Test Realm Patch Notes - Patch 2.3.2

[Maticus]

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.3.2

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html


The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General

/timetest is a command that can be run to provide information on game performance. /timetest 0 turns the command off. When the command is issued, the next time a player uses a flight master to travel, certain statistics will be measured and displayed at the end of that flight. All weather effects and spawns are shutdown during the test.
Quest givers with blue question marks no longer show up on the minimap.
NPC's who you have completed a quest for will display a question mark on mouseover rather than an exclamation point.
The bank controls for the guildmaster level of a guild is now grayed out. A guildmaster always has full access to a guild bank and this cannot be changed.
A "Withdraw-Repair Only" button has been added to the guild bank controls. If this is set for a guild rank, then that rank cannot actually withdraw funds from the guild bank, but they can still use that daily amount of money for repairs.
You will now automatically stand up when attacked, even if the attack doesn’t land.

Hunters

Arcane Shot: Ranks 1-5 will once again deal bonus damage based on attack power.
Aspect of the Viper effect increased.
Freezing Trap is no longer limited to one target at a time.
Pet leveling speed has been increased.

Mages

Cold Snap (Frost) cooldown reduced. It is now in the Ice Block position in the talent tree. This ability will no longer reset the cooldown on Fire Ward.
Conjure Mana Gem (Rank 6 - Emerald) now restores 1800 to 3000 mana and has three charges.
Ice Block (Frost) is now available on the trainer to all mages at level 30.
Icy Veins (NEW Frost Talent) decreases casting time of all spells by 20% and increases the chance your chilling effects will freeze the target by 25%. Lasts 20 sec. 3 min cooldown. It is now in the Cold Snap position in the talent tree.

Paladins

Crusader Strike (Retribution) now causes 110% of weapon damage and no longer gains any bonus from spell damage.
Righteous Fury: This spell will no longer cost twice the listed mana to cast.
Sanctified Judgements (Retribution) now returns 80% of the Seal's mana cost, increased from 50%.

Rogues

Cheat Death: When multiple attacks land simultaenously, all those resolved after the attack which triggered Cheat Death will now have their damage reduced by 90% as intended. However, the combat log will still report them doing full damage.
Hemorrhage: Rank 4 of this ability no longer has its charges consumed by non-physical attacks and spells.

Shaman

Earth Shield (Restoration) mana cost reduced.
Lightning Shield mana cost reduced.
Water Shield now restores mana periodically regardless of how many charges remain. Duration increased to 10 minutes.

Warlock

The health cost taken from the Warlock after using Health Funnel will now remain consistent between uses.

Warrior

Defiance (Protection) weapon expertise will now work in all stances. This was a bug that has been fixed.
Warriors no longer lose rage when using a macro to enter a stance they’re already in.

Professions

Cooking

Goldthorn Tea was erroneously unlearned by most players who had learned the recipe. The recipe has been re-enabled and can be learned again from Henry Stern in Razorfen Downs at no cost.

Enchanting:

Enchant Shield - Resilience now requires a Runed Fel Iron Rod instead of a Runed Adamantite Rod.

Leatherworking:

Increased the range of leatherworking drums to 40 yards. Drums of Panic remains unchanged at 8 yards.
Items

Amani Charm of the Witch Doctor: Tooltip typo corrected.
Hearthstone: The cast time on this item is no longer affected by spell haste.
Icy Chill Enchant: The triggered effect from this enchantment will now cause a melee slow and movement snare as intended.
Idol of the Unseen Moon: This item now has a 30 second cooldown on being triggered.
Idol of Terror: The triggered agility buff from this item no longer overwrites other agility buffs.
The Netherscale Ammo Pouch is no longer a Unique item.
The Knothide Quiver is no longer unique.

Dungeons and Raids

Heroic Coilfang Resevoir- Steamvaults
Mekgineer Steamrigger's Main Chambers Access Panel is no longer interactable until Mekgineer Steamrigger has been killed.
Tempest Keep- The Eye
The number of Blood Elves guarding Prince Kael'Thas' room has been reduced.

Zul'Aman

The Amani'shi Warrior's Charge ability now has a minimum range.
The melee haste provided by Halazzi's Frenzy has been reduced to 100%.
Dragonhawks in Zul'Aman can now be skinned. This doesn't include dragonhawks that do not have loot.

Quests

Blade's Edge Mountains: Players accepting the bombing run quests in Blade's Edge Plateaus will no longer cause other players in the region to stand up.
User Interface

There is now an option to turn off the screen edge damage flash when you have a fullscreen UI up.
You can sell stacks by dropping them on the merchant window again.
Ready check (/readycheck) will now display a visual display of each party/raid member's status next to their name. This will display in the Party UI, the Raid UI and the Raid pullout UI. A player will get a check mark if they are ready, a question mark if they have not replied and a red X if they are not ready or are afk.
You can now see raid members on the minimap as dark blue dots in addition to party members which still display as light blue dots.
You can now shift click names while the petition window is open to paste them into the petition.
Fixed various problems with /castsequence getting stuck.
/cast will toggle spells again unless the name is prefixed with an exclamation mark, e.g. /castsequence Steady Shot, !Auto Shot

Bug Fixes

Fixed “Spell/Ability is not ready yet” message when clicking quickly at the beginning of a cast.
Fixed a server disconnect when moving the mouse over recipes in the guild bank.
Gnomish Universal Remote will now work properly with the Fel Cannon.
Disconnecting a USB HeadSet will no longer cause problems with the Voice Chat dropdown menus.
Clockwork Rocket Bots will no longer attack each other in Shattrath City.
Channel changes will now appear properly in the chat log after zoning in or out of instances.
Unplugging headphones/speakers then plugging them back in while in WoW no longer disables all sound in WoW
If the original owner of a custom channel gives leadership away their options menu will no longer show that they have moderation privileges.
The first custom created guild ranking will now properly show up in the Guild Control pane drop down menu.
Control-clicking on inventory items that teach recipes will now properly display you wearing the item made by the recipe in the dressing room UI.
Fixed an issue that was not allowing all charges of a Field Repair Bot to be used.

[xDarkDrifterx]

Blade's Edge Mountains: Players accepting the bombing run quests in Blade's Edge Plateaus will no longer cause other players in the region to stand up.


LOL

That's why that happens . . . I was wondering . . .

[Khab]

Arcane Shot: Ranks 1-5 will once again deal bonus damage based on attack power.
Aspect of the Viper effect increased.
Freezing Trap is no longer limited to one target at a time.
Pet leveling speed has been increased.


Nice!

One other thing I would love to see changed is a reduction in the hearthstone cooldown to 1/2 hour and/or multiple hearthstones (2).

[rgirty]

You wont' see a hearthstone cooldown. Thats the advantage of the mage class.

I woudl like to have a loading screen option for flights, just like you get on boats.

[kall]

A loading screen that stayed up the amount of time that it would take to fly there?

Otherwise, your own argument comes up: Thats the advantage of the mage class.

[rgirty]

A loading screen that stayed up the amount of time that it would take to fly there?

Otherwise, your own argument comes up:

You still have to GET to the flightmaster.

Ever fly from the scryer FP in shadowmoon to area 52?

Tailors have to do this all the time because you must use the alter in smv for shadowcloth and be in netherstorm to do spellcloth.

The flight is so long that your char will auto-afk. That is just way too long.

[Grizzly UK]

You wont' see a hearthstone cooldown. Thats the advantage of the mage class.

I woudl like to have a loading screen option for flights, just like you get on boats.
The main reason you get loading screens for boats is due to changing world servers (each continent has it's own server) but flights don't require changing world server!

Yes, there are a few very long flights that would benefit from being shortened in some way, but generally, whenever I take a long flight I just go do something! :wink: There's also a number of flight paths that, for some weird "design" reason, go in a very strange route that needlessly increases the flight time!

[Maticus]

From http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=1829143171&postId=18288086696&sid=1#0

General

* /timetest is a command that can be run to provide information on game performance. /timetest 0 turns the command off. When the command is issued, the next time a player uses a flight master to travel, certain statistics will be measured and displayed at the end of that flight. All weather effects and spawns are shutdown during the test.
* Effects triggered from being critically hit: Many abilities and talents were changed in 2.3.0 to allow them to trigger from critical strikes that occurred while the player benefitting from them was sitting.
* Quest givers with blue question marks no longer show up on the minimap.
* NPC's who you have completed a quest for will display a question mark on mouseover rather than an exclamation point.
* The bank controls for the guildmaster level of a guild is now grayed out. A guildmaster always has full access to a guild bank and this cannot be changed.
* A "Withdraw-Repair Only" button has been added to the guild bank controls. If this is set for a guild rank, then that rank cannot actually withdraw funds from the guild bank, but they can still use that daily amount of money for repairs.
* You will now automatically stand up when attacked, even if the attack doesn’t land.




Druids

* Lifebloom: When this ability is refreshed it will take on the strength of the incoming Lifebloom effect, rather than maintain the existing strength.



Hunters

* Arcane Shot: Ranks 1-5 will once again deal bonus damage based on attack power.
* Aspect of the Viper effect increased.
* Freezing Trap is no longer limited to one target at a time.
* Pet leveling speed has been increased.



Mages

* Cold Snap (Frost) cooldown reduced. It is now in the Ice Block position in the talent tree. This ability will no longer reset the cooldown on Fire Ward.
* Conjure Mana Gem mana restore variance substantially reduced,(Rank 5 – Emerald) now restores 2340 to 2460 mana and has three charges.
* Ice Block (Frost) is now available on the trainer to all mages at level 30.
* Icy Veins (NEW Frost Talent) decreases casting time of all spells by 20% and increases the chance your chilling effects will freeze the target by 10%. Lasts 20 sec. 3 min cooldown. It is now in the Cold Snap position in the talent tree.



Paladins

* Crusader Strike (Retribution) now causes 110% of weapon damage and no longer gains any bonus from spell damage.
* Righteous Fury: This spell will no longer cost twice the listed mana to cast.
* Sanctified Judgements (Retribution) now returns 80% of the Seal's mana cost, increased from 50%.



Rogues

* Cheat Death: When multiple attacks land simultaenously, all those resolved after the attack which triggered Cheat Death will now have their damage reduced by 90% as intended. However, the combat log will still report them doing full damage.
* Hemorrhage: Rank 4 of this ability no longer has its charges consumed by non-physical attacks and spells.
* Hemorrhage weapon damage reduced from 125% to 110%, but the damage debuff has been increased.
* Shadowstep now awards 1 combo point.



Shaman

* Earth Shield (Restoration) mana cost reduced, now it has a 30 second cooldown.
* Lightning Shield mana cost reduced.
* Water Shield now restores mana periodically regardless of how many charges remain. Duration increased to 10 minutes.



Warlock

* The health cost taken from the Warlock after using Health Funnel will now remain consistent between uses.



Warrior

* Defiance: The expertise granted by this talent now works properly in all stances.
* Warriors no longer lose rage when using a macro to enter a stance they’re already in.



Professions

Cooking

* Goldthorn Tea was erroneously unlearned by most players who had learned the recipe. The recipe has been re-enabled and can be learned again from Henry Stern in Razorfen Downs at no cost.

Enchanting

* Enchant Shield - Resilience now requires a Runed Fel Iron Rod instead of a Runed Adamantite Rod.

Leatherworking

* Increased the range of leatherworking drums to 40 yards. Drums of Panic remains unchanged at 8 yards.



Items

* Amani Charm of the Witch Doctor: Tooltip typo corrected.
* Hearthstone: The cast time on this item is no longer affected by spell haste.
* Hex Shrunken Head: This item now has a 20 second shared cooldown with other similar trinkets.
* Icy Chill Enchant: The triggered effect from this enchantment will now cause a melee slow and movement snare as intended.
* Idol of the Unseen Moon: This item now has a 30 second cooldown on being triggered.
* Idol of Terror: The triggered agility buff from this item no longer overwrites other agility buffs.
* The Netherscale Ammo Pouch is no longer a Unique item.
* The Knothide Quiver is no longer unique.


Dungeons and Raids

Heroic Coilfang Resevoir- Steamvaults

* Mekgineer Steamrigger's Main Chambers Access Panel is no longer interactable until Mekgineer Steamrigger has been killed.

Tempest Keep- The Eye

* The number of Blood Elves guarding Prince Kael'Thas' room has been reduced.

Zul’Aman

* The Amani'shi Warrior's Charge ability now has a minimum range.
* The melee haste provided by Halazzi's Frenzy has been reduced to 100%.
* Dragonhawks in Zul'Aman can now be skinned. This doesn't include dragonhawks that do not have loot.



Quests

* Blade's Edge Mountains: Players accepting the bombing run quests in Blade's Edge Plateaus will no longer cause other players in the region to stand up.



User Interface

* There is now an option to turn off the screen edge damage flash when you have a fullscreen UI up.
* You can sell stacks by dropping them on the merchant window again.
* Ready check (/readycheck) will now display a visual display of each party/raid member's status next to their name. This will display in the Party UI, the Raid UI and the Raid pullout UI. A player will get a check mark if they are ready, a question mark if they have not replied and a red X if they are not ready or are afk.
* You can now see raid members on the minimap as dark blue dots in addition to party members which still display as light blue dots.
* You can now shift click names while the petition window is open to paste them into the petition.
* Fixed various problems with /castsequence getting stuck.
* /cast will toggle spells again unless the name is prefixed with an exclamation mark, e.g. /castsequence Steady Shot, !Auto Shot



Bug Fixes

* Characters may now possess up to five Paper Flying Machines in a single stack.
* Fixed “Spell/Ability is not ready yet” message when clicking quickly at the beginning of a cast.
* Fixed a server disconnect when moving the mouse over recipes in the guild bank.
* Gnomish Universal Remote will now work properly with the Fel Cannon.
* Disconnecting a USB HeadSet will no longer cause problems with the Voice Chat dropdown menus.
* Clockwork Rocket Bots will no longer attack each other in Shattrath City.
* Channel changes will now appear properly in the chat log after zoning in or out of instances.
* Unplugging headphones/speakers then plugging them back in while in WoW no longer disables all sound in WoW
* If the original owner of a custom channel gives leadership away their options menu will no longer show that they have moderation privileges.
* The first custom created guild ranking will now properly show up in the Guild Control pane drop down menu.
* Control-clicking on inventory items that teach recipes will now properly display you wearing the item made by the recipe in the dressing room UI.
* Fixed an issue that was not allowing all charges of a Field Repair Bot to be used.
* Creatures with random player targeting crowd control abilities such as fear, charm, or sleep will now properly choose a random eligible target rather than just choosing the nearest eligible target.
* The various Hallow’s End broom mounts now have their proper real-time (rather than game-time) duration of 14 days.
* Tricky Treats now have their proper real-time (rather than game-time) duration of 24 hours.

[rgirty]

Nerf here, rolling trinketed lifeblooms were a way of life.

* Lifebloom: When this ability is refreshed it will take on the strength of the incoming Lifebloom effect, rather than maintain the existing strength.

[ChaosSaber]

I see all the cheap broomsticks will now be completely gone in two week's time. :'(

Get your rides in while you can, I guess.

[Shellar]

* The various Hallow’s End broom mounts now have their proper real-time (rather than game-time) duration of 14 days.
Damn, that ruins my master plan of selling my broom collection in mid-June. :sad:

[kall]

You still have to GET to the flightmaster.

Ever fly from the scryer FP in shadowmoon to area 52?

Tailors have to do this all the time because you must use the alter in smv for shadowcloth and be in netherstorm to do spellcloth.

The flight is so long that your char will auto-afk. That is just way too long.
Possibly once or twice, being a tailor myself, but probably would just have hearthed to shatt and cut the distance that way, or had someone summon me to Netherstorm using the stone, or not gone at all, or taken the FP and managed to get something done in real life (like food, toilet, whatever).

[Imraath]

Hrm... Maybe blizzard have forgotten about the Priest class?