Patch 1.10 Testing Next Week

[Professor Frink]

General
- All spells/abilities that remove existing effects (e.g. Dispel Magic,
Cleanse, Remove Curse etc...) will now verify that there is an effect
that can be removed before casting.

This narrows the gap between decursive and non-decursive a good bit. I wonder if Abolish Disease will be affected, since the cure-over-time effect is potentially useful for prebuffing.

Global reputation gains have been removed from several quests.
Frostwolf and Stormpike faction will now be gained by killing
players of the opposite faction. Reputation will no longer be split
up among the entire raid group.
- The reputation gain in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin has been
significantly increased.

As someone exalted in AV and honored with WSG/AB, I support this change.

nitpick: AV rep wasn't split among the entire raid group, it was applied to everyone in the battleground.

- Starshards (Night Elf) - This spell now works like Curse of Agony,
with lower initial damage which increases as the duration continues.
Mana cost dropped approximately 30% on all ranks. Ranks 1 and 2
increased to 6 second duration. Damage increased approximately 17%.

This makes starshards a rather nice spell (situationally), particularly if you don't have a lot of +spell/+shadow or many damage talents.

Since they're changing the behavior of the spell, i wonder how much benefit +arcane will give to the new starshards -- before it got the same overall damage of mindflay (~40% iirc) only spread over the 6 second duration.

Is there a clear yes-or-no answer about starshards no longer chasing runners well outside its normal range/ignoring LOS during the channel? That's a rather useful effect in PvP...

- Creatures immune to fear are now also properly immune to the fear
effect of Death Coil.

I wonder if this includes the corporal/grunt trinkets - they currently work as a 0.1 second immune to fear.

- Tailoring
Mooncloth Bag recipe only requires a single mooncloth to make.

Still way more expensive than traveler's on my server, but I suppose nobody expects crafting recipies to create rather than destroy value anymore.

You can display one of your reputations on your main display where
your experience bar currently displays. If you are not level 60 it
displays two thin bars - experience and reputation.

A nice psychological boost to rep grinding--1,000 rep now looks like a lot (a whole notch at revered->exalted), comparable to 10,000 xp at 59->60

- New flight paths have been added between:
Stonetalon Peak and Astranaar

New approach path for crossroads raids?

--frink