Undocumented 2.2 Features

[Bolty]

Go here for a current running list, which Viral of Stormrage is maintaining.

I love some of this stuff.

Griftah unceremoniously ousted from Shattrath. Now sadly selling his fine wares (at unreasonably cheap prices!) in Terrokar Forest, just outside of the city's south-eastern tunnel at 36, 30

Personally I enjoy these flavor things. At the start of TBC, Griftah was peddling his "goods" unfettered. Then in patch 2.1(?) the Peacekeeper set up next to him and challenged every one of Griftah's claims, often humorously. Now the poor guy's been kicked out of Lower City. Blizzard could use adding more of these timeline-style mini-stories to the game to add flavor and make the world seem less static.

And for Quark:

Male night elf shoulders arc differently

Finally, the joys of patch day - screenshot taken as Cleoboltra flies from Shattrath to Area 52:



-Bolty

[Artega]

That white area just means a texture is missing. It probably just means that the server is slow to send it to the client, not that the textures themselves are absent:)

I've logged in a few times to a completely white, featureless Orgrimmar back in the days of Lv.60.

[nobbie]

And for Quark:
Finally, the joys of patch day - screenshot taken as Cleoboltra flies from Shattrath to Area 52:

And I thought a part of Northrend already made it into the 2.2 patch MPQ's;)

[Lissa]

I dunno about others, but the most annoying one I saw was the fact that Blizzard did *something* to the resolution of the wide format. This cause me a bit of grief fixing my UI to look like it had prior to this patch.

[Taelas]

I completely lost all sound in-game when I installed the patch. Don't know if you'd call that 'undocumented features' or not...:P

[Zarathustra]

Blizzard is now the most annoying AoE spell in the game. It causes a graphical lightning bolt to hit EVERY enemy affected, once a second, for the entire duration.

Oh, each lightning bolt has sound attached.

[Pantalaimon]

Blizzard is now the most annoying AoE spell in the game. It causes a graphical lightning bolt to hit EVERY enemy affected, once a second, for the entire duration.

Oh, each lightning bolt has sound attached.

Err, hurricane? :)

[Tal]

According to the thread linked skills like find mineral and herb now persist through death. AWESOME change.

[Bolty]

According to the thread linked skills like find mineral and herb now persist through death.

This will completely unbalance arenas. OMG. Phear the herbalism.

-Bolty

[vor_lord]

Err, hurricane? :)

Hurricane already was the most annoying AoE spell in the game. I like to call it 'smokescreen'.

[Zarathustra]

Err, hurricane? :)

Er... yeah.

[Icebird]

I dunno about others, but the most annoying one I saw was the fact that Blizzard did *something* to the resolution of the wide format. This cause me a bit of grief fixing my UI to look like it had prior to this patch.

I think something got changed with the UI scale. I manually repositioned everything, but I saw a blue post suggesting that you manually adjust your UI scale to 90%.

[mandydax]

I completely lost all sound in-game when I installed the patch. Don't know if you'd call that 'undocumented features' or not...:P

I thought I was also having this problem with an updated-yet-buggy add-on, so I uninstalled it, and it still had no sound. After another few minutes, I figured out that I'd accidentally turned the in-line volume all the way down on my headset when I pet my cat. :blush:

[Skandranon]

Illidan Stormrage now has a 15-minute berserk timer, after which he wipes the raid.

The fight is 20 minutes long. Only 22 out of 3221 worldwide Illidan kills have been in 15 minutes or less. High end guilds who've been farming him no longer have the DPS to beat the enrage, even with players in full Illidan gear including warglaives.

Good job, Blizzard.

[Taelas]

Wow.

Well, that's one way of stopping people from waffle-stomping him.

[Watto44]

The zepplin masters now announce the arrival and departure of the zepplins and journeyman riding skill only costs 540g now. :w00t:

[Quark]

*Insert Dagger*
*Twist*

[Taelas]

The zepplin masters now announce the arrival and departure of the zepplins and journeyman riding skill only costs 540g now. :w00t:

That's been the Honored price for all of Burning Crusade.

[Bolty]

Illidan Stormrage now has a 15-minute berserk timer, after which he wipes the raid.

YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! *cough*

That's really harsh. Especially since you guys were working on him, and now your "I beat WoW" kill is going to get pushed back significantly. It's like someone over there is thinking "Shahraz is ezmode now; let's give them something else to complain about."

Since only 0.03% of the population of WoW players (rough estimate based on wowjujitsu stats, which only factor in raiding population and not total population) have even seen Illidan, the complaining about this won't nearly be as loud as the many other bugs floating around. Which means it could be awhile...

I heard Al'ar is also a bit more wicked; have they hotfixed it back to normal yet? Not that you run TK anymore.

For me, I got mired in this problem for the past two days. Blizzard's solution (turning off Checksum Offloading on your NIC) is half-assed; it gets you into the game, but latency/lag effects are bad due to all the network traffic having to route over your bus to your CPU. In the end, the "fix" is to rebuild your WoW cache by loading as many items/graphics/etc as you can with Checksum Offloading disabled, and then turn it back on.

-Bolty

[wundergore]

I noticed last night that the Inn in Booty Bay is no longer flagged as an inn (I don't get the rest notification anymore).

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