Patch 4.1 on PTRs - Build 13698

[Boubouille]

Update Patch 4.1 PTR - Official Notes Update
The Patch 4.1 PTR Notes have been updated once again with the 2 missing changes from build 13698.

Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Arms

• Strikes of Opportunity damage has been increased by 10% to keep stat parity with other strike changes.

Fury

• Unshackled Fury now only grants 2 base points of mastery, down from 8. This change offsets the Flurry boost to better control Fury burst damage.

Patch 4.1 on PTRs - Build 13698
A new build will be deployed on test realms today. Most of these changes were already documented in the latest PTR notes update but keep an eye out for new things!

• Patch 4.1 - PTR Notes Update (February 28)

Nameplates Changes

• UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPES = "Nameplate Motion Type";
• UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_1 = "Overlaping Nameplates";
• UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_2 = "Stacking Nameplates";
• UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_3 = "Spreading Nameplates";
• UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_TOOLTIP_1 = "This method will allow nameplates to overlap.";
• UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_TOOLTIP_2 = "This method avoids overlaping nameplates by stacking them vertically.";
• UNIT_NAMEPLATES_TYPE_TOOLTIP_3 = "This method avoids overlaping nameplates by spreading them out horizontally and vertically.";

Achievements Changes

Dungeons & Raids
Cataclysm Dungeon

• Spirit Twister Defeat 20 Twisted Spirits within 15 seconds during the Jin'do encounter in Zul'Gurub on Heroic difficulty.
• Ring out! Defeat Daakara in Zul'Aman on Heroic difficulty without leaving the rectangular turquoise stonework inscribed on the floor in the center of his area.

Reputation

• Ambassador of the Horde now requires you to be exalted with Bilgewater Cartel.
• Ambassador of the Alliance now requires you to be exalted with Gilneas.

Spell Changes

Class Skills
Companions

• Lashtail Hatchling has been added to the game.

Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Unholy

• Raise Ally has been revamped and is now a battle rez spell - Pours dark energy into a dead target, reuniting spirit and body to allow the target to reenter battle with 20% health and 20% mana. 30 yd range, 50 Runic Power, 10 min cooldown, Instant

Glyph

• Inscription: Glyph of Raise Ally has been replaced by Inscription: Glyph of Death Gate - Reduces the cast time of your Death Gate spell by 25%.

Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Feral

• Stampeding Roar (Bear) now increases movement speed by 60% for 8 sec, up from 40% for 6 sec.
• Stampeding Roar (Cat) now increases movement speed by 60% for 8 sec, up from 40% for 6 sec.

Restoration

• Lifebloom now costs 11% of base mana, up from 7%. Base healing reduced by 20%, from 2306 to 1847.

Balance

• Cyclone now lasts 5 sec, down from 6 sec.
• Starsurge base damage has been reduced by 20%, from [ 1272 to 1756 ] to [ 1017 to 1405 ].
• Moonkin Form now frees the caster of movement impairing effects instead of slowing effects.

Priest (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy

• Body and Soul (Rank 2) now increases target's movement speed by 30%, up from 25%.

Discipline

• Inner Fire now lasts until cancelled.
• Inner Will now lasts until cancelled.

Warlock (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Demonology

• Demonic Empowerment now also removes fear, banish, or horror effects on your Felguard.

Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Protection

• Spell Reflection now has a 25 sec cooldown, up from 10 sec.
• Gag Order no longer affects Shield Bash.
• Shield Mastery no longer reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflect. Now causes your Shield Block to also reduce magic damage taken by 8/16/25%.

Fury

• Unshackled Fury now Increases the benefit of abilities that cause or require you to be enraged by 11.2%, down from 44,8%.
• Pummel no longer requires Battle or Berserker Stance.

Arms

• Strikes of Opportunity now gives a 17.6% (up from 16%) chance for your melee attacks to instantly trigger an additional melee attack for 100% normal damage. Each point of Mastery increases this chance by 2.2%. (Up from 2%)
• Drums of War no longer affects Shield Bash, now affects Demoralizing Shout, Intimidating Shout and Challenging Shout.
• Juggernaut now reduces the cooldown of your Charge by 2 sec, down from 3 sec.

Glyph

• Inscription: Glyph of Spell Reflection now reduces the cooldown on Spell Reflection by 5 sec, up from 1 sec.

[rhyscreed]

Mighty stoked for a Hydra pet for my hunter. Now if they will let me tame basilisks and other dinos in Ungoro...

[Synrithh]

Still, the Fury Mastery sucks anyways..

[Craigadiddle]

More arms buffs, mastery got slightly buffed, not bad.
Seems fury deathwish is nerfed now.

[galimim]

No shammy changes? sad face

[link064]

Edit: It was corrected

[Deleted]

Dunno what to say about dks....

[Deleted]

Erm...

Glyph of Raise Ally - Reduces Cast time on Death Gate spell by 25%? WTH?

[Alskonda]

Legendary weapons changed from "wielder" to "owner". Wonder if this change will go for the personal feats too. Already have the main hand glaive, wont be too hard to farm the off-hand too ^^ (note, I'm a druid).

[Cairm]

Still no shaman changes They keep them for last.

[Pumps]

Don't see anything new on the ptr here

[Deleted]

Still no shaman changes They keep them for last.

you wish ... there wont be any

[Deleted]

Yay for new Shield Mastery! Finally the magic reduction prot warriors didn't have!

[Vasz]

Unshackled Fury: Increases the benefit of abilities that cause or require you to be enraged by 11.2%. 44.8%. Each point of Mastery increases enrage effects by an additional 5.6%.

I guess this makes Mastery even more useless for fury warriors.

[flyonthewall]

No shammy changes? sad face

Obviously shammies are perfect!

[Hanashi]

Please stop with the circus colors!

[Strafer]

How do you read that? so many colors.

[fangless]

Erm...

Glyph of Raise Ally - Reduces Cast time on Death Gate spell by 25%? WTH?

COLORS ARE HARD.


red is the old text, and green denotes changes to the text.

[Hemmen]

How do you read that? so many colors.

My same thought.

[marjak93]

Please stop with the circus colors!

They're perfect. Derp