Patch 5.1 PTR - Build 16173

Update: Added Official Notes update to the end of the post. Most of the class changes were already noted.

Swift Windsteed Mount, Challenge Mode Gear Procs, Conquest Point Cap Clarification

Patch 5.1 PTR - Build 16173
A new PTR build will be deployed on the test realms soon. We will be updating these notes frequently, so keep checking back!

New Gryphon and Wyvern
Blizzard is finally updating the good old faction mounts with newcomers: Grand Armored Gryphon and Grand Armored Wyvern




Swift Windsteed Mount
4 colors in the game files for the Swift Windsteed mount revealed earlier today.




Mechanical Tiger Cub



New Items
Look at the full list of new items, including the Scavenged weapons on the WoWDB PTR site! The pets will drop off of bosses in Classic raids!

Level Type Slot Name
80Mount Grand Armored Gryphon
80Mount Grand Armored Wyvern
1Companion Pets Gluth's Bone
1Companion Pets Dusty Clutch of Eggs
1Companion Pets Mr. Bigglesworth's Frigid Collar
1Companion Pets Blighted Spore
1Companion Pets Mark of Flame
1Companion Pets Blazing Rune
1Companion Pets Core of Hardened Ash
1Companion Pets Unscathed Egg
1Companion Pets Blackwing Banner
1Companion Pets Whistle of Chromatic Bone
1Companion Pets Viscidus Globule
1Companion Pets Anubisath Idol
1Companion Pets Jewel of Maddening Whispers
25Warlock Glyph Glyph of Supernova
25Warlock Glyph Glyph of Gateway Attunement
25Druid Glyph Glyph of Focus
1Junk Blood-Soaked Invitation
1Junk Brawler's Invite
85Junk Tome of the Tiger
85Junk Tome of the Crane
85Junk Tome of the Serpent
1Quest Re-Configured Remote
1Quest Delaris's Prism
90Devices Pierre
20Consumable Pandaren Spirit Pet Supplies
20Consumable Pandaren Spirit Pet Supplies
20Consumable Pandaren Spirit Pet Supplies
20Consumable Pandaren Spirit Pet Supplies
90Other Expired Blackout Brew
90Other Rotten Apple
90Other Rotten Banana
90Other Rotten Watermelon



Vol'jin Event Audio



King Varian Audio



Skyglaive Event



Voice of the Gods Narration



Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Collect
Pet Battles

Feats of Strength

Guild Feats of Strength
Guild

Pandaria Raid
Dungeons & Raids
  • And... It's Good! (New) Fly through the discs above the Engine of Nalak'sha in Mogu'shan Vaults on Normal or Heroic difficulty.

Pet Battles

Reputation

World Events



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Mounts
Flying
  • Grand Armored Gryphon (New) Summons and dismisses a rideable Armored Snowy Gryphon mount. The capabilities of this mount depend on your Riding skill and location. Account wide. 1.5 sec cast.
  • Grand Armored Wyvern (New) Summons and dismisses a rideable Armored Snowy Gryphon mount. The capabilities of this mount depend on your Riding skill and location. Account wide. 1.5 sec cast.
  • Violet Proto-Drake no longer grants Master Riding.

Companions

Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Minor Glyphs

Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents

Beast Mastery
  • Bestial Wrath now also breaks all effects which cause loss of control of your pet.No longer makes pet unstoppable.

Major Glyphs

Pet Talents
Ferocity
  • Rabid now increases attack speed instead of power.

Mage (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Talents

Fire

Minor Glyphs

Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Talents
  • Power Strikes now also works with Soothing Mist, and Crackling Jade Lightning to generate additional Chi.

Mistweaver

Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Priest (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Mass Dispel now removes all beneficial spells from each enemy target, up from 1.
  • Penance now heals for 6,606 + 63.5% of SP, up from 1,000 + 103.7% of SP.

Discipline
  • Penance now heals for 6,606 + 63.5% of SP, up from 1,000 + 103.7% of SP.

Rogue (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Blind now has a 1 min cooldown, down from 3 min.
  • Sprint now has a 45 sec cooldown, down from 60 sec.
  • Wound Poison damage increased by 33%.

Talents

Assassination
  • Seal Fate now only works with melee attacks.

Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Warlock (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Talents

Affliction
  • Soul Swap (Affliction) - Soulburn: Applies Corruption, Unstable Affliction and Agony without removing them from a target.

Destruction

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Warrior (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Intervene absorb of next attack now lasts for 10 sec.

Major Glyphs

Professions
Alchemy
  • Many tooltips updated to let you know they have a chance to proc a discovery.

Enchanting

Inscription

Raid & Dungeon Abilities
  • Amber Spew Deals 45,000 Nature damage to enemies in a 90 yard frontal cone.
  • Arcane Resonance Charges random targets with Arcane Resonance, which inflicts 30,000 Arcane damage to the target and all allies within 6 yards of the target.
  • Arcane Resonance Charges random targets with Arcane Resonance, which inflicts10,000 Arcane damage to the target and inflicts 30,000 Arcane damage to all allies within 6 yards of the target. Each nearby player will amplify the damage done by 10,000. 30,000.
  • Arcane Resonance Charges random targets with Arcane Resonance, which inflicts10,000 Arcane damage to the target and inflicts 30,000 Arcane damage to all allies within 6 yards of the target. Each nearby player will amplify the damage done by 10,000. 30,000.
  • Arcane Resonance Charges random targets with Arcane Resonance, which inflicts10,000 Arcane damage to the target and inflicts 30,000 Arcane damage to all allies within 6 yards of the target. Each nearby player will amplify the damage done by 10,000. 30,000.
  • Titan Gas Titan Gas fills the room, dealing 20,000 Frost damage every 1 seconds to all players and energizing any constructs, increasing damage dealt by 0% and attack speed by 25%. Titan Gas fills the room, dealing 20,000 Frost damage every 1 sec. to all players and energizing players and constructs, increasing melee damage dealt.



Strings Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO0 - Illidari Training Grounds
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO1 - Karabor Sewers
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO2 - Sanctuary of Shadows
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO3 - Halls of Anguish
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO4 - Gorefiend's Vigil
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO5 - Den of Mortal Delights
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO6 - Chamber of Command
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_BLACKTEMPLESCENARIO7 - Temple Summit
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_KRASARANG_TERRAIN11 - Explorers' League HQ
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_KRASARANG_TERRAIN12 - Ruins of Ogudei
  • DUNGEON_FLOOR_KRASARANG_TERRAIN13 - Reliquary Incursion
  • ENABLE_MOUSE_SPEED - Enable Mouse Sensitivity
  • OPTION_TOOLTIP_MOUSE_SPEED - Enables setting a custom mouse sensitivity to override the setting from the operating system.



Patch 5.1 PTR Notes Update - October 23
Only changed and new notes are below, see the full notes on the Blue Tracker.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
General
  • Banquet of the Steamer and Great Banquet of the Steamer now correctly provide Intellect to damage based casting classes. Healers will continue to gain Spirit from these foods.
  • A cooking profession bag has been added, and can be purchased with Ironpaw Tokens from Nam Ironpaw.

Classes
  • The Weakened Blows effect has a new icon.

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Symbiosis:
    • Mass Dispel's mana cost has been increased to match the Priest version, and its cooldown has been increased to 60 seconds.

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Ice Trap
    • The snare provided by Ice Trap is now more responsive when enemies enter or leave the area of effect, and its effective area more closely matches the visual effect.
    • Glyph of Ice Trap now causes the visual effect of Ice Trap to match the increased area of effect provided by the glyph.
    • Glyph of Black Ice now correctly benefits from the increased duration provided by Trap Mastery.
    • Lock and Load will now activate correctly when Ice Trap is triggered by an immune target, as long as a susceptible target is within the area of effect.
    • Fixed several issues involving Trap Mastery, Entrapment, Glyph of Black Ice, and Glyph of Ice Trap.
  • The Growl pet ability will no longer cause diminishing returns against bosses that are immune to its effect.
  • The Glyph of Icy Solace has been renamed to Glyph of Solace, and now causes both Scattershot and Freezing Trap to remove all damage over time effects from the target.
  • Glyph of Scattering has been removed.
  • A new Major Glyph has been added: Glyph of Aimed Shot. This glyph allows Aimed Shot to be used while moving.

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Ring of Frost now has a 45 second cooldown (was 30 seconds).
  • The duration of Deep Freeze has been reduced to 4 seconds.
  • Frost Bomb will now detonate after 6 seconds (was 5 seconds). Detonation speed is still affected by haste.

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Turn Evil is now effective against Aberrations.

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Psyfiend's Psychic Terror cast time has been increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Seal Fate will now only be activated by melee combo point generating abilities.
  • Shuriken Toss now deals double damage when used against targets further than 10 yards away.

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Demonic Gateway must now be activated by the player wishing to teleport.
  • A new Minor Glyph has been added: Glyph of Gateway Attunement. This glyph will cause a Warlock's Demonic Gateway to transport her immediately when she steps on it.
  • A New Major Glyph has been added: Glyph of Supernova. This glyph will cause the Warlock to deal 10% of his maximum health to all targets within 5 yards for each Burning Ember he had when he was slain.
  • Banish is now effective against Aberrations.
  • Kil'jaeden's Cunning now longer imposes a cast time penalty.
  • Flames of Xoroth no longer has a cooldown.
  • Rain of Fire
    • Rain of Fire no longer causes a stun after hitting a target three times.
  • Destruction Warlocks have gained a new ability: Cataclysm. Cataclysm costs one Burning Ember. After a 3 second channeling period, Cataclysm will stun and knockback all burning targets within 10 yards of the caster. This ability has a 1 minute cooldown.
  • Conflagrate now generates Burning Embers.

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Pet Battles
  • A new item has been introduced that can be used to upgrade the quality of Battle Pets: Battle-stones.
    • Battle-stones are available in two basic types, general purpose Battle-stones that can be used to upgrade the quality of any pet, and family specific Battle-stones, which can only be used to upgrade pets of a specific pet family. Pets over level 15 upgraded in this way can lose up to two levels in the process.
  • Several classic Raid bosses now have a chance to drop new Battle Pets. The new pets can be obtained from bosses in Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Ahn'Qiraj, and Naxxramas.
  • Abilities that have been used will now continue to cool down for pets when they are not the active pet in a battle.
  • Pets previously removed from the Safari achievements have been added back to the criteria of those achievements now that they're back in the wild.
  • Players that defeat Aki the Chosen at the culmination of the Battle Pet quest lines can now follow a new line of Battle Pet quests and associated daily quests that allows players to battle against Pandaren spirits.
  • The Dragon Kite can now be used in Pet Battles.
  • The Imperial Silkworm and Imperial Moth pets can now be created by Tailors.
  • A number of pets that could previously only be found accompanying other pets into battle can now be found roaming the world.
  • A number of new capturable pets can be found in the world from pet families that were once more sparsely populated.
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent some pets captured in Pet Battles from correctly saving their skin color once added to the Pet Journal.
  • Player versus Player Pet Battles now award more experience.
  • Large plants and bushes in the environment that interfered with visibility during Pet Battles while now fade out of view during the match.

Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios
  • Raid groups are no longer necessary to enter pre-Mists of Pandara raid dungeons.
  • The Statistics page now tracks and displays 10-player and 25-player raid boss kills separately.
  • Scenarios
    • Scenarios now include Dungeon Finder queue features, including leaders, backfill, vote to kick, and deserter debuffs. Roles are still not required.

UI
  • Justice, Valor, Honor and Conquest Point quartermasters are now signified by new minimap icons.

Brawler's Guild
  • Underground fighting rings have sprung up in Stormwind and Orgrimmar that will give brawlers who have their mitts on an invitation a chance to earn bragging rights by testing their solo PvE mettle against some of the toughest creatures found in World of Warcraft.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 5.1 PTR - Build 16173 started by chaud View original post
Published on 2012-10-23 07:08 PM
165 Comments
Comments 164 Comments
  1. Ellendway's Avatar
    Next time your awesome moderators should check news before they will lock thread with pictures from patch.

    New mounts

  1. Baneador's Avatar
    I dont like the mouth, the armor and the "mustaches" of the Kirin/qilin, could be better





    http://paizo.com/image/content/Pathf...lpaperWide.jpg

    And the gryphon and the wyvern looks nice, the gryphon need work in the wings.
  1. hiragana's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ellendway View Post
    Next time your awesome moderators should check news before they will lock thread with pictures from patch.
    Maybe not a store mount then.

    rofl, just seen video for mounts, where the fuck are the hiding those MASSIVE wings.

    Also, ooo pets from classic raids.
  1. laughtrey's Avatar
    So, looks like the bell is crafted from Titan flesh. We get closer and closer to the end battle with Sargeras with every patch.

    ---------- Post added 2012-10-23 at 01:47 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by darenyon View Post
    looks like the gryphons are using a different skeleton.
    Nah, it's the same skeleton. You can tell just by seeing the horrid angle on the wing and how close the feet are, it's just a new mesh on top of the old animations.
  1. Farora's Avatar
    What about updating the characters we fucking play instead!
  1. Daws001's Avatar
    10s on Healing Sphere lol? Ok.
    Power Strikes change is awesome.
  1. DarkTZeratul's Avatar
    It's really odd how the gryphon's wing feathers "split" like that while they're moving. It should be a continuous line of edges.

    From my fiancee, an ornithologist:
    "Looks like they gave the gryphon an extra joint in the primaries so they flip up on the upstroke. There are no bones or joints for the primaries. They should move fluidly with the secondaries. The feathers can bend gradually, but the flip on the upstroke is too extreme. It took me watching it a few times, but look at that split (which in itself if wrong) and then watch what the tips of the wings do."
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Those HORRIBLE wing animations on the Gryphon...seriously, I get annoyed with how the devs just ignore how things SHOULD move. Horses running like dogs, mammoths hopping along, worgs running as if they have bad issues with their hips etc etc.

    They could make the new gryphon model have PROPERLY impressive wings, but nooo...stick to the old, fugly animation -_-. I guess we can see that they will do shoddy jobs on all the other model upgrades.

    Also, is it sure that they're updating the flying faction mounts, and not just adding 2 new ones for the Brawler's Guild or something?
  1. Noctus78's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sTyLnK View Post
    Oh come on. They changed 70 exalted factions to 60 for the new title? That sucks. 60 is a complete joke to get.
    totally agree. i had 58 factions in cata already. and that isnt even with shren'dalar(spelling?) and ravenholdt.
  1. mmoc37cfb5e035's Avatar
    The Wyvern is freaking hideous. Was never a big fan of them but this is just a flying Wolpertinger. Disgusting.
  1. Airwaves's Avatar
    Really? Really? Really? Mount updates before player models, in fact mounts the nobody uses... /facepalm
  1. Pachycrocuta's Avatar
    Seems like they are giving more incentive to run the old raids from Classic WoW. But, what I don't get, is Gluth's Bone, Dusty Clutch of eggs, Mr. Bigglesworth's Frigid Collar, and Blighted Spore. Those sound like they drop from Naxx, which is no longer a "Classic Raid", being considered a WotLK raid since it was bumped to 80. There's 3 from Molten Core, 3 from Blackwing Lair, and 3 from (what appear to be) AQ40, and 4 from Naxx.
  1. Sidone's Avatar
    Knowing blizz it's either some new faction reward you pay loads of gold for, or from the store. Pretty sure they don't just replace the current ones. Since the different colors and all.

    Love the mount hate tho. When in game you will all buy/get it. You know you want to.
  1. Spellweaver's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bareno View Post
    Lolwat. How intresting?
    I guess by flying, the achievement means getting knocked back by one of those trash mobs before Elegon, and hitting the rings above the engine.

    Quote Originally Posted by Airwaves View Post
    Really? Really? Really? Mount updates before player models, in fact mounts the nobody uses... /facepalm
    Because mount updates obviously aren't much easier to make than player model updates. (/sarcasm)
  1. sdkphoenix's Avatar
    Gah! New pets! From raids?! What is this madness!

    And finally, a Mr. Bigglesworth of my own!
  1. Appletini's Avatar
    So mount model upgrades are a testing ground for character model upgrades.

    So keep whining about it, because I'm sure they're going to want to waste resources re-designing character models if all they're going to get in response is grief.
  1. Sontrowa's Avatar
    Fun fact! The WindSteed and the Quilen are based off the same creature! The Qilin/Kirin in chinese lore is sometime described as a "dragon tiger" and other times a "dragon deer". Though the Quilen in game share closer looks to the ShiShi dog/lions than the Qilin dragon tigers they share a name with.
  1. Mementomori1993's Avatar
    To all the people bitching about the wings...........It's the PTR, chill out.
  1. Achaman's Avatar
    the gryphon is ncie but the wyvern is butt ugly
  1. Gaman's Avatar
    Okay, as a Mage i can understand the nerfs for PvP reasons.. But the nerf for the 70 achievment is probably the most retarded one in here, why just why change something that has no effect on gameplay what so fucking ever, and something that was actually an "achievment" into something its now not gonna be.. 60 exalted was reachable in fucking Cata.. Sigh
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