Racial vendor mounts become Bind-on-Pickup

The hotfix of 10 November makes every racial vendor mount Bind-on-Pickup. Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow go the other way and can be traded. Shatterspear Trolls no longer give experience, and Nature’s Swiftness now works on Wild Growth.

The bigger parts of the same list have their own posts: Enhancement Shamans, Hunter and Warlock pets, Wrack and the Hunter shots, vendor prices, quest gold from level 48 and Rage of the Storm.

Items

• Racial vendor mounts are now Bind-on-Pickup. Buying a mount from a vendor of another race to pass it on no longer works.
• Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow are no longer Bind-on-Pickup. They only become available when the raids open, but Blizzard mentions it now because it may influence which profession you pick.
• Sparklance Wand now deals Arcane damage instead of Nature damage.

Classes

• Druid: Omen of Clarity could not activate after a switch of specialization. Fixed. For Restoration, Nature’s Swiftness now also makes Wild Growth instant.
• Paladin: Redoubt can be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Priest: Vampiric Embrace healing no longer activates the Revelation enchant. Holy Nova is now correctly removed when you take the talent out.
• Warlock: Bane of Havoc now triggers the global cooldown.
• Warrior: Sweeping Strikes no longer loses charges when no second target is hit.

Professions

• Alchemy: Minor Arcane Elixir sells for 5 copper, down from 25. Recipe: Elixir of Greater Firepower now carries the right name, after the Elixir of Holy Power it makes. The aura of the elixir is renamed too.
• Blacksmithing: Coarse Grinding Stone gives skill points up to 90, was 75.
• Cooking: Journeyman Campfire Kit needs Cooking 90 to place, the same as its recipe. It was 140.
• Enchanting: Arcane Salvager now needs a Runed Golden Rod instead of a Runed Truesilver Rod, and its disenchanting bonus now also works for lower-level enchanters. Enchant Boots - Lesser Spirit and Enchant Bracer - Lesser Spirit now give Spirit instead of resistance to all schools.
• Fishing: Fishing Racks sometimes gave no lures to players who should get one. Blizzard knows of more problems with the racks, such as the error “There is no loot”.

Auction House and mail

The minimum auction deposit is back to 1 copper, as announced last week. That change came with the realm restarts. Some mail arrived after about 2 minutes instead of 60, and unread mail showed “Stormwind Auction House” as the sender for everyone. Both are fixed.

World and quests

• Shatterspear Trolls no longer give experience. “They’re dancers, not fighters”, says Blizzard.
• Innkeepers give better answers to “Tell me about the dungeons I can explore”.
• Graveyards: players were sometimes sent to the wrong graveyard after death.
• Pyrewood Village: the villagers did not always appear around dawn and dusk.
• Quests: more Glade Vipers in Riverglades for Poison Tips, more Nightbane worgen in Duskwood for Worgen in the Woods, and Murloc Tideskimmers drop their eyes again for A Taste of the Sea. Rescue OOX-22/FE! in Feralas can be started again, and Camping 101: Herbalism on Zephras Isle now completes in Shen’dar Village instead of Valanaar. Fixes also went into the Shaman quests for the Water Totem, Helping Hands, Chief Engineer Scooty and the quest item of Celastrus the Bitter.