*Pets: All pets now receive 40% of their master's resilience and 100% of their master's spell penetration. In addition, if a player is at their appropriate spell hit chance or hit chance maximum, their pet will be at the maximum for spell hit chance, hit chance, and expertise. If they are below the maximum, their pet will be proportionately below those maximums.

* Banish: Effect will now be canceled if Banish is recast on a banished target.
* Dreadsteed: Can now be learned at level 40.
* Felsteed: Can now be learned at level 20.
* Soulshatter cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes
* Talents

• Affliction
• • Pandemic: Now also increases the critical damage bonus of Haunt by 100%.
• Demonology
• • Fel Domination cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 15 minutes.
• Destruction
• • Empowered Imp: The warlock's critical hit chance is increased to 100%, up from 20% for the next spell cast after the Imp critically hits a target.
  • Fire and Brimstone: Reduced to 2/4/6/8/10% increased damage from Incinerate and Chaos Bolt on targets afflicted with Immolate, down from 3/6/9/12/15%.

* Items

• Glyphs:
  • Glyph of Lifetap: Duration of the buff from this glyph increased to 40 seconds.

Souce: WoW -> Test Realm Patch Notes

Also worth noting are extras to pets:

With the resilience, perhaps a VW tanking Sarth is viable again? Even if it isn't, the SPen and hit chance certainly helps out pets.

Reads like having 100% uptime on the buff now. Together with Destro nerf affliction will most likely be the new TopDps build, since it does scale slightly better with gear improvements then the hybrid specs. I do not think, that the improved Empowered Imp does make up for a loss of about 3,5% dps.

They straight up buffed Affliction even if it's just a minor one, but it's hard to tell if the Destro changes are a nerf or a buff. One thing is for sure though... they made crit more valuable for both specs.

The new changes to destro are going to be a small dps increase not decrease, they have done this because of pvp reasons, "we are two strong"

depands if the fight is pet friendly or not.
did pplz considered you may have to renew immolation while having the crit buff form the imp?
does it worth to screw ur rotation for an extra incinirate/chaos bolt wihtout the immolation just for the 100% crit?
u cant be sure when its gonna proc, if it proc just when you have to conflag, its a dps loss since u have shitload of crit chanse on conflag already, if it procs on immolation yet again its a dps lost since its doesnt crit for much.

if u get it proced while conflag is ready, do you deside to pop another incinirate in that gcd rather then conflag and get the haste buff?
if you need to renew immolation while the buff proced, do you choose cast incin or chaos bolt rather then renewing it?

what if it procs mid cast time? that you cast somethink that aint worth it with this buff...

there`s way to much rng here. so i dought its a dps increase.

How does that change at all from the way it was before? Only difference now is you have a 100% chance to crit instead of 20%. It doesn't change the damage, but it does increase the amount of damage you do in the long run. If you're smart and you run into one of the situations you said above, using immolate would be the least priority. Correct me if i'm wrong but the priority would be CB would be your highest priority because it's your highest hitter with incinerate being the next best option if it's on cooldown. There are plenty of addons out that they make buffs more noticeable so u can adjust on the fly for this kind of situation.

As for pet survivability, the imp does very well and in some cases where he can die it can be easily avoided. Not to mention Fel domination is now on a 3min cooldown and it wouldn't be so hard to spec into. you would probably take 1 point out of improve soul leech.

In a real dps situation the fire and brimstone changes looks like it is going to be a direct nerf, i cant see the imp buff being consistant dps increase like the 5% extra damage.

I'm really excited to learn what you guys think of the lifetap glyph change. I have around 690 spirit, and when I lifetap I gain about 140 sp. That doesn't seem huge, but I'm really curious to know if that will somehow push 3/13/55 beyond 0/13/58.

If anything I think if would do the opposite. The purpose for using that glyph for 3/13/55 in the first place was because u would be life tapping often anyway, so it was like a passive buff at all times without sacrificing your rotation which isn't any different with the changes so it's pretty much no DPS increase for that build. But with 0/13/58 you're not life tapping near as much so you see more of a dps gain. Before it wasn't worth using that glyph with 0/13/58 because u wouldn't be be needing to life tap nowhere near as often and life tapping just for the sole purpose of getting the buff was actually a DPS loss, but since the duration is increased it may now actually be a buff to 0/13/58 and wouldn't change anything for 3/13/55.

Well, it's about time they lowered the Fel Domination cooldown. 5% hopefully won't break destro as the top damage spec, I have really been enjoying it.

How do you arrive at 52?
Wouldn't that asume that any spell cast after empowered Imp procced that crits do so only because of empowered imp?
From that calculation of 52 bonus crits wouldn't you have to subtract those spells that would have critted anyway? Say some 30% atleast.

From your wording I don't get the impression you went thru the combat log and found every empowered imp proc that didn't result in next spell cast critting. (if you did I apologize)

For the changes to resilience itself, the wording in the patch notes seems to indicate the new damage reduction is versus damage done by players only now. I guess you could still get your pet uncrittable, at least, but that's as far as it probably goes. Of course, your Voidwalker's health pool is still poor.

You should also subtract 99% of the conflag crits from the "caused by empowered imp" category, as the imp's firebolt crit would have to land in the millisecond between an incin, chaos bolt, or immolate cast, but before a conflag cast.

You'd also want to factor in that since incin has the highest cast time, it is more than proportionally likely that incin will be the recipient of an empowered imp crit.

If I infract another post in this thread, I'm canning the entire thing. Stop being stupid. There's no PTR up, and unwarranted supposition is completely useless.

You know... Blizzard has released the notes for the "upcoming" ptr.