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Patch 5.0.4
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The following are the patch notes for the recent World of Warcraft update:
General
Account-wide Achievements, pets, and mounts
In Patch 5.0.4 and beyond, the majority of your character's Achievements, pets, and mounts will be shared with your other characters.
Please read: Bringing Achievements to the Account Level, by Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street
World Event: Theramore's Fall
Warchief Garrosh, obsessed with assuring the Horde’s supremacy over Kalimdor, launches an all-out attack against Jaina's island home of Theramore. Though valiant Alliance defenders rush to repel the sudden onslaught, they’ll soon find themselves unprepared for the terrible scope of Garrosh's true plans…
This Scenario will become available for level-85 characters during the week of September 17, and will then be available to level-90 characters after the launch of Mists of Pandaria on September 25.
AOE Looting
Area of effect looting comes to World of Warcraft with this patch. After killing a group of enemies in close proximity, when you loot one of their corpses, the loot window will include items from all of the nearby corpses for which you have loot rights.
BattleTag support in World of Warcraft
Players who have enabled their BattleTag will now be able to:
See BattleTag friends in your friends list.
Add and remove BattleTag friends.
Send BattleTag invites to other players via right-click.
Cross-Realm Zones
In some zones, players are now able to form a group with other players from a select pool of realms.
When a player is in a zone that is set as a “cross-realm zone”, in addition to seeing other players from their native realm, they’ll also seamlessly see (and be able to play with) players from other realms.
Players will always be able to group and quest as they normally would with players from their native realm.
This functionality will be enabled for a limited number of realms at first, and will be granted to additional realms as we near the release of Mists of Pandaria.
Classes: General
All classes have been updated with a new talent system, improved abilities, and spells (accessible throughout levels 1-85). Your character's talents have been reset.
Many old talents have been converted to specialization abilities.
Druids now have access to a fourth class specialization: Guardian.
New spells are now learned automatically. Class trainers are only needed to change talents, glyphs, class specialization, or to utilize the dual specialization feature.
All characters now take 40% less damage from other players.
Currency Conversion
Valor points have been converted to Justice points, and Conquest points have been converted to Honor points.
Neither of the resultant currencies (Justice and Honor) have an enforced hard-cap at this time.
Players are no longer able to earn Valor or Conquest points (bosses drop Justice, and arenas are closed).
Items formerly purchasable for Valor/Conquest are available for Justice/Honor.
Items
Spell Penetration has been replaced by PvP Power on existing items.
Head enchants removed
Enchants that modify the gear in your head slot have been removed from the game. This includes older head enchants of every type.
Relics, ranged, and thrown items
The slot in which ranged, relics, and thrown items were previously equipped has been removed. All weapons should now be equipped in the weapon slot.
Ranged weapons, including wands, have been adjusted to be more powerful.
Ranged weapons no longer have a minimum range.
Professions
The glyph system has been updated. Many class glyphs have been added, altered, or moved to different glyph types.
Prime glyphs have been removed.
Chef’s Award and Dalaran Cooking Award have been removed. Existing awards have been converted to Epicurean’s Award.
Quests
The cap for daily quests has been removed.
There is no longer a displayed count of daily quests completed.
User Interface
There is a new user interface for your mounts and pets.
Character creation screens have been updated.
Buffs have been consolidated in the UI.
New roll results frame added. This new feature can be accessed by clicking the word "[Loot]" in chat, or by typing "/loot".
The PvE queue frames have been unified. You can now queue for dungeons, raids, and other queue-able content in one handy place.
Vendors now offer item filtering.
Spellbooks have been updated to reflect changes to core abilities, and now include a brief overview of specializations.
The Dungeon Journal has been expanded with information on all pre-Cataclysm encounters.
A new help system has been added to many frames. You can toggle this on and off by clicking the "i" button in the upper left corner of the frame.
Mac
Mac OS X 10.5 is no longer supported.
Added full support for Retina displays.
Added support for game resolutions that match Mac screen aspect ratios.
Switching between Windowed and Fullscreen display modes should be faster.
A “Help” menu has been added, so that players can quickly navigate to support pages.
A menu item that allows players to copy system information to the Clipboard has been added.
A menu item that reveals various game files and folders in Finder has been added.
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There are a lot of threads on the WoW forums regarding #134 crash errors, both within the game and when trying to load it via the launcher.
I play woW in 64-bit mode and it won't run via the launcher (although selecting 32-bit lets it run. Go figure!), but *will* run by using the wow-64.exe file directly.
In any case, there's been a noticible lack of any formal admittance of a screw-up by Blizzard. What I have found after a number of days scanning the forums is link to the thread below where a solution has been posted and seemingly endorsed by a 'blue'.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6490599131?page=1
If you're having problems or know anyone who is, it might be worth pointing them in this direction.
I play woW in 64-bit mode and it won't run via the launcher (although selecting 32-bit lets it run. Go figure!), but *will* run by using the wow-64.exe file directly.
In any case, there's been a noticible lack of any formal admittance of a screw-up by Blizzard. What I have found after a number of days scanning the forums is link to the thread below where a solution has been posted and seemingly endorsed by a 'blue'.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6490599131?page=1
If you're having problems or know anyone who is, it might be worth pointing them in this direction.
I had massive issues with the patch but it was error 132 i was getting, in the end had to rebuild the laptop as I was convinced it was because i had updated my graphics drivers while wow was loading (long story) anyway the laptop was probably overdue an overhaul and it made me clear up my clutter....thank god I have my macbook to log on with in the meantime tho!
Im still seeing some graphics problems and occasionally it looks like it is going to crash on the loading screen but (fingers crossed) it appears stable for me now.
Im still seeing some graphics problems and occasionally it looks like it is going to crash on the loading screen but (fingers crossed) it appears stable for me now.