Patch 4.2 - PTR Build 14107

Update
02:40AM CET - Added official notes

Patch 4.2 - PTR Build 14107
A new build is being deployed on test realms.

Update
02:00AM CET - The proc for Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest might be added in this build. As usual, nothing official for the moment but it's very consistent with the official preview.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Wrath of Tarecgosa - When you deal damage, you have a chance to gain the Wrath of Tarecgosa, duplicating the harmful spell.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
The great staff duplicates destructive magics, and also bestows upon its wielder the ability to transform into a member of the Blue Dragonflight.

Official Patch Notes
If anything below isn't in the official notes, it's not confirmed and potentially false.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
General
  • All existing Valor Points in the Currency tab have been converted to Justice Points.

Achievements
  • Bear-ly Made It (new achievement): Save all four prisoners before they are sacrificed in Zul'Aman on Heroic difficulty.

Classes: General
  • Players are once again free to dance in combat (without causing graphic errors). Other animations, such as attacks, will take precedence over dancing. The dance animation will be suppressed until the higher priority animation is complete. Fun has been unnerfed.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Glyphs
  • Glyph of Ferocious Bite has been redesigned. It now causes Ferocious Bite to heal the caster for 1% of maximum health for each 10 energy used.

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Holy
  • Denounce has been redesigned. It still reduces the mana cost of Exorcism. However, it no longer has a chance on Holy Shock of making Exorcism free and instant. Instead, it has a 50/100% chance to prevent the Exorcism target from causing critical effects for the next 6 seconds. This effect can be dispelled.
  • Holy Shock mana cost has been decreased to 7% of base mana, down from 8%.

Protection
  • Holy Shield now increases block chance by 5% while active, instead of increasing the amount of damage blocked by 10%.

Retribution
  • Selfless Healer can no longer be dispelled and cannot be stolen via Spellsteal; and, in addition to its current effects, it lowers the cooldown of Word of Glory by 5/10 seconds.

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Devouring Plague damage done has been decreased by 12%.
  • Mind Blast damage done has been increased by 12%.
  • Shadow Word: Death damage done has been increased by 12%.
  • Shadow Word: Pain damage done has been decreased by 12%.

Shadow
  • Mind Flay damage done has been increased by 12%.
  • Vampiric Touch damage done has been decreased by 12%.

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Drain Life's damage has been reduced by approximately 25%.

Dungeons & Raids
Deadmines
  • Vanessa VanCleef (Heroic difficulty) now has a sweet, sweet voice to accompany her dialog.

Items
Set Bonuses
  • The 2-piece resilience bonus from Cataclysm PvP sets no longer stacks. If a player wears 2 pieces each from 2 different Cataclysm sets, the player will only receive the 400 resilience rating bonus once. This change does not apply to PvP sets from prior expansions.

Professions
Jewelcrafting
  • The shield block value bonus from Eternal Earthsiege Diamond has been increased to 3%, up from 1%.

Armor Sets - Druid Tier 12
The gloves still look a little weird and the light effects might be a little off (color-wise) but it should be ok now.



Item Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Will go through them later but ...

Jewelcrafting
  • All cut gems now stacks up to 20. Oh my!



Achievements Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

General

Quests

Dungeon & Raids
  • Bear-ly Made It Save all four prisoners before they are sacrified in Zul'Aman on Heroic difficulty.

Feats of Strength



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Companions
  • Nuts Right Click to summon and dismiss Nuts.

Tabards
WoW's 7th Anniversary Right Click to change the appearance but not the effect of any currently worn tabard. Increases Experience and Reputation gains from kills by 7%. 10 sec cooldown, Instant

Class Skills
Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Frost
  • Obliterate now deals 150% weapon damage, down from 160%.
  • Annihilation now increases damage dealt by Obliterate by 12/24/36%, down from 15/30/45%.

Unholy

Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Feral
  • Ferocious Bite now costs 25 Energy, down from 35. Now consumes up to 25 additional energy, down from 35. Base damage increased by 12%, from [380 + 54.5% of AP]-[615 + 54.5% of AP] to [410 + 54.5% of AP]-[680 + 54.5% of AP] at 5 Combo Points. (Check tooltip for less combo points)
  • Frenzied Regeneration now increases health by 15%, down from 30%. Increases health to 15%, down from 30%.
  • Mangle (Cat) now deals 530% damage plus 1670, up from 460% plus 1449.
  • Ravage (Cat) now deals 975% damage plus 3218, up from 850% plus 2805.
  • Shred (Cat) now deals 520% damage plus 1716, up from 450% plus 1485 damage.
  • Swipe now deals 600% weapon damage, down from 670%.

Restoration
  • Harmony (Mastery) has been revamped - Your direct healing is increased by an additional 10% and casting your direct healing spells grants you an additional 10% bonus to periodic healing for 10 sec. Each point of Mastery increases each bonus by an additional 1.25%.

Balance
  • Earth and Moon now also affects Wild Mushroom: Detonate and lasts 15 sec, up from 12 sec.

Glyph
  • Glyph of Berserk now increases duration of Berserk by 10 sec, up from 5 sec.
  • Glyph of Ferocious Bite now causes Ferocious Bite to heal you for 1% of your maximum health for each 10 energy used.
  • Glyph of Innervate now rewards the caster with 10% of maximum mana over 10 sec when it's cast on a target other than the caster.

Hunter (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery
  • Master of Beasts now increases damage done by pets by 13.4%, down from 13.6%. Each point increases pet damage by 1.67%, down from 1.7%.

Survival

Marksmanship
  • Multi-Shot now ldeals 120% weapon damage, down from 138%.

Mage (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Arcane
  • Arcane Missiles now seems to have a 100% chance to proc, up from 40%. (But that doesn't make much sense, so huh, wait for official confirmation or official "Boubouille is stupid"?)
  • Spellsteal now has a 6 sec cooldown.
  • Improved Mana Gem now lasts 15 sec, up from 10 sec.

Paladin (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Protection
  • Hammer of the Righteous now costs 10% of base mana, down from 12%.
  • Holy Shield now increases block chance by 5% while active, instead of increasing the amount of damage blocked by 10%.

Retribution
  • Selfless Healer now also reduces the cooldown of Word of Glory by 5/10 sec.

Holy
  • Denounce now has a 50/100% chance to proc (up from 25/50%) and the Denounce effect now prevents targets from causing critical effects for the next 6 sec.
  • Speed of Light now reduces the cooldown of Holy Radiance by 40 sec, up from 30 sec.

Priest (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Shadow
  • Shadow Orb Power now increases damage by 1.45% for each point, down from 1.5%
  • Devouring Plague damage has been reduced by 12%, from 1240 base damage to 1088.
  • Mind Blast damage has been increased by 12%, from [ 1277 - 1349 ] to [ 1431 - 1512 ]
  • Mind Flay damage has been increased by 12%. From 501 to 561 shadow damage.
  • Shadow Word: Death damage has been increased by 12%. From 301 to 337 shadow damage.
  • Shadow Word: Pain damage has been reduced by 12%. From 1326 to 1164 shadow damage.
  • Vampiric Touch damage has been reduced by 12%, from 540 to 475 Shadow damage.

Shaman (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Elemental
  • Lava Flows now gives you 30/60/90% spell haste when Flame Shock is dispelled, up from 10/20/30%.

Restoration
  • Water Shield now restores 758 mana, down from 1416.
  • Mana Tide Totem now grants 200% of the caster's Spirit, down from 400%.
  • Improved Water Shield is now Resurgence While Water Shield is active, you recover mana when your direct healing spells have a critical effect. You regain 2292 mana from a Healing Wave or Greater Healing Wave critical, 1375 mana from a Healing Surge, Riptide, or Unleash Life critical, and 763 mana from a Chain Heal critical.

Item Set

Glyph

Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Fury
  • Slam: Slams the opponent, causing 145% weapon damage plus 430. 624.

Professions
Jewelcrafting

Alchemy

Tailoring
  • Dream of Azshara possibly doesn't have a cooldown anymore, but cooldowns look super sketchy in the game files in the first place so be careful.
  • Dream of Deepholm possibly doesn't have a cooldown anymore, but cooldowns look super sketchy in the game files in the first place so be careful.
  • Dream of Hyjal possibly doesn't have a cooldown anymore, but cooldowns look super sketchy in the game files in the first place so be careful.
  • Dream of Ragnaros possibly doesn't have a cooldown anymore, but cooldowns look super sketchy in the game files in the first place so be careful.
  • Dream of Skywall possibly doesn't have a cooldown anymore, but cooldowns look super sketchy in the game files in the first place so be careful.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.2 - PTR Build 14117 started by Boubouille View original post
Published on 2011-05-13 10:00 PM
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  1. mmoc9ae03514ab's Avatar
    the afflidrain would have become useless in pve anyway, because of the 4pc set bonus...
  1. Ohforfsake's Avatar
    Yet again druid tier is a retarded wooden bullcrap.. and a dress.. wth seriously.. why cant they make for ONCE for all the freaking 6 years, something feral-themed! Put something ferocious there ffs, im mighty sick of being a bloodthirsty killing machine that has to wear freaking flowers and wooden crap.. well, feathers/birds some times, which is no better..
  1. mmoc4077df5b21's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sose View Post
    Hurray for the Drain Life nerf.....it was rly needed /sigh /sarcasm

    It's just pathetic. Warlocks are already among weakest classes, I just watch and wait for some buffs for destro (chaos bolt crits for 13 K on players, WHEN are they going to change it?) and they just nerf the only spec that is playable atm.
  1. mmoce3753a2e58's Avatar
    Littlest Pet Shop: Collect 150 unique companion pets.
    I was sure that this achievements name will be 'Gotta catch'em all!'
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Boubouille View Post

    Deadmines
    Vanessa VanCleef (Heroic difficulty) now has a sweet, sweet voice to accompany her dialog.
    About time! Can't wait to hear it, and they should give Al'Akir a proper voice too
  1. Easo's Avatar
    Dont realy like the holy shield , well, looks like nerf, but will live.
  1. SirMeo's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nephyron View Post
    aahah omg how fuckin retarded are at Blizzard:


    Warlocks Comunity: Hey in the new 4p t12 set you seems to have forgotten about Affly Locks

    Blizzard: oh sure there you go, we've inclueded Drain Soul

    Warlocks community: ehm... We meant that you have forgotten Affly Drain Spec.... Drain Soul is our execute spell

    Blizzard: There you go..We've nerfed Drain Life so now you won't use that spec and the tier bonus is fine. Suck It.
    I remember reading somewhere that they actually don't want affli locks using a channelled filler, because if you want to dot things up and then channel something, you roll a shadow priest. So that's uh, pretty much intentional from them I guess :I
  1. Ryme's Avatar
    The fact that arcane mages damage per execute time is so ridiculously beyond any other spell caster means this staff is now stupid in the hands of anyone else.

    Seriously, give that spec an overhaul, it's way out of line as it is.
  1. winzi's Avatar
    Frenzied Regeneration: Increases maximum health by 15%, 30%, increases health to 15% 30% (if below that value), and converts up to 10 Rage per second into health for 20 sec. Each point of Rage is converted into 0.15% of max health.

    Frenzied Regeneration: Increases maximum health by 15%, 30%, increases health to 15% 30% (if below that value), and converts up to 10 Rage per second into health for 20 sec. Each point of Rage is converted into 0.2% 0.3% of max health.!
    Uh, what is going on there?
    Say you have 100,000 max hp, but you have taken massive damage and are down to 10,000 hp wich is 10% of your max.
    Now you activate Frenzied Regeneration rank2. Now you have 130,000 max hp and that would leave you at ~7,7% of your max hp. But Frenzied Regen will heal you up to 30% of your max hp if you have less than 30% when it is activated so you will ve healed up to 39,000 hp wich is now 30% of your max hp.
    Then it will continue to convert up to 10 Rage per sec for 20 sec, and each point of Rage will heal you for 0.3% of your max hp wich is 390hp.
  1. mysticx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by McNeil View Post
    About time! Can't wait to hear it, and they should give Al'Akir a proper voice too
    Honestly, i think it will ge annoying VERY quickly, Vanessa VanChatterbox natters on for ages when it's just text (all that exposition text in the "Bosses' nightmares"-sequence... @_@ ), imagine hearing the voice over for all that stuff every time the game hands you heroic DM, it will be Culling of Stratholme all over again... >_<
  1. Brytryne's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mysticx View Post
    Honestly, i think it will ge annoying VERY quickly, Vanessa VanChatterbox natters on for ages when it's just text (all that exposition text in the "Bosses' nightmares"-sequence... @_@ ), imagine hearing the voice over for all that stuff every time the game hands you heroic DM, it will be Culling of Stratholme all over again... >_<
    Protip: Ctrl+S
  1. ClavellBC's Avatar
    Hmmm... in-game tooltip says Arcane Missiles is now a 100% chance to proc? Gonna have to test that.
  1. Bitlovin's Avatar
    The reward for 125 and 150 pets is the same item.... wait, what?
  1. mmoc6cf872d270's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tronux View Post
    Hope they'll fix destro for pvp ... pathetic how locks are degraded like this. Gonna cancel my account for it's been enough.
    Back a few months ago when I quit WoW it was one nerf too many that was the straw for me. I had played my lock since vanilla and endured countless lock nerfs during those years but one night back in February I just had it with totally unmotivated lock nerfs (and other issues too in cata) and quit. They rarely give any reasons behind them either it's just bam and you are nerfed and often they nerf things that makes no sense whatsoever. Sure I have lots of alts but when you are a lock by heart then that's what you want to play.

    Seems like they need another 600k people quitting to get the message that people have had it with the those kind of nerfs.
  1. mmoc858f06f57c's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Oggy View Post
    Ehhmm !?!? Nerf the already lowest DPS specc of hunter BY FAR... Why !?
    Thought the same thing.
  1. mmocc79d143111's Avatar
    hmm, looks like i wont be getting the legendary staff for a long f'cking time as a lock, got 2 mages in my ten man guild, and with the proc designed the way it is, i can see em re rolling arcane as soon as the patch drops so so they can get the staff for the proc, mean while im pushed to the back of the queue even tho i out dps em both on a regular basis and have way better attendance : \

    unless they change something why risk a lock wasting a proc from the staff on a dot, when you know the arcane mage will be getting double AB's smacking the boss for insane amounts, which in turn will probs make the mages in my guild the new heroes even tho ive always been top 1-3 dps for the last 2 f'cking years :'<
  1. mmocd658a685e4's Avatar
    Goddam that procc is gonna be OP in pvp if blizzard wont bann it. Seriously, double dps casters with that must be able to more or less kill a target in 2 globals.
  1. omegax1991's Avatar
    Druid tier looks nice
  1. Phaidrae's Avatar
    Woah woah woah...VPs are converted to JPs?! I don't get it. Nor do I like it. I'd kinda like to know the reasoning behind this.
  1. lilbuddhaman's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by omegax1991 View Post
    Druid tier looks nice
    For first time in 4 years.
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