Patch 3.1 is Live!
Patch 3.1, the most recent long-awaited content patch for World of Warcraft, is now live and available on US servers! (Realms are just now starting to come up as I write this.)
I feel like I’ve already spent half my life talking about Patch 3.1, so rather than do any more I’m just going to point you at various bits of information.
First, some stuff I’ve already written about Patch 3.1. This list is more or less in reverse chronological order, meaning the later ones are from the PTR and may reference things that have changed.
- Patch 3.1: Pet Ability Changes
- Patch 3.1 Overview
- New Pets for Young Blood Elves in 3.1
- PTR 3.1 – Yes, There is a New Spirit Beast
- Raw Data on Pet Stats in PTR 3.1
In addition, you may find these resources handy:
- Official Patch 3.1 Patch Notes
- Wowhead Pet Calculator – Updated for Patch 3.1
- WoW Wiki: Argent Tournament
- Warcraft Pets: Patch 3.1 is Here
- El’s Anglin’: 3.1 Fishing
- Warcraft Mounts: New Mounts
(I feel like I’ve missed several resources I wanted to call out. Hmm .. if you think of something I missed, feel free to add it in the comments.)
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so far it seems that the servers are haveing a uber hard time gettin up to speed…I can see it now; the rush has begun again.
As for us hunters, imo the 1000g for the duel spec is kinda a rip off(unless you do both pvp and raid).
I like the look of the new spirit beast..lets see how long it will take on Duskwood server for it to become a camp spot..lol
Like always, Your site rocks. Keep up the good work M
Knight ÉvilDrizzit GM of Knights of the olde code
Forgot one more thing:
+5% on all stats (health, armor, dmg)
So cunning pet will have +10% for each.
(At least according to the patch note)
Actually, realms are up, but locked. They said they won’t be up for another 3 hoursm at least
Patch – Live
Servers – not so much
Vince: The pet family modifiers are being changed to +5% on all stats, not getting 5% added to the stats they already have.
-Cunning pets stay the same
-Ferocity loses 5% damage, gains 5% armor
-Tenacity loses 5% health, gains 5% damage
>( I still hate this stupid equalization of pets. It’s a nerf to tenacity pets. Erebus doesn’t need to dps. Erebus needs to tank.
/sigh
realms are back XD
yay :D
Agree with the nerf to pet stats. Why have three trees? Oh well I guess we complain and deal with it!
As for the patch – I’ve been at 54% and 9 minutes left for a half hour. The West Coast is home from work and everyone seems to be downloading at once.
Great site Mania.
Much thanks for all you do – my number one hunter resource!
Gezzarak the Huntress no longer has her lightning bolt summon when called.
Ok, can we get an official word on the Rhino’s Stampede? Does it still knock back or no?
So I just logged in to find my Sholazar wasp not taking up the entire back of the character select screen. I was like You can’t be F’n serious.
I call my pet in game and see hes huge again. Phew. Suddenly!
Beerrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
My good old majestic wasp shrunk to the size of a gnome. I was afraid of this.
I don’t get this change. It’s not like it mattered that much that people need a smaller wasp, it’s pure vanity. It was cool! Now it’s awful; you know how silly tamed corehounds look? They go from a pet larger than 2 big bears to something smaller than most wolves. Some pets honestly aern’t meant to shrink that much.
Princess Huhuran’s model is one of them….
This isn’t gonna be a good start…. I have no idea why they felt the need to fix that like it was a burning pvp issue…. It wasn’t. If anything, it made the pet less survivable because it’s a HUGE BATTLESHIP APPROACHING FAST…. Now it’s rather dinky.
Oh my GOOOOOD
I just zoomed in to notice!!!
They didn’t fix the model!!! NOOOO
What did they do? They SWAPPED the model of Bosswasp with the old world wasps! My pet no longer has mandables, and it’s texture is all stretched back and squat.
They didn’t fix the size problem at all! They SWAPPED the boss model out on the same texture with the old world slithid wasps and it looks completely wrong!
This is freakign terrable!
Okay this is interesting
The Saphire hive drones have been changed, but the deep blue hive wasps haven’t..
going to tame and see now.
Gelannerai: Working on it, but I lost my ability to log in for a bit. (Well, no, I can log in, but I am stuck in Dalaran and I get booted every 15 seconds or so.)
Saranette: That’s odd! Do you have a screenshot by any chance?
Okay, I just logged in and dug my hive queen out of the stable.
No need to panic guys… she is the same (great ginormous) size and model that she always has been.
Chances are, if you had some model mapping issues, you may have had a corrupted image file on your machine or something.
I agree with Nachtwulf and can confirm it. Hive queen is still Devourer of Camera Views.
Also, glyph of Mend Pet (the pet feeding happiness one) IS working fully WITH Improved Mend Pet. My pet now no longer needs the pet talent Bloodthirsty.
And Holy crap Warpstalker + Thunderstomp = ridiculous fun!!!! Weee!
Lol, making a photobucket so I can upload in REAL TIME=P
(if my posts bother you, skip to the bottom for pic links)
But yeah, I took a flight out to the nest – I don’t know if this is an actual bug (no pun intended) or not; the deep blue hive wasps still look the same (gonna tame one now,) but all the drones seem so far to be the tiny model
now I’m not sure if this is a client issue where the model values were swapped or something. I really hope so, because if this is their way of killing two birds with one stone; of letting us tame old world model wasps, and fixing size issue for I’m not sure what the hell reason, this is unbelieveably lazy and unacceptable.
I’m sorry if I’m fuming; quirks and rarely used stuff is what I really enjoy about playing hunter, and in my travels I’ve only seen 3 hunters EVER man enough to run with a megawasp….
(lol why is photobucket want to know my eyeglasses profile??)
(pics, and sorry this may go very very wrong haha)
to Nact: okay that’s really weird, lol. If that’s the case, sorry for the false alarm. I’ll run wowrepair and see what happens…
also I think the blog ate the http links
(if this ends up being a false alarm, delete my stuff LOL sorry)
Okay I’m way relieved to hear that. Sorry for the big fuss
(big PHEW!)
Update; the change is TRUE!!!
The Hive Wasps and Queens are still the same massive models, but the DRONES (the far prettier primary color looking ones) have had their models swapped with the old world wasps!!
I just confirmed it with another player – taming a drone and a wasp and makeing a side to side recording.
This could also still be a glitch server-side, an perhas not on all servers, but on lightbringer at elast, the hive drones have been shrunk down and look awful – they even sound like the old wasps…
Saranette: Do you mean the Sithilid wasp skins?
Cause if so, people have been WANTING TO TAME THEM FOREVER.
Aria and I agreed on the want of taming that damn rare white Wasp- only seen it once.
I doubt it’s ’server only’, it’s either an intended change [aka the white cats turning into tigers in WS] or it’s an unintended change [aka when serpents first became 'tameable']
You know, for the 5% added to my ferocity pets armor, I’m sure not feeling it. If anything it’s like my pets taking a beating like never before. Hmm might just be me, but it’s really weird O_o
Edit: It could be intended tho; in Southern Barrens there is the Sithilid Harvester [rare spawn horde quest droper], Sithilid scorpids, and sithilid crabs. It is hinted Sithilids AND Nerubians are descended from the same basic ancestor yada yada yada- and the wasps could be tied in to it and thus they were changed.
I mean hell who knows, the reason the Sapphire Queen became untameable could be because originally she might have been meant to be untameable [tho Blizz has said nothing about it] and I looked it up, there’s only one other mob that has her skin, and it’s an AQ wasp [and she/he/it looks NOTHING like the Sithilid wasps there]
But god I don’t want the Basin to become another Silithus, I hated that place so much I only leveled Ryai there- and punted Zeldei and Amarai there only when I needed just that fraction little more exp [or for Ama's case, a bow upgrade]
Yes I mean the Slithid wasp skins! They even sound like scorpids.
But it’s on my favorite wasp, nay PET! It looks really bad. The old model really doesn’t look good with the Sap Drone texture
I’ve already posted on the wow bug report forum, to see if this was an undocumented change or a glitch.
(if this was intended, this was incredibly lazy of the Dev team.)
sorry Slithid wasp model – not skin
When I try to post a link, it eats my post…
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4804/waspd.jpg
Sorry if this ends up causing multiple posts.
It’s the light blue ‘boss wasp’ skin stretched over the silithid wasp model. Only the drones are affected.
Now I’m off to check the old-world Silithid wasps…
Oh man those look awesome.
OMG!
Arikara lost her summoning effect as well! Damn!
(the bark-on-click coyotes still seem to bark though for now..)
I think that got it. Thanks, Seveil!
Re: Rhinos and Stampede — I tamed on on the live servers just now, and attacked some mammoths. I see no evidence of a knockback happening at all.
Ack! Not Arikara!
Two more unique thing gone. One useless thing in one of thems place. Perfect. *Sighs*
… well I’m gonna abandon Arikara then- it’s partly why I tamed her on Yas. Backstory or not the shoooom was partly why I tamed her.
And my god those wasps DO look epic! I need to get Yasindra to lv 77 quick.
Or something.
Aotona (rare spawn parrot in Sholazar) is tameable, however, I have confirmed that his Old World cousin, Polly (spawned from the low level Rogue lockpicking quest, Plundering the Plunderers), is still not tameable.
Darn. :(
-Jezpalimu, Kilrogg server
Thank’s for checking that out, Jezpalimu.
Thanks for fixing the link, Mania :)
No luck on the Feralas silithid wasps, they are still unclassified and untameable. The change to the drones looks like a band-aid fix; it gives hunters a chance to get the Silithid wasp model without Blizzard having to do all the work to change the old-world wasps into beasts.
That said, they did make the change for the Zangarmarsh fireflies and the silithid tanks. I still don’t know why they didn’t change the old-world wasps at the same time.
Yeah, it sounds like a real lazy change, that kinda misses part of the point to why the old world wasps were requested tameables.
Let me assure you, my hive drone looked FAR more epic before this patch.
I’m really bummed out now. I was looking forward to this patch, even though I knew I wouldn’t really enjoy the new SV spec, I said, least I still have my wasp…
Now it’s jsut…uggg!
:) I totally just tamed Gondria on Frostmane-US. :) I was SO pumped, flying around ZD with track beasts on… every time a little red dot appeared, my heart skipped a beat… then I tamed her. I named her Infelicitas after my old main (who, consequently, is named after my girlfriend’s cat.)
Hey Fortytwo.. does she show up as a red dot or a yellow dot on the track beasts? (i think loque was yellow?)
Honestly, I don’t entirely remember. I think it was red, cause I remember checking every single red dot. Anywho, I found her JUST west of the Altar of Mam’toth. I couldn’t say whether she was aggressive or not, I just dropped a freezing trap and clicked tame beast. She started off with a cast “Pounce” before she headed for me (like she was sprinting). Her tag when I highlight her still appears as “Elite”. :)
Btw can anyone confirm if the supersize petbug is still in place? I’d link an SS I obtained a week or two or maybe more ago, but I dun wanna have to deal with a broken post, and I dun wanna get in trouble for posting a ‘broken’ link.
And what I’m talking about is like seeing a Northrend Worg as big as Keristraza, if I named that poor Red dragon from Nexus, right.
Does anyone have trouble retrieving pets or switching pets from the stable masters? I can’t even switch and it looks like one of my pets have been replaced with a pet I got rid of a month ago from what it looks like in the stables….. different species even!
Gezzarak the Huntress no longer has her “lightning effect” when summoned. I’m hoping this is just a bug, since my roommate was telling me that several spells/items she used last night didn’t have effects either (summoning her paladin’s charger, for instance).
CONFIRMED: Vargul blighthound movement fixed
CONFIRMED: Sapphire Drones use silithid wasp model
CONFIRMED: Mend pet glyph grants happiness with Imp-MP
CONFIRMED: Tooltip shows our pets name twice as what it is, not on others pets
UNCONFIRMED: Silithid pets are bigger now
UNCONFIRMED: Pet frame photos seem to be moved up
These are the things I ran into and confirmed in person and with other hunters.
I am getting a bug when I try to use the stables, but only sometimes. And I’ve had it happen before. I think it’s just a display or sorting error of some sort, since with some flipping around, I can eventually find all my pets.
And also, if you’re using Call Stabled Pet, the same bug sometimes comes up, but fortunately you can flip-flop pets as much as you want before closing the stable screen… It’s realy more like it lets you access the stable window once, instead of just letting you swap pets once like the name might imply.
I’m also not getting any tooltip errors (and some people in Ulduar last night were reporting seeing mob names twice, and I did not), but I use MyRolePlay, which modifies tooltips. And I can confirm that my bear’s face in his portrait is moved higher up, so it cuts off the top of his head. Didn’t notice it on my other pets, but that might be because they still fit into the frames ok.
Well my forms the frame has moved upwards, at least for Bear, Moonkin and Swift Flight so it’s possible…
Devilsaurs now also have a less stompy, more Jurassic Park run animation (yay). Still no jump animation. (boo)
No jump on my striders or new Ghostlands turtle either.
The bat portrait shows only the mouth and a paw on the right, it’s weird!
It seems to me that my turtle is much smaller since 3.1, like 1/2 to 2/3 of its previous size. Can anyone else with a turtle confirm or deny this?
Yeah I tamed a turtle pre patch as I was trying the three “tank” pets near and around Barrens to see the aniamations (Understandbly if it’s gonna irk me too much like seizure croc it’s better to know before a commit) and now I actually have little Karaji, he does seem rather small.
One change that will benefit leveling hunters and pets is that the stats on low level leatherworker crafted gear are now often better for hunters. The 7 pieces of Tough Scorpid mail armor with levels 39-45 now have a total of 63 stamina instead of 63 spirit to go with the 85 agility.
my ooz doing thunderstop is hilarious ^^
just felt like sharing :)
Anyone else disappointed in Thunderstomp? My gorilla seems WAY less able to hold aggro now. COuldn’t even keep 4 lousy skeletal things off me in Icecrown: they were 77, pet was 80.
I’ve found a confirmed bug that came in on or a few weeks before 3.1:
Silithids now come tamed with dash, but it doesn’t give you credit for it in the pet talents window, meaning A) you cannot ever get mobility and B) it now takes 4 points to unlock tier 2 instead of 3, since it doesn’t give you credit for the point in dash even though the point is deducted from your total points available.
Note if you had a silithid prior to 3.1 and simply re-applied his talents after the free reset, dash seems to be bug-free, at this is the case on my orc hunter who had the tan silithid, tamed back in February I think… but for my male nelf hunter who just started trying to tame a silithid, any silithid he tames comes with the dash glitch.
And from posts in the hunters and bugs forums it appears some have encountered this just by untraining their pet talents.
Blizzard so far seems to just think it is a “display issue”, so I have done my best to clarify it for them in their bugs forum however I’d recommend that anyone who has or wants to get a silithid head on over to let them know people care about this.
BTW IIRC I think TS does like 1/2 the dmg it used to, however it still works well enough if you prep with misdirection+multishot… plus it always seemed a bit OP to me so I’m happy enough with the latest incarnation…
So after the patch I went and tamed a wolf pet, one of the ones that have the coyote/shaman gost wolf shape except black. For some reason I remember these wolves having an audible howl occasionally.. it still does a howl animation.. but theres no howl sound to it, its just silent. Am I losing it or did blizz really take away its howl sound?
@Amaya – You’re not losing it, they used to howl. I’ve had a wolf for ages and his howl was one of my favourite things and now it’s gone since the patch. *cries*
I’m hoping it’s just a glitch and they’ll fix it, because I miss it dearly. :(
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