Patch 4.2 PTR Notes Update - May 24th

Patch 4.2 PTR Notes Update - May 24th
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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
Published on 2011-05-24 04:34 PM
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  1. Lerrielin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaneiac View Post
    Can this be added to the original news post? People that don't look beyond what's right in front of them need it.

    Thanks for info. No need to be rude about it though. Makes you no different from the nerdragers.

    Have a nice day all. :P
  1. angelx7x's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by willjones410 View Post
    This should make for an interesting next episode of Blue Plz!

    But seriously, Blizzard is still being lazy. Instead of taking these nerfed versions of the raid boss encounters and making a separate version of the raid with an easy difficulty setting, they have to nerf the whole thing and piss off the other portion of their player base.
    because it's not like the portion of the playerbase that cares will be doing.. oh idk.. FIRELANDS, crying about content getting nerfed that's outdated is amusing to watch
  1. ez100's Avatar
    i hope these changed are a sick joke
  1. Phibi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaneiac View Post
    They're 4.2 notes, meaning this shit isn't going live until 4.2, meaning that this won't go live until Firelands is here, meaning this won't GO LIVE UNTIL THERE'S A NEW TIER.

    Thereby invalidating every single thing you bitched about pages back. Thanks.
    Hmm not really cause a stupid nerf is a stupid nerf no matter what.
    Yeah all the "pros" go like "we'll be raiding the new tier anyway, screw the old tier"
    But if nobody would care about the old stuff there is no need to nerf it. Not even for a stupid questline or whatever.

    So they have to nerf it cause the players at the moments are too bad for the current tier of raiding.
    And don't gimme that "they do it for the twinks bla bla" stuff.

    The reason they do it is simple : MOST OF THE WoW PLAYERS SUCK! And it's blizzards own fault for making the game so fucking easy.
    It all started when you could simply buy your epics from the vendor and now you can simply faceroll yourself to the tier-sets.
    Even the worst dipshit player ingame can kill a boss when this goes live and you can't tell me that this is something good.

    "Screw challenges - FREE EPICS AND LEGENDARIES FOR EVERYONE" - Blizzard
  1. bohapjut's Avatar
    youll be too busy with firelands why you care about how hard older content will be
  1. angelx7x's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by undethknight View Post
    THIS IS OVER THE LINE! as an elitist i care about the gear other people have because if they have gear thats still a shit ton worse then mine then i wont be as cool in a game
    you keep wearing that old gear that won't mean much when t12 is out, that's cool, nerfs to outdated content are nothing to worry about
  1. Aleom's Avatar
    Here's my issue with this nerf. It's not a nerf to Hardmodes, so Dragonslayer Aleom here doesn't care one bit about the nerf itself. The problem is that this directly impacts the LEGENDARY weapon in Firelands.

    Originally, the Legendary weapon was going to only be available to guilds that have cleared all of current T11 content, this meant being 13/13 HM. Only then would your guild have access to the Legendary weapon. However, they decided against this idea, and then changed it so that it could only be available to guilds that had fully cleared normal modes. I figured well that's definitely more than enough for almost any guild to accomplish, so the prize and rarity of the Legendary has gone down a little bit, but that's only a status thing...I can live with that if I have to.

    Then, on top of making the Legendary come for anyone who has rolled through normal modes, they also decrease the difficulty of Normal Modes by a sweeping 20%. THIS is too excessive. Had they Nerfed normal modes, but STILL kept the Legendary staffs lockout only available to Hard Mode guilds, I would be okay with this. This would STILL make the guilds that want to EARN a legendary have to do all the encounters on hard mode, which still maintain their current level of difficulty. And the normal modes being turned into easy modes would allow them to gear up faster to do it.

    I don't care about the Nerfs themselves I care about the consequences it has as far as the Legendary staffs availability.
  1. MossTheTree's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Phibi View Post
    well looks like a lot of people were STILL too dumb to beat the bosses
    and since there's no new tier content anywhere close they try to make it more easy (and therefore more interesting) for twinks and dumb people.
    awesome.
    This is the kind of response that frustrates me. My guild is 9/12 normal modes on the current tier. We get to raid twice a week if we're lucky, and if we're really lucky we get our best players to be together for one raid, 3 hours per week. Many of our better players could probably leave and join more serious guilds and be working on hardmodes. But we stick together because we like each other. We're friends. Does that mean that we have a few players in our raid who are keyboard turners? Sure. Perhaps there's a guy who goes AFK for 30 minutes because his baby is crying? Yeah, that too. We don't even use vent because some players and officers don't like it. Do all of these things hamper our ability to be as successful as possible? Of course they do. That's life.

    If you honestly think that players who haven't completed the current tier are "dumb" then you're sadly misguided. Players like me - in our 30's, with families, jobs, and other hobbies - are less interested in clearing content than we are in playing with our friends. The only thing you're right in is that by nerfing the current tier once Firelands is released, they'll make it "more interesting" for us. Yeah, it will be more interesting. In fact it will be more fun. We'll get our 12/12, enjoy seeing the content and how the story moves ahead, and then head to Firelands.

    By that time, your type of player will have cleared 4.2 content and the whole cycle will begin again. You have fun, I have fun. Calling my type of player "dumb" shows disregard for the huge variety of players who enjoy WoW. This game is not an elitist MMO. Those exist, if you want them. This is a game for the masses, and you and I are both a part of it in our own ways.

    - Moss (Aman'Thul)
  1. angelx7x's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daetur View Post
    A lot of people will be crying "Blizzard nerfs everything! They cater to casuals!" over the raid changes, I actually really like the compromise that less skilled players will be able to see the content a tier behind, now that it's more forgiving. I see no problem with it.
    i honestly don't understand why anyone would have a problem with it anyway, it's going to be outdated content when these changes go live
  1. alt-ithist's Avatar
    I am glad that blizzard is learning their lessons. One of the biggest fail of ICC IMO was hellscream buff still being active on heroic mode. Nerfing normals and leaving heroics alone is a smart move. My guild is still working on 8/13 and we already voted not to use any gear with ilvl above t11hc when we start Synestra.
  1. angelx7x's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aleom View Post
    Here's my issue with this nerf. It's not a nerf to Hardmodes, so Dragonslayer Aleom here doesn't care one bit about the nerf itself. The problem is that this directly impacts the LEGENDARY weapon in Firelands.

    Originally, the Legendary weapon was going to only be available to guilds that have cleared all of current T11 content, this meant being 13/13 HM. Only then would your guild have access to the Legendary weapon. However, they decided against this idea, and then changed it so that it could only be available to guilds that had fully cleared normal modes. I figured well that's definitely more than enough for almost any guild to accomplish, so the prize and rarity of the Legendary has gone down a little bit, but that's only a status thing...I can live with that if I have to.

    Then, on top of making the Legendary come for anyone who has rolled through normal modes, they also decrease the difficulty of Normal Modes by a sweeping 20%. THIS is too excessive. Had they Nerfed normal modes, but STILL kept the Legendary staffs lockout only available to Hard Mode guilds, I would be okay with this. This would STILL make the guilds that want to EARN a legendary have to do all the encounters on hard mode, which still maintain their current level of difficulty. And the normal modes being turned into easy modes would allow them to gear up faster to do it.

    I don't care about the Nerfs themselves I care about the consequences it has as far as the Legendary staffs availability.
    source? otherwise you simply pulled some bullshit out of your ass and labeled it as fact
  1. Kaneiac's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Phibi View Post
    Hmm not really cause a stupid nerf is a stupid nerf no matter what.
    Yeah all the "pros" go like "we'll be raiding the new tier anyway, screw the old tier"
    But if nobody would care about the old stuff there is no need to nerf it. Not even for a stupid questline or whatever.

    So they have to nerf it cause the players at the moments are too bad for the current tier of raiding.
    And don't gimme that "they do it for the twinks bla bla" stuff.

    The reason they do it is simple : MOST OF THE WoW PLAYERS SUCK! And it's blizzards own fault for making the game so fucking easy.
    It all started when you could simply buy your epics from the vendor and now you can simply faceroll yourself to the tier-sets.
    Even the worst dipshit player ingame can kill a boss when this goes live and you can't tell me that this is something good.

    "Screw challenges - FREE EPICS AND LEGENDARIES FOR EVERYONE" - Blizzard
    Your original point was because "Blizzard has no date in sight for t12 so they're nerfing this in the mean time."

    Now you're backtracking and going into this entire casual baby shit. Why the heck do you care? If you're worth anything, you were 12/12 months ago and are working on, or completed, HMs. Whether people suck or not doesn't affect you.

    The "bads" will be able to kill LAST TIER'S CONTENT while the rest of us are working on new stuff. Why are you freaking out again?

    ---------- Post added 2011-05-24 at 05:02 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Aleom View Post
    Here's my issue with this nerf. It's not a nerf to Hardmodes, so Dragonslayer Aleom here doesn't care one bit about the nerf itself. The problem is that this directly impacts the LEGENDARY weapon in Firelands.

    Originally, the Legendary weapon was going to only be available to guilds that have cleared all of current T11 content, this meant being 13/13 HM. Only then would your guild have access to the Legendary weapon. However, they decided against this idea, and then changed it so that it could only be available to guilds that had fully cleared normal modes. I figured well that's definitely more than enough for almost any guild to accomplish, so the prize and rarity of the Legendary has gone down a little bit, but that's only a status thing...I can live with that if I have to.

    Then, on top of making the Legendary come for anyone who has rolled through normal modes, they also decrease the difficulty of Normal Modes by a sweeping 20%. THIS is too excessive. Had they Nerfed normal modes, but STILL kept the Legendary staffs lockout only available to Hard Mode guilds, I would be okay with this. This would STILL make the guilds that want to EARN a legendary have to do all the encounters on hard mode, which still maintain their current level of difficulty. And the normal modes being turned into easy modes would allow them to gear up faster to do it.

    I don't care about the Nerfs themselves I care about the consequences it has as far as the Legendary staffs availability.
    Wait a goddamn minute.

    If people are unable to get 12/12 NORMAL before the nerfs, then why do you think they'll be able to do all of the things the legendary require? You think that people, who are only able to go 12/12 after sweeping nerfs, will be capable of getting the legendary. Amusing.

    This has to be part of the most flawed logic ever. And there's a LOT of it.

    If you're concerned about the people getting the legendary in Tier 13, then that's a valid complaint, but that's the nature of the game.
  1. xtsu's Avatar
    Ghostcrawler swings his Nerf Bat at Patch 4.1 and Critically Hits for 50%
    Patch 4.1 has been slain by Ghostcrawler
  1. mmoc79be39102d's Avatar
    I don't bother the nerfs, just makes me more excited about Firelands.
  1. Unferth's Avatar
    Spellsteal NEEDS a nerf ffs. World of WE LOVE MAGES ^_^ tee hee -GC
  1. Bratkat's Avatar
    Man why are the nerfing the content!? = /
  1. Alenoria's Avatar
    why can't people see they did this with ICC.... its not new... its not that they lost subscribers..... with icc they gave us a buff that increased the players damage health mana healing up 30%.... instead of being able to turn it off to grief people that needed it... they just decreased everything 20%.
  1. tacoloco's Avatar
    Rational people who have some actual perspective realize that there's not a damned thing wrong with nerfing normal mode raids when the next tier comes out. Rational people also realize that Blizzard isn't in the business of keeping people from seeing and completing content.

    They also aren't in the business of catering to the hardcore crowd. They haven't been in that business since Vanilla.

    Complain as much as you want. It won't change anything because Blizzard doesn't care about you. They care about the other 90% of players who foot most of the bill.
  1. Vehemence's Avatar
    You know what?

    I find the nerfs acceptable.....



    ........if they make they gear color from epic to blue and decrease stats. But Bope.
  1. sithorion's Avatar
    So quick summary here:

    The real Hardcore players have already downed most of the heroic stuff, so they don't care about it, and they'll be doing firelands..

    The casual players are happy, because they can see the whole content, which is nice because they can't now for various reasons..

    Who are those people that are whining then? Casual elitists..
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