PTR Notes: New Discipline talent, PvP item tweaks
by Eliah Hecht 
Oct 28th 2007 at 12:53PM
Yesterday a new build of patch 2.3 went live on the PTRs, and while the blues don't seem to have updated the patch notes, World of Raids has the full scoop on the changes. Here's what's new:- 5 new PvP trinkets, available for 30k honor plus 40 AV marks from the honor vendors, or for 75 Badges of Justice from G'eras (man, that guy's item list is getting long).
- A new Priest talent in Discipline, called Focused Will (see screenshot). It sits right next to Power Infusion, and has no specific prerequisite.
- The Retribution Paladin season 3 arena set, Gladiator's Vindication, has had its spell damage stats replaced with physical damage stats.
- The Restoration Druid season 3 arena set, Gladiator's Refuge, has had its recently-added spirit reverted back to mp5.
- "The new pvp daily quest now rewards 11g99s and
4192 honor (up from about 2000)Edit: this was a typo, apparently on Blizzard's part. The actual reward is 400 honor, but it no longer rewards marks of honor." - Zul'Aman's starting event "improved"
- It is no longer possible to have both a PvP title and a PvE title at the same time.
- The fish-tracking manual has been found (fished up), as well as an item that starts a (currently bugged) fishing quest.
- Many ZA weapons and armor pieces have been recolored.
Filed under: Patches, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Calypso Oct 28th 2007 12:17PM
It seems your post is bugged Eliah, it shows on google reader (rss feed), but not on wowinsider homepage.
Eliah Hecht Oct 28th 2007 1:20PM
That was a scheduling issue, it happens from time to time. We're live on the home page now, as you can see :)
st0rmy1 Oct 28th 2007 1:33PM
My thoughts on Focused Will.
WTF? Okay, on first glance it'd be a great talent for a PvP Disc Priest that is healing, but isn't the point of stacking Resilience a preventative measure against being critically struck or at least reducing the chance of it happening? Any decent Arena priest is going to be maxed on Resilience.
In such cases, it seems a waste of 3 talent points.
Mike Hunt Oct 28th 2007 1:39PM
Interesting note, according to priests that have been testing this taent, and research done on reducing damage from critical strikes leads to a interesting discovery...
Damage from a critical blow is hard capped at 25% (via resilence). So, this talent, if the research is sound, would mean 5% of the reduced damage from criticals isn't factored in, since 30% is over the 25% cap for it...
/boggle
Baluki Oct 28th 2007 2:15PM
@3: A few patches back, Blizz made sure that any talents/abilities that are triggered by being crit will trigger by the same rate that they would if you had no resilience.
st0rmy1 Oct 28th 2007 2:25PM
Ah, that explains it. All those patch notes look the same time after time.
Charlie Taylor Oct 28th 2007 2:53PM
Holy crap! 4.2k honor?! That means I can get the honor for my MH in about 3 days combined with the regular honor earned with one BG a day!!!
lordfrikk Oct 28th 2007 3:29PM
@7 Yeah, sounds (and looks) so awesome... I'm just expecting nerf to come pretty soon.
Rich Oct 28th 2007 3:31PM
what's invovle in that daily PvP quest?
Alen on the PTR Oct 28th 2007 3:41PM
Daily PVP quests just involve winning a BG ( it changes day by day )
FelDork Oct 28th 2007 5:15PM
that's awesome...almost 4200honor just for winning a battleground, once a day...man I can't wait for 2.3.
Bobby Hansen Oct 28th 2007 5:18PM
Mmmm... AV seems to be the best BG for me... if we can have an AV once every four days, win, then it seems we could ring up very good honor totals
Hasselhof Oct 29th 2007 10:10AM
blizzard's priest developer is the definition of bad idea machine.
Tom Oct 29th 2007 10:43AM
So, as a disc/holy priest, this talent would... let other people heal me if I suffer a crit??? If I'm taking any damage, there's a problem already.
What I want is some serious mana regen. How about if I crit on a heal the heal costs 50% less mana? Or a new talent HoT? In heroics I just spam flash heals as fast as I can or the tank goes down. How about something that increases my mp5? Circle of healing's rarely used, no one will ever use a lightwell in combat.
Adding talents that rely on a priest suffering a crit, is a talent that only shadow priests will take. Sticking it in the Disc. tree means that NO shadow priests will take it. Great job Blizz!
my2cents Oct 29th 2007 12:03PM
@14 It's a pvp talent, as has been stated already =P And not only shadow priests need pvp talents...