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- Tools: New: Camp composer: buffs, clashes and kits, Planners and tools and Duo planner: two specs leveling.
- Professions: Updated:
Alchemy leveling guide 1–320, 
Blacksmithing leveling guide 1–325, 
Cooking leveling guide 1–325 and 29 more. - About: Updated: About this site.
- PvP: Updated: PvP: Honor, ranks and battlegrounds.
- Races: Updated:
Dwarf: racials and lore, 
Gnome: racials and lore, 
Human: racials and lore and 7 more. - Tier Lists: Updated: Dungeon PvE DPS tier list, Dungeon PvE Healer tier list, Duo PvE Leveling tier list and 65 more.
- Zones: Updated: Alterac Mountains zone guide, Alterac Mountains map details, Arathi Highlands zone guide and 171 more.
- About: Updated: About this site.
- Legacy: Updated: Legacy perks: trees, ranks and costs, Legacy challenges and their points and Legacy rewards track.
- Professions: Updated: Alchemy profession guide, Alchemy leveling guide 1–320, Alchemy recipes and 26 more.
- PvP: Updated: PvP: Honor, ranks and battlegrounds.
- Tier Lists: New: Duo PvE Leveling tier list and Duo PvP Leveling tier list. Updated: Tier lists, Dungeon PvE DPS tier list, Dungeon PvE Healer tier list and 66 more.
- Zones: Updated: Alterac Mountains zone guide, Alterac Mountains map details, Arathi Highlands zone guide and 169 more.
- PvP: Updated: PvP: Honor, ranks and battlegrounds.
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Mage: A beta hotfix removed 
Missile Barrage's faster-tick effect from the client data, keeping the halved channel and free cast (not yet confirmed in game). - Professions: Updated: Professions: recipes, pairs and camp items, Alchemy profession guide, Alchemy recipes and 18 more.
- Races: Updated: Troll: racials and lore.
- Tier Lists: New: Balance
Druid professions PvE tier list, Balance Druid professions PvP tier list, 
Feral Bear Druid professions PvE tier list and 53 more. Updated: Tier lists. - Classes: New: Balance Druid PvP ratings, Best race for Balance Druid, Feral Bear Druid PvP ratings and 53 more.
- Legacy: Updated: Legacy challenges and their points.
- Professions: Updated: Alchemy profession guide, Alchemy recipes, Blacksmithing profession guide and 18 more.
- PvP: New: PvP: Honor, ranks and battlegrounds.
- Races: Updated: Dwarf: racials and lore, Gnome: racials and lore, Human: racials and lore and 7 more.
- Tier Lists: New: Professions for Gold: Launch tier list and Professions for Gold: Settled tier list. Updated: Tier lists and Raid PvE DPS tier list.
- Zones: New: Barrow Deeps raid guide, Blackrock Depths dungeon guide, Blackrock Depths boss strategies and 26 more. Updated: Zones: levels, flight paths and lore, Alterac Mountains zone guide, Arathi Highlands zone guide and 93 more.
- About: Updated: About this site.
- Legacy: New: Legacy perks: trees, ranks and costs, Legacy challenges and their points and Legacy rewards track.
- Professions: Updated: Professions: recipes, pairs and camp items, Alchemy profession guide, Alchemy leveling guide 1–320 and 27 more.
- Races: Updated: Dwarf: racials and lore, Gnome: racials and lore, Human: racials and lore and 7 more.
- Tier Lists: New: Dungeon PvE DPS tier list, Dungeon PvE Healer tier list, Dungeon PvE Tank tier list and 8 more. Updated: Tier lists and Class Solo PvE tier list.
- Zones: New: Blackfathom Deeps dungeon guide, Blackfathom Deeps boss strategies, Blackfathom Deeps loot and 42 more. Updated: Zones: levels, flight paths and lore, Alterac Mountains zone guide, Arathi Highlands zone guide and 67 more.
- Professions: New: Professions: recipes, pairs and camp items, Alchemy profession guide, Alchemy leveling guide 1–320 and 29 more.
- Races: Updated: Races: racials, lore and classes, Dwarf: racials and lore, Gnome: racials and lore and 8 more.
- Tier Lists: New: Tier lists and Class Solo PvE tier list.
- Zones: New: Zones: levels, flight paths and lore, Alterac Mountains zone guide, Alterac Mountains map details and 98 more.
- About: Updated: About this site.
- Classes: New: Balance Druid macros, Feral Bear Druid macros,
Feral Cat Druid macros and 25 more. - Races: Updated: Troll: racials and lore.
- News and blue posts: The home page and a new News page gather Blizzard's WoW Forever news and blue posts, each with our own summary and a link to the original.
- Races: All ten races, with their racial abilities, lore, starting zones, the classes each can be and the ones each suits best.
- Launch countdown: Every page now counts down to the WoW Forever launch, in your own time zone.
- A guide per spec: Each spec has its own overview, rotation, leveling, spells or abilities and talents pages.
- WoW Forever DB opens: Guides for all nine classes, written against the beta client and kept current as it patches.
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Warrior: 
Overpower was fixed so it can activate against enemies well below your level. -
Paladin: Holy Strike's weapon damage per rank was raised so each rank is an upgrade: 25, 29, 32, 36, 39, 43, 46 and 50% of weapon damage from rank 1 to rank 8 (build 70450). - Paladin:
Light's Vigil's tooltip was reorganized to make clear that only the damage version refunds mana. - Paladin: The end of
Flash of Light's cast animation plays again. - Paladin: Improved Holy Strike was taken out of the talent tree and its shorter cooldown became part of Holy Strike for everyone (build 70450).
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Hunter: A setting was added that switches you between auto attack and 
Auto Shot by itself, and it works on gamepad (build 70450). - Hunter: A drawn bow now shows its arrow.
- Hunter:
Summon Hawk's hawk began appearing on the target you cast it at and staying stuck to it (build 70450). - Hunter:
Sniper Shot began benefiting from the 
Marksmanship talents it was missing (build 70450). - Hunter:
Strider Kick became usable while disarmed or with nothing in your main hand (build 70450). - Hunter:
Predator's Edge's tooltip was reworded to say it boosts only the crit damage of your abilities (build 70450). - Hunter:
Improved Mend Pet no longer raises Mend Pet's Mana cost instead of lowering it (build 70450). -
Rogue: Switching specializations no longer refills a Rogue's Energy. - Rogue: Death Mark appeared in the game client as a 4-rank finishing move, outside the talent tree;
Thousand Cuts stays the capstone. -
Priest: 
Mind Vision no longer makes the target stand up and interrupt a drink. - Priest:
Power Word: Shield now tells you when you can't replace the target's shield because theirs is stronger. - Priest: Casting Power Word: Shield no longer prints SHIELDED twice in scrolling combat text.
- Priest:
Holy Fire rank 5's damage over time (45 over 10 s) no longer exceeds rank 6's; rank 6 now does 50. - Priest:
Shadow Word: Death now gets 
Shadowform's extra critical damage, which it had been missing. - Priest:
Vampiric Embrace can no longer be resisted. - Priest:
Inner Focus is now used up by one spell only, even if you queue another spell into 
Penance's channel. - Priest:
Twin Disciplines now correctly counts Shadow Word: Death, 
Mind Flay, 
Starshards and Penance. - Priest:
Divine Aegis's tooltip now says it fires on non-periodic critical heals and states the shield's cap of 1200 damage. - Priest: Power in Light now also applies to targets afflicted with your
Shadow Word: Pain, not only Holy Fire. - Priest:
Silent Resolve's threat cut now applies to all your spells, not only Holy. - Priest:
Shadow Weaving's tooltip now says correctly that the target takes more damage from you. - Priest:
Devouring Contagion now jumps to two nearby enemies; Blizzard's earlier description said a new enemy. - Priest: The Plague jumped by Devouring Contagion no longer costs mana, plays a cast animation or puts your own
Devouring Plague on full cooldown. - Priest: Improved Power Word: Shield moved to row 3.
- Priest: Improved
Fade was removed with no replacement. - Priest: Shadow Infinity was removed.
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Shaman: The 
Fire Nova tooltip now rises correctly when you put points into Trial By Fire. - Shaman: The
Totemic Recall trainer cost was fixed from 70 silver to the intended 22 silver. - Shaman:
Stormstrike's debuff can no longer be used up by other players or pets. - Shaman:
Windfury Weapon's extra attacks began showing as white hits in scrolling combat text. - Shaman:
Chain Heal's visual had a little green added. - Shaman:
Grounding Totem was fixed to be destroyed after redirecting a spell. - Shaman:
Call of Flame began lengthening 
Flame Shock by 3/6/9 seconds by rank. - Shaman:
Lightning Overload procs stopped spending Clearcasting. - Shaman:
Elemental Reach began taking 10/20 seconds off the cooldown of 
Totemic Projection. - Shaman: The Restorative Totems Healing Stream bonus began applying to the whole totem, not only its base value.
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Warlock: A target can no longer carry several 
Curse of Recklessness debuffs at once. - Warrior:
Battle Shout now buffs the whole raid, not just your party. - Warrior: Damage and spell pushback no longer interrupt or push back
Slam's cast. - Warrior:
Ruthless changed to +2% crit on every attack, replacing Sword Specialization. - Warrior:
Earth Fury changed to +2% critical damage and healing, replacing Mace Specialization. - Warrior:
Quickness movement speed now stacks with other speed increases. - Warrior:
Eureka! changed from a buff for the next 3 attacks to an 8-second buff with no charges. - Warrior:
Blood Fury cooldown changed from 2 to 3 minutes and its healing penalty was removed. - Warrior:
Savage changed to +1% crit, replacing Axe Specialization. - Warrior:
Shatter Curse now dispels Curses and 
Banes and cuts magic damage taken by 5%. - Warrior:
Touch of the Grave's proc chance and cooldown were adjusted; figures not given. - Warrior:
Tauren 
Endurance changed from +1% hit to +5% health and 2% critical damage and healing. - Warrior:
Troll 
Regeneration bonuses were doubled to 20%. - Warrior:
Lingering Rage no longer stops health regeneration after combat. - Warrior:
Weaponmaster's sword extra attack no longer triggers from 
Shield Bash or 
Shield Slam. - Warrior:
Improved Berserker Rage was fixed; it was not removing movement impairments. - Paladin: Ruthless changed to 2% critical strike chance, replacing Sword Specialization.
- Paladin: Earth Fury changed to 2% critical damage and healing, replacing Mace Specialization.
- Paladin:
Find Treasure now also finds extra items in most chests. - Paladin: Touch of the Grave was changed to a 20% chance for Paladins with a 25 second internal cooldown.
- Paladin:
Righteous Fury went back to 90% more Holy threat; it had been 60% since 24 Sep. - Paladin:
Salvation stopped being a Blessing, 
Mass Salvation became the raid version, and Paladins learned 
Revoke (build 70425). - Paladin:
Champion of the Light was cut again, to 10/20/30% of your Intellect. - Paladin:
Sanctified Judgement's mana return stopped generating threat. - Paladin: Shield Specialization's mana restore on block was cut from 6% to 4% of max mana.
- Paladin:
Reckoning was fixed: each trigger adds a charge (up to 4) and your next melee swing fires them all, so instant attacks no longer reset your swing timer. - Paladin: Blizzard announced that
Eye for an Eye will move from row 4 to row 5. - Hunter: You can have one Fire and one Ice trap out at once, and Fire traps scale with attack power.
- Hunter: Pet crit became the higher of the Hunter's melee or ranged crit.
- Hunter:
Trueshot Aura reaches the whole raid, not just your party. - Hunter: Human Sword Specialization (+2% crit with a sword equipped) was replaced by Ruthless, a flat +2% crit chance.
- Hunter: Dwarf Mace Specialization was replaced by Earth Fury, +2% critical damage and healing.
- Hunter:
Night Elf Quickness now stacks with other speed increases. - Hunter:
Wind Blessed haste changed from +1% to +3%. - Hunter:
Orc Blood Fury cooldown changed from 2 to 3 minutes. - Hunter: Orc Axe Specialization was replaced by Savage, a flat +1% crit.
- Hunter: Troll Regeneration health bonuses doubled to 20%.
- Hunter: Tauren Endurance changed from +1% hit to 2% critical damage and healing.
- Hunter: Tauren
Plainsrunning gained 3% mounted speed. - Hunter: Wind Blessed haste changed from +1% to +3%, and
Skysight became castable while moving. - Hunter: Auto Shot began requiring 0.5 seconds of standing still before it fires.
- Hunter:
Resourcefulness mana regeneration now procs only on melee and ranged ability crits, not traps, and it also lowers Strider Kick's cost. - Hunter: Sonic Blast changed from slowing casts 60% for 30 sec on a 30 sec cooldown to 30% for 20 sec on a 60 sec cooldown.
- Hunter: Mine! changed from a 4 sec disarm on a 60 sec cooldown to a 3 sec disarm on a 90 sec cooldown.
- Hunter: Dismember changed from 50% less healing for 10 sec on a 6 sec cooldown to 25% for 6 sec on a 15 sec cooldown.
- Rogue: Poisons no longer trigger against attackers.
- Rogue: Human Sword Specialization was replaced by Ruthless, a flat +2% critical strike chance that no longer needs a sword.
- Rogue: Dwarf Mace Specialization was replaced by Earth Fury, +2% critical damage and healing.
- Rogue: Night Elf Quickness run-speed bonus began stacking with other speed boosts.
- Rogue: Gnome Eureka! became an 8-second buff with no charges.
- Rogue: Wind Blessed haste changed from +1% to +3%.
- Rogue: Orc Blood Fury cooldown changed from 2 to 3 minutes.
- Rogue: Orc Axe Specialization was replaced by Savage, +1% critical strike chance.
- Rogue:
Undead Touch of the Dead procs 20% of the time for Rogues on a 25-second internal cooldown. - Rogue: Troll Regeneration doubled from 10% to 20%.
- Rogue:
Sap can no longer trigger weapon procs. - Rogue:
Cold Blood began being consumed when 
Mutilate crits. - Priest: Wands began requiring you to stand still for half a second before they fire.
- Priest: Gnome Eureka! became an 8-second buff and began boosting Power Word: Shield.
- Priest: Troll Regeneration doubled to 20% health regeneration bonuses.
- Priest: High ranks of
Renew stopped blocking other Priests' Renews on the same target. - Priest: Devouring Plague's cooldown changed from 1 minute to 24 seconds.
- Priest: Shadow Word: Death's cooldown was set to 18 seconds (Blizzard listed 12 s, the client showed 15 s).
- Priest: Vampiric Embrace's cooldown changed from 1 minute to 30 seconds.
- Priest:
Mental Strength changed from +15% Intellect to +2/4/6/8/10% Intellect. - Priest:
Improved Mind Flay changed from +20% damage, +10 yards range and a slow cut to 20% to 10/20% more damage per tick. - Priest:
Dark Inspiration replaced Shadow Affinity in row 4. - Shaman: Skyborne Wind Blessed changed from +1% haste to +3% haste.
- Shaman: Orc Shatter Curse changed from immunity and 15% less magic damage taken to dispelling Curses and Banes and 5% less magic damage taken.
- Shaman: Orc Savage (+1% crit) replaced Axe Specialization.
- Shaman: Troll Regeneration doubled from 10% to 20% health regeneration bonuses.
- Shaman: Tauren
War Stomp cooldown changed from 2 minutes to 90 seconds. - Shaman: Tauren Endurance changed from +1% hit to 2% critical damage and healing.
- Shaman: Dwarf Earth Fury (+2% critical damage and healing) replaced Mace Specialization.
- Shaman: The
Elemental and Restoration leveling orders were re-spent after Call of Thunder was removed: 
Tidal Focus first, 
Reverberation 3, Fury 3. - Shaman: The 31/7/13 build gained a fourth
Convection rank when Call of Thunder was removed. - Shaman: Elemental was reworked:
Lava Burst moved to 21 points with no prerequisite, 
Elemental Fury moved behind Lightning Overload and 
Elemental Mastery returned as the 31-point talent. - Shaman:
Chain Lightning's mana cost was cut about 35% on all four ranks. - Shaman: Fire Nova's base damage, mana cost and spell power coefficient were all lowered (coefficient from 0.214 to 0.143).
- Shaman: Stormstrike changed from a flat 125 mana to 8% of base mana, and its debuff stopped being used up when your spell misses.
- Shaman: Lava Burst moved from the 31-point capstone behind Lightning Overload 3/3 to a 21-point talent with a fourth rank and no prerequisite.
- Shaman:
Mana Tide Totem gained a rank at 38 (ranks now at 25, 38, 48 and 58). - Shaman:
Elemental Alacrity moved to the 2nd row. - Shaman: Elemental Fury began requiring Lightning Overload instead of Call of Thunder.
- Shaman: Lightning Overload began requiring Elemental Alacrity, and Lava Burst stopped requiring it.
- Shaman: Improved Fire Nova was renamed Trial by Fire.
- Shaman: Tidal Focus and
Totemic Focus swapped places; Tidal Focus is back in the first row and Totemic Focus moved to the second row of the Restoration tree. - Shaman: Elemental Mastery returned as the 31-point talent: 0.5 seconds off Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst and no Chain Lightning cooldown for 15 seconds.
- Shaman: Call of Thunder (one rank, +3% crit) was removed from the Elemental talent tree.
- Shaman: Grace of Air began stacking with Windfury and
Flametongue Totems, and the four buff totems became raid-wide. - Shaman: Windfury and Flametongue Totems stopped affecting pets.
- Mage: Client build 70425 reworked Arcane and Fire and added the
Frost Blast spell. - Mage:
Ice Lance's bonus damage against Frozen targets fell from 300% to 200%. - Mage: Frost Blast was added at level 24.
- Mage:
Winter's Chill was redesigned: it no longer adds crit and instead boosts your next 
Cone of Cold. - Mage: Human Ruthless replaced Sword Specialization.
- Mage: Gnome Eureka! became an 8 s buff with no charges; before, it covered your next 3 spells.
- Mage:
Read Leyline became castable while moving. - Mage: Orc Blood Fury cooldown changed from 2 minutes to 3.
- Mage: Undead Touch of the Dead was changed for casters to a 30% chance with a 25 s internal cooldown.
- Mage: Troll Regeneration was doubled from 10% to 20% health regeneration bonuses.
- Mage: Wands now need you to stand still for 0.5 s before they shoot.
- Mage:
Arcane Blast stacks changed from +10% to your other spells for 8 s to 15% of your Intellect as spell damage for 15 s. - Mage: Arcane Blast's boost to your next AoE spell was 10% before the rework.
- Mage: Arcane Blast stacks changed from lasting until your next spell to lasting 15 s from the first one.
- Mage:
Fire Blast and other filler stopped clearly ending Arcane Blast stacks. - Mage: Arcane Blast became a 1.5 s cast; its damage and coefficient fell 40% and its mana cost was unchanged.
- Mage: Cone of Cold's visual was slightly moved.
- Mage:
Ice Block was fixed so it no longer looks too transparent. - Mage: Fire Power was redesigned to take only 3 points: Fire spells do 1/2/3% more damage per Fire effect of yours on the target, up to +12%.
- Mage: Critical Mass can take up to 5 points, for +10% Fire spell critical strike chance at 5/5.
- Mage: Presence of Mind was fixed: spell casts did not use it up.
- Mage: Clearcasting was fixed: it no longer rolls for every target a spell hits.
- Mage:
Dampen Magic and Amplify Magic no longer trigger Clearcasting. - Mage: Abilities cast out of combat no longer trigger Clearcasting.
- Mage: Missile Barrage moved to row 1 with 2 points, and
Arcane Missiles hits can now trigger it. - Mage: Missile Barrage was fixed so it no longer lowers the cost and duration of a second Arcane Missiles cast.
- Mage:
Improved Fire Blast replaced Wake of Fire, every Fire Blast cast began adding a 
Heating Up stack, and a Presence of Mind 
Pyroblast stopped using them up. - Mage:
Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells can now activate 
Fingers of Frost. - Mage: Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells can now activate
Frostbite. - Warlock: Human Ruthless replaced Sword Specialization.
- Warlock: Gnome Eureka! became an 8-second buff with no charges; before, it covered your next 3 damaging spells.
- Warlock: Orc Blood Fury cooldown changed from 2 minutes to 3.
- Warlock: Orc Shatter Curse's magic damage reduction fell from 15% to 5%.
- Warlock: Undead Touch of the Grave changed from a 10% chance for Warlocks to a 30% chance for casters with a 25-second internal cooldown.
- Warlock: Troll Regeneration rose from 10% to 20%.
- Warlock: Wands began to need you to stand still for 0.5 seconds before shooting.
- Warlock: Client build 70425 fixed "you couldn't cast
Soul Link on your pet". - Warlock:
Summon Incubus costing no shard under the Reagent Economy perk was fixed. - Warlock:
Grim Reach replaced Malediction, which was +5% to all your periodic damage. - Warlock:
Destructive Reach was reworded to cover 
Destruction spells only; the 7 Oct text said all damaging spells. - Warlock:
Shadow Mastery changed from 1/2/3/4/5% to 2/4/6/8/10% Shadow damage. - Druid: Night Elf Quickness speed increase began stacking with other movement speed increases.
- Druid: Wind Blessed rose from +1% to +3% haste,
Walk on Air got a 90 s cooldown, and Read Leyline became castable while moving. - Druid: Tauren Endurance changed from +1% hit to +2% critical damage and healing, War Stomp got a 90 s cooldown, and Plainsrunning began needing real movement to keep its effect.
- Druid: Skysight became castable while moving.
- Druid:
Shred moved from level 22 to level 20. - Druid:
Moonkin Form's aura became raid-wide and spell crit only, so it no longer overlaps 
Leader of the Pack. - Druid:
Faerie Fire began generating threat in Bear and Dire Bear Form and stopped triggering 
Omen of Clarity in forms. - Druid: Several Faerie Fire debuffs could no longer be active on one target at once.
- Druid: High ranks of
Rejuvenation no longer stop other Druids from putting their Rejuvenation on the same target. - Druid: Multiple
Insect Swarm instances stopped stacking the hit reduction. - Druid: Shred's tooltip flat damage was fixed to scale with
Savage Fury's bonus; it was only a display bug and the damage did not change. - Druid: Bear and Dire Bear Form began keeping
Furor's stored energy instead of throwing it away. - Druid: Leader of the Pack became a raid-wide aura for melee and ranged crit only.
- Druid: A bug that stopped the Leader of the Pack,
Thick Hide, 
Feral Swiftness and 
Heart of the Wild bonuses applying properly when a character logged in was fixed. - Druid: The recommended level-30 Balance build took Improved Starfire 2 in place of Vengeance 2.
- Druid: The recommended Moonkin build changed from 33/5/13 with Heart of the Wild 5 to 38/0/13 with Improved Starfire 5.
- Warrior: Build 70291 fixed three rage-from-damage-taken bugs: player health used instead of a creature's, crits and crushing blows, and absorbs; rage is now balanced on 20-40% armor by level.
- Warrior: Weapon swaps within one global cooldown work again (build 70291).
- Warrior:
Demoralizing Shout now puts some threat on every enemy it hits (build 70291); before that it caused no threat. - Warrior:
Spearing Strike dismounts targets again (build 70291). - Warrior:
Last Stand grants the correct amount of health again (build 70291); it had been giving the wrong amount. - Warrior:
Impale requires 
Deep Wounds again (build 70291). - Warrior: Deep Wounds no longer scales with the off-hand weapon's attack power (build 70291).
- Paladin:
Will of the Forsaken became usable again while asleep or charmed. - Paladin:
Retribution Aura (build 70291) was fixed to use your spell power instead of the target's, but its base damage went back to Vanilla values and its spell-power ratio fell from 13.3% to 6%. - Paladin:
Seal of Fury stopped returning mana without 
Improved Seal of Fury, and the mana it restores stopped generating threat (build 70291). - Paladin: The mana Shield Specialization restores stopped generating threat (build 70291).
- Paladin: Reckoning's extra attack was limited to once every 1.5 seconds (build 70291).
- Hunter: Pets no longer gain health over and over when at low health.
- Hunter:
Disengage's doubled threat reduction, announced earlier, was missed and was only implemented in build 70291. - Hunter:
Improved Concussive Shot's stun activation chance was fixed. - Hunter:
Improved Wing Clip's root chance was fixed. - Hunter:
Unleashed Fury began correctly raising your pet's damage in build 70291; before that it did not. - Hunter:
Entrapment gained diminishing returns in build 70291 and fires only when a 
Frost Trap first triggers, not on its periodic effect. - Hunter:
Expose Prey's Mongoose Bite activation lasts 10 seconds instead of 5. - Rogue: Build 70291 let several weapon swaps fit inside one global cooldown, so a swap macro can switch a whole weapon set at once.
- Priest:
Smite ranks 1–4 had their base damage smoothed to 13–18, 26–31, 44–51 and 59–68. - Priest:
Lesser Heal ranks 1–3 were changed to heal 47–57, 89–106 and 157–181 (build 70291). - Priest:
Heal ranks 1–2 were smoothed to 260–300 and 364–415 (build 70291). - Priest: Build 70291 cut Penance's damage and healing and raised its mana cost, and fixed rank 4's damage anomaly (131); it now costs 150 mana, with 45 damage and 134 healing (earlier values 81, 184 and 100).
- Priest: Penance healing on ranks 2 and 4 was raised after the recut.
- Priest: Penance healing on ranks 2 and 4 showed in the client as 209 and 425, down from 291 and 673.
- Shaman: Lightning Bolt ranks 1–5 had their base points and per-level points adjusted so growth across ranks 1–6 is smoother and a new rank is always better.
- Shaman: The
Water Shield buff tooltip now shows the mana restored accurately and no longer claims a 15-second cooldown. - Shaman: Mana Tide Totem's visual was fixed to show again on each pulse.
- Shaman: Flametongue Totem was fixed to read the target's attack speed, not the weapon's, when the target is shapeshifted.
- Shaman: Fire Nova was fixed so it can no longer both trigger Clearcasting and use it up.
- Shaman: Nature's Guidance was removed.
- Mage: Arcane Missiles ranks 2-3 rose slightly (rank 3 from 46 to 49 a second).
- Mage:
Fireball ranks 1-3 hit a little less and ranks 4-5 harder (rank 5 from 98–130 to 108–143). - Mage: Client build 70291:
Flamestrike's burn stopped triggering 
Impact stuns. - Mage:
Frostbolt ranks 1-3 hit a little less and ranks 4-5 harder (rank 5 from 97–105 to 104–114). - Warlock: Client build 70291: your current demon began to be stunned while you summon a new one.
- Warlock:
Shadow Bolt ranks 1–4 were smoothed so each new rank is a real upgrade. - Warlock: Client build 70291: only Shadow damage from
Demonic Brand became high threat. - Druid: Mana Potions began working in form after a bug had stopped them.
- Druid: Wolfshead Helm's
Shifting Power bonus dropped from 20 to 5 energy, and Shifting Power was blocked at full energy. - Druid: Bear and Dire Bear threat bonus rose from +30% to +50%, crit Rage from +75% to +100%, and Rage from damage taken was fixed after being bugged low.
- Druid: Wrath ranks 1 to 5 were retuned so growth across ranks 1 to 6 is smoother and each new rank is an upgrade.
- Druid:
Thorns base damage went back to Vanilla values and its spell-power share was cut from 13.3% to 6%. - Druid: Cat Form stopped lowering your maximum health.
- Druid: Effects that override a Druid's form became far more limited, closer to Classic.
- Druid:
Demoralizing Roar began putting threat on every target it hits. - Druid: Predatory Instincts was renamed
Natural Instinct. - Druid: Thick Hide was implemented in code, so changing gear while shapeshifted no longer misses it.
- Shaman: Elemental Mastery was removed.
- Shaman: Call of Thunder moved from row 3 to row 4 as a 16-point gold medal talent needing Elemental Alacrity.
- Warlock: Blizzard announced Malediction as a new row 2
Affliction talent: up to 5% more periodic damage from your Warlock spells. - Warrior: Crits with a basic attack now give 100% more rage.
- Warrior: Fury was rebuilt for leveling: Whirlwind always hits with both weapons without a talent,
Bloodthirst scales at 45% of attack power (up from 35%), Flurry needs Death Wish instead of Enrage, and three new talents arrived. Protection's early rows were reshuffled and Toughness was removed. - Warrior: Precision, Boundless Rage and Improved
Cleave were removed from the Warrior tree. - Warrior:
Unbridled Wrath no longer doubles for two-handed weapons. - Warrior: Berserker Rage is learned at level 30 instead of 32.
- Warrior: Dual Wield Specialization stopped giving hit.
- Warrior:
Furious Precision was added in row 3. - Warrior:
Booming Voice also cuts shout rage costs by 5–25%, and shout durations became baseline. - Warrior: Raging Blows now makes Cleave and Whirlwind cost 3 less rage; its off-hand Whirlwind effect became baseline.
- Warrior:
Gore Drinker was added. - Warrior: Lingering Rage was added.
- Warrior:
Blood Craze no longer triggers from Bloodthirst. - Warrior: Anticipation moved to row 2.
- Warrior:
Iron Will moved from Fury into Protection row 1. - Warrior:
Improved Bloodrage moved from row 2 to row 1. - Warrior:
Improved Revenge moved to row 2. - Warrior:
Improved Disarm moved to row 3. - Warrior: Improved Shield Bash moved to row 4.
- Warrior: Improved Berserker Rage moved from row 6 to row 5.
- Warrior: Crits with a basic attack gave 75% more rage.
- Warrior: Eureka! no longer helps
Rend's bleed. - Warrior: Dungeon quest XP was cut; it still pays about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Warrior: Known issue: mobs can parry and block from behind at close range.
- Warrior: Respawn rates were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Warrior: Rend now tags a mob to you instantly.
- Warrior:
Sunder Armor now tags a mob instantly. - Warrior: Spearing Strike works with any weapon but needs
Battle Stance. - Warrior: A queued
Heroic Strike stopped raising off-hand hit chance. - Warrior: Blizzard's notes said Dual Wield Specialization no longer gives a 20/40/60/80/100% off-hand rage bonus; the client shows 10–50%.
- Warrior: Dual Wield Specialization's hit chance bonus was fixed to apply only to the off-hand, not both weapons.
- Warrior: Unbridled Wrath's proc chance was fixed.
- Paladin: Dungeon quest XP was cut; it still pays about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Paladin: Known issue: enemies can parry and block from behind at close range.
- Paladin: Respawn rates were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Paladin: Ranks far below your level began to get less from healing power and to proc talents less often.
- Paladin:
Redoubt was cut from 6–30% to 4–20% block. - Paladin:
Holy Shield block chance was raised from 20% to 30%. - Paladin: Champion of the Light was cut from 33/66/100% to 20/40/60% of your Intellect.
- Hunter: Pet Aggressive mode came back.
- Hunter: Dungeon quest XP was cut; it still pays about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Hunter: Beasts whose pet ability ranks were above their own level were corrected, so a pet should no longer seem to lose an ability.
- Hunter:
Improved Stings got a new icon, picked to feel more like Vanilla. - Hunter: Predator's Edge got a new icon, picked to feel more like Vanilla.
- Hunter: Deflection was halved from 2–10% to 1–5% parry.
- Hunter: Sniper Shot's range rule was restated: 45 yards, and +10 yards on your next 3 shots within 10 seconds.
- Rogue: Blizzard announced that Death Mark will replace Thousand Cuts as the
Subtlety 31-point talent. - Rogue: Shenthul in Orgrimmar began training
Skyborne (Windshaper) Rogues. - Rogue: Dungeon quest XP was cut; it still pays about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Rogue: Respawns were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Rogue: A missed
Expose Armor stopped costing combo points. - Rogue: Setup began adding points only when your current target is the enemy you dodged.
- Priest: Low ranks far below your level began getting less from spell power and healing power, and proc talents less often.
- Priest: Gnome Eureka! stopped boosting Renew and damage-over-time spells.
- Priest: Dungeon quest XP was cut; it still pays about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Priest: Respawns were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Priest: Crafted common and uncommon wands began selling for 1 copper.
- Priest: Devouring Plague began to be able to crit.
- Priest: Inner Focus's crit bonus stopped applying to periodic effects.
- Priest: Shadow Weaving was fixed so it can't fail to apply.
- Priest: Early Demise was fixed to add crit only at or below 20% health.
- Shaman: Dungeon quest XP was cut; it still pays about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Shaman: Respawns were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Shaman: Low ranks began getting less from spell power and proc talents less often.
- Shaman: Downranked heals far below your level began getting less from healing power.
- Shaman: Totemic Recall's mana refund began working.
- Shaman: The Ghost Wolf form was made easier to see in well-lit areas.
- Shaman:
Disease Cleansing Totem's duration was fixed from 2 minutes to 5. - Mage: Hot Streak was renamed Heating Up.
- Mage: Winter's Chill and
Improved Scorch can no longer be resisted once their spell lands. - Mage: Combustion went back from 4 crits to 3.
- Mage: Gnome Eureka! stopped boosting damage over time.
- Mage: Dungeon quest XP was cut, to about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Mage: Respawns were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Mage: Low ranks of Frostbolt began to get less spell power and fewer procs at high level; Rank 1 at 60 never procs Frostbite.
- Mage: Mage scrolls can no longer be cast while moving.
- Mage: A balance pass changed most Comprehension scroll tooltips.
- Warlock: Gnome Eureka! stopped boosting DoTs, putting Human ahead of Gnome for Affliction.
- Warlock: Dungeon quest XP was cut, to about 2.2 times Classic's.
- Warlock: Respawns were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Warlock: Aggressive pet mode returned.
- Warlock: Ranks far below your level began to trigger
Nightfall less often. - Warlock: Starting any other cast now ends a
Drain Soul channel. - Warlock:
Hellfire became able to crit. - Warlock: The Incubus model was swapped for a lower-resolution one.
- Warlock: Soul Harvesting was renamed
Soul Harvest, and its mana regeneration started working. - Druid: Client build 70170 changed Druid abilities and talents.
- Druid: Respawns were raised in Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
- Druid: Skyborne (High Order) Druids gained access to the Cure Poison quest chain.
- Druid: Loot bugs in the Cat Form quest were fixed (also on 28 Sep).
- Druid: Downranked spells began getting less from spell power and proccing Omen of Clarity less.
- Druid: Tiger's Fury was removed and replaced by Shifting Power.
- Druid: Downranked heals began getting less from healing power.
- Druid: Bear Form, Dire Bear Form and Cat Form became immune to Disarm.
- Druid:
Swipe began gaining 3% of attack power. - Druid:
Primal Bite threat was roughly doubled. - Druid: Faerie Fire stopped resetting the swing timer.
- Druid: King of the Jungle was removed.
- Priest: Blizzard said several Priests' Renews can sit on one target.
- Priest: Blizzard said Fade's threat drop was doubled.
- Warrior: Sunder Armor threat scaling with attack power was fixed on every rank.
- Warrior:
Bloodthrill's Overpower chance was raised from 2–10% to 4–20%. - Warrior:
Bastion and 
Focused Rage swapped rows. - Warrior: Focused Rage moved up to row 5 to help Protection level, swapping rows with Bastion.
- Paladin: Echo of Justice no longer triggers more often than intended.
- Paladin: Righteous Fury was cut from 90% to 60% more Holy threat.
- Paladin: Crusade was removed.
- Paladin: Holy Strike's cooldown was cut from 12 to 10 seconds.
- Paladin: The instant-cast
Judgement of Righteousness and Judgement of Fury were fixed to use the right spell power coefficients, and Judgement of Righteousness's own wrong coefficient was corrected. - Paladin: Power Word: Shield was fixed so it no longer overwrites Seal of Fury.
- Paladin: Blizzard fixed
Consecration failing to apply its increased damage to some targets. - Paladin: Consecration's spell power coefficient per tick was lowered from 0.095 to 0.042.
- Paladin: Light's Vigil cast from a focus macro was fixed so it no longer goes to the wrong target.
- Paladin:
Seal of Righteousness was fixed: it gained almost twice as much benefit from Spell Damage as intended. - Paladin:
Sacred Arbiter was raised from 10% to 20%. - Paladin: Vengeance was cut to 3 stacks, and only non-periodic crits start it.
- Paladin: Two-Handed Weapon Specialization was cut from 3/6/9% to 2/4/6%.
- Paladin:
Infusion of Light was fixed so that Holy Shock no longer has 50% increased damage against enemies. - Hunter: Pet Happiness goes down again once a pet has reached maximum loyalty.
- Hunter: Taming a beast above your own level was disallowed.
- Hunter:
Lone Wolf stopped leaving a −4% damage penalty after you unlearned it. - Hunter: Lacerating Strikes was made able to crit.
- Hunter: Wolf Furious Howl's party melee attack power bonus was cut by 40%.
- Hunter: Bat pets now get Sonic Blast as intended.
- Rogue: Using Sap on a PvP-flagged target now flags the Rogue for PvP.
- Priest: Wands stopped scaling with spell damage.
- Priest: Beta patch notes set the respec cost at 1 silver.
- Priest: Power Word: Shield can always overwrite a shield on a target without Weakened Soul.
- Priest: Renew can crit.
- Priest: Night Elf Starshards was fixed to resist pushback with
Twilight Focus; it had been missing it. - Priest:
Confounding Flash got a cast visual closer to Holy than Arcane, with matching new sounds. - Priest:
Dark Sacrifice stopped breaking crowd control. - Shaman: Lightning Bolt ranks 3–4 were buffed so each rank stays an upgrade.
- Shaman: Rage of the Farseer lost its spell haste.
- Shaman: Lava Burst ranks 1–2 were buffed to about 10% above the matching Lightning Bolt.
- Shaman:
Riptide began to be able to crit. - Shaman: The
Windfury Totem buff was renamed from Windfury Totem Passive to Windfury Totem. - Shaman: Blizzard's notes said Tranquil Air, Windfury and
Grace of Air Totems would no longer stack with one another, even from different Shamans in the same group. - Shaman: Flametongue Totem lost its duration.
- Shaman: Elemental Alacrity moved up to the 10-point row.
- Mage: Gnome Eureka! no longer gives Mages 50% off spell costs; it is 10% for everyone.
- Mage: Heating Up's duration rose from 15 s to 20 s.
- Mage: Arcane Missiles began checking line of sight once, when the channel starts.
- Mage: Ignite stopped double-dipping on percentage damage bonuses.
- Mage: Wake of Fire's buff lasted 30 s instead of 20 s.
- Warlock: Wands stopped scaling with spell damage.
- Warlock: Voidwalker Sacrifice was fixed to scale with 10% of your spell healing.
- Druid: Wrath damage was raised by 50%.
- Druid: Thorns began scaling with the caster's spell power.
- Druid: The Cat Form version of
Feral Charge could no longer be cast on allies. - Druid:
Tranquility gained the ability to crit. - Druid: Mangle was renamed Primal Bite and lost its debuff.
- Druid: HoTs gained the ability to crit.
- Priest:
Contingency Plan's ward lasted 15 s in the demo.