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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

PTR 3.0.3 Patch Notes

The PTR 3.0.3 Patch Notes are available. To put it in a nutshell, this patch adds lots of goodies to each class, with barely any nerf. Glyphs have been updated with favoring changes. Alchemy elixirs got a bit of a nerf to compensate for class changes. Certain Hunter pets got smacked by the nerf bat. Read the full patch notes after the break.

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.0.3

Racial

  • Shadowmeld: The cooldown will now start on use instead of on break.
  • Devouring Plague: The bonus coefficient has been increased to be on par with other DoT spells. Base damage on ranks 7,8, and 9 decreased to partially compensate for better scaling.


Druids

  • Druid talents points have been refunded. Players will need to visit a class trainer to relearn spells and abilities.
  • Berserk: Now clears the cooldown on Mangle Bear.
  • Earth and Moon and Moonfury (Balance) reduced from 5 ranks each to 3 ranks each.
  • Eclipse: Buff duration extended to 15 sec and bonuses doubled. The cooldown has been increased to 40 seconds.
  • Growl: Cooldown changed to 8 sec.
  • Survival Instincts will no longer be on the Global Cooldown.


Hunters

  • Aimed Shot: Added to Barrage and Improved Barrage talent.
  • Animal Handler: Now increases your pet’s expertise by 5/10. (No longer increases the pet’s chance to hit.)
  • Aspects now have a shared cooldown category of 1 sec and no longer have a start cooldown.
  • Aspect of the Monkey: The Dodge chance has been increased from 8% to 18%.
  • Aspect of the Viper: The per attack mana regeneration has been reduced by 50% but this ability now generates 4% of maximum mana every 3 sec. In addition, the per attack regeneration now also works on melee attacks.
  • Disengage now fails if you’re rooted and is no longer on the global cooldown.
  • Mana cost of Disengage has been lowered to 5% of base mana, down from 14%.
  • Pets
  • Rake (Cat), Scorpid Poison (Scorpid): Lowered damage of all ranks.
  • Stampede (Rhino): Lowered the knockback to 10 yards.
  • Raised the damage of exotic attacks: Spirit Strike, Lava Breath, Froststorm Breath, Acid Spit, and Stampede.
  • Lowered the cost of pet specials from 25 to 20.


Mages

  • Living Bomb: Mana cost reduced to be the same as Arcane Explosion.
  • Reduced the mana cost of Fireball, Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt, Arcane Blast, Arcane Missiles, and Arcane Explosion.


Paladins

  • Enlightening Judgments now increases range by 15/30 (was 10/20).
  • Infusion of Light (Holy) now affects Flash of Light too, reducing its cast time down to zero and can be used while moving.
  • Judgements of the Pure: Haste increased to 3/6/9/12/15%.
  • Repentance PvP duration reduced to 6 sec.
  • Righteous Defense cooldown has been lowered to 8 sec (was 15 sec).
  • Shield of the Templar now also reduces all damage taken by 1/2/3%.




Priests

  • Divine Providence: This talent now also reduces the cooldown of your Prayer of Mending spell by 6/12/18/24/30%. With 5 points applied, it takes Prayer of Mending’s cooldown from 10 sec to 7.
  • Shadowform: Devouring Plague, Shadow Word:Pain, and Vampiric Touch cast in Shadowform deal increased damage percentage equal to the player’s chance to get a spell crit on their target.
  • Vampiric Touch: The Spell power coefficient has been doubled.




Rogues

  • Combat Potency: Now only works with autoattacks (no more Shiv.)
  • Fan of Knives changed to be castable with no targets, further improved the visual affect and it no longer plays an impact on the caster.




Shaman

  • Improved Fire Nova Totem: Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova Totem by 10/20% and your Fire Nova totem has a 50/100% chance to stun all targets damaged by your Fire nova Totem for 2 sec.
  • Lava Burst: The base damage has been increased by approx. 10%.
  • Riptide: The initial heal amount has been increased on ranks 3 and 4 and periodic healing has been increased on all ranks.
  • Storm Reach is now called “Elemental Reach” and now includes Lava Burst.
  • Thunderstorm: Mana gain has been increased to 8%.
  • Tidal Waves will now also proc with Riptide.




Warlocks

  • Haunt: The cooldown has been changed to 8 sec, and refreshing the Haunt will trigger the heal from the existing Haunt.
  • Shadowflame: Damaged increased approx. 75%. Coefficients unchanged.




Warriors

  • Bloodthirst: Cooldown reduced to 5 sec.
  • Improved Rend changed to 10/20%.
  • Inferno: The Infernal is now useable indoors and the tooltip has been updated.
  • Rend: Damage has been adjusted to be less base and more weapon based.
  • Rend: Ranks 9 and 10 now do 35% more damage when the target is above 75% health instead of 4 times damage when the target is enraged. Sudden Death: Now has 3/6/9% chance on hit instead of 10/20/30% chance on crit.
  • Titan’s Grip: Changed to 12% penalty instead of 15%.




Professions

  • The level requirements required to train gathering skills have been removed.
  • Alchemy

    • Reduced the effect of Elixir of Mongoose and Elixir of Major Agility.




  • Inscription

    • Glyph of Flame Shock: Now extends duration by 6 sec and prevents Flame Shock from being consumed by Lava Burst.
    • Glyph of Lava: Glyph of Earth Elemental removed and replaced with this glyph. This glyph increases coefficient on Lava Burst by 0.1.
    • Glyph of Shiv: Replaced with Glyph of Vigor, which increases maximum energy by an additional 10 for those with the Vigor talent.
    • Glyph of Shadow: Glyph of Mind Soothe removed and replaced with this glyph. This glyph increases spell power by 10% of spirit for 10 sec after critting while in Shadowform.
    • Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain: Increases damage done by Mind Flay when SW:P is present by 10%.
    • Glyph of Sinister Strike: Chance increased to 50%.
    • Glyph of Souls no longer removes soul shard cost. It instead reduces the mana cost of your Ritual of Souls spell by 70%.
    • Glyph of Spirit of Redemption: Tooltip corrected to 4 sec. extra when the glyph triggers.
    • Glyph of Strength of Earth: Replaced with Glyph of Lava Lash which increases the bonus from having Flametongue Weapon by 10%.
    • Glyph of Trueshot Aura: Now increases Aimed Shot crit chance instead of increasing attack power bonus.
    • Glyph of Totem of Wrath: Replaced with Glyph of Elemental Mastery, which decreases the cooldown on Elemental Mastery by 30 sec.


User Interface

  • For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.


Items

  • Held in hand books created by Inscription are now Bind on Equip rather than Bind on Pickup.


Bug Fixes

  • Glyph of Rupture: The tooltip has been corrected.
  • Hunter: Ferocious Inspiration will now apply raid-wide, as intended.
  • Hunter Pets

    • Sonic Blast (Bat): Will no longer ignore LoS.
    • Bad Attitude (Croc): Will no longer ignore the Longevity buff.
    • Thunderstomp (Gorilla): Will no longer have a physical coefficient instead of a magical one.
    • Gore (Bore): Fixed an issue where a wrong value was being applied.
    • Savage Rend: Corrected typos in the tooltip.


  • Mage: Burning Determination will now work properly.
  • Mage: Frostfire Bolt (Rank 2): The DoT effect will now properly scale.
  • Mage: Living Bomb’s “explosion effect” will now be properly classified.
  • Priest: Holy Reach (Rank 2) will now increase the radius of Divine Hymm properly.

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