New attunement questline in Deadwind Pass.

Short questline leading into the raid.

New World Quests: Kvaldir landing sites.

New The Nightfallen story quests, with new content every week leading up to the opening of The Nighthold.

New World Quests supporting the continued The Nightfallen story.

Falcosaurs Swarm! -- The coastline of the Broken Isles is under assault from an invasive, predatory species, and they're breeding out of control!

Falcosaurs drop Falcosaur Eggs and Falcosaur Feathers, reagents for new and Cooking recipes available from The Wardens faction at Honored and Revered.

Find and raise your Orphaned Falcosaur pet, leading to an exclusive new mount.

Return to Alcaz Isle - Dr. Weavil and the Drudge Gnomes

Get to the bottom of Dr. Weavil's insidious plans on Alcaz Isle.

Rewards include the Big Red Raygun toy for everyone and tamable mechanical spiders for Hunters.

Frozen Pulse now triggers if you have fewer than 2 full Runes (was 1).

Frozen Pulse damage reduced to 60% of Attack Power (was 72%).

Glacial Advance now hits targets in melee range more reliably.

Track Mechanicals granted to all gnome and goblin hunters, as well as any hunter who uses the Mecha-Bond Imprint Matrix.

Vulnerable now increases damage by 50% (was 25%), stacking up to 2 times (was 3 times).

(Frost) Brain Freeze now also increases the damage of your next Flurry by 30%.

(Windwalker, Brewmaster) Crackling Jade Lightning now costs 20 Energy, plus 20 Energy per second.

Retribution Aura no longer ignores tanks (including self)

In talent trees, Divine Steed for Holy and Retribution, and Blessing of Salvation for Protection have been replaced with a new talent:

Cavalier: Divine Steed now has 2 charges.

Holy Wrath now deals 200% of your missing health in damage to 4 nearby enemies, up to 120% of your maximum health.

Blade of Wrath has been redesigned: (Passive) Your auto attacks have a chance to reset the cooldown of Blade of Justice.

has been redesigned: Replaces Avenging Wrath. (Instant -2 minute cooldown) Profoundly empowers your Judgment for 20 seconds.

While empowered, Judgment generates 1 Holy Power, has a 75% reduced cooldown, and increases your damage and healing by 3%, stacking up to 15 times.

First Avenger: Avenger's Shield now add +50% damage to the first target, and +10% Grand Crusader proc chance.

(Shadow) Arcane Torrent now generates 15 Insanity.

Demon Skin and Demonic Circle have swapped talent locations.

Devour Magic has returned for Felhunters.

Unstable Affliction now overlaps when cast multiple times, rather than "rolling" any remaining damage into the new cast. This does not change the total damage dealt by multiple casts, but makes it easier for players to see the strength of an Unstable Afﬂiction on a given target.

Compounding Horror trait redesigned: its buff causes your next Unstable Afﬂiction to deal (32% Spell Power) Shadow damage instantly. stacking up to 5 times

(Afﬂiction) Soul Efﬂgy is now immune to AOE damage.

(Demonology) Demonic Empowerment now increases health by 20% (was 50%).

(Demonology) Thal'kiel's consumption deals damage equal to 8% of pet health (from 6%).

now affects party and raid members only.

In many cases, the level 1-10 abilities that introduce the class have changed.

Many special bonuses and features for class abilities are now granted by upgrades that are learned at a later level.

This applies to every spec for every class other than Death Knight and Demon Hunters.

Examples:

Druids below level 10 now use Solar Wrath and Moonfire as their primary damage abilities, rather than Shred and .

Druids below level 10 now use Solar Wrath and Moonfire as their primary damage abilities, rather than Shred and . While Smite will still be the first spell given to Priests at level 1, the added absorb shield effect will be an upgrade learned by Discipline at level 36, as the purpose of that effect is to add to healing in group content

Rogues will start leveling with an ability that attacks with one weapon and generates one combo point. Rogues who choose Assassination specialization will replace that ability with Mutilate at level 40.

Raiding with Leashes IV

Delve into Ulduar. Trial of the Crusader, and Icecrown Citadel in search of rare pets and the chance to do battle with a new Celestial foe!

Player Versus Player

Nagrand Arena has received a signiﬁcant visual update

Honor talents will no longer be lost when a player chooses to Prestige.

Players will receive gold or artifact power in lieu of honor talents at higher prestige levels.

The quality of items rewarded from skinnish and random battlegrounds now increases based on the player's Honor Level.

Players will no longer receive a bonus piece of gear based on their rating for the ﬁrst two wins in each rated bracket (2v2. 3v3, 1Ov1O).

Players will now receive a bonus piece of gear based on their best rating from the previous week for each rated bracket (2v2, 3v3, 10v10).

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