* Aimed Shot! weapon damage has been increased to 200%.
    * Kill Command's damage has been increased by 20%.
    * Kill Shot's attack power scaling has been increased by 50%.
    * Chimera Shot's attack power scaling has been increased by 20%.

* Into the Wilderness (passive) has been reduced to a 10% Agility increase, down from 15%.

only surv hunter is OP...
BM and MM are still pretty weak thus buffing the skills used by those classes...
on the other hand, surv getting a sofy nerf via agi...

Jewelcrafting

    * Meta gems with the Chaotic and Relentless prefixes now have a requirement of 3 red gems.
    * New meta gems have been added: Agile Shadowspirit Diamond (Agility/3% critical damage), Reverberating Shadowspirit Diamond (Strength/3% critical damage), and Burning Shadowspirit Diamond (Intellect/3% critical damage). These new recipes are unbound and can drop from any Cataclysm creature. The new meta gems have a requirement of 3 red gems equipped.

Thank god for the fix. Dps meta that required more Blue gems then Red is just lame

Nothing for shaman = happy shaman

* Tremor Totem has been redesigned. The totem is now usable under Fear, Charm, or Sleep effects, and pulses much more rapidly, but lasts 6 seconds and has a 1-minute cooldown.
* Cleansing Waters no longer fires its heal effect twice when a shaman removes a Magic and a Curse debuff with a single cast.

Add this:

Mana Tide Totem has been redesigned. The totem no longer multiplies the Spirit of those affected by it. It instead gives a flat amount of Spirit equal to 400% of the casting shaman’s Spirit, exclusive to short-term Spirit buffs affecting the shaman when the totem is dropped.
Is this something new which they wanted to hide from the shamans?

Dungeons & Raids

    * Level 85 players can now choose any normal dungeon via the Dungeon Finder. Choosing Random Dungeon will still not add Blackrock Caverns or Throne of the Tides into the rotation.


Blackrock Caverns

    * Beauty now spawns with only two pups in Heroic difficulty. Not to worry though, the missing pup has been adopted by a wonderful, if not insane family.


Grim Batol

    * Faceless Corruptors now move 10% more slowly.
    * Players may still use spell and abilities while afflicted by Forgemaster Throngus's Impaling Slam.
    * Valiona's Devouring Flame damage has been reduced by 20%.


Halls of Origination

    * The duration of the Flame Wardens' Raging Inferno has been reduced by 80%.
    * Anraphet's Nemesis Strike now does 75% of weapon damage, up from 50%. In addition, the damage-over-time effect applied by this ability does 15,000 damage every 2 seconds, up from 9,000.
    * Earthrager Ptah's Flame Bolt now deals more damage per second on Heroic difficulty.
    * Setesh seeks a portal every 25 seconds, up from 20.


Lost City of the Tol'vir

    * Lockmaw no longer tolerates fighting in his treasure room.


Shadowfang Keep

    * Baron Ashbury
          o Sadly, in his hubris he has forgotten how to Mend Rotten Flesh.

    * Lord Walden
          o Conjure Poisonous Mixture now deals more initial damage.
          o Frost Mixture is now area-of-effect damage.
          o Toxic Catalyst now deals less damage over time.


The Stonecore

    * Stonecore Earthshapers' Dust Storm does slightly less damage.
    * Corborus
          o The warning time for Thrashing Charge has been increased by 1 second. In addition, Thrashing Charge now happens 4 times, down from 5.
          o The visual for Rock Borers spawning during the submersion phase is now different from the Thrashing Charge visual.

    * High Priestess Azil
          o She grew! She's now 175% the size of a human, up from 125%.
          o Gravity Wells should kill Devout Followers more quickly.
          o The cast time of Force Grip is now 1.5 seconds, up from 1.
          o The size of the warning visual for Seismic Shard has been increased to more accurately reflect the area it affects.
    * Slabhide
          o The ground phase lasts longer and has fewer stalactites.
    * Ozruk
          o There is now a precast visual on the ground to make it clear how far away a player must get to be clear of Shatter.
          o The cast time of Shatter has been increased to 3 seconds, up from 2.5.
          o Shatter damage is now reduced by armor, but has been increased by 33.3% (repeating, of course) as a result.
    * Bug Fixes
          o Fixed a bug that made Ozruk's Shatter knockback component 10-yard range while the damage had a 15-yard range. Both are 15 yards now.


Throne of the Tides

    * The damage done by Lady Naz'jatar's Shock Blast and Naz'jar Tempest Witch Chain Lightning has been reduced.
    * Tainted Sentries Swell damage has been reduced.
    * The damage of Blight of Ozumat has been reduced by 25% per stack.


The Vortex Pinnacle

    * Creatures
          o Desperate Speed cast by Temple Adepts has had its duration reduced significantly.

    * Altairus
          o The visual effects in this encounter have been adjusted to make the wind direction easier to read.
          o Cyclones now knock players straight up, and players hit by a cyclone cannot be hit again for a few seconds.
    * Asaad
          o Skyfall Stars are now summoned to help him defeat players.
          o Static Cling has had its cast time increased to 1.25 seconds, up from 1.
    * Grand Vizier Ertan
          o His health has been reduced slightly.
          o He now knocks away players standing too close to him when he retracts his Cyclone Shield, which now inflicts Nature damage if it touches players.
    * Bug Fixes
          o Fixed a bug that made Ozruk's Shatter knockback component 10-yard range while the damage had a 15-yard range. Both are 15 yards now.

tears flood the most class forum and general official forum
well maybe except the mages forum,
mages are now FOTP(Favourate Of The Patch)
and they(mage) ask to buff fire spec mage

* Black Arrow damage has been reduced by 25%.

* Explosive Shot damage has been reduced by 25%.

* Serpent Spread can now only affect up to 4 targets per Multi-Shot, down from unlimited.

surv need to be nerfed without nerfing the other 2 spec...
thus...

oh noes i'm having bad luck on the class i rolled, 1st ret nao sv huntard...

mayb i should roll a mage...

Patch notes updated (Jan 12) and so has the first post (*phew*).

Let me know if I made any mistakes, info or formatting.

Beast Mastery
    * Animal Handler now increases Attack Power by 25%, up from 15%.


Marksmanship
    * Aimed Shot! (Master Marksman) now deals 203% ranged weapon damage, up from 103% and now scale from 72.4% of Ranged AP, up from 48%.
    * Aimed Shot now has a 2.4 sec cast time, down from 3 sec. Now scales from 72.4% of Ranged AP, up from 48%.
    * Arcane Shot now scales from 4.83% of Ranged AP, up from 4.2%
    * Chimera Shot now scales from 73.2% of Ranged AP, up from 48.8%


Survival

    * Black Arrow now deals 2035 Shadow damage over 15 sec, up from 1800. (+13%)
    * Explosive Shot now scales from 23.2% of Ranged AP, up from 20.5%.
    * Serpent Spread is no longer capped to 4 targets. (PTR change)

PTR Update January 19 Updates

Dungeons & Raids

• Deadmines
  
  
  • Foe Reaper 5000 enrage
    
  • Vanessa VanCleef: boat fires updated; Vengeance of VanCleef redesigned
    
  
  
• Warriors
  
  
  • Drums of War
    
  • Mortal Strike
    
  
  

Us survival hunters are getting Ghostcrawler's nerfbat.



/cower

    * Aimed Shot weapon damage has been increased to 200%, up from 150%. In addition, the base cast time has been reduced to 2.4 seconds, down from 3.
    * Arcane Shot damage has been increased by 15%.
    * Aspect of the Wild, Aspect of the Hawk, and Aspect of the Fox can now be cast while mounted.
    * Hunters can now use Auto Shot while moving.
    * Casting Trap Launcher, Distracting Shot, and Scare Beast now cancel Auto Shot when cast. This is to make it easier to crowd control creatures with Auto Shot while moving enabled.
    * Concussive Shot duration has been increased to 6 seconds, up from 4.
    * Deterrence now provides 100% chance for melee attacks to miss instead of 100% parry chance. This means that attacks that cannot be parried, notably some rogue abilities, can now be prevented by Deterrence, and the hunter will gain the benefit of Deterrence even if disarmed.
    * Dust Cloud’s cooldown and duration have been modified to make it closer aligned with Tailspin (same effect, different pet).
    * Freezing Trap now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
    * Kill Command's damage has been increased by 20%.
    * Kill Shot's attack power scaling has been increased by 50%.
    * Master's Call now has a 35-second cooldown, down from 1 minute, and its range has been increased to 40 yards, up from 25. In addition, the visual effect is more obvious.
    * Wing Clip now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.


Talent Specializations
Beast Mastery

    * Animal Handler now provides a passive 25% bonus to attack power, up from 15%.


Marksmanship

    * Chimera Shot's overall damage has been increased by roughly 50%.
    * Wild Quiver (Mastery): Chance for this to trigger per mastery has been increased by approximately 17%.


Survival

    * Black Arrow damage has been reduced by 15%.
    * Explosive Shot damage has been reduced by 15%.
    * Hunter vs. Wild has been increased to 5/10/15% Stamina, up from 4/8/12%.
    * Into the Wilderness (passive) has been reduced to a 10% Agility increase, down from 15%.


Pets

    * Pets now have 70% of the master's armor, rather than a different value based on which type of pet they are.
    * Shale Spiders now correctly have a special ability (Web Wrap).
    * Bad Manner (monkey) now properly breaks from damage.


Glyphs

    * Glyph of Concussive Shot redesigned. It now limits the maximum run speed of the target while Concussive Shot is active.


Hunter Bug Fixes

    * Aimed Shot no longer ignores the Fire! buff when cast by macro.
    * Camouflage is now breaking when the hunter's traps deal damage to a target.
    * Chimera Shot's particle effect animations should now display correctly.
    * Cobra Shot now properly increases the duration of the Serpent Spread Serpent Sting.
    * The Focus Fire spell effect is now cooler than your best collection of green rectangles.
    * Wild Quiver's effect per point of mastery value should now be consistent.
    * Before shooting, male undead hunters will no longer look away from their targets.


Pet Fixes

    * Pet families added in Cataclysm should not be missing talents.
    * Pets should fight all underwater creatures, even if the hunter is out of melee range.
    * Ancient Hysteria should not able to affect low-level characters.
    * Ancient Hysteria now correctly affects pets.
    * Embrace of the Shale Spider now provides resistances so that those resistances are not lost if this buff overwrites Blessing of Forgotten Kings.
    * Ferocity-category pets in the dog and fox families now have access to the pet talent Charge.
    * Mobility can correctly be learned by land-based hunter pets.
    * Ravage no longer counts toward stun diminishing returns.
    * Undead hunters now start with Revive Pet on the action bar.
    * The pet Spellbook entry for Serpent Swiftness now shows its rank.
    * Shale Spiders are no longer missing a special ability.
    * The Shell Shield (Terrorpene) visual has been enlarged and should now be seen when cast.
    * The tooltip for the armor value in the Character pane should now be showing the correct amount of armor granted to pets.