Undocumented changesFollow

I'm surprised it's taken this long for this thread to pop up.

So what changes have you guys found with the patch that weren't in the patch notes.

Flying mounts can now swim and you can mount a flying mount while underwater. I can only assume this is to makeit fair for gnomes that couldn't mount a flying mount while swimming because they are so short.

That's part of the change that allows some flying mounts to be used as ground mounts.

Heh. I had never had it happen with shards before, and certainly not two times in a row.

That's odd, it shouldn't be doing that at all. They completely got rid of Aggressive stance, it's now called assist and it attacks the target you are attacking.

One change that caught people by surprise is that the obsidium blacksmith keys have now become usable only by blacksmiths. While this was probably how they were intended to be all along (like previous levels of bs keys), the obsidium ones were usable by anyone so many people would buy the keys so they could open their own lockboxes. Obviously there have been many upset people on the official forums complaining about how they spent a lot of gold on keys that were now worthless to them.


I heard about the pet stance issues as well so I was using my pet on passive last night just in case. Of course I have had pet issues from time to time even before the patch including a naughty searing totem shooting at a mob yards away that I hadn't touched at all and numerous instances where my spirit wolves would run off to attack another mob after the one I was using them on died even though they were on defensive at the time. I've learned not to trust the pet ai very much.

My spirit beast did the same in ZG, suddenly went aggressive on everything while in Assist stance. Edended up putting him to passive and attacking manually.

I noticed a batch of new achievements that I didn't see in the patch notes. Maybe they were there and I just missed them.

Several new Cata quest achievements for the new 4.2 stuff.

New cooking and fishing achievements for the dailies in Thunder Bluff and Undercity.

They added the cooking/fishing dailies to other cities last patch. Easy capital city rep =)

Yes and my cenarion war hyppo now has super rad animations and sounds.

Wait, don't ALL flying mounts act as ground mounts if flying is prohibited/you can't fly yet/you are on the ground?

Not druid flying form. It's disabled.

As far as I can tell, none of my flying mounts are usable in no-fly zones either. I think it's only "special" flying mounts, like the recruit a friend rocket, the two purchasable mounts, the love rocket, etc, that can do that.

I meant the Valentines' mount lol.