RSS Patch 3.1.0 PTR Notes - 03/13 Official Update [Archive]

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14/03/2009, 01:41

PTR Testing - Raids are still testing Mimiron! Check the post below for <a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=43968.0" target="_blank">streams, abilities, and new loot</a> Patch 3.1.0 PTR Notes - Official Update The <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html" target="_blank">official notes</a> have been updated once again with tons of new changes! The newest additions are below. <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">PvP Arenas <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Enemy Unit Frames: This feature is only available while in Arenas, with several options in the Interface Options.</li></ul>Lake Wintergrasp <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Siege Engines now have Steam Pressure as a resource type (replaces energy).</li><li>Siege Engines now have the Steam Rush ability from Ulduar.</li><li>The southern Siege Factories can be captured.</li></ul> Races: General <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Gift of the Naaru (Draenei Racial): The heal has been changed to an instant-cast direct heal instead of a heal-over-time.</li><li>Stoneform (Dwarf Racial): No longer makes you immune to poison, disease and bleed effects for 8 seconds. Instead, using Stoneform will clear those effects when cast. Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes from 3 minutes.</li></ul> Classes: General <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Spirit: The amount of mana regeneration granted by this stat has been reduced by 40%.</li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ideathknights.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Death Knight (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=650" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Blood <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Blood Strike: Bonus damage for diseases is now a multiplier rather than a flat bonus.</li><li>Death Strike: The weapon damage percent on this ability has been increased from 60% to 75%, but the amount of healing per damage done has been reduced by 20%.</li></ul>Frost <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Chillblains: Now a 15/30/50% movement speed debuff up from 30%. Can no longer be dispelled.</li><li>Frost Presence: Now grants 5% damage reduction instead of 15% magic damage reduction.</li><li>Obliterate: Bonus damage for diseases now increases damage done by a percentage rather than a flat amount.</li><li>Dancing Rune Weapon: Damage done by this pet is reduced by 50%, but the cooldown is reduced to 90 seconds.</li><li>New talent: Improved Death Strike: Increases Death Strike damage by 10/20%, and critical strike chance by 3/6%.</li><li>Heart Strike: Bonus damage for diseases is now a multiplier rather than a flat bonus.</li><li>Might of Mograine: No longer affects Obliterate.</li><li>Scent of Blood: Will now proc on a dodge, parry or when taking damage, and now grants 10 runic power per charge. Internal cooldown removed.</li><li>Spell Deflection: This talent has been increased to 15/30/45% damage reduction.</li><li>Chillblains: Now a 15/30/50% movement speed debuff up from 30%. Can no longer be dispelled.</li><li>Howling Blast: Base damage and scaling doubled. This ability no longer deals bonus damage to targets with Frost Fever. Cooldown increased to 10 seconds. Swapped positions with Hungering Cold in the talent tree.</li><li>Lichborne: No longer improves your chance to be missed. Now correctly grants immunity, and will break all effects to which Lichborne makes you immune.</li><li>Runic Power Mastery: Moved up to tier-1 and reduced to 2 ranks (15/30%).</li><li>Unbreakable Armor: Now grants damage reduction instead of physical damage reduction. Cooldown increased to 2 minutes from 1 minute.</li></ul>Unholy <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Desecration: This talent now has a 100% chance to be triggered, works with Scourge Strike, and instantly snares targets within the Desecration area. Additional points in the talent increase the damage bonus and snare magnitude instead of increasing the chance it will be triggered.</li><li>New Talent: Ghoul Frenzy: Grants 25% melee haste to your pet and heals it for 30% of its maximum health. Costs 1 Unholy Rune.</li><li>Outbreak: No longer increases Blood Boil damage. Now gives a 7/13/20% damage bonus to Scourge Strike. Plague Strike Bonus lowered to 10/20/30%.</li><li>Reaping: Now procs on Blood Strike and Pestilence instead of Blood Strike and Blood Boil.</li><li>Scourge Strike: Damage increased. Bonus damage for diseases now increases damage done by a percentage rather than a flat amount.</li><li>Shadow of Death: This talent has been removed.</li><li>Vicious Strikes: This talent no longer affects Death Strike.</li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/idruids.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Druid (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=700" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral): Now decreases armor of your target by 5%. Has a 5-minute duration, and a 40-second PvP duration.</li><li>Feral Faerie Fire: The damage generated by this ability in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form has been increased substantially.</li><li>Innervate: This spell no longer costs mana.</li><li>Pounce: No longer affected by diminishing returns with other stuns, however, it now shares a diminishing return with Cheap Shot (Rogue).</li><li>Savage Defense: Trainable at level 40 with Dire Bear Form as a prerequisite. When the Druid deals a melee critical strike, they gain a physical damage shield equal to 25% of their attack power. The next hit completely consumes the shield, regardless of how much damage was done. Only active in Bear Form.</li><li>Swipe: The Bear Form and Dire Bear Form version of this ability no longer has a targeting requirement and hits targets behind the druid and to the sides.</li></ul>Balance <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Celestial Focus redesigned: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Starfire, Hibernate and Hurricane by 23/46/70% and increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.</li><li>Mark of the Wild and Gift of the Wild can now be cast while in Moonkin form.</li></ul>Feral <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Predatory Strikes: This talent no longer works when in Moonkin form.</li><li>Survival of the Fittest: Bonus armor reduced to 11/22/33% instead of 22/44/66%.</li></ul>Restoration <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Improved Regrowth: This talent is renamed Nature’s Bounty. Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth and Nourish spells by 5/10/15/20/25%.</li><li>Tree of Life: Now receives 240% increased armor. You can now use Nature's Grasp and Thorns while within this form. Mana cost reduced to match the cost of Travel Form.</li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ihunters.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Hunter (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Frost Trap: If the target who triggers Frost Trap is immune to its effect, the Frost Trap area effect will no longer be triggered. Now reduces speed by 50% (previously 60%).</li></ul>Marksmanship <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Chimera Shot: Mana cost reduced from 16% to 12%.</li><li>Concussive Barrage redesigned: 2-point talent. Now causes your Multi-Shot and Chimera Shot to have a 50/100% chance to daze the target for 4 seconds.</li><li>Efficiency: Increased to 3/6/9/12/15% up from 2/4/6/8/10%.</li><li>Silencing Shot: No longer on the global cooldown.</li></ul>Survival <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Entrapment redesigned: When your Frost Trap, Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Snake Trap are triggered, you entrap all afflicted targets, preventing them from moving for 2/4/6 seconds.</li><li>T.N.T.: Gives your Explosive Shot a 33/66/100% chance to refresh the duration of your Immolation Trap effect on the target.</li><li>Trap Mastery: This talent has been moved up to tier-2, up from tier-9, and is now a 3-point talent.</li><li>Trap Mastery, Resourcefulness and T.N.T. now all affect Black Arrow.</li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/images.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Mage (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=670" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?mage" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Mirror Image: The images no longer cast Polymorph.</li></ul>Fire <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Improved Scorch: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of the Improved Scorch effect.</li></ul>Frost <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Winter’s Chill: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of Winter’s Chill.</li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ipaladins.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Paladin (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=610" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?paladin" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Divine Plea can once again be dispelled.</li><li>Exorcism: Now can be used on any target and has a 100% chance to be a critical strike when used on Undead and Demons.</li><li>Shield of Righteousness: Base damage and scaling factor increased by 30%.</li><li>Spiritual Attunement: Removed from trainers. It is now available deep in the Protection tree for 2 ranks at 5/10%.</li></ul>Holy <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Blessed Hands: Now reduces mana cost of Hand of Freedom, Sacrifice and Salvation by 15/30%, and i...</li></ul></div></div></div>

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