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Old 09/26/07, 3:27 PM   #1
Lookit
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2.3 Discussion

Edit 2: World of Raids is currently keeping an updated list as the 2.3 info continues to come out:
Worldofraids forums :: 2.3 Unofficial Patch Notes, Changes and Daily Blue


Edit: When going back to include the volumous amounts of new information that was made available after this was originally posted, I saw that a fairly comprehensive list was being maintained on the official forums. Forthwith, a link:
WoW Forums -> 2.3 "Official" Patch Notes


Several bits of juicy 2.3 info dropped today:

General

- Zul'Aman is complete and now only needs time on the PTR.


Shaman

- Frost shock no longer subject to diminishing returns.
- Shamanistic Rage will also reduce all damage taken by 30% for its 30 second duration.
- Spirit Weapons will also reduce melee threat by a total of 30% rather than 15%. This is intended to affect both white and yellow damage.
- Two-handed weapons will be trainable
- Replacing the two-handed weapon talent will be Elemental Focus, which places the shaman in a "focused state" after landing a melee critical strike. The focused state will reduce the mana cost of the shaman's next shock spell by 60%.
- Mental Quickness will also add 10/20/30% of your AP to your +damage/healing.
- New relics to be added which will support all talent trees (includes Druids and Paladins)


Rogue

- Blind will no longer require a reagent. It will also be changed to a ranged physical attack, will share the same diminish category as Cyclone, and diminish in PvE as well as PvP. It will no longer be considered a poison.


Priest

- Pain Suppression will be able to be cast on a friendly target and will reduce the target's threat by 5% and reduce their damage taken by 40%. The cooldown will be reduced to 2 minutes.
- Meditation will be increased to 10/20/30% mana regen.
- Power Word: Shield will gain additional benefit from spell damage and healing bonuses. Base absorb values for ranks 10, 11 and 12 have been reduced to compensate for this change.

Last edited by Lookit : 09/28/07 at 12:40 PM.

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Old 09/26/07, 3:29 PM   #2
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Arcane Meditation: 10/20/30% mana regeneration

WoW Forums -> Wtf happened to my [all spells and talents]?

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Old 09/26/07, 3:30 PM   #3
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The Shaman changes look incredible. I thought they were only upping spirit weapons to 20% from 15%?

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Old 09/26/07, 3:31 PM   #4
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There are quite a few things. Some I've already mentioned in another post. What I haven't mentioned yet is in the below. Please be aware that these things aren't going to add up to a big overhaul on any particular class. These are just some changes that we think will be beneficial to the game, balance, and the future development of them.

In addition to what I didn't mention, Prayer of Healing, Circle of Healing and Holy Nova (healing effect) will gain additional benefit from damage and healing bonuses.

Circle of Healing is having a change to the base amount of healing though, and will be reduced but it will have the increase in the bonus it receives from bonus healing effects. So if you have more than 1338 healing, you'll see it heal for more. Less than that, you will see a reduction. Please keep in mind that these numbers could change on further testing but this is where we are as of right now for the pat
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Old 09/26/07, 3:42 PM   #5
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- Frost shock no longer subject to diminishing returns.
That's kinda stupid. Show me a source. 'til then, i don't believe you.

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Old 09/26/07, 3:42 PM   #6
Tempestra
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It may not matter for much longer though as we're changing Evocation in 2.3 to instead restore 15% of your total mana every 2 seconds, instead of being a Spirit-based mana regen increase.
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Last edited by Tempestra : 09/26/07 at 3:44 PM. Reason: fixed source - sorry had too many wow-related websites up

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Old 09/26/07, 3:43 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Lamoot View Post
That's kinda stupid. Show me a source. 'til then, i don't believe you.
WoW Forums -> The lack of change has been noticed........

Edit: It would be great if people stopped shitting up the thread with "OMFG I don't believe u" and just spent 2 seconds on BlueTracker or the WoW forums to find it themselves.

Last edited by Docjowles : 09/26/07 at 3:49 PM.

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Old 09/26/07, 3:44 PM   #8
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Crusader Strike is being changed back to 6 second cooldown.

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Old 09/26/07, 3:45 PM   #9
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Forums de wow-europe.com -> Les Cendres d'Alar ont été dropé

Blue post on the French forums regarding a new flying mount available from Cenarion Expedition at Exalted for 2000g in 2.3.

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Old 09/26/07, 3:46 PM   #10
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Do you mean the amazing change to Shadowstep so that it can now be used at any time, not only while stealthed? In addition, after use of Shadowstep threat caused by the next Ambush, Garrote or Backstab will be reduced by 50%. The cooldown will however be increased to 40 seconds.

Also on the Subtlety front is a change to Dirty Deeds so that it will also be increasing damage of special attacks by 10/20% against targets that are below 35% health.

We're also taking a look at bumping up Hemorrhage a bit, but no details yet on what that may be.
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Old 09/26/07, 3:47 PM   #11
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Blind no longer a poison...is it safe to assume it will no longer be cleanseable then?

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Old 09/26/07, 3:47 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Lookit View Post
Several bits of juicy 2.3 info dropped today:

Priest

- Pain Suppression will be able to be cast on a friendly target and will reduce the target's threat by 5% and reduce their damage taken by 40%. The cooldown will be reduced to 2 minutes.
- Meditation will be increased to 10/20/30% mana regen.
W ... T ... F ...

These two changes are larger than any priests have ever received in any talent review ... and they're being randomly done in the shaman/rogue patch? Please provide a link to the blue "hint" toward these things, because they're immensely huge changes to the mechanics of the priest class. The meditation one in particular is one we've been asking for since ... Nef died, and we all realized that T2 would be with us forever due to its 3-piece bonus.

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Old 09/26/07, 3:48 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Lamoot View Post
That's kinda stupid. Show me a source. 'til then, i don't believe you.
WoW Forums -> Enhancement shaman - Low blow

I am guessing that they'll have to reduce the snare duration because otherwise we're back to the good ol' 'snare lasts longer than cooldown' problem back from frost shock 1.0. Either that or they'll have to seriously increase the mana cost.

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Old 09/26/07, 3:51 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by constantius View Post
the shaman/rogue patch
Uh, 2.3 is a massive balance overhaul patch according to all description. It's not "the shaman/rogue patch."

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Old 09/26/07, 3:53 PM   #15
constantius
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The paladins were told quite emphatically (pre-2.2) that their ret changes were being pushed off until 2.4, since 2.3 would be primarily concerned with rogues & shamans. When did they decide to change it to "everyone gets some changes"?

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