Patch 4.1 Public Test Realm Notes - March 22

Frost mage damage buffs? Are they shitting us or what?

Why the hell change improve fire nova? EnhanceShaman ae damage is sooooooo behind and it will get only lower with those changes. And wtf with that "except for holy spells" only so that priests/palas don't cry? Don't get that point at all...

# Maelstrom Crystals are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors.

WOW, I'm really glad I'm not an enchanter right now.... I'm also very glad that I'll finally be able to afford Windwalk, it'll be... about 5g now..

now if Blizz could just do something to make Soul Blade cheaper I'd be set


seriously though, bring on SWTOR, so bored of WoW right now.

Yaye maelstorm crystals!

Originally Posted by Grimduk

Why the hell change improve fire nova? EnhanceShaman ae damage is sooooooo behind and it will get only lower with those changes. And wtf with that "except for holy spells" only so that priests/palas don't cry? Don't get that point at all...

You, sir, are missing the point like a cannonball a sitting duck.
Fire Nova was changed and Seasoned Winds was put in place. And sucked. Now it's ho hum (stacking actually gives resist totem a point).
Oh and, no, it's not.

Bah, only thing stopping me from Battlemaster is The Perfect Storm /cry... but still the We had it All Along *cough* needed to be made a little easier! Was too hard to get :[

Guys... wow... I dont even play a frost mage at all (highest level mage is 39... and im an altoholic!). But I know for a fact they are pretty weak right now. Yeah they have the stigma left over from their retarded OP days at the start of cata, but thats gone now. They are very very weak now.

You can expect anything from people who stated that "Frost Mages are fine in PVP right now". Playing since vanilla i never saw so much shit in a so short amount of time, and even if it pisses off Blizzard when people say that, it really seems that all the brains went to Titan.

seeeellll all the crystals asap!!!

Finally some love for the BGers!
Delighted at 'We had it all along *cough*' change as it's my last one for Battlemaster - been farming for ages!

I've lost all hopes.

Balance druids will never be buffed :S

- In a PvE environment, with all the buffs, insect swarm and moonfire normal ticks are hitting 3-4k each. Every other class with dots deal 5-7k
- After the nerf to starsurge (-20%) the spell is hitting a bit more than a starfire and it has 15 sec coolodwn. (core nuke learned with the specialization)
Hunters got the same nerf to Aimed Shot but in exchange they received a buff to Aspect of the Hawk. Where is the compensation for druids ?
- Wrath damages while not in solar eclipse are lower than melee dps' white swings.
- Starfire damages for a 2.5 cast spell are not coherent in Pvp. It's about time to make it a channeled spell.
- What about the instant roots for balance ?
- What about a buff to typhoon ridicolous damages ?
- What about a buff to treants ? they deal the same damages as in WoTLK and they can easylly stoped with a frost nova, they don't attack from ranged like mirror images, and they are a TALENT SPELL...not baseline like Mirror Image....
- What about a buff to healing received while in moonkin form ?
- What about the clunky root breaking mechanic ?


We have received only nerfs during this expansion and every buff has been nullified with a nerf the week later...this just sucks.
-50% +50% - 50% damages done by insect swarm and moonfire. At the end of the story those 2 dots are the worst one in the game
moonfury 25% -> 15%
+4% damage on eclipse ? -> -5% damage to everything, moonfury from 15%-> 10%
-20% damage from starsurge


what's next ? +15% damage wrath and -0.3 sec starfire just to reed a week later -50% damage from direct damage portion of moonfire ?

Originally Posted by Gallahadd

# Maelstrom Crystals are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors.

WOW, I'm really glad I'm not an enchanter right now.... I'm also very glad that I'll finally be able to afford Windwalk, it'll be... about 5g now..

now if Blizz could just do something to make Soul Blade cheaper I'd be set


seriously though, bring on SWTOR, so bored of WoW right now.

Step 1: Log into PTR and see the cost for yourself. It is still not a cost effective way to get the crystals.

Step 2: Enchanters were able to make plenty of money selling mats and enchanting scrolls and it was so fucking easy to get these things it's not even funny. So no you'll still be making plenty of gold.

What the hell? Frost mage buffs? thats just wack. Holy pally needs a new CC or somthing to make them a choice comparitivly to resto shammy or resto druids.

Holy pally mastery change. Hmm. Let me see:

Players ask for charging shields, like val'anyr etc. Val'anyr worked for holly pallies because of the charge-up effect combined with glyph of holy light splash heals.

Blizzard instead makes ghetto bubbles that nobody wants last longer. They're still the same ghetto bubbles - now as useless for almost twice the time!

Originally Posted by Yourcatdead

Good I was worrying about them being to under powered.

You must not PvP.

Hi frost mage.

how funny is it that icelance gets buffed right after they say this.

" For starters, we need to make instant spells less powerful. The fact that they are instant should be the big thing those spells have going for them, because immunity from interruption and the ability to shoot and scoot are gigantic advantages. Those spells don’t need anything else to be attractive."

GJ blizz

More frost mage buffs?

I think they need to add a new achievement in 4.1 - Defeat a Frost Mage.

Frost mage buff??? this is a joke...

Uh, where's my Time-Lost Proto-Drake and Aeonaxx FoS then? If that boring-rare camel can have one, what about the drakes?!

the change the the Ring of Valor just shows how incompetent blizzard is.. they removed the elevators cuz they couldnt fix a glitch that they made in 4.0 which was perfectly fine before that.