World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.4.0

Latest 2.4 Patch notes, with a lot of Profession changes.

Professions

• Added several new tradeskill items to the new Sunwell Daily faction vendor:
  • Enchanting recipe to shatter a Void Crystal into two Large Prismatic Shards.
  • Enchanting recipe to increase Defense Rating by 15 for chest armor.
  • Three jewelcrafting recipes to cut gems with spell haste from Dawnstones, Talasite, and noble Topaz.
  • Two new meta gem recipes.
• Alchemy
  • Gift of Arthas now stacks to 20.
  • Transmute Arcanite no longer has a cooldown.
• Cooking
  • Broiled Bloodfin now increases resistances to all schools of magic instead of increasing Stamina and Spirit.
  • New recipes, Charred Bear Kabobs and Juicy Bear Burgers, can be purchased from either Bale (Horde) or Malygen (Alliance) in Felwood. These recipes requires 250 skill to learn, and are created from meat found on level 48-56 bears. This will aid players in leveling up their cooking skill to 300 without fishing.
• Enchanting
  • Reduced the materials required for Enchant Shield – Resistance
• Engineering
  • Gagsprocket in Ratchet now sells the plans for the Minor Recombobulator.
  • Goblin Jumper Cables and Goblin Jumper Cables XL now display cooldown information in their tooltips.
  • Removed the level requirement for the Craftsman's Monocle.
  • The stun caused by engineering Bombs and Grenades is now considered an Incapacitate effect and uses the appropriate Incapacitate diminishing returns. Bomb and Grenades can now inflict damage to targets immune to Stun and Incapacitate effects.
  • A new recipe has been added for Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite, a cloth version of the Rocket Boots Xtreme. This pattern drops from Mechano-Lord Capacitus.
  • Rocket Boots Xtreme now have all their stat points allocated toward Attack Power, and will no longer have Stamina.
  • Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite will cause players to drop a PvP flag if used while carrying one. (Warsong Gulch, Eye of the Storm, and Zangarmarsh)
• Fishing
  • New Fishing Daily Quests! Visit the mysterious old man fishing at Silmyr Lake outside of Shattrath City to discover what treasures he has to offer.
  • Find Fish now correctly tracks Schools of Tastyfish and Muddy Churning Waters.
  • Feltail fishing nodes have been changed to Brackish Mixed Schools; they now produce mostly Golden Darters and some Feltail.
  • Removed the level requirement from the expert fishing book, The Bass and You.
• Herbalism
  • Ancient Lichen now has a chance to drop a Fel Lotus where it used to drop a piece of random green jewelry.
  • Black Lotus replaced by Fel Lotus in herbalism skinning tables for Outland creatures.
  • Increased the chance that Felweed, Dreaming Glory, Ragveil, and Flame Caps will contain a Fel Lotus.
  • Warp Splinter can now be skinned with Herbalism in heroic difficulty.
• Jewelcrafting
  • A new jewelcrafting recipe has been added to transform many green quality gems into a single random blue quality gem. This recipe is available from grandmaster jewelcrafting trainers.
• Leatherworking
  • Shadow Oil will now fit into Leatherworking Bags.
• Mining
  • Increased the skill up potential for most smelting recipes.