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Notable Notes from Patch 2.4.3
Patch 2.4.3 was released Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. Noteworthy changes and updated comments:
- The biggest news by far is that characters as low as level 30 (down from level 40, for you newbies) can now get mounts. Training has also been reduced to 35g. If you are new to the game, basic mounts increase your traveling speed by 60% and make a lot of running around much less tedious. If you have low-level characters, this is a BIG DEAL.
- Bags
- New bags are available from Haris Pilton in the World's End Tavern in Shattrath City in the Outlands. These are rumored to be 22-slot bags - the biggest general-purpose bags ever - and to cost a fortune. (Verified price is 1200 gold!)
- Mycah of Sporeggar in Zangarmarsh now sells a pattern for 28-slot Herb Bags - if you are Revered with the Sporeggar. The price is only 25 Glowcaps (those collectable mushrooms that are all over southwestern Zangarmarsh).
- Mining: Green-quality ("Uncommon") gems have returned to mining nodes - if you're lucky.
- Noncombat Pets
- Flying companions will now fly more than 6 inches off the ground.
- A Nether Ray Fry (a baby Nether Ray) can be purchased from the Skyguard quartermaster by those with Exalted reputation (rep level verified). The price is 32g.
- The various kinds of castable armor that Mages and Warlocks use to protect themselves (e.g., Mage Armor or Demon Skin) are no longer dispellable. (They're no longer officially "magic effects" even though, obviously, they continue to be magical effects.)
- Two overpowered Rogue talents, Cheat Death and Sinister Calling, have been nerfed and are no longer quite so overpowered. (I can hear the weeping and wailing already.)
- Warlocks: Curse of Shadows has been eliminated, but its effects have been incorporated into Curse of Elements, which now affects Frost, Fire, Arcane, and Shadow damage.
- On PvE realms, at least, a flagged party member zoning into an instance will get unflagged. (Since healers won't have to worry about getting flagged while healing or buffing, this should make them - and everyone else in the group - happier.)
- Magister's Terrace has been made a little easier.
- Various loopholes have been closed, and a number of bugs have been fixed. Or so they say.
- One bug that SEEMS to have been fixed - finally! - is the fatal error in the sound engine that so often caused the game to lock up when you attempted to exit the game. This is not mentioned in the patch notes - probably because it was supposed to be fixed 3.5 months ago in Patch 2.4.1. ("Fixed a sound engine error that was causing lock-ups on exit." Ha!)
On the other hand...
- The helpful ability to link a quest title into chat (complete with basic quest info) vanished when 2.4.3 appeared but subsequently has been restored. Thank you, Blizzard, for fixing that so promptly!
- If you are on a flying mount and get into combat, you may have trouble landing. (Using X in that circumstance no longer seems to work reliably.) To fight back, you may have to fly away and return or just dismount in the air.
- One change - "equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress" - has much broader effects than advertised: Equipping (or switching!) an item cancels almost any ingame action including looting, mining, Charging, and so on. You may not notice much difference - unless you use the Outfitter mod (which some of us rely on), which handily and automatically equips your Riding Crop (for instance) when you mount and switches back to your regular trinket whenever you dismount.
If you spot an ore node or a fiery ball of "distortion" (for The Multiphase Survey) and swoop in to mine/survey/loot without first manually dismounting, the automatic gear change interrupts the aforesaid mining/surveying/looting, leaving you (in the worst case) waiting for a casting or "use" cooldown and giving some rude Alliance character time to come over and steal the targeted node/distortion/whatever. >_<
Fortunately, Outfitter 4.2.6 is supposed to fix this problem. (Edit: It did but, like other add-ons, stopped working when Patch 3.0.2 was released. The current working version of Outfitter can be found here.)
You can slog through the complete patch notes while downloading the patch. If you want to review them later, you can find them in your WoW directory or online. In theory, "the latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/" - although occasional delays and glitches do occur.
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