World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.1.2The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/ (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/)
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html)
General- New art textures have been added for Argent Tournament mounts. Any mounts already purchased from the Argent Tournament vendors will be updated automatically. Argent Tournament mounts with the old textures will still be available for purchase from the Argent Tournament vendors for a small Champion's Seal and gold cost (standard faction requirements apply).
- Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.
Equipment Manager- When enabled from the Interface Options menu, this feature will allow players to store sets of equipment, easily swap between saved sets using hotkeys, and pull items directly from backpacks or bank slots (must be at the bank to equip inventory from the bank).
PVP- Vehicle health and damage output in Strand of the Ancients and Lake Wintergrasp now scale with the item level of the operator's gear. Power scaling is now 1% damage and 1% health per average item level.
- All Lake Wintergrasp daily quests have been changed to a weekly format. The honor and Stone Keeper's Shards rewarded for completing these quests have been increased to compensate.
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Death Knight (
3.1 Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=650) / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc. (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight))
- Improved Death Strike: This talent now also increases the healing from Death Strike by 25/50% and the tooltip has been adjusted to reflect the actual functionality after the hotfix in 3.1.0.
- Ghoul Frenzy: Now has a 10-second cooldown.
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Druid (
3.1 Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=700) / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc. (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid))
- Innervate: This ability has been redesigned to grant 450% of the casting Druid's base mana pool to the target over 20 seconds.
- Improved Moonkin Form: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell power.
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Mage (
3.1 Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=670) / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc. (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?mage))
- Mirror Images: The images summoned by this spell will now target the creature that most hates the Mage, and should no longer cast Fire Blast or Frostbolt on targets that are affected by crowd control debuffs that break immediately on damage unless they are already casting these spells when crowd control is applied.
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Paladin (
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- Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom: Now grant 92 mana per 5 seconds to prevent being overwritten by Mana Spring Totem.
- Exorcism: Can no longer be used on player-controlled creatures.
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Priest (
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- Divine Hymn: Healing and healing scaling reduced by 30%. Buff on affected players changed from 15% to 10%.
- Renewed Hope: Effect can no longer be dispelled.
- Soul Warding: Mana cost reduction is now 15% down from 30%.
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Warlock (
3.1 Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=680) / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc. (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warlock))
- Conflagrate updated: Consumes an Immolate or Shadowflame effect on the enemy target to instantly deal damage equal to 12 seconds of your Immolate, or 8 seconds of your Shadowflame.
- Fire and Brimstone: Now increases the damage done by your Incinerate and Chaos Bolt by 3/6/9/12/15% on targets afflicted by Immolate, and increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate by 5/10/15/20/25%.
- Nether Protection reduced to 30% damage reduction, down from 60%.
- Sacrifice (Voidwalker) redesigned: Sacrifices a portion of the Voidwalker's health, giving its master a shield that will absorb X damage for 30 seconds. While the shield holds, spell casting will not be interrupted by damage. 1-minute cooldown.
- Shadow and Flame: Now also includes Shadowburn.
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Warrior (
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- Juggernaut: Critical strike chance bonus reduced to 25%, down from 100%.
Items- Darkruned Battlegear 2-Piece Set Bonus: The bonus critical strike chance for Frost Strike and Death Coil has been increased from 5% to 8%.
- Furious Gladiator's Staff and Furious Gladiator's Greatstaff: The agility values on these two items were too high. They have been reduced by 50%.
- Guise of the Midgard Serpent: The base attack power on this item has been lowered to balance it against items of a similar quality.
- Increased the health and mana restored from Northrend food and drinks.
- Most scopes now have a level requirement and will bind the item to which they are applied.
- Nightsong Garb 4-Piece Set Bonus: Chance for Insect Swarm to trigger an instant Starfire changed to 15%.
- Scourgeborne Battlegear 4-Piece Set Bonus: The runic power gain has been reduced to 5 runic power from 10 runic power.
Glyphs- Glyph of Conflagrate redesigned: When you use Conflagrate, the damage done by your next 3 Destruction spells is increased by 10% for 15 seconds if the Immolate on the target has 5 or fewer seconds remaining. (Even if this change is still in the official notes, it was reverted in an earlier PTR version and this might be a small mistake in the official note update. In the latest PTR build the glyph is: Your Conflagrate spell no longer consumes your Immolate or Shadowflame spell from the target.)
- Glyph of Innervate: Has been adjusted to grant the Druid 90% of his or her base mana pool over 20 seconds.
- Glyph of Mass Dispel: Now only decreases Mass Dispel cost by 35%.
- Glyph of Rapid Charge: Reduced to 7%, down from 20% cooldown reduction to Charge.
ProfessionsFishing- Jewel of the Sewers: You can now fish in all parts of the Dalaran sewers for this quest.
- Phantom Ghostfish: Can now be caught from Nettlefish schools in Sholazar Basin.
Bug FixesDungeons and Raids- Players can no longer become saved to an instance when they aren't in the instance during a boss kill.
Ulduar- Hodir should now reset in a timely manner if a group fails to kill him.
- 10-player bosses that drop Runed Orbs will also sometimes drop the recipes that use those orbs.
- The Spark of Imagination: Characters that release in part of the boss room will no longer be ported to Westfall or The Barrens.
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Death Knight- Anti-magic Shell: Tooltip error corrected.
- Blood Boil: If no target is available for Blood Boil to hit, the spell will now cast and consume a blood rune but generate no runic power.
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Druid - Maim: Rank 2 of this ability is properly considered a stun and can be escaped by Blink.
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Hunter - Go For The Throat: Explosive Shot critical strikes now trigger this talent.
- Lock and Load: The tooltip has been corrected to display its actual chance to occur.
- Rabid: This Hunter pet talent no longer lists a percentage chance to be triggered, as that chance varies by the attack speed of the pet.
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Paladin- Divine Sacrifice: Damage done to the Paladin while this is active will no longer cause the effect to break early, and if it is dispelled or cancelled early, the damage counter will reset correctly the next time the spell is cast.
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Rogue- Shadow Dance: Issues with action bars and ability use arising from using Stealth while Shadow Dance is active have been fixed.
- Tricks of the Trade: To prevent exploits, this ability can no longer be cast on non-player targets.
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Warlock- Demonic Sacrifice: This spell will no longer appear in any Warlock's spellbook.
Tailoring- Swordguard Embroidery: Now correctly increases ranged attack power.
QuoteVehicle health and damage output in Strand of the Ancients and Lake Wintergrasp now scale with the item level of the operator's gear. Power scaling is now 1% damage and 1% health per average item level.
Interesting buff as most people in BGs have PVE gear of pretty good iLevel.
Exorcism no longer working on player controlled creatures is retarded. If I can't use this on a Deathknights Ghoul or a Warlock's Demon like it could before all the other changes, I'll be extremely pissed and disappointed. Once again, grats to Blizzard to caving to qq.
-Mark
Quote from: Acree on Tue, 2009-05-12 : 15:55
Exorcism no longer working on player controlled creatures is retarded. If I can't use this on a Deathknights Ghoul or a Warlock's Demon like it could before all the other changes, I'll be extremely pissed and disappointed. Once again, grats to Blizzard to caving to qq.
-Mark
In PvP, you should be using Turn Evil anyway.