Patch 2.4.2

Highlights & notes| * Bug fixes

* ****Documented changes****
* **Undocumented changes**

## Useful links

**Patch 2.4.2** serves to provide some class and general bug fixes. Any additional changes to classes prior to Wrath of the Lich King are at the discretion of the Development Team.[1]

## Druids

* Talent: Primal Fury (Rank 2) will now be properly unlearned when it is untalented.

## Hunters

* Aspect of the Viper: This ability now grants an additional amount of mana each 5 seconds equal to 35% of the hunter's level.
* Boar Charge: This ability will no longer make Growl cast immediately after it generates excessive threat.
* The pet ability Growl will no longer scale with pet Attack Power and now scales with the hunter’s Attack Power.
* Dire Ravens in Blade's Edge Mountains are now tameable.
* Scare Beast: The range on this spell has been increased to 30 yards. It still has a cast time of 1.5 seconds.
* Tamed Drywallow Snappers now will know Bite 5 (instead of Claw 5.)

## Mages

* Talent: Improved Blink (Arcane) now reduces chance to be hit by 13/25% and the duration of Rank 1 has been increased to 4 seconds.
* Completing the quest Arcane Refreshment will now properly teach the spell Conjure Water (Rank 7).
* Polymorph: Mounted creatures will no longer remain mounted while polymorphed.
* Molten Armor will now do damage while a damage absorption shield is active.
* New Teleport/Portal: Theramore and Teleport/Portal: Stonard spells are available at portal trainers in their respective locations. You must be level 35 to learn these new spells.

## Paladins

* Flash of Light and Holy Light will now work properly with `castsequence` macros.
* Seal of the Crusader: This ability now increases the damage dealt by Crusader Strike by 40%.
* Talent: Precision (Ranks 1-3) will no longer improperly display daggers and staves as a weapon class in the tooltip.
* Paladins that already have Apprentice Riding skill can now properly learn Summon Warhorse from the trainer.

## Priests

* Fear Ward will no longer be consumed while under the effects of cyclone.
* Mana Burn: This spell can no longer trigger effects that require the target to be struck with a critical hit.
* Power Word: Shield now has the correct sound associated with it and can no longer be heard from large distances.
* Talent: Power Infusion will now consume the correct amount of mana when cast on yourself.

## Rogues

* Ability: Blade Flurry: This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets.
* Talent: Mutilate (Assassination) will no longer incorrectly appear multiple times in the combat log when used.

## Shaman

* Ability: Frostbrand Weapon: Rank 6 damage has been increased very slightly.

## Warlocks

* Drain Soul: Channeling of this spell will now always stop when a player target dies.
* Pets: Using a sacrifice effect to kill your own pet will no longer trigger effects that should only occur when killing an enemy.

## Warrior

* Sweeping Strikes: This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets.

## PvP

### Arenas

* If a character's personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
* If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team's rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.

## Professions

* All 23-hour profession cooldowns are now 20-hour cooldowns.
* All 4-day cooldowns are now 3 days, 20 hours.

### Enchanting

* Removed the cooldown from [Void Shatter].
* [Void Shatter] recipe now correctly requires 375 enchanting.

### Engineering

* The Engineering supply item [Delicate Copper Wire] will now properly fit into engineering bags.

### Jewelcrafting

* [Brilliant Glass] no longer requires a forge.
* Brilliant Glass now has a small chance to make an epic gem.
* [Quick Dawnstone], [Reckless Noble Topaz], [Forceful Talasite] are now all available at the Quel'danas gem vendor.

### Leatherworking

* Completing the quest The Journey Has Just Begun will now properly teach how to make an [Onyxia Scale Cloak].
* Greatly reduced the reagent cost for [Glove Reinforcements]. Also reduced the skill gain range slightly.

## Quests

* The categories for the quests Wanted: Sisters of Torment and Wanted: The Signet Ring of Prince Kael'thas have been fixed to now properly read as Magisters' Terrace.
* The Shadowy Disguise will no longer be applied to druids while they are in Moonkin or Tree of Life form for the quests "Who Are They?"
* Jailor Eston and Jailor Marlgen for the quest "The Rescue" should now respawn more frequently.

## Dungeons and Raids

### Black Temple

* Illidan will no longer despawn if a raid group wipes during his death speech.

### Karazhan

* Nightbane's Charred Earth ability will now properly deal Fire damage.

### Magister's Terrace

* Vexallus is no longer immune to taunt on Normal difficulty.
* Kael'thas is no longer immune to taunt on Normal difficulty.
* Wretched Skulkers, Wretched Husks, and Wretched Bruisers will now reset properly.
* Sunblade Imps will now reset properly.
* The doors in Heroic Magisters' Terrace will no longer respawn after a soft reset if a boss has already been killed.

### Sunwell Plateau

* Hellfire will no longer remove Dark Touched in the Eredar Twins encounter.

### Tempest Keep: The Eye

* Void Reaver's Arcane orbs now generate combat log entries. \*\*\*Still no combat logs as of 5/15/08\*\*\*

## Items

* [Arcane Charges] now deal arcane damage.
* Abilities and trinkets that trigger after killing an opponent that gives experience or honor will no longer activate after killing mobs during bombing quests.
* Battlecast's Garb should now properly grant pushback resistance in addition to interrupt resistance.
* [Borderland Fortress Grips] have had their stats updated.
* [Botanist's Gloves of Growth] have had their texture corrected.
* [Bow of Searing Arrows] and [Red Whelp Gloves] will no longer break crowd control effects.
* [Brann Bronzebeard's Lost Letter]: This item will no longer display a damage range in its tooltip.
* The [Cloak of Swift Mending] now has a level requirement (70).
* Crusader's Scaled Battlegear: The tooltip spelling has been corrected.
* [Darkmoon Card: Madness]: The durations of the buffs received from this item have been extended to 60 seconds.
* [Elixir of Demonslaying]: This elixir now grants ranged attack power against demons as intended.
* [Goblin Jumper Cables] are no longer a trinket item.
* [Hazza'rah's Charm of Healing] Haste rating reduced.
* Items that enchant other items no longer have tradeskill requirements ([Mithril Spurs], Shield Spikes, Weapon Chains, etc.).
* The [Helm of Fire] has had its casting range reduced.
* The [Magic Candle] has had its casting range reduced.
* Many items sold by Consortium vendors are now bind on pick up: [Formula: Enchant Weapon - Major Striking], [Design: Delicate Blood Garnet], [Design: Shifting Shadow Draenite], [Design: Lustrous Azure Moonstone], [Design: Thick Golden Draenite].
* Many items sold by Aldor reputation vendors are now bind on pick up: [Design: Gleaming Golden Draenite], [Design: Royal Shadow Draenite].
* Many items sold by the Shattered Sun quartermaster are now bind on pick up: [Naaru Ration], [Design: Ember Skyfire Diamond].
* The Lower City reputation item, [Recipe: Flask of Chromatic Resistance], is now bind on pick up.
* Most Main-Hand weapons are now One-Hand weapons.
* [Naturalist's Preserving Cinch] have had their stats updated.
* [Nightfall] now has a chance to fail on targets over level 60.
* Prince Kael'thas will now drop [Primal Nethers] in Heroic Magisters Terrace.
* [Ravager]: Judgements will no longer auto-refresh and break the effect from this item while its effect is active.
* [Reins of the Black War Elekk] spell and buff now correspond to the item name.
* [Renataki's Charm of Trickery] has had its energy reduced.
* [Rocket Boots Xtreme] and [Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite] now properly share the same cooldown.
* The [Romantic Picnic Basket] will now display the blanket properly.
* [Shard of Azzinoth] no longer shares any cooldown with Shaman elemental totems.
* The socket bonus modifiers of some items will now properly display the bonus healing.
* The reduced cooldown of Shaman Nature's Swiftness provided by the 4 piece set bonus from the Seer's Ringmail Battlegear PvP armor will now apply properly.
* [Shattered Sun Pendant of Might]: The triggered effect from this item will no longer break Scattershot or other crowd-controlling affects. The visual on the Scryer version has been updated.
* [Shifting Naaru Sliver]: Using this item no longer puts players into combat.
* Silithyst Dust: The bonus from turning this item in no longer works for players above level 63.
* The [Skyshatter Helmet's] gem socket bonus will now properly reflect the plus damage in the tooltip.
* [Shadowsong Panther] will no longer prematurely despawn.
* [Talasite Owl]: This trinket will now properly restore full mana as described.
* Ten Storms Set: The Chain Heal bonus from this set has been reduced by 5%.
* Troll Male off-hand items are now the same size as the main hand item.
* Tauren weapons while sheathed have had their graphic readjusted to their pre-patch (2.4.0) state.
* The [Winterfall Firewater] buff is no longer dispellable.
* [Wushoolay's Charm of Nature] Haste rating has been reduced.

## User Interface

* The guild log scroll bar will now properly display.
* [Black Lotus] will now show up under the Herb subcategory in the auction house.
* [Primal Nethers] will now show up under the Materials subcategory in the auction house.
* Mailboxes can now be tracked on the minimap.
* For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum.

## World Environment

* Creature versions of the Polymorph spell no longer heal the affected target.
* The dragons in Blade's Edge Mountains will no longer instantly knock you off your mount.

## Mac

* Fixed a bug causing ATI kernel panics; all spell effects should now be visible.
* Weather effects are again visible on systems with ATI 2x00 graphics such as aluminum iMac.
* Fixed a bug that precluded use of the FireWire iSight microphone with voice chat.
* Symlinks can be used again for Interface and WTF folders and subfolders.
* Cinematics playback is working again.

## Bug Fixes

* Fixed an issue where secondary sound effects would not work with the Use Hardware option enabled in the Sound options of the User Interface.
* Fixed an issue where attempting to use some instant cast spells with Auto-Dismount in Flight checked in the interface would fail.
* Items that have multiple charges will now properly display the amount of charges.
* Fixed an issue where chain damage spells were chaining to critters.
* Female Draenei horns will now correctly protrude through certain plate helms.
* The [Vengeful Gladiator's Rifle] will now play the proper sound when used.
* The [Cursed Vision of Sargeras] now gives the buff, "Sense Demons" which can be canceled normally. Additionally hunters and druids are able to track two things at once while using the item.
* It is no longer possible for pets to get stuck in place after exiting the Spectral Realm in the Kalecgos encounter.
* Blood Elf Priest: Consume Magic will now require the buff to be active in order to work properly.
* Undead and Blood Elf Priest: Touch of Weakness will now properly reduce the melee damage of the attacker.
* Fixed an issue where some spells had extraneous Floating Combat Text messages when using the Auras option.
* Fixed an issue where sometimes debuff icons on a target did not scale properly to indicate the spells had been cast by you.
* Ritual of Souls (Warlock) and Ritual of Refreshment (Mage) will no longer be placed on cooldown without having completed the summon.
* Looting a boss while a player is outside of the instance will no longer cause the corpse to despawn in 2 minutes if the player still has loot on the corpse.
* Whirlwind now has the correct sound associated with it.

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