1.6 Leaked Patch Notes

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Note: cheating and using "code", because "quote" wasn't showing up right in preview mode ...

Looks pretty legit, there's a lot of changes that were mentioned in the boards that weren't skipped here.

Let's see:

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Battlemaster ...

Good, much needed.

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# Will of the Forsaken (Undead Racial) - duration of the lasting immunity effect decreased to 5 seconds.

Look at that? Blizzard finally admitted WotF was better than every other race skill.

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Mages

Still no fix for the Arcane Meditation + Mage Armor bug? Come on, it only makes Arcane Meditation even more worthless.

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# Ghostly Strike no longer deals damage to you when you use it.

And thus dies one of the stupidest bugs ever.

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Warlocks + Warriors ...

Wow, lots of stuff. One interesting point is that Improved Demoralizing Shout is much better, but is not a prereq for Piercing Howl. You mean, Blizzard wants you to select a talent because of itself, and not what it's a prereq to?

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# The Seal of the Dawn trinket now counts as though you were also wearing an Argent Dawn Commission trinket.

I want to five man Stratholme. Anywhere, doesn't matter if we even end up at Baron or Scarlet. Now. I want that trinket instead of Argent Dawn Commission, it's perfect for Rogues.

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# Set bonus for Stormshroud armor improved. It should be more compelling for rogues and druids now.

Now I'm curious. Still too little, too late as far as I'm concerned. Stormshroud itself is natively inferior to Devilsaur as a group oriented Rogue.

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# Thorium Brotherhood now offers several new recipes. Additionally, several of the old recipes now have different faction requirements.
# Additional Smithing/Leatherworking/Tailoring/Enchanting Recipes added to Timbermaw at Honored Reputation
# Additional Smithing/Leatherworking/Tailoring/Enchanting Recipes added to Argent Dawn at Honored and Revered Reputation. Also new First Aid recipe added to Argent Dawn at Honored. Lokhtos Darkbargainer in Blackrock Depths now has many additional recipes that can be learned at Honored, Revered and Exalted reputation. Recipes are available for Enchanting, Tailoring, Leatherworking (all three specialty types), Blacksmithing (Armorsmithing, and Weaponsmithing (all three specialty types).

Wow, now I need a lot more faction than before, for both Ramala and Mitzy.

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# Raid UI has been significantly improved. You can now open the raid UI and drag the name of a class to your gamefield to have a listing of all players of that class be displayed on the game field. Likewise you can drag a group name to your playfield to have the players in that group displayed on your gamefield. In either case the display will show the health, mana and limited buffs or debuffs on each player in the group or class and you can click on a player listed this way to target that player. You can then right-click on the class or group UI element to make some modifications to how the UI displays or to remove the UI element.

Rejoice! Built in CTRaid! Well, the parts important to a Rogue at least.

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# Items on the action bar now remain there even after they are consumed.
# If you shift-click on an item link while you are entering chat text, the item link will now be pasted into your text.
# Mail recipient auto-completion will now use names from your guild as well as your friends list.
# Hitting Escape will now cancel ranged weapon auto-shots.

Four good changes in a row.

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Graveyards ...

Oh thank you! Better graveyards for Scholo, Strath, and Dire Maul.