It looks like the patch notes for the next WoW update were leaked again. They seem legit, but remember that I’ve been fooled in the past (only once, though!).

Follow the first link and read them from FoH, because I’m not backing them up here.

Beside the cross-realm BGs that were announced and confirmed a while ago and the world PvP objectives that I commented yesterday, there’s some of the very best bugfixing EVER.

Here are some highlights:

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– Your Friends List and Ignore List has been expanded to hold 100 players.

– Reputation loss from killing NPCs has been drastically decreased across the board, and applies only to the players responsible, rather than to their entire party or raid.

– Fixed a bug that caused the sound level to increase when alt-tabbing in and out of the World of Warcraft client.

– Fixed a bug that would sometimes result in player names being magnified.

– Dishonorable Kills now apply only to players responsible, rather than to their entire party or raid.

– You will now be placed in a raid upon entering a battleground.

– Players can now see how many battleground instances are running, but are not able to choose specific instances to join. (Abalieno’s note: it will make harder to arrange a match)

– You can now leave a battleground from an option on the scoreboard at any time.

– Token systems have been implemented in Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. Tier 1 and Tier 2 Class Armor sets are now acquired like the Tier 3 sets are through turn-in quests. Bosses that previously dropped the armor have had their loot tables revised. In addition, new items that appeal to a greater variety of playstyles have been added to ALL raid instances as both quest rewards and drops!

– Meeting stones no longer automatically search for party members. Instead, joining a meeting stone for a dungeon now adds you to an interactive list (sorted by name, level, class, etc) of players looking for a group. Groups can be formed by contacting players through this interface. The meeting stone queues for all dungeons can now be accessed from any meeting stone in the world.

– A Guild Calendar has been added to streamline guild management. Upcoming raids and other events can be posted for all guild members to see.

– NPCs that repair now have a Repair equipped items button.

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Too good to be legit? Probably.

That radical switch in all the raid instances to a token system made me a bit suspicious. No more armor and weapons drops? No more public, immediate catwalks?

I also have to point out that at least two lines from these patch notes are directly taken from the patch notes leaked in September of the last year and that revealed to be fake”

– Dishonorable Kills will now apply only to the players responsible, rather than to their entire party or raid.

– You can now exit a battleground from an option on the scoreboard at all times.

– Meeting stones no longer search for party members. Instead, joining a meeting stone for a dungeon now adds you to a viewable list of players looking for a group. Groups can be formed by contacting players from this list.

Exact same phrasing. Plus a lot of similar changes.

EDIT: Yep, confirmed as fake. With a funny detail:

First and foremost, they’re being spread by “Spybot”, the same guy who faked the 1.8 patch notes.