RSS Patch 3.0.8 Notes update, Blue posts [Archive]

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16/01/2009, 00:05

Patch PTR 3.0.8 - Official Notes update The <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html" target="_blank">official notes</a> have been updated with most of the changes deployed in the last few builds. There is a bunch of new important things here, it also seems that <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/january/titanguard.jpg" target="_blank">Enchant Weapon - Titanguard</a> has been removed from the patch (it was reduced from 75 stamina to 50 in the latest build). <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">General <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Racial Resistances: These can now be mitigated against by gaining additional chance to hit.</li><li>All Silence spells now have diminishing returns. This includes: Arcane Torrent, Garrote silence effect, Improved Counterspell effect, Improved Kick effect, Silence, Gag Order, Silencing Shot, Spell Lock, and Strangulate.</li><li>Dispel Resist talents have changed to protect only beneficial spells and damage over time effects.</li><li>Shield Wall, Barkskin, Guardian Spirit, and Divine Protection are now off the Global Cooldown.</li><li>Reputation rewarded for killing mobs will no longer automatically deprecate. This means trivial mobs will continue to give out their full amounts of reputation on kill for the majority of cases in the game (level 70 creatures in Stratholme, for example, will continue to award the full amount of rep to level 80 players seeking to boost their Argent Dawn faction).</li><li>World of Warcraft now supports 3-D imaging. Visit <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/GeForce_3D_Vision_Main.html for more information." target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/object/GeForce_3D_Vision_Main.html</a> for more information.</li><li>The Darkmoon Faire vendors have new items now that trade routes into Northrend have been better established.</li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/deathknight.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Death Knight (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=650" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Anti-Magic Zone: This ability’s duration has been cut to 10 seconds. </li><li>Killing Machine: Instead of a chance to be triggered on critical strike, this talent now has a chance to be triggered on each swing based on the swing time of the weapon (slow weapons more likely, fast weapons less likely). </li><li>Mark of Blood: The total amount of healing this can grant is now capped based on a percentage of standard creature health at the target’s level. </li><li>Shadow of Death: The duration has been changed from 45 seconds to 25 seconds and now has a 15 minute cooldown. </li><li>Summon Gargoyle: Damage dealt by the Gargoyle reduced by approximately 20% and maximum duration cut to 30 seconds. </li><li>Wandering Plague will now properly reset after being castand now considers the resilience of the target in determining its chance to be triggered.</li><li>Vampiric Blood (DK) changed from 20% health / 50% healing to 15 % health / 35% healing.</li><li>Will of the Necropolis will now reduce the damage of any attack that takes the DK below 35% health by 5 /10/15% instead of boosting armor when wounded. It no longer affects the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell and retains the current damage reduction bonus. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/druid.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Druid (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=700" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Celestial Focus (Balance) no longer includes Starfall. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/hunter.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Hunter (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Hunter Aspects are now off the Global Cooldown again. They still have a shared 1 second cooldown. </li><li>Ferocious Inspiration: This talent now also increase the damage the Hunter does with Arcane Shot by 3/6/9%. </li><li>Lock and Load: Now has a 30 second cooldown. </li><li>Tranquilizing Shot (Hunter): Cooldown increased to 8 sec, up from 6. Mana cost reduced to 8%, down from 12%. </li></ul> Pets <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Rake: This hunter pet ability has had its damage adjusted to prevent unreasonable scaling with attack power.</li><li>Scorpid Poison: No longer stacks. The damage has been adjusted to prevent unreasonable scaling with attack power.</li><li>Spirit Strike (hunter pet ability) now has an initial attack (which can crit) and then a single dot. Damage overall is higher. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/mage.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Mage (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=670" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?mage" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Incanter’s Absorption: The amount of spell damage a Mage can gain from this ability is now capped at 5% of the mage’s health. </li><li>Mirror Image: The Mirror Image Polymorph ability now has a range of 8 yards. In addition, Mirror Images will no longer have excessive threat values assigned to them when they are created. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/rogue.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Rogue (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=630" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?rogue" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Cheap Shot: This ability no longer has diminishing returns against anything other than itself. </li><li>Kidney Shot: This ability now has diminishing returns against all other stuns. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/shaman.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Shaman (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=660" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>All shaman talent points have been refunded. Please visit your trainer to learn spells and abilities. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/warlock.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Warlock (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=680" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warlock" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Curse of Agony will now scale better when used with the Glyph of Curse of Agony. Ticks beyond the original duration will do 33% more damage than the ticks that preceded them. i.e. 74 -> 145 -> 217 -> 290. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/warrior.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Warrior (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=600" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warrior" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Sudden Death: The amount of rage spent on an Execute while Sudden Death is active is now capped at 30 rage. Improved Execute and the Glyph of Execute will still increase the damage done by increasing the amount of rage able to be converted into damage. </li></ul> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=" target="_blank">Professions</a> Enchanting <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Increased the amount of healing from the Lifeward enchantment.</li><li>Increased the amount of damage caused by the Icebreaker enchantment.</li><li>Added a new recipe to enchant bracers with Stamina. You can buy this recipe from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran. </li><li><del>Added a new recipe to enchant a weapon with Stamina. You can buy this recipe from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran.</del></li></ul> Engineering <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>The engineering Scrapbot can now repair. </li></ul> Inscription <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Glyph of Conflagrate now makes it so your Conflagrate spell no longer consumes the Immolate or Shadowflame spell from the target. </li><li>Glyph of Hammer of Justice: Now increases range by 5 yards instead of increasing stun duration. </li><li>Glyph of Spirit of Redemption: Now increases the duration of the effect by a fixed amount of 6 seconds.</li><li>Glyph of turn evil now also increases the cooldown of your turn evil spell by 8 sec. </li></ul> Items <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Emblems of Heroism can now be purchased at a 1 to 1 rate using Emblems of Valor. The Darkmoon Faire exotic vendors have been updated with new items.</li><li>Druid Feral Tier 7 Set: The 4 piece bonus now also decreases the cooldown on Tiger’s Fury by 3 seconds. </li></ul> Bug Fixes Classes <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ideathknights.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Death Knight (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=650" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Shadow of Death: This ability will no longer cause tracking abilities to become inactive when the death knight becomes a ghoul. </li></ul><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/iwarlocks.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Warlock (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=680" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warlock" target="_blank">Talent + Gly...</a></div></div></div>

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