WoW 1.61 patch

[Concillian]

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.6.1 (2005-08-02)
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General
- Spell casting is no longer interrupted when leaving combat.

Warriors
- Improved Shield Block - Fixed a bug where Rank 3 of the talent was
not granting the extra block.
- Bloodthirst - Damage bonus increased to 40% of attack power.

Items
- The Oil of Immolation effect is no longer affected by bonuses to
spell damage from items.

Raids & Dungeons
- Blackwing Lair
Several encounters in Blackwing Lair now cause the front gate to
close, preventing players from zoning out or joining an in-progress
battle.
The Razorgore encounter has been changed slightly to make it less
"random". The spawning should be more consistent throughout the
fight.
The timer for Vaelastrasz the Corrupt is now more persistent. You
can no longer reset the one-hour time limit for beating him by
leaving the instance. Also, Vaelastrasz the Corrupt will not respawn
for 12 hours if he has not been beaten when the timer expires.
The drakes in Blackwing Lair will no longer leave the lab.
- Maraudon
Lowered experience values for Creeping Sludge.

Macs
- Increased the maximum number of sounds which can be played
simultaneously. This will fix problems where some sounds could be
dropped in very busy situations.
- Fixed WoW Error Reporter so that it doesn't crash under Mac OS X
10.4 when trying to send an error report.
- Worked around an issue where you would lose your Expose/Dashboard
preferences if you crashed or asserted while in fullscreen mode on
Mac OS X 10.4.
- Fixed the "blockWidth", "srec", and "bitnum < m_numBits" assertions
bugs that would crash the game.
- Fixed a bug involving corpses near the player that could result in a
crash ("BusError").

Nothing really exciting that I see. Maybe the BWL stuff? Can't say that I know all that much about BWL.

d/l was only 4MB or so, but it goes out to Blizz downloader.

 

[Schadenfroh]

And when did they say they are going to launch new RP servers? I probably will resubscribe when they do.

 

[Rookie]

Anyone else excited about the Fishing Derby in Stranglethorn in the next content patch?

 

[RollWave]

omg

 

[sparkyclarky]

And vampiric embrace is still bugged, not having clipping zones allows people to walk right through spell casters effectively breaking any non-channeled spell, and fear is still nerfed with the trinket and bugged simultaneously (characters that appear to be at a long distance instantly teleport next to you when fear breaks).

I enjoy the game, but they honestly need to get their act together, as some of these issues have been around for a long time now.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: Concillian

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.6.1 (2005-08-02)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

General
- Spell casting is no longer interrupted when leaving combat.

Warriors
- Improved Shield Block - Fixed a bug where Rank 3 of the talent was
not granting the extra block.
- Bloodthirst - Damage bonus increased to 40% of attack power.

Items
- The Oil of Immolation effect is no longer affected by bonuses to
spell damage from items.

Raids & Dungeons
- Blackwing Lair
Several encounters in Blackwing Lair now cause the front gate to
close, preventing players from zoning out or joining an in-progress
battle.
The Razorgore encounter has been changed slightly to make it less
"random". The spawning should be more consistent throughout the
fight.
The timer for Vaelastrasz the Corrupt is now more persistent. You
can no longer reset the one-hour time limit for beating him by
leaving the instance. Also, Vaelastrasz the Corrupt will not respawn
for 12 hours if he has not been beaten when the timer expires.
The drakes in Blackwing Lair will no longer leave the lab.
- Maraudon
Lowered experience values for Creeping Sludge.

Macs
- Increased the maximum number of sounds which can be played
simultaneously. This will fix problems where some sounds could be
dropped in very busy situations.
- Fixed WoW Error Reporter so that it doesn't crash under Mac OS X
10.4 when trying to send an error report.
- Worked around an issue where you would lose your Expose/Dashboard
preferences if you crashed or asserted while in fullscreen mode on
Mac OS X 10.4.
- Fixed the "blockWidth", "srec", and "bitnum < m_numBits" assertions
bugs that would crash the game.
- Fixed a bug involving corpses near the player that could result in a
crash ("BusError").

Nothing really exciting that I see. Maybe the BWL stuff? Can't say that I know all that much about BWL.

d/l was only 4MB or so, but it goes out to Blizz downloader.

k

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
And when did they say they are going to launch new RP servers? I probably will resubscribe when they do.

There's no ETA as of yet, but if Blizzard doesn't really enforce them, they are going to be just regular PvP servers.

And this patch, well it was mostly bug fixes. The next big content patch (with Zul'Gurub, the new Battleground and the hunter changes) won't be live until late August, me thinks...

What annoys me of this little 'hotfix' patches is that they still mess with all my UI addons, like Auctioneer and Gatherer. I always try to keep my AH database as complete and up to date as possible and installing the new version means starting from a scratch again.