I figured I would post them since they haven't been posted yet.


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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.0.9
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Druids
- Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.

Hunters
- Kindred Spirits (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet
damage at max rank.
- Serpent’s Swiftness (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet
attack speed at max rank.
- Pets
Lava Breath now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from
50%.
Poison Spit now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from
50%.

Mages
- Arcane Power now increases damage and mana cost by 10%, cooldown
reduced to 1 minute.
- Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown.
Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once
consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.
- Arcane Flows now reduces the cooldown of Presence of Mind, Arcane
Power and Invisibility by 15/30%.
- Presence of Mind: The cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes, (down
from 3.)
- Slow (Arcane): now increases cast time by 30%, down from 60%.

Paladins
- The duration on all Seals has been increased to 30 minutes and can
no longer be dispelled.
- Divine Plea: The amount healed by your spells is reduced by 50% (down
up from 20%), but the effect can no longer be dispelled.
- Sanctified Seals:This talent no longer affects dispel resistance,
but continues to affect crit chance.

Priests
- Inner Fire duration has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer
be dispelled.

Rogues
- Hunger for Blood (Assassination): Now increases damage 5% per stack,
(up from 3%.)
- Mind Numbing Poison now reduces cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
- Mutilate damage will now do 20% increased damage against poisoned
targets, down from 50%.
- Slice and Dice: This ability now increases melee attack speed by 40%,
up from 30%.

Warlocks
- Curse of Tongues: Now increases the casting time of all spells by 25%
(Rank 1) and 30% (Rank 2), down from 50% and 60%.

Dungeons and Raids
- The Obsidian Sanctum
Changed the color of the fissure in the Obsidian Sanctum to be more visually distinct.

User Interface
- The “GM wishes to speak with you” alert/button, at the top of the
screen, has been changed so that addons do not obscure it.
- A clickable chat message has been added that duplicates the GM
alert/button.
- When a GM wishes to speak with you the Help Request minibar button
will glow.
- For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI &
Macros Forum
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> UI & Macros Forum

Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where players using nVidia 3D glasses were unable to
see spell cooldowns.
- Fixed a software mouse cursor bug that was causing the mouse curser
to disappear from view when over certain UI elements.
- Fixed a player movement error in which other players were appearing
to move erratically when traveling beside them.

Oh good. I missed a ticket I had out for a week because I didn't see that the GM wanted to speak with me.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about this patch is not the actual changes, but the method in which it has been applied. No notice, some nice changes - yet most importantly - breaks away from the 'lets wait until a major patch like 3.1 to make any changes' mentality. More frequent, smaller patches between the Big 3.1/3.2 style product updates every 4-6 months is something many players will eagerly embrace.

I think it's pretty clearly a "let's fix Arenas" patch with the changes to cast speed debuffs and the reduction of mage burst potential.

The thing that surprised me the most was that it did not go to the PTR at all.

Also they seem to be willing to use hotfixes to correct balance problems, not just for bug fixes (Arcane Blast Glyph, Explosive Shot coefficient, Deep Wounds). I just wish they'd come up with a way to give us patch notes for hotfixes.

The very reason there was no PTR time is because it's primarily an Arena patch. I forget if it was Kalgan or GC, but one of the devs said that they get almost no player testing in Arenas every time they do a PTR.

Understandable, however anytime you are changing code you introduce the potential of unforseen issues. The point of a PTR is to test for things the devs never thought of.

I suspect we will have some new bugs creep up between now and 3.1.

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> 2009 WoW Arena Tournament Announced

is probably the reason for the patch & it's expedient treatment.

While that is certainly a potential reason for no PTR tests, it isn't like all of these talents/glyphs would be used only in arenas. Arena testing would only need to be done to test whether the changes fixed the balance issues (most of which can be solved through internal testing or simply theory). Regular PTR solo/group pve would solve some of the bug issues that crop up expectantly when they make these sort of changes. This could mark a potential change by Blizzard in the way they do class changes, although we will see if the trend continues.

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Let's try to not get another infraction, I meant:

"The thing that surprised me the most was the subtle way to nerf stuff around, without give users the time to complain about"

A nasty bug has been added. A guildie who did the mushroom boss in The Old Kingdom can't get rid of the mushroom debuff. This leaves him with -500 defense and -75% damage. On the plus side, he also remains tiny!

Are there any other undocumented changes recorded? Usually there's a separate thread, but I think this patch took us by surprise.

According to Worldofraids.com;

* Naxxramas
o Avoidance and similar effects for pets now work properly on Sapphiron's Frost Aura (Normal / Heroic).

Professions

* Alchemy
o [Mercurial Stone] is now a trinket.
* Jewelcrafting
o [Mercurial Stone] is no longer required in the creation of Mercurial Adamantite.

Mage

* Arcane Barrage - Coefficient has been reduced. (Source)
* Glyphs
o [Glyph of Arcane Blast] - Increases the damage from your Arcane Blast buff by 3%. (Was: 5%.)
o [Glyph of Arcane Missiles] - Increases the critical strike damage bonus of Arcane Missiles by 25%. (Was: Increases the range of Arcane Missiles by 5 yards.)
o [Glyph of Mana Gem] - Increases the mana recieved from using a mana gem by 40%. (Was: 30%.)

Paladin

* Glyphs
o [Glyph of Holy Light] - Your Holy Light grants 10% of its heal amount to up to 5 friendly targets within 8 yards of the initial target. (Was: 20 yards. This was just a tooltip fix, as it was already hotfixed shortly after 3.0.8 went live.)
o [Glyph of Seal of Righteousness] - Increases the damage done by Seal of Righteousness by 10%. (Was: Reduces the cost of your Judgement spells by 10% while Seal of Righteousness is active.)

Shaman

* Glyphs
o [Glyph of Windfury Weapon] - Increases the chance per swing for Windfury Weapon to trigger by 2%. (Was: 5%.)

EDIT; Added: Sapphiron is now immune to taunt.

I'm fairly sure that Sapphiron has always been immune to taunt (along with Patchwerk, if memory serves me correctly)

As far as I'm aware, Naxx 10 Sapphiron has always been immune to taunt -- at least, it has been since Naxxramas was updated for Wrath. My guild learned this the hard way when our resident tankadin (In his DPS gear for the encounter) forgot to disable Righteous Fury before I aggroed the boss...

As for Patchwerk, I have no idea.

A more likely explanation is that the OT was 2nd on the threat list. Do you happen to remember if he was?

Since there is so much misinformation floating around: Saph and Patchkwerk are definitely not tauntable. Our Ret Paladins even use Hand of Reckoning macroed into their Judgements there to get a little bit of extra DPS.

It was back in early december, so no. But most likely OT was just 2nd on the threat list, indeed.

Obviously not mentioned in the patch notes, and alluded to only briefly (in German) on the Euro WoW boards - does anyone know anything about the supposed change to allow any class to carry Thunderfury? There's an Armory profile floating around of a Warlock carrying it.

Death Knight gets Thunderfury - WoW Insider

I don't know about the whole sword, but as early as patch 2.3 or so my Druid was able to loot a Thunderfury binding and begin the quest (he now has the Essence of the Firelord), and I don't see why the rest of the quest wouldn't be finishable - and the sword itself doesn't have any class requirement. Honestly, I'm not sure there ever was a class limitation, and rather guilds just never gave a binding to someone who wasn't the listed class.