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As psoted by Drysc on the official World of Warcraft Forum the Arena Season 2 ha been delayed 1 week and will start on the 19th of June. The Reason was the introduction of a new patch.

As we mentioned in our initial announcement of the second arena season, the start of the next season is planned to coincide with the release of a small patch. Due to additional development time and testing needed we will be delaying the scheduled release of the patch, and thus the start of Arena Season 2 by one week, to June 19. This current schedule is of course subject to change as well.

Also, don't forget that team ratings will be reset to the default 1500 with the start of the new season, allowing all teams to once again compete for top honors with a fresh start. – Drysc

You can read the Patch Notes here. No more picking flowers in Swift Flightform :-/

General

• Arena and Honor Rewards: As part of the inauguration of Season 2, the costs of all Arena items and Honor items has been reduced.
• Improved Mend Pet, Abolish Disease, and Abolish Poison no longer play sounds when there is nothing to dispel.
• Players can no longer fail with skinning at maximum skill.
• Spellcloth: Creating spellcloth will once again only summon one Angered Nether-wraith.
• Some new cooking recipes are available from Kylene in Shattrath City.
• A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored to be held by the residents of Halaa.
• Procs: Most procs are set to trigger only from spells which cost mana, but inadvertently disallowed spells which cost a percentage of base mana. That bug has been fixed and so such spells will now trigger many procs they did not previously trigger.

Druids

• Druids in Swift Flight form can no longer loot herb nodes.
• Force of Nature: This spell will no longer causes players it is cast on to enter combat with nearby creatures. All of the treants summoned will now attack a neutral creature they are summoned on.
• Tree of Life: The bonus healing aura from this talent will reactivate when a Banish effect wears off a Druid in Tree Form.

Hunters

• Fixed bug with Misdirection where sometimes only two attacks were redirected instead of three.
• Entrapment: This talent will no longer causes Hunter to stand up or stop eating and drinking when it procs.
• Improved Mend Pet: This ability will no longer cause Hunters to stand or to interrupt eating and drinking.
• Poison Spit: These abilities will now appear in the correct order in the pet training menu.
• Scatter Shot: This ability will now trigger Thrill of the Hunt.
• Thunderstomp: These abilities will now appear in the correct order in the pet training menu.

Mages

• Molten Armor: This buff can now proc when the Mage is sitting.

Paladins

• Corrected the amount of damage done by Seal of Vengeance on a target affected by Judgement of Crusader.
• Improved Concentration Aura: This ability now correctly reduces the duration of silence and interrupt effects by 30%. In addition, the reduction in duration of silence and interrupt effects from this ability will no longer stack with other such reductions.
• Judgement of Blood: Effects which increase your damage by a percentage will no longer cause Paladins to take excessive damage from casting this spell.
• Seal of Blood: Effects which increase your damage by a percentage will no longer cause Paladins to take excessive damage from this spell's procs.

Priests

• Feedback: This buff can now proc when the Priest is sitting.
• Shadowfiend: This creature will now reset to full health when it is summoned. It will also automatically attack your current enemy target when it is summoned.
• Surge of Light: The buff from Surge of Light will no longer prevent Inner Focus's charge from being consumed. In addition, it is no longer possible to get two free Smites when this ability procs.
• Touch of Weakness: This spell can now trigger Surge of Light when it does critical strikes.

Rogues

• Sword Specialization: The change to Sword Specialization making its extra attacks appear in yellow has been reverted. Extra attacks will appear in white and act like any auto-attack. They will no longer reset the swing time of your weapon.

Shaman

• Focused Mind: This ability has been changed to reduce the duration of silence and interrupt effects, rather than increase resistance to them.
• Frostbrand Weapon Rank 5: The damage on this spell was reduced slightly such that it will never do more damage than Frostbrand Rank 6.
• Lightning Shield: Procs from this buff will no longer cause neutral town guards to attack the Shaman. In addition, Nightmare Vine will no longer cause charges of this buff to be consumed.

Warriors

• Overpower dims on the action bar when the player is affected by disarm spells.
• Sword Specialization: The change to Sword Specialization making its extra attacks appear in yellow has been reverted. Extra attacks will appear in white and act like any auto-attack. They will no longer reset the swing time of your weapon. Rage awarded will be calculated by damage dealt as with any normal auto-attack.

Items

• PvP Trinkets: Insignia of the Alliance, Insignia of the Horde, Medallion of the Alliance, and Medallion of the Horde have all been redesigned. The trinkets for all classes now have the same effect: Dispels all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character.
• Many raid items have had their art improved.
• Clefthoof Mace: This item's name is now spelled correctly.
• Crystalweave Bracers: This item and its depleted counterpart now have spell critical strike rating as intended.
• Ebon Mask: This item now has sound when moved in a player's inventory.
• Eye of Magtheridon: This trinket will now trigger when a Judgement of Vengeance is resisted.
• Relentless Earthstorm Diamond: The bonus damage to critical strikes from this metagem now applies to all types of damage, not just physical.
• Skyguard Rations: The stamina and spirit buff from this food has been decreased, as well as its duration.
• Talisman of the Breaker: The reduction in duration of silence and interrupt effects from this item will no longer stack with other such reductions.
• Vestments of the Devout Set: The damage absorb set bonus on this set will now absorb only 350 damage, matching its intended design and tooltip.
• Voidheart Raiment Set: The two-piece set bonus will now trigger from Death Coil.
• Voidstar Talisman: This item will now give the correct amount of resistance to Warloock pets.

Quests

• Vim'gol the Vile now has a 30 second respawn cooldown.
• A problem with interrupting Vim'gol the Vile's Unholy Growth spell has been fixed.
• Casting bar text was added when gathering a Corrupted Flower during the quest, "Botanical Legwork".
• A distance-related issue was resolved when attempting to use the Fel Crystalforges at Forge Camp: Terror and Forge Camp: Wrath in the Blade's Edge Mountains to create 5 Unstable Elixirs of the Beast.
• A problem that could result in Obsidia, Rivendark, Insidion, and Furywing not responding to their respective dragon eggs being used has been resolved.
• Sky Sergeant Vanderlip at the Skyguard Outpost in the Blade's Edge Mountains will no longer display her Exalted faction gossip to those who have not attained that faction rank.
• All classes will now properly get credit for siphoning the crystal in the quest "Bloodgem Crystals".
• Players will no longer fail to summon Insidion and Obsidia if the dragons are in combat when a player summons them.

Dungeons and Raids

• Auchindoun: Sethekk Halls

• Time-Lost Controllers no longer remove buffs from players who are charmed.
• Heroic Mode: Anzu, the Raven God may no longer be pulled far away from the location where he is summoned.
• Heroic Mode: Anzu's Spell Bomb is now a curse and he will no longer charge.
• Heroic Mode: The quantity and health of Minions of Anzu that spawn have been reduced.
• Heroic Mode: The frequency and duration of many of his abilities have been retuned to make the fight more forgiving.

Auchindoun: Shadow Labyrinth

• The Cabal Summoner, Cabal Executioner, and Cabal Spellbinder mobs that interact with Murmur in the Screaming Hall in Auchindoun Shadow Labyrinth will no longer sometimes freeze their animations upon death.

Black Temple

• It is no longer possible to engage the Shade of Akama without completing phase 1 of the encounter.
• Ashtongue Spiritbinders may now cast heals on Ashtongue Sorcerors, Channelers, and the Shade of Akama.
• The Illidan Stormrage fight encounter has received additional tuning and improvements.

Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal

• The number of preliminary waves before each boss in the Caverns of Time: Battle for Mount Hyjal event has been reduced from 12 to 8, and some of the larger waves have fewer creatures than before.

Karazhan

• The door leading to the Celestial Watch in Karazhan now starts open, and Netherspite does not path so close to the door.
• The damage dealt by Netherspite's Nether Breath has been reduced.

Tempest Keep: Mechanar

• Nethermancer Sepethrea's Raging Flames should now periodically change their targets in Heroic mode.

Interface

• Fixed an issue with some AddOns where dropdown menus go away after showing the world map.
• Fixed some Lua errors on /castsequence macros with conditionals.

World Environment

• Chief Overseer Mudlump, Dragonmaw Pitfighter, Forgus, Goblin Merc, Gug, Horus, Lost Torranche, Officer Jaxon, Overlord Mor'ghor, Rumbpus, Telaari Jailor and Uriku: These creatures are no longer lootable.
• Darbel Montrose: This creature now always drops at least a good quality item.
• Lost Torranche: This creature is now skinnable.
• Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer: This buff will no longer give excessive critical strike rating to low-level characters.
• The Twilight Ridge: Burning Legion creatures in this region will now drop Marks of Kil'jaeden, Fel Armaments, and Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Samples.

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General

• Some logic was fixed in the "Natural Remedies" quest so that Pathaleon the Calculator's Image will always spawn during the ritual.
• Goliathon and his shardlings can no longer be pulled to nearby areas that have guards.
• More fixes implemented in the "It's a Fel Reaver, But With Heart" quest to keep the Scrapped Fel Reaver from breaking.
• The Orb of the Blackwhelp and Hallowed Wands can no longer be used in combat, and the transformation will be canceled if the player receives damage.
• The Scrap Reaver in Netherstorm repairs reduced from 10,000 health to 8,500 health over 10 seconds.
• Battle of the Crimson Watch

• Illidari Mind Breaker has been weakened.
• Illidari Highlords can now be CC'ed but not Charmed.

PvP

Arenas

• The cost of the "Gladiator's Slicer" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Quickblade" has been decreased to 1125 arena points and changed to offhand only.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Cleaver" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Hacker" has been decreased to 1125 arena points and changed to offhand only.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Pummeler" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Bonecracker" has been decreased to 1125 arena points and changed to offhand only.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Right Ripper" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Left Ripper" has been decreased to 1125 arena points.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Shanker" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Shiv" has been decreased to 1125 arena points and changed to offhand only.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's War Edge" has been decreased to 1000 arena points and the speed changed to 1.9.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Spellblade" has been increased to 3150 arena points.
• The cost of the "Touch of Defeat" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.
• The cost of the "Gladiator's Endgame" has been decreased to 1125 arena points.
• The cost of the "Idol of Tenacity" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.
• The cost of the "Libram of Justice" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.
• The cost of the "totem of the Third Wind" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.

Druids

• When the duration of "Cyclone" ends, area buffs such as "Leader of the Pack", "Tree of Life", and "Moonkin" will now be correctly resumed.
• "Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health.
• "Dire Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health. In addition, the armor bonus has been reduced from 450% to 400%.
• The multiplier on base weapon damage for "Mangle (Bear)" ability has been changed from 130% to 100%. In addition, the bonus damage has been reduced by the same ratio.
• "Savage Fury" no longer affects "Mangle (Bear)".
• "Savage Fury" no longer applies to "Maul" or "Swipe".
• The critical damage bonus on "Predatory Instincts" reduced from 3/6/9/12/15% to 2/4/6/8/10%.
• "Improved Leader of the Pack" can no longer get critical heals.
• The armor bonus from "Moonkin Form" has been increased from 360% to 400% (to match Dire Bear Form).
• The rage normalization equation has been adjusted to grant more rage.

Paladins

• The slowing affect from "Avenger's Shield" is now considered a snare, so snare removal and immunity affects will now work on it.

Priests

• The base healing percent from "Vampiric Embrace" has been reduced to 15% from 20%. In addition, this ability can no longer get critical heals.
• "Silent Resolve" no longer reduces threat generated by Shadow spells.
• Prayer of Mending now has a 10 second cooldown.
• Mass Dispel will now target immunity effects first.
• Circle of Healing mana cost reduced by 25%.
• The effectiveness of "Fade:Rank 7" has been increased by approximately 25%.
• The damage absorption of "Power Word: Shield" added by the caster's bonus healing has been increased to 20%.

Shaman

• The clearcasting effect from "Elemental Focus" now triggers on all spell critical strikes, rather than a chance on any spell hit.
• The shaman will no longer generate additional threat when "Unleashed Rage" triggers.
• The free Lightning spell cast from "Lightning Overload" will now cause reduced threat.
• "Stoneclaw Totem" now has a 50% chance to stun attackers for 3 sec. when struck.
• The bonus of the "Wrath of Air" totem now applies to healing spells as well.

Warlock

• "Demonic Tactics" now grants increased critical strike chance to you and your demon pet, instead of increased damage.

Warriors

• The rage normalization equation has been adjusted to grant more rage. The typical warrior should see an increase of 15% to 20% in their rage generation.
• All warriors had their critical strike chance adjusted upward slightly (about 1%).
• "Thunder Clap" is now useable in Defensive Stance. In addition, the tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it causes additional threat.
• The cooldown on "Victory Rush" has been removed, and it can now be used up to 20 seconds after killing an enemy.
• "Unbridled Wrath" has been modified so that rather than a fixed chance to grant rage, it has an increased chance when using slower weapons.
• Increased the health bonus from "Commanding Shout" by 50%.
• "Improved Battle Shout" talent renamed to "Commanding Presence" and now increases the health bonus from "Commanding Shout" in addition to increasing the melee attack power from "Battle Shout".

Items

• The threat generated from the spell effect on "Thunderfury" has been substantially reduced.
• The bonus to "Swipe" from the "Idol of Brutality" has been reduced from 50 to 10.
• "Alchemist's Stone" will no longer increase healing and mana gained from items which are not potions.
• The cost of sockets in high end items has been adjusted slightly, the result is that most high end epic items should see an increase in stats.
• Corrected many items that had incorrect stat values assigned to them.
• The rewards from the "Fel Embers" quest are now superior items as intended.
• Reduced the damage dealt by "The Lightning Capacitor".
• Corrected the level requirement of the "Fist of Reckoning".
• "Necklace of Trophies" has been corrected to increase Hit Rating instead of Hit Avoidance.
• "Burnoose of Shifting Ages" can now be disenchanted.
• "Nethershrike" now has the proper sell value and can be disenchanted.
• Corrected the level of "Marksman's Bow" to be in line with other epic reputation rewards.
• The "Marksman's Bow" now has the proper damage range.
• "Hourglass of the Unraveller" will now properly increase ranged attack power.
• Corrected the socket bonus for "Soul-Collar of the Incarnate".
• Corrected a typo in the set bonus of "Warbringer Armor".
• "Ruby Slippers" now properly have a cast time.
• Corrected the min use level of "Terokk's Shadowstaff".
• "Warpscale Leggings" have had their Crit Rating updated to the intended Dodge Rating.
• "Warmaul Slayer's Band" no longer has critical strike rating. However, its agility and attack power have been increased.
• "Ancient Draenei War Talisman" now shares a cooldown with all trinkets that temporarily increase damage done.
• "Ancient Draenei Arcane Relic" shares a cooldown with all trinkets that temporarily increase damage done.
• "Aldor Guardian Rifle" now has a range correctly set on it.
• The effect on "Void Star Talisman" was incorrectly set to On Use. It is now set to On Equip.
• The critical strike rating on "Cilice of Suffering" has been changed to spell critical strike rating.
• The cooldown for "Glimmering Mithril Insignia" has been increased from 10 minutes to 20 minutes.
• The slowing affect from the "Mug 'O Hurt" is now considered a snare, so snare removal and immunity affects will now work on it.
• The "Mark of Conquest" trinket now correctly triggers the mana regen effect.

Raids and Dungeons

• Creatures in Tempest Keep:Botanica, Tempest Keep: Mechanar, and Tempest Keep:Arcatraz no longer respawn as rapidly.
• Shadow Labyrinth
• Reduced the chance of a Cabal Assassin ambush.
• Hellfire Citadel:Shattered Halls
• Removed a problematic chest.
• The "Resist Shadow" spell cast by Shadowmoon Acolyte's in Shattered Halls will now be removed if a player leaves the zone.
• Shattered Hand Gladiators will no longer break players' stealth when engaged in combat.
• Serpentshrine Cavern
• Boss creatures have received additional tuning and polish.
• Tempest Keep: Arcatraz
• Warder and Defender Corpses are now immune to spell effects that could cause the Protean Spawn to not spawn.
• Protean Spawn now deal less damage.
• The damage dealt by Wrath-Scryer Soccothrates' "Immolation" and "Knock Away" abilities has been reduced.
• Auchindoun Shadow
• Cabal Zealots are now more threatening while under the effect of Shape of the Beast.
• Tempest Keep: Botanica
• Sunseeker Gene-Splicers' Death and Decay now deals significantly less damage and casts less frequently.
• Mutate Fleshlashers now deal less melee damage.
• Mutate Horrors and Fear-Shriekers now have less health.
• Sunseeker Researchers will now cast shocks less frequently.
• Sunseeker Chemists are now Paladin type instead of Warrior type.
• The Blue Seedlings in the High Botanist Freywinn encounter now slow players instead of immobilizing them.
• High Botanist Freywinn will now plant seedlings at a slightly reduced rate.
• Tempest Keep: Mechanar
• Gatewatcher Iron-Hand now wields a Jackhammer.
• Gatewatcher Iron-Hand is now more vocal when perfoming his Jackhammer attack.
• Mechanar Drillers, Wreckers, and Crushers in Tempest Keep: The Mechanar may no longer be enslaved when in Heroic mode.
• Caverns of Time
• Captain Skarloc in Caverns of Time: Escape from Durnholde is no longer susceptible to disarm, and does not slow down when wounded.
• A defeat in the Caverns of Time: Opening of the Dark Portal instance will no longer despawn unlooted bosses with loot.
• Occasionally after players are defeated in the Caverns of Time: Opening of the Dark Portal encounter on Heroic difficulty, the placeholder versions of the bosses that appear in future attempts that day would not spawn. The proper placeholders will now spawn instead of Rift Lords and Rift Keepers.
• Boss creatures in Caverns of Time: Opening of the Dark Portal will now dispel all nearby Time Keepers instead of one at a time.
• Karazhan
• Maiden of Virtue's "Holy Wrath" has been slightly retuned to try and allow additional melee attackers to be used against her.
• Maiden of Virtue's "Holy Fire" has been adjusted to prevent a possible range exploit.
• Maiden of Virtue will no longer "Holy Fire" players under the effect of "Repentance".
• Midnight is no longer susceptible to Bleed effects, since he's a skeletal horse.
• Nightbane's Restless Skeletons are now immune to non-holy magical damage.
• Restless Skeletons no longer have immolation.
• Nightbane's Bone Shard Spray can no longer be interrupted by using an immunity effect.
• Some minor issues with the Library Tomes have been corrected.
• The use of Divine Shield, Ice Block, or Cloak of Shadows will no longer prematurely detonate the Shade of Aran's Flame Wreath.
• Restless Skeletons will now summon a player if they are unable to path to that player, and deal more melee damage.
• The cooldown of Bellowing Roar has been adjusted to be a more consistent value.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the credits to display properly.