Patch 4.2 on PTRs - Build 14002
Patch 4.2 is upon us! See the list of changes below.

Important - As usual with datamined changes, be very careful. Especially on a first build of a PTR where most of our internal tools explode because of changes to the game files.

Achievements Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Dungeons & Raids

Cataclysm Raid

Feats of Strength

Guild
Dungeons & Raids

Rated Battleground

Professions
Cooking

Fishing




Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

Companion Pets
  • Feline Familiar Right Click to summon and dismiss your Feline Familiar. Instant
  • Fire Lasher Right Click to summon and dismiss your Ammen Vale lashling. Instant
  • Hyjal Bear Cub Right Click to summon and dismiss your Hyjal Bear Cub. Instant

Mounts
  • Alliance War Steed Summons and dismisses a rideable Alliance War Steed. 1.5 sec cast
  • Corrupted Fire Hawk Summons and dismisses a rideable Corrupted Fire Hawk. This is a flying mount. 1.5 sec cast
  • Green Fire Hawk Summons and dismisses a rideable Green Fire Hawk Mount. This is a flying mount. 1.5 sec cast
  • Horde War Wolf Summons and dismisses a rideable Horde War Wolf. 1.5 sec cast
  • Pureblood Fire Hawk Summons and dismisses a rideable Pureblood Fire Hawk. This is a flying mount. 1.5 sec cast

Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Frost
  • Rune Strike now scales from 18% of AP, up from 15%. No longer causes a high amount of threat.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Balance
  • Entangling Roots no longer deals damage.
  • Innervate now causes the target to regenerate 5% of maximum mana over 10 sec. Still regenerates 20% of maximum mana on self cast.

Feral
  • Lacerate no longer causes a high amount of threat.

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Holy

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Discipline
  • Focused Will now procs from critical hits by any non-periodic attack.
  • Atonement now heals for "a percentage of the damage dealt" instead of 100%. (Wording change?)

Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Subtlety
  • Blind now lasts 1 min, up from 10 sec.

Warrior (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Arms

Fury

Protection
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.2 on PTRs - Build 14002 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 78 Comments
  1. Lily Crowley's Avatar
    Looks nice.
  1. _Fire_'s Avatar
    Can't wait!!!
  1. Fcdwn777's Avatar
    Wait...4.2 is actually already on the PTR? Or is this just updated notes for when it goes on the PTR?
  1. Swisted's Avatar
    oh wow i know this is datamined but if the blind change happens.. holy shit rogues.
  1. Kärmä's Avatar
    More fishing and cooking dailies? Yay, and hopefully one of the firehawks is for the daily zone and the mount reward they talked about.
  1. fangless's Avatar
    lol @ tank abilities no longer causing threat?

    o_O
  1. FireBorne's Avatar
    The text is green so that means it is not official...yet. Official changes are always in blue.
  1. The Glitch's Avatar
    More Mounts! More Pets! Whee! Wonder which colour is which.. well green is self explanatory, corrupted the purple version? Pureblood the original fire/yellow/orange one?
  1. fangless's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bleachroxs View Post
    oh wow i know this is datamined but if the blind change happens.. holy shit rogues.
    This change was already mentioned by Bliz, it'll be on PVE targets only.
  1. Swisted's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by fangless View Post
    This change was already mentioned by Bliz, it'll be on PVE targets only.
    oh alright, thank god lmao
  1. Seejay's Avatar
    Ohh mounts for veteran of the alliance/horde? seems Blizz really wants to get people doing RBGs more.

    A good idea though
  1. Strafer's Avatar
    A Horde War Wolf, what's different this time.
  1. Leatbabiez's Avatar
    LOL please don't be true! My threat is just getting worse and worse
  1. mmoc40ef98ccdf's Avatar
    Shield Slam no longer causes a high amount of threat.
    Wait.......WHAT?
  1. dasyan's Avatar
    as soon as i read "green fire hawk", i shat in my pants out of pure awesomeness....
    YOU WANT FELFLAME???? you get FELFIREHAWK
  1. juelz's Avatar
    "Shield Slam no longer causes a high amount of threat."

    I am very confused by this
  1. Pumps's Avatar
    4.2 wasn't that supposed to be Firelands?
  1. blackangel209's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bleachroxs View Post
    oh alright, thank god lmao
    All CC was changed a while back to have a maximum effect of 8 seconds on players.
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Boubouille View Post
    Shield Slam no longer causes a high amount of threat.
    Why the hell did they change that???
  1. Cirque's Avatar
    Why Blizzard insists that acquiring aggro should be fun is beyond me. It's not. Maintaining aggro should be the goal, not acquiring. I don't want to make the raid suffer so much more when I tank adds on Maloriak just because Icy Touch doesn't outthreat healers, they're immune to death grip and, next patch, rune strike won't even help me build some solid short term threat to at LEAST get it away from near the boss before I can work on it. Not to mention the amount of damage I take extra for the class that I am and the stuns I have not. x.x And what's worse, once you finally have them in place you can snooze off again because you don't need to work for your threat after that, just for your survival by hitting death strike or however your class works.

    It's just.. Yeah. It's like they're completely lost with their threat thing. It's become one huge experiment that changes every patch. For every class. I'd like to be tank as main, but at the same time I'm really glad I'm not with how clunky it feels now with this whole "threat at start is a bitch, threat later on in the fight is /afkfest".

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