Patch 4.0.3a Hotfixes - November 24
More hotfixes! So many more hotfixes!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
November 24
  • Players should now be able to champion a capital city and earn reputation in Heroic and normal Wrath of the Lich King dungeons while wearing that city's tabard.
  • Players are no longer required to discover Wrath of the Lich King dungeons before accessing them via Looking For Dungeon.
  • Players should no longer be interrupted when eating or drinking in a Battleground before the battle starts.
  • Many former Steamwheedle Goblins have switched over to the Gadgetzan faction. If a players happens to be "At War" with these NPCs, they will no longer attack in many areas.
  • Collision has been removed from Argent Tournament banners so they can no longer block players.
  • The door to the Alliance Keep in Isle of Conquest should again be closed at the beginning of the battle.
  • Creatures spawned during the Hadronox encounter no longer award reputation.
  • After changing races to tauren and learning the Sunwalker Kodo mounts, they continue to remain available after porting, zoning, and relogging.
  • Trapjaw Rix no longer has a duplicate manifestation standing on top of himself.
  • Players can no longer catch new high-level fish when fishing near level 80-85 zones unless the account is upgraded to Cataclysm.

Classes
Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
  • Death Strike now properly heals for 20% of the damage taken within the last 5 seconds, and Blood Presence now increases armor contribution from items by 30%, down from 60%.

Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
  • The heal from Gift of the Earth Mother when the druid casts Rejuvenate is now gaining the correct benefit from Improved Rejuvenate.

Mage (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
  • Flame Orb will no longer attack PvP-flagged enemies unless the mage is already flagged for PvP combat.

Priest (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
  • The Empowered Shadow buff is no longer granted when a player cancels the Shadow Orb buff. Mind Blast correctly removes the Shadow Orb buff and grants Empowered Shadow.
  • The Glyph of Shadow Word: Death no longer provides the outdated 10% bonus damage to targets under 25% health when Shadow Word: Death is cast.

Warlock (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
  • Bane of Havoc no longer persists when overwritten by another Bane.

Quests
  • The quest "Reinforcements from Theramore" can now be obtained by Alliance players.
  • Players no longer keep the invisibility aura and the Hunting buff after logging out while in the wolf vehicle on the quest "The Wolf and the Kodo".
  • The quest "Diplomacy By Another Means" no longer auto-completes in the field.
  • The spawn rate for Frostmane Scavengers in Dun Morogh has been substantially increased.
  • Obtaining the achievement for completing quests in Silverpine now requires 55 quests, down from 60. The interface will still list it as 60 required quests until a client-side patch is applied.
  • Players should no longer get stuck in a phased state when attempting to complete the quest "To the Rescue!"
  • Players are now able to complete the quest “Uther’s Blessing” by using the item Chillwind Tribute at Uther’s Tomb.
  • Horde players are no longer able to obtain the Stormpike Insignia Rank 2 from Lieutenant Haggerdin while on the quest "Infiltration".
  • Experience granted by quests in Arathi Highlands has been increased.


Computers - Setup of the Month (by chaud)
Things are starting to get better on MMO-Champion and it's time for a new feature on the front page! Each month or every 2 months, depending on the hardware evolutions, the lovely chaud will work on a couple of hardware setups for those of you who are thinking of upgrading their computer!

Don't hesitate to post any feedback in the comments of that news post, and don't forget to visit the Computer Forum for any extra questions!

Lowest-End and Lower-End

Component Lowest-End Lower-End
CaseNZXT GAMMA Classic - $39NZXT GAMMA Classic - $39
Power SupplyOCZ ModXStream Pro 500W - $59Corsair 650TX - $79
CPUAMD Athlon II X4 630 AM3 - $79AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition - $144
MotherboardGIGABYTE GA-770T-USB3 AM3 - $95GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H AM3 - $131
Memory4GB PNY Optima DDR3 10600 - $524GB CORSAIR XMS3 4GB 10666 DDR3 - $79
Graphics CardXFX 5770 - $139XFX 6850 or EVGA GTX 460 - $199
Hard DriveWestern Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB - $46SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1TB - $65
MonitorASUS VW224U 22-Inch Widescreen - $167ASUS VW246H 24-Inch Widescreen - $212
KeyboardMicrosoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000 - $20Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000 - $20
MouseLogitech G500 - $35Logitech G500 - $35
SpeakersLogitech S220 2.1 Speaker System - $23Logitech S220 2.1 Speaker System - $23
DVDLite-On LightScribe 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $24Lite-On LightScribe 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $24
Total$778$1,050


Average and High-End

Component Average High End
CaseCooler Master Centurion 5 II - $51Cooler Master HAF932 - $99
Power SupplyCorsair 650TX - $79Corsair 750HX (7 Year Warranty) - $139
CPUIntel i5-760 - $205Intel i7-930 - $271
HeatsinkCooler Master Hyper 212 Plus - $26Xigmatek HDT-S1284 + the bracket) - $54
MotherboardASUS P7P55D-E - $149Asus Sabertooth X58 (5 Year Warranty) - $199
Memory4GB CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB 10666 DDR3 - $796GB Corsair DDR3 12800 - $106
Graphics CardXFX 6870 - $254XFX 5870 - $329
Hard DriveWestern Digital 1TB Caviar Black - $871.5TB Western Digital Green - $69
OCZ Vertex 2 100 GB (Review) - $249
-OR- Corsair Force 120GB (Review) - $229
MonitorDell E2311H 23-inch LED-backlit Widescreen - $299Dell UltraSharp U2410 24-inch (IPS Panel) - $556
KeyboardLogitech G110 - $65Razer Black Widow (Mechanical Keys) - $80
MouseRazer Deathadder - $40Razer Deathadder - $40
SpeakersCreative Inspire T3130 2.1 Speaker System - $50Logitech Speaker System Z523 - $75
DVDLite-On LightScribe 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $24Lite-On LightScribe 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $24
Total$1,408$2,210



Addons - AtlasLoot v6.00.00 Released
The latest version of AtlasLoot has been released and is now fully updated for Cataclysm.

Most importantly, the new Cataclysm client changed how items are stored in the client and you no longer have to wait for the item to be active on your server to have it displayed properly in AtlasLoot. The current version of Atlasloot should get you a decent list of most of the items you will get in the expansion and you should be able to check most of them in-game with the proper drop location, ability to try them out in the dress-up room, etc...

Download Links

v6.00.00 Changelog
  • Compatible with World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
  • Added support for Atlas 1.18.0
  • New Features: New loot browser, Quicklook revamp, Wishlist revamp, Heirlooms can now be viewed by lvl, button to switch between price and description
  • Added all new dungeon loot: Blackrock Caverns, Throne of the Tides, The Stonecore, Vortex Pinnacle, Lost City of Tol'vir, Grim Batol, Halls of Origination
  • Added all new faction rewards: Baradin's Wardens, Dragonmaw Clan, Hellscream's Reach, Ramkahen, The Earthen Ring, The Guardians of Hyjal, Therazane, Wildhammer Clan
  • Added the following factions into the Classic faction page: Darnassus, Exodar, Gilneas, Gnomeregan, Ironforge, Stormwind, Bilgewater Cartel, Darkspear Trolls, Orgrimmar, Silvermoon City, Thunder Bluff and Undercity
  • Added the following factions into the Wrath of the Lich King page: The Silver Covenant and The Sunreavers
  • Added Tier 11 sets
  • Added Lvl85 PvP sets
  • Added Daily Cooking rewards.
  • Added new Darkmoon Faire trinkets
  • Updated Crafting professions (Blacksmithing, Cooking, Engineering, First Aid, Jewelcrafting and Mining) with new Cataclsym recipes.
  • Updated events: Brewfest and Love is in the Air.
  • Reorganized Companions, Mounts and Tabard pages. All new Companions, Mounts and Tabards added.
  • New collection page - Transformation items.
  • Converted all PvP prices into the new Honor Point system.
  • Converted all Badge and Emblem gear into the new Justice Point system.
  • Tons of minor fixes and additions


This article was originally published in forum thread: November 23 Hotfixes, Setup of the Month, Atlasloot v6 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 146 Comments
  1. mmoc6cf872d270's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tatsujin View Post
    I'm glad they're getting nerfed. They were bad asses in Wrath as it is.

    I'm worried about Arms warriors. They are doing sick damage in PvP. Fury was dumbed to shit with the new patch but that's ok, new gear from Cata will put us ahead of everyone else until they nerf us again.
    What has nerfing armor for DK tanks anything to do with pvp or being bad ass?
  1. mmoc009534da11's Avatar
    Ati fanboy? sigh...
  1. Granyala's Avatar
    Edit -- BTW, I had to make this because I want to warn those who want to purchase an HDD. Never ever ever ever EVER purchase a Western Digital Green Edition for your operating system or to do heavy tasks like encoding videos within the HDD! Green and Blue editions are for Video storage or other extremely small and minor tasks which you want to store away or not use for a while. Black Editions are the beasts you wanna aim for your operating system and heavy tasks, like gaming and video encoding.
    I guess that's why he used SSD + HDD in combination.
    Green for storage, SSD for games + OS.

    Sounds reasonable to me.
  1. jayremy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Boubouille View Post
    Define silly choice. (And I mean, really silly, not arguing about a 3% perf gain, this isn't a hardware site )
    I think I know what he means. Besides I would agree I bought my computer and put it all together for cheaper 2 months ago, prices of a build similar to above the average posted one. I built my system and with a 28" 1920x1200 Hanns-G screen all for about 1200-1300, and that's getting all the parts OS not included. I have followed prices since and my build would be like $150 cheaper now. Only thing my comp lacks from those listed is more GPU memory. As far as a WoW player should be concerned my build runs everything at ultra except shading.

    Then again if its pre-built then I guess those prices would be reasonable for most people then since there is quite a process of getting it all together, although it isn't hard to either. I'd mainly argue with prices, high-end is above what WoW needs I am pretty sure.

    Somebody introduce Chaud to Newegg please?


    ---------- Post added 2010-11-25 at 10:31 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by skyesfury View Post
    What's with the video card bias toward radeon? Some of us prefer nvidia over radeon for a multitude of reasons.
    Nvidia also dropped prices on most of their cards buy 40-60%, so no need for bias anymore either, the prices are matched and Nvidia has always amazed me more than Radeon, sorry.

    ---------- Post added 2010-11-25 at 10:43 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    I guess that's why he used SSD + HDD in combination.
    Green for storage, SSD for games + OS.

    Sounds reasonable to me.
    Storage choices were legit I wont say much for the rest, though don't exaggerate too much, it could be worse, but still as a recommendation it really isn't good builds for most of them.

    I am sure most of those builds for lower ends could actually be a bit cheaper, average definitely overpriced by a couple hundred (a good avg comp atm would be ~$1000, not to far above it either) as many can attest to, the top end build doesn't seem to be impressive, but for a WoW player its not like they would need much out of high end, the extra performance would be negligible.
  1. Requal's Avatar
    I wonder if we can get some credentials from chaud. Sounds like he just searched up computer parts and listed them out by price without knowing if they're worth buying.
  1. Meia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by skyesfury View Post
    I can't help but wonder when the last time was that you looked at a CRT monitor beside a LCD or LED. Even without one sitting next to me I can remember the horrible quality of CRT.

    It's true, they have come a long way.


    Now, I'm not sure what's what when it comes to monitors, but when you get to 1920x1080, at that point only screen size upgrades anything, doesn't it? The other point is that when you build a new computer, you NEED all those components as it is. There's no reason to right away go for a +$60 keyboard when you can just get a cheapie $15 basic one. Considering it "Something that can be upgraded later." While the other parts can, things like monitors/keyboard/mouse are way easier to replace/upgrade, and at that point it's purely optional.
  1. mmoccc2c4457a1's Avatar
    Blood Presence now increases armor contribution from items by 30%, down from 60%.
    This looks like quite a severe nerf... Is it? I'm not that experienced with DK Tanking, but I hope I'll actually still be able to do so.

    Also, yay, new AtlasLoot! Time to make a checklist of the loot I need in Cataclysm...
  1. Tinuviel's Avatar
    So i see 1k$ is the new 700€.
  1. Tatsujin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Infinitus View Post
    What has nerfing armor for DK tanks anything to do with pvp or being bad ass?
    You'll be fine tanking and the armor contribution from gear should be sufficient enough to make you equivalent with the other tanks. Bears took a big hit a long while back. The armor base on equipment is very high (inflated to put it in other words).

    Edit -- is anyone else having trouble trying to visit curse.com? ...
  1. Naaren's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Yawnteh View Post
    I'm still unable to complete Uther's tribute.
    Same.
    Any blues on this so far?
  1. mmoc32fbbf5879's Avatar
    Low end for 778$ kekekeke ^_^ I guess am in Hell level then
  1. Boubouille's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tatsujin View Post
    I am going to agree with you. Most of the recommended equipment is trash, not worth it or risky to purchase. The high end video card right now is GTX 580 and until GTX 595 comes out (which will literally dominate for a long while). The high end mouse is stupid garbage ... Razer Naga for a high end mouse. Did that guy even do his homework before recommending these products? Razer Naga IS the mouse for WoW. I can go on and on and on ... but I had to register this because I want a response back from MMO-Champion's admins:

    You guys have teamed up with Curse.com, right? What the hell is going on with curse.com? It has been down for more than a week now. I keep trying to refresh the page. I did on FF and IE and I tried on other computers and other internet connections. I mean, this is nuts man. I know curse.com is famous but do they even have reliable servers to start with? Do they have backup pages in-case the website goes down? Wow-interface only has some rare addons that curse.com doesn't carry and they're usually behind when an addon gets updated. When will curse.com be online? ....
    A lot of people do not like the Razer Naga, and recommending WoW-specific hardware is kinda risky/limited.

    I'm not even going to argue about the whole Nvidia/AMD thing. That's exactly the reason why I waited so long to start posting that kind of stuff.

    And huh, there was a DNS change on Curse but it was like a week ago ... I'd whine at your ISP or your router, not at Curse.
  1. Crovyn's Avatar
    I don't see why the Intel i7 930 is liste as high end when you can get the AMD Phenom II x6 1090 Black Edition for less and it's about as fast as the Intel i7 980

    I can't post links but look for"AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Review" at overclockersclub . com
  1. talonp's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Crovyn View Post
    I don't see why the Intel i7 930 is liste as high end when you can get the AMD Phenom II x6 1090 Black Edition for less and it's about as fast as the Intel i7 980

    I can't post links but look for"AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Review" at overclockersclub . com
    lol, no it's not.

    ---------- Post added 2010-11-25 at 06:50 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Crovyn View Post
    I don't see why the Intel i7 930 is liste as high end when you can get the AMD Phenom II x6 1090 Black Edition for less and it's about as fast as the Intel i7 980

    I can't post links but look for"AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Review" at overclockersclub . com
    "About as fast" = "half as fast?"
    cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html


    Edit: I got a ton of requests via PM about personal builds. Just wanted to let you guys know I got them and I'll respond to each one in the morning.
  1. Kuja's Avatar
    Curse referral links in the hardware suggestions made me lol.
  1. Dragonshardz's Avatar
    I approve of the new feature (there's a lot of people posting threads like "what computer should I get?" these past few months), though some moderation is still required. And what's up with all the AMD hate? Yes, the new GTX 580 is indeed very fast but the Radeon 5970 is still faster and more powerful (and yet, much older). Keep in mind, there's the new series of Radeon coming out (including the all new Radeon 6990) which will probably beat anything Nvidia launches on the market. I don't want to sound like a fanboy here, but offering advice that is only tied to one side (and not even mentioning the alternative) is pretty much the wrong approach. We are looking for the best possibly solutions for the right price and people should always consider everything before making a purchase.
  1. talonp's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonshardz View Post
    I approve of the new feature (there's a lot of people posting threads like "what computer should I get?" these past few months), though some moderation is still required. And what's up with all the AMD hate? Yes, the new GTX 580 is indeed very fast but the Radeon 5970 is still faster and more powerful (and yet, much older). Keep in mind, there's the new series of Radeon coming out (including the all new Radeon 6990) which will probably beat anything Nvidia launches on the market. I don't want to sound like a fanboy here, but offering advice that is only tied to one side (and not even mentioning the alternative) is pretty much the wrong approach. We are looking for the best possibly solutions for the right price and people should always consider everything before making a purchase.
    The 5970 is faster (sometimes) because it's a dual-GPU card. Thus you need to rely heavily on drivers and CrossFireX profiles. I'm not an Nvidia or AMD fanboy, but right now, the GTX 580 is the best single-GPU card in the world. The 6970 and 6990 are going to be awesome, no doubt. Of course, the 6990 will be another dual-GPU solutions-- but this time, Nvidia has one on the way as well. The ultimate battle in 2011 will be the GTX 595 vs. the HD 6990.
  1. marrakoosh's Avatar
    Any news on the areas where we can fish for these high-end fish? What are these areas near new high level zones?

    Might get in some stock now ahead of Cata release.
  1. gringo's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by marrakoosh View Post
    Any news on the areas where we can fish for these high-end fish? What are these areas near new high level zones?

    Might get in some stock now ahead of Cata release.
    Too late, that's already been hotfixed!
  1. Valius's Avatar
    New atlas is beautiful <3

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