Friday, July 13, 2007

Patch 2.2.0 (Upcoming)

Here's a few things I'm excited about for the upcoming patch:

General:
- Resilience Rating: The reduction to the percent chance to get a critical strike now also reduces the damage dealt by damage over time effects by the same percentage.

- Mac Movie Capture: the Mac client can now capture in-game video to QuickTime movie files using a configurable choice of codec (H.264, Motion JPEG, or Pixlet), resolution, and frame rate. Two new entries have been added to the Key Bindings dialog for start/stop recording and for cancellation of a recording. For more detailed configuration options please see the Mac Options panel in game. Mac OS X 10.4.9 and QuickTime 7.1.6 or better are required. Not all machines have enough performance to smoothly capture video at high frame rates; end user experimentation will be required to find appropriate settings for each system.

Druids:
- Enrage: If this buff is clicked off early, the armor penalty it causes will now be removed as well.

- Enrage and Furor should no longer initiate combat, though it will prevent rage decay for the duration.

Paladins:
- Blessing of Kings, Light, Might, Salvation, Sanctuary and Wisdom increased to 10 minutes. (Fucking YES)

- Hammer of Wrath cast time reduced to .5 seconds, global cooldown reduced to .5 seconds.

World Environment:

- The following old-world factions have had their acquisition rate significantly increased: Cenarion Circle, Argent Dawn, Timbermaw Hold. (About goddamn time)

- Monstrous Kaliri: This creature now has loot. (Also about goddamn time)


Also, I found out that the final part of the Yenniku quest chain (Stranglethorn Vale) is working again after 2.0. I'm so very glad to see that. Means I can actually complete it, which I have never been able to do. Fun!

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