Hotfixes Patch 4.0.6 February 14

February 14

General

Players who are exalted with 40 factions are again awarded The Exalted title. Note that the associated achievement does not state that this title will be awarded when it’s earned. This will be corrected in a future patch. More information can be found here.

Druid

Starfall will now hit any target in range which is in combat or not at full health (including the Exposed Head of Magmaw, which was causing issues with Starfall).

Paladin

The hotfix to Beacon of Light and Light of Dawn on February 11 did not produce the intended results and has been reverted. Light of Dawn should still trigger Beacon of Light.

Raids & Dungeons

Blackwing Descent

The Atramedes achievement Silence is Golden was incorrectly failing when any raid member’s sound bar went over 30%. The achievement now requires no one’s sound bar to go over 50% as advertised.

Professions

Alchemy

The Mysterious Potion was restoring the wrong amount of mana. It now restores 1 to 15,000 mana, instead of 1 to 30,000.

Fishing

The Bone and Jeweled Fishing Pole quest rewards are now item level 15, down from 200.

Herbalism

Whiptail was spawning too quickly in Uldum after patch 4.0.6. The spawn time has been reduced.

Player vs. Player changes and bug fixes patch 4.0.6

Player vs. Player

Arenas

Bloodlust, Heroism, Time Warp and Ancient Hysteria can no longer be cast while in Arenas.

Battlegrounds

The Battle for Gilneas

The time it takes to capture a flag has been reduced to 5 seconds, down from 8.

Strand of the Ancients

The damage done by Antipersonnel Cannons has been doubled.
The missile speed of Rocket Blast (Antipersonnel Cannons) has been increased by roughly 50%.
Some Antipersonnel Cannons could shoot the platform they were spawned on. These spawn locations have been fixed.
The Battleground Demolisher no longer has two additional seats and now only has room for the driver.
A PvP duration flag has been added to Battleground Demolishers. This should make it so crowd control effects cast on unmanned demolishers does not last an extended amount of time.
There should no longer be a discrepancy in time when the Battleground Demolishers spawn at the start of each round.
The Battleground Demolishers spawned on the docks no longer despawn when the north graveyard is taken by the offense.
Massive Seaforium Charges should now be useable in rated Battleground matches.
The duration of the Teleport debuff has been lowered to 10 seconds, down from 20.
The radius of the Seaforium Blast has been lowered to 10 yards, down from 20.
The Teleporters on defense will now teleport players based on which line of gates have been destroyed, rather than directly behind that gate. For example, if a player clicks the Teleporter at the Blue gate when one of the beach gates has been destroyed, it will put the player behind the Red gate.

Tol Barad

Attacking forces will receive a 200% capture speed bonus when they control 2 keeps.
Defending forces will receive a 200% capture speed bonus when they control all 3 keeps.
Daily quest creatures, herbs, minerals, etc. will only spawn when Tol Barad is in the quest phase between battles. There will be 5-minute and 1-minute warnings before the quest phase ends. The quest phase ends 15 minutes before the battle for Tol Barad begins and queuing is made available. At that time any players in the daily micro dungeons will be ported just outside. This does not apply to Tol Barad Peninsula or the daily quests there.
The weekly PvP quest “Victory in Tol Barad” now awards 200 Honor Points and 3 Tol Barad Commendations.
Players can now see the status of Tol Barad on the World Map no matter where they are. The time to the next battle is displayed by zooming into the Tol Barad section of the map. The current controlling faction can be seen on the Eastern Kingdoms map.

PvP Bug Fixes

Players are again able to report other players as AFK from the maps and chat interfaces in Tol Barad and Wintergrasp.

Arena Fixes

Entering an Arena should no longer sometimes cause a client crash.
It is now possible to disband an Arena team from the Arena Team management page of the PvP tab.
The Join Battle button on the PvP pane should now function when a team captain attempts to queue.
It should no longer be possible for players to get their pets stuck on the large pillars in the Orgrimmar Arena.
Players joining late to an Arena match will now count for the win condition and will have enemy unit frames.

Battleground Fixes

Players should no longer receive a client crash by going AFK in a Battleground.
There should no longer be a slight delay when returning a flag in Battlegrounds.
The Battleground Rating and Rating Change categories on the Score Screen are now sorting properly.

Arathi Basin

The buff located at the Blacksmith should now always apply when players run through it.
The Goldmine flag no longer counts as two base assaults when captured by the Horde.

Eye of the Storm

Players with only the classic World of Warcraft license attached to their accounts should now be able to access this Battleground.

Isle of Conquest

The Horde gates no longer become large pink cubes when they are destroyed.
The Alliance Keep entrance should not start open at the beginning of the battle.
Vehicle damage now better matches the tooltip.
Using a catapult’s Launch should no longer cause players to sometimes get stuck inside the geometry of the Horde Keep.

Strand of the Ancients

It should no longer be possible for the Alliance boats to not phase out upon the start of round 2.
Move enforcement failures shouldn’t occur while on the ships for either faction.

Twin Peaks

Boots of Speed power-ups were unevenly placed relative to the flags in each base and have been adjusted.
The interface should now properly track the final flag capture for the Horde.

Tol Barad Fixes

The status and timer on the map should now be working correctly.
The Abandoned Siege Engines now make sounds when moving.

Quests & Creatures

Many rare creatures that went into hiding upon Deathwing’s emergence into Azeroth have made a return! In addition to finding new homes in a post-Cataclysm world, they drop new, improved loot, provide a healthy experience bonus, and respawn much more quickly when killed. Happy hunting!

Stranglethorn Vale

Chief Engineer Scooty, formally of Booty Bay, has packed up his Gnomeregan teleporter and lugged it up to Grom’gol in Northern Stranglethorn to better accommodate his Horde customers.

Tol Barad Peninsula

A new achievement, Just Another Day in Tol Barad, has been added for completing all of the Tol Barad daily quests.
Crazed Guards now drop Rusty Rifles.
The spawn rate of Alliance and Horde Infantry for the quest “The Leftovers” has been increased.
The Magnetized Scrap Collector for the quest “Magnets, How Do They Work?” will now be correctly removed from players’ bags upon completing the quest.
Both the Baradin’s Wardens and Hellscream’s Reach Commendations are now Bound to Account items.
Quest turn-in NPCs have been added to Baradin Base Camp and Hellscream’s Reach in Tol Barad Peninsula for the Tol Barad bonus quests. This will allow players to turn in these quests if the original quest givers in Tol Barad are not available.
Kill credit for the Tol Barad bonus quest bosses will now be granted to players who have helped attack them, even if they are not in the same group. These bosses include Problim, Archmage Galus, Warden Silva, and Svarnos.
The Farson Keep Prisoner summoned for the quest “Walk A Mile In Their Shoes” will now only be visible to the player who summoned him.
Spawn rates at Rustberg Village have been increased.
Rusty Rifles will now spawn more frequently at Farson Keep.

Quest & Creature Bug Fixes

Goblin Zeppelin Masters who are marked as Horde faction will no longer cause Alliance players to lose neutral goblin reputation if killed.
Corehounds in Mount Hyjal cannot be tamed by hunters without the required Beast Mastery talent.
Darkwood Lurkers and Broodmothers in Tol Barad Peninsula can now be skinned.
Players should now always receive 6 daily quests in Tol Barad Peninsula as intended, rather than sometimes only getting 5.

Dungeon & Raid Bug Fixes

Dungeon & Raid Bug Fixes

Many dungeon maps with display issues or missing sections have been updated.
Several bosses and creatures were awarding no, or too little, reputation when killed. Conversely, some creatures were awarding too much reputation, or should not have been awarding reputation at all. These inconsistencies have been corrected.
Error messages for characters unable to enter a Heroic raid dungeon should be more clear.
Players level 83 and higher should be able to correctly queue for holiday dungeon bosses.
Players above level 80 can no longer queue for Wrath of the Lich King Heroic dungeons.
Level 68-79 Wrath of the Lich King dungeons again award reputation.
If a spell is cast which provides items for players (i.e. Soulwell), members of the party or raid should still be able to access the items after the caster leaves the dungeon.
The minimum level requirements for many level 1-60 dungeons were too high and have been appropriately adjusted.

Ahn’Qiraj

If one of the bug trio bosses is tamed, the encounter can again be completed normally.

Baradin Hold

Players in the raid dungeon will correctly be given a 15-minute warning before Tol Barad will be in contention again.

The Bastion of Twilight

There should no longer be a significant performance drop when entering the Bastion Antechamber.
Several items dropping in the Heroic version of Bastion of Twilight which did not have the Heroic tag in their tooltip have been updated.
Cho’gall should no longer look awkward when he is Distracted while sitting on the Throne of the Apocalypse.
The voice-over text now matches the voice-over for Cho’Gall’s speeches.
Cho’gall shouldn’t Evade and despawn if pulled too close to the door at the entrance to the Throne of the Apocalypse.
Cho’gall shouldn’t despawn if tanked close to his door when he gains Twisted Devotion.
If a Fire Elemental is spawned while Cho’gall is standing on the hidden elevator, they will no longer spawn in the wrong location for the remainder of the encounter.
The overhead arrow spell animation caused by Valiona’s Twilight Meteorite ability shouldn’t clip into the affected character while animating.
The corpses of Valiona and Theralion will adhere to the laws of gravity and fall to the ground if killed during phase transitions.
The Cache of the Broodmother (from Sinestra) will no longer despawn if dungeon difficulty is changed in the interface.
Static Overload used in the Twilight Ascendant Council encounter no longer deals full damage to pets.

Black Morass

Sa’at again has a dialog option for players to obtain a Chrono-Beacon, even if they have not completed the quest chain that begins with the quest “The Caverns of Time.”

Blackrock Caverns

Karsh Steelbender’s targeting reticule no longer changes size when he catches fire.
Raz the Crazed no longer returns to his Shadow Prison if Blackrock Caverns is reset, which was preventing players from finishing the dungeon.
Players shouldn’t experience a move enforcement error or be pushed under the world if they are standing near lava when affected by Chains of Woe during the Rom’ogg Bonecrusher encounter.
Twilight Obsidian Borers in Blackrock Caverns resume channeling of Bore after being under the effects of a rogue’s Sap.

Blackwing Descent

Ancient Dwarven Shields used while Atramedes is entering or exiting his air phase should correctly be destroyed.
There is no longer a dead zone void of Sonic Pulses on the Heroic version of the Atramedes encounter.
Arcanotron can no longer be pulled further than intended via a death knight’s Death Grip.
Lightning Shield shouldn’t trigger the shields of all Omnotron Council bosses.
Clicking the character name displayed in the raid warning for Lightning Conductor during the Omnotron Defense System encounter no longer brings up the tooltip for the spell Lightning Conductor.
Maloriak’s Magma Jets correctly have a cast time.
The effect of Maloriak’s spell Consuming Flames should no longer be inconsistent with its combat log tooltip.
Maloriak will no longer interrupt himself when speaking during transition phases.
The voice-over text now matches the voice-over for Lord Victor Nefarius’ post-Maloriak kill speech.
Corpses of Animated Bone Warriors no longer float above the lava during phase 2 of the Nefarian’s End encounter.
Nefarions voice-overs should always be audible when standing in the Vault of the Shadowflame.
Chimaeron shouldn’t enter phase 2 prematurely.
Chimaeron thought he had 3 heads, resulting in 3 separate sleeping animations. He now knows he only has 2 heads.

Blackwing Lair

The gate at the entrance of Blackwing Lair correctly opens after Chromaggus is tamed as a pet.

Caverns of Time

Human Illusion: This effect is no longer applied to worgen.

The Deadmines

Admiral Ripsnarl can no longer be pulled off the top of his ship without resetting the encounter on Heroic difficulty.
Defeating Captain Cookie should no longer despawn his cooking pot or leave his corpse floating in mid-air.
Foe Reaper 5000 should no longer arbitrarily reset the encounter.
The achievement criteria for Prototype Prodigy correctly resets after a wipe.
It is no longer possible to avoid detonated charges without leaving the boat during the Vanessa VanCleef encounter.
The buff aura applied with random internal information in the tooltip when players access the ropes during the Vanessa VanCleef encounter has been amended.

Grim Batol

The Twilight Beguiler’s ability Deceitful Blast no longer ignores line of sight.
It is no longer possible for Forgemaster Throngus to not choose a static direction to channel Flaming Shield.

Halls of Origination

Spatial Anomaly now drops loot.
Multiple Heroic items dropping in the Halls of Origination had level requirements that were too low and have been updated.
Players should correctly receive the achievement Faster Than the Speed of Light if they die prior to the party meeting the criteria.
Setesh’s Chaos Burn void zones should now be viewable by players with projected textures disabled.
The Setesh encounter will now fully reset properly, even if his minions are more than 300 yards from him when he resets.
Curse of the Runecaster debuff now deals damage as its tooltip states it will.
The Sun-Touched Spritelings and Sprites will no longer retain the Pyrogenics buffs after death.
Sun-Touched Servants and Sprites will no longer die without spawning creatures if they are stunned right after they cast Disperse.
The Celestial Familiars summoned during the Isiset encounter are no longer classified as humanoids.

Icecrown Citadel

Kinetic Bombs used during the Blood Prince Council fight will no longer behave oddly if they spawn near the door at the entrance to the room.

Lost City of the Tol’vir

Characters hit with General Husam’s Hard Impact ability should now always slide down the pillar they are flung into.
Lockmaw shouldn’t Evade and despawn if pulled onto the steps directly behind his starting location.
Several line-of-sight issues have been corrected around the Sanctum of the South Wind.

Scarlet Monastery

The courtyards in the Library, Armory and Cathedral wings should no longer have portal errors.

Sethekk Halls

The door leading out of Talon King Ikiss’s room should always properly open.

The Stonecore

Fixed a bug that made Ozruk’s Shatter knockback component 10-yard range while the damage had a 15-yard range. Both are 15 yards now.
Earthwarden Yrsa has been reminded she’s a dwarf and now speaks like one (instead of using a draenei voice).
Crystal Shards spawned by the Crystalspawn Giant should now immediately despawn after a wipe.
The particle effects used when Corborus submerges below the ground should no longer cause performance issues.
Players shouldn’t receive a random error during the High Priestess Azil encounter.
High Priestess Azil shouldn’t be able to Force Grip players through the altar.
Killing a Stonecore Earthshaper that transforms into a Force of Earth now correctly awards loot.

Stratholme

Archmage Angela Dosantos’s portal at the end of the dungeon should no longer suffer from functionality issues.
Willey Hopebreaker no longer plays extraneous “I’m dying” sound variations simultaneously when a Scarlet Cannon is fired.

Throne of the Four Winds

A client assertion issue which could occur during the Al’Akir encounter has been corrected.
Ravenous Creepers should now all despawn if the raid wipes while they’re spawning.

Throne of the Tides

Players can no longer bypass the tentacle knockback area by being super sneaky with their abilities.
Ozumat’s Blight of Ozumat can be partially resisted, but can no longer miss players.
Al’Akir’s Electrocute can no longer be interrupted by Spell Reflection.
Lady Naz’jar’s Geyser should no longer potentially knock players outside the boss room above the geometry of the dungeon.
Commander Ulthok’s Dark Fissure effect should now display correctly when projected textures are disabled.

The Vortex Pinnacle

Players who enter the dungeon through the instance portal are now given a means to exit after defeating Asaad.
Cyclone used by Wild Vortex should no longer be removing some aura abilities.
Minister of Air’s Lightning Lash is now properly cast even if a player is not in line of sight.
Skyfall Star now leashes and no longer keep players in combat throughout the dungeon if engaged and not killed.

Upcoming Warrior changes patch 4.0.6

Warrior

Charge now shares diminishing returns with stun effects.
Cleave damage has been reduced by 20%.
Hamstring now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Heroic Strike damage has been reduced by 20%.
Inner Rage has been redesigned. It now reduces the cooldown on Heroic Strike and Cleave by 50% (to 1.5 second) for the next 15 seconds. 1-minute cooldown. It still cannot be used during Deadly Calm. This ability was originally designed to help warriors with rage capping, but the Heroic Strike and rage normalization changes seem to have solved that problem on their own. This new design will still allow warriors to burn off excess rage faster, at their discretion.
Recklessness now increases special critical strike chance by 50%, down from 100%, but lasts the full 12 seconds instead of allowing only 3 charges.
Slam weapon damage percent (at level 80+) has been increased from 125% to 145%.

Talent Specializations

Arms

Drums of War no longer lowers the rage cost of Piercing Howl.
Juggernaut no longer increases the cooldown on Charge, but instead increases the duration of the Charge stun by 2 seconds. In addition, Charge is usable in all stances, however, the talent now causes Charge and Intercept to share a cooldown.
Lambs to the Slaughter: Instead of granting 10/20/30% damage to the next Mortal Strike, Overpower, or Execute, it now grants a 10% buff to any Mortal Strike, Overpower, Slam, or Execute that stacks 1/2/3 times.
Mortal Strike cost has been reduced by 5 rage.
War Academy no longer buffs Heroic Strike or Cleave. It now buffs Mortal Strike, Raging Blow, Devastate, Victory Rush and Slam.

Fury

In addition to its current effects, Bloodsurge now also causes the next Slam to deal 20% more damage.
Bloodthirst damage has been increased by approximately 30%.
Raging Blow weapon damage percent (at level 80+) has been increased from 110% to 120%.
Single-Minded Fury bonus has been increased to 20%, up from 15%.
Unshackled Fury (Mastery) now grants 5.6% benefit per mastery point, up from 4.7%.

Protection

Charge’s stun continues to not trigger diminishing returns for Protection warriors who have the Warbringer talent.

Glyphs

Glyph of Rapid Charge has been changed from a 7% reduction to Charge’s cooldown, to 1 second off of the cooldown. This change is primarily to clarify the exact cooldown reduction this glyph provides.

Warrior Bug Fixes

Warrior abilities which were incorrectly assigned the sound effect for Mangle have been updated.
Battle Shout’s buff tooltip should not show incorrect values when the recipient is higher level than the warrior.
Heroic Leap and Thunder Clap no longer incorrectly scale damage with both Strength and Agility.
Forceful Deflection passive aura is now properly applying to warriors beginning at level 1.
The Victorious buff can no longer proc before the warrior learns Victory Rush.
The wording in the tooltip for Vigilance was inconsistent with other abilities and has been updated.

Upcoming Warlock changes patch 4.0.6

Warlock

Curse of Exhaustion now reduces movement speed by 30%, down from 50%. Its range has been increased to 40 yards, up from 30.
Demon Armor and Fel Armor no longer cost mana and last until canceled.
Devour (Felhunter) cooldown has been increased to 20 seconds, up from 8. Devour is no longer able to be auto-cast.
Drain Mana has been removed from the game.
Fear now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Fel Armor has been redesigned. It now surrounds the caster with fel energy, increasing spell power and causing the warlock to be healed for 3% of any single-target spell damage he or she deals.
Seduction (Succubus) now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.

Talent Specializations

Affliction

Soul Swap can no longer be dispelled (the aura given to the warlock between swapping).
Unstable Affliction’s silence effect has been reduced to 4 seconds, down from 5.

Demonology

Demonic Aegis now increases the healing effect of Fel Armor by 50/100%.
Demonic Rebirth now highlights summoning spells when active.
Demon Soul: Imp redesigned. It now increases the critical strike chance of all non instant cast Destruction spells by 30%, rather than increasing critical strike damage. Duration reduced to 20 seconds.
Felstorm (Felguard) damage has been reduced by 20%.
Immolation Aura damage has been reduced by roughly 30%.
Inferno no longer increases the radius of Hellfire, but instead increases the duration of Immolate by 6 seconds in addition to its existing effect.
Master Demonologist (Mastery) benefit from mastery increased by approximately 33%.

Destruction

Burning Embers damage has been reduced by 15%.
Fiery Apocalypse (Mastery) benefit from mastery increased by approximately 8%.
Improved Soul Fire now increases Fire and Shadow damage done by 4/8%, rather than 7/15% spell haste. In addition, this talent has been moved to tier-3 Destruction, switching places with Aftermath.
Shadow and Flame can now proc from Incinerate in addition to Shadow Bolt.

Warlock Bug Fixes

Rank 2 of Backdraft should no longer have charges consumed when casting Immolate.
The spell animation for Demon Circle: Summon no longer persists through death.
Demon Leap should no longer cause players to pass through the environment at the entrance/exit of Orgrimmar.
Drain Life cast when under the effects of Soulburn no longer has higher damage than the normal version of Drain Life.
Empowered Imp can no longer proc if the warlock does not have the talent.
Hellfire will not proc the Muradin’s Spyglass buff without hitting an enemy target.
Warlocks with the Jinx talent who have an active Curse of the Elements on a target should no longer be interrupted while eating or drinking.
Nether Protection should now proc properly from all associated abilities.
Rain of Fire now remains at the same location it was cast at while on a moving transport.
Ritual of Summoning should no longer yield graphical issues with the created portal.
Casting Soulburn during the global cooldown of a Soulburn ability, and while under the effects of another self-buff, was sometimes causing Soulburn abilities to be non-functional. This has been corrected.
The UI fly-out for a warlocks’ summoning spells now updates in real time based on the warlock’s available mana.
The tooltip for the armor value in the Character pane should now be showing the correct amount of armor granted to pets.

Glyph Fixes

Glyph of Voidwalker’s tooltip has been updated to the new pet scaling system.

Upcoming Shaman changes patch 4.0.6

Shaman

Chain Heal’s effectiveness has been increased by approximately 10%.
Flametongue Weapon procs now deal roughly 20% less damage.
Healing Rain now has a 40-yard range, up from 30, to be consistent with other shaman heals.
Hex now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Purge now dispels a single effect instead of two.
Spiritwalker’s Grace duration has been increased to 15 seconds, up from 10.
Tremor Totem has been redesigned. The totem is now usable under Fear, Charm, or Sleep effects, and pulses much more rapidly, but lasts 6 seconds and has a 1-minute cooldown.
The Windfury Weapon proc can now trigger 3 additional attacks, up from 2.

Talent Specializations

Elemental Combat

Earthquake damage has been increased by approximately 10%.
Elemental Overload (Mastery) procs of Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning can now generate Rolling Thunder charges.
Lava Burst’s damage has been increased by roughly 10%.

Enhancement

Flametongue Weapon damage now scales from attack power instead of spell power (for Enhancement shaman only).
Purge no longer has its mana cost reduced by Mental Quickness.

Restoration

Cleansing Waters no longer fires its heal effect twice when a shaman removes a Magic and a Curse debuff with a single cast.
Deep Healing (Mastery) has been increased to 3% per point, up from 2.5%.
Earth Shield can no longer be dispelled.
Greater Healing Wave mana cost has been increased by 10%; healing done has been increased by 20%.
Mana Tide Totem has been redesigned. The totem no longer multiplies the Spirit of those affected by it. It instead gives a flat amount of Spirit equal to 400% of the casting shaman’s Spirit, exclusive of short-term Spirit buffs affecting the shaman when the totem is dropped. In addition, its effects are now raid-wide.

Glyphs

Glyph of Hex now reduces the cooldown by 10 seconds, down from 15.

Shaman Bug Fixes

Ancestral Resolve correctly reduces the damage done by Chaos Bolt.
Earthquake’s mana cost is now correctly reduced by Elemental Focus’ clearcasting proc.
Elemental Oath properly increases the damage of Earthquake.
Player movement speed cannot be reduced below 100% while in Ghost Wolf if the player is or has been in an indoor environment.
Healing Rain shouldn’t fail to complete casting if a low-level player or NPC is within its targeted location.
Reincarnation can now correctly be used after Soulstone Resurrection or Rebirth has already been used on the shaman during a boss encounter.

Glyph Fixes

The tooltip for Elemental Mastery now updates after applying the Glyph of Elemental Mastery.
The spell buff icon for Ghost Wolf now updates when Glyph of Ghost Wolf is applied.
The spell tooltip for Grounding Totem now updates when Glyph of Grounding Totem is applied.
The tooltip for Healing Stream Totem now updates to reflect the additional benefit of 25 spell resistance granted by Glyph of Healing Stream Totem.
The spell tooltip for Healing Wave now updates when Glyph of Healing Wave is applied.

Upcoming Priest changes patch 4.0.6

Priest

The duration of Levitate has been increased to 10 minutes, up from 2.
The mana cost of Power Word: Fortitude has been reduced by approximately 68%, making it roughly equal to the cost of Mark of the Wild.
The mana cost of Power Word: Shield has been increased by approximately 31%, but its effect has been increased by 208%.
The mana cost of Renew has been reduced by 24%.
The mana cost of Shadow Protection has been reduced by approximately 65%, making it roughly equal to the cost of Mark of the Wild.
Mind Blast now does 18% more damage than Mind Spike.
Mind Control now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Mind Sear can now be channeled on friendly targets in addition to enemy targets. In addition, Mind Sear’s damage has been increased by roughly 15%.
Prayer of Healing effectiveness has been reduced by 15%.

Talent Specializations

Discipline

Divine Aegis: Critical effects from Prayer of Healing now award a bonus amount in addition to the default, always-proc Divine Aegis effect.
Focused Will now procs when the priest is critically hit, in addition to its current effect.
Grace is no longer limited to one target at a time.
Pain Suppression is no longer dispellable.
Penance mana cost has been increased by 7%, but healing has been increased by 20%.
Strength of Soul now occurs when the priest casts Inner Focus on oneself, rather than Power Word: Shield. In addition, Strength of Soul now also causes the priest to become immune to silence, interrupt, and dispel effects for 2/4 seconds after using Inner Focus.

Holy

Blessed Resilience will now proc when the priest is critically hit, in addition to its current effect.
Chakra
Chakra states now last 1 minute, up from 30 seconds.
Binding Heal and Holy Word: Serenity now refresh the duration of Renew on the target, in addition to the other direct heals.
Binding Heal, Flash Heal, Greater Heal can now trigger Chakra: Serenity.
Mind Spike can now trigger Chakra: Chastise.
Circle of Healing effectiveness has been increased by 30%.
Desperate Prayer now heals the priest for 30% of their total health, up from a very subpar value.
Guardian Spirit: The absorb/heal from this ability can now never exceed 200% of the maximum health of the target.
Holy Concentration now increases the amount of mana regeneration from Spirit while in combat by an additional 15/30%, down from 20/40%.
Holy Word: Chastise now has a 30-second cooldown, up from 25. In addition, it properly breaks from damage.
Lightwell’s health has been increased by 50% (for PvP purposes).
Serendipity now has Spell Alert and Floating Combat Text feedback support.
Surge of Light can now also proc from Flash Heal and Greater Heal, and can now also critically hit.

Shadow

Shadow Orbs benefit from mastery has been increased by approximately 16%.
Vampiric Embrace now lasts until canceled.

Glyphs

Glyph of Mind Flay no longer requires Shadow Word: Pain to be on the target.
Glyph of Pain Suppression has been renamed Glyph of Desperation and now allows Guardian Spirit to be cast while stunned, in addition to Pain Suppression.
Glyph of Psychic Horror now reduces the cooldown of Psychic Horror by 30 seconds, down from 60.
Glyph of Spirit of Redemption has been converted into Glyph of Prayer of Mending, which increases the healing done by the first charge of Prayer of Mending by 60%.

Priest Bug Fixes

Atonement now has the correct healing range listed in the tooltip.
Blessed Resilience rank 1 and 2 tooltips are now consistent with the amount of increased healing.
Dispersion should no longer allow priests to become permanently invisible when mounting.
Dispersion correctly reduces the damage dealt by Deep Wounds and Piercing Shots.
Focused Will rank 1 and 2 tooltips are now consistent with the amount of damage reduced.
Heal, Flash Heal, Greater Heal, and Binding Heal effects are now consistent with their tooltips.
Holy Concentration now has correct percentages listed in the tooltip.
Holy Word: Serenity now correctly grants healing spells cast by the priest an extra 25% chance to critically hit.
Inner Fire no longer consumes mana after learning Inner Sanctum.
Inner Will now correctly reduces the mana cost of Power Word: Barrier.
Lightwell healing now matches its tooltip description.
Undead and blood elf priests are no longer gaining aggro from friendly guards when casting Mind Control on enemy NPCs.
Unnecessary string errors should no longer occur when casting Power Word: Barrier.
Prayer of Mending will now properly return an error when cast on a target with a more powerful Prayer of Mending active.
Rapture’s tooltip now has the correct percentages listed.
Shadow Orbs’ tooltip showed a 0% increase in damage and did not give an increase of damage until additional mastery rating was added. This has been corrected.
Sin and Punishment will no longer fear players that are not flagged for PvP.
Surge of Light is no longer consumed without benefit if it triggers while a Flash Heal is being cast.

Glyph Fixes

Critical heals from Glyph of Dispel Magic properly proc Divine Aegis.

Upcoming Paladin changes patch 4.0.6

Paladin

The mana costs of Blessing of Might and Blessing of Kings have been increased by approximately 217%, making them roughly equal to the cost of Mark of the Wild.
Crusader Strike weapon damage percent has been increased to 135%, up from 115%.
Divine Light mana cost has been increased by approximately 10%.
Divine Plea now lasts for 9 seconds, down from 15. It grants 4% mana per tick, instead of 2%, for a total of 12% mana, up from 10%.
Flash of Light mana cost has been increased by approximately 10%.
Forbearance
The duration has been lowered to 1 minute, down from 2.
Lay on Hands now causes Forbearance on the target. It used to only cause it when cast on the paladin. This was an old design from when Divine Protection caused Forbearance and the paladin didn’t want to prevent a tank from using their defensive cooldown.
Lay on Hands cannot be a critical effect and will not be affected by most abilities which modify healing (such as Beacon of Light). In addition, Lay on Hands is no longer on the global cooldown.
Since only Divine Shield, Lay on Hands and Hand of Protection cause Forbearance, the tooltips have been adjusted to better explain the mechanic.
Holy Light mana cost has been increased by approximately 10%.
Holy Wrath no longer counts nearby critters when dividing damage among its targets.
Inquisition is no longer dispellable.
Rebuke can now be trained by all paladins at level 54. Existing characters will need to visit their trainer, even if they had talented Rebuke before.
Seal of Truth: All single target attacks (including Judgement, Hammer of Wrath, Exorcism, and Templar’s Verdict) can now trigger this seal.

Talent Specializations

Holy

Aura Mastery: This ability no longer increases the benefit granted by Crusader Aura.
Denounce now has a spell overlay.
Protector of the Innocent heals for 30% less.

Protection

Eternal Glory: The chance to not consume Holy Power from this talent now also applies to not consuming the clearcasting effect generated by Divine Purpose.
Vindication no longer allows Hammer of Justice to interrupt stun-immune targets. With Rebuke baseline, this functionality is no longer necessary.

Retribution

Act of Sacrifice will no longer cause Cleanse to remove movement impairing effects from vehicles the paladin is riding.
Divine Purpose: The chance for applicable abilities to generate Holy Power has been reduced to 7/15%, down from 20/40%, but instead of generating 1 Holy Power, the next applicable ability used consumes no Holy Power and acts as if the paladin has 3 Holy Power.
Divine Storm weapon damage percent increased from 80% to 100%.
Hand of Light (Mastery): A percentage of the damage done by Templar’s Verdict, Crusader Strike, and Divine Storm is done as additional Holy damage. This Mastery now grants a 2.1% increase to Holy damage per mastery, down from 2.5%.
Repentance is no longer broken from damage done by Censure (Seal of Truth).
The Rebuke talent has been replaced with a new passive talent, Sacred Shield. Paladins who had Rebuke before will automatically have Sacred Shield. Sacred When reduced below 30% health, paladins gain the Sacred Shield effect. The Sacred Shield absorbs X damage and increases healing received by 20%. Lasts 15 seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every 30 seconds. Undispellable.
Seals of Command will no longer trigger twice on each swing with Seal of Truth.
Zealotry is no longer dispellable.

Glyphs

Glyph of Divine Plea now adds 6% mana, for a total of 18% over 9 seconds.

Paladin Bug Fixes

The Silence debuff from Avenger’s Shield was using the Dazed visual effect, and its Daze debuff did not have a visible effect. This has been remedied.
The damage bonus from Communion is no longer applied even when the paladin has no paladin auras active.
Divine Storm no longer incorrectly highlights when Hand of Light procs.
Exorcism automatically re-targets whomever it does damage to when it finishes casting.
The healing amount in the buff tooltip for Holy Radiance is now accurate.
Pursuit of Justice is now providing Holy Power when the paladin gets stunned by the Fire mage talent Impact. Conversely, Pursuit of Justice is no longer granting Holy Power when the Paladin is hit by Holy Wrath.
Repentance tooltip now states that it does not break Censure damage.
Rank 1 of Shield of the Templar was reducing the cooldown of Guardian of Ancient Kings by 45 seconds, which is inconsistent with the scaling of ranks 2 and 3. This has been adjusted.
The tooltip for Tower of Radiance indicated that Holy Light would generate a charge of Holy Power. This has been fixed.
Word of Glory no longer resets the swing timer.

Glyph Fixes

The damage-over-time effect of Exorcism added by Glyph of Exorcism is now correctly affected by Exorcism’s damage.
The tooltip for Holy Wrath is now updated to reflect changes when Glyph of Holy Wrath is active.
The Glyph of Light of Dawn is now updating the tooltip for Light of Dawn.
The Glyph of Seal of Insight now requires level 32 to be consistent with when Seal of Insight can be learned from the trainer.
The Glyph of Templar’s Verdict is now updating the tooltip of Templar’s Verdict.

Upcoming Rogue changes patch 4.0.6

Rogue

Blind now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Combat Readiness now lasts for 20 seconds, down from 30 seconds, but the Combat Insight stacking buff lasts 10 seconds, up from 6 seconds.
Crippling Poison now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Garrote now costs 45 Energy, down from 50.
Sap now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Smoke Bomb now lasts for 5 seconds, down from 10 seconds.
Stealth is no longer broken by enemies using Demoralizing Shout or Demoralizing Roar.

Talent Specializations

Assassination

Deadly Momentum critical strike bonus now lasts for 15 seconds, up from 10.

Combat

Blade Flurry is now a toggle that can be turned off by pressing the button again. In addition, this ability no longer has a fixed duration, but will go on cooldown for 10 seconds after being canceled (similar to Stealth). In addition, Blade Flurry now reduces energy generation by 30% while active, up from 20%.
Main Gauche (Mastery) now provides a chance to deal an attack for 100% of main-hand damage. This attack can trigger Combat Potency.
Restless Blades now also reduces the cooldown of Redirect.
Revealing Strike now increases finisher effectiveness by 35% (45% glyphed), up from 20% (30% glyphed).
Vitality now increases attack power by 25%, up from 20%.

Subtlety

Elusiveness now reduces the cooldown of Cloak of Shadows by 10/20 seconds, down from 15/30 seconds.
Executioner (Mastery) has been increased from 2% to 2.5% per point.
Find Weakness now grants 35/70% armor reduction, up from 25/50%.
Preparation no longer resets the cooldown of Evasion.
Sanguinary Vein now gives a rogue a 50/100% chance for their own Bleed effects to not break their Gouge.
Shadowstep’s cooldown has been increased to 24 seconds, up from 20 seconds.
Sinister Calling now grants 30% Agility, up from 25%, and increases Backstab and Hemorrhage damage by an additional 40%, up from 25%.

Glyphs

Glyph of Garrote now increases the duration of Garrote by 1.5 seconds, down from 2.

Rogue Bug Fixes

Cloak of Shadows now functions properly to protect the rogue from the following boss and creature abilities: Gravity Well (Terrastra, The Bastion of Twilight), Burning Corruption (Crimsonborne Seer, Grim Batol), Lava Fissure (Slabhide, The Stonecore), Geyser (Lady Naz’jar, Throne of the Tides), Noxious Mire (Naz’jar Sentinel, Throne of the Tides).
Cheat Death was activating by a warlock’s Chaos Bolt but not working. Chaos Bolt will still trigger Cheat Death, but will not kill the rogue.
Eviscerate was showing reduced energy cost at low levels, even though the cost should remain 35 energy. This has been corrected.
Feint now correctly reduces Quake damage from Rom’ogg Bonecrusher (Blackrock Caverns).
The Honor Among Thieves buff icon is now correctly displayed for the rogue, and not just for the rogue’s party members.
Ruthlessness has the correct chance to proc when Envenom is used.

Glyph Fixes

Blade Flurry’s tooltip is now correctly augmented by Glyph of Blade Flurry.
The Hemorrhage tooltip is now correctly updated to reflect the bleed effect when Glyph of Hemorrhage is applied.
The Preparation tooltip is now augmented by Glyph of Preparation.

Dungeons and Raids changes patch 4.0.6

Dungeons & Raids

Level-85 players can now choose any normal dungeon via the Dungeon Finder. Choosing Random Dungeon will still not add Blackrock Caverns or Throne of the Tides into the rotation.
Level-85 dungeon bosses in Lost City of the Tol’vir, Grim Batol, and Halls of Origination now drop 30 Justice Points each when killed.
The daily Random Dungeon reward on normal difficulty has been increased to 140 Justice Points, up from 70.
Players no longer need to discover Cataclysm dungeon entrances in order to access them via the Dungeon Finder.

Blackrock Caverns

Beauty now spawns with only two pups in Heroic difficulty. Not to worry though, the missing pup has been adopted by a wonderful, if not insane family.

Blackwing Descent

The Dwarven Golem Council will now go berserk after 10 minutes in Heroic difficulty.
Atramedes will now go berserk after 10 minutes in Heroic difficulty.

Deadmines

Foe Reaper 5000
Foe Reaper 5000’s health has been reduced slightly. In addition, he now enrages at 40%, up from 30%.
When enraged, Molten Slag spawn 33% faster.
Ripsnarl
The ship teleporter now activates when Ripsnarl is first engaged, rather than when he is defeated.
Vanessa VanCleef
While in Helix’s Nightmare during the Vanessa VanCleef encounter, Helix is now larger and a little easier to see.
The final rope swing while fighting Vanessa VanCleef has been removed. Players no longer need to swing off of the boat at the end of phase 3.
Some boat fires will now go out when Vanessa VanCleef is defeated, making it easier to get back onto the ship from the cavern entrance.
Vengeance of VanCleef has been redesigned. It is now a stacking buff that increases damage dealt, size, and attack speed, and stacks up to 40 times. Vanessa will begin casting this as soon as she jumps back onto the boat after detonating charges.

Grim Batol

Faceless Corruptors now move 10% more slowly.
Players may still use spell and abilities while afflicted by Forgemaster Throngus’s Impaling Slam.
Valiona’s Devouring Flame damage has been reduced by 20%.

Halls of Origination

The duration of the Flame Wardens’ Raging Inferno has been reduced by 80%.
Anraphet’s Nemesis Strike now does 75% of weapon damage, up from 50%. In addition, the damage-over-time effect applied by this ability does 15,000 damage every 2 seconds, up from 9,000.
Earthrager Ptah’s Flame Bolt now deals more damage per second on Heroic difficulty.
Setesh seeks a portal every 25 seconds, up from 20.

Lost City of the Tol’vir

Lockmaw no longer tolerates fighting in his treasure room.

Shadowfang Keep

Baron Ashbury
Sadly, in his hubris he has forgotten how to Mend Rotten Flesh.
Lord Godfrey
He should now face a random target when casting Pistol Barrage.
Lord Walden
Conjure Poisonous Mixture now deals more initial damage.
Frost Mixture is now area-of-effect damage.
Toxic Catalyst now deals less damage over time.

The Stonecore

Stonecore Earthshapers’ Dust Storm does slightly less damage.
Corborus
The warning time for Thrashing Charge has been increased by 1 second. In addition, Thrashing Charge now happens 4 times, down from 5.
The visual for Rock Borers spawning during the submersion phase is now different from the Thrashing Charge visual.
High Priestess Azil
She grew! She’s now 175% the size of a human, up from 125%.
Gravity Wells should kill Devout Followers more quickly.
The cast time of Force Grip is now 1.5 seconds, up from 1.
The size of the warning visual for Seismic Shard has been increased to more accurately reflect the area it affects.
Slabhide
The ground phase lasts longer and has fewer stalactites.
Ozruk
He now does more melee damage.
There is now a precast visual on the ground to make it clear how far away a player must get to be clear of Shatter.
The cast time of Shatter has been increased to 3 seconds, up from 2.5.
Shatter damage is now reduced by armor, but has been increased by 33.3% (repeating, of course) as a result.
Throne of the Tides

Commander Ulthok now does more melee damage.
The damage done by Lady Naz’jatar’s Shock Blast and Naz’jar Tempest Witch Chain Lightning has been reduced.
Gilgoblin Poisoned Spear impact damage has been reduced slightly.
Tainted Sentries Swell damage has been reduced.
The damage of Blight of Ozumat has been reduced by 25% per stack.

The Vortex Pinnacle

Creatures
Desperate Speed cast by Temple Adepts has had its duration reduced significantly.
Altairus
The visual effects in this encounter have been adjusted to make the wind direction easier to read.
Cyclones now knock players straight up, and players hit by a cyclone cannot be hit again for a few seconds.
Asaad
Skyfall Stars are now summoned to help him defeat players.
Static Cling has had its cast time increased to 1.25 seconds, up from 1.
Grand Vizier Ertan
His health has been reduced slightly.
He now knocks away players standing too close to him when he retracts his Cyclone Shield, which now inflicts Nature damage if it touches players.