Patch 3.0.9 Changes: Coming Tonight?
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Juggynaut on Monday, February 9, 2009 - 46 Comments Tags: Paladin, Patch, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, changes, content patch, obsidian sanctum, patch 3.0.9, pet
Juggynaut on Monday, February 9, 2009 - 46 Comments Tags: Paladin, Patch, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, changes, content patch, obsidian sanctum, patch 3.0.9, pet ![](http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/365108/5033213/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/patchwerk-300x257.gif "Patchwerk says \")
MMO-Champion has posted a handful of new changes that are coming, and they believe that they are coming this week. That would mean that during tomorrow morning's weekly maintenance period, we'll all have to download Patch 3.0.9. There are a few tweaks, including a bunch of changes to Arcane Mages. They're also nerfing cast time increasing debuffs and increasing rogue damage. Check out all of the changes below.Druid
- Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.
Hunter
- Kindred Spirits (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet damage at max rank.
- Serpent's Swiftness (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet attack speed at max rank.
Pets
- Lava Breath now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.
- Poison Spit now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.
Mage
- Arcane Power now increases damage and mana cost by 10%, cooldown reduced to 1 minute. (Note: The spell is actually different in game and increases damage and mana costs by 20% with a 2 minutes cooldown. However it would probably be better to wait until servers are online to confirm that.)
- Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown. Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.
- Arcane Flows now reduces the cooldown of Presence of Mind, Arcane Power and Invisibility by 15/30%.
- Presence of Mind: The cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes, (down from 3.)
- Slow (Arcane): now increases cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
- Glyph of Arcane Missiles -- Increases the critical strike damage bonus of Arcane Missiles by 25%. (Old - Increases the range of Arcane Missiles by 5 yards.)
- Glyph of Mana Gem -- Increases the mana recieved from using a mana gem by 40%. (Up from 10%)
- Glyph of Arcane Blast -- Increases the damage from your Arcane Blast buff by 3%. (Down from 5%)
Paladin
- The duration on all Seals has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.
- Divine Plea: The amount healed by your spells is reduced by 50% (up from 20%) but the effect can no longer be dispelled.
- Sanctified Seals: This talent no longer affects dispel resistance, but continues to affect crit chance.
- Glyph of Holy Light -- Your Holy Light grants 10% of its heal amount to up to 5 friendly targets within 8 yards of the initial target. (Down from 20 yards, Tooltip text fix, was already hotfixed to 8 yards in game)
- Glyph of Seal of Righteousness -- Increases the damage done by Seal of Righteousness by 10%. (Old - Reduces the cost of your Judgement spells by 10% while Seal of Righteousness is active.)
Priest
- Inner Fire duration has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.
Rogue
- Hunger for Blood (Assassination): Now increases damage 5% per stack, (up from 3%.)
- Mind Numbing Poison now reduces cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
- Mutilate damage will now do 20% increased damage against poisoned targets, down from 50%.
- Slice and Dice: This ability now increases melee attack speed by 40%, up from 30%.
Shaman
- Glyph of Windfury Weapon -- Increases the chance per swing for Windfury Weapon to trigger by 2%. (Down from 5%)
Warlock
- Curse of Tongues: Now increases the casting time of all spells by 25% (Rank 1) and 30% (Rank 2), down from 50% and 60%.
The Obsidian Sanctum
- Changed the color of the fissure in the Obsidian Sanctum to be more visually distinct.
User Interface
- The "GM wishes to speak with you" alert/button, at the top of the screen, has been changed so that addons do not obscure it.
- A clickable chat message has been added that duplicates the GM alert/button.
- When a GM wishes to speak with you the Help Request minibar button will glow.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where players using nVidia 3D glasses were unable to see spell cooldowns.
- Fixed a software mouse cursor bug that was causing the mouse curser to disappear from view when over certain UI elements.
- Fixed a player movement error in which other players were appearing to move erratically when traveling beside them.
Reader Comments (46)
First.. here aswell!
5k gold says all your mage info is wrong.
its all arcane tree stuff. may i remind you of the patch note scam not too long ago?
ignore all this. i doubt 3.0.9 will ven exist.
dude warrior stuff???? were is it????
Has anyone ever had a bug where they were the only one wearing armor and everyone else had no armor on. I only had armor on cause i was a druid and i was in cat form when it happened and when i came back out of cat form i had my armor on. It happened when we entered an instance. As soon as we entered everyone's armor disappeared and wouldn't come back till we left the instance. This happened twice to me.... can someone please tell me if this is a bug or if it is just a random occurrence.
This may be the wrong spot but anyone know where our favorite healer is? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the pally master over here but I miss the constant jokes and little ho-hum songs in the show.
Oh, that bug with the armor happened to me as well...according to the people in my group at the time its quite common and nothing really to worry about. Fix is just a re-log. Sorry for the double post.
Oh god. The change to seals makes me drool. So much for my
/cast seal of XXXXXX
/sw 115
/script start stopwatch
Macro. Not that i'm complaining. Having a seal go down in the middle of a fight was a pain in the ass....
Mutilate nerf is dissapointing. The hfb buff is nice though. HFB might see some PvP usage now.
Yeah, so y'all are probably tired of hearing new bugs and such, but im getting bored of my mage because now instead of having an actual fire streak behind my fireball, im just chucking a molten lookin rock at people. Dont get me wrong, damage is same and what not, but its BUGGIN ME. especially cause it looks dumb. Anyone know how to fix, plz lemme know
Those changes really do like like they came out of someones posterior.
This change in particular is so poorly worded I can't help but think the whole thing is fake.
Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown. Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.
I'm pretty excited about the seal changes for no other reason than it will free up a space on my hotbar.
An extra GCD won't be bad every 2 minutes either.
Mutilate nerf is a big hit but atleast HfB and SnD have been buffed slightly....finally Blizz giving some love to us Mutilate Rogues
@Taskun
watch last weeks wrap up
Goggins has left the show for good bc he is too busy...hopefully someday he will be back
I agree with L above. Most of the changes here are only to single specs to the classes, there has to be more. I believe that there will be a patch 3.0.9 maybe tommrow maybe not, but if it is tommrow there will be more than this
Oh thanks Joenips :/
Well if you've been watching the blue posts such as the 1 fetured in the blog post the blizz poster said it'd be on the test realms first before it'd go live so don't expect 3.0.9 anytime soon. and since 3.0.9 is to preceed 3.1 the proposed uldaar patch I'd say don't expect it for atleast 2 months or more since 3.0.9 is currently not on the test servers.
heres the REAL changes, from blue posts on wow forums
part 1 - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14910002204&sid=1
part 2 - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14910422662&sid=1
part 3 - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14910003268&sid=1
I'm hoping that the so-called "patch note" is fake, because I think Blizzard has punished BM hunters enough already. Why make us suffer even more?
my bad, just noticed they are 3.1.0.....still happy to see rogue and priest changes though :)
Wf glyph is going to get nerfed gg blizzard -_-
like I said earlier they are not going to patch the game without putting the upcoming patch on the test servers first and as of yet the new patch has not been put on the test servers for testing either way 3.1? or 3.0.9 as suggested with the latest scuttlebutt on MMO champions and WOW insiders website so I say don't believe all the rumors you hear till you see test realm patchnotes up beyond 3.0.8
Has anyone seen what they wrote about windfury?omg Shammys will getting nerfed if this is true and undispellable seals?pallys are then gonna be unbeatable in Pvp
3.0.9 just came for all you people didn't think it existed =)
Yup, it came today. Too bad non-believers!
im so taming the kurken on my level 12 now :D
just because i can :D