Update - Added official notes update, including the very anticipated ...
- If a player wins a Need roll under the Need Before Greed system on a Bind on Equip item, the item will become Soulbound to that player. The item will remain unbound if won via a Greed roll.
Patch 4.2 - PTR Build 14199
A new build is being deployed on test realms.
Item Additions
A couple of new Firelands Raid loot and the addition of Drakehide Leg Armor and Murky's Little Soulstone used to summon Murkablo, a Diablo-themed Murloc.
Level Type Spec Slot Name 378 Axe Melee Main Hand Eye of Purification 391 Axe Spell Spirit Main Hand Eye of Purification 378 Dagger Physical DPS One-Hand Avool's Incendiary Shanker 378 Dagger Physical DPS One-Hand Entrail Disgorger 391 Dagger Physical DPS One-Hand Avool's Incendiary Shanker 391 Dagger Physical DPS One-Hand Entrail Disgorger 378 Mace Physical DPS One-Hand Shatterskull Bonecrusher 391 Mace Physical DPS One-Hand Shatterskull Bonecrusher 1 Staff Two-Hand Stave Icecrown Raid D02 Green 378 Staff Spell Spirit Two-Hand Smoldering Censer of Purity 391 Staff Spell Spirit Two-Hand Smoldering Censer of Purity 378 Sword Melee Two-Hand Zoid's Firelit Greatsword 391 Sword Melee Two-Hand Zoid's Firelit Greatsword 378 Sword Spell DPS Main Hand Firethorn Mindslicer 391 Sword Spell DPS Main Hand Firethorn Mindslicer 0 Consumable Trampoline MII 45 Enchanting Formula: Enchant Cloak - Lesser Agility 85 Item Enhancement Drakehide Leg Armor 85 Leatherworking Pattern: Drakehide Leg Armor 20 Pet Murky's Little Soulstone
Official Notes Update
Official notes have been updated and are awesome because they aren't the result of my crazy datamining, you know. Also these notes seems to be from a later build and any change listed there is most likely more up to date than datamined changes
Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Companion Pets
- Murkablo Right Click to summon and dismiss Murkablo. Instant
Leatherworking
- Leatherworking: Drakehide Leg Armor - Creates Drakehide Leg Armor. Reagents: Pristine Hide, Volatile Earth x 20
Tailoring
- Tailoring: Embersilk Net and Tailoring: Frostweave Net now have a 35 yards range, up from 25 yards.
Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Blood
- Dancing Rune Weapon deals 100% damage of the Death Knight's attack, up from 50%.
Frost
- Rune Strike no longer scales from Attack Power, but it could just be a tooltip change gone wrong.
- Killing Machine now procs from autoattacks instead of melee attacks. (Tooltip clarification, already like that on live)
Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Feral
- Claw's additional damage has been reduced by 35%, from 1101 to 710. (Tooltip fix?)
- Faerie Fire (Feral) bear form damage has been increased by 333%, from 679 to 2950. Now scales from 10.8% of AP, down from 15%.
- Ferocious Bite can now consume up to 35 additional energy to increase damage by up to 100%.
- Lacerate base damage has been increased but AP scaling has been reduced. Now deals [3608 + 5.52% of AP] damage and making them bleed for [345 + 1.85% of AP] damage over 15 sec, instead of [2088 + 7.66% of AP] damage and making them bleed for [75 + 2.56% of AP] damage over 15 sec.
- Mangle (Cat) additional damage has been reduced by 80%, from 1670 to 315. Base damage remains unchanged.
- Mangle (Bear) now deals 190% normal damage, down from 260%. Additional damage increased by 130%, from 754 to 1740.
- Maul now deals [35 + 19% of AP] physical damage, down from [8 + 26.4% of AP] damage,
- Shred additional damage has been reduced by 80%, from 1716 to 330. Base damage remains unchanged.
- Swipe base damage has been increased by 330%, from 215 to 929
- Thrash base damage has been increased by 330%.
- Natural Reaction now reduces damage taken while in Bear Form by 9/18%, up from 6/12%.
- Pulverize now deals 60% weapon damage, down from 80%. Additional damage increased by 350%, from 360 to 1624.
Hunter (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Pets
- Intervene no longer affects "the next melee or ranged attack" only.
Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Arcane
- Arcane Power now only increases the mana cost of damaging spells.
Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Protection
- Guarded by the Light no longer allows your Word of Glory to grant Holy Shield.
- Holy Shield now costs 3% of base mana and has a 30 sec cooldown - Increases the amount your shield blocks by an additional 20% for 10 sec.
Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Combat
- Vitality now increases Attack Power by 30%, up from 25%.
- Savage Combat now increase total attack power by 3/6%, up from 2/4%.
Assassination
- Assassin's Resolve now increases melee damage by 20%, up from 15%.
- Vile Poisons now increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 12/24/36%, up from 7/14/20%.
Subtlety
- Cloak of Shadows now has a 2 min cooldown, up from 1 min.
- Elusiveness now reduces the cooldown of both Cloak of Shadows and Combat Readiness by 15/30 sec.
- Sanguinary Vein now increases damage dealt to targets with a Bleed effect by 8/16%, up from 5/10%.
Shaman (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Elemental
- Call of Flame has an extra effect - When your Fire Nova damages a target, the duration of your Flame Shock effect on that target is increased by up to 6 seconds.
- Fire Nova damage has been increased by 15%.
Tier 12
- Item - Shaman T12 Enhancement 4P Bonus - Your Stormstrike ability also causes the target to take 6% increased damage from your Fire Nova, Flame Shock, Flametongue Weapon, Lava Burst, Lava Lash, and Unleash Flame abilities.
New "/roar" Sounds Added in 4.2