My favorite time of the patch day is here ? looking at all the bugs! At the
time of this writing, we're about six hours after the patch and the majority of
bugs have been found. We've counted six of them, and will go over each and when
the fix is expected after the break.
Obviously some are more important than others. The
Wintergrasp bug that is currently crashing servers left and right needs to be
fixed "nao," as people are clamoring about in trade channels. The game is nearly
unplayable for most people.
Interestingly there are no bugs about other missing items,
nor are there reports of extreme lag and other difficulties (other than the
severs crashing).
The full list
of WOW Patch
3.0.8 bugs, and information about their status, after the
break.
1.
Wintergrasp
The Bug: Any
time Lake Winterfail changes side, the server crashes. Some reports have the bug
only crashing Northrend, while others have the bug crashing the entire server.
This means that some servers are barely playable.
The Fix: It's incoming. Bornakk has said they're going to
disable the buff (which is the apparent cause) if they can't find an immediate
solution. Expect the fix soon. Update: It appears the bug has been fixed, but we're
waiting on official confirmation.
Additional information: Skarlet sends us the following tip:
"We had found that with Wintergrasp crashing the servers constantly that the
books for the Higher Learning Achievement were respawning on every crash. I
think most of Proudmoores alliance has completed this achievement in about an
hour now." Gasp!
2. Death
Knight Creation
The Bug:
As of today, people were supposed to be able to create a Death Knight on any
realm ? provided they had a level 55+ character present on their account. This
has not happened, and some people are reporting that they are unable to create
Death Knights on realms in which they don't have a 55+ character.
The Fix: It's incoming. Rolling
restarts should take care of it, and we're guessing they'll be doing that within
the next 12 hours.
3.
Hunter Aspects On GCD
The
Bug: Some Hunter aspects are still on a global cooldown like mechanic, which
goes against Blizzard's intentions. People are placing the cooldown at 1.5
seconds (it should be 0).
The
Fix: Soon. Ghostcrawler has said that they know about it and should have
something worked out soon.
4. Howling Blast
The Bug: The tooltip indicates that
there is no cooldown to the spell, when in reality it's on a 5 second cooldown.
If you cast Howling Blast, and then try to do it immediately again, you'll
notice the 5 second cooldown.
The
Fix: Soon, says Ghostcrawler. But it's mainly an inconvenience and not a game
breaker. Don't expect this to be fixed over night.
5.
Animation Clipping
The
Bug: Human females are having animation problems when using two handed weapons
and shooting a ranged weapon.
The
Fix: Soon. Blizzard is aware of the problem (they even announced it before the
patch went live). We do not have any indication that they'll be correcting it
before the next patch, however.
6.
Ritual of Summoning
The
Bug: There is a two minute cooldown for the Warlock to cast the new Ritual of
Summoning spell. The spell will make a summoning stone, which can be used by
party members to summon folks. The Warlock spell, not the stone, has a two
minute cooldown. This was added at the last minute to prevent an exploit (no
indication of what the exploit was).
The Fix: Soon. Blizzard is working on a solution, and
Ghostcrawler expects this to be fixed in the next couple of days.
7. Missing mail, again?
We've gotten some reports on our twitter stream about
missing mail and mail that won't go to players. Since we've gotten a few
independent reports of this, it's worth mentioning and keeping an eye on. Let's
all just say a silent prayer that we don't find ourselves without mail for a few
days. My wallets need their AH gold.
