posted 2008-09-09 12:15:34 (CST-1), discovered 2008-09-09 15:02:40 (CST), 14.5 months old

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Q u o t e:
Ive been watching WoTLK news every day for the past month, ive seen changes in rogues, warriors, and every other class, yet when it comes to shamans, i see nerfs, and an extreme lack of communication between us and the devs on the WoTLK forums.
I constantly see Ghostcrawler posting on the forums asking for feedback, asking what we (not shamans, the classes he controls) want, ect.
But all we get from Koraa is one line answers, such as
"What, specifically do you have issue with? "
then, when people answer with TONS of constructive ideas (along with most of the posts on the forums itself) we get absolutly no answers, or answers to a post that dont really have anything to do with the subject at hand.
Also, patch 3.0 is almost here, yet many of our talents are broken, or just plain dont work well (IE the water shield charge consumed on crit).
I, and many other people, are starting to think you dont really mind leaving our class on the back burner, let it go to crap, its been like that since TBC was released, every patch came with a nerf to the shaman, even if it came with a buff as well. And now during the beta, the "Unintentional" nerf to TS, windfury being completely broken, spirit link not working, we have NO communication from devs.
The WoTLK forums for shamans havnt seen a blue post in 4 days, thats 4 days of constructive posts lost for reasons beyond me.
We NEED communicaton for our class to work out, and just like when we were supposed to get our class review that never happened, there is no communication between us and the dev team at blizzard, which needs to be fixed.

Though i very much expect to be flamed, and not have a blue even respond to my post, i still hope that the "Polish" were supposed to recieve can atleast fix some of the things that obviously dont work, but as much as i am optimistic, ive been playing for around 3 years now, and so far blizzard doesnt exactally have a stellar track record with shamans.

Rant ended.

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posted 2008-09-11 07:32:23 (CST-1), discovered 2008-08-30 01:08:32 (CST), 14.8 months old

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Armor Debuff (Major): Acid Spit (exotic Hunter pet), Expose Armor, Sunder Armor
Armor Debuff (Minor): Faerie Fire, Sting (Hunter pet), Curse of Recklessness
Physical Vulnerability Debuff: Blood Frenzy, (2nd Talent Spec TBA)
Melee Haste Buff: Improved Icy Talons, Windfury Totem
Melee Critical Strike Chance Buff: Leader of the Pack, Rampage
Attack Power Buff (Flat Add): Battle Shout, Blessing of Might
Attack Power Buff (Multiplier): Abomination's Might, Trueshot Aura, Unleashed Rage
Ranged Attack Power Buff: Hunter's Mark (only Hunters benefit, so no need to exclude against other class abilities)
Bleed Damage Increase Debuff: Mangle, Trauma
Spell Haste Buff: Wrath of Air Totem
Spell Critical Strike Chance Buff: Moonkin Aura, Elemental Oath
Spell Critical Strike Chance Debuff: Improved Scorch, Winter's Chill
Increased Spell Damage Taken Debuff: Ebon Plaguebringer, Earth and Moon, Curse of the Elements
Increased Spell Power Buff: Focus Magic, Improved Divine Spirit, Flametongue Totem, Totem of Wrath, Demonic Pact
Increased Spell Hit Chance Taken Debuff: Improved Faerie Fire, Misery
Percentage Haste Increase (All Types): Improved Moonkin Aura, Swift Retribution
Percentage Damage Increase: Ferocious Inspiration, Sanctified Retribution
Critical Strike Chance Taken Debuff (All types): Heart of the Crusader, Totem of Wrath
Melee Attack Speed Slow Debuff: Icy Touch, Infected Wounds, Judgements of the Just, Thunderclap
Melee Hit Chance Reduction Debuff: Insect Swarm, Scorpid Sting
Healing Debuff: Wound Poison, Aimed Shot, Mortal Strike, Furious Attacks
Attack Power Debuff: Demoralizing Roar, Curse of Weakness, Demoralizing Shout
Stat Multiplier Buff: Blessing of Kings
Stat Add Buff: Mark of the Wild
Agility and Strength Buff: Strength of Earth Totem, Horn of Winter
Stamina Buff: Power Word: Fortitude
Health Buff: Commanding Shout, Blood Pact
Intellect Buff: Arcane Intellect, Fel Intelligence
Spirit Buff: Divine Spirit, Fel Intelligence
Damage Reduction Percentage Buff: Grace, Blessing of Sanctuary
Percentage Increase Healing Received Buff: Tree of Life, Improved Devotion Aura
Armor Increase Percentage Buff: Inspiration, Ancestral Healing
Cast Speed Slow: Curse of Tongues, Slow, Mind-numbing Poison.

Improved Scorch: Increases spell critical strike chance against the target.
Winter's Chill: Also increases spell critical strike chance against the target.
Elemental Oath: Grants 5% spell crital strike to raid members.
Improved Moonkin Aura: Grants 3% haste of all types.
Earth and Moon: Increases spell damage taken from all schools by 13% on the target.
Misery: Causes spells cast at the target to have +3% spell hit.
Shadow Weaving: Buffs only self.
Improved Shadow Bolt: Buffs only self.
Expose Weakness: Buffs only self.
Shadow Embrace: Buffs only self.
Blood Pact: Grants health instead of Stamina.
Fel Intelligence: Has replacement ranks that grant flat values of Intellect and Spirit.
Frost Aura: Excludes properly against all other resistance buffs.
Grace: Reduces damage taken by target by 3%.
Rampage: Increases melee and ranged critical strike chance by 5% for the raid.
Improved Faerie Fire: No longer benefits melee and ranged hit chance, only spell hit.
Hunter's Mark: No longer increases attack power bonus from attacks against the target.
Improved Hunter's Mark: No longer grants melee attack power.
Sting (Hunter pet): Now acts as a minor armor debuff.
Waylay: Attack speed reduction changed to 20%.
Icy Touch: Only slows melee attack speed (not ranged or spell).
Tree of Life: No longer grants healing based on spirit, grants 3% increased healing received to raid.
Demonic Pact: Now buffs raid instead of debuffing monsters.
Focus Magic: Now buffs raid instead of debuffing monsters.
Totem of Wrath: Now grants a flat amount of spell damage, and all enemies in its radius have an increased chance of being struck by criticals.
Heroism: Cannot be recast while caster has Exhausted debuff, and those with Exhausted debuff cannot be affected by it.
Bloodlust: Cannot be recast while caster has Sated debuff, and those with Sated debuff cannot be affected by it.
Vampiric Touch: Grants Replenishment mana regeneration buff to up to 10 raid members on dealing damage.
Hunting Party: Grants Replenishment mana regeneration buff to up to 10 raid members on specified shots.
Judgements of the Wise: Grants Replenishment mana regeneration buff to up to 10 raid members on Judging.

[ Post edited by Zarhym ]

posted 2008-07-15 10:24:29 (CST-1), discovered 2008-07-15 17:02:53 (CST), 16.3 months old

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• Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.
  
• Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.
  
• Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!
  
• Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.
  
• Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded their bats in for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.
  
• Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.
  
• Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.
  
• Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha’tari Skyguard.
  
• Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.
  
• Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.
  
• When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.
  

• Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.
  

• Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet’s Growl.
  
• Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned.
  

• Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
  

• Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.
  
• Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.
  

• Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.
  
• Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.
  

• Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes.
  
• Sinister Calling now increases damage to Backstab and Hemorrhage by 1/2/3/4/5%. (down from 2/4/6/8/10% .)
  

• Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its totem when pulled beyond 50 yards away.
  
• Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.
  

• Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.
  
• Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire.
  
• Demon Skin, Demon Armor, and Fel Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
  
• Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished.
  
• Ritual of Summoning: The mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast.
  
• Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.
  

• Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)
  

• The time available to accept the option to “Enter Battle” for a battleground has been reduced to 1 minute and 20 seconds (previously 2 minutes) in order to give each side more time to get a full complement of players before the battle begins.
  
• The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped.
  
• Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite can no longer be used in the arena. These no longer have a failure chance.
  
• Zoning into an instance on a PvE realm will now drop your PvP flag.
  

• Alchemy
  
  
  
  • Philosopher’s Stone now requires 200 Alchemy.
    
  
  
• Cooking
  
  
  
  • Juicy Bear Burgers now correctly increase healing as well as spell damage.
    
  
  
• Jewelcrafting
  
  
  
  • Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no longer be dispelled.
    
  
  
• Mining
  
  
  
  • Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. The drop rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged.
    
  
  
• Tailoring
  
  
  
  • Removed the cooldown from regular Mooncloth.
    
  • Herb bags can now hold Un’goro Soil and Evergreen Pouches.
    
  • Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.
    
  • New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: Haliscan Jacket and Haliscan Pantaloons.
    

• Bhag’thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate.
  
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased character AoE effects and vice-versa.
  
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly break off combat from unphased/phased opponents.
  

• Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons.
  
• Magister’s Terrace
  
  
  
  • The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard Glaive Throw has been removed and the Bounce range reduced.
    
  • Vexallus and Kael’thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode.
    
  • Vexallus’ damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased.
    
  • Kael’thas’ Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic mode remains unchanged.)
    
  • Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly.
    
  • Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health reduced slightly.
    
  • Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output reduced slightly.
    
  
  
• Sunwell Plateau
  
  
  
  • Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twins are in combat.
    
  • M’uru, Entropius, Shadowsword Berserkers, and Shadowsword Fury Mages have all had their health decreased.
    
  • Kil’jaeden Encounter
    
    
    
    • Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil’jaeden’s Shield Orb Shadow Bolts.
      
    • Vanish now correctly wipes threat on Kil’jaeden.
      
    • Sinister Reflections are now interruptible.
      
    • Sinister Reflections on Hunters now use normal Wing Clip instead of Improved Wing Clip.
      
    • Kil’jaeden will now wait slightly longer before casting Flame Darts after casting Darkness of a Thousand Souls.
      
    
    
  
  

[ Post edited by Nethaera ]

posted 2008-07-15 10:24:29 (CST-1), discovered 2008-07-15 14:02:37 (CST), 16.3 months old

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• Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.
  
• Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.
  
• Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!
  
• Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.
  
• Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded their bats in for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.
  
• Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.
  
• Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.
  
• Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha’tari Skyguard.
  
• Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.
  
• Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.
  
• When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.
  

• Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.
  

• Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet’s Growl.
  
• Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned.
  

• Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
  

• Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.
  
• Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.
  

• Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.
  
• Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.
  

• Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes.
  
• Sinister Calling now increases damage to Backstab and Hemorrhage by 1/2/3/4/5%. (down from 2/4/6/8/10% .)
  

• Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its totem when pulled beyond 50 yards away.
  
• Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.
  

• Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.
  
• Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire.
  
• Demon Skin, Demon Armor, and Fel Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
  
• Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished.
  
• Ritual of Summoning: The mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast.
  
• Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.
  

• Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)
  

• The time available to accept the option to “Enter Battle” for a battleground has been reduced to 1 minute and 20 seconds (previously 2 minutes) in order ot give each side more time to get a full complement of players before the battle begins.
  
• The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped.
  
• Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite can no longer be used in the arena. These no longer have a failure chance.
  
• Zoning into an instance on a PvE realm will now drop your PvP flag.
  

• Alchemy
  
  
  
  • Philosopher’s Stone now requires 200 Alchemy.
    
  
  
• Cooking
  
  
  
  • Juicy Bear Burgers now correctly increase healing as well as spell damage.
    
  
  
• Jewelcrafting
  
  
  
  • Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no longer be dispelled.
    
  
  
• Mining
  
  
  
  • Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. The drop rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged.
    
  
  
• Tailoring
  
  
  
  • Removed the cooldown from regular Mooncloth.
    
  • Herb bags can now hold Un’goro Soil and Evergreen Pouches.
    
  • Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.
    
  • New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: Haliscan Jacket and Haliscan Pantaloons.
    

• Bhag’thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate.
  
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased character AoE effects and vice-versa.
  
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly break off combat from unphased/phased opponents.
  

• Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons.
  
• Magister’s Terrace
  
  
  
  • The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard Glaive Throw has been removed and the Bounce range reduced.
    
  • Vexallus and Kael’thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode.
    
  • Vexallus’ damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased.
    
  • Kael’thas’ Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic mode remains unchanged.)
    
  • Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly.
    
  • Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health reduced slightly.
    
  • Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output reduced slightly.
    
  
  
• Sunwell Plateau
  
  
  
  • Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twins are in combat.
    
  • M’uru, Entropius, Shadowsword Berserkers, and Shadowsword Fury Mages have all had their health decreased.
    
  • Kil’jaeden Encounter
    
    
    
    • Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil’jaeden’s Shield Orb Shadow Bolts.
      
    • Vanish now correctly wipes threat on Kil’jaeden.
      
    • Sinister Reflections are now interruptible.
      
    • Sinister Reflections on Hunters now use normal Wing Clip instead of Improved Wing Clip.
      
    • Kil’jaeden will now wait slightly longer before casting Flame Darts after casting Darkness of a Thousand Souls.
      
    
    
  
  

[ Post edited by Nethaera ]

posted 2008-07-15 13:02:28 (CST-1), discovered 2008-07-15 13:02:28 (CST), 16.3 months old

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• Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.
  
• Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.
  
• Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!
  
• Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.
  
• Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded their bats in for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.
  
• Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.
  
• Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.
  
• Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha’tari Skyguard.
  
• Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.
  
• Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.
  
• When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.
  

• Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.
  Hunters
  
• Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet’s Growl.
  
• Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned.
  Mages
  
• Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
  Paladins
  
• Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.
  
• Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.
  

• Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.
  
• Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.
  

• Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes.
  
• Sinister Calling now increases damage to Backstab and Hemorrhage by 1/2/3/4/5%. (down from 2/4/6/8/10% .)
  

• Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its totem when pulled beyond 50 yards away.
  
• Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.
  

• Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.
  
• Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire.
  
• Demon Skin, Demon Armor, and Fel Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
  
• Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished.
  
• Ritual of Summoning: The mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast.
  
• Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.
  

• Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)
  

• The time available to accept the option to “Enter Battle” for a battleground has been reduced to 1 minute and 20 seconds (previously 2 minutes) in order ot give each side more time to get a full complement of players before the battle begins.
  
• The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped.
  
• Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite can no longer be used in the arena. These no longer have a failure chance.
  
• Zoning into an instance on a PvE realm will now drop your PvP flag.
  

• Alchemy
  
  
  
  • Philosopher’s Stone now requires 200 Alchemy.
    
  
  
• Cooking
  
  
  
  • Juicy Bear Burgers now correctly increase healing as well as spell damage.
    
  
  
• Jewelcrafting
  
  
  
  • Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no longer be dispelled.
    
  
  
• Mining
  
  
  
  • Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. The drop rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged.
    
  
  
• Tailoring
  
  
  
  • Removed the cooldown from regular Mooncloth.
    
  • Herb bags can now hold Un’goro Soil and Evergreen Pouches.
    
  • Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.
    
  • New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: Haliscan Jacket and Haliscan Pantaloons.
    

• Bhag’thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate.
  
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased character AoE effects and vice-versa.
  
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly break off combat from unphased/phased opponents.
  

• Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons.
  
• Magister’s Terrace
  
  
  
  • The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard Glaive Throw has been removed and the Bounce range reduced.
    
  • Vexallus and Kael’thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode.
    
  • Vexallus’ damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased.
    
  • Kael’thas’ Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic mode remains unchanged.)
    
  • Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly.
    
  • Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health reduced slightly.
    
  • Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output reduced slightly.
    
  
  
• Sunwell Plateau
  
  
  
  • Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twins are in combat.
    
  • M’uru, Entropius, Shadowsword Berserkers, and Shadowsword Fury Mages have all had their health decreased.
    
  • Kil’jaeden Encounter
    
    
    
    • Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil’jaeden’s Shield Orb Shadow Bolts.
      
    • Vanish now correctly wipes threat on Kil’jaeden.
      
    • Sinister Reflections are now interruptible.
      
    • Sinister Reflections on Hunters now use normal Wing Clip instead of Improved Wing Clip.
      
    • Kil’jaeden will now wait slightly longer before casting Flame Darts after casting Darkness of a Thousand Souls.
      
    
    
  
  

[ Post edited by Nethaera ]

posted 2007-09-26 12:45:11 (CST-1), discovered 2008-06-26 00:04:15 (CST), 16.9 months old

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Q u o t e:
Wow, glad to see this thread doing so well.


My question is back to gear. I've noticed a lot of the enhancement talents push a build where shocks play a big role yet enchancement gear never has any spell crit on it leaving the shock spells very weak. I was wondering if in the future gear will maybe give up the int spirit and mp/5 and instead give some +spell crit or for enhancement/resto build maybe some +healing.

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[ Post edited by Eyonix ]

posted 2007-10-08 08:49:04 (CST-1), discovered 2008-04-09 09:02:38 (CST), 19.5 months old

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[ Post edited by Nethaera ]

posted 2008-04-06 06:01:37 (CST-1)

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	Tauren		Night Elves
Str	81		75
Agi	65		75
Sta	85		82
Int	115		120
Spi	135		133

[ Post edited by Efejel ]

Maximizing Your Moonkin
posted 2007-10-08 11:50:23 (CST-1), discovered 2008-04-02 17:41:23 (CST), 19.7 months old

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[ Post edited by Nethaera ]

posted 2008-04-02 17:04:46 (CST-1), discovered 2008-04-02 17:04:45 (CST), 19.7 months old

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• The glorious fount of arcane energy known as the Sunwell empowered the high elves for millennia, until the death knight Arthas laid siege to the elven kingdom and corrupted its sacred energies. Seeing no other alternative, a band of survivors led by Prince Kael’thas destroyed the ancient fount. Over time the surviving elves fell pray to a crippling magical withdrawal.
  
  Now, promising salvation for his people, Kael’thas has returned. Soon the Sunwell will shine once again, but whether the sacred fount will usher in deliverance or destruction remains to be seen.
  

• Blizzard Entertainment would like to dedicate the patch in memory of Gary Gygax His work on D&D was an inspiration to us in many ways and helped spark our passion for creating games of our own As avid D&D players and fellow game developers, we were all saddened by the news of his passing; we feel we’ve lost a true adventuring companion Thanks for everything and farewell, Gary You will be missed
  

• The combat log has undergone improvements that allow more robust combat text filtering including the ability to define custom colors for enemies and friends, as well as combat text filtering for self and others.
  

• Players will be able to create level-70 characters with epic equipment and compete on special tournament realms in a new global arena tournament. For more information, details, and entry requirements, please visit http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/index.xml

• The Sunwell Isle is now available for play. This area includes a new quest hub and 5 and 25-player instances.
  
• The combined forces of Shattrath have launched an attack on the Isle of Quel’Danas, to confront Kael’thas and the Legion at the Sunwell and surrounding areas. Players will now be able to gain reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive and participate in a new set of daily quests.
  
• A representative of the Keepers of Time has been spotted at the World’s End Tavern in Shattrath. Players in good standing with the faction will be granted ease of passage to the Caverns of Time.
  
• Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers.
  
• Spell Haste: Spell haste now reduces the global cooldown on spells, down to a minimum of 1 second. This change does not apply to melee and ranged abilities.
  
• Item Cast Spells: Many spells cast by items were being cast as if the caster were the same level as the item. Most of those will now be cast at the player’s level, giving them a reasonable chance to miss, be dispelled, or be resisted.
  
• Resilience: Now reduces the magnitude of mana draining effects by the same amount that it reduces critical strike damage. The Tooltip has been revised to reflect this.
  
• Spirit-Based Mana Regeneration: This system has been adjusted so that as your intellect rises, you will regenerate more mana per point of spirit.
  
• Weapon Skill: Points will be gained faster in weapon skills for levels 1 through 59.
  
• The Daily Quest limit has been increased to 25.
  
• Non-self % based haste spells will no longer stack with each other.
  

• Find Treasure: This ability no longer deactivates upon death.
  

[ Post edited by Nethaera ]

Re: Patch 2.4 - Fury of the Sunwell is live!
posted 2008-03-25 11:42:38 (CST-1), discovered 2008-04-02 17:04:46 (CST), 19.7 months old

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• Blood Pact now has a tooltip.
  
• Demonic Knowledge: This buff will no longer remain on enslaved demons when Enslave Demon is removed. It will now increase your spell damage by an amount equal to 4/8/12%, down from 5/10/15%.
  
• Demonic Sacrifice: Now works properly in sanctuary regions (such as Shattrath City and the Stair of Destiny).
  
• Emberstorm now also reduces the cast time of your incinerate spell by 2/4/6/8/10%.
  
• Nether Protection: The buff from this talent will no longer interrupt capturing PvP flags and bases.
  
• Pyroclasm: This talent now works correctly again with Rain of Fire.
  
• Ritual of Summoning can be used to summon players into instances if they meet the instance requirements.
  
• Sense Demon now persists after death.
  
• Shadow Ward: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  

• Endless Rage will now give the correct amount of rage as intended from damage dealt by a Warrior.
  
• Improved Hamstring (Arms) effect is now subject to diminishing returns when used in PvP.
  
• Stances: It is no longer possible to accidentally change into a stance you are already in via macros (resulting in a global cooldown and loss of rage).
  
• Whirlwind: Critical strikes with the off-hand weapon from this ability can now trigger Flurry and Rampage.
  
• Flurry will properly refresh if a crit occurs with 1 charge left.
  

• Diminishing returns on honor for kills is being eliminated.
  
• Honor will now be instantly calculated, and available for player use.
  
• Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will be worth no honor.
  
• Added new PvP daily quests that send players to Halaa and the Spirit Towers of the Bone Wastes. These quests are available for Alliance and Horde at their respective local quest hubs.
  
  
• Arenas
  
  
  
  • Personal Rating: The amount a player’s personal rating can climb above his or her team’s rating is now limited.
    
  • The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed while in the Arena. It will now take four seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.
    
  • Queue times for arena matches have been reduced. Players will now be able to enter matches faster than previously.
    
  • Shadow Sight now increases damage taken by 5% rather than dealing damage over time. Duration has been reduced from 21 seconds to 15 seconds.
    
  • Players feared outside of the Arena (through the world or outside the arena walls) will now be teleported back to the center of the arena map.
    
  
  
• Battlegrounds
  
  
  
  • If a player dies 50 times or more in a battleground, they will no longer be worth honor for the remainder of that battle.
    
  • When you first enter a battleground, messages about other players joining the battleground will be linked together for the first minute. You will see a message in AV like “28 players joined” rather than a line for each player that joined. After the first minute, it will work as it always has. In addition, all of the messages about other players leaving the battleground and getting marks of honor once the battleground is complete have been removed.
    
  • Battleground Rune Buffs:Speed, Restoration, and Berserking buffs received from battleground runes will no longer cause Stealth or Prowl to break.
    
    
  • Alterac Valley
    
    
    
    • Captain Balinda Stonehearth Stonehearth can no longer be interrupted, silenced, or have her spells slowed. In addition, her water elemental cannot be banished, and does increased damage.
      
    • Vanndar Stormpike and Captain Balinda Stonehearth have had their health totals reduced to match the health totals of Drek’Thar and Captain Galvangar...
      
    • Warmasters/marshals in Alterac Valley now increase each other’s maximum health and damage by 25%. This is a stacking effect.
      
    • Horde players will now start the battle closer to Drek’Thar and Frostwolf Keep.
      
    • There is now a Join as Party option.
      
    
    
  • Warsong Gulch
    
    
    
    • When both flags are held, the flag carriers will receive 50% increased damage done to them after approximately 10 minutes and 100% increased damage after approximately 15 minutes.
      
    • Flag carriers can now be tracked 45 seconds after picking up the flag.
      
    
    
  
  

[ Post edited by Bornakk ]

posted 2008-03-29 15:27:32 (CST-1), discovered 2008-03-29 18:15:25 (CST), 19.8 months old

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[ Post edited by Hortus ]

posted 2008-03-26 02:01:59 (CST-1), discovered 2008-03-25 14:14:49 (CST), 20.0 months old

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• The glorious fount of arcane energy known as the Sunwell empowered the high elves for millennia, until the death knight Arthas laid siege to the elven kingdom and corrupted its sacred energies. Seeing no other alternative, a band of survivors led by Prince Kael’thas destroyed the ancient fount. Over time the surviving elves fell pray to a crippling magical withdrawal.
  
  Now, promising salvation for his people, Kael’thas has returned. Soon the Sunwell will shine once again, but whether the sacred fount will usher in deliverance or destruction remains to be seen.
  

• Blizzard Entertainment would like to dedicate the patch in memory of Gary Gygax. His work on D&D was an inspiration to us in many ways and helped spark our passion for creating games of our own. As avid D&D players and fellow game developers, we were all saddened by the news of his passing; we feel we’ve lost a true adventuring companion. Thanks for everything and farewell, Gary. You will be missed.
  

• The combat log has undergone improvements that allow more robust combat text filtering including the ability to define custom colors for enemies and friends, as well as combat text filtering for self and others.
  

• Players will be able to create level-70 characters with epic equipment and compete on special tournament realms in a new global arena tournament. For more information, details, and entry requirements, please visit http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/index.xml

• The Sunwell Isle is now available for play. This area includes a new quest hub and 5 and 25-player instances.
  
• The combined forces of Shattrath have launched an attack on the Isle of Quel’Danas, to confront Kael’thas and the Legion at the Sunwell and surrounding areas. Players will now be able to gain reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive and participate in a new set of daily quests.
  
• A representative of the Keepers of Time has been spotted at the World’s End Tavern in Shattrath. Players in good standing with the faction will be granted ease of passage to the Caverns of Time.
  
• Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers.
  
• Spell Haste: Spell haste now reduces the global cooldown on spells, down to a minimum of 1 second. This change does not apply to melee and ranged abilities.
  
• Item Cast Spells: Many spells cast by items were being cast as if the caster were the same level as the item. Most of those will now be cast at the player’s level, giving them a reasonable chance to miss, be dispelled, or be resisted.
  
• Resilience: Now reduces the magnitude of mana draining effects by the same amount that it reduces critical strike damage. The Tooltip has been revised to reflect this.
  
• Spirit-Based Mana Regeneration: This system has been adjusted so that as your intellect rises, you will regenerate more mana per point of spirit.
  
• Weapon Skill: Points will be gained faster in weapon skills for levels 1 through 59.
  
• The Daily Quest limit has been increased to 25.
  
• Non-self % based haste spells will no longer stack with each other.
  

• Find Treasure: This ability no longer deactivates upon death.
  

Re: Patch 2.4 - Fury of the Sunwell is live!
posted 2008-03-25 11:42:16 (CST-1), discovered 2008-03-25 14:14:49 (CST), 20.0 months old

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• Cyclone range is now 20 yards, down from 30.
  
• Empowered Rejuvenation: This talent now properly affects the final heal from Lifebloom.
  
• Gift of Nature: This talent now properly affects the healing from Tranquility.
  
• Insect Swarm: Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
  
• Lacerate: This ability now deals additional damage based on the attack power of the Druid.
  
• Lifebloom: The bonus coefficient on the final bloom effect has been reduced by 20%. This spell will no longer cause error messages when interacting with Spellsteal or while the Druid is under the effects of Mind Control.
  
• Mangle (Bear) now properly triggers a 1.5 second global cooldown, increased from 1.0 second.
  
• Many shapeshift form tooltips have been updated to be consistent with each other.
  
• Natural Perfection: This ability will no longer be triggered by taking critical strikes while sitting. In addition, it is now affected by the Subtlety talent and reduces damage by 2/3/4%, down from 1/3/5%.
  
• Nurturing Instinct increases your healing spells by up to 50/100% of your Agility, and increases healing done to you by 10/20% while in Cat form.
  
• Regrowth: The mana cost of this spell has been reduced by approximately 20%.
  
• When a Druid in cat form casts Pounce it will now properly animate.
  

• Equipping a thrown weapon while in the middle of an Auto-Shot will no longer cause animation issues.
  
• Casting Flare while in any way not visible, will no longer cause your flare to be invisible to other players.
  
• Hunter’s Mark: Hunters with Improved Hunter’s Mark will now properly overwrite Hunter’s Mark cast by Hunters without the talent.
  
• Improved Mend Pet now has a 25/50 chance to remove one Curse, Disease, Magic, or Poison effect, up from 15/50%.
  
• The stamina tooltip for hunter pets will now display the proper health increase.
  
• Track spells will now persist after death.
  
• Hunters will no longer spin around if they cast Aimed Shot or Steady Shot while facing away from their target.
  

• Arcane Explosion: The damage cap for area of effect damage on this spell has been increased by approximately 50%.
  
• Arcane Fortitude now increases your armor by an amount equal to 100% of your Intellect, up from 50%.
  
• Blink, Slow, and Spellsteal have all had their mana cost reduced.
  
• Improved Blink: This talent no longer reduces the mana cost of Blink. Instead, it increases the chance for all attacks to miss the Mage by 25% for 2/4 sec after Blink is cast.
  
• Using low ranks of Fire Ward and Frost Ward spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  
• Frostbite: When a frost spell is reflected back at a Mage, it is now possible for the Mage to suffer from the Frostbite effect.
  
• Ice Barrier: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  
• Icy Veins no longer increases the chance your chilling effects will Freeze the target, but now increases the chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting any spell by 100% while active.
  
• Improved FireWard has become Molten Shields.
  
• Mana Shield: This spell will now get a percentage of the Mage’s bonus to spell damage as an additional effect.
  
• New Talent: Molten Shields will cause your Fire Ward to have a 10/20% chance to reflect Fire spells while active. In addition, your Molten Armor has a 50/100% chance to affect ranged and spell attacks.
  
• Permafrost: This talent will now correctly increase the movement slowing effect of frost Armor instead of the attack speed slowing effect.
  
• Spellsteal will no longer overwrite a longer duration buff.
  

• Avenger’s Shield, Holy Shield and Holy Shock: Casting lower ranks of these spells is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
  
• Avenger’s Shield: This ability will no longer jump to secondary targets which are under the effect of crowd-control spells that break on taking damage. I.e. Polymorph, Sap, etc.
  
• Crusader Strike: This ability will no longer refresh the Healing Way buff from the Shaman talent.
  
• Illumination: The mana energize from this talent no longer has a chance to set off other triggered effects.
  
• Holy Shock: The healing, damage, and mana cost of this spell have all been increased.
  
• Judgment of the Crusader: It is no longer possible to have icons for two different ranks of Judgment of the Crusader appear at the same time when judged by multiple Paladins.
  
• Judgment of Wisdom: Some abilities (such as Frostbolt) were not triggering the mana energize effect from this spell. This has now been fixed.
  
• Resistance Auras: It is no longer possible for two Paladins in the same party to make it appear that players have two of the same resistance aura active.
  
• Righteous Defense: This spell will now always be castable on friendly npcs.
  
• Seal of Blood: This ability will no longer cause spell pushback for the Paladin with this seal active.
  
• Sense Undead- Now persists after death.
  
• Turn Undead(Rank 3):This spell has been reworked and has been renamed to “Turn Evil”. It will now work on Demons in addition to Undead. Turn Evil is subject to diminishing returns, and lasts 10 seconds in PvP.
  

• Chastise no longer disorients the target, but now is instant cast and roots the target for 2 seconds.
  
• Fear Ward is now usable while in Shadow form.
  
• Focused Will now reduces damage by 2/3/4%, up from 1/3/5%.
  
• Inner Focus: Chastise now benefits from Inner Focus. In addition, Starshards no longer consumes Inner Focus.
  
• Mass Dispel now affects a maximum of 10 targets, increased from 5.
  
• Power Infusion: Infuses the target with power, increasing their spell haste by 20% and reducing the mana cost of all spells by 20%. Lasts for 15 seconds.This will not stack with other haste effects, such as Heroism, Bloodlust, or Icy Veins.
  
• Power Word: Shield: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  
• Prayer of Mending: This spell will now fade from players who leave or enter an instance, change continents, or exit the game.
  
• Reflective Shield: The reflective damage from this talent no longer breaks crowd control effects which break on taking damage.
  
• Shadowguard: No longer consumes the charge of Inner Focus when triggered.
  
• Silent Resolve:This talent now affects Surge of Light, Power Infusion, Inspiration, Spirit Tap, Blackout, Levitate, Shackle Undead, Touch of Weakness, Hex of Weakness, and Symbol of Hope.
  
• Touch of Weakness: No longer consumes the charge of Inner Focus when triggered.It will also function properly even when the Priest with Touch of Weakness on is silenced or stunned.
  
• Vampiric Touch: Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
  

• Abilities that can be used while stealthed, without breaking stealth, can now be cast without breaking Vanish when used at the same time.
  
• Cheat Death: A combat log message will now show when this ability activates and now has an animation.. It will now almost always be accurate in displaying the amount of damage done to a rogue when under the effects of Cheat Death.
  
• Improved Backstab is now called Puncturing Wounds.
  
• Puncturing Wounds increases your critical strike chance with Backstab by 10/20/30%, and the critical strike chance with your Mutilate ability by 5/10/15%.
  
• Improved Sprint: This ability will now always remove Entangling Roots.
  
• Sap mechanic changed from “Incapacitate” to “Sap”. This will allow more humanoids that were previously immune to Sap to be vulnerable to Sap, but still immune to Gouge. Note that anything that removed Sap previously will still remove Sap after the change.
  
• Vanish: This ability will no longer sometimes cause the UI to display Shadowmeld as active when it has been cancelled.
  

• Call of Thunder: (Rank 5) now gives 5% critical strike chance, down from 6%.
  
• Earth Shield: Mana cost reduced roughly in half, and charges reduced from 10 to 6.
  
• Elemental Focus: This buff will no longer be removed when Shamanistic Focus is triggered.
  
• Flametongue Weapon: Having different ranks of this enchantment cast on two different weapons will no longer cause the enchantments to trigger multiple times per swing.
  
• Ghost Wolf: Cast time reduced to 2 seconds, down from 3.
  
• The Global Cooldown of all Totems has been reduced to 1 seconds, down from 1.5 seconds.
  
• Healing Grace: This talent now reduces the chance your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%.The resistance to being dispelled modifier from this talent now applies correctly to Water Breathing.
  
• Rockbiter Weapon: Tooltip and error messages have been adjusted slightly.
  
• Shamanistic Rage is now a Physical ability instead of a Magic spell, and thus is no longer dispellable. It now reduces all damage taken by 30% and gives your successful melee attacks a chance to regenerate mana equal to 30% of your attack power. This lasts for 15 seconds with a 2 minute cooldown.
  
• Stormstrike has a new icon.
  
• Totem timer icons will now show up under your player portrait when you cast totem spells. Right-clicking a totem timer icon will destroy that totem.
  
• Toughness will now also reduce the duration of movement slowing effects on you by 10/20/30/40/50%.
  
• Tremor Totem now pulses every 3 seconds, down from 4 seconds.
  
• The Shaman spell Fire Nova Totem will no longer sometimes detonate without doing any damage.
  

Re: Patch 2.4 - Fury of the Sunwell is live!
posted 2008-03-25 11:42:38 (CST-1), discovered 2008-03-26 02:01:59 (CST), 20.0 months old

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• Blood Pact now has a tooltip.
  
• Demonic Knowledge: This buff will no longer remain on enslaved demons when Enslave Demon is removed. It will now increase your spell damage by an amount equal to 4/8/12%, down from 5/10/15%.
  
• Demonic Sacrifice: Now works properly in sanctuary regions (such as Shattrath City and the Stair of Destiny).
  
• Emberstorm now also reduces the cast time of your incinerate spell by 2/4/6/8/10%.
  
• Nether Protection: The buff from this talent will no longer interrupt capturing PvP flags and bases.
  
• Pyroclasm: This talent now works correctly again with Rain of Fire.
  
• Ritual of Summoning can be used to summon players into instances if they meet the instance requirements.
  
• Sense Demon now persists after death.
  
• Shadow Ward: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  

• Endless Rage will now give the correct amount of rage as intended from damage dealt by a Warrior.
  
• Improved Hamstring (Arms) effect is now subject to diminishing returns when used in PvP.
  
• Stances: It is no longer possible to accidentally change into a stance you are already in via macros (resulting in a global cooldown and loss of rage).
  
• Whirlwind: Critical strikes with the off-hand weapon from this ability can now trigger Flurry and Rampage.
  
• Flurry will properly refresh if a crit occurs with 1 charge left.
  

• Diminishing returns on honor for kills is being eliminated.
  
• Honor will now be instantly calculated, and available for player use.
  
• Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will be worth no honor.
  
• Added new PvP daily quests that send players to Halaa and the Spirit Towers of the Bone Wastes. These quests are available for Alliance and Horde at their respective local quest hubs.
  
  
• Arenas
  
  
  
  • Personal Rating: The amount a player’s personal rating can climb above his or her team’s rating is now limited.
    
  • The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed while in the Arena. It will now take four seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.
    
  • Queue times for arena matches have been reduced. Players will now be able to enter matches faster than previously.
    
  • Shadow Sight now increases damage taken by 5% rather than dealing damage over time. Duration has been reduced from 21 seconds to 15 seconds.
    
  • Players feared outside of the Arena (through the world or outside the arena walls) will now be teleported back to the center of the arena map.
    
  
  
• Battlegrounds
  
  
  
  • If a player dies 50 times or more in a battleground, they will no longer be worth honor for the remainder of that battle.
    
  • When you first enter a battleground, messages about other players joining the battleground will be linked together for the first minute. You will see a message in AV like “28 players joined” rather than a line for each player that joined. After the first minute, it will work as it always has. In addition, all of the messages about other players leaving the battleground and getting marks of honor once the battleground is complete have been removed.
    
  • Battleground Rune Buffs:Speed, Restoration, and Berserking buffs received from battleground runes will no longer cause Stealth or Prowl to break.
    
    
  • Alterac Valley
    
    
    
    • Captain Balinda Stonehearth Stonehearth can no longer be interrupted, silenced, or have her spells slowed. In addition, her water elemental cannot be banished, and does increased damage.
      
    • Vanndar Stormpike and Captain Balinda Stonehearth have had their health totals reduced to match the health totals of Drek’Thar and Captain Galvangar...
      
    • Warmasters/marshals in Alterac Valley now increase each other’s maximum health and damage by 25%. This is a stacking effect.
      
    • Horde players will now start the battle closer to Drek’Thar and Frostwolf Keep.
      
    • There is now a Join as Party option.
      
    
    
  • Warsong Gulch
    
    
    
    • When both flags are held, the flag carriers will receive 50% increased damage done to them after approximately 10 minutes and 100% increased damage after approximately 15 minutes.
      
    • Flag carriers can now be tracked 45 seconds after picking up the flag.
      
    
    
  
  

[ Post edited by Bornakk ]

Re: Patch 2.4 - Fury of the Sunwell is live!
posted 2008-03-25 11:42:38 (CST-1), discovered 2008-03-25 14:14:49 (CST), 20.0 months old

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• Blood Pact now has a tooltip.
  
• Demonic Knowledge: This buff will no longer remain on enslaved demons when Enslave Demon is removed. It will now increase your spell damage by an amount equal to 4/8/12%, down from 5/10/15%.
  
• Demonic Sacrifice: Now works properly in sanctuary regions (such as Shattrath City and the Stair of Destiny).
  
• Emberstorm now also reduces the cast time of your incinerate spell by 2/4/6/8/10%.
  
• Nether Protection: The buff from this talent will no longer interrupt capturing PvP flags and bases.
  
• Pyroclasm: This talent now works correctly again with Rain of Fire.
  
• Ritual of Summoning can be used to summon players into instances if they meet the instance requirements.
  
• Sense Demon now persists after death.
  
• Shadow Ward: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  

• Cleave: This ability will no longer strike any secondary target which is under the effect of crowd-control spells that break on taking damage. i.e. Polymorph, Sap, etc.
  
• Endless Rage will now give the correct amount of rage as intended from damage dealt by a Warrior.
  
• Improved Hamstring (Arms) effect is now subject to diminishing returns when used in PvP.
  
• Stances: It is no longer possible to accidentally change into a stance you are already in via macros (resulting in a global cooldown and loss of rage).
  
• Whirlwind: Critical strikes with the off-hand weapon from this ability can now trigger Flurry and Rampage.
  
• Flurry will properly refresh if a crit occurs with 1 charge left.
  

• Diminishing returns on honor for kills is being eliminated.
  
• Honor will now be instantly calculated, and available for player use.
  
• Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will be worth no honor.
  
• Added new PvP daily quests that send players to Halaa and the Spirit Towers of the Bone Wastes. These quests are available for Alliance and Horde at their respective local quest hubs.
  
  
• Arenas
  
  
  
  • Personal Rating: The amount a player’s personal rating can climb above his or her team’s rating is now limited.
    
  • The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed while in the Arena. It will now take four seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.
    
  • Queue times for arena matches have been reduced. Players will now be able to enter matches faster than previously.
    
  • Shadow Sight now increases damage taken by 5% rather than dealing damage over time. Duration has been reduced from 21 seconds to 15 seconds.
    
  • Players feared outside of the Arena (through the world or outside the arena walls) will now be teleported back to the center of the arena map.
    
  
  
• Battlegrounds
  
  
  
  • If a player dies 50 times or more in a battleground, they will no longer be worth honor for the remainder of that battle.
    
  • When you first enter a battleground, messages about other players joining the battleground will be linked together for the first minute. You will see a message in AV like “28 players joined” rather than a line for each player that joined. After the first minute, it will work as it always has. In addition, all of the messages about other players leaving the battleground and getting marks of honor once the battleground is complete have been removed.
    
  • Battleground Rune Buffs:Speed, Restoration, and Berserking buffs received from battleground runes will no longer cause Stealth or Prowl to break.
    
    
  • Alterac Valley
    
    
    
    • Captain Balinda Stonehearth Stonehearth can no longer be interrupted, silenced, or have her spells slowed. In addition, her water elemental cannot be banished, and does increased damage.
      
    • Vanndar Stormpike and Captain Balinda Stonehearth have had their health totals reduced to match the health totals of Drek’Thar and Captain Galvangar...
      
    • Warmasters/marshals in Alterac Valley now increase each other’s maximum health and damage by 25%. This is a stacking effect.
      
    • Horde players will now start the battle closer to Drek’Thar and Frostwolf Keep.
      
    • There is now a Join as Party option.
      
    
    
  • Warsong Gulch
    
    
    
    • When both flags are held, the flag carriers will receive 50% increased damage done to them after approximately 10 minutes and 100% increased damage after approximately 15 minutes.
      
    • Flag carriers can now be tracked 45 seconds after picking up the flag.
      
    
    
  
  

Re: Patch 2.4 - Fury of the Sunwell is live!
posted 2008-03-25 11:49:24 (CST-1), discovered 2008-03-25 14:14:49 (CST), 20.0 months old

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• Players will now be able to purchase level 70 Superior quality PvP items from reputation vendors.
  
• Avatar Regalia: The two-piece bonus from this set will now be consumed by Vampiric Embrace as intended.
  
• Bloody Brass Knuckles, Eerie Stable Lantern, Baelog's Shortbow, and Snakeskin Bag have been upgraded to Superior items.
  
• Blue Suede Shoes can now be disenchanted.
  
• Crystalforge Raiment: The two-piece set bonus will now work properly. Additionally, the four piece bonus will now only work on the next Holy Light cast, as intended.
  
• Cyclone Regalia: Trade skills will no longer consume the Energized effect.
  
• Darkmoon Card: Madness: The buffs from this item will no longer interrupt casting and channeling.
  
• Deadman's Hand: This item's effect now works while the victim is sitting. In addition, its effect is now properly considered a root for purposes of being dispelled or removed.
  
• Deathwing Brood Cloak: These cloaks are now bound on equip instead of bound on pickup.
  
• Druid Balance PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Wrath and Starfire.
  
• Druid Restoration PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Regrowth.
  
• Discombobulator Ray: This item will again not work on mounted players.
  
• Frostfire Regalia: The resistance bonus from this set now works with the Burning Crusade ranks of Mage Armor.
  
• Gladiator's Leather Gloves: This arena bonus will now properly school lock enemies when the damage from Deadly Throw causes them to stop channeling.
  
• The Gladiator’s Thunderfist 4 piece set bonus has been reduced from 70% to 50%.
  
• Gnomish Mind Control Cap: Victims of the Gnomish Mind Control Cap will no longer get Forbearance when the mind control is terminated due to Blessing of Protection.
  
• Gnomish Poultryizer: This item will again not work on mounted players.
  
• Goblin Rocket Launcher: Creatures will no longer gain health while affected by the Stun from this item.
  
• Heavy Netherweave Bandage: It is no longer possible to have two players bandage the same target simultaneously using this item.
  
• Netherweave Bandage: It is no longer possible to have two players bandage the same target simultaneously using this item.
  
• Idol of the Crescent Goddess: The mana discount on Regrowth has been increased.
  
• Idol of Feral Shadows: The bonus damage to Rip has been increased.
  
• Idol of the Raven Goddess: The bonus healing, critical strike rating, and spell critical strike rating from this item have been increased. In addition, it no longer sometimes fails to apply the healing bonus.
  
• Idol of the Unseen Moon: The cooldown added in a previous patch has been removed.
  
• Idol of Ursoc: The bonus damage to Lacerate has been increased and the tooltip clarified to indicate it applies to both initial and periodic damage.
  
• Idol of the White Stag: Duration increased.
  
• Items intended for Retribution Paladins have had their stats adjusted. Retribution Paladins should see an increase in dps as a result.
  
• Jade Pendant of Blasting: This item no longer increases physical damage dealt.
  
• Justicar Raiment: The 2 piece bonus will now always give the correct amount of bonus healing to the Judgement Light effect.
  
• Libram of Absolute Truth: The Holy Light mana discount has been increased.
  
• Libram of Divine Purpose: The bonus damage on Seal and Judgment of Righteousness has been increased.
  
• Libram of Mending: The mana regeneration buff has had its duration increased. The name of the buff granted by this item changed to Grace of the Naaru to avoid having the same name as the Light’s Grace talent.
  
• Libram of Righteous Power: The bonus damage for Crusader Strike has been increased.
  
• Libram of Souls Redeemed: The bonus for Flash of Light has been decreased and the bonus for Holy Light has been increased.
  
• Libram of Wracking: This item now increases the damage on Holy Wrath and Exorcism instead of decreasing their mana cost.
  
• Nether Vortex are no longer Bind on Pickup and can now be purchased from G’eras for 15 Badges of Justice!
  
• Masquerade Gown: The spirit bonus from this item will now properly trigger all benefits from the Tree of Life talent.
  
• Mojo: A pvp-flagged player can no longer kiss Mojo and cause non-flagged players to become flagged.
  
• Moongraze Stag Tenderloin can now be consumed by hunter pets that eat meat.
  
• Noggenfogger Elixir: It is no longer possible using this item to keep the Old Hillsbrad human illusion outside of the instance.
  
• Paladin Healer Gladiator Sets: The set bonus changing Hammer of Justice cooldown has been changed to a set bonus increasing the amount healed by Holy Shock.
  
• Pendant of the Violet Eye: Paladin Judgment spells will again properly trigger this item.
  
• Players can now only carry 80 Conjured Manna Biscuits at a time.
  
• Primal Nether are no longer Bind on Pickup!
  
• PvP Relics: The bonus resilience from Idols, Librams, and Totems is no longer stackable by swapping between multiple relics.
  
• Resilience has been added to all Retribution Paladin PvP gear.
  
• Added Shattrath Flask of Pure Death and Shattrath Flask of Blinding Light to the reputation flask vendors in Shattrath.
  
• Shaman Elemental PvP Sets: The resistance on Lightning Bolt spell pushback has been reduced to 50%.
  
• Shaman PvP Boots: The pre-Burning Crusade bonus to increase Ghost Wolf speed no longer works for players over level 60.
  
• Shattrath Flasks now work inside the Sunwell Plateau raid instance.
  
• Skull of Gul’dan: This item now shares its cooldown with other similar trinkets.
  
• Steam Tonk Controller: This item can no longer trigger the Warrior talent Second Wind when it is driven out of range by the Warrior.
  
• The On Use effect has been properly changed to passive for the following items: Blue Overalls, Brantwood Sash, Firewalker Boots, Gloves of Kapelan, Hellion Boots, Hibernal Gloves, Hibernal Pants, Kimbra Boots, Mistscape Gloves, Nightsky Trousers, Sacred Burial Trousers, Turquoise Sash, and Woolen Boots, Spinesever.
  
• Tome of the Lightbringer: The block value and buff duration have been increased.
  
• Totem of the Pulsing Earth: The mana discount for Lightning Bolt has been increased slightly.
  
• Vengeful Gladiator’s Waraxe: The weapon delay has been reduced.
  
• Weightstones and Sharpening Stones: The bonus damage from these temporary enchantments now works while shapeshifted.
  
• Winterfall Firewater: The tooltip no longer specifies only melee attack power.
  

posted 2008-01-25 21:15:16 (CST-1)

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	Tauren		Night Elves
Str	81		75
Agi	65		75
Sta	85		82
Int	115		120
Spi	135		133

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Maximizing Your Moonkin
posted 2007-10-08 18:50:23 (CST-1), discovered 2008-01-25 21:15:16 (CST), 21.9 months old

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posted 2007-11-13 23:24:43 (CST-1), discovered 2007-11-19 18:02:16 (CST), 24.1 months old

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