PTR 4.3 Patch Notes - Oct. 13, 2011 Update

[Boubouille]

PTR 4.3 Patch Notes - Oct. 13, 2011 Update
As usual, for the complete patch notes head to the Patch 4.3 PTR Notes on the Blue Tracker.

General
New Dungeon & Raid Content

• End Time is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback here is appreciated.
• Hour of Twilight is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback here is appreciated.
• The new Baradin Hold boss, Alizabal, is now available for testing. Your participation and feedback here is appreciated.

Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Unholy

• Unholy Might now increases Strength by 25%, up from 20%.

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

• Animal Handler now increases Attack Power by 30%, up from 25%.

Survival

• Explosive Shot damage has been increased by 15%.

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)

• Pyroblast’s initial damage has been increased by approximately 26%, and its damage over time has been increased by approximately 100%.
• Fireball damage has been increased by approximately 17%.

Fire

• Living Bomb damage over time has been increased by approximately 10%, and explosion damage has been increased by approximately 120%.

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

• Guardian Spirit’s healing bonus has been increased to 60%, up from 40%.
• Holy Word: Serenity now has a cooldown of 10 seconds, down from 15 seconds.

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)

• Soul Fire now scales with 72.6% of spell power, up from 62.5%.

Demonology

• Master Demonologist now grants a base bonus of 18.4% and 2.3% per mastery, up from 16% and 2% per mastery.
• Impending Doom is now also activated by Soul Fire.

Destruction

• Cataclysm now increases Fire damage by 30%, up from 25%.
• Fire and Brimstone now increases the damage of Incinerate and Chaos Bolt on Immolated targets by 5/10/15%, up from 2/4/6%.
• Burning Embers now deals damage equal to 25/50% of Soul Fire and Imp’s Firebolt, up from 15/30%.
• Buning Embers damage cap has been raised.
• Shadowburn now deals Shadowflame damage, instead of Shadow damage.
• Improved Soul Fire now lasts 20 sec, up from 15sec.

Warrior (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)

• Charge (and related abilities) should now correctly path to a target even if the target moves during the Charge. This change should decrease the likelihood of the warrior Charging to a different location than the target.
• Slam now uses a new character attack animation.
• Colossus Smash now uses a new character attack animation.

Fury

• Dual Wield Specialization no longer increases Physical damage by 5%. It continues to increase off-hand attack damage by 25%.

[vhok]

yeah huntr buff, also: first


Infracted; please don't post "first" comments.

[jantimirlol]

I'm liking the Fire changes ;o.

[SiNz]

Seriously...more mage buffs? lol

[Teasy]

fire buffs, good job!

[Deleted]

Hail destro buffs!

[Destroyer954]

charge finally fixed? yes!

[Lora]

Glad to see all the wonderful changes to balance druids. ._. they are focusing a lot on new animations than balancing it seems.

[Deleted]

rofl @ mage buffs. Unneeded.

[Deleted]

These fire buffs I like them, more of it

[Deleted]

Still waiting for Mage and Warlock nerf... lol Warlock still getting buffed, what a joke.

[Trakanonn]

Of course, mages would...

[Biggiej]

Wait...did I just see a fury nerf, or am I reading this all wrong?

[Bane-Thunder-God]

Derp! Unholy Buffs?? =/ Really? Does Blizzard love Dk's again? xD

[drukai]

New animations for slam AND Colossus Smash!?! Woo, Arms DPS just shot through the roof!

[Biggiej]

New animations for slam AND Colossus Smash!?! Woo, Arms DPS just shot through the roof!

How did arms dps shoot through the roof? they only added animations, not increased damage.

[minywheats]

Mage buffs? exactly what wow needed.

[Zephh]

very nice...

[ognomad]

Yea! unholy DK buff about time!

[Phaelia]

I'm so freaking happy about the Destruction Warlock buffs!