Warcraft Patch 5.3 PTR Notes Update - 5/14/13

http://MMODAQ.com >> Latest updates to the Warcraft Patch 5.3 PTR Notes reveal mostly class changes. Below are the most recent updates. You can read the full list of updates at Battle.net

Death Knight

• General
• 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%.

Druid

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

Hunter

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

Mage

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

Paladin

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

Priest

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

Shaman

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

Warrior

• Arms
• 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.

Quests

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

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

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

PvP

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

Items

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

Source and image: Battle.net