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additonal 2.3 notes
2.3 PTR Patch Notes Update
PvP
Arenas
The top ranked team of each battlegroup for each format will receive a new unique title for the end of Season 2 called Merciless Gladiator.
Mages
Arcane Missiles: Players will no longer get strange error messages when casting this spell at evading targets. The spell will simply fail.
Spellsteal: It is no longer possible via this spell to get two Forbearance debuffs at the same time.
Paladins
Divine Favor: When this ability is cast immediately after a critical heal, it will no longer be removed incorrectly.
Fanaticism (Retribution) now also reduces threat caused by all actions by 6/12/18/24/30%.
Judgement of Light: The combat log will now show the mana gained from rank 5 of this ability as Judgement of Light instead of Seal of Light.
Precision (Protection) now increases spell hit chance as well.
Seal of Vengeance: The bonus damage this ability dealt when the debuff is fully stacked on the target was incorrectly too low. It is now increased.
Spiritual Attunement: This ability will now gain mana properly from Vampiric Embrace heals.
Priests
Mind Soothe: This spell will now consume Inner Focus.
Rogues
Blade Flurry: This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.
Cold Blood: Fixed an issue where this buff was sometimes getting removed when an attack missed.
Dirty Deeds now also increases damage against enemies below 35% health.
Riposte is now subject to diminishing returns in PvP.
Warlocks
Soul Siphon (Affliction): If a Warlock already has a particular spell cast on a target, reapplying before its duration ends will no longer grant an additional bonus.
Warriors
Sweeping Strikes: This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.
Professions
All primary profession trainers outside of capitals (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring) have been changed to train up to Artisan level (skill level 300) in their respective professions.
The capital cities now possess Artisan level trainers for the primary professions they support, and are surrounded by their newly-dubbed Apprentices where applicable. Please visit your local Master trainer when you wish to train.
Alchemy
Added a new potion to alchemy trainers: Mad Alchemist's Potion. This new potion requires Alchemy to consume.
Blacksmithing
Sharpening Stones and Weightstones now last 1 hour.
Cooking
Reduced the maximum skill obtainable from recipes between 200 and 300. This does not include Outland recipes.
Enchanting
The Surefooted enchantment now requires Fel Iron Rod (was Runed Eternium Rod).
Added a new enchant shield recipe to trainers that increases resilience.
Engineering
Cogspinner Gearcutter in Ironforge and Sovik in Orgrimmar now sell the schematic for the Steam Tonk Controller in a limited supply.
Materials required to create the Steam Tonk Controller have been reduced. To reflect the reduced requirements, the maximum skill gain has also been reduced somewhat.
Plans for a new arrow making device can be found from Sunfury Archers.
The plans for adamantite shells now create an Adamantite Shell Machine. The machine creates 200 high quality bullets at a time, with 5 charges per item.
Fishing
You can now fish in Ironforge again.
Herbalism
Fel Blossoms are now unbound, but have an additional requirement of 275 herbalism to use.
Leatherworking
Increased the range at which you can gain leatherworking skill from crafting drums.
Reduced the faction required to obtain Drums of Battle and Drums of Panic.
Drums can now be used while shapeshifted.
A new recipe is available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to make a 20 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.
The ogres in the barrier hills are rumored to have a pattern for a 24 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.
Items
Atiesh: This item can no longer open portals in battlegrounds.
Essence of Death now drops from level 57-60 non-elite undead in the Eastern Plaguelands.
The Felsworn Gas Mask will now work when you put it on while mounted.
Libram of Saints Departed: This relic now functions properly again.
Dungeons and Raids
The Requirement for Heroic Keys has been lowered to Honored.
Tempest Keep
The use of Ice Block, Divine Shield, Cloak of Shadows, and other similar spells and abilities will no longer prematurely detonate High Astromancer Solarians Wrath of the Astromancer spell.
Quests
Quest givers who have available daily quests will have a blue exclamation point instead of a yellow one.
The range of the Battery Recharging Blaster used in the quest, Recharging the Batteries has been increased.
Interface
All players now have a tracking bubble on their minimap. From that menu you can select a specific type of vendor or npc to look for or you can select a specific tracking type if your character has tracking. Yes this means that hunters can take all of those tracking buttons off of their action bars.
There are now options for displaying health and mana values on your health/mana bars for you/your party and to display that information either as percentages or as numbers.
When you are possessing a target (Priest Mind Control, Eyes of the Beast, using a Steam Tonk, etc), you now get their action bar as your primary action bar rather than having a mini action bar above your normal action bar.
When an item drops that you cannot loot due to uniqueness or other factor, you will get a chat message letting you know what the item was that you passed rolling on.
The raid panels that have been pulled out into the gamefield should save their option settings between sessions now.
If a player is looting a corpse and there are one or more items on it that player cannot loot, the player will still be able to see those items (although not able to loot them). This only is for green or better quality items. The cases this should affect are for the profession recipes that only a player of that profession can loot or when master looter is on and there is a threshold or better item on the corpse.
NPC's with level appropriate quests will now always appear on your minimap as yellow exclamation points. NPC's that have quests that you have completed will now display as yellow question marks instead of yellow dots. In addition flight masters that you have not yet gotten the flight point for will display on the minimap as a green exclamation point.
Npc's will display an icon on mouseover that gives a more specific indicator of their function rather than just a gossip bubble. Questgivers will now show a question mark as their in game mouseover, Innkeepers will show a hearthstone as their in game mouseover and so on.
You can now pull the list of players in a channel out into the gamefield by clicking and dragging the channel name onto the gamefield. This list will show all the players in the channel sorted by voice chat status.
Voice chat will now display the nameplate for who is talking when you are in a chat group. Currently it only displays the nameplate when you are in a party/raid.
When multiple people are talking in a voice chat session, it will show the names of up to four people who are talking at the same time.
Many On Use items now display the cooldown in the item tooltip.
World Environment
Creature AI has been changed to no longer prioritize attacking unfeared targets over feared targets.
Notice the huge importance of that last one, bosses who fear will no longer cause tanks to lose aggro!
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