Patch 18.10.06
November 6, 2012 (server updates begin at 7 a.m. PDT)
Cool New Stuff | Miscellaneous Changes | Bugs Squashed
Cool New Stuff
- The battlegrounds have extra rewards based on wins and losses.
- Every three wins or three losses earns you an event item.
- Three wins earns victor’s spoils—a random box that could contain any of the following:
- tier 13 or 14 superior bind-on-pickup gear
- various gems
- new campfires
- Three losses earns challenger’s aide—a random box that could contain any of the following:
- tier 13 or 14 superior bind-on-pickup gear (tier 14 items less likely with this box)
- various gems
- new campfires
- New campfires are available from the battlegrounds.
- Charming Campfire
- charms burned last 30 minutes
- purple flame differentiates from other campfires
- Hasty Campfire
- stamina restores at double the rate
- blue flame differentiates from other campfires
- Rewards for prior battleground achievements except for “Fraywind Five Hundred” have been removed.
Miscellaneous Changes
- Balancing Refinement
- Balder’s Temple (Hard)
- reduced the damage of nightmare focused emitters by 50 percent
- reduced the damage of nightmare Auricadis by 30 percent
- reduced the HP of nightmare Auricadis by 20 percent
- Argon Corpus (Hard)
- reduced the HP of nightmare Cygnus by 10 percent
- reduced the HP of the halveterak overseer elite by 10 percent
- reduced the HP of the lokmar sorgalur elite by 10 percent
- reduced the HP of nightmare Meldita by 10 percent
- reduced the HP of the spawning tentacles by 10 percent
- Fane of Kaprima
- nightmare Kornus’s attack speed reduced by about 20 percent
- attack bonuses from the Rage of the Warrior buff decreased from 10 percent to 5 percent
- damage from elite Lokian fatecaller’s marbles reduced by 33 percent
- nightmare Egrecia’s HP reduced by 33 percent
- nightmare Egrecia movement patterns reduced from three to two
- damage from nightmare Kaprima’s explosion after a sickle attack reduced by about 33 percent
- damage from nightmare Kaprima’s whirlwind after a sickle attack reduced by about 20 percent
- removed the bleeding effect originally caused by Kaprima’s whirlwind
Bugs Squashed
- Fixed the problem where some players are unable to cancel Instance Matching while in the Instance Matching queue.
- Fixed the problem of rabbit-faced popori’s ears sticking out while wearing the bone-weary skeleton mask.
- Fixed the problem of the raid notice chat channel name not displaying properly.
- Fixed the problem of some female high elf gloves’ appearance not matching item icons.
- Removed an unnecessary “X” displayed in the Parcel Post Notification icon tooltip.
- Fixed the awkward system message being displayed upon single-user registration in battleground matching.