Relevant 4.3 Patch Notes

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Hey guys, since not everyone has checked the patch notes and there are individual threads about it, I figured I would post a thread of all relevant changes for us.



This thread is up to date as of:

7:35 AM EST Wednesday October 19





You can find the patch notes here: http://us.battle.net...en/blog/3608419

In red are the most recent patch notes updates.





Druids
  • Wrath has a new spell effect. (Yes another)
  • Hurricane has a new updated visual effect.
  • Bear Form now provides an armor bonus of 120% at all levels, up from 65% for characters below level 40, making it easier for lower level druids to tank dungeons.

Hunters
  • Talent Specializations
    • Beast Mastery
      • Animal Handler now increases Attack Power by 30%, up from 25%.
    • Survival
      • Explosive Shot damage has been increased by 15%.

Mages
  • Mages
    • Pyroblast’s initial damage has been increased by approximately 26%, and its damage over time has been increased by approximately 100%.
    • Fireball damage has been increased by approximately 17%.

Paladins
  • Talent Specializations
    • Holy
      • In addition to providing haste, the effect from Judgements of the Pure now increases mana regeneration from Spirit by 10/20/30% for 60 seconds.
    • Retribution
      • Two-Handed Weapon Specialization (passive) now increases damage by 25%, up from 20%.

Priests
  • Nothing Relevant /sadface

Shaman
  • Flametongue Weapon no longer increases spell damage. It now increases all non-physical damage done by the wielder by 5%.
  • Lightning Bolt has a new spell effect.
  • Wind Shear’s base cooldown has been adjusted to 15 seconds, up from 6 seconds.
  • Talent Specializations
    • Elemental
      • Reverberation now reduces the cooldown of Wind Shear by 5/10 seconds, up from 0.5/1 second. (Ele shamans will be able to put one point into this talent, making Wind Shear have a 10 second cooldown. This will require sacrifice of the spirit>hit rating talent.)

    • Enhancement
      • Improved Lava Lash no longer increases base Lava Lash damage by 15/30%. This increase has been rolled into the base Lava Lash skill.
      • Mental Quickness has been redesigned. Instead of granting the shaman spell power, Mental Quickness now causes Enhancement shaman spells to behave as though the shaman has spell power equal to 55% of attack power. Enhancement shaman spells no longer benefit from spell power from other sources.

Warlocks
  • Shadow Bolt has a new spell effect.
  • Soul Fire now scales with 72.6% of spell power, up from 62.5%.
  • Talent Specializations
    • Destruction
      • Cataclysm now increases Fire damage by 30%, up from 25%.

Warriors
  • Charge (and related abilities) should now correctly path to a target even if the target moves during the Charge. This change should decrease the likelihood of the warrior Charging to a different location than the target.


  • Talent Specializations
    • Arms
      • Mortal Strike now reduces the target’s healing received by 25%, up from 10%.
    • Fury
      • Dual Wield Specialization no longer increases Physical damage by 5%. It continues to increase off-hand attack damage by 25%.

Races
  • The orc racial Blood Fury now increases spell power rather than only spell damage.

User Interface
  • Bag Search
    • A search field has been added to allow players to search bag, bank, guild bank, and Void Storage inventories for specific items..
  • Quest Tracking areas or points of interest will now show on the mini-map, in addition to the World Map.
  • The World Map now displays the expected character levels for each zone.
  • Added a “promote everyone” checkbox that will automatically make all raid members, Raid assistants. This checkbox can be found in the Raid Frame and the Unit Frame “pull-out” tab.
  • There are now commands for world markers & unit markers.
  • Added new rotation, zoom, and pan controls are now available in all windows with player models in UI frames.
  • [Mac] Added functionality to allow using the Command key instead of the Control key on Apple keyboards. This can be enabled in Mac Options.
  • [Mac] Added functionality to disable Mac OS system keyboard shortcuts so that they do not interfere with keyboard shortcuts in WoW. This can be enabled in Mac Options.
  • Added a feature to interact with NPCs, game objects (mailbox, mining nodes, etc.), and corpses on left-click as well as right-click. There is now an option under Interface:Controls to turn this feature off.



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Bengalosch said:
dangit - that flametongue-thing is another nerf for shamans in our bracket.



right now i have a base-dmg of earth-shock of 74, with flametongue 84. after it will be like 78.



firemages could be viable now...
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Yes, the spellpower mace will no longer be BiS MH
 
Let's not forget these are PTR patch notes, and have already changed since the PTR got 4.3 a short time ago. There is also no ETA on 4.3 going live and it's not confirmed any of this is final.
 
Thank you for posting.



Apparently the Questing part of the game wasn't yet boring enough, but wether cluttering the mini-map (yes I know you can change the settings) up even more is the way to go to do so I am not that sure.



The main issue/challenge with Fire isn't the damage of Pyro being too low but relying on hard-casts for your damage in the first place.



Same with Bear armor, it's the lack of abilities that is an issue for low-level Bear Tanks (as far as one still considers Tanks necessary in the first place to complete the early Dungeons).



But if they've finally solved Charge-jumping, that's certainly a plus.
 
Bengalosch said:
you are talking about enhancement, right?
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Yes, for enhancement



Aradiel said:
Let's not forget these are PTR patch notes, and have already changed since the PTR got 4.3 a short time ago. There is also no ETA on 4.3 going live and it's not confirmed any of this is final.
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Indeed, that is why I included the link to the notes along with the update date in the OP. But it is still important to remember





Tinkerton said:
Thank you for posting.



Apparently the Questing part of the game wasn't yet boring enough, but wether cluttering the mini-map (yes I know you can change the settings) up even more is the way to go to do so I am not that sure.



The main issue/challenge with Fire isn't the damage of Pyro being too low but relying on hard-casts for your damage in the first place.



Same with Bear armor, it's the lack of abilities that is an issue for low-level Bear Tanks (as far as one still considers Tanks necessary in the first place to complete the early Dungeons).



But if they've finally solved Charge-jumping, that's certainly a plus.
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Hopefully for warriors it solves that and also the ability to, for example, feral charge a charge and swap places with a warrior
 
As far as Im concerned My shaman got buffed
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5 points I no longer have to put into improved lava lash woot and I still get my 5 sec windshear. :DDDD
 
YES BUFF FIRE MAGES WOOT



I know what spec I'm rolling in 4.3
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Shfthappens said:
Druids
  • Bear Form now provides an armor bonus of 120% at all levels, up from 65% for characters below level 40, making it easier for lower level druids to tank dungeons.
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brb druid FC
 
  • Explosive Shot damage has been increased by 15%.
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Going back to endgame pvp



/wave
 
Playroom said:
[Mac] Added functionality to disable Mac OS system keyboard shortcuts so that they do not interfere with keyboard shortcuts in WoW. This can be enabled in Mac Options.



BEST UPGRADE EVER!



I might be rolling a dps shaman afterall...
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You know you can turn off the system keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts...Wait, were you being sarcastic?
 
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