Patch 4.1: Rise of the Zandalari now live

[Cairenn]

Rise of the Zandalari

The days when great troll empires stretched across ancient Kalimdor are long past. Millennia of war and internal strife have stripped these nations of their power, lands, and glory. As Azeroth recovers from the destruction of the Cataclysm, the world's divided troll populations face a bleak future. These dark times have spurred the trolls of the Zandalar, the historically wise and scholarly tribe from which all trolls originated, to take drastic action. They have embarked on a bold crusade to save their race by uniting trolls into a single mighty empire. With the Zandalari's aid, the fallen capitals of the Gurubashi and Amani nations—Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman—are already rebuilding, replenishing their forces for a bloody campaign to expand their territories.

Yet Vol'jin and his Darkspear trolls are not aligned with the Zandalari. They have sworn to stand with their Horde comrades—and even work with the Alliance—should the trolls ignite a new war on Azeroth. Soon, Vol'jin might be forced to act on his promise, for if the Gurubashi and Amani are left to their own devices, the world will know the legendary strength and savagery of the ancient troll empires once again.

Of immediate interest for our community:

User Interface

• Like the Focus Frame, the character Unit and Target Frames can now be unlocked and moved to one's content.
• Spells bound to a key now start to be cast when the button is pressed down by default, instead of waiting for the key to go up. This is an option that can be turned off in the Interface menu under Combat. Mouse clicking has not changed and operates on mouse click up.
• Targets and focus targets now display on the mini-map.
• Moved Video and Sound to a new "Options" screen.

• Added a network category to the new Options screen and included the two network checkboxes:

• The Network category contains the options "Optimize network for speed" and "Enable IPv6 when available". "Optimize network for speed" will be enabled by default, and will send packets more frequently at the cost of higher bandwidth. The higher bandwidth may lead to disconnects for some players who have limited bandwidth. Players getting disconnected frequently should try unchecking this box.

• Visual Settings Updates:

• Removed the red bar preventing the overall graphics slider from going to ultra based on computer specs.
• When a player moves the overall slider to a setting that would have previously been prevented, any option that can't go as high as that setting will get the warning icon with a tooltip explaining why it can't go higher. For example: a player sets the overall slider to Ultra and the water setting can only go to Fair. The water setting would automatically switch to Fair.
• Support for DirectX 11 can now be found in the Advanced tab of the Options screen.

• At the login screen:

• Moved the "Reset User Options" button from the popup window that appears when clicking Options to the actual Options window.
• Clicking Options now goes directly to the Video tab of the Options screen.
• Removed the now-unneeded popup.
• The New Features (!) Option screen has been updated:
• Cast action keybinds on key down (Combat)
• Pick Up Action Key (ActionBars)
• Nameplate Motion Type (Names)
• Graphics API (Advanced)
• Network category

The full patch notes can be read here.

[Bluspacecow]

http://www.wowinterface.com/survivalguide.php

The survival guide for addons from wow interface. This will be updated over the next few days.

If you see any of them that have been updated that they haven't marked as such already, please feel free to email them at [email protected] with the link to where it has been updated.

Here is the details of the major Lua API change :

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2228413591
http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=39229

Basically Blizzard have implemented a server based throttle on addon communications. As I understand it an addon can no longer talk on the addon whisper channel otr any hidden addon channels. They now have to register a talk using prefixs. It's all discussed in the 2 threads above.

Since this is a major patch I'll be uploading a copy of the survival guide I wrote for the US Mac Tech Support forums. Watch for it