World of Warcraft: Cataclysm 4.0.3a Patch Notes

Shaman

• Chain Heal mana cost increased from 17% to 20% of base mana.
• Earthliving Weapon now only has 25% of its full chance to proc from a single hop of Chain Heal.
• Talent Specializations
  • Elemental
  • Elemental Reach now also increases Searing Totem range by 7/15 yards.
  • Fulmination now has a Spell Alert visual associated with it, which appears when the shaman gets to 9 Lightning Shield charges.

Warlock

• Bane of Agony damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Bane of Doom damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Corruption damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Death Coil damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Drain Life damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Drain Soul damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Immolate damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Incinerate damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Rain of Fire damage has been increased to be more comparable to other area-of-effect abilities.
• Searing Pain damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Seed of Corruption damage has been reduced to be more comparable to other area-of-effect abilities.
• Shadowbolt damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Soul Fire damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
• Talent Specializations
  • Demonology
    • Hand of Gul’dan damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
  • Destruction
    • Chaos Bolt damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
    • Conflagrate damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
    • Shadowburn damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Drain Life: The Soulburn version of this was charging 17% of base mana instead of 12% like the normal version. This has been corrected.
  • Cleave damage has been reduced by approximately 17%.
  • Execute damage has been reduced by approximately 17%.
  • Heroic Strike damage has been reduced by approximately 17%.
  • Overpower now does 125% weapon damage, down from 150%.
  • Rend base damage has been reduced by approximately 17% and percent of weapon damage per tick lowered to 25%, from 30%.
  • Shield Block now only increases block chance by 25%, but excess block that pushes avoidance plus block to over 100% is now converted to critical block chance.
  • Slam now costs 15 rage, down from 20, and now does 125% weapon damage, down from 150%.
  • Victory Rush damage has been reduced by approximately 17%.
  • Whirlwind now does 65% weapon damage, down from 75%.
  • Talent Specializations
    • Arms
      • Mortal Strike now does 150% weapon damage, down from 185%.
      • Second Wind now heals for 2/5% of total health, down from 5/10%.
      • Strikes of Opportunity now does 100% weapon damage, down from 115%.
    • Fury
      • Blood Craze now heals for 1/2/3% of total health, down from 2.5/5/7.5%.
      • Bloodthirst damage has been reduced by approximately 17%.
      • Raging Blow now does 110% weapon damage, down from 150%.
      • Unshackled Fury now gains approximately 50% more benefit per point of Mastery.
    • Protection
      • Critical Block now grants an equal amount of block chance and critical block chance (1.5% each per point of Mastery).
      • Devastate no longer provides bonus threat.
      • Shield Slam: Contribution of attack power reduced to 60%, down from 75%, and base damage brought up so that a level 85 warrior in Heroic dungeon gear deals the same damage with no Vengeance, but Vengeance has less impact. In addition, Shield Slam no longer generates 30% bonus threat from its damage.
      • Vigilance no longer provides 3% damage reduction, but still refreshes Taunt and provides Vengeance.
  • Glyphs
    • Glyph of Bloody Healing increases the healing received from Bloodthirst by 40%, down from 100%.
    • Glyph of Intimidating Shout no longer causes targets to flee slowly, but roots them instead.
    • Glyph of Shield Wall increases damage reduction to 60%, but increases the cooldown from 2 minutes to 4 minutes (talented).
  • Bug Fixes
    • Taste for Blood should once again proc on every other tick of Rend.
  • The Gladiator reward mounts now award Master Riding.
  • What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been now awards Master Riding.
  • Mysterious Egg now takes only 3 days to turn into a Cracked Egg and has a slightly greater chance of awarding the Reins of the Green Proto-Drake.
  • PvP set bonuses now provide 70 of stats such as Agility, Intellect, and Strength (down from 100) at 2 pieces, and 180 of these stats (down from 300) at 4 pieces.
  • Perfect Gem Cutting and Mixology have been removed as trainable skills and are instead passives profession abilities. When players reach the appropriate skill levels, they will start getting bonuses from Mixology (they must know the recipe to gain the benefit) and/or cutting perfect gems (depending on their profession, of course).
  • Alchemy
    • Alchemy recipes now require Crystal Vials. Deathwing broke all the others because he’s mean (or because he didn’t want alchemists to carry 5 different vials around with them).
  • Engineering
    • The Engineering Tinkering enchants will no longer provide their bonus stats, but the activated effects will stack with other enchants. In 4.0.1 the stats were there (but hidden) and are now removed.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Several epic gem transmutes that were missing from the trainer have been added back.
  • Certain area-of-effect abilities are no longer ignoring the area-of-effect damage cap.
  • Mobs and NPCs should no longer appear to randomly gain or lose health during combat.
  • Re-summoning pets in Battlegrounds should no longer count towards a player’s total healing done.
  • Some tooltips may not reflect the most recent changes to certain abilities.
  • Worgen hunters are currently unable to learn Dual Wield.
  • The achievement Explore Tol Barad will not be possible to complete upon release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

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Known Issues