June 2nd 2011 Update Notes

All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Thursday, June 2, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. The Splitpaw server will have its hotfix at 5am London Time on Friday, June 3, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours.

USER INTERFACE

• AA Exp gain should once again display correctly.

PvP GENERAL

• PVP servers should once again apply base damage modifiers correctly.

HOUSING

• Fixed an issue where trying to visit a house would sometimes send you to character select.

ABILITIES

• Multi attack should once again be working with offhand weapons.
• Fixed an exploit with the spell casting speed, reuse, and recovery formulas. The formula has been changed to be a linear growth granting 1% gain for every 2% of the mod given resulting in a cap of 50% when any of these modifiers are at 100%.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

DoV Heroic Instances

• Crit Bonus values displayed on heroic content should now more accurately reflect the mobs actual crit bonus percentages.

Great Divide

• Snowy cliff beaks are now always attackable.

Kael Drakkel (Contested and Instances)

• Difficulty has been brought down overall.

Kael Drakkel Contested

• Kromzek Strike has had its damage reduced considerably.
• Creature respawn has been lengthened overall.
• Overall NPC health has been lowered.
• Fabled drops for Kael Contested have been greatly increased.
• Songs of Thunder no longer makes you immune to beneficial spells.
• Mana damage on Rampage has been reduced. Overall mana damage on most spells has been lowered.

Kael Drakkel: Temple of Rallos Zek

• Temple Vanquisher health has been lowered.

Citadel of V’uul

• Citadel of V’uul has had damage and mana damage reduced.  This was caused due to a potency stacking issue.

Spire of Rage

• Crushing Madness is now curable.
• Bolt of Searing is now curable.

Sullon’s Spire

• Gregor Haldane is now debuffed by priests rather than fighters, and waits a bit longer after teleporting before he casts his aoe.
• Normal mode x4 raid mobs have had many of their spells reduced in damage, and should not crit quite as much.

Tallon’s Stronghold

• Normal mode x4 raid mobs have had many of their spells reduced in damage, and should not crit quite as much.

EVENTS

• The Flying Freebooters have made adjustments to the winning time for the New Halas Aether Race andd feel confident that racers will be able to reach the title of Snowflake Chaser!

TRADESKILLS

• Crafting writs between level 70-79 have had their experience adjusted to give the proper amount.  Previously they were giving about half of what they should have been.

ITEMS

• The “Gift of the Underfoot” and the racial heritage armor cloaks illusion no longer cancel the racial illusion when you are on a mount.