Other patch 2.4 reveals: Fishing quests, Pally gear, and Spellsteal tweak

by Adam Holisky Feb 1st 2008 at 4:45PM

Lots of activity today over on the forums from the Blizzard CMs. A few miscellaneous items in patch 2.4 that are sure to make people happy:

First there is the fishing daily. Blizzard is continuing their trend of increasing the number of daily quests we can choose from. Drysc tells us that in 2.4 we'll be able to visit "the mysterious old man" near Silmyr Lake outside of Shattrath for the quest.

Second, all of the Retribution Paladins will rejoice with the increase in damage their gear will provide. While we haven't been told exactly what the changes will be, we were told that overall stats will be tweaked.

Third, Mages will enjoy a minor tweak to their Spellsteal ability, in that it will no longer override a buff that's longer in duration.

And finally, healing grace will now reduce the chance that all of your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%.

Tags: daily-quests, drysc, fishing, fishing-daily, healing-grace, mage, paladin, patch-2.4, shaman, silmyr-lake, spellsteal

Filed under: Patches, Items, News items, Forums

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Naix Feb 1st 2008 4:56PM

Now I have a reason to fish!

Gessilea Feb 1st 2008 5:34PM

I like fishing already - I'm one of those odd people who finds it a nice mindless activity while watching a movie or reading even. I'm glad that it's getting more attention.

Gurei Feb 1st 2008 6:07PM

The change to gear intended for retribution pallys....
Its not vey specific,but im guess its gona be a change to adapt to Rets recent mechanic changes,leaving behind need and use of SP and gaining more from meelee stats.

Kinda like S2 had SP and S3 has more of every stat.
Right now ret pallys work better with warrior intended gear than with pally gear due to stats wasted on SP that doesnt get used.

Now a big question comes in,if old Ret gear is changed and SP gets removed ,str and other stats increased,will S1,and S2 recieve bonus Resil too?
Also ,Judgement of command and hammer of wrath are still under the SP dmg scaling grp,if it ends with pallys having 0 and just tons of meeelee stats,will they finaly be changed to scale with AP(like JoB for example)