PTR Raiding Changes

Raid Lockouts
Are you struggling on the last bosses on Monday night and you wish you had an extra week to work on them? /raidinfo shows you how you can keep the raidId around. If you're farming loot you probably wouldn't want to do this of course.



Tier Token Drops
Tier-9 tokens will drop in a similar way as now. A small handful of classes are able to use each one. However, the new thing is that a token can be used to buy any of the tier pieces -- not just a specific tier piece. Win the token, go decide which piece you want to get. I'm a bit torn on this. I don't know how T-9 bosses are arrayed. It will make farming bosses less tiresome. However it will make obtaining the helm a far less meaningful, right? Now it does reduce complexity. There are five pieces available in tier-9.

Tier-9 Set Bonuses

Hunter

• 2 piece - The damage done by your Serpent Sting ability can now be critical strikes.
• 4 piece - Each time you hit with a ranged attack, you have a chance to grant your pet 600 attack power for 15 sec.

Umm. Wow. This is a very nice change from the crap they had as Tier-9 "set bonuses" before. All classes will generally have a SrS up. SV will generally crit a little more than the other classes. However, I really read the two set bonus as another buff to Marksman. SrS is their bread and butter. And of course the four set bonus is all about BM.

Super Cheap Ammo

The Ultrasafe Bullet Machine and Saronite Arrow Maker schematics have been simplified to create a full stack of the appropriate ammunition. No longer requires an anvil. Reduced the materials required to make this ammunition.

My read on this is that less materials are required and it produces 5x the amount of ammo. So say instead of 25g in mats for a machine, it's only 20g in mats. Then it produces 5x the amount, so it's really 5g? It sounds like these will be cheaper to use than filling up stacks of rep vendor Timeless Shells. That would really help reduce one of the consumable costs of raiding. Ahh, but I'm probably misinterpreting it. I bet instead of ten by 200, it just makes two by 1000. ...As if that's helpful.

PTR Video: Koralon the Flame Watcher

Koralon the Flame Watcher on the PTR. 10man. It does look to throw out some serious damage. It also appears that we'll want to have a few melee step up for the cleave to help out the tank spread out the damage. I imagine the 25man is a bit harder, with more fire, more damage to the raid, less room to move around, and the cleave has to become an interesting mechanic.

Hunter Pet Tanks Get Un-crit-able in 3.2

Thanks to some great 3.2 PTR testing of Durante, he was able to generate the numbers you need to achieve in Resilience plus some number of points in the Grace of the Mantis pet talent. Here is a direct link to his findings over at Big Red Rhino. I'm copying a portion of the info here. I've had some difficulty bringing BRR boards up lately and don't want to have this lost.

Presumes the pet has the full 2/2 Grace of the Mantis Tenacity talent.

Mob Level	Chance to be Crit	Hunter Resilience Needed to Avoid Crits on Pet
80	1%	205
81	1.2%	246
82	1.4%	287
83	1.6%	328