Christmas Morning in Iron Forge!!

For those of you who are busy with your families on this holiday morning, here is what you missed in Iron Forge!!!

 

 

What a crowd waiting for presents!!
 
Merry Christmas from Zxandria and Sanshea!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2013!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT PLATINUM SANCTUM!

Wonder if we will ever know!

The secret service might be in your guild!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520799/American-British-spies-posed-orcs-elves-World-Warcraft-infiltrate-terror-cells-according-new-NSA-revelations.html

I must share this with my guildies!

My very favorite Christmas show from the 80's.  Opus and Bill the Cat.  There is incredible meaning to this piece!!

Go here for "A Wish for Wings that Work":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLccxrDgi5U

(I know it isn't WOW related but it is character building!!!!)

There is a patch on Tuesday!  5.4.2  read the patch notes here:  http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/11874104/542_PTR_Patch_Notes_-_December_5-12_5_2013

Cross Realm BOA mail, YEAH!!

An important video message from your guild master!

Very Important message from the guild master!

Platinum Sanctum's 2 Year Anniversary!

 (And Sisters)

Its been 2 years already?!  I will keep it short,  Thanks to all you great people for making this guild one of the best communities I've ever been apart of!  Here's to many more years!



-Wayne

Special Thanksgiving Proclamation!

Greatings Guildies and anyone who runs across this posting!

I would like to take this time to wish everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving day!  And to our Canadian Brethren, Happy belated Thanksgiving day! 

It has been a nice couple of months, we've seen growth in our little guild that has been exceeding my expectations!  I want our guild to be a home to anyone that wants to do things differently, and not be afraid to walk on eggshells for any reason.  We pride ourselves on communication and I feel that the welcoming hand that we have been exhibiting has made all the difference in the world. 

Our goal should always be to teach, help up, and provide a community to those that wish to seek out their niche in the game we enjoy.  Sure, we will not always agree on everything, but at the end of the day we will not leave our friends hanging.  As you know my door is always open and any suggestions that you have will be met with consideration and enthusiasm!  There are some plans in the works that I hope will be taking shape soon, and I can't wait to announce them, but until then, enjoy your holiday, and each others company, because that's what being in a guild is all about!!

-Wayne, Guild Master to the best group of people on WoW, Platinum Sanctum!

YES!

This is how I always pictured it!!

Another tanking video on first boss flex 1 SoO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqlCP1Nhguw

Video i told wayne i would do for him.. if don't like the music mute it c:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD0fRxmcOfE&feature=youtu.be

Light orb order for Norushen fight

This is the order for the purification orbs for the flexi raid.

G1 = Pakku & Oni
G2 = Jjinx & Forsakened
G3 = Tails and Disco
G4 = Jessie & Karlee

After this rotation we will start to purify dps in a rotating 30 second loop. Meaning every 30 a new dps will step in to an orb.
- Tynee
- Zcloth
- unsigned up player
- unsigned up player.

Thanks, and watch the norushen and sha of pride flexi guides on you tube please.

Blizzard Trademarks "Warlords Of Draenor"

It's being reported by multiple sources that Blizzard has trademarked the name Warlords of Draenor.

It should be noted that Blizzard has also supposedly trademarked the names "The Dark Below"  and even "Corgis Unleashed"  in the last few months. 

What does this mean?  I will tell you next week after things are officially announced at Blizzcon, right now its up in the air what any of this really means.

-Wayne

Oni's Thoughts Vol. 1

Whats Up P.S. Raiders!

    Oni here, to share some thoughts with you all random and what not.

So yeah, I would like to drop some information about how to approach a raid and while within it how I think and use my thought processes.

1) Approaching a raid -
     - First spend a few ( 5-10) minutes pre-thinking the boss fights you are going to encounter.  consider past positioning and tactics and how you can go about using more efficient movements and angles to allow you to have greater time on target. remember movement drops most dps classes dps in most cases. So if you perform pre-planning, while I am talking endlessly at the start of a boss fight, you might be able to work out simplifying your movements and spending more time on target.

   - Second, take time to consider your current raid composition. Meaning, What classes are tanking and healing first off. not every tank will perform at the same level in every encounter and the same with the healers. For instance, currently we are flexi raiding with a Monk and Paladin tank. understand that the paladin has 1 primary raid cool down to save your ass, however the Monk will have 2, ( if glyphed). The primary difference being the monks will assist throughout the encounter with an absorption shield and the paladin will last a few moments every so often. Consider the full meaning of this when your planning you positioning.
        Consider your healing composition - Currently in flexi we have a Monk Healer ( Go Oni FTW!) and 1-2 Druids ( Tails and Jessie are both bosses). we all share 1 thing in common we are Hot Healers! So your health must be more closely monitored by YOU! use defensive cool downs when you feel worried. But we got ya so no worries :D.
       Finally consider the dps comp. How many melee/ranged? remember you need to give as much as you take. So position yourself in a manner the gives you both the best. " A Spartan soldier watches the man to his left, covering them with his shield from thigh to neck." lets face it they won a crap ton of encounters watching over one another. BTW that's how a Phalanx works!

2) So now lets consider the within fight.  Now your in it, WTF is going on. Remember, everything within a fight is pre-programmed to occur at specific time intervals. So don't stress it. make frequent references to you boss timers and feel the rhythm of the fight. There aren't any surprises. Deal with only what you need to at the times you need to an be ready for the next thing. Just a bit of practice and farming a boss becomes a simple thing.

Final thought.
  - I am often asked how I do what I do within a raid. The answer to that is simple and complicated. I really just go with what my hands do and don't fight my natural responses.  I developed this from years of play. I don't look at a Boss or trash or a croc on the river any different. they all have a mechanic and killing them efficiently is no different to me. If you want to do well for whatever reason you need to follow the Lombardi method - " Only perfect practice makes Perfect performance." - Vince Lombardi. This is applicable in all situations within everything in life and WoW.

   It is my profound hope that these thoughts help you in someway to increase your performance and help grant you the pleasure of hearing your friends and WoW community honor your play.

                                                                                         Thanks for reading-
                                                                                         Onikidaki, Raid Leader of Platinum Sanctum

SoO Flex 1 (continued)

Sha of Pride

I find this to be one of the easier fights of this flex and it's also the last.  after clearing the room all dps and heals should be standing in the back of the room between the ax and the writing on the floor.  Stacking will help with the AoE damage from the fight (Swelling Pride) and because of "Gift of the Titans".  With Gift of the Titans your person will grow in size. Be stacked with the other people who as well got the gift.  Doing so will give you a buff called "Pride of the Titans" It increases haste. HEALERS with Pride of the Titans must dispel those with the debuff where you will not gain any pride doing so with the buff.  It is the only time healers should dispel that (Mark of Arrogance).

Pride

Pride is the purple bar on your screen that will slowly fills up by the moves of the boss. Some of the bosses moves will effect what goes on in the raid from how much pride you have. Bursting pride, Projection, Aura of Pride, and Overcome.  I suggest you read them in your dungeon journal.

There are 3 different parts where there shouldn't be stacking in flex.  (does change in normal) When he first uses Self-Reflection. Once you see the purple spots on the ground move, if not when they get there they will hurt. When they are up burn them down with AoE as fast as you can.  The second tank should be picking them up and trying to get them all stacked up near / on the boss.  The second part is Corrupted Prison, in flex the person in the prison will always be to the left of the way you're standing (tanks too). There should be 2 people running on the orange lights to the left and standing on them until the person is free.  Tanks should be as well too where the tanks will be having the Sha's back to the raid. Two people will get send in the prison at those spots.  The third time is when bursting pride comes out.  This does from having 25 - 49 pride when the Sha uses Swelling Pride.  So keep a eye on your DBM timer and when you see Swelling Pride is about to be cast and you have 25-49 pride, get read to run out of it as soon as Swelling Pride happens.

Last thing is the add that will spawn behind the raid.  It's a bigger and and can be gripped or druid can use their solar beam on it's location and it will run in.  It must be interrupted and burned down fast.  Can not be ignored.

To add to this, the prison likes to happen at the same time as Gift of the Titans so it can slow down that.  The prison also damages the player that's inside of it so it's a must to get them out asap.

There for, this is the last fight of SoO Flex one, good luck on the drops and enjoy your killing time! :D

SoO Flex 1 (continued)

SoO Flex 1 (continued)

Norushen


Well in my view this fight is more about the adds. The adds are number 1 priority. Once you enter the room and go down the stairs, you'll see a catwalk type deal.  Right there is where All dps and heals will stack as long with the off tank.  The main tank will be on the other side facing the sha away from the raid.  It is best to stack because he does a raid wide damage that gets stronger the lower on health he gets (icy fear).  He will also do a move called "Blind Hatred" which is a big beam that will spin around the room.  It is random on what way it goes, so watch for it and don't get hit from it (run around boss not through it as the beam starts at the center of the boss).  At 85% health and dropping by the 10s he will spawn adds.  some small and some big.


Manifestation of Corruption (big add)

The tank that is not on the boss should be picking them up and bringing them near the raid group.  The raid group should then be burning this add down.  Tank must try not to face them to the raid group where the have a cone damage effect (burst of anger).  Once it dies the tank should pick up the purple orb it drops by simply standing on it.  If the tanks bar is already full someone, anyone, in the raid group should be doing so ASAP where it it does another raid wide damage at 90,000 damage per second.  Picking up the orb also gives 25 corruption (25% of your bar).

Essence of Corruption (small add)

Will be spawning around the room and they don't move unless they're gripped.  They drop fast and easy and is a must to take out ASAP too.  They shoot a ball that goes to the boss, if it hits him it makes him do more damage to the tanks and the tanks will drop fast.  I find it best to have a melee stand in front of it and burn it down.  When the ball hits the melee (or anyone) it will damage them.

The adds and the sha does share health so killing the adds is a must you will do more damage to them at the start then to the boss. This is only just the start of the fight though.  Where the heals and dps should be stacking to the left and to the right there will be 2 yellow orbs that spawns.  When you click the orb it will phase you out and will be in a little part on your own. This part is a must, sorry for those who doesn't like it.  Once inside there will be a few things to do. It differs on the role you are playing.

DPS-

Simply just burn down the adds.  Start with the big one that slams the ground in front you you and avoid getting hit by the slam.  Once he is dead will be 3 smaller ones.  They will have a shield in front of them so all damage must be done to their backs.  They do stand still for a couple of seconds to give you the time you need.  By doing this it will bring down your bar and will up all dps you do to the boss.

Tanks-

There is 2 ways you can do yours. First simply live for 60 seconds.  To do so you have to interrupt.  There is one spell that will kill you one hit if you do not. Other than that Avoid all of the bads and where you are standing.  Second, you can just kill it. Killing the add will let you out of the room early. Doing so will bring down your bar and make it where you take less damage.

Healers-

When you go in it's basically a healfest.  Heal up Sun, He, and Rook (the fallen protectors) and dispel you are needed.  Having DBM will help you a lot this fight. Doing so will take down your bar and make you do more healing. (Avoid standing in front of the add and don't stand in bads)


The people who enters the other realm first will be decided by the raid lead at the time.  It's normally your highest healer and dps first then tanks if they are struggling.  It mostly matters on how the raid is doing we may have to send in a tank first, It all matters on the team / raid.

Tanking it there will be a taunt switch.  The second tank will want to move in front right after he does the cast for the stack onto the tank and taunt the boss as the other tank should run around (never, ever, through the center where the beam can come out at any giving point) and start with the adds and orbs.  The second tank should of already phased out and lost his bar by then.

Keep repeating this and burn down adds then the boss and he will die.  Congrats when you do! :D

SoO Flex (wing 1 continued)

The fallen Protectors-


This fight is split up with 3 different bosses. He Softfoot (called out as he), Sun Tenderheart (called out as sun), and Rook Stonetoe (called out as rook) below I will put it in the order they should go down.


FIRST-

Rook Stonetoe -

Rook stonetoe will have to be burned down to 66% first. Once he is at 66%  he will send out 3 adds. By the name of Embodied Sorrow, Embodied Misery, and Embodied Gloom.  Each add has their own ability.

Misery places a AoE down that should be avoided at all times

 Sorrow selects a random player in the raid and places a DoT on them that can take less damage if stacked on.  So stack on this player, to know if they have it on them there will be a orange'ish / red circle under this player.

Gloom does a AoE that can be interrupted and should be picked up by the off tank, and I feel that it is best to have melee (2 or 3) burn him down first while interrupting.

Ranged should burn down Sorrow first to reduce the raid damage and then quickly turn around and take out misery. Once gloom is dead, mdps should run to misery and help too but avoid the ground effects.

Rook also has a move called Corrupted Brew, it's pretty much a keg smash.  He will toss a keg that does 100k damage to all who are near it.  To avoid this you will see a light blue fog that is around the person it is being tossed out, move out of the fog and if you were in a stacking position move back after.

Tanks should always have Rook facing away from the group because of his fist attack that stuns. It is a cone effect.


Second-

He Softfoot-

He from what I know of so far, is pretty much a tank and spank. Only thing tanks have to watch for is he gouge. It selects a player and goes after them, taunt him ASAP to break that.  If you happen to get the gouge on you, just kite him. Once he is at 66% he will send out a add too.

Embodied Anguish he will toss a a debuff on you that will make him only attack you.  will select a random player at first. It's okay to take 1 your 2 stacks from him as dps or heals, but after that toss it on a tank ASAP. To do so you will get a special action key that should pop up near the middle, if you don't see it may be best to make a macro for it. To know this is on you, you will be rooted and will not be able to move. So tanks please try to stand near each other for this. But keep Rook facing AWAY from the raid.

/cast Mark of Anguish


Third-

Sun Tenderheart-

Pretty much another tank and spank. She will have 1 aoe that can be interrupted but just simply burn her down to 66%. Once at 66% she will form a bubble, stack inside of this. The tank with Rook should stand inside too but get rook in the bubble but facing away from the raid. Only person to stand in front of rook still should be the tank, so dps and heals watch your standing.  Once inside the bubble there will be a bunch of adds inside and out. Rdps get the adds outside mdps get the adds inside.  It is okay to AoE at this point but still will be faster to single target smashing them where they don't have much health.



After all of that is done you do the same thing once again in the same exact order. The fight will be the same and all of it will happen at 33% this time around. After that is done, burn them down and once all 3 of them are down stack them up and do some split damage (single and AoE) watch the health of them though, they all must drop around the same time, with in 15 seconds after the first one falls. ALL must die around the same time! (best time to use hero)

Immerseus

Disco's  Seige of Orgrimmar Tips
(Flex wing 1)


Immerseus

Well to start off with the room Immerseus is in, it's a circular room with water running between platforms.  It is best to spread out around Immerseus with the tanks on the opposite side of each other.  Where tanks, dps, and healers stand. Will be set up differently due to the amount of people you have in the raid.

Immerseus has 2 health bars / phases. The green bar on top is the health for the first phase. The purple bar is his main health which goes down from the second phase. Once that first bar is down he will split into many different puddles (slimes / oozes) and will get more into that later. Once all of the puddles go back to the center and he forms up again there will be a huge raid damage. Here will be a good idea to use self cool down and raid def. cool downs.


Phase 1
 There will be pools that will spawn under you every 5 - 10 seconds.  Do not stand in them.  There will also be some moving pools, a blue color. It is alright to get hit by them but try to avoid them.  Once the blue pools stop or hits a player they will change into a Seeping Sha pool. it will look like a sha colored pool that moves as well. If you get hit by that pool it will send you flying and does 100k damage. They can stack on each other and be close to each other where you can take a really high amount of damage. So those ones, you want to try to avoid the best you can!  (it's why a lot of  people randomly gets 1 shot)

Immerseus will also have a move called "Swirl" What that is pretty much is a big tidal wave that goes around the room once. There is no need to run around the room trying to avoid it. The best way to do this is face the wave and run straight into it when it's near you. DO NOT leave your platform to run into it lol :P  SURFS UP

Last thing he does is "Corrosive Blast". This is something the tanks mostly need to watch and worry about. The tanks will be switching off between them. It's a cone damage and which is best for tanks to be on opposite sides and to be on their own platform.

Phase 2
This is the main phase to worry about and happens really fast. Once you take down the green hp bar he will split. if you look up and turn around you will see where the puddles are about to hit.  It is best to run to those spots and be ready.  There will be 2 different color puddles, a light blue and a black.

Black-
These ones needs to be dps down ASAP and you must stack on them when they die. As they die they will give you a dps buff that stacks.  They can also be slowed, stunned, gripped.  Before they fall it would be best to set a frost trap to slow them, ring of frost, ect ect.. As a deathknight it's also really good to pull one back if you can, when seeing them about to get in the center.  They die really fast, so worry about dpsing them more then slowing / stunning them.

Blue-
The blue puddles requires healing, need to get them up ASAP too. Just like the black ones, stack on them while healing or be close as you can (stand in front and let them run into you).   If you are a DPS with a heal, don't be scared to help the healers heal them up.  Mostly near the end, will be more blue than black.  As a side note, the blue puddles DO take damage when other puddles reaches the center and will lose health.  You do not want that to happen so just try to heal them up as fast as you can (full healed ones will take no damage).

It is alright to run around to get the other puddles, just be off the tanks platform and near the heals once they start to reach the boss.
After that is finished he will go back into phase 1 but but with less health.  His health goes down with as many puddles you got rid of and fully healed (max of 20% each split). His main health is the purple bar where mana / energy would normally be.  Repeat the phases 5, 6 times at most and he will be dead.


Melee DPS & Tanks

It's best to stand close to the boss but try to stay out of the water that the boss is in.  Try to have a melee on their own platform and move left to right or right to left around the boss.  If you fill up the front row move back a little and do again.  Avoid pools around you from other melee and from behind from range.  Once he splits all of the pools will move in and they still do damage.  So avoid the pools coming at you from the range! As a off note, it is safe to stand in the water between the platforms.  but really shouldn't do so because will be getting too close to another platform that may be a tanks.

Range DPS & Heals

It is best to stand in the back and move down as each pool spawns under you.  But be nice to your melee friends and give them room to move up if needed.  If start to get close move to the left or right and start to move back up.  Just like melee dps, when he splits, move away from all of the pools behind you because they do damage still!

Openraid event for charity!

Link to OpenRaid with information here!

This is a charity event that is being hosted by twitter personality ShaOfHappiness, it is for Ablegamers, below is the FAQ about the organization.

Q. What is the AbleGamers?
A. The AbleGamers Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity organization that empowers children, adults and veterans with disabilities through the power of videogames. AbleGamers holds the largest community for gamers with disabilities found anywhere in the world.

Q. How did AbleGamers get started?
A. AbleGamers was founded in 2005 by Mark Barlet and Stephanie Walker to enable gamers with disabilities to continue playing games for recreation and rehabilitation regardless of their physical challenges. AbleGamers became an official IRS recognized charity in 2009.
For the full story on how AbleGamers got started please visit our press FAQ [include this once we get that up]

Q. How does AbleGamers help the disability community?
A. AbleGamers proves expert reviews and information on video games and assistive technology aimed at helping individuals with disabilities make educated purchases. This includes keeping an up to date database of videogame titles reviewed specifically to assess the accessibility of each title.

Q. How does AbleGamers make videogames more accessible?
A. AbleGamers advocates to developers and videogame publishers on the best practices to make games as accessible as possible. AbleGamers developed a 50-page living document to assist developers in the process called Includification.

Q. What is Includification?
A. Includification is in accessibility movement and an answer to developers who recognize the importance of accessibility but need guidance. The award-winning game accessibility guidelines showcase best practices for developers to create video games that are as accessible as possible. Using a three-tiered system of good, better and best, Includification describes the most common problems faced in videogames by those with disabilities and how to make sure everyone can access their game.

Q. Do you take donations?
A. Absolutely. AbleGamers continually receives critical acclaim from the efforts of its all-volunteer staff, but we’ve only been able to get this far thanks to the generosity of people like you. To give the gift of a better quality of life, please visit our donation page. [link]

Q. How much of my money goes directly to disabled gamers?
A. We have one of the best ratios for charities with $0.92 of every dollar going directly to AbleGamers related projects.

Q. Can I donate in honor of our memory of someone?
A. Absolutely!

Q. Can I give to a specific program or to help fund a specific grant?
A. Absolutely. Just specify what area you would like your donations to go to (awareness raising, grants, research and development or specific project).

Q. I can’t afford a monetary donation. Are there other ways to help?
A. You bet. First, you can shop on Amazon through this link. Part of the proceeds will go to the AbleGamers foundation at no additional cost to you. Second, we’re always looking for volunteers to submit content, do game reviews and help set up fundraisers.

Q. I’m a streamer and I’d like to help the foundation. Do you guys support streaming?
A. Yes, we love streamers. If you want to be part of the AbleGamers stream team or you just want to put a link to the foundation or add a widget to collect donations why you stream, email streams@AbleGamers.com [is this the right address?]

Q. Will you be doing a round of grants soon?
A. Hopefully. We do grants as often as funding allows. If you’re in need of assistive technology and need assistance purchasing the items, keep an eye out for grants.

Q. I’m a writer/editor/reporter/blogger and I would like to write about the foundation. Do you do interviews or have a press kit?
A. Absolutely, we love to do interviews. Part of why the foundation exists is to raise awareness for gamers with disabilities. If you would like to speak to Mark Barlet, Steve Spohn or any of our staff members, please email press@AbleGamers.com.

Q. I don’t see XXXX game. How long until it will be reviewed?
A. We review games as quickly as we can. We often have to wait for review copies to be available and a reviewer to get free time to do so. If you would like to help do reviews or if you are a disabled gamer who needs a particular game reviewed, send an email to press@AbleGamers.com.

If you would like to participate in this, please feel free to sign up for OpenRaid with the toon you wish to play with.  If you cannot make it but would still like to help, please donate to the pot for this worthy cause at http://imraising.com/i-hearth-you/, I know my guildies will help out in any way they can, and hopefully I will be able to also participate in this as long as nothing earth shattering comes up.  Thank you guys for helping out I'm sure the organizers and AbleGamers will greatly appreciate the effort!

-Wayne

Feral Druid - Disco's Ways

Well I did sent this to Patty first to help her out with her druid because she was struggling with it.. Please remember this is how I play my druid, that I am not telling you this is how it should be or this is how it's best. To get a class at the best is how YOU set it up and get use to it. This is just a little guide on how I built mine and what I do.


A Feral druid dps is all about speed of your rotation. Need to be quick at what you're doing and by that is having a good rotation to where YOURSELF is most comfortable doing so. I personally don't use any macro's or add-ons for me feral druid where I like to push and challenge myself on Cowabunaa. I don't want to rely on any add on to help me out and not really how to understand and play the class myself. But here you go c:

Talents

Teir 1 -  Feline Swiftness

The reason why I picked this one is for the speed boost mostly on the fights when you have a lot of moving around and can move faster to get behind adds if needed. Yes,  Wild Charge is good for it but in fights where there may be a few adds around can use once then will have to wait on the cd. Waiting on the cd takes too long for me i just run to the other add and saves time in the long run. Plus it's also a passive ability so less clicking is always nice!


Tier 2 - Ysera's Gift

Yet again it's a passive so less clicking / work on your end and it is great on heals! on yourself and part / raid members. It's all around a great talent to have over the other two c:

Tier 3- Soul of the Forest

A lot of people say Incarnation is better but I tend to be different and disagree with what others say. It matters on the player and how you have it set up. For me I find it harder to get focus back and yet again another passive talent so helps me a lot with less clicking XD

Tier 4 - Mighty Bash

For this one it's really up to you. I pick mighty bash because it's also a stun and will stop any casting when they're stunned and gives me time to move behind them and hit them up a bunch with my Shred spell


Tier 5 - Heart of the Wild

this is the biggest change i took in my druid.. I did have it as Dream of Cenarius but i find that too much work and clicking to keep the heal for the buff and i was right! With Heart of the wild it gives you a buff that stays on you at all times and when you use pop out of cat form and use your Moon Fire spell and then spam Wrath on the target but keep the Moon Fire spell up. if 4 or more targets use your Hurricane spell for AoE damage. If you get low on health switch to bear form and use Thrash / swipe and will also keep you alive. Be sure to use Might of Ursoc to enter the form though! will get into that more on the rotation.


Glyph's-

Glyph of Cat Form

Because of Ysera's Gift talent it will help you survive a lot! also will help healers keep you up too!

Glyph of Shed
Makes it where you don't have to be be behind a target to use while Tigers Fury or Berserk is active. Helps a lot mostly when on the fights you cant get behind your target will give a big dps boost.

Glyph of Savagery

Makes it where you don't need combo points to use and a BIG help on opening spells and your AoE (Keep savage roar up at all times)



Rotation as Humanoid
When out of cat form i tend to keep it as

1.) Rejuvenation (for a quick HoT)

2.) Cat Form (so i can just quickly hit 1 then 2 to hop back into cat form)

3.) Bear Form (to quickly switch into bear if taking heavy damage / have too many on you. Doing so with Heart of the Wild will also help you survive if you are taking heavy damage)

4.) Tranquility (for quick raid heals / party heals. If raid is taking heavy damage or party use Heart of the Wild talent first then castTranquility for a healing boost)

5.) Moonfire (for when Heart of the Wild is active cast and keep the DoT on the main target)

6.) Wrath (spam this while Heart of the Wild is still active and only stop to refresh your Moonfire DoT

7.) Hurricane (yet again only when Heart of the Wild is active and when there is 5+ targets, but yet try to keep Moonfire DoT on your main target if there is one.

8.)Healing Touch (as a heal for yourself or party member that really needs a heal is a long cast so do so only if needed and try to use with Heart of the Wild so it don't drain your mana.

The others will be all up to you I only have 1 - 8


Rotation as Cat Form

(Step 1)

Start off with Savage Roar for the buff (keep the buff on at all times) I have Savage Roar set as number 4 on my rotation.

1.) Rake (keep the bleed effect on your target at all times)

2.) Shred (must be behind your target if cant be behind use number 3)

3.) Mangle (only use if you can not get behind your target)

After you do Shred or Mangle a couple of times and us under 40% focus this is when I use Tiger's Fury ( number 9 on my action bar) to restore your focus and make your next to moves do more damage.

AFTER using Tiger's Fury use Shred (2) until you have 5 COMBO POINTS. When you have the 5 combo points use Rip (number 5 on my action bar)

4.) Savage Roar

5.) Rip (only with 5 combo points)

(Step 2)

After you apply your Rip DoT, Refresh your Rake (1)

Once your Rake DoT is on your target

7.) Thrash (yes, THRASH because as your Mastery doing more bleed damage per DoT will up your dps and all apply a debuff to your target where they don't hit as hard with melee attacks. IT ALSO GIVES YOUR RIP THAT EXTRA FEW SECONDS TO REFRESH BECAUSETHRASH DOES NOT GIVE A COMBO POINT. This is where a lot of druid mess up not letting their DoT do their ticks and they lose a lot of damage.

After you apply Rake and Thrash DoT / Debuff

Spam your Shred if you're behind your target if not Mangle until you get 5 combo points (should only be 2 or 3 hits). Once you have 5 Combo points use Savage Roar (5) to gets it full buff and timer.

By time you do that your Tiger's Fury should be ready. Use Tiger's Fury and Berserk (number 0 for me) Berserk second time around because you have the full effects of your Savage Roar for the extra dps boost (also try to do this when a bloodlust / hero / time warp is used for the most dps out of if) 

Once you use Tiger's Fury and Berserk refresh your Rake (1) and Thrash (7) DoT's Then spam Shred (this is where glyph of shred comes in handy because can use it while standing anywhere close enough to your target). Once you get your 5 Combo points refresh your Rip (5)

After you refresh your Rip continue to spam Shred until Berserk is over with. Once Berserk is done, Refresh your Rake (1). By time that is done you should yet have another 5 Combo points. Refresh your Savage Roar (4) and the start of that Savage Roar  IS THE START OF STEP 1. Follow step one and work your way down to step 2 again only thing different will be Berserk will only be ready every other Steps. 

At 25% HEALTH AND UNDER replace all RIP (5) with FEROCIOUS BITE (number 6 for me) to refresh RIP (5). Yet again, only use with 5 combo points.

AoE

Keep Savage Roar up at all times use your Thrash and spam Swipe (number 8 for me) can also heart of the wild and hurricane.

Recap on rotation

1.) Rake

2.) Shred

3.) Mangle

4.) Savage Roar

5.) Rip

6.) Ferocious Bite

7.) Thrash

8.) Swipe

9.) Tiger's Fury

0.) Berserk

-.) Healing touch (only use when Omen of Clarity proc's and can cast while in cat form and only when i need healing, if not this will slow you down. you get the clarity after spending 5 Combo Points.

=.) Skull Bash (interrupt)

OTHER SPELLS THAT SHOULD BE USED

1.) Faerie Fire (for debuff) no need if someone else is casting in raid group. Warriors have a debuff just like it.

2.) Survival Instincts (when taking heavy damage) def cd

3.) Bark skin (help with damage that's being taking) def cd 

4.) Symbiosis (use on a class your choice i tend to use on pally healers or shammies for their benefit)

5.) Heart of the Wild

6.) Might of Ursoc (when taking heavy damage but remember you will get a lot of agro so only use on a lot of targets, try not to pull bosses)

7.) Dash and Roar (speed boost)

8.) Rebirth (battle rez)

9.) Bash

any other spells / pots you feel is needed.. Remember you have to set it up where you're most comfortable.

Bear Rotation

Well only time you will really be going into bear is when you're taking a lot of damage or if tank dies and trying to save the group. ALWAYS BATTLE REZ TANK BEFORE DOING THAT. ALWAYS ENTER BEAR FORM BY MIGHT OF URSOC if you're taking a lot of damage.

1.) Thrash (for quick DoT and pick up)

2.) Swipe (only if have more than one target, but if in bear form on feral i am assuming you would)

3.) Mangle

4.) Bash

5.) Skull Bash

6.) Lacerate

Special messege from the Guild Master!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gah3N2qaymk

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Platinum Sanctum Podcast Episode 3! Siege of Orgrimmar! And Patch Notes!

General
New Raid: Siege of Orgrimmar

• The tensions stoked by Garrosh Hellscream’s arrogance have reached a boiling point with the devastation unleashed upon the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Now it’s time for leaders of the Alliance and Horde to lay siege to Hellscream’s capital and topple the ruthless Warchief once and for all!
• Siege of Orgrimmar contains 14 new encounters across four expansive wings as members of the Horde and Alliance take the war directly to Garrosh’s doorstep.
  
  • Learn more about the new encounters in Patch 5.4 Raid Preview: Siege of Orgrimmar.
    
• Siege of Orgrimmar supports the following difficulty modes: Normal, Heroic, Raid Finder, and (new) Flexible Raid.
  
  • Information on the availability of each difficulty can be found in the Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Schedule.
    

New Feature: Flexible Raid Difficulty

• This is a new raid difficulty designed for pre-made groups of 10 to 25 players or any number in between. This means it's possible to have raids of 15 or 22 players! Difficulty will adjust automatically based on the number of players present with encounters intended to provide a challenge roughly between Raid Finder and Normal difficulty.
• Flexible Raid difficulty requires a pre-made group to join but has no minimum item level requirements or role restrictions. Both BattleTag™ and Real ID friends are eligible to participate.
• Loot quality will be between Raid Finder and Normal difficulty and awarded through a personal loot system (similar to Raid Finder). Bonus rolls and loot specialization will also be supported.
• Player spells with different target limits depending on raid size will gradually increase their limits based on the number of players in Flexible Raid difficulty.
• Players will be able to earn raid achievements just like in Normal or Heroic difficulty.
• Flexible Raid difficulty has a lockout that is separate from Raid Finder and Normal difficulty.
• To learn more about Flexible Raids, please visit our blog titled: A Raid for All Seasons: Flexible Raid Preview.

New Area: Timeless Isle

• A mysterious island, lost for millennia to the currents of time, has emerged from the mists off the eastern coast of Jade Forest.
• Players seeking to explore the Timeless Isle should visit their faction's shrine in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
• The Timeless Isle is inhabited by all manner of strange and powerful creatures that will test the mettle of solo explorers, but great rewards await the brave and skillful: epic loot, bind-to-account gear, Mogu Runes of Fate, pets, mounts, fun toys, and much more.
• The Isle is filled with secrets and mysteries, many of which dynamically become available to explorers. Keep an eye on your minimap while on the Isle for information on nearby events!
• The Timeless Isle is home to five new world raid bosses! Players may face each of the four Celestials in a trial of combat.
• Heroes who have earned the legendary cloak from Wrathion may access the sanctum of the fiery Yaungol demigod Ordos, atop the Timeless Isle.

New Feature: Proving Grounds

• Proving Grounds is a new feature where level 90 players can test their mettle and undertake trials designed for Damage, Tank, or Healer roles to test and improve their combat skills in a safe, controlled environment.
• To access the Proving Grounds, speak with an NPC in the Temple of the White Tiger in Kun-Lai Summit or a class trainer.
• Each trial is available in four separate difficulties: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Endless. Harder difficulties include more difficult and varied enemies.
• Endless mode allows you to test your mettle against increasingly difficult enemies. Compare your best scores to friends and guildmates!
• Learn more about this feature in our blog titled Proving Grounds Preview.

New Feature: Connected Realms

• Connected Realm is a set of two or more standard realms that have been permanently and seamlessly “linked.” Players on the same Connected Realm will be able to trade, send and receive mail, join the same guilds, access a single Auction House, run the same Raids and Dungeons, and join other adventurers to complete quests.
• To make Connected Realm feel seamless, player’s home realms won't be indicated in the game world. In certain places, such as chat, the players' home realms will be displayed next to their name.
• Learn more about this feature in our Patch 5.4 Feature Preview: Connected Realms.

Redesigned Arena System

• Players no longer need to create or join an Arena team to compete.
• Similar to the Rated Battleground system, players in a party of the appropriate size (cross-realm groups are supported) may queue for an Arena bracket of the same size (2v2, 3v3, or 5v5).
• Each player will have a personal rating that increase or decrease based on victories and defeats against other rated opponents. Opponents will be selected based on the average Match Making Rating of the party.
• Conquest cap, requirements on gear and enchantments will be based on the player's personal rating.
• The Arena ladder will no longer be sorted according to Battlegroup. Just like Rated Battlegrounds and normal Battlegrounds, all Arenas will now be region-wide!
• At the end of an Arena season, the top players in a region will still earn titles and mounts.
• For more details about the change to Arenas, please see the blog titled: Patch 5.4 Arena Update.

The Legendary Quest Continues

• Wrathion’s final quests are now available for dedicated heroes who have fought on his behalf throughout the pandaren campaign. He’s waiting at the Tavern in the Mists in the Veiled Stair.
• Complete Wrathion’s final tasks on the Timeless Isle and upgrade your celestial cloak to Legendary quality!
• Only players equipped with a Legendary cloak can reach the Sanctum of Ordos atop the Timeless Isle. (This privilege extends account-wide.)

Battlefield: Barrens

• Vol’jin and his forces move beyond gathering supplies and into a full assault on the Horde capital. As such, the Battlefield: Barrens weekly quest will no longer be available once the invasion on Orgrimmar begins in 5.4.
• Ravika, the Darkspear Rebellion Quartermaster, will no longer be available.
• Latent Kor'kron armor tokens will no longer drop or be available for purchase. Players who still have a Radical Mojo will continue to be able to combine it with existing Latent Kor'kron armor tokens.
• Gahz'rooki's Summoning Stone and Raptorhide Boxing Gloves are now available as a rare drop from Kor’kron, and other associated creatures in Northern Barrens.

Classes

• All Fear and horrify effects can no longer cause targets under the effects of a movement speed buff to move faster than normal run speed.
• All Taunt type abilities now increase all threat generated against the target while the Taunt is active by 200%.
• Vengeance has received several changes.
  
  • Characters in a tanking specialization now generates 40% more threat.
  • Vengeance now grants Attack Power equal to 1.5% of the damage taken, down from 1.8% (The tooltip said 2% but it was actually 1.8%).
  • Tanks no longer receive Vengeance from many persistent area damage effects (standing in the fire) or from missed attacks (dodging and parrying an attack will continue to work as it has before).
  • Vengeance gains from being critically hit have been reduced by 50%.
  • There are now diminishing returns on Vengeance gains while tanking multiple targets. Each additional target grants progressively less Vengeance.
  • So as not to affect Challenge Mode leader boards, the above Vengeance changes will not apply there. For Challenge Modes, Vengeance will continue to work as it did in patch 5.3.
    
• Area knockback effects now all share a diminishing return category. After a player has been moved by one of these spells, the player will be immune for 10 seconds. This new category applies to: Fellash, Gorefiend’s Grasp, Glyph of Explosive Trap, Thunderstorm, Typhoon, Ursol’s Vortex, and Whiplash.

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Death Gate now returns the Death Knight to a location near their original departure point when the spell is cast while in Ebon Hold.
• Icebound Fortitude no longer costs Runic Power.
• Necrotic Strike now deals 100% weapon damage (down from 150% weapon damage).
• Rune of Razorice now causes 3% extra weapon damage as Frost damage (up from 2%), and each stack of Frost Vulnerability now causes the target to take an additional 3% damage from the Death Knight's Frost attacks (up from 2%).
• Soul Reaper initial damage component has been increased by 30%. If the target is below 35% health after 5 seconds the amount of Shadow Damage dealt has been increased by 20%.
• Unholy Presence now grants a flat 10% Haste to all things, up from Haste for melee (attack speed and Rune regeneration) only. The movement speed buff remains unchanged.
• Fixed a bug that caused Improved Blood Presence and Runic Corruption to incorrectly increase activation rates of some trinkets and effects.

Blood

• Riposte is a new passive ability learned by Blood Death Knights at level 76. When the Death Knight dodges or parries any attack, they gain 75% of their Parry and Dodge as additional bonus to Critical Strike for 20 seconds.
• Dancing Rune Weapon no longer costs Runic Power.
• Sanguine Fortitude no longer reduces the cost of Icebound Fortitude.
• Scent of Blood now also has a chance to activate when the Death Knight dodges or parries a melee attack.

Frost

• Frost Strike now deals 115% weapons damage (up from 105% weapon damage).
• Howling Blast now deals 15% more damage.
• Might of the Frozen Wastes now increases all melee attack damage by 30% (up from 20%).
• Obliterate now deals 250% weapon damage (up from 230% weapon damage).

Unholy

• Master of Ghouls now reduces the cooldown of Raise Dead by 60 seconds.
• Ghoul's Leap and Gnaw abilities are no longer on a global cooldown, and no longer cost Energy.
• Unholy Might now increases the Death Knight's Strength by 25% (up from 10%).

Talents

• Anti-Magic Zone has been redesigned. The talent now reduces magic damage taken in the area-of-effect by 40% for 3 seconds, there is no longer a cap on total damage absorbed, and the ability no longer scales with strength.
• Death Siphon had its damage increased by 10%.
• Plague Leech now tries to convert 2 fully-depleted runes (up from 1) into a Death Rune based on specialization.
  
  • Blood: Restores 1 Frost Rune, 1 Unholy Rune
  • Frost: 1 Frost Rune, 1 Unholy Rune
  • Unholy: 1 Blood Rune, 1 Frost Rune
    

Glyphs

• New Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Festering Blood: Makes Blood Boil treat all targets as if they have been infected with Blood Plague or Frost Fever.
  • Glyph of Regenerative Magic: If Anti-Magic Shell expires after its full duration, cooldown for the ability is reduced based on the amount of damage absorbed.
  • Glyph of Swift Death: Haste effect granted by Soul Reaper now also increases the Death Knight's movement speed for the duration.
  • Glyph of the Loud Horn: Horn of Winter now generates additional Runic Power, but the cooldown is increased.
    
• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Enduring Infection now reduces damage dealt by diseases by 15% (down from a 30% reduction).
  • Glyph of Mind Freeze now reduces the cooldown of Mind Freeze by 1 second, and raises its cost by 10 Runic Power (down from 2 seconds and 20 Runic Power).
  • Glyph of Outbreak now causes Outbreak to cost 30 Runic Power (down from 40).
  • Glyph of Pillar of Frost now reduces movement speed by 70% instead of freezing the Death Knight in place.
    
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of the Long Winter: The Horn of Winter ability now lasts for 1 hour.
  • Glyph of the Skeleton: The Death Knight's Raise Dead spell now summons a Skeleton instead of a Ghoul.
    

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Bear Form now increases Stamina contribution from cloth and leather items by 40% (up from 20%).
• Cyclone no longer has a 20-second cooldown for Feral Druids.
• Faerie Fire now has a duration of 20 seconds while in PvP combat (down from 40 seconds).
• Innervate now restores mana based on the Druid’s Spirit.
• Teleport: Moonglade now returns the Druid to a location near their original departure point when the spell is cast while in the Moonglade area.
• Wild Mushroom for Restoration Druids now summons a single mushroom at the friendly target’s location. If the mushroom is recast, the mushroom moves to the new location and retains its accumulated bonus healing.
  
  • A single mushroom now heals for as much as what 3 mushrooms combined healed for previously.
  • The amount of healing stored on a Wild Mushroom is now reduced by Battle Fatigue.
  • Wild Mushroom and Wild Mushroom: Bloom now have a shared 3-second cooldown.
    
• Wrath now deals 10% more damage, but has its mana cost increased by 50%.

Balance

• Eclipse now energizes the Druid for 50% of their maximum mana when triggered, up from 35%.
• Moonkin Form now increases the Druid's armor by 60%, but no longer reduces all damage taken by 15%.
• Shooting Stars now has a reduced chance to activate for each additional target affected by the same spell (Moonfire and Sunfire are tracked separately).
• Starfall now deals 10% more damage.
• Starfire now deals 10% more damage, but has its mana cost increased by 50%.
• Starsurge has its mana cost increased by 50%.

Feral

• Predatory Swiftness no longer has a chance to make Cyclone instant, free, and castable in all forms.

Restoration

• Genesis is a new Restoration spell learned at level 88. Genesis targets all party or raid members within 60 yards and accelerates the casting Druid's Rejuvenation effects, causing them to heal and expire at 400% of the normal rate. Costs the same amount of mana to cast as Rejuvenation.
• Living Seed effects can now stack, up to 50% of the casting Druid's maximum health, and will no longer be consumed if the target is already at full health.
• Swiftmend area-of-effect healing effect is now called Efflorescence.
• Wild Mushroom: Bloom is no longer capable of critical strikes, and accumulates overhealing done by Rejuvenation by 100%, down from 150%. Overhealing bonus no longer benefits from Naturalist or Mastery: Harmony.

Talents

• Astral Communion now defaults to generating Lunar energy towards a Lunar Eclipse when used after being resurrected or zoning into a new area (used to default to generating Solar energy).
• Dream of Cenarius has been completely redesigned to reduce complexity and increase usability, but maintain the spirit of the effects. Benefits now vary by specialization.
  
  • Balance: Increases the amount healed by Healing Touch by 20%. Casting Healing Touch increases the damage bonus of the Druid's next Eclipse by 25%.
  • Feral: Increases the amount healed by Healing Touch by 20%. Casting Healing Touch increases the damage for the Druid's next two melee abilities by 30%.
  • Guardian: Increases the amount healed by Healing Touch by 20%. Increases the critical strike chance of Mangle (Bear) by 10% and critical strikes of Mangle (Bear) have a 40% chance to make the next Healing Touch or Rebirth instant, free, and castable in all forms. Instant cast version of Healing Touch now benefits from Attack Power instead of Spell Power.
  • Restoration: Causes Wrath to deal 20% more damage and heals a nearby friendly target for 100% of the damage done.
    
• Force of Nature
  
  • Feral: Treant summoned by the Feral version of this talent now deals less melee damage, but will cast Rake and Entangling Roots on their target instead of Bash.
  • Guardian: Guardian Druids now gain Vengeance when their Treant takes damage.
    
• Heart of the Wild when activated, now also provides a 25% bonus to healing for Restoration Druids.
• Mass Entanglement no longer has a limit on the number of targets that could be affected, up from 5.
• Nature's Swiftness is no longer a talent, and is now an ability learned by Balance and Restoration Druids at level 30.
  
  • New talent: Ysera's Gift. Ysera's Gift replaces Nature's Swiftness, and heals the Druid for 5% of their maximum health every 5 seconds. If the Druid is at full health, it will heal the most injured friendly target nearby instead.
    
• Nature’s Vigil when activated now increases all damage and healing done by 12% (up from 10%), and causes single-target healing spells to trigger an additional heal on a nearby ally for 25% of the amount healed. This is in addition to the existing effect where it damages a nearby enemy target for 25% of the healing done.
• Soul of the Forest has been partially redesigned to make it more attractive to Balance, Guardian, and Restoration Druids.
  
  • Balance: Wrath, Starfire, and Starsurge casts have a 8% chance to cause Astral Communion to grant 100 Lunar Power or Solar Power instead of activating the next Eclipse.
  • Guardian: Increases Rage generation from Mangle (Bear) by 30% instead of an additional 3 Rage, and this talent now also applies to the Rage generated by Mangle (Bear) when it triggers Primal Fury.
  • Restoration: Now causes the Druid to gain 100% haste (up from 75%) on their next spell after casting Swiftmend.
    

Glyphs

• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Fae Silence will now cause Faerie Fire to interrupt when used on targets that are immune to silence effects.
  • Glyph of Ferocious Bite now causes Ferocious Bite to heal the Druid for 2% of their maximum health for each 10 Energy used (up from 1%).
  • Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration now increases Frenzied Regeneration's cost to 50 Rage (down from increasing Rage cost to 60).
  • Glyph of Innervate now causes Innervate to give both the Druid and the target 60% of the normal effect of the spell if it's cast on a target other than the Druid.
  • Glyph of Lifebloom's effect is now baseline and has been replaced with Glyph of Efflorescence.
    
    • Glyph of Efflorescence increases the healing done by Swiftmend by 20%, causes the Efflorescence healing effect to be triggered by Wild Mushroom instead of Swiftmend, and lasts as long as the Wild Mushroom is active.
      
  • Glyph of Master Shapeshifter now reduces the mana cost of all shapeshifts by 100% (up from 90%).
  • Glyph of Nature’s Grasp now reduces the cooldown of Nature’s Grasp by 45 seconds (up from 30 seconds).
  • Glyph of Pounce now increases the range of Pounce by 8 yards (up from 3 yards).
  • Glyph of Skull Bash now increases the duration of Skull Bash's interrupt by 2 seconds, and increasing the cooldown by 5 seconds (down from a 4 second interrupt and 10 second increase to cooldown).
  • Glyph of the Moonbeast's effect is now baseline and has been replaced with Glyph of Guided Stars.
    
    • Glyph of Guided Stars causes Starfall to only hit targets affected by the Druid's Moonfire or Sunfire.
      
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of One With Nature: Grants the Druid the ability to teleport to a random natural location.
  • Glyph of the Sprouting Mushroom: Allows the Wild Mushroom spell to be placed on the ground instead of underneath a target.
    

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• The following Hunter pet abilities no longer cost Focus to use: Dash, Dive, and Charge.
• Arcane Shot now deals 125% ranged weapon damage (up from 100%) and had its focus cost increased by 50%.
• Counter Shot is now a baseline interrupt ability learned by all Hunters at level 22.
• Deterrence now has a 3-minute cooldown (up from 2 minutes) but has 2 charges.
• Disengage now has a cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 25 seconds).
• Explosive Trap had its overall damage decreased by 30%. Proportionately, more damage has been removed from the initial damage than the periodic effect.
• Hunter's Mark now has a duration of 20 seconds while in PvP combat (down from 30 seconds).
• Readiness has been removed.
• Revive Pet no longer requires the Hunter to have line-of-sight to their pet.
• Stampede damage dealt by pets when the ability is used outside of an Arena or Battleground is no longer reduced by 75%

Beast Mastery

• Beast Cleave range has been increased to 10 yards (up from 8 yards).
• Kill Command damage has been increased by 34%.

Marksman

• Aimed Shot now deals 450% ranged weapon damage (up from 350%).
• Binding Shot is no longer a Marksman Hunter ability and is once again a talent.

Survival

• Explosive Shot damage has been increased by 27%.
• Explosive Trap no longer shares a cooldown with Black Arrow but can no longer activate Lock and Load.

Talents

• A Murder of Crows now deals 40% more damage.
• Aspect of the Iron Hawk now reduces all damage taken by 10%, down from 15%.
• Glaive Toss no longer initiates auto-attack.
• Lynx Rush damage has been increased by 30%.
• Narrow Escape root effect is now a nature spell (was a physical spell).
• Silencing Shot is no longer a talent and is now an ability that replaces Counter Shot for Marksman Hunters.
• Spirit Bond now regenerates 3% of total health every 2 seconds while the Hunter's pet is active (up from 2%).
• Wyvern Sting now has a range of 40 yards (up from 35 yards).

Glyphs

• New Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of the Lean Pack: Reduces the range of Aspect of the Pack to 7 yards.
  • Glyph of Enduring Deceit: Camouflage also reduces spell damage taken by 10%
    
• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Mend Pet now has a 100% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from the Hunter's pet on each tick (up from 50% chance).
  • Glyph of Mending now speeds up the periodic effect of Mend Pet to restore health to the pet every 1 second doubling the total amount healed over 10 seconds.
  • Glyph of No Escape now increases the ranged critical strike chance against targets affected by the Hunter's Freezing Trap by 100% (up from 20% chance).
    

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Ice Lance damage has been increased by 43%.

Fire

• Combustion on targets affected by the Mage's Ignite now deals additional damage equal to 20% of Ignite's damage per tick (down from 50%).

Frost

• Mastery: Frostburn has been replaced by Mastery: Icicles. When the Mage damages an enemy with their Frostbolt, and Frostfire Bolt (16% + 2% per Mastery) of the damage done is stored as an Icicle for 15 seconds. Mastery: Icicles also increases the Water Elemental’s Water Bolt damage by (16% + 2% per Mastery). Up to 5 Icicles can be stored at once. Casting Ice Lance launches all stored Icicles at the target.
• Frostbolt now deals 10% less damage and no longer increases the damage of any spells. The damage for those spells have been increased instead.
• Water Elemental
  
  • Waterbolt damage has been increased by 25%.
    

Talents

• Frost Bomb now deals 70% damage to players (up from 60%).
• Ice Floes now has 3 charges (up from 2 charges), and has a 20-second cooldown (down from 45 seconds).
• Living Bomb now deals 85% damage to players (up from 70%).
• Nether Tempest now deals 85% damage to players (up from 70%).
• Rune of Power now has an increased effective range. The Mage can remain up to 8 yards away from their Rune of Power and still receive benefits to mana regeneration and spell damage (up from 3 yards).
• Temporal Shield now also reduces damage taken by 15% while active in addition to existing effects.

Glyphs

• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Blink now increases distance travelled with the Blink spell by 8 yards (up from 5 yards).
  • Glyph of Ice Lance has been renamed to Glyph of Splitting Ice.
    
    • Glyph of Splitting Ice causes Ice Lance and Icicles to hit 1 additional target for 50% damage.
      
  • Glyph of Invisibility has been replaced with Glyph of Rapid Displacement.
    
    • Glyph of Rapid Displacement gives Blink two charges, gaining a charge every 15 seconds, but no longer frees the Mage from stuns and bonds.
      
  • Glyph of Remove Curse now increases the damage dealt by 15% after successfully removing a curse (up from 10%).
  • Glyph of Spellsteal now heals the Mage for 5% of their maximum health after successfully stealing a spell (up from 3%).
    
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Condensation: Increases the size of the Mage's Water Elemental.
  • Glyph of Evaporation: Reduces the size of the Mage's Water Elemental.
  • Glyph of the Unbound Elemental: The Mage's Water Elemental is replaced by an Unbound Water Elemental.
    

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Spinning Crane Kick now functions like a smart heal, healing the 6 most injured friendly targets within range, and minor guardians are no longer targeted (Wild Imps, Bloodworms, Snakes from Snake Trap, etc.). There has been no change to the total amount of healing granted by the ability.

Brewmaster

• Keg Smash now deals 18% less damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused the damage of some abilities for Brewmasters with Vengeance to scale incorrectly.

Mistweaver

• Mana Tea is now consumed at an increased rate of 1 stack per 0.5 seconds (up from 1 stack per 1 second).
• Revival healing has been reduced by 30%.

Windwalker

• Mastery: Bottled Fury has been redesigned. Bottled Fury now gives a chance to generate an additional charge of Tigereye Brew when the Monk gains one normally.
• Storm, Earth and Fire now deals 70% damage (up from 60%) with one Spirit summoned and 55% (up from 45%) with two Spirits summoned.
• Tigereye Brew received an adjustment.
  
  • It now increases damage by 6% per stack, (up from 1% per stack) but is no longer increased by Mastery.
  • A charge of Tigereye Brew is gained for each 4 Chi consumed through use of abilities and attacks (up from a charge for each 3 Chi consumed).
    

Talents

• Chi Brew now restores 2 Chi, has a 45-second cooldown (down from 1.5 minutes), and generate stacks of Brew/Teas based on the Monk's specialization.
  
  • Brewmaster: 5 stacks of Elusive Brew
  • Mistweaver: 2 stacks of Mana Tea
  • Windwalker: 2 stacks of Tigereye Brew
    
• Chi Burst no longer requires a target. It now travels as a 40-yard line in front of the Monk.
• Healing Elixirs will no longer activate if the Monk is already at full health, and activate automatically when the Monk has less than 35% of their maximum health.
• Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger now has a pet control bar for Xuen, and the talent is no longer on global cooldown for all Monk specializations.
  
  • Brewmaster Monks now gain Vengeance when Xuen takes damage.
    
• Power Strikes will now activate from the following Chi generating abilities; Jab, Expel Harm, Spinning Crane Kick (when it hits at least 3 targets), Crackling Jade Lightning, and Soothing Mist.
• Ring of Peace has a new visual effect that properly depicts its area-of-effect, and now disarms both enemies and those attacking allies within the Ring of Peace's area-of-effect for 4 seconds (up from 3 seconds); the Silence effect for casting spells remains unchanged at 3 seconds.
• Rushing Jade Wind has been redesigned and replaces Spinning Crane Kick.
  
  • Rushing Jade Wind: The Monk summons a whirling tornado around them, dealing damage to nearby enemies (heals nearby allies for Mistweavers). Rushing Jade Wind has the same costs, Chi generation, and periodic rate as Spinning Crane Kick, but, deals 80% of the periodic damage or healing, lasts 6 seconds, is instant, and not channeled.
    
• Zen Sphere now deals 15% more healing and damage.

Glyphs

• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Afterlife now increases the chance to summon a Healing Sphere by 100% (up from 25% chance).
  • Glyph of Crackling Jade Lightning has been replaced with Glyph of Nimble Brew.
    
    • Glyph of Nimble Brew causes Nimble Brew to heal the Monk when it clears a root, stun, fear, or horror effect.
      
  • Glyph of Expel Harm has been replaced with Glyph of Rapid Rolling.
    
    • Glyph of Rapid Rolling makes the next Roll or Chi Torpedo go farther after using a Roll or Chi Torpedo.
      
  • Glyph of Retreat has been replaced with Glyph of Fortuitous Spheres.
    
    • Glyph of Fortuitous Spheres causes a healing sphere to be summoned near the Monk at no cost when their health falls below 25%. This effect cannot occur more than once every 30 seconds.
      
  • Glyph of Stoneskin has been replaced with Glyph of Detox.
    
    • Glyph of Detox causes Detox to heal the target when it successfully removes a harmful effect.
      
  • Glyph of Targeted Expulsion now causes Expel Harm to heal for 50% as much when used on other targets.
  • Glyph of Transcendence now reduces the cooldown of Transcendence: Transfer by 5 seconds (used to increase the range by 10 yards).
  • Glyph of Uplift has been replaced by Glyph of Targeted Expulsion.
    
    • Glyph of Targeted Expulsion allows Expel Harm to be used on other players.
      

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Sanctity of Battle now also affects the cooldown of Holy Shock.
• Seal of Insight no longer has a chance to restore mana on attacks.
• Turn Evil now has a 15-second cooldown.

Holy

• Mastery: Illuminated Healing no longer activates from periodic healing effects.
• Divine Plea no longer reduces the amount of healing done, and now restores mana based on the Paladin’s Spirit.
• Guardian of the Ancient Kings (Holy) now has a cooldown of 3 minutes (down from 5 minutes), and summons a guardian that heals the ally that the Paladin healed for 100% (up from 10%) of the amount healed, but no longer heals nearby friendly targets.
• Holy Insight now increases the effectiveness of Eternal Flame, Light of Dawn, and Word of Glory by 50%. Effectiveness of other heals are still increased by 25%.
• Holy Radiance now functions like a smart heal, healing the 6 most injured friendly targets within range, and minor guardians are no longer targeted (Wild Imps, Bloodworms, Snakes from Snake Trap, etc.). There has been no change to the total amount of healing granted by the ability.
• Holy Shock mana cost has been reduced by 50%.
• Judgment for Holy Paladins now costs 12% of base mana to cast (up from 5% of base mana).

Protection

• Crusader Strike now applies a Weakened Blows effect to the target for Protection Paladins.
• Grand Crusader no longer has a chance to activate from Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous, but now has a 30% chance to activate when dodging or parrying a melee attack (up from 12%).
• Guarded by the Light now restores 15% of the Paladin's maximum mana every 2 seconds (up from 6%).

Retribution

• Guardian of the Ancient Kings (Retribution version) now has a reduced cooldown of 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes, and the maximum number of stacks has been reduced to 12.
• Inquisition now lasts 20 seconds per charge of Holy Power consumed, up from 10 seconds.

Talents

• Burden of Guilt has been replaced with a new talent called Evil is a Point of View.
  
  • New Talent: Evil is a Point of View. Evil is a Point of View allows the Paladin to use Turn Evil on players and beasts.
    
• Eternal Flame periodic heal-over-time effect now heals for 40% more.
• Execution Sentence will now immediately damage the target for 5 times the amount of damage that had been dealt by Execution Sentence most recent periodic effect when dispelled.
  
  • Stay of Execution will now immediately heal the target for 5 times the amount of healing that had been dealt by Stay of Execution most recent periodic effect when dispelled.
    
• Hand of Purity now reduces damage taken from harmful periodic effects by 80% (up from 70%) and reduces damage taken from harmful periodic effects that cannot be prevented by immunities by 40% (up from 0%).
• Light's Hammer now functions like a smart heal, healing the 6 most injured friendly targets within range, and minor guardians are no longer targeted (Wild Imps, Bloodworms, Snakes from Snake Trap, etc.). There has been no change to the total amount of healing granted by the ability.
• Sacred Shield
  
  • Holy: Sacred Shield now applies its damage absorption shield immediately, can be active on more than one target at a time, but the talent now costs mana and has 3 charges with a 10-second recharge.
  • Protection: Sacred Shield is 30% less effective.
    
• Sanctified Wrath
  
  • Holy: Sanctified Wrath now also increases the critical strike chance of Holy Shock by 20%.
  • Protection: Sanctified Wrath now causes Judgment to generate 2 Holy Power instead of 1 while Avenging Wrath is active.
    
• Selfless Healer in addition to its current effects, now also causes Judgment to generate a charge of Holy Power for Holy Paladins. Stacks of Selfless Healer now reduce the cast time, mana cost, and improve the effectiveness of Divine Light, Flash of Light, and Holy Radiance.
  
  • Bastion of Glory will now apply Selfless Healer bonus to healing to the casting Paladin as well as other targets and consume all stacks of Bastion of Glory in the process.
    
• Unbreakable Spirit has been simplified. It now reduces the cooldown on Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Lay on Hands by 50%.

Glyphs

• New Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Divine Shield: Removing harmful effects with Divine Shield heals the Paladin for each effect removed. This heal cannot exceed a percentage of the Paladin's maximum health.
  • Glyph of Hand of Sacrifice: Hand of Sacrifice no longer transfers damage taken by the target to the Paladin.
    
• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Denounce now causes Holy Shock to reduce the cast time of the next Denounce by 0.5 seconds, and the effect can stack up to 3 times.
  • Glyph of Divine Plea now reduces the amount of mana restored and cooldown of Divine Plea by 50%.
  • Glyph of Holy Wrath now also allows Holy Wrath to stun Aberrations.
  • Glyph of Immediate Truth now increases the instant damage done by Seal of Truth 40% (up from 30%).
  • Glyph of Inquisition has been redesigned. The glyph now increases the duration of Inquisition by 30 seconds (up to a maximum of 2 minutes) each time the Paladin lands a killing blow on targets that yield experience or honor.
  • Glyph of Rebuke has been replaced with Glyph of Devotion Aura.
    
    • Glyph of Devotion Aura causes Devotion Aura to no longer affect party or raid members, but the cooldown is reduced.
      
  • Glyph of the Alabaster Shield now increases damage for the next Shield of the Righteous by 10% per stack (down from 20% per stack).
  • Glyph of the Battle Healer has been redesigned. The glyph now causes Seal of Insight to no longer heal the Paladin. Instead, a nearby raid or party member will receive healing for 30% of the amount the Paladin would have received from Seal of Insight.
  • Glyph of Turn Evil has been replaced with Glyph of Burden of Guilt.
    
    • Glyph of Burden of Guilt causes Judgment to reduce the target's movement speed by 50% for 2 seconds.
      
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of the Exorcist: Exorcism will now appear to remove the evil from its target.
  • Glyph of Pillar of Light: Critical heals on other players display a small pillar of light at their location briefly.
    

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Hymn of Hope now prefers to target healers when it grants mana. Healers will always be picked before non-healers, regardless of how much mana they have.
• Leap of Faith no longer has a facing requirement.
• Shadow Word: Death now deals 15% more damage.
• Shadow Word: Pain now deals 25% more damage.

Discipline

• Grace can no longer be dispelled.
• Rapture now energizes the Priest for 100% of the mana cost of Power Word: Shield When the shield is fully consumed or is dispelled (used to energize the Priest with mana equal to 150% of their spirit). This is the modified mana cost for Power Word: Shield, after being reduced by Rapture’s passive effect.
• Spirit Shell duration has been reduced to 10 seconds (down from 15 seconds), and the damage absorption shield's effectiveness can now be reduced through Battle Fatigue.

Holy

• Holy Word: Sanctuary mana cost reduced to 3.8% (down from 6.3%), and now functions like a smart heal, healing the 6 most injured friendly targets within range, and minor guardians are no longer targeted (Wild Imps, Bloodworms, Snakes from Snake Trap, etc.). There has been no change to the total amount of healing granted by the ability.
• Lightspring is now baseline for all Holy Priests and the ability has been renamed to Lightwell.
• Serendipity mana cost reduction has been increased to 20% per stack (up from 10% per stack), and no longer displays a spell effect when in the UI when it's active.

Shadow

• Shadowform now increases the Priest's armor by 60%, but no longer reduces all damage taken by 15%.
• Shadowy Apparitions now creates a shadowy version of the Priest that floats towards the target and deals damage. The apparitions are now treated as a missile, and is no longer an attackable creature.
• Vampiric Touch now deals 20% more damage.

Talents

• Angelic Feather now increases allies' movement speed by 80%, up from 60%, and feathers placed in the world have a duration of 10 minutes (up from 5 minutes).
• Cascade effect can now bounce up to 4 times (up from 3), and its effect should no longer bounce between minor guardians (Wild Imps, Bloodworms, Snakes from Snake Trap, etc.).
• Divine Star’s healing is no longer affecting by diminishing returns when used on multiple targets.
• Halo’s healing is no longer affecting by diminishing returns when used on multiple targets.
• Divine Insight for Discipline Priests now has a 100% chance to activate its effect after using Penance (up from 40%), and now displays an effect in the UI when it's active.
• From Darkness, Comes Light
  
  • Discipline, Holy: Now also has a chance to activate its effect on cast for these following spells; Penance, Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending, and Prayer of Healing.
  • Shadow: Now has a 20% chance to activate its effect for Shadow Priests (up from a 15% chance).
    
• Mindbender now deals 10% more damage, and mana return has been increased by 20%.
• Psyfiend no longer benefits from Haste, and its health has been reduced by 75%, but fixed a bug where Psyfiend wasn't being affected by base Resilience.
• Twist of Fate damage and healing threshold to activate has been increased to 35% (up from 20%).

Glyphs

• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Dark Binding's effect is now baseline and has been replaced with Glyph of Focused Mending.
    
    • Glyph of Focused Mending causes Prayer of Mending to only bounce between the target and the caster.
      
  • Glyph of Fear Ward now reduces the cooldown on Fear Ward without reducing its duration.
  • Glyph of Lightspring has been renamed to Glyph of Lightwell.
    
    • Glyph of Lightwell causes Lightwell to heal for 50% more, but no longer automatically heals allies. Allies can click on the Lightwell to heal.
      
  • Glyph of Lightwell has been renamed to Glyph of Deep Wells.
    
    • Glyph of Deep Wells increases the number of charges on Lightwell by 2.
      
  • Glyph of Purify now causes Purify to heal the target for 5% of their maximum health after successfully dispelling a magical effect or disease (up from 3%).
  • Glyph of Reflective Shield now causes Power Word: Shield to reflect 70% of the damage absorbed (up from 45%).
    
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Feathers: Causes the Priest's healing spells to momentarily grant angelic wings.
  • Glyph of Inspired Hymns: A spirit appears above the Priest while channeling Hymns.
  • Glyph of Shifted Appearances: Void Shift causes the Priest and their target to exchange appearances for several seconds.
  • Glyph of the Sha: Transforms the Priest's Shadowfiend and Mindbender into a Sha Beast.
    

Class Armor

• Discipline/Holy PvP 2-piece set bonus' (4-piece set bonus pre-Season 12) Holy Spark effect can no longer be dispelled.
• Shadow PvP 4-piece set bonus is no longer an area-of-effect and only affects the character that dispels Vampiric Touch.

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Ambush damage has been increased by 12%.
• Evasion now increases dodge chance by 100% (was 50%), cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes (down from 3 minutes), and duration has been reduced to 10 seconds (down from 15 seconds).
• Eviscerate now deals 10% less damage.
• Fan of Knives damage has been increased by 25%.
• Recuperate now restores 4% of maximum health every 3 seconds, up from 3%.
• Sinister Strike deals an increased 240% of weapon damage (up from 145%), but now costs 50 Energy (up from 40 Energy).

Assassination

• Assassination Rogues should no longer be eligible for any other weapon types except daggers in situations where loot is automatically awarded(Raid Finder, Bonus Roll, Heroic/Normal Scenarios, and the upcoming Flexible Raid difficulty.)
• Dispatch now deals 645% weapon damage (up from 460%).
• Mutilate now deals 280% weapon damage (up from 200%).

Combat

• New passive ability, Ruthlessness: This passive ability is learned by Combat Rogues at Level 32. The Rogue gains a 20% chance per combo point (100% chance at 5 combo points) to immediately regain 1 combo point while performing a finishing move.
• Killing Spree targeting has been changed. If Blade Flurry is not active, Killing Spree will now hit the Rogue's target 7 times or pick the closest eligible target if none had been selected. Killing Spree will continue to work as it has while Blade Flurry is active.
• Revealing Strike now deals 160% weapons damage (up from 125%).
• Vitality now increases Attack Power by 40% (up from 30%).
• Fixed an issue where certain conditions can cause Blade Flurry to not deal damage to additional nearby opponents.

Subtlety

• Backstab now deals 380% weapon damage (up from 275%).
• Hemorrhage now deals 160% weapons damage (up from 140%); 232% weapons damage if a dagger is equipped (up from 203% for daggers).
• Sanguinary Vein now increases damage against targets with bleed effects by 25% (up from 20%).

Talents

• Burst of Speed cost has been reduced to 15 Energy (down from 30 Energy).
• Cheat Death now reduces damage taken by 85% after activating (up from 80%).
• Cloak and Dagger now allows the Rogue to use Ambush, Garrote, and Cheap Shot from 40 yards away (up from 30 yards).
• Nightstalker now increases damage dealt by abilities while stealthed by 50%, up from 25%.
• Paralytic Poison now stuns the target at 4 applications of the poison (down from 5 applications).
• Shadowstep now has a reduced cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 24 seconds).

Glyphs

• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Adrenaline Rush's effect is now baseline and has been replaced with Glyph of Redirect.
    
    • Glyph of Redirect now reduces the cooldown of Redirect by 50 seconds (down from Redirect no longer has a cooldown).
      
  • Glyph of Blind now only removes damage-over-time effects that would cause Blind to break. For Rogues that also have the Dirty Tricks talent, this means Blind will no longer remove the Rogue’s poison or bleed effects.
  • Glyph of Crippling Poison has been replaced with Glyph of Sharpened Knives.
    
    • Glyph of Sharpened Knives now causes Fan of Knives to also damage the armor of its victims, applying 1 application of the Weakened Armor effect to each target.
      
  • Glyph of Debilitation has been replaced with Glyph of Recovery.
    
    • Glyph of Recovery increases the healing received by the Rogue while Recuperate is active.
      
  • Glyph of Recuperate now increases the healing of Recuperate by an additional 1% (up from 0.5%).
  • Glyph of Sap has been replaced with Glyph of Hemorrhaging Veins.
    
    • Glyph of Hemorrhaging Veins causes Sanguinary Veins ability to also increase damage done to targets affected by Hemorrhage.
      
  • Glyph of Shiv now reduces the cooldown of Shiv by 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
    
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Improved Distraction: Distract now summons a decoy at the target location.
  • Glyph of the Headhunter: Throw and Deadly Throw abilities will now throw axes regardless of the Rogue's currently equipped weapon.
    

Class Armor

• Rogue Tier-15 4-piece set bonus now causes Shadow Blades to reduce the cost of all abilities by 15% (down from 40%).

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Chain Heal effectiveness will no longer decrease with each jump (up from a 30% reduction to healing with each jump).
• Earth Elemental Totem summoned Greater Earth Elemental will no longer Taunt off players that are in a tanking specialization.
• Fire Elemental Totem summoned Greater Fire Elemental now deals 10% less damage.
• Healing Rain healing has been reduced by 30%, and the area-of-effect has been increased to 12 yards (up from 10 yards). In addition, Healing Rain now functions like a smart heal, healing the 6 most injured friendly targets within range, and minor guardians are no longer targeted (Wild Imps, Bloodworms, Snakes from Snake Trap, etc.). There has been no change to the total amount of healing granted by the ability.

Enhancement

• Fire Nova damage has been increased by 83%.
• Stormstrike debuff now also affects Elemental Blast, but now deals 380% weapon damage (down from 450% weapon damage).

Restoration

• Purification now increases the healing done by Healing Rain by 100% in addition to the ability's current effects.
• Ancestral Vigor now has a duration of 30 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
• Riptide mana cost has been reduced by 25%.

Talents

• Astral Shift now has a cooldown of 90 seconds, down from 120 seconds.
• Conductivity has been redesigned.
  
  • Healing an ally with Healing Wave, Greater Healing Wave, Healing Surge, or Chain Heal, increases the duration of Healing Rain by 4 seconds.
  • Damaging an enemy with Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Earth Shock, or Stormstrike increases the duration of Healing Rain by 4 seconds.
  • Conductivity can increase the duration of Healing Rain up to a maximum of 40 seconds.
    
• Echo of the Elements' spell duplication effect can no longer occur more than once every 4 seconds when used against hostile players, and their pets or guardians.
• Healing Tide Totem is no longer a talent and is a baseline ability for all Shamans. Additionally, this totem will now heal 12 raid members (up from 5) when used in a 25-player instance.
  
  • New Talent: Rushing Streams. Rushing Streams replaces Healing Tide Totem talent, increases healing done by Healing Stream Totem by 15%, and causes the totem to heal 2 targets at once.
    
• Stone Bulwark Totem initial damage absorption shield now absorbs an additional 33% in damage.
• Totemic Restoration has been replaced with a new talent, Totemic Persistence.
  
  • New talent: Totemic Persistence. Summoning a second totem of the same element no longer causes the first totem to be destroyed. Only one non-Fire totem can benefit from this effect at a time.
    
• Unleashed Fury
  
  • Earthliving Weapon effect now applies to the Shaman, not the target.
  • Flametongue Weapon effect now increases Lightning Bolt damage by 30%, up from 20%.
    

Glyphs

• New Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Eternal Earth: Lightning Bolt now has a chance to add a charge to the Shaman's active Earth Shield. This cannot cause Earth Shield to exceed 9 charges.
  • Glyph of Purging: Successfully Purging a target now grants a stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
    
• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Chaining now increases the cooldown on Chain Heal by 2 seconds, down from a 4 second increase.
  • Glyph of Cleansing Waters now heals the target for 5% of the Shaman's maximum health (up from 4%).
  • Glyph of Fire Elemental Totem now reduces the cooldown and duration for Fire Elemental Totem by 50%, up from 40%.
  • Glyph of Frost Shock now reduces the cooldown of Frost Shock by 2 seconds.
  • Glyph of Grounding Totem now increases the cooldown of Grounding Totem after reflecting a harmful spell by 20 seconds (down from a 35-second cooldown increase).
  • Glyph of Healing Storm no longer increases the healing of Healing Rain.
  • Glyph of Riptide reduces the initial direct healing of Riptide by 75%, down from a 90% reduction to healing.
    
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Astral Fixation: Astral Recall now takes the Shaman to their capital's Earthshrine.
  • Glyph of the Compy: Hex now transforms enemies into a Compy.
  • Glyph of Elemental Familiars: Summons a random Fire, Water, or Nature familiar. Familiars of different types have a tendency to fight each other.
  • Glyph of Flaming Serpents: The Shaman's Searing Totem now resembles Vol'jin's Serpent Ward.
  • Glyph of Lingering Ancestors: Resurrecting someone with Ancestral Spirit causes a ghostly ancestor to follow them around for a short time.
  • Glyph of Rain of Frogs: Allows the Shaman to summon a rain storm of frogs at a targeted location.
  • Glyph of Spirit Raptors: Spirit Wolves are replaced with Spirit Raptors.
  • Glyph of Spirit Wolf: Ghost Wolf can be now be used while the Shaman is a ghost.
    

Class Armor

• Elemental Shaman 2-piece PvP set bonus has been changed. It now allows Lightning Shield to be triggered once every 1.5 seconds instead of once every 3 seconds.
• Enhancement Shaman 4-piece PvP set bonus now causes the Shaman's Flametongue Weapon to also reduce the target's movement speed for 3 seconds.

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Corruption damage has been increased by 10%.
• Demonic Gateway are no longer attackable once more and no longer temporarily removes threat from the user. The debuff from using a Demonic Gateway has been increased to 60 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
• Fel Armor no longer reduces all damage taken by 10%.
• Fel Flame now deals 13% more damage, costs 2% less mana, and no longer increases the duration of damage-over-time spells.
• Immolate damage has been increased by 10%.
• Rain of Fire now has a reduced chance to generate Burning Embers.
• The Codex of Xerrath now infuses additional spells with fel magic (green fire effect).
  
  • Summon Felsteed, Summon Dreadsteed, Summon Abyssal, Demonic Fury, Dark Apotheosis, and Demonic Leap.
    

Affliction

• Agony damage has been increased by 16%.
• Drain Soul no longer energizes Soul Shards from the pets and guardians of players, and now deals 34% less damage. If other periodic Affliction damage effects are triggered by Drain Soul, they now deal 60% of their normal damage (down from 100%).
• Haunt now deals 50% more damage, and increases damage done by all of the Warlock's damage-over-time spells against the target by 40%.
• Malefic Grasp now deals 34% less damage, and causes all of the Warlock's other periodic Affliction damage effects to instantly deal 30% of their normal periodic damage (down from 50%).
• Nightfall now gives Corruption a 10% increased chance to generate a Soul Shard on the most recently applied Corruption.
• Soul Swap no longer does any damage, and now copies damage-over-time effects instead of just moving them without needing a glyph. Copied effects now once again preserve their power and duration. Duration has been reduced to 3 seconds (down from 20 seconds).
• Unstable Affliction damage has been increased by 21%.

Demonology

• Dark Soul: Knowledge now increases the effects of Mastery: Master Demonologist by an additional 30%.
• Hellfire damage has been reduced by 20%.
• Immolation Aura's damage has been reduced by 20%.

Destruction

• Chaos Bolt damage has been increased by 15%.
• Incinerate damage has been increased by 10%.

Talents

• Archimonde's Vengeance has been redesigned and renamed into Archimonde's Darkness.
  
  • Archimonde's Darkness gives the Warlock's Dark Soul spell two charges.
    
• Grimoire of Sacrifice no longer affects Drain Life.
  
  • For Affliction Warlocks, Grimoire of Sacrifice now increases the power of various single target spells by 20% (down from 30%).
    
• Harvest Life no longer replaces Drain Life. Harvest Life is now a passive talent that increases Drain Life damage by 50%, and healing by 150%. The talent no longer turns the ability into an area-of-effect spell.
• Howl of Terror is no longer a talent and is now a baseline skill for all Warlocks.
  
  • Demonic Breath is a new talent replacing Howl of Terror. The Warlock sends out a cone of Shadow damage, snaring targets, has a 20-second cooldown.
    
• Kil'jaden's Cunning no longer reduces movement speed, and will now allow the Warlock to cast Incinerate, Malefic Grasp, and Shadow Bolt while moving.
• Mannoroth's Fury is no longer a passive ability. Mannoroth's Fury now has a duration of 10 seconds with a 60 second cooldown, and increases the area of area-of-effect by 500% and increases damage by 100% for Hellfire, Immolation Aura, Rain of Fire, and Seed of Corruption.
• Soul Leech can now also activate from Shadowburn, and caps out at 15% of the Warlock and their pet's maximum health (down from 100%).
• Soul Link now transfers 20% of damage taken by the Warlock to their pet, and 3% of all damage dealt by the Warlock will be returned as healing for the Warlock and their pet. This ability is always active while the Warlock's pet is active.

Glyphs

• Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of Dark Soul has been replaced by Glyph of Curse of the Elements.
    
    • Glyph of Curse of the Elements causes Curse of the Elements to hit 2 additional nearby targets.
      
  • Glyph of Everlasting Affliction has been replaced by Glyph of Eternal Resolve.
    
    • Glyph of Eternal Resolve: Changes Unending Resolve into a passive ability that provides a constant 10% reduction to damage taken.
      
  • Glyph of Fear no longer causes Fear to have a cooldown.
  • Glyph of Imp Swarm now summons 4 Wild Imps (down from 5 Wild Imps).
  • Glyph of Shadowflame has been replaced with Glyph of Unending Resolve.
    
    • Glyph of Unending Resolve reduces the damage reduction of Unending Resolve by 20%, and the cooldown is reduced by 60 seconds.
      
  • Glyph of Soul Swap has been replaced with Glyph of Havoc.
    
    • Glyph of Havoc: Havoc gains 3 additional charges, but the cooldown is increased by 35 seconds.
      

Class Armor

• Warlock Tier-14 4-piece set bonus now reduces the cooldown of Unending Resolve by 20 seconds.
• Warlock PvP 4-piece set bonus now reduces duration of the debuff from using a Demonic Gateway by 15 seconds.

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue where Blood Horror was not working properly while Metamorphosis was active.

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Battle, Berserker and Defensive Stance [alternative: Warrior Stances] now have a 1.5-second cooldown (down from 3 seconds).
• Blood and Thunder now also increases the damage of Thunder Clap by 50%.
• Deep Wounds damage has been increased by 65%.
• Enrage now also triggers on critical hits from Devastate and Shield Slam.
• Hamstring is no longer on a global cooldown.
• Intervene now also breaks roots and snares when used.
• Shattering Throw no longer costs rage.
• Shield Wall no longer requires a shield. If the Warrior does not have a shield equipped, it will show a visual of an equipped shield.
• Spell Reflection no longer requires a shield. If the Warrior does not have a shield equipped, it will show a visual of an equipped shield.

Arms

• Mortal Strike now deals 215% of weapon damage (up from 175%).
• Seasoned Soldier now also reduces the cost of Thunder Clap by 10 Rage.
• Slam now deals 25% more damage, but the Rage cost has been increased by 25% as well. While Sweeping Strikes is active, Slam will deal 35% of damage dealt against the primary target to all other enemies within 2 yards, and targets affected by Colossus Smash receives 10% more damage.

Fury

• Titan’s GRip now works with polearms.

Protection

• Revenge now generates 20 Rage (up from 15 Rage).
• Riposte is a new passive ability learned by Protection Warriors at level 76. When the Warrior dodges or parries any attack, they gain 75% of their Parry and Dodge as an additional bonus to Critical Strike for 20 seconds.
• Ultimatum now activates from critical hits with Shield Slam instead of a flat 20% chance, and the ability will make the next Heroic Strike or Cleave be a critical hit in addition to costing no Rage.

Talents

• Bladestorm cooldown has decreased to 60 seconds (down from 1.5 minutes).
  
  • Arms: Bladestorm now deals 180% of weapon damage (up from 120%).
  • Protection: Bladestorm now deals 160% of weapon damage (down from 240%).
    
• Bloodbath snare and bleed effects are now two separate debuffs. Clearing one of the effects will no longer remove the other.
• Enraged Regeneration now instantly heals the warrior for 10% of their total health (up from 5%), and an additional 10% over 5 seconds (up from 5%).
• Impending Victory now heals the Warrior for 20% of their maximum health at all times (up from 15% on attack and 20% on kills that yield experience or honor).
• Storm Bolt now has a duration of 4 seconds (up from 3 seconds), and has an off-hand attack for Fury Warriors.
• Vigilance no longer transfers damage to the Warrior. The talent now reduces amount of damage the target takes by 30% for 12 seconds.
• Warbringer now roots the target for 4 seconds instead of stunning them for 3 seconds. The 50% reduction to movement speed snare effect for 8 seconds remains unchanged. Glyph of Blitz will now cause Warbringer to root an additional 2 nearby targets.

Glyphs

• New Major Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of the Executor: Killing an enemy with Execute grants Rage.
  • Glyph of Impaling Throws: Heroic Throw now leaves an axe in the target, which can be retrieved by moving within 5 yards of the target to finish the cooldown of Heroic Throw. This effect will only occur when Heroic Throw is cast from more than 10 yards away from the target.
    
• New Minor Glyphs
  
  • Glyph of the Raging Whirlwind: Whirlwind gives additional Rage over time, but for that time the Warrior no longer generates Rage from auto-attacks.
  • Glyph of the Subtle Defender: Removes the threat generation bonus from Defensive Stance.
  • Glyph of the Weaponmaster: Shout abilities cause the appearance of the Warrior's weapon to change to that of a random weapon from their primary bag for a short time.
    

Bug Fix

• Intervene should no longer incorrectly trigger a cooldown when there isn't an allied target for the Warrior to Intervene to.

Quests

• Wrathion's Legendary Questline
  
  • All bosses in Throne of Thunder now have a chance to drop Sigil of Power or Sigil of Wisdom in addition to their normal loot for players on the appropriate step in the legendary questline. Players should also no longer be receiving excess Sigils of Power or Sigils of Wisdom.
  • The first eight bosses in Siege of Orgrimmar have a chance to drop a Sigil of Power, Sigil of Wisdom, Secrets of the Empire, or Titan Runestone in addition to their normal loot for players on the appropriate step in the legendary questline.
    
• Surprise Attack!: Fixed an issue where players may sometimes not receive credit for defeating Hei Feng.

Creatures

• Bonus Roll change: Players that don’t have a coin or elect to not use a Bonus Roll when defeating one of the world bosses (Sha of Anger, Galleon, Nalak, and Oondasta) can come back later that same week to use the Bonus Roll. The limit has not changed and remains one attempt and one bonus roll per boss, per week.
• H.A.R.V.E.Y. and D.E.N.T. have returned to their posts. The mechanical auctioneers will once again allow Engineers to access the auction house from the Shrine of Seven Stars and Shrine of Two Moons respectively.
• Stone Trogg Berserker now drops trivial items and can no longer be pickpocketed.
• Stone Trogg Geomancer now drops trivial items and can no longer be pickpocketed.

Brawler's Guild

• Fixed an issue where Mingus Diggs was not resetting properly between fights.

Pet Battles
Pet Battle General

• A new pet battle tournament is available on the Timeless Isle, more details coming soon!
• Round timers in PvP Pet Battles will now get progressively shorter for a player who takes more than 15 seconds to issue a command during their turn.
• Players are now able to trade in any 3 of the same family specific Flawless Battle-Stones for a single Marked Flawless Battle-Stone.
• Viewable pet battles will now display working health bars.
• Battle Pet levels are now only shown on the map if you are tracking Battle Pets.
• Aquatic type's passive effect now reduces damage from damage-over-time effects by 50%, up from 25%.
• Critter type's passive effect now makes critters immune to roots, stuns, and sleep effects.
• Dragonkin type's passive effect now activates after an attack brings a target's to below 50% health, up from 25%.
• Elemental type's passive effect now only affects negative direct effects of weather. (E.g. Sandstorm's accuracy reduction won't be applied, but the damage reduction will.)
• Magic type's passive effect now caps damage taken at 35% of maximum health, up from 40%.
• Battle Pet Training cost and the price of pets sold by Battle Pet Trainers have been greatly reduced.

Battle Pets

• Any Battle Pet that could be awarded from a Throne of Thunder boss on Raid Finder difficulty can now be won from a bonus roll, in addition to the standard bonus roll reward.
• Darkmoon Zeppelin: Several abilities have swapped positions.
• Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling: Several abilities have swapped positions.
• Tiny Twister: The Sandstorm ability has been replaced with Call Lightning.

Battle Pet Abilities

• Battle Pet abilities with a component that increases in damage every time it hits will no longer reset when an opponent's pet gets swapped. (Arcane Blast, Frog Kiss, etc.)
• Accuracy now affects the entire team.
• Call Lightning's duration has been reduced to 5 rounds (down from 9 rounds), and cooldown has been increased to 5 rounds (up from 3 rounds).
• Dark Simulacrum has been replaced with a new ability, Rot. Rot deals Undead damage and temporarily turns the enemy pet's type into Undead.
• Death Grip cooldown increased to 4 rounds (up from 3 rounds), damage has been reduced by 50%, and hit chance has been reduced to match similar abilities.
• Nether Gate damage has been reduced by 33%.
• Sandstorm's duration has been reduced to 5 rounds (down from 9 rounds), and cooldown has been increased to 5 rounds (up from 3 rounds).
• Sweep damage has been reduced by 33%.
• Trihorn Charge damage has been reduced by 11.5% and now has a 1-round cooldown.
• Trihorn Shield now displays the correct amount of damage reduction.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Raids

• The chance for awarding loot from kills or bonus rolls has been increased for Mogu'shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring, and Throne of Thunder on Raid Finder difficulty.
• The chance for awarding loot from using a bonus roll has been increased for Throne of Thunder on Normal difficulty.
• All enemies in Throne of Thunder now have a debuff called Shado-Pan Onslaught, which reduces their health and damage by 20%.
• Fixed an issue where credit for the achievement You Said Crossing the Streams Was Bad was not being awarded to players who are dead or in Spirit of Redemption form.

Dungeons

• Players who obtain a realm-best time in a Challenge Mode dungeon (group must contain at least 3 people from the same realm to qualify) will receive a temporary title specific to each dungeon (e.g. Siegebreaker for Siege of Niuzao temple, Darkmaster for Scholomance, etc.). This title will persist for as long as a player retains the top time on the realm. Holding a realm-best time at any point will also confer a permanent Feat of Strength to record the accomplishment.

Scenarios

• Heroic Scenarios no longer have a minimum item level requirement to enter.

PvP

• Base Resilience now reduces damage players deal to others players by 72% (up from 65%).
• Battle Fatigue now reduces healing for players that are engaged in PvP combat by 55% (up from 45%).
• Season 14 Grievous gear is now available.
• Elite versions of Season 14 Grievous are now available as a mark of prestige for players that are able to attain a personal rating of 2000 and earn 27,000 Conquest Points in the current season. Pricing per piece remains the same but the previous piece requirement has been removed.
• Season 13 Tyrannical gear can now be purchased with Honor Points.
• Season 12 Malevolent gear can now be crafted.
• Equipping any pair of PvP trinkets from Season 12 or later will now grant a 10% reduction in damage taken from other players.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• All non-gladiator gear in Battlegrounds, Rated Battlegrounds, and Arenas will be scaled down to an item level ceiling of 496.
  
  • Grievous Gladiator gear is exempt from this item level ceiling.
  • The item level ceiling will increase at a rate of 1 item level point per week until it reaches a maximum of 512.
    

Battlegrounds

• Conquest Point rewards for winning a random or call-to-arms Battleground match has been increased.
  
  • First win of the day now awards 150 Conquest Points (up from 100).
  • Subsequent wins now awards 75 Conquest Points (up from 50).
    
• Strand of the Ancients
  
  • Bombs are no longer an item held in the player's inventory and will now do considerably more damage, 4500 (up from 1250).
  • Players carrying a bomb now have a button that allows them to place it with a spell effect over their heads.
    
    • Placing a bomb takes 2 seconds, and can be interrupted like a Battleground capture point.
    • Disarming a bomb takes 2 seconds, and can be interrupted like a Battleground capture point.
      
  • Demolishers will no longer have the Ram ability and only one will spawn at each stage.
    

Arenas

• For Arena matches lasting longer than 15 minutes, one of the teams will receive a buff called "The Crowd Chose You" that increases damage, critical strike chance, stealth detection, and reduces damage taken. The buff is awarded based on the following criteria.
  
  • Team with the largest number of players alive.
  • Team that brought an enemy player closest to death (lowest health).
    
• Arena Rating scaling in the 2v2 bracket has been tuned to be consistent with the 3v3 bracket.

Professions

Archaeology

• Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator no longer randomizes digsites when acquired, and is more difficult to obtain. They can now only be purchased as part of a Mantid Artifact Hunter’s Kit, which includes a Lorewalker’s Map.

Blacksmithing

• New Raid and PvP blacksmithing plans have been added. These new plans can be researched by crafting Balanced Trillium Ingots, allowing the blacksmith to learn a random new plan.
• Plans for Balanced Trillium Ingot could be found as a drop from creatures in Pandaria.

Cooking

• A number of new cooking recipes have been added, including new foods that give +300 to a primary stat and noodle carts. Some of these new recipes can be learned from drops in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, others from quests.
• Players who have learned the first recipe in each of “the ways” can discover a questline that starts on the Timeless Isle: “Noodle Secrets Long Forgotten.” Heroes will search for a long-lost pandaren recipe allowing them to build and run their own noodle cart. The all-new questline will revisit some old zones and dungeons, culminating in a solo scenario with a unique time-management mini-game.
• The noodle cart allows a player to set themselves up as a vendor and distribute powerful noodle soups to their faction.

Enchanting

• Items formerly obtained with Valor Points that now cost Justice Points will now disenchant into Sha Crystal Fragments, a new Enchanting reagent.
• Multiple Sha Crystal Fragment can be combined into a a Sha Crystal.

Engineering

• Engineers that are able to acquire Chief Engineer Jard’s Journal can learn to craft Jard's Peculiar Energy Source; a new material used in a number of new engineering schematics. The journal can be obtained as a drop from creatures in Pandaria.
• Blingtron 4000 Gift Package now has a chance to contain Lil’ Bling, a companion pet.

Fishing

• With the lakes and rivers in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms drained of water, the Cloud Serpents carried little buckets of Jewel Danio and relocated them to the Timeless Isle so they can thrive once more.

Inscription

• Many new glyph techniques have been added, and some existing glyphs have been changed. Some of the new techniques can be obtained from creatures anywhere in Pandaria, while others can only be found on powerful creatures that reside on the Timeless Isle.
• A new technique to create Crafted Malevolent Gladiator’s Medallion of Tenacity can be found as a world drop

Leatherworking

• New Raid and PvP leatherworking patterns have been added. These new patterns can be researched by crafting Hardened Magnificent Hide, allowing the leatherworker to learn a random new pattern.
• Patterns for Hardened Magnificent Hide could be found as a drop from creatures in Pandaria.
• Leatherworkers can find a pattern to craft Drums of Rage as a drop from creatures in Pandaria. The drums can be used by anyone to give their raid a minor bloodlust-like effect.

Tailoring

• New Raid and PvP tailoring patterns have been added. These new patterns can be researched by crafting Celestial Cloth, allowing the tailor to learn a random new pattern.
• Patterns for Celestial Cloth could be found as a drop from creatures in Pandaria.

Items

• All permanent item enhancements provided by Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, and various vendors and quests are now able to be applied to items of any level. This means all enchantments can now be applied to heirloom items.
  
  • High level enhancements applied to items equipped by low level players have their power scaled down to be similar to enhancements intended for that level range.
  • Low level enhancements applied to items equipped by high level players do not grow further in power beyond their intended level range.
    
• Adjustments have been made to Mists of Pandaria faction quartermasters.
  
  • Epic quality (purple) Valor items sold by the Shado-Pan Assault now have their reputation requirements reduced to Friendly or below, and have their Valor Point cost reduced by 34%.
  • Epic quality (purple) Valor items sold by all other Mists of Pandaria faction quartermasters no longer have reputation requirements, and will now cost Justice Points instead of Valor.
  • Rare quality (blue) items have their Justice Point cost reduced by 75%.
  • No changes for items that require an Exalted reputation.
    
• Drinking a duplicate flask with less than 15 minutes remaining will now extend the duration of the new flask by that amount.
• The conversion rate for Justice Points to Honor Points have changed. The conversion rate is now 500 Justice per 250 Honor (up from 375 Justice per 250 Honor).
• Trinket, enchant, set bonus, and legendary meta-gem effects whose triggered effect benefits from haste no longer also have their chance to trigger the benefit from haste. Activation chances and internal cooldowns for those effects and other trinket effects have been adjusted to compensate and will now be displayed on their tooltip.
• Capacitive Primal Diamond, and Legendary melee cloaks (Fen-Yu, Fury of Xuen, and Gong-Lu, Strength of Xuen) now have a 40% reduced chance to activate its effects for characters that are in a tanking specialization.
• Indomitable Primal Diamond's effect now grants a 20% damage reduction to all damage taken (up from only physical damage), and its activation rate has been doubled.

UI

• The vestigial Use Hardware sound option has been removed.