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- The Endless Healing Potion is no longer usable in arenas as intended.
- Warlocks using a lower rank of Life Tap will receive a reduced benefit from their shadow spell power.
- The damage done by the cannons in the gunship encounter in Icecrown Citadel has been increased and the rate at which their heat decays has been reduced.
- In Alterac Valley, the buffs that the Generals get from the Warmasters and Marshals now grant them negative enemy dodge. This means they will now ignore some of their target's total dodge percentage. The base health of the Generals has been increased and the buff also grants a slightly increased amount of damage and health.
- The cheese items in Dalaran as well as the Kvaldir Berserkers in Icecrown will once again respawn at a faster rate.
- The window that comes up when talking to an NPC should no longer close on its own.
- Some changes to the battleground queuing system have been made to improve performance and group queuing.
- The timer for when the next battle in Wintergrasp will occur should no long disappear.
Some bug fixes came in over the weekend, mostly miscellaneous things that were broken in the 3.3.3 patch.
I'll be missing my Endless Healing Potions in arenas, doing all of 1500-2500 healing (not including mortal strike). Some of the things that they focus on, honestly.
The Alterac Valley change to the faction leaders seems aimed at ending the trend of both teams rushing to the opposing team's keep and killing the general, leading to AV games lasting less than 10 minutes on average. I don't think many players find this to be a bad dynamic per se, but apparently Blizzard does!
I can attest from first hand experience that the change to the Gunship Battle encounter in Icecrown Citadel is quite annoying. The nerf to the guns' attack speed prolongs the fight by around 5 minutes but does nothing to increase the difficulty. This makes an already boring fight into a longer more boring fight, kind of an unfortunate change in my opinion.
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