2.1.2 Patch Notes and discussion - Page 2

Zaq · 06/19/07, 6:12 PM

* A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored to be held by the residents of Halaa.

Anyone found this? I went to check and have to guess it's a limited quantity thing, not much else to do till the pvp vendors are a little less zerged and my priest can load properly.

Russta · 06/19/07, 6:21 PM

Ugh, they fixed Mallet of the Tides.

Boots of the Resilient are now T5 graphic.

My T5 helm doesn't show my beard but my recoloured T5 Fel-Steel Warhelm does.

The change to windowed mode is slightly annoying too. Let me try to explain how I did it before;

My desktop resolution is 1024x768 and I set my WoW as windowed, 1024x768 non-maximised. Whenever I logged in before the patch, the game was "too big" for my screen until I pushed the top bar off the top of the screen, lined up the sides so they were equally off the screen and the bottom of my game was Window's task bar. I know it sounds weird but that's what I adapted my UI to work around and it's how I enjoyed it.

Now when I enter the game, the window fits perfectly and takes into account the task bar and the width. It's no longer 1024x768 more like... 1018x730? I know it's a minor point to bitch about seeing as I can stretch it out myself but it's one that stacks with my other non-gameplay related annoyance of disallowing screenshots to be saved into .bmp and forcing .jpeg's laden with artifacts.

Kallisa · 06/19/07, 6:26 PM

* Spellcloth: Creating spellcloth will once again only summon one Angered Nether-wraith.

I was enjoying the extra motes from the extra spawns =(

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a memory leak that may occur when a player alt-tabs out of the game, engages a screensaver, or locks their machine.

This is very welcome by myself. I cannot count the amount of times I would have to do a full reboot, from this problem.

drats · 06/19/07, 6:35 PM

Originally Posted by Zaq

* A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored to be held by the residents of Halaa.

Anyone found this? I went to check and have to guess it's a limited quantity thing, not much else to do till the pvp vendors are a little less zerged and my priest can load properly.

I just captured halaa and checked for it, the vendor didn't seem to have it.

McInaction · 06/19/07, 6:49 PM

Originally Posted by heel

-The Skettis escort daily quest now rewards Unstable Mana Potions - not Super Mana Potions. HEEL ANGRY. HEEL SMASH.

Oh wow, there goes my cheap and easy mana injectors.

Geheim · 06/19/07, 6:54 PM

Originally Posted by Zaq

* A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored to be held by the residents of Halaa.

Anyone found this? I went to check and have to guess it's a limited quantity thing, not much else to do till the pvp vendors are a little less zerged and my priest can load properly.

There was a blue post on the Test Realm Forum by Hortus stating:

We checked out the new Resilience gem, it is in game, but the spawn conditions seem to be making it very unlikely to spawn on the vendor. This is going to be changed in a future patch to assure that it spawns often enough for people to get in a reasonable amount of time.

Anaxo · 06/19/07, 6:57 PM

Originally Posted by Russta

I know it's a minor point to bitch about seeing as I can stretch it out myself but it's one that stacks with my other non-gameplay related annoyance of disallowing screenshots to be saved into .bmp and forcing .jpeg's laden with artifacts.

Can't you also save screenshots in TGA format also? Or is that considered worse than JPEG for graphical quality?

heel · 06/19/07, 7:15 PM

Illidari marks are now Uncommon instead of Common.

Vhex · 06/19/07, 7:15 PM

* Players will no longer slow down to walking speed when closely following another player.

As a habitual two-boxer I was ready to murder people on several occasions because of this feature/bug. Thank Allah for small favors.

Russta · 06/19/07, 7:23 PM

Originally Posted by Anaxo

Can't you also save screenshots in TGA format also? Or is that considered worse than JPEG for graphical quality?

I've honestly never worked with a .tga file but I'm not really sure anything could be worse than .jpeg as a medium for a fresh file to work with.

If you're aware of how to enforce this change in the game, let me know and I'll give it a whirl.

Igniter · 06/19/07, 7:31 PM

Sad to see the vashj trinket forgotten

Russta · 06/19/07, 7:42 PM

Didn't they say there were fixing the incredibly annoying inability to target things through walls that popped up last patch? I'm sure I read that on blue tracker recently...

Either way, assuming I'm not crazy, it's not fixed. I'm standing here in SSC unable to target any mobs or people through the flags at the start area.

And here I was, hoping I wouldn't have to worry about Mind Vision or "camera exploits" to mark up that Crimsonhand Battle Mage in the first pack leading to Kael'thas!

Mikari · 06/19/07, 7:59 PM

Originally Posted by Russta

I've honestly never worked with a .tga file but I'm not really sure anything could be worse than .jpeg as a medium for a fresh file to work with.

If you're aware of how to enforce this change in the game, let me know and I'll give it a whirl.

Tga is lossless like png so it's much better than jpg to work with. To make WoW output screenshots in tga format just add the following to your config.wtf

SET screenshotFormat "tga"
SET screenshotQuality "10"

Kuai · 06/19/07, 8:51 PM

New ring from Hydross

Band of Vile Agression
37stam
25 resilience 50 AP

"omg pve to get pvp gear hurr".

HaklePrime · 06/19/07, 8:52 PM

Originally Posted by Kuai

New ring from Hydross

Band of Vile Agression
37stam
25 resilience 50 AP

"omg pve to get pvp gear hurr".

Yeah, we got that tonight as well. I'll be forwarding whatever other new drops I see to the wowhead guys. Anyone who uses that client should as well