Patch 4.1 Public Test Realm Notes - March 22

Patch 4.1 Public Test Realm Notes - March 22
The Patch 4.1 PTR Notes have been updated once again! My favorite part?


  • All trade goods available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors have had their prices reduced by 50%.
  • Maelstrom Crystals are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Achievements
  • A new feat of strength with an associated title, "the Camel-Hoarder", has been added for players that have bested Dormus and obtained the Reins of the Grey Riding Camel -- because there must always be a Camel-Hoarder.

PvP

Death Knight (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Unholy
  • Desecration no longer triggers when an applicable strike hits a snare-immune target. This is primarily to avoid unnecessary spell effect clutter during boss encounters.

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

Frost
  • Fingers of Frost bonus damage applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 25%, up from 15%.

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy
  • Illuminated Healing shield duration is now 15 seconds, up from 8 seconds. In addition, Illuminated Healing has been increased to provide 1.5% effect per mastery, up from 1.25%.

Shaman (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Enhancement
  • Improved Fire Nova has been redesigned and replaced by a talent called Seasoned Winds. When an enemy spell cast is successfully prevented with Wind Shear, the shaman gains magical resistance (in an amount equal to what a protection totem/aura would grant, stacking with such buffs) to the spell school(s) of the interrupted spell (except for Holy spells), lasting 10 seconds.

Dungeons & Raids
Dire Maul North

The Mechanar

Stratholme
  • Postboxes no longer require keys to open, because really, who locks their postboxes anymore when they're all undead? It's just people sending coupons for brains anyway.
  • The Postmaster now spawns when 3 of any postbox are opened.

Uldaman
  • The Staff of Prehistoria is no longer required to open the door in the Map Room.
  • Baelog's chest has been given new loot. If it's grey it's good, right?

Zul'Farrak

Guilds
  • The amount of guild experience rewarded for rated Battleground guild group wins has been dramatically increased.
  • Players are now rewarded guild experience for Honorable Kills in the field.
  • Players are now rewarded guild experience for Battleground wins in Battleground brackets up to level 80.
  • Arena teams are now awarded guild experience for wins. The entire team must be members of the same guild to earn this experience.

Items
  • All trade goods available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors have had their prices reduced by 50%.
  • Maelstrom Crystals are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors.

PvP
Arenas
  • The Ring of Valor has returned! It should now be playable again in the Arena map rotation.
  • New starting areas have been added for Ring of Valor. Players will no longer enter the Arena on the elevator. It's been removed. Instead players will start in a room at opposite ends of the Arena.

Quests & Creatures
  • Loot from the creatures Garr, Julak-Doom, Mobus, and Poseidus has been adjusted to be commensurate to their rarity and invested effort.

User Interface
  • The Guild Finder has been implemented! While we are continuing to add final polish to this feature, we welcome all focused testers to give it a go. Feedback can be provided here.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.1 Public Test Realm Notes - March 22 started by Boubouille View original post
Published on 2011-03-22 11:06 PM
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  1. mmoca73d58976f's Avatar
    Honestly how can blizzard justify these frost mage buffs? The only class i can see beating a frost mage is a blood dk. And yea blizz balance around 3v3 but they tear that apart aswell. So much control with poly, 2 novas, cone of cold stun, icebolt slow, deep freeze, counterspell and they tear people apart.

    Classes like affliction locks need the real love!
  1. salate's Avatar
    Frostmage Buff?
    wooooww...
    oh wait. I'm a hunter..
  1. shekspeare's Avatar
    World Of MageCraft!
  1. mmoc0035c8cbb7's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by yoitsme View Post
    Dmg on frostbolt and icelance was surely needed,up until now it hit like 25-30k shatter combo.Most classes global more then that.
    Get gear. Frost mages are already op.
  1. mmoc96498cc7df's Avatar
    Does anyone know how much the maelstrom crystals are?
  1. mmoc49efe580e8's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ciros View Post
    Wow, so much QQ towards mages. There are so many other op classes, why are mages getting targeted?
    calsses that need nerfing.....war's.....dk's.....enh shammy......SP. Go qq about them.
    Probably because mages have never had it bad throughout the entire history of wow, theyve pretty much always been op in some respect or other.
    From personal experience i find people who play them usually arrogant people as well, but thats just personal experience
  1. Psilo.'s Avatar
    Im glad somethings been done with the Maelstroms, on my server they still go for 2k+ on Alliance side, would never spend 10k+ per weapon on an enchant. We will still make money on them and be able to afford to enchant our weapons properly (speaking to Enhancers and other DW people) even if we wont make obnoxious gold per shard.
  1. Bucky Mclachlan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by reve View Post
    Frost mage dmg buff is kinda needed. They really dont perform so well at higher ratings.
    Wut? Frost mages really are the highest represented class in higher bracket 2400+ arena, you been living under a cave bro?
  1. Shawaam's Avatar
    I love all the QQ about frost mages <3
  1. Zauber's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Roggan View Post
    OH MY GOODNESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Finally, I gave up on battlemaster almost a year ago now after finishing AV because I have played over 350 basins with a 65% win ratio and it's the only achievment i need.

    THANK YOU
    Well congrats than with your [Inferior Battlemaster]
  1. moahrs's Avatar
    Well, just more and more decreasing dificult in dungeons.... Why blizzard dont remove anny mob, and any obstacle, and let the way open to the boss ? This is ridiculous. Like any good capitalist company, they think of money, or easier, more users will come because it is easier to arrive at 85 .... Good times seemed to have returned to the cataclysm and are leaving again .... Bravo Blizzard.
  1. mrwingtipshoes's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Avatar View Post
    Removing all these old and nice keys is lame... ILevel seems to be the new key.
    The Uldaman key was one of the coolest things in WoW inis to open a door. Sad...no effort anymore for such things.

    I think WoW is like nike..Just do it. You only need a pair of shoes...
    These things have to be changed because of griefing. People dropping group, afking or porting out with the key and going "lulz i haz the key! Pay me and ill come back!"

    The community forces blizz to make these changes, the community crys that it makes things "too easy" and "Dumbs them down" are these the same people who were griefing groups so they couldn't finish the instances?
  1. Thessalor's Avatar
    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2267580617

    HAH. Read the first three posts. I lolled. Especially at the NAME of the third post
  1. Scottishpaladin's Avatar
    When I got "we had it all along Cough" I was so happy, I mean sooooo happy.... and they do this make it 50 points? WTFFF!!!!!!!!!!! FU now Im glad I quit even more...
  1. lb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Azrile View Post
    Besides sub rogues, Frost mages are dead last in pve raids. In PVE raiding, they use frostbolt a lot. In PVP, they really don´t use frostbolt that much. I am explaining it.. I still think it buffs them slightly in pvp, which I don´t think they need. The other thing is if you read the pvp questions, and this I agree with, frost mages really aren´t overpowered in battlegrounds, it is mostly arena where they can control too much. In battlegrouds, it is much easier to kill them because they can´t control 5 people.
    Which class can control and should control 5 player in a battelground - what is this for a "excuse" for the PvP buff ?
    "Hey mon buff me - because im too weak in battelgrounds - so i can control / kill 5 player ..." errrm...
  1. Buraz's Avatar
    Can some1 explain me what does this mean :

    # All trade goods available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors have had their prices reduced by 50%.

    thanks in advance..
  1. Achaman's Avatar
    Uldaman
    •The Staff of Prehistoria is no longer required to open the door in the Map Room.


    wtf? that was cool to see
  1. Alraml's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sagan-man View Post
    Maelstrom Crystals are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors

    WHY. Seriously.
    Because we're several months in and I still haven't been able to get a hold of one?

    Yeah, i'll just go and pay 4k for 1 crystal for an enchant that requires 6

    Maelstroms should have always been around the 700-800 mark. I checked the other day and they were going for 3500-4000 each
  1. mmoca172a76622's Avatar
    Im pvping on my warlock, i assume its the meeles who's having a hard time with frost mages? im dont really have a problem as affli

    ---------- Post added 2011-03-23 at 01:04 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Buraz View Post
    Can some1 explain me what does this mean :

    # All trade goods available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors have had their prices reduced by 50%.

    thanks in advance..
    It means that all the stuff you could by for justice points, like savage leather and elementium ores only costs half of what they used to cost. This does not apply to the justice point gear.
  1. mmoc19ea095b35's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Azalu View Post
    Because we're several months in and I still haven't been able to get a hold of one?

    Yeah, i'll just go and pay 4k for 1 crystal for an enchant that requires 6

    Maelstroms should have always been around the 700-800 mark. I checked the other day and they were going for 3500-4000 each
    You play in a dead server you'll get a f-ed economy. The servers that aren't dieing have people doing raids weekly and DEing most crap now that they've geared up. I played in Silvermoon until two weeks ago and Maelstroms were going for 1k I imagine they're sub-1k now.

    These changes are welcome but laughable. With the new heroics giving epic items left and right the shards would become easily obtainable...

    Also, they're reducing the trade goods prices by 50% on the honor/justice vendors? Just two months too late, when they were on PTR everyone said they were too expensive... good to know Blizzard hears their customers. :P

    Again proof that I was right to quit. Bring on Guild Wars2!
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