Patch 3.0.8a
A new build of patch 3.0.8 went live today in the US that introduces fixes for a few hot issues with class skills. The patch notes aren't much different from the previous version, but there are no doubt a few undocumented changes as well.
Quote from: Nethaera (Source)
General
- Human females Helms will no longer lift off the character's head during a Special2H animation or during a HoldRifle animation.
Death Knight (Skills / Talents / Glyphs)
- Howling Blast : The 5 second cooldown will now display correctly.
Hunter (Skills / Talents / Glyphs)
- All Hunter aspects are no longer on the global cooldown that is shared with other Hunter abilities. All hunter aspects are now on a separate 1 second cooldown.
Warlock (Skills / Talents / Glyphs)
- Ritual of Summoning will now function as intended.
Undocumented Changes
As expected, undocumented changes are now appearing on the WoW forums!
Mage (Skills / Talents / Glyphs)
- Arcane Missiles now consumes the Arcane Blast buff instantly so that you can no longer cast Arcane Barrage at the end of the channel to "double dip" in the Arcane Blast buff.
- Glyph of Arcane Blast has been changed to 3% per stack.
3.0.8a Bugs
Mage (Skills / Talents / Glyphs)
Glyph of Arcane Blast doesn't apply its bonus damage to Arcane Missiles (Source)
This is a bug likely caused by the previous two changes. Such is the risk of making changes quickly. We can hotfix this bug out though.
Warlock (Skills / Talents / Glyphs)
Ritual of Summoning is still bugged, fix coming today (Source)
I said we hoped to fix it today. I did not say that the maintenance period was going to fix the change. Sorry for any confusion.
At this point in time, we are still on target to get this change out today. Stuff could change though, which is why we don't normally pre-announce fixes like this.
Summoning should work using the new meeting-stone-like functionality once we get this change in.
