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Patch 3.0.9 Changes: Coming Tonight?

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

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)

Eww these changes are 4 real someone is gona have to explain that whole cooldown thing on the arcane mages cause blizzard did a shity job of it.

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterPauldy

YAY for mutilate getting a huge EFFIN NERF! I guess they decided to give HfB a little boost before making it CRAP by taking the self buff off of it! God I sure can wait for 3.1 now........................................ At least my Huntard will be happy with the ammo buff!!!!

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCypherblok

@Cypherblok

It seems blizz has no love for the Mutilate build....they only like combat from what ive seen every patch except this one the buffed atleast 2 things in the combat tree

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJoenips

PLEASE ban people that just type first!!!!!

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBERNIE

Dammit i just download the patch and ffs that CD will screw up my current mage macro sigh.... Say good bye to my 1 click pop everything

basically the cd thing prevent us from poping those 2 skill consecutively in any order sigh at blizz makeing my life more complicated

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTaquila(Barthilas)

I can't believe blizz is going to nerf Assassination even more. They have said many times that they want rogues to become more of the "stereotypical dagger-wielding class" instead of using gigantic sword graphics. GG. Looks like I'm going to have to pull out the old Hailstorm....

Arcane Mages.........thanks again blizz. Just because we could instantaneously 2 shot anybody in PvP by using just 2 buttons.......Well....rotation will have to be tweaked a lil for PvE, hope it doesn't drop the deeps too much ><

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAmusing

Already downloading it,altough I feel sad because there are nothing new for Warriors =[

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRazius

Ouch! why are they killing the windfurry glyph?!?!?

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDumdrakk, Executus

So Aguzar (the second poster) are you going to pay up the 5k gold? Because I've downloaded patch 3.0.9 early this morning. You can send me the 5k if you'd like Delron on Eldre'Thalas will gladly accept your money.

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDelron

Here are the exact patch notes from the installation files:

"World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.0.9

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

Druids

Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.
Hunters

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%.
Mages

Arcane Power now increases damage and mana cost by 10%, cooldown reduced to 1 minute.
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%.
Paladins

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.
Priests

Inner Fire duration has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.
Rogues

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%.
Warlocks

Curse of Tongues: Now increases the casting time of all spells by 25% (Rank 1) and 30% (Rank 2), down from 50% and 60%.
Dungeons and Raids

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.
For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum .
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."

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDelron

what can i say...hate the nerf on divine plea..really bad..comeon 50% =S......bah hating the glyph instant nerfs...no aoe heals for palas it seems..ever..come on is there any other than tanks within 8yd..no

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterFrOzEnFiRe

yeah also just showed up to laugh at every1 who thought 3.09 didn't/wouldn't exist. so big LOL's at all you who fit in that category.
Aside from that, i'm wondering, i mean reallying wondering if and when blizz will stop nerfing all the other classes and actually throw a reasonable nerf on their new babies- the Deathknight. 3.08 contained some new info on them- not nearly what i was expecting, apparently nerf and buff where interchangeable words that day -_-. So i guess we'll see once 3.1 comes out. But, hero class or not, it's annoying seeing dk's being the camp 'champ' at everything.

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkiley

HAHAHA I want in on that 5k gold action.

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTash

@kiley

What was wrong with thinking or hoping the patch was a hoax? Patches almost never come out of the blue (pun unintended) and those are some heavy-handed nerfs there.

I hope that there's a special nerf place (game version of hell) for people like you.

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAlayea

I don't like that they change the functionality of glyphs making them do something totally different.

You can't unglyph them and resell them on the AH.. and some of us actually pay gold for glyphs. By changing the ability they no longer do what we want and thus making them wasteful in some cases.

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAngel

allright first of all dont be a hater if your class were the new champs whould you comlain i dont think so so dont complain about DKs if you cant beat them join them ill say it for the million th time maybe it whould help if i put in caps DKs HAVE NO WHEAR TO GO BUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on another note i know their a bunch of idiots who "you have to spell avrything correctly" but i whould think a multy million compapy can over look small spelling errors on three diffrant occasions i posted about the nerfs whear are the DK improvements i doubt anyone whould like the DK to be come the new point and laugh class the class no wants their is allways room for improvements theirs berly any room for nerfs give the people what they want unless your happy with 11 million+ if you wanto for all the classes to be egual buff all of them

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered Commentercocopuff

Got the patch at work from FileFront and I'll be sure to update my client once I get home. Here's the link if anyone is looking for it:

http://files.filefront.com/World+of+Warcraft+v308+to+v309+US+Patch/;13258864;/fileinfo.html

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJoey

"Fixed an issue where players using nVidia 3D glasses were unable to see spell cooldowns"

Way more important than fixing Warlocks

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSpudnik

@leppergnome

The patch u are refering to is patch 3.1.0 not 3.0.9 as they are applying right now.

As a rogue im a bit worried about the mutilate nerf. I recently specced mutilate from combat to do a bit better in PvE but now it might be lost time.. at least I got decet combat swords before I changed spec and saved them in case.
Hopefully blizz will soon give us rogues somethig so we can peform as well as other classes evenly geared 'cus atm we are the worst PvE class around :(

February 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNaivalit

i just dled patch 3.09 rite now.... the patch notes above seems rite to me.... looks the same as the official patch notes... dunno why ppl think thats fake... i am surprised to see that not all classes has changes this time... or else im just not being able to find a warrior change... since i play a warr... hmmm...

February 11, 2009 | Unregistered Commentericecool

haha rouges be the worst class in PvE dont make me laugh xD they have awsome CC and actually nice dps... just glad u dont complain about pvp ^^

February 11, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterhai

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