Youll find here after some excerpts of 2.4 patch notes. Enjoy!

Professions
Enchanting

• Added a recipe to convert a void crystal into two large prismatic shards.

Fishing

• New Fishing Daily Quests! Visit the mysterious old man fishing at Silmyr Lake outside of Shattrath City to discover what treasures he has to offer.

Youll find here after some excerpts of 2.4 patch notes. Enjoy!

Mage

• Spellsteal will no longer overwrite a longer duration buff.
  
• Players can now only carry 80 Conjured Manna Biscuits at a time

Youll find here after some excerpts of 2.4 patch notes. Enjoy!

General

• Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers.
  
• Spell Haste: Spell haste now reduces the global cooldown on spells, down to a minimum of 1 second. This change does not apply to melee and ranged abilities.

Items

• Players will now be able to purchase level 70 Superior quality PvP items from reputation vendors.
  
• Items intended for Retribution Paladins have had their stats adjusted. Retribution Paladins should see an increase in dps as a result.
  
• Players can now only carry 80 Conjured Manna Biscuits at a time.

We have a few changes planned for patch 2.4 that we'd like to share a little bit with you. First, all 25-player raid bosses will drop more gold and those who dropped set tokens will drop one additional token. Additionally, the the loot dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker has been changed to bind-on-equip. These two outdoor raid bosses will also drop much more gold than before as well.

Lastly, Scale of the Sands reputation will now be awarded in Hyjal at a much higher.

Youll find here after some excerpts of 2.4 patch notes. Enjoy!

Dungeons and Raids

• All 25- player raid bosses that drop set tokens will now drop and additional token!
  
• Gems obtained through Heroic difficulty instances are no longer Unique-equipped.
  
• Loot dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker has been changed to Bind on Equip. In addition, the cash dropped by these bosses has been significantly increased.
  
• Scale of the Sands reputation will now be awarded in Hyjal at a much higher rate.

Since I've decided there's absolutely no relevant thread I could ever find to throw out this info...

We're making some improvements to the way the looting UI and related functions work in 2.4. These are just a couple of the changes planned.

First when you loot a Bind on Pickup item that only you can pick up (such as Heroic Badges) you'll no longer see the confirmation dialog. One less pop-up to deal with, obviously you want your badges, AMIRITE?

Also when you loot a Bind of Pickup item the confirmation window is going to list the name of the item in the window. You'll be able to identify that you're getting the right items much easier now.

There are a few more but I won't ruin all the surprises.

Patch 2.4 will remove the restriction for Ritual of Summoning that prevents you from summoning players into instances. Provided the player meets the instance requirements, you'll be able to summon them in from anywhere in the world.

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And if they don't meet the requirements, does it follow the old rules, or are they not summonable at all?

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You couldn't summon them if they didn't meet requirements such as level or attunement.

As the PTR approaches we wanted to give everyone a preview of one of the larger changes for PvP that's currently planned for the 2.4 patch.

Currently, diminishing returns are applied to all honorable kills. What diminishing returns mean for honor is that each subsequent kill of the same target will reward you with less and less honor; 10% less per kill to be exact. One of the major downsides to diminishing returns is that the calculations, for potentially hundreds of thousands of players, is too inte...

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As the PTR approaches we wanted to give everyone a preview of one of the larger changes for PvP that's currently planned for the 2.4 patch.

Currently, diminishing returns are applied to all honorable kills. What diminishing returns mean for honor is that each subsequent kill of the same target will reward you with less and less honor; 10% less per kill to be exact. One of the major downsides to diminishing returns is that the calculations, for potentially hundreds of thousands of players, is too inte...

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Along with Patch 2.4 we will be releasing a revamped in-game Interface Options screen. Most of the systems that interact with the current Interface Options screen have seen some code changes as a result. The new architecture for the system should allow AddOn authors to modify its contents without the taint issues presented by the current Interface Options system.

Additionally, this new system will contain an area for AddOn authors to present their own configuration options to players with a custom heading, subcategories, and frames. I'd like to encourage authors interested in utilizing these features to try the new system on the PTRs before Patch 2.4 is released. Basic details on how to use this system can be found in code comments in Blizzard_InterfaceUI.lua.

Please be aware that AddOns that interact with the Interface Options screen, modify it, or change the way that its options affect other systems within the game will need to be updated with the release of Patch 2.4.

Community News
Thundgot, Vaneras amp; Tharfor, 01/02/2008

Fan Sites:
We will start this week's Community News with some good news for our Polish players.

Two new Polish fan sites have been included into our Fan Site Program, and they are both very nice and informative sites. Please help us giving them a warm welcome by giving them a visit:
The Burning Crusade.pl (http://www.theburningcrusade.pl/)<...

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