by Its_Immanis - 9 years ago     show comments

Rygarius has just updated the 6.2 Patch Notes for content currently in testing on the PTR.

As always, BOLD indicates a an update or addition, ITALIC indicates a removal. strikethroughs are left over from Blizzard’s format and are the same as italicized text.

Remember, these modifications are subject to change up to the time they are deployed to the live realms.

General Changes

Salvage Yard

• Gray items obtained from salvage recovered from Follower missions may now sometimes drop a stackable gray item instead of a range of various gray items taking up lots of inventory space. The average gold value should remain roughly the same.

Raids and Dungeons

Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry Changes

• A raid-wide debuff has been added to reduce damage dealt by all creatures and NPCs in Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulty.
• The achievements, Ahead of the Curve: Imperator’s Fall, Cutting Edge: Imperator’s Fall, Ahead of the Curve: Blackhand’s Crucible, and Cutting Edge: Blackhand’s Crucible are no longer obtainable.

UI

• Improved banner notifications when the player receives an item with a Warforged, tertiary stat, or socket bonus.

Class

Druid

General

• Frenzied Regeneration now refunds a proportional amount of excess healing dealt back to the Druid as Rage.
• Moonfire now deals 4% less damage.
• Wrath now deals 4% less damage.

Balance

• Mastery: Total Eclipse now provides a 2.5% increase to the maximum damage bonus from Eclipse per mastery (up from 1.9%). has reduced in effectiveness by 5%.
• Starfall now deals 4% less damage.
• Starfire now deals 4% less damage.
• Starsurge now deals 4% less damage.
• Sunfire now deals 4% less damage.

Hunter

Talents

• A Murder of Crows now deals 75% 80% of normal damage against player-controlled targets for Beast Mastery Hunters.

Monk

General

• Tiger Strikes no longer triggers from multistrikes, but now provides a 35% 40% increase to Multistrike chance while active (up from 25%).

Windwalker

• Battle Trance now increases Multistrike stat gains from all sources by 15% (up from 5%).

Priest

Talents

• Surge of Light (Discipline, Holy) can now also trigger from Power Word: Shield and Clarity of Will.

Rogue

Talents

• Deadly Throw now reduces the target’s movement speed by 70% (up from 50%) but no longer interrupts spellcasting when used with 5 combo points.

Shaman

Elemental

• Elemental Overload now increases multistrike damage by 20% (down from 35%), but now increases Multistrike stat gains from all sources by 10% (up from 5%).

Warlock

General

• The following Warlock pets received a visual upgrade and are now using higher-fidelity models.
  • Imp
  • Felguard (Demonology)
  • Voidlord (Grimoire of Supremacy)
  • Wrathguard (Demonology Warlocks with Grimoire of Supremacy)

Demonology

• Mastery: Master Demonologist now increases damage dealt by the Warlock and their demon servants by 1.25% per mastery (up from 0.96%), and further increases damage dealt by Touch of Chaos, Chaos Wave, Doom, Immolation Aura, and Soul Fire while in Metamorphosis by 2.5% per mastery (up from 1.92%). has decreased in effectiveness by 4%.

Warrior

Arms

• Mastery: Weapons Master now increases the damage of Mortal Strike, Colossus Smash, and Execute abilities by 5.2% per mastery (up from 4.5%).
• Mortal Strike now deals 6% less damage.

Talents

• Gladiator’s Resolve (Protection): Gladiator Stance now also increases the Warrior’s Mastery by 50% 30% while active.