Patch 4.0.1 PTR - Build 13033
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Achievement Changes
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Feats of Strength

Professions

Spell Changes
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Racials
  • Undead - Will of the Forsaken now shares a 30 sec cooldown with similar effects, down from 45 sec.
  • Dwarves - Explorer *New* - Archaeology skill increased by 15 and you survey faster than normal archaeologists. (Yes, that's from the previous build, forgot to news it)

Alchemy

Death Knight (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Unholy

Frost
  • Improved Icy Talons now increases the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10%. (Down from 20%)

Druid (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Balance

Feral

Restoration
  • Rebirth no longer costs mana.
  • Rejuvenation now costs 20% of base mana, down from 25%.
  • Mastery: Symbiosis (Revamped) - Increases the potency of your healing spells by 10% on targets already affected by one of your heal over time spells. Each point of Mastery increases heal potency by an additional 1.25%.

Hunter (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery

Marksmanship
  • Aimed Shot now scales from 26% of RAP, down from 40%.
  • Arcane Shot now scales from 4% of RAP, down from 19%.

Survival
  • Hunting Party now increases your total Agility by an additional 10% (down from 20%) and increases the Ranged and Melee Attack Speed of all party and raid members by 10%. (Down from 20%)

Pets

Mage (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Arcane

Fire

Frost
  • Curtain of Frost is now named Ring of Frost and has been revamped - Summons a Ring of Frost, taking 3 sec to coalesce. Enemies entering the fully-formed ring will become frozen for 10 sec. Lasts 12 sec. 10 yd radius. 7% of base mana, 30 yd range, Channeled, 3 min cooldown
  • Ice Lance base damage increased by 20%.
  • Frostbolt base damage increased by 20%.
  • Deep Freeze base damage increased by 20%.
  • Early Frost now reduces the cast time of Frostbolt by 0.35/0.7 secs, up from 0.25/0.5 secs.

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy
  • Enlightened Judgements now also Increases the range of your Judgement by 5/10 yards.
  • Divinity is gone, moved to Protection
  • Protector of the Innocent is now a Tier 1 Holy Talent and has been revamped - Casting a targeted heal on any target, including yourself, also heals you for 1240.83 to 1427.62. (Multi ranks, but currently all with the same value)

Protection

Retribution
  • Crusader Strike now causes 120% weapon damage, up from 100%.
  • Selfless Healer now increases the effectiveness of Word of Glory's heal by 25/50% when used on others.
  • The Art of War now causes 100% additional damage, up from 30%.

Priest (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Discipline
  • Inner Fire no longer has a mana cost.
  • Borrowed Time is now a Tier 2 talent, down from Tier 4.
  • Soul Warding is now a Tier 4 talent, up from Tier 2.
  • Train of Thought (Tier 5) *New* - You have a 50/100% chance when heal with Greater Heal to reduce the cooldown of your Inner Focus by 5 sec. You have a 50/100% chance when you Smite to reduce the cooldown of your Penance by 1 sec.

Holy
  • Greater Heal now costs 29% of base mana, down from 32% of base mana.
  • Revelations - Holy Word: Sanctuary (Prayer of Healing) effect now lasts 18 sec, up from 15 sec.
  • Blessed Resilience is now a Tier 6 talent, up from Tier 5.
  • Surge of Light is now a Tier 2 talent, down from Tier 3.
  • Trinity is gone.
  • Tome of Light (Tier 4) *New* - Reduces the cooldown of your Holy Word spells by 15/30%.

Rogue (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Nothing, sorry.

Shaman (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Elemental
  • Stoneclaw Totem now has 6186 health, up from 797. Shields your totems for up to 4143 damage, up from 664.
  • Earth Shock now also reduces ranged attack speed.

Enhancement
  • Dual Wield now also allows you to parry frontal melee attacks.
  • Windfury Totem now increases the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 40 yards by 10%. (Down from 20%)
  • Feral Spirit now lasts 30 sec, down from 45 sec. Cooldown changed to 2 min, down from 3 min.

Restoration

Warlock (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Affliction
  • Bane of Doom now deals damage every 15 sec, down from 30 sec. Now has a 20% chance to summon a Demon guardian, down from 25%. Only one target can have Bane of Doom at a time, only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target.
  • Drain Life now restores 2% total health, down from 5%.
  • Everlasting Affliction now increases the critical effect chance of your Corruption, Seed of Corruption and Unstable Affliction by 10%. (Up from 2%)
  • Soul Swap now costs 18% of base mana, up from 6% of base mana.

Demonology
  • Ritual of Souls now costs 27% of base mana, down from 80% of base mana.
  • Hand of Gul'dan now has a 2 sec cast time, down from 3 sec.
  • Impending Doom no longer reduces the cooldown of the Bane of Doom damage effect, now Increases the chance for your Bane of Doom to summon a demon by 10/20/30% when it deals damage.

Destruction
  • Shadowfury base damage has been increased by 235%. (Don't get too excited, it wasn't scaled to Cataclysm yet)
  • Burning Embers - The Burning Ember effect deals up to [ 0.071%/0.143% of Spell Power + 23.921 ] fire damage every 1 sec for 7 sec.
  • Soul Leech now restores 2/4% of your total health and mana, down from 5/10%.

Pets

Warrior (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Arms

Fury
  • Pummel is now usable in Battle and Berserker Stance. (Old - Just Berserker)
  • Enrage now has a 3/6/9% chance to proc, down from 4/8/12%.
  • Battle Trance now affects your next special attack that costs more than 5 rage.

Protection
  • Defensive Stance now increases threat generated by 100%, up from 45%.
  • Thunderstruck now also increases the damage of Rend.
  • Incite - These guaranteed criticals cannot re-trigger the Incite effect. (Tooltip clarification)
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.0.1 PTR - Build 13033 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 221 Comments
  1. griszek's Avatar
    Patch 4 - Stage 3 is active.
    5,19GB total atm
  1. BrassMonkey's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by aristocle View Post
    I was hoping for more changes to all trees in this expansion. It seems that we are also getting less new spells as well. I remember someone saying that in Wrath players got like 6 to 8 new spells or some jazz.
    Well wotlk added 10 new levels, cata is adding only 5.

    Really Ghostcrawler is boring me to tears. The idea to have core abilities as level 10 is neat, but who knows if it might work to hold new players interest. Some of those core abilities are old and not very exciting at all as well imo.
    It will hold their interest before getting those core abilities by 40 & 50. Leveling will be a lot more fun with core abilities. You will feel like your class at level 10 instead of (like I said) 40 & 50. I really don't think WoW has a problem holding the interest of new players, I think it's to hold the interest of returning players who want to level new characters. Leveling is half the game and the max level is the other half.

    Maybe this just isn't the game for me anymore, as I am hoping for things that probably will never happen.
    Most of cata has been revealed, what could you possibly still be hoping for that they haven't yet confirmed or denied? Don't be unrealistic.
  1. Kayko's Avatar
    /Sarcasm - Oh, this is woderfull news! Hunter (BM) Animal Handler down to 15%.. /endsarcasm

    So lets see what that did, keeping in mind that AP is no longer found on gear/gems/enchants... Hunter has 2000 Agi (reasonable number at lvl 80) Hits the BM tab to get his 15% increase AP... Oh great, that meens they have 2000 Agi and 4600 AP. But wait, that hunter wants to go Survival instead. Here comes the 15% Agi to put that same hunter at 2300 Agi and oh look, 4600 AP. Hmm, with more attacks being based off AP, looks like BM hunters available shots do the EXACT same as Survival BUT do not benifit from the added crit from agility.

    Right off the bat, Survival is more powerfull then BM.

    I keep reading that "numbers are easy to tweek" and yes, they are, but really, i'm no math major and can see by a single click of a mouse button, one spec has a massive benifit over the other.
  1. klheart's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Boubouille View Post
    Patch 4.0.1 PTR - Build 13033

    Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

    Feral


    FFFFFFUUUUU! what is this? I am a druid! Master of the fury of nature and the beasts! I don't need no mage telling me what i can shapeshift into! *Snaps fingers in a Z formation*
  1. Thessalor's Avatar
    lol u mad brah?
  1. Eaker's Avatar
    ATTENTION DRUIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I tested the "Polymorph Immunity" on the beta with a mage and no it is not true we are still immune!!!! WOOOOT!!! Doesnt mean I didnt still get owned though lol. Damn Blizz and almost givin me a heart attack.
  1. Frayta's Avatar
    God damn you blizzard... Polymorph immunity was a class defining ability for us druid <=( At least give us a chance to be immune to it still...

    And please tell me they let us keep the 'freedom of movement effects' or they just completely destroyed druid pvp.
  1. Frygar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Frayta View Post
    God damn you blizzard... Polymorph immunity was a class defining ability for us druid <=( At least give us a chance to be immune to it still...

    And please tell me they let us keep the 'freedom of movement effects' or they just completely destroyed druid pvp.
    DRUIDS
    ARE
    STILL
    IMMUNE

    Do you read things before posting?
  1. Hathor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eaker View Post
    ATTENTION DRUIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I tested the "Polymorph Immunity" on the beta with a mage and no it is not true we are still immune!!!! WOOOOT!!! Doesnt mean I didnt still get owned though lol. Damn Blizz and almost givin me a heart attack.
    Well that's a relief, I almost choked on my kool-aid after looking at the recent changes.
  1. Kuja's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eaker View Post
    ATTENTION DRUIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I tested the "Polymorph Immunity" on the beta with a mage and no it is not true we are still immune!!!! WOOOOT!!! Doesnt mean I didnt still get owned though lol. Damn Blizz and almost givin me a heart attack.
    I think this change is on PTR only and not on beta realms, yet
  1. Bogatyr's Avatar
    Pummel is now usable in Battle and Berserker Stance. (Old - Just Berserker)

    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

    Did you want to cast that? Didn't think so.
  1. Eaker's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kuja View Post
    I think this change is on PTR only and not on beta realms, yet
    All the changes on the PTR are in the Beta
  1. yalnzefe's Avatar
    Protection

    * Defensive Stance now increases threat generated by 100%, up from 45%.

    what?
  1. sanddog's Avatar
    Typically they mean they have doubled the threat not made it 100% chance. One can hope though.
  1. Flashbomba's Avatar
    Is the glyph of stoneclaw still usable? Have any shaman tried using it with the new stoneclaw totem? Does it absorb 4 x 4143 = 16572? (wasn't the old 4 x 1085 and not 4 x 664 btw?)
  1. Pumps's Avatar
    Seems runeforging is bugged - it doesn't work for my deathknight - no window comes up
  1. Bastige's Avatar
    I have an idea Blizz, pull down your pants and take a big steaming crap on hunters... oh wait, you have. Nevermind, GG.

    Take away anything that makes playing MM worth while...
  1. Hellsmagistrate's Avatar
    The Hunters seem to be doing less damage now? WTH?
  1. pimpdaddy's Avatar
    LOL at all the QQ calm down ppl its the ptr things will work out once its on live servers
  1. Quackie's Avatar
    Moonkin nerf. No surprise there. Blizz's favorite red headed step child. =/

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