Official Patch 3.1.1 Notes Revealed
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Juggynaut on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 16 Comments Tags: bug fix, downtime, dual specs, patch 3.1, patch 3.1.1, patch notes, respec, updater
Juggynaut on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 16 Comments Tags: bug fix, downtime, dual specs, patch 3.1, patch 3.1.1, patch notes, respec, updater 
Today's extended maintenance has been going on for a while now, and was even extended an extra two hours in order to deploy a quick bug fixing patch to the servers. Hopefully once realms are actually up it will go much smoother than last week's introduction of Patch 3.1. The official patch notes for this relatively minor patch cover mostly bug fixes, but we also get a free respec! That is never a bad thing in my eyes. Full notes follow:General
- In order to address issues with the dual talent specialization system, all players will have their talents points refunded. Players who have purchased dual talent specializations will have both specializations reset. Glyphs will not be affected by this reset.
Bugs
- Characters who are not of the same race or class are once again able to view each others' professions linked in chat.
- Fixed an issue in which player and pet nameplates were appearing larger than normal.
- Thrall's throne has been adjusted back to its proper size and the base replaced. He will no longer need to defy gravity.
- Fixed an issue with a display error on druid leather helms.
- Corrected an issue for GeForce2/ATI 7 series card users that would result in critical errors for select actions in game. As a result certain projected textures, like spell effects and targeting circles, will no longer render on some terrain objects.
- Achievements
- Corrected an issue preventing players from earning the achievement, "Storming Stormwind." Players who were not properly awarded this achievement for completing the objective should retroactively be granted completion.
- Warlock
- Demonology
- Fel Synergy (Rank 1): Corrected the tooltip to now display the proper healing amount.
- Demonology
- Dungeons and Raids
- Caverns of Time: Culling of Stratholme
- Fixed an issue with the outside map not appearing correctly.
- Fixed an issue where an incorrect skin was being applied to certain classes/races when the Human Illusion buff is cast upon them.
- Ulduar
- The mob packs in the XT-002 Deconstructor encounter can now be engaged separately and are no longer linked.
- Caverns of Time: Culling of Stratholme
More Ulduar trash to figure out? I can't wait! What are your thoughts?
Reader Comments (16)
Nice Post
finely the warlock bug fixed...
it totaly sucked.. it runied the game xD
this patch has been a nightmare. eveytime i am in dalaran i crash and a load of my friends are saying the same thing. This is almost as bad as the last patch. I thought these patches were supposed to be fully tested and yet they seem to be falling apart as soon as they go live.
And in another unannounced backdoor hotfix, Paladins can no longer exorcise players. For those of you following along at home, this is the second time we've stopped being able to exo players.
Luckily, PvP has always been a sideline for me, something I hated that let me bypass tiers of content late in an expansion for end-of-life raiding on alts. Also, arenas can go soak their collective heads as far as I'm concerned.
wellthat sucks...i gotta respec on 6 toons and 3 pets again :P
They are being tested, what do you think your doing when you login crash and send them a report.
I've noticed the Northrend servers keep going off, where all the people in my guild suddenly go offline bar me, as I'm browsing the AH in Orgrimmar. Then my hearthstones don't work and waste the cooldown.
Good times.
I totally messed up my respec last week. Glad to get a free second chance. And I'm highly amused with that fix on Thrall's throne. Hilarious :)
Yes, I messed up my respec on my holy priest as well. I'm glad to get a do-over.
Weren't we supposed to get a feature that allowed us to play with the numbers before committing talent points?
Huh? Paladins not being able to exorcise players? I've been able to do that earlier today.
Anyway, I'm quite pleased this patch is coming, I need to reposition some talent points in my paladin.
@ PatrickD: Yeah there's an option, but you need to enable it in your interface menu, can't remember where specifically but i remember seeing it there. You need to enable that before you can get the option to play about with the numbers before actually slapping them in.
Errr, my mistake, i should've read what ghosty said lol.
Disregard that first line in my comment.
Great that they're gona fix it, starting to get annoying to fix ui each time i change between protection and arms :)
Our best shaman healer lost some talent points with this "patch".68 talent points to spend at 80.
Thanks Blizz!
Your QC people continue to astound me by retaining their jobs.
I didn't mind either way when I saw there was a minor patch today, with the exception of the player and pet nameplate issue. I was quite pleased to have it fixed, as I didn't enjoy seeing almost nothing but my forehead on my warrior alt. (Laugh if you want, but it was annoying.)
What exactly happened to the blizzard gear manager?
Never saw it in game as "promised" :S
FTW