Patch 2.3 is shaping up to be quite big one, with changes seemingly being added daily. Undaunted by the growing list of issues, the devs are still tweaking away.

Along with the usual adjustments, over the weekend we got this new goody: a brand new, high-tier priest talent — in the Discipline tree no less…

Focused Will
Rank 1/2/3
After taking a critical hit you gain the Focused Will effect, reducing critical damage taken by 10/20/30% and increasing healing effects on your by 10/20/30% for 6 secs.

As with all new talents, the race right now is figuring out the best way to use the talent. How will it play with the critical damage reduction cap discovered from resilience? Do they stack? additively? multiplicatively? or not at all? Will this talent allow for the use of more +heal gear/gems? What do you guys think?

UPDATE: Focused will is going to be redesigned. Perhaps it has something to do with the crit damage reduction cap?

New PvP Trinkets
Well technically they aren’t “new”. These are the same trinkets introduced with the new badge rewards, just with a different grind to get them. Instead of 75 heroic badges, these will cost 30,000 honor and 40 AV marks — pick your poison.

30k honor isn’t so bad when you take into consideration the new Battleground daily quests. The rewards for the quests (win an Alterac Valley, EotS, etc.) are now 12 gold and 4192 honor, so the trinket can be yours for just a weeks worth of dailys.

UPDATE: The BG daily quest reward of 4k honor was wrong. The correct bonus is around 400.

Arena Set Changes
More arena set tweaks. Looks like they are all headed in the right direction.

Paladin (Retribution) - in addition to resilience being added in the earlier builds, the entire set has now been tweaked to add more strength as well. (MMO pic)

Druid (Restoration) - spirit removed from the set and MP5 is back in. (MMO pic)

Shaman (Restoration) - glove bonus is now the same as the (far superior) elemental glove bonus (+5 yd range to shocks) and 4-pc tweaked a little as well, 1.5 sec CD to grounding. (MMO pic)

Hunter 1-35 Tooltip Error Confirmed
As speculated in the last news, the hunter ability tooltips that showed 1-35 yd ranges are indeed typos:

There’s a tooltip error, it should be “5-35 yards”. We want melee and ranged to be kept separate, so that when in melee attack range you should not be able to use a ranged attack. There’s some amount of ‘give’ there, especially in fast paced PvP which can produce some temporary gray area but that’s fully known with this change.
Feeding the issue of the tooltip error is a bug currently where you can indeed range attack someone while being meleed, but that’s in the process of being resolved as well. -Drysc

Blizzard is No Fun Dept
The Lightning Capacitor got a slight nerf in the latest patch — it now has a 2.5 CD for gaining charges. Other than further irritating PvE elemental shaman, why the change?

Turns out some creative mage decided to make lemonade with that cramped arena vendor hut and figured out how to farm 10k honor/hr with the trinket.

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3 Responses to “2.3 PTR: Yet More Changes”

1. Tanakh Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

   I am glad to see an alternative to farm 75 heroic badges, 30k seems like a good price for it, just farm 2 weekends and you’ll probably get it
   Wouldn’t mind seeing it for 20k-25k though.

   Good also to see the priest talent getting fixed, as it seemed kind of flimsy (depending on how it was ment to add to resilience), also that the daily honor it’s not 4k, that was over the top.

   Wonder if the Lighting Capacitor could be used by a warlock hellfiring with a VW sacced, probably not as it is a channeled spell, well, i’ll never know.

2. Phate Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

   bawwww i was getting excited about the BG dailies but now its just an extra AV squeezed in your day..

3. Tzal Says:
   October 30th, 2007 at 10:53 am

   Slight nerf to the LC? It’s pretty big actually. Your best case scenario for the LC after this nerf is a bolt every 7.5 seconds. And that assumes no lag and a crit immediately after the CD is up. Realistically, you are probably looking at a bolt every 10+ seconds with this nerf.

   Pre-nerf, with AM and AB rotations, you can get multiple bolts in under 7.5 seconds on a regular basis. This trinket accounted for a 5-8% increase in my DPS after I got it. (I tested it in a few heroic runs). I’ll wait to see how it turns out once it goes live, but I’m pessimistic.

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