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World of Warcraft Patch 3.1.2

Last Updated Tuesday, May 19, 2009http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.htmlhttp://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/General

New art textures have been added for Argent Tournament mounts. Any mounts already purchased from the Argent Tournament vendors will be updated automatically. Argent Tournament mounts with the old textures will still be available for purchase from the Argent Tournament vendors for a small Champion's Seal and gold cost (standard faction requirements apply).

Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.

Equipment Manager

When enabled from the Interface Options menu, this feature will allow players to store sets of equipment, easily swap between saved sets using hotkeys, and pull items directly from backpacks or bank slots (must be at the bank to equip inventory from the bank).

PVP

Vehicle health and damage output in Strand of the Ancients and Wintergrasp now scale with the item level of the operator's gear. Power scaling is now 1% damage and 1% health per average item level.

All Wintergrasp daily quests have been changed to a weekly format. The honor and Stone Keeper's Shard rewarded for completing these quests have been increased to compensate.

Death Knight

: This talent now also increases the healing from Death Strike by 25/50% and the tooltip has been adjusted to reflect the actual functionality after the hotfix in 3.1.0.

Dark Transformation: Now has a 10-second cooldown.

Druid

Innervate: This ability has been redesigned to grant 450% of the casting Druid's base mana pool to the target over 20 seconds.

: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell power.

Hunter

Disengage: Cooldown reduced by 5 seconds.

Mage

Mirror Image: The images summoned by this spell will now target the creature that most hates the Mage, and should no longer cast or on targets that are affected by crowd control debuffs that break immediately on damage unless they are already casting these spells when crowd control is applied.

Paladin

and : Now grant 92 mana per 5 seconds to prevent being overwritten by .

: Can no longer be used on player-controlled creatures.

Priest

Divine Hymn: Healing and healing scaling reduced by 30%. Buff on affected players changed from 15% to 10%.

: Effect can no longer be dispelled.

Soul Warding: Mana cost reduction is now 15% down from 30%.

Warlock

Conflagrate updated: Consumes an or effect on the enemy target to instantly deal damage equal to 12 seconds of your Immolate, or 8 seconds of your Shadowflame. In addition, the increased critical strike chance of Conflagrate provided by this talent no longer requires the Immolate effect to have 5 seconds or fewer remaining on the target.

: Now increases the damage done by your and by 3/6/9/12/15% on targets afflicted by Immolate, and increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate by 5/10/15/20/25%.

reduced to 30% damage reduction, down from 60%.

(Voidwalker) redesigned: Sacrifices a portion of the Voidwalker's health, giving its master a shield that will absorb X damage for 30 seconds. While the shield holds, spell casting will not be interrupted by damage. 1-minute cooldown.

: Now also includes .

Warrior

: Critical strike chance bonus reduced to 25%, down from 100%.

Items

Arena weapons with an item level of 239 have had their rating requirements increased to 2350.

Darkruned Battlegear 2-Piece Set Bonus: The bonus critical strike chance for and has been increased from 5% to 8%.

Furious Gladiator's Staff and Furious Gladiator's Greatstaff: The agility values on these two items were too high. They have been reduced by 50%.

Guise of the Midgard Serpent: The base attack power on this item has been lowered to balance it against items of a similar quality.

Increased the health and mana restored from Northrend food and drinks.

Most scopes now have a level requirement and will bind the item to which they are applied.

Nightsong Garb 4-Piece Set Bonus: Chance for to trigger an instant changed to 15%.

Scourgeborne Battlegear 4-Piece Set Bonus: The runic power gain has been reduced to 5 runic power from 10 runic power.

Ulduar 10-player hard mode weapons have been updated to item level 232.

Glyphs

Charred Glyph: Has been adjusted to grant the Druid 90% of his or her base mana pool over 20 seconds.

Charred Glyph: Now only decreases Mass Dispel cost by 35%.

Charred Glyph: Reduced to 7%, down from 20% cooldown reduction to Charge.

ProfessionsFishing

Jewel Of The Sewers: You can now fish in all parts of the Dalaran sewers for this quest.

Phantom Ghostfish: Can now be caught from Nettlefish schools in Sholazar Basin.

User Interface

For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.

Bug FixesDungeons and Raids - Ulduar

Hodir should now reset in a timely manner if a group fails to kill him.

10-player bosses that drop Runed Orb will also sometimes drop the recipes that use those orbs.

The Spark of Imagination: Characters that release in part of the boss room will no longer be ported to Westfall or The Barrens.

Professions - Tailoring

: Now correctly increases ranged attack power.

Anti-Magic Shell: Tooltip error corrected.

: If no target is available for Blood Boil to hit, the spell will now cast and consume a blood rune but generate no runic power.

: Rank 2 of this ability is properly considered a stun and can be escaped by Blink.

: critical strikes now trigger this talent.

: The tooltip has been corrected to display its actual chance to occur.

: This Hunter pet talent no longer lists a percentage chance to be triggered, as that chance varies by the attack speed of the pet.

: Damage done to the Paladin while this is active will no longer cause the effect to break early, and if it is dispelled or cancelled early, the damage counter will reset correctly the next time the spell is cast.

: Issues with action bars and ability use arising from using Stealth while Shadow Dance is active have been fixed.

Tricks of the Trade: To prevent exploits, this ability can no longer be cast on non-player targets.

: This spell will no longer appear in any Warlock's spellbook.