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05-13-2008, 11:09 AM

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.4.2
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The latest patch notes can always be found at
WoW -> Patch Notes -> Current Patch Notes (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/)

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at
WoW -> Test Realm Patch Notes (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html)

Druids
- Talent: Primal Fury (Rank 2) will now be properly unlearned when it
is untalented.

Hunters
- Aspect of the Viper: This ability now grants an additional amount of
mana each 5 seconds equal to 35% of the hunter’s level.
- Boar Charge: This ability will no longer make Growl cast immediately
after it generates excessive threat.
- The pet ability Growl will no longer scale with pet Attack Power and
now scales with the hunter’s Attack Power.
- Dire Ravens in Blade’s Edge Mountains are now tameable.
- Scare Beast: The range on this spell has been increased to 30 yards
and it is now instant cast.
- Tamed Drywallow Snappers now will know Bite 5 (instead of Claw 5).

Mages
- Talent: Improved Blink (Arcane) now reduces chance to be hit by
13/25% and the duration of Rank 1 has been increased to 4 seconds.
- Completing the quest “Arcane Refreshment” will now properly teach the
spell Conjure Water (Rank 7).
- Polymorph: Mounted creatures will no longer remain mounted while
polymorphed.
- Mage Armor no longer reduces the duration of beneficial magic buffs.
- Molten Armor will now do damage while a damage absorption shield is
active.
- New Teleport/Portal: Theramore and Teleport/Portal:Stonard spells are
available at portal trainers in their respective locations. You must
be level 35 to learn these new spells.

Paladins
- Flash of Light and Holy Light will now work properly with
castsequence macros.
- Seal of the Crusader: This ability now increases the damage dealt by
Crusader Strike by 40%.
- Talent: Precision (Ranks 1-3) will no longer improperly display
daggers and staves as a weapon class in the tooltip.
- Paladins that already have Apprentice Riding skill can now properly
learn Summon Warhorse from the trainer.

Priests
- Fear Ward will no longer be consumed while under the effects of
cyclone.
- Mana Burn: This spell can no longer trigger effects that require the
target to be struck with a critical hit.
- Power Word: Shield now has the correct sound associated with it and
can no longer be heard from large distances.
- Talent: Power Infusion will now consume the correct amount of mana
when cast on yourself.

Rogues
- Ability: Blade Flurry: This ability can no longer hit critters as
its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for
all secondary targets.
- Talent: Mutilate (Assassination) will no longer incorrectly appear
multiple times in the combat log when used.

Shaman
- Ability: Frostbrand Weapon: Rank 6 damage has been increased very
slightly.

Warlocks
- Drain Soul: Channeling of this spell will now always stop when a
player target dies.
- Pets: Using a sacrifice effect to kill your own pet will no longer
trigger effects that should only occur when killing an enemy.

Warriors
- Sweeping Strikes: This ability can no longer hit critters as its
secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all
secondary targets.

PvP
- Arenas
If a character’s personal rating is more than 150 points below the
team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating
instead of the team rating.
If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is
more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued
against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal
rating.

Professions
- All 23-hour profession cooldowns are now 20-hour cooldowns.
- All 4-day cooldowns are now 3 days, 20 hours.
- Enchanting
Removed the cooldown from Void Shatter.
Void Shatter recipe now correctly requires 375 enchanting.
- Engineering
The Engineering supply item Delicate Copper Wire will now properly
fit into engineering bags.
- Jewelcrafting
Brilliant Glass no longer requires a forge.
Brilliant Glass now has a small chance to make an epic gem.
Quick Dawnstone, Reckless noble Topaz, Forceful Talasite are now all
available at the Quel’danas gem vendor.
- Leatherworking
Completing the quest “The Journey Has Just Begun” will now properly
teach how to make an Onyxia Scale Cloak.
Greatly reduced the reagent cost for Glove Reinforcements. Also
reduced the skill gain range slightly.

Quests
- The categories for the quests, “Wanted: Sisters of Torment” and
“Wanted: The Signet Ring of Prince Kael’thas” have been fixed to now
properly read as Magister’s Terrace.
- The Shadowy Disguise will no longer be applied to druids while they
are in Moonkin or Tree of Life form for the Quests, “Who Are They?”
- Jailor Eston and Jailor Marlgen for the quest, “The Rescue in
Hillsbrad” should now respawn more frequently.

Dungeons and Raids
- Black Temple
Illidan will no longer despawn if a raid group wipes during his death
speech.
- Karazhan
Nightbane’s Charred Earth ability will now properly deal Fire damage.
- Magister’s Terrace
Vexallus is no longer immune to taunt on Normal difficulty.
Kael’thas is no longer immune to taunt on Normal difficulty.
Wretched Skulkers, Wretched Husks, and Wretched Bruisers will now
reset properly.
Sunblade Imps will now reset properly.
The doors in Heroic Magister’s Terrace will no longer respawn after
a soft reset if a boss has already been killed.
- Sunwell Plateau
Hellfire will no longer remove Dark Touched in the Eredar Twins
encounter.
- Tempest Keep: The Eye
Void Reaver’s Arcane orbs now generate combat log entries.

Items
- Arcane Charges now deal arcane damage.
- Abilities and trinkets that trigger after killing an opponent that
gives experience or honor will no longer activate after killing mobs
during bombing quests.
- Battlecast’s Garb should now properly grant pushback resistance in
addition to interrupt resistance.
- Borderland Fortress Grips have had their stats updated.
- Botanist’s Gloves of Growth have had their texture corrected.
- Bow of Searing Arrows and Red Whelp Gloves will no longer break
Scatter Shot.
- Brann Bronzebeard’s Lost Letter: This item will no lonber display a
damage range in its tooltip.
- The Cloak of Swift Mending now has a level requirement (70).
- Crusader’s Scaled Battlegear: The tooltip spelling has been corrected.
- Darkmoon Card: Madness: The durations of the buffs received from this
item have been extended to 60 seconds.
- Elixir of Demonslaying: This elixir now grants ranged attack power
against demons as intended.
- Goblin Jumper Cables are no longer a trinket item.
- Hazza’rah’s Charm of Healing Haste rating reduced.
- Items that enchant other items no longer have tradeskill requirements
(Mithril Spurs, Shield Spikes, Weapon Chains, etc.).
- The Helm of Fire has had its casting range reduced.
- The Magic Candle has had its casting range reduced.
- Many items sold by Consortium vendors are now be bind on pick up:
Formula: Enchant Weapon- Major Striking, Design: Delicate Blood
Garnet, Design: Shifting Shadow Draenite, Design: Lustrous Azure
Moonstone, Design: Thick Golden Draenite.
- Many items sold by Aldor reputation vendors are now bind on pick up:
Design: Gleaming Golden Draenite, Design: Royal Shadow Draenite.
- Many items sold by the Shattered Sun quartermaster are now bind on
pick up: Naaru Ration, Design: Ember Skyfire Diamond.
- The Lower City reputation item, Recipe: Flask of Chromatic
Resistance, is now bind on pick up.
- Most Main-Hand weapons are now One-Hand weapons.
- Naturalist’s Preserving Cinch have had their stats updated.
- Nightfall now has a chance to fail on targets over level 60.
- Prince Kael’thas will now drop Primal Nethers in Heroic Magisters
Terrace.
- Ravager: Judgements will no longer auto-refresh and break the effect
from this item while its effect is active.
- Reins of the Black War Elekk spell and buff now correspond to the
item name.
- Renataki’s Charm of Trickery has had its energy reduced.
- Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite now properly share
the same cooldown.
- The Romantic Picnic Basket will now display the blanket properly.
- Shard of Azzinoth no longer shares any cooldown with Shaman elemental
totems.
- The socket bonus modifiers of some items will now properly display
the bonus healing.
- The reduced cooldown of Shaman Nature’s Swiftness provided by the 4
piece set bonus from the Seer’s Ringmail Battlegear PvP armor will
now apply properly.
- Shattered Sun Pendant of Might: The triggered effect from this item
will no longer break Scatter Shot or other crowd-controlling affects.
The visual on the Scryer version has been updated.
- Shifting Naaru Silver: Using this item no longer puts players into
combat.
- Silithyst Dust: The bonus from turning this item in no longer works
for players above level 63.
- The Skyshatter Helmet’s gem socket bonus will now properly reflect
the plus damage in the tooltip.
- Shadowsong Panther will no longer prematurely despawn.
- Talasite Owl: This trinket will now properly restore full mana as
described.
- Ten Storms Set: The Chain Heal bonus from this set has been reduced
by 5%.
- Troll Male off-hand items are now the same size as the main hand
item.
- Tauren weapons while sheathed have had their graphic readjusted to
their pre-patch (2.4.0) state.
- The Winterfall Firewater buff is no longer dispellable.
- Wushoolay’s Charm of Nature Haste rating has been reduced.

User Interface
- Black Lotus will now show up under the Herb subcategory in the
auction house.
- Primal Nethers will now show up under the Materials subcategory in
the auction house.
- Mailboxes can now be tracked on the minimap.
- For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI &
Macros Forum.
WoW Forums -> UI & Macros Forum (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.co m/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11114)

World Environment
- Creature versions of the Polymorph spell no longer heal the affected
target.
- The dragons in Blade’s Edge Mountains will no longer instantly knock
you off your mount.

Mac
- Fixed a bug causing ATI kernel panics; all spell effects should now
be visible.
- Weather effects are again visible on systems with ATI 2x00 graphics
such as aluminum iMac.
- Fixed a bug that precluded use of the FireWire iSight microphone with
voice chat.
- Symlinks can be used again for Interface and WTF folders and
subfolders.
- Cinematics playback is working again.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where secondary sound effects would not work with the
Use Hardware option enabled in the Sound options of the User
Interface.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to use some instant cast spells with
Auto-Dismount in Flight checked in the interface would fail.
- Items that have multiple charges will now properly display the amount
of charges.
- Fixed an issue where chain damage spells were chaining to critters.
- Female Draenei horns will now correctly protrude through certain
plate helms.
- The Vengeful Gladiator’s Rifle will now play the proper sound when
used.
- The Cursed Vision of Sargeras now gives the buff, “Sense Demons”
which can be canceled normally. Additionally hunters and druids are
able to track two things at once while using the item.
- It is no longer possible for pets to get stuck in place after exiting
the Spectral Realm in the Kalecgos encounter.
- Blood Elf Priest: Consume Magic will now require the buff to be
active in order to work properly.
- Undead Priest: Touch of Weakness will now properly reduce the melee
damage of the attacker.
- Fixed an issue where some spells had extraneous Floating Combat Text
messages when using the Auras option.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes debuff icons on a target did not scale
properly to indicate the spells had been cast by you
- Ritual of Souls (Warlock) and Ritual of Refreshment (Mage) will no
longer be placed on cooldown without having completed the summon.
- Looting a boss while a player is outside of the instance will no
longer cause the corpse to despawn in 2 minutes if the player still
has loot on the corpse.
- Whirlwind now has the correct sound associated with it.