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[PvP] Melee PvP'ers celebrate today!

Can anyone copy paste patch notes? I'm on duty today and it would give me something to do.
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Mcbrain, Goblin Shadow Priest, [Lock Down], Kil'Jaeden

Here it is:

World of Warcraft Patch 4.3.2

Notes for all World of Warcraft patches can be found here.

Classes: General

Vengeance is no longer triggered by receiving damage from other players.

Druids

The Tier 13 Balance Druid 4-piece bonus now also increases the damage of Starsurge by 10%, in addition to its current effect.

Hunters

Aspect of the Hawk now grants roughly 35% more attack power.
Deterrence now also reduces damage taken by 30% while active.
Black Arrow now ticks every 2 seconds for 20 seconds, as opposed to every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. The total damage dealt by the ability is unchanged.
Lock and Load no longer benefits Arcane Shot, nor is it consumed by Arcane Shot.

Mages

Fireball damage has been reduced by roughly 6%.
Pyroblast damage has been reduced by roughly 6%.

Paladins

Holy Radiance now costs 40% of base mana, up from 35%.

Priests

Mass Dispel should again prefer dispelling targets that have magic effects that can be dispelled.

Rogues

Adrenaline Rush no longer triggers a global cooldown.

Dungeons & Raids

You can now form same-faction raids with Real ID friends, allowing you to enter Raid Finder in groups larger than 5, run older normal or heroic raids, or participate in Battlegrounds. You will not yet be able to run normal or heroic Dragon Soul with cross-realm raids of Real ID friends.
Several typo fixes and clarified descriptions have been added to the Dungeon Journal entries for Dragon Soul.
Players can no longer win multiple copies of the same item on a single Raid Finder boss kill. For example, a player who chooses Need on two set piece tokens or two weapons and wins the first, will not be eligible for the second on that particular boss.
Baradin Hold
The roaming Eyes of Occu'thar have been replaced by hateful creatures who serve Alizabal.
Dragon Soul
Warmaster Blackhorn
The visual warning for Twilight Elites' Blade Rush should be easier to see.

Items

Vial of Shadows damage (Lightning Strike) has been reduced to approximately one-third of previous damage. However, it will now trigger approximately 3 times as often. This is intended to keep overall DPS the same while reducing burst damage, especially in PvP.
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How about them Cowboys!

reply to Mablung
Fire mage nerf. Great

reply to boudro
Vial of Shadows damage (Lightning Strike) has been reduced to approximately one-third of previous damage. However, it will now trigger approximately 3 times as often. This is intended to keep overall DPS the same while reducing burst damage, especially in PvP.

Wish I had that OP trinket at the time. =\ This will be wonderful for arena! No more dying from a rogue after the cheapshot or having a hunter 3 shot you with a 60k lightning crit in the mix!

reply to Mablung
Lame. Prot PvP on my Paladin was fun for world PvP & BGs, but not like Arena-stopping OP or anything. Guess that fun boat has sailed now.

reply to boudro
More hunter Buffs?

I knew it was coming when they announced the AP buff changes for melee in 4.3.
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Mcbrain, Goblin Shadow Priest, [Lock Down], Kil'Jaeden

reply to Treebark

reply to Thaler
Prot PvP on my Warrior is the same, I don't do the damage of a DK or Druid but my ability to survive is very good, not ridiculous but good. Very fun to play, It will be interesting to see how this change affects Pally's and Warriors...It seems they are more of a utility class that is very helpful in a team situation with their stuns and aoe for flag protection, both DK and druid can flat out kill people while requiring multiple oponents to bring them down. Too bad this doesn't affect only those 2.

reply to Mablung
Is the DS nerf in this patch?

yes

bckck5

Sucks, I want to play, off work with nothing to do. Getting some weird error with silverlight trying to watch netflix. Cold beer and WoW on a Tuesday morning, hope servers are up in 30 minutes.

Before patch on hunters, a few of those fights with pets being bugged sounded like they sucked, but other than that, I didn't see a problem with them, but when I was on mine, I was probably running with bads.

reply to Mablung

I think this mount is coming too, feldrake?

Well if you bought the TCG and got that card, yes.

reply to djlar

reply to Mablung

I wouldn't call it shot-in-the-face gimped, well at least not Prot Warriors. They will at least still have a place on nearly every decent RBG team.

Paladins on the other hand, are going the way of Marvin in Pulp Fiction. If they were given some semblance of mobility they wouldn't lag so far behind the other tank specs in team oriented PvP.
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Mcbrain, Goblin Shadow Priest, [Lock Down], Kil'Jaeden

Well, the biggest selling factor to the Tank PvP builds was that we could hit back hard when others started to pile up on us. Now with Vengance stacks totally gone in PvP, Prot Warriors/Paladins will be hurting to cause any real damage to other players.

They might still be viable as a very-limited role pocket flag runner...but now there's a very substantial tradeoff of damage-dealing for survival. These Prot flag runners are going to be hitting like pillows against their opponents.

I wonder if they will lose aggro now to their opponents. Might make it easier to keep the flag if they can't hold aggro.