Patch 2.4 is now live and will no doubt be greeted with mixed reactions. Will the removal of diminishing returns on honor lead to hour-long graveyard camping festivals? Will the Warsong Gulch flag carrier debuff help reduce turtles or will it make the problem worse? Find out for yourself and let us know what you think by posting on our forums.
Here are some of the Patch 2.4 highlights of particular interest to the twink community:
PvP
* Diminishing returns on honor for kills is being eliminated.
* Honor will now be instantly calculated, and available for player use.
* Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will be worth no honor.
* Added new PvP daily quests that send players to Halaa and the Spirit Towers of the Bone Wastes. These quests are available for Alliance and Horde at their respective local quest hubs.
* Arenas
o The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed while in the Arena. It will now take four seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.
o Queue times for arena matches have been reduced. Players will now be able to enter matches faster than previously.
o Shadow Sight now increases damage taken by 5% rather than dealing damage over time. Duration has been reduced from 21 seconds to 15 seconds.
o Players feared outside of the Arena (through the world or outside the arena walls) will now be teleported back to the center of the arena map.
* Battlegrounds
o If a player dies 50 times or more in a battleground, they will no longer be worth honor for the remainder of that battle.
o When you first enter a battleground, messages about other players joining the battleground will be linked together for the first minute. You will see a message in AV like "28 players joined" rather than a line for each player that joined. After the first minute, it will work as it always has. In addition, all of the messages about other players leaving the battleground and getting marks of honor once the battleground is complete have been removed.
o Battleground Rune Buffs:Speed, Restoration, and Berserking buffs received from battleground runes will no longer cause Stealth or Prowl to break.
o Warsong Gulch
+ When both flags are held, the flag carriers will receive 50% increased damage done to them after approximately 10 minutes and 100% increased damage after approximately 15 minutes.
+ Flag carriers can now be tracked 45 seconds after picking up the flag.
Fishing
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+ Find Fish now correctly tracks Schools of Tastyfish and Muddy Churning Waters.
+ Removed the level requirement from the expert fishing book, The Bass and You.
For a complete list of the patch notes, click
here.
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