Version 14: The Great Restructure

2024-06-30 12:00:00 • Full changelog

NPC Bots

  • [CHANGE] Bots are chatty on interrupts and large group pulls; priests talk less randomly.
  • [NEW] Players can greet their bots with simple greeting chats.
  • [NEW] Mages offer portals via chat or gossip (requires Rune of Portals).
  • [NEW] Paladin bots respond to 'DI me' and 'Salv me' with Divine Intervention or Salvation.

Murky

  • [NEW] Murky can find inconspicuous chests nearby.
  • [NEW] Murky interacts with certain zones, NPCs, and quests.
  • [CHANGE] Older QoL features are pending re-implementation.

Class Tweaks

  • [CHANGE] Living Bomb continues ticking on dead targets and explodes afterward.
  • [CHANGE] Arcane: Slow is baseline; replaced with Touch of the Magi (tuning pending).
  • [BALANCE] Destro: Chaos Bolt deals increased damage to targets below 35% health.
  • [BALANCE] Elven Ret off-hand damage slightly reduced via talents.
  • [CHANGE] Colossus Smash: personal damage increase vs target @ 20%.

Dungeons & Raids

  • [NEW] Reworked dungeons up through LBRS; added new boss mechanics.
  • [CHANGE] Work in progress: Stratholme, Scholomance, UBRS.
  • [CHANGE] Considering AQ20/ZG as 10-man or tuning 25-man; feedback welcome.
  • [BALANCE] Small tweaks to Smolder.
  • [CHANGE] BWL: Mind-control orb on first boss has no cooldown.
  • [CHANGE] ZG available after attunement; should help with MC progression.

Racials

  • [CHANGE] Removed traditional racials from all races.
  • [NEW] Introduced Heritage Horizons system to choose racials.
  • [CHANGE] Profession racials now have a cooldown for swapping.
  • [NEW] New racials added to the system; more to come.

Items

  • [CHANGE] Converted some items to currencies (e.g., scourgestones, Darkmoon Faire tickets).
  • [NEW] Global bag space increased by 2.
  • [CHANGE] Reagents classification adjusted; more use of reagent bank.
  • [NEW] More reagent banks added.
  • [CHANGE] Many reagent stacks now 200.

Professions

  • [NEW] New Inscription and Enchanting profession items.
  • [NEW] Timbermaw revered: new Alchemy recipe.

Quests

  • [NEW] New BFD quest from Kloveriell in Stormwind.

Instance Challenges

  • [NEW] Corpse Explosion challenge: death explosions + 6s stackable DoT.
  • [NEW] Boss reward points framework started (ST/Mara first).
  • [FIX] Code cleanup.

Reforging

  • [CHANGE] Attack Power can no longer be reforged into Strength/Agility (reverse still allowed).

Fixes & Adjustments

  • [FIX] Various fixes.
  • [UX] No more typing DELETE when deleting Rare+ items.
  • [FIX] Spatial Rift unusable in WSG.
  • [CHANGE] Teleport menu disabled by default on Dinklestone.