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**chaud** · 01-08-2009, 05:56 PM

Mage Animations
The blizzard may just be a bug...?

Items

Shoulder Enchant - 10k Honor
Caster trinket changed to resil
1 Valor can be converted to 1 Heroism
Cooking daily that needed Chilled Meat down to 4/8?

Glyphs
Death Knight Changes

Glyph of Anti-Magic Shell - Increases the duration of your Anti-Magic Shell by 2.0 sec.
Glyph of Death Strike - Increases your Death Strike's damage by 2% for every 5 runic power you currently have. The runic power is not consumed by this effect.
Glyph of Bone Shield - Adds 2 additional charges to your Bone Shield.
Glyph of Obliterate - Increases the damage of your Obliterate ability by 20%.
Glyph of Raise Dead - Your Raise Dead spell no longer requires a reagent.
Glyph of Death and Decay - Damage of your Death and Decay spell increased by 20%.

Priest

Glyph of Spirit of Redemption - Increases the duration of Spirit of Redemption by 6.0 sec.
Glyph of Mind Flay - Increases the range of your Mind Flay spell by 10 yards, but it only reduces the target's movement speed by 10.0%.

Warlock Changes

Glyph of Conflagrate - Your Conflagrate spell no longer consumes your Immolate or Shadowflame spell from the target.

Mage Changes

Glyph of Arcane Blast - Increases the damage from your Arcane Blast buff by 5%.
Glyph of Invisibility - Increases the duration of the Invisibility effect by 10 sec.

Paladin

Glyph of Hammer of Justice - Increases your Hammer of Justice range by 5 yards.

Shaman Changes

Glyph of Shocking - Reduces the global cooldown triggered by your shock spells by 0.5 sec.

Class Changes
Druid Changes

Balance
None

Restoration
Subtlety - Reduces the threat generated by your restoration spells by 10/20/30% and reduces the chance your helpful spells, Moonfire, and Insect Swarm will be dispelled by 10/20/30%.

Moonglow - Now works on Wild Growth.

Moonglow - Now works on Nourish.

Other
Tier 7 - 2 set bonus increases the duration of Barkskin by 3 seconds and decreases the cooldown of Tiger's Fury by 3 seconds.

Tier 7 - 2 set bonus reduces cost of Lifebloom by 5%. Changed from Rejuvenation.

Tier 7 - 2 set bonus increases rip duration by 4 seconds, up from 3.

Death Knight Changes

Blood
Will of the Necropolis - Damage that would take you below 35% health is reduced by 5/10/15%.

Frost
Killing Machine - Your melee attacks have a chance to make your next Icy Touch, Howling Blast or Frost Strike a critical strike. Effect occurs more often than Killing Machine (Rank X/5).

Unholy
Necrosis - Your auto attacks deal an additional 4/8/12/16/20% Shadow damage. Up from 2/4/6/8/10%.

Anti-Magic Zone - Now lasts 10 seconds. Down from 30.

Summon Gargoyle - 30 sec max duration. Down from 60.

Shadow of Death - 15 minute cooldown.

Virulence - Increases your chance to hit with your spells by 1% and reduces the chance that your damage over time diseases can be cured by 10/20/30%.

Hunter Changes

Marksmanship
Improved Stings - Increases the damage done by your Serpent Sting and Wyvern Sting by 30% and the mana drained by your Viper Sting by 10/20/30%. In addition, reduces the chance your Sting damage over time effects will be dispelled by 10/20/30%.

Beast Mastery
Ferocious Inspiration - In addition, increases the damage dealt by Arcane Shot by 3/6/9%.

Survival
Lock and Load - Has a 30 second cooldown.

Explosive Shot - Damage reduced to [RAP * 0.16 + 428.0]-[RAP * 0.16 + 516.0] from [RAP * 0.18 + 476.0]-[RAP * 0.18 + 572.0].

Pets
Spirit Strike - All ranks saw a damage decrease.

Rake - All ranks saw a damage increase.

Scorpid Poison - Cooldown removed, as well as "Effect can stack up to 5 times on a single target."

Priest

Disc
Silent Resolve - Now reduces the chance your helpful spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled.

Levitate - Can now be cast on other players.

Shadow
Shadowform - You may cast Cure Disease and Abolish Disease while in Shadowform.

Mage Changes

Arcane
Arcane Subtlety - Reduces the chance your helpful spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled by 15/30% and reduces the threat caused by your Arcane spells by 20/40%.

Slow Fall - Now can be cast on other players.

Incanter's Absorption - Total spell damage increase cannot exceed 5% of your health.

Pets
Polymorph - Penguin - Range reduced to 8 yards from 30.

Paladin Changes

Protection
Stoicism - Reduces the duration of all Stun effects by an additional 10/20/30% and reduces the chance your helpful spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled by an additional 10/20/30%.

Retribution
Hammer of Wrath - Only usable on enemies that have 20% or less health. Down from 35%.

Rogue Changes

Assassination
Vile Poisons - Now gives your damage over time poisons an additional 10/20/30% chance to resist dispel effects.

Shaman Changes

Elemental
Storm, Earth and Fire - Reduces the cooldown of your Chain Lightning spell by 0.75/1.5/2.5 sec, your Earth Shock and Wind Shock range is increased by 5 yards and the periodic damage done by your Flame Shock is increased by 60%.

Restoration
Healing Grace - Reduces the threat generated by your healing spells by 5/10/15% and reduces the chance your helpful spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled by 10/20/30%.

Warlock Changes

Affliction
Contagion - Now reduces the chance your helpful Affliction spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled.

Demonology
Demonic Circle: Teleport - Teleports you to your Demonic Circle and removes all snare effects.

Demon Armor - All ranks had armor increase, max rank is now 2100 from 950.

Warrior Changes

Arms
Sudden Death - This Excute only uses up to 30 total rage.

Misc Changes

All tailoring cloths are made at different places in Dragonblight.
Northrend Alchemy Research -Experiment with Northrend herbs to discover a new Alchemy recipe. Can only be done every 3 days. Down to 10 second cast from 20.
Ethereal Oil - Make yourself translucent for 300 sec.
Pygmy Oil - Down to a 2 second cast, from 3.
Nitro Boosts - Run speed bonus down to 2 seconds.
Borean Armor Kit - Only usable on items level 60 and above.
[Heavy Borean Armor Kit] - Only usable on items level 60 and above.
[Gnomish Lightning Generator] - Now instant cast
[Illustration of the Dragon Soul] - Now 20 spellpower per stack.
Earthen Leg Armor - Permanently attach earthen armor onto pants to increase resilience rating by 40 and Stamina by 28.
Greater Inscription of the Gladiator - Permanently adds 30 Stamina and 15 resilience rating to a shoulder slot item. Using the inscription will cause the shoulder slot item to become soulbound.
Explosive Decoy 2.0 - Summons a decoy that explodes when attacked, shredding enemies for 1440 to 2160 Physical damage. Lasts for 3 min or until it explodes.
Changing graphical settings puts you on a short load screen.

PvE

GC - Instance saving - Source

Yes, we totally regret this problem (ninja instance saving). We are trying to get a fix in to give you some sort of notification.

Deathknights

Killing Machine still 50 percent proc? - Source

Killing Machine is a "ppm" now or a proc per minute. That means it will proc 5 times a minute with 5 ranks, depending on your weapon speed. We generally use ppm when we do not want players to gravitate towards faster weapons with the sole purpose of improving proc rates.

Killing Machine now is based on autoattack hits, not crits. Overall the random element will decrease, but it won't greatly benefit faster weapons. It will still benefit dual wield, just not as much.

Vampiric Blood - OP? - Source

Vampiric Blood is 15% health and 35% healing in 3.0.8.

GC: Why are fast weapons bad? - Source

Fast weapons aren't bad. DKs with a certain DW build were favoring fast weapons at the expense of everything else in order to trigger procs. We were concerned that the "right way" to play a DK would be to always DW with two fast weapons. Weapon speed should not be the only, or probably even the major factor when looking at gear. That should be an option but it was headed for being the only option.

Titansteel defender/deflector - Source

The two-handed Blacksmithing tanking weapons are not going to be implemented.

Indeed, we did not want to stick DKs with these weapons forever, nor did we want to start itemizing 2H tanking weapons forever. DKs were designed to tank with 2H dps weapons.

The new sigil and runeforge enchant should help players with low defense.

Lag

Naxxramas and World Latency Fixes - Source

For the last several weeks, our players have been experiencing periodic latency in both outdoor Northrend areas and Naxxramas, and we wanted to provide you with several updates on what we're doing to resolve these issues. As many players have discovered, the outdoor Northrend latency has been tied to activity in Wintergrasp. We are actively working on a server-side fix that should address the high latency experienced in the outdoor world when Wintergrasp is active. This fix is currently in testing on internal test realms and we anticipate that we'll be able to push it to live realms in the near future. Concerning Naxxramas, optimizations are being made that will address both the latency and disconnection issues affecting players while in that zone. These optimizations will be included with the next minor content patch.

PvP

New Dispel Resistance mechanic - Source

The general rule of thumb is that helpful spells (e.g. buffs) and dots are protected. Other offensive spells (e.g. crowd controls) are not.

We are definitely interested on hearing feedback on this implementation. We like the basic mechanic of casting and dispelling spells, but I think many players agreed that the system beyond that needed an overhaul. I am sure many players have their own ideas on how this should have worked, because a lot of them have been pitched to us.

Feel free to discuss dispel and dispel resistance here rather than having the conversation across multiple threads.

NOTE: The dispel spells themselves have not changed. Offensive spells that do no damage (say Polymorph) will just be easier to dispel now. They will not benefit from the talents that make dispels harder.

New Update for Arenas - Source

In order to prevent players from attempting to reach a no decision in Arenas, and to ensure that all Arena matches are completed in a reasonable time frame, a 45 minute time limit has been added to Arena matches. At the end of this time limit if no team has achieved victory, both teams will lose 16 arena rating points. Please be aware that this loss in rating is not currently displaying properly and will instead show as a draw for both teams. This display issue will be addressed in a future update.

Some allarming issues not mentioned for patch - Source

We have a solution for Mirror Image Polymorph spam.

There is a technical problem with adding spell pen to pets. As I've mentioned a couple of times, the entire system of how pets inherit stats (and buffs) needs to be overhauled and we are working on that now. Most pets do have hit I believe.

We fixed a bug in 3.0.8 where the racial spell hit bonus was applied after the other modifiers were added, meaning that you could not cap yourself above it. Now if you really want to hit races with certain spells you can.

Warriors

[Sudden Death] ... FAIL - Source

Our plan is to make Arms less RNG based, which involves making Sudden Death not so bursty. We also would like to decrease the amount of damage done by Deep Wounds. This should help bring Fury dps down a little (remember they got too small buffs with the TG change and Whirlwhind glyph), but we will need to buff Arms sustained damage accordingly. Slam is one possible candidate.

@GC.. Why nerf Deep Wounds? - Source

Deep Wounds is causing too high a percent of damage for Fury and Arms, 20 or 30% of total damage on some fights, and often above white attacks. Since it is unmitigated damage we are eventually going to have balance problems here if we don't already.

Fury is slightly high in PvE, or definitely will be after these TOO [sic] changes. Arms is too low in PvE, which is why I said we wanted to buff them.

We like Deep Wounds' position in the tree. We're fine letting all warriors reach it. It's just too good.

Talents

08/01 Hotfix: Talent Issue - Source

During the transition from patch 2.4.3 to 3.0.3 the following talents were not unlearned properly by some players, resulting in those players still gaining the benefits despite the talents no longer existing in the talent trees. As a result, we've pushed a hotfix which has corrected this matter and affected players will no longer receive credit for having these talents.

Warlock: Improved Lash of Pain
Warlock: Fel Stamina
Shaman: Totemic Mastery
Shaman: Improved Lightning Shield (Rank 3)
Paladin: Precision
Rogue: Fist Weapon Specialization
Priest: Shadow Focus (Ranks 4 and 5)

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What is DOODAD_NAX_DOOR_SPIDER... - Source

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BLIZZ DEVS WONT BE HAPPY TILL... - Source

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