3.2.2 Patch notes

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:21 am

3.2.2 Patch notes

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General
The Brood Mother Returns

After years of lurking in her lair battling the many brave adventurers who travelled from afar to challenge her, Onyxia returns to commemorate World of Warcraft’s five-year anniversary.

Onyxia has been scaled to offer new challenges to level 80 players and is now available for testing in 10- and 25- player modes.

Adjustments have been made to the encounter to keep it fit for modern raiding, but the fundamental experience of fighting the Brood Mother will remain, as will the horror of the Deep Breaths!

Some classic items Onyxia offered level 60 players will have their stats adjusted appropriately for level 80 players.

Brood of Onyxia, a very rare 310%-speed mount modeled after Onyxia herself will be available for the luckiest of challengers.

Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.

Death Knights
Pets

Gnaw: This death knight ghoul ability now has a 1-minute cooldown.

Druids
Talents

Balance

Moonkin Form: This form now also reduces the damage the druid takes while stunned by 15%.

Typhoon: The knockback distance from this spell has been increased to match Thunderstorm.

Feral Combat

Predatory Strikes: This talent now also causes the druid’s finishing moves to provide a 7/13/20% chance per combo point to make the next Nature spell with a cast time below 10 seconds instant cast.

Mages
Arcane Blast: The buff from using this ability now stacks up to 4 times instead of 3, and each application increases mana cost by 130% instead of 200%.

Talents

Arcane
Missile Barrage: The effect from triggering this talent now removes the mana cost of Arcane Missiles. In addition, the chance for Arcane Blast to trigger this talent is now 8/16/24/32/40%. All other listed spells continue to have a 4/8/12/16/20% chance to trigger it.

Paladins
Righteous Fury: The bonus threat from Holy spells caused by this talent has been reduced from 90% to 80%.

Talents

Protection

Judgements of the Just: The reduction in cooldown to Hammer of Justice provided by this talent has been reduced to 5/10 seconds instead of 10/20 seconds.

Touched by the Light: This talent now provides 20/40/60% of the paladin’s strength as spell power instead of 10/20/30% of the paladin’s stamina.

Retribution

Seal of Command: This ability now chains to strike up to 2 additional targets when it is triggered by an attack.

Rogues
Fan of Knives: The damage done by this ability has been reduced by 30%.

Talents

Combat

Throwing Specialization: This talent no longer causes Fan of Knives to interrupt spellcasting.

Subtlety

Honor Among Thieves: A 1-second cooldown is now enforced on how often a rogue can gain combo points from his party via this talent.

Dungeons & Raids
Shadowfang Keep

Wailing Guardsman: Screams of the Past will no longer have multiple applications on a target. Recast time has been increased.

Items
Glyphs

Glyph of Mind Flay: This glyph no longer reduces the magnitude of the movement reduction on the Mind Flay victim.

User Interface

The size of the Focus Frame can now be adjusted via the Interface Options menu.

For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the US UI & Macros Forum:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board ... umId=11114

Bug Fixes

Balance of Power: Misleading tooltip reworded. The tooltip previously reported an incorrect value for the increased chance to hit with spells. The actual benefit of the talent is unchanged.

Divine Aegis: Ranks 1 and 2 now work with Holy Nova.

Trap Mastery: Tooltip now states the correct amount of snakes summoned.

Enkal

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:23 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Paladins
Righteous Fury: The bonus threat from Holy spells caused by this talent has been reduced from 90% to 80%.

Talents
Protection

Judgements of the Just: The reduction in cooldown to Hammer of Justice provided by this talent has been reduced to 5/10 seconds instead of 10/20 seconds.

Touched by the Light: This talent now provides 20/40/60% of the paladin’s strength as spell power instead of 10/20/30% of the paladin’s stamina.

Retribution

Seal of Command: This ability now chains to strike up to 2 additional targets when it is triggered by an attack.

Nerfs indeed. :/

steadypal

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:27 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Paladins
Righteous Fury: The bonus threat from Holy spells caused by this talent has been reduced from 90% to 80%.

PRETTY EPIC FAIL there...

Ard

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:28 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Well, Seal of command looks like it may actually do decent damage now *gasp*

Reckon we'll be seeing protribution builds in Arena for TbtL working off Strength?

steadypal

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:34 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

nerf all around for prot tho, which is pretty sad,, i can see RF cause all the other class QQ's

but the HOJ change, and spellpower from stam all being nerfed purely from prot healing in arenas, how lame is that...

they need to do more than 60% str to make up for the 30% it was for stam,,, we are going to lose quite a bit of threat in this next minor patch..

Candiru

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:34 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Let me gets this straight, if we talent Seal Of Command, and attack with HotR we get:

3 SoC procs, EACH OF WHICH procs 2 additional attacks on near-by targets?

Now with the HotR glyph thats 4 * 3 = 12 SoC procs per attack...

Is this our new AoE seal?

90%->80% was needed really, as we were rather OP threat wise atm.

The touched by the light change is retarded. people don't spec into prot PVP for the 100 bonus spellpower. This change just makes Str even more our best threat stat. At this point they might as well just add "passive, all paladins gain 30% of AP as spellpower" If they were going to change something, it should have been the crit bonus healing.

And loosing 10s on stun is rather irritating. Couldn't they have taken it from imp.hammer of justice rather than JotJ?

Tekkel

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:39 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

I don't mind the cooldown change to the hammer and the spellpower/stam to spellpower/str which are obviously pvp nerfs again to stop proly builds but did we really need a threat nerf?

First a nerf to the best threat ability and then a nerf to overall threat. It shouldn't have massive impact but a nerf remains a nerf.

hoho

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:42 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Touched by the Light: This talent now provides 20/40/60% of the paladin’s strength as spell power instead of 10/20/30% of the paladin’s stamina.

My paladin has unbuffed 2598 stam and 1102str (stupid slow armory hasn't picked up a few upgrades yet). Stam used to give ~780sp and str will now give ~660. My other guildies seem to have a bit less stam and more str so for them it should roughly balance out (ilvl 200 gear with gobs of stam and no str :\).

Candiru

Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:52 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

While it will balance out mostly, it will mean that Str will be >>> hit and expertise for threat again, and limit our threat gearing to a simple game of "which has more Str?"

It was more interesting design having Stam give spellpower. And Holy paladins don't do it for the spellpower, the +30% crit heals, silence and stuns are what they spec prot for. Its not going to help achieve their aims, and will just annoy us

Grehn|Skipjack

Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:01 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Pretty much expected. My threat's been oddly high anyway. Think the Str -> SP coefficient might need to be higher than 60% though. Nerfin mah HoJ makes me a sad panda. Looks like it's time for some suggesting.

Seraphia

Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:05 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Candiru wrote:While it will balance out mostly, it will mean that Str will be >>> hit and expertise for threat again, and limit our threat gearing to a simple game of "which has more Str?"

It was more interesting design having Stam give spellpower. And Holy paladins don't do it for the spellpower, the +30% crit heals, silence and stuns are what they spec prot for. Its not going to help achieve their aims, and will just annoy us

Oh, I'd argue that the bonus spellpower was indeed a big deal too.

Aubade

Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:09 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Hmm, These threat nerfs have me a little worried, I noticed on hodir that i had 5 people threat-capped and i was pumping around 12k TPS. If that goes down by as substanial of an amount as these nerfs show, I'm gonna have a problem. There's a possibility that i'm wrong on this though and we'll be fine, since the DPs in question out-gear me by about half of a tier.

HollerTH

Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:18 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

10% loss on RF and Str > SP change is a good bit of threat lost I am thinking. In my current gear the change is almost 150 sp lost.

Also it seems wrong that we would gain BV, AP and SP all from one stat

SnowEagle

Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:25 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

Post change I'm going from 790 to 740 SP, and now 10 holy damage does 18 instead of 19 threat, so 1/19 = about 5.2% of current threat lost from RF (edit: actually less than that as the baked in threat isnt changing afaik). It's a little annoying but not gamebreaking IMO. I'm less geared than the rest of my guild and they still don't ride me on threat very often at all.

Sharing balance issues with a different game is still lame sometimes tho.

Passionario

Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:32 am

Re: 3.2.2 Patch notes

No more easymode spammable AoE interrupts.