They changed the [Vial of the Sunwell], last I heard it had a 10yd range and the charges only lasted 10 seconds. On live it has a 40yd range and the buffs have no duration. They even stay on if you swap trinkets.

Yes, the spell should do the same thing the macro did before - taunt 3 enemies that are targeting your target's target.

Hortus posted on the VR 2.4 changes.

Apparently, the change to not have VR (and others) target when throwing the orb was done to fix a bug (anybody know of any such bugs that existed? Probably related to combat logging?).

He also mentioned though that the Combat Log should be updated with the notification on who was targeted with the orb, that is a big which they will fix in a future patch and should get Boss Mods working again.

Source: WoW Forums -> [Bug] or VR changes in 2.4

Probably the issue where mobs spinning around to land RSTS hits can parry during their brief turn and gain parry haste.

It's to allow rogues to be used as CC once again. All other CC can be applied after the pull. That's why Avenger's Shield has a Daze component, to give CC time to get off their spells. Rogue Sap has to be applied before the pull, and Avenger's Shield usually ends up breaking it.

Honestly, it just means that a paladin tank will be willing to take a rogue instead of waiting for a mage if CC is needed. It's a buff to rogues more than to paladins.

I thought paladins preferred to not take rogues because they can't effectively aoe dps, not because of the sap.

It still does that.

Tried to look for this from various places, but no luck yet. How can you inspect other players through the chatlink? As the patchnotes indicate.

One bug that happened on fights like VR was, when VR targetted a player for an orb, they would have the creature's focus. The tank would need to have 110% of the orb'd player's threat, or else he could turn towards the orb'd player. (Rather than the ranged player needing to have 130% of the tank's threat to pull, the ranged player would need to have 91% or higher threat to pull if they got orbed)

The same thing could happen to any mob with RSTS abilities as far as I know.

I would assume this might help similar things like random charge mobs continuing to beat on the player they charge.

The safe spots for prince not apparently safe anymore. We got an infernal to a middle of the caster group.

I can confirm that our pally tank in Magisters pulled with shield, and never once zinged my sapped target. There's a lot of humanoid packs to pull - and I find it hard to believe that the RNG was that good.

My guess is those fights weren't changed because it was less important. Considering the entire gimmick of the void reaver fight is the aggro switching between tanks. I would make the assumption that gurtogg still turns to do his acid spit however, because otherwise it would never hit melee.

A couple changes I noticed while farming Warped Flesh and nether residue in the southwest corner of terokkar forest:

Firstly, the warp stalkers are all visible, before they spent a lot more time phased out, now they are present almost all the time, and hardly phase out even as you approach.

Secondly, the drop rate on Warped Flesh was much higher, I have 21 meat in 25 kills so far, which is significantely above the ~50% from wowhead, and certainly enough that I really noticed it.

Can confirm the Walpstalkers not being...stalky?

Not large enough of a parse, by any means. Personally 3 for 8 today. Yes to the phasing. Seemed like beached walrus.

The combat log now has spell messages for summoning... but they only appear in "Everything" mode.

I tested it and found an odd bug at the same time.

We used 2(3) scorpids just outside orgrimmar, we couldn't gather up 3 of them without deaggroing one of them, the 3rd scorpid reset and i told my test subject to just hold on to the 2 he had, when i used RD on the scorpid both of them came to me, as well as the one that had reset. Judging from the combat log it took me around 15-20 seconds from when the mob began to run back till i actually used righteous defense.

Since i'm not a protection paladin i don't know if this behaviour has been known before, but it could suggest that the server infact remembers the targets for when you use it on an enemy target, and then incorrectly uses RD on a reset mob.

Combat log shows it as being cast on the friendly, regardless of how you cast it though.

Edit: This also confirms that it doesn't matter if the target is friendly or unfriendly, it'll recieve the same benefits.

Actually, of all the bosses we did in Black Temple yesterday, RoS's circle was BIGGER than before. I swear it was. Naj'entus, Supremus, Shade, Teron - they all seemed to have smaller circles, while RoS was the other way round. I noticed it immediately, because I tank it, and I always hated the small circle.

Also, I can confirm that there was neither Rune Shield nor Deaden during phase 2 (making it slightly harder too!). Fighting without KTM made it even funnier... By the way, is there a new updated KTM available already?

Omen replaced KTM for most guilds a long time ago. And Omen was already updated for the patch.

Omen has been updated to Omen2 now, it's still pretty beta though.
Lots of stuff missing, but it seems to have most of the major features at least.

We had our MT say on vent how much threat he had last night, since Omen wouldn't show him. It would, for me, occasionally not show my threat either. So, meh!

But, in theory, it does look nice!

Quite apart from the usual cause of addon channel throttling, I'm convinced that the issues are often down to the player installation. Every time Omen goes through a major update our MT's Omen stops working.

People just don't generally "get" the best way to install Ace addons. I always install without dependencies and seperately install all the libs required, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people just install every addon along with dependencies and consequently end up with multiple lib versions throughout their addons directory. Yes, Ace should sort this out, but I don't think it always does.