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Patch 5.3 PTR Patch Notes for May 14

Olivia Grace
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Patch 53 PTR Patch Notes for May 14

The latest sets of PTR patch notes materialized a few hours ago, mostly featuring a multitude of class changes.

  • Some reasonable nerfs to hunter pet CC, several abilities have had their cooldowns doubled.

  • Some changes to the interaction of Tricks of the Trade with Blood DK abilities

  • A buff to Necrotic Strike's attack power scaling

  • A PvP-related change to Incanter's Ward, halving the effect but doubling the duration, as has been recently discussed the devs think this might be a part of their burst issues in PvP.

And lastly, Eye of the Black Prince can now be used to apply a prismatic socket on Reborn weapons. Hit the break for the full notes.


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  • Blood Plague no longer benefits from the damage increase granted by Tricks of the Trade.

  • Frost Fever no longer benefits from the damage increase granted by Tricks of the Trade.

  • Necrotic Strike's healing absorption effect has been increased to 225% from attack power, up from 200%.

  • Mastery: Nature's Guardian is now 33% stronger (2% per point instead of 1.5%).

  • Cooldown on crowd control abilities for several Hunter pet families have changed.

    • Basilisk pet family's Petrifying Gaze cooldown is now 2 minutes (up from 1 minute).

    • Bat pet family's Sonic Blast cooldown is now 2 minutes (up from 1 minute).

    • Crane pet family's Lullaby cooldown is now 2 minutes (up from 1 minute).

    • Porcupine pet family's Paralyzing Quill cooldown is now 2 minutes (up from 1 minute).

    • Shale Spider pet family's Web Wrap cooldown is now 90 seconds (up from 45 seconds).

    • Worm pet family's Burrow Attack has had its cooldown reduced to 14 seconds (down from 20 seconds).

  • Beast Cleave now deals 75% of the original damage, up from 50%.

  • Exotic Beasts no longer reduces the cooldown of pet special abilities by 30%

  • Mirror Image creates copies that no longer cast Fire Blast, but their Frostbolts do 10% more damage.

  • Flameglow now absorbs damage from each attack made against the Mage equal to 15% of their spellpower (down from 20%).

  • Incanter's Ward now allows the Mage to gain up to a maximum of 15% increase to spell damage, down from 30%, but the effect now lasts 25 seconds, up from 15 seconds.

  • Shield of the Righteous now reduces physical damage taken by 25%, down from 30%.

  • Vampiric Embrace now has a healing cap of 15 raid members (up from 6) when used in a 25-player instance.

  • Fixed an issue where Glyph of Mind Flay's movement speed increase was not stacking correctly.

  • Lava Burst now has a 2 second cast time, up from 1.5 seconds, and deals 25% more damage.

  • Sweeping Strikes no longer causes Resilience to decrease damage to secondary targets incorrectly when the original target's damage has already been decreased by Resilience

  • Flames of the Void: Fixed an issue where players were unable to mount the War Serpents.

  • Fixed an issue where Uncontrolled Anger was improperly causing characters to drop out of stealth.

  • The amount of PvP Power and Resilience on gems and Mystic Cogwheel have been reduced by 50%.

  • Eye of the Black Prince can now be used to apply a prismatic socket on Reborn weapons.