Hunters
* "Silencing Shot" now does only 50% of weapon damage instead of 75%.
* The base damage for "Arcane Shot" has been reduced by about 9% and the bonus damage from ranged attack power reduced from 20% to 15%.
* The bonus damage for "Barrage" is now 4/8/12% for ranks 1/2/3.
* The bonus damage for "Improved Barrage" is now 4/8/12% for ranks 1/2/3.

Mages
* Each rank of "Improved Fireball" now reduces your spell damage coefficient by 2%.
* Each rank of "Improved Frostbolt" now reduces your spell damage coefficient by 2%.
* "Counterspell" no longer triggers the global cooldown.
* "Mana Shield" now absorbs magical damage as well as physical damage.

Priests

* The bonus coefficient for "Shadow Word: Pain" has been reduced by about 9%. This should result in about 5% less damage done by "Shadow Word: Pain" for the typical priest.

Bug Fixes

* The "Frozen Shadoweave Boots" will now properly increase shadow damage.
* Players will no longer lose control of their character if they tryto talk to an NPC while mobs are aggro on them.
* The /equip command will now work on pieces of gear that are not in your primary bag.
* Fixed an issue that was causing some players to disconnect in Hellfire Citadel:Blood Furnace.
* The "Corruptor" 4 piece set bonus will now be properly applied.
* The Legion Fel Cannons at Forge Camp Anger in Blades Edge will now properly spawn above ground.
* The Arena queue tooltip will now show the arena that the player is queued for.
* Fixed an error that was causing players to disconnect if they tried to socket a gem that had been gift wrapped.
* Fixed an error that was causing players to disconnect forming a party with other members in the same area.
* Pet icons will now properly update in the Stables window.Improved the robustness of the pet action bar display. It is now less likely to be accidentally blocked by addons.
* Players will no longer hear the gong sound repeated after initially joining a queue for the battlegrounds.
* Having a group invite declined while queued via "Looking for More" will no longer remove you from the queue.
* Nethershards will no longer cost honor to purchase but will cost gold instead.
* Players will no longer be given access to both quest lines followingthe Declaration of Allegiance to the Scryers or Aldor in Shattrath City.

I think it's about time they add SD coefficients to the tooltips. This is getting so confusing.

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This is good news indeed

That is a very substantial hit for hunters god damn. I have never seen that multitude of nerfs included in 1 patch for 1 class in particular. I mean im not a hunter and i know some where saying they were a tad overpowered but wow.

Also mages get CS back off the GCD, wtb pummel off the global cooldown please.


Also looks like they are giving priests the lock treatment for SW:P. I dont think that was really neccessary not because of shadow priests but think of those poor holy priests that try and solo.


And no warrior/rogue buff :( sad panda

Hunters have been overpowered for a while. While I'm not sure I agree with all of those changes- the barrage/imp barrage ones in particular - it was clear something was going to happen.

The Improved X talents are the ones that reduce your casting time. Wtf?

Arcane shot is grossly overpowered so the change was justified at least.

If I'm reading that correctly CS is still on the GCD, it just doesn't trigger an additional GCD. The old counterspell completely ignored the GCD mechanic, you could fireblast and hit CS and it went off instantly and then you had a 1.5 second delay before casting again. The new one worked more like you cast fire blast, you wait 1.5 seconds and can cast CS and then wait another 1.5 seconds to cast another spell. I'm guessing now what happens is you cast fireblast, wait 1.5 seconds and cast CS and can instantly cast another spell without that second GCD.

I hope we are using the word 'reduces' in a strange and counter-intuitive way.

Yeah, I don't get the damage coefficient changes

What the hell are they reducing the coefficients on improved fire/frostbolts for?

I know shamans that hit with lightning bolts for more than my frostbolts, what on earth?

im guessing because its a faster cast. I dont know for sure if it was recieving full benefit from +damage.


If i were to guess why they are lowering the damage it is to retroactively buff melee damage dealers because mages are imba when it comes to pve dps right now

So the net effect of this change is that you do the same amount of damage with Frostbolt prior to the mage patch plus 5% crit if you spend 40 points in the Frost tree... otherwise, you take a hit in frostbolt damage if you pursue the frost tree to any depth. Ditto for Fireball. Is it just me or does something seem wrong here? The intended effect seems to be to nerf deep arcane/x specs that rely on Fireball/Frostbolt for high damage hits, but at the same time, it drastically weakens deep Frost specs (I can't speak for deep Fire, but I can't imagine they're going to be happy about this either).

I'm not overpowered in PvP and was certainly not dominating damage meters in raids nor do I come near the dps warlocks of any spec in 5-mans unless I get reckless with Cold Snap/Water Elemental. I suggest that the Empowered Fireball/Frostbolt coefficients need to be looked at again to compensate for this change.

Hrm.
Afraid 40/x/3 just became the clear cut top dps spec o_O

Those hunter changes are slightly non-sensical.. Improved barrage increased crit change, not bonus damage. Just a typo, perhaps?

Because of a slight reduction in the effectiveness of two talents? Multishot isn't even shaping up to be a major contributor to single target raid DPS, as far as I can tell.

I was really high when I got arcane blast, because it was a 1.5 sec cast that hit for 1200 damage, so I announced my joy in guildchat. A shaman challenged me with that his 1.5 sec cast (2.5 sec base) lightning bolt hit for more, cost less mana and has a higher range.

Be that as it may, this change just blows my mind completely. First they give us +10% and 15% increase to coefficient talents, then they reduce the spells' coefficients by 10%? If I used the same talent build now as pre-2.0 I would be doing less damage! How does this make any sense at all? Why even introduce that talent?

The change to spell coefficients seems like a huge and unwarranted nurf. I wonder why it's applying only to mages though.

I was surprised that the Counterspell "nerf" ever went through in the first place - to me it really showed a poor understanding of PVP as a mage. That second change is going to change my life - no more dying to DoTs while waiting to get OOC while a lock lies dead on the ground. It might even have me spec Arcane to get the Improved talent too :) :)

Nah, because the nerf is pretty much deep marks related.
Since all of the top RAP increasing talents are there, BM, which already was excellent dps before TBC came out, is largely unaffected.
The sad thing is that it is indeed mainly a pve nerf =/

Eh? Silencing Shot, Arcane Shot, and Multishot are the hunter PVP staples right now. My Arcane Shots are currently critting for well over 2k (on plate since it ignores armor) and Multishot for 2500+. I can crit silencing for something like 1600. This is all PVP related.

I'm not understanding why mages are the only ones hit with this type of nerf. Where is the same change for, at the very least, warlocks who STILL have Shadow and Flame at 20% and do absolutely incredible damage with a 0/21/40 fire build. Just seems silly to me.

Wonder if they'll buff our two empowered talents to compensate for this nerf in some way.

The other changes are excellent. Still have the problem of mana with mana shield though. I have no experience in 70 BGs, but I was running out of mana in 2v2s at 60. It can only get worse with HP inflation.

Agreed that it's a very odd, kind of side-handed way to nerf Mage damage. I guess they thought Imp. Frostbolt/Fireball gave way to much marginal benefit for T1 talents. Which they did, but most Mages thought of them different--an investment required into each line to strongly differentiate the abilities of Fire and Frost Mages.

What irks me is the thought that this decision could have been made by some random class designer who recognized that those two talents might have been to strong, and decided to correct them without really weighing the overall effect on DPS.


EDIT: How do I make one of those cast-sequence macros to cast Ice Barrier and then cast Mana Shield when IB is on cooldown. Is it:

/castsequence [reset=24] Ice Barrier, Mana Shield ?

Is there any way to set up a macro that won't waste the effect of Cold Snap on my Ice Barrier?