Anyone on the PTR Yet?

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Plankeye

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WoW Patch 3.0 is live on the PTR. I transferred Sandric over twice to play around with different builds. First up, my defense took a serious hit and I am now very much critable. I'll really need to regem to fix that before 3.0 goes live and even swap out some high defense gear to adjust. Instant avenging shield is pretty cool along with the new abilities. I spec'd completely in protection with the exception of 5 points in retribution for extra parry. Still have some more playing to do.

The new seal and judgement system is very nice. The way judgements work, I really expect holy pallies to be actively judging in raids as they will be able to keep light/wisdom up from a distance.

I switched over to my second copy and tried out the crazy ret dps. I have to say, I think I might be seriously thinking about leveling ret when WotLK comes out as toasting 70s was quick and easy with no mana issues that I could see. Self buffed with my ret wanabe gear I was at 1917 AP and 27 crit. Might be able to eak out another 100-200 AP before WotLK if I really try. Here is my little ret lovin video for your pleasure (32mb and DivX required).

Off to see if shockadin is more fun now with 6 second holy shocks...
 
i actually have no idea on how to download this... i mean i clicked the lil button then i went to sleep.. woke up and it was staring at me and now im downloading something so kinda lost atm

actually i have a new prob... i found everythign but when i click the private test realm button the screen goes black and then it jumps back to my desktop and has an error thing
 
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here's a fun quote from it:

"Hit Rating, Critical Strike Rating, and Haste Rating now modify both melee attacks and spells."

Which is awesome...now haste pots can be used for casters! Hopefully they don't drop the haste rating on the pots. Depending on your gear level, that's a huuuuuge bump to DPS over Destruction Pots.
 
ok well i have it all downloaded and wiating for gala to be transfered.... but 4 day a wait time? ug

im kinda mad looking at the notes because they completely ruined aspect of the viper... its usless i mena 100% mana back from damage is nice BUT 50% damage reduction? thats just insane
 
Protection paladin is a ton of fun right now the only problem is after swapping around gear, I am still short of 490 defense and almost 2k health! I played around a bit and solo'd 2-3 packs at a time in ramparts. The new judgements are very nice and I couldn't use mana fast enough with the new Sanctuary when AOE tanking. Insta cast wraths and shields just means tons of extra damage now. I love it.

I tried shockadin for a bit too. Compared to ret and protection, shockadins have mana issues. It is the first time I have actually had to drink. So it looks like shockadins are still not viable for long fights without mana batteries in their group. The change to crit was kind of interesting. I had 33% holy spell crit and 28% melee crit. Although I couldn't hit vengeance in ret at level 70. At 80 you could and with all the critting, vengeance would stay up all the time.
 
Azami got transferred on the ptr today. First thing I did was get a haircut, then I tried to take a boat and it crashed. A bunch of us were stranded in midair. Fun stuff...
 
I ran around with my Shaman for awhile and I have to say Enhancement got a NICE boost to PVP. Spirit Wolves rock since they let me sprint like a rogue and stun people and heal me. Earthbind totem is going to remove movement impairs on each pulse so I can't be kited anymore :). I'm a brand new 70 shaman but I already do better in arena and BG's then my Ret pally of almost 4 years... sad really.

I ran around with my Ret pally and the new stuff is really nice for Ret... I finally can compete with most classes. I still died quite a few times in BG's but the difference is I could actually take someone out before I died! I can't believe all the "NERF RET" crying that's going on though... why are people so against us being a challenge in PVP? Is it because they've had free kills for so long and don't want to give that up? The damage I put out in full epics is right where I'd expect it to be. Anyways... I found this video today and WOW... this guy puts out a TON of damage (Warrior) but everyone is fine with this... /slash wrist.

P.S. Sandric... You aren't even using Divine Storm in your video!!! fail. And it doesn't look like you even took Art of War. /boggle, instant Flash of Light is pure win.
 
I copied Boimli over to the PVE server to test some things out. So far, I am pretty well pleased with survival, although the changes to EW & Imp hunters mark are a small setback.

Explosive shot was a lot of fun, shares a cooldown with arcane shot which no longer has the ability to remove a affect from your target. If I recall, that ability is now placed on tranq shot, giving that an actual use anymore. O.o Hunting party was a nice little 15 second buff that I saw quite frequently in my slaughtering of low level things. It will be interesting to have that ability now.

Pet talent trees were a lot of fun, and a nice change to things. Overall, it should be a great improvement for personal DPS.

I plan to check out the other 2 talent trees as well, just to get a better idea of where they sit, but for the most part I am happy with the majority of hunter changes.

On a small side note, I did see about a 200 AP increase with the spec, and that was before any procs, etc, and that will scale even better now with Kings then before.
 
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Proudfoot said:
P.S. Sandric... You aren't even using Divine Storm in your video!!! fail. And it doesn't look like you even took Art of War. /boggle, instant Flash of Light is pure win.
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I tried soloing some dungeons with my ret copy and I really wish I would have taken both of those abilities. Ret is still a little to squishy for my taste but I'll be respecing again once I have some time and will play around with those abilities. Still a ret newb as I have 4 blue pieces.

I did however manage to eak out 491 defense with some gear I had stashed in my bank but I am at around 14,500 health now which is a pretty significant drop from 16900 I have currently. Probably going to end main tanking bosses for awhile once the patch comes out.
 
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