The Public Test Realms for Patch 3.1 have been updated again (to build 9684) — and the official patch notes too have been updated. So let’s see what we’ve got that’s new …
Keep in mind that I am trying to just list the changes to the notes, so you should really take a look at the full Patch 3.1 notes when you have a chance. On the other hand, we’re still in the PTR phase and everything can still change!
Hunters
- Talents – Marksmanship
- Concussive Barrage redesigned: 2-point talent. Now causes your Multi-Shot and Chimera Shot to have a 50/100% chance to daze the target for 4 seconds.
- Efficiency: Increased to 3/6/9/12/15% up from 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Silencing Shot: No longer on the global cooldown.
- Talents – Survival
- Entrapment redesigned: When your Frost Trap, Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Snake Trap are triggered, you entrap all afflicted targets, preventing them from moving for 2/4/6 seconds.
- T.N.T.: Gives your Explosive Shot a 33/66/100% chance to refresh the duration of your Immolation Trap effect on the target.
- Trap Mastery: This talent has been moved up to tier-2, up from tier-9, and is now a 3-point talent.
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Aimed Shot: Now reduces cooldown by 2 seconds.
- Glyph of the Monkey: This glyph has been converted to Glyph of Mending, which increases the healing done by Mend Pet by 40%.
- Glyph of Snake Trap: Now reduces damage taken by snakes from area damage by 90%.
- Glyph of Wyvern Sting: Now reduces the cooldown by 6 seconds, down from 15 seconds. No longer reduces the damage done by Wyvern Sting’s effect.
And while we’re here, a few Blizzard posts I wanted to mention:
Dresorull says that ammo won’t be changing to sell in stacks of 1000 with Patch 3.1, so you’ll have to buy it and stack it yourself.
And Eyonix says that he will bring up the discrepancy between the Call Stabled Pet cooldown and the (lack of) dual spec switching cooldown with the developers, although he’s “not sure if it’s going to be seen as a concern”.
I am definitely enjoying the content, enjoying this class, my pixel pets, and the people in communities like this. Thanks. I have made it my mission to get some other hunters in the small new guild I belong too. There was one other, but he caught the alt bug and is now solely responsible for half the characters in the guild under level 20. *grin*
I am glad you enjoy your spirit beast! I seem to only like the ‘common’ skins and go out of my way to tame only the pets that look most like real world animals for some psychological reason I don’t care to understand (I commiserated with Rottingham’s points above and personally will never tame a cat, gorilla, or spirit beast because I am silly like that). That is the beauty of our many choices for pets and the versatility of all of us being in this game.
Whew, Palladiamors. I thought based on your sense of humour from previous posts I had read that I could get away with saying that. Give me about a year at level 80 and lots of end game and raiding experience and we will discuss circles around each other until the cows come home.
Works done! What a productive day. Time to head home and then get ready to play some WoW once I get the little one to bed…
Cheers,
Ryinnik
@ Palla
For me usually lv 1-35/40 is a breeze. Then the stall cannon hits and I forget wait where do I go next, oh I cvan go do this..
then 45/50 is the next stall cannon. I finally remembered Hinterlands as I stopped questing there mostly as THE TROLLS THERE ARE EVIL AND GIVE NO REP!!!
But finding it like face rolling to level my paladin there. I was a bit nervous cause he was lv 46 when I got there and the turtles were all orange… then it was AM I DOIN IT RITE as I just slaughtered turtle after turtle after turtle…
then I was mass pulling 2-5 mobs for killing the ‘high elves’ wolves and owlbeasts and just laughing my head off. It is far, far easier than when I try and kill a orange level mob with my hunters- sure I miss a bit and some holy damage is resisted but it’s just eeevuuuuull how quickly I’m gunning things down.
… tho damn the mana breaks are killing me as badly as when the nerf to mana regen overall hit that first time when boars broke.
… dayum we went way off topic.
“… dayum we went way off topic.”
I can put us back on topic? Wanna see!
*whoosh*
New PTR build tonight!!
Dun dun dun! Let’s hope there’s some good hunter goods. xD
Actually, I guess that would be back on topicish….. *Laughs* And whats wrong with off topic?!
Palla:
Nothing XD My whole life is off topic!
You know, I’m playing my druid right now, and my friend is helping, I can’t help but think to myself “so this is what my pet feels like” as I level druid XD
Speaking of leveling, I need to find a good leveling spot, my ghost wolf and warp stalker want lvl 80 already XD
lolwhat there’s another new build?
haven’t been on the PTR lately if you could tell :d
Hm, well Rikaku, outside of instances [which are damn good for leveling pets], I’d have to suggest places such as Storm Peaks where there’s no other hunters/players around and just mask it up as grinding food mats. WoWhead should have a few good places where there’s rhinos or mammoths running around- and depending on the phasing level with the Brunhilder/Hodir quests, the mammoths and jourmungers seem to have a decent [if not insanely fast] respawning time.
I just find it so amusing how MM still remains the red-headed child of the huntering family. Throughout TBC, I recieved a LOT of grief for being MM and now people totally forget about MM as they talk about only BM and SV! Now, I have nothing against those specs – I have three hunters, one each spec. Yes, I’m levelling them that way – I made my first toon in ’05 and levelled her as MM from level 10. I’ll NEVER change her (but I will dual spec MM/SV because I just looooove to trap dance) and I’m levelling a hunter as SV so far (almost level 30; only three months old. Not bad for a college student, eh?). Oddly enough, I found my BM hunter as the most boring, though I suppose it’s because I’m used to pushing a bazillion buttons as a MM not just three or four as a BM. :)
Okay, I’m sorry to say, but I’ve had this bone to pick with a lot of the people out there nowdays: please, please, PLEASE… stop with the “PVP spec, PVE spec, leveling spec, and raiding spec” nonsense. You CAN level with ANY spec – it only takes patience (and some skill, too. I rarely, if ever, grabbed aggro off my wolf on my MM throughout the last four years, even when I’m using all the yummy MM special shots. I just pew-pew and FD/disengage [OMG I LOVE DISENGAGE SO MUCH FUN]).
Erm… *cough* Yeah, I guess I got my point across? Yes, there are a “better” spec for leveling/PVP/PVE/raiding, whatever, but it’s doable with all specs. (Leveling, though, I’ll be slightly loose on; I understand that a lot of players, unlike me, simply do not enjoy leveling and therefore would love to level as quickly as possible. And I won’t get upset at the min/maxers because it’s fun to them, though not to me.)
Seriously, it’ll make me a happy, happy, happy cow if people stop ignoring/make fun of MM (though I really appericate how considerable of MM you guys are! You make me happy :D – it’s mostly the comments from readers on BRK’s site that saddens me) and somehow lessen (if not stop entirely) that habit of “only one spec to go for leveling/PVP/PVE/raiding, OMG!” (Particularly leveling. PVP/PVE/raiding doesn’t bother me as much.)
(I hope I don’t come across as a prick because honestly, I do like all three specs – I just like MM more because there’s more to do [and c'mon, my main, born in the '05 and continues to be my main in '09 had been a MM all her life. It's hard to break the habit, y'know?].)
(Happy huntering! It’s not the end of the world! :D)
@ Watermist
‘Okay, I’m sorry to say, but I’ve had this bone to pick with a lot of the people out there nowdays: please, please, PLEASE… stop with the “PVP spec, PVE spec, leveling spec, and raiding spec” nonsense. You CAN level with ANY spec – it only takes patience’
Actually tbh atm, it is like that. BM is a leveling specc, as you do NOT need to really worry about gear while leveling up. I mean Ryai mostly had quest gear and a couple pvp items when she hit outlands. And I was forced to trundle along without getting anything better than pvp epix cause of computer problems and such ilk.
I found, when I was leveling Rosa as MM before I switched her to BM due to the boar breaking incident [and mana poof problems], that it was good but I still needed that boar- [as I had a cat, and unfortunately anything > cat for the most part for aggro but boar was the best att], and I found that she was very gear dependant. I found myself well looking for the next gear upgrade I could manage to obtain with help from friends or the horrible thought of pugging something..
As SV, again Rosa before I hit sixty, I found that I really didn’t like it- sure I killed mobs dead, but it didn’t fit my playstyle, and again it is very gear dependant I hear, and well even more so and tbh I don’t want to worry about gear.
But atm this is not what we were talking about or complaining about even.
Though atm I have to say MM and SV are the raiding/PVP specs atm, unfortunately, thanks to Blizzard. And so far BM has been reduced to the adopted child, who is only good for solo, leveling and grinding.
/sigh.
BM is also good for farming too ryai… but other than that i agree 100% with ryai… sorry watermist
Ok, I give up on Blizzard. This is officially, taking the fun out of things. Apparently no more rhino-fun.
“Pet
* Stampede (Rhino) no longer knockbacks the target but causes it to take 25% additional damage from bleed effects for 1 min instead.
* Spore Cloud range was increased from 5 to 6 yards.”
-latest build
Rikaku.i think someone mentioned that the old rhino skill would have knocked things out of range of the thunderstomp talent?the bleed effect seems kind of pointless outside of groups though.unless theyre thinking of adding some bleeding shot thing for hunters…
*twitches* *Pauses* *Twitches* !@#$ that. I LOVED stampede. Now it is a worthless piece of crap. *Takes a deep breath* WHAT THE !@#$ DO I NEED INCREASED BLEED DAMAGE FOR IN SOLO OR EVEN PVP OR PVE PLAY?! I think ONE of the !@#$ing bleed classes, rogues, don’t have a way to make bleeds more effective. What the bloody !@#$ing !@#$ do we need that crap for? Also within the patch notes! For the first time ever, TWO trees have the same bloody talent. The warriors arms tree just got the ability to use charge in combat.
I am sorry. Honestly if you’d heard me swearing in life, you’d thought I had tourettes or however that’s spelled. But I LOVED stampede. I was willing to accept a toned down stampede, making it single target, but whatever the new stampede is, it isn’t good. It’s total crap. The only thing that might make it even semi-worthwhile is if it has it’s cooldown lowered drastically.
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It’s cause I share Palla’s sentiment, only I cannot edit myself for 5 minutes. XD
Let’s move this over to the new thread, people! *grin*
really helpful post, hope you keep posting more articles like this.thank you very much for the post
I’ve started a new hunter in the past couple days, a draenaei with a ravager caught at level 10, they’re both at 30 now and going strong.
That being said, I have notice a change from my old hunter, seems it takes quite a bit more effort to make the same kills as before. this is with a pure-bred BM build.
Have they REALLY screwed BM up as bad as y’all say at higher levels? If so I guess he’ll be doomed to soloing.
well rowane… IMO BM is the best for solo etc, i can kill beasties quicker and never pull aggro off my gorilladin… but as for raid dps etc. yes, they have… /sad
I don’t mean to travel off the verbal path but whats whith the 51st talant in BM i mean i love my Spirit cat (Ruh) but uther than cosmetic reasons its the most pointless point and blizz will argu that its just 1 point i mean WTF do any of thim know or even play wow dosent seem like it 1 point can be the differinc between good dps and bad dps and thay will also argu that us hunters r hunters for the joy of tameing and yes but it all ends there i mean SV has explosive shot MM chamera shot not to say what other specs have for there 51st point is just a start if enything it should be more of a midd tear point than an ending point i was kinda hoping for an ability like the worlocks haha warewolves would be uterly awsome An on another not WTH is whith all the other classes getting perminent or tempirary pets so mutch for being a hunter this game is going to hell in a hand basket If u want to play all types needed go druid WTF thay should not be a MT not have cc like a rogue or ungodly HOT’s altho nice in raids and PVP but look waht happens (warrior, pally, rogue) lost there jobes so what the hell
P.S. srry was just typing no grammer :P
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