Spoilers and 3.3.2 Patch Notes
Greetins Mon’ on dis very long 8 hour patch day! Below joo be finding da’ patch notes from the extended maintenance period today, and a couple of Lich King spoilers. But beware mon, don’t joo be watching unless joo really wants to know what happens in de’ end to The Lich King! Joo Be Warned!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
Also note dat The Frostwing Halls, which be da last wing of the Icecrown Citadel unlocks this week! Valithria Dreamwalker, Sindragosa and the Lich King will be available!
World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.3.2
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
Dungeons & Raids
Icecrown Citadel
Frostwing Halls, the final stronghold of the Scourge and their Lich King, has been added.
Halls of Stone
Brann Bronzebeard has been getting into shape and now feels comfortable walking faster when escorted.
The Forge of Souls
The Devourer of Souls will now cast Mirrored Souls less often.
The Spell Reflect ability has been altered on several creatures. It now has a cast time, only has 2 charges, and has a 75% chance of reflecting spells.
The Nexus
Anomalus will now use the Create Rift ability only once, down from 3 times.
The Old Kingdom
Elder Nadox now only gets one Ahn’Kahar Guardian during the encounter.
Jadoga Shadowseeker now only ascends once during the encounter.
Several enemies between the Befouled Terrace and The Desecrated Altar have been removed or had their pathing altered.
Pit of Saron
Players can now zone back into the instance if they are dead while encounters with Krick and Ick or Forgemaster Garfrost are in progress.
Utgarde Pinnacle
Skadi the Ruthless can now be removed from his drake with 3 harpoon strikes, down from 5.
Svala Sorrowgrave now casts Ritual of the Sword 1 time during the encounter, down from 3.
Vault of Archavon
Toravon, the latest boss to join the Vault’s giants and masters of the elements, is now accepting challengers in 10- and 25-player formats.
The Violet Hold
The time between a boss being defeated and a new portal opening has been decreased.
PvP
All healing abilities (including items such as potions) will be decreased in effectiveness by 10% when in Battlegrounds, Arenas, or Wintergrasp.
Arenas
Season 8 has officially begun featuring all-new rewards!
User Interface
- The party leader is now referred to as Guide in chat when a group is formed via the Dungeon Finder.
- Fixed a bug where players with Raid Assist capabilities were unable to perform a Ready Check.
- Fixed a bug where the first couple of tutorials were not displaying upon logging into the game.
Items
- New strength-based melee DPS rings are now available from representatives of the Ashen Verdict.
- Tier-9 Sets: The Aspirant vendors at the Argent Tournament grounds have worked out a deal with merchants in Dalaran so that all item level 232 set pieces will now be available on armor vendors in the city. Set pieces which require trophies will still be available for purchase only from vendors at the Argent Tournament grounds.
- Tier-10 Balance Druid 4-Piece Bonus: Fixed a bug to allow for this bonus to properly trigger.
- Tier-10 Elemental Shaman 4-Piece Set Bonus: Redesigned. Successful Lava Burst casts now increase the duration of Flame Shock on the target by 6 seconds.
- Tier-10 Tank Sets: The gloves and chest pieces for warrior, death knight, and paladin tanks have had their stats adjusted slightly to provide additional armor value.
- Tier-10 Warlock 4-Piece Bonus: This bonus should now correctly be applied to the warlock’s pet.
Technical Support
- The cvar ‘processAffinityMask’ controls which CPU cores are available for the World of Warcraft client to use. Previously the game client was limited to 2 cores as a default which players could override in the configuration file. In the past this provided a performance boost on some CPUs and operating systems. We have identified several systems that are experiencing severe performance issues with this restriction and have removed it. Players who would like to restore the old behavior can do so by updating the Config.WTF file by adding: SET processAffinityMask “3″.
Now joo’s go out and enjoy da’ patch with all dem’ buggies today too!!
As usual your comments are always welcome and please, “Stay Away From Da Voodoo!”
((The Troll Hunter is a duel specced 07/57/7 Marksmanship and a 0/18/53 Survival hunter who plays on a RP-PVP server, he talks funny because this is how trolls are supposed to speak in a role-playing environment.))










