[INFO] Server Upgrade Core 4280

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Please do not upgrade to 2.4.0 !
We will continue to support 2.3.3 only!

Waiting to be applied
Core

Applied patches
Core
 - fixed taunt
 - doubled the PVP in combat timings (should take a bit more effort to leave battle now)
 - disabled priest - Improved Divine Spirit rank 1 and 2 (these were causing the odd priest stacked buffs)
 - disabled all resurrection spells in the arena's, not fully blizzlike but i'm getting to much complaints about them.
 - remove all aura's when entering a pvp based map
 - warlock's will always have at least 3 soulshards upon entering a pvp based map
 - fixed arena remove player from que
 - team balancing when both teams are on the same faction (group joins)
 - Avenging Wrath will now apply Forebearance
 - Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme - Artisan fishing quest
 - ground totem should be possess proof
 - crashfix instance manager
 - fixed stealth abuse in pvp
 - knockback freezing clients fixed
 - added ~60 go quests
 - random updates on the instance scripts (sorry did not change log these :x)
 - 4276 quests taming pets for hunters
 - Seal of Command - Holy damage (crit fix)
 - dismount on daze fixed
 - crit modifiers seal
 - online state fixed (new characters)
 - stealth detection tweaks
 - crashfix arena charter
 - totems are no longer affected by AOE / AA
 - fixed Earthing Totem, Tremor Totem, Poison Cleansing Totem, Disease Cleansing Totem[/color]
 - /roll fixed
 - fixed melee target only to be able to pull @ 110% threat and ranged @ 130%
 - added player cap of 15vs15 EOTS
 - fixed some memleaks EOTS
 - solved some arena issues, please test and give me feedback!
 - druid: bear form threat
 - feral instinct fixed
 - lacerate fixed
 - Subtlety fixed
 - negative threat modifiers now actually work (eg. battle stance etc), please give me feedback! most of the threat reducing auras etc should work now!
 - tuned some threat generation warrior spells
 - threat fixes:
   * shield slam
   * shield bash
   * heroic strike
   * revenge
 - added portal to the following locations (terrace of light)
   * kara
   * COT
   * Zulaman
 - fixed overhealing threat, no cause any threat anymore..
 - nerfed some hp on zulaman bosses (2milj is a bit of a overkill)
 - fixed correct graveyard to be set in BM
 - fixed CD reset for shadowcloth
 - arena team join
 - fixed dupe arena ques (exploit instant win)
 - Disabled blink untill battlegrounds / arenas actually started
 - remote exploit fix
 - re-wrote most of EOTS and enabled it again for full load testing! (beta 2;))
 - fixed mages / paladins invulnerable bug
 - Warlock: dismiss pet will restore a soulshard (even on using portals etc)
 - fixed mount aura not dispelling on entering combat
 - possible fix invulnerability paladins
 - tuned the sql server
 - fixed npc's showing up as cubes
 - lowered some of the global cooldowns, user should relog to clear them!; affected spells:
     Salt Shaker, 3 days, http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=19566
     Mooncloth, 4 days,  http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=18560
     Spellcloth, CD 4 days, http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=31373
     Primal Mooncloth, 4 days, http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=26751
     Transmute: Primal Might, CD 23 hrs, http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29688
     Transmute: Earthstorm Diamond, 23 hrs, http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=32765
     Transmute: Skyfire Diamond, 23 hrs, http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=32766
     SnowMaster 9000, CD 1 Day, http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=21935
     ShadowCloth 4day cooldown, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=24272
 - enabled EOTS *beta* again, for full user load testing
 - improved sunder armor (using data from wowwiki)
 - tweaked threat again
 - fixed Sunder armor to actually add threat
 - disabled falldamage
 - tweaked threat system (give me feedback pls!)
 - fixed global cooldowns

Database
 - 2 exploit fixes (1 user rewarded for reporting, the other banned for abusing and not reporting)
 - will add these later (there are a lot of updates!)

Scripts
 - Rewrote Al'ar's encounter, please give me feedback! http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=19514
 - 3 Crashfixes Midgnight (kara)
 - Maiden Of Virtue will not cast Repentance at the beginning of the fight.
 - Fixed yell so that boss mods work on Maiden of Virtue.
 - Attuman encounter raid karazhan
 - Maiden 'deathspots' raid karazhan
 - several crashfixes raid karazhan
- more to add later

[GLE]

Heya Triggs, since you asked for feedback;
I just ran BM heroic, with a resto druid tanking and a mage who shall remain unnamed that is very poor at controlling threat (who is not me =P), and we had no problems at all. So, based on a couple quick 5-man runs, I'm really optimistic. I'll let you know if I get into an instance with anyone else using Omen so we can play around with it, and I'd say we'll raid something (most likely Kara) as a guild later today, so I'll let ya know how that goes over.
But yeah, on first glance, great job tweaking threat, & thanks!

-Niklam

[DireklianCliff]

Hey Triggs!

My feedback on the threat:  The threat itself seems to be okay.  We did a Kara run and we still had some aggro rips, but I'm more and more thinking that's due to the global CD issues rather than the threat itself.  I'll keep a close eye on the threat and if I notice anything, I'll let you know.

[caquen00]

I'm going to be Mary quite contrary here, and I'm sorry about it . When we did Karazhan, we did okay with threat, but primarily because the tanks were dps-taunt tanking. The discrepancy between threat values that I was monitoring and the observed threat was still present, and still big. After the run, Andy happened to show me the damage meters, which pretty much compounded the issue - our top two dpsers were the tanks, indicating that their holding threat considerably better was more due to the fact that they were dpsing more and our dps classes were dpsing less.

Today, we tested it in a more conclusive manner, and here's what we observed. (True threat values = omen based threat, observed threat = point at where the mob aggroes  a dpser)

For the sake of reliability, we used Trish with his talents reset, and no threat-modifying talents added.  I too respecced, removing all threat modifiers, and also all threat modifying equipment. Trish tanked naked with a broom and/or a low level sword and shield.

Sunder Armor - possibly the biggest culprit. We found that while tanking using only sunder armor and white dps from a broom (and then later the low level sword), the discrepancy between true threat values and observed threat was huge. We were literally pulling aggro at about 30-40% of his threat, indicating that sunder armor is incorrectly applying the 301 static threat that it should.

Shield Slam - worked like a charm. Could go within a 5% range of Trish's threat and still not pull aggro.

Revenge - slightly off but within a 15% discrepancy of observed threat and actual threat. (possibly due to defensive stance, see below)

Defensive stance - slightly off as well, indicating that it might be responsible for revenges threat discrepancy (defensive stance should be doing 1.3x threat of course).

To further verify these results, we had Trish tank a mob doing just raw white dps (in battle stance), and nothing else. This time we could again go within 5% of his threat range, which was brilliant, but further showed that while dps-threat is fine, certain applied threat from abilities is faulty.

So to sum it up, I'm convinced something is tragicly wrong with sunder armor. Devastate obviously ties into sunder armor and therefore might be off too, but because it is impossible to test devastates threat conclusively without sunder armor, we could not do it unfortunately. Actually, I suppose we -could- but we'd have bad results anyway due to sunder armor.

The others, as stated, shield slam being fine, and defensive stance as well as revenge being slightly off the mark.

I'm hoping to test with a druid later, but perhaps druid tanking is better seeing as Niklams positive feedback comes from using a druid tank.

Thank you, and I hope this is useful.

-Ianthe.

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Thanks a lot for that report caquen00 (Ianthe)! yours cover exactly everything i needed to know

So I debugged and I can confirm that the Sunder armor is indeed not modifying the generated threat.
It looks like it never worked!

Already got it working on my local copy will apply _soon_ (well.. I'll apply it right away )

-- and applied!

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fixed several karahzan issues, all encouter should be working now

[iniq]

We attempted Maiden tonight and i'm afraid she is stil bugged. When you start the encounter she instantly kills everyone with some "holy light chain beam effect AoE spell" (its the only way to describe it that I can think of!)

should be fixed after a restart

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rewrote Al'ar's encounter, please give me feedback!

[Crazzy]

Hurry up and support 2.4    LMFAO    Laptop can play here, but it's not as fast as desktop !!   WOOT !!   Keep up the great work triggs..   I will be on sometime tonight to help test some more stuff !!


Shawn

[caquen00]

Noticed that the arena join and shadowcloth fixes were put under applied already.

Shadowcloth cooldown now seems fine (resets when logged), however alliance teams still face the same problems when joining arenas (i.e. only one person may join after which the 'join' window disappears).

-Ianthe.

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A few updates merged to the 2.3.x core, since were still not done on the dev server getting it ready for release.
We want it to be as good as possible before were going live with it.
All the 2.4.x server out there are simply not working like our current 2.3 does, things like missing trainer templates have to be solved before we get it live.

There has been a huge amount of work done on the dev server, lots of spells have been fixed, arena issues solved etc. Those can't be merged with our 2.3.x core because the code base is to different and I don't want to fix the same thing twice.

Hope this updates some of you again.

GL!

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did some more work on the threat generation.

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and again lots of threat fixes, it's should now be 95+% Omen like

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Since 2.4 has no ETA (do not upgrade!) I'm starting to convert some of the work to the live 2.3.2 server.

[DireklianCliff]

Hey Triggs.  I just tested out the totems immunity to AoE.  Against true AoE they don't get hit! YAY!! *thumbs up*  But sadly... a move that hits additional targets like Cleave, Sweeping Strikes, Swipe, etc, still counts the totems as legitimate targets for the extra attack.  Totems were immune to this as well in retail.  Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks for working on this!!

EDIT: Rogues are still able to drop combat after stopping attacking for roughly a second.  Trish and Crysta got stun-locked by two rogues in this method who used the stealth abuse to cheap shot repeatedly.  I just tested this dropping combat, and it takes no more than a second for rogues to drop out.  I have imp stealth on my rogue, so the CD is only 5 seconds before I can stealth again, and I've dropped it long before it's off CD.