Tuesday’s Scheduled Maintenance, News and PTR Update
So today we have another scheduled maintenance. Things are obviously getting down to the wire. Why do I say that? Well, it’s mostly because my background loader seems to be taking less time each week with updates. Not that we won’t have a big download come the release of 3.1, I’m sure it’ll be the regular 250MB download. But whatever is being sent each week (and no I’m not such a WoW Geek that I actually know what is happening each week) is geeting smaller or at the least taking less time.
Anyways, that’s not my only source of information. MMO Champion is reporting less and less PTR mechanic updates and more on items. Also, the Blues over at the PTR forums are more focused on the Argent Tourney than Boss mechanics so I’m guessing, as others are, that this means that they’re pretty comfortable with this.
Finally, another reason I know that it must be getting closer, is Evias is running out of things to test. Speaking of Evias, here’s his latest report from the Lodge Forums post, PTR build 9722 (3/23).
Observed changes not in notes:
Stuff that’s still messed up:
- Grim Toll (trinket) is still based on spell hit, as I’ve gotten several misses with 5.25% hit from gear and 3% from FA. [unconfirmed]
- Call of the Wild is still only applying melee attack power past 20 yards. [unconfirmed]
- Rapid Recuperation is whack (technical term) and is scaling based on iAotH and Glyph of the Hawk.
- Armored horse mounts still have a texture problem causing their armor to appear way cooler than it does on live. [unconfirmed]
- Call Stabled Pet is still a 30 minute cooldown. [unconfirmed]
- Pets do not appear to be inheriting hit in less than 1% increments. [Rilgon]
From MMO-Champion:
Alchemy
- All flasks recipes will now create 2 flasks for the same amount of ingredients but now last 1 hour instead of 2. <– Updated
Marksmanship
- Hunter’s Mark now lasts 5 min. (Up from 2 min)
Survival
- Black Arrow shares a cool down with Trap spells.(
- Entrapment now prevent target from moving 2/3/4sec. (Down from 2/4/6sec)
- Trap Mastery now increases the number of snakes summoned by Snake Trap by 3/6/9. (Down from 30/60/90, typo)
– Evias
- Besides these we now know that a new BG will be added (link)
- Addons Devs are unhappy and might threaten to leave us using only the default ui (link)
Come back later and I’ll have my thoughts on the new TOS, what it could mean for us players, and what it means for developers, and as always my 2 cents on how this could all be easily remedied making everyone as happy as possible.
