3.0.9 Patch Notes
moriella — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 08:41
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
Druid (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
- Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.
Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
- Kindred Spirits (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet damage at max rank.
- Serpent’s Swiftness (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet attack speed at max rank.
Pets
- Lava Breath now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.
- Poison Spit now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.
Mage (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
- Arcane Power now increases damage and mana cost by 10%, cooldown reduced to 1 minute. (Note: The spell is actually different in game and increases damage and mana costs by 20% with a 2 minutes cooldown. However it would probably be better to wait until servers are online to confirm that.)
- Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown. Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.
- Arcane Flows now reduces the cooldown of Presence of Mind, Arcane Power and Invisibility by 15/30%.
- Presence of Mind: The cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes, (down from 3.)
- Slow (Arcane): now increases cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Arcane Missiles -- Increases the critical strike damage bonus of Arcane Missiles by 25%. (Old - Increases the range of Arcane Missiles by 5 yards.)
- Glyph of Mana Gem -- Increases the mana recieved from using a mana gem by 40%. (Up from 10%)
- Glyph of Arcane Blast -- Increases the damage from your Arcane Blast buff by 3%. (Down from 5%)
Paladin (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
- The duration on all Seals has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.
- Divine Plea: The amount healed by your spells is reduced by 50% (up from 20%) but the effect can no longer be dispelled.
- Sanctified Seals: This talent no longer affects dispel resistance, but continues to affect crit chance.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Holy Light -- Your Holy Light grants 10% of its heal amount to up to 5 friendly targets within 8 yards of the initial target. (Down from 20 yards, Tooltip text fix, was already hotfixed to 8 yards in game)
- Glyph of Seal of Righteousness -- Increases the damage done by Seal of Righteousness by 10%. (Old - Reduces the cost of your Judgement spells by 10% while Seal of Righteousness is active.)
Priest (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
- Inner Fire duration has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.
Rogue (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
- Hunger for Blood (Assassination): Now increases damage 5% per stack, (up from 3%.)
- Mind Numbing Poison now reduces cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
- Mutilate damage will now do 20% increased damage against poisoned targets, down from 50%.
- Slice and Dice: This ability now increases melee attack speed by 40%, up from 30%.
Shaman (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Glyphs
- Glyph of Windfury Weapon -- Increases the chance per swing for Windfury Weapon to trigger by 2%. (Down from 5%)
Warlock (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
- Curse of Tongues: Now increases the casting time of all spells by 25% (Rank 1) and 30% (Rank 2), down from 50% and 60%.
Dungeons and Raids
The Obsidian Sanctum
Changed the color of the fissure in the Obsidian Sanctum to be more visually distinct.
User Interface
- The “GM wishes to speak with you” alert/button, at the top of the screen, has been changed so that addons do not obscure it.
- A clickable chat message has been added that duplicates the GM alert/button.
- When a GM wishes to speak with you the Help Request minibar button will glow.
- For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum .
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where players using nVidia 3D glasses were unable to see spell cooldowns.
- Fixed a software mouse cursor bug that was causing the mouse curser to disappear from view when over certain UI elements.
- Fixed a player movement error in which other players were appearing to move erratically when traveling beside them.


Yay paladin nerf bat.
garreth — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 18:58Yay paladin nerf bat.
You mean "yay almost every
Shihli — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 19:00You mean "yay almost every class with a spell casting-slowing effect" nerf bat.
apparently the least played
Epatrick — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 18:23apparently the least played arena class/class in general needs another nerf to it's most useful (and only unique) debuff...fuck you blizzard, fuck you like you fucked warlocks.
I'll have to disagree with
Disrupter — Tue, 02/10/2009 - 02:03I'll have to disagree with you there pudo. Their most useful and unique debuff, is their single target chain castable fear.
Druids and warlocks are also, fairly close to the same represented level in arenas. Just give them holy paladins, they'll do better ;p.
They just took away
Dufe — Tue, 02/10/2009 - 09:50They just took away AP+POM+Pyro. (or AP+POM+anything for that matter) It will be a sad day when this patch goes live.
Oh look... a lock nerf.
Dikymo — Tue, 02/10/2009 - 08:36Oh look... a lock nerf.
A lock nerf which coincides
Shihli — Tue, 02/10/2009 - 08:53A lock nerf which coincides with a hunter nerf:
Pets
And a mage nerf:
Slow (Arcane): now increases cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
And a rogue nerf:
And a shaman nerf:
Glyph of Windfury Weapon -- Increases the chance per swing for Windfury Weapon to trigger by 2%. (Down from 5%)
So we agree.... It IS a lock
Dikymo — Tue, 02/10/2009 - 09:03So we agree.... It IS a lock nerf.
Sure a lock nerf that wasn't
saedo — Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:19Sure a lock nerf that wasn't directed at the locks. Just the slow casting mechanics of all players.
Unique? What are you talking
saedo — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 18:49Unique? What are you talking about? They nerfed the mage's Slow and rogue's Mind-Numbing Poison the exact same way. So they don't want us messing with cast times as much anymore.
Huh, overall a buff for
saedo — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 11:10Huh, overall a buff for rogues I suppose.... But a bit of a bandaid patch before 3.1 it seems... I'll mention more in my own little column.
"Fixed an issue where players
starstalker — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 10:31"Fixed an issue where players using nVidia 3D glasses were unable to see spell cooldowns."
People use those?
OMFG @ inner fire thank god.
Knoppix (not verified) — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 09:47OMFG @ inner fire thank god.
yay more SnD goodness, WTB
Felsteel — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 09:26yay more SnD goodness, WTB mutilate glyph.
Any idea when this is bound
Vulk — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 08:48Any idea when this is bound to hit? I like the seal change. I mean damn, I thought 30sec to 2 min was amazing... now 30 mins? Yes, please!
going live to test this week
moriella — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 08:52This is confirmed going live to test servers this week.
Thank god, Inner Fire! We've complained about it for years and finally get it fixed.
I truly hope it's not on test for two months like 3.0.8 was tho
Looks like overall there are some burst changes going in to help clothies in pvp vs rogues as well. :)
The divine plea nerf is coming as well. Wow, that was fast
We shall see if they nurfed
Knoppix (not verified) — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 09:55We shall see if they nurfed mutilate enough, as of now even being very good with your class other than being a mage as a clothie a rogue will pretty much murder you. That is just my opinion I dont know how other people feel.
Don't worry rogues can murder
Dragon — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 10:06Don't worry rogues can murder plate in the span of a stunlock too unless they are either A. vasty undergeared to you or B. screw it up
These patch notes just tic me
Ewiges — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 10:16These patch notes just tic me off about how crappy this game is. Why are they buffing stuff in this patch that they said they are nerfing in those class previews for 3.1? I don't F'n get it, what the hell is going on in the blizzard's think department?
MMO champ has those changes
Dragon — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 08:56MMO champ has those changes going to LIVE servers this week NOT to test servers. oO This is gonna be interesting /dripping sarcasm
At least I get 30 minute seals. That should be a net increase in dps and a decrease in mana used for ret though. The Net increase since you don't have to worry about the off chance of forgetting to reseal.
seem like a little fix to bm
Caronte22 — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 17:51seem like a little fix to bm hunters and other classes but still wanting for other patch to fix shit.