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PTR Patch Notes Updated!

Updated: 11/17/2009

• Paladins: Divine Intervention
  Priests: Shadowform
  Rogues: Deadly Poison, Improved Poisons
  Shamans: Elemental Mastery
  Warlocks: Improved Drain Soul, Destructive Reach
  User Interface: Dungeon System now called Dungeon Finder
  Graphics: Enabling D3D
  Items: Shaman Tier-9 4-Piece Set Bonus (Elemental)
  Bug Fixes section updated

Update: 11.17.2009

Paladins

• Divine Intervention: This ability now also removes Exhaustion or Sated from a target if the recipient is out of combat when the effect ends. In addition, the cooldown on this ability has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

Priests

• Talents
  • Shadow
    • Shadowform: This talent also now causes Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch to benefit from haste. Both the period length and the duration of these spells will be reduced by haste. In addition, the mana cost has been reduced from 32% to 13% of base mana.

Rogues

• Deadly Poison: In addition to its existing effects, when a rogue applies Deadly Poison to a target which has already reached the maximum number of applications, this will also trigger the poison which the rogue is using on his or her other weapon.
• Talents
  • Assassination
    • Improved Poisons: Bonus chance to trigger Deadly Poison from this talent increased.

Shamans

• Talents
  • Elemental
    • Elemental Mastery: This talent now increases spell haste by 15% instead of critical strike chance while active.

Warlocks

• Talents
  • Affliction
    • Improved Drain Soul: This talent now reduces threat by 10%/20%, up from 5%/10%.
  • Destruction
    • Destructive Reach: This talent now reduces threat by 10%/20%, up from 5%/10%.

Graphics

• A new feature has been added to the D3D graphics engine to improve texture management (particularly for Windows XP users). If you are experiencing random crashes related to file read errors or out of memory, this new backend may help. To enable the new backend, add the following line to your Config.WTF file: SET gxApi “d3d9ex”. For more information please visit our Test Realm forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=11572&sid=1

Items

• Shaman Tier-9 4-Piece Set Bonus (Elemental): This set bonus now does an additional 10% of Lava Burst’s initial damage over time instead of increasing the size of the Lava Burst.