World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.1.2 May 19 2009

You'll get a nice little patch when you start up World of Warcraft today. The biggest news is the addition of the Equipment Manager and the changes to the Lake Wintergrasp daily quests.

Here are the patch notes:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.1.2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The latest patch notes can always be found at
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General

- Equipment Manager
When enabled from the Interface Options menu, this feature will
allow players to store sets of equipment, easily swap between saved
sets using hotkeys, and pull items directly from backpacks or bank
slots (must be at the bank to equip inventory from the bank).
- New art textures have been added for Argent Tournament mounts. Any
mounts already purchased from the Argent Tournament vendors will be
updated automatically. Argent Tournament mounts with the old
textures will still be available for purchase from the Argent
Tournament vendors for a small Champion’s Seal and gold cost
(standard faction requirements apply).
- Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their
achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy
process.

PVP

- Vehicle health and damage output in Strand of the Ancients and Lake
Wintergrasp now scale with the item level of the operator’s gear.
Power scaling is now 1% damage and 1% health per average item level.
- All Lake Wintergrasp daily quests have been changed to a weekly
format. The honor and Stone Keeper’s Shards rewarded for completing
these quests have been increased to compensate.

Death Knights

- Improved Death Strike: This talent now also increases the healing
from Death Strike by 25/50% and the tooltip has been adjusted to
reflect the actual functionality after the hotfix in 3.1.0.
- Ghoul Frenzy: Now has a 10-second cooldown.

Druids

- Innervate: This ability has been redesigned to grant 450% of the
casting Druid’s base mana pool to the target over 20 seconds.
- Improved Moonkin Form: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell
power.

Mages

- Mirror Images: The images summoned by this spell will now target the
creature that most hates the Mage, and should no longer cast Fire
Blast or Frostbolt on targets that are affected by crowd control
debuffs that break immediately on damage unless they are already
casting these spells when crowd control is applied.

Paladins

- Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom: Now grant 92 mana
per 5 seconds to prevent being overwritten by Mana Spring Totem.
- Exorcism: Can no longer be used on player-controlled creatures.

Priests

- Divine Hymn: Healing and healing scaling reduced by 30%. Buff on
affected players changed from 15% to 10%.
- Renewed Hope: Effect can no longer be dispelled.
- Soul Warding: Mana cost reduction is now 15% down from 30%.

Warlocks

- Conflagrate updated: Consumes an Immolate or Shadowflame effect on
the enemy target to instantly deal damage equal to 12 seconds of
your Immolate, or 8 seconds of your Shadowflame.
- Fire and Brimstone: Now increases the damage done by your Incinerate
and Chaos Bolt by 3/6/9/12/15% on targets afflicted by Immolate, and
increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate by
5/10/15/20/25%.
- Nether Protection reduced to 30% damage reduction, down from 60%.
- Sacrifice (Voidwalker) redesigned: Sacrifices a portion of the
Voidwalker's health, giving its master a shield that will absorb X
damage for 30 seconds. While the shield holds, spell casting will
not be interrupted by damage. 1-minute cooldown.
- Shadow and Flame: Now also includes Shadowburn.

Warriors

- Juggernaut: Critical strike chance bonus reduced to 25%, down from
100%.

Items

- Darkruned Battlegear 2-Piece Set Bonus: The bonus critical strike
chance for Frost Strike and Death Coil has been increased from 5% to
8%.
- Furious Gladiator’s Staff and Furious Gladiator’s Greatstaff: The
agility values on these two items were too high. They have been
reduced by 50%.
- Glyphs
Glyph of Conflagrate redesigned: When you use Conflagrate, the
damage done by your next 3 Destruction spells is increased by 10%
for 15 seconds if the Immolate on the target has 5 or fewer seconds
remaining.
Glyph of Innervate: Has been adjusted to grant the Druid 90% of his
or her base mana pool over 20 seconds.
Glyph of Mass Dispel: Now only decreases Mass Dispel cost by 35%.
Glyph of Rapid Charge: Reduced to 7%, down from 20% cooldown
reduction to Charge.
- Guise of the Midgard Serpent: The base attack power on this item has
been lowered to balance it against items of a similar quality.
- Increased the health and mana restored from Northrend food and
drinks.
- Most scopes now have a level requirement and will bind the item to
which they are applied.
- Nightsong Garb 4-Piece Set Bonus: Chance for Insect Swarm to trigger
an instant Starfire changed to 15%.
- Scourgeborne Battlegear 4-Piece Set Bonus: The runic power gain has
been reduced to 5 runic power from 10 runic power.

Professions

- Fishing
Jewel of the Sewers: You can now fish in all parts of the Dalaran
sewers for this quest.
Phantom Ghostfish: Can now be caught from Nettlefish schools in
Sholazar Basin.

Bug Fixes

- Death Knights
Anti-magic Shell: Tooltip error corrected.
Blood Boil: If no target is available for Blood Boil to hit, the
spell will now cast and consume a blood rune but generate no runic
power.
- Druids
Maim: Rank 2 of this ability is properly considered a stun and can
be escaped by Blink.
- Hunters
Go For The Throat: Explosive Shot critical strikes now trigger this
talent.
Lock and Load: The tooltip has been corrected to display its actual
chance to occur.
Rabid: This Hunter pet talent no longer lists a percentage chance to
be triggered, as that chance varies by the attack speed of the pet.
- Paladins
Divine Sacrifice: Damage done to the Paladin while this is active
will no longer cause the effect to break early, and if it is
dispelled or cancelled early, the damage counter will reset
correctly the next time the spell is cast.
- Rogues
Shadow Dance: Issues with action bars and ability use arising from
using Stealth while Shadow Dance is active have been fixed.
- Tricks of the Trade: To prevent exploits, this ability can no longer
be cast on non-player targets.
- Warlocks
Demonic Sacrifice: This spell will no longer appear in any Warlock’s
spellbook.
- Professions
Tailoring
Swordguard Embroidery: Now correctly increases ranged attack power.
- Dungeons and Raids
Players can no longer become saved to an instance when they aren't
in the instance during a boss kill.
Ulduar
Hodir should now reset in a timely manner if a group fails to kill
him.
10-player bosses that drop Runed Orbs will also sometimes drop the
recipes that use those orbs.
The Spark of Imagination: Characters that release in part of the
boss room will no longer be ported to Westfall or The Barrens.