Update - Added Illidan's updated model.
Update - Added finalized spell changes.
Update - It seems that Shadowy Gem and Elementium Gem Cluster are the 2 new items you'll gather to build your legendary daggers.


Patch 4.3 - PTR Build 14849
A new PTR build is being deployed on test realms, check out the latest update of the official notes which most likely reflect changes made in this build.



And as usual if it's datamined and not in the official notes, it might just be a bug or a screw up on my side, you know how it works!

Client Strings
An interesting string that hints at a feature to "suspend" your LFG queue, and a "Heat" power type most likely used during the fight against Deathwing.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • ERR_JOIN_LFG_OBJECT_FAILED = "You failed to join the instance in progress";
  • ERR_PARTY_ROLE_NOT_AVAILABLE = "%s is unable to fill any of your group's available roles";
  • INTERACT_ON_LEFT_CLICK_TEXT = "Interact On Left Click|TInterface\\OptionsFrame\\UI-OptionsFrame-NewFeatureIcon:0:0:0:-1|t";
  • IN_LFG_QUEUE_BUT_SUSPENDED = "Your queue has been temporarily suspended. You will retain your position in the queue.";
  • MAC_OPEN_UNIVERSAL_ACCESS = "In order to use this option accessibility needs to be enabled. Please check the option \"Enable access for assistive devices\" in the Universal Access System";
  • OPTION_TOOLTIP_INTERACT_ON_LEFT_CLICK = "Interact with objects and friendly non-player characters using left or right click.";
  • POWER_TYPE_DW_BACK_HEAT = "Heat";
  • RF_REWARD_EXPLANATION1 = "Your first completion per week will earn you:";
  • RF_REWARD_EXPLANATION2 = "Each victory subsequent to the first each week will earn you:";
  • SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_148 = "Target is already affected by Stardust No. 2.";



Item Set Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 13

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 12

Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 13

Shaman (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 12
  • Item - Shaman T12 Elemental 2P Bonus's tooltip was clarified with values: Your damaging spells have a 30% chance to reduce the remaining cooldown on your Fire Elemental Totem by 4 sec.

Tier 13

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Tier 13



Achievements
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Dungeons & Raids - Cataclysm Dungeon
  • Heroic: End Time Defeat Murozond in End Time on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Heroic: Well of Eternity Defeat Mannoroth in Well of Eternity on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Heroic: Hour of Twilight Defeat Archbishop Benedictus in Hour of Twilight on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Lazy Eye Defeat Peroth'arn in Well of Eternity on Heroic Difficulty without any party member being detected by an Eye of Peroth'arn.
  • Severed Ties Defeat two Risen Ghouls during Echo of Sylvanas' Calling of the Highborne phase, then defeat the Echo of Sylvanas in End Time on Heroic Difficulty.
  • Eclipse Kill 8,675,309 Twilight Sparks and then defeat Archbishop Benedictus in Hour of Twilight on Heroic Difficulty.

Dungeon & Raids - Cataclysm Raid
  • Ping Pong Champion Bounce the Void of Unmaking 10 times off of players, and then defeat Warlord Zon'ozz.
  • Taste the Rainbow! Experience the following color combinations, and then defeat Yor'sahj the Unsleeping.
  • Maybe he'll get dizzy... Deafeat the Spine of Deathwing encounter after tricking Deathwing into performing the following roll sequence: Left, Right, Left, Right.

Feats of Strength

Guild - Cataclysm Dungeon

Guild - Cataclysm Raid

Guild - Feats of Strength
  • Realm First! Deathwing First guild on the realm to defeat Deathwing in Dragon Soul on Heroic difficulty while in a guild group.



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

Professions
General

Enchanting

Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Unholy
  • Death Coil now scales from 23% of Attack Power, down from 30%.
  • Unholy Might now increases Strength by 25%, up from 20%.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Feral
  • Bear Form now increases armor from cloth and leather items by 120% at all levels instead of only at level 40 and above.
  • Frenzied Regeneration now increases maximum health by 30%, up from 15%. Each point of rage is converted into 0.3% of max health, up from 0.15%.
  • Rake now scales from 14.7% of Attack Power on the initial damage, up from 2.07% of Attack Power. Now scales from 44.1% of Attack Power on the additional bleed damage, up from 37.8%.

Hunter (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery

Survival

Pet

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Fire
  • Fireball damage has been increased by 17%.
  • Living Bomb damage seems to have been lowered, but the official notes seems to say it's been increased. Probably a bug, the official notes are always right.
  • Pyroblast damage seems to have been slightly lowered, but once again the official notes seems to say the contrary. Official notes win!

Frost

Arcane
  • Arcane Missiles now has a 40% chance to proc from offensive spell, down from 100%.

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Holy
  • Divine Plea no longer grants a charge of Holy Power.
  • Holy Radiance no longer grants a charge of Holy Power. Healing effectiveness diminishes for each player target beyond 6.

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


Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Combat
  • Ambidexterity now increases the damage of Throw, Deadly Throw, and Fan of Knive abilities instead of increasing the damage of thrown weapons.

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Affliction
  • Jinx now increases the cost of the target's abilities instead of reducing his/her power regeneration.

Demonology

Destruction
  • Cataclysm now increases Fire spell damage by 30%, up from 25%.
  • Burning Embers now deals damage over time equal to 50% of the damage done, up from 30%. Now scales from 20% of spell power, up from 12,14%.
  • Fire and Brimstone now increases damage done by Chaos Bolt and Incinerate to targets afflicted by Immolate by 5/10/15%, up from 2/4/6%.
  • Improved Soul Fire now lasts 20 sec, up from 15 sec.

Warrior (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Fury
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.3 - PTR Build 14849 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 146 Comments
  1. biolink22's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Destil View Post
    Unholy seems buffed overall, even with the DC Nerf. It probably got nerfed to even out the Strength increase. Makes sense.
    Whatever minute buff this does amount to it wont do anything to bring it close to frost's damage. Looks like another patch of playing the most boring spec in the game -.-
  1. Nest's Avatar
    Feral buffs? Really blizzard? REALLY? D Glad I've quit already.
  1. Schizoide's Avatar
    The death coil nerf is just a tooltip change. Verified it's already 23% in the live game.
  1. Ruck's Avatar
    is that one hell of a buff to fury or a tooltip change?
  1. Brasnite's Avatar
    "Unshackled Fury now only grants 2 base points of mastery, down from 8. those were the 4.1.0 changes made to Unshackled Fury that reduced the benefit from enrage effects, now with blizzard wanting to buff Melee damage to be competetive with ranged DPS in the new raid they are pretty much giving us those base pts back.
  1. Anuibus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Brasnite View Post
    "Unshackled Fury now only grants 2 base points of mastery, down from 8. those were the 4.1.0 changes made to Unshackled Fury that reduced the benefit from enrage effects, now with blizzard wanting to buff Melee damage to be competetive with ranged DPS in the new raid they are pretty much giving us those base pts back.
    Too bad we also lose our 5% damage bonus from dual wield specialization, so we really don't get buffed
  1. mmoc4da90c0e34's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaneiac View Post
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

    I know you're kidding, but, some people haven't heard of WoW, believe it or not. Doesn't mean it's not famous. :P
    Have never heard of it. Had to go look it up. It's a good song though.

    Biggest surprise for me is how noone pays attention to things around the new legendaries. That kind of confirmed my assumption that it being for only one class will mark it as the least famous legendary weapon. I don't even think rogues are interested in it now as much as they are still into getting the glaives, even though they are easy to get(sort of).
  1. Penguirrel's Avatar
    http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/77956/s...l-mount-crate/ prety much confirms the Spectral Gryphon/Wyrvyn are gonna be Blizz store purchases similar to the moonkin hatchling
  1. otarma's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Alayea View Post
    Can't be that famous if I've never heard of it.

    Anyway, looks like Frost DKs are getting hit quite a bit by the nerfbat. Too bad the changes to Unholy still won't render it able to compete with Frost.

    Also, I don't like the thought of Blizzard removing Souldarite and Bloodvine from the required mats. Let's keep some of Old Azeroth around, ya?
    Souldarite and Bloodvine are no longer available within the game, which makes some really decent-looking crafted items uncraftable for now. With transmog online, this needs to be fixed.
  1. qae's Avatar
    still so much Moonkin love.. overwhelming.
  1. Bruxoimp's Avatar
    Yes! Destro is back!
  1. Higg's Avatar
    Enchanting Enchanting: Enchant Weapon - Windwalk now stacks with passive movement speed effects.
    This has always been the case. It's just a tooltip correction. Or at least it's always stacked with Pursuit of Justice.
  1. Imbashiethz's Avatar
    Lame that they removed bloodvine req. I was hoping for some unique items in 4.3. Was also selling bloodvine..
  1. Nak's Avatar
    WTB Death Knight T13...
  1. Spritely's Avatar
    That's NOT a tooltip clarification to shaman t12. That's a pretty gigantic nerf.
  1. Mindstripper's Avatar
    Why are they not changing the DPS 4p for DK's? Don't they get that we HATE runic empowerment. We don't want anything to do with it. Maybe have Killing Machine make Obliterate free as well as a crit for Frost and an increase in the duration of Dark Transformation for Unholy. Seriously. Anything but what it is. It sucks.
  1. Tapout's Avatar
    I don't mind the nerf to Elemental Shaman 2 piece so much. By all early indications 2pT12 and 2pT13 were going to be far and away the best setup and Blizzard doesn't want that. But it'll still be awhile before people actually GET 4pT13, so its really going to suck in that in-between time.
  1. mmoc6222dccaae's Avatar
    There is a disturbing resemblance between Illidan's new model and Agent Smith, just look at his face! ;D
  1. Namana's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Spritely View Post
    That's NOT a tooltip clarification to shaman t12. That's a pretty gigantic nerf.
    Yea, it's a huge nerf. But since they released the t13 ele bonuses, I was wondering how they'd make it worth dropping the t12 2 piece... I guess that's our answer: they're not going to make t13 better, they're just going to nerf t12 into the ground so the stats on t13 look worth it.
  1. biolink22's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Namana View Post
    Yea, it's a huge nerf. But since they released the t13 ele bonuses, I was wondering how they'd make it worth dropping the t12 2 piece... I guess that's our answer: they're not going to make t13 better, they're just going to nerf t12 into the ground so the stats on t13 look worth it.
    5.0 patchnotes: [insert random ele talent] now removes the cooldown for fire elemental totem

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