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PTR Patch 4.1 Notes Updated (4/12)
The PTR Patch 4.1 notes were updated this evening to reflect the spell changes seen earlier today.
Notable changes include:
All guild achievements had their requirements significantly reduced.
's damage has been doubled.
Several changes for
Shaman
.
Selfless Healer
received a buff last PTR patch and that's now been reverted.
Classes
Druid
's damage has been doubled.
Talent Specializations
Feral
Berserk
is no longer on the global cooldown.
Death Knight
Talent Specializations
Unholy
again applies 15/30/45% additional damage to Plague, Scourge, and Festering Strike, up from 12/24/36%.
Paladin
Talent Specialization
Retribution
Selfless Healer
: The damage bonus from this talent now has a 30-second duration, up from 10.
Shaman
[spell=81
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13860 - Spell Changes
Another day, another patch on the PTR. These ones are a short list and there are no new items; this is likely because it's getting close for the patch to hit live and we're getting down to the final stages of minor changes before it can ship.
Paladin
s had their previous PTR buff of
reverted to from 30 seconds to 10
Shaman
received three changes; a slightly longer cooldown on
(up from 15 sec to 25) and changes to their
Earth Shield
that made it less effective with simultaneous buffs to
(up from 15% to 18%)
Death Knight
s had
changed from 36% to 48%
had its cooldown changed from 4 hours to 1, meaning levelers may actually use it!
Guild achievements have had their requirements significantly reduced and will be easier to obtain
Hit the jump to read these in full.
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Patch 4.1 Dungeon Finder Call to Arms - Blizzard Clarification
Blizzard just posted some clarification regarding the recently announced
Dungeon Finder Call to Arms feature
. With this upcoming change, highly demanded roles such as tanks and healers would receive special rewards after completing a dungeon through the system. Apparently Blizzard has listened to player feedback and plans to make the reward--
Satchel of Exotic Mysteries
--be BoA, allowing players to send such bags to their mains from their alts and vice versa.
We’ve been following discussions and reading feedback on the Dungeon Finder Call to Arms feature, and appreciate everyone’s opinions on the topic. We wanted to share a few items though that supplement the recent announcement:
The additional reward for completing the Dungeon Finder Call to Arms (called the Satchel of Exotic Mysteries) will be Bind on Account; able to be freely sent to other characters on your account once you receive it.
An error existed in the announcement regarding flasks and potions being picked based on your spec. This is not the case. If someone earns a Satche
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PTR Patch 4.1 Notes Updated (4/7)
The PTR Patch 4.1 Notes have just been updated!
Notable changes include:
Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.
Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.
Druid
-
no longer increases physical damage taken.
Warlock
-
: The friendly target of this ability now receives 1% (stacking 3 times to 3%) periodic spell damage and healing bonus instead of 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%). The casting Warlock still receives 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%).
This latest update also included the information about the upcoming
Dungeon Finder Call to Arms
system!
General
Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Hon
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Patch 4.1: Map Animation, Vanity Pet Changes, and a Resort Town Preview
Fresh from a foray onto the PTR, Wowhead volunteers Neutronimity and Perculia have brought some exciting news about some notable additions to Azeroth. While they're not a new raid nor a new legendary, they're still important in their own way. After all, it's the little things that make World of Warcraft so memorable!
The first discovery was that there's a new map animation. When users open their maps, they will now
see
it. This was first brought to our attention a week ago by Wowhead user Satelitko. They even went as far as to make
a video of the animation
.
The second discovery, this time by Neutronimity, was that companion pets now stay with their owner through thick and thin. Did you hearth away? Zone? Or even log off? Don't worry, they'll stay summoned. A small change to be sure, but a very practical one; summoning your vanity pet every time you left an area was easy to forget.
Of course, we've saved the best for last. The third discovery is pretty big. It's also a little weird. Perculia discovered a brand new resort off in the mountains of the border between Feralas and Silithus while flying around on the PTR this morning. The amount of detail put into t
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PTR Patch 4.1 Notes Updated (3/30)
HUGE
update the the PTR 4.1 Patch Notes today, including some moderate class changes (including some revisions to previous Arcane
Mage
ability changes), some Cataclysm dungeon changes and tons of other interesting things!
Notable changes include:
The guild achievements for earning exalted reputation with factions (
Ambassadors
,
Diplomacy
, and
) have been fixed to now correctly count cumulative guild members with exalted factions. Previously, these achievements would only count exalted factions on one guild member.
Druid
:
has been redesigned slightly. Instead of a single charge absorption, it now places an absorption effect on the druid absorbing up to 35% of the druid's attack power (modified by mastery, if applicable) in damage and lasting 10 seconds. There are no longer any charges on the effect.
Druid
:
now also increases the healing done by the affected nature spell by 50%.
Priest
:
healing done has been increased by 35%. In addition, it has a new spell effect.
Flask of Steelskin
now grants 450 Stamina, up from 300. The Mixology bonus for alchemists remains at 120 stamina.
This l
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13812 - New Items
There are a lot of new items we've pulled up from this patch. This time it's mostly about epics from the new 5-mans and new BoAs for leveling as a tank!
See the full list of latest additions by clicking here!
Notable finds include:
There are a whole bunch of new BoAs for leveling as a tank, including heirloom legs:
Burnished Legplates of Might
Finally a FoS for those of us who worked hard to impress the Shen'dralar before the faction got removed:
Agent of the Shen'dralar
Several new epics from the new incarnations of ZG and ZA (
see them here
)
More signs that the Children's Week holiday is getting a rehaul:
Orphan's Alliance Balloon
New BoA Items
Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver
Burnished Helm of Might
Burnished Legplates of Might
Burnished Breastplate of Might
Burnished Pauldrons of Might
Burnished Dark Iron Ring
Ripped Sandstorm Cloak
New Epics
Amani Scepter of Rites
Collar of Bones
And [url=
http://ptr.wowhead.com/sea
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Guild Challenges Implemented on Patch 4.1 PTR
The
previously mentioned
guild challenges
have just started showing up on the PTR! You can rest assured that we'll have them added to our
PTR website
but for now you can take a look at the updated interface and get an idea of what kind of "challenges" we'll be facing! These challenges will be an awesome way to earn tons of guild experience and appear to have weekly caps -- For example, the Heroic dungeon challenge can be completed 7 times, most likely in a row with the changes to the
Daily Heroic system
! Sounds awesome to me!
[img src=
http://static.wowhead
.
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PTR Patch 4.1 Notes Updated (3/22)
The PTR Patch 4.1 notes have just been updated!
Notable changes include:
All trade goods available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors have had their prices reduced by 50%.
Maelstrom Crystal
s are now available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from the associated commodities vendors.
Players will now gain proper guild experience rewards for PVP objectives!
Many previously "locked" old-world dungeon objects no longer require keys.
Be sure to check out the full list of major class changes after the break!
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PTR Shows New Daily Dungeon System + New Wowhead Feature: Event Calendar
There are a lot of in-game events nowadays. There are Call to Arms for battlegrounds some of us still haven't set foot in, the Darkmoon Faire is always coming and going, and then there are things like actual holidays and fishing tournaments. Keeping track of them can be confusing--or at least it
was
confusing. That all changes today as we've now added
an event calendar
to Wowhead that will show you what's going on in Azeroth right from the comfort of your own browser.
http://www.wowhead.com/events#calendar
Since it was an otherwise slow day, we also hopped on the PTR to confirm whether or not the daily dungeon had been changed--and it has! Players will now be able to do seven dungeons a week instead of one dungeon per day. Cue sighs of relief from everyone, I'm sure. I'd personally rather do seven dungeons in a row with a group of guildmates over the weekend than squeeze one in every day.
There were some new graphic setting
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13750 - 3D Models (Lions and Ice Cream and Bears, Oh My!)
That's right -
ice cream
. There weren't very many new models this patch but the ones that were included definitely stand out. In addition, we've (also) decided to post the winged lion model that you may have already seen floating around other sites. This model was actually added a few builds ago but looks rather unfinished at this time. We will, of course, post an updated version as soon as its available. So... what do you think it is?
In addition to the lion, we've also got a new Amani Bear model which is simply a recoloring of the old
Amani War Bear
. No word yet on whether or not this is the finished version of the upcoming
Amani Battle Bear
, or simply a dungeon NPC or otherwise, but judging by the fact that the Zul'Gurub raptor looks to have gotten a recolor as well, this may be the case. Laaaaaaaaaaame. Oh, well!
Also, ICE CREAMS. OM NOM NOM.
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13750 - Karazhan Maps Finally Here
When we were hit with
a lot of new maps last week
unexpectedly, everyone kept asking where Karazhan was. The answer was apparently in this build.
There are
a lot
more maps after the break--you didn't forget how big Karazhan is, did you?
Also, it looks like the new boss in
Baradin Hold
that was added in last weeks set of maps is now removed which means this patch is definitely on track to be released before the new arena season starts.
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13750 - New Icons, Items, and Spell Changes
A new PTR patch has just been released. There have been the usual things you've come to expect--tooltip fixes, minor spell tweaks, and so on--mostly in response to last night's
PTR Patch Note update
. However, in this build there are also new items datamined, new icons, and some new maps which we'll cover in another post.
Notable changes include:
New items like
Haunted War Drum
,
Vrykul Drinking Horn
, and
Ancient Amber
have been added--these look like archaeology finds to me! Perhaps Blizzard is making good on their word to add new things for us to dig up
A new glyph for the
Mage
class:
Charred Glyph
Some more evidence that a redone Silithus coming very soon, with a new quest item (
Hive'Ashi Secretion Gland
) and some new quests like
Befoulers of the Wind
Midsummer Fire Festival
got its items buffed up to respectable ilevel of 353 as well:
Cloak of the Frigid Winds
,
Frostscythe of Lord Ahune
,
Shroud of Winter's Chill
,
Icebound Cloak
,
The Frost Lord's Battle Shroud
, and
The Frost Lord's War Cloak
Scourer of the Eternal Sands
was added to make the rare drop,
Reins of the Grey Riding Camel
, give a FoS and a
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PTR Patch 4.1 Notes Updated (3/15)
The PTR Patch 4.1 notes have just been updated with some interesting class and raid encounter changes!
Mage
's
now reduces Arcane Explosion's mana cost by 25/50%.
Warrior
's
now ignores 50% armor in PvP but still 100% in PvE.
Arathi Basin
can be done as a 10v10 Rated Battleground.
Be sure to check out the full list of major class changes after the break!
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Patch 4.1 - Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub Items on PTR
As I'm sure many of you have noticed, the upcoming patch 4.1 marks the return of the classic
Zul'Aman
and
Zul'Gurub
raids as 5-player Heroic dungeons, featuring item level 353 epic quality loot! These items have just shown up in the latest PTR data and we've got 'em! Unfortunately, the items are not yet implemented as drops and do not yet feature unique models, so we do not yet have specific boss drop data or pretty 3D models - yet! However, as soon as the information is available, we'll definitely update - so stay tuned!
As always, you can check out our PTR site's Latest Additions right here:
4.1 PTR Latest Additions (3/11)
Check out all of the new Heroics' loot (in fancy tables) added in the latest PTR patch after the break!
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PTR Patch 4.1 Notes Updated (3/9)
The PTR Patch 4.1 notes have just been updated with some pretty major class changes!
Notable changes include:
Druid
- Druids now innately have 100% pushback protection from damage while channeling
Tranquility
.
Hunter
- Pet Happiness system has been removed, and all skills which previously provided it to pets will no longer do so.
Mage
- Many Arcane spells have had their damage increased.
Priest
- Priests now innately have 100% pushback protection from damage while channeling
Divine Hymn
and
Symbol of Hope
Priest
-
now lasts until canceled, up from 1 minute.
The Dungeon Finder now attempts to avoid putting damage-dealing classes with the same armor type in a group.
Be sure to check out the full list of major class changes after the break!
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13726 - Latest Additions
Of course, what PTR update would be complete without some snazzy new items and such to show off! Unfortunately, there's not a ton of additions this time, but there are still a few interesting ones, such as the new Zul'Aman bear mount and a strange new companion!
You can check out the latest additions
here
and
here
, because Koper lives in the
future
!
Also, lolwut:
Crafty's Pole
Achievements
Ohganot So Fast!
Mounts
Amani Battle Bear
(
Amani Battle Bear
)
Companions
Legs
(
Legs
)
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13726 - TONS of New Dungeon & Raid Maps!
A new patch has hit the 4.1 Public Test Realm! This latest patch included maps for all Burning Crusade dungeons and raids that did not previously feature one! The patch also included new maps for the upcoming
Zul'Gurub
and
Zul'Aman
5-player dungeons!
Zul'Gurub
Zul'Aman
Burning Crusade zones which now feature a brand spankin' new map include: Auchenai Crypts, Baradin Hold, Coilfang Reservoir, Caverns of Time: Old Hillsbrad, Caverns of Time: The Black Morass, Gruul's Lair, Hellfire Ramparts, Hyjal Summit, Magister's Terrace, Magtheridon's Lair, Mana Tombs, Sethekk Halls, Shadow Labyrinth, Sunwell Plateau, Tempest Keep, The Arcatraz, The Blood Furnace, The Botanica, The Mechanar, The Shattered Halls, The Slave Pens, The Steamvault, and The Underbog!
Also,
Baradin Hold
's map has been updated with a new wing and boss skul
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Patch 4.1 - PTR Build 13726 - Spell Changes
A new PTR patch has just been released, and with it came a few minor class changes and (mostly) a bunch of tooltip and typo fixes. Many of these class changes were previously announced with last week's
PTR patch notes update
.
The only particularly notable change in this latest set of spell diffs:
Hunter
-
Multi-Shot
and
Distracting Shot
now have a 40 yard range, up from 35 yards.
Priest
- If the tooltip change is to be believed, it appears that the
buff duration has been removed. This means that
states will no longer expire after 1 minute and instead last indefinitely until cancelled or changed.
Be sure to check out this latest batch of PTR patch 4.1 spell changes after the break!
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Patch 4.1 - 3D Models - Huge Assortment of Firelands Raid + PVP Weapons
Wow! We've found a
ton
of new weapon models for you guys to check out, featuring loot from the upcoming (well, patch 4.2)
Firelands Raid
as well as new PVP weapons! Each item features tons of recolors, so it's uncertain as to which ones will be used when they are assigned to live items. In the meantime, you should definitely check them all out!
Of course, remember that even though these items were found in the 4.1 PTR files, we will most likely not see the items that they are attached to until 4.2 hits the PTRs (unless they start showing us Firelands raid goodies sooner, like those
trinkets
)!
It's been a while since we've had such a huge assortment of new weapon models to show off and we're really excited to find more as new PTR patches come out, so keep checking the blog! Simply click on any model preview to open a lightbox where you can view the model in Java or Flash. If you need any help using our 3D Model Viewer be sure to check out its
help page
!
Check out the massive assortment of snazzy new models after t
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