Patch 5.4 PTR - Build 17093

Update (11:30 PM EST): Cleaned up class notes.
Update (8:30 PM EST): Added sound files.
Update (7:30 PM EST): Cleaned up set bonuses, added note about rep requirements and Elite PvP gear.
Update (7:20 PM EST): Added new icons.
Update (7:15 PM EST): Added new models, maps, and client strings.

Patch 5.4 PTR - Build 17093
Build 17093 will be deployed to the PTR realms soon.

This patch appears to have removed all of the rep requirements from the Patch 5.0 and Patch 5.1 Mists of Pandaria armor. Keep in mind that nothing is final, and we won't know for sure until the PTR is online.

The patch also removed stats from Season 14 Elite PvP gear.

New Audio









New Models


New Maps


New Strings
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • BEST - Best
  • FLEX_RAID_INFO - Flexible Raid Info
  • FLEX_RAID_LOCKOUT_LABEL - Lockout
  • FLEX_RAID_LOCKOUT_TEXT - Flexible raids feature a seperate lockout from all other raid lockouts.
  • FLEX_RAID_LOOT_TEXT - Flexible raids use the personal loot system and drop item level 536 loot.
  • FLEX_RAID_SIZE_LABEL - Raid Size
  • FLEX_RAID_SIZE_TEXT - You need to have a raid of 10 to 25 players to start a flexible raid. The difficulty will scale based on the number of players in the raid.
  • POWER_TYPE_FOCUS - Focus
  • RAID_INFO_WORLD_BOSS - World Boss
  • SAVED_VARIABLES_TOO_LARGE - Your computer does not have enough memory to load settings from the following AddOn. Please disable some AddOns.\n\n|cffffd200%s|r



New Icons




New Items
You can see all of the new items on the WoWDB PTR site, including the new item level 536 Flexible Tier 16 sets.

Level Type Slot Name
25Priest Glyph Glyph of Feathers
1Companion Pets Essence of Chi-Ji
1Companion Pets Essence of Niuzao
1Companion Pets Essence of Yu'lon
1Key Kor'kron Cage Key
522ClothWaist Grievous Gladiator's Satin Cord
522ClothFeet Grievous Gladiator's Satin Treads
522LeatherWaist Grievous Gladiator's Copperskin Waistband
522LeatherWaist Grievous Gladiator's Dragonhide Belt
522LeatherFeet Grievous Gladiator's Dragonhide Footguards
522LeatherFeet Grievous Gladiator's Copperskin Boots


Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Cataclysm Raid
Dungeons & Raids
  • Holding Hands Destroy the final Crystal Conductor during Hagara's lightning phase on Normal or Heroic Difficulty, while all raid members players present are part of the final Lightning Conduit. 10 points.

Dungeons & Raids

Feats of Strength

Pandaria Raid
Dungeons & Raids

Player vs. Player

Proving Grounds
Scenarios



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Companions
  • Aspect of Chi-Ji (New) Right-Click to summon and dismiss the cute and cuddly version of Chi-Ji. Instant.
  • Aspect of Niuzao (New) Right-Click to summon and dismiss the cute and cuddly version of Niuzao. Instant.
  • Aspect of Xuen (New) Right-Click to summon and dismiss the cute and cuddly version of Xuen. Instant.
  • Aspect of Yu'lon (New) Right-Click to summon and dismiss the cute and cuddly version of Yu'lon. Instant.
  • Rascal-Bot Right Click to summon and dismiss Pierre. If you give him a moment to heat up, he makes an excellent cooking fire. Battle Pet. Instant. Rascal-Bot. Battle Pet. Instant.

Item Set Bonuses

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Druid T16 Balance 2P Bonus Arcane spells cast while in Lunar Eclipse will shoot a single Starfall Lunar bolt at the target. Nature spells cast while in a Solar Eclipse will shoot a single Sun bolt at the target. Solar bolt at the target.
  • Item - Druid T16 Feral 2P Bonus Omen of Clarity increases damage of Shred, Mangle, and Ravage by 20% for 6 sec. 50% for 6 sec.
  • Item - Druid T16 Guardian 4P Bonus Activating Frenzied Regeneration and Savage Defense will cause a heal over time on yourself for 10% of your maximum health over 8 sec. based on 25% of your Attack Power over 8 sec.
  • Item - Druid T16 Restoration 2P Bonus Ironbark increases your critical chance by 20% for 12 sec. Rejuvenation ticks have a 5% chance to grant a Sage Mender, reducing the mana cost and cast time of your next Healing Touch by 20%, stacking up to 5 times.
  • Item - Druid T16 Restoration 4P Bonus Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, and Wild Growth critical heals have a chance to cause all cast time heals for Casting Ironbark grants you Spark of Life, causing all cast time spells within the next 12 sec to cause grant a Living Seed on the target for 80% of the amount healed.

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Hunter T16 2P Bonus Arcane Shot and Multi-shot reduce the cooldown of Rapid Fire by 2 seconds per cast. 12 seconds per cast.
  • Item - Hunter T16 4P Bonus Explosive Shot casts have a 40% chance to increase the number of charges your next Lock and Load effect has not consume a charge of Lock and Load. Instant Aimed shots reduce the cast time of your next Aimed Shot by 50%. Offensive abilities used during Bestial Wrath increase all damage dealt by 2% you deal by 2% and all damage dealt by your pet by, stacking up to 15 times.

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Monk T16 Windwalker 2P Bonus Combo Breaker: Tiger Palm now generates 1 Chi. Combo Breaker: Blackout Kick now generates 2 Chi. increases the damage of Tiger Palm by 5%. Combo Breaker: Blackout Kick increases the damage of Blackout Kick by 5%.

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Priest T16 4P Bonus Circle of Healing and Prayer of Mending casts increase the effect of your next Holy Word spell by 50% 15%, stacking up to 10 times. While Spirit Shell is active, you gain 10% haste and 3,500 mastery. 15% haste and 3,500 mastery.

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Shaman T16 Elemental 2P Bonus Fulmination increases all Fire and Nature damage dealt to that target from the Shaman by 4% 10% for 2 sec per Lightning Shield charge consumed.

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Warlock T16 2P Bonus Conflagrate has Conflagrate critical strikes have a 20% chance to increase the critical strike chance of Immolate and Incinerate by 15%. Unstable Affliction critical hits have a 40% chance to increase all damaging effects of Malefic Grasp and Drain Soul by 30% for 10 sec. Soul Fire has a 20% chance to increase you and your pet's damage dealt by 20%.
  • Item - Warlock T16 4P Bonus When a Burning Ember fills up, your critical strike chance is increased by 15% for 5 sec. Haunt has a 20% 8% chance to refund its shard when expiring. Shadow Bolt and Touch of Chaos have a 20% 8% chance to also cast Hand of Gul'dan at the target.

Death Knight (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Talents
  • Anti-Magic Zone no longer has spec specific tooltips. Now reduces spell damage done to party or raid members inside it by 40%, down from 75%. Now lasts 3 sec, down from 10 sec / until damage absorbed. (There may be some changes not in the tooltip coming)
  • Death Siphon damage and AP scaling increased by 10%.

Blood
  • Dark Command now also increases threat that you generate against the target by 200% for 3 sec
  • Riposte (New) When you dodge or parry any attack, you gain 50% of your Parry and Dodge as additional Critical Strike for 20 sec. Death Knight - Blood Spec.
  • Sanguine Fortitude no longer makes Icebound Fortitude free.

Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Growl now also increases threat that you generate against the target by 200% for 3 sec.

Talents
  • Dream of Cenarius now causes Healing Touch to cause your next Rip to deal 30% additional damage for Feral, up from 15%. Guardian perk tweaked as well, see tooltip.
  • Soul of the Forest Balance proc now grants 100 Lunar or Solar Power instead of advancing you to the next Eclipse. Guardian proc causes Mangle to generate 30% more Rage, up from 8%.

Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Distracting Shot now increases threat that you generate against the target by 200% for 6 sec.

Talents

Pets
  • Growl now increases threat that you generate against the target by 200% for 6 sec.

Mage (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Frost Bomb is now strongest when it can hit 5 or more targets with the explosion.
  • Living Bomb is now strongest when applied to 1 or 2 targets.
  • Nether Tempest is now strongest when applied to 3 or 4 targets.

Talents
  • Frost Bomb is now strongest when it can hit 5 or more targets with the explosion.
  • Living Bomb is now strongest when applied to 1 or 2 targets.
  • Nether Tempest is now strongest when applied to 3 or 4 targets.
  • Temporal Shield now also reduces all damage taken by 15%.

Frost
  • Mastery: Frostburn no longer gives bonus damage to all spells against frozen targets. Now Fingers of Frost now increases the damage of Ice Lance by an additional 16%, and Brain Freeze increases the damage of the instant Frostfire Bolt by 16%.

Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Healing Elixirs now also heals the next time a damaging attack brings you below 35% of your maximum health.

Talents
  • Chi Brew now has spec specific tooltips and grants 3 Brew or Tea for your spec.
  • Healing Elixirs now also heals the next time a damaging attack brings you below 35% of your maximum health.
  • Power Strikes now also allows your next Spinning Crane Kick, Expel Harm, or Keg Smash to generate 1 Chi.
  • Ring of Peace now disarms and silences for 4 sec, up from 3.

Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Reckoning now increases threat that you generate against the target by 200% for 3 sec.

Talents
  • Eternal Flame initial healing reduced by 30%.
  • Sacred Shield (New) Holy: When you or your Beacon of Light target falls below 30% health, that target gains Sacred Shield, absorbing 30% of their maximum health. Sacred Shield can only occur once every 2 minutes. Protection, Retribution: When you fall below 30% health, you gain Sacred Shield, absorbing 30% of your maximum health. Sacred Shield can only occur once every 2 minutes. Paladin - LvL 45 Talent. 40 yd range. 6 sec cooldown.
  • Sanctified Wrath now has an extra perk for Holy, increasing the critical strike chance of Holy Shock by 20%. Prot perk is now a reduction of the cooldown of Judgment by 100%, up from 50%.
  • Selfless Healer now also works with Divine Light for Holy Paladins.

Holy

Protection

Major Glyphs

Priest (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents

Minor Glyphs

Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Far Sight now has a 1,000 yd range, up from 500.

Talents
  • Conductivity now also works with Chain Heal. Now increases Healing Rain duration by 1 sec rather than granting more healing. DPS spells have a chance to proc this on cast now as well, including Stormstrike.
  • Healing Tide Totem healing increased by 50%.
  • Stone Bulwark Totem absorb increased by 33%.

Restoration
  • Purification now only increases healing by your Healing Stream Totem, not all Water Totems.

Warlock (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Fel Flame now costs 3% of base mana, down from 5%. Damage increased by 13%. No longer increases DoT duration.
  • Voidwalker: Suffering now also increases threat that it generates against the target by 200% for 5 sec.

Talents
  • Mannoroth's Fury now has a 60 sec cooldown, down from 1.5 min. Now also increases damage by 100% of your Seed of Corruption, Hellfire, Immolation Aura and Rain of Fire for 10 sec.

Demonology

Warrior (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Impending Victory now always heals you for 20% of your maximum health.
  • Taunt now increases threat that you generate against the target by 200% for 3 sec.

Talents

Protection
  • Riposte (New) When you dodge or parry any attack, you gain 50% of your Parry and Dodge as additional Critical Strike for 20 sec. Warrior - Protection Spec.

Raid & Dungeon Abilities
  • Corrupted Brew (New) Calls forth a great Calamity, striking all players for 0% of their maximum health as Shadow damage. This also removes Shadow Word: Bane from all targets. Unlimited range. Instant.
  • Shared Torment (New) Embodied Misery, Sorrow, and Gloom share health. Unlimited range. Instant.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 5.4 PTR - Build 17093 started by chaud View original post
Published on 2013-06-19 10:58 PM
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  1. Reyzzz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stilllogicz View Post
    Ahead of the Curve: Garrosh Hellscream (25 player) Defeat Garrosh Hellscream on 25-Player Normal difficulty, prior to the release of the next tier of content.
    Check the corresponding achievements for tier14 and tier15, they say "before discovery of throne of thunder" and "before patch 5.4". You have no idea of knowing whether the next tier is the first tier of the next expansion or the last of this expansion.
  1. mmocef71e99c15's Avatar
    The dialogue for Garrosh is so bad I am uncertain if it is written by a 5 year old. We have the right to expect more from a company like Blizzard.

    I really liked where Jaina and Lorthemar are heading though. Pretty sure neither of them dies, just injured (Jaina could be just having an orcgasm, but that's less likely). If they were dying, there'd be a lot more dialogue than just some whimpering. So yeah, they will recover, but I gues sthe question is who did it to them. Sylvanas? Troll? They both seem surprised, indicating there was some kind of treachery involved.
  1. preechlol's Avatar
    finally some tanking love. i was waiting something like this taunt change since 5.0. Some tanks just can't control themselves...
    Don't forget monk taunt!!
  1. mmocced9c7d33d's Avatar
    Gamon Warchief? Hope Blizz is trolling us cuz he's a joke character...

    Jaina n Lor'themar die or get just wounded?

    Shame about Naz'grim...
  1. lavafoxx's Avatar
    The thing I find most amazing is that the alliance FINALLY can get a wolf mount.
  1. Communism's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Summerdrake View Post
    Gamon Warchief? Hope Blizz is trolling us cuz he's a joke character...

    Jaina n Lor'themar die or get just wounded?

    Shame about Naz'grim...
    I wouldn't say warchief.

    Maybe just General of the Horde armies as Nazgrim implies about himself.
  1. CrusaderNerò87's Avatar
    Sacred shield <3
  1. Aetal's Avatar
    Wolf mount for alliance, plz let it be true.
  1. Ferrouswheel's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Reyzzz View Post
    Check the corresponding achievements for tier14 and tier15, they say "before discovery of throne of thunder" and "before patch 5.4". You have no idea of knowing whether the next tier is the first tier of the next expansion or the last of this expansion.
    It's quite obvious. They are being vague cause they aren't going to say something like "before the legion invades". It's just next tier to not give anything away about the next expansion.
  1. Airwaves's Avatar
    Windrunner tries to rez the dead blood elves LOL
  1. mmocef71e99c15's Avatar
    Isn't it a given that there will be at least another tier before next expansions?

    Next xpac won't get even announced until Blizzcon in November, so a release of 6.0 before fall 2014 is highly unlikely. Meaning, with 5.4 already on the PTR, there would be like, 12-15 months of SoO befoe next expansion,. Not gonna happen IMHO. So, there will be at least another major content patch before expansion, probably even two (if they stick to the pattern of odd patches being non-raids) with 5.6 being the final raid tier.
  1. Fayth's Avatar
    Kinda knew that EF nerf will happen. They said it was too strong after all. Does not matter really, H-paladins are still very strong.
  1. Velkran's Avatar
    Nazgrim, you were my comrade. We've been through a lot together. The Scourge, the Naga, the Sha, the Yaungol. You were a brave, honorable, and loyal soldier. It pains me to be forced to end your life.

    Rest well, my brother. I will honor you always.

    ;_;7
  1. Budong's Avatar
    The Jaina sound file shows 'jaina's death'. Now we'll assume this is on failure of the fight...but if it's not and Lorthemar dies as well then it does indeed look like Sylvanas stabs them both in the back and is making her move to attempt a take over. Lorthemar mentions something about 'what's gotten into the Dark Lady?' This would be a shocker considering how much effort they put into both of these characters recently, but it would be something that very few would expect and make it one of those rare lore moments that make you sit back and say 'holy shit!' Definitely a Game of Thrones type moment and one I would heartily congratulate Blizzard on.
  1. Ferrouswheel's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by bregtann View Post
    Isn't it a given that there will be at least another tier before next expansions?

    Next xpac won't get even announced until Blizzcon in November, so a release of 6.0 before fall 2014 is highly unlikely. Meaning, with 5.4 already on the PTR, there would be like, 12-15 months of SoO befoe next expansion,. Not gonna happen IMHO. So, there will be at least another major content patch before expansion, probably even two (if they stick to the pattern of odd patches being non-raids) with 5.6 being the final raid tier.
    Please point me to the rule that says video games can only be released in the fall. New expansion will be announced in November. Ptr will start in January, expansion release in April.
  1. lavafoxx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrouswheel View Post
    Please point me to the rule that says video games can only be released in the fall. New expansion will be announced in November. Ptr will start in January, expansion release in April.
    Its one of those industry wide unwritten rules, a majority of games are released during the fall/winter time for the biggest sales thanks to the winter holidays.
  1. dragon171's Avatar
    nooo Jaina dies!!!
  1. mmoce9e90fb559's Avatar
    All of my criticisms of Metzen's bad writing will be rescinded if he is enough of a strongman to kill off 3 good characters. Red Wedding style; Shakespeare style.
  1. Suwide's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by glan View Post
    Did an already terrible 4set bonus for affliction just get nerfed?
    Well it got more useless, seems like they want us to only go for 2piece and "Thunderforged" offpieces like in this Tier.

    When Affliction shines it often has no shard regen problems or haunt isn't used at all. In Singletarget it comes in handy but its a bonus which only is beneficial when shards are low and that makes it so unappealing, usually they should be straight buffs IMHO.
  1. brirrspliff's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Summerdrake View Post
    Gamon Warchief? Hope Blizz is trolling us cuz he's a joke character...

    Jaina n Lor'themar die or get just wounded?

    Shame about Naz'grim...
    Gamon Will Save Us! (New) Defeat General Nazgrim in Siege of Orgrimmar on Flexible, Normal, or Heroic difficulty while Gamon is alive and participating in the battle. 10 points.

    i have no idea how anyone can interprete "gamon will be warchief" into that. and no, most likely he will not.

    ---------- Post added 2013-06-20 at 09:27 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Stilllogicz View Post
    Ahead of the Curve: Garrosh Hellscream (25 player) Defeat Garrosh Hellscream on 25-Player Normal difficulty, prior to the release of the next tier of content.Reward: Reins of the Kor'kron War Wolf.

    Does this mean there will be another raid after Garrosh??!
    for sure there will be. and even if it's in 6.0 (next expansion), the text will still be true. try to think more before posting, hehe.
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