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World of Warcraft patches are small changes to game mechanics, additional quests, bug-fixes and other things along that nature. Most of the time, patches are to fix bugs in the code or to adjust the damage or healing certain spells do.

Patches should not be confused with expansions. World of Warcraft expansions (ie Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and Cataclysm) are major changes to the world and sometimes additions of classes or races (ie Dranei and Blood Elf races in BC and Death Knights in Wrath of the Lich King).

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