Finally the PTR patch notes has been updated, mostly things’ are as expected,
not only has the changes previously extracted directly from the game files been confirmed, new changes has also been added. After nearly three arena seasons, Blizzard has finally decide to give enhancement Shaman some love!

Anyways here are the class change notes -

Druid:

Lifebloom - the healing coeffcient has been reduced. This spell will no longer cause error messages when interacting with Spellsteal or while the Druid is under the effects of a Mine Control.
Nuturing Instinct increases your healing spells by up to 50/100% of your Agility, and increases healing done to you by 10/20% while in Cat Form.

Mage:

Improved Blink: This talent no longer reduces the mana cost of Blink. Instead, it increases the chance for all attacks to miss the Mage by 25% for 2/4 sec after Blink is cast.
Icy Veins no longer stacks with Bloodlust, Heroism, or Power Infusion.
Mana Shield: This spell will now get a percentage of the Mage’s bonus to spell damage as an additional effect. (That’s 50% of your spell damage)

Priest:

Power Infusion: Infuses the target with power, increasing their spell haste by 20% and reducing the mana cost of all spells by 20%. Lasts for 15seconds. This will not stack with other haste effects, such as Heroism, Bloodlust, or Icy Veins.

Shaman:

Flametongue Weapon damage effects for rank 3 and above now also reduce healing done to the target by 50% and lasts 5 seconds.
Flametongue Totem damage effects now also reduce healing done to the target by 50% and lasts 5 seconds.(???)
Ghost Wolf: Cast time reduced to 2 seconds, down from 3.
The Global Cooldown of all Totems has been reduced to 1 seconds, down from 1.5 seconds.
Healing Grace: This talent now reduces the chance your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%.The resistance to being dispelled modifier from this talent now applies correctly to Water Breathing.
Rockbiter Weapon: Tooltip and error messages have been adjusted slightly.
Shamanistic Rage is now a Physical ability instead of a Magic spell, and thus is no longer dispellable. It now reduces all damage taken by 30% and gives your successful melee attacks a chance to regenerate mana equal to 30% of your attack power. This lasts for 15 seconds with a 2 minute cooldown.
Toughness will now also reduce the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 10/20/30/40/50%.
(Removed from notes) Nature’s Swiftness and Elemental Mastery now share a 10 second cooldown.

Warlock:

Emberstorm now also reduces the cast time of your incinerate spell by 2/4/6/8/10%.
Life Tap: This spell now has only 3 ranks. Each now costs a fixed percentage of maximum health to cast, and grants the same fixed percentage of maximum mana: Rank 1 is 5%, Rank 2 is 12%, and Rank 3 is 20%.

Changes to Arena system and a tiny bug fix for battleground has also made it to the front page Arena:

Arena:

Matchmaking: If a queued player has a personal rating higher than their team rating, the matchmaking system will now use the highest personal rating of a queued member of that team for matchmaking purposes, instead of the team rating. In addition, when making a calculation for rating gains and losses at the end of a match, the calculation will use the higher of the personal or team ratings on the opposing team.
The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed while in the Arena. It will now take four seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.

Battlegrounds:

Battleground Rune Buffs: Speed, Restoration, and Berserking buffs received from battleground runes will no longer cause Stealth or Prowl to break.

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The new builds has just been release on the PTR, and as Blizzard promised, new changes has been added to Lifetap and, of course, the long awaited buff to enhancement tree for Shamans.

Shaman:

Update: The global cooldown on casting totems has been reduced. It is now 1 second instead of 1.5

Feb 27th should be named Shaman Day imo.

Flametongue Weapon now reduces the effectiveness of healing spells on your target by 50%. Lasts 5 seconds and refresh every hits.

All I can say is WoW, a passive MS added to NORMAL attacks. That’s going to be superior to Rogue’s Wound Poison as well as free to maintain unlike Warrior’s. However, Enhancement Shamans usually pair up with one of those 2 because they’re able to snare the target reliably, unlike Frost Shock or Earthbind.

Toughness now increases your armor value from items by 2/4/6/8/10% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by -10/20/30/40/50%.

Another sweet change, many Enhance specs can already include several points in Toughness, now everyone will want to max it. With Hamstring and Crippling Poison(already removable via Remove Poison) sticking only for 5 and 6 seconds, the field is definitely looking brighter for Enhance.

Shamanistic Rage now let you regenerate mana equal to 30% of your attack power instead of 15. Duration reduced to 15 seconds. (Was 30seconds)

Sounds like a nerf, although you do get mana back twice as fast, you lose out on 15 seconds of 30% damage reduction. I guess undispellable 30 seconds of 30% reduction sounded like too much to the devs.

Warlock:

Lifetap now converts 5/12/20% maximum life into 5/12/20% maximum mana.

Nothing huge here, other than making Lifetap garbage at lower ranks.

Looks like they meant it when they said they wanted Enhancement to be viable for 2v2. With ability to healing debuff on AUTO attacks and 50% reduction on snare durations, Enhancement Shamans won’t be taken lightly once these goes live. (Don’t forget the instant Ghost Wolf from previous PTR build - will be powerful with snares at 50% duration.)

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Good news for those of you who thought you were trapped on some backwater server for another 3 months! Blizzard has reduced the server transfer and name change cool down from 3 months to 1 month, but still no PvE to PvP transfer. The amount of time previously left on your cool down no longer matters if your previous transfer was more than 30 days ago.

Now’s your chance to undo that drunken transfer!

Source

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As many of you know by now, Stage6.com - the site that hosts nearly all our videos is shutting down. If anyone know of any alternative high quality site that supports streaming please let me know, I got some videos to move…

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More undocumented changes came in today, but as for now, they are raw information directly from game files and has not been confirmed on PTR yet!

Druid
Nurturing instincts now increases healing done to you by 10%/20% while in Cat Form and isn’t affected by your Attack Power anymore.

Mage
Arctic reach now increases Ice Lance along with Frostbolt and Blizzard

Priest
Mana burns tooltip has been change from Drains to Destroys
Power Infusion now reduce Mana cost of all spells by -20%

Shaman
The Ghost Wolf Speed bonus on a few level 60 PVP items no longer affects players above level 60.

We don’t yet know if the tool tip change for Mana burn will actually affect the spell directly yet,
but people are suspecting that this might mean Mana Burn will no longer be affected by resilience, we will just have to wait and find out when PTR comes back, whenever that may be.

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