3.3.0 PTR Patch Notes

[hozceri]

3.3.0

Quote from Blizzard staffWorld of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.3.0

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General

•Dazed: Creatures attacking a player from behind can no longer cause players level 1-5 to be dazed, and have a reduced chance to cause players level 6-10 to be dazed.
•The existing /welcome emote now greets/welcomes targets (character says “hello”), while the new /yw is for saying "you're welcome."
•Many of the tail sweeps with knockback effects will no longer hit players’ pets.
•Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.

Icecrown Citadel

•The Forge of Souls and Pit of Saron in the 5-player dungeon are currently available for testing.
•Additional Icecrown Citadel dungeon and raid content will be made available in future test builds. For more information and testing schedules please visit our Test Realm forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=11572&sid=1

Classes: General

•Area-of-Effect Damage Caps: We’ve redesigned the way area damage is capped when hitting many targets. Instead of a hard cap on total damage done, the game now caps the total damage done at a value equal to the damage the spell would do if it hit 10 targets. In other words, if a spell does 1000 damage to each target, it would hit up to 10 targets for 1000 each, but with more than 10 targets, each target would take 1000 damage divided by the number of targets. 20 targets would be hit for 500 damage each in that example.
•Default Equipment: Starting weapons are now more uniform. Rogues now start with a pair of daggers equipped. All other classes except shamans start with a 2-handed weapon equipped and the required skill already known. Shamans start with a 1-handed weapon and a shield, as they benefit more from the shield than they would from a 2-handed weapon.
•Glancing Blows: The mage, warlock, and priest classes no longer have an increased chance for their melee attacks to be glancing blows; and the damage penalty due to their glancing blows is the same as for other classes.
•Health and Mana Regeneration: These regeneration rates have been increased by up to 200% for low level characters. As a player’s level increases, the regeneration rates gradually reduce, returning to normal rates at level 15.
•Pet Resilience: All player pets now get 100% of their master’s resilience.
•Spell Mana Costs: These costs have been reduced for almost all lower level spell ranks. In general, if a spell decreased in cost with a higher level rank in patch 3.2.0, that spell now has the decreased cost at all ranks. In addition, spells learned before level 20 with reduced cast times and/or durations have even further reduced mana costs, proportionate to their reduction in cast time or damage.
•Taunt Diminishing Returns: We’ve revised the system for diminishing returns on Taunt so that creatures do not become immune to Taunt until after 5 Taunts have landed. The duration of the Taunt effect will be reduced by 35% instead of 50% for each taunt landed. In addition, most creatures in the world will not be affected by Taunt diminishing returns at all. Creatures will only have Taunt diminishing returns if they have been specifically flagged for that behavior based on the design of a given encounter.

Races: General

•Orc and troll shamans now have their own unique totem art.
•Racial Attribute Bonuses: These bonuses have been recalibrated to even out the amount of starting health on the various races. All races start with a standardized level of stamina, except for orcs, dwarves, and tauren who now start with 1 extra point of stamina. For each class, bonuses and penalties to all attributes have been adjusted so that each race has an equal attribute total.

PvP
Battlegrounds

•Battleground Experience: Battleground experience gained is now based on the level of the player gaining experience, rather than the highest possible player level in that Battleground.

Death Knight

•Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle: There is now a 1-handed version of this rune in addition to the current 2-handed rune.

Unholy

•Night of the Dead: Now reduces the damage your pet takes from area-of-effect damage by 45/90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
•Scourge Strike: Redesigned. The base ability now deals 50% weapon damage plus an additional amount as physical damage. However, for each disease the death knight has on the target, the target will take additional shadow damage equal to 25% of the physical damage done.
•Unholy Blight: This talent now deals only 10% of Death Coil damage as a damage-over-time effect on the target.

Druid

•Prowl: This ability no longer has multiple ranks and penalizes movement speed by 30%.
•Rejuvenation: Rank 15 of this spell was providing a 15-second duration. It has been correctly reduced to 12 seconds.

Pets

•Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.

Hunter

•Call Stabled Pet: Cooldown reduced from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.
•Deterrence: Now also increases the chance for ranged attacks to miss the hunter by 100% while under its effect.
•Misdirection: Redesigned. Instead of having finite charges, it now begins a 4-second timer when the hunter using Misdirection performs a threat-generating attack, during which all threat generated by the hunter goes to the friendly target. In addition, multiple hunters can now misdirect threat to the same friendly target simultaneously.

Beast Mastery

•Intimidation: If the hunter’s pet is in melee range of its target, the stun from Intimidation will now be applied immediately instead of on the pet’s next swing or attack.

Pets

•Avoidance: This talent has been replaced by Culling the Herd. Hunter pets now innately take 90% less damage from area-of-effect abilities like all other class pets. This does not apply to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
•Cower: Redesigned. This ability no longer affects threat, and instead reduces damage taken by the pet by 40% for 6 seconds with a 45-second cooldown. While cowering, the pet’s movement speed is 50% of normal speed. Cower now only has a single rank and is available at pet level 20.
•Culling the Herd: This pet talent has replaced the Avoidance talent in the pet trees (Hunter pets now gain that benefit automatically without expenditure of talent points). Culling the Herd increases pet and hunter damage by 1/2/3% for 10 seconds each time the pet deals a critical strike with Claw, Bite, or Smack.
•Demoralizing Screech: The attack power reduction from this ability has been increased by 40%, equaling the maximum possible attack power reduction from the abilities of other classes.
•Improved Cower: Redesigned. This ability now reduces the movement penalty of Cower by 50%/100%.
•Venom Web Spray: Range increased from 20 yards to 30 yards.
•Web: Range increased from 20 yards to 30 yards.
•Wolverine Bite: This talent is now enabled when the pet lands a critical strike rather than from the target dodging the pet’s attacks. In addition, this talent no longer has a prerequisite.

Mage
Arcane

•Arcane Empowerment: This talent now also grants 1/2/3% increased damage done by the mage’s party or raid for 10 seconds after the mage gets a critical strike with Arcane Explosion, Arcane Missiles, Arcane Barrage, or Arcane Blast. This effect is exclusive with Ferocious Inspiration and Sanctified Retribution.

Pets

•Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.

Paladin
Protection

•Divine Guardian: This talent no longer increases the amount of damage transferred to the paladin from Divine Sacrifice. Instead it causes all raid and party members to take 10/20% reduced damage while Divine Sacrifice is active.
•Divine Sacrifice: Redesigned. The effect of Divine Sacrifice is now party-only and the maximum damage which can be transferred is now limited to 40% of the paladin’s health multiplied by the number of party members. In addition, the damage transferred to the paladin is now reduced by 50% before being applied to the paladin. Finally, the bug which allowed Divine Sacrifice to sometimes persist despite reaching its maximum damage has been fixed. Divine Sacrifice will now cancel as soon as its maximum damage value is exceeded in all cases.

Priest
Shadow

•Mind Flay: The range of this ability has been increased to 30 yards, up from 20.

Pet

•Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pet takes from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.

Rogue

•Dual Wield: Rogues now know this ability upon logging into the game at level 1.
•Stealth: This ability no longer has multiple ranks. While active, the single rank of this ability (available at level 1) allows rogues to move at 70% movement speed.
•Vanish: For the first half second after this ability is used, neither Vanish nor Stealth can be broken by taking damage or being the victim of a hostile spell or ability.

Warlock
Affliction

•Improved Felhunter: This talent now also reduces the cooldown on the felhunter’s Shadow Bite ability by 2/4 seconds.

Demonology

•Decimation: Redesigned. When Shadowbolt, Incinerate or Soul Fire hit a target that is at or below 35% health, the cast time of Soul Fire is reduced by 30/60% for 8 seconds. Soul Fires cast under the effect of Decimation cost no shards.
•Demonic Pact: This talent now also increases the warlock's spell damage by 1/2/3/4/5%.

Destruction

•Conflagrate: Redesigned. This talent now consumes an Immolate or Shadowflame effect on the enemy target to instantly deal damage equal to 9 seconds of Immolate or 8 seconds of Shadowflame, and causes additional damage over 3 seconds equal to 3 seconds of Immolate or 2 seconds of Shadowflame.

Pets

•Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
•Doomguard/Infernal: These pets now innately have Avoidance like all other warlock pets.
•Shadow Bite: This pet ability now provides 15% increased damage for each of the warlock’s damage-over-time effects on the target.
•Summon Imp: This ability is now available from the trainer for level 1 warlocks and no longer requires a quest to learn.

Warrior

•Victory Rush: This ability is now trainable at level 6.

Protection

•Damage Shield: This ability will no longer trigger any chance-on-hit effects from the warrior or the opponent it damages.

User Interface
For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11114

Quest Tracking Feature

•This system is currently under development and is not fully functional.

Looking For Group System

•This feature is undergoing several improvements and is not available for testing at this time.
•A new feature has been added to the D3D graphics engine to improve texture management (particularly for Windows XP users). This is currently enabled by default on the public test realms. For more information please visit our Test Realm forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=11572&sid=1


Enchanting

•Enchant Weapon - Black Magic: This enchantment now sometimes increases haste rating for the caster rather than inflicting the caster’s target with a damage-over-time effect. It is also now triggered by landing any harmful spell rather than inflicting damage with a spell.
•Enchant Weapon - Unholy: This enchantment now inflicts Shadow damage in addition to its original effect.

First Aid

•The training costs for most bandages have been reduced.

Mining

•Enchanted Thorium: This ability now uses the Mining skill and is learned from trainers at a skill level of 250.

Quests

•Weekly raid quests are now available from Archmage Lan'dalock in Dalaran. Every Tuesday at 3 AM the Council of Six will choose a different strategic target that must die from either: The Obsidian Sanctum, Naxxramas, The Eye of Eternity, Ulduar, Trial of the Crusader, or Icecrown Citadel.
•For the various Icecrown Bomber quests at Aldur'thar: The Desolation Gate, players can now choose to eject from their bomber seats mid-run. If you do so, a rescue vehicle will transport your character back to the safety of your infra-green platform.
•Azure Drakes and Dragons will now attack back when attacked by characters not riding Wyrmrest Defenders.

Items

•Death Knight Tier-9 4-Piece Bonus: This set bonus no longer grants Frost Fever a chance to be a critical strike. It still grants that possibility to Blood Plague.

Glyphs
Death Knight

•Glyph of Icy Touch: Instead of granting additional runic power, this glyph now causes Frost Fever to deal 20% additional damage.

Shaman

•Glyph of Fire Nova Totem: Renamed Glyph of Fire Nova. This glyph now reduces the cooldown of Fire Nova by 3 seconds.

Bug Fixes
Items

•Glyph of Immolation Trap: Now properly increases damage by 100%.

Classes
Druid

•Infected Wounds: This ability is no longer considered to be in the magical defense category; therefore spell hit no longer applies to its activation.
•Nature's Grace: The tooltip now correctly indicates that it will not be activated from periodic spell critical strikes.

Hunter

•Concussive Barrage: This ability is no longer subject to spell reflects.
•Point of No Escape: This ability no longer stacks and now only functions for the hunter.

Mage

•Flame Strike: Some ranks of this spell had an incorrect cast time of 3 seconds. All ranks now share a 2-second cast time.

Priest

•Inspiration: The tooltip now correctly indicates that it also functions with Prayer of Mending.
•Mind Flay: The rank 1 tooltip has been corrected to indicate the accurate damage and snare effect.

Warlock

•Curse of the Elements: Rank 4 has been increased to 11%, up from 10%.
•Drain Soul: This spell now deals 4 times the normal damage for all ranks. Previously it was only ranks 6 and above.
•Suffering (Voidwalker): Ranks 5-8 had the incorrect taunt radius of 5 yards and have all been adjusted to a 10-yard radius.

[hozceri]

•Berserking now also increase your casting speed.

Companion Pets

•Mr. Chilly is now named Oswald.
•Perky Pug has been added to the game.

Mounts

•Grand Black War Mammoth now Allows two passengers to board that are in the same group as the driver.

Death Knight
Unholy

•Bone Shield now surrounds the Death Knight with 3 whirling bones (down from 4) and lasts 5 mins. (Up from 1 min)

Runeforging

•Rune of the Nerubian Carapace now increase defense by 13 (down from 25) and stamina by 1%. (Down from 2%)

Druid
Feral

•Prowl is now a one-rank skill and reduces movement speed by 30%.

Hunter
Beast Mastery

•Call Stabled Pet now has a 5 min cooldown. (Down from 30 min)

Survival

•Deterrence now also reduces the chance ranged attacks will miss you by 100%.

Pets

•Demoralizing Screech now decreases the melee AP of all enemies in melee range by 574 (Up from 410). Lower ranks increased accordingly.
•Venom Web Spray now has a 30 yd range. (Up from 20 yd)
•Cower is now a one-rank ability and reduces damage taken by 40%. While cowering, your pet's movement speed is reduced by 50%.

Priest
Shadow

•Mind Flay now has a 30 yd range. (Up from 20 yd)

Shaman
Enhancement

•Earth's Grasp now also reduces the cooldown of Stoneclow and Earthbind Totem by 15/30%.

Warlock
Demonology

•Demonic Pact now also Increases your spell damage by 1/2/3/4/5%.
•Decimation now procs from Soul Fire as well.

Destruction

•Conflagrate now deal damage equal to 9 sec of your Immolate or 8 sec of your Shadowflame, and causes an additional damage equal to 3 sec of your Immolate or 2 sec of your Shadowflame over 3 sec.

[hozceri]

•Mind Flay now has a 30 yd range. (Up from 20 yd)
bi sey gelse 4-5 yılda sunun range i artırmayı akıl ettiler. Talentten mind blastın cd yi dusurmeyide kaldırırlarsa oluruz belki yerine duzgun bi talent gelirse

[pekaziz]

Güzel değişiklikler geliyor bu patchte.

[Wayne]

Regalya said:

Neilyonun bu moviedeki gibi kullanım artıcak vanishin muhtemelen

movie deki gibi vanish atmak icin kimbilir kac ms gerek...

[ad3m]

hozceri said:

•Mind Flay now has a 30 yd range. (Up from 20 yd)
bi sey gelse 4-5 yılda sunun range i artırmayı akıl ettiler. Talentten mind blastın cd yi dusurmeyide kaldırırlarsa oluruz belki yerine duzgun bi talent gelirse

Bunun sebebi glyph değişimi swp için haste glyph eklicekler eski mf glyph yerine.Dengesizlik çıkmazsa sanırım tüm dot/hot speller haste ile etkileşimli olacaklar.

[ArchangelTanwen]

muradin bronzebeard-(model dwarf olduğu ve karşı modeli varok olduğu için büyük ihtimal o)
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/october/npc_10554_01.jpg

varok saurfang
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/october/npc_10554_02.jpg

jaina proudmoore
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/october/jaina.jpg

tyrannus
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/october/npc_10554_06.jpg

garfrost
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/october/npc_10554_08.jpg

teranas menethil
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/september/terenas.jpg

female lich model-(lady deathwhisper galiba)
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/october/newlich.jpg

[Longshanks]

bu female daha male olmuş ötekniden :D

[Mortis]

oo warlocklara o gelen glyph of quick decay ve gllyph of life tap le afflication ii işler çıkarabilir herhalde.

[Laurelin]

said:

It's Over Nine Thousand!
Achievement in progress
Earn more than 9000 achievement points

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

bazi yeni achivementlar cok iyi yaa ehahah

said:

It's a Trap! (10 player)
Achievement in progress
Survive the Ice Jets in Icecrown Citadel 10-player mode.

said:

I've Gone and Made a Mess (10 player)
Defeat the Deathbringer with fewer than X raid members suffering from Garrote in 10-player mode.

said:

Once Bitten, Twice Shy (10 player)
Defeat the Blood Queen while having been a vampire in 10-player mode.

said:

We're Not Retreating; We're Advancing in a Different Direction.
Escape from the Lich King in under two hours and eleven seconds.

[ad3m]

Oha shadow prieste bariz buff gelmiş sevindim lan :P

Bu arada shadowform tooltip rekor olacak ahaha

Bu arada frost magede ciddi bufflanmış süresiz pet ile yeni lance crit boku ciddi dps boostlar.

[hozceri]

hani sp nin dps i iyidi buffa gerek yoktu. Bi söylediklerini digerini tutsa yerlerde surunuyoruz

[ad3m]

Bu haste buffı gerekli idi çünkü millet gear up oldukça gear ile beraber dpsde doğru orantılı yükseliyor haste bizde önemsiz (aslında değil fakat diğerleriyle karşılaştırınca) olduğu için dps scale çok komik kalıyor.
Spirit dönüşümü saymicam bile prebc de bile tek spirit dmg dönüşümü pride olupda lkda en eziğinin bizlere verilmiş olması tartışılamaz bile.
Ve yerinde bi karar birde threati kaldırılsa rlz olcak.
Pvp ve pve için güzel yenilikler ben tamamen unutulduğumuzu sanmıştım :D

[Lopeth]

şimdi it gibi kaçacakmıymışız lich kingden ?

[FreEmoon]

5 mande evet

10 ve 25 mande çatır çatır kesicez.

The Frozen Throne (10 player)
Achievement in progress
Defeat the Lich King in Icecrown Citadel in 10-player mode.
The Lich King

[Rikkie]

Abi conflagratei yine mi nerflemişler yaw arenada iki tane crit yiyen adamın QQsuna olan raiderlara oluyor.

[Mortis]

Guldan sonumuzu hayır etsin bakalım

[Laurelin]

silcieklermis warlocku oyundan konustum ben

[tomkat]

ret icin nerf yok mu

yeter lan

[Laurelin]

daha neyioni nerflicekler retin

[Saeros]

conflagrate'i nası nerflemişler pek anlamadım, açıklayabilecek var mı euh

[Madcat]

12 saniye immoydu 9 saniye immo oldu şimdi.

[Dynun]

Saeros said:

conflagrate'i nası nerflemişler pek anlamadım, açıklayabilecek var mı euh

hacı 12k critliyodu, 8k critliycek. np.
overkill olmicak pek, düz ölcek np.
np.

[Saeros]

kötü olmuş ama ya.
hayır madem insanlar ağlıyor pvp'sini nerfleyin bişey yapın, pve'de zaten roguelar mageler bilmemneler eziyor, affliction mı speclicez napıcaz anlamadım ki.

[Buyse]

affli olacak mecbur sanırım