Dec 18, 2009
Posted by Spooner | 7 Comments
Update 01/04/10 bug Fixes for Patch 3.3 Live
This post has been updated with the recent changes for 01/04/10.
Listed below are recent fixes we have applied to the game. Keep in mind that some of these changes may not be active until after the realm has been restarted.
01/04/10
- The mail Bloodsunder Bracers have had their appropriate socket bonus added.
- The proc on Zod’s Repeating Longbow should no longer reset auto shots.
- The gear requirement for heroic Halls of Reflection has been increased.
12/16/09
- Ionar, in the Halls of Lightning, will now only disperse once during the course of the fight.
- Prophet Tharon’Ja of Drak’Tharon will now only steal your flesh one time during the encounter.
- Players with the quest “Wrath of the Lich King” will now properly receive quest credit.
- Muradin and Saurfang will no longer gain stacks of Battlefury from totems. Additionally, the duration of Battlefury has also been reduced.
- Lord Marrowgar is now tauntable.
- The Looking For Group item level requirement for Halls of Reflection has been raised to match the difficulty of the encounters.
12/15/09
- Quel’Delar in now unique equip.
- Naxxramas can now be cleared in any order for the Immortal and Undying achievements.
- The drop rate for the Battered Hilt has been increased.
- The Skeletal Slave in the Pit of Saron has had the ability to drop the Battered Hilt and other random drop epics removed.
12/14/09
- In Ulduar, the Salvaged Demolisher’s Hurl Boulder ability will now properly ignite tar.
- Vault of Archavon bosses are again able to be hit by area of effect abilities.
- The trinket Ephemeral Snowflake will now be triggered by all healing spells.
- The players’ Gunship will now appropriately dock after achieving victory.
- Lord Marrowgar will now do significantly less melee damage in both the 10 player normal and 10 player heroic difficulty.
Death Knight
- Chains of Ice is no longer limited to a single target. In addition, when Chains of Ice is used on a snare immune target with Everlasting Winter talented, it will once again apply Frost Fever.
Druid
- Druids will now be able to shapeshift out of a spell-reflected Entangling Roots spell.
Warlock
- Everlasting Affliction can now refresh the duration of Corruption on a target when the Warlock casts Shadow Bolt. This talent also refreshes the duration of Corruption with Drain Life and Haunt.
12/10/09
- Onyxia will now move at a normal at her regular speed when casting deep breaths.
- Onyxia has been cut off from the magic that sustained her invulnerable state.
- Players will no longer die while zoning into Icecrown citadel as the Gunship event resets.
- The Battered Hilt will show it’s appropriate faction-racial restrictions.
- Hunters, Rogues, and Shaman will once again be able to roll need on off-hand weapons when the need before greed looting system is active.
- Earthen Power now properly removes snare effects.
- Hunger for Blood now increases a rogues damage by 10% down from 15%.
- The Ephemeral Snowflake trinket now has a very short cooldown to prevent it from restoring inappropriately large amounts of mana.
- The Shadow damage from Scourge Strike will no longer be able to critically strike. The physical component will continue to be able to critically strike.
- You are now able to recast Mind Flay after missing with the spell without receiving a “This spell is not ready yet” message.
12/9/09
- Onyxia has settled down and is once again killable and flying in the proper areas during phase 2.
- Icetouched Earthragers casting Avalanche now deals appropriate damage.
- The quest “Keeping the Enemy at Bay” is now completable.
- Totems are no longer targeted by chain effects as intended.
- The Death Knight chest piece, Scourgelord Chestguard, has been updated to reflect appropriate tanking statistics.
- Emblem of Triumph quartermasters now exchanges one Emblem of Conquest for one Emblem of Triumph.
- The NPC Usuri Brightcoin in Dalaran now exchanges one Emblem of Triumph for one Emblem of Frost.
- Bosses no longer respawn in the new Frozen Halls 5 player dungeon after being defeated.
- Scourgelord Tyrannus now heals to full when the encounter begins.
- The chance for epic items to drop off trash mobs in the Icecrown Citadel raid dungeons has been reduced.
- The chance for epic items to drop off trash mobs in the Frozen Halls 5 player dungeons has been reduced.
- Running up the ramp at the end of the 3rd encounter in Halls of Reflection will no longer disconnect players. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=21723843673&sid=1
- Trading soulbound items will no longer make them appear as lost. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=21723842445&sid=1
- Improved Counterspell now triggers Burning Determination as intended.
- The Call to Arms: Warsong Gulch daily quest is now properly offered to players of all levels.
- The quest “No Mercy for the Merciless” can now be completed as intended.

The patch broke my wow, corrupting the exe file.
No repair worked, and I finally kicked wow from my computer and reinstalled WOTLK,
however, after asking all patches in a row I still got an error in the end “cannot find wow.exe” so I CANNOT PLAY AFTER 6 HOURS OF WAITING FOR THIS INSTALL TO FINISH !
What can I do ??!?
I have no idea, I think your PC is screwed up in some way. At this point check with Blizzard tech support and make sure you’ve got anti-virus software running. Maybe Windows was corrupted, that shit happens a lot for no fucking reason and most times has nothing to do with WoW. as for 6 hours, jesus christ man you must be on a 56k modem for it to take that long for the bulk patch to download.
Got a cable connection end Norton 360 running on it smootly for years now.
Every program works perfect except wow atm.
Patchday and my wow.exe gets corrupted and its not wow itself? Lol.
Must say I ssem to be the only one with the problem. I can tell you this much … as long as the game was installing (and afterwards the 2 patches) I had the subdirectory opened … and the icon of wow.exe was this round Blizzard Icon we all know. Once the second patch was ready, the wow.exe icon changed into a “windows -dos application” icon, you know the white square with the blue top. If I click launcher, I just get the message the program cant find wow.exe …. I really dont get it.
Never experienced anything like it
that’s… ok what the fuck is that. it may seem kinda dumb but have you tried just renaming the wow.exe to “wow.exe” and see what happens? otherwise dude I have never ever heard of that happening
I did do nothing m8, I saw it change.
Next, I tried looking on the Blizz site for clues. They say: disable your firewall etc.
So I turned off Norton360. After again long hours, it finally happened … I could log into the game. I played for 10 minutes, logged off and tried to get back in ….
You guessed it … again the game is screwed. So it definitely is something to do with the patch itself. And to completely reinstall every time I wanna come online? No WAY … so unless there is some way Blizz can solve it, they lose a player who has played this game for over 4 years ……
I had someone watch over my shoulder every step, this last time … and he too is completely baffled …. no idea what is causing the program to demolish its own exe file.
If ANYONE experiences the same, let me know
This happened to me also. There is detailed instructions on the Forums that fixed the issue for me. I also have the Norton 360 Virus Software, which was at the crux of the issue. You basically have to update your Norton 360 Software to version 3.0, and then restart your computer in Safe Mode so that you can take back ownership of the wow.exe file. I’ve posted the link:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18971780462&sid=1
OMG that worked !
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!