Patch 2.4.2 is live
by Mike Schramm 
May 13th 2008 at 10:05AM
Yep, as expected after the test realm ended, patch 2.4.2 has hit the live servers, and is now available for download and installation. Daniel did a terrific roundup of what you can see in the new patch this morning. The patch notes aren't available online yet, but the only change I can see between the PTR notes and what's live is that the Druid Natural Perfection change didn't go through -- otherwise, everything else is in there as expected, including the Arena changes and the Growl changes (whatever they are).
Enjoy the new patch (and if you're an Outlands Hunter like me, enjoy your new pet!). This might be the last one we get for a while.
Update: BigDownload's got the patch, in case you haven't seen it yet.
Enjoy the new patch (and if you're an Outlands Hunter like me, enjoy your new pet!). This might be the last one we get for a while.
Update: BigDownload's got the patch, in case you haven't seen it yet.
Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
peaglemancer May 13th 2008 10:21AM
So the speed trinkets transformed into single mount enchant is live?
Mike Schramm May 13th 2008 10:40AM
Nope that was just found in the game files -- was never announced in the actual patch notes. I haven't been on the live realms yet (though I did dl the patch), but as far as I know, the mount enchants thing is still conjecture at this point.
Sparx_Shammy May 21st 2008 8:08PM
The instant scare beast didn't even work it is the same as before :/. BTW did they put in the new portals?
Freelier May 13th 2008 10:25AM
They added a few new spells for mage. Teleport|Portal: Theramore|Stonard.
Now I remember lots of reasons why I used to want to go there. Why do I want to be able to teleport there, now?
RogueJedi86 May 13th 2008 10:28AM
Maybe in WotLK they'll add a zeppelin to Northrend in Stonard for Horde, and a boat to Northrend from Theramore for Alliance? Could be a bit of pre-expansion release convenience added early. I don't know. I just like the idea of a new port.
scre3m May 13th 2008 10:35AM
To get to Karazhan and outlands much more quickly.
vertinog May 13th 2008 11:37AM
In reply to scre3m:
For alliance it is easier to get to kara from SW than Theramore so the upgrade for horde is probably for that. They may have added Theramore for alliance to just say they added a teleport to both sides.
Blackhorn May 13th 2008 1:06PM
If you're Alliance, currently the only teleport a mage has in Kalimdor is Darnassus (and Exodar... shudder). Who the hell wants to go there? That's a 20 minute flight path from anywhere.
Theramore puts you at least a bit closer to some of the questing hubs in the area. Of course it all depends on what level you get that teleport.
Stonard for similar reasons. Just think of them as mid-continent teleports for Alliance/Horde players whose only cities on that continent are ridiculously far to the north.
Weren't they going to add a CoT teleport too?
Wren May 13th 2008 1:42PM
Before the patch the only portal in Kalimdor was to Darnassus. This new portal to theramore gives mages and friends an east coast point to make flying to places like gadget or silithus much faster. I had my mages hearth in gadget for months before the xp just to make getting around easier.
Thallid May 13th 2008 2:21PM
@Blackhorn:
They did add a port to Caverns of Time. You talk to Zephyr in the World's End Tavern in Shattrath. If you're Revered or higher with Keepers of Time, she'll offer to port you to CoT. I believe this port was added in 2.4.
censorman May 13th 2008 10:29AM
yeah for shaman!
Loudfiero May 13th 2008 10:28AM
To get First aid past 225?
Daimon May 13th 2008 10:37AM
welcome back loot reaver!
John May 13th 2008 10:45AM
I parked my mage in Theramore last nite in anticipation. he's level 39, and if he weren't a BG twink he'd likely want to go to theramore all the time for quests...mmm...I expect brisk business selling ports to Theramore to lowbies (and to 70s who wanna hit the east side of Kalimdor)
Andrige May 13th 2008 10:58AM
Yay impossible to have fun in BGs as Feral!
I've so hoped for this patch.
bendak May 13th 2008 11:02AM
LOL @ all the people who bought arena points last week. They're in for a rude awakening when they discover their 800g only bought them like 250 points.
bryce May 15th 2008 1:59PM
you fucking wankers you suck dick and like pussy you retardational dipshits
bryce May 15th 2008 1:59PM
so
beatphreek May 13th 2008 11:20AM
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.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/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.
wyrd May 13th 2008 2:23PM
Ummm... thanks for cluttering the comments with the notes which are linked in the post.