PTR Notes: Class set changes
by Eliah Hecht 
Feb 15th 2008 at 9:00AM
That was quite a big push to the PTR last night. In addition to Primal Nethers and Nether Vortices not being BoP, resilience affecting mana drain (which was buffed for warlocks), five new jewelcrafted trinkets, etc., several of the class sets were also changed:- [Paladin] Season 1/2 Retribution gear has resilience now (previously added, here for completeness)
- [Paladin] Healing arena sets 4-piece bonus changed to "Increases the healing from your Holy Shock spell by 30%" (was "Reduces the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice by 10 sec")
- [Druid] Restoration arena and PvP sets 4-piece bonus changed to "The casting time on your Healing Touch spell is reduced by 0.25 sec" (was 15% increase to the outdoor movement speed)
- [Druid] Balance arena and PvP sets 4-piece bonus changed to "Your Wrath casts have a chance to reduce the cast time on your next Starfire by 1.5 sec" (was 15% increase to the outdoor movement speed)
- [Hunter] Gronnstalker's Bracers: 22 haste rating changed to 22 crit rating
- [Mage] Season 3 arena set 4-piece bonus changed to "Reduces the cooldown of your Blink spell by 2 sec" (was 0.15 sec reduction to Polymorph casting time)
- [Shaman] Elemental Season 3 arena set 4-piece bonus nerfed to 50% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting Lightning Bolt (was 70%)
[via MMO-Champion]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Tim Feb 15th 2008 9:11AM
rumor going around that feral druids got nerfed too by the set changes: the 15% speed increase now only affects cat and bear outdoors. i don't have my druid transferred to see if this is indeed the case.
Physical Original Feb 15th 2008 10:09AM
From my PTR feral druid:
..."while in Bear or Cat form"...
Physical Original Feb 15th 2008 10:09AM
From my PTR feral druid:
..."while in Bear or Cat form"...
Zumwalah Feb 15th 2008 9:21AM
lol groon
Eliah Hecht Feb 15th 2008 9:24AM
xD
Chingao Feb 15th 2008 9:39AM
lolz.... Shaman bonus nerfed. It's bad enough trying to get a LB off in the arena, now our chances are reduced even further by 20%. Hahah beautiful. Why am I not surprised.
Ryan Feb 15th 2008 9:39AM
Glad I quit playing my shaman.
Drakuhl Feb 15th 2008 9:43AM
I hate the fact that Alchemy will get quasi-nerfed by making high end flaks purchaseable. I am an Elixir-Master, and the only way for me to make a decent profit on my server was by making the few Flasks I discovered so far. So with one of them now readily available in stores, I can look at even less profit in the long run...
amasen Feb 15th 2008 3:44PM
You realize the Mark of the Illidari require exalted with the Sha'tar, Cenarion Expedition and Scryers/Aldors.
On top of that they also require a Mark of the Illidari... A drop from SSC/TK and above... This change won't affect you much.
theRaptor Feb 15th 2008 9:46AM
I like the Holy Pally gear change, along with the buff to Holy Shock, Paladins now have a semi-decent mobile heal. Ill have to get that fourth piece of glads on my pally and try it out.
Abraham Tehrani Feb 15th 2008 11:19AM
Where is the warrior love? :(
Fearless Feb 15th 2008 11:50AM
I'm waiting for Rossi to post something about it in "Care and Feeding of..." today. But from everything I've read, Fury is getting a barely mentionable buff (offhand crits proc Flurry now, and it refreshes properly), Arms gets DR on Imp. Hamstring but supposedly better rage generation from Endless Ragelol, and Prot gets nothing at all whatsoever to make up for insane boost in caster threat from all that haste.
Good_Idea Feb 15th 2008 11:55AM
Warriors are lucky they don't get nerfed if anything. I don't want to see warriors get nerfed, but they certainly aren't going to get buffed.
infection Feb 15th 2008 1:53PM
If they get buffed, I would say it wouldn't be in arena's. The are on everyone #1 list that is out.
For Pve? Meh, no idea if they need a buff or not.
woeye Feb 15th 2008 9:58AM
My druid hit 65 yesterday. Five more levels until finally I can get rid of this stupid shaman class. And moonkin is already way, way more fun than elemental ever was. Why play a shaman if you can have much more fun with druids?
Snarl Feb 15th 2008 10:03AM
Well, the Resto Druid 4 piece bonus change hurts a little; mostly because it was replaced by something incomprehensible (healing touch you say... o.O). But something had to happen given the present level of Resto-hate (see the wow druid forums today and count the gloaters to judge for yourself), so I was resigned to the fact beforehand.
I do truly feel bad for the feral druids though. They seem to have been caught in the backlash. At least Moonkin may have come up trumps here if that proc rate is decent.
All in all, it could have been much worse for the "tree hugger legion". Just have to wait and see now if Blizzard keeps to its "baby steps" policy or if there is more store for us.
PS: Shaman. /sad for you
dBaseD Feb 15th 2008 10:09AM
Classic Blizzard..
"Lets make resilience affect mana draining effects by up to 25%!"
"Ooh, good idea! But make sure you buff a warlocks mana drain by 30% at the same time to overcompensate for the changes - we want to nerf Priests so that it costs them almost as much mana to cast as it burns from the other player"
Time to shelf my priest till WotLK I guess.
Milktub Feb 15th 2008 10:16AM
Wowsers.
Flasks purchasable? Nethers are a commodity to be traded openly? Remind me what incentive there is to be a crafter?
Balasan Feb 15th 2008 10:35AM
really really imba early BoP 70 gear (and some end game gear too) that people who do not have the profession can never use?
If the only reason for you taking any profession is making money then you really took the wrong professions. Ever heard of mining/skinning or herbalism/skinning or herbalism/mining combo?
Taja Feb 15th 2008 10:25AM
Mage set bonus changed what? This was only in an early PTR build a 0.15 sec reduction on poly. The live version is already -2 sec on blink.