Thread: PTR 3.1.0 - Build 9637

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PTR 3.1.0 - Build 9637
A new patch build is being deployed on test servers. Stay tuned for more updates!

Talent Calculator
The Talent Calculator has been updated to the latest builds, please note that changes to glyphs in Patch 3.1 won't be reflected until they're available in game.

Ulduar Maps
New world maps have been added for the Ulduar raid instance.

Achievement Changes

• Once an Orphan... has been removed from the game.

Professions Changes
Cooking

• Clamlette Magnifique (New Recipe) - Zesty Clam Meat x 1

Tailoring

• Lightweave Embroidery now give you a chance to increase your spell power by 250 for 15 sec when casting a spell.

Inscription

• Twilight Tome (New Recipe) - 5 x Ink of the Sea, 5 x Resilient Parchment, 2 x [b]Eternal Life
• Rituals of the New Moon (New Recipe) - 5 x Ink of the Sea, 5 x Resilient Parchment, 2 x [b]Eternal Life

New / Updated Models
1 new model has been added to the game, the model of Thorim has been upgraded with a few new effects, and the model of the Flying Mount possibly dropped by Mimiron in Ulduar has been slightly changed as well.

• Mimiron's Head - Summons and dismisses a rideable mechanical gnome head. This is a very fast construction. This construction can only be summoned in Outland or Northrend.

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Undocumented Changes/Spell Comparison
Please note that the stats of the spells here are taken directly from the game files and might be different from the officiel patch notes. This is a list of the differences between tooltips of classes spells, just don't jump to any conclusion just because a change is here and wait until it reaches the live server.

Most of the changes here were revealed in the latest update of the official PTR notes.

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

General

• Hearthstone cooldown has been reduced from 60 to 30 minutes.

Racial

• Gift of the Naaru now also removes 2 harmful magic effects from the friendly target.
• Stoneform no longer gives a 8 second immunity to disease, poison, and bleed effects.

Death Knight (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Blood Strike, Heart Strike, Obliterate and Scourge Strike had their tooltip changed to say "total damage increased 12.5% per each of your diseases on the target" instead of just "damage increased etc ..." but this is probably just a wording change.

Blood

• Abomination's Might now also affects Death Strike.

Unholy

• Desecration radius seems to have been lowered from 10 to 7 yards, due to the nature of this change (spell effect changed instead of the spell itself) I strongly suggest that you wait until the PTRs are online before taking it as confirmed

Glyphs

• Glyph of Strangulate now reduces the cooldown of Strangulate by 30 sec. (Down from 60 sec)
• Glyph of Plague Strike now gives your Plague Strike 20% additional damage. (Down from 60%)

Druid (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Feral

• Maim now lasts 1/2/3/4/5 sec depending on combo points. (Down from 3/4/5/6/7 sec)
• Heart of the Wild now increases stamina in Dire Bear form by 2/4/6/8/10%. (Down from 4/8/12/16/20%)

Restoration

• Lifebloom now let the Druid regains half the cost of the spell when Lifebloom completes its duration or is dispelled.

Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Marksmanship

• Viper Sting now Stings the target, draining 4% mana over 8 sec (up to a maximum of 8% of the caster's maximum mana), and energizing the Hunter equal to 300% of the amount drained. Only one Sting per Hunter can be active on any one target.
• Auto Shot now gives 15% haste to all attacks fired by a Hunter.

Survival

• Explosive Shot damage reduced, rank 4 now deals [ 14% of RAP + 386 ] - [ 14% of RAP + 464 ] fire damage. (down from [ 16% of RAP + 428 ] - [ 16% of RAP + 516 ])
• Wyvern Sting now has a 1.5 minute cooldown. (Up from 1 minute)

Pet

• Pummel (Gorilla) cooldown has been increased to 30 sec (Up from 10 sec.) and silence effect duration lowered to 2 sec. (Down from 4 sec)

Paladin (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Protection

• Divine Protection cooldown has been lowered to 3 minutes. (Down from 5 minutes)

Priest (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Holy

• Hymn of Hope has been re-added to the game.

Shadow

• Psychic Horror (New Skill) - You terrify the target, causing them to tremble in horror for 3 sec and drop all weapons for 10 sec. (16% of base mana, 30 yd range, Instant cast, 1 min cooldown)
• Vampiric Touch now cause 680 damage (at Rank 5) if the effect is dispelled.
• Shadow Affinity now gives the priest 5% of his base mana when his Shadow Word: Pain or Vampiric Touch spells are dispelled.

Rogue (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Combat

• Shiv changed to add "Neither Shiv nor the poison it applies can be a critical strike."

Shaman (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Enhancement

• Stormstrike now lasts 12 sec (Up from 10 sec), cooldown lowered to 8 sec (Down from 10 sec)
• Unleashed Rage now properly increases the expertise by 3/6/9 instead of the agility.

Warlock (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Affliction

• Drain Soul effect added " Each time the Drain Soul damages the target, it also has a chance to generate a Soul Shard."

Warrior (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Arms

• Charge now stuns the target for 1.5 sec. (Up from 1 sec)

Protection

• Last Stand cooldown has been lowered to 3 minutes. (Down from 5 minutes)

Glyphs

• Glyph of Last Stand now reduces the cooldown of your Last Stand ability by 1.5 min. (Down from 3 min)

cant wait for getting 3.1 on live servers
need shadowpriest being viable again

stoneform lol

I like the Lightweave change

news on 9 of 10 classes... seriously not ONE word on mages yet, no changes on PTR or anything wtf is going on?

Originally Posted by pina

news on 9 of 10 classes... seriously not ONE word on mages yet, no changes on PTR or anything wtf is going on?

would rather have no changes to druids, instead of just nerfs. Just because they mention your class, doesnt mean its good.

Gift of the Naaru, yea, draenei just don't need a HoT, it also needs to dispell the target, what the fuck :S

Originally Posted by Pewpewarrows

Some nice changes for Shadow. Also, I really, really hope Psychic Horror is a baseline skill.

It's not. Look at the talent calculator.

Sad Pandas for dwarf nerf, I suppose being able to escape a rogue's auto kill once every 2 minutes was just way too overpowered, better they just kill me each and every single time they want.

Those strike changes are between 3.5 and 2.5% increases in damage from diseases. additionally, it's always been + xxx amt per disease, not total. this is a significant boost to these strikes dmg.

If Lightweave Embroidery stays 50% proc, 45s cooldown, you're talking about procing every 47-49 seconds, which would equal about 78 SP.

78 vs 23 Haste is a no brainer and way overpowered. We can assume that Blizzard will be nerfing the proc rate or the internal cooldown. All the other professions have something in line of 37-38 SP improvement over what's available to everyone, so we can assume that this will equal something along those lines.

Originally Posted by Boubouille

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

• Auto Shot now gives 15% haste to all attacks fired by a Hunter.

Does anyone know if ammo is stacking in big quantities?

I'm getting rather sick of the "Rogues are too powerful in pvp, so we'll nerf them." Then they can't compete in pve, blizzard never wants to take the best route. IF YOU ARE READING THIS BLIZZ, MAKE DIFFERENT ABILITIES WORK DIFFERENTLY AGAINST PLAYERS, instead of nerfing said ability. They do this once in a while but not enough. Instead, they end up nerfing a class for pvp's sake and destroying it in pve. A change in philosophy is what is needed, not strict nerfing.

Originally Posted by Raverix

If Lightweave Embroidery stays 50% proc, 45s cooldown, you're talking about procing every 47-49 seconds, which would equal about 78 SP.

78 vs 23 Haste is a no brainer and way overpowered. We can assume that Blizzard will be nerfing the proc rate or the internal cooldown. All the other professions have something in line of 37-38 SP improvement over what's available to everyone, so we can assume that this will equal something along those lines.

You're forgetting we lose the haste, which makes it about the same benefit as other professions.

Originally Posted by fsomalia

Does anyone know if ammo is stacking in big quantities?

Stacking in 1000's last I heard.

Psychic Horror's note is wrong. Says 10 seconds of trembling, should only be 3.