More PTR 2.3 Info

Lots of interesting little changes. Solarian debuff won't go off when you use iceblock or cloak of shadows once the patch is live

 

 

From MMO-Champ:

 

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Anything with a (1) before it has been updated 1 hour after the original post on this site.

 

General

 

* (1) Silence effects now have diminishing returns when used on PvP targets.

* (1) You can now obtain a tiny Sporebat pet with exalted Sporeggar faction.

* (1) An Azure Whelp pet now drops from the blue dragonkin in Azshara.

* (1) If you are seated and try to use abilities that require you to be standing, you will stand up and use them. This can be disabled with: /console autoStand 0 .

 

Racial Abilities

 

* (1) Humans: Sword Skill now increases the critical strike chance with swords and two-handed swords by 1%.

* (1) Orcs: Axe Skill now increases the critical strike chance with axes and two-handed axes by 1%.

 

Arenas

 

* The top ranked team of each battlegroup for each format will receive a new unique title for the end of Season 2 called “Merciless Gladiator”.

 

 

Druids

 

* (1) If you are in a shapeshift form and try to use an ability that may only be used in caster form, you will leave the form and use that ability. This means that you can shift from one form to another in one action. If you don’t have mana to shift form, you will get an error message and remain in your current form. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0

 

Hunters

 

* (1) Aimed Shot (Marksmanship) now reduces healing done to that target by 50% for 10 seconds.

 

Mages

 

* Arcane Missiles: Players will no longer get strange error messages when casting this spell at evading targets. The spell will simply fail.

* Spellsteal: It is no longer possible via this spell to get two Forbearance debuffs at the same time.

 

 

Paladins

 

* (1) Paladin seals no longer have a low chance to be dispelled if you have 3 points in Sanctified Seals.

* (1) Judgement of Wisdom: It is no longer possible for the mana energize effect to trigger off of reapplication of the Judgement of Wisdom.

* Divine Favor: When this ability is cast immediately after a critical heal, it will no longer be removed incorrectly.

* Fanaticism (Retribution) now also reduces threat caused by all actions by 6/12/18/24/30%.

* Precision (Protection) now increases spell hit chance as well.

* Seal of Vengeance: The bonus damage this ability dealt when the debuff is fully stacked on the target was incorrectly too low. It is now increased.

* Spiritual Attunement: This ability will now gain mana properly from Vampiric Embrace heals.

 

 

Priests

 

* (1) Starshards: The damage per tick of this ability no longer changes during the duration of the effect.

* (1) If you are in Shadowform and try to use an ability that my not be used in Shadowform, you will leave Shadowform and use that ability. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0

* Mind Soothe: This spell will now consume Inner Focus.

 

 

Rogues

 

* (1) Cheat Death (Subtlety) chance to trigger increased to 33/66/100% and now also causes the rogue to take 90% less damage for 3 seconds when the effect triggers. This effect cannot occur more than once per minute.

* (1) Sap: Multiple Saps placed by multiple Rogues will now be handled correctly in all cases.

* (1) If you are in Stealth and try to use an ability that may not be used while stealthed, you will leave stealth and use that ability. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0

* Blade Flurry: This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.

* Cold Blood: Fixed an issue where this buff was sometimes getting removed when an attack missed.

* Dirty Deeds now also increases damage against enemies below 35% health.

* Riposte is now subject to diminishing returns in PvP.

 

 

Warlocks

 

* Soul Siphon (Affliction): If a Warlock already has a particular spell cast on a target, reapplying before its duration ends will no longer grant an additional bonus.

 

 

Warriors

 

* Sweeping Strikes: This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.

 

 

Professions

 

* All primary profession trainers outside of capitals (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring) have been changed to train up to Artisan level (skill level 300) in their respective professions.

* The capital cities now possess Artisan level trainers for the primary professions they support, and are surrounded by their newly-dubbed Apprentices where applicable. Please visit your local Master trainer when you wish to train.

 

Alchemy

 

* Added a new potion to alchemy trainers: Mad Alchemist's Potion. This new potion requires Alchemy to consume.

 

Blacksmithing

 

* Sharpening Stones and Weightstones now last 1 hour.

 

Cooking

 

* Reduced the maximum skill obtainable from recipes between 200 and 300. This does not include Outland recipes.

 

Enchanting

 

* The Surefooted enchantment now requires Fel Iron Rod (was Runed Eternium Rod).

* Added a new enchant shield recipe to trainers that increases resilience.

 

Engineering

 

* Cogspinner Gearcutter in Ironforge and Sovik in Orgrimmar now sell the schematic for the Steam Tonk Controller in a limited supply.

* Materials required to create the Steam Tonk Controller have been reduced. To reflect the reduced requirements, the maximum skill gain has also been reduced somewhat.

* Plans for a new arrow making device can be found from Sunfury Archers.

* The plans for adamantite shells now create an Adamantite Shell Machine. The machine creates 200 high quality bullets at a time, with 5 charges per item.

 

Fishing

 

* You can now fish in Ironforge again.

 

Herbalism

 

* Fel Blossoms are now unbound, but have an additional requirement of 275 herbalism to use.

 

Leatherworking

 

* Increased the range at which you can gain leatherworking skill from crafting drums.

* Reduced the faction required to obtain Drums of Battle and Drums of Panic.

* Drums can now be used while shapeshifted.

* A new recipe is available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to make a 20 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.

* The ogres in the barrier hills are rumored to have a pattern for a 24 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.

 

 

Items

 

* Atiesh: This item can no longer open portals in battlegrounds.

* Essence of Death now drops from level 57-60 non-elite undead in the Eastern Plaguelands.

* The Felsworn Gas Mask will now work when you put it on while mounted.

* Libram of Saints Departed: This relic now functions properly again.

 

 

Dungeons and Raids

 

* The Requirement for Heroic Keys has been lowered to Honored.

 

Tempest Keep

 

* The use of Ice Block, Divine Shield, Cloak of Shadows, and other similar spells and abilities will no longer prematurely detonate High Astromancer Solarian’s Wrath of the Astromancer spell.

 

Mechanar

 

* (1) Nethermancer Sepethrea's Frost Attack now reduces movement speed by 25% rather than 50%.

 

Quests

 

* Quest givers who have available daily quests will have a blue exclamation point instead of a yellow one.

* The range of the Battery Recharging Blaster used in the quest, “Recharging the Batteries” has been increased.

 

 

Interface

 

* (1) Sorting of auction house searches has been simplified so you can only sort by one column, and automatic sub-sorts have been created for those columns to be as useful as possible. In addition, sorting is now done on the server so as you page thru results, items will appear to be sorted across the entire results instead of just the page you’re looking at.

* (1) If you get a message "Interface action failed because of an AddOn", this means that an AddOn interfered with the Blizzard UI in some way. To diagnose this, enter the following into chat "/console taintLog 1" and restart the game and try to reproduce it. If you reproduce it, you can quit the game and search through the file Logs\taint.log for the word "blocked" and mail the log to the author of the AddOn listed there. Once you have done this you can turn off logging by entering the following into chat "/console taintLog 0”

* All players now have a tracking bubble on their minimap. From that menu you can select a specific type of vendor or npc to look for or you can select a specific tracking type if your character has tracking. Yes this means that hunters can take all of those tracking buttons off of their action bars.

* There are now options for displaying health and mana values on your health/mana bars for you/your party and to display that information either as percentages or as numbers.

* When you are possessing a target (Priest Mind Control, Eyes of the Beast, using a Steam Tonk, etc), you now get their action bar as your primary action bar rather than having a mini action bar above your normal action bar.

* When an item drops that you cannot loot due to uniqueness or other factor, you will get a chat message letting you know what the item was that you passed rolling on.

* The raid panels that have been pulled out into the gamefield should save their option settings between sessions now.

* If a player is looting a corpse and there are one or more items on it that player cannot loot, the player will still be able to see those items (although not able to loot them). This only is for green or better quality items. The cases this should affect are for the profession recipes that only a player of that profession can loot or when master looter is on and there is a threshold or better item on the corpse.

* NPC's with level appropriate quests will now always appear on your minimap as yellow exclamation points. NPC's that have quests that you have completed will now display as yellow question marks instead of yellow dots. In addition flight masters that you have not yet gotten the flight point for will display on the minimap as a green exclamation point.

* Npc's will display an icon on mouseover that gives a more specific indicator of their function rather than just a gossip bubble. Questgivers will now show a question mark as their in game mouseover, Innkeepers will show a hearthstone as their in game mouseover and so on.

* You can now pull the list of players in a channel out into the gamefield by clicking and dragging the channel name onto the gamefield. This list will show all the players in the channel sorted by voice chat status.

* Voice chat will now display the nameplate for who is talking when you are in a chat group. Currently it only displays the nameplate when you are in a party/raid.

* When multiple people are talking in a voice chat session, it will show the names of up to four people who are talking at the same time.

* Many On Use items now display the cooldown in the item tooltip.

 

 

World Environment

 

* Creature AI has been changed to no longer prioritize attacking unfeared targets over feared targets.

 

 

Bug Fixes

 

* (1) Reverse cooldowns are correctly refreshed when a buff is reapplied by another player.

 

 

* Creature AI has been changed to no longer prioritize attacking unfeared targets over feared targets.

 

I am very interested in seeing how this one works.

Alchemy

 

* Added a new potion to alchemy trainers: Mad Alchemist's Potion. This new potion requires Alchemy to consume.

 

What's this?

 

What's this?

here you go Andrie,

 

http://www.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2007/october/madalche.jpg

(1) If you are in a shapeshift form and try to use an ability that may only be used in caster form, you will leave the form and use that ability. This means that you can shift from one form to another in one action. If you don’t have mana to shift form, you will get an error message and remain in your current form. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0

 

 

Does this mean we can go from bear directly to cheetah? If so, ZOMG

Thank you Garnok.

<3

 

 

Now for the side effects ... ... ...

 

 

Edited October 23, 2007 by Andrie

well it should be good Garnok considering when the tank got feared the poor dps standing outside of the fear range became the tanks. Hopefully now it will stay on the tank.

(1) If you are in a shapeshift form and try to use an ability that may only be used in caster form, you will leave the form and use that ability. This means that you can shift from one form to another in one action. If you don’t have mana to shift form, you will get an error message and remain in your current form. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0

 

Does this mean we can go from bear directly to cheetah? If so, ZOMG

 

 

Yes. You should get on the PTR. It's rather fun. Go flight form and then see how many forms you can change into before you go splat. lawl.

 

I can't believe after almost 3 years of druids asking for this and after they have said they would never do it they just change there mind like it's no big deal.

Yes, Hv. I think that is the "fix" to their problems with the /cancelform instant shift macro. Previsouly on the PTR, you could make a macro that would look something like this:

 

/cancelform

/stopcasting

/cast Travel Form

 

This would be instantaneous thus skipping caster form. The problem was, however, that you could not go from Bear to Bear or Travel to Travel and the likes. So it sounds like the macro will now look something like this:

 

/use Super Healing Potion

/cast Dire Bear Form

 

When you click the heal pot, it should automatically (and instantly) use the pot, and with the macro, should instantly put you back into form, which was one of the intended effects of the original /cancelform macro (I'll find the Blue post on the WoW forums to verify when I get home). But also with this change, instead of having a macro for forms, you can just click and be done with it, which will be nice, thought I am more looking foward to being able to pot/healthstone while tanking. I am going to test this out on the PTR later on this evening, if these notes are already operational on the server.

* (1) Cheat Death (Subtlety) chance to trigger increased to 33/66/100% and now also causes the rogue to take 90% less damage for 3 seconds when the effect triggers. This effect cannot occur more than once per minute.

 

WHat does this mean exactly?? A talent called "cheat death" having a 100% chance to trigger... sounds far to disgusting.

Yes. You should get on the PTR. It's rather fun. Go flight form and then see how many forms you can change into before you go splat. lawl.

 

I can't believe after almost 3 years of druids asking for this and after they have said they would never do it they just change there mind like it's no big deal.

Finally no more lag related RWAR BOMB related suicides >:3

 

 

* (1) Cheat Death (Subtlety) chance to trigger increased to 33/66/100% and now also causes the rogue to take 90% less damage for 3 seconds when the effect triggers. This effect cannot occur more than once per minute.

 

WHat does this mean exactly?? A talent called "cheat death" having a 100% chance to trigger... sounds far to disgusting.

 

This has been a subtlety rogue talent since right before BC

 

basically if something is going to kill you you have a chance to not die from it.

thanks shad.

thanks shad.

 

+1

nice job dunc

nice job dunc

 

 

+1

Well I know it was already a talent Shad, but I though with full points, it was a meer 30% , if that's so, than jumping it to 100% AND adding a bonus effect is a bit crazy, I already thought that talent was BS.

Ok so instant form to form action works on the PTR. Very nice. They fixed the original problem with the cancelform macro. Even awesomer. We can now pot/healthstone in forms. /cheer

(1) Cheat Death (Subtlety) chance to trigger increased to 33/66/100% and now also causes the rogue to take 90% less damage for 3 seconds when the effect triggers. This effect cannot occur more than once per minute.

 

Sounds a bit like a nerf to me. Even though they upped the proc rate to 100% with 3 points, I would assume that since the added effect cant occur more than once a minute, the ability itself (avoiding a damaging attack that would otherwise kill you) cannot proc more than once a minute either--which has to be the case because a rogue having a 100% chance to always avoid an attack that would kill it would = god mode.

 

At least in the old functionality there was no cooldown on how often it could proc. There's a great pvp video of a gnome rogue doing WSG with this talent and just lawlercausting through warlock dots and a retadin. But I guess those days are over.

Sounds a bit like a nerf to me. Even though they upped the proc rate to 100% with 3 points, I would assume that since the added effect cant occur more than once a minute, the ability itself (avoiding a damaging attack that would otherwise kill you) cannot proc more than once a minute either--which has to be the case because a rogue having a 100% chance to always avoid an attack that would kill it would = god mode.

 

At least in the old functionality there was no cooldown on how often it could proc. There's a great pvp video of a gnome rogue doing WSG with this talent and just lawlercausting through warlock dots and a retadin. But I guess those days are over.

After almost killing a Subtlety Rogue four times in a row (like back to back to back to back hammers/shocks/judgments/auto)it's kind of nice to know that's not going to happen. This change also strengthens them in the arena, so they're not such a liability. Makes 1v1 a bit ob a #$!% but they've said before that they're not balancing this game around 1v1.

 

 

Which is their excuse as to why paladins have been quasi-gimp for 3 years.

/sigh