Primeiro de Abril antigo
Autor: André Bertelli Araújo | Publicado: 2011-09-27T16:09:00-03:00

Estou lendo uma coluna no WOW Insider muito boa, que fala sobre as mudanças que ocorreram em patches antigos do WoW (ainda no vanilla). Tem a história do famigerado patch 1.11 que foi publicado primeiro como uma brincadeira de primeiro de abril. Copiei alguns dos itens mais interessantes abaixo. Olha só a trollagem gratuita que os desenvolvedores da Blizzard tiveram coragem de fazer com os jogadores no primeiro de abril, ainda no vanilla:General

Night Elves will now lose a small percentage of experience after jumping.

Battlegrounds

New Level 1 only Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin bracket available!
If a match-up begins and drops everyone due to lack a lack of players, Horde automatically wins.

Druid

Run speed reduced by approximately 20% when in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form. It should now feel more "bear-like" for players when changing into these forms.
Gnomes can now select Druids as an available class! New Cub and Kitty forms available!

Hunters

Hunters can now be affected by their own traps. This should add a sense of danger, and increase the Hunter's need to strategize his decisions.
Pets have a small chance to attack the Hunter when hungry. The chance increases with each passing moment that the pet isn't fed.

Paladin

Paladins will now receive a 2% increase to DPS for every cloth item worn. In addition, chance to crit will increase by 5% if a dress is worn. This is to encourage a wider variety of itemization for the Paladin.
New Form: Bear Form and Dire Bear Form! This new ability should help the Paladin tank in five, ten and twenty player-capped dungeons.

Priests

Shadowform now lasts five minutes with a ten minute cooldown. Mana cost reduced slightly.
Fear Ward is now only available to Dwarf Females.
Inner Fire will now cause its caster to take a small amount of fire damage while active.

Rogue

Discovering a stealthed rogue will now produce a large alert symbol above the rogue's head similar to the Hunter's Mark. The alert can only be dispelled by using the Vanish ability.
Vanish has been increased to a 30 minute cooldown.
Fixed bug which allowed Rogues to wield two weapons at the same time. This was never intended to happen.

Warlocks

Using friendly emotes will now significantly increase the Infernal and Doomguard's chance to remain loyal to the Warlock.
Friendly emotes are no longer available to the Warlock.

Warriors

Dwarf Females now generate rage at a rate three times greater than normal.

Items

Linen Cloth will now only stack in groups of 5.

Professions

Explosive nodes may now spawn in the place of select herbs and mines. Damage will be percentage based upon level.
Skinning now requires that you have the equivalent skill in daggers, i.e. in order to skin a 225 beast, you must work your dagger skill up to 225 as well.

Raid &amp; Dungeons

Edwin Vancleef will occasionally shout "Hey you guys!" as players fight their way through Deadmines.

User Interface

The Raid UI now allows a maximum of 3 rogues or hunters per raid.
Target and player health updates will be limited to once every 5 seconds to save on packet traffic.
To minimize potential abuse, you can no longer see opposing faction player names.

World Environment

Due to the awkward look and feel of Tauren in the Undercity, guards will no longer permit their entry and have been flagged to kill on sight. Tauren, you've been warned.
In order to assist with various upkeep costs, at a designated time NPC vendors will now give players an amount of gold based upon their level. This is currently slated to occur every Tuesday from 6:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.
Due to the changes associated with the new flightpath scenery improvements, players will need to relearn all flightpaths.
A total of 26 new flightpaths have been added to various points throughout the Barrens.

Link para a versão completa: http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/09/06/patch-1-11/