The 3.3 PTR patch notes have been updated!
World of Raids is posting coverage on the new PTR changes during the day so
keep them bookmarked!
Here's a look at the latest updates:
General
- Level 1 characters no longer start with food or water
in their inventory.
Druid
- Rejuvenation: The base duration on all ranks
of this spell is now 15 seconds.
Hunter
- Pets
- Pet Leveling: Hunter pets now need only 5% of the
experience a player needs to level, down from 10%.
Mage
- Talents
- Fire
- Blast Wave: The mana cost of this talent has been
significantly reduced.
- Burning Determination: The duration of interrupt
immunity granted by this talent is now 20 seconds.
- Dragon's Breath: The mana cost of this talent has
been significantly reduced.
- Firestarter: When this talent is triggered, it
makes the next Flamestrike cost no mana in addition to being instant.
- Frost
- Frozen Core: This talent now also causes Ice
Lance critical strikes to reduce the cast time of the mage’s next
Frostbolt or Frostfire Bolt by 0.4/0.7/1 seconds.
- Pets
- Water Elemental: Waterbolt mana cost reduced by
80%.
Priest
- Talents
- Shadow
- Vampiric Embrace: This ability is now provides a
30-minute buff that cannot be dispelled, instead of a target debuff and
only generates healing for single-target shadow damage spells.
Shaman
- Reincarnation: The cooldown on this spell has
been lowered from 60 minutes down to 30 minutes.
- Talents
- Enhancement
- Earth’s Grasp: This talent now also
reduces the cooldown of the Stoneclaw and Earthbind totems by 15/30%.
- Restoration
- Improved Reincarnation: This talent now reduces
the cooldown of Reincarnation by 7/15 minutes, down from 10/20 minutes.
Reincarnation cannot be used in Arenas.
Warlock
- Talents
- Affliction
- Pandemic: This talent now also increases the
critical strike damage bonus of the felhunter’s Shadow Bite spell by
100%.
- Destruction
- Ruin: This talent now also increases the critical
strike damage bonus of the imp’s Firebolt spell by 100%.
User Interface
- Any party member may mark targets (this does not
apply to raid groups).
- Unit Nameplates
- The range at which players can see unit nameplates has been increased
by 40 yards.
- Unit nameplates are now subject to line-of-sight limitations in
certain situations (this does not pertain to objects like Arena pillars or
bridges).
- Players can now adjust select unit nameplate display settings listed
below under Interface Options via the “Names” tab.
- Friendly/enemy pet nameplates can be toggled.
- Enemy totem nameplates can be toggled (friendly totem nameplates are
never displayed).
- Players can choose whether or not unit nameplates overlap.
- Unit nameplates for critters are never displayed.
Quests
- Brittle Revenants, quest creatures fought for the
Sons of Hodir daily quest “Hot and Cold,” no longer cast Shield Slam.
Reputation
- The following reputations have been sped up by roughly 30%:
- Argent Crusade
- Alliance Vanguard
- Horde Expedition
- Kirin Tor
- Knights of the Ebon Blade
- Sons of Hodir
- Wyrmrest Accord
- Sons of Hodir quests now give more reputation overall.
- Top-level helm and shoulder faction-related enchants are now available
as Bind-on-Account items that do not require any faction to use once
purchased (they still require the appropriate faction level to purchase).
- Reputation commendations can now be purchased for 1 Emblem of Triumph
each.
