Update - Added Illidan's updated model.
Update - Added finalized spell changes.
Update - It seems that Shadowy Gem and Elementium Gem Cluster are the 2 new items you'll gather to build your legendary daggers.


Patch 4.3 - PTR Build 14849
A new PTR build is being deployed on test realms, check out the latest update of the official notes which most likely reflect changes made in this build.



And as usual if it's datamined and not in the official notes, it might just be a bug or a screw up on my side, you know how it works!

Client Strings
An interesting string that hints at a feature to "suspend" your LFG queue, and a "Heat" power type most likely used during the fight against Deathwing.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • ERR_JOIN_LFG_OBJECT_FAILED = "You failed to join the instance in progress";
  • ERR_PARTY_ROLE_NOT_AVAILABLE = "%s is unable to fill any of your group's available roles";
  • INTERACT_ON_LEFT_CLICK_TEXT = "Interact On Left Click|TInterface\\OptionsFrame\\UI-OptionsFrame-NewFeatureIcon:0:0:0:-1|t";
  • IN_LFG_QUEUE_BUT_SUSPENDED = "Your queue has been temporarily suspended. You will retain your position in the queue.";
  • MAC_OPEN_UNIVERSAL_ACCESS = "In order to use this option accessibility needs to be enabled. Please check the option \"Enable access for assistive devices\" in the Universal Access System";
  • OPTION_TOOLTIP_INTERACT_ON_LEFT_CLICK = "Interact with objects and friendly non-player characters using left or right click.";
  • POWER_TYPE_DW_BACK_HEAT = "Heat";
  • RF_REWARD_EXPLANATION1 = "Your first completion per week will earn you:";
  • RF_REWARD_EXPLANATION2 = "Each victory subsequent to the first each week will earn you:";
  • SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_148 = "Target is already affected by Stardust No. 2.";



Item Set Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 13

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 12

Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 13

Shaman (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 12
  • Item - Shaman T12 Elemental 2P Bonus's tooltip was clarified with values: Your damaging spells have a 30% chance to reduce the remaining cooldown on your Fire Elemental Totem by 4 sec.

Tier 13

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 13



Achievements
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Dungeons & Raids - Cataclysm Dungeon
  • Heroic: End Time Defeat Murozond in End Time on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Heroic: Well of Eternity Defeat Mannoroth in Well of Eternity on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Heroic: Hour of Twilight Defeat Archbishop Benedictus in Hour of Twilight on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Lazy Eye Defeat Peroth'arn in Well of Eternity on Heroic Difficulty without any party member being detected by an Eye of Peroth'arn.
  • Severed Ties Defeat two Risen Ghouls during Echo of Sylvanas' Calling of the Highborne phase, then defeat the Echo of Sylvanas in End Time on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Eclipse Kill 8,675,309 Twilight Sparks and then defeat Archbishop Benedictus in Hour of Twilight on Heroic Difficulty.

Dungeon & Raids - Cataclysm Raid
  • Ping Pong Champion Bounce the Void of Unmaking 10 times off of players, and then defeat Warlord Zon'ozz.
  • Taste the Rainbow! Experience the following color combinations, and then defeat Yor'sahj the Unsleeping.
  • Maybe he'll get dizzy... Deafeat the Spine of Deathwing encounter after tricking Deathwing into performing the following roll sequence: Left, Right, Left, Right.

Feats of Strength

Guild - Cataclysm Dungeon

Guild - Cataclysm Raid

Guild - Feats of Strength
  • Realm First! Deathwing First guild on the realm to defeat Deathwing in Dragon Soul on Heroic difficulty while in a guild group.



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

Professions
General

Enchanting

Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Unholy
  • Death Coil now scales from 23% of Attack Power, down from 30%.
  • Unholy Might now increases Strength by 25%, up from 20%.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Feral
  • Bear Form now increases armor from cloth and leather items by 120% at all levels instead of only at level 40 and above.
  • Frenzied Regeneration now increases maximum health by 30%, up from 15%. Each point of rage is converted into 0.3% of max health, up from 0.15%.
  • Rake now scales from 14.7% of Attack Power on the initial damage, up from 2.07% of Attack Power. Now scales from 44.1% of Attack Power on the additional bleed damage, up from 37.8%.

Hunter (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery

Survival

Pet

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Fire
  • Fireball damage has been increased by 17%.
  • Living Bomb damage seems to have been lowered, but the official notes seems to say it's been increased. Probably a bug, the official notes are always right.
  • Pyroblast damage seems to have been slightly lowered, but once again the official notes seems to say the contrary. Official notes win!

Frost

Arcane
  • Arcane Missiles now has a 40% chance to proc from offensive spell, down from 100%.

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Holy
  • Divine Plea no longer grants a charge of Holy Power.
  • Holy Radiance no longer grants a charge of Holy Power. Healing effectiveness diminishes for each player target beyond 6.

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


Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Combat
  • Ambidexterity now increases the damage of Throw, Deadly Throw, and Fan of Knive abilities instead of increasing the damage of thrown weapons.

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Affliction
  • Jinx now increases the cost of the target's abilities instead of reducing his/her power regeneration.

Demonology

Destruction
  • Cataclysm now increases Fire spell damage by 30%, up from 25%.
  • Burning Embers now deals damage over time equal to 50% of the damage done, up from 30%. Now scales from 20% of spell power, up from 12,14%.
  • Fire and Brimstone now increases damage done by Chaos Bolt and Incinerate to targets afflicted by Immolate by 5/10/15%, up from 2/4/6%.
  • Improved Soul Fire now lasts 20 sec, up from 15 sec.

Warrior (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Fury
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.3 - PTR Build 14849 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 146 Comments
  1. Noonmoon's Avatar
    What, shadow priest get nerfed a-gain~Whatever, iQuit.
  1. Lucetia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Yukymint View Post
    What, shadow priest get nerfed a-gain~Whatever, iQuit.
    lol -- You can't be nerfed with what you don't have. The Tier 13 bonus got adjusted. How exactly is that a nerf when you can't even get it? Better for them to adjust it now when it doesn't affect us than for it to go live and nerf it.
  1. xxCorrosivexx's Avatar
    eight six seven five three o nine!
  1. Sidone's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Yukymint View Post
    What, shadow priest get nerfed a-gain~Whatever, iQuit.
    U won't quit over a PTR thing. You won't quit over a Live thing.

    You will see there will be more changes made before it will go live. God forbid they may even revert this PTR change!

    I, for one, take this all with a grain of salt till i see the final notes, + upcomming changes to it when we have 4.3 on live. Then we can complain or cheer about something.
  1. Hasha's Avatar
    OMG. Rogue AoE is going to be SO MUCH BETTER. Thank god.
  1. Balir's Avatar
    Oh Yeah! Buff those Rogues! -_-
  1. Axaruz0's Avatar
    Illidan
  1. MysticalOS's Avatar
    correctionEnchanting: Enchant Weapon - Windwalk now stacks with passive movement speed effects.it always did, that's not new that's a tooltip correction. I have it on my paladin tank and it always stacked with pursuit of justice or boot enchant on my warrior
  1. Ayarea's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lucetia View Post
    lol -- You can't be nerfed with what you don't have. The Tier 13 bonus got adjusted. How exactly is that a nerf when you can't even get it? Better for them to adjust it now when it doesn't affect us than for it to go live and nerf it.
    You might want to re read it again, it says t12...
  1. Durandro's Avatar
    How is what they did to the T12 Elemental 2-Set a 'clarification'? Its an outright nerfbat to the face, and completely different to the old bonus. But yeah, they've destroyed it so we all need to go T13. And until then our DPS is going to be horrible!
  1. Nocgiu's Avatar
    Never saw patch notes where 90% comments were complaints... Even if a class is buffed, people complain that not their favorite spec was buffed or whatever shit, like oh no i think instead of buffing fireball by 16% i'd rather like scorch to be buffed by 30% , fuck you blizz QQ -.-" all i read all day long on mmo is crying about how shit this game is. wait for the things to settle down, because blizz is tuning things on PTR, thats for what it is made for, and if changes arent right, play on the PTR prove it and post it as constructive feedback..
  1. Cuteness's Avatar
    Lock Destro love
  1. Alixie's Avatar
    Nice nipples, Illidan.
  1. mmoc79582ce235's Avatar
    FINALLY SOME DESTRO LOVE!!!!! Guess I'll start playing a gain after 4 months of pauze
  1. Granyala's Avatar
    LuL @ Shadow T12 4P nerf if it's true. Don't you guys at Blizz HQ have anything better to do?
  1. mmoc5207d37539's Avatar
    Meh, when I saw "updated Illidan model" I thought they'd give him some proper feet to go with those tattoos, but nooooo... >.
  1. sojrjj's Avatar
    this is the truth
  1. Golden Yak's Avatar
    Is there anyway to view text strings from boss encounters? I'd love to see the ones for the two Faceless General bosses from the Dragon Soul raid - their audio is them speaking in their own language, but Faceless Ones usually whisper a translation to you. You can hear them mention N'Zoth a couple of times, so I'm curious as to what they're saying about him - maybe drop some hints about what he's up to.
  1. S7orm's Avatar
    those changes won't surely unbalance PvP situationferals will still have a spot in every single 3v3 comp
  1. mmoc37672be2a3's Avatar
    They have nerfed JC, now the brilliant chimera's eye is giving +67 instad of +77
    if it remains this way JC will have a bonus of (67-50)*3 = 51 while every other profession gives +80 and BS +100 :S

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