World Of Warcraft: Updated PTR 2.0.10 Patch Notes

General

• Some logic was fixed in the "Natural Remedies" quest so that Pathaleon the Calculator's Image will always spawn during the ritual.
• Goliathon and his shardlings can no longer be pulled to nearby areas that have guards.
• More fixes implemented in the "It's a Fel Reaver, But With Heart" quest to keep the Scrapped Fel Reaver from breaking.
• The Orb of the Blackwhelp and Hallowed Wands can no longer be used in combat, and the transformation will be canceled if the player receives damage.
• The Scrap Reaver in Netherstorm repairs reduced from 10,000 health to 8,500 health over 10 seconds.
• Battle of the Crimson Watch
  • Illidari Mind Breaker has been weakened.
  • Illidari Highlords can now be CC'ed but not Charmed.

PvP

• Arenas
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Slicer" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Quickblade" has been decreased to 1125 arena points and changed to offhand only.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Cleaver" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Hacker" has been decreased to 1125 arenapoints and changed to offhand only.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Pummeler" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Bonecracker" has been decreased to 1125 arena points and changed to offhand only.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Right Ripper" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Left Ripper" has been decreased to 1125 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Shanker" has been increased to 2625 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Shiv" has been decreased to 1125 arena points and changed to offhand only.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's War Edge" has been decreased to 1000 arena points and the speed changed to 1.9.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Spellblade" has been increased to 3150 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Touch of Defeat" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Gladiator's Endgame" has been decreased to 1125 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Idol of Tenacity" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.
  • The cost of the "Libram of Justice" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.
  • The cost of the "totem of the Third Wind" has been decreased to 1000 arena points.

Druids

• When the duration of "Cyclone" ends, area buffs such as "Leader of the Pack", "Tree of Life", and "Moonkin" will now be correctly resumed.
• "Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health.
• "Dire Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health. In addition, the armor bonus has been reduced from 450% to 400%.
• The multiplier on base weapon damage for "Mangle (Bear)" ability has been changed from 130% to 100%. In addition, the bonus damage has been reduced by the same ratio.
• "Savage Fury" no longer affects "Mangle (Bear)".
• "Savage Fury" no longer applies to "Maul" or "Swipe".
• The critical damage bonus on "Predatory Instincts" reduced from 3/6/9/12/15% to 2/4/6/8/10%.
• "Improved Leader of the Pack" can no longer get critical heals.
• The armor bonus from "Moonkin Form" has been increased from 360% to 400% (to match Dire Bear Form).
• The rage normalization equation has been adjusted to grant more rage.

Paladins

• The slowing affect from "Avenger's Shield" is now considered a snare, so snare removal and immunity affects will now work on it.

Priests

• The base healing percent from "Vampiric Embrace" has been reduced to 15% from 20%. In addition, this ability can no longer get critical heals.
• "Silent Resolve" no longer reduces threat generated by Shadow spells.
• Prayer of Mending now has a 10 second cooldown.
• Mass Dispel will now target immunity effects first.
• Circle of Healing mana cost reduced by 25%.
• The effectiveness of "Fade:Rank 7" has been increased by approximately 25%.
• The damage absorption of "Power Word: Shield" added by the caster's bonus healing has been increased to 20%.

Shaman

• The clearcasting effect from "Elemental Focus" now triggers on all spell critical strikes, rather than a chance on any spell hit.
• The shaman will no longer generate additional threat when "Unleashed Rage" triggers.
• The free Lightning spell cast from "Lightning Overload" will now cause reduced threat.
• "Stoneclaw Totem" now has a 50% chance to stun attackers for 3 sec. when struck.
• The bonus of the "Wrath of Air" totem now applies to healing spells as well.

Warlock

• "Demonic Tactics" now grants increased critical strike chance to you and your demon pet, instead of increased damage.

Warriors

• The rage normalization equation has been adjusted to grant more rage.The typical warrior should see an increase of 15% to 20% in their rage generation.
• All warriors had their critical strike chance adjusted upward slightly (about 1%).
• "Thunder Clap" is now useable in Defensive Stance. In addition, the tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it causes additional threat.
• The cooldown on "Victory Rush" has been removed, and it can now be used up to 20 seconds after killing an enemy.
• "Unbridled Wrath" has been modified so that rather than a fixed chance to grant rage, it has an increased chance when using slower weapons.
• Increased the health bonus from "Commanding Shout" by 50%.
• "Improved Battle Shout" talent renamed to "Commanding Presence" and now increases the health bonus from "Commanding Shout" in addition to increasing the melee attack power from "Battle Shout".

Items

• The threat generated from the spell effect on "Thunderfury" has been substantially reduced.
• The bonus to "Swipe" from the "Idol of Brutality" has been reduced from 50 to 10.
• "Alchemist's Stone" will no longer increase healing and mana gained from items which are not potions.
• The cost of sockets in high end items has been adjusted slightly, the result is that most high end epic items should see an increase in stats.
• Corrected many items that had incorrect stat values assigned to them.
• The rewards from the "Fel Embers" quest are now superior items as intended.
• Reduced the damage dealt by "The Lightning Capacitor".
• Corrected the level requirement of the "Fist of Reckoning".
• "Necklace of Trophies" has been corrected to increase Hit Rating instead of Hit Avoidance.
• "Burnoose of Shifting Ages" can now be disenchanted.
• "Nethershrike" now has the proper sell value and can be disenchanted.
• Corrected the level of "Marksman's Bow" to be in line with other epic reputation rewards.
• The "Marksman's Bow" now has the proper damage range.
• "Hourglass of the Unraveller" will now properly increase ranged attack power.
• Corrected the socket bonus for "Soul-Collar of the Incarnate".
• Corrected a typo in the set bonus of "Warbringer Armor".
• "Ruby Slippers" now properly have a cast time.
• Corrected the min use level of "Terokk's Shadowstaff".
• "Warpscale Leggings" have had their Crit Rating updated to the intended Dodge Rating.
• "Warmaul Slayer's Band" no longer has critical strike rating. However, its agility and attack power have been increased.
• "Ancient Draenei War Talisman" now shares a cooldown with all trinkets that temporarily increase damage done.
• "Ancient Draenei Arcane Relic" shares a cooldown with all trinkets that temporarily increase damage done.
• "Aldor Guardian Rifle" now has a range correctly set on it.
• The effect on "Void Star Talisman" was incorrectly set to On Use. It is now set to On Equip.
• The critical strike rating on "Cilice of Suffering" has been changed to spell critical strike rating.
• The cooldown for "Glimmering Mithril Insignia" has been increased from 10 minutes to 20 minutes.
• The slowing affect from the "Mug 'O Hurt" is now considered a snare, so snare removal and immunity affects will now work on it.
• The "Mark of Conquest" trinket now correctly triggers the mana regen effect.

Raids and Dungeons

• Creatures in Tempest Keep:Botanica, Tempest Keep: Mechanar, and Tempest Keep: Arcatraz no longer respawn as rapidly.
• Shadow Labyrinth
  • Reduced the chance of a Cabal Assassin ambush.
• Hellfire Citadel:Shattered Halls
  • Removed a problematic chest.
  • The "Resist Shadow" spell cast by Shadowmoon Acolyte's in Shattered
  • Halls will now be removed if a player leaves the zone.
  • Shattered Hand Gladiators will no longer break players' stealth when engaged in combat.
• Serpentshrine Cavern
  • Boss creatures have received additional tuning and polish.
• Tempest Keep:Arcatraz
  • Warder and Defender Corpses are now immune to spell effects that could cause the Protean Spawn to not spawn.
  • Protean Spawn now deal less damage.
  • The damage dealt by Wrath-Scryer Soccothrates' "Immolation" and "Knock Away" abilities has been reduced.
• Auchindoun Shadow
  • Cabal Zealots are now more threatening while under the effect of Shape of the Beast.
• Tempest Keep: Botanica
  • Sunseeker Gene-Splicers' Death and Decay now deals significantly less damage and casts less frequently.
  • Mutate Fleshlashers now deal less melee damage.
  • Mutate Horrors and Fear-Shriekers now have less health.
  • Sunseeker Researchers will now cast shocks less frequently.
  • Sunseeker Chemists are now Paladin type instead of Warrior type.
  • The Blue Seedlings in the High Botanist Freywinn encounter now slow players instead of immobilizing them.
  • High Botanist Freywinn will now plant seedlings at a slightly reduced rate.
• Tempest Keep Mechanar
  • Gatewatcher Iron-Hand now wields a Jackhammer.
  • Gatewatcher Iron-Hand is now more vocal when perfoming his Jackhammer attack.
  • Mechanar Drillers, Wreckers, and Crushers in Tempest Keep: The Mechanar may no longer be enslaved when in Heroic mode.
• Caverns of Time
  • Captain Skarloc in Caverns of Time: Escape from Durnholde is no longer susceptible to disarm, and does not slow down when wounded.
  • A defeat in the Caverns of Time: Opening of the Dark Portal instance will no longer despawn unlooted bosses with loot.
  • Occasionally after players are defeated in the Caverns of Time: Opening of the Dark Portal encounter on Heroic difficulty, the placeholder versions of the bosses that appear in future attempts
  • that day would not spawn. The proper placeholders will now spawn instead of Rift Lords and Rift Keepers.
  • Boss creatures in Caverns of Time: Opening of the Dark Portal will now dispel all nearby Time Keepers instead of one at a time.
• Karazhan
  • Maiden of Virtue's "Holy Wrath" has been slightly retuned to try and allow additional melee attackers to be used against her.
  • Maiden of Virtue's "Holy Fire" has been adjusted to prevent a possible range exploit.
  • Maiden of Virtue will no longer "Holy Fire" players under the effect of "Repentance".
  • Midnight is no longer susceptible to Bleed effects, since he's a skeletal horse.
  • Nightbane's Restless Skeletons are now immune to non-holy magical damage.
  • Restless Skeletons no longer have immolation.
  • Nightbane's Bone Shard Spray can no longer be interrupted by using an immunity effect.
  • Some minor issues with the Library Tomes have been corrected.
  • The use of Divine Shield, Ice Block, or Cloak of Shadows will no longer prematurely detonate the Shade of Aran's Flame Wreath.
  • Restless Skeletons will now summon a player if they are unable to path to that player, and deal more melee damage.
  • The cooldown of Bellowing Roar has been adjusted to be a more consistent value.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the credits to display properly.