Patch 3.3 PTR Testing - Valithria Dreamwalker

Patch 3.3 PTR Testing - Valithria Dreamwalker

Below are the details from the testing of Valithria Dreamwalker on the 3.3 PTR. Join us on IRC if you want to discuss the encounter, or have any information you'd like to share.

Today's Changes

• Column of Frost damage was increased by about 50%.
• Mana Void was fixed to work properly.

Encounter Details

Valithria Dreamwalker
Health: 30m (25) / 10m (10)	Other: ??
Valithria starts at 50% health and the objective is for players to heal her to full. This is accomplished through player heal spells. While you do this adds spawn and rush you to try and stop you from healing her / damage her. The adds spawn progressively faster as the fight goes on, so it's important to have a good mix of DPS to keep the adds down, as well as healers to heal Valithria.   Please note that the abilities listed under Valithria aren't necessarily cast by her. They simply don't have an NPC they're associated with and occur during the encounter.
Abilities
Column of Frost Marks the location under a random player target. After 2 seconds a column of frost errupts from this location, dealing 14138 to 15862 Frost damage to all enemies within 3 yards, knocking them into the air.
Dream Slip Valithria uses this to leave Icecrown after you save her.
Dreamwalker's Rage Deals 10000000 Nature damage in a 50000 yard radius. Valithria casts this once you've healed her to full. Does not deal damage to players. This means you won! Pat your healers on the back.
Emerald Vigor Regenerating 200 mana every 3 sec, and increases damage and healing by 10% per application for 30 sec. Stacks up to 20 times. This is cast in a 10 yard radius when a Dream Cloud is killed in Valithria's dream state.
Summon Nightmare Portal This allows players to port to a dream state where Dream Clouds are spawned.
Blazing Skeleton
Fireball Inflicts 4713 to 5287 Fire damage to an enemy.
Lay Waste Surrounds the caster in flames for 12 sec, pulsing 5655 to 6345 Fire damage to all enemies every 2 sec.
Blistering Zombie
Acid Burst The caster explodes, dealing 14138 to 15862 Nature damage instantly and 1000 Nature damage per second to all enemies within 15 yards. Lasts 20 sec.
Corrosion Whenever the caster lands a melee swing, the target takes 2500 Nature damage every 3 seconds and their armor is reduced by 10%. This effect can stack up to 5 times. Lasts 6 sec.
Gluttonous Abomination
Gut Spray Deals 3000 Nature damage per second and increases Physical damage taken by 25% for 12 sec.
Risen Archmage
Corruption The Risen Archmages cast this on Valithria. This is likely for visual flavor at the beginning of the encounter.
Frostbolt Volley Inflicts 3770 to 4230 Frost damage to nearby enemies, reducing their movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.
Mana Void Summons a Mana Void at a random enemies location. This Mana Void burns 1000 mana per second to all enemies within a 6 radius. Lasts 30 seconds.
Rot Worm
These spawn from Gluttonous Abominations when they die. They have no abilities, but hit for around 4-5k damage each.
Suppresser
Suppression Reduces healing received by the target by 10%. Lasts until cancelled. This is cast on Valithria by suppressers. 6 spawn per wave of adds.

Achievements

Below are the achievements Valithria Dreamwalker is directly involved in so far. Healbot is, as usual, a placeholder at the moment.

Achievements
Healbot Heal Valithria Dreamwalker in under 31 minutes in 10-player mode.
The Frostwing Halls Defeat the bosses of The Frostwing Halls in Icecrown Citadel in 10-player mode.

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3.3 PTR Testing - Lady Deathwhisper

3.3 PTR - Lady Deathwhisper Testing

Join us on IRC if you want to discuss the encounter, have any information you'd like to share.

Encounter Details

Lady Deathwhisper
Health: 13.4m (25) / 3.3m (10)	Mana: 14m (25) / ?? (10)
Lady Deathwhisper has a mana shield up which heals any damage she takes at the cost of mana. During the encounter you must deal with adds while slowly whittling away at the shield. Once you've run her out of mana she loses her shield and phase 2 begins. Adds also stop spawning at this point.   There are 3 gates on both the east and west sides of the Deathwhisper's room, and the adds spawn at them as follows: East: Cult Adherant, Cult Fanatic, Cult Adherant West: Cult Fanatic, Cult Adherant, Cult Fanatic   At some point during the fight (unsure how this mechanic works) she will reanimate a dead adherant / fanatic. These reanimated versions largely have the same abilities as their live counterparts.
Abilities
Death and Decay 6000 Shadow damage inflicted every 1 sec to all targets in the affected area for 10 sec.
Dominate Mind Charms the target for 20 sec, increasing their damage by 200% and healing by 500%. This could potentially be an AoE mind control based on the spell data.
Mana Barrier Envelops the caster in a powerful barrier that continually replenishes any lost health, at the expense of the caster's mana. Barrier fades when mana reaches 0.
Shadow Bolt Inflicts 9188 to 11812 Shadow damage to an enemy. 2 sec cast.
Touch of Insignificance Reduces the target's threat generation by 10%. Stacks to 10.
Cult Adherant
Curse of Torpor Afflicts an enemy target with a curse that increases ability cooldowns by 15 sec.
Dark Martyrdom The caster surrenders to dark energies, exploding to deal 12000 Shadowstorm damage to all enemies within 15 yards, and leaving only skeletal remains behind.
Deathchill Blast Deals 9250 to 10750 Shadowfrost damage to all enemies within 10 yards of the target.
Deathchill Bolt Deals 8788 to 10212 Shadowfrost damage to an enemy target.
Shroud of the Occult Envelops the caster in a powerful barrier that deflects all harmful magic, prevents cast interruption, and absorbs up to 50000 damage before breaking.
Cult Fanatic
Necrotic Strike Strikes an enemy with a cursed blade, dealing 4625 to 5375 Physical damage to the target and inflicting a lasting malady that negates the next 15000 healing received.
Shadow Cleave Inflicts 15913 to 17587 Shadow damage to enemies in front of the attacker.
Vengeful Shade
Vengeful Blast Inflicts 19300 to 20700 Shadowfrost damage to an enemy.

Achievements

Below are the achievements Lady Deathwhisper is directly involved in so far. As you can see, Thirty One is still using placeholder text.

Achievements
Storming the Citadel Defeat the first four bosses in Icecrown Citadel in 10-player mode.
Thirty One Defeat X of Lady Deathwhisper's adds with her bombs and then defeat Lady Deathwhisper in 10-player mode.

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3.3 PTR Build 10772

3.3 PTR Build 10772

There isn't a whole lot to report on for now but stay tuned when the realms come up in the event there's anything new (such as items).

Recent Updates

• 9:50PM PST: Icecrown Citadel Raid Testing - November 6/7
• 9:45PM PST: Added the changes to the world event start times. Kalu'ak Fishing Derby and Darkmoon Faire are both affected.
• 9:00PM PST: Added screenshot and video of the new Icecrown raid instance portal.
• 8:40PM PST: Added the names for the tier-10 armor sets.

Models

The drakes were actually added last build, but they were untextured. They now have proper textures, which you can see below.

Icecrown Citadel Testing - November 6-7

Quote from: Daelo (Source)

We are scheduling raid tests in Icecrown Citadel for November 6-7.

The schedule is as follows:

US Servers

Friday, November 6 at 7PM EST / 4 PM PST – Valithria Dreamwalker
Saturday, November 7 at 4PM EST / 1PM PST – Icecrown Gunship Battle

EU Servers

Friday, November 6 at 19:30 CET – Lady Deathwhisper
Saturday, November 7 at 19:30 CET – Professor Putricide

Only normal difficulties will be tested, although 10 and 25 player raids will be available.

Icecrown Raid Instance Portal

The instance portal for the Icecrown raid has been changed and a new portal effect added. It's only there for the raid at the moment. Check out the video below; you can also see the screenshot here.

Tier-10 Set Names

Below are the names for the tier-10 sets for each class.

Death Knight

• Scourgelord's Battlegear
• Scourgelord's Plate

Druid

• Lasherweave Garb
• Lasherweave Regalia
• Lasherweave Battlegear

Hunter

• Ahn'Kahar Blood Hunter's Battlegear

Mage

• Bloodmage's Regalia

Paladin

• Lightsworn Garb
• Lightsworn Battlegear
• Lightsworn Plate

Priest

• Crimson Acolyte's Raiment
• Crimson Acolyte's Regalia

Rogue

• Shadowblade's Battlegear

Shaman

• Frost Witch's Garb
• Frost Witch's Regalia
• Frost Witch's Battlegear

Warlock

• Dark Coven's Regalia

Warrior

• Ymirjar Lord's Battlegear
• Ymirjar Lord's Plate

"Frostmourne" Map

I'll let everyone speculate on this since I'm sure you've already seen the actual area. We still don't know exactly what this is since not all of the Icecrown bosses have been tested yet.

World Event Changes

There were some changes to world events with a recent PTR build (though I only noticed them today). I've listed them below.

• Kalu'ak Fishing Derby has been changed to start at 2PM server time on Saturday (was Wednesday evening)
• Darkmoon Faire has been changed to start at 12:01AM server time on Sunday

3.3 PTR Patch Notes Update - November 5th

The patch notes were updated again today to reflect today's build. They were also updated late on the 3rd and I've included those as well.

PvP

• Arenas
  • All abilities that have base cooldowns of 10 minutes or longer cannot be used in Arenas, down from 15 minutes.

Dungeons and Raids

• Naxxramas
  • Players no longer need to kill the final bosses in all four wings of this dungeon in order to teleport to Sapphiron. Teleportation orbs have been added to allow players access back and forth from Sapphiron's lair.

Death Knight

• Talents
  • Unholy
    • Night of the Dead: Now reduces the damage your pet takes from area-of-effect damage by 45/90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other

Druid

• Tranquility: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.

Mage

• Talents
  • Frost
    • Deep Freeze: This spell now deals a large amount of damage to targets permanently immune to stuns. In addition, when this ability deals damage it will no longer consume two charges of Fingers of Frost for those mages with the Shatter talent.

Paladin

• Talents
  • Holy
    • Sanctified Light: This talent now also has a 33/66/100% chance to prevent Lay on Hands from causing Forbearance when Lay on Hands is used on others.
  • Retribution
    • Repentance: This crowd control effect will no longer break early from the damage done by Righteous Vengeance.

Priest

• Divine Hymn: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.

Rogue

• Talents
  • Subtlety
    • Filthy Tricks: The cooldown reduction this talent provides for Preparation has been reduced to 1.5/3 minutes, down from 2.5/5 minutes.
    • Preparation: The cooldown on this ability has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.

User Interface

• Quest Tracking Feature
  • Players can now track quest objectives on the map (‘M’ key).
  • Quest Log
    • A Show Map button has been added to the Quest Log. Selecting a quest and pressing this button will open the map for the zone in which the quest objective is located displaying the associated area of interest. Any other active quests in a player’s Quest Log for that zone will also be displayed.
  • Map
    • The map interface has been separated into four separate panes: a map pane (left), a pane listing active quest names for the zone being viewed (right), a pane listing the full quest text for any highlighted quest (bottom left), and a pane listing the quest rewards for any highlighted quest (bottom right).
    • All active quests listed in the right pane for the zone being viewed on the map will be assigned a number. These numbers will be displayed on the map according to the areas of interest for each quest.
    • Highlighting a quest name in the right pane will highlight the corresponding area of interest on the map in the left pane, show its quest text in the lower left pane, and list the quest rewards in the lower right pane.
    • Given that some quest objectives can be achieved in multiple locations within a given zone, highlighting such a quest will highlight an area of interest closest in proximity to the character’s current location.
    • This feature can be disabled by un-checking the Show Quest Objectives box in the bottom right corner of the new map interface, restoring the map to its standard full-screen display.
    • Clicking on the arrow in the top right corner of the new map interface will hide all but the map pane, bringing the map out of full-screen mode and allowing players to leave it open while navigating a zone or engaging in combat.
  • Objectives Tracking
    • This frame has been improved to offer new functionality and can be used with the new shrunken map option.
    • The Objectives frame is now docked below the mini-map next to the right 2 action bars and will track up to 12 quests for a zone.
    • Numbers have been added next to each quest name and objective corresponding with those areas of interest displayed on the map.
    • If a quest objective has been completed, the number will be replaced with a yellow question mark symbol.
    • The arrow button in the top right corner of the Objectives frame can be used to toggle between minimizing and maximizing the quest objective display.
  • Quest Difficulty Tracking
    • This feature is off by default and can be enabled in the Objectives window from the Interface Options menu. Turning this feature on will color-code all quest names displayed in the map interface according to difficulty (grey, green, yellow, orange, and red).

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