Patch 5.2 PTR: Patch notes update for Jan. 16

Blizzard updated the official 5.2 patch notes a few hours ago. Some of the updates are consolidated changes from the last few PTR builds, but many of them are new. You can see the full update at the official WoW community site, but we've compiled all the changes. Check out some of the highlights below.
The continuation of the Wrathion questline will unlock a new legendary metagem, Crown of the Heavens.Three new spectral porcupine spirit beasts have appeared across Pandaria as tameable beasts.There is now an option to show absorb effects (such as Power Word: Shield) on player, target, party and raid frames. This feature is currently enabled if you turn on the predictive healing option. Unlike predictive healing, absorb effects will display for enemy targets.The Reputation panel on the character screen will now let players know which reputations they have purchased and used Grand Commendations for.
Patch 5.2 PTR and Patch Notes - January 16The Legendary Quest Continues Wrathion must know the origin and source of Mogu power, and Azeroth's mightiest heroes will aid the Black Prince in finding out what it is. The search for information will take players into the depths of the Thunder King's Palace, and pit them against trials of perseverance and skill. Along the way, they'll unlock the secrets to a new legendary metagem, Crown of the Heavens.
Classes
Death knight The Bloodworms summoned by Blood Parasite now have 200% more health and heals for triple the amount.Strangulate's cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds, up from 120.The Frost and Unholy tier-14 2-piece set bonus has reduced to 4% (was 10%) increased damage on Frost Strike, Obliterate, and Scourge Strike.The Frost and Unholy tier-14 4-piece set bonus now increases the chance to trigger Sudden Doom and Killing Machine by 30%.
Druid Cyclone's range has been increased to 30 yards (was 20), and it now has a 30-second cooldown for Feral Druids. In addition, it will now share diminishing returns with Banish, Seduction, Bind Elemental, Hex, Freezing Trap, Wyvern Sting, Gouge, Sap, Hibernate, Paralysis, Polymorph, Ring of Frost, Repentance, and Quaking Palm.Balance Starfall will no longer strike targets that are affected by crowd control effects.Restoration Naturalist: This new passive learned at level 10 by Restoration Druids increases all healing done by the Druid by 10%.Wild Mushrooms will now gain 75% of the overhealing performed by the Druid's Rejuvenation effects, up to a maximum of 100% of the Druid's health in bonus healing, and growing larger as they do so. When Wild Mushroom: Bloom is cast, this bonus healing will be divided evenly amongst targets in the area of effect.Balance/Restoration Druid PvP Gloves: Bonus now increases Cyclone duration by 2 seconds (previously increased Cyclone range by 5 yards).
Hunter Aimed Shot cast time has been been reduced to 2.5 seconds (was 2.9 seconds).
Mage Glyph of Blink will now increase the movement speed bonus provided by Blazing Speed's by an additional 50%.Blazing Speed can now be triggered at will, provides root/stun immunity, and has a 15sec cooldown (down from 25). This ability replaces Blink.Temporal Ripples from Temporal Shield can no longer be dispelled.Frost Fingers of Frost now has a 15% (was 12%) chance to activate from Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt and Frozen Orb, a 5% (was 4%) chance to activate from Blizzard, and a 10% (was 9%) chance to activate from Scorch.Glyph of Ice Lance now causes Ice Lance to deal 50% damage to one additional target (was 40%).
Monk Windwalker New Level-75 Ability: Storm, Earth and Fire. The Windwalker can summon up to 2 elemental duplicates that mirror damaging abilities that the Monk uses while they are active. For each spirit summoned, the Monk's damage is reduced: 1 spirit causes the Monk and the spirit to deal 60% of the Monk's normal damage, while 2 spirits will cause the Monk and both active spirits to deal 40% of the Monk's normal damage. Each spirit lasts until the ability is canceled, that spirit's target dies or otherwise becomes unavailable, or they're killed (they can be targeted and have 10% of the Monk's health). When using Fist of Fury, the stun effect will only apply from the Monk (not the spirits).Spinning Fire Blossoms' damage has been adjusted to scale from weapon damage rather than attack power.Tigereye Brew now gains 1 charge after spending 3 2 Chi (was 4 Chi).Brewmaster Black Ox Statue: The damage requirement to activate Sanctuary of the Ox has been increased by 100%. The spell tooltip has been updated to reflect the change.
Paladin Repentance now has a cast time of 1.7 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).Sacred Shield's absorb effect can now be dispelled.Selfless Healer now boosts Flash of Light by 20/40/60% (down from 33/66/100%), and can be activated by Holy Shock (in addition to Judgment).Holy Blinding Light now has a 1.8 second cast time for Holy Paladins. It remains instant cast for Retribution and Protection.The 4-piece PvP set bonus now grants Holy Power when casting Flash of Light (was Word of Glory).Retribution The tier-14 2-piece set bonus now causes Crusader Strike and Hammer of Wrath to have a 40% chance to make the Paladin's next Divine Storm deal a Lightning Strike for 255% weapon damage as Nature.
Priest Angelic Bulwark's Spirit Shell can no longer be dispelled.Devouring Plague now deals its damage evenly through its duration.Focused Will is now a passive for Holy priests as well as Discipline priests.Flash Heal's healing has been reduced by 30%. A new passive (available at level 10) increases Flash Heal's healing by 43% for Holy and Discipline Priests.Power Word: Solace has been replace with a new talent: Solace & Insanity. For Holy and Discpline, Power Word: Solace replaces Holy Fire. It deals the same damage, and interacts with other spells and abilities in the same manner, but is instant, costs no mana, and restores 1% of maximum mana on each cast.For Shadow, this ability causes Mind Flay to gain the Insanity effect when it's cast on a target with 3 Shadow damage-over-time spells on them. Insanity causes Mind Flay to deal double damage for the duration.Glyph of Desperation has been replaced with Glyph of Binding Heal. Pain Suppression and Guardian Spirit can now always be cast while stunned.New Glyph: Glyph of Binding Heal applies Binding Heal a third nearby friendly target, but costs 35% more mana.Glyph of Inner Focus has been replaced with Glyph of Weakened Soul. Casting Inner Focus now always grants 5 seconds of immunity to Silences, Interrupts, and Dispels.New Glyph: Glyph of Weakened Soul reduces the duration of Weakened Soul by 2 seconds.Discipline Penance damage and healing has been increased by 20%.Rapture now reduces the cost of Power Word: Shield by 25% 50% and provides mana equal to 150% 250% (was 200%) of the Priest's Spirit, but no longer benefits from Spirit provided by short-duration bonuses.Divine Aegis is no longer guaranteed when Prayer of Healing is cast. The effect now procs when the spell crits.The 2-piece Holy/Discipline PvP set bonus is now the previous Holy Spark 4-piece bonus, instead of Diamond Soul.The 4-piece Holy/Discipline PvP set bonus has been redesigned. It now reduces the cooldown of Chakra by 25 seconds. When Spirit Shell is active the mana cost of Flash Heal is reduced by 50%.
Rogue Shuriken Toss now causes the Rogue to throw shuriken instead of auto-attacking for 10 seconds after Shuriken Toss is used. Auto-attack damage from Shuriken Toss has been lowered to 75% (was 80%), and the new shuriken auto-attack override is canceled when the Rogue enters melee range of the target.Smoke Bomb now reduces damage taken by allies in the area of effect by 20% in addition to current effects.Nerve Strike now reduces the effectiveness of healing provided by the target by 10% (was 25%).PvP set bonuses have been changed: Vigor is now the 4-piece set bonus and increases maximum energy by 30 (was 10).Combat Blade Flurry has been changed. It now strikes up to 4 additional nearby targets for 40% of normal damage.
Shaman Chain Lightning will now deal the same damage to subsequent targets as it does to the first.Lava Beam's damage now increases with jumps. Each jump increases the damage by 10%.Elemental Mastery now has a 90-second cooldown (was 2 minutes).Enhancement Mental Quickness now lowers the cost of shocks by 90% (still lowers the cost of other "beneficial, instant, damaging and totem spells" by 75%).The tier-14 2-piece set bonus now grants 2 charges of Maelstrom Weapon every time the Shaman uses Stormstrike.
Warlock Fel Armor now reduces damage taken by 10%, instead of increasing the Warlock's armor.Blood Fear has been redesigned. This ability is now cast on the Warlock, and causes melee attacks that strike within the next 60 seconds to fear the attacker. When cast, the ability has 1 charge, costs 5% health to activate, and has a 30-second cooldown.Blood Fear has a new visual and sound effect, and has a visual and sound effect when the proc occurs.Burning Rush now also prevents movement impairing effects from reducing the Warlock's movement speed below 100% of normal, in addition to its other effects.The Imp pet ability Blood Pact has been removed.Dark Intent now increases Stamina in addition to Spell Power.New Glyph: Glyph of Ember Tap. This glyph increases the healing gained from Ember Tap by 33%, but the health is restored over 10 seconds.Glyph of Unstable Affliction changed. This ability now reduces the cast time of Unstable Affliction by 25%.Affliction Unstable Affliction's backlash effect is now always a critical hit, and deals approximately 15% more damage.The tier-14 2-piece set bonus now causes Dark Soul to incresae the duraton of Haunt by 4 seconds (instead of the previous Nightfall modifier).Demonology Chaos Wave now have a new visual.
Warrior The benefit of Haste from items and consumables has been increased by 100% for all Warriors.Bladestorm can no longer be disarmed.Defensive Stance now reduces damage by 15% (was 25%).Unwavering Sentinel now improves the damage reduction of Defensive Stance by 10% for Protection Warriors.Second Wind will no longer regenerate health while the Warrior is stunned.Warbringer now reduces the target's movement by 50% for 15 seconds (8 seconds in PvP) in addition to its other effects. The 3-second stun/knockdown is now in the diminishing returns category for stuns (same as Shockwave and Storm Bolt), and not the proc stun diminishing returns category.Impending Victory will now heal the Warrior for 15% of maximum health when they have not slain an enemy (was 10%).Arms Taste for Blood has been redesigned. It now causes the Warrior to gain 2 stacks of Overpower (maximum of 5 stacks) when Mortal Strike deals damage, 1 stack when the target dodges, and no longer interacts with Heroic Strike. It now requires level 20 (was level 50).Overpower now costs 10 rage.Fury Bloodsurge now reduces the Rage cost of Wild Strike by 30 (was 20) and its duration has been increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).Creatures Fite spectral porcupine fite! Three new spectral porcupine spirit beasts have appeared across Pandaria as tameable beasts, though taming them may provide quite a challenge.
Pet Battles
Prowl now lasts for 2 rounds.Crystal Overload now lasts for 2 rounds.Focus Chi now lasts for 1 round.Elite Battle Pets have been added to the game world. These rare pets will spawn alone against an entire team. The Beasts of Fable taming quest will now become available from Gentle San or Sara Finkleswitch once Aki the Chosen has been defeated. Defeating all of the fabled beasts will award the new Red Panda pet, while completing the associated daily quest has a chance to award the rare brown, white, and orange variants.
Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios
Heroic Pandaria dungeons now award 100 Justice points per boss. Gold drops for those bosses have also been changed from a static 50 gold to a 40-60 gold range. Less gold will drop in groups consisting of less than 5 players.
PvP
Mists of Pandaria Season 2 Malevolent Gladiator's PvP gear can now be purchased with Honor Points instead of Conquest Points, including weapons.All newly purchased Season 2 Malevolent Gladiator's armor, offhands, and shields will have an item level of 476 (was 483). Existing Malevolent items are unaffected.Balance, Feral, Windwalker, Retribution, Shadow, Enhancement and Elemental now gain 25% of the bonus healing provided by PvP Power (was 0%). Dedicated healers will continue to gain 50% of the bonus healing provided by PvP Power and 0% damage from PvP Power.For casters and healers, PVP Power is now split evenly between main-hand and off-hand in a manner similar to a dual-wield melee class. This change is retroactive, affecting Season 12 Malevolent and Malevolent Elite items. There should be no net change for any character already using a main-hand/off-hand combination.PVP Caster weapons in Season 13 cost 2250 Conquest Points (down from 2500) and shields/off-hands cost 1250 (up from 1000), to reflect the increased value of the off-hand slot for classes that use it in this manner. This change is not retroactive and applies only to Season 13 items.
Battlegrounds
Players in low level battlegrounds will have their effective level raised to the maximum level allowed in that battleground bracket. Players' base stats and spells are scaled accordingly and are treated as the same level when determining hits, misses, and critical effect chance.Rated Battlegrounds now award conquest to the losing team based on their final score. The losing team can earn up to 200 Conquest Points from a very close match.
Items
Transmogrification rules have been broadened for several weapon types. Two-handed axes, maces, and swords can be Transmogrified to each other.One-handed axes, maces, and swords can be Transmogrified to each other.Staves and polearms can be transmogrified to each other.The ethereals that offered to upgrade items using Valor or Justice points have departed Azeroth for the moment. They may yet return in a future patch.The cost of Valor Point gear introduced in patch 5.0 has been reduced by 50%.The cost of Valor Point gear introduced in patch 5.1 has been reduced by 25%.
UI
The Reputation panel on the character screen will now let players know which reputations they have purchased and used Grand Commendations for.There is now an option to show absorb effects (such as Power Word: Shield) on player, target, party and raid frames. This feature is currently enabled if you turn on the predictive healing option. Unlike predictive healing, absorb effects will display for enemy targets.
Bug Fixes
Classes Demonic Circle: Teleport now correctly shares the same cooldown when in Metamorphosis.Mac Fixed an issue that would cause command-left-click to occur as right-click while using trackpad functionality.The Logitech LCD applet for G19/G15 keyboards will now launch with the 64-bit client.Tags: breaking, patch-5.2, patch-5.2-patch-notes, patch-5.2-ptr, ptr-patch-notes, wow-patch-5.2, wow-patch-5.2-ptr, wow-patch-notes

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