Update on Gnomish Battle Chicken in Burning Crusade Classic

wowhead.com:

Blizzard has shared a Blue Post explaining how the most recent hotfix to Illidan Stormrage will impact Gnomish Battle Chicken, and by extension Battle Squawk. Essentially, the Enrage timer was fixed in Patch 2.1 and Blizzard is correcting an error on Burning Crusade Classic, which also affects Battle Squawk.

The TL;DR here is that in the original World of Warcraft, creatures would ignore the initial cooldown period for certain support spells (such as buffs or summon spells). This behavior was removed in patch 2.1.

This correct behavior was not present in Burning Crusade Classic until this fix, which is why Illidan’s Phase 5 Enrage was not properly delayed as it should have been. A knock-on effect of this fix is that the Battle Squawk buff from the Gnomish Battle Chicken can no longer bypass its initial cooldown period as it could in pre-2.1 World of Warcraft.

Battle Squawk now observes its correct initial cooldown rules as it did starting in patch 2.1. While this hotfix wasn’t specifically targeted at nerfing Gnomish Battle Chickens, it did restore the correct post-2.1 behavior.