Unofficial 2.4 Patch Notes
saedo — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:46
Additional excerpts of 2.4 Patch Notes (not confirmed)
The following info have been posted (from memory, so its not an exact copy/paste of the real thing) by a trusted source on ElitistJerks. (Its from the benefactors board)
Keep in mind, nothing has been confirmed by an official source.
WARLOCK
- Improved Shadow Bolt now only works for the warlock who casted the bolt.
- ISB reduced to 15% at max rank
- Incinerate coeff increased by $
- Demonic Knowledge reduced to 10% from 15%
- Lifetap coeff reduced by $
- Lifetap health cost increase by 10%
MAGE
- Icy Veins and Bloodlust no longer stack
- Icy Veins no longer increase chance to freeze, but provide full pushback immunity for all spells while active.
- Mana cost of Blink and Slow reduced by 40%
- Improved blink changed to increase blink distance by 30%
- Prismatic Cloak buffed to 6% damage redux
- Arcane Fortitude buffed to 100% of intellect as armor
- Ice Floes now provides 30% pushback resist for ice spells
- Improved Fire Ward changed to 50% chance to reflect, and 4% less damage taken while active
- Improved Ice Armory type talent changed to 50% chance to reflect
PRIEST
- Mana burn cast time reduced to 2s base, amount of mana burned reduced 50%.
- Improved Mana burn increases burn amount by 20%. It is unclear whether or not it still provides cast time reduction
- Lightwell charges increased to 15.
- Focused will down to 4%.
ROGUE
- Envenom no longer consumes poison charges
WARRIOR
- Improved hamstring has a 10 second internal cooldown on the proc
- Endless rage fixed
SHAMAN
- 30% dispel resist on that threat redux nature talent
- Earth shield mana cost reduced by 50%
- Tremor totem and poison cleanse totem reduced from 5s pulses to 3s pulses (!!!!)
PALADIN
- Turn Undead works on demons now and will be renamed, so apparently you can fear-lock warlock pets, 10s duration with DR
DRUID
- Cyclone range reduced to 20 yards
- Lifebloom coeff reduced by $
- Treants now have a 15% chance to proc entangling roots
- Natural Perfection was nerfed slightly (don't remember numbers)


those are a totally
Dikymo — Sat, 02/09/2008 - 12:39those are a totally different story. That's just fixing broken content. A far cry from another sound smiting by the nerf stick.
Yet another serious warlock
Dikymo — Sat, 02/09/2008 - 11:54Yet another serious warlock nerf. Think im gonna pull a darkspeed and play my shammy. FUCK YOU BLIZZARD.
lol Here's the official
saedo — Sat, 02/09/2008 - 11:59lol Here's the official lock changes:
Warlocks
* Demonic Knowledge: This buff will no longer remain on enslaved demons when Enslave Demon is removed.
* Pyroclasm: This talent now works correctly again with Rain of Fire.
* Ritual of Summoning can be used to summon players into instances if they meet the instance requirements.
* Shadow Ward: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
Hell, I'll go copy the official notes into forums in a bit lol
You can insert html links by
garreth — Fri, 02/08/2008 - 09:38You can insert html links by using a little edit bar button I'll be adding shortly :)
The sig system is a bit
saedo — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 23:45The sig system is a bit messy atm. Can't seem to have 2 images, or maybe just too long. Also for these html tags, the posts just took it literally and gave you the text. I only got pic up by disabling rich text and inserting directly into the html. Oh well, waiting for that sig addon thingy Garreth mentioned somewhere!
ACK my armory links don't
Olorien — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 23:12ACK my armory links don't work any more.
What I don't get is why they
Olorien — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 23:11What I don't get is why they have yet another patch that is an attempt to cripple Warlocks. I know my opinion is biased but come on. Nerfing both Imp SB and demonic knowledge. Plus they are just making demonology that much less viable. How can they have made warlocks so OP from the beginning that every patch has huge nerfs in it. done ranting.
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Why hell would they nerf
garreth — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 16:17Why hell would they nerf lifebloom!! It was finally worth it!!
They are nerfing it because
starstalker — Sat, 02/09/2008 - 10:33They are nerfing it because everyone and their mother are QQ'ing about resto's in 2v2's. These same people don't realize that druids become signifigantly less usefull in 3v3's, and even less usefull in 5's.
/flings poop at Garreth
Though, none of these
saedo — Sat, 02/09/2008 - 10:43Though, none of these unofficial notes were on the official patch notes. I believe no PTR up this weekend either to confirm any in game mechanic changes. Blizz's been known to not reveal even everything in PTR notes.
i smell bullshit.. if they
denul (not verified) — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 16:11i smell bullshit.. if they nerf tree druids like that (lol woot healing touch in tree form..) i'm forever done w/ resto!
Those Priest changes are
Agoney — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 13:32Those Priest changes are absolute shit. Mana burn is what makes us viable in 2s and 3s.
My girl, she likes to party all the time.
ooooh! an incapacitate
garreth — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:57ooooh! an incapacitate instead of a fear, likey!
yay turn demon...?
garreth — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:53yay turn demon...?
More on it: Turn Undead
saedo — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:56More on it:
Oh yea, read this part
saedo — Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:48Oh yea, read this part first:
of these changes won't be in the initial release of the 2.4 Patch on
PTR, it's more a todo-list for classes changes than a full list of
changes at the release.
of changes that Blizzard will like to experiment on the PTRs. You won't
see them in patch notes until Blizzard decides or not to test them on a
PTR build. That's why they're called TEST servers