7.2 PTR Development Notes Build 23478, January 31st Hotfixes

envoyé 2017-01-31 à 14:14 par perculia

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Classes

Druid

Infected Wounds now reduces the movement of targets by 50% (was 30%). The reduction remains at 30% in PvP situations.

Mage

Frost
Brain Freeze procs gained while you already have a Brain Freeze active and unused will now be delayed slightly.

Developers’ notes: The delay on the second Brain Freeze will give the Mage time to use the first Brain Freeze proc. For example, the Mage might cast Frostbolt (proc Brain Freeze), then Frostbolt (proc Brain Freeze again), then instant Flurry, then Ice Lance, then Instant Flurry again, then Ice Lance.

Ebonbolt now travels slightly slower.

Developers’ notes: This allows the guaranteed Brain Freeze proc/instant Flurry cast immediately following it to land first, providing the Winter's Chill buff to that Ebonbolt. For example, the Mage might cast Frostbolt (proc Brain Freeze), then Ebonbolt, and fully use both Brain Freeze procs.

The first missile from a Flurry cast should now hit sooner.

Developers’ notes: This allows a Frostbolt or Ebonbolt cast immediately before a Brain Freeze Flurry to more consistently benefit from that Flurry's Winter's Chill effect, even if the mage isn’t standing at long range. This allows the Frost Mage who has an active Brain Freeze to cast Frostbolt/Ebonbolt, then an Instant Flurry, then Ice Lance while standing 15+ yards from the target. Previously, the Mage had to be about twice as far away.

Priest

Atonement will now heal players who are out of line of sight of the Priest.

Rogue

Agonizing Poison application no longer increases Kingsbane damage by twice the listed amount.
Crippling Poison, Pistol Shot, and Nightblade/Night Terrors now reduce the movement of targets by 50% (was 30%). The reduction remains at 30% in PvP situations.

Dungeons and Raids

The Nighthold

Gul’dan

Resolved an issue that could cause Empowered Bonds of Fel to instantly detonate.

Events

The mages of the Kirin Tor made some arcane miscalculations when planning their Tavern Crawl. The Tavern Crawl is cancelled. Khadgar sends his apologies!

Items

Cache of Nightborne Treasures now correctly displays the difficulty it is associated with for non-Normal difficulties.
Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish should no longer be castable while Mounted or under the effect of crowd control.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter

Rain from Above now provides a brief immunity to stun effects upon activation, rather than removing them.

Hunter

Mending Bandage will now remove bleed effects on targets other than the Hunter.

Monk

Xuen summoned by Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger now deals 40% less damage in PvP situations.
Hit Combo now grants 1% damage per stack in PvP situations (was 2% per stack).
Heavy-Handed Strikes now stuns the target for 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).

Priest

Holy Ward no longer triggers its cooldown when a crowd control effect is prevented, and instead triggers a cooldown when Holy Ward is cast.

Blizzard

This week marks our first major content push to the Patch 7.2 PTR. There’s a lot to dig into, so we’d like to provide some additional insight into what you will (and won’t) find in this update.

Most of the Broken Shore content has been unlocked, starting with the introductory quest chain. You can pick that up just by heading to Dalaran – it’ll be automatically pushed to your quest log when you arrive. That quest will lead you to the rest of the Broken Shore content available in this build, including the new World Quests, the continuation of your Order Hall Campaign, unlocking the new 7.2 Artifact Traits, and several other things to discover around the island (such as new treasures and rare enemies).

Note that, while the quest chains to unlock the new Artifact Traits aren’t fully unique to each specialization, we did make sure that none of them are repeated within a class. That means there will be a total of 7 unique chains, all of which are ready for testing in this build – 1 for tank specs, 2 for healing specs, and 4 for DPS specs. So, if you’re playing a Rogue, you’ll have a different series of quests to upgrade your Assassination, Outlaw, and Subtlety Artifacts, but one of those will be the same as what you’d experience as, say, a Fury Warrior.

Also available for testing in this week’s update is a new PvP Brawl (Gravity Lapse), some updates to the reputation system that allow you to earn additional rewards past Exalted, new Order Hall upgrades to research, and additional followers to recruit.

There’s a couple things related to the Broken Shore content to keep in mind while testing it on the PTR:

The Legionfall faction is available, but the rewards are not yet implemented. You’ll be able to earn reputation, but there’s no quartermaster to purchase items from yet.
Many of the item rewards from killing mobs or completing quests are still a work in progress. Some things might be missing their rewards entirely.
The final Broken Shore zone will include a region-wide, cross-faction effort to construct buildings to fight against the Legion’s stronghold. For the purpose of testing on the PTR (which has a much smaller number of players), we’ve reduced how much it takes to construct those buildings.

Other important content that’s coming in Patch 7.2 but is not yet available for testing includes:

The Broken Shore World Bosses
Class Mounts
Flying
The Tomb of Sargeras raid and Cathedral of Eternal Night dungeon

We’ll be unlocking that content for testing in future updates as 7.2 development continues. For the time being, we’re looking forward to reading your feedback on everything we’re enabling in this week’s build. Thanks, and happy testing!
In the offchance I get a response, will players be able to go check out the questlines for the new Artifact Skins?

Hey Lore!

What about the new changes to the Legendary System, Yad Sivart mentioned in this Post?

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753095273#post-20

GreetingsCrafted Legendary Follow Up

Blizzard

I thought there were going to be actual meaningful changes to the Legendary system. Are the crafted legendaries seriously what we were told to wait for in 7.2?

Ughhh

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Commentaire de Joejr82 Sounds like a good build! Commentaire de uparrow First big step in the PTR. Still holding out for the new dungeon and raid as well as flying on the new undead dragon. Commentaire de SilverDragon234 An effort to construct a large stronghold in the upcoming patch won't be so easy, Perc, but Varian would want us all (whether or not we have part one of pathfinder finished) to do it. Commentaire de nmb3000 Too bad about the tavern crawl... does anyone know what the problem was?

I think it's interesting they blame PTR testing rather than their own internal QA (assuming they have any...). Commentaire de Billredskin Too bad about the tavern crawl... does anyone know what the problem was?

I think it's interesting they blame PTR testing rather than their own internal QA (assuming they have any...).

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