Other 3.2 patch changes

[Mercurio]

I agree with most of your comments, except:

Replenishment: This buff now grants 1% of the target's maximum mana over 5 seconds instead of 0.25% per second. This applies to all 5 sources of Replenishment (Vampiric Touch, Judgements of the Wise, Hunting Party, Enduring Winter Frostbolts and Soul Leech).

Actually, this one's not cool. It's a nerf - 20% less mana from replinishment.

" Innervate: Duration reduced to 10 seconds, and cooldown reduced to 3 minutes. This means each use of Innervate will give half as much mana as before, but it will be available twice as often. (Great for questing. Not so great for instance bosses/raids.)"

- This one is actually a buff - can be more flexible in the use of innervate like using it on a healer in the first 3 mins and a DPSer in the last 3 mins of a fight. Bit more micro-management, but I'll take that for the flexibility.

A few other things stuck out in my mind from the patch notes:

"Prayer of Healing: The percentage of spell power this spell gains in healing (per target) has been reduced from 80.7% to 52.6%. " - This completely sucks. A HUGE nerf that pretty much nullifies the reason I've been leveling up a new team. :cursing:

"Item Comparisons: Holding the shift key while hovering over an item will now display the stat differences with the item currently equipped in the relevant slot." - This one is really cool.

"Improved Water Shield: This talent now has a 10/20/30% chance to be triggered by Chain Heal, and the charges of Water Shield are no longer consumed by this talent." - Makes this talent finally worth getting for my resto shaman w/o micro-management of water shield refreshes all the time.

"Chain Heal: Jump distance increased to 10 yards. In addition, the amount of healing now decreases by 40% as it jumps to each new target, instead of 50%.
A customizable totem bar will now be available for shaman allowing the storing of 4 different totems. These totems can be placed on the ground at once in one global cooldown for the combined mana cost of all 4 totems.
Healing Way: Redesigned. Rather than providing a chance of increasing Healing Wave spells on a friendly target, this talent now innately increases the effectiveness of the shaman's Healing Wave by 8/16/25%." - All good changes for resto shaman, but still won't come close to making up for the priest Prayer of Healing nerf for my overall team.

[Multibocks]

Ya the PoH nerf made me go "WTF!"

Also Im guessing Oct-Nov range for this patch. That and they will be talking about beta invites for the new expansion, to keep people's interest piqued. At least I hope they announce a new expansion at Blizzcon. It would be silly not to....talk about printing your own money.

[Ualaa]

I don't see an expansion so soon.
Not saying there cannot be one, just I'd be very surprised.
My guess would be a little before Christmas of 2010.
That's basically 2 years after Wrath, as Wrath was 2 years after BC.

[kadaan]

Christmas? If they're already releasing patch notes I bet it'll be up on the PTR in the next few weeks and on Live in 2-3 months. Normally they only release a few snippets far in advance, and patch notes when it's PTR ready.

Mainly I say Christmas because it's an actual "content" patch with the two new raid instances, new 5-man, new quest hub, etc., which includes art, 3D models, etc. That stuff usually takes up to twice as long as plain code changes. They might surprise me. I'd be happy to be surprised. ;)

3.1 patch notes came out February 24th, 3.1 hit the PTRs on March 1st, and went live on April 14th. So 5 days from patch notes to PTR, and 6 weeks from PTR to live.

Following the same estimate, PTR should be up early next week and release should be sometime in August. With Blizzcon at the end of August, I'd push the release back a bit and say either the last week in August or first week or two in September.

[Gurblash]

For the sake of forum cleanliness, yes I know you will all laugh at me for this, lets please continue this conversation in the PTR Notes sticky :thumbsup:

3.2 PTR NOTES. Please keep all PTR discussions in the sticky.