Patch 5.3 PTR - Build 16853
Build 16853 will be deployed to the PTR realms soon.

New Strings
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • MODEL - Model
  • TOS_DECLINE - Reject



New Items
You can see all of the new Patch 5.3 items on the WoWDB PTR site!

Level Type Slot Name
1ShirtShirt Tuxedo-Like Shirt
1ShirtShirt Digmaster's Bodysleeve
1ShirtShirt Sightless Mantle
1ShirtShirt Wraps of the Blood-Soaked Brawler
1Consumable Challenge Card: Bao'za
5Consumable Celebration Package


Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Archaeology
Professions

Brawler's Guild
World Events

Deepwind Gorge
Player vs. Player

Pandaria
Quests

Pandaria Raid
Dungeons & Raids
  • Genetically Unmodified Organism Defeat Primordius in Throne of Thunder on Normal or Heroic difficulty without any player or Primordius absorbing a Mutagenic Pool. 10 points. receiving a harmful mutation. 10 points.

Pet Battles

Player vs. Player

Scenarios
  • Fight Anger with Anger (New) Defeat the Abomination of Anger in the Crypt of Forgotten Kings scenario with 20 stacks of Uncontrolled Anger. 10 points.



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Mounts

Item Set Bonuses

Death Knight (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Blood

Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Balance & Restoration

Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents
  • Intimidation is now a Level 30 talent, replacing Blinding Shot.

Marksmanship
  • Binding Shot is no longer a talent, just a Marksmanship spell.
  • Wild Quiver (New) Deals ranged weapon damage. Requires Crossbows. Hunter - Marksmanship Spec. 100 yd range.

Mage (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Talents

Fire
  • Critical Mass now gives a 1.3 damage multiplier, up from 1.2.
  • Pyroblast had a 10% damage and SP scaling reduction.

Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Chi Wave now hits targets within 25 yards, up from 20.

Windwalker
  • Brewing: Tigereye Brew For each 3 Chi you consume through use of abilities and attacks, you gain a charge of Tigereye Brew. Use Tigereye Brew to consume the charges, granting you 2.60% [ 2.60 or 1.00 ]% increased damage for 15 sec. Tigereye Brew can stack up to 20 times, but can only consume up to 10 stacks at a time for 26.00% [ 26.00 or 10.00 ]% increased damage. Monk - Windwalker Spec.
  • Tigereye Brew Increases damage done by 2.60% [ 2.60 or 1.00 ]% per stack of Tigereye Brew active, consuming up to 10 Tigereye Brew stacks. Lasts 15 sec. For each 3 Chi you consume through use of abilities and attacks, you gain a charge of Tigereye Brew. Use Tigereye Brew to consume the charges, granting you 2.60% [ 2.60 or 1.00 ]% increased damage for 15 sec. Tigereye Brew can stack up to 20 times, but can only consume up to 10 stacks at a time for 26.00% [ 26.00 or 10.00 ]% increased damage. Monk - Windwalker Spec. Instant. 1 sec cooldown.

Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Holy

Priest (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Binding Heal had a partial tooltip fix.
  • Penance had a 10% damage and SP scaling reduction and 10% healing an SP scaling increase.

Discipline
  • Atonement now heals for 90% of the damage dealt, up from 80%.
  • Penance had a 10% damage and SP scaling reduction and 10% healing an SP scaling increase.

Major Glyphs
  • Glyph of Smite no longer allows for the additional damage to be transferred by Atonement.

Rogue (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents

Major Glyphs

Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Chain Heal had a ~18% increase to healing and SP scaling.
  • Earthliving had a 20% increase to healing and SP scaling.
  • Healing Rain had a 20% increase to healing and SP scaling.
  • Healing Rain now costs 36.6% of Base Mana, down from 43.1%.

Elemental

Enhancement
  • Feral Spirit wolves are now immune to movement-impairing effects.

Restoration

Warlock (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Demonology

Major Glyphs

Warrior (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Talents
  • Enraged Regeneration no longer costs Rage. Now heals for 5% of total health, and another 5% over 5 sec, down from 10% initially and 10% additionally. Effects are doubled if used while Enraged.
  • Second Wind no longer grants Rage on being Stunned or Immobilized.

Arms

Fury

Protection
  • Bastion of Defense now reduces the cooldown of your Shield Wall by 1 min, down from 3 min.

Racials
Human
  • Languages Common. Pandaren Racial. Common. Human Racial.

Orc
  • Languages Orcish. Pandaren Racial. Orcish. Orc Racial.

Pandaren

Raid & Dungeon Abilities
  • Barrel Explosion The gunpowder barrel explodes, dealing 50,000 damage to all units within 4 5 yards. 10 yd range. Instant.
  • Twisted Elements Blasts an enemy with dark magic, inflicting 50,000 Shadow damage. 40 20 yd range. 2.5 sec cast.
  • Veil of Darkness Launches a dark bolt of energy at enemies within 0 50 yards, inflicting Shadow damage and reducing their ability to receive healing. 50 yd range. 2.5 sec cast.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 5.3 PTR - Build 16853 started by chaud View original post
Comments 65 Comments
  1. SodiumChloride's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Archimand View Post
    this gotta be the worse change ever .... i fail to see 1 place it will be overpowered in, and if you say rated battlegrounds then just disable it in them
    retarded change if i ever saw 1 >_>
    They nerfed that Water Strider too. And it doesn't even work in BGs.

    ---------- Post added 2013-04-18 at 04:58 AM ----------

    Feral Spirit wolves are now immune to movement-impairing effects.

    Hmm ... Glad I don't PVP anymore I suppose.
  1. dharock's Avatar
    Changes on 5 mounts not available in game ? lol
  1. Jaese's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by dharock View Post
    Changes on 5 mounts not available in game ? lol
    Azure is available.
  1. mmocc908001abe's Avatar
    So Bizzard put the T15 holy 2P and nerf Daybreak after that? What the point?
  1. stuartj1992's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by gorocz View Post
    It's not about how the shirt looks, Precious' Ribbon gives you a vanity buff, which shows as the icon of the shirt (a ribbon) and has tooltip "Best in Show". I presume this will work similiarly.

    While "mantle" is commonly used for shoulders in this game, it has also been used for shirts (Primitive Mantle), a chest Goblin Primitive's Mantle and cloaks Mantle of Stormwind. A cloak is probably the closest thing to the right usage of the word (I think it's sort of a long shawl).

    While this is not as evenly distributed as for example "greaves" which is used for both Legs and Boots (in reality, they're shinguards) kinda evenly, one should still not presume that a Shirt piece would affect shoulders just because of an ambiguous name...

    I wasn't aware it'd been used for anything other than shoulders - thanks for clearing that up.

    Yeah I guess I was clutching at straws a bit in my hope that it was finally an option to disable the damn shoulders. Shame really. It'd have been the perfect type of vanity reward for something like the Brawler's Guild. Far better than having a little meaningless 'buff' appear in the top right-hand corner of your screen that no one else will really notice unless they checked for it.
  1. Draahl's Avatar
    I dont really follow the windwalker change, 2.6 OR 1.0 ? Erm, what?
  1. Rasula Elfbiter's Avatar
    Wild Quiver (New) Deals ranged weapon damage. Requires Crossbows.
    Lolwut? Is that payback for being able to transmogrify any ranged weapon type into another since the start?
  1. inyu's Avatar
    Intimidation is now a Level 30 talent, replacing Blinding Shot.
    Does this mean that BM hunters will not have it if isn't chosen by talents ? (so no silencing shot?)
  1. Charo's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by inyu View Post
    Does this mean that BM hunters will not have it if isn't chosen by talents ? (so no silencing shot?)
    Obviously?
  1. mmoced0e5e7573's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by inyu View Post
    Does this mean that BM hunters will not have it if isn't chosen by talents ? (so no silencing shot?)
    indeed; basicly BM looses their advantage of their stun; while MM gets binding shot as abilty.
  1. JainaIsAMan's Avatar
    I don't feel like logging into WoW, but is that Siphon Life glyph change a buff for demo locks?
  1. TrollShaman's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shae View Post
    So Bizzard put the T15 holy 2P and nerf Daybreak after that? What the point?
    Read again, it says T14 2PC.

    OT: Hordebreaker's a waaay cooler title than Darkspear Revolutionary ):
  1. thewallofsleep's Avatar
    What do those "New Strings" mean? The second one I'm guessing refers to Terms of Service, but "Model"? Anyone know?
  1. martinboy's Avatar
    •Wild Quiver (New) Deals ranged weapon damage. Requires Crossbows. Hunter - Marksmanship Spec. 100 yd range.

    Whats the point of that? As long as the crossbows look stupid, ugly and tiny when sheathed, I will never wear a crossbow.
  1. Notos's Avatar
    I really don't understand why they keep buffing CH and HR when it's 10 man healing that's more of a problem for shammies, and that shit isn't going to help.
  1. Freia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TrollShaman View Post
    Read again, it says T14 2PC.

    OT: Hordebreaker's a waaay cooler title than Darkspear Revolutionary ):

    T14 4pc is what is getting nerfed.
  1. Firebert's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MMOChampion View Post
    Rune Strike now does 200% weapon damage, up from 160%.
    This is a tooltip fix. Rune Strike already does 200% weapon damage due to the 25% buff it got from hotfixes a while ago.

    ---------- Post added 2013-04-18 at 05:42 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Migas11 View Post
    If you, say, complete the quests on a Horde character and earn the title, do you unlock the Alliance title counterpart for your Alliance characters, or one must have lvl90s on both factions and do both sides of the quests if he wants to earn both titles to his account?
    If the faction-specific scenarios are anything to go by, you'll be able to do the opposing questline in the following patch cycle.
  1. Alayea's Avatar
    Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
    Intimidation is now a Level 30 talent, replacing Blinding Shot.

    Wow... just... wow.


    Quote Originally Posted by SodiumChloride View Post
    Feral Spirit wolves are now immune to movement-impairing effects.

    Hmm ... Glad I don't PVP anymore I suppose.
    Eh, for the most part their values haven't been upped since WotLK.
  1. turboblake's Avatar
    I'm never one to complain about damage nerfs, but nerf my flavor abilities and I'll burn down a preschool! With that said, I am NOT a fan of nerfing Warlock Water Walking and Water Strider Walking. Its about as necessary as having a thumb on my neck. (Which I will be getting removed soon)
  1. Pancha's Avatar
    I really hate the Strider nerf. It was one of few mounts that I liked purely based on its water walking abilities. Ah well, I suppose it won't be that easy to get away from Isle of thunder mobs :-)

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