Update - Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13750
A new PTR build is being deployed on test realms.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Achievements
Dungeons & Raids
  • Here, Kitty Kitty... Successfully feed Temple Rats to 4 of Bethekk's Pride during the High Priestess Kilnara encounter.
  • Heroic: Zul'Gurub Defeat Jin'do the Godbreaker in Zul'Gurub on Heroic difficulty.
  • Heroic: Zul'Aman Defeat Daakara in Zul'Aman on Heroic difficulty.

Feats of Strength

Guild - Dungeons & Raids

Items
PvE

Spells
Herbalism
  • Lifeblood now has a 2 min cooldown, up from 20 sec.

Hunter (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery
  • Feed Pet now instantly restoring 50% of its total health. Cannot be used while in combat.

Pets

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

Glyphs

Priest (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Holy

Discipline

Shadow

Warlock (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Affliction



Patch 4.1/4.2 - Winged Lion Mount?
I spent a couple of days debating if I should post this model or not since it seems to be an early beta of the model and I'll assume that at this point my readers are smart enough to understand that the things they see can be a work in progress, so there you go!

One of the latest beta build of Patch 4.1 on PTRs added a new mount model, the Winged Lion Mount! We don't have any information on this mount for the moment, and as I said it looks like a very early version of the model but ... IT'S A LION WITH WINGS!



Patch 4.1 PTR Notes Update - March 15
The Patch 4.1 PTR Notes have been updated once again with a couple of class changes and more raiding nerfs.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Classes: General
  • Several persistent ground effects now display different visuals for hostile and friendly players. The following spells have the same visual effects for friendly players, but new alternate visuals for hostile players: Ring of Frost, Consecration, Desecration, Wild Mushroom, Flare, Ice Trap, Power Word: Barrier, Smoke Bomb, and Hand of Gul'dan. As a general rule, the alternate effects have a red tint or hue indicating they are created by an enemy player.

Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Restoration
  • Efflorescence has been redesigned. It creates a healing zone at the feet of a Swiftmend target, but this healing zone now restores health equal to 4/8/12% of the amount healed by Swiftmend to the three most injured targets within 8 yards, every 1 second for 7 seconds. This periodic effect now also benefits from spell haste, but the individual ticks cannot be critical effects. In addition, Living Seed is no longer a prerequisite talent for Efflorescence.

Mage (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Arcane
  • Improved Arcane Explosion now also reduces the mana cost of Arcane Explosion by 25/50%.

Frost
  • Ice Barrier base damage value has been increased by approximately 120%. In addition, the benefit from spell power has been increased by approximately 8%.

Glyphs
  • Glyph of Frost Armor (new glyph): Frost Armor also causes the mage to regenerate 2% of maximum mana ever 5 seconds.

Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Colossus Smash now ignores 50% of a hostile player's armor (PvP), but continues to ignore 100% of a non-player character's armor (PvE).

Dungeons & Raids
Blackwing Descent
  • Atramedes
    • Searing Flames now causes a 6-second cooldown on Modulation.
    • Searing Flames no longer increases Sound on players.
    • Players should no longer be able to avoid the first period damage tick of Searing Flame, and Searing Flame now ticks every 2 seconds. The damage of Searing Flame has been increased to compensate for it ticking less frequently.
  • Nefarian's End
    • The damage of Shadowflame Barrage has been reduced by 15% (10-player normal and Heroic difficulty only).
    • The damage of Tail Lash has been reduced by 20% (10-player normal and Heroic difficulty only).

Bastion of Twilight
  • Dragon Siblings
    • Blackout can now be dispelled on Heroic difficulty.
  • Cho'gall
    • The health of Blood of the Old God on 10-player Heroic difficulty has been lowered by roughly 20%.
    • The health of Darkened Creations on 10-player Heroic difficulty has been lowered by roughly 20%.
    • Corruption: Accelerated on 10-player Heroic difficulty has been lowered slightly.
    • Knockbacks and Deathgrip can now be used to interrupt players that are converted by Cho’gall.

Battlegrounds
Arathi Basin
  • Arathi Basin is now available as a 10v10-player rated Battleground.

Botting in WoW
This comment by Bashiok follows a giant banwave of people botting Archaeology and PvP earlier this week. That's why you shouldn't cheat if you want to keep your WoW account and that's why pointing to any exploit or cheat on our forums will get you banned, hard.
Originally Posted by Bashiok (Blue Tracker)
We’re in the process of stepping up our detection and tracking to log and action players that are botting, or habitually AFKing in the Battlegrounds. We’ll be taking aggressive action and removing earned items, Honor Points, and ultimately suspending or even banning accounts of those that are found to be botting or habitually AFKing. It’s a sophisticated level of monitoring we’re undertaking. No one actively playing in the Battlegrounds normally should be concerned that they’ll be actioned.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Heroic Leap
Perhaps I should elaborate further. Heroic Leap should work on flat surfaces, and in a great many places, actually. We've had players telling us that it fails constantly, but without providing more specific information regarding where and how; hence the requests for more reports. There are very specific situations where we have purposefully stopped it from functioning to help prevent exploitation, which I've covered in more detail below.

Plus it causes tons of exploit issues, due to the elevation of the leap.
Exploitation was indeed a concern, and some of the Heroic Leap failures you’ve seen might be because of the restrictions we put in place to prevent exploitation. If you’re in an area where flying is restricted (like a Battleground) and your leap would cause you to gain more than about 4 yards of altitude, then the spell should fail -- though the cooldown shouldn’t be wasted. It should otherwise generally work on flat terrain and succeed much more often outdoors.

It wasn’t an ideal solution, but we added this limitation because players were able to use the targeted jump to exploit terrain to reach inaccessible areas or even leave the map. This wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction either; we received literally hundreds of documented cases where warriors could exploit the ability. The short term alternatives, such as disabling it in Battlegrounds completely, felt worse. Ultimately, we want to remove the height restriction in Battlegrounds and other restricted areas when we have a more robust technical solution. (Source)
This article was originally published in forum thread: Winged Lion Mount, Patch 4.1 PTR Notes March 15 Update, Blue Posts started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 272 Comments
  1. Decimation's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by chrisisvacant View Post
    If you understood the reasons they gave for not doing those updates yet, then you would not have posted this.
    You mean weaksauce excuse they gave out?
  1. Jokerjesus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sorry View Post
    What a plain texture on the Lion...
    It actually looks like its going to be a sphinx like mount
  1. Bareno's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dominating View Post
    Are you fucking kidding me Blizz? You haven't even touched the Owlking Frenzy bug on the PTR?

    What lousy fucking customer service. This is really pathetic. You literally CANNOT test any content on the PTR because of troll Moonkins crashing your client. And they haven't said A WORD on it.
    Its the PTR, nothing is guaranteed stable, and plus its a privledge, not a right to test there. I would be surprised though if this build didn't fix the issue with Owlkin Frenzy.
  1. Lazoric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MrKnubbles View Post
    So far the lion has a theme similar to Val'kyr. Can't wait to see it when it's finished.
    Yeah chances are this is 1 of the added val'kyr items blizz mentioned for archeology
  1. Oneirophobia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Isolyphic View Post
    Aslong as they change that tail tip...
    The tip looks like a scorpion.
    Possible redone wyvern mounts? Man would the Alliance be pissed off.

    It looks like stone, perhaps its related to Uldum or Archeology. Ancient Wyvern mount? :0
  1. kduv889's Avatar
    it's a freakin lion with wings! AMG WOOT!
  1. Dominating's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bareno View Post
    Its the PTR, nothing is guaranteed stable, and plus its a privledge, not a right to test there. I would be surprised though if this build didn't fix the issue with Owlkin Frenzy.
    When there is a bug that literally makes it unable to test content because some troll-ass Moonkin runs into Orgrimmar/SW or joins your 5-man and procs Owlkin Frenzy, it crosses the line from being an acceptable bug on the PTR to an inadvertent tool placed by Blizzard to give griefers and trolls a venue to piss people off.
  1. kduv889's Avatar
    Blue Post**
    [[ #2 - 2011/03/16 01:17:00 AM
    We’re in the process of stepping up our detection and tracking to log and action players that are botting, or habitually AFKing in the Battlegrounds. We’ll be taking aggressive action and removing earned items, Honor Points, and ultimately suspending or even banning accounts of those that are found to be botting or habitually AFKing. It’s a sophisticated level of monitoring we’re undertaking. No one actively playing in the Battlegrounds normally should be concerned that they’ll be actioned. ]]

    This last AV weekend....all i will say is, Thank you Blizzard.
  1. Mic_128's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dominating View Post
    Are you fucking kidding me Blizz? You haven't even touched the Owlking Frenzy bug on the PTR?

    What lousy fucking customer service. This is really pathetic. You literally CANNOT test any content on the PTR because of troll Moonkins crashing your client. And they haven't said A WORD on it.
    Because this is the last PTR patch before it goes live. If the bug is causing the game to crash, that doesn't sound like it's something that you can just change a 1 to a 0. It'll probably take a bit before they can fix it.

    As for the mount, I kind of hope it is a reward for Guild Lev 50 like someone suggested, simply so Horde can get winged scorpions.
  1. BlackwingHecate's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Migari View Post
    Lion = Invincible 2.0?
    I doubt it, based on the fact that Invincible was Arthas' personal mount, and it dropped off him, Like the Phoenix mount off KT, or possibly the Windstrider off KT 2.0. I'm betting that this expansion's invincible/phoenix, will be a drop off Deathwing, or whatever chest he leaves if we don't end up killing him, and will be a drake in his image, like the onyxia mount is of her.
  1. Dominating's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mic_128 View Post
    Because this is the last PTR patch before it goes live. If the bug is causing the game to crash, that doesn't sound like it's something that you can just change a 1 to a 0. It'll probably take a bit before they can fix it.
    Then disable the talent temporarily, for God's sake... Or at least LET PLAYERS KNOW you are working on a fix. Stroll over to the PTR Bug Report forum and you'll see 90% of the threads there talking about the crashing, without any blue-poster sticky present.
  1. Mic_128's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dominating View Post
    Then disable the talent temporarily, for God's sake... Or at least LET PLAYERS KNOW you are working on a fix. Stroll over to the PTR Bug Report forum and you'll see 90% of the threads there talking about the crashing, without any blue-poster sticky present.
    Do you really think they aren't fixing a game crashing bug?
  1. Baelic's Avatar
    Is it just me or does it seem like I've seen those notes before?
  1. mmoc657df7e136's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by toychristopher View Post
    The lion looks terrible. Hire a new texture designer please. It looks like it's made of chalk or something.
    /facepalm.

    You know, maybe there should be some sort of reading comprehension test before people are allowed to post comments on the internet.
  1. taylor20k's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dominating View Post
    Then disable the talent temporarily, for God's sake... Or at least LET PLAYERS KNOW you are working on a fix. Stroll over to the PTR Bug Report forum and you'll see 90% of the threads there talking about the crashing, without any blue-poster sticky present.
    Why should they have to tell people they are working on a fix. If it's broken, they'll fix it. And i know other bugs have taken a while to get fixed, but they didn't completely break the game.
  1. Neganova's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Belize View Post
    More mage buffs
    But it will suck when it all comes crashing down : / oh well might as well enjoy it while we can!
    'Tis the cycles of nerfs and buffs. Curse the Curse of Pure DPS Class!
  1. Prothall's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mic_128 View Post
    Do you really think they aren't fixing a game crashing bug?
    With what I've been seeing coming out of Blizzard lately, no, I wouldn't be surprised if they're not.
  1. mmocd12cd7479a's Avatar
    [quite]Here, Kitty Kitty...[/quote]I first read "Here, Hello Kitty..." :X
  1. Rankin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dominating View Post
    You haven't even touched the Owlking Frenzy bug on the PTR?
    How about waiting until this update actually gets deployed onto the PTR before screaming that the sky is falling.
  1. Artemisian's Avatar
    Okay, I can't see any comments on this, so maybe no one is Discipline-minded enough to notice.

    "Discipline
    •Evangelism now also procs from Mind Flay."

    This is 100% pointless and silly. Mind Flay is the signature Shadow ability when you choose that spec, and unavailable to Discipline. Is this supposed to be Holy Fire ... ?

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