ildon

It's really not difficult to get 5/5 silent resolve in a pvp build.

 

Fiola

It always depends, but it's pretty easy for certain team setups to stack up 6+ magic debuffs (lock/spriest) or poison debuffs (rogue/hunter). Given a 30% chance to fail, it will on average take me 10 casts to clear those debuffs. That's 15 seconds of doing nothing but spamming one defensive dispel button. Oh, and it costs 1770 mana, which is 1/3 of my manapool in my PvP gear. (Ret)

Given these sort of opportunity costs, sometimes dispel spam is the right strat, sometimes it ain't.


The point isn't that xyz class or mechanic has it harder than anyone else. The point is that "tit for tat buff/nerfing" is a silly expectation. Blizzard can and will buff/nerf a mechanic with no compensating nerf/buff.


Non-magic mage/lock armors is a nerf to offensive dispel and a buff to those two classes. That doesn't mean dispellers (priest/shaman) or other magic-buff users (paladins/priests/etc) automatically deserve an equivalent buff.

 

Vasala

It looks like this update on the PTR fixed the bug with Haughty Modiste so she now does act like a vendor and sells the new tailoring patterns: Haliscan Jacket, Haliscan Pantaloons, and Dress Shoes.

 

Malakitoo

It doesn't if you believe that priest/shaman/hunters should have been toned down. Most of the posters in this thread seemed to think that this change would tone down warrior/rogue teams, and justified the change using that logic. This actually nerfs shaman/priest/hunter teams, which I believe do not need to be nerfed, based on the representation numbers and my (biased) arena experience.

So if I think something is balanced or slightly underpowered as it is, and a change nerfs that something, I think it is reasonable to look for a counteracting buff. Or for the change not to happen at all :p

 

Anedris

Maybe it wasn't intended as a nerf or a buff, they simply wanted caster armours to mean something and thought it was silly that they lasted only as long as first purge train? And given that Wrath is more or less where the "things mattering" is at present, they're happy to toss it out into season 4 and see what it does without worrying too much about tuning it or compensating for it?

 

Roywyn

In the first PTR patch, equipping an item interrupted spells with a cast time, but not channeled spells.

Can anyone check if the recent PTR patch changed/fixed this behaviour?
Or are channeled spells still not interrupted by equipping an item/weapon?

I'd love to check it myself, but the PTR was cleaned after I copied my characters, so I'm stuck with 1 copied character with no channeled spells and no copies remaining.

(Evocation/Drain Life/Mind Flay should be the easiest spells to test.)

The Blue Bar and you - the complete Fire Mage 2.4 mana compendium: http://elitistjerks.com/658230-post3191.html

Rate-my-WotLK-spec! If it's not listed here, it's probably not worth it: http://elitistjerks.com/846078-post4020.html
Fire mage mana: http://elitistjerks.com/881998-post1092.html
Specs post debuff merging: http://elitistjerks.com/881998-post1092.html

And [Timbal's Focusing Crystal] doesn't proc on AM.

 

Mashan

Does anyone have the non-recorded patch notes? I can't seem to find them on the test realm forums, and I have searched them on the forums here. Any info would be great, thanks.

 

ZeroWashu

You can always go to mmo-champion, PTR 2.4.3 Patch Notes

 

djhbrd

So, does anyone know if the Tyrael mini pet is in the game yet, or if it is just in the game files? If you haven't seen it, there is a picture in the first post on MMO-Champion (I would link it but MMO-Champion is blocked at my office ).

 

Fendryl

I believe I read they'd be available when 2.4.3 goes live.

 

• frmorrison

I would think the vendors for the new pet will be turned on when the patch goes live. Worldofraids has pictures of the pet as well, so you knew the pet is in the game file.

 

madman

This is going to be interesting. I'm very excited with every revamp Azeroth gets. I am curious how they will solve the harbor thing though, there will probably have to be a long path down to sea level. I really hope they do not put up a "fake ocean" at Stormwind level which would be a cheap and unrealistic solution and would prohibit further Stormwind expansions in the future.

 

Emeraude

Hark, I heard a cry about Oceans and Azerothian Terrain.

I present you with exhibit A....and the only exhibit I have actually.

http://files.warriornation.net/Sajjy...rnkingdoms.jpg

There's no mountains or wall, anything of the sort really behind Stormwind, for whatever reason when the city was designed, they didn't add a port(And when I say that I refer to Blizzard). Most of the ports in the game are at sea level, I imagine that Stormwind won't be much different, if you'd like an idea of where the sea level is gonna be, you could always take a trip around the sea behind Elwynn Forest. Head to Westfall and head North, take a dip in the sea.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CX81UJZ8
For the lurking Phoenix Wright faithful.

 

Starfire

Did you know there's a house all the way up there? It's quite a bit away from Stormwind, but there's a small little house and a surge wall.

Anyhow, I remember seeing "beaches" near Stormwind in one of the earlier "Exploration" movies. I always sort of assumed that Blizzard never bothered opening the Harbour because there was no real need for it and it would be opened (per my assumption) when they opened up the South Seas.

 

Lithose

Patch deployed with an additional rogue nerf Sinister Calling now increases damage to Backstab and Hemorrhage by 1/2/3/4/5% (down from 2/4/6/8/10%.) and a few tuning changes to the Muru encounter.

 

Calixtus

From what I saw on mmo-champion the Gigantique Bag is no longer unbound, and will now bind on equip. I know a few pages it was mentioned as one of the major reasons for the bag being generally awesome, but alas, it was too good to be true...

 

Vasala

Not sure where you saw that information but from the first version of the 2.4.3 PTR the Gigantique Bag was BoE so this is not a change to the bag.

 

Surgie

Just got 2.4.3 off the downloader, official patch notes seem to match up with what mmo-champion posted a few hours ago including the M'uru nerfs.

 

Addled

The patch is 27.2 MB, yet the official patch notes only lists minor bugfixes and whatnot. I wonder what else is in this patch.

It just "feels" too big for what it's supposed to do.

 

LiquidHAL

Brewfest and Halloween stuff I expect.

 

Prinsesa

The Brewfest and Hallow's Eve data is included with this patch, most likely because they have no other content between now and ~October and don't want to slap on another client patch for those events later on when they can piggyback it now and just activate it server side later.

I absolutely love the PvP flag turning off when going inside an instance. No longer do we have to take flight paths before getting summoned or complaining about "raid AIDs

EDIT: I noticed this in the notes:

# Hunters: Using an instant ability after Steady Shot will no longer lock out auto shot.

Does this mean anything for shot rotations/macros?

http://armory.mmo-champion.com.nyud....63815BffMm.png

 

Rannasha

No. There is a bug where auto shot sometimes would stop firing (and was very tricky to get going again) in certain circumstances. This changelog-line seems to indicate that it has been fixed. Which is very welcome news for hunters.

 

Glayde

Nope.

It just means the one bug where autoshot becomes disabled after using something right after a KC until you log is fixed. (You could also remove it by getting a special shot crit->kill command but pretty annoying)

 

Lithose

There is now a command to tab target through players only, for me this is a great change for BG's, hated having to manually click a nameplate because 12 snake traps are up.

 

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