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08-27-2008, 09:19 AM
General
- The continent of Northrend is now available! To travel there, visit
one of four transportation masters in either Orgrimmar, Undercity,
Theramore,or Menethil Harbor.
- The floating magical city of Dalaran is now available!
- The Barber Shop has been implemented and you can now visit one of the
Barber Shops in the major cities to change your appearance.
- The all new Achievement System has been implemented.
- Transportation between Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra can be found
at the Tuskarr villages in those zones.
- The level cap is currently set to 77.
- Hit Rating, Critical Strike Rating, and Haste Rating now modify both
melee attacks and spells.
- Spell casting and spell channeling pushback has been changed to the
following:
When casting a spell:
The first and second hit will add .5 secs each to the cast time.
All hits after the second will have no effect.
When channeling a spell:
The first and second hit reduces current duration by 25% of total
duration each.
All hits after the second will have no effect.
- Spellpower:
All items and effects which grant bonuses to spell damage and spell
healing are being consolidated into a single stat, Spellpower. This
stat will appear with the same values found on items which grant
"increased spell damage and healing" such as on typical Mage and
Warlock itemization.
For classes which do not heal, they should see no change in the
character sheet other than new tooltip wording.
Healing characters will see their bonus healing numbers on the
character sheet decrease, however, all healing spells have been
modified to receive more benefit from spellpower than they received
from bonus healing, with a net effect of no change to the amount
healed by their spells. Some talents have had to be rebalanced to
accommodate this change, but the amount healed will remain roughly
the same. In addition, some talents will provide only healing spell
power.
- NPC Transportation Locations
Horde:
Undercity to Vengeance Landing (Howling Fjord)
Orgrimmar to Warsong Hold (Borean Tundra)
Alliance:
Menethil Harbor to Valgarde (Howling Fjord)
Theramore to Valiance Keep (Borean Tundra)
Racial Abilities
- Arcane Torrent (Blood Elf) global cooldown removed.
Known Issues
- The current patch notes are incomplete, but will be more
progressively comprehensive in each next patch.
World Environment Zones
- The following zones are available for testing: Howling Fjord, Borean
Tundra, Dragonblight, and Grizzly Hills, Sholazar Basin, and Zul'Drak.
Dungeons
- The following dungeons are available for testing:
Howling Fjord: Utgarde Keep (70-72)
Borean Tundra: The Nexus (70-72)
Dragonblight: Azjol-Nerub (72-74)
Grizzly Hills: Drak’Tharon Keep (74-76)
Storm Peaks: The Halls of Stone (77-79)
Classes
- All Classes are available for play. Spells and talents will be
available for testing past 70.
- The Death Knight Hero class is now available for play.
Death Knights will now start with 0 talent points at level 55.
Creating a new Death Knight will start you at level 55 in Eastern
Plaguelands.
The Death Knight start zone, Acherus, the Ebon Hold, is fully
implemented and is located in the Eastern area of Eastern Plaguelands.
Death Knight spells that cost runes will now display the rune
cooldowns on the spell buttons.
Druid
- Brambles (Balance): Now increases the damage done by your Treants,
and also damage caused from your Treants and Barkskin has a 5/10/15%
chance to Daze the target for 3 sec.
- Celestial Focus (Balance): The stun proc now works with Starfall.
- Challenging Roar now has a 3 minute cooldown, reduced from 10
minutes.
- Entangling Roots: Can now be used indoors.
- Faerie Fire (Feral): Now an 11-point talent, down from being a
21-point talent.
- Feral Charge (Feral) is now a 21-point talent, up from being a
11-point talent.
- Feral Charge (Feral): Can now be used in Cat form.
- Feral Instinct (Feral) no longer increases threat generated in Bear
form, but now increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 5/10/15%.
- Feral Swiftness: The movement speed buff can now be used indoors.
- Focused Starlight (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.
- Force of Nature (Balance): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes, down from 3.
- Hurricane: No longer has a cooldown (was 1 minute).
- Improved Faerie Fire (Feral): Now also works with spell hit, in
addition to ranged and melee hit %.
- Improved Mark of the Wild (Restoration): Now a 2-point talent, down
from a 5-point talent.
- Improved Tranquility (Restoration): Now also reduces the cooldown of
your Tranquility spell by 25/50%.
- Mangle (Feral): Now increases the damage done by Maul in addition to
Shred.
- Moonglow (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.
- Moonkin Form (Balance) no longer increases your attack power or
causes you to regenerate mana off melee attacks, but now has a chance
to cause you to instantly regenerate 2% of your total mana every time
you critically hit with a spell.
- Nature's Focus (Restoration): Now a 3 point talent, down from a
5-point talent. Also moved to Tier 1, up from Tier 2. Now also
includes Nourish.
- Nature's Grace (Balance): Now also reduces the global cooldown of
your Wrath spell by 50% while in effect.
- Nature's Grasp (Balance): Can now be used and can proc indoors.
- Nature's Reach (Balance): Now also reduces threat generated by
Balance spells by 15/30%.
- New Spell: Revive - Returns the spirit to the body, restoring a dead
target to life with health and mana. Cannot be cast when in combat.
(Ranks 1-7 added)
- Omen of Clarity (Restoration): Now a passive spell. Now also works
for spells (healing and damage). Proc rate is roughly 6% with a 10
second internal cooldown.
- Primal Tenacity (Feral) now reduces damage while stunned by 5/10/15%,
and reduces the duration of fear effects by 5/10/15%.
- Remove Curse can now be used in Tree of Life form.
- Soothe Animal can now be used on Dragonkin as well as Beasts.
- Soothe Animal is now instant cast.
- Subtlety (Restoration): Now a 3-point talent, down from a 5-point
talent. Also moved to Tier 2, up from Tier 3. Also now only reduced
threat for Restoration spells, and reduces the chance that your
healing over time spells (Lifebloom, Regrowth and Rejuvenation) will
be dispelled, rather than all Druid spells. Threat management for
Balance can now be found in the Balance tree, within Nature's Reach.
- Survival of the Fittest (Feral): Increased to 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%.
- The mana regeneration penalty when in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form and
Cat Form has been removed.
- Tranquil Spirit (Restoration) now also includes Nourish.
- Tree of Life (Restoration): 30% snare penalty has been removed.
- Tree of Life (Restoration): Can now cast Dispel Curse.
- Tree of Life (Restoration): You can now cast all Restoration spells
(Healing Touch) in the form, but Tree of Life now only reduces the
mana cost of your healing over time spells (Rejuvenation, Lifebloom,
Regrowth and Flourish) by 20%.
- Vengeance (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.
Hunter
- All pet families now have one unique ability. New abilities have been
added for families such as bears and sporebats.
- Animal Handler (Beast Mastery): No longer increases speed while
mounted, but now reduces the cooldown of your Master's Call ability by
5/10 sec.
- Arcane Shot: No longer dispels magic effects.
- Aspects now no longer cost mana.
- Aspect of the Beast: Now increases melee attack power by 10% for the
hunter and the hunter's pet.
- Avoidance, Dash / Dive and Cobra Reflexes are now pet talents instead
of pet skills.
- Bestial Swiftness is now a pet talent tree talent, and has been
removed from the Beast Mastery Hunter tree.
- Bite now has no cooldown, does the same damage and costs the same
Focus as Claw, so works as a Focus dump.
- Clever Traps (Survival) has been renamed "Trap Mastery."
- Concussive Barrage (Marksmanship): Can now proc from Volley attacks.
- Counterattack: Damage increased by 20%, and now also scales with your
Ranged Attack Power.
- Deterrence (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, and now also
increases your chance to resist spells by 60%. Now has a new spell
effect.
- Disengage: This ability has been re-designed. Now leaps the Hunter
backwards up to 13 yards. 30 second cooldown. Disengage now also only
has one rank (rank 1).
- Distracting Shot: This shot now "taunts" the target onto the Hunter. The
taunt effect will last 6 seconds. Distracting Shot now only has one rank
(rank 1).
- Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw
(never both).
- Focused Fire (Beast Mastery): Now increases the critical strike chance of
your Kill Command by 10/20/30% while Kill Command is active. This effect
can stack up to 3 times, but diminishes for each charge of Kill Command.
- Hunter pets can now learn talents in one of three trees depending on
family. Pets gain talent points starting at level 20 and earn an
extra talent point every 4 levels.
- If a hunter tames a pet that is more than five levels beneath their
own level, the pet will then have their level increased to five
levels beneath the hunter’s own level.
- Improved Feign Death (Survival): Now also reduces damage taken during
Feign Death by 15/30%.
- Improved Stings (Marksmanship): Now a 3-point talent, down from 5-points.
- Kill Command: This ability now increases the damage done by your pet's
special abilities by 60%. Each attack will reduce the damage bonus by 20%.
1 minute cooldown.
- Loyalty, Training Points and the hunter Beast Training button no
longer exist. Hunter pets can now learn all skills at their level.
They will get new ranks automatically as they gain levels.
- Master Tactician (Survival): Chance to proc increased to 10%, up
from 6%.
- Mongoose Bite: No longer requires you to dodge in order to use this
ability.
- Monster Slaying (Survival) and Humanoid Slaying (Survival) has been
combined into "Improved Tracking".
- New Talent - Aspect Mastery (Beast Mastery)
- New Talent - Hunter vs. Wild (Survival): Increases you and your pet's
attack power and ranged attack power equal to 10/20/30% of your total
Stamina.
- New Talent - Improved Tracking (Survival): Increases all damage done
to targets that are being tracked 1/2/3/4/5%.
- New Talent - Lock and Load (Survival): You have a 33/66/100% chance when
you trap a target and a 10/20/30% chance when you sting a target to cause
your next 3 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot spells to trigger no cooldown, cost
no mana and consume no ammo.
- New Talent - T.N.T. (Survival): Your Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and
Explosive Shot have a 5/10/15% to stun targets for 2 sec when they deal
damage, and increases the critical strike chance of your Explosive Shot and
Explosive Trap by 5/10/15%.
- Pathfinding (Beast Mastery): Now also increases the movement speed
while mounted by 5/10%.
- Readiness (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes.
- Savage Strikes (Survival): Now includes Counterattack.
- Spirit Bond (Beast Mastery): Also increases healing done to you
and your pet by 5/10%.
- Steady Shot now uses ammo. In result, its bonus damage has been
slightly reduced. Players can notice a damage increase based upon
what ammo they use.
- Steady Shot: Now has a 2.0 cast time, up from 1.5.
- Surefooted (Survival) now reduces the duration of movement impairing
effects by 16/25/50% (instead of resist % chance).
- Survival Instincts (Survival): This has been moved to tier-2, up from tier 6.
- Survivalist (Survival): Now increases your total Stamina, instead of your
total Health.
- The arming time has been reduced to 1 second, from 2 seconds for all traps.
- Tranquilizing Shot: Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (down from 20),
and now dispels Enrage and Magic effects.
- Trap Mastery (Survival) is now an 11-point talent.
- Trueshot Aura - This aura is now raid-wide.
- Wingclip: No longer does damage.
Mage
- Arcane Blast effect duration reduced to 3 seconds, and now increases
damage by 25/50/75% instead of reducing cast time.
- Arcane Focus (Arcane) is now 3 ranks and increases chance to hit and
reduces mana cost of Arcane spells by 1/2/3%.
- Arcane Fortitude moved to tier 2, increased to 3 ranks, now increases
armor equal to 50/100/150% of Intellect.
- Arcane Impact renamed Spell Impact and now affects Blast Wave, Fire
Blast, Cone of Cold, and Ice Lance.
- Arcane Potency now applies when Presence of Mind is active, talent
prerequisite changed to Presence of Mind.
- Arcane Subtlety now reduces the chance your spells will be dispelled
by 15/35%, and no longer reduces the resistance of targets.
- Arctic Reach now also affects Deep Freeze.
- Blast Wave now knocks all affected targets back.
- Conjured mana gems no longer disappear from your backpack after being
logged out for more than 15 minutes. Higher ranks of Conjure Mana Gem
will recharge an existing mana gem to maximum charges.
- Counterspell now costs 9% of base mana.
- Elemental Precision moved to tier 2.
- Empowered Arcane Missiles renamed Arcane Empowerment and no longer
increases mana cost. It now also increases damage caused by Arcane
Blast.
- Empowered Fireball reduced to 3 ranks, now increases damage by
5/10/15% of spell power.
- Empowered Frostbolt reduced to 2 ranks, increases damage by 5/10% of
spell power and increases critical hit chance by 2/4%.
- Flame Throwing moved to tier 3.
- Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor and Molten Armor are no longer
Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
- Frost Channeling now reduces mana cost of all spells by 4/7/10%.
- Frost Warding now increases armor and resistances of Frost/Ice Armor
by 25/50%, now gives Frost Ward and Fire Ward a 15/30/5 chance to
negate damage caused and restore mana equal to damage caused by the
warded spell.
- Ice Floes renamed Cold as Ice, now reduces cooldown of Cold Snap, Ice
Barrier, Summon Water Elemental, and Deep Freeze by 10/20%.
- Impact moved to tier 3, reduced to 3 ranks for 4/7/10% chance to
trigger, now triggers from any damaging spell (Fire, Frost or Arcane).
- Improved Blink now also reduces mana cost by 25/50%.
- Improved Counterspell now always silences the target for 2/4 seconds.
- Improved Fire Blast moved to tier 1, reduced to 2 ranks, reduces the
cooldown by 1/2 seconds.
- Improved Flamestrike moved to tier 2, renamed World in Flames, now
increases the critical hit chance of Flamestrike, Blast Wave,
Dragon’s Breath, Living Bomb, Blizzard, and Arcane Explosion by
2/4/6%.
- Improved Frost Nova renamed Ice Floes, moved to tier 1, increased to
3 ranks, now reduces cooldown of Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Ice Block,
and Icy Veins by 7/14/20%.
- Improved Mana Shield has been renamed to Arcane Shielding, reduces
mana lost per damage absorbed by 17/33%,and now also increases
resistances granted by Mage Armor by 25/50%.
- Invisibility now makes the caster invisible after 3 seconds, reduced
from 5 seconds.
- Magic Absorption reduced to 2 ranks, increases resistances by .5/1
point per level, and restores 1/3% of total mana on a resist.
- Magic Attunement (Arcane) now also increases the range of your Arcane
spells by 3/6 yards.
- Mana Shield now drains 1.5 mana per damage absorbed.
- Master of Elements now affects all spell criticals.
- Mind Mastery reduced to 3/6/9/12/15%.
- Molten Shields now gives Fire Ward and Frost Ward spells a 15/30%
chance to reflect the warded spell.
- Polymorph now costs 12% of base mana.
- Portal spells now cost 18% of base mana.
- Prismatic Cloak (Arcane)increased to 3 ranks for 1/2/3% and now also
reduces the fade time of Invisibility by 1/2 seconds.
- Pyroblast cast time has been reduced to 5 seconds.
- Remove Lesser Curse has been renamed to Remove Curse.
- Shatter no longer has a prerequisite.
- Slow Fall now costs 6% of base mana.
- Summoned Water Elemental's Waterbolt range increased, mana cost
reduced, Freeze range increased, mana cost increased.
- Teleport spells now cost 9% of base mana.
- Winter's Chill reduced to 3 ranks, Frost damage spells have a
33/66/100% chance to trigger the effect and the effect increases
chance to crit with Arcane, Fire and Frost spells.
Paladin
- All Auras now affect all party and raid members within the area of
effect.
- Anticipation (Protection) moved to tier 1, now increases chance to
dodge by 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Avenger's Shield (Protection) cast time reduced to .5 seconds,
duration increased to 10 seconds.
- Avenging Wrath no longer causes Forebearance, damage increase reduced
to 20%, now increases healing done by 20%.
- Blessing of Freedom renamed Hand of Freedom. Only one Hand spell can
be on the target per paladin at any one time. Now costs 6% of base
mana.
- Blessing of Light and Greater Blessing of Light removed. Their
effects have been folded into all relevant abilities.
- Blessing of Protection renamed Hand of Protection. Only one Hand
spell can be on the target per paladin at any one time. All ranks now
cost 6% of base mana.
- Blessing of Sacrifice renamed Hand of Sacrifice, is now only 1 rank
and transfers 20% of the damage taken to the caster, duration reduced
to 12 seconds, cooldown increased to 2 minutes. Only one Hand spell
can be on the target per paladin at any one time. Now costs 6% of
base mana.
- Blessing of Salvation renamed Hand of Salvation, now reduces total
threat on the target by 2% per second for 10 seconds while also
reducing all damage and healing done by 10%. Only one Hand spell can
be on the target per paladin at any one time. Now costs 6% of base
mana.
- Consecration now scales with attack power and spell power.
- Conviction (Retribution) now increases critical chance with all
spells and melee attacks.
- Divine Intellect (Holy) moved to tier 2, increases total Intellect by
3/6/9/12/15%.
- Divine Intervention cooldown reduced to 20 minutes.
- Divine Protection and Divine Shield now cost 3% of base mana.
- Divine Protection now reduces all damage taken by 50% and increases
time between attacks by 100%.
- Divine Purpose (Retribution) now reduces chance to be hit by spells
and ranged attacks by 1/2/3%.
- Divine Strength (Holy) moved to tier 1 in the Protection tree.
- Exorcism mana cost reduced and now scales with attack power and spell power.
- Eye for an Eye now reflects 10/20% damage from all critical hits.
- Fanaticism now increases chance to critically hit by 5/10/15/20/25%.
- Forbearance duration increased to 3 minutes.
- Greater Blessing of Salvation removed.
- Hammer of Justice now costs 3% of base mana.
- Hammer of Wrath is now considered a Retribution spell, moved from
Holy, mana cost reduced, missile speed increased, now usable on
targets below 35% health.
- Healing Light (Holy) moved to tier 2.
- Holy Shield (Protection) cooldown reduced to 8 seconds.
- Holy Shock (Holy) range changed to 20/40 yards when used on
enemies/friends respectively, cooldown reduced to 6 seconds.
- Holy Wrath is now instant cast, causes a 3 second stun, cooldown
reduced to 30 seconds, radius reduced to 10 yards.
- Illumination (Holy) moved to tier 3.
- Improved Blessing of Might increased to 10/20/30/40/50%.
- Improved Concentration Aura (Protection) moved to the Holy tree.
- Improved Concentration Aura moved from the Protection tree to tier 4
in the Holy tree.
- Improved Devotion Aura (Protection) moved to tier 4, reduced to 3
ranks, now increases armor of Devotion Aura by 17/34/50% and
increases all healing done to units affected by Devotion Aura by
1/2/3%.
- Improved Hammer of Justice (Protection) now reduces cooldown by
10/20/30 secs.
- Improved Righteous Fury (Protection) threat bonus folded into base
spell, talent still reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6%.
- Improved Sanctity Aura (Retribution) renamed Sanctified Retribution,
now causes all units affected by Retribution Aura to cause 2% more
damage.
- Improved Seal of Righteousness (Holy) moved to tier 1, renamed Seals
of the Pure, now affects Seal of Righteousness, Seal of Vengeance and
Seal of Corruption.
- Improved Seal of the Crusader (Retribution) renamed Heart of the
Crusader and the effects now apply to all Judgement spells.
- Judgement has been replaced with 3 new spells; Judgement of Light,
Judgement of Wisdom, and Judgement of Justice. All Judgement spells
are considered ranged attacks for purposes of how they hit and how
they critically hit. All cause damage based on attack power and spell
power.
Judgement of Light now heals based on the Paladin’s attack power and
spell power, the effect can not trigger more than once ever 4 seconds.
Judgement of Justice will no longer prevent Fear effects, but will
only prevent NPCs from fleeing (e.g. at low health).
Judgement of Wisdom now restores mana based on the Paladin’s attack
power and spell power, the effect can not trigger more than once
every 4 seconds.
- Lay on Hands no longer drains all mana, cooldown reduced to 20
minutes.
- Precision has been removed.
- Pure of Heart (Holy) reduced to 2 ranks, now reduces duration of
Curse and Disease effects by 25/50%.
- Pursuit of Justice reduced to 2 ranks for 8/15% movement increase and
1/2% less chance to be hit by spells.
- Redoubt (Protection) moved to tier 2.
- Repentance (Retribution) mana cost changed to 9% of base, duration
increased to 1 minute (10 second PvP duration), now usable against
Demons, Dragonkin, Giants, Humanoids and Undead.
- Retribution Aura damage increased and now gains damage based on Holy
spell power.
- Righteous Defense no longer costs mana and the global cooldown has
been removed.
- Righteous Fury now increases threat caused by Holy damage by 90%.
- Sacred Duty now also reduces the cooldown of Divine Protection.
- Sanctified Light (Holy) now also increases the critical chance of
Holy Shock.
- Sanctity Aura (Retribution) removed.
- All Seals have been reduced to 1 rank and now cost 14% of base mana.
The duration has been increased to 2 minutes and are no longer
consumed when a Judgement spell is cast. The effects can be triggered
from all weapon based special abilities.
Seal of Blood now increases Judgement damage by 45% of weapon damage.
Seal of Command now increases Judgement damage by 30% of weapon
damage, 60% on stunned targets.
Seal of the Crusader has been removed. The effects of Judgement of
the Crusader have been folded into all relevant abilities.
Seal of Righteousness deals damage based on weapons peed plus an
amount based on attack power and spell power, increases Judgement
damage by 25%.
Seal of Vengeance now applies its effect on every swing, causes damage
based on attack power and spell power, increases Judgement damage by 10%
per stack of the damage over time effect.
- Spiritual Focus (Holy) moved to tier 1.
- Stoicism (Protection) moved to tier 2, now reduces duration of Stun
effects by 10/20/30% and reduces chance your spells will be resisted
by 10/20/30%.
- Summon Warhorse and Summon Charger mana cost removed and no longer
causes a global cooldown.
- Toughness (Protection) moved to tier 3.
- Turn Undead (ranks 1 and 2) removed. Turn Evil now granted at level
24, mana cost changed to 9% of base.
- Unyielding Faith (Holy) moved to tier 2.
- Vengeance (Retribution) now stacks up to 2 times, reduced from 3.
- Vindication reduced to 2 ranks for 10/20% attribute reduction.
Priest
- Circle of Healing (Holy): Now works on any targets in the caster's
raid, and is now a "smart" heal and chooses the lowest health targets
to heal first within it's range. Also now has a 6 second cooldown.
Also no longer will heal summoned Snakes from Hunter's Snake Trap.
- Enlightenment (Discipline): Now also gives 1% spell damage and 1%
heal per point.
- Focused Will (Discipline): Now increases healing effects on you by
3/4/5%, down from 4/7/10%.
- Force of Will (Discipline): This talent now increases your spell
damage by a flat amount, rather than increasing your spells by a %.
(Now increases school %, rather than selected spells damage %). In
other words, your spell damage gained from this talent is now
reflected on your character sheet, rather than the skill tool-tips.
- Holy Fire: Cast time reduced to to 2 seconds, down from 3.5. Damage
increased roughly 60%. Duration for the damage over time effect
reduced to 7 seconds, down from 10. Holy Fire now has a 10 second
cooldown.
- Improved Inner Fire (Discipline) - Now also increases the bonus
healing on your Inner Fire spell by 10/20/30%.
- Improved Shadow Word: Pain (Shadow) - Now increases damage done by
your Shadow Word: Pain by 5/10%, but no longer increases the duration
of your Shadow Word: Pain.
- Levitate now costs 3% of base mana.
- Lightwell (Holy): Cast time reduced to .5 sec, down from 1.5 sec.
Charges increased to 10, up from 5. Now breaks from any attack that
hits you for 30% or more of your total health. Cooldown reduced to 3
minutes, down from 5.
- Mind Control now has only one rank and costs 12% of base mana.
- Mind Soothe now has only one rank, costs 6% of base mana and has no
max target level.
- Mind Vision now costs 3% of base mana.
- New Talent: Improved Spirit Tap (Shadow) - Gives you a 50/100% chance
to gain a 50% bonus to your Spirit after gaining a critical effect
chance from your Mind Blast or Shadow Word: Death spells. For the
duration, your mana will regenerate at a 25% rate while casting.
Lasts 8 sec.
- New Talent: Twin Faiths (Discipline) - Increases your damage and
healing by 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Pain Suppression (Discipline): Cooldown increased to 3 minutes, up
from 2.
- Power Infusion (Discipline): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes, down from
3.
- Psychic Scream now costs 15% of base mana.
- Searing Light (Holy): Now also increases the damage of your Holy Nova
and Penance spells.
- Shackle Undead now costs 9% of base mana.
- Shadow Focus (Shadow): Now a 3 point talent, down from 5. Now also
reduces the mana cost of your Shadow spells by 2/4/6%.
- Shadow Resilience (Shadow): Now reduces physical damage taken by
2/4%, but no longer reduces the chance to be critically hit by spells.
- Shadowform (Shadow): Now has an innate 30% threat reduction. Now has
a shapeshift UI.
- Silence (Shadow) global cooldown removed.
- Silent Resolve (Discipline): Now a 3 point talent, down from 5 points.
- Spirit Tap (Shadow) - Talent reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Now
also leads into "Improved Spirit Tap"
- Wand Specialization (Discipline) has been removed.
Rogue
- Blade Twisting (Combat) now cause all damaging melee attacks to have
a 10% chance to daze for 4/8 seconds.
- Deadened Nerves (Assassination) now reduces all damage taken by
1/2/3/4/5%.
- Energy regeneration should now be smoother.
- Fleet Footed (Assassination) now reduces duration of movement
impairing effects by 25/50% rather than increasing resist chance.
- Gouge is now only 1 rank and causes damage based on attack power.
- Kick is now only 1 rank and no longer causes damage.
- Mace Specialization (Combat) no longer stuns enemies, and instead
increases critical damage bonus by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Nerves of Steel (Combat) now reduces the duration of all Stun and
Fear effects by 15/30%.
- Pick Lock and Disarm Trap no longer require Thieve's Tools.
- Premeditation (Subtlety) duration increased to 20 seconds.
- Riposte (Combat) now slows the target's melee attacks by 20% instead
of disarming them.
- Setup (Subtlety) chance to gain a combo point increased to 33/66/100%.
- Vanish no longer requires the reagent Flash Powder.
- Vile Poisons (Assassination) reduced to 3 ranks, now increases damage
of poisons and Envenom by 7/14/20% and increases dispel resistance
by 10/20/30%.
Shaman
- All totems are now considered on the "Physical" school, and no longer
magical spells.
- Ancestral Knowledge (Enhancement): Now increases your Intellect by
2/4/6%, instead of increasing your total Mana by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Call of Flame (Elemental): Now also increases the damage of your Lava
Burst spell by 2/4/6%.
- Call of Thunder (Elemental) now also increases the critical strike
chance of your Thunder spell.
- Concussion (Elemental) now increases the damage of your Thunder and
Lava Burst spells.
- Convection (Elemental) is now a 3-point talent, down from a 5-point
talent. Now lowers the mana cost of Thunder and Lava Burst.
- Earth's Grasp (Elemental) is now a tier-1 talent, up from tier-2.
- Elemental Devastation (Elemental) is now a tier-2 talent, up from
tier-4.
- Elemental Focus (Elemental): Now also can proc off Lesser Healing
Wave and Healing Wave, and can be used on all healing spells.
- Elemental Fury (Elemental) now requires Elemental Focus as a
pre-requisite
- Elemental Precision (Elemental): Chance to hit reduced to 1/2/3% from
2/4/6%, but threat reduction increased to 10/20/30% up from 4/7/10%.
- Enhancing (Enhancement) Totems is now a Tier 1 talent, up from Tier-2.
- Flametongue Totem is now a flat spell damage totem. All ranks have
been modified.
- Flametongue Weapon: Now has a passive spell damage.
- Frostbrand's snare effect has been increased to 50%, up from 25%.
- Ghost Wolf's mana cost is now 13% base.
- Grace of Air Totem has been removed. (Agility has been rolled over
into Strength of Earth Totem)
- Improved Fire Totems (Elemental) is now (again) Improved Fire Nova
Totem. It now has a 50/100% chance to stun all targets for 2 sec.
- Improved Lightning Shield (Enhancement) is now Improved Shields, and
is in Tier-2.
- Nature’s Blessing no longer increases spell damage from Intellect,
and the effect has been reduced to 5/10/15% from 10/20/30%. This is
in result of the new spell power system. Players should notice little
to no change in the power of the spell relevant to healing spells.
- New ranks have been added of Water Shield, starting at level 20.
(Level 20, 27, 34, 41, 48, 55, 62, 69)
- New Spell: Earthliving Weapon - Imbue the Shaman's weapon with
earthen life. Increases healing done by x and each heal has a 20%
chance to proc Earthliving on the target, healing an additionaly over
12 sec. Lasts 30 minutes.
- New Talent: Cleanse Spirit (Restoration) - Cleanse the spirit of a
friendly target, removing 1 poison effect, 1 disease effect, and 1
curse effect.
- New Talent: Elemental Shields (Enhancement): Increases the damage
done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 5/10/15%, increases the amount
of mana gained from your Mana Shield orbs by 5/10/15% and increases
the amount of healing done by your Earth Shield orbs by 5/10/15%.
- New Talent: Mental Dexterity (Enhancement) - Increases your Attack
Power by 33/66/100% of your Intellect.
- New Talent: Tidal Force- Increases the critical effect chance of your
Healing Wave, Lesser Healing Wave and Chain Heal by 60%. Each
critical heal reduces the chance by 20% and lasts 20 seconds.
- Rockbiter ranks 5 through 9 have been removed. Windfury Weapon is
intended to replace Rockbiter at level 30.
- Shapeshifting will no longer cancel Water Walking.
- Stoneclaw Totem: Health of the Stoneclaw totem is increased by 5% of
the Shaman’s total health.
- Stoneskin Totem now increases armor instead of reducing physical
damage.
- Storm Reach (Elemental): Now also increases the radius of your
Thunder spell by 10/20%.
- Strength of Earth Totem now also increases agility.
- The range of all “friendly totems” has been increased to 30 yards,
up from 20.
- Totemic Mastery talent removed and replaced with “Tidal Force”.
- Tranquil Air Totem has been removed. (Threat is being addressed by
modifications to the base threat of players and/or "baked" into
tanking abilities.)
- Unleashed Rage is now raid wide.
- Windfury Totem is now a flat 20% melee haste totem. All ranks have
been modified.
- Windwall Totem has been removed.
- Wrath of Air is now a flat 10% spell haste totem.
Warlock
- Aftermath (Destruction) - Now a 2-point talent, down from 5.
- All demon abilities and spells will automatically be learned as pets
gain levels. Demon Master trainers will be removed.
- Avoidance (Felguard): Now reduces damage taken from area of effect
attacks by an additional 80% and is automatically learned for the
Succubus, Imp, Voidwalker, and Felhunter at level 10.
- Bane now reduces the cast time of your Haunt spell.
- Blood Pact now works raid-wide (not just in party).
- Cataclysm (Destruction) - Now also increases your chance to hit with
Destruction spells by 1% per point.
- Consume Shadows (Voidwalker): Duration reduced to 6 seconds, and
effect increased 66%. Now also greatly increases all nearby allies’
stealth detection while channeled.
- Curse of Recklessness will no longer prevent Fear effects, only
prevent NPCs from fleeing (e.g. at low health).
- Dark Pact: Tooltip updated to be more consistent with other similar
effects and now restores 200% mana leeched from your summoned Demon,
up from 100%.
- Demon Armor - Now increases healing done by spells and effects by
20%, but no longer has in-combat health regeneration.
- Demon Skin, Demon Armor and Fel Armor are no longer Magic effects and
cannot be dispelled.
- Demonic Sacrifice: Succubus effect reduced to 10% increased shadow
damage, down from 15%. Imp effect reduced to 10% increased fire
damage, down from 15%. Felguard effect now increases Fire and Shadow
damage, instead of just Shadow.
- Doomguard: Health increased 20%, mana increased 24%.
- Emberstorm now reduces the cast time of your incinerate by
0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 seconds.
- Fel Armor - Now increases your spell damage equal to 30% of your
total Spirit, but no longer increases healing done by spells and
effects by 20%.
- Felguard: Health increased by 10%.
- Felhunter: Paranoia and Tainted Blood have been replaced with Fel
Intelligence and Shadow Bite.
- Fel Intelligence (Felhunter): Increases total Intellect and Spirit
of party and raid members by 3%. Lasts until cancelled.
- Fel Armor - Now increases your spell damage equal to 30% of your
total Spirit, but no longer increases healing done by spells and
effects by 20%.
- Fel Stamina (Demonology) has been merged with Fel Intellect into Fel
Vitality.
- Howl of Terror now costs 15% of base mana.
- Infernal: Cooldown reduced to 15 minutes, down from 1 hour.
Duration reduced to 1 minute, down from 5 minutes+. Health increased
by 30%, damage increased by 60%, and armor increased by 30%.
- Imp: Health increased by 20% , Armor increased 16%, mana regeneration
increased 200%.
- Improved Curse of Weakness (Affliction) is now "Frailty" - Increases
the amount of attack power reduced by your Curse of Weakness spell by
10/20%, and increases the amount of armor reduced by your Curse of
Recklessness by 10/20%.
- Improved Enslave Demon (Demonology) is now a Tier 5 talent, up from
Tier 4.
- Improved Lash of Pain (Destruction) and Improved Firebolt
(Destruction) have been merged into one talent, Demonic Power.
- Improved Shadow Bolt (Destruction) - Now increases damage by your
next Shadow damage spells by 3/6/9/12/15%, down from 4/8/12/16/20%.
- Mana Feed: Tooltip updated to be more consistent with other similar
effects.
- Master Demonologist (Demonology) - Most effects have been altered.
Master Demonologist – Felguard (Demonology) - Now increases all
damage by 1/2/3/4/5%, and reduces all damage done to you by
1/2/3/4/5%.
Master Demonologist – Imp (Demonology) - Now increases Fire damage
by 1/2/3/4/5%, and critical hit chance with Fire spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.
Master Demonologist – Succubus (Demonology) - Now increases Shadow
damage by 1/2/3/4/5%, and critical hit chance with Shadow spells
by 1/2/3/4/5%.
Master Demonologist (Demonology) - Most effects have been altered.
- Nether Protection has been reworked. It now has a 10/20/30% chance
when you’re hit with a spell to reduce all damage by that spell
school by 60% for 10 seconds.
- New Talent: Demonic Empowerment (Demonology) - Grants your Summoned
Demon power for a short time.
- New Talent: Eradication (Affliction) - Your Corruption, Siphon Life
and Curse of Agony ticks have a 5/10/15% chance to increase your
spell haste by 20% for 8 sec. This effect has a 10 second cooldown.
- New Talent: Improved Felhunter (Affliction): Your Felhunter gains
mana equal to 50/100% of the damage done by its Shadow Bite ability,
and increases the effect of your Felhunter’s Fel Intelligence by 1/2%.
- New Talent: Molten Core (Destruction) - Your Shadow spells and damage
over time effects have a 5/10/15% chance to increase the damage of
your Fire spells by 10% for 6 sec.
- Pyroclasm (Destruction) - Now also includes Conflagrate.
- Rain of Fire (Doomguard): A bug has been fixed which caused each tick
of Rain of Fire to consume its mana cost.
- Ritual of Souls: Charges increased to 25, up from 10.
- Shadow Bite (Felhunter): Deals Shadow damage plus an additional 5%
Shadow damage over time effect on the target. 6 second cooldown.
- Shadowfury (Destruction) - Can now be cast while moving. Stun
duration increased to 3 seconds, up from 2.
- Soul Link (Demonology) is now an 11-point talent (used to be a
31-point talent), but the 5% bonus damage from this talent has been
removed. In addition, the damage absorbed by Soul Link is now 15%,
down from 20%.
- Soulstone now generates a log entry indicating who casted and
received a soulstone.
- Spell Lock (Felhunter) global cooldown removed.
- Succubus: Health increased by 20%, armor increased 22%.
- Summon Dreadsteed/Felsteed: Mana cost removed, global cooldown
removed.
- Soul Siphon (Affliction): Now also increases the damage of your Drain
Soul.
- Suppression (Affliction) is now a 3-point talent, down from 5. Now
increases your chance to hit with Affliction spells by 1/2/3%, down
from 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Unstable Affliction (Affliction): Silence effect reduced to 3
seconds, down from 5.
- Voidwalker: Health increased by 20%, Damage increased by 16%.
The amount of attack power the Voidwalker gains from its master’s
spell damage has been increased by 45%.
Warrior
- Anticipation (Protection) now increases chance to dodge by
1/2/3/4/5%, moved to tier 2.
- Challenging Shout cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
- Death Wish (Fury) no longer makes you immune to Fear effects.
- Death Wish and Sweeping Strikes have swapped locations in their
respective talent trees.
- Defensive Stance now increases threat by 45%.
- Defiance (Protection) removed, replaced by Incite and moved to a new
location on tier 2.
- Enrage (Fury) now increases damage done by 3/6/9/12/15%, limitation
on number of attacks removed.
- Hamstring now only has one rank and no longer causes damage.
- Improved Bloodrage (Protection) now increases rage generation of both
the instant and over-time effects by 25/50%.
- Improved Charge (Arms) now generates 5/10 rage.
- Improved Disarm (Protection) now reduces the cooldown of Disarm and
Shield Break by 5/10/15 seconds and increases damage taken by
disarmed targets by 4/7/10%.
- Improved Shield Block (Protection) now has 2 ranks and reduces
cooldown of Shield Block by 5/10 secs. It no longer increases the
number of blocks.
- Improved Shield Wall will now reduce cooldown by 30/60 seconds.
- Improved Sunder Armor (Protection) renamed Puncture.
- Iron Will (Arms) now has only 3 ranks, reducing the duration of Stun
and Charm effects by 10/20/30%.
- Last Stand (Protection) cooldown reduced to 6 minutes.
- Mace Specialization (Arms) no longer stuns enemies, and now generates 10
rage.
- Mocking Blow now only has one rank and causes weapon damage, cooldown
reduced to 1 min and can now be used in Defensive Stance.
- Overpower now only has one rank and no longer causes any bonus damage
(i.e. weapon damage only).
- Poleaxe Specialization (Arms) now also increases critical damage done
by Axes and Polearms by 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Pummel now only has one rank and no longer causes damage.
- Recklessness now increases the critical hit chance of the next 3
special ability attacks by 100%, lasts 12 seconds, cooldown reduced
to 5 minutes.
- Retaliation duration reduced to 12 seconds, charges reduced to 12,
cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
- Shield Bash now only has one rank and will cause damage based on a %
of AP.
- Shield Block now increases chance to block and amount blocked by 100%
for 5 seconds. Cooldown increased to 30 seconds.
- Shield Slam is now available to all warriors, starting at level 40.
- Shield Specialization (Protection) moved to Tier 1, now increases
rage by 2 on a successful block.
- Shield Wall now reduces all damage taken by 60% for 12 seconds,
cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
- Sword Specialization (Arms) can no longer trigger more than once per
6 seconds.
- Thunder Clap damage increased, cooldown increased.
- Toughness (Protection) moved to tier 3.
PvP
- Medallion of the Horde and Insignia of the Alliance are now available
for purchase on PvP vendors. For the purposes of testing these
currently cost only gold to buy.
- Arenas
Buffs that have 30 seconds or less remaining will be removed once the
game starts. However, the mage spell “Invisibility” is not affected
by this change.
Professions
- The following tradeskills are available to train up to 450: First
Aid, Herbalism, Mining, and Skinning.
- Leatherworking
Drums now cause a Tinnitus effect, preventing affected targets from
receiving beneficial effects from other drums for two minutes.
- Mining
Smelt Elementium must be relearned by players who still wish to know
the spell by visiting a trainer in Blackwing Lair.
Quests
- Alliance characters on the “Check in With Bizie” quest in Borean
Tundra can now ask Kara Thricestar for a flying machine ride out to
Bizie Wrenchshanker.
- The “Escape from Winterfin Retreat” quest is now named, “Escape from
the Winterfin Caverns”. The escort is shorter and no longer requires a
pre-requisite quest to get a key.
- There is now a new murloc questgiver named Glrglrglr within the
Winterfin Caverns. This questgiver needs you to ge the key to his
cage so that he can be set free. This is not an escort quest.
- The Winterfin Caverns are once again named and player characters
should be able to wear King Mrgl-Mrgl's Spare Suit within them.
- Fewer cannonballs are now required for the Alliance quest, “Danger!
Explosives!”.
- Petrov’s Cluster Bombs no longer cause caster procs during the
Alliance quest, “Break the Blockade”.
- The Alliance quest, “Break the Blockade” no longer caps out at
revered Valiance Expedition faction.
- During the Alliance quest, “Hah…You’re Not So Big Now!”, Crafty’s
Ultra-Advanced Proto-Typical Shortening Blaster no longer has a chance
to transform the character into a magnataur. Instead it has a chance
to transform the character into the likeness of Crafty Wobblesprocket.
- In Dragonblight, the “Ley Line” questline was reworked so that
players are led into and must first complete the quests at the Ruby
Dragonshrine before they will be given an audience with Queen
Alexstrasza.
- The quest character Kor’ghan (Finding the Antidote) was moved to just
outside the Cleft of Shadow’s poison vendor.
User Interface
- New Calendar feature: Players will be able to access the new Calendar
feature by clicking on the new icon located in the top right corner
of their mini map. The calendar will track in game events, allow raid
scheduling, and more.
- New Vanity Pet and Mount changes: Players will now be able to access
their non-combat pets and mounts by clicking on the pets tab in the
Character Info panel. These pets and mounts will be now learnable
much like spells or abilities. Once a vanity pet or mount is
learned, the icon will disappear from within a player’s inventory and
reappear in the appropriate tab under the pet tab under Character
Info. Say goodbye to your vanity pets and mounts taking up bag and
bank slots!
- Error messages should play less frequently.
- Tradeskills can now be linked by shift-clicking the tradeskill icon.
- Quests can be shared with party members at any distance.
- Quests can be shared with party members by linking the quest into
party chat.
- Quests can be shared in raids but not battlegrounds.
- A 5 minute timer will appear over the player’s unit frame showing the
countdown until your PvP flag is cleared.
- The /cower emote now has an animation.
- Macros and key bindings are now saved server-side so there is no
longer a need to reconfigure them when logging in using another
computer.
- Shift-clicking to loot mail: You can now hold Shift and click on mail
in your inbox to automatically loot any items and gold without
opening the mail. This default behavior can be changed via Auto Loot
Mail in the Interface Options (Controls).
- Combat Log Changes:
The combat log now differentiates between a spell failure due to
resistance and spell failure due to missing the target. Where once
both events reported as a resist; a spell missing the target is now
reported as a miss.
Overhealing is now reported in the combat log.
When a source of damage is entirely prevented (by a shield block, a
full resist, or a damage shield like Power Word:Shield, the
prevented amount will now be displayed.
Items
- Druids and Shaman can now use items while shapeshifted.
- The Abyss Shard has been changed to grant a passive 15 stamina bonus,
but no longer removes the soul shard requirement from casting a
voidwalker.
- Devilsaur Eye now increases your pet’s attack power for a short
duration instead of increasing its critical strike chance. It also
provides a small amount of passive Agility.
World Environment
- You can no longer gain weapon or defense skill while fighting the
following creatures: Servant of Allistarj, Servant of Grol, Servant
of Razelikh, and Servant of Sevine.
- Stormwind now has a harbor and dock with a ship that grants passage
to Northrend.
- The continent of Northrend is now available! To travel there, visit
one of four transportation masters in either Orgrimmar, Undercity,
Theramore,or Menethil Harbor.
- The floating magical city of Dalaran is now available!
- The Barber Shop has been implemented and you can now visit one of the
Barber Shops in the major cities to change your appearance.
- The all new Achievement System has been implemented.
- Transportation between Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra can be found
at the Tuskarr villages in those zones.
- The level cap is currently set to 77.
- Hit Rating, Critical Strike Rating, and Haste Rating now modify both
melee attacks and spells.
- Spell casting and spell channeling pushback has been changed to the
following:
When casting a spell:
The first and second hit will add .5 secs each to the cast time.
All hits after the second will have no effect.
When channeling a spell:
The first and second hit reduces current duration by 25% of total
duration each.
All hits after the second will have no effect.
- Spellpower:
All items and effects which grant bonuses to spell damage and spell
healing are being consolidated into a single stat, Spellpower. This
stat will appear with the same values found on items which grant
"increased spell damage and healing" such as on typical Mage and
Warlock itemization.
For classes which do not heal, they should see no change in the
character sheet other than new tooltip wording.
Healing characters will see their bonus healing numbers on the
character sheet decrease, however, all healing spells have been
modified to receive more benefit from spellpower than they received
from bonus healing, with a net effect of no change to the amount
healed by their spells. Some talents have had to be rebalanced to
accommodate this change, but the amount healed will remain roughly
the same. In addition, some talents will provide only healing spell
power.
- NPC Transportation Locations
Horde:
Undercity to Vengeance Landing (Howling Fjord)
Orgrimmar to Warsong Hold (Borean Tundra)
Alliance:
Menethil Harbor to Valgarde (Howling Fjord)
Theramore to Valiance Keep (Borean Tundra)
Racial Abilities
- Arcane Torrent (Blood Elf) global cooldown removed.
Known Issues
- The current patch notes are incomplete, but will be more
progressively comprehensive in each next patch.
World Environment Zones
- The following zones are available for testing: Howling Fjord, Borean
Tundra, Dragonblight, and Grizzly Hills, Sholazar Basin, and Zul'Drak.
Dungeons
- The following dungeons are available for testing:
Howling Fjord: Utgarde Keep (70-72)
Borean Tundra: The Nexus (70-72)
Dragonblight: Azjol-Nerub (72-74)
Grizzly Hills: Drak’Tharon Keep (74-76)
Storm Peaks: The Halls of Stone (77-79)
Classes
- All Classes are available for play. Spells and talents will be
available for testing past 70.
- The Death Knight Hero class is now available for play.
Death Knights will now start with 0 talent points at level 55.
Creating a new Death Knight will start you at level 55 in Eastern
Plaguelands.
The Death Knight start zone, Acherus, the Ebon Hold, is fully
implemented and is located in the Eastern area of Eastern Plaguelands.
Death Knight spells that cost runes will now display the rune
cooldowns on the spell buttons.
Druid
- Brambles (Balance): Now increases the damage done by your Treants,
and also damage caused from your Treants and Barkskin has a 5/10/15%
chance to Daze the target for 3 sec.
- Celestial Focus (Balance): The stun proc now works with Starfall.
- Challenging Roar now has a 3 minute cooldown, reduced from 10
minutes.
- Entangling Roots: Can now be used indoors.
- Faerie Fire (Feral): Now an 11-point talent, down from being a
21-point talent.
- Feral Charge (Feral) is now a 21-point talent, up from being a
11-point talent.
- Feral Charge (Feral): Can now be used in Cat form.
- Feral Instinct (Feral) no longer increases threat generated in Bear
form, but now increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 5/10/15%.
- Feral Swiftness: The movement speed buff can now be used indoors.
- Focused Starlight (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.
- Force of Nature (Balance): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes, down from 3.
- Hurricane: No longer has a cooldown (was 1 minute).
- Improved Faerie Fire (Feral): Now also works with spell hit, in
addition to ranged and melee hit %.
- Improved Mark of the Wild (Restoration): Now a 2-point talent, down
from a 5-point talent.
- Improved Tranquility (Restoration): Now also reduces the cooldown of
your Tranquility spell by 25/50%.
- Mangle (Feral): Now increases the damage done by Maul in addition to
Shred.
- Moonglow (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.
- Moonkin Form (Balance) no longer increases your attack power or
causes you to regenerate mana off melee attacks, but now has a chance
to cause you to instantly regenerate 2% of your total mana every time
you critically hit with a spell.
- Nature's Focus (Restoration): Now a 3 point talent, down from a
5-point talent. Also moved to Tier 1, up from Tier 2. Now also
includes Nourish.
- Nature's Grace (Balance): Now also reduces the global cooldown of
your Wrath spell by 50% while in effect.
- Nature's Grasp (Balance): Can now be used and can proc indoors.
- Nature's Reach (Balance): Now also reduces threat generated by
Balance spells by 15/30%.
- New Spell: Revive - Returns the spirit to the body, restoring a dead
target to life with health and mana. Cannot be cast when in combat.
(Ranks 1-7 added)
- Omen of Clarity (Restoration): Now a passive spell. Now also works
for spells (healing and damage). Proc rate is roughly 6% with a 10
second internal cooldown.
- Primal Tenacity (Feral) now reduces damage while stunned by 5/10/15%,
and reduces the duration of fear effects by 5/10/15%.
- Remove Curse can now be used in Tree of Life form.
- Soothe Animal can now be used on Dragonkin as well as Beasts.
- Soothe Animal is now instant cast.
- Subtlety (Restoration): Now a 3-point talent, down from a 5-point
talent. Also moved to Tier 2, up from Tier 3. Also now only reduced
threat for Restoration spells, and reduces the chance that your
healing over time spells (Lifebloom, Regrowth and Rejuvenation) will
be dispelled, rather than all Druid spells. Threat management for
Balance can now be found in the Balance tree, within Nature's Reach.
- Survival of the Fittest (Feral): Increased to 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%.
- The mana regeneration penalty when in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form and
Cat Form has been removed.
- Tranquil Spirit (Restoration) now also includes Nourish.
- Tree of Life (Restoration): 30% snare penalty has been removed.
- Tree of Life (Restoration): Can now cast Dispel Curse.
- Tree of Life (Restoration): You can now cast all Restoration spells
(Healing Touch) in the form, but Tree of Life now only reduces the
mana cost of your healing over time spells (Rejuvenation, Lifebloom,
Regrowth and Flourish) by 20%.
- Vengeance (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.
Hunter
- All pet families now have one unique ability. New abilities have been
added for families such as bears and sporebats.
- Animal Handler (Beast Mastery): No longer increases speed while
mounted, but now reduces the cooldown of your Master's Call ability by
5/10 sec.
- Arcane Shot: No longer dispels magic effects.
- Aspects now no longer cost mana.
- Aspect of the Beast: Now increases melee attack power by 10% for the
hunter and the hunter's pet.
- Avoidance, Dash / Dive and Cobra Reflexes are now pet talents instead
of pet skills.
- Bestial Swiftness is now a pet talent tree talent, and has been
removed from the Beast Mastery Hunter tree.
- Bite now has no cooldown, does the same damage and costs the same
Focus as Claw, so works as a Focus dump.
- Clever Traps (Survival) has been renamed "Trap Mastery."
- Concussive Barrage (Marksmanship): Can now proc from Volley attacks.
- Counterattack: Damage increased by 20%, and now also scales with your
Ranged Attack Power.
- Deterrence (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, and now also
increases your chance to resist spells by 60%. Now has a new spell
effect.
- Disengage: This ability has been re-designed. Now leaps the Hunter
backwards up to 13 yards. 30 second cooldown. Disengage now also only
has one rank (rank 1).
- Distracting Shot: This shot now "taunts" the target onto the Hunter. The
taunt effect will last 6 seconds. Distracting Shot now only has one rank
(rank 1).
- Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw
(never both).
- Focused Fire (Beast Mastery): Now increases the critical strike chance of
your Kill Command by 10/20/30% while Kill Command is active. This effect
can stack up to 3 times, but diminishes for each charge of Kill Command.
- Hunter pets can now learn talents in one of three trees depending on
family. Pets gain talent points starting at level 20 and earn an
extra talent point every 4 levels.
- If a hunter tames a pet that is more than five levels beneath their
own level, the pet will then have their level increased to five
levels beneath the hunter’s own level.
- Improved Feign Death (Survival): Now also reduces damage taken during
Feign Death by 15/30%.
- Improved Stings (Marksmanship): Now a 3-point talent, down from 5-points.
- Kill Command: This ability now increases the damage done by your pet's
special abilities by 60%. Each attack will reduce the damage bonus by 20%.
1 minute cooldown.
- Loyalty, Training Points and the hunter Beast Training button no
longer exist. Hunter pets can now learn all skills at their level.
They will get new ranks automatically as they gain levels.
- Master Tactician (Survival): Chance to proc increased to 10%, up
from 6%.
- Mongoose Bite: No longer requires you to dodge in order to use this
ability.
- Monster Slaying (Survival) and Humanoid Slaying (Survival) has been
combined into "Improved Tracking".
- New Talent - Aspect Mastery (Beast Mastery)
- New Talent - Hunter vs. Wild (Survival): Increases you and your pet's
attack power and ranged attack power equal to 10/20/30% of your total
Stamina.
- New Talent - Improved Tracking (Survival): Increases all damage done
to targets that are being tracked 1/2/3/4/5%.
- New Talent - Lock and Load (Survival): You have a 33/66/100% chance when
you trap a target and a 10/20/30% chance when you sting a target to cause
your next 3 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot spells to trigger no cooldown, cost
no mana and consume no ammo.
- New Talent - T.N.T. (Survival): Your Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and
Explosive Shot have a 5/10/15% to stun targets for 2 sec when they deal
damage, and increases the critical strike chance of your Explosive Shot and
Explosive Trap by 5/10/15%.
- Pathfinding (Beast Mastery): Now also increases the movement speed
while mounted by 5/10%.
- Readiness (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes.
- Savage Strikes (Survival): Now includes Counterattack.
- Spirit Bond (Beast Mastery): Also increases healing done to you
and your pet by 5/10%.
- Steady Shot now uses ammo. In result, its bonus damage has been
slightly reduced. Players can notice a damage increase based upon
what ammo they use.
- Steady Shot: Now has a 2.0 cast time, up from 1.5.
- Surefooted (Survival) now reduces the duration of movement impairing
effects by 16/25/50% (instead of resist % chance).
- Survival Instincts (Survival): This has been moved to tier-2, up from tier 6.
- Survivalist (Survival): Now increases your total Stamina, instead of your
total Health.
- The arming time has been reduced to 1 second, from 2 seconds for all traps.
- Tranquilizing Shot: Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (down from 20),
and now dispels Enrage and Magic effects.
- Trap Mastery (Survival) is now an 11-point talent.
- Trueshot Aura - This aura is now raid-wide.
- Wingclip: No longer does damage.
Mage
- Arcane Blast effect duration reduced to 3 seconds, and now increases
damage by 25/50/75% instead of reducing cast time.
- Arcane Focus (Arcane) is now 3 ranks and increases chance to hit and
reduces mana cost of Arcane spells by 1/2/3%.
- Arcane Fortitude moved to tier 2, increased to 3 ranks, now increases
armor equal to 50/100/150% of Intellect.
- Arcane Impact renamed Spell Impact and now affects Blast Wave, Fire
Blast, Cone of Cold, and Ice Lance.
- Arcane Potency now applies when Presence of Mind is active, talent
prerequisite changed to Presence of Mind.
- Arcane Subtlety now reduces the chance your spells will be dispelled
by 15/35%, and no longer reduces the resistance of targets.
- Arctic Reach now also affects Deep Freeze.
- Blast Wave now knocks all affected targets back.
- Conjured mana gems no longer disappear from your backpack after being
logged out for more than 15 minutes. Higher ranks of Conjure Mana Gem
will recharge an existing mana gem to maximum charges.
- Counterspell now costs 9% of base mana.
- Elemental Precision moved to tier 2.
- Empowered Arcane Missiles renamed Arcane Empowerment and no longer
increases mana cost. It now also increases damage caused by Arcane
Blast.
- Empowered Fireball reduced to 3 ranks, now increases damage by
5/10/15% of spell power.
- Empowered Frostbolt reduced to 2 ranks, increases damage by 5/10% of
spell power and increases critical hit chance by 2/4%.
- Flame Throwing moved to tier 3.
- Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor and Molten Armor are no longer
Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
- Frost Channeling now reduces mana cost of all spells by 4/7/10%.
- Frost Warding now increases armor and resistances of Frost/Ice Armor
by 25/50%, now gives Frost Ward and Fire Ward a 15/30/5 chance to
negate damage caused and restore mana equal to damage caused by the
warded spell.
- Ice Floes renamed Cold as Ice, now reduces cooldown of Cold Snap, Ice
Barrier, Summon Water Elemental, and Deep Freeze by 10/20%.
- Impact moved to tier 3, reduced to 3 ranks for 4/7/10% chance to
trigger, now triggers from any damaging spell (Fire, Frost or Arcane).
- Improved Blink now also reduces mana cost by 25/50%.
- Improved Counterspell now always silences the target for 2/4 seconds.
- Improved Fire Blast moved to tier 1, reduced to 2 ranks, reduces the
cooldown by 1/2 seconds.
- Improved Flamestrike moved to tier 2, renamed World in Flames, now
increases the critical hit chance of Flamestrike, Blast Wave,
Dragon’s Breath, Living Bomb, Blizzard, and Arcane Explosion by
2/4/6%.
- Improved Frost Nova renamed Ice Floes, moved to tier 1, increased to
3 ranks, now reduces cooldown of Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Ice Block,
and Icy Veins by 7/14/20%.
- Improved Mana Shield has been renamed to Arcane Shielding, reduces
mana lost per damage absorbed by 17/33%,and now also increases
resistances granted by Mage Armor by 25/50%.
- Invisibility now makes the caster invisible after 3 seconds, reduced
from 5 seconds.
- Magic Absorption reduced to 2 ranks, increases resistances by .5/1
point per level, and restores 1/3% of total mana on a resist.
- Magic Attunement (Arcane) now also increases the range of your Arcane
spells by 3/6 yards.
- Mana Shield now drains 1.5 mana per damage absorbed.
- Master of Elements now affects all spell criticals.
- Mind Mastery reduced to 3/6/9/12/15%.
- Molten Shields now gives Fire Ward and Frost Ward spells a 15/30%
chance to reflect the warded spell.
- Polymorph now costs 12% of base mana.
- Portal spells now cost 18% of base mana.
- Prismatic Cloak (Arcane)increased to 3 ranks for 1/2/3% and now also
reduces the fade time of Invisibility by 1/2 seconds.
- Pyroblast cast time has been reduced to 5 seconds.
- Remove Lesser Curse has been renamed to Remove Curse.
- Shatter no longer has a prerequisite.
- Slow Fall now costs 6% of base mana.
- Summoned Water Elemental's Waterbolt range increased, mana cost
reduced, Freeze range increased, mana cost increased.
- Teleport spells now cost 9% of base mana.
- Winter's Chill reduced to 3 ranks, Frost damage spells have a
33/66/100% chance to trigger the effect and the effect increases
chance to crit with Arcane, Fire and Frost spells.
Paladin
- All Auras now affect all party and raid members within the area of
effect.
- Anticipation (Protection) moved to tier 1, now increases chance to
dodge by 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Avenger's Shield (Protection) cast time reduced to .5 seconds,
duration increased to 10 seconds.
- Avenging Wrath no longer causes Forebearance, damage increase reduced
to 20%, now increases healing done by 20%.
- Blessing of Freedom renamed Hand of Freedom. Only one Hand spell can
be on the target per paladin at any one time. Now costs 6% of base
mana.
- Blessing of Light and Greater Blessing of Light removed. Their
effects have been folded into all relevant abilities.
- Blessing of Protection renamed Hand of Protection. Only one Hand
spell can be on the target per paladin at any one time. All ranks now
cost 6% of base mana.
- Blessing of Sacrifice renamed Hand of Sacrifice, is now only 1 rank
and transfers 20% of the damage taken to the caster, duration reduced
to 12 seconds, cooldown increased to 2 minutes. Only one Hand spell
can be on the target per paladin at any one time. Now costs 6% of
base mana.
- Blessing of Salvation renamed Hand of Salvation, now reduces total
threat on the target by 2% per second for 10 seconds while also
reducing all damage and healing done by 10%. Only one Hand spell can
be on the target per paladin at any one time. Now costs 6% of base
mana.
- Consecration now scales with attack power and spell power.
- Conviction (Retribution) now increases critical chance with all
spells and melee attacks.
- Divine Intellect (Holy) moved to tier 2, increases total Intellect by
3/6/9/12/15%.
- Divine Intervention cooldown reduced to 20 minutes.
- Divine Protection and Divine Shield now cost 3% of base mana.
- Divine Protection now reduces all damage taken by 50% and increases
time between attacks by 100%.
- Divine Purpose (Retribution) now reduces chance to be hit by spells
and ranged attacks by 1/2/3%.
- Divine Strength (Holy) moved to tier 1 in the Protection tree.
- Exorcism mana cost reduced and now scales with attack power and spell power.
- Eye for an Eye now reflects 10/20% damage from all critical hits.
- Fanaticism now increases chance to critically hit by 5/10/15/20/25%.
- Forbearance duration increased to 3 minutes.
- Greater Blessing of Salvation removed.
- Hammer of Justice now costs 3% of base mana.
- Hammer of Wrath is now considered a Retribution spell, moved from
Holy, mana cost reduced, missile speed increased, now usable on
targets below 35% health.
- Healing Light (Holy) moved to tier 2.
- Holy Shield (Protection) cooldown reduced to 8 seconds.
- Holy Shock (Holy) range changed to 20/40 yards when used on
enemies/friends respectively, cooldown reduced to 6 seconds.
- Holy Wrath is now instant cast, causes a 3 second stun, cooldown
reduced to 30 seconds, radius reduced to 10 yards.
- Illumination (Holy) moved to tier 3.
- Improved Blessing of Might increased to 10/20/30/40/50%.
- Improved Concentration Aura (Protection) moved to the Holy tree.
- Improved Concentration Aura moved from the Protection tree to tier 4
in the Holy tree.
- Improved Devotion Aura (Protection) moved to tier 4, reduced to 3
ranks, now increases armor of Devotion Aura by 17/34/50% and
increases all healing done to units affected by Devotion Aura by
1/2/3%.
- Improved Hammer of Justice (Protection) now reduces cooldown by
10/20/30 secs.
- Improved Righteous Fury (Protection) threat bonus folded into base
spell, talent still reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6%.
- Improved Sanctity Aura (Retribution) renamed Sanctified Retribution,
now causes all units affected by Retribution Aura to cause 2% more
damage.
- Improved Seal of Righteousness (Holy) moved to tier 1, renamed Seals
of the Pure, now affects Seal of Righteousness, Seal of Vengeance and
Seal of Corruption.
- Improved Seal of the Crusader (Retribution) renamed Heart of the
Crusader and the effects now apply to all Judgement spells.
- Judgement has been replaced with 3 new spells; Judgement of Light,
Judgement of Wisdom, and Judgement of Justice. All Judgement spells
are considered ranged attacks for purposes of how they hit and how
they critically hit. All cause damage based on attack power and spell
power.
Judgement of Light now heals based on the Paladin’s attack power and
spell power, the effect can not trigger more than once ever 4 seconds.
Judgement of Justice will no longer prevent Fear effects, but will
only prevent NPCs from fleeing (e.g. at low health).
Judgement of Wisdom now restores mana based on the Paladin’s attack
power and spell power, the effect can not trigger more than once
every 4 seconds.
- Lay on Hands no longer drains all mana, cooldown reduced to 20
minutes.
- Precision has been removed.
- Pure of Heart (Holy) reduced to 2 ranks, now reduces duration of
Curse and Disease effects by 25/50%.
- Pursuit of Justice reduced to 2 ranks for 8/15% movement increase and
1/2% less chance to be hit by spells.
- Redoubt (Protection) moved to tier 2.
- Repentance (Retribution) mana cost changed to 9% of base, duration
increased to 1 minute (10 second PvP duration), now usable against
Demons, Dragonkin, Giants, Humanoids and Undead.
- Retribution Aura damage increased and now gains damage based on Holy
spell power.
- Righteous Defense no longer costs mana and the global cooldown has
been removed.
- Righteous Fury now increases threat caused by Holy damage by 90%.
- Sacred Duty now also reduces the cooldown of Divine Protection.
- Sanctified Light (Holy) now also increases the critical chance of
Holy Shock.
- Sanctity Aura (Retribution) removed.
- All Seals have been reduced to 1 rank and now cost 14% of base mana.
The duration has been increased to 2 minutes and are no longer
consumed when a Judgement spell is cast. The effects can be triggered
from all weapon based special abilities.
Seal of Blood now increases Judgement damage by 45% of weapon damage.
Seal of Command now increases Judgement damage by 30% of weapon
damage, 60% on stunned targets.
Seal of the Crusader has been removed. The effects of Judgement of
the Crusader have been folded into all relevant abilities.
Seal of Righteousness deals damage based on weapons peed plus an
amount based on attack power and spell power, increases Judgement
damage by 25%.
Seal of Vengeance now applies its effect on every swing, causes damage
based on attack power and spell power, increases Judgement damage by 10%
per stack of the damage over time effect.
- Spiritual Focus (Holy) moved to tier 1.
- Stoicism (Protection) moved to tier 2, now reduces duration of Stun
effects by 10/20/30% and reduces chance your spells will be resisted
by 10/20/30%.
- Summon Warhorse and Summon Charger mana cost removed and no longer
causes a global cooldown.
- Toughness (Protection) moved to tier 3.
- Turn Undead (ranks 1 and 2) removed. Turn Evil now granted at level
24, mana cost changed to 9% of base.
- Unyielding Faith (Holy) moved to tier 2.
- Vengeance (Retribution) now stacks up to 2 times, reduced from 3.
- Vindication reduced to 2 ranks for 10/20% attribute reduction.
Priest
- Circle of Healing (Holy): Now works on any targets in the caster's
raid, and is now a "smart" heal and chooses the lowest health targets
to heal first within it's range. Also now has a 6 second cooldown.
Also no longer will heal summoned Snakes from Hunter's Snake Trap.
- Enlightenment (Discipline): Now also gives 1% spell damage and 1%
heal per point.
- Focused Will (Discipline): Now increases healing effects on you by
3/4/5%, down from 4/7/10%.
- Force of Will (Discipline): This talent now increases your spell
damage by a flat amount, rather than increasing your spells by a %.
(Now increases school %, rather than selected spells damage %). In
other words, your spell damage gained from this talent is now
reflected on your character sheet, rather than the skill tool-tips.
- Holy Fire: Cast time reduced to to 2 seconds, down from 3.5. Damage
increased roughly 60%. Duration for the damage over time effect
reduced to 7 seconds, down from 10. Holy Fire now has a 10 second
cooldown.
- Improved Inner Fire (Discipline) - Now also increases the bonus
healing on your Inner Fire spell by 10/20/30%.
- Improved Shadow Word: Pain (Shadow) - Now increases damage done by
your Shadow Word: Pain by 5/10%, but no longer increases the duration
of your Shadow Word: Pain.
- Levitate now costs 3% of base mana.
- Lightwell (Holy): Cast time reduced to .5 sec, down from 1.5 sec.
Charges increased to 10, up from 5. Now breaks from any attack that
hits you for 30% or more of your total health. Cooldown reduced to 3
minutes, down from 5.
- Mind Control now has only one rank and costs 12% of base mana.
- Mind Soothe now has only one rank, costs 6% of base mana and has no
max target level.
- Mind Vision now costs 3% of base mana.
- New Talent: Improved Spirit Tap (Shadow) - Gives you a 50/100% chance
to gain a 50% bonus to your Spirit after gaining a critical effect
chance from your Mind Blast or Shadow Word: Death spells. For the
duration, your mana will regenerate at a 25% rate while casting.
Lasts 8 sec.
- New Talent: Twin Faiths (Discipline) - Increases your damage and
healing by 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Pain Suppression (Discipline): Cooldown increased to 3 minutes, up
from 2.
- Power Infusion (Discipline): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes, down from
3.
- Psychic Scream now costs 15% of base mana.
- Searing Light (Holy): Now also increases the damage of your Holy Nova
and Penance spells.
- Shackle Undead now costs 9% of base mana.
- Shadow Focus (Shadow): Now a 3 point talent, down from 5. Now also
reduces the mana cost of your Shadow spells by 2/4/6%.
- Shadow Resilience (Shadow): Now reduces physical damage taken by
2/4%, but no longer reduces the chance to be critically hit by spells.
- Shadowform (Shadow): Now has an innate 30% threat reduction. Now has
a shapeshift UI.
- Silence (Shadow) global cooldown removed.
- Silent Resolve (Discipline): Now a 3 point talent, down from 5 points.
- Spirit Tap (Shadow) - Talent reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Now
also leads into "Improved Spirit Tap"
- Wand Specialization (Discipline) has been removed.
Rogue
- Blade Twisting (Combat) now cause all damaging melee attacks to have
a 10% chance to daze for 4/8 seconds.
- Deadened Nerves (Assassination) now reduces all damage taken by
1/2/3/4/5%.
- Energy regeneration should now be smoother.
- Fleet Footed (Assassination) now reduces duration of movement
impairing effects by 25/50% rather than increasing resist chance.
- Gouge is now only 1 rank and causes damage based on attack power.
- Kick is now only 1 rank and no longer causes damage.
- Mace Specialization (Combat) no longer stuns enemies, and instead
increases critical damage bonus by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Nerves of Steel (Combat) now reduces the duration of all Stun and
Fear effects by 15/30%.
- Pick Lock and Disarm Trap no longer require Thieve's Tools.
- Premeditation (Subtlety) duration increased to 20 seconds.
- Riposte (Combat) now slows the target's melee attacks by 20% instead
of disarming them.
- Setup (Subtlety) chance to gain a combo point increased to 33/66/100%.
- Vanish no longer requires the reagent Flash Powder.
- Vile Poisons (Assassination) reduced to 3 ranks, now increases damage
of poisons and Envenom by 7/14/20% and increases dispel resistance
by 10/20/30%.
Shaman
- All totems are now considered on the "Physical" school, and no longer
magical spells.
- Ancestral Knowledge (Enhancement): Now increases your Intellect by
2/4/6%, instead of increasing your total Mana by 2/4/6/8/10%.
- Call of Flame (Elemental): Now also increases the damage of your Lava
Burst spell by 2/4/6%.
- Call of Thunder (Elemental) now also increases the critical strike
chance of your Thunder spell.
- Concussion (Elemental) now increases the damage of your Thunder and
Lava Burst spells.
- Convection (Elemental) is now a 3-point talent, down from a 5-point
talent. Now lowers the mana cost of Thunder and Lava Burst.
- Earth's Grasp (Elemental) is now a tier-1 talent, up from tier-2.
- Elemental Devastation (Elemental) is now a tier-2 talent, up from
tier-4.
- Elemental Focus (Elemental): Now also can proc off Lesser Healing
Wave and Healing Wave, and can be used on all healing spells.
- Elemental Fury (Elemental) now requires Elemental Focus as a
pre-requisite
- Elemental Precision (Elemental): Chance to hit reduced to 1/2/3% from
2/4/6%, but threat reduction increased to 10/20/30% up from 4/7/10%.
- Enhancing (Enhancement) Totems is now a Tier 1 talent, up from Tier-2.
- Flametongue Totem is now a flat spell damage totem. All ranks have
been modified.
- Flametongue Weapon: Now has a passive spell damage.
- Frostbrand's snare effect has been increased to 50%, up from 25%.
- Ghost Wolf's mana cost is now 13% base.
- Grace of Air Totem has been removed. (Agility has been rolled over
into Strength of Earth Totem)
- Improved Fire Totems (Elemental) is now (again) Improved Fire Nova
Totem. It now has a 50/100% chance to stun all targets for 2 sec.
- Improved Lightning Shield (Enhancement) is now Improved Shields, and
is in Tier-2.
- Nature’s Blessing no longer increases spell damage from Intellect,
and the effect has been reduced to 5/10/15% from 10/20/30%. This is
in result of the new spell power system. Players should notice little
to no change in the power of the spell relevant to healing spells.
- New ranks have been added of Water Shield, starting at level 20.
(Level 20, 27, 34, 41, 48, 55, 62, 69)
- New Spell: Earthliving Weapon - Imbue the Shaman's weapon with
earthen life. Increases healing done by x and each heal has a 20%
chance to proc Earthliving on the target, healing an additionaly over
12 sec. Lasts 30 minutes.
- New Talent: Cleanse Spirit (Restoration) - Cleanse the spirit of a
friendly target, removing 1 poison effect, 1 disease effect, and 1
curse effect.
- New Talent: Elemental Shields (Enhancement): Increases the damage
done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 5/10/15%, increases the amount
of mana gained from your Mana Shield orbs by 5/10/15% and increases
the amount of healing done by your Earth Shield orbs by 5/10/15%.
- New Talent: Mental Dexterity (Enhancement) - Increases your Attack
Power by 33/66/100% of your Intellect.
- New Talent: Tidal Force- Increases the critical effect chance of your
Healing Wave, Lesser Healing Wave and Chain Heal by 60%. Each
critical heal reduces the chance by 20% and lasts 20 seconds.
- Rockbiter ranks 5 through 9 have been removed. Windfury Weapon is
intended to replace Rockbiter at level 30.
- Shapeshifting will no longer cancel Water Walking.
- Stoneclaw Totem: Health of the Stoneclaw totem is increased by 5% of
the Shaman’s total health.
- Stoneskin Totem now increases armor instead of reducing physical
damage.
- Storm Reach (Elemental): Now also increases the radius of your
Thunder spell by 10/20%.
- Strength of Earth Totem now also increases agility.
- The range of all “friendly totems” has been increased to 30 yards,
up from 20.
- Totemic Mastery talent removed and replaced with “Tidal Force”.
- Tranquil Air Totem has been removed. (Threat is being addressed by
modifications to the base threat of players and/or "baked" into
tanking abilities.)
- Unleashed Rage is now raid wide.
- Windfury Totem is now a flat 20% melee haste totem. All ranks have
been modified.
- Windwall Totem has been removed.
- Wrath of Air is now a flat 10% spell haste totem.
Warlock
- Aftermath (Destruction) - Now a 2-point talent, down from 5.
- All demon abilities and spells will automatically be learned as pets
gain levels. Demon Master trainers will be removed.
- Avoidance (Felguard): Now reduces damage taken from area of effect
attacks by an additional 80% and is automatically learned for the
Succubus, Imp, Voidwalker, and Felhunter at level 10.
- Bane now reduces the cast time of your Haunt spell.
- Blood Pact now works raid-wide (not just in party).
- Cataclysm (Destruction) - Now also increases your chance to hit with
Destruction spells by 1% per point.
- Consume Shadows (Voidwalker): Duration reduced to 6 seconds, and
effect increased 66%. Now also greatly increases all nearby allies’
stealth detection while channeled.
- Curse of Recklessness will no longer prevent Fear effects, only
prevent NPCs from fleeing (e.g. at low health).
- Dark Pact: Tooltip updated to be more consistent with other similar
effects and now restores 200% mana leeched from your summoned Demon,
up from 100%.
- Demon Armor - Now increases healing done by spells and effects by
20%, but no longer has in-combat health regeneration.
- Demon Skin, Demon Armor and Fel Armor are no longer Magic effects and
cannot be dispelled.
- Demonic Sacrifice: Succubus effect reduced to 10% increased shadow
damage, down from 15%. Imp effect reduced to 10% increased fire
damage, down from 15%. Felguard effect now increases Fire and Shadow
damage, instead of just Shadow.
- Doomguard: Health increased 20%, mana increased 24%.
- Emberstorm now reduces the cast time of your incinerate by
0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 seconds.
- Fel Armor - Now increases your spell damage equal to 30% of your
total Spirit, but no longer increases healing done by spells and
effects by 20%.
- Felguard: Health increased by 10%.
- Felhunter: Paranoia and Tainted Blood have been replaced with Fel
Intelligence and Shadow Bite.
- Fel Intelligence (Felhunter): Increases total Intellect and Spirit
of party and raid members by 3%. Lasts until cancelled.
- Fel Armor - Now increases your spell damage equal to 30% of your
total Spirit, but no longer increases healing done by spells and
effects by 20%.
- Fel Stamina (Demonology) has been merged with Fel Intellect into Fel
Vitality.
- Howl of Terror now costs 15% of base mana.
- Infernal: Cooldown reduced to 15 minutes, down from 1 hour.
Duration reduced to 1 minute, down from 5 minutes+. Health increased
by 30%, damage increased by 60%, and armor increased by 30%.
- Imp: Health increased by 20% , Armor increased 16%, mana regeneration
increased 200%.
- Improved Curse of Weakness (Affliction) is now "Frailty" - Increases
the amount of attack power reduced by your Curse of Weakness spell by
10/20%, and increases the amount of armor reduced by your Curse of
Recklessness by 10/20%.
- Improved Enslave Demon (Demonology) is now a Tier 5 talent, up from
Tier 4.
- Improved Lash of Pain (Destruction) and Improved Firebolt
(Destruction) have been merged into one talent, Demonic Power.
- Improved Shadow Bolt (Destruction) - Now increases damage by your
next Shadow damage spells by 3/6/9/12/15%, down from 4/8/12/16/20%.
- Mana Feed: Tooltip updated to be more consistent with other similar
effects.
- Master Demonologist (Demonology) - Most effects have been altered.
Master Demonologist – Felguard (Demonology) - Now increases all
damage by 1/2/3/4/5%, and reduces all damage done to you by
1/2/3/4/5%.
Master Demonologist – Imp (Demonology) - Now increases Fire damage
by 1/2/3/4/5%, and critical hit chance with Fire spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.
Master Demonologist – Succubus (Demonology) - Now increases Shadow
damage by 1/2/3/4/5%, and critical hit chance with Shadow spells
by 1/2/3/4/5%.
Master Demonologist (Demonology) - Most effects have been altered.
- Nether Protection has been reworked. It now has a 10/20/30% chance
when you’re hit with a spell to reduce all damage by that spell
school by 60% for 10 seconds.
- New Talent: Demonic Empowerment (Demonology) - Grants your Summoned
Demon power for a short time.
- New Talent: Eradication (Affliction) - Your Corruption, Siphon Life
and Curse of Agony ticks have a 5/10/15% chance to increase your
spell haste by 20% for 8 sec. This effect has a 10 second cooldown.
- New Talent: Improved Felhunter (Affliction): Your Felhunter gains
mana equal to 50/100% of the damage done by its Shadow Bite ability,
and increases the effect of your Felhunter’s Fel Intelligence by 1/2%.
- New Talent: Molten Core (Destruction) - Your Shadow spells and damage
over time effects have a 5/10/15% chance to increase the damage of
your Fire spells by 10% for 6 sec.
- Pyroclasm (Destruction) - Now also includes Conflagrate.
- Rain of Fire (Doomguard): A bug has been fixed which caused each tick
of Rain of Fire to consume its mana cost.
- Ritual of Souls: Charges increased to 25, up from 10.
- Shadow Bite (Felhunter): Deals Shadow damage plus an additional 5%
Shadow damage over time effect on the target. 6 second cooldown.
- Shadowfury (Destruction) - Can now be cast while moving. Stun
duration increased to 3 seconds, up from 2.
- Soul Link (Demonology) is now an 11-point talent (used to be a
31-point talent), but the 5% bonus damage from this talent has been
removed. In addition, the damage absorbed by Soul Link is now 15%,
down from 20%.
- Soulstone now generates a log entry indicating who casted and
received a soulstone.
- Spell Lock (Felhunter) global cooldown removed.
- Succubus: Health increased by 20%, armor increased 22%.
- Summon Dreadsteed/Felsteed: Mana cost removed, global cooldown
removed.
- Soul Siphon (Affliction): Now also increases the damage of your Drain
Soul.
- Suppression (Affliction) is now a 3-point talent, down from 5. Now
increases your chance to hit with Affliction spells by 1/2/3%, down
from 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Unstable Affliction (Affliction): Silence effect reduced to 3
seconds, down from 5.
- Voidwalker: Health increased by 20%, Damage increased by 16%.
The amount of attack power the Voidwalker gains from its master’s
spell damage has been increased by 45%.
Warrior
- Anticipation (Protection) now increases chance to dodge by
1/2/3/4/5%, moved to tier 2.
- Challenging Shout cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
- Death Wish (Fury) no longer makes you immune to Fear effects.
- Death Wish and Sweeping Strikes have swapped locations in their
respective talent trees.
- Defensive Stance now increases threat by 45%.
- Defiance (Protection) removed, replaced by Incite and moved to a new
location on tier 2.
- Enrage (Fury) now increases damage done by 3/6/9/12/15%, limitation
on number of attacks removed.
- Hamstring now only has one rank and no longer causes damage.
- Improved Bloodrage (Protection) now increases rage generation of both
the instant and over-time effects by 25/50%.
- Improved Charge (Arms) now generates 5/10 rage.
- Improved Disarm (Protection) now reduces the cooldown of Disarm and
Shield Break by 5/10/15 seconds and increases damage taken by
disarmed targets by 4/7/10%.
- Improved Shield Block (Protection) now has 2 ranks and reduces
cooldown of Shield Block by 5/10 secs. It no longer increases the
number of blocks.
- Improved Shield Wall will now reduce cooldown by 30/60 seconds.
- Improved Sunder Armor (Protection) renamed Puncture.
- Iron Will (Arms) now has only 3 ranks, reducing the duration of Stun
and Charm effects by 10/20/30%.
- Last Stand (Protection) cooldown reduced to 6 minutes.
- Mace Specialization (Arms) no longer stuns enemies, and now generates 10
rage.
- Mocking Blow now only has one rank and causes weapon damage, cooldown
reduced to 1 min and can now be used in Defensive Stance.
- Overpower now only has one rank and no longer causes any bonus damage
(i.e. weapon damage only).
- Poleaxe Specialization (Arms) now also increases critical damage done
by Axes and Polearms by 1/2/3/4/5%.
- Pummel now only has one rank and no longer causes damage.
- Recklessness now increases the critical hit chance of the next 3
special ability attacks by 100%, lasts 12 seconds, cooldown reduced
to 5 minutes.
- Retaliation duration reduced to 12 seconds, charges reduced to 12,
cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
- Shield Bash now only has one rank and will cause damage based on a %
of AP.
- Shield Block now increases chance to block and amount blocked by 100%
for 5 seconds. Cooldown increased to 30 seconds.
- Shield Slam is now available to all warriors, starting at level 40.
- Shield Specialization (Protection) moved to Tier 1, now increases
rage by 2 on a successful block.
- Shield Wall now reduces all damage taken by 60% for 12 seconds,
cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
- Sword Specialization (Arms) can no longer trigger more than once per
6 seconds.
- Thunder Clap damage increased, cooldown increased.
- Toughness (Protection) moved to tier 3.
PvP
- Medallion of the Horde and Insignia of the Alliance are now available
for purchase on PvP vendors. For the purposes of testing these
currently cost only gold to buy.
- Arenas
Buffs that have 30 seconds or less remaining will be removed once the
game starts. However, the mage spell “Invisibility” is not affected
by this change.
Professions
- The following tradeskills are available to train up to 450: First
Aid, Herbalism, Mining, and Skinning.
- Leatherworking
Drums now cause a Tinnitus effect, preventing affected targets from
receiving beneficial effects from other drums for two minutes.
- Mining
Smelt Elementium must be relearned by players who still wish to know
the spell by visiting a trainer in Blackwing Lair.
Quests
- Alliance characters on the “Check in With Bizie” quest in Borean
Tundra can now ask Kara Thricestar for a flying machine ride out to
Bizie Wrenchshanker.
- The “Escape from Winterfin Retreat” quest is now named, “Escape from
the Winterfin Caverns”. The escort is shorter and no longer requires a
pre-requisite quest to get a key.
- There is now a new murloc questgiver named Glrglrglr within the
Winterfin Caverns. This questgiver needs you to ge the key to his
cage so that he can be set free. This is not an escort quest.
- The Winterfin Caverns are once again named and player characters
should be able to wear King Mrgl-Mrgl's Spare Suit within them.
- Fewer cannonballs are now required for the Alliance quest, “Danger!
Explosives!”.
- Petrov’s Cluster Bombs no longer cause caster procs during the
Alliance quest, “Break the Blockade”.
- The Alliance quest, “Break the Blockade” no longer caps out at
revered Valiance Expedition faction.
- During the Alliance quest, “Hah…You’re Not So Big Now!”, Crafty’s
Ultra-Advanced Proto-Typical Shortening Blaster no longer has a chance
to transform the character into a magnataur. Instead it has a chance
to transform the character into the likeness of Crafty Wobblesprocket.
- In Dragonblight, the “Ley Line” questline was reworked so that
players are led into and must first complete the quests at the Ruby
Dragonshrine before they will be given an audience with Queen
Alexstrasza.
- The quest character Kor’ghan (Finding the Antidote) was moved to just
outside the Cleft of Shadow’s poison vendor.
User Interface
- New Calendar feature: Players will be able to access the new Calendar
feature by clicking on the new icon located in the top right corner
of their mini map. The calendar will track in game events, allow raid
scheduling, and more.
- New Vanity Pet and Mount changes: Players will now be able to access
their non-combat pets and mounts by clicking on the pets tab in the
Character Info panel. These pets and mounts will be now learnable
much like spells or abilities. Once a vanity pet or mount is
learned, the icon will disappear from within a player’s inventory and
reappear in the appropriate tab under the pet tab under Character
Info. Say goodbye to your vanity pets and mounts taking up bag and
bank slots!
- Error messages should play less frequently.
- Tradeskills can now be linked by shift-clicking the tradeskill icon.
- Quests can be shared with party members at any distance.
- Quests can be shared with party members by linking the quest into
party chat.
- Quests can be shared in raids but not battlegrounds.
- A 5 minute timer will appear over the player’s unit frame showing the
countdown until your PvP flag is cleared.
- The /cower emote now has an animation.
- Macros and key bindings are now saved server-side so there is no
longer a need to reconfigure them when logging in using another
computer.
- Shift-clicking to loot mail: You can now hold Shift and click on mail
in your inbox to automatically loot any items and gold without
opening the mail. This default behavior can be changed via Auto Loot
Mail in the Interface Options (Controls).
- Combat Log Changes:
The combat log now differentiates between a spell failure due to
resistance and spell failure due to missing the target. Where once
both events reported as a resist; a spell missing the target is now
reported as a miss.
Overhealing is now reported in the combat log.
When a source of damage is entirely prevented (by a shield block, a
full resist, or a damage shield like Power Word:Shield, the
prevented amount will now be displayed.
Items
- Druids and Shaman can now use items while shapeshifted.
- The Abyss Shard has been changed to grant a passive 15 stamina bonus,
but no longer removes the soul shard requirement from casting a
voidwalker.
- Devilsaur Eye now increases your pet’s attack power for a short
duration instead of increasing its critical strike chance. It also
provides a small amount of passive Agility.
World Environment
- You can no longer gain weapon or defense skill while fighting the
following creatures: Servant of Allistarj, Servant of Grol, Servant
of Razelikh, and Servant of Sevine.
- Stormwind now has a harbor and dock with a ship that grants passage
to Northrend.