
The quest "Galen's Escape" now gives an additional coin reward upon completion, as well as an increase of reputation amongst the player’s factional team.
Raids & Dungeons

Noxxion in Maraudon now has the correct immunities.
Noxxion is now social and will bring friends if pulled past other creatures.
Abyssal Templars are no longer marked as Humanoid.
Twilight Stonecallers in Silithus should now aggro properly.
Gordok Reavers and Warlocks now have a slightly larger radius for detection and "call for help."
Drop rate of Dark Runes in Scholomance has been reduced.
The Altar of the Deeps in Blackfathom Deeps will now give players the Blessing of the Deeps.
The abomination event in Stratholme was been reworked with new technology to insure there are no more premature resets.
User Interface

The Guild UI has been significantly improved. Now when you click on a guild member, it will open up a side panel with all the information about that member including their note and officer's note.
There is now a Guild Info panel for each guild. That panel allows a guild to enter long term information and messages about the guild that is too long for the message of the day. The guildmaster can use the guild control panel to determine who has access to change the text in this panel.
Options have been added that allow raiders to not display their base party UI when the Raid UI is up. Also, you can choose to only display effects on players that you can dispel or ones you can cast. This is all in the interface options pane.
A "tip of the day" feature has been added to loading screens within the game.
Under Video Options there is now a slider to control the detail of spell effects. Lower settings can help to improve performance.
Auction buyers/sellers will now receive a detailed invoice of the transaction.
The casting bar has been brightened back up, it was appearing darker than intended due to a bug.
A new option has been added to Interface options, "Sticky Targeting". When this is turned on, you will not deselect your current target when you click on empty space.
A new interface option, "Detailed Loot Information" has been added that defaults to 'on.' If you turn it off you will only see the roll and Need/Greed option of the player who won the item rather than information for every player.
Open bags that are in your bank will now have a bluish background to them to allow easy differentiation between inventory bags and bank bags.
The Friends List and Guild UI will now display when a person is AFK.
It is now possible to use the dressing room UI to model items that are being rolled for in the Group Lood/Need Before Greed Popup window.
Add-ons, Macros and Keybindings can now be saved on a per character basis, so you can have different characters load different add-ons/macros/keybindings.
The Ignore command will now ignore emotes.
The Interface Options Pane has been split up into a normal panel and an advanced panel.
In the initial loading screen there will be a tip displayed. This can be turned off from the interface options menu.
Any time an item is distributed using the "Master Looter" system and the item is quality epic or above there will be a confirmation dialogue to confirm that the item is going to the correct person.
Key bindings can now be saved either globally or on a per character basis.
Add-ons can now be saved either globally or on a per character basis.
In addition to the set of macros shared by all characters, each character gets an additional 18 macros available to them.
Added the ability to link enchanting recipes in chat.
Optimized UI event handling in raid situations.
Optimized UI layout engine to improve loading times.
The game will no longer accidentally load UI files that are dropped loose into the top level installation directory.
The EquipCursorItem() script function uses slot numbers consistent with the rest of the inventory functions. Any macros which use this function should be updated by adding one to the slot number used currently.
New TOC entry for dynamically loadable add-ons: ## LoadWith: Addon1, Addon2, etc. - Indicates that your add-on should be automatically loaded after ANY of the add-ons specified on the LoadWith line are loaded.
The 8th return value from GetItemInfo() is no longer be localized, instead is one of a number of INVTYPE_* tokens.
A new 9th return value from GetItemInfo() is the inventory icon for the item.
debugprofilestop() will now return sub-milisecond (floating point) values.
Added Texture:GetTexture() which returns the filename (without extension) of the file for the texture.
Added FontString:SetNonSpaceWrap(true|false)
Added Frame:GetFrameType() which returns the type of a frame.
Added Frame:IsFrameType("typeName") which returns true if the frame is of type typeName, or a subtype of typeName.
New 8-param form of Texture:SetTexCoord(ULx, ULy, LLx, LLy, URx, URy, LRx, LRy)
Parent frame scales are cumulative instead of overrides.
Textures and FontStrings now have IsVisible() and IsShown() functions with the same semantics as the frame functions of the same name.
Added Button:SetFont(), which works like the equivalent FontString function.
Added ScrollingMessageFrame:SetFont(), which works like the equivalent FontString function.
Special honor awards show up in the combat log.
Druids can preview different weapons in the dressing room while in moonkin form.
The Disgusting Oozeling will share its disgusting aura with you even while you are PvP enabled.
Emotes show up in the chat log file.
Combat messages no longer show up in the chat log file.
Resurrection spells will return pets to life with the appropriate amount of health and mana.
Talent improvements to buffs will persist across instance boundaries and logging out.
World Environment

Elven NPCs in Scholomance will now animate properly.
Players should no longer be able to walk on steep terrain.
Players should no longer be able to move slowly through some locked doors and gates.
Nida Winterhoof in Thunder Bluff now sells Flowers for the sensitive Horde player.
The Short John Mithril's chest in Stranglethorn Arena will now display an effect when it is being opened so its harder to open the chest unnoticed.
Night Elf food vendors have changed their supplies slightly.
Chests in Maraudon have been disabled for good.
In Wetlands, Bluegill Murlocs will now be more plentiful and several other Bluegill camps have been thinned.
All mount sounds, when standing still and pressing spacebar are now all in place.
Tauren males now use their off-hand attacks animation.
The Zeppelin’s propeller from Under City should now animate properly.
Flight Paths
New flight paths added between Ironforge and Chillwind Point. Also, between Chillwind Point and Light's Hope Chapel.
Fixed a problem with the flight paths between The Crossroads in The Barrens and Zoram'gar Outpost in Ashenvale.
Fixed the flight over Yojamba Isle from Booty Bay in Stranglethorn to Sentinel Hill in Westfall.
Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused Crimson Templar to be doing much more damage with it's fireball attack than intended.
Fixed a bug that could cause Guard Slip'kik to move while trapped in ice.
Fixed a bug that caused Azure Templar, Earthen Templar, and Hoary Templar to be resistant to Fire.
Fixed a bug that would cause Time Lapse to cause hate reduction even if the target resisted the effect.
Fixed a bug that allowed pets to be targeted by "Wild Polymorph" during the Nefarian encounter

[Fairweather Pure]

Damn, I just respecced out of Omen of Clarity and they go and fix it. Looks like I'll have to respec yet again...

Anytime they fuck with a class tree, it should be a free respec for everyone in that class.

[miir]

Enrage - The talent will now grant 5/10/15/20/25% extra damage when enraged, instead of 8/16/24/33/40%.

ROFL, I can just imagine the cries of outrage on the warrior forums.

[Sionistic]

good, maybe there will be less warriors around

Flight Paths
New flight paths added between Ironforge and Chillwind Point. Also, between Chillwind Point and Light's Hope Chapel.

About fucking time, whats the fucking point of not having a flight path between the plaguelands?

[Mr Bacon]

Soul shard bags? Maybe I should go back to my warlock.

[Bubba Grizz]

Nothing really excites me about this patch except maybe the enchanting stuff.

[Sinzar]

New content is always nice, from the short time I spent in AQ on test, I think I'll enjoy it. New tier2 armor graphics are amazing for the most part.

Nothing big for rogues aside from some small nerfs though.

They didn't announce it but weapon specializations (like sword or mace spec) only go to 5% now instead of 6%, and the Bloodfang armor set was nerfed slightly for the 8/8 bonus

Removing all those short random stuns like Impact and Blackout from the diminishing return timer is a rogue buff in a way for PvP I guess, no more 1 second kidney shots after a priest uses SWP on a target.

They nerfed the speed of hunter pets, which is a godsend. Pets now move at the exact same speed as players, no more 300% moving pets outrunning an epic mount.

[Funkmasterr]

Shouldnt be running from a fight like a little girl anyways sir

[Sinzar]

Shouldnt be running from a fight like a little girl anyways sir

Pfft, I rox a hunter!

A common move for me though in AB is to ride through a resource node to see how heavily guarded it is (as well as distract the horde as most try to chase me down)

I always found it retarded that a pet can not only catch up to me on my mount, but maintain melee range while he keeps hitting me as I ride off full speed.

Move to Garona Funk, you know you want to...

[Boogahz]

Hunter pet speed used to piss me off when I was passing through zones just to get to a different destination on a PvP server. I had no other way to get where I needed to be (before they really started adding flightpaths to several zones), and even if I "dealt" with the pet without killing it I would have it hitting me again before I got too far due to it's speed increase.

[Bubba Grizz]

When is this patch due out? I am at a point where that faction fix will be very helpful. I am at the middle of Friendly with Argent Dawn and want to hit honored sooner rather than later.

[cadalano]

Could be as early as the 13th. But, considering it contains christmas content i'd expect it on the 20th of December No later.

[Dregor Thule]

The new mage Tier 2 graphics look tight!

[Lynks]

ROFL!

[masteen]

At least it would help those fucking bitches know their role.

[miir]

The new mage Tier 2 graphics look tight!

Hello 11 days ago

[Dregor Thule]

Quiet you washed up internet player!

[miir]

Quiet you washed up internet player!

You lose at teh interweb!

[Bubba Grizz]

Enchanter info from the test forum.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... =97874&P=1

These are the enchants ive found so far while on the test server. Havent been into Ahn'Q to see any drops from there. Not sure if the Greater NR: Cloak is right but im assumming its the same as the Greater FR cept with Nature Element. Correct me if wrong.

Rare:
(Ahn'Q 20man Drop) Enchant Gloves-Shadow Power: +20 shadow dmg
3x Nexus Crystal | 10x Large Brilliant Shards | 6x Essence of Undeath

(Ahn'Q 20man Drop)Enchant Gloves-Superior Agility: +15agi
3x Nexus Crystals | 8x Large Brilliant Shards | 4x Essence of Air

???(Unknown)Enchant Gloves-Frost Power: +20 frost dmg
3x Nexus Crystal | 10x Large Brilliant Shards | 6x Essence of Water

???(Unknown)Enchant Gloves-Fire Power: +20 fire dmg
3x Nexus Crystal | 10x Large Brilliant Shards | 6x Essence of Fire

???(Unknown)Enchant Gloves-Healing Power: +30healing
3x Nexus Crystal | 10x Large Brilliant Shards | 6x Living Essence

(Unknown)Enchant Cloak-Stealth: +stealth

(Unnknown) Enchant Gloves-Threat: +2% threat generation.

(Unknown)Enchant Cloak-Subtlety: -2% theat generation

(Unknown)Enchant Cloak-Dodge: +1% dodge

ZG:
(Friendly) Brilliant Mana Oil: +25healing | +12mp/5sec | Last 30min | 5 charges
2x Large Brilliant Shards | 3x Purple Lotus | 1x Imbued Vials

(Honored)Brilliantz Wiard Oil: +36dmg | +1% crit | Last 30min | 5 charges
2x Large Brilliant Shards | 3x Firebloom | 1x Imbued Vials

CC:
(None) Lesser Mana Oil: +8mp/5sec | Last 30min | 5 Charges
3x Dream Dust | 2x Purple Lotus | 1x Crtstal Vial

(None) Wiard Oil: +24dmg | Last 30min | 5 Charges
3x Illusion Dust | 2x Firebloom | 1x Crystal Vial

(Friendly) Enchant Cloak-Greater Fire Resistance: +15FR to cloak
3x Nexus Crystal | 8x Large Brilliant Shards | 4x Essence of Fire

???(Honored) Enchant Cloak-Greater Nature Resistance: +15NR to cloak
3x Nexus Crystal | 8x Large Brilliant Shards | 4x Living Essence

All:
(None) Lesser Wizard Oil: +16dmg | Last 30min | 5 Charges
3x Vision Dust | 2x Stranglethorn Seed | 1x Leaded Vial

(None) Minor Mana Oil: +4mp/5sec | Last 30min | 5 Charges
3x Soul Dust | 2x Maple Seed | 1x Leaded Vial

(None) Minor Wizard Oil: +8dmg | Last 30min | 5 Charges
2x Strange Dust | 1x Maple Seed | 1x Empty Vial

[kyoukan]

god, so much of this crap took some guy about 12 seconds to code in, and should have been done a year ago.

what the hell do people do at blizzard's offices all day? it certainly isn't working.

[Dregor Thule]

I thought they wanted to avoid tradeskills infringing on each other. Grats Enchanters are now Alchemists.

[cadalano]

because they can make something called an "oil" and alchemy owns the rights to all liquid tradeskill items?

Blacksmithing has dense stones for melee, which are rarely used.

Alchemy has a couple of worthless weapon mods for melee, that no one ever uses.

Weapon mods really haven't been claimed by any tradeskill on a serious functional level, and not one has even touched the prospect of weapon mods for casters. Its brand new stuff. I hope that they will introduce weapon mods for melee with the same level of depth, lots of options and ranks.

[archeiron]

The mechanics for creating these new oils are meaningfully similar to the method for creating oils & potions in alchemy.

Enchanting is an extremely high demand tradeskill with that receives a great deal of attention and new recipes whereas Alchemy has been largely unchanged since release; it would not have been a stretch to make the new oils Alchemy recipes rather than giving all the love to enchanters.

[Sinzar]

IMO every tradeskill needs recipes to make gear that is on par with the current end-game items. Wheres the tradeskill set armor thats equivilant to Blackwing Lair armor (and is just as hard, if not harder, to create)?

Alchemy still has a use in the end-game at least. Every raider uses potions of some kind. Titans flask on the MT, mongoose potions on rogue/hunter, arcane elixir on casters, healing/mana potions on everyone, protection potions for everyone, Free Action potions in PvP, etc etc etc. There is an every day to day use for alchemy.

Enchanting is probably the strongest end-game tradeskill. No matter how totally uber your armor gets, it's -always- made stronger with enchanting. Everyone uses enchanters, from the ultra-casual to the diehard raiders.

Leatherworking (my skill...) is one of the worst off. Aside from a few fire resist items, that are only worn during a few boss encounters in the raiding game, we have almost nothing of any use to a end-game player. I can't even remember when the last time was that I made some armor for a main player. All I make is lowbie gear for rogue alts. I would love to be able to create items that are used by end-game players on a daily basis (as in, not just resist gear).

Sorry for going slightly off the threads topic...

[Funkmasterr]

I agree totally, but would like to add one more thing.

I would also like to see tradeskills be all around more profitable, which kind of goes hand in hand with what Sinz was saying. It really annoys me that the only way you can really make a profit off of most of the tradeskills is by overpricing stuff you get from a gathering talent in the AH.

Yes I know this is partially dependent on the economy almost moreso than game mechanics, but making a wealth of things in all trades that high end users want/need would do a hell of a lot to help.

[Bubba Grizz]

Or, if they made more situations in the game where someone would actually say, "damn I wish I had that item with me now", or, "that sure would be handy to have as a just incase item".

The problem with the game is that by the time you are able to make such an item where it would actually be useful you have already leveled to the point where it isn't. What would be useful at level 20 you can't make until level 30? It really is kind of annoying.

[Sionistic]

I think the problem they saw in that was that with all the BOE items. You'de make items for yourself and not sell anything. While I dont think it makes sense (omg people make more than one) I can see how they got the idea.