Article: Patch 4.2.2 Official Notes, Blue Posts, TCG Art Gallery

[Boubouille]

Update - Added today's blue posts, not much happening on the WoW side but hopefully things will get better now that september is here and 4.2.2 is live!

Patch 4.2.2 Official Notes
As I mentioned earlier this week, Patch 4.2.2 is now live and Blizzard posted the final version of the patch notes on the official site. This is mostly a hotfix consolidation patch without any game balance changes, see the datamined changes for details.

• Patch 4.2.2 Datamined Changes (mostly already existing hotfixes)

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm patch 4.2.2 is now available on all realms! Below you'll find the official patch notes.

Notes for all World of Warcraft patches can be found here.

Dungeons & Raids
Firelands

• The visibility of Ragnaros' Dreadflame ability has been increased.
• The size of Ragnaros' hit box during the final phase of the Heroic encounter has been increased.

User Interface

• Raid Frames should now remember whether they were shown or hidden upon subsequent logins

Technical

• Players using multiple accounts should now be available to be invited to a Real ID Party.
• Updating a raid roster while in combat should no longer cause a client crash.
• Attempts to purchase Arena Season 10 items should no longer sometimes cause a client crash. (Korea Only)

Blue Posts

Battleground Win Ratios
I'll bring it up in our next developer meeting, but in all likelihood, since that could potentially dramatically impact queue times for random Battlegrounds, it probably won't fly.

[...] I said that there would be a greater emphasis on creating new Battlegrounds on the future. I should note that we're slowly working toward new technology to make the creation and modification of battlegrounds something we can do more readily too.

I also might have made it sound like the older Battlegrounds will never change again. That's not what I meant to get across. We've redone AV several times throughout the years, and it may see more changes in the future. I just wanted to note that the emphasis is going to be shifted a bit, that's all. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Trading Card Game Art Gallery Update
The Trading Card game art gallery has been updated with ten new pieces.

[Feefel]

They bothered to have a PTR for this?

[Phaelia]

K awesome, now let's get those mining picks polished for 4.3

[Sting]

They bothered to have a PTR for this?

Better safe than sorry? :/

[johnnyo032003]

So 4.2.2 is live starting today?

[xindykawai]

/go farm old content gear

[techwolf]

I believe the word you're looking for is "stalling".

[cease]

Grats to all those who have already killed HRag. From now on only nerfed kills.

[Deleted]

Grats to all those who have already killed HRag. From now on only nerfed kills.

Yeah because a larger hitbox makes the fight faceroll right? /facepalm

[Anaabanana]

•Updating a raid roster while in combat should no longer cause a client crash.

If this is true, I'm a very happy healer.

[Deleted]

What about Warlock pet bar constantly disappearing after entering the instances? They did PTR testing for this? >.< Idiots.

[Razdornwaz]

How anticlimactic.

[cease]

Yeah because a larger hitbox makes the fight faceroll right? /facepalm

Who said faceroll? oh, you did. /palmface

[Nexsa]

*Sad panda*

[Deleted]

So why did they need a PTR for this 5 (?) bugfixes....

They should have tested 4.3 during this period of testing 4.2.2

I don't get it.

[Deleted]

The visibility of Ragnaros' Dreadflame ability has been increased.

err what? couldnt find any ability called dreadflame in wowhead.

[Narshe]

So why did they need a PTR for this 5 (?) bugfixes....

They should have tested 4.3 during this period of testing 4.2.2

I don't get it.

Does it matter? Does it really puzzle you that much? 4.3 will be on ptr when its ready, not when you want it to be there.

[Tuho]

err what? couldnt find any ability called dreadflame in wowhead.

Its the sparkly red stuff on the ground on the last phase of Heroic.

[bluspacecow]

So why did they need a PTR for this 5 (?) bugfixes....

They should have tested 4.3 during this period of testing 4.2.2

I don't get it.

It's pretty much all up to the developers. They have a word with QA to bring up the PTR so they can throw the patch to the general player for generalized public testing.

They have their own QA team that can test things just fine but unfortunately they can't always replicate the conditions you get in the Live environment simply because of economies of scale - a possible test bed of over 10 million players will always trump w/e size of QA testing team Blizzard can field.

[comasutra]

Grats to all those who have already killed HRag. From now on only nerfed kills.

This is full of derp! Sorry this comment makes no sense. Read the notes again.

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Who said faceroll? oh, you did. /palmface

Hey cease, explain how this is nerfed please. Thanks. /palmfacepalm