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Overview

Patch 3 brings one of our largest updates yet, featuring a major overhaul of leveling zones, extensive quest improvements, class and combat fixes, improved NPC behavior, additional battleground content, and much more.

Our primary focus has been improving the overall leveling experience and bringing the world closer to its original Mists of Pandaria experience.


World & Leveling Zone Overhaul

  • Every leveling zone from levels 1–85 has been manually reviewed and reworked.

  • Thousands of quests, NPCs, scripted events, and world interactions have been corrected.

  • Quest progression and overall zone functionality have been significantly improved.

  • Reworked zones are estimated to provide 97–99% Blizzlike functionality, based on internal testing.

  • All racial starting zones have received extensive improvements, including Pandaren, Goblin, Worgen, and Death Knight starting experiences.

Reworked Zones

Levels 10–20

  • Westfall, Bloodmyst Isle, Redridge Mountains, Ghostlands, Hillsbrad Foothills, Stonetalon Mountains, Silverpine Forest, Darkshore, Ashenvale, and Azshara.


Levels 20–30

  • Arathi Highlands, Northern Stranglethorn, Wetlands, and Duskwood.


Levels 30–40

  • Dustwallow Marsh, The Hinterlands, Desolace, Southern Barrens, and Southern Stranglethorn.


Levels 40–50

  • Felwood, Tanaris, Feralas, Searing Gorge, Badlands, and Thousand Needles.

Levels 50–58

  • Winterspring, Burning Steppes, Silithus, Un'Goro Crater, Eastern Plaguelands, Swamp of Sorrows, and Western Plaguelands.


Levels 58–68

  • Blasted Lands, Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, Nagrand, Terokkar Forest, Shadowmoon Valley, Blade's Edge Mountains, and Netherstorm.


Levels 68–80

  • Crystalsong Forest, Sholazar Basin, Dragonblight, Borean Tundra, Grizzly Hills, Zul'Drak, Storm Peaks, Icecrown, Isle of Quel'Danas, and Howling Fjord.


Levels 80–85

  • Mount Hyjal, Deepholm, and Uldum.

  • Molten Front has received a beta rework.

Upcoming Zone Updates

  • Vashj'ir is planned for Patch 4.

  • Twilight Highlands is planned for Patch 4/5.

  • Level 85+ zone improvements are planned for Patch 4 and 5.


Spells & Class Mechanics

  • Over 150 spell corrections implemented across multiple classes.

  • Corrected spell targeting, range, area effects, resource costs, cast times, and stacking behavior.

  • Fixed unintended cast times affecting potions, elixirs, and other consumables.

  • Knockback abilities now apply the correct distance and direction.

  • Improved reliability of channeled spells and beam abilities.

  • Area-based buffs and debuffs now apply and disappear correctly when changing zones.

  • Fixed cooldown displays while controlling pets or vehicles.

Class-Specific Fixes

Warrior

  • Fixed Deep Wounds incorrectly damaging the Warrior.

Mage

  • Arcane Missiles no longer consumes Arcane Charges.

  • Arcane Missiles now receives the correct damage bonus from Arcane Charges.

Druid

  • Wild Charge now functions correctly across Cat, Bear, Moonkin, Travel, and Flight Forms.

Hunter

  • Disengage now correctly launches the Hunter backward.

  • Hunter pets now receive a default specialization.

  • Fixed Hunter pet action bars.

  • Glyph of Liberation now correctly restores health.


Combat & Creature Improvements

  • Rebalanced creature health, mana, and damage across level 1–85 zones, dungeons, and raids.

  • Improved NPC spell damage scaling.

  • Rare creatures now award the correct experience bonuses.

  • Corrected experience rewards for level 80–85 content.

  • Improved creature aggro, assistance, and combat behavior.

  • Fixed NPCs incorrectly engaging nearby players during scripted combat.

  • Dual-wielding NPCs now correctly use both weapons.

  • Ranged NPCs now display their projectiles correctly.

  • Improved companion and guardian pet movement and follow behavior.

  • Fixed various creature respawn and combat issues.


Movement & Pathfinding

  • Improved creature movement throughout the world.

  • Fixed NPCs falling through terrain or becoming stuck on objects.

  • Flying creatures now take off, land, and patrol correctly.

  • Swimming creatures now follow appropriate movement paths and animations.

  • Improved underwater detection and breath timers.

  • Fixed unintended dismounting on bridges and other elevated surfaces.

  • Restored movement for numerous previously stationary creatures.

  • Improved escort NPC movement and recovery after combat.


Phasing Improvements

  • Major improvements to quest and world phasing across Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Outland, and starting zones.

  • Fixed NPCs incorrectly appearing or disappearing during quest progression.

  • Improved phase transitions after completing quests, changing areas, or dying.

  • Pets, summons, and vehicles now correctly follow their owner's phase.

  • Improved phased objects, transports, and terrain transitions.


Vehicles & Transportation

  • Fixed players being unexpectedly ejected from vehicles.

  • Corrected vehicle seat switching and exit positions.

  • Fixed players becoming stuck after leaving vehicles.

  • Improved vehicle movement, orientation, and gravity.

  • Player-summoned vehicles now disappear correctly after being abandoned.

  • Improved water-based vehicle behavior.

  • Fixed several battleground vehicle issues.


Quest Improvements

  • Fixed quest map markers for hundreds of quests.

  • Restored missing quest descriptions, objectives, and progression text for over 1,600 quests.

  • Corrected numerous broken quest chains.

  • Removed 362 obsolete quests that could interfere with active quest progression.

  • Fixed quest item tracking and objective counters.

  • Improved quest giver interactions and dialogue.

  • Fixed quest progression issues after leveling up or receiving rewards.

  • Corrected quests that could become stuck after failing.


Loot & Professions

  • Restored numerous missing creature loot drops.

  • Adjusted world-drop equipment and cloth drop rates to better match retail.

  • Fixed creatures in certain dungeons incorrectly dropping no loot.

  • Reworked mining node locations and respawn behavior across all zones, including Pandaria.

  • Fixed missing skinning rewards.

  • Improved fishing loot and fishing pool functionality.

  • Corrected pickpocketing and mining loot tables.

  • Gathering professions now award the appropriate experience.


NPCs, Vendors & Trainers

  • Restored hundreds of NPC conversations, emotes, and scripted interactions.

  • Corrected missing and placeholder NPC dialogue.

  • Removed invalid or duplicate NPC interaction options.

  • Improved vendor and innkeeper behavior.

  • Updated class trainers to match Mists of Pandaria mechanics.

  • Added Monk trainers throughout the world.

  • Fixed repair NPCs that previously failed to open the repair interface.


Battle Pets

  • Restored wild Battle Pet spawns across nearly every zone.

  • Improved wild pet spawn locations and respawn behavior.

  • Fixed issues when switching pets during battles.

  • Corrected Siphon Life and Undead racial pet abilities.

  • Fixed Battle Pet caging.

  • Improved Battle Pet supply rewards.

  • Repaired Battle Pet trainers and introductory quests.


PvP & Battlegrounds

  • War Games functionality has been enabled and remains a work in progress.

  • Restored Call to Arms battleground weekend events.

  • Implemented Conquest catch-up mechanics.

  • Corrected Honor rewards to match Patch 5.4.7 behavior.

Battleground Updates

  • Strand of the Ancients: Enabled with improved boats, vehicles, and level scaling.

  • Isle of Conquest: Enabled with improved vehicles and battleground mechanics.

  • Alterac Valley: Fixed respawns, mine supply chests, and boss damage.

  • Eye of the Storm: Corrected flag capture mechanics.

  • Twin Peaks: Various battleground fixes.

  • Deepwind Gorge: Fixed cart and vehicle functionality.

Outdoor PvP

  • Improved capture point mechanics and ownership indicators in Hellfire Peninsula, Nagrand, and Terokkar Forest.


Dungeons & Raids

  • Partially reworked several dungeons and raids to better match original retail encounters.

Updated Instances

  • Wailing Caverns

  • Dire Maul

  • The Arcatraz

  • The Slave Pens

  • Zul'Aman

  • Zul'Gurub

Additional Fixes

  • Restored Zul'Aman's timed run.

  • Restored Zul'Gurub's Cache of Madness.

  • Fixed several encounter mechanics and stability issues.

  • Improved encounters in Gnomeregan and Zul'Farrak.


World Events & Holidays

  • Restored the full seasonal holiday calendar.

  • Improved holiday quests, vendors, and seasonal activities.

Supported Events

  • Hallow's End

  • Darkmoon Faire

  • Midsummer Fire Festival

  • Brewfest

  • Feast of Winter Veil

  • Love is in the Air

  • Additional seasonal events

Event Fixes

  • Holiday quests now appear during their intended event periods.

  • Fixed holiday quests being offered repeatedly.

  • Trick or Treat now works correctly at innkeepers.

  • Darkmoon Island has received extensive improvements to its activities, scripts, and vendors.


World & Quality-of-Life Improvements

  • Improved resting areas and inn functionality.

  • Fixed rest status not updating correctly when leaving inns.

  • Restored NPC crews aboard several ships and transports.

  • Fixed passengers incorrectly floating or sinking through transport floors.

  • Added custom loading screens for certain scripted flights and teleports.

  • Corrected reputation behavior when moving above Hostile standing.

  • Improved corpse and skeleton persistence.

  • Updated Wintergrasp, Tol Barad Island, and Molten Front content.

  • Additional stability improvements to reduce unexpected interruptions during gameplay.


Final Notes

Patch 3 represents a major milestone for StormGarde.

With extensive improvements to leveling zones, quests, combat, class mechanics, PvP, dungeons, and world content, our goal is to deliver a more complete, stable, and authentic Mists of Pandaria experience.

While this update addresses a significant number of issues, further improvements and additional content are already planned for Patch 4 and 5.

Thank you for being part of the StormGarde community.

The StormGarde Team