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.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
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%.
This article was originally published in forum thread: PTR 4.3 Patch Notes - Oct. 13, 2011 Update started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 160 Comments
  1. MagicSN's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by valcrist View Post
    finally a little buff to warlocks, been too many years of Fing nerfs and not knowing wtf to with the class. But Buffing mages yet again? seriously blizzard wtf you guys smoking.
    You *are* aware that Firemage is currently the worse spec in the game? It is around 5000-6000 dps below Arcane. Currently mages are FORCED
    into playing arcane, no matter if they like it or not - and made fun of of their "one button spec". When I recently forgot to respec (I had tried out something with fire before) and got an invite to a random raid I heard a voice on TS in total disbelief "You are a firemage????" I hurried to say "Ah, just forgot to change spec before the raid". Mages currently play fire for exactly ONE encounter (which is of an extremely gimmicky nature - flying with Alysrazor, there you use Firespec with Arcane gear - everything else you HAVE to play Arcane (Frost works also for some I heard, but not Fire).

    I *also* once tried to play Fire in Firelands (the irony!!!) as we had no warlock in our 10-man. It turned out I lost more personal dps due to the respec from Arcane to
    fire than all 3 casters GAINED through the Scorch-Debuff added together...

    ---------- Post added 2011-10-14 at 07:23 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Glaxton View Post
    Blizz, you really must be kidding me with the Mage buffs, I mean really? How many people out there really enjoy using one hand and one finger to play this game anyway.. pls cast a vote if you play a mage and think one hand and one finger is too hard for you...
    And this actually is the point. Many Mageplayers do not want to play a 2-button-spec (arcane) anymore. But they are forced to do this as Fire currently is not raid-viable. This buff fixes it (hopefully) and they can then play a non-2-button-spec again.
  1. mmoc88c997ff81's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dalarius View Post
    Still waiting for Mage and Warlock nerf... lol Warlock still getting buffed, what a joke.
    Warlocks STILL getting buffed; do you even got a clue about warlocks?
  1. mmoc79582ce235's Avatar
    They finally buf destro.. I'm happy but disapointed. No soulburn altering effects for other pets, no imolate disspel protection... show pvp some love wil ya
  1. mmoc602dbbf29b's Avatar
    Finally they fixed charge! Wooo

    ---------- Post added 2011-10-14 at 11:17 AM ----------

    IN my opinion Immolate should have 3 stacks that come with one cast.
  1. Breakee's Avatar
    Fucking lol'd at all the guys complaining about the fire mage buff.
    Seriously ?
    Actually fire mage dps is even worse than BM hunter , even with the legendary staff ( no need to say that it is worse than destruction warlock too ).So yes fire mage definitely needs a buff
  1. thunterman's Avatar
    -Mage-
    Well the fire mage stuff is rediculous, instead of fixing the ignite bug thier just buffing the base damage. All the people QQing though, its arcane that needs the nerf, fire is just totally screwed, hence hardly anyone uses it anymore. All fire is good for atm is flying on alyzrazor, this will hopefully make it viable again as a 2button spec is just totally boring.

    -Hunter-
    Thats a BM buff, 5% AP still wont make BH anygood for pve... so rather pointless really. Its just going to make hunters even more op in pvp, yet again, blizzard fixing a PvE balence issue by breaking a pvp issue. Hoping to see more hunter changes soon, they cant just leave it at that.

    Priest vs druid, theyve just done a role reversal, priests are going to be leading the way for healing now i guess, and druids will just lack healing.. not much point in that either. And it looks like they are using thier imagination yet again, pallys get a glyphed prayer of healing... Woot?
  1. greyghost's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Deluxo View Post
    rofl @ mage buffs. Unneeded.
    Actually, VERY needed.

    Fire mages are completely useless in PvE right now. The mages you see in PvE tearing up meters are Arcane mages.

    ---------- Post added 2011-10-14 at 10:24 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Thaede View Post
    All this tells me is that PvP is being completely ignored this patch.
    PvP is only ever fun at the beginning of expansions anyways, when no one is caught up on Resilience and everyone's out in the actual world trying to level.
  1. Strafer's Avatar
    Warlocks.
  1. mmocf6709871f0's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TheRevenantHero View Post
    Yeah because mages needed more freaking buffs right? Further proof that Blizzards has a raging erection for mages.
    if you take arcane out of the equation (pls blizzard) mages are the worst caster class in the game atm. Destro is by far the worst lock spec. the lock/mage haters are probably all spriests and boomkins (the guy who said that they needed "balance" made me laugh) probably meant nerfing them as they op atm, unless you are bad at it. i'm glad they are buffing unholy, its the only "true" dk spec, nerf the fan boy frost dks. i think the demonology changes are a little op given the dps i've seen so far, its a direct buff to thier strongest attacks, boosting their boosted if you like. although the soulfire buff is correct.

    "pvp ignored again" - you do actually realise that pvp is just a part of the same game? i mean its not a completely separate entity. personally dislike ppl who call themselves "pvpers", may aswell call themselves "half the gamers" fail qq. PVP is a part of WoW, and however you like it, WoW is predominatnly a PvE MMORPG, if you hate it go play quake or just enjoy it as i do.
  1. Yim's Avatar
    I'm glad to see Destro and Fire getting buffs.I think they seriously need to think of normalizing Arcane's burst dmg and make them more consistent instead of bursty.
  1. geitepung's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by SiNz View Post
    Seriously...more mage buffs? lol
    You're damn f***ing right. Nobody needs a buff more than fire does. Now just give them the spell protection they need and they might finallybe viable for arena.
  1. mmoc602dbbf29b's Avatar
    So at 70 pvp fire mages need to cast one pyroblast on warriors and it will dot them to death. Well I guess thats what blizzard is after. I know nobody gives a shit about low lvl pvp but they should rly reduce all dmg and healing by 30% under lvl 80.
  1. Breakee's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gneaper View Post
    So at 70 pvp fire mages need to cast one pyroblast on warriors and it will dot them to death. Well I guess thats what blizzard is after. I know nobody gives a shit about low lvl pvp but they should rly reduce all dmg and healing by 30% under lvl 80.
    Well pyroblast damage = fireball damage atm
    So pyroblast needed a buff
    There s no way you can complain about that
  1. Baurge's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lora View Post
    Glad to see all the wonderful changes to balance druids. ._. they are focusing a lot on new animations than balancing it seems.
    Wait what kind of Balancing? Boomkin's are currently 2nd highest dps overall in raids. So I can only assume you're wanting them to be nerfed, which honestly it's not like they're topping DPS charts by ridiculous numbers, if nothing else other people should be brought up to their level.
  1. Pineapple801's Avatar
    [QUOTE=kharyll;13657082]/facepalm

    I thought i was never gonna complain about nerfs or buffs, but a buff to frenzied regen was not necessary at all for pvp.
    If there is one class that needs a buff to self healing or self defense, especially for pvp, it is hunter. And this is coming from a rogue.

    Actually if ur smart enoh to use a crab or other tenacity pet you would know that by using laststand and intervenen on urself provides around 80k+ personal shield on top of RoS which makes u unable to be crit and if you pick up the raptor strike glyph you have a pretty well rounded defense its just not as faceroll as, bearform-> survivalinstincts-> enrage-> frenzied regeneration, thats why i would tell anyone in the game hunters have an extremely high skill-cap and aren't for derp ppl that dont explore their own class enough to know its full potential and simply say "oh [insert class here] killed me this class sucks i want a buff so i can one shot it."
  1. mmoc3621641a27's Avatar
    Destruction Warlock finally gets a good buff ... YAY! Eat dust, mages! (just kidding XD, lets share buffs, shall we?)
  1. TheBoo's Avatar
    Soul Fire now scales with 72.6% of spell power, up from 62.5%.
    Impending Doom is now also activated by Soul Fire.

    I wonder if that will put SF instead SB in demo as filler (assuming that 5% crit debuff is up). If yes - whats the point of new SB animation? for affli only?
  1. nyy22592's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dalarius View Post
    Still waiting for Mage and Warlock nerf... lol Warlock still getting buffed, what a joke.
    Lol at you. Idiot of the day. Plays a rogue and thinks that a buff to destro will somehow make the already melee-dominated affliction lock more "OP".

    I'll tell you one thing: If you're a sub rogue who can't kill an equally geared affliction lock, you should probably go play a different game.
  1. Megatronn's Avatar
    So stoked!
  1. bondgirl's Avatar
    Ewww finaly. Get away with arc mages. Fire is the one and only specc Really love to see fire mages in raids more now

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