Patch Notes 2.2 part 3

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Professions

Various crafting recipes have been added to the Violet Eye faction vendor.
Triggered Effects: Tradeskill recipes will no longer trigger items that are designed to be triggered by only combat spells.
Blacksmithing
- Changed the set bonuses afforded by Fel Iron Plate to increased hit chance and Strength.
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Enchanting
- Nexus Transformation: This recipe to transform a Nexus Crystal
  into a Small Prismatic Shard has been added to some Enchanting
  trainers.
- Small Prismatic Shards: This recipe to transform a Large
  Prismatic Shard into 3 Small Prismatic Shards has been added to some
  Enchanting trainers.
- Large Prismatic Shard: It is no longer possible to gain skill points in Enchanting from this recipe.
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Quests

During the quest, "The Smallest Creatures", the marmot's stealth ability is working once again.
Firewing Warlocks are less likely to want to engage in melee combat.
Fixed an issue wherein a character with a darkrune would not
be able to turn it in to Gahk in return for a crystalforged darkrune
unless they first completed the daily quest "Banish More Demons" that
day.
In the Bad Medicine quest in Stranglethorn, Jungle Remedies can now be found on Jungle Fighters.
In Hillsbrad, additional Syndicate Papers were added to the
Corahn's Dagger subzone Syndicate camp. Quest text was changed to
reflect this.
Mawg Grimshot's flavor events have been fixed.
Resolved issues with Obsidia, Rivendark, Insidion, and Furywing sometimes not responding to their eggs being used.
The duration of the Apexis Relic and Apexis Monument beams was slightly reduced, to more easily separate 2 back-to-back beams.
The following Quest Objects will no longer briefly despawn
when looted: Mythology of the Titans, Compendium of the Fallen,
Maiden's Folly Charts, Maiden's Folly Log, Spirit of Silverpine Charts,
Spirit of Silverpine Log.
Various issues breaking the "Showdown" quest fight have been resolved.

Dungeons and Raids

Caverns of Time- Battle of Mount Hyjal
- Faction and loot rewards have been added to non-boss mobs in
  the Battle of Mount Hyjal raid event. The faction awarded by bosses has
  been decreased to balance this.
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Caverns of Time- Escape from Durnholde Keep
- When the limit on Thrall respawns after event failure has been reached, the Epoch Hunter will now properly despawn.
- Human Illusion: This effect in Old Hillsbrad will no longer be applied to Dwarf and Human Priests when they exit Shadowform.
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Karazhan
- Nightbane's Distracting Ash can now be removed with Cloak of Shadows.
- Tinhead in Karazhan is now immune to bleeds.
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Scholomance
- Ras Frostwhisper's Frost Armor Chilled effect is now properly classified as a snare mechanic.
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Tempest Keep: Mechanar
- Raging Flames in the Nethermancer Sepethrea encounter have had their movement speed reduced slightly in heroic mode.
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Tempest Keep: The Eye
- The spells cast by High Astromancer Solarian have been
  extensively reworked. Wrath of the Astromancer is a now completely
  different in function. Mark of the Astromancer has been renamed to
  Light of the Astromancer and no longer reduces Arcane resistance. A
  player's Arcane Resistance now also provides normal damage mitigation
  to Solarian's spells.
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User Interface

Improved the handling of items with charges on the action bar.
Fixed an issue where moveable frames would end up off screen after changing either to or from a widescreen resolution.
Fixed an issue where moveable frames would end up off screen after changing the UI scale.
Fixed issue where font strings would get clipped when the UI was scaled.
The pitchLimit console command has been re-enabled.
If you specify a target for a spell cast in a macro that does
not exist, it will show an error instead of defaulting to your current
target.
Conditional macros with multiple targets will use the appropriate context sensitive target for visual range feedback.
Conditional macro processing has been greatly optimized.
Macros with specific cast targets will no longer cast on your current target if the specified target doesn’t exist.
For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the
<a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11114" target="_blank">UI
& Macros Forum.</a>

World Environment

The following old-world factions have had their acquisition
rate significantly increased: Cenarion Circle, Argent Dawn, Timbermaw
Hold.
Adjusted Yowler's level down to 20 (from 25).
Adjusted the level of Redridge Bashers and Alphas.
Arcane Missiles: When cast by creatures, this spell will now properly cause activation of pets set to defensive mode.
Azuregos: The tooltip on this creature's Frost Breath now correctly indicates Frozen rather than impairing movement.
Chieftain Mummaki: This creature can now be pickpocketed.
Doctor Maleficus: This creature can now be pickpocketed.
Dragonmaw Peon: The creature now has the correct pickpocket loot.
Fixed an improper dialog option on Carolyn Ward, a Rogue Trainer in Undercity, when the player's Lockpicking was 300-324.
Highlord Mastrogonde: This creature now always drops at least a good quality item.
Minor Fairbreeze Village fixes: The general goods vendor was
moved from home to the lower inn, the pet vendor was moved from the
upper inn to home, the upper inn is now flagged as an inn.
Mo’arg Doomsmith: This creature now drops Marks of Sargeras rather than Marks of Kil’jaeden.
Monstrous Kaliri: This creature now has loot.
Quest target Fel Spirits are now considered undead.
Vindicator Aeus in the Aldor bank is no longer attackable by players who are members of the Scryer faction.
Sethekk Ravenguard: The Howling Screech from this creature is
now properly considered a Snare, and is clearable by Escape Artist and
other abilities that remove Snares.
Skettis Windwalker: The Cyclone effect from this creature
can now be cleared by PvP trinkets and Bestial Wrath/The Beast Within.
Skulloc Soulgrinder in Blade's Edge now correctly summons Sundered Ghosts to aid him in battle.
Void Reaver: The Arcane Orb ability used by this creature
will now correctly Daze players affected by Aspect of the Pack or
Aspect of the Cheetah.
Wyrmcult Blackwhelp: This creature now can be skinned but can no longer be pickpocketed.

Bug Fixes

Pets will no longer chase players that Vanish.
Stacked items will no longer disappear from a player’s inventory when zoning multiple times.
The WoW client on Windows no longer defaults to 800x600 video
resolution if the WoW resolution is higher than the desktop resolution
when going from fullscreen mode to windowed mode.
The Temple Concubine's polymorph no longer has the pig icon
appearing when it sheeps a player but now shows the proper sheep icon.
Player using ranged attacks while under the shapeshift
effects of the spell: Torment of the Worgen, will now play attack
animations
The Toxic Spore Bats in the Lady Vashj encounter will now properly despawn if the raid party wipes.
Toxic Spores in the Lady Vashj encounter can no longer kill phase shifted imps.
Anzu can no longer be kited far from his spawn point and will properly leash.
The Doomguard Punisher will no longer hit players not involved in the Legion Ring Event.
Dressing room models for females are now showing the correct head when transformed into a Fel Orc via the Dragonmaw Illusion.
The trash pulls in the Grand Promenade will now shut off after the Blood Elf Council are killed.
Players can now accept daily quests even after their daily quest limit has been reached.