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. mmoc61c45f9687'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.
    More like 35-40k on my 3k5 resil rogue. 15k + 20k while deepfreezed sounds balanced to me... Oh wait...
  1. Firemansam's Avatar
    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




    LOLOLOL
  1. Zkal's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Yourcatdead View Post
    You must not PvP.
    Didn't say I agreed with the buffs. I find them weird too and I'm awaiting some kind of clarification why that was done.
  1. fangless's Avatar
    Blizzard is trying so hard to make Frost work for PVE :P
  1. Azrile's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by procyan View Post
    Hurray for expensive crystals becoming pretty worthless. Yet another way Blizz likes to interfere with the economy
    um.. you don´t think every boss dropping epics in the new heroics already took care of that? QQ less pls
  1. mmoca4abc3a051's Avatar
    And yet holy mastery is still trash.

    They need to redesign it before they end up with 50% extra healing as a bubble trying to "fix" it.
  1. Strafer's Avatar
    maybe now I can get my hands on the power torrent enchant. ^^
  1. Rahynn's Avatar
    Sigh more frost mage buffs
  1. Walktheline's Avatar
    are they not able to come up with a USEFUL enhancement change?
  1. TheyCallMeTarzan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by procyan View Post
    Hurray for expensive crystals becoming pretty worthless. Yet another way Blizz likes to interfere with the economy
    It's a good change. The old prices were ridiculously high. I doubt it was ever intended to be that extreme.
  1. jkw's Avatar
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
    Mage (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
    • Frostbolt damage has been increased by 10%.

    Frost
    • Fingers of Frost bonus damage applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 25%, up from 15%.
    Seriously? I mean, really, seriously? It isn't April 1st yet .....

    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
    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.
    Finally the PVP-freaks can do some good in guilds. :-P

    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
    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.
    *running around the block naked in happiness*

    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
    Quests & Creatures
    • Loot from the creatures Garr, Julak-Doom, Mobus, and Poseidus has been adjusted to be commensurate to their rarity and invested effort.
    Was about F-ing time. But we've had lots of fun killing them for the lolz, not for the lootz.
  1. Tierbook's Avatar
    i wonder why boubille made 2 of these
  1. furydeath's Avatar
    And yet no FoS for exalted with Shen'dralar still -_-
  1. mmoc25067970c6's Avatar
    again bliz show how they love their pet ( = mage ) , seriosly this game goin worse and worse ... i think time to leave
  1. Azrile's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Yourcatdead View Post
    Alright. Just seemed like you were saying "I can't believe people will QQ about frost mages." My bad.
    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.
  1. Nomial17's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JoshuaIan View Post
    LOL frost mage buffs? Does blizzard play their own game?
    You guys know in more arena comps, keeping a frost mages damage down isnt really that difficult, dispels are all thats needed.

    its just being out in the open, with a frost mage anywhere near you is stupid. dont do it.

    I play a warlock though, and I can see where it gets annoying, especially if I have to use my imp for singe magic
  1. tonkz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JoshuaIan View Post
    LOL frost mage buffs? Does blizzard play their own game?
    yea? why you think they keep buffing the same people and nerfin the others?
  1. mmoc12fd2e0285's Avatar
    Frost mage buffs. Urgh. Idiots.
    /thread
  1. mmoc30125e1170's Avatar
    The hardest Battlemaster achievement got nerfed to the ground.
  1. crisiscg's Avatar
    Blizzard are fucking retarded and obviously only play frost mages rogues and warriors Q_Q.... ferals bleeds did a little too much damage when resillience was low so they nerfed our damage, removed our fear imunity on a 3 minute cd and then our ability to break roots then they took a hammer and some nails and made sure we couldn't even catch a ranged but everyone has been screaming how op frost mage is for such lack of skill and warriors and who do they buff !!!!!!!!!!!!!! how the fuck do these people get paid ?????
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