Patch 4.2 PTR Notes Update - May 24th
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Dungeons & Raids
Bastion of Twilight
  • The damage modifier on Normal has been reduced for Arion, Elementium Monstrosity, Feludius, Ignacius, and Terrastra.
  • Removed one of each type of Bound elemental from the Ascendant Council chamber.
  • Arion
    • Chain Lightning damage has been reduced.
  • Cho’gall
    • Health, melee damage, Health of Corrupting Adherent, Depravity damage, Corrupting Crash damage, Flaming Destruction damage, and Unleashed Shadows damage has all been reduced by 20%.
    • Corrupting Crash and Depravity
    • Halved the amount of Corruption they give to 5 from 10.
    • Corrupted Bite effect caused by Blood of the Old God reduced.
    • Damage Taken from Corruption of the Old God per Corrupted Blood has been reduced from 3% per stack to 2% per stack.
    • Debilitating Beam damage has been reduced by 20% to 6,400.
    • The duration of Twisted Devotion has been reduced by 25%.
  • Dragon Siblings
    • Health, melee damage, Twilight Meteorite damage, Devouring Flames, Blackout damage, Unstable Twilight damage, Twilight Zone damage, Twilight Blast damage, Fabulous Flames damage, has all been reduced by 20%.
  • Elementium Monstrosity
    • Electrical Instability damage has been reduced.
  • Feludius
    • Damage due to being Frozen while Waterlogged has been reduced.
  • Halfus
    • Health, melee damage, Fireball/Fireball Barrage damage, Furious Roar damage, Scorching Breath damage, Shadow Nova damage, has all been reduced by 20%.
    • Nether Scion, Slate Dragon, Storm Rider, Time Warden, and Orphaned Emerald Whelp health has been reduced by 20%.
    • Shadow Nova base cast time has been increased.
  • Ignacious
    • Rising Flames now increases damage by 3% per stack, down from 5%.
  • Terrastra
    • Harden Skin now increases Physical damage dealt by 20% (down from 100%.)

Blackwing Descent
  • Atramedes
    • Health, melee damage, modulation damage, Roaring Flame Breath damage, and Searing Flame damage has all been reduced by 20%.
    • Modulation no longer causes Sound in normal difficulty.
    • Sound given by Sonar Pulse has been reduced to 3 (from 5.)
  • Chimaeron
    • Health reduced by 20% and melee damage reduced by 10%.
    • Chimaeron will now only cast two caustic slimes per 30 second cycle, at second 17 and second 23.
  • Drakeadon Mongrel
    • Time Lapse no longer stuns.
    • Frost Burn silence is now 3 seconds
  • Dwarven Kings
    • Whirlwind no longer drops threat.
    • Execution sentence now deals damage only.
    • Shield of Light absorption now reduced.
  • Magmaw
    • Damage and hit points reduced by 20%.
    • Lava Parasites have been diminished
    • Lava Spew damage, Magma Spit damage, Massive Crash damage, and Infectious Vomit damage have all been been reduced.
    • Mangled Lifeless no longer instantly kills, and damage has been reduced.
    • Parasitic Infection has been decreased.
  • Maloriak
    • Health, damage, Aberation health/damage, Arcane Storm damage, Prime Subject damage, Flash Freeze/Shatter damage, and Scorching Blast damage has all been decreased by 20%.
    • Aberration stacking damage buff decreased.
    • Prime Subjects no longer fixate, and are no longer immune to taunt.
  • Nefarian
    • Animated Bone Warriors take 33 seconds to fall over, (down from 50.)
    • Blast Nova cast time increased.
    • Chromatic Prototype Health reduced 20%.
    • Electrocute damage reduced 30%.
    • Fewer Animated Bone warriors spawn.
    • Magma Stacking debuff effect reduced 75%.
    • Nefarian health and melee damage reduced by 20%.
    • Nefarian's Shadowblaze cast frequency cannot increase beyond 1 per 15 sec.
    • Onyxia health and melee damage reduced by 20%.
    • Shadowflame Barrage damage reduced 20%.
    • Tail Lash damage reduced 50%.
  • Omnotron Council
    • Barrier absorb amount increased by 100%.
    • Increased the cooldown on Power Conversion (Converted Power chance).
    • Health, Melee damage, Electrical Discharge damage, Lightning Conductor damage, Health of Poison Bomb, Incineration Security Measure damage, Arcane Annihilator damage, has all been reduced by 20%.
    • Flamethrower damage has been reduced by 40%.
    • Static Shock caused by Unstable Shield damage and Poison Bomb damage has been decreased by 50%.

Throne of the Four Winds
  • Al’Akir
    • Acid Rain now stacks every 20s (up from 15s.)
    • Electrocute now pulses every 1s (up from 0.5s.)
    • Feedback duration increased to 30s (from 20s.)
    • Health, damage, and Wind Burst damage have all been reduced 20%.
    • Lightning and Lightning Rod recast time has been increased.
    • Lightning Strike friendly chain damage has been halved.
    • Will no longer use Static Shock on normal difficulty in phase 1 or phase 2.
  • Conclave of the Four Winds
    • Gathering Strength cast time has been increased
    • Ice Patch slow is now 5% per stack, up to 10 stacks (down from 10% per stack, up to 30 stacks), damage reduced by 20%.
    • Rohash, Anshal, Nezir melee, Ravenous Creeper health/damage, Ravenous Creeper toxic spores damage, Hurricane damage, Sleet Storm damage , Permafrost damage , Slicing Gale, and Wind Blast damage have all been reduced by 20%.
    • Wind Chill damage decreased by 20%and now increases damage taken by 5% per stack.

Classes: General
  • Dodge: Death Knights, paladins, and warriors no longer receive any bonus to their chance to dodge from Agility. Their base chance to dodge is now a fixed 5%.
  • Parry: Death Knights, paladins, and warriors now receive 27% of their Strength bonuses as parry rating, up from 25%. This conversion still only applies to Strength above and beyond their base Strength.

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Pyroblast: The version of this spell cast when Hot Streak is not active did slightly less damage than the Hot Streak version. Its damage has been increased so that both versions of Pyroblast now do the same amount of damage.
  • Spellsteal mana cost has been increased 100%.

Fire
  • Impact: When Living Bomb is spread via this talent, it will only be spread to two additional targets. The net effect is that if the Mage’s most recent Living Bomb target is the same as their Impact target, that target will no longer lose the Living Bomb effect. If Living Bomb is active on multiple targets when the Impact effect is cast, Living Bomb will remain active on the most recent Living Bomb target, and will be added to two other nearby targets.

Frost
  • Deep Freeze and Ring of Frost will now cause diminishing returns for each other.
  • Ring of Frost now has a 1.5-second cast time.
  • Spellsteal now has a 6-second cooldown.

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Seal of Righteousness – now can be proc’d by any melee ability, not just single target melee abilities. This adds Hammer of the Righteous (the physical component) and Divine Storm to the list of abilities that can proc it. In addition, Seal of Righteousness procs can now crit.

Holy
  • Walk in the Light now improves Word of Glory healing by 30% in addition to its current effects.

Protection
  • Guardian of Ancient Kings now uses the ‘Assist’ pet stance functionality.

Retribution
  • Seals of Command: This talent now makes Seal of Righteousness hit an unlimited number of melee targets, instead of only 2 additional targets.

Glyphs
  • Glyph of Seal of Truth: The expertise bonus granted by this glyph now also works when Seal of Righteousness is active.

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Shadowfiend now uses the ‘Assist’ pet stance functionality.

Shadow
  • Sin and Punishment’s Vampiric Touch backlash Fear effect no longer has diminishing returns.

Items
Tier 11 Set Bonuses
  • Restoration druid Tier 11 2-Piece: This set bonus has been redesigned to work with the new Restoration druid mastery. Druids with this bonus now receive the bonus to Spirit while the Harmony mastery bonus to periodic healing is active.

Tier 12 Set Bonuses
  • Hunter 4P: The effect which makes Shots cost no focus now also makes Kill Command cost no focus.
  • Mage 2P: This set bonus can now also be triggered by Frostfire Bolt.
  • Mage 4P: The portion of this bonus referring to Arcane Missiles have been removed. Instead, the set bonus now makes Arcane Power reduce the cost of Mage spells by 10% instead of increasing their cost.

PvP
Arenas
  • The Ring of Valor has been added to the Arena rotation once again.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.2 PTR Notes Update - May 24th started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 674 Comments
  1. Dontrike's Avatar
    Not really sure why they nerfed T11. It wasn't really that hard if you put in any where from 1-5 hours on any boss. Plus, it is not like raiding fundamentally changed from Wrath to Cata that you need this much of a nerfing.
  1. KCguy's Avatar
    Personally I think it's fine as is, but I can understand why they would nerf it seeing as the new Firelands raid is coming soon.
  1. Valore's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Boubouille View Post
    Patch 4.2 PTR Notes Update - May 24th
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    Classes: General
    • Dodge: Death Knights, paladins, and warriors no longer receive any bonus to their chance to dodge from Agility. Their base chance to dodge is now a fixed 5%.
    Wow this is a big one, especially for tanks gearing up to i359. It's really going to reduce the entry-level choices to prepare for raids and ZG/As.
  1. daburton's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Focal View Post
    Seriously? you think Nerfing will get more subscribes?
    I don't think so. All the people I know who play WoW like the challenge. One of my friends actually came BACK to WoW for the challenge when Cata got realised. This is a shame.
    and the fact that blizzard reached a milestone in subscribers in WOTLK and the fact that THAT expac also had the most casual friendly approach of any of the xpacs didnt have anything to do with one another.....
  1. wafflezlol's Avatar
    all the people whining about the raid nerfs are the ones who havent cleared 12/12 normal yet
  1. Slumdarse's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ucplayer View Post
    x2

    I had enough, this game became so bad. Good times in Vanilla/TBC.

    From all this posts, who agrees with this nerfs are either scrubs, skilless players or people who don't like challenges, just given stuff to thier hand.
    Please link your armory so we can see your 13/13 and know you are truly elite. Also how is it ranked, I mean the first guild to clear 13/13 is best of the best right? So anything after after that guild including any nerfs to heroics would in a sense make you bad and skilless as the rest? I'm currently 8/13 so I guess im bad but you know two day raid schedule fits my real life and I can live with that and the nerfs to what will be old content.

    On a side note this argument reminds me of marathon running. In a recent article I read people were bitching and complaining that those who finish say anything over 4.5hours aren't really running the race. For me (my best to date is 3:29:44) the people who I looked at where the people who beat me not the people who came in after. If someone wants to spend 6 hours or longer walking 26.2 miles go right ahead and let them as it will not affect me in the slightest. All you need to do is look at someones time to determine what you subjectively feel is impressive or not. If I want to be-little someone because I beat the person who came in at 3.5hours or 4hrs that's fine, but the guy who won with 2:09:00 probably can do the same. Remember there is always someone better than you, just worry about yourself and not others and you will be fine.
  1. Theforgoten's Avatar
    almost 20% hp nerf on almost all t11 boss's is a bit extreme don't you think o.o i mean yea i am causal 10m raider but shit... i don't want stuff given to me
  1. k1037's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ausr View Post
    When did the quality of MMOChampion posts go down? Holy hell...
    When most of the old school, high-skill players left and the outspoken minority among those remaining were wannabe elitists.

    Ever check out the Armory on the folks whining about the game being "too easy" on the official forums? 99% of them didn't complete ICC on normal until the buff hit 30%, they never did Ulduar, they never managed to down much of anything. So they whine about WotLK being "too easy" and about any nerf in Cata, yet they haven't completed hard content in either expac. It's a really, really odd phenomenon.
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    When I saw all those nerfes I was like.... wow....

    I've never done a Cata raid yet, its just too boring and time consuming, but if the bosses are now very easy and cleared within an hour, I may consider visiting some raids.

    But still... where did the people go who made TBC? What was wrong with TBC? Seriously? Cata raiding is nothing compared to TBC raiding...
  1. Duster505's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by daburton View Post
    and the fact that blizzard reached a milestone in subscribers in WOTLK and the fact that THAT expac also had the most casual friendly approach of any of the xpacs didnt have anything to do with one another.....
    Nerfing old raid tiers will not get casuals back in middle of expansion. The overall content needs to be balanced at the start and give resonable progression for causal players. Thats not happening in Cata - In fact most casual have been going through hell from day one when even Heroic 5 mans were overtuned by miles for pugs at start.

    BLizzard needs to find a resonable way to balance raids and 5 mans. Atm they are not and these nerfs are just a 100% proof that the content was overtuned by miles in the first place to drag the content along.
  1. Verdris's Avatar
    Holy Shit.

    World of Warcraft: Casualclysm.
  1. wiIdi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowdoom View Post
    My God what is going on here. 378 gear isnt enough for people to clear the old content that reward 372 gear ?

    JUST WOW ! You really have to do this Blizz ?
    people with full 378 gear don't need equip from old content..
  1. Gharld's Avatar
    This overall really is a good thing people. The hardcores have already cleared all / a majority of the content. The casual raiders have atleast did their 12/12. Come 4.2, both of these groups will be headed to Firelands and quite frankly after a month or so I wouldnt be suprised if nobody touched BWD/BoT from either of these group's main raiding teams ever again aside from going for lulachieves in the future. So that leaves us with the flat out bad casual raiders, and alts being geared up to do current, aka Firelands, content. As T11 gear will already be available from JP's at that point, is making the same lvl raids available to all at that point really such a horrible thing?
  1. Shakadam's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by dzwiedz View Post
    I think that in some moment Blizz did something wrong. In Vanilla/TBC game was much harder and WoW was still gaining subscribers. Then players got spoiled and all went downhill.
    Now there are two options:
    - Content will be hard, so bads will quit and Blizz looses players.
    or
    - Content will be easy and nerfed, so hardcore players will quit and Blizz looses players.

    Basically those 2 options are true yes. WoW was still gaining subscribers in WotLK btw. During Vanilla and TBC the game was new, it was exciting, it was by far the best game in the genre on the market, there was stuff to explore.

    However, this game is old now, very old in computer terms. It doesn't really matter what Blizzard does anymore because they're only going to lose subscribers no matter what. Many people have been playing for years, there isn't anything Blizzard can do with the current game that would be anything else than a slight facelift for a short time, everything has been done before and people have seen it all. The only way I see to still keep people playing and moderately interesting is to offer as much content available as possible so that it never gets REALLY boring, just _slightly_ boring but not enough for people to stop and move on to something else.

    Blizzard is well aware of this, they'd have to be retarded to not see that the game is past its prime, thus the best way to keep subscribers is to offer as much content as possible to as many paying subscribers as possible. The casual model works best with that because, lets face it, the number of casuals who play now and then vastly outnumber the "hardcore raiders" in the playerbase. Blizzard is a company and wants to make profit like every other company in the world, they WILL do everything they can to keep as many people as possible as paying subscribers, anything else would be simply stupid from a business perspective, and I'm quite surprised that some people actually think that Blizzard will cater to what THEY think and what THEY want, instead of catering to the silent minority who are still paying the same amount. The world doesn't work like that.
  1. Gharld's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by McNeil View Post
    When I saw all those nerfes I was like.... wow....

    I've never done a Cata raid yet, its just too boring and time consuming, but if the bosses are now very easy and cleared within an hour, I may consider visiting some raids.

    But still... where did the people go who made TBC? What was wrong with TBC? Seriously? Cata raiding is nothing compared to TBC raiding...
    So you have never done a Cata raid, yet know instantly its too boring and time consuming, and that TBC raiding was much better by comparison. This statement wins so much.
  1. isadorr's Avatar
    Pathetic. Here comes the baddies Icc they wanted.
  1. Mr. Smith's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by McNeil View Post
    When I saw all those nerfes I was like.... wow....

    I've never done a Cata raid yet, its just too boring and time consuming, but if the bosses are now very easy and cleared within an hour, I may consider visiting some raids.

    But still... where did the people go who made TBC? What was wrong with TBC? Seriously? Cata raiding is nothing compared to TBC raiding...
    This post makes my head hurt.
  1. Hadrone's Avatar
    well i might be actually able to get into BOT now YAY!
  1. Inexxa's Avatar
    It's fine guys, it's old content shortly so get over it
  1. Auliô's Avatar
    Make content easier? GG blizzard.

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