14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard Entertainment has released a new patch for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft. Patch 3.0.3 adds tons of changes and fixes, therefore it should make it onto your Mac ASAP.
According to Blizzard, general fixes brought by the latest WoW patch include:
- Removed "A Mask for All Occasions" as criteria for the "Hallowed Be Thy Name" meta achievement. - Replenishment: Players below level 50 can now benefit from this effect. - Resilience: The damage reduction component of resilience has been increased from 2 times the critical strike chance reduction to 2.2 times the critical strike chance reduction. In addition, the maximum damage reduction to a critical strike from resilience has been increased from 30% to 33%.
Racial changes have occurred to Blood Fury, which no longer triggers global cooldown, but also to Shadowmeld, having the cooldown now start on use instead of on break. User Interface tweaks have also made their way in this release, but Blizzard has saved space on its support page, and transferred the “additional notes” on Lua and XML changes to the UI & Macros forum.
One of the main addressed issues is a bug that was affecting terrain rendering on GeForce 3 and 4 Ti cards. Blizzard advises those that added the command Set fixedfunction 1 to their config.wtf file to remove it to avoid a decrease in performance. Other fixes include:
Glyph of Rupture: The tooltip has been corrected. Druid: Omen of Clarity now has a reduced chance to be triggered by Hurricane. Hunter: Ferocious Inspiration will now apply raid-wide, as intended.
For changes and improvements regarding each character class, as well as item enhancements and the rest of the bug fixes, see the full changelog here.
Avid fans of WoW should note that Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed the system requirements for the Mac version of the expansion pack launching worldwide on November 13. Those can be found here. Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion for the successful and popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft.