Thread: World of Warcraft Patch 4.3.0 Undocumented Changes

General

• Additional Brewfest decorations added.
  

Achievements

• [A-Caroling We Will Go] — New achievement added for Winter Veil.
  
• Elders of Cataclysm — New achievement added for Lunar Festival.
  
• [Time Flies When You're Having Fun] is now worth 10 Achievement Points.
  

• Midsummer Fire Festival achievements added
  
  • Extinguishing the Cataclysm
    
  • Extinguishing Northrend
    
  • Flame Keeper of Northrend
    
  • Flame Keeper of Cataclysm
    
  
  

Classes

Hunters

• [Bombardment] changed to match description - it now ends on next [Multi-Shot], instead of lasting its full duration and halving the cost of all Multi-Shots cast in that period.
  

Priests

• Characters under the effects of [Levitate] no longer use their run animation when moving.
  

Items

• Several items have had their durability increased.
  
• All equipable holiday items have been given durability amounts ranging from 16 to 25.
  
•  [Frayed Abomination Stitching] is now a poor quality item, and can be sold for 18 75.
  
•  [Battered Jungle Hat] now has a durability.
  
• All thrown weapons now have a durability.
  

Raids & Dungeons

• Heroic Ragnaros 4 Phase Magma Geysers have been removed


• In the Dungeon Finder the Cataclysm Heroic Dungeons have been recategorized as follows:
  
  • Hour of Twilight Heroic consisting of End Time, Hour of Twilight and Well of Eternity
    
  • Cataclysm Heroic consisting of all level 85 Heroic dungeons (including Zandalari and Hour of Twilight)
    
  
  
• The new 4.3.0 Heroic Dungeons require an average item level of 353.
  
• Completing a Random Heroic now awards 150 .
  
• Northrend Dungeons have had quest NPCs moved to inside their respective instances.
  



Professions



• The alchemy specialization quests have been replaced with new ones which require Catalaclysm expansion mats. These new quests are available from alchemy trainers.
  
• Basic Campfire has been renamed to [Cooking Fire].
  
• The number of fragments from Archaeology finds has been increased.
  
•  [Larval Acid],  [Light Silithid Carapace],  [Silithid Chitin], and  [Heavy Silithid Carapace] are now grey (vendor trash) quality. The Leatherworking patterns that used these have had their reagent costs adjusted.
  



World Environment



• Tyrande Whisperwind now has a unique model.
  
• Ethereals have new interaction voices.
  
• Archbishop Benedictus is no longer present at the Cathedral of Light. Bishop Farthing reports that he has gone on a mission to Wyrmrest to aid in Deathwing's demise.
  
• Angela Leifeld has replaced Shaina Fuller as Stormwind's First Aid Trainer.
  



User Interface



• Raid Icons have been renamed to Target Markers.
  
• Added some buttons to rotate and move your character in Character Info interface, including the dressing room.
  
• Mini-map Tracking has been reorganized and two new options have been added.
  
• Items tracked on the mini-map will now indicate if the item is above or below your location in altitude when you mouse over the icon.
  
• Restore to Default button added to the Dungeon Journal.
  
• Added a Hide Bosses option in the lower-right corner of Dungeon and Raid Maps.
  
• Equipped item level is now displayed in the Character Info pane.
  
• The color that is used for displaying the levels on the Map depends on your current character level, ranging from gray (very easy zone) to red (very hard zone). The difficulty of the zone depends on its mob and quest levels.
  
• A slower animation is shown if you acquire new spells, either by buying or as a quest reward (from class quests in starting areas).
  
• You can no longer delete characters that have mail or heirlooms in their inventory or void storage.
  
• Brazilian Portuguese localization has been added.
  
• Report Spam now removes the offending item from the chat window.
  
• Auction House now shows more relevant information in the "Lvl" (Level) column for some categories: Containers - "Slots", Gems - "iLvl", Recipes - "Skill" (to learn)
  
• Users without the latest expansions now receive an "upgrade" button on the left of the character select screen to upgrade their account.
  
• The Raid Browser has been moved to the "Other Raids" section of the new Raid Finder.
  



Game Engine



• Added a more extensive Color Blind mode.