Компания Blizzard Entertainment опубликовала очередной список изменений первого глобального патча 4.1.0 дополнения World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, находящегося в данный момент на тестовом сервере PTR. Среди нововведений можно отметить следующие: упрощение достижений, связанных с рейтинговыми полями сражений; введение интерфейса поиска гильдии, а также небольшое усиление магов.
Достижения
A new feat of strength with an associated title, "the Camel-Hoarder", has been added for players that have bested Dormus and obtained the Reins of the Grey Riding Camel -- because there must always be a Camel-Hoarder.
The achievement "Not Your Average PUG'er" now requires 10 total flag defenses, down from 50.
The achievement "Battle for Gilneas All-Star" now requires a single flag assault and flag defense in a battle, down from 2.
Рыцарь смерти
Desecration no longer triggers when an applicable strike hits a snare-immune target. This is primarily to avoid unnecessary spell effect clutter during boss encounters.
Fingers of Frost bonus damage applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 25%, up from 15%.
Паладин
Illuminated Healing shield duration is now 15 seconds, up from 8 seconds. In addition, Illuminated Healing has been increased to provide 1.5% effect per mastery, up from 1.25%.
Шаман
Improved Fire Nova has been redesigned and replaced by a talent called Seasoned Winds. When an enemy spell cast is successfully prevented with Wind Shear, the shaman gains magical resistance (in an amount equal to what a protection totem/aura would grant, stacking with such buffs) to the spell school(s) of the interrupted spell (except for Holy spells), lasting 10 seconds.
Postboxes no longer require keys to open, because really, who locks their postboxes anymore when they're all undead? It's just people sending coupons for brains anyway.
The Postmaster now spawns when 3 of any postbox are opened.
The amount of guild experience rewarded for rated Battleground guild group wins has been dramatically increased.
Players are now rewarded guild experience for Honorable Kills in the field.
Players are now rewarded guild experience for Battleground wins in Battleground brackets up to level 80.
Arena teams are now awarded guild experience for wins. The entire team must be members of the same guild to earn this experience.
Предметы
All trade goods available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors have had their prices reduced by 50%.
Maelstrom Crystals are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors.
PvP
The Ring of Valor has returned! It should now be playable again in the Arena map rotation.
New starting areas have been added for Ring of Valor. Players will no longer enter the Arena on the elevator. It's been removed. Instead players will start in a room at opposite ends of the Arena.
Квесты
Loot from the creatures Garr, Julak-Doom, Mobus, and Poseidus has been adjusted to be commensurate to their rarity and invested effort.
Пользовательский интерфейс
The Guild Finder has been implemented! While we are continuing to add final polish to this feature, we welcome all focused testers to give it a go. Feedback can be provided here.
