Patch 5.4 PTR - Build 17153

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Update (12:50 AM EST): Cleaned up some of the spell changes notes.
Update (8:20 PM EST): Zarhym confirmed that they are exploring the possibility of adding a way for players in certain regions to make purchases directly within the game.
Update (4:30 PM EST): Added Mage Season 14.
Update (4:15 PM EST): Added Paladin Tier 16.
Update (3:45 PM EST): Added Druid Tier 16 and new items.
Update (3:15 PM EST): Added Rogue Tier 16 and Blizzard Store spell.
Update (3:05 PM EST): Added a few more new models.
Update (2:45 PM EST): Added legendary cloaks.
Update (2:40 PM EST): Added new client strings and new icons.
Update (2:30 PM EST): Added Resto Shaman blue post.
Update (2:15 PM EST): Added new NPC models.

Patch 5.4 PTR - Build 17153
Build 17153 will be deployed to the PTR realms soon.

Double Experience In Game Store Buff
A spell for an item to double experience with an "In Game Store" note has appeared. Keep in mind that this does not mean it will be in the US or EU stores, or any store at all!



Legendary Cloaks
The legendary cloaks are here!

Level Type Spec Slot Name
600BackTankBack Qian-Le, Courage of Niuzao
600BackTankBack Qian-Ying, Fortitude of Niuzao
600BackMeleeBack Gong-Lu, Strength of Xuen
600BackSpell SpiritBack Jina-Kang, Kindness of Chi-Ji
600BackPhysical DPSBack Fen-Yu, Fury of Xuen
600BackSpell DPSBack Xing-Ho, Breath of Yu'lon




Tier 16 Armor Sets



Season 14 Mage Armor Set



New Models




New Icons








Strings Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • PROJECTED_CONQUEST_CAP - Projected Conquest Cap
  • REALM_SEPARATORS - -@#*
  • WHO_TAG_EXACT - x-



New Items
There were too many new items in this build to list here individually!


Level Type Slot Name
90Junk Vicious War Saddle
90Junk Vicious Saddle
1Other Treasures of the Vale
40Mount Reins of the Vicious Warsaber
40Mount Reins of the Vicious Skeletal Warhorse
90Leatherworking Pattern Pattern: Drums of Rage
378Two-handed AxeTwo Hand Axe of Ordos
90Flask Enduring Elixir of Wisdom


Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Pandaria Raid
Dungeons & Raids
  • Celestial Challenge (New) Complete the trials of all four Celestials, besting them each in combat on the Timeless Isle. 10 points.
  • Double Trouble Reveal and defeat two Massive enemies in the same quadrant simultaneously and then defeat Spoils of Pandaria complete the Spoils of Pandaria encounter on Flexible, Normal, or Heroic difficulty.10 points.
  • Fire in the Hole! Stomp on 6 superheated Crawler Mines and then defeat the Iron Juggernaut in on Flexible Normal or Heroic Siege of Orgrimmar. 10 points.
  • Go Long Transfer the Mark of Anguish to 5 unique players and at least 5 unique players over a total of 250 yards in or more during a single Desperate Measures phase and then defeat the Fallen Protectors on Flexible, Normal, or Heroic difficulty. 10 points.
  • No More Tears (New) Defeat Immerseus after killing 10 Tears of the Vale.
  • None Shall Pass (New) Defeat the Amalgam of Corruption without allowing any unleashed corruption to fuse with it.
  • Now We are the Paragon (New) Defeat the Paragons after assuming the mantle of three different Paragons.
  • Ordos (New) Defeat Ordos, Fire-God of the Yaungol, atop the Timeless Isle. 10 points.
  • Return From Darkness Defeat the Sha of Pride after escaping the Sha Realm by collecting 10 Orbs of Light in Siege of Orgrimmar on Flexible, Normal or Heroic Difficulty.after no player has gained Pride from Manifestations of Pride while Norushen is alive. 10 points.
  • Strike! (New) Kill 18 Kor'kron Warbringers with Iron Star Impact and then defeat Garrosh.
  • The Immortal Vanguard (New) Defeat Galakras in the Siege of Orgrimmar without having allowed a single friendly NPC to perish in battle on Flexible, Normal, or Heroic difficulty. 10 points.

Rated Battleground
Player vs. Player
  • Hero of the Alliance End a PvP season in the top 0.5% of the rated battleground ladder (requires 50 games played won in the current season). Title Reward: Hero of the Alliance. 10 points.
  • Hero of the Horde End a PvP season in the top 0.5% of the rated battleground ladder (requires 50 games played won in the current season). Title Reward: Hero of the Horde. 10 points.



Resto Shaman - 5.4 Issues and Concerns
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We do have more changes coming for Resto Shaman in 5.4, which you should be seeing on the PTR soon (though possibly not in the next build). However, since we’ve got a long weekend coming up here at the office due to the holiday, we wanted to let you know about a couple changes we’re going to try out for Healing Tide Totem.

First, it’s no longer a talent. Healing Tide Totem is now baseline, available to all three Shaman specs. As you’re all aware, it’s an extremely useful ability, which makes it difficult for us to provide alternative options in that talent tier. Giving Healing Tide to everyone not only lets us work on making that tier more interesting, but it also makes sure no one is missing out on one of Resto’s more powerful tools by selecting the “wrong” talent.

Second, now that Healing Tide is a baseline ability, we feel it’s acceptable to give it a similar treatment to Tranquility or Divine Hymn in 25-man raids. It will now heal up to 12 targets when in a 25-player raid instance (and remains at 5 targets in other content).

There are several other changes still in discussion (such as what we’ll be replacing Healing Tide with in the talent tree, just as one example), but we wanted to at least share what we could before the weekend. We’re hoping to get at least some of them onto the PTR in one of the next builds. Please keep up the constructive feedback – it’s extremely useful!

Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Mounts

Item Set Bonuses
PvP
  • Fortitude Reduces all damage taken by 10%. Instant. Increases Resilence by 2,600.

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Druid T16 Feral 4P Bonus Tiger's Fury generates 5 combo points. After using Tiger's Fury, your next finishing move will restore 5 combo points on your current target after being used.

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Mage T16 2P Bonus Arcane Missiles causes your next Arcane Blast within 10 sec to cost 25% less mana, stacking up to 4 times. Consuming Brain Freeze increases the damage of your next Frost spell by 0% Ice Lance, Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt, or Cone of Cold by 20%. Consuming Pyroblast! increases your haste by 750 for 4 5 sec, stacking up to 5 times.

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Rogue T16 2P Bonus When you generate a combo point from Revealing Strike's effect, Honor Among Thieves, or Seal Fate, your next combo point generating ability has its energy cost reduced by 5 15. Stacks up to 5 times.
  • Item - Rogue T16 4P Bonus Killing Spree deals 10% more damage every time it strikes a target. Abilities against a target with Vendetta on it increase your mastery by 250 for 5 sec, stacking up to 20 times. Every 4 Backstabs, your Backstab is replaced time you backstab, you have a 4% chance to replaced your Backstab with Ambush that can be used regardless of Stealth.

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Explosive Trap base damage halved and AP scaling reduced by 30%. DoT base damage and AP scaling reduced by 15% and 30% respectively.

Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents

Brewmaster

Windwalker

Priest (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Talents

Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents
  • Conductivity now increases Healing Rain's duration by 3 sec, up from 1.

Warlock (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Seed of Corruption no longer lists SP scaling in the tooltip.
  • Soul Swap has been reworked to copy DoTs, see the tooltip for the new spell details.

Talents

Affliction
  • Nightfall now has a 10% proc chance from damage from your most recent Corruption, rather than a 5% proc chance from Corruption.
  • Seed of Corruption no longer lists SP scaling in the tooltip.
  • Soul Swap has been reworked to copy DoTs, see the tooltip for the new spell details. [/ins]

Warrior (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Arms
  • Slam no longer hits the main target with the cleave component of the damage.

Racials
Worgen
  • All Worgen racials now list a level 10 requirement to use, except Running Wild, which lists level 20.

Professions
Blacksmithing

Cooking
  • Mango Ice Cooking. 2 sec cast. Reagents: Juicycrunch Carrot (2). Aged Balsamic Vinegar, Fresh Mangos (5).
  • PH Cooking. 2 sec cast. Reagents: Juicycrunch Carrot (2). Ancient Pandaren Spices, Fresh Pomfruit (5).
  • PH Cooking. 2 sec cast. Reagents: Juicycrunch Carrot (2). Aged Balsamic Vinegar, Fresh Strawberries, Fresh Shao-Tien Rice (2).
  • PH Cooking. 2 sec cast. Reagents: Juicycrunch Carrot (2). Ancient Pandaren Spices, Delicate Blossom Petals (5).
  • PH Cooking. 2 sec cast. Reagents: Juicycrunch Carrot (2). Aged Mogu'shan Cheese, Fresh Silkfeather Hawk Eggs (5).
  • PH Cooking. 2 sec cast. Reagents: Juicycrunch Carrot (2). Aged Mogu'shan Cheese, Fresh Lushroom (5).

Engineering
  • Jard's Peculiar Energy Source Create a peculiar energy source from Ghost Iron Bars. This can only be done once a day. Engineering. 2 sec cast. 1 sec cooldown. Reagents: Ghost Iron Bar (10).Tools: Arclight Spanner.
  • Pierre Engineering. 10 sec cast. Reagents: Jard's Peculiar Energy Source (15), Living Steel (15). Tools: Blacksmith Hammer.Arclight Spanner.

Inscription

Leatherworking

Tailoring

Raid & Dungeon Abilities
  • Amber Blast Inflicts 150,000 Physical damage to a random player Unlimited range. 2 sec cast.
  • Blaze of Gory Wildfire explodes, dealing 100,000 Fire damage. Instant. 1 Fire damage. Instant.
  • Corrosive Blast Inflicts 600,000 Inflicts 0 Shadow damage and increases Shadow damage taken by 100% for 45 sec. Stacks. Unlimited range. 2 sec cast. 3 sec cast.
  • Fly-by Attack (New) The Paragon Swarmer charges one of the furthest enemies, causing 200,000 Physical damage to all targets in the path. Unlimited range. Instant.
  • Ground Slam (New) Korvok slams into the ground causing 75,000 damage to all players within 25 yards. In addition all players are knocked back. 25 yd range. 1 sec cast.
  • Pass Judgment A brutal strike that deals weapon damage and stuns the opponent for 3 1.5 sec. Requires Melee Weapon. 10 yd range. Instant.
  • Poison Blast (New) Shoots poison at enemies, inflicting 85,000 Nature damage, then additional 100,000 damage every 3 seconds for 12 sec. Unlimited range. 1 sec cast.
  • Resonating Amber Instant. Deals 100,000 Physical damage while near a Resonating Amber. Instant.
  • Restrictive Measures Unlimited range. Instant. Restricts the use of Calamity, Clash, Noxious Poison and Instant Poison when present. Unlimited range. Instant.
  • Sha Smash Inflicts 4,000,000 Physical damage split amongst all enemies in a frontal cone. Unlimited range. 3 sec cast. 25 yd range. 3 sec cast.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 5.4 PTR - Build 17153 started by chaud View original post
Published on 2013-07-03 05:58 PM
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Comments 183 Comments
  1. ColbaneX's Avatar
    Wow, did they nerf KJC again!?
  1. Methusula's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ColbaneX View Post
    Wow, did they nerf KJC again!?
    How did you come to this conclusion exactly?
  1. SodiumChloride's Avatar
    XP boost for cash is a slippery slope.

    Many games have been known to have "inconvenient" levelling to pressure people into buying the XP boosts.

    I don't like money influencing the design of the game, as in just because the CEO wants a new yacht the game starts getting harder and more expensive.
  1. Mazaxist's Avatar
    was thinking about quitting for awhile, i always told myself once they start selling items that affect gameplay for real money - im out. i think its getting close
  1. artem123's Avatar
    All these people quitting over something on the PTR is wonderful. The games going to be so much better off
  1. coldrain's Avatar
    i`ll say this: wow was the only thing left without cash shop microtransaction crap. the entire point of paying a monthly access fee for wow is to avoid exactly this.

    first it was consoles, then all other pc games. if they bring it to wow i will just quit gaming period. microtransaction cash shop DLC garbage ruined gaming forever and i will just stop playing all games except the old ones from before gaming turned into a tourist trap

    "Tourist trap is an establishment, or group of establishments, that has been created or re-purposed with the aim of attracting tourists[1] and their money. Tourist traps will typically provide services, entertainment, souvenirs and other products for tourists to purchase."

    Sounds a lot like being a "gamer" these days
  1. Beroendet's Avatar
    Woah! This is nice stuff !
  1. ProfessorTjc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    If that goes in the store it's pay to win and I'm hitting the cancel button.
    100% extra experience isn't pay to win, It's pay to level faster.
  1. F-Minus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ProfessorTjc View Post
    100% extra experience isn't pay to win, It's pay to level faster.
    Or you know they could offer max level chars from the get go if you reached max level on another character already and that for free. I can't be arsed to level from 1-90 or higher, cause the questing is bland once you've already done it few times, and the dungeon leveling is boring as hell too.

    But selling leveling boosts, weapons and what not is just wrong in my book, and he's right, if and when this comes out, it's time to hit the cancel button.
  1. artem123's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by coldrain View Post
    i`ll say this: wow was the only thing left without cash shop microtransaction crap. the entire point of paying a monthly access fee for wow is to avoid exactly this.

    first it was consoles, then all other pc games. if they bring it to wow i will just quit gaming period. microtransaction cash shop DLC garbage ruined gaming forever and i will just stop playing all games except the old ones from before gaming turned into a tourist trap

    "Tourist trap is an establishment, or group of establishments, that has been created or re-purposed with the aim of attracting tourists[1] and their money. Tourist traps will typically provide services, entertainment, souvenirs and other products for tourists to purchase."

    Sounds a lot like being a "gamer" these days
    It hasnt been added yet. It could possibly not effect NA or europe. Can this just stop and wait already? Seriously. if people care this much about it IN A PTR STAGE WHERE WE KNOW ALMOST NOTHING, quit wow and move onto something else
    They've been selling lvling boosts for years, only now it would be 85-90 and probably china WoW only.
  1. Grizzelbar's Avatar
    Selling exp buff is no surprise. If you have seen latest Blizzard query then you can easily guess that they are heavily considering f2p/cash shop changes in the like of SW:ToR and other f2p games. Not that there is something wrong with it/
  1. mmoc83c3477b24's Avatar
    stormcrow could come from new wordlbosses also. doesn't make sense for garrosh to drop it imo
  1. Rabiddog's Avatar
    This would be nice as most people have to resort to Recruit-a-Friend for quick levelling incase they're too lazy, etc. This item would actually be bad from a business standpoint for blizzard as they would lose the money they would've got from all the RaF accounts. Also have to rememeber this is PTR , like the '3rd spec' option , this might just fizz out.
  1. Kanegasi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by F-Minus View Post
    Or you know they could offer max level chars from the get go if you reached max level on another character already and that for free. I can't be arsed to level from 1-90 or higher, cause the questing is bland once you've already done it few times, and the dungeon leveling is boring as hell too.

    But selling leveling boosts, weapons and what not is just wrong in my book, and he's right, if and when this comes out, it's time to hit the cancel button.
    Why? Why cancel? I don't understand this mentality. I play the game because I like it, not because I am satisfied with everything in it. Canceling WoW because you don't like one single thing they're adding is like throwing yourself to the ground and holding your breath until you get what you want.
  1. randomice's Avatar
    i would buy xp/xp scroll enchancer in a hearthbeat though...
  1. BatteredSausage's Avatar
    Im hoping they add max level chars to the in game store all decked out in top tier epics. i would pay anything to have all that without doing fuck all.
  1. FeralSynapse's Avatar
    That druid teir set... yikes and I thought this tier's was bad? Thank god for t-mog.
  1. Kobomino's Avatar


    Yay, we're gettting Garrosh's shoulders on plate classes!
  1. Fayth's Avatar
    I would probably buy that elixir at some point. If it goes live at some point.

    Leveling really does not serve any purpose these days, at least not for me. I also have almost every single class at max level, so being able to skip some questing would be very welcome.

    Besides that, I like the new paladin set! I hope it does not look horrible on a cow
  1. Mic_128's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FeralSynapse View Post
    That druid teir set... yikes and I thought this tier's was bad? Thank god for t-mog.
    Yeah, thought current tier was our standard, once-per-expansion 'looks like garbage' tier. Apparently not. :/
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