Latest Shaman 3.1 PTR Info: Updated 3/19/09 General * Armor Penetration Rating: All classes now receive 25% more benefit from Armor Penetration Rating.
* Haste Rating: shamans, paladins, druids, and death knights now receive 30% more melee haste from Haste Rating.
* Hysteria, Tricks of the Trade, Enrage, Wrecking Crew, Death Wish, Arcane Power, Owlkin Frenzy, Beast Within, and Avenging Wrath damage bonuses no longer stack together.
* Spirit: The amount of mana regeneration granted by this stat has been reduced by 40%.
* Taunts: All player or pet-generated taunts now have a shared diminish category.
Shaman * Bloodlust/Heroism: Cooldown reduced to 5 minutes, but Sated and Exhausted now last 10 minutes.
* Flametongue Weapon: Bonus damage from spell power now based on weapon speed. Slower weapons will benefit more from spell power.
* Frostbrand Weapon: Damage increased by approximately 20%.
* Mana Spring Totem: This totem has been redesigned. It now provides the same mana benefit as Blessing of Wisdom to the entire party or raid, but is exclusive with that effect.
* Poison Cleansing Totem and Disease Cleansing Totem have been merged into Cleansing Totem. Cleansing Totem pulses every 3 seconds, down from 5.
* Talents:
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Enhancement + Earthen Power redesigned: Your Earthbind Totem has a 50/100% chance to also remove all snare effects and make you and nearby friendly targets immune to them for 5 seconds when it pulses.
+ Flurry: Now provides 5/10/15/20/25% haste instead of 10/15/20/25/30%.
+ New Talent: Frozen Power: Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Lash and Shock spells by 5/10% on targets afflicted by your Frostbrand Attack effect, and your Frost Shock has a 50/100% chance to root the target in Ice for 5 seconds when used on targets at or further than 15 yards from you.
+ Lava Lash now has a new icon.
+ Spirit Weapons: Now reduces all threat generated by 30%, not just physical attacks.
+ Stormstrike charges have been increased by 2, and cooldown reduced by 2 seconds.
+ Improved Stormstrike redesigned: When you Stormstrike, you have a 50/100% chance to immediately grant you 20% of your base mana.
+ Toughness: No longer increases your armor. Instead, this talent now increases your total stamina by 2/4/6/8/10%.
+ Unleashed Rage: Reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Now also increases your total expertise by 3/6/9.
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Elemental + New Talent: Booming Echoes: Reduces the cooldown of your Flame Shock and Frost Shock spells by an additional 1/2 seconds, and increases the direct damage done by your Flame Shock and Frost Shock spells by an additional 10/20%.
+ Elemental Mastery redesigned: When activated, your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst spell becomes an instant cast spell. In addition, your Fire, Frost and Nature damage spells have a 15% increased critical strike chance for 15 seconds. Elemental Mastery now shares a cooldown with Nature’s Swiftness.
+ Elemental Reach: Now also increases the range of your Flame Shock spell by 5/10/15 yards.
+ Lava Flows: No longer increases the range of your Flame Shock spell, but now increases your casting speed by 10/20/30% when your Flame Shock spell is dispelled for 6 seconds.
+ Lightning Overload: Reduced to 3 points (7/14/20%), down from 5.
+ Storm, Earth and Fire: No longer increases the range of your Earth Shock or Wind Shock spells, but now also causes your Earthbind Totem to have a 33/66/100% chance to root all nearby enemies for 5 seconds when initially cast.
+ Thunderstorm can now be cast while stunned.
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Restoration + Ancestral Awakening: This talent now accounts for your ineffective healing, rather than effective.
+ Ancestral Healing and Healing Grace have swapped places in the Restoration talent tree.
+ Cleanse Spirit now has a new icon.
+ Mana Tide Totem: This spell no longer costs mana.
+ Restorative Totems: Reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Increases the effect of your Mana Spring Totem by 7/12/20%, and increases the amount healed by your Healing Stream Totem by 15/30/45%.
+ Riptide: This spell has a new icon.
+ Tidal Force: Now has a new spell effect.
Glyphs * Glyph of Earth Shield: Increases the amount healed by your Earth Shield by 20%.
* Glyph of Feral Spirit: Your spirit wolves gain an additional 30% of your attack power.
* Glyph of Hex: Increases the damage your Hex target can take before the Hex effect is removed by 20%.
* Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem: Your Stoneclaw Totem also places a damage absorb shield on you, equal to 4 times the strength of the shield it places on your totems.
* Glyph of Totem of Wrath: When you cast Totem of Wrath, you gain 30% of the totem's bonus spell power for 5 minutes.
* Glyph of Thunder -- Reduces the cooldown on Thunderstorm by 10 sec. (Up from 7 Sec)
* Glyph of Riptide -- Increases the duration of Riptide by 6 sec. (Up from 3 sec)
Tier 8 Set Bonus * Shaman T8 Enhancement 2P Bonus -- Increases the damage done by Lava Lash and Stormstrike by 20%. (0 yd, cast: 0 seconds, val1: 20)
* Shaman T8 Enhancement 4P Bonus -- Increases the frequency of Maelstrom Weapon being triggered by your melee weapon attacks by 20%.
* Shaman T8 Restoration 2P Bonus -- Reduces the cooldown on Riptide by 1 sec.
* Shaman T8 Restoration 4P Bonus -- Reduces the cast time of Chain Heal by 0.2 sec.
* Shaman T8 Elemental 2P Bonus -- The periodic damage dealt by your Flame Shock can now be critical strikes.
* Shaman T8 Elemental 4P Bonus -- Your critical Strikes from Lightning Bolt cause the target to take nature damage equal to 8% of the Lightning Bolt's damage over until cancelled sec. (Still being worked on I think)
Tier 8 Relics * Shaman T8 Enhancement Relic -- Increases weapon damage when you use Stormstrike by 155.
* Shaman T8 Restoration Relic -- Increases the base amount healed by your chain heal by 243.
* Shaman T8 Elemental Relic -- Increases the base damage of your Lavaburst by 215.
Ghostcrawler on Enhancement Weapon Imbues: Here is a mini Enhancement enchant update. I know you guys have been itching for this for awhile. It just took the designers some time to sit down and discuss the issue, and then I had to catch up with the discussion after being out.
1) The extra AP for the Windfury Weapon Glyph is not intentional and I believe has been hotfixed.
2) Our goal is WF / FT on main hand / offhand.
3) Our goal is Enhancement generally favors slow weapons for main hand / offhand.
4) To satisfy 2 & 3, we are normalizing flametongue's damage to weapon speed. If you use a fast weapon now for FT, your damage will come down. If you use a slow weapon, your damage will come up. Please keep that in mind as you continue to gear up preparing for patch 3.1.
5) Our intention with these changes is not to nerf Enhancement damage overall. However, we are concerned that Enhancement PvE damage is quite high (compared to where other classes are in the 3.1 space) so it's possible that we will end up lowering your damage slightly. But the changes outlined above are not intended to do that.
6) Overall, we are really happy with the basic attack rotation of Enhancement. Shamans are pushing the buttons we want them to push and generally doing what we expect. PvP utility is still something we are looking at however.Feel free to add anything else you have found about the newest patch.
*Edited to update and organize info.
Source:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
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