What is different
Steamwheedle Mercs keeps the 1.12 game and changes what makes it tedious or lopsided: every class got new talents and spells, gear and professions were extended, and a long list of quality of life changes takes out the grind. This page lists what changed. The in-game talent tooltips and the Talent Calculator always show the exact current numbers.
- Stackable items stack ten times higher and every bag has eight more slots.
- Flights take you straight to the destination.
- Group buffs and shouts reach the whole raid, not only your party.
- There is no debuff limit in practice: a target can hold up to 255 debuffs instead of 16, so nothing falls off.
- Gathering nodes and quest objects can be used by everyone in the group, and every group member gets their own copy of quest drops.
- Rare mounts cost 50 silver and are usable at level 10, epic mounts at level 40, and mounts are faster and cast in three quarters of a second.
- Free talent respecs for players and pets.
- Class buffs last one hour and group buffs are 15% bigger.
- The Hearthstone has a 5 second cast and a 30 second cooldown.
- Rested experience everywhere.
- Every class knows all of its weapons and weapon skills are at the maximum.
- Jog gives +60% movement speed after three seconds of moving out of combat.
- Guild charters need no signatures to complete.
- Target dummies in the capital cities for testing your damage.