• The Yogg-Saron encounter has received the following changes: Death Ray no longer hits players who are under the effect of Malady of the Mind, Guardians of Yogg-Saron no longer use Dominate Mind, the spawn rate of Guardians of Yogg-Saron is more forgiving, and these Guardians will no longer spawn if a player that is protected by Hodir’s Flash Freeze hits an Ominous Cloud.
• In the opening sequence of Ulduar you can now see Liquid Pyrite from farther away.
• The Flame Leviathan encounter has received the following changes: the bonus health Flame Leviathan receives per tower has been reduced, the ejection height from Flame Leviathan has been reduced, the snare effect of the Tower of Frost has been removed, and the cannons on Demolishers and Siege Enginers should now break Flash Frozen vehicles in 1 shot.
• The XT-002 Deconstructor encounter has received the following changes: the health of the heart has been slightly reduced in heroic difficulty and the rate at which Gravity Lapse and Searing Light are cast has been reduced.

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May 21st, 2009:

• Furious Gladiator's Libram of Justice will now only grant additional healing to Flash of Light as originally intended.
• Amice of Inconceivable Horror and Vestments of the Blind Denizen will no longer have class restrictions
• It will now take the proper 4 seconds of drinking in arenas before a player will start gaining mana.
• Storm, Earth and Fire talent root proc will now properly affect a 10 yard radius.
• Mimiron Assault Bots no longer despawn during the transition from phase3 to phase 4. This should allow the achievement Not-So-Friendly Fire to be completable.

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May 19th, 2009:

We have shut off Wintergrasp on all realms while we investigate an issue which caused the games to reset prematurely. Thank you for your patience, and we will re-activate Wintergrasp once the issue has been resolved.

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• Innervate now properly restores the correct amount of mana to Shapeshifted targets that do not have a mana bar active.
• Thrust and Shield-Break attacks in the Argent Tournament are correctly being mitigated by the number of Defends that are active on the target.
• The Supercharged ability on Storm Tempered Keepers near Auriaya will no longer increase the damage of Storm Wave.
• Some of the trash mob packs have been removed in the areas leading to Ignis the Furnace Master and Freya.
• In the tunnel leading to Mimiron, the Clockwork Sapper’s Ice Turret's ability, Ice Nova, now does considerably less damage in both difficulty modes.
• In the Antechamber leading to the Assembly of Iron, the Rune Etched Sentry's ability, Flaming Rune, does considerably less damage over time in both difficulty modes.
• The Molten Colossus near Ignis the Furnace Master will no longer cast Unquenchable Flames.
• Chamber Overseer's Staggering Roar does consider.
• Some issues were fixed and Algalon the Observer should now properly reset every time a raid wipes.
• The hit point increasing hard mode ability for XT-002 Deconstructor has been reduced to 50% in the 10 player Normal setting, and 60% in the 25 player Heroic setting. The corresponding damage increase for XT-002 has also been reduced to 15%. Life Sparks also have half of their previous hit point values.
• The engineering boot enchant, Nitro Boosts, will no longer be usable in rated or skirmish arena matches.
• The duration of Kologarn's Crunch Armor effect has been greatly reduced in normal difficulty. This change negates the explicit need to tank swap Kologarn.
• Thorim's Chain Lightning will no longer affect more than 8 targets in normal and heroic difficulty.
• General Vezax now does 10% less melee damage in normal difficulty.