Updated 3.0.8 Patch Notes

admin January 7 2009 11:01 am 9 Comments

We’ve seen most of these notes, but I am going to relist them all just to make sure all the new ones get added. I’m only going to list the Death Knight related changes, you can see the full patch notes HERE, HERE or HERE.

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Here is a list of the current Death Knight bug fixes:

Blood Aura Will now always do the correct amount of healing, based on the actual damage taken of the target.
Blood Caked Blade: Now does the proper damage amount when triggered by an off-hand weapon.
Bloody Strikes: The tooltip for this talent now has correct values.
Butchery: Will now always grant 20 runic power, regardless of the creature type killed.
Chains of Ice: This ability is no longer able to land on death knights who have Anti-Magic Shell active.
Crypt Fever: It is no longer possible to have a duration longer than the disease which caused it. Will also no longer incorrectly increase Death and Decay damage.
Corpse Explosion: Fixed a bug where how much Runic Power the Death Knight had was affecting the damage done, and also increased the damage substantially.
Dancing Rune Blade: The weapon no longer echoes the Raise Dead and Army of the Dead spells. In addition it will now more closely match the master?s damage and will cast Rune Strike when its master does.
Death Chill: The effect from this talent will no longer be consumed if Killing Machine is active.
Death Pact: This will no longer cause guards to attack the Death Knight.
Desecration: will no longer break stealth.
Ebon Plague: It is no longer possible to have a duration longer than the disease which caused it. It will no longer stack with Crypt Fever used by another character.
Frost Fever: This talent now works properly when spell reflected.
Gnaw: This ghoul ability is now able to be set on autocast.
Icy Clutch: This will now be applied properly in all cases to targets that gain Frost Fever via the Pestilence ability.
Mark of Blood now works correctly with periodic damage.
Pestilence: The diseases will now spread correctly even when the damage from Pestilence kills the primary target.
Raise Dead no longer puts you in combat when you cast this spell.
Tundra Stalker (Rank 1) will now work properly on Death and Decay.
Unholy Blight: Will no longer cause spell pushback.

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9 Comments »

Frappuccino said:

I keep hearing people say that Mark of Blood is beind reduced to 20 charges opposed to its current state, though I never see anything about it in the patch notes.

Is there validity in this?

# 7 January 2009 at 11:42 am

Eric said:

Some good changes, some bad changes (or rather, changes I’m not a fan of such as glyph of DnD).

Will be interesting to see how this affects things.

I thought I read somewhere that the RP cost of frost strike would be reduced slightly? Guess not :(

Can’t wait for dual spec. DK talent trees are so schizophrenic, I need 2 different specs just to get the level of performance I want out of the class.

Or I could look at it a different way by saying DK has so many awesome abilities that one spec is just not enough :)

# 7 January 2009 at 4:07 pm

Rigorr said:

Some good, some bad… But not as much nerfs in total as I expected… But we aint there yet :( Like the deathchill change though, always when I pop it KM seems to proc just before :P

@ Eric
I think the glyph of frost strike is changed to reduce cost…

# 7 January 2009 at 4:44 pm

Mono said:

I love this patch! I can hardly wait!

# Horn of Winter now has no cost and grants 10 runic power in addition to its stat buff, but has a 20 second cooldown.

# Howling Blast: Cooldown removed.

# Pestilence no longer has a 10 seconds cooldown.

# Glyph of Horn of Winter now increases the duration by 60 sec.

# Death Chill: The effect from this talent will no longer be consumed if Killing Machine is active.

# 7 January 2009 at 9:29 pm

Lithium said:

Anyone know the word about dual-specs? Is that coming too or is that going to be in the content patch?

# 8 January 2009 at 9:07 am

Frappuccino said:

@Lithium
Dual specs will be in the content patch, not the incoming patch. This was posted by a blue somewhere, but since I can’t cite my source (can’t access WoW forums at work), don’t quote me on it.

# 8 January 2009 at 10:06 am

unborn said:

I can’t wait for duel spec, and Im mad they are reducing the damage boneshield reduces, that spell is beast IMO. Unholy DK’s for PvP is my faveriote, I have most fun with it but with the DK having its mitigation buff nerfed makes it harder to get your 2-6 dots on target and scourge strike them before ur shield is down and ur taking mad damage. But for the most part I dont think this patch is really nerfing much but more so giving mad buffs to Blood and especially Frost.

# 9 January 2009 at 5:12 pm