Patch

[Fenz]

Apparently we will see a small patch this week

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.0.9

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

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

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.
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%.

Glyphs

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.

Glyphs

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

Glyphs

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%.

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.

[Blahran]

fuck blizzard pvp nerf of arcane burst makes playing arcane in pve anoying arcane pve is not nerfed, though as it looks atm but havent heared theorycraft numbers

[Lateralus]

some really nice changes there

[Schneel]

some really nice changes there

[Morlog]

so a nerf to pvp in numbing

a buff to dps in the form of slice but lower burst from mutilate

and 15% dmg boost from hunger instead of 9%

+ - 0 or?

or is it time to get some maces swords fists etc?

[Schneel]

so a nerf to pvp in numbing

a buff to dps in the form of slice but lower burst from mutilate

and 15% dmg boost from hunger instead of 9%

+ - 0 or?

or is it time to get some maces swords fists etc?

Combat and Muti should be on par after these changes.
I believe both speccs will go up in dps.

[Versus]

Mkay putting in the changes to mana regen but not the bok baseline change till 3.1 is a bit much oh well.

[xen]

some really nice changes there

Lol, worst class ingame gets nerfed?

[Lateralus]

some really nice changes there

Lol, worst class ingame gets nerfed?

yeah but they are changing all cast debuffs so i dont mind to much. the nerfs to rogues and arcane mages are the ones im happy with. alltho they dominate pretty hard still :p

[zNow]

so a nerf to pvp in numbing

a buff to dps in the form of slice but lower burst from mutilate

and 15% dmg boost from hunger instead of 9%

+ - 0 or?

or is it time to get some maces swords fists etc?

In conclusion it's a huge nerf regarding PvP and a slight damage boost in PvE imo.