RSS Patch 3.0.8 PTR Notes

Patch 3.0.8 PTR Notes Official patch notes are fairly incomplete, please also check the following blue posts for more changes: <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li><a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/13393389857-upcoming-mage-changes.html" target="_blank">Upcoming Mage Changes</a></li><li><a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/26/13393389856-upcoming-death-knight-changes.html" target="_blank">Upcoming Death Knight Changes</a></li><li><a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/13275172587-upcoming-hhunter-changes.html" target="_blank">Upcoming Hunter Changes</a></li></ul> If everything goes as planned, undocumented changes will be available shortly. <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">[html]World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.0.8The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html"target="_blank"><a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html</a></a>The latest patch notes can always be found at <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/"target="_blank"><a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/" target="_blank">http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/</a></a>General<ul><li>Achievement: The Loremaster of Kalimdor Achievement has had its quest amount reduced.<li>Bonus Armor: The mechanics for items with bonus armor on them has changed (any cloth, leather, mail, or plate items with extra armor, or any other items with any armor). Bonus armor beyond the base armor of an item will no longer be multiplied by any talents or by the bonuses of Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Frost Presence.<li>Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostrider? Tauren on raptor? You’re not seeing things.<li>Tapping: All player spells which cause a creature to become aggressive to you will now also immediately cause the creature to be tapped. </ul>PvP<ul><li>Wintergrasp Commendations can now also be purchased for the low low price of 9 Wintergrasp Marks of Honor. Players can visit their respective Wintergrasp vendors and put those Marks of Honor to use!</ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ideathknights.gif" /> Death Knight<ul><li>Death Knights have access to unique death-knight only facial textures and skin tones. These can be selected at the character creation screen.<li>Raise Dead has now been split into two spells: <ul> <li>Raise Dead now raises a ghoul or pet ghoul (if talented). Requires corpse dust if no humanoid corpse is nearby. <li>Raise Ally now raises a fallen party member and has no reagent. Available at level 72. </ul></ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/idruids.gif" /> Druid<ul><li>Feral Attack Power: All weapons now have the potential to grant feral attack power based on their dps (as compared to the best superior-quality weapons available at level 60). Players will see their existing feral weapons grant roughly the same attack power as they did before (+/- 2 or so), but many new weapons will be options for the feral druid. Some feral weapons have had strength converted to attack power to be more appealing to other classes able to equip them. All druids will see the amount of feral attack power granted by an item in the item tooltip, if it grants any, but other players will not see that information.<li>Genesis: Now works with Tranquility and Hurricane.<li>King of the Jungle - The Bear effect is now physical, and thus cannot be dispelled.<li>Nature's Grace - Now also effects Revive.<li>Primal Tenacity: Now reduces the cost of Bear Form, Cat Form, and Dire Bear Form by 17/33/50% in addition to its previous effects.<li>Protector of the Pack: No longer changes value based on party size.<li>Savage Roar: The buff now persists outside of Cat Form but only provides its benefits while in Cat Form.<li>Starfall will now be cancelled by any shapeshifting.<li>Survival of the Fittest: This talent now grants 22/44/66% bonus armor in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form in addition to all of its previous effects.<li>Swipe: Swipe (Cat) has now been added at level 71, dealing 260% weapon damage, costs 50 energy with no cooldown. All talents affecting the Bear Form version affect the Cat Form one as well.<li>Wild Growth now has a 6 second cooldown.</ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ihunters.gif" /> Hunter<ul><li>Aspect of the Wild - This aspect is now raid-wide.<li>Deterrence: Design changed to grant 100% parry and 100% chance to "deflect" spells coming from the front, but prevents the Hunter from attacking. Lasts 5 sec. 60 sec. cooldown.<li>Kill Shot – Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds, down from 35 sec.<li>Steady Shot: Now gains 10% of attack power as damage instead of 20%.<li>Viper Sting: Now drains a percentage of maximum mana.</ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/images.gif" /> Mage<ul><li>Slow Fall is now castable on others.</ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ipaladins.gif" /> Paladin<ul><li>Avenging Wrath: Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Hand of Protection, and Avenging Wrath cannot be used within 30 seconds of each other anymore. Forbearance removed from Avenging Wrath.<li>Divine Protection: The penalty has been removed.<li>Divine Shield: The penalty has been changed so that all damage done is reduced by 50% in place of an attack speed penalty.<li>Judgements of the Pure: This Holy talent now increases the damage done by Seals and Judgements.<li>Judgement of Wisdom: Now returns a percentage of base mana instead of a percentage of max mana.<li>Sacred Duty: Interaction with Divine Shield and Divine Protection removed, but stamina bonus increased.</ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ipriests.gif" /> Priest<ul><li>Abolish Disease and Cure Disease can now be cast while in Shadowform.<li>Holy: Circle of Healing now has a 6 second cooldown.<li>Levitate is now castable on others.<li>Mana Burn: Now burns a percentage of maximum mana.<li>Shadow <ul> <li>Shadowform: You can now shift into Shadowform while mounted or sitting. <li>Vampiric Embrace- Mana cost of this spell has been removed. </ul></ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/irogues.gif" /> Rogue<ul><li>Fan of Knives: The cooldown has been removed. In addition, now deals 150% of weapon damage when used while daggers are equipped.</ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ishamans.gif" /> Shaman<ul><li>Bloodthirst: Charges have been decreased to 3, but the effect has been raised to 1% per charge.<li>Fire Nova Totem: Now no longer generates threat.<li>Magma Totem: The damage and scaling has been increased and no longer generates threat.<li>Searing Totem (Rank 4) now does the proper damage for its rank.<li>Tremor Totem's duration has been increased from 2 minutes to 5 minutes.<li>Elemental <ul> <li>Elemental Shields: This talent has been removed. It has now been merged with Elemental Warding. <li>Elemental Warding: Now reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6%. Changed from only reducing Nature, Fire and Frost by 4/7/10%. <li>New Talent: Shamanism-Your Lightning Bolt spell gains an additional 2/4/6/8/10% and your Lava Burst gains an additional 4/8/12/16/20% of your bonus damage effects. <li>Storm, Earth and Fire: This talent has been moved up in the tree, and it’s talent points have been reduced to 3 down from 5. Wind Shock is also included in the range increase (with Earth Shock). The damage bonus to Flame Shock has been increased, up from 10/20/30/40/50 to 20/40/60. <li>Unrelenting Storm: point cost reduced to 3, down from 5. Now does 4/8/12% </ul></ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/iwarlocks.gif" /> Warlock<ul><li>Drain Mana: Now drains a percentage of maximum mana.<li>Emberstorm: Now works with Conflagrate.<li>Ritual of Summoning: Will now create a summoning portal object which can be re-used for multiple summons for 5 minutes.</ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/iwarriors.gif" /> Warrior<ul><li>Fury: Bloodsurge: Now has a chance to trigger from any hit with Heroic Strike, Bloodthirst, or Whirlwind.<li>Fury:Titan's Grip: The hit chance penalty has been removed.</ul>Professions<ul><li>Alchemy   <ul> <li>All flasks no longer require an alchemy lab to create. </ul><li>Blacksmithing   <ul> <li>Reduced the spell power on the Titansteel Guardian to bring it in line with its item level.   <li>Increased the material requirements to make high level frost resistance gear created with blacksmithing.    </ul><li>Engineering   <ul> <li>Engineers may now be able to properly engineer Centrifuge Constructs.   </ul>   <li>Inscription <ul> <li>Glyph of Death Strike has also been reduced by 50% to 1% healing per 5 Runic Power. <li>Glyph of Holy Light now affects friendly targets in a larger radius. <li>Deterrence Glyph: Now -10 seconds instead of -20.   </ul>   <li>Leatherworking   <ul> <li>Iceborne Belt pattern skill up range has been increased to the correct range.   </ul>   <li>Mining   <ul> <li>Weakened Giants and Iron Rune Sentinels can now be correctly mined.   </ul>   <li>Skinning   <ul> <li>Increased the critical strike rating granted by ranks 5 and 6 of Master of Anatomy. <li>Carrion Fleshstrippers are now skinnable.   </ul></ul>Quests<ul><li>The quest, "Scare the Guano Out of Them!" now only requires 10 Darkclaw Guano, down from 15. 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