Hello dear friends.

 

I would like to inform you, that from today 25th December 2016 to 10th January 2017, I announce our yearly promotion of Donate points. As the last year, so this one, the promotion is 100% bonus to each purchased donate point.

 

Other than that, I will add one additiona promotion. Free restore of deleted characters.

 

Happy Holidays.

P.

Achievements

A-bomb-inable and A-bomb-ination

Achievements: fix some statistics related to epic/legendary items. Affected statistics:

- Equipped epic items in item slots

- Epic items acquired

- Epic items looted

- Legendary items acquired

 

Battleground Fixes

Add Script for Isle of Conquest Bosses

 

Zones

Shattrath City Cleanup

- restore missing text lines for Sal'salabim and Raliq the Drunk

- replace hardcoded text with DB gossip ID enum sections

- move gossip ID, quest ID, spell ID (and so on) into enum

- remove core script for Ishanah, High Priestess of the Aldor

 

Events

Brewfest: implement relay race

Prevent seasonal quests from resetting at server restart

 

Instances

Naxxramas: Rework of Gluth

- Gluth should be able to eat zombies close to him, one at the time, during the whole fight.

- Gluth should be able to eat zombies at an accelerated rate after each Decimate.

- The zombies should put the "Infected Wound" debuff on their auto-attack targets.

- Zombies should have a normal threat table before decimate and should loose all kind of aggro behavior and walk toward Gluth after decimate.

- Gluth shouldn't be affected by the decimate damage.

- Newly poped zombies should have all players in their aggro list as soon as they spawn. So far, they were not moving and were only aggroed by proximity.

- and several minor fixes (emotes, useless data in db).

Icecrown Citadel: Sindragosa - Ice Tomb should always deal damage to all other ice tombs too.

Naxxramas: Fix Frogger event

Improve Felflame Infernal of Lord Jaraxxus fight

Fixed Halls of Reflection, Ignis the Furnace Master, Mimiron and Rend Blackhand.

MoltenCore: Fix Ragnaros

BlackrockMountain: Nefarian.

Fix a bug that would cause the Hodir encounter to never properly begin.

Fixed Anubarak issues related with Leeching Swarm spell

DrakTharonKeep: Fix Novos the Summoner.

Corrections on Halion's Encounter

ICC: Add missing creatures before Lord Marrowgar on 25 difficulties

ICC: Add missing creatures before Lady Deathwhisper on 25 difficulties

ICC: Add missing spawns on The Crimson Hall

ICC: Adjust spawntime of new spawns in Icecrown Citadel 25

Karazhan: Rework Attumen the Huntsman's script

- Timers are more accurate

- Corrected Charge ability ID based on 6.x researches

- Added Midnight's missing emotes

- Fixed issue with instance being stuck in combat in case of wipes

- Solved the rare scenario where Attumen would be summoned multiple times

- Visual spell on 3rd phase transition added

- Attumen and Midnight can now be damaged during 3rd phase transition

- Midnight calls for the aid of every horse still alive in the stables

- Use proper spells to summon Attumen and handle transitions

- Now despawns on evade

Karazhan: Register Midnight's summons

Shade of Akama Rewrite

Naxxramas: Full Kel'thuzad rework

- Fixed P2 cast behavior, now obeys category cooldowns as intended

- Fixed P1 pathing and abomination behavior

- Fixed P1 passive minion aggro logic

- Fixed P1->P2 transition logic

- Fixed P3 guardian spawn/despawn logic

- Fixed all minions' cast behavior

- Fixed melee hitbox for Kel'thuzad, abominations, banshees and guardians

- Fixed reset behavior

- Fixed post-Sapphiron event to no longer open the KT door for a few seconds before slamming it closed again

Boss Skadi the Ruthless rework

 

Quests

Borrowed Technology, Volatility and The Solution Solution

Bring 'Em Back Alive

Fix respawn time for objects used for The Alchemist's Apprentice quest

Hellscream's Vigil

A Lesson in Fear

Blast the Gateway

The Etymidian - Fix Meeting a Great One quest

The Drakkensryd

A Rough Ride - Waypoints again since have more experience and had a lot more wp than needed previously. A couple of cosmetic fixes for this quest.

A Hero's Headgear

The Heartblood's Strength

Fix Garments of Spirituality

Implement Quest Riding the Red Rocket

Someone Else's Hard Work Pays Off

Thwart the Dark Conclave

ExclusiveGroup for breadcrumb quests in Mudsprocket, Dustwallow Marsh

Remove wrong prevquest from "The Conqueror of Skorn!"

Sealed Vial of Poison should be repeatable

Fix wrong questgivers for the "beached animal bones" quests in Darkshore

Willix the Importer - so this quest does not complete as soon as taken so that players actually have to do the escort before been able to return quest

Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush

Remove required quest from loot tables for item Everfrost Chip, Everfrost Powder so that everfrost chip is not always empty when looted since none of these items should require active quest to drop only that player is friendly with sons of hodir or has completed pre-quest in case of remember everfrost.

Add missing quest data for Remember Everfrost and set as repeatable

Add conditions for quests related to "The Warsong Reports"

Correct some quests' availability in K3, Storm Peaks

Fix prevquest for "Red Silk Bandanas"

Improvements to the Brood of Nozdormu rings quests

Fix required race for "Travel to Darkshire"

Fix chaining for quest "A Lost Master"

Fix required class for "You Have Served Us Well"

Fix required race for "Report to Tarren Mill"

Remove faction requirement for quest "Deviate Hides"

Add missing quest giver for quest "Morganth"

Set required profession for quest "Gathering Leather"

A Little Slime Goes a Long Way

Fix prevquest for "Rejold's New Brew"

RewardText for "Beer Basted Boar Ribs"

Fix chaining for quests related to Well Watcher Solanian

Fix chaining for Blood Elves' training quests

Preparin' For Battle

Army of the Damned

Improve chaining for "The Ashenvale Hunt" quests

Add queststarters for "Regthar Deathgate"

Fix chaining for "The Real Threat"

Improvements for "Fool's Stout"

Earth Sapta

Improvements for quest "Bitter Rivals"

Event for the quest "Testing the Tonic"

Fix locales for Nessa Shadowsong quest

Add race restrictions to many Blood Elf-only quests

Fix availability for quest "The Totem of Kar'dash"

A life without regret

Fix availability for quests: Poison Water, Rattling the Rattlecages, A New Plague

You'll Need a Gryphon

There Exists No Honor Among Birds

Replenishing the Healing Crystals

Zandalarian Shadow Talisman/Zandalarian Shadow Mastery Talisman

An Innocent Disguise

It's a Fel Reaver, But with Heart

Improvements for quest Corrosion Prevention - Energized! spell should target only the caster and any player around. Prevent trigger from gaining threat from beneficial spell casts, getting stuck in a "gaining threat but cannot attack, reset" situation. The Power Core Fragment near the zeppelin crash should always be active.

Remove two deprecated quests: Timbermaw Ally, A Little Luck

"Recover the Key!" should not be repeatable

Fix chaining for quest "Clamlette Surprise" and related pre-quests

Fix availability for quest "The Agony and the Darkness"

Improvements for quest "The Warp Rifts"

The Eyes of Grillok

Improve The Honored Dead

Treats for Great-father Winter (Horde version) shouldn't be repeatable

Fix QuestType for "A Cold Front Approaches"

Replace quest "Trial of the Naaru: Magtheridon" with the newer version from WotLK

Fix availability for quests "Sunfury Attack Plans" and "The Missing Magistrix"

Remove outdated quests in Isle of Quel'Danas, and add a missing one

Fix availability for quest "Gaining the Advantage"

Add vendor conditions for quest items related to "The Party Never Ends" and "Dry Times"

Remove wrong repeatable flag from "The Legend of Stalvan"

In service of the Lich King

Improve Alliance's "Morrowgrain Research" quest chain

Add prevquest to one of the "The Ashenvale Hunt" quests

Improvements for quest "Verog the Dervish"

Fix availability for Alliance's breadcrumb quests to Ashenvale - Onward to Ashenvale can always be done, while only one quest between Trek to Ashenvale and the Draenei-only Travel to Astranaar can be completed.

Remove quest items that were looted if they are unique, bound, quest items, when abandoning a quest.

Fix required race for two Argent Tournament dailies

Failing/abandoning a quest should not unconditionally remove required items, non-quest specific items such as crafting reagents should remain in inventory

Improvements to previous script which only gave credit for lost in action

The Keeper's Favor - Fix spell target and cast type

Delete all quest bound items on quest reward, failure or abandoning

From the Depths of Azjol-Nerub

Grizzly Hills Vordrassil area

- Add missing Vordrassil's Seed spawns

- Add missing creature spawns: Frostpaw Warrior, Redfang Hunter, Generic Trigger LAB, Frostpaw Shaman, Redfang Elder, Frostpaw Trapper

- Add pathing for Frostpaw Shaman, Frostpaw Warrior

- Change some SAI's, Redfang Hunter SAI, Frostpaw Shaman SAI, Generic Trigger LAB SAI

Cosmetic fix for quest "War is Hell"

Improve scripts for quests Breakfast Of Champions and A Bear of an Appetite

Fix event for quest "Mimicking Nature's Call"

Adjust Sons of Hodir reputation values to 3.3 retail. I have no idea how we missed that all this time.

Fix reputation and offer reward text for quests "Mission Accomplished"

The Journey Has Just Begun - should become available when either level 60 or 80 version of Onyxias head quest is turned not only the level 60 version.

Make credit for quests "The Grand Melee" and "Among the Champions" a triggered cast

The Scepter of Celebras - 

 

Creatures

Captured Scarlet Zealot

Fix Leviathan Mk II health points

Rework Scourge Deathspeaker

Vladek <Wolfcult Initiate>

Add missing Silvermoon Magister/Gnomeregan Conjuror SAI

Add immune to npc to Wintergarde Mine Bomb

Fix Trial of The Crusader Spectators cosmetics

Fix creature Gymer <King of Storm Giants>

Steam Pump Overseer

Force Martyr Stalker reputation to be invisible

Shadowmoon Zealot

Shadowmoon Harbringer

Dark Iron Land Mines

Path Fixes for Bjomolf, Varg, Garwal

Add accessory to Frigid Proto-Drake

Sholazar Guardians (Summoning on quest accept) - When you accept quest where you receive item to summon Goregek, Dajik, Zepik, Lafoo, Jaloot or Moodle the guardian for which player just received item is also summoned automatically.

The Maker's Overlook

Flamebringer - Some corrections to previous script from sniff

Add spawns for Guard Didier & Caravan Mule

Soo-holu & Kartak the Abominable

Add missing creature spawns in Ghostlands & Eversong Woods

* Added the following NPC's : Toad, Snake, Frog, Lesser Scourgebat, Greater Spindleweb, Ghostclaw Ravager, Ghostclaw Lynx, Vampiric Mistbat, Whitetail Frenzy, Yellowgill Frenzy, Rabbit, Feral Dragonhawk Hatchling, Springpaw Stalker, Crazed Dragonhawk, Ghostlands Guardian, Spider

Cabal Ritualists don't cast Crystal Channel

Clam Master K Waypoints

Pathing for Houndmaster Grebmar

Add flag guard Deathguard Elite

Add missing Anvilrage Overseer SAI

Add missing Ornery Plainstrider SAI

Mebok Mizzyrix SAI

Rothin the Decaying

Fix positions and movements type for Explorers' League Researcher and Chief Archaeologist Letoll

Make some creatures appear dead when appropriate: K3 Snow Runner, Trapped Animal, Marsh Caribou

Remove and fix some wrong spawns in Eversong Woods

Fix pathing and speed of Frogger

Fix Unit flag for Lurielle

Fix spawn position for Froggers

Plague Scientist spells

Fix pathing for A Cry For Help

Ghoul Attack power

Add multiple Ghostland waypoints.

Add Mebok Mizzyrix SAI

Add Cabal Ritualists SAI

RP event with Jane, Nova & Jessel

Fix non repeatable event for Jammal'an the Prophet

Fix mechanic_immune flags for wotlk bosses

Plucky Johnson SAI

Kill Surveyor Orlond

Fix menu texts for Argent Tournament faction vendors

Add missing aura and flags to Scryers' bookshelves in Shattrath

Fix phase for "Siegemaster Fezzik"

Add missing Spirit Healer in Grizzly Hills

Update Hamat's aura with the correct one

Webwood Spider and Githyiss the Vile

improve script for some ogres in Feralas

Fix Runetog Wildhammer

Add waypoints for Deathguard Molder

Fix Quartermaster Bartlett

Gordok Ogre-Mage SAI

Drak'aguul SAI

Precious <Simone's Pet> Z coordinate

Add Frostbolt to Gordok Ogre-Mage SAI

Update Drak'aguul script

Slumbering Mjordin should not be attackable until gossip selected

Add missing spawn creature 40405 Kieupid <Pet Trainer>

Add missing SAI for Mux Manascrambler

Add missing SAI for Borean Tundra creatures

Add invisibility effect for Alpha Worg: Garwal's Invisibility. Creature is only visible if player has aura Eyes of the Eagle (43060) active

Ahab Wheathoof

- NPC should turn towards invoker and stay facing for a short duration before turning back towards pillar when says line asking about his dog.

- Npc should only have fork equipped when he turns towards player at all other times has hammer equipped

- Added script for when periodically hammers the notice pillar

 

Core

Readd players to queue when proposal fails because someone else declined it

If a boss kills itself, still save the group to the instance

Improve Jormungars fight

Process the reset of Mandokir (ZulGurub)

Fix issues where creatures cancel spell casts chasing target

Fix DoT Damage Causes Pet Aggro Per Tick

Remove XP at kill from several creatures which dont give xp on retail

Apply heirloom stat modifiers before maxing out health/power at level up.

Finally implement cast logic for controlled players.

Scripts for teleportation Pads in Storm Peaks and K3

Enable item use and spell cast when dismounting

Fix an edge case crash that could happen if a duel ended.

interrupt a creature's current cast when fleeing for assistance, and (if spell is not castable while moving) when running random/fleeing movement generators. Also make sure the creature is alive before updating.

Fixed pets dont lose auras on join arena

Fixed autoattack range

Prevent bosses respawn when BossState is set to DONE 

Added Black Temple Boundaries

Add a missing to spell to make Box of Mushrooms spawn a Ango'rosh Mauler when looted

Move report AFK requirement to config.

Remove all raid auras on party leave

Increase number of auras sent to client except for group updates

Readd player to battleground after a login

ArgentTournament: improve training dummy script. Now the ranged and charge target dummies will cast their spells and behave correctly for the related quests

Implemented Argent Squire/Gruntling and Argent Pony Bridle

Implement Pit of Saron Cavern event

Fix group loot if player loot recipient disconnects

 

Spells

Furious Attacks

Spell Inferno, used by boss Baron Geddon

Decahedral Dwarven Dice and Worn Troll Dice

Fix Hand of Salvation breaking invisibility

Fix Blood Tap activation when Blood Rune is in cooldown as Death Rune

Fixed Eclipse after recent proc cooldown changes

Restore old pet values after dismount

Searing Wrath's chain jump targeting

Warrior, fixed bladestorm aura remove due to weapon swap

Fix issue with Illumination talen

Apply Salve / Sickly Critter Aura

Renewed Hope internal CD

Fixed all cases of spells that crash the client when pressing ESC after being cast

Add summon unholy mount visual

Fix eviscerate AP coefficient, should be fixed, not random

Fix pet at rest distance

Fix ghost players water walking visual bug

Use serverside spells for Pursuit of Justice - Fixes the mounted movement speed increase part of the talent.

Allow use of ground mounts while swimming

spell "Wretched Tap" can only be cast by creature "Wretched Urchin".

Sheath of Light should add remaining ticks to healing done when refreshed

Fix Roar of Sacrifice damage

Abyssal Shatter should have a chance to skill up

Make Risen Ghoul and Bloodworms no longer suicidally charge into not-yet-engaged mob packs

Fixed spells like Shadowform, Tricks of the Trade, Misdirection getting stuck in unusable state clientside if they failed earlier because of GCD

Move Missile Barrage, Hot Streak and Brain Freeze mage talents to proc system. Also implement T8 4P Bonus.

Fix Bullheaded immunities

Workaround cobra strikes into a charged aura instead of stacked.

 

Items

Put alliance/horde versions of Reigns of the Grand War Mammoth (VOA) into seperate loot groups so chance for drop is actually 1% rather than been 1% chance of reference loot been called then been a 50/50 chance of which factions mount dropped which in fact reduced chance to 0.5% as if opposite factions dropped then not visible

Fix quest Condition to loot item "Vrykul Scroll of Ascension

Reduce dropped quantity for item "Ravasaur Pheromone Gland"

Add condition target for spell cast by item "Zorbin's Ultra-Shrinker

item "Primed Key Mold" should not be droppable by any NPC

Fixed Waterlogged Recipe loot.

Fix chance for contents of item "Fireproof Satchel"

Fix drop chance for quest item "Burning Legion Gate Key"

Fix text for item "Verna's Westfall Stew Recipe"

Fix text for item "Lewis' Note"

Fix text for item "A Letter to Grelin Whitebeard"

Add missing localization for item "Bamboo Cage Key"

Fix text in Rune-Inscribed Parchment

Instant Statue Pedestal

Items 'Silithid Egg', 'Lorgalis Manuscript', 'Broken Tears' AND 'Spotted Hippogryph Down' should not be dropped by creatures

Tailoring's bolts should not drop from any creature

fix drop conditions and chance for item "Cracked Silithid Carapace"

increase drop chance for item "Tender Strider Meat"

Reduce drop chance for many white items

Remove wrong loot for item 'Recipe: Savory Deviate Delight'

Fix Pristine Glowbear Pelt disenchant

 

DB/Misc

Fix drop chance and quantity for Rough/Coarse Stone and Copper/Tin ore from mining veins.

Add chance for swift thistle to drop to the other version of Mageroyal and Briarthorn which current does not have chance to drop swiftthistle as there is two of each but only one had chance even though according to wowhead.

Add missing TCG loot from Landro's Pet Box & Gift Box

Do not display "lootable" sparkles for player even if others in the group still have quest items to be looted from creature.

Set minimum required fishing skill level for Wintergrasp

Update fishing skill regardless of success or failure (junk items fished)

Add dance animation to a few murloc pets

Add Argent Tournament mail sent when reaching level 77

Kilix the Unraveler event SAI

The Valiant's Challenge - Make the Argent Champion set data on squire danny by creature guid instead of closest creature to prevent credit not being given is player is too far away from squire danny.

Add civillian flags to Wastewalker Captive to prevent these non selectable caged npcs from attacking players.

Shattered Necklace should have possibility to drop for both factions (not just horde) the item is required for a quest for horde players but starts a different quest which horde cant even accept for alliance.

Update to conditions for Zombiefest as previous conditions appear to have stopped working correctly

Update for Dark Subjugator to prevent these becoming bugged, also correct unit flags for the sentrys to prevent these from agroing player if too close and dropping immune subjugator if killed

 

Gameobjects

Fixed missing localization for Deathknell signs

Close "Cage Door" (STV)

Add missing Obsidian Sanctum's Twilight Portals

Fix Forge in Telaar

Add a missing spawn for Pure Saronite Deposit and fix spawnmask and respawn time

Add immunity to Proto-Drake Egg

 

AHBot

Improve AHBot seller math

 

Regards.

P.

I'm not talking about quests, or the way important NPC talk about us. I'm talking about what we contributed to the community.

 

Let's look back at vanilla and see what made us heroes.

 

It was the small things; like in the case of Bob. 

Bob was a decent player, he didn't have enough time to pvp to get to high warlord, or enough time to raid hardcore in a BWL guild. But he had other qualities that made him needed on the server. Bob had the ring to open the UBRS door, and made him essential for many parties. This played out in Bob's favour, since blue gear was actually good back then, and he wanted the Draconian Deflector from the final boss in UBRS. He was a hero to the raid group, because not only could he open the door, he was also be able to summon a dragon during the Rend fight, which was always met with "Wow, that's cool" from players that hadn't seen it before. And even when Bob got all the gear, he could still earn gold (1 gold coin per raid member) to be summoned and open the door. Even if it was just for opening a door, and not being part of the instance, Bob was still a hero, because Bob had taken the time to do this long quest.

 

Or Jane. Jane was also a hero for a different reason. Jane got lucky and got the Blacksmith plans for Lionheart helm. That's a super rare blacksmith plan, and a helmet almost every warrior sought after. Now Jane could make it for others, and the warriors would have an unofficial quest themselves, gathering the materials, alone or with the help of their guild to get a helmet that would mean a world of difference for their dps. Jane's lucky drop, was a great benefit for the entire server.

 

We also had Joe. The pvp king. Joe had a lot of spare time for whatever reason. So Joe used that to pvp a lot, and become one of the highest ranking pvper in the server. When Joe was in your match, you were sure to win or at least give the other faction a bloody nose and a hard won victory. Healers would start healing Joe, without being told and the rest would assist him. Joe made the day there. His high ranking allowed him to buy amazing epic (back when epic deserved to be called epic) gear that made him stand out. Joe eventually made pvp videos, and became a small legend on the server. He'd had his detractors, calling him a no lifer, but those were far and in between. Most would compliment him on his cool armourset, or his title.

 

Then there was Jill. Jill was one GM out of many, who ran a large social guild. That guild because of the community feel of the server, felt like a family. Always someone to help each other out. Hell it wasn't too far off, that people would donate money or items to each to help a guildie out. Eventually some would leave to join a raiding guild, but it was always with a nice heartfelt goodbye message before leaving. Jill also made sure that trolls or nasty players were not tolerated in the guild. Someone who ninja looted a lot would be booted, and people would know who was the ninja looter. In Jill's guild you could be sure you could always find someone to do Wailing Caverns with you.

 

Jack and his hardcore raiding guild. They were viewed as heroes too, for wearing exotic never before seen tier 2 armour. Downing dragons and conquering a very hard raid for many (remember it was 40man back then). To join Jack's guild was a big stepping stone. That meant you had to be a good player in your previous guild, not one of the many who slacked in Molten Core. A trial run in Scholomance, or in Stratholme would be done, to see how you played. If you understood your class, and you if you performed well, Jack and his guild would make sure you got the gear needed from Molten Core so you could pull your weight in BWL without having to worry about your lack of DPS, or Healing.

Sometimes Jack and his friends would join a pvp match too, and their exotic armour would win the matches in a premade or turn the tide in the hour long AV matches.

 

Almost all of us had a role, small or big. We worked together, and the lack of dungeon finder or other looking for group tools, made our communities feel special and tight knit. Today? Nothing. Unless you're in a good guild, you're stuck with pugs and part of the great machine where we just join a dungeon/raid no one says anything and then you leave.. it's cold, and soulless, and the garrison's doesn't help either.

 

Professions don't have the prestige anymore either. Why gather materials for something, when you can just grind a bit of pvp or pve, or do dailies in a zone, and boom you have an item better than what a blacksmith or a leatherworker can make.

 

No attunement, or special items required for dungeons. No difficult quests either that required hunters for example to speak to each other, on how other hunters did it.

 

WoW has become... sterile. We're no longer heroes in our own right, we're just part of a machine and we're replaceable.

 

Let us become heroes again. Let our servers become communities again.

 

Thank you for reading.

 

Author: Demirgen

Regards.

P.