Players may now create death knights on any realm once they reach level 55. Bonus Armor: The mechanics for items with bonus armor on them has changed (any cloth, leather, mail, or plate items with extra armor, or any other items with any armor). Bonus armor beyond the base armor of an item will no longer be multiplied by any talents or by the bonuses of Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Frost Presence. Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night Elves on mechanostriders? Tauren on raptors? You're not seeing things. Tapping: All player spells which cause a creature to become aggressive to you will now also immediately cause the creature to be tapped. A new mailbox is now available at the Crows Tavern in the Dalaran Sewers. We have added over 60 new graveyards to Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. The run speed in spirit form has been increased by 50%. Night Elves in Wisp form will now move at a 75% bonus speed. The Darkmoon Faire vendors have new items now that trade routes into Northrend have been better established.
Achievements
The Loremaster of Kalimdor Achievement has had its quest amount reduced. The Perma-Peddle Achievement is no longer a part of the "Fool for Love" meta-achievement. The Winds of the North has had its requirements changed. This achievement is now earned by getting Exalted with the Alliance Vanguard or Horde Expedition.
PvP
PvP vehicles are no longer immune to most player spells, are immune to all CC and snares, but can be diseased, poisoned, and cursed.
Arenas
Arena rating requirements for all Deadly Gladiator's Arena items have been reduced by 100. All rage and runic power are set to 0 when an Arena begins and the preparation period is over. Ring of Valor: The small pillars will now rise immediately once the arena begins.
Battlegrounds
Lake Wintergrasp
Wintergrasp Commendations can now also be purchased for the low low price of 9 Wintergrasp Marks of Honor. Players can visit their respective Wintergrasp vendors and put those Marks of Honor to use! Wintergrasp PvP vehicles have had their health increased. Wintergrasp Tower cannons have had their health increased. The Wintergrasp Fortress Exterior walls have had their health increased. The Fortress Keep door now has had its health decreased. The Orb is now instantly clickable. Elementals should now always despawn when the battle begins. Wintergrasp now extends further south so that more revenants can be reached. There are now three ranks in Wintergrasp: Recruit, Corporal, and First Lieutenant. Players will be eligible for participation rewards after two honorable kills. Players will receive increased honor with increased rank. Players will receive additional Marks of Honor at Corporal or higher rank. Players will receive corporal rank at 5 honorable kills instead of two.
Strand of the Ancients
Antipersonnel Turrets will now gain vehicle immunities, use falloff damage, and damage increased to 4000 + 200 per level to compensate for falloff. The Strand of the Ancients Demolisher has had its health increased. The Strand of the Ancients tower cannon has had its health increased. Seaforium charges have been moved closer to the graveyards on the 2nd tier.
Death Knights
All multi-rune abilities generate 15 runic power. Anti-Magic Shell: The cooldown has been lowered to 45 sec from 60 sec. Blood Aura now grants 2/4% instead of 1/2% healing. Blood Presence now grants 2/4% instead of 1/2% healing. Bloody Strikes will receive extra bonus damage from Pestilence. Bone Shield: The mitigation has been reduced from 40% to 20%. Corpse Explosion: Damage increased substantially, added 5 sec. cooldown, and changed cost to 40 runic power. Dark Command: Range increased to 30 yards. Death Pact now grants 40% instead of 20% healing. Frost Presence: The bonus armor has been increased from 60 to 80% and magic damage reduction increased from 5 to 15%. Heart Strike no longer has a haste debuff but will now be able to strike two targets. Horn of Winter now has no cost and grants 10 runic power in addition to its stat buff, but has a 20 second cooldown. Howling Blast: Cooldown removed. Icebound Fortitude now reduces damage by 20% instead of 50%. The amount of damage reduced increases with bonus Defense (to about 35% for 540 Defense, but can go higher). Night of the Dead now grants 40/70% passive area spell avoidance to your pet in addition to its current effects. Outbreak will no longer receive bonus damage from pestilence. The bonus from Plague Strike and Blood Boil has been increased slightly. Pestilence no longer has a 10 seconds cooldown. Raise Dead has now been split into two spells: Raise Dead now raises a ghoul or pet ghoul (if talented). Requires corpse dust if no humanoid corpse is nearby. Raise Ally now raises a fallen party member as a ghoul and has no reagent. Available at level 72. This should now last for 4 minutes. Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle (two-handed only) now grants 25 Defense and 2% Stamina. Rune Strike: Damage decreased from 200% to 150% but threat increased to 150% from 100%. Shadow of Death: The duration has been changed from 45 seconds to 25 seconds. Unholy Blight had had its cost reduced from 60 to 40 runic power. Wandering Plague will now properly reset after being cast. Vampiric Blood: In addition to its current effects, also adds 20% health temporarily. Will of the Necropolis will now reduce the damage of any attack that takes the DK below 35% health by 5 /10/15% instead of boosting armor when wounded.
Druids
Aquatic Form is now available from druid trainers at level 16. Feral Attack Power: All weapons now have the potential to grant feral attack power based on their dps (as compared to the best superior-quality weapons available at level 60). Players will see their existing feral weapons grant roughly the same attack power as they did before (+/- 2 or so), but many new weapons will be options for the feral druid. Some feral weapons have had strength converted to attack power to be more appealing to other classes able to equip them. All druids will see the amount of feral attack power granted by an item in the item tooltip, if it grants any, but other players will not see that information. Remove Curse and Abolish Poison can now be used in Moonkin form. Genesis: Now works with Tranquility and Hurricane. Growl: Range increased to 30 yards. King of the Jungle - The Bear effect is now physical, and thus cannot be dispelled. Moonglow: This talent now also benefits Nourish. Nature's Grace - Now also effects Revive. Nourish: Wild Growth applied to a target now increases the healing done by this spell by 20% like other heal over time effects. Polearms: Now trainable by Druids. Primal Tenacity: Now reduces the cost of Bear Form, Cat Form, and Dire Bear Form by 17/33/50% in addition to its previous effects. Protector of the Pack: No longer changes value based on party size. Savage Roar: The buff now persists outside of Cat Form but only provides its benefits while in Cat Form. Starfall: Instead of canceling shapeshifting, now cancels on shapeshifting into an animal form. Survival of the Fittest: This talent now grants 22/44/66% bonus armor in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form in addition to all of its previous effects. Swipe: Swipe (Cat) has now been added at level 71, dealing 260% weapon damage, costs 50 energy with no cooldown. All talents affecting the Bear Form version affect the Cat Form one as well. Wild Growth now has a 6 second cooldown.
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Hunters
All Hunter pet abilities with a cooldown of 30 seconds or more are no longer on the global cooldown. Arcane Shot: Mana cost lowered to match the cost of Steady Shot. Aspect of the Wild - This aspect is now raid-wide. Call of the Wild: The benefit from this pet talent now applies to only the Hunter and their own pet. Deterrence: Design changed to grant 100% parry and 100% chance to "deflect" spells coming from the front, but prevents the Hunter from attacking. Lasts 5 sec. 60 sec. cooldown. Explosive Shot: Damage increased substantially, and additional scaling added to compensate Survival Hunters for the decrease in power of Steady Shot. No longer deals damage to secondary targets. Improved Tracking (Survival): This talent has been slightly re-designed. Now reads: While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids and Undead, all ranged damage done to those types is increased by 1/2/3/4/5%. Kill Shot ? Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds, down from 35 sec. Kindred Spirits: This talent now grants only 3/6/9/12/15% pet damage. The coefficient of Rake (Cat) and Scorpid Venom (Scorpid) has been lowered. Readiness: No longer resets the cooldown on Bestial Wrath. Steady Shot: Now gains 10% of attack power as damage instead of 20%. Serpent's Swiftness: This talent now grants only 2/4/6/8/10% bonus attack speed to pet. The hunter attack speed bonus is unchanged. Tranquilizing Shot has had its cooldown reduced to 6 seconds, down from 15. Unleashed Fury: This talent now grants only 3/6/9/12/15% pet damage. Viper Sting: Now drains a percentage of maximum mana. Volley: The damage has been reduced on all ranks by approximately 30% (including attack power scaling).
Mages
Arcane Blast: This ability has been significantly changed. Arcane Blast now increases the damage of the next Arcane spell by 15%. However, using Arcane Blast itself does not consume the charge itself. Each time you cast Arcane Blast, the damage of Arcane spells is increased by 15% and the mana cost of Arcane Blast is increased by 200%. This effect stacks up to 3 times and lasts 10 seconds or until any Arcane damage spell except Arcane Blast is cast. Arcane Flows: Now also reduces the cooldown of Evocation by 1m/2m. Elemental Precision: Renamed to Precision and now works on all spells. Evocation: Cooldown reduced to 4 min. Improved Blizzard: The snaring effect has been reduced to 25/40/50%. Slow Fall is now castable on others. Torment the Weak: Now works with Arcane Blast and does bonus damage against targets afflicted with any type of slow (such as the combat slow from Thunder Clap).
Paladins
Avenging Wrath: Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Avenging Wrath cannot be used within 30 seconds of each other anymore. Forbearance removed from Avenging Wrath. Divine Protection: The penalty has been removed. Divine Shield: The penalty has been changed so that all damage done is reduced by 50% in place of an attack speed penalty. Hand of Reckoning (NEW): Available on trainers at level 16. It?s a 30 yard range taunt that causes Holy damage. Judgements of the Pure: This Holy talent now increases the damage done by Seals and Judgements. Judgement of Wisdom: Now returns a percentage of base mana instead of a percentage of max mana. Sacred Duty: Interaction with Divine Shield and Divine Protection removed, but stamina bonus increased.
Priests
Abolish Disease and Cure Disease can now be cast while in Shadowform. Holy: Circle of Healing now has a 6 second cooldown. Levitate is now castable on others. Mana Burn: Now burns a percentage of maximum mana. Shadow Shadowform: You can now shift into Shadowform while mounted or sitting. Vampiric Embrace- Mana cost of this spell has been removed.
Rogues
Fan of Knives: The cooldown has been removed. In addition, now deals 150% of weapon damage when used while daggers are equipped. Feint: Rank 8 now reduces the damage taken from area of effect attacks by 50% for 6 seconds in addition to its existing effects.
Shaman
Fire Nova Totem: Now no longer generates threat. Healing Way: Now only one application is required to reach full benefit. No longer stacks. Improved Water Shield: Lesser Healing Wave now has a reduced chance to trigger this talent. Magma Totem: The damage and scaling has been increased and no longer generates threat. Mental Quickness and Static Shock have switched positions in the talent tree. Mental Quickness: Reduces the mana cost of instant cast Shaman spells by 2/4/6% and increases spell power by an amount equal to 10/20/30% of your attack power. Searing Totem (Rank 4) now does the proper damage for its rank. Tremor Totem's duration has been increased from 2 minutes to 5 minutes. Elemental Elemental Oath: In addition to existing effects, now increases spell damage done by the Shaman by 5/10% while Elemental Focus Clearcasting is active. Elemental Mastery: Redesigned. Now increases the Shaman's critical strike chance by 20% for 30 seconds. Cooldown remains at 3 minutes. Elemental Shields: This talent has been removed. It has now been merged with Elemental Warding. Elemental Warding: Now reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6%. Changed from only reducing Nature, Fire and Frost by 4/7/10%. New Talent: Shamanism-Your Lightning Bolt spell gains an additional 2/4/6/8/10% and your Lava Burst gains an additional 4/8/12/16/20% of your bonus damage effects. Storm, Earth and Fire: This talent has been moved up in the tree, and its talent points have been reduced to 3 down from 5. Wind Shock is also included in the range increase (with Earth Shock). The damage bonus to Flame Shock has been increased, up from 10/20/30/40/50 to 20/40/60. Unrelenting Storm: point cost reduced to 3, down from 5. Now does 4/8/12%
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Warlock
Corruption will now gain the correct damage modifiers for the creature type of the target. Create Healthstone: Attempting to create a healthstone when you already have one no longer consumes mana or triggers the cooldown of this ability. Demonic Circle: Teleport: the button for this ability will now darken when the Warlock is out of range of the Demonic Circle and will light up when the Warlock is in range. Demon Power Scaling: Spell power gained from spirit via the Fel Armor ability will now properly affect the scaling of spell power and attack power on summoned demons. Drain Mana: This spell will no longer cancel when the target?s mana poll is low or the caster?s mana poll is full. It also now generates a very small amount of threat instead of no threat. Everlasting Affliction: Will now calculate correct damage values for Corruption when it is refreshed in all cases. Haunt: Will now gain correct damage modifiers for the creature type of the target. In addition, this ability is now limited to a single target as intended. This also now works properly when refreshed on its current target. Mana Feed: This talent will no longer sometimes fire for warlocks who do not have the talent. Master Conjuror: Tooltip revised to indicate it does not increase the damage bonuses of Firestones or Spellstones. Metamorphosis: The bonus armor effect from this ability will now calculate properly and interact correctly with armor buffs and debuffs. Ritual of Doom: A Doomguard summoned with this spell will now scale properly from its master?s stats. Shadow Embrace: This ability will now create a separate debuff stack for each Warlock with the talent, and each warlock will benefit properly from his or her own debuff. Shadow of Death: This ability will no longer cause tracking abilities to become inactive when the death knight becomes a ghoul. Soul Siphon: Will now gain the correct damage modifiers for the creature type of the target. Twisted Faith: This talent will no longer sometimes cause Shadow Word: Pain to fail due to a more powerful spell being in effect. Unstable Afflcition: Will now gain the correct damage modifiers for the creature type of the target.
Warrior
Damage Shield: Rank 1 of this ability now works properly. Heroic Throw no longer triggers the snare from Mage Frost Armor.
PvP
The Wintergrasp Aura should now properly update in all instances, transferring the buff when the zone control changes. Arena: Dalaran Sewer: The Flush effect which pushes players out will now also remove the ability to use Demonic Circles summoned during the arena start time.
Items
Idol of the Emerald Queen: This idol was providing greater healing than implied by its tooltip. It has been reduced to correct value. Glyph of Ambush: This glyph will now interact correctly with Initiative when Ambush is used outside of combat range. Glyph of Charge: The stun from Charge will now work properly when Charge is used with the extra range from this glyph. Glyph of Corpse Explosion: Additional explosions from this glyph will no longer consume Unholy Runes. Glyph of Rejuvenation: The heal from this glyph is now properly considered a periodic heal. Gronstalker Set: The Aspect of Viper bonus from this set has been changed to work correctly with the redesigned Aspect of the Viper. Mana Potions: Warriors and Death Knights now receive a correct error message when attempting to use mana potions. Scrolls: Buffs from scrolls can now only be overwritten by more powerful scrolls. Soul Preserver: This item will now interact correctly with Desperate Prayer, Lay on Hands, Riptide, and Wild Growth. Berserking: Can now be used properly while under the affects of Hand of Protection. Heroic Presence: Now works properly in Ghost Wolf Form. Shadowmeld: This ability will now properly restore threat when it is cancelled. In addition, it will correctly remove a player from combat if it is active when that player is the last person left alive that the creature hates. This ability is now also unusable while affected by Faerie Fire. Will of the Forsaken: Using this ability while disoriented would trigger it?s cooldown to no affect; it is no longer useable while disoriented
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