Patch 9.2.5 PTR - Build 43022
Build 43022 will be deployed to the PTR realms soon.
- There's a new achievement and mount for purchasing Diablo IV Collector's Edition.
- Achievement: Owner of the Diablo IV Collector's Edition Amalgam of Rage mount.
- Mount: Reins of the Amalgam of Rage
9.2.5 PTR Development Notes - April 1, 2022
Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-ChampionPlayer vs. Player
Feats of Strength
- Elite: Shadowlands Season 4 (New) Earn the rank of Elite during Shadowlands Season 4. Title Reward: the Elite.
Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-ChampionMounts
- Elusive Emerald Hawkstrider Name changed from "Green Hawkstrider" to "Elusive Emerald Hawkstrider". Summons and dismisses a rideable
Green Hawkstrider. 1.5 sec cast.Elusive Emerald Hawkstrider. Account wide. Account wide. 1.5 sec cast.- Grimhowl Name changed from "[PH] The Flame Woof" to "Grimhowl".
Item Set Bonuses
- Architect's Aligner While Berserked, you radiate [ 26.6% of Attack Power ] Cosmic damage to nearby enemies and heal yourself for [ 39.7% of Attack Power ] every 1 sec.Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Death Knight (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Unholy
- Unholy Death Knight
Decreases damage/healing by 3%Increases damage/healing by 2%: Apocalypse, Blood Plague, Bursting Sores, Clawing Shadows, Dark Transformation, Death and Decay, Death Coil, Death Strike, Defile, Epidemic, Festering Strike, Festering Wound, Frost Fever, Outbreak, Rune of Razorice, Rune Strike, Sacrificial Pact, Scourge Strike, Soul Reaper, Unholy Blight, Unholy Pact, Virulent PlagueDecreases periodic damage/healing by 3%Increases periodic damage/healing by 2%: Apocalypse, Blood Plague, Bursting Sores, Clawing Shadows, Dark Transformation, Death and Decay, Death Coil, Death Strike, Defile, Epidemic, Festering Strike, Festering Wound, Frost Fever, Outbreak, Rune of Razorice, Rune Strike, Sacrificial Pact, Scourge Strike, Soul Reaper, Unholy Blight, Unholy Pact, Virulent Plague Death Knight - Unholy Spec. Death Knight - Unholy Spec.
Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)
- Thrash Strikes all nearby enemies, dealing
[ 5.5%[ 6.6% of Attack Power ] Bleed damage and an additional[ 17.5%[ 21% of Attack Power ] Bleed damage over 15 sec. Awards 1 combo points. Requires Cat Form. 40 Energy. 8 yd range. Instant. 1 sec global cooldown.
Feral
- Brutal Slash Strikes all nearby enemies with a massive slash, inflicting
[ 69%[ 82.8% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Awards 1 combo points. 3 charges. Requires Cat Form. Feral Druid - Level 45 Talent. Feral Druid - Level 45 Talent. 25 Energy. 8 yd range. Instant. 8 sec recharge. 1 sec global cooldown. 3 charges.- Feral Druid Increases damage/healing by
29%32%: Brutal Slash, Feral Frenzy, Ferocious Bite, Incarnation: King of the Jungle, Lunar Inspiration, Maim, Primal Wrath, Rake, Rip, Shred, Swipe, Thrash Increases periodic damage/healing by29%32%: Brutal Slash, Feral Frenzy, Ferocious Bite, Incarnation: King of the Jungle, Lunar Inspiration, Maim, Primal Wrath, Rake, Rip, Shred, Swipe, Thrash Increases damage/healing by 40%: Regrowth Increases periodic damage/healing by 40%: Regrowth Druid - Feral Spec. Druid - Feral Spec.- Primal Wrath Finishing move that deals instant damage and applies Rip to all enemies within 8 yards. Lasts longer per combo point. 1 point :
[ 10%[ 11% of Attack Power ] plus Rip for 4 sec 2 points:[ 15%[ 16.5% of Attack Power ] plus Rip for 6 sec 3 points:[ 20%[ 22% of Attack Power ] plus Rip for 8 sec 4 points:[ 25%[ 27.5% of Attack Power ] plus Rip for 10 sec 5 points:[ 30%[ 33% of Attack Power ] plus Rip for 12 sec Requires Cat Form. Feral Druid - Level 45 Talent. Feral Druid - Level 45 Talent. 20 Energy. 8 yd range. Instant. 1 sec global cooldown.
Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
- Bestial Wrath Sends you and your pet into a rage, instantly dealing
[ 65% of Attack Power + 1.2%[ 67% of Attack Power + 1.3% of Spell Power ] Physical damage to its target, and increasing all damage you both deal by 25% for 15 sec. Removes Fear and Horrify effects from your pet. Bestial Wrath's remaining cooldown is reduced by 12 sec each time you use Barbed Shot. 10 yd range. Instant.
Beast Mastery
- Beast Cleave After you Multi-Shot, your pet's melee attacks also strike all nearby enemies for 90% as much for the next 4 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond
58 targets. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.- Beast Mastery Hunter Increases damage/healing by 3%: A Murder of Crows, Arcane Shot, Barbed Shot, Barrage, Bloodshed, Chakrams, Chimaera Shot, Cobra Shot, Death Chakram, Dire Beast: Hawk, Kill Command, Kill Shot, Multi-Shot, Stampede, Steady Shot, Steel Trap, Stomp, Volley, Wailing Arrow Increases periodic damage/healing by 3%: A Murder of Crows, Arcane Shot, Barbed Shot, Barrage, Bloodshed, Chakrams, Chimaera Shot, Cobra Shot, Death Chakram, Dire Beast: Hawk, Kill Command, Kill Shot, Multi-Shot, Stampede, Steady Shot, Steel Trap, Stomp, Volley, Wailing Arrow Increases damage/healing by 50%: Volley Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.
- Bestial Wrath Sends you and your pet into a rage, instantly dealing
[ 65% of Attack Power + 1.2%[ 67% of Attack Power + 1.3% of Spell Power ] Physical damage to its target, and increasing all damage you both deal by 25% for 15 sec. Removes Fear and Horrify effects from your pet. Bestial Wrath's remaining cooldown is reduced by 12 sec each time you use Barbed Shot. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. 100 yd range. Instant. 1.5 min cooldown.- Bloodshed Command your pet to tear into your target, causing your target to bleed for
[ 150% of Attack Power + 2.8%[ 154.5% of Attack Power + 2.9% of Spell Power ] over 18 sec and increase all damage taken from your pet by 15% for 18 sec. Beast Mastery Hunter - Level 50 Talent. Beast Mastery Hunter - Level 50 Talent. 50 yd range. Instant. 60 sec cooldown.- Kill Command Give the command to kill, causing your pet to savagely deal
[ 129%[ 132.9% of Attack Power + 2.5% of Spell Power ] Physical damage to the enemy. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. 30 Focus. 50 yd range. Instant. 7.5 sec cooldown.
Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Mistweaver
- Mistweaver Monk Mistweaver Monk core passive Decreases damage/healing by 12%: Rising Sun Kick Increases damage/healing by 10%: Tiger Palm Increases damage/healing by
92%150%: Spinning Crane Kick Increases periodic damage/healing by 400%: Crackling Jade Lightning Monk - Mistweaver Spec. Monk - Mistweaver Spec.
Priest (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Holy
- Holy Ward Wards the friendly target against the next full loss of control effect. PvP Talent. PvP Talent. 0.9% of Base Mana. 40 yd range. Instant.
3045 sec cooldown. Requires Priest. Requires level 10.
Rogue (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Outlaw
- Blade Flurry Strikes up to nearby 5 targets for [ 40% of Attack Power ] Physical damage, and causes your single target attacks to also strike up to 4 nearby enemies for
40%50% of normal damage for 12 sec. Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon. Rogue - Outlaw Spec. Rogue - Outlaw Spec. 15 Energy. Instant. 30 sec cooldown. 1 sec global cooldown.
Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)
- Earthquake Causes the earth within 8 yards of the target location to tremble and break, dealing
[ 234.6%[ 246.3% of Nature Spell Power ] Physical damage over 6 sec and sometimes knocking down enemies. 100 yd range. Instant.
Elemental
- Earthquake Causes the earth within 8 yards of the target location to tremble and break, dealing
[ 234.6%[ 246.3% of Nature Spell Power ] Physical damage over 6 sec and sometimes knocking down enemies. Shaman - Elemental Spec. Shaman - Elemental Spec. 60 Maelstrom. 40 yd range. Instant.- Elemental Shaman Elemental Shaman baseline passive Increases damage/healing by 5%: Chain Lightning, Earth Shock, Earthen Rage, Earthquake, Echoing Shock, Elemental Blast, Flame Shock, Flametongue Attack, Frost Shock, Icefury, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Shield, Maelstrom, Static Discharge, Stormstrike, Stormstrike Off-Hand, Thunderstorm, Windfury Attack, Windstrike, Windstrike Off-Hand Increases periodic damage/healing by 5%: Chain Lightning, Earth Shock, Earthen Rage, Earthquake, Echoing Shock, Elemental Blast, Flame Shock, Flametongue Attack, Frost Shock, Icefury, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Shield, Maelstrom, Static Discharge, Stormstrike, Stormstrike Off-Hand, Thunderstorm, Windfury Attack, Windstrike, Windstrike Off-Hand Increases damage/healing by 13%: Healing Surge and Swelling Waves Increases damage/healing by 68%: Earth Shield Shaman - Elemental Spec. Shaman - Elemental Spec.
- Liquid Magma Totem Summons a totem at the target location for 15 sec that hurls liquid magma at a random nearby target every 1 sec, dealing
[ 15%[ 15.8% of Spell Power ] Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards. Elemental Shaman - Level 35 Talent. Elemental Shaman - Level 35 Talent. 3.5% of Base Mana. 40 yd range. Instant. 60 sec cooldown. 1 sec global cooldown.
Warlock (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Affliction
- Shadowfall (New) Gain the Nightfall talent with 100% increased chance to cause your next Shadow Bolt to be instant. If you already have this talent, you may select another in the same row. PvP Talent. PvP Talent. Requires Warlock. Requires level 10.
Destruction
- Destruction Warlock Increases damage/healing by
5%10%: Cataclysm, Channel Demonfire, Chaos Bolt, Conflagrate, Corruption, Drain Life, Grimoire of Sacrifice, Immolate, Incinerate, Rain of Fire, Roaring Blaze, Seed of Corruption, Shadow Bolt, Shadowburn, Soul Fire Increases periodic damage/healing by5%10%: Cataclysm, Channel Demonfire, Chaos Bolt, Conflagrate, Corruption, Drain Life, Grimoire of Sacrifice, Immolate, Incinerate, Rain of Fire, Roaring Blaze, Seed of Corruption, Shadow Bolt, Shadowburn, Soul Fire Warlock - Destruction Spec. Warlock - Destruction Spec.- Summon Infernal Summons an Infernal from the Twisting Nether, impacting for [ 60% of Spell Power ] Fire damage and stunning all enemies in the area for 2 sec. The Infernal will serve you for 30 sec, dealing
[ 52.5%[ 55% of Spell Power ] damage to all nearby enemies every 2 sec and generating 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 0.5 sec. Warlock - Destruction Spec. Warlock - Destruction Spec. 2% of Base Mana. 30 yd range. Instant. 3 min cooldown.
Warrior (Forums, Talent Calculator)
- Ignore Pain Fight through the pain, ignoring
50%55% of damage taken, up to [ 700% of Attack Power ] total damage prevented. 40 Rage / 60 Rage /40 Rage / 4035 Rage / 35 Rage. Instant. 12 sec cooldown.
Protection
- Demoralizing Shout Demoralizes all enemies within 10 yards, reducing the damage they do by
20%25% for 8 sec. Generates 0 Rage. Warrior - Protection Spec. Warrior - Protection Spec. Instant. 45 sec cooldown.- Vanguard Hardened by battle, all damage taken is reduced by
10%15%, your Stamina is increased by 25% and your Armor is increased by 60% of your Strength. Warrior - Protection Spec. Warrior - Protection Spec.
Item Effects
- Bottle of Briny Seawater (New) Tosses a bottle of briny seawater at a nearby worker. 20 yd range. 0.5 sec cast. 3 sec cooldown.
- Bottle of Briny Seawater (New) Tosses a bottle of briny seawater at a nearby thief. 20 yd range. 0.5 sec cast.
- Cypher Attunement
Increases cyphers acquired by 50%. Instant.Permanently increases cyphers acquired by this character by 50%. Can only be used once per character. Instant.- Decrypting Ancient Cyphers (New) Combine 20 Confounding Antique Cyphers to create the Cosmic Creation Impetus, which can be used to improve Empowered raid items to Heroic quality. 2 sec cast.
- Ensemble: Blood Knight's Dedication Collect the appearances of the
Battlefield Messenger's Regalia armor set. Instant.Blood Knight's Dedication armor set, which is only usable by blood elf paladins. Instant.- Has Ball (New) Instant.
- Motion Sick Peon's Magical Elixir (New) It might smell like toad's breath and talbuk sweat, but the orc claimed it would stop the world from moving and that sounds pretty good right about now. Instant.
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Drive a spike into your target, dealing 4,231 Physical damage and creating a chain link between you for 20 seconds. While the chain persists, 25% of all damage dealt to the target is stored within it, up to a maximum of 23,350. Moving 12 yards away from your target will rip the chain out, dealing the stored amount as Shadow damage to all enemies within 8 yards of them. Instant. 3 min cooldown.Realize the potential in an Empowered raid item, upgrading it to Heroic quality. Instant.- Throw Pie (New) Tosses a pie at a sleeping worker. 20 yd range. 0.5 sec cast. 3 sec cooldown.
- Throw Pie Tosses a pie at a nearby thief. 20 yd range.
1 sec cast.0.5 sec cast.
Raid & Dungeon Abilities
- [PH] Interruptible Add (New) $@spelldesc Unlimited range. Instant.
- Ghost Visual Cosmetics (New) Instant.
- Persecution The Jailer slams his current target, inflicting 200 Physical damage and increasing Physical damage taken by 200% for
40 sec. Unlimited range. Instant.30 sec. Unlimited range. Instant.- Persecution The Jailer slams his current target, inflicting 200 Physical damage and increasing Physical damage taken by 200% for
4030 sec. 200 yd range. Instant.- Surging Azerite A surge of azerite flows into the target and repeatedly arcs to the nearest player within 13 yards, inflicting 14 Arcane damage and applying Azerite Radiation to players hit. The energy heals Azeroth for
2%4% of its lifeforce if it is within range, ending the effect. Instant.- Swarm of Darkness Kin'tessa erupts into a swarm of darkness, inflicting 15 Shadow damage to all players every 1 sec for 20 sec. During this time, Kin'tessa takes 100% increased damage
from area of effect abilities. Instant.Instant.- Swarm of Decay Mal'Ganis erupts into a swarm of insects, inflicting 15 Plague damage to all players every 1 sec for 20 sec. During this time, Mal'Ganis takes 100% increased damage
from area of effect abilities. Instant.Instant.
Strings Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
- PFC_CUSTOMIZE_DIALOG_TEXT (New) - You will now choose your new race and customize your charaction. Your faction change will be permanently applied once you finish this process.
- PFC_FLOW_CUSTOMIZE_CHARACTER_STEP (New) - You'll customize your character in the next step.
- PFC_FLOW_FINISH_LABEL (New) - Accept
- PFC_FLOW_WILL_BE_CHANGED_TO (New) - Will be changed to:
- REPORT_CALENDAR (New) - Report Player
- REPORTING_COMMENT_INSTRUCTIONS (New) - More details about your report (optional)
- SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_788 (New) - Not ready yet.
Misc Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-ChampionBattle Masters
- All Arenas - Level: 20-60. Players: 5. Rated players: 5.
Maps: Ashamane's Fall, Black Rook Hold Arena, Blade's Edge Arena, Dalaran Sewers, Empyrean Domain, Hook Point, Maldraxxus Coliseum, Mugambala, Nagrand Arena, Ruins of Lordaeron, The Robodrome, The Tiger's Peak, Tol'Viron Arena.Map: Enigma Arena.
Item Name Descriptions
- Empowered (New) - Empowered
- Heroic Empowered (New) - Heroic Empowered
- Mythic Empowered (New) - Mythic Empowered
Map Areas
Unknown
- Tirisfal Glades (New) - Music: Zone-EvilForest. Pet battle levels: 1-2.
- Tirisfal Glades > Tirisfal Glades (New) - Music: Zone-EvilForest. Pet battle levels: 1-2.
- Tirisfal Glades > Tirisfal Glades > Calston Estate - Name changed from "Tirisfal Glades > Calston Estate" to "Tirisfal Glades > Tirisfal Glades > Calston Estate".
Mounts
Ground Mounts
- Elusive Emerald Hawkstrider - Name changed from "Green Hawkstrider" to "Elusive Emerald Hawkstrider". Ground Mount.
Green Hawkstrider. "[PH] In defense of the Ghostlands, even the elusive green hawkstriders came to the effort." Source: PHElusive Emerald Hawkstrider. "Unseen for many years, this brightly hued hawkstrider emerged from hiding to help defend the Ghostlands from the Scourge. Its prowess shines as brilliantly as its feathers." Source: Quest: Blood Knight Zone: Ghostlands Quest: Victory for the Sin'dorei Zone: Ghostlands- Grimhowl - Name changed from "[PH] The Flame Woof" to "Grimhowl". Ground Mount.
[PH] The Flame Woof. "[PH] The Flame Woof says "woof"! With flames!"Grimhowl. "Otherwise known as The Flame Woof, the Fetcher of the Igneous, Molten Core's Best Friend, Forgehound Maximus, the Best Fiery Boy, and "oh no is that an AXE on his face!?"" Source: Quest: Good Fiery Boy Zone: Blackrock Depths
Unknown Types
- Unsuccessful Prototype Fleetpod - Unknown Type. Unsuccessful Prototype Fleetpod. "This creature was not designed by the First Ones, but instead by an unknown being attempting to create a very fast runner. Needless to say, the attempt
failed." Source: Profession: Protoform Synthesisfailed, because this mount is very slow." Source: Profession: Protoform Synthesis