2.3 "notes"

Straight from http://www.MMO-Champion.com Some big changes like Fear ward, Mage dmg tax removed, ret changes etc.

 

This isn't in their notes yet, but I thought it was interesting. Inregards to if priest racials are going to be looked at in 2.3, here is the response:

Fear Ward will be available to all priests at level 20, but there are some changes in addition. Current plans are to reduce duration to 3 minutes, and increase the cooldown to 3 minutes.

 

To give the dwarves and draenei something else to even it out, they'll see a new ability called Chastise (also given at level 20) which will cause holy damage and incapacitate the target for 2 seconds.

Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...47484&sid=1

 

 

Notes:

 

General

 

* Heroic Badges drop from Zul'aman and Karazhan bosses

* Healing Reduction effects now affect all Drain spells and abilities (i.e. Mortal Strike vs Drain Life)

* Level 20-60 Quest EXP has been increased, while EXP to Level has been decreased

* New Title - Champion of the Naaru: Awarded to those who complete the Tempest Keep attunement quest at level 70

* New Flying Mount added. Requires 2,000g and Exalted with Cenarion Expedition

* New 10-Man Raid - Zul'Aman!

* Guild Banks are being added to the game.

* New Arena Relics have been added for more talent specs, and existing Relics have been renamed to create a more consistent naming convention

* +Healing bonus will give 33% of spell damage as well (1500 Healing bonus will give you 500 Spell damage)

 

 

Mages

 

* Damage coefficient reduction is removed from Improved Fireball/Frostbolt. (Source)

* New spell : Ritual of Refreshment. It will allow players to pick up their own stack of food/water, similar to a Soulwell. (Source)

* Evocation restores 15% of your total mana every 2 seconds instead of being a spirit-based mana regen increase. (Source)

* Arcane Meditation is being increased to 10/20/30% mana regeneration. (Source)

* Ice Barrier gains additional benefit from spell damage bonuses. However, the base absorb values of ranks 5 and 6 have been reduced. (Source)

 

Shamans

 

* New Talent replacing the 2 Handed weapons one - Elemental Focus: Puts you in a "focused state" after landing a melee critical strike, reducing the mana cost of your next Shock spell by 60% (Source)

* All shaman can equip 2-Handed Axes and 2-Handed Maces without spending talent points. (Source)

* Frost shock is no longer subject to diminishing returns. (Source)

* Shamanistic rage also reduces all damages taken by 30% for the duration of the ability (30 seconds) in addition to its current effect. (Source)

* Spirit weapons reduces melee threat by 30% instead of 15%. (Source)

* Mental Quickness adds 10/20/30% to spell damage and healing bonuses based on your total Attack Power in addition to it's current effects. (Source)

* Lightning Overload now has a 4/8/12/16/20% chance to proc

* Lightning Overload damage has been decreased by 50%

* Lightning Overload now causes 0 threat

* Lightning Mastery reduced to .1/.2/.3/.4/.5 seconds

* Mana Spring Totem now restores mana at a rate of 20 mana every 2 seconds

* Water Shield now costs 0 mana to cast, and the mana per globe has been substantially increased

* Water Shield's duration has been reduced to 1 minute, and grants mana for each globe left upon ending

* Elemental Focus will now reduce the mana cost of your next two damage spells by 40%

* Lightning Bolt casting time reduced to 2.5 seconds, and mana cost decreased

* Chain Lightning casting time reduced to 2 seconds, and mana cost decreased

 

 

Druids

 

* Cure Poison and Abolish Poison may now be cast in Tree of Life form

* Remove Curse may now be cast in Moonkin form

* Rebirth cooldown reduced to 20 minutes

* Intensity increased to 10/20/30% mana regeneration

 

 

Warlocks

 

* Ritual of Souls has had it's casting time significantly reduced

 

 

Warriors

 

* Mace Specialization proc has been reduced

* Mace Specialization Rage increased to 7

* Tactical Mastery now greatly increases threat from Mortal Strike and Bloodthirst while in Defensive Stance

* Devastate now combines the effects of Sunder Armor into it's effect, and is affected by all talents and items that affect Sunder Armor

 

 

Priests

 

* Power Word: Shield gains additional benefit from spell damage and healing bonuses. However the base absorb values for ranks 10, 11, and 12 have been reduced. (Source)

* Pain Suppression is castable on a friendly target, it reduces the target's threat by 5% and reduce the damage it takes by 40%. (Source) (imagine on an aoe'ing mage or something?)

* Pain Suppression cooldown is reduced to 2 minutes. (Source)

* Meditation is increased to 10%/20%/30% Mana regeneration. (Source)

* Prayer of Healing, Circle of Healing and Holy Nova (healing effect) gain additional benefit from damage and healing bonuses. (Source)

* Circle of Healing base amount of healing is reduced, but it gets more bonus from +healing effects. If you have more than +1338 healing you will see it heal for more. (Source)

*Elune's Grace has had its effect changed to reduce the chance to be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 20% for 15 seconds. We've changed it so that there is only one rank of the spell now.

 

We also changed the mana cost for Power Word: Fortitude, Divine Spirit, Prayer of Fortitude and Prayer of Spirit . The developers took a look at it and thought that the mana costs were just too high for what they should be. Hopefully this will cut down on all the water everyone has been gulping down at raids.

 

Paladins

 

* Exorcism's mana cost has been lowered

* Holy Wrath's mana cost has been lowered

* Hammer of Wrath's mana cost has been lowered

* Vengeance has been increased to 30 seconds

* Improved Seal of the Crusader effect added to base abilitiy

* Improved Seal of the Crusader now gives the effects of Sanctified Crusader

* New Talent - Sanctified Seals: Increases your chance to critically hit with all spells and melee by 1/2/3%, and reduces the chance your Seals can be dispelled by 33/66/100%

* Crusader Strike cooldown is being lowered to 6 seconds. (Source)

 

Rogues

 

* Fleet Footed increased to 15% speed increase

* Deadly Throw traveling speed is being increased significantly, it will reach your target faster and the snare will last one second longer. (Source)

* Ruthlessness won't be triggered by Deadly Throw anymore, and Ruthlessness will be changed to only affect melee finishing moves as a whole. (Source)

* Blind no longer requires a reagent, is changed to a physical attack, will share the same diminish category as cyclone, and will diminish in PvE as well as PvP. (Source)

* Shadowstep can be used at any time (even when you're not stealthed). After the use of Shadowstep threat caused by the next Ambush, Garrote, or Backstab will be reduced by 50%. The cooldown will be increased to 40 seconds. (Source)

* Dirty Deeds increases the damage of special attacks by 10%/20% against targets that are below 35% health. (Source)

 

Hunters

 

* Wyvern Sting is now instant cast

* Arcane Shot (Rank 6+) will now dispel 1 Magic effect in addition to damage

* Serpent Sting, Immolation Trap, and Explosive Trap gain additional damage based on Ranged Attack Power

 

 

Engineering

 

* New Recipe - Field Repair Bot: Dropped(?) by Gan'arg Analyzers in Blade's Edge Mountains

* New Field Repair Bot is able to buy/sell

* Flying Mount added for Engineers. Regular and Epic version.

 

 

Fishing

 

* Fish Tracking may be learned from a journal, fished from crates

* New fish added near Karazhan and Zul'Aman

 

 

Cooking

 

* New Daily Quests

* New recipes added for fish found near Karazhan and Zul'Aman.

ps the hunter arcane shot change is BS if it goes live.

 

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no it isn't. it's necessary.

if anything rogues got nerfed =-/

Engineering mount! Flying mechano-chicken?

Dude, propeller pack ( helicopter backpack 60% speed) and jet pack for 100% speed!! Does your backpack have jets?

 

So now... not only can a hunter drain my mana, slow me down, move faster than me, shoot me while moving, can kite me..... but can also remove my magic effects.. say.. like... BoW.. or BoK .. or every single seal we have...

 

That sounds incredible....

 

I think Im going to HAVE to get the new ret talent to make my seals undisspellable just so I can do damage in PvP.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2007 by dragonlgnd

DUDE

 

Oh My God

 

 

SHAMAN BUFF HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS' MOTHER!!!!!

 

Blizzard loves me again I've never been so WoW happy

if anything rogues got nerfed =-/

 

unless its from dirty deeds... almost everything was a buff yo lol

 

That water shield change is pretty amazing.

Best part about this:

 

2.3 Fast release

Zul'aman and most likely the 2.3 patch will be released fast according to all the details we're getting.

Quote from: Eyonix (Source)

Zul'Aman is done. We just need to get the raid dungeon on the public test realms, and make sure it sees extensive testing. Don't worry, it won't require the same amount of testing as voice chat. I feel few truly understand what it took to impliment voice chat, and test it properly.

"* Rebirth cooldown reduced to 20 minutes"

 

Well that's random

The new Devastate is AWESOME!!! :)

* Frost shock is no longer subject to diminishing returns.

Blah.

 

* Tactical Mastery now greatly increases threat from Mortal Strike and Bloodthirst while in Defensive Stance

 

It'd be interesting if that threat compares to shield slam.

 

And for you Rogues.

 

The warrior talent Weapon Mastery which makes us 50/100% resist to disarm is getting changed to 25%/50% disarm duration reduction. They felt that talent solely removed disarm from the game all together.

* New spell : Ritual of Refreshment. It will allow players to pick up their own stack of food/water, similar to a Soulwell. (Source)

 

Thank god...

"* Rebirth cooldown reduced to 20 minutes"

 

Well that's random

 

Doesn't that mean you can use it in Arenas now?

* New spell : Ritual of Refreshment. It will allow players to pick up their own stack of food/water, similar to a Soulwell. (Source)

 

Thank god...

 

 

Please tell me these will have the same awesome clicking noise that the warlock's used to have.

Doesn't that mean you can use it in Arenas now?

 

 

You couldn't before? I never played an arena during BC so I dont have a clue. I thought arenas wiped your cooldowns when you joined so you could always use everything. /shrug

Edited September 27, 2007 by Hykos

I was under the impression cooldowns had to be under 10 mins to use in arena. 50% disarm is really lame as well but I guess we get MS affecting drain life. wtf with arcane shot though...you better abuse that bob.

I know you can use abilities with cooldowns of 15 minutes, but I'm not sure what the actual numbers is. However, I would like to think that they would not allow combat rezzing to happen in arenas.

 

And yes, that whole MS affecting drain life thing will be very interesting, it essentially makes drain life useless against a warrior/rogue between resiliance and MS its gonna be a waste. Looks like its time to seduce nuke again.

Abilities/spells/items with cooldowns longer than 15 minutes cannot be used while in the arena. This also applies to resurrection.

 

from http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/arena/index.xml

The fear ward change sucks.

 

The new devastate is exactly what it should've been in the beginning, I think they should increase it's aggro gain too...but...baby steps I guess.

Bla... I was thinking 30min.

 

EDIT:: Heres the Blue post.

 

I don't want to delay this information too much as it will be considered a nerf, so I'll bite and post it.

 

The Arms talent Weapon Mastery is going to be significantly changed. Instead of providing 50/100% chance to avoid Disarm effects, it is going to reduce the duration of Disarm effects by 25/50%. The reason for this is that having full immunity with this talent really took the idea of disarming out of the game and we want it to be more viable.

Edited September 27, 2007 by Joesf

The Fear Ward change makes me a bit more valuable

 

Sign up for dance lessons, ladies!

 

OR

 

Fear Dance - think Nightbane, Onyxia... will put you into zerker stance, pop zerker rage and then (back) to def stance if you have a shield on or to battle if not

 

#showtooltip Berserker Rage

/cast [stance:3] Berserker Rage; Berserker Stance

/cast [noequipped:shields] Battle Stance; Defensive Stance

 

So upon testing it out to make sure. Im pretty positive they adjusted the coefficiant or spell damage added to Blessing of Sanctuary , mine dealt 70 damage , when the tooltip says it's base is 46 damage ( I got a new BoSanc record on it, thats how I noticed=P). So either they made it so spell damage effects it, or adjusted the amount. Im not sure if this is based off the caster, or the person it's on, Ill test this shortly.

 

 

WooHooo more aggro to generate!

 

Upon testing it out some more.... I'm an idiot. SO, just imagine this post talked about how pretty Soma looks with his T5 gloves.

Edited September 27, 2007 by dragonlgnd

What changed?! Or nothing?!