Update Patch 4.1 PTR - Official Notes Update
The Patch 4.1 PTR Notes have been updated once again with the 2 missing changes from build 13698.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Arms
  • Strikes of Opportunity damage has been increased by 10% to keep stat parity with other strike changes.

Fury
  • Unshackled Fury now only grants 2 base points of mastery, down from 8. This change offsets the Flurry boost to better control Fury burst damage.

Patch 4.1 on PTRs - Build 13698
A new build will be deployed on test realms today. Most of these changes were already documented in the latest PTR notes update but keep an eye out for new things!


Nameplates Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPES = "Nameplate Motion Type";
  • UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_1 = "Overlaping Nameplates";
  • UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_2 = "Stacking Nameplates";
  • UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_3 = "Spreading Nameplates";
  • UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_TOOLTIP_1 = "This method will allow nameplates to overlap.";
  • UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_TOOLTIP_2 = "This method avoids overlaping nameplates by stacking them vertically.";
  • UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_TOOLTIP_3 = "This method avoids overlaping nameplates by spreading them out horizontally and vertically.";



Achievements Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Dungeons & Raids
Cataclysm Dungeon
  • Spirit Twister Defeat 20 Twisted Spirits within 15 seconds during the Jin'do encounter in Zul'Gurub on Heroic difficulty.
  • Ring out! Defeat Daakara in Zul'Aman on Heroic difficulty without leaving the rectangular turquoise stonework inscribed on the floor in the center of his area.


Reputation



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Class Skills
Companions

Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Unholy
  • Raise Ally has been revamped and is now a battle rez spell - Pours dark energy into a dead target, reuniting spirit and body to allow the target to reenter battle with 20% health and 20% mana. 30 yd range, 50 Runic Power, 10 min cooldown, Instant

Glyph

Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Feral

Restoration
  • Lifebloom now costs 11% of base mana, up from 7%. Base healing reduced by 20%, from 2306 to 1847.

Balance
  • Cyclone now lasts 5 sec, down from 6 sec.
  • Starsurge base damage has been reduced by 20%, from [ 1272 to 1756 ] to [ 1017 to 1405 ].
  • Moonkin Form now frees the caster of movement impairing effects instead of slowing effects.

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

Discipline

Warlock (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Demonology

Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Protection
  • Spell Reflection now has a 25 sec cooldown, up from 10 sec.
  • Gag Order no longer affects Shield Bash.
  • Shield Mastery no longer reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflect. Now causes your Shield Block to also reduce magic damage taken by 8/16/25%.

Fury
  • Unshackled Fury now Increases the benefit of abilities that cause or require you to be enraged by 11.2%, down from 44,8%.
  • Pummel no longer requires Battle or Berserker Stance.

Arms
  • Strikes of Opportunity now gives a 17.6% (up from 16%) chance for your melee attacks to instantly trigger an additional melee attack for 100% normal damage. Each point of Mastery increases this chance by 2.2%. (Up from 2%)
  • Drums of War no longer affects Shield Bash, now affects Demoralizing Shout, Intimidating Shout and Challenging Shout.
  • Juggernaut now reduces the cooldown of your Charge by 2 sec, down from 3 sec.

Glyph
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.0.1 on PTRs - Build 13698 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 85 Comments
  1. rhyscreed's Avatar
    Mighty stoked for a Hydra pet for my hunter. Now if they will let me tame basilisks and other dinos in Ungoro...
  1. Synrithh's Avatar
    Still, the Fury Mastery sucks anyways..
  1. Craigadiddle's Avatar
    More arms buffs, mastery got slightly buffed, not bad.
    Seems fury deathwish is nerfed now.
  1. galimim's Avatar
    No shammy changes? sad face
  1. link064's Avatar
    Edit: It was corrected
  1. mmoc12fd9168be's Avatar
    Dunno what to say about dks....
  1. mmoc5986446218's Avatar
    Erm...

    Glyph of Raise Ally - Reduces Cast time on Death Gate spell by 25%? WTH?
  1. Alskonda's Avatar
    Legendary weapons changed from "wielder" to "owner". Wonder if this change will go for the personal feats too. Already have the main hand glaive, wont be too hard to farm the off-hand too ^^ (note, I'm a druid).
  1. Cairm's Avatar
    Still no shaman changes They keep them for last.
  1. Pumps's Avatar
    Don't see anything new on the ptr here
  1. mmoc5405551c01's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cairm View Post
    Still no shaman changes They keep them for last.
    you wish ... there wont be any
  1. mmoce3e265f754's Avatar
    Yay for new Shield Mastery! Finally the magic reduction prot warriors didn't have!
  1. Vasz's Avatar
    Unshackled Fury: Increases the benefit of abilities that cause or require you to be enraged by 11.2%. 44.8%. Each point of Mastery increases enrage effects by an additional 5.6%.

    I guess this makes Mastery even more useless for fury warriors.
  1. flyonthewall's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by galimim View Post
    No shammy changes? sad face
    Obviously shammies are perfect!
  1. Hanashi's Avatar
    Please stop with the circus colors!
  1. Strafer's Avatar
    How do you read that? so many colors.
  1. fangless's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Joha View Post
    Erm...

    Glyph of Raise Ally - Reduces Cast time on Death Gate spell by 25%? WTH?
    COLORS ARE HARD.


    red is the old text, and green denotes changes to the text.
  1. Hemmen's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Strafer View Post
    How do you read that? so many colors.
    My same thought.
  1. marjak93's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hanashi View Post
    Please stop with the circus colors!
    They're perfect. Derp
  1. r3nd's Avatar
    Fury mastery nerfed straight into the ground. Great. Another nerf because of balancing issues with PVP.

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