Recent changes to the Patch 2.4 official notes.

This is the full list of new additions, when compared to the old 2.4 patch notes. I put the break under the General section to prevent your screen from exploding.

General
- The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed. It will now take five seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.
- The Daily Quest limit has been increased to 25.
- Resilience: Now reduces the magnitude of mana draining effects by the same amount that it reduces critical strike damage. The Tooltip has been revised to reflect this.

Hunter
- Hunters will no longer spin around if they cast Aimed Shot or Steady Shot while facing away from their target.

Mage
- Arcane Explosion: The damage cap for area of effect damage on this spell has been increased by approximately 50%.

Paladin
- Holy Shock: The healing, damage, and mana cost of this spell have all been increased.

Warlock
- Drain Mana: This ability no longer increases in power from bonus spell damage effects. Base points of the effect increased by 50%.

PvP
Arenas
- Queue times for arena matches have been reduced. Players will now be able to enter matches faster than previously.
- Players feared outside of the Arena (through the world or outside the arena walls) will now be teleported back to the center of the arena map.

Dungeons and Raids
- Badges of Justice have been added to all raid bosses who did not previously have them!

Sunwell Isle: Magisters’ Terrace
- There is now a teleport orb located behind Kael’thas that will become active when he dies and will allow players to teleport out of the Magisters’ Terrace.

Zul’Aman
- Jan’alai will now only teleport players to him if they are too far away.

Items
- Druid Balance PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Wrath and Starfire.
- Druid Feral PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form no longer applies to Travel Form.
- Druid Restoration PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Healing Touch.
- The Gladiator’s Thunderfist 4 piece set bonus has been reduced from 70% to 50%.
- Nether Vortex are no longer Bind on Pickup and can now be purchased from G’eras for 15 Badges of Justice!
- Paladin Healer Gladiator Sets: The set bonus changing Hammer of Justice cooldown has been changed to a set bonus increasing the amount healed by Holy Shock.
- Primal Nether are no longer Bind on Pickup!
- Resilience has been added to all Retribution Paladin PvP gear.
- Added Shattrath Flask of Pure Death and Shattrath Flask of Blinding Light to the reputation flask vendors in Shattrath.
- Shattrath Flasks now work inside the Sunwell Plateau raid instance.
- Vengeful Gladiator’s Waraxe: The weapon delay has been reduced.

World Environment
- The Ratchet bank now has access to the Guild Vault.
- A mailbox has been added to the inn in Darnassus.

Bug Fixes
- Leaving a 2v2 arena team and creating a new 2v2 team while on a 3v3 arena team will no longer result in incorrect rosters listed for each team.
- Joining a second arena match before a previous arena has closed will no longer result in personal rating not updating correctly.
- Attempting to promote an arena team member to Team Captain while that member is offline will no longer result in a “Player not found” error.
- Disbanding an arena team while inside an arena battle will no longer cause the arena UI to become corrupted until logout.
- The Arena Team Petition Window will now automatically close when the Arena Captain is out of range or offline.
- Switching arena teams after playing a game will no longer cause the PvP tab to incorrectly display your old team’s rating.
- There is now a chat message given when logging in after attaining a new title.
- Spells that require targeting circles will now be castable on textures that would previously disallow their use.
- Alterac Valley quests will now properly show a golden ! or blue ? for players above level 65.
- Archimonde’s Grip of the Legion will no longer target pets.
- There is no longer an area in Serpentine Cavern where using Field Repair Bot 74A will cause it to fall through the ground.
- There is no longer an area in Coilfang Steamvaults where ground targeting AOE effects cannot be cast.
- Spells that require targeting circles will now be castable on textures that would previously disallow their use.
- The proc from Black Bow of the Betrayer will no longer break crowd control effects such as Scatter Shot.
- Vengeful Gladiator’s Mooncloth Hood and Vengeful Gladiator’s Satin Hood will now display Troll Tusks.
- Thori’dal, the Stars’ Fury will now display its bow animations correctly.
- The Legion Ring boundary markers no longer occasionally disappear.
- Monthly quests will now properly reset at midnight server time.
- Fixed an area in Netherwing Fields in Shadowmoon Valley where players on flying mounts could be dismounted and were unable to mount.
- It is no longer possible for players to use guild banks in opposing faction cities.
- The Clockwork Rocket Bot can no longer be buffed.
- Players with moderator status in custom channels will now properly lose moderator status when kicked by the channel owner.
- Mobs no longer regenerate health during the stun effect from the Goblin Rocket Launcher.
- Sending mail to a non-existent character will now result in players getting the message, “Cannot find mail recipient”.

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