PTR Build 9868, Ulduar Tuning Tweaks

[Boubouille]

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WoW TCG - Field of Heroes
A new Trading Card Game expansion called "Field of Heroes" will be released in the upcoming weeks and will offer 3 new in-game rewards.

• Magic Rooster Egg - Summons and dismisses a rideable Magic Rooster. No, seriously. This is a very fast mount.
• Ogre Pinata - Places a candy-filled Ogre Pinata.
• Path of Cenarius - Right Click to leave flowers in your wake. (This reward is most likely a revamped Path of Illidan with flowers instead of fire.

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PTR Patch 3.1.2 - Build 9868

Druid (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Balance

• Imrpoved Moonkin Form now causes target affected by your Moonkin Aura to gain 1/2/3% haste and you to gain 10/20/30% (up from 5/10/15%) of your spirit as additional spell damage.

Hunter (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Survival

• Disengage cooldown has been lowered from 30 to 25 seconds.

Paladin (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Holy

• Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom now restore 92 mana every 5 seconds. (Up from 91)

Priest (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Glyphs

• Glyph of Penance now Reduces the cooldown of Penance by 2 sec.

Warlock (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Demonology

• Sacrifice now sacrifices a portion of the Voidwalker's health to shield its master instead of killing the pet.

Destruction

• Fire and Brimstone now Increases the damage done by your Incinerate and Chaos Bolt spells to targets afflicted by your Immolate by 3/6/9/12/15%, and the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate spell is increased by 5/10/15/20/25%.

Glyph

• Glyph of Conflagrate - Your Conflagrate spell no longer consumes your Immolate or Shadowflame spell from the target.

Ulduar Tuning Tweaks - 05/04/09

All of the changes below have either already been applied or will be applied shortly, with the exception of Hodir's hard mode tweaks, which will go live after maintenance. Please try to keep spamming and trolling over the multiple slaps to the face included with these fixes to the bare minimum!*

Hard Mode Tuning (10 Normal/25 Heroic)
XT-002

• Heart of the Deconstructor health reduced (10/25)

Assembly of Iron

• Overwhelming Power duration increased to 30 seconds.
• Amount Steelbreaker heals from Electrical Charge reduced to 20% of max health.

Hodir

• Hodir hard mode timer increased from 2 minutes to 3 minutes. This hotfix will be applied during maintenance for both US and EU (respectively).

General Encounter Tweaks
Auriaya

• Reduced number of Swarming Guardians from 25 to 10. Increased damage of swarm slightly to compensate.
• Range on Savage Pounce lowered.
• Damage of Savage Pounce reduced.

Thorim

• The Iron Ring Guard’s Whirling Trip ability will now only hit the tank.

Freya

• Elder Stonebark’s Petrified Bark ability won’t destroy melee.

Trash Tweaks

• Removed first pack of trash from Conservatory.
• General Vezax trash has received further tweaks.
• Sappers should do much less damage when they blow up. They may or may not laugh like the Predator when they initiate the self-destruct sequence.

* That was a joke. Please try to keep spamming and trolling about this joke to the bare minimum.

[Kalx]

I wouldn't call them nerfs, much more like fixes
stop qqing about "nerfs"

[treasy]

*sigh* at above posters.


This is hard-mode tuning. Hodir was considered mathematically impossible to defeat at 2 minutes, and Iron Council hardmode has only been killed with the help of pets tanking.


Both seem to be valid nerfs.

Thank you blizzard, for listening.


Edit:

Also, thank you for the spirit buff to moonkin

[Herecius]

MOAR NURFS!?!?111 QQ

LOLOL QQ NURFS NOT NEEDED BLIZZ IF UR RAIDERS DONT SUCK THEN HODIR WAS TOTALLY POSSIBLE LULZ STOP NURFING

Seriously, these are proper tuning tweaks.

Things such as enrages that were absurd, timers that are impossible or the pounces from Auriyana roflstomping entire raids.

[Barook]

This is hard-mode tuning. Hodir was considered mathematically impossible to defeat at 2 minutes, and Iron Council hardmode has only been killed with the help of pets tanking.

Both seem to be valid nerfs.

This

However, the nerfs to the normal modes are starting to get really stupid. :

[Major Nyberg]

"Sappers should do much less damage when they blow up. They may or may not laugh like the Predator when they initiate the self-destruct sequence."
O.o Predator laugh anyone got soundfiles for them?

[Inori]

Well trash is in fact getting nerfed. The very first version of Mimiron/Vezax trash was alot of fun. Now it's basically back to the aoe farm state.

[Herecius]

New Mount
A new mount has been added to the game, this is a TCG reward.

* Magic Rooster Egg - Summons and dismisses a rideable Magic Rooster. No, seriously. This is a very fast mount.

WUT

[Aleom]

"Hodir hard mode timer increased from 2 minutes to 3 minutes. This hotfix will be applied during maintenance for both US and EU (respectively)."


Consideering Hodir was mathematically impossible without glitching (call it what you want) a world buff and taking it to raid in order to beat the timer by .03 seconds I would say this is highly warranted and needed. We'll see how the extra minute adds up.

[xenast]

Now people can stop moaning about Ensidia and Hodir.

[skippy13312000]

For the love of god....please just stop changing things. I'm just SO tired of reading the changes please please make it stop..... I haven't even respeced any of my toons yet for fear that something else is going to happen.

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[Synthaxx]

Paladin (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Holy

• Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom now restore 92 mana every 5 seconds. (Up from 91)

I wonder what nerfs they'll bring in to balance it out. It's clearly too overpowered buff for arena now!

[hasylhawf]

[size=10pt][size=10pt]ZOMG I WANT A MAGIC ROOSTER. OMG OMG YESSS[/size][/size]

[Herecius]

Fix'd.

true story.

[treasy]

* That was a joke. Please try to keep spamming and trolling about this joke to the bare minimum.

lolwut

Please try to keep spamming and trolling over the multiple slaps to the face included with these fixes to the bare minimum!*


Next time read the whole post

[kailtas]

Paladin (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Holy

• Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom now restore 92 mana every 5 seconds. (Up from 91)

I wonder what nerfs they'll bring in to balance it out. It's clearly too overpowered buff for arena now!

i can already imagine the QQ over this buff

[Starfox]

PTR 3.1.0? :O

[Kushiaji]

PTR 3.1.0? :O

DO A BARREL ROLL!!!

[Nienniora]

omg super chicken mount ah wait, tcg... SHOO!

[Zuule]

OMG, is this for real? Is this to make up for the lame April Fool's jokes? I would LOVE to strut around on this crazy thing!