Heroic Lich King Kill, PTR 3.3.3 Build 11623

[Boubouille]

Death Knight - The change to Death Grip was "an unintended change as a result of a bug trying to fix something else. Death Grip won't change between 3.3.2 and 3.3.3."

Note about the Celestial Steed - A few people reported that on the official site, Algalon is the last boss of the Vault of Archavon and assume that he will be available in this instance in a later patch. I would say that this is very unlikely, the official dungeons pages are greatly outdated (Ulduar is still shown as an "unknown" raid instance without any information) and this is most likely a very old error.

Update - Updated the PTR Build info.

Patch 3.3.3 - PTR Build 11623
A new build has been deployed on test realms, a couple of things have changed! As usual, these changes are from client data comparison and shouldn't be considered as final until they hit the official patch notes. Make sure you check the latest Patch 3.3.3 Notes Update.

Achievements

• All You Can Eat (10 player) - Defeat Sindragosa in 10-player mode without any member of your raid receiving more than 5 stacks of Mystic Buffet. (Up from 4 stacks)
• All You Can Eat (25 player) - Defeat Sindragosa in 25-player mode without any member of your raid receiving more than 5 stacks of Mystic Buffet. (Up from 4 stacks)

Companion Pets

• Lil' XT - Right Click to set down or pick up your Lil' XT action figure.

Items

• You can now exchange any Battleground Mark for a Commendation of Service (185 Honor).

Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator)

• Death Grip now has a 8 yards minimum range. (Unintended - see this post)

Glyphs

• Glyph of Disease now refreshes disease durations and secondary effects of diseases. (= The Icy Talon refresh bug)

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Feral

• Mangle now increases the damage of bleed effects for 1 min. (Up from 12 sec)
• Mangle (Bear) now increases the damage of bleed effects for 1 min. (Up from 12 sec)
• Mangle (Cat) now increases the damage of bleed effects for 1 min. (Up from 12 sec)

Hunter (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Beast Mastery

• Ferocious Inspiration now also increases the damage of Steady Shot by 9%.

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Fire

• Empowered Fire now affects Pyroblast as well.
• Torment the Weak now affects Pyroblast as well.

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Items

• Item - Priest T10 Healer 4P Bonus - Increases the effect of your Renew and Power Word: Shield spells by 5%. (Old - Your Circle of Healing and Penance spells have a 20% chance to cause your next Flash Heal cast within 6 sec to reset the cooldown on your Circle of Healing and Penance spells.)

Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator)

• Slaughter from the Shadows now reduces the energy cost of your Backstab and Ambush abilities by 4/8/12/16/20. (Up from 3/6/9/12/15)
• Serrated Blades now causes your attack to ignore up to 3/6/9% of your target's Armor.

Shaman (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Items

• Item - Shaman T8 Elemental 2P Bonus - Increases periodic damage done by your Flame Shock ability by 20%. (Old - The periodic damage dealt by your Flame Shock can now be critical strikes.)
• Item - Shaman T10 Elemental 4P Bonus - Your Lava Burst spell causes your Flame Shock effect on the target to deal at least two additional periodic damage ticks before expiring. (Old - Your Lava Burst spell increases the duration of your Flame Shock effect on the target by 6 sec.)

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Affliction

• Unstable Affliction - Only one Unstable Affliction or Immolate per Warlock can be active on any one target.
• Life Tap - Now converts [ 150% of Spirit + 1490 ] health into [1490 + Spell Power * 0.5 ] mana. (Old - [300% of Spirit + 1490] health into [1490 + Spirit * 3 Mana]

Warrior (Forums / Talent Calculator)
Protection

• Revenge damage has been slightly lowered, it now deals [ 31% of AP + 1636 ] to [ 31% of AP + 1998 ] damage at max rank. Down from [ 31% of AP + 2181 ] to [ 31% of AP + 2665 ] damage. (That's still much higher than the live version)
• Improved Revenge now Increases damage of your Revenge ability by 30/60% (up from 10/20%) and causes Revenge to strike an additional target for 50% damage.
• Vitality now increases your total Strength by 2/4/6%, Stamina by 3/6/9% and your Expertise by 2/4/6.

Arms

• Trauma now lasts 1 min, up from 15 sec.

The Celestial Steed mount added in 3.3.3 got its own model and looks like an Algalon version of Invincible ... At this point I have no idea where the mount drops.

The Celestial Dragon had its model updated with a couple of new effects and looks very nice as well.

The Blazing Hippogryph (TCG reward for the moment, could change) has been updated with a couple of new effect and the model used for Tiger bosses in Zul'gurub got a new texture, most ilkely used in the Echo Isles during the Cataclysm prologue event.

Last but not least, the multi-passenger rocket mount discovered in an earlier build now has 2 spells, it's not very clear if players will be able to use this mount all the time or just during some kind of event but the strange spell is probably just required to "mount" as a passenger.

• X-53 Touring Rocket - Mounts the target, limited to the outdoors, following normal vehicle rules.
• X-53 Touring Rocket - Summons an X-53 Touring Rocket. This mount's speed depends upon your riding skill.

Lich King (10) Heroic World First Kill by Paragon
The Lich King finally died in Heroic Mode! Paragon finally defeated him in 10-man mode (the 5% Hellscream's Warsong was used for the kill). Congratulations to them!

From Paragon
We have now killed The Lich King on hard mode in 10-man Icecrown Citadel. Good job everyone who were on the kill and those who participated on the endless strategy discussion.

This encounter had a bug on the spirit phase which we reported 2 weeks ago but it didn't get fixed untill today (the bug made the encounter very hard). We had worked our way around the spirit problem on last week's reset and the kill was within our grasp even without any extra attempts or buffs.

A video will be released on a later date (tm).

[Ryme]

Congrats to Paragon. Well fought race.

Now, let's see if they can keep it up for 25 man!

[Ghrog74]

Wow, grats.. amazing job.

[Seronei]

So, that 5% buff is fairly substantial then. From "impossible boss" to down in a day ^^

Congrats to Paragon. Well fought race.

Now, let's see if they can keep it up for 25 man!

Why does everyone have a huge problem actually reading the news post?

[Mongoose19]

This new tiger model is some kind of joke? It looks like a toy, when it used to look bad ass. Wtf Blizzard, stop this...

[Goulashia]

Glad they fixed up the celestial pet a bit. Found it a bit lazy how it was just a retextured spirit of competition pet.

[tatienne]

grats to paragon, especially considering their realm shouldn't be up for another 10 minutes :S

[Xacez]

We have now killed The Lich King on hard mode in 10-man Icecrown Citadel. Good job everyone who were on the kill and those who participated on the endless strategy discussion.

This encounter had a bug on the spirit phase which we reported 2 weeks ago but it didn't get fixed untill today (the bug made the encounter very hard). We had worked our way around the spirit problem on last week's reset and the kill was within our grasp even without any extra attempts or buffs.

A video will be released on a later date (tm).

Please read the bolded before posting

And of course, congrats

[Ryme]

Why does everyone have a huge problem actually reading the news post?

Ah, missed the guild quote.

[cchsballa06]

also if anybody didn't know or wanted to know they changed the honor you recieve from the commendation of service to only 185 honor...boub if you want to add that in there

[Jaqen Hghar]

Congrats to Paragon - it was a race well run.

[Fraza]

lol the new tiger model looks like Alex from Madagascar.

[BlazerWithTheLazer]

So you still get achievment while using the buff... Pretty ****ing messed up considering it's 30% in the end. So casuals complain that Blizz made a hardmode for the more serious players so now Blizz have to make the hardmodes more casual... That's ****ed up.

Also I love how they're all "A kill was within our grasp even without the buff" yeah right, not that I don't belive you but why the **** did you use the buff then?
But Gratz anyway, guess your penis is bigger efter all... if you compare to gnomes.. ZING!

[Azerox]

OMG nice mount

The Celestial Steed .. GIEF!

Could it be from the Ruby Sanctum? ...

My Arcane Mage sooooo would like this mount

[eRAZOR]

The Celestial Steed looks so awesome. Drool.

[Supercool]

So you still get achievment while using the buff... Pretty ****ing messed up considering it's 30% in the end. So casuals complain that Blizz made a hardmode for the more serious players so now Blizz have to make the hardmodes more casual... That's ****ed up.

Also I love how they're all "A kill was within our grasp even without the buff" yeah right, not that I don't belive you but why the **** did you use the buff then?
But Gratz anyway, guess your penis is bigger efter all... if you compare to gnomes.. ZING!

Sounds like a bunch of butthurt. I'll be eagerly awaiting your hard mode LK kill.

[Italiano1]

So you still get achievment while using the buff... Pretty ****ing messed up considering it's 30% in the end. So casuals complain that Blizz made a hardmode for the more serious players so now Blizz have to make the hardmodes more casual... That's ****ed up.

Also I love how they're all "A kill was within our grasp even without the buff" yeah right, not that I don't belive you but why the **** did you use the buff then?
But Gratz anyway, guess your penis is bigger efter all... if you compare to gnomes.. ZING!

bad troll is bad

[Second]

Firstly, grats to the Paragon for downing LK allready.
Secondly, grats to The Lich King he resisted so long.

And to the 5% bonus / "we didnt need it" - I like the way overgearing instance is cool, but using buffs is not

[Corgyll]

They updated the humanoid tiger-thingie and made it look worse?
Nice!

[carlos5577]

finally heroic lich king on 10 man has been downed. now how much longer for 25man?