Patch 5.1 PTR - Build 16257

Patch 5.1 PTR Notes Update - November 2
Only changed and new notes are below, see the full notes on the Blue Tracker.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
General
  • Brawler's Guild
    • Entry into the brawler’s guild is by invitation only. Invitations can be found on the black market auction house or by invitation from somebody within the guild.

Classes
  • The durations of all Disarm effects have been reduced to 8 seconds.

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Damage received from players (or player-controlled sources) no longer counts towards increasing the healing done by Death Strike.

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • A new passive ability has been added: Tooth and Claw. This ability causes autoattacks to have a chance to empower the Druid's next Maul. Empowered Maul reduce the damage dealt by the target's next autoattack. Guardian Druids obtain this ability at level 32.
  • Omen of Clarity now has a different visual effect for Feral Druids.
  • Glyphs
    • A new Minor Glyph has been added: Glyph of Focus. This glyph reduces the radius of Starfall by 50%.

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Careful Aim now increases the critical strike chance of Steady Shot and Aimed Shot by 75% on targets who are above 80% health, down from 90%.
  • The duration of Steady Focus has been increased to 20 seconds, up from 10 seconds.

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • The damage buff from Arcane Charge has been increased from 22% to 24%.
  • Rune of Power duration now shows in the UI, and no longer has a cooldown (was 6 seconds).
  • Ring of Frost now has a 45 second cooldown, up from 30 seconds, and can no longer affect more than 10 targets.
  • Pyroblast now has a 3 second cooldown. The cooldown on Pyroblast is affected by haste.
  • The mana cost of Spellsteal has been increased to 21% of base mana for Fire and Frost mages, up from 7%.
  • Glyphs

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • All healing spells which cost mana have had their mana cost increased by 10%.
  • The energy costs of Legacy of the Emperor, and Legacy of the White Tiger have been reduced to 20, down from 50.
  • The energy cost of Healing Sphere has been reduced to 40, down from 60.
  • The Tiger Power provided by Tiger Palm now reduces target armor by 30% with a single application and no longer stacks.
  • Stance of the Fierce Tiger now increases the Monk's movement speed by 10% in addition to its other effects. This movement speed increase stacks with other effects.
  • The healing provided by the Healing Sphere base spell has been increased by 20%.
  • The chance to generate 1 Chi while channeling Soothing Mist and Crackling Jade Lightning has increased to 35%, up from 25%.
  • The Power Strikes talent now grants the Power Strikes effect every 22 20 seconds, which causes the Monk's next attack to generate 1 additional Chi.
  • Mistweaver

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Holy Paladin: The 4 piece bonus now reduces Holy Shock cooldown by 2 seconds, up from 1 second.
  • Retribution Paladin: The 4 piece bonus now reduces Avenging Wrath’s cooldown by 65 seconds, down from 85 seconds.

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Atonement healing range has been increased to 40 yards, up from 15.
  • Chakras now persist through death and zoning.
  • Discipline Priests can once again learn Focused Will. This ability is obtained at level 30.
  • Chakra: Chastise now increases the damage dealt by Shadow and Holy spells by 50% (was 15%), and reduces mana costs by 90% (was 75%) while the ability is in effect.

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • The cooldown of Sprint has been reduced to 45 seconds, down from 1 minute.
  • The cooldown of Blind has been reduced to 90 seconds, down from 3 minutes.

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Kil'jaeden's Cunning snare has been increased from 10% per stack to 15% per stack.
  • Removed the ranged Melee attack from Demonology Warlocks in Metamorphosis form, and increased the damage of Doom by 25% to compensate.
  • 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.
  • Demonic Gateway duration has been increased to 20 15 minutes, and it will no longer despawn if the Warlock moves too far away. In addition, this ability can no longer be used in any capital city.
  • Glyphs
    • 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.

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Avatar no longer grants immunity to movement impairing effects, and instead now instantly breaks movement impairing effects. This ability also no longer generates addiitonal Rage while active. Its duration has increased to 24 seconds (was 20 seconds).
  • The cooldown of Intimidating Shout has increased to 90 seconds, up from 60 seconds.

Pet Battles
  • Pet Battle music is now more appropriate for the type of match being fought.
  • Several new Pet Battle PvP areas have been added to the world.

Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios
  • The Tidal Shield cast by High Warlord Naj'entus now has a reduced duration.
  • Razorgore the Untamed no longer takes extra damage from Black Talon enemies, has more health, and can cast Destroy Egg more frequently.
  • Viscidus now requires significantly fewer hits to freeze and Shatter.

Bug Fixes
  • All spells that cause Forebearance can no longer be applied simultaneously.

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Halo Should now be more responsive.

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Poisons should now be more responsive.
  • Revealing Strike should now be more responsive.

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Pandemic no longer smooths the damage when extending dots with different amounts of spellpower.

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Execute damage with high amounts of Vengeance is now capped at the Warrior's maximum health to prevent it from reaching excessive numbers.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 5.1 PTR Notes Update - November 2 started by chaud View original post
Comments 126 Comments
  1. Krada91's Avatar
    Woot, hunter's Careful Aim phase back to normal
  1. vMoPPy's Avatar
    I'm so excited for the Brawlers Guild!
  1. mmoc9c9ffca40d's Avatar
    Does anyone have a clue when 5.1 hits? Considering re-rolling from shit Boomkin to Retri.
  1. Ankzu's Avatar
    Entry into the brawler’s guild is by invitation only. Invitations can be found on the black market auction house or by invitation from somebody within the guild.
    Wow. I can see a lot of people charging a lot of gold for invitations.

    Was looking forward to it, guess I won't be able to participate now.
  1. deviantcultist's Avatar
    In fact, Cataclysm and Supernova have been removed. A genius move by blizzard not mentioned in the patch notes.
  1. McFrotton's Avatar
    Like Blood dk were really OP they shovel them a little more in the ground....not cool....again.
  1. ElfinHilon10's Avatar
    Why the Mistweaver nerfs? We have no utility as it is in raids...
  1. Kuja's Avatar
    So they're making Razorgore and Viscidus soloable easier!
  1. Cinnamohn's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ankzu View Post
    Wow. I can see a lot of people charging a lot of gold for invitations.

    Was looking forward to it, guess I won't be able to participate now.
    Exactly what I'm thinking..
  1. Eon Drache's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lazerduck View Post
    Does anyone have a clue when 5.1 hits? Considering re-rolling from shit Boomkin to Retri.
    boomkin is doing better than retribution? o.o Also, it still has a while to go. We still don't have a release build.
  1. Maladi's Avatar
    Cataclysm has been removed in this build, not added. You copied it wrong.
  1. phyx's Avatar
    Why do they hate discipline priests? We are miles below 2nd weakest healer and yet we get 0 buffs.
    Also finally monk nerfs. Its about time. All that greenness on WoL was hurting my eyes.
  1. Tmicrochip's Avatar
    Still no shaman changes... :-(
  1. valcrist's Avatar
    wow black market for inventations really? that is a Fing stupid move blizzard now I will never get in. Horde War Council guild buys everything the black market AH
  1. merex760's Avatar
    Well, I guess blizzard had to gate the Brawler's Guild in some way. Mists of Gated Content lives on.
  1. Jay667b's Avatar
    They definitely need to change that Brawlers Guild requirement.
  1. Mercadi's Avatar
    Heh, mages got the stupid pyroblast change reverted. Good for them.
  1. Aeluron Lightsong's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by merex760 View Post
    Well, I guess blizzard had to gate the Brawler's Guild in some way. Mists of Gated Content lives on.

    That's not necessarily gated content. Though it is a bit silly unless the Brawler's guild is really really really really hard.
  1. Ealyssa's Avatar
    Hammernerfed Mistweavers, seems a bit too much IMO. Nerfing mana cost AND a massive output reduction is hard.
  1. Rifter's Avatar
    Brawler's guild on bmah? What's the thought process here? Seems like it's limiting content to the ultra rich.

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