Thread: Patch 3.0.8a on live servers

Update - Patch Notes now available. Also added a few mages undocumented changes from yesterday.

Patch 3.0.8a on live servers
Patch 3.0.8a is being deployed on live servers, for the moment it looks like it's only here to fix most of the bugs mentionned earlier and a few other things.

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Mage (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Arcane Spec changes
It looks like the mage was hotfixed yesterday to make a few changes to the Arcane tree

• The Arcane Blast buff is now instantly consumed by Arcane Missile to prevent people from clipping their cast to get a boosted Arcane Barrage too.
• The Glyph of Arcane Blast now gives 3% additional damage and doesn't work on Arcane Missiles anymore.

Death Knight (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Howling Blast 5 seconds cooldown not displayed on tooltip
Assuming nothing comes up at the last minute, this should be fixed tomorrow (Tue, Jan 27). (Source)

Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Hunter Aspects still behaving as if they still have a GCD
Assuming nothing comes up at the last minute, this should be fixed tomorrow (Tue, Jan 27). (Source)

Warlock (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Ritual of Summoning on a 2 minutes cooldown
Assuming nothing comes up at the last minute, this should be fixed tomorrow (Tue, Jan 27). (Source)

Official Patch Notes

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.0.8a
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We are updating World of Warcraft with a minor bug fix patch. For updated information regarding the changes made in this patch, please visit the official Bug Report forum at:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/bo...&forumId=10023

Bug Fixes
General

• Human females Helms will no longer lift off the character's head during a Special2H animation or during a HoldRifle animation.

Death Knight (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Howling Blast : The 5 second cooldown will now display correctly.

Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• All Hunter aspects are no longer on the global cooldown that is shared with other Hunter abilities. All hunter aspects are now on a separate 1 second cooldown.

Warlock (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Ritual of Summoning no longer has a 2 minute cooldown and will now function as intended.

Download
Reminder, downloading from third-party sites is NEVER safe and you should ALWAYS use the Blizzard Downloader if you have the choice.

• WoW-3.0.8.9464-to-3.0.8.9506-enUS-patch.exe (Rapidshare)
• WoW-3.0.8.9464-to-3.0.8.9506-esMX-patch.exe (Rapidshare)
• WoW-3.0.8.9464-to-3.0.8.9506-enGB-patch.exe (Rapidshare)
• WoW-3.0.8.9464-to-3.0.8.9506-deDE-patch.exe (Rapidshare)
• WoW-3.0.8.9464-to-3.0.8.9506-frFR-patch.exe (Rapidshare)
• WoW-3.0.8.9464-to-3.0.8.9506-esES-patch.exe (Rapidshare)
• WoW-3.0.8.9464-to-3.0.8.9506-ruRU-patch.exe (Rapidshare)

I'll never understand why they do Forum Maintenance on Tuesdays.

Originally Posted by Aduru

If by faster you mean taking servers down for the day for a few cosmetics and some issues they should have worked out before launching to being with [wintergrasp crashes, client crashing bugs etc]. World of 'Down All Tuesday' if you must. ;P - Will admit, I like the new incarnation of Frost Presence though. After 1 week, it's hot.

Agreed on that point. It's true but still good that they fix it "fast" (For blizzard standards)

Are warlocks getting the "summon stone" in this patch as well?

Originally Posted by Elektrik

I'll never understand why they do Forum Maintenance on Tuesdays.

To avoid massive trolling while the servers are off.

Originally Posted by lanerios

First, and interesting fixes. It seems that they are getting faster with the smaller patches and not waiting for the bigger patches anymore

First what? First fix? Or are you trying to be lame and post what everybody else can already see (since it appears at the top?)

On topic: Lets hope summoning is fixed like the say and hopefully they wont break a lot of things now the game is finally stable again (at least for our battle group).

Originally Posted by Cloudz

First what? First fix? Or are you trying to be lame and post what everybody else can already see (since it appears at the top?)

On topic: Lets hope summoning is fixed like the say and hopefully they wont break a lot of things now the game is finally stable again (at least for our battle group).

wasn't meant lame, but more as a joke/boredom at work

And summoning should be fixed Now all we need is more raiding warlocks on my server

God damn I'm convinecd Samwise's group smokes a big bag of crack when it comes time to design hunter tier sets. I mean this as a compliment as well as a critique. They always get some really bold, bizarre head and shoulders.. for like 4 tiers now

Originally Posted by Angelico

lal "don't download from third party sites" "here, have this third party site for download" "oh btw, we're third party too"...

That's the whole point, even if the risk is minor, downloading from MMO-Champion will never be as safe as the Blizzard Downloader.

Sometimes people can't use the Blizzard downloader because of their Firewall, but are we seriously going to argue about that? ^^

Originally Posted by Boubouille

Sometimes people can't use the Blizzard downloader because of their Firewall, but are we seriously going to argue about that? ^^

Don't let people hate on you, B. While I never need more than the downloader, I know of folks who can't access bittorrent/etc and need links like this. Thank you for helping out.

Originally Posted by lanerios

Agreed on that point. It's true but still good that they fix it "fast" (For blizzard standards)

My post got removed, but the quote lives on.

As for 3rd party patch mirrors:
Download the patch from the 3rd party site and place it in same folder as wow
run wow - it should download the downloader for the patch
the downloader will now verify the authenticity of the patch you downloaded
If the patch from the 3rd party site was valid, it will start patching, if not the blizzard downloader will try to fix it and download the broken pieces.

Edit:
And as for patches for Windows - check if the digital signature for the file is OK.

Originally Posted by Devidose

This is "teh intarwebs", sadly we can argue about anything/everything.

No we can't!

Originally Posted by Maldivia

As for 3rd party patch mirrors:
Download the patch from the 3rd party site and place it in same folder as wow
run wow - it should download the downloader for the patch
the downloader will now verify the authenticity of the patch you downloaded
If the patch from the 3rd party site was valid, it will start patching, if not the blizzard downloader will try to fix it and download the broken pieces.

Edit:
And as for patches for Windows - check if the digital signature for the file is OK.

Pro tip right there!

Can someone post full patch notes? If there are some?