Hyjal trash loot, 2.2 Undocumented changes.

[Boubouille]

New Hyjal Summit/Black Temple trash loot
US players started raiding, and a few items dropped from the trash. I'm also adding the Illidari Runeshield here because according to the itemID, it's more than likely a trash loot too. (but I could be wrong on this one, it could drop from the illidari council or another encounter). [item=32428] and [item=32897] are also dropping from trash.

Black Temple and Hyjal Summit trash mobs are now sharing loot tables, including new loots in Black temple, and "old" loots in Hyjal (BT Trash loot, patterns, etc ...)

Great items right ? You're already planning to form a small raid to farm trash only and get all the shiny epics right ? You can't.

There are indeed protections put in place that should make it extremely difficult for very small groups of players to activate the Battle of Mount Hyjal event and be rewarded with either reputation or items from killing the incoming enemy creatures before the players suffer a defeat. Whenever an enemy wave spawns, there's a check done to see if you've killed enough of the enemy creatures. If you haven't, then loot/rep is disabled for that wave of spawns. If you have killed enough, then that wave and further waves of creatures leading up to the next boss have loot/reputation.

Under relatively normal conditions where a full raid is attempting to fight through the enemy waves of creatures to defeat a boss, all creatures past the first wave should reward reputation and have a chance at item loot.

These kinds of protections were necessary so as to not promote the creation and activation of large numbers of Hyjal instances, which could lead to performance problems for the server.

Reputation
Trash monsters : 2-3 Reputation points.
Frostwyrms : 15 Reputation points.
Bosses : 200 Reputation points.
Archimonde : 500 Reputation points.

The huge nerf of Archimonde's reputation reward basically made the reputation rewarded during a full clean of Hyjal Summit lower (about 100 points) than in 2.1.


2.2 Undocumented changes
There is also a post going on the official forums listing all the official changes.

World

• New music added to Honor Hold as well as the inns of Ironforge, Stormwind, and Ratchet
• Cho Threadstrong has new sayings he shouts at the fruit vendor (poor fruit vendor)
• 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 (Thanks, Meadows)
• Flavor text added to goblins at zeppelin flight points
• Chests in Tempest Keep: Mechanar have had their spawn locations change slightly making it impossible (or more difficult...never underestimate a players's tenacity) to solo
• Boats received new music (again? confirm?)
  

Character Models, Animation, & Spell Effects

• Orc shoulders and off-hand weapons fixed (possible overcompensation for previous bug?)
• Male night elf shoulders arc differently (possible bug? No one seems to mind)
• Cyclone graphic changed to, and I quote, "look more awesome." Awesomeness confirmed
• Evocation's graphic effect updated, seems to be a blue version of the confirmed-awesome cyclone update
• Windfury finishes the updated cyclone trilogy, now larger and darker; fans are divided!
• Prayer of Mending received a new animation
• Hurricane visually seems more selective, targeting victims with bolts of lightening bolts followed by loud booms
• Nethermine Ravager's rock shell ability received a new spell effect
• Druid Moonkin form has a new bandaging/crafting/using animation
• Undead epic horse mount trails longer flames
• Murloc Suits can now /kneel, /laugh, /point, /sit, /talk, and /cheer
• Shaman ghost wolf no longer holds weapons or shield while attacking
• Weapons while in moonkin form appear to have shrunk
• Mass Dispel no longer has a graphic, just shows the dispel animation on anything in the area
• New, flashier graphic for Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Freedom
• Thunderfury' proc does the same thing as Evocate, Cyclone and Windfury (consider it an epilog)
• Spectral Tiger Mount (and Swift Spectral Tiger) updated with brighter armor and fewer seems
• The Astromages inside of the Mechanar had their fire aura effect changed in appearance. Much taller now and has a different graphic surrounding them
• Druid basic flight form flaps it's wings slower now
  

Items

• Red Ogre Suit is now fixed; weapons scaled down and now seat properly when sheathed
• Non-combat pets now have a 1-second cool-down between summoning and unsummoning
• Aquadynamic Fish Attractors now officially say the duration is 10 minutes as opposed to 5
• Crashn' Thrashn' Robot now will walk around a small area instead of standing in one spot
• Merciless Gladiator's Satin Gloves graphic has been changed from slim and tight to look like the bulky Merciless Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves
• Sha'tari Skyguard's Enriched Terrocone Juice reputation reward vendor item price increased from 40 copper to 36 silver
• Farmer's Broom 100% beefier
• Moonsoul Crown has been changed from miscellaneous to a cloth item, receiving 39 armor, 50 durability, and a need to be repaired
• Accurate Scope is now a green item instead of white
• Mana potion injector gained charges and flavor text: "They just dont make 'em like this anymore..."
• Merciless Gladiator Shoulders are now orange on dark brown instead of orange on pink
• Coronet of Verdant Flame has been changed from miscellaneous to a cloth item, receiving 138 armor, 60 durability, and a need to be repaired
• Icy Blasting Primers are now made 10 at a time instead of 2, resulting in This results in 1 primal water making 50 frost grenades! Materials remain unchanged
• Goblin Gumbo is now unique, and the kettle has unlimited charges for the 15 minutes
• Nightstaff of the Everliving's texture has changed. It is now blue/gray where it was white
• Gladiator rogue daggers reduced by about 60% in size on blood elf females
• Druid Merciless Gladitor Leggings are now a kilt and have slightly been recolored
  

Professions

• Fishing: Bobber splash at the end of the timer is adjusted so you don't have to instantly click for fear of missing
• Fishing: The fishing line now instantly appears when you cast
• Enchant Ring
• Spellpower materials required changed. Now requires 2 large prismatic shards and 2 greater planar essences
  

Quests

• Relic's Emanation daily quest money reward decreased while the Ogri'la faction reward was increased (documented somewhere but apparently not well known so here it is. Huzzah!)
• Skettis escort quest reward reduced to 9 gold from 11 gold, 99 silver
  

UI & Game Mechanics

• Disenchant received a new icon
• Wide screen UI scales differently
• UI Scaling in general appears to be a bit funky and requires some tweaking (Bedemus has generously posted a possible fix at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...sid=1&pageNo=1 )
• New Auction house alert: "A buyer has been found for your auction of X"
• Error speech re-enabled by default. You require more vespene gas
• One hour delay on receiving currency from successful auctions (there seems to be confusion as to where this note was actually posted so for sanity's sake here it is, possibly again)
• Windowed game begins in the center of the screen instead of the upper-left corner
• New software reverb audio option
• Ogri'la reputation now goes to 999/1000 exalted
• Voidwalker's Suffering spell seems to work immediately when button is selected (what, no more "I can't do that yet?")
• Blessing of Sacrifice is on a 30 second cooldown, not the 1 minute listed in the patch notes
• Targeting for Skettis bombing run improved
• Tracking abilities such as "Find Minerals" now last through death
• Unable to fly into the water while on a mount or in flight form
• Warlock pets no longer revert to soul shards when boarding a mount at a flight point
• Druids can use booterang while in flight form
• The debuff from the druid Pounce ability now shows a seperate debuff for the stun and the bleed DoT
• Druids in flight form can now perform herbalism provided they are on the ground
• Earth elemental corpses (in Nagrand at least) are now minable
• /mountspecial cannot be used while moving
• The World Defense Channel is once again open to the masses
• Disobedient Dragonmaw Peons are now spelled correctly, it was 'Disobediant'
• Shifting now removes Shabby Arakkoa Disguise
• Buffs now have a new grey dot if players are in range of your spell, as well as the red dot that indicated someone is out of range
  

[Ardissius]

request: screenies of WF/cyc/evoc animations
please

[Cyclo]

anyone noticing Alar going into meteor form every ~15 seconds in phase 2 now? its rather annoying -_-

[Sulika]

Tracking abilities such as "Find Minerals" now last through death

My characters all rejoice and sing out hallelujah at once.

[Kulehan]

Pics of the new broom graphic. It's Harry Potter-ish now rather than a flat broom.





http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2541/broom1sg0.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2607/broom2ym2.jpg

(I tried using the image uploader but it had an error.)

[Macab]

you guys do realize that the aq mount DIDNT get upgraded and that his alt just bugged out because korgath crashed lol

misinfo FTW

[Doppler]

I have the legendary mount. It is still land base.

[Boubouille]

Removed, but to be honest it was just easier to post it and wait for a confirmation instead of spending 3 hours looking for someone who can confirm in game. ^^

[Doppler]

I wish it was true, it'd be like christmas in september.

[Wildhorn]

Relic's Emanation daily quest money reward decreased while the Ogri'la faction reward was increased (documented somewhere but apparently not well known so here it is. Huzzah!)

Give 500 rep instead of 350

[Macab]

Removed, but to be honest it was just easier to post it and wait for a confirmation instead of spending 3 hours looking for someone who can confirm in game. ^^

did you guys just assume thats what blizz changed or did kotton fool you guys lol

[kampia]

yeaaaaaaaaaaah orc shoulder big again! me happy!

[Sethryn]

Gladiator fists (S1 and S2) both seem to be darker, as do the melee daggers.

[Fersas]

Damn i want that mace for my shadow priest

[flammable]

The tanking cloak is excellent news. Until now there was no tanking cloak in BT / MH, only the pheonix-cloak which drops from A'lar. For guilds like mine where we no longer raid TK / SSC I was kind of worried as there was no way I could upgrade my blue cloak. I expected them to include a new tanking cloak in Zul'Aman but this is good news to know that the developers pick up on itemisation gaps.

[Hid]

Another request for screens of WF/cyclone/evoc animations. Pretty please.

[pasco]

Nice healing cloak, finally a new Mp5 cloak and not only the spirit ones (or spellhaste -.-)

[Dangeline]

Nethercleft Leg Armor and Nethercobra Leg Armor are now epic quality items

[Genstargazer]

Al'ar is now casting meteor every 10-15 seconds =S

[shujenka]

Nice healing cloak, finally a new Mp5 cloak and not only the spirit ones (or spellhaste -.-)

To bad our priests and druids even want the mp5 one to go with the several spirit ones from beyond Kara -.-'