Leaked 1.12 patch notes; maybe fake

[Jeff Kelly]

(From (http://forums.curse-gaming.com/showthread.php?p=34351#post34351)

World of Warcraft Client Patch
(Disclaimer: These patch notes are for the Public Test Realm and the content of the patch is subject to change.)

World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.12.0 (06-??-??)

--World PvP!

Battle for control of key towers in Eastern Plaguelands to gain an advantage against the ruthless undead, and collect valuable resources for the war effort in the face of fierce resistance in the scorching deserts of Silithus. War rages across Azeroth once more!

--Cross-Realm Battlegrounds!

For the first time in the history of World of Warcraft, you will be able to face off against players from other realms in the Battlegrounds. Cross-realm PvP Battlegrounds will link Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, and Arathi Basin so that players from several realms will be combined into one huge matchmaking pool. Replenish your mana, sharpen your blades, and get ready for some brand-new challengers!

--Group Dueling!

Players can now hone their skills in PvP with the new Skirmish option! This option is available to players in a party, and can involve a maximum of five players per side.

--Alternate Itemization

We have re-evaluated itemization for classes outside of their traditional roles in parties and raids. Previously, certain talent builds and playstyles were limited by their available itemization because it was not viable to add a great deal of drops that benefited only one segment of a certain class. In this patch, we have introduced many new items and new sets with stats and bonuses that cater towards alternate playstyles. This new approach towards itemization has also brought about a new focus on the token quest system, a mechanism through which players can obtain loot by turning in tokens or prerequisite items that drop from various encounters. While many such quests have already been implemented in the game, players will find that a greater number of class specific items from this point on will be obtained through this system.

--General

Your Friends List and Ignore List has been expanded to hold 100 players.
Total +spell power from items for each school of magic will be calculated and displayed in the character panel for appropriate classes.
Spell critical chance will now be displayed in addition to melee critical chance in the skills panel.
You can now view health, mana, and attributes when inspecting other players.
The range at which you can inspect other players has been increased.
Players will now receive an error message when trying to use items that restore health/mana/energy/rage when at full health/mana/energy/rage.
Players using dual video card setups will now have their graphic options optimized by default.
The mail system is now much more responsive.
Reputation loss from killing NPCs has been drastically decreased across the board, and applies only to the players responsible, rather than to their entire party or raid.
It is no longer possible for players to take damage that is unreported in the combat log while not in combat.
Player buffs will now reflect talent improvements.
Honor, reputation, and experience will no longer be gained or loss when a pet kills an NPC or player character without aid.
Fixed a bug that caused the sound level to increase when alt-tabbing in and out of the World of Warcraft client.
NPCs that cast spells or used abilities that hit multiple targets will no longer affect stealthed players.
Attempting to link loot that does not exist on the server at that moment will no longer disconnect the player; instead an error message will be reported and the loot will not be linked.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes result in player names being magnified.
Guards now give directions to more locations than before (e.g. reagent vendors, faction leaders, nearest repair NPCs etc.)
It is no longer possible for players who have died in an instance and zoned back in to lose access to loot.
More typos fixed.
You will no longer be erroneously flagged for combat if a critter resists or evades your area of effect spells.

--Macintosh

Fixed a stack overflow error that would occur occasionally while zoning into certain raid instances.
Fixed a graphics issue for users with outdated versions of certain ATI video card drivers.

--Honor System

The percentage of players that may reach ranks 11 through 14 has been increased. Global improvements to the Honor System itself are forthcoming with the release of the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion.
Dishonorable Kills now apply only to players responsible, rather than to their entire party or raid.
There is now an option that shows estimated honor points over enemy corpses after an Honorable Kill.
Owners of PvP rewards purchased before updates to stats in previous patches will have their items retroactively brought in line with current rewards for this patch. Owners will be able to upgrade their rewards through quests in future updates.
Many PvP rewards have been upgraded with PvP-specific procs, effects, or properties that work only against player characters of the opposite faction.

--Battlegrounds

You will now be placed in a raid upon entering a battleground. Players can apply for leader before the battleground starts, with the position going to the player with the highest Honor rank. In addition, the party leader can issue commands to the raid through the map, such as attacking or defending locations, and promote assistant leaders with similar powers.
The Join as Group function will ensure that players who join as a group will end up in the same battleground instance, but all players will still be placed in the main raid.
Players can now see how many battleground instances are running, but are not able to choose specific instances to join.
Battlegrounds will no longer start until both sides reach full capacity.
You can now leave a battleground from an option on the scoreboard at any time. Doing so before the battleground ends will still give you a Deserter Debuff.
Fixed a bug that caused players to resurrect with less than full health and mana in battlegrounds when wearing items that granted random item attributes.
Capturing resource nodes, towers, and other objectives in battlegrounds will now be sped up when more players of the same faction are in proximity to the objective.
Fixed various terrain issues in Alterac Valley and Warsong Gulch.
A small amount of quest experience is now rewarded for winning a battleground.
It is no longer possible to enter a finished battleground.

--Druids

A Druid Cat Form quest is now available at level 20 from Dendrite Starblaze in Moonglade.
Moonfury (Balance Talent): Now increases the damage done by your arcane and nature spells by 10%. This change allows the talent to be applied after +damage from items has been calculated.
Moonkin (Balance Talent): This form can now cast all Balance and Restoration spells except healing spells. Moonkin aura now increases spell damage by 3% in addition to spell critical hit chance.
Leader of the Pack (Feral Combat Talent): Now increases melee and ranged damage by 3% in addition to melee and ranged critical hit chance.
The damage done by Ferocious Bite and Rip is now modified by your attack power.
Fixed an error where players with the Furor talent were not gaining the extra energy when shifting to cat form.
Threat reduction modifiers such as Blessing of Salvation and Tranquil Air Totem are no longer applied to Cower.
Various spells and abilities should now play their correct sound when used.
Cat Form now has a flat threat reduction modifier.
Fixed an issue with Cat Forms melee attack range.
Soothe Animal is now instant cast.

--Hunters

Natural Armor (Rank 10) and Greater Stamina (Rank 10) are now in their correct positions in the Beast Training UI.
Distracting Shot has a new icon.
Eagle Eye will now function more consistently and last as long as intended.
Fixed several pet animations.

--Mages

Casting Polymorph on a player that is currently immune in PvP now displays the Immune flag over the target, and no longer resets the 15 second diminishing returns cooldown.
Fixed an issue where two consecutive frost or fire spell critical hits could cause Master of Elements to proc only once.
Spending talent points in Arcane Mind will no longer visually fluctuate your mana level.
The damage over time portions of Fireball and Pyroblast are now considered magic debuffs as intended.

--Paladins

Reckoning no longer resets the auto-attack timer.
Holy Light no longer sends two messages to your combat log.
Libram of Divinity will now give the correct healing bonus to Flash of Light.
The added armor from Lay on Hands no longer appears on the character sheet as a permanent armor value.

--Priests

Spirit of Redemption will now work properly with Twisting Nether.
The Power Word: Shield icon will now display properly while in Shadowform.
Mana Burn will no longer disrupt flag captures.

--Rogues

Due to significant talent changes, Rogues will have all talent points refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent ability replacements have been significantly reduced.
Adrenaline Cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
The damage done by Eviscerate, Garrote, and Rupture is now modified by your attack power.
Eviscerate now has a new rank (Rank 9).
Garrote has been increased in damage for all ranks.
Expose Armor will now reduce a targets armor by a percentage per combo point.
Vanish will now remove effects that allow the caster to see through the Rogues stealth (e.g. Hunters Mark, Mind Vision etc...)
Players will now receive the proper error message when attempting to stealth under the effects of Faerie Fire.
Threat reduction modifiers such as Blessing of Salvation and Tranquil Air Totem are no longer applied to Feint.

--Warlocks

Spending talent points in Demonic Emrace will no longer visually fluctuate your health level.
Shadow Mastery now affects Siphon Life.
Fixed an error where Warlocks could have Demonic Sacrifice and a pet active at the same time.
Fixed the tooltip of Rank 2 of Improved Firebolt.

--Shaman

There is now a UI that displays active totems and allows the Shaman to destroy totems.
Fixed several casting animations.
Chain Heal Now bounces to any nearby raid member who needs it regardless of whether it was initially cast on a party member or raid member outside of your party.
Respeccing to the Two-Handed Axes and Maces talent will no longer cause your equipped weapon to break until re-equipped.
Water Walking will now produce the correct sound when walking on water.
Improved Reincarnation is now properly reflected in the tooltip.
The range of Tremor Totem with Totemic Mastery is now properly reflected in the tooltip.

--Warriors

The mechanics of rage generation has been re-evaluated to bring the scaling of Warriors from levels 1-60 and beyond more in line with that of the other classes. Previously, Warriors gained rage from dealing damage based on a formula that took into account damage dealt and character level. Warriors will now generate a flat amount of rage per hit based on a new formula that takes into account the type of weapon (two-handed, mainhand, or offhand) and character level. Warriors from 1-60 should see more reliable rage generation, while Warriors with endgame itemization will see their rage generation brought down to more manageable levels. We have deemed this change necessary to preserve game balance as we move towards the release of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and the increased level cap that will arrive with it.
Defensive Stance will no longer protect you from environmental damage.
Fixed an issue where Shield Slam sometimes removed all buffs from a target.
Charge and Intercept should no longer cause disconnects.
Fixed the Death Wish tooltip.

--Items

Epic quest series have been added for all classes with the exception of Hunters and Priests (who already had epic quest series in the game).
Health Regen Every 5 Seconds: Items with this bonus have been fixed so that the health regeneration occurs during combat again (really!).
New unique item effects have been introduced, such as PvP-only bonuses and form specific bonuses (e.g. Druid shapeshift forms, Priest Shadowform, Warrior stances, etc).
Many class specific quest rewards for ZulGurub, Ruins of AhnQiraj, and Temple of AhnQiraj have had their reputation requirements reduced or removed and their quest turn-in prerequisites increased, or vice versa.
Key ring slot sizes have been expanded.
Level 1-39 = 6 slots
Level 40-49 = 12 slots
Level 50-60 = 18 slots
The following keys can now be stored in key rings: Bamboo Cage Key, Benedicts Key, Burnished Gold Key, Crescent Key, Dead-tooths Key, Executioners Key, Kolkar Booty Key, Maurys Key, James Key, Panther Cage Key, Relic Coffer Key, Skeleton Key, all Stratholme postbox keys, Tazans Key, Viewing Room Key, and Wooden Key.
Cured Heavy Hides will now stack properly at 20.
All Tier 1 and Tier 2 Class Armor sets are now Bind on Acquire.
New relics have been added to Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Ruins of AhnQiraj, and Naxxramas.
Items that grant additional attack power when fighting specific creature types will now function as intended.
The Dartol's Rod of Transformation used in the fourth part of Raene's Cleansing now has a limited number of charges the quest line was meant to be finished . This change will not retroactively affect players who already have the quest item.
Quivers will no longer disappear when acquired by a player with a full inventory.
Players will be relieved to learn that many helm graphics no longer remove hair.
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker no longer has incorrect textures for some video cards.
The set bonus of Nightslayer Armor that increases the Rogues maximum energy by 10 is now a 3-piece bonus. The 5-piece bonus now reduces the cooldown of Vanish by 40 seconds.
The 3-piece Dragonstalker Armor set bonus no longer persists after pieces are unequipped.
The 3-piece Cenarion Raiment set bonus to damage and duration for Thorns will not persist after pieces are unequipped.
The 5-piece Felheart Raiment set bonus will now always grant the Demonic Ally buff.
The prefix of the spell critical hit bonus of the PvP reward Marshals Silk Leggings is now Equip: rather than Use:
Idol of Brutality is now marked properly as Bind on Equip.
Gyromasts Key will now be removed from your inventory after the quest Gyromasts Revenge has been completed.
Using the Jom Gabbar trinket will no longer trigger a cooldown on other trinkets.
Thick Obsidian Breastplate will now proc properly off spells from all schools of damage.
Strikers Pauldron will now render correctly under different lighting conditions.
Conquerers Helm no longer clips male Gnome models.
Venomous Totem will now report the correct message in the combat log.
Blooddrenched Mask will no longer remove the characters hair.
The tooltip of Burrowers Shell now indicates that it absorbs physical damage.
Sickle of Unyielding Strength will now display correctly on characters.

--Professions

Cooking
Recipes for drinks that restore mana have been added. These recipes will require water from different sources (e.g. Redridge Lake spring water) that can be collected with bottles that are sold from vendors.
Enchanting
Disenchanting now requires Expert Enchanting for rare items, and Artisan Enchanting for items of epic quality or higher.
Engineering
Schematics of Safety first versions of many items have been added, which are less effective than their counterparts but have lower backfire rates.
There is now a schematic for a Portable Repair Bot that can repair one players items.
Engineers can now create leather, mail, and plate versions of Gnomish Rocket Boots and Goblin Rocket Boots.
Leatherworking
Players will now receive a message when learning the Leatherworking recipe for Onyxia Scale Cloak.

--Quests

Quests that increase reputation will now list reputation gain as a quest reward if you have already discovered that faction.
Quest items in several quests are no longer labeled as No Text when opening them.
The Fate of the Kingdom quest is now working as intended.
The Shadows of Doom quest is now properly labeled as an elite quest.
Escort quests will now present a confirmation dialogue before starting if some players have not accepted or are not on the quest.
Dwarves will now spawn properly for the Of Forgotten Memories quest.
Fixed a bug where Shredder Operating Manual pages for the quest The Lost Pages were not able to be combined.
Frost Trap will now properly debuff Solenor the Slayer in Silithus.
Fixed a typo in the Mirages quest.
Resolved an issue that sometimes prevented players from receiving credit for scaring Quixxil in the quest Are We There Yeti?.

--Raids and Dungeons

Token systems have been implemented in Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. Tier 1 and Tier 2 Class Armor sets are now acquired like the Tier 3 sets are through turn-in quests. Bosses that previously dropped the armor have had their loot tables revised. In addition, new items that appeal to a greater variety of playstyles have been added to ALL raid instances as both quest rewards and drops!
Sunken Temple
Fixed a bug where Jammal'an the Prophet would sometimes ignore a mind controlled player if the party wiped.
Blackwing Lair
Chromaggus Brood Afflictions no longer target totems.
Ruins of AhnQiraj
Mobs will no longer come in more than one wave during the General Rajaxx encounter. In addition, it is no longer possible for players in the raid to be erroneously brought out of combat during the encounter.
Scarab Coffer Keys and Greater Scarab Coffer Keys will now drop with greater frequency.
Naxxramas
Fixed a bug where AnubRekhan would sometimes evade all attacks.
It is no longer possible to use Heigan the Uncleans room for wipe recovery.

--User Interface

Meeting stones no longer automatically search for party members. Instead, joining a meeting stone for a dungeon now adds you to an interactive list (sorted by name, level, class, etc) of players looking for a group. Groups can be formed by contacting players through this interface. The meeting stone queues for all dungeons can now be accessed from any meeting stone in the world.
A Guild Calendar has been added to streamline guild management. Upcoming raids and other events can be posted for all guild members to see.
There is now a Remember price option when creating auctions in the Auction House and sending
Cash on Delivery mail.
There is now a Reset search option when searching the Auction House.
Clicking on the background of an equipped bag will bring it to the forefront when browsing the Auction House.
Unique quest items can now be distributed through the Master Looter option.
NPCs that repair now have a Repair equipped items button.
There is now an option to display appropriate quest levels in the quest log.
The Raid Info button now shows the reset times of all raid instances. Instances that the player is not saved to are grayed out.
The /raidinfo command no longer opens the raid info window repeatedly.
Raid icons will no longer disappear after the UI is reloaded with the /console reloadui command.
Fixed an issue where the party interface would sometimes re-appear when Hide Party Interface in Raid option was selected in interface options.
The party leader or raid leader can now set a rule that players can not roll need on class specific items and other loot that they cannot use.
Players should now be able to whisper other players through an option on their portrait.
Players can now drag the status bars of individual players onto the gamefield from the raid UI.
Minimizing the interface to take a screenshot while in stealth will no longer leave the action bar stuck in stealth mode.
"Disable All Addons" will adhere to the character/all selection.
Fixed an error that resulted in incorrect displays when inspecting other players or using the Dressing Rom feature.
You can now bind button actions to special hotkeys on certain keyboards and mice.
SetInventoryItem() now respects the inspect distance limit.
Second variables that do not exist at the time of saving will now be written into the saved variables file as a nil values.
TargetByUnit() no longer works for pets, totems, or players of the opposite faction.
Addons can now send hidden chat messages to players in the party, raid or guild, using
SendAddonMessage("text", "PARTY"|"RAID"|"GUILD"). When players receive these messages, a new event "CHAT_MSG_ADDON" is sent, with arg1 being the text of the message, and arg2 being the name of the player that sent it. The combined length of prefix and message must be less than or equal to 254 bytes.

--World Environment

All civilians that previously assisted guards are either no longer labeled as civilians or no longer assist the guards.
Blink and other short range teleport spells used while in lava no longer cause you to go to the deepest end.
Blue Busters have rectified the problem of vanishing houses.
Garons Hutchins is no longer a vendor.
Fixed an issue with Tonks in the Darkmoon Faire.
Eladriel the Darnassus skinning trainer no longer sells shields.
Fixed several irregularities with final destination flight paths. Flight costs will now remain constant regardless of which other flight paths have been discovered.
The General Supplies vendor Chylina no longer clips through a wall in the inn.
The Horde flightpath from Stonard to Gromgol that paths through a tree has been fixed. The mischievous wyvern has been taken care of - sorry for all the cuts and bruises!

Sounds too good to be true so all usual caveats apply, but if they are fake they are very good fakes because even a macintosh section is there ;-)

[Merusk]

Wow, some very nice stuff in there if it's real.  Tokens, "Alternate Spec" Rewards, Retroactive PvPgear Upgrades (yay.)  a logical LFG interface AND a guild calendar?  These notes have "too good to be true" all over them.  Words will fail if they're real. 

[Chenghiz]

I disbelieve. Why?

--Alternate Itemization

Haha, good one.

Guards now give directions to more locations than before (e.g. reagent vendors, faction leaders, nearest repair NPCs etc.)

Guards don't give any location-specific information. It's generalised.

Owners of PvP rewards purchased before updates to stats in previous patches will have their items retroactively brought in line with current rewards for this patch. Owners will be able to upgrade their rewards through quests in future updates.

They've already stated that they're not going to do this.

Rank 14 rewards are now of legendary quality, and have had their stats, procs, or auras upgraded as such.

Rofl.

The mechanics of rage generation has been re-evaluated to bring the scaling of Warriors from levels 1-60 and beyond more in line with that of the other classes.

Somehow I doubt it. They've stated they're happy with the way classes work right now.

Epic quest series have been added for all classes with the exception of Hunters and Priests (who already had epic quest series in the game).

All in one patch? Nope.

The following keys can now be stored in key rings: keys

Tazan's Key is a quest item that you might hold for 20 minutes. Um, no.

The set bonus of Nightslayer Armor that increases the Rogues maximum energy by 10 is now a 3-piece bonus. The 5-piece bonus now reduces the cooldown of vanish by 40 seconds.

Changing T1 set bonuses now? Don't think so.

Strikers Pauldron will now render correctly under different lighting conditions.

Striker's pauldrons don't have this problem; Stormcaller's does.

The Shadows of Doom quest is now properly labeled as an elite quest.

By the time 1.12 is released every realm will be done with the invasion.

Token systems have been implemented in Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. Tier 1 and Tier 2 Class Armor sets are now acquired like the Tier 3 sets are through turn-in quests. Bosses that previously dropped the armor have had their loot tables revised. In addition, new items that appeal to a greater variety of playstyles have been added to ALL raid instances as both quest rewards and drops!

They have never changed any zone's loot system, and they would have by now if they were going to. Tigole has acknowledged that the rep requirements for ZG and AQ sets were a bad idea but they still exist.

Mobs will no longer come in more than one wave during the General Rajaxx encounter.

So AQ20 is impossible to complete now.

[Jeff Kelly]

Guards now give directions to more locations than before (e.g. reagent vendors, faction leaders, nearest repair NPCs etc.)

Guards don't give any location-specific information. It's generalised.

They mark the location of vendors and trainers on the map. In the text it might only say "he is in the valley of honor" but the place is marked on the map.

Owners of PvP rewards purchased before updates to stats in previous patches will have their items retroactively brought in line with current rewards for this patch. Owners will be able to upgrade their rewards through quests in future updates.

They've already stated that they're not going to do this.

Well they have so often told the community that feature x will not be implemented and still later implemented them(innervate for druids, cross server battlegrounds, linked auction houses etc.) so I will no longer beleive any blizzard employee anything on that matter.

The mechanics of rage generation has been re-evaluated to bring the scaling of Warriors from levels 1-60 and beyond more in line with that of the other classes.

Somehow I doubt it. They've stated they're happy with the way classes work right now.

See above.

Mobs will no longer come in more than one wave during the General Rajaxx encounter.

So AQ20 is impossible to complete now.

What are you talking about? Sometimes at the rajaxx encounter more than one wave would come at once it seems that they fixed that.

Well I also think that these are fake but I wouldn't put it past them that they were doing the things mentioned here

[Chenghiz]

Actually the Rajaxx one could be read two ways. The way I originally read it, everything would come at once, but reading it again it could mean the six waves come one at a time guaranteed (which makes more sense, I agree).

As for the guard instructions - what I mean is that a guard won't tell you where anything is in relation to him - only where it is. So 'closest repair NPC' is not possible because that's relative to the guard's position, not an absolute location.

When it comes down to it though, there's just too many big changes listed here. They've always liked to make large changes one at a time and gauge the effects, so it doesn't quite make sense.

Also I've seen 3 variations on these notes now, some of which omit the more ridiculous claims (like legendary PVP rewards).

[Zane0]

This sounds too ambitious for a single patch.  Epic quests for all classes?  If it is a fake, the maker is fairly well informed.  Some of the fixes are very obscure.

The percentage of players that may reach ranks 11 through 14 has been increased. Global improvements to the Honor System itself are forthcoming with the release of the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion.

This has been alluded to.

You will now be placed in a raid upon entering a battleground.

Ditto here.

If this is real- wow.

[Simond]

If (huge, massive 'if') these notes are anything close to legitamate, the only possible explaination to so many big changes going live all at once is that Blizzard wants to have a clean slate for 2.0 going live...so that they can concentrate on fixing the many bugs of TBC in 2.0.1, 2.0.2, etc. without having to worry about holdover, non-expansion bugs as well.

Also: (Probably) fake due to a half-decent LFG system being added.

[Merusk]

I didn't see the Legendary R14 stuff before.  That alone puts them at "Fake" status for me.  Even though Sulfurias is 'common' enough to be seen more than once every few months, it's still far rarer than R14 gear.  Legendaries show up at a rate of about one every month or two, not one a week the way R14 gear does.

[Paelos]

Wow, so very very fake.

Token systems in BWL and MC? Are you kidding? They aren't going to go into two entirely set and itemized dungeons and revamp basically the ENTIRE loot table to shoehorn in a token system to replace drops that people already like. It's too much work for no real point. They'd have to tie everything into factions, set up new turnin locations, make up new tokens, etc, etc, etc.

And legendary R14s? Icing on the turd.

[Threash]

Call me blind but i dont see anything about rank 14 weapons being legendary, all i found was the pvp only procs.

[Chenghiz]

As I said, there are a few versions floating around. The one someone posted on my guild's forums had this:

--Honor System

The percentage of players that may reach ranks 11 through 14 has been increased. Global improvements to the Honor System itself are forthcoming with the release of the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion.
Dishonorable Kills now apply only to players responsible, rather than to their entire party or raid.
There is now an option that shows estimated honor points over enemy corpses after an Honorable Kill.
Owners of PvP rewards purchased before updates to stats in previous patches will have their items retroactively brought in line with current rewards for this patch. Owners will be able to upgrade their rewards through quests in future updates.
Many PvP rewards have been upgraded with PvP-specific procs, effects, or properties that work only against player characters of the opposite faction.
Rank 14 rewards are now of legendary quality, and have had their stats, procs, or auras upgraded as such.

The last bit there.

[Threash]

Oh somewhere else, yeah that does seem pretty implausible.  Someone could have very easily added that in to the real patch notes though.

[Chenghiz]

Another amusing thing is that none of the Rank 14 weapons have procs.

[Threash]

Another amusing thing is that none of the Rank 14 weapons have procs.

Well it does say they are adding pvp specific procs on the notes posted here, theres nothing about them being made legendary though.

[Simond]

Tigole just confirmed them as fake over on the FoH boards, btw.

[Jayce]

Seems like some of it could be true but not others.  The rage thing seems like a significant nerf to warriors.  Also, Dartol's rod is hardly unbalancing and it is fun, so why go to the trouble to remove it?  I would expect that of other companies, but not Blizzard generally.

Just in case, though, I think I will do the Dartol's quest on all my characters now, just to be safe...

[Phred]

Seems like some of it could be true but not others.  The rage thing seems like a significant nerf to warriors.  Also, Dartol's rod is hardly unbalancing and it is fun, so why go to the trouble to remove it?  I would expect that of other companies, but not Blizzard generally.

Just in case, though, I think I will do the Dartol's quest on all my characters now, just to be safe...

Strangely enough, Dartol's rod had 5? charges on release and was changed to it's currently unlimited use. No real idea why they changed it but it did seem believable they would change it back.

[Typhon]

--Professions

Cooking
Recipes for drinks that restore mana have been added. These recipes will require water from different sources (e.g. Redridge Lake spring water) that can be collected with bottles that are sold from vendors.

Oddly, that one is the one that made me say, "bullshit!" and stop reading.

[OcellotJenkins]

Fo realz yo:

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- World of Warcraft Public Test Patch 1.12.0
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Cross-Realm Battlegrounds
- For the first time in the history of World of Warcraft, you will be
able to face off against players from other realms in the
Battlegrounds. PvP Battlegrounds link Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch,
and Arathi Basin so that players from several realms will be
combined into one huge matchmaking pool. Replenish your mana,
sharpen your blades, and get ready for some brand-new challengers!

World PvP
- The stage is set for intense, objective-based land battles as Horde
and Alliance vie for control over important strategic positions and
resources around Azeroth. Head out for Silithus and Eastern
Plaguelands to engage the enemy on the field!

General
- Threat Reduction Effects
This system has been redesigned to eliminate inconsistency in how
the effects work. Previously, some were additive (for example: 30%
reduction + 20% reduction = 50% reduction) while others were
multiplicative (30% threat reduction multiplied by 20% threat
reduction equals 44% threat reduction). They are now all
multiplicative. This also prevents unpredictable behavior when the
total reduction percentage was equal to or greater than 100%.
- Haste and Slow effects
Previously Haste and Slow effects worked inconsistently, with spells
working differently from weapons, and hastes and slows not acting as
inverses of each other. We have revised the system so that all haste
and slow effects work the same way, and haste and slow percentages
perfectly cancel each other out (30% haste and 30% slow combine to
no change). As a result, we had to change the tooltip numbers on all
spell haste effects, and on all melee and range slow effects. The
numbers in the tooltips are different, but the game functionality
is unchanged (other than slight rounding errors). Those tooltips
that changed will now display larger numbers than they used to
display. Conceptually, haste values indicate how much more of that
activity you can perform in a given time. 30% melee haste means 30%
more swings in a given time. Slow values indicate how much longer an
activity takes to complete. 30% slow means an action takes 30%
longer to finish. For those interested, the new haste and slow
effects work mathematically in the following way. Each effect
separately multiplies the attack timer of your weapon or casting
time of your spell. They are multiplied in sequence (order doesn't
matter) and the final result is the attack timer or casting time.
The multipliers use the following equations:

Haste effects: multiplier=1/(1+percent/100)
Slow effects: multiplier=1*(1+percent/100)

As an example, a 50% haste generates a multiplier of 0.666; a 50%
slow generates a multiplier of 1.5. If they are multiplied together
the result is 1. A 50% haste on a 3.0 speed weapon makes it 2.0
speed, resulting in you getting 30 swings per minute instead of 20
swings per minute: 50% more swings. A 50% slow on a 3.0 casting time
spell generates a casting time of 4.5. It took you 50% longer to
finish casting the spell.
- The deserter debuff will now continue to expire even while you are
offline.

Druids
- Barkskin: The tooltip has been changed to 25% due to the haste
effect change.
- Ferocious Bite: The Book of Ferocious Bite (Rank 5) now drops
somewhere in the world.
- Furor: This talent now works correctly with Cat Form again.
- Improved Shred: The discounted cost for Shred will now be displayed
correctly even when you are not in Cat Form.
- Rip: Lesser potency Rips will no longer overwrite greater potency
ones.

Hunters
- Spirit Bond: This ability will now be correctly reapplied when you
resurrect in a battleground and your pet is polymorphed or otherwise
unable to act normally.

Mages
- Arcane Missiles: It is no longer possible to cast this spell on an
evading mob. In addition, the animation will now stop when the
target is dead.
- Arcane Power: It is no longer possible to gain the benefit of this
spell and Power Infusion at the same time by careful timing.
- Frost Armor Chilled effect: The tooltip has been changed to 100% due
to the haste effect change.
- Ice Armor Chilled effect: The tooltip has been changed to 100% due
to the haste effect change.
- Polymorph: This spell will now be removed when a player leaves a
battleground. This prevents some bugs involving polymorph from
occurring.
- Evocation will no longer be usable while silenced.

Paladins
- Divine Shield: The tooltip has been changed to 100% due to the haste
effect change.

Priests

- Mind Control: The tooltip has been changed to 25% due to the haste
effect change.
- Psychic Scream: This spell now uses the same resistance checks as
the Warlock spell Fear.

Rogues
- Due to significant talent changes, Rogues will have all talent
points refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent
spell replacements have been significantly reduced.
- Eviscerate: Manual of Eviscerate (Rank 9) now drops somewhere in the
world.
- Garrote: The damage from this ability has been increased
approximately 50%.
- Relentless Strikes: This ability will no longer trigger when your
finishing move does not hit your target.
- Sap: Enemy rogues will now always lose stealth when you Sap them.

Shaman
- Grounding Totem: This totem will no longer absorb multiple effects
from Entrapment in a 10 second period.
- Windfury Totem: The weapon enchantment from this totem will now only
trigger off normal melee swings. This means abilities such as
Sinister Strike, Mortal Strike, and Hamstring will no longer trigger
the Windfury Totem.
- Reincarnation should now display the cooldown timer when used.
- Chain Heal - After the initial target is healed, the healing effect
will jump to the most damaged target (by absolute health) within
range. In addition, if a raid member is the initial target it will
look for valid raid targets to jump to rather than non-raid targets
as a priority, making it consistent with group targeted Chain Heals.

Warlocks
- Cripple (Doomguard): The tooltip has been changed to 45% due to the
haste effect change.
- Enslave Demon: The tooltip has been changed to 40% due to the haste
effect change.
- Health Funnel: This spell will now work correctly on low-level
enslaved demons.
- Howl of Terror: This spell now uses the same resistance checks
as the Warlock spell Fear.
- Siphon Life will now properly gain a benefit from Shadow Mastery.

Warriors
- Flurry: The text on the tooltip has been corrected to indicate it
triggers on all types of attacks.
- Shield Slam: This ability will sometimes no longer remove more than
one beneficial effect from the target.
- Sword Specialization: This ability can no longer trigger off of
itself.

Items
- +30 Spell Damage Enchantment: Fixed a bug with this enchantment
which was preventing it from benefiting healing spells.
- Blade of Eternal Darkness: The triggered effect from this weapon
will no longer occur when the spell being cast has its effect broken
by causing damage.
- Blazefury Medallion: The triggered effect from this item will no
longer break Gouge.
- Bonescythe Armor: The Eviscerate bonus will no longer trigger when
your Eviscerate does not hit your target.
- Darkmoon Card- Twisting Nether: The dialog for this resurrection
will now always reappear after the Spirit of Redemption effect has
completed.
- Eye of the Dead: Holy Shock now interacts properly with this item.
- Ranged Elemental Damage: Our ranged combat system does not allow a
ranged weapon to do a mix of Elemental (Fire, Frost, Arcane, etc.)
and Physical damage. Many ranged weapons existed which were listed
as doing Elemental damage and did not function properly (the damage
was dealt, but was treated as Physical). All of those weapons have
been changed to deliver the Elemental damage as a chance on hit
effect. Hurricane was previously changed this way in 1.11. The
following ranged weapons are also fixed in 1.12: Bow of Searing
Arrows, Dwarven Hand Cannon, Heartseeking Crossbow, Dark Iron Rifle,
Galgann's Fireblaster, Quillshooter, Shell Launcher Shotgun,
Venomstrike, and Verdant Keeper's Aim.
- Talisman of Ascendence: This item will no longer trigger from
physical damage effects. In addition, if either of the buffs from
the item are cancelled, they will both be cancelled.
- Zandalarian Hero Charm: Item tooltip corrected to match the effect
tooltip.
- The Items that summon mounts have been changed in their color/
quality. Items that summon normal mounts are now blue(superior)items
and items that summon swift mounts are now purple(epic) items.
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to use items which restored health or
mana while you were already full health or mana.
- Fixed a bug with the Jom Gabbar trinket which was causing it to
trigger a category cooldown for a duration longer than intended.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Arcane Missiles from being able to
trigger the effect of Wrath of Cenarius.
- Clarified the tooltips for the Stormshroud armor and Kalimdor's
Revenge to explain that they deal Nature damage.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Blooddrenched Mask to hide a character's
hair.
- Warbear leather now stacks to 20.

Professions
- Engineering: The damage from sapper charges can now be resisted.
The overall DPS of the charges should not be significantly altered
from what it currently is.
- Engineering: Explosive sheep do fire damage instead of physical
damage.

Raids and Dungeons

- Uldaman
Reduced the number of Shadowforge Ambushers that attack after
looting the quest chest.
Shadowforge Ambushers are no longer elite.
The respawn of the Stone Stewards has been changed to 2 hours
(from 30 minutes).
- Zul'Farrak
The respawn of the 2 Troll/1 Basilisk patrollers should now be 2
hours.
Reduced the damage dealt by the Sul'lithuz Abomination and
Sul'lithuz Sandcrawler.
Dead Heroes are no longer elites.
Theka the Martyr will now only remain immune to physical damage for
30 seconds before reverting to normal.
Antu'sul's Sul'lithuz Broodlings now only hatch 4 at a time and are
significantly weaker.
Witch Doctor Zum'rah will no longer call as many dead heroes to his
aid when aggroed.
Weegli Blastfuse now has slightly more hit points.
Antu'sul's Warden no longer attempts to knock adventurers into
Antu'sul's lair.
Sandfury Cretins who engage the party during the pyramid event are
no longer able to cast shadow bolt.
- Mauradon
Noxxious Scions will no longer spawn when you cleanse Celebrian Vines.

User Interface
- V key functionality has been improved in several ways.
V key now shows summoned monsters (such as the gargoyles in
Stratholme.)
V key now shows both monsters and player enemies.
V now shows enemies only (no longer shows friendly targets.)
Shift-V now shows friendly targets only, not enemies (with a new
bindable hotkey.)
Control-V shows both friendly targets and enemy targets (with a new
bindable hotkey.)
- New floating combat text has been added to the game with a number
of options. You can see when you take damage, when you are healed
and how much, when you acquire and lose auras and much more. You can
turn on the new options in the newly revised options screen.
- The Need Before Greed and Group Loot countdown timers will now have
a 3 minute countdown when there is a bind on acquire item on the
corpse. This should allow a bit more time in making a decision to
roll for an item.
- Automatic Quest Tracking has been added to the game and is turned
on by default. Any time you advance a quest by advancing one of the
requirements, the quest information will appear on your screen for 5
minutes before fading. You can turn this option off from the options
screen.
- There is now a confirmation dialogue when you attempt to disband
your guild.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused some non-combat pets to be referred to as
Minions instead of Pets. Mini Diablo however has escaped this fate
and will continue to be referred to as a Minion.

[SurfD]

- Windfury Totem: The weapon enchantment from this totem will now only trigger off normal melee swings. This means abilities such as Sinister Strike, Mortal Strike, and Hamstring will no longer trigger the Windfury Totem.

You should see the litteral shitstorm that is the Shaman forums right now.

[Righ]

We felt that in its current state Windfury Totem allowed for too much burst damage (dps). We don't feel the need to compensate because our goal was to reduce the totem's potential for damage in a group/raid.

Presumably Horde were overpowered in a raiding context.

[SurfD]

Indeed, i mean, windfury (single party buff that only benefits Warriors / Rogues) is obviously overpowered compared to, ohh, lets take something random, like stacking BoK, BoS and BoM on every mele member in your raid.........

[Ironwood]

Hmmm, looks like they nicked Scrolling Combat Text in the same way they nicked some CTRaid stuff.

Good.

The less addons I have to patch, the better.

[Simond]

We felt that in its current state Windfury Totem allowed for too much burst damage (dps). We don't feel the need to compensate because our goal was to reduce the totem's potential for damage in a group/raid.

Presumably Horde were overpowered in a raiding context.

Except no.

[caladein]

Indeed, i mean, windfury (single party buff that only benefits Warriors / Rogues) is obviously overpowered compared to, ohh, lets take something random, like stacking BoK, BoS and BoM on every mele member in your raid.........

Depending on how Blessing of Salvation worked, it also got a nerf this patch.

[Modern Angel]

Going over some theorycraft sites here and there the WF totem nerf is so, so much bigger than anyone but the top raiding guilds realize. Since aggro is damage based it's not just a groupwide nerf to damage it's also a huge nerf to aggro management for the Horde.

Since MTs generally spam Heroic Strike taking away the procs means less aggro on the tanks and since the number two issue with Horde raiding (number one being mana conservation) is being careful with aggro the guilds in Naxx and AQ40 are going to have to revamp timing on dps calls.

So, so glad I rerolled Alliance five months ago.

[Simond]

The outrage now on the official boards is but a pale shadow of what's going to appear once the patch goes live and Horde guilds start wiping and wiping and wiping on mobs they've had on farm for months.

Expect a reflexive paladin nerf soon afterwards (because fixing totems is hard, but crippling Alliance down to Horde level is easy).

[Modern Angel]

The outrage now on the official boards is but a pale shadow of what's going to appear once the patch goes live and Horde guilds start wiping and wiping and wiping on mobs they've had on farm for months.

Expect a reflexive paladin nerf soon afterwards (because fixing totems is hard, but crippling Alliance down to Horde level is easy).

The dudes in MC aren't going to notice so much.  The guys in Naxx beating Patchwerk having literally 1 or 2 percent health overall before he goes into unkillable mode are going to have nightmares.

This nerf is just flabbergasting to me. It's claimed to be largely a PvP consideration but who the fuck has time in a fluid combat situation to make sure all the warriors are situated just so next to the totem? I've never seen the different factions agree on anything on the official forums (because you don't just PLAY Alliance. You ARE Alliance!) but nobody agrees this is a good change.

[SurfD]

The dudes in MC aren't going to notice so much.  The guys in Naxx beating Patchwerk having literally 1 or 2 percent health overall before he goes into unkillable mode are going to have nightmares.

Yeah, Patchwerk is going to be night impossible for horde to do if this goes through.  From what I understand (and from some number crunching from the beancounters in our guild), Patchwerk is a PURE DPS fight right from the beginning.  The mechanics of the fight make it such that after the first minute or so, it should be litterally impossile to pull aggro off your tanks, and from then on, its 5-7 minutes of pure, balls-to-the-wall DPS in the hopes that you can kill him before he enrages and procieds to 1 shot everyone on down the list.

Someone from our guild figures that the windfury nerf amounts to a nearly 20-30% drop in Mele damage output (more for fury warriors, slightly less for rogues).

As to a slight Blessing of Salvation nerf? So? Its not like it is going to matter.  One paladin can still buff the ENTIRE RAID with BoS, and the people who dont want the aggro reduction can then Click it Off.  Not like the sop to Horde Raiders, Tranquil Air, which still requires carefull group management to make sure the people who need it are all in the same group, and cant be used at the same time as GoA (unless you have 2 shamans in the same party, which is retartedly inefficient in 95% of all imaginable circumstances).

In the end, it all comes down to the fact that paladins are Mind Blowingly over effective as a support / buff class in PvE raids, and short of a complete and total overhaul of either the Blessing System, or the Totem System, that is likely never going to change.

[Simond]

The easy way out is blood elf paladins and draenai shaman, but Blizzard will never do that.

[Modern Angel]

I think there's two things at work here.

Having raided both Horde and Alliance I don't think Alliance is easy mode. It's like everything else in the game: it's balanced mode. Horde is harder mode. There's less room for error. Things are tuned to be just right for Alliance. Makes sense, I guess, since they were built first and the design teams may still be operating in that mode.

Second, and more troubling, is that I don't think their design teams have any idea how the internal mathematics work. I've become interested int he number crunching behind the game and follow sites like Elitist Jerks to see what goes on in the box. After watching number crunching on things like threat generation and sustained dps I don't think whoever made this change has any idea just how big a nerf it is. They see less burst dps for PvP but haven't factored in the secondary effects or how it works in comparison to the cutting edge raid dungeons. Just shoddy.

[SpaceDrake]

Things like this make me wonder why anybody still plays WoW. It was obvious about three patches ago that the people currently making up Blizzard don't understand how to make WoW work (or don't care), and there are so many other better choices available for massively multiplayer gaming of various stripes now. So... why do you guys bother? In the face of things like this, why?

[Velorath]

Things like this make me wonder why anybody still plays WoW. It was obvious about three patches ago that the people currently making up Blizzard don't understand how to make WoW work (or don't care), and there are so many other better choices available for massively multiplayer gaming of various stripes now. So... why do you guys bother? In the face of things like this, why?

And where would I find all these great MMO games you speak of, keeping in mind the fact that I find EVE to be one of the most mind-numbingly dull games I've ever played?

Edit:  Also, what did you find so horrible about the last three patches that it just so completely ruined the fun of the game for you to the point where you can't understand how anybody could possibly still find this game fun?  I guess what I'm asking is do you have any sort of a point or did you just feel like crying for a bit?

[Azazel]

Such as...?

[Modern Angel]

Things like this make me wonder why anybody still plays WoW. It was obvious about three patches ago that the people currently making up Blizzard don't understand how to make WoW work (or don't care), and there are so many other better choices available for massively multiplayer gaming of various stripes now. So... why do you guys bother? In the face of things like this, why?

Hi. Eat my balls.

The game is perfectly enjoyable as Alliance. It really and truly is a completely different game. I would RATHER be playing Horde but I like to raid. Raiding on Horde is, at some point in your progression, an exercise in masochism.

It is also still the best game of its type on the market. If that changes when WAR or Conan come out then I will switch. I also like hanging out with my friends.

As others have said though please feel free to point out other non-wrong bad fun MMOGs for me to peruse; I've pretty much tried everything on the market.