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posted 2013/04/01 at 5:42 PM by perculia

Check out the latest additions!New ModelsNew Global Strings+CALENDAR_ERROR_MODERATOR_RESTRICTED = "Starter Edition accounts cannot be moderators.";
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Patch Highlights

Several glyphs were changed. As this is the PTR, keep in mind that base abilities might later be tweaked to incorporate the old glyph effects:
: Now causes your Mass Dispel to be potent enough to remove Magic effects that are normally undispellable.instead of reducing the cast time of Mass Dispel by 1 sec. Ghostcrawler later confirmed on twitter that the cast time reduction is baked into Mass Dispel for Holy and Discipline.

: Glyph of Unleashed Lightning has been replaced by Glyph of Lightning Shield, which reduces damage taken by 10%. Casting Lightning Bolt while on the move will be a baseline part of the ability now, as confirmed by Ghostcrawler tonight.

Deepwind Gorge, a new battleground: Deepwind Gorge Perfection, Deepwind Gorge Veteran, Deepwind Gorge Victory

Scenario achievements: Heed the Weed, Hekima's Heal-Halter, Heroic: The Secrets of Ragefire

AtonementVoid ShiftLoading ScreensClick the cut to see the spell changes!Achievements

Accelerated Archaeology: Complete an artifact set while affected by the reliquary pick in the Dark Heart of Pandaria scenario.

Deadly Pet Brawler: Win 1000 PvP pet battles through Find Battle with a full team of level 25 pets.

The Secrets of Ragefire: Complete the Secrets of EmberdeepRagefire scenario.

ClassesMonkForumTalent CalculatorTalents and Specialization

Ring of Peace: Forms a sanctuary around the friendly target, causing all nearby enemies within 8 yards to be disarmed and nearby enemy players unable to auto-attackinstantly silencing and disarming all enemies for 3 sec. In addition, enemies who cast a harmful spellattack or cast spells on allies within the ring become silenced forof peace will be disarmed and silenced for an additional 3 sec. Ring of Peace lasts for 8 sec.

: Clears you of all root, stun, and fearfear and horror effects and reduces the duration of future such effects by 60% for 6 sec. Nimble Brew can be cast while stunned or feared.

PriestForumTalent CalculatorSpell Changes

Mass Dispel: Dispels magic in a 15 yard radius, removing all harmful spells from each friendly target and 1 beneficial spells from each enemy target. Affects a maximum of 10 friendly targets and 10 enemy targets.This dispel is potent enough to remove Magic effects that are normally undispellable.

Void Shift: You and the currently targeted party or raid member swap health percentages. Increases the lower health percentage of the two to 25% if below that amount.

Talents and Specialization

Atonement: When you deal damage with Smite, Holy Fire, and Penance, you instantly heal a nearby low health friendly target within 40 yards from the enemy target for 100%80% of the damage dealt. If the Priest is healed through Atonement, the effect is reduced by 50%.

Glyphs

: Reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel by 1 sec.Causes your Mass Dispel to be potent enough to remove Magic effects that are normally undispellable.

ShamanForumTalent CalculatorGlyphs

: Your Lightning Bolt takes 5% longer to cast, but may be cast while moving.Shield also reduces all damage you take by 10%.

NPC Abilities

: Forms a sanctuary around the friendly target, causing all nearby enemies within 8 yards to be disarmed and nearby enemy players unable to auto-attackinstantly silencing and disarming all enemies for 3 sec. In addition, enemies who cast a harmful spellattack or cast spells on allies within the ring become silenced forof peace will be disarmed and silenced for an additional 3 sec. Ring of Peace lasts for 8 sec.

Uncategorized

Barrel Explosion: The gunpowder barrel explodes, dealing 250000 damage to all units within 4 yards.

Battle Fatigue: Dealing damage to another player in battle causes them to receive 30%50% less healing.

PvP Rules Enabled: Dealing damage to another player in battle causes them to receive 30%50% less healing.

Veil of Darkness: Launches a dark bolt of energy at enemies within 0 yards, inflicting Shadow damage and cursing them.reducing their ability to receive healing.

Bomb!: Deals 120 damage to all enemies within 3 yards.

Bombs Away!: The cannon's fire deals 332500 to 367500 damage to all targets within 4 yards.

Call the Shot: Mark a sniping target for a Dark Iron Mountaineer. The Mountaineer will shoot in 3 sec seconds. Cannot be used while in combat.

Dark Iron Sniper Rifle: Inflicts 92500 to 107500 Physical damage and stuns the target for 1 sec.

Glacial Freeze: Inflicts 75000175000 Frost damage and stuns all enemies within 10 yards for 5 sec.

Glacial Freeze: Inflicts 75000175000 Frost damage to all enemies within 10 yards for 5 sec.

Glacial Freeze Totem: Summons a Glacial Freeze Totem at the caster's feet that inflicts 75000175000 Frost damage and stuns all enemies within 10 yards for 5 sec. after 5 sec.

Ignite Blood: Ignites an enemey's blood, inflicting 1500012000 Fire damage every 3 sec. for 15 sec. This effect stacks.

Manipulator's Wrath: Your pet's attacks have a chance to deal an additional 50% damage as Nature, but no more than 5000.

Mostly-Accurate Rocket: Fires a rocket that inflicts 250000292500 to 307500 Physical damage to enemies within 5 yards of impact.

Mostly-Accurate Rocket: Fires a rocket that inflicts 250000292500 to 307500 Physical damage to enemies within 6 yards of impact.

Paper Wad: Inflicts 43875 to 46125 Physical damage.

Path of the Last Emperor: HelpingFollowing in the steps of the last emperor with Seer Hao Pham Roo. climb Mount Neverest.Unable to mount.

Burning Embers: Hurls burning embers at an enemy's location, inflicting 68250 to 71750 Fire damage to all enemies within 2.5 yards of the impact.

Shot: The cannon fire deals 300000 damage to all units within 20 yards.

Shotgun: Shreds and knocks back enemies in a cone in front of you.Can be used while moving.

Sleep Dust: Puts the target in a magically-induced sleep for 25 sec seconds. Only works on humanoids and beasts within the Troves of the Thunder King secnarioscenario.

Slicing Scissors: Inflicts 29250 to 3075039000 to 41000 Physical damage every 1 sec.

Troves of the Thunder King: You've looted 0 gold so far this run.

Sticky Bomb: The lieutenant's throws a bomb at you that sticks on impact. After 5 sec, it will explode, causing damage to all enemies within 4 yards.

Swoop: The parrot swoops at its target, dealing 12 to 13 damage.

: Your Lightning Bolt takes 5% longer to cast, but may be cast while moving.Shield also reduces all damage you take by 10%.

: Shrouds the target in darkness, reducing healing effects on them by 25%10%.

Volatile Explosion: The Volatile Concoction explodes, dealing 100000 damage to all units within 4 yards.

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Comment by InfernalCat That "Pegasus" mount could use some armor... Comment by Harvoc2
First of all, the glyph is only mandatory when facing a paladin or mage. For the rest of the time, it's useless. Plus, Disc priests got two glyph slots freed up with the glyphs of Desperation and Inner Focus being made baseline and Shadow got one freed up with the Glyph of Mind Spike being nerfed. Overall, it's still better than last season. Secondly, Shadow deserved these nerfs. A 0.5 second cast time on a CRUCIAL ability that negates CC AND removes Ice Block/Divine Shield is just insane. Blizzard even admitted that they believed Shadow was too OP now that the rest of the classes got PvP nerfs. As for your comment about Disc and Holy priests struggling in PvP because they're in cloth, you obviously have no clue about PvP. Disc reigned as the king of healers in Cata and WotLK. It's currently doing pretty well this season (though probably not as well as Holy is, even with the CC nerfs). As for Holy, it's always sucked in PvP. They didn't magically become viable in 5.2.Ghostcrawler said was fine and that they liked Shadowpriests having the utility of Mass DispelcurrentComment by 2ColdScorpio Aaaand nothing for Ret Paladins again. Go figure. The mounts look awesome, though! Comment by Antimetica
Holy sucks and always has done? Okay mate, if you say so! It was the best spec for pve and pvp in Vanilla and until Disc got a serious overhaul, it remained in a good place in TBC as well. Since then the lack of PvP orientated utility in the Holy tree made it harder for them to be competitive in arena, but with Cata and now MoP making the distinctions between Disc and Holy less apparent, Holy priests do pretty much the same, if not more good than Disc in battlegrounds, occasionally in RBGs. Quicker big heals, more instants that can't be juked and their instants just heal for more. With the recent patch, Disc healing heals for less and it's harder to get people topped up, especially in bgs when your Aegis shields just will not save anybody who is caught in execute phase hp percentages.
Comment by ShirouChan I only see the priest change viable IF the glyph gives Priest the ability to dispel some more undispellable effects besides Iceblock and Divine shield (for example Life cocoon). I agree that Disc/Holy might not need this for PVE and some arena matches maybe (though personally I feel that in arena the Ratio of need/notneed is more like 75%/25%), but completely necessary for world pvp and BG, and it's completely unfair for shadow to have to Glyph into an ability to make it work like the baseline ability before. Comment by fizzysid Can't 100% be bothered reading all the paragraphs of writing about why priests are good/bad.
At the end of the day there'll always be someone who thinks your class is OP.

I've played both priest healing specs since Vanilla, as well as having played every other healing class @ level 90. All of them are easy as anything, but if I had to choose the hardest it would still be priests (may I also add that holy was kicking major *A* in Vanilla/Early BC?).
The amount of healing they can do in high mobility fights is drastically less than others, especially without Glyph of Penance. They have had mana problems on and off since Wrath. Long castable spells as opposed to massive CDs and HoTs mean healing is slightly slower, and being the only cloth healers never did much in raids OR PVP.
The recent attention to atonement healing has meant we actually have a chance at topping charts in 25 mans, world and PVP groups now- and why the hell shouldn't we? Why SHOULD priests be "middle of the road"? Atonement healing is what Disc needed to give it a different edge to holy. Disc bubbles and attacks, holy casts and heals.
And if we're talking lfr (which is hardly a testament to anything), I regularly see shammies and monks at the top...

I didn't say that druids are the best healers, either. I said they're the easiest. Comment by baracuda1337 So now we'll have to use a glyph in order to dispel bubbles and ice blocks? What the heck?Comment by Zephyrot I am only a LFR raider, but my current main is a disco priest and tbh I have felt OP ever since MoP. I have loads of level 90 alts and pick my champion per expansion. It used to be a pally healer during Cataclysm, but that didn't work out as well as a disco priest in this expansion. With minor gear I now usually top the healing list by a huge margin, just by atonement healing. After 5.3 I might check out my pally healer again, but I'd be surprised if even this nerf will make me switch. The current gap between my pally healer and disco healer is more than 100% (pally doing somewhere between 20-30K HPS, where my disco does 45+ with a record 80K HPS. Granted, the gear isn't nearly the same, but still the gap is huge.

I am not too experienced, but that more then tells me the current disco priest is OP. Comment by CohanTheGreat I'm sorry, they're taking away shamans ability to cast while moving WHY?Comment by Harvoc2 I only see the priest change viable IF the glyph gives Priest the ability to dispel some more undispellable effects besides Iceblock and Divine shield (for example Life cocoon). I agree that Disc/Holy might not need this for PVE and some arena matches maybe (though personally I feel that in arena the Ratio of need/notneed is more like 75%/25%), but completely necessary for world pvp and BG, and it's completely unfair for shadow to have to Glyph into an ability to make it work like the baseline ability before.Comment by Menardis I only see the priest change viable IF the glyph gives Priest the ability to dispel some more undispellable effects besides Iceblock and Divine shield (for example Life cocoon). I agree that Disc/Holy might not need this for PVE and some arena matches maybe (though personally I feel that in arena the Ratio of need/notneed is more like 75%/25%), but completely necessary for world pvp and BG, and it's completely unfair for shadow to have to Glyph into an ability to make it work like the baseline ability before.ThisComment by Tbonet No, they are not. Instead, they are making the effects of moving while casting Lightning Bolt built in. This means a glyph is not required in order to cast it while moving. Comment by Inqui Oh come on, look at shamans, they now have built-in glyph. That's what I call "freed up glyph slot". Removing cast time decrease from glyph for spriest means NERF, because you before you dispelled immunities in 1.5 sec even without glyph, and now it's required to do so. Comment by Lordplatypus This is what's called QQ.

It's what happens when a caster class gets anything that isn't a buff (And some buffs that aren't "big enough")

Seriously, mass dispel was freaking impossible to counter as paladin, Divine shield is our only real way to survive these days. Comment by qkstrk " +ERR_LOOT_SPEC_CHANGED_S = "Loot Specialization set to: %s"; "

What does this mean? You can no longer que as spec one, get inside change spec and get loot for the spec u didnt go in as?

Someone clarify :D Comment by shamotank "Casting Lightning Bolt while on the move will be a baseline part of the ability now, as confirmed by Ghostcrawler tonight." it says

Cast while moving will become a built in feature of Lightning Bolt. Comment by Eizwakh Read the notes please - They are making Unleashed Lightning baseline for Elemental (at least. GC isn't sure about other specs). What's more, the 5% haste penalty is gone too.

So you gotta read the changes as:
a) Lightning Bolt can now be cast while moving for elemental shaman.
b) New glyph: Glyph of Unleashed Lightning: Reduces damage taken while Lightning Shield is active by 10%. Comment by Riegal Yay for the pony mounts but boo for the clown shoes they wear on their front feet as they're running. Is it supposed to be that way? Comment by Murina Casting Lightning Bolt while on the move will be a baseline part of the ability now

Read more carefully next time. Comment by LyssaWoW " +ERR_LOOT_SPEC_CHANGED_S = "Loot Specialization set to: %s"; "

What does this mean? You can no longer que as spec one, get inside change spec and get loot for the spec u didnt go in as?

Someone clarify :D

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