World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.2.2

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/patchnotes/

The latest patch notes can always be found at:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/testrealm.html

General

The Brood Mother Returns

After years of lurking in her lair battling the many brave adventurers who travelled from afar to challenge her, Onyxia returns to commemorate World of Warcraft’s five-year anniversary.

• Onyxia has been scaled to offer new challenges to level 80 players and is now available for testing in 10- and 25- player modes.

• Adjustments have been made to the encounter to keep it fit for modern raiding, but the fundamental experience of fighting the Brood Mother will remain, as will the horror of the Deep Breaths!

• Some classic items Onyxia offered level 60 players will have their stats adjusted appropriately for level 80 players.

• Brood of Onyxia, a very rare 310%-speed mount modeled after Onyxia herself will be available for the luckiest of challengers.

Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.

Death Knights

Pets

• Gnaw: This death knight ghoul ability now has a 1-minute cooldown.

Druids

Balance

• Moonkin Form: This form now also reduces the damage the druid takes while stunned by 15%.

• Typhoon: The knockback distance from this spell has been increased to match Thunderstorm.

Feral Combat

• Predatory Strikes: This talent now also causes the druid’s finishing moves to provide a 7/13/20% chance per combo point to make the next Nature spell with a cast time below 10 seconds instant cast.

Mages

• Arcane Blast: The buff from using this ability now stacks up to 4 times instead of 3, and each application increases mana cost by 130% instead of 200%.

Talents

Arcane

• Missile Barrage: The effect from triggering this talent now removes the mana cost of Arcane Missiles. In addition, the chance for Arcane Blast to trigger this talent is now 8/16/24/32/40%. All other listed spells continue to have a 4/8/12/16/20% chance to trigger it.

Paladins

• Righteous Fury: The bonus threat from Holy spells caused by this talent has been reduced from 90% to 80%.

Talents

Protection

• Judgements of the Just: The reduction in cooldown to Hammer of Justice provided by this talent has been reduced to 5/10 seconds instead of 10/20 seconds.

• Touched by the Light: This talent now provides 20/40/60% of the paladin’s strength as spell power instead of 10/20/30% of the paladin’s stamina.

Retribution

• Seal of Command: This ability now chains to strike up to 2 additional targets when it is triggered by an attack.

This has potential and I can see its uses in PvP, as well as groups of mobs in dungeons and raids. It is important to note that this will proc only off single target attacks, not mutliple target attacks such as Divine Storm (understandable because the chaining would be insane). Seal of Command will still proc it’s normal damage on Divine Storm, though.

Rogues

• Fan of Knives: The damage done by this ability has been reduced by 30%.

Talents

Combat

• Throwing Specialization: This talent no longer causes Fan of Knives to interrupt spellcasting.

Subtlety

• Honor Among Thieves: A 1-second cooldown is now enforced on how often a rogue can gain combo points from his party via this talent.

Dungeons & Raids

Shadowfang Keep

• Wailing Guardsman: Screams of the Past will no longer have multiple applications on a target. Recast time has been increased.

Items

Glyphs

• Glyph of Mind Flay: This glyph no longer reduces the magnitude of the movement reduction on the Mind Flay victim.

User Interface

• The size of the Focus Frame can now be adjusted via the Interface Options menu.

For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the US UI & Macros Forum:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11114

Bug Fixes

• Balance of Power: Misleading tooltip reworded. The tooltip previously reported an incorrect value for the increased chance to hit with spells. The actual benefit of the talent is unchanged.

• Divine Aegis: Ranks 1 and 2 now work with Holy Nova.

• Trap Mastery: Tooltip now states the correct amount of snakes summoned.

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New Pets / Mounts

From mmo-champion [Source]

A few new mounts and pets have been added to the game with this patch, we already know that the Onyxia Whelpling will be given to every character connected in-game during the 5th anniversary of WoW.

Tuskarr Kite – Right Click to summon and dismiss your kite.
Little White Stallion – Summons and dismisses a rideable little white stallion. This is NOT a fast mount.
Little Ivory Raptor – Summons and dismisses a rideable little ivory raptor. This is NOT a fast mount.
Spectral Tiger Cub – Right Click to summon and dismiss your spectral tiger cub.
Onyxia Whelpling – Right Click to summon and dismiss your whelpling.

There are also a bunch of … Mohawk related spells.

Silence Fool – Pummels an enemy for 15 damage and interrupts the spell being cast for 5 sec.
Pity the Fool – Reduces the melee attack power of nearby enemies for 30 sec.
Maximum Mohawk – Only one Night Elf Mohawk may assist a group at a time.
Create Mohawk Grenade – Right Click to throw and pity some fools!