Blizzard Entertainment and Vivendi Universal have released the 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 patch for World of Warcraft. This ~15MB patch focuses on gameplay enhancements, but also makes some UI adjustments and, of course, corrects bugs.
Download the 2.4.2 patch.
2.4.2 Changelog:
Druids
Talent: Primal Fury (Rank 2) will now be properly unlearned when it is
untalented.
Talent: (Restoration)- Natural Perfection will no longer proc by normal melee
attacks.
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.
Dire Ravens in Blade’s Edge Mountains 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.
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%.
Crusader Strike (Retribution) will now properly receive a damage increase from
Seal of The Crusader.
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.
Warrior
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” 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 crowd control
effects.
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: Tooltip spelling corrected.
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 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.
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 Scattershot 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.
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 and Blood Elf 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.
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