Only one class gets change in this hot fix. You'll never guess which one...
Patch 5.1 Hotfixes - December 13
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Frost Bomb will now detonate after 4 seconds (was 6 seconds), and the damage it deals to other players has been reduced by 20%.
Quests
Players that leave the area during the ending sequence of "Heart of the Alliance" will no longer be placed into the wrong phase.
Pet Battles
Players that have earned the Achievement "Taming the World" should now receive a Safari Hat in the mail.
Lower level pets involved in Pet Battles with higher level team mates will now receive full experience from victorious battles.
Darkmoon Hatchlings, Red Crickets, and Singing Crickets that were previously of lower quality should now be Rare quality.
Items
The Sun-Lute of the Phoenix King can now be upgraded using the Item Upgrade system.
Dungeons, Raids & Scenarios
Heart of Fear
Grand Empress Shek'zeer
The Empress now always drops three tier-set tokens and three non-set items in the 25 player Heroic mode version of this encounter.
Bug Fixes
The Guild Perk, Ride Like the Wind, should now properly increase flight path speeds by 25% in Pandaria.
Classes
Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Various weapon procs will no longer sometimes prematurely break the Stealth provided by the Subterfuge talent.
Pet Battles Updates
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We’ve been receiving a few inquiries over Twitter and through email regarding Farmer Nishi, so we thought we’d share our thoughts on Pet Battle experience gains with you.
We will soon be applying a hotfix that causes level-25 pets to no longer “steal” experience from your lower-level pets. Previously, if you had a level-3 and level-25 pet grouped together for a battle, the XP earned would be shared between the two at the end. This resulted in some players doing what they could to kill off their level-25 pet so the level-3 pet would get all of the experience. You no longer need to worry about this as the level-3 pet will now receive 100% of the XP that’s earned, so long as it has participated in at least one round of combat.
With max-level master trainer dailies available for Northrend, Cataclysm, Pandaria, and the new line of Spirit Trainers, you have quite a few endgame battles in Pandaria which you can use to level up new pets. Be sure to wear your Safari Hat to get the most out of your battles! The over-arching goal is to provide a variety of content with which you can level up your pets each day.
