Comprehensive Patch 3.2 Hunter Changes

(Please note that I will try to keep this list updated as the PTR Progresses.  However, as with anything on the PTR these may not reflect the current implemented changes, nor the what will finally make it into Patch 3.2.  As always the Official PTR Notes can be found at: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html.

If you feel anything might be missing from this list that effects Hunters please contact me at brigwyn@brigwyn.com.  Thank you.)

Items: General

  • Resilience: No longer reduces the amount of damage done by damage over time spells, but instead reduces the amount of all damage done by players by the same proportion. The other effects of resilience (reducing critical chance, critical damage and mana drain effects) have not changed.

Classes: General

  • 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).
  • Silence, Strangulate, Silencing Shot, and Arcane Torrent: These abilities will also apply a 3 second interrupt effect against non-player controlled targets, making them more versatile against creatures immune to silencing effects.

Hunters

Talents

Beast Mastery

Survival

Pets

  • Roar of Sacrifice: Redesigned. This ability can now be used on any friendly target to make that target immune to critical strikes, but the hunter pet takes 20% of all damage taken by that friendly target. Cooldown increased to 2 minutes.

User Interface

  • Macros and scripts will no longer be able to target totems by name.

Professions

Bug Fixes

  • Hunter
    • All ranks of Sonic Blast now properly have an 80 Focus cost.
    • Black Arrow Ranks 5 and 6 training costs have been lowered significantly.
    • Lock and Load: The tooltip for this talent has been updated to indicate that it also works with Explosive Trap.
    • The tooltip for Improved Tracking has been slightly re-written to indicate that it only works on the hunter, and works on melee damage as well.
    • T.N.T. (Rank 3): Now indicates that the talent works with Black Arrow.

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