Waldonnis Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 (edited) General: TONS of talent changes to all classes, so talent points were refunded completely. Be sure to spec before heading out looking for action and adventure! All changes to racial abilities and bonuses have been introduced. (Fall of Humanity was not included, sadly). Storm Peaks has been re-re-re-re-opened and is available for questing. Icecrown has been re-opened and is available for questing. New "beam" graphics have been added for many channeled spells (e.g. Mind Flay, Drain Soul, etc.). Mounting in major cities is working properly again. PvP "blue-quality" gear has been named finally and is now "Savage Gladiator's" gear. Note: Several of the items have no graphics currently) PvP "epic-quality" Arena gear has been named finally and is now "Hateful Gladiator's" gear. New icons have been added to the Calendar feature that make it easier to differentiate events. Battleground tokens are now displayed and stored in the Tokens pane. The previous display bug with Badge of Justice counts has been fixed as well. Linking and clicking names in chat frames is working properly again...kinda. Dalaran: Some friendly Dalaran Wizards are around the city now. Ask them for directions if you're lost or looking for something in particular. The Well of Dooooooom is now surrounded by a gigantic pit (this should only be in the bugs post, but it's funny so I mentioned it here too). Breanni received a shipment of Happy Pet Snacks and is selling them at a reasonable price. Make your companion happy by feeding him or her a tasty Happy Pet Snack! There's a suspicious looking gnome diver in one of the fish tanks in Breanni's Shop... Stabled pets and horses have taken up residence around Breanni's shop (decoration is good). A new version of the Violet Hold quest is offered by Rhonin that actually includes entering the Violet Hold with an objective (the previous version was just complete enough to offer a key, but had no objective to kill anything inside). Guards are now positioned outside of the doors to the Violet Hold. Archmage Timear, located just outside of the Violet Hold, now offers a daily quest to enter a random Northrend instance at normal difficulty (non-heroic daily). Archmage Lan'dalock, also located just outside of the Violet Hold, now offers a daily quest to enter a random Northrend instance at heroic difficulty (heroic daily). You can now summon and land flying mounts on Krasus' Landing without receiving any debuff. Many of the small fixtures in Dalaran (various stoves and such) are starting to be tagged and will likely be usable soon. Magistrix Lambriese has appeared in the Horde area of Dalaran and sells various items in exchange for Emblems of Heroism (WotLK equivalent to Badges of Justice). These items are apparently bound to the account, as well as scale with level (1-80, and still in testing). Magister Braseal, near Magistrix Lambriese, also sells different items in exchange for Emblems of Valor (likely will drop in raids). Tier gear vendors are scattered around the city, in their respective armour type shops (Clothier's shop has cloth gear, and so forth). Zones: Storm Peaks: ...has been reopened...for the 900th time. Many quests have been finished and itemisation appears more complete than in past builds. [*]Icecrown: ...has been reopened...again. [*]Sholazar Basin: The Frenzyheart and Oracles now only offer one daily quest per day instead of several. Discovery of the Lost Lands area is now properly credited towards the zone exploration achievement. [*]Crystalsong Forest: The flight master at Sunreaver's Command (and the dirty Alliance area) are now working and learnable as flight points. There are still no quests that I've been able to locate in the zone at this time. Achievements: Several new achievements have been added to the General category, some involving the sampling of various foods and drinks. Loremaster achievements have gotten some tweaking, but it's minor. New categories have been added to the Dungeons and Raids category, breaking down WotLK heroics, non-heroics, raids, and "heroic raids" (the 25-man versions of raiding content). Each subheading has its own set of achievements now so that they're not all lumped together under Lich King any longer. Cooking has a new achievement for learning 25 cooking recipes (achieving this unlocks further quantity goals; my DK doesn't cook, so I haven't seen the others yet). Fishing offers seperate achievements for Old Crafty and Old Ironjaw now. Neither are required for the Accomplished Angler achievement. Most of the "NYI" temporary achievements for First Aid were removed (they were silly anyway). Many new (and very funny) achievements were added for the in-game seasonal events. "Realm First" Feats of Strength achievements that do not grant titles no longer indicate that they do. The fishing achievement "Old Man Barlowned" now properly detects credit for completing each of Barlo's fishing dailies in the past. The fishing achievement "Northrend Angler" can be completed now that Moonglow Cuttlefish Schools have been introduced. All of the previously NYI exploration achievements have been implemented and the related title/tabard rewards are working. *is now titled as Verissi the Explorer" Professions: General:Eternals now have new icons! Yay, I can finally tell them apart from primals! [*]Tailoring: LOTS of new patterns are available on Grand Master Tailor trainers, including epic cloth items. A tailoring "perk" has been added that gives the tailor a chance to find additional cloth on Northrend humanoids. It's obtained via a "click-through" quest and requires 5g to learn (but awards experience, oddly enough). Most of the craftable tailoring items are now itemised. [*]Inscription: Inscription has a new icon (I hated that feather). Inks have new icons and they're nice! [*]Cooking: The recipe for Delicious Chocolate Cake is also now available from Misensi for 10 Dalaran Cooking Awards. [*]Fishing: Moonglow Cuttlefish Schools are finally appearing offshore. [*]Engineering: Tinkers are working properly again (finally can use my haste tinker again). [*]First Aid: The amount of cloth required to make Frostweave and Heavy Frostweave Bandages has been reduced again to 1 and 2, respectively. Classes: General:Some rather large "adjustments" (most call them OMGNERFZ) have been made to all classes. All complaints should be registered in the appropriate class forums. [*]Mage: Deep Freeze duration has been reduced, as has the damage. Frost Nova once again appears to break after one critical strike. Mages don't seem to benefit from the mana replenishment effect of their own water elemental if they have the talent Improved Water Elemental (not sure if this is intended or a bug yet). Edited September 11, 2008 by Waldonnis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts