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New pages, tools and content on the site, and what changed in each class guide, newest first. Each links to what changed. Blizzard’s own changes to the game, build by build, are on What WoW Forever changed.
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Priest: 
Power Word: Shield can now be replaced by a shield of equal or higher rank (bug fix). - Priest:
Shadow Word: Death no longer damages you when it misses; the 30% backlash applies only when the target survives a hit. - Priest:
Cure Disease and 
Abolish Disease no longer take you out of 
Shadowform (bug fix). - Priest:
Vampiric Embrace's healing can no longer critically strike. - Priest:
Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks crowd control; 
Undead Priests were still breaking it after the 24 Sep fix. - Priest:
Devouring Contagion no longer spreads 
Devouring Plague when the dead target was a critter. -
Shaman: 
Lightning Bolt base damage was raised: max rank +80%, each rank about 78% of Classic Era. - Shaman:
Chain Lightning's cast time rose from 2 to 2.5 seconds and its base damage was raised to about 145% of the comparable Lightning Bolt rank. - Shaman:
Earth Shock, 
Flame Shock and 
Frost Shock base damage returned to Classic Era values. - Shaman:
Totemic Projection was renamed Totemic Call; its cooldown is 30 seconds, down from 1 minute. - Shaman:
Stormstrike now deals 150% normalized weapon damage (was 100%) on a 6-second cooldown (was 8). - Shaman:
Riptide lost its initial heal, and its cooldown rose to 12 seconds with a mana cost about 40% lower. - Shaman:
Mental Dexterity rose from 33/67/100% to 50/100/150% of Intellect as attack power. - Shaman:
Maelstrom Weapon's chance to trigger was doubled. - Shaman:
Lightning Overload rose from 3/7/10% to 10/20/30%. - Shaman:
Flurry’s attack speed bonus rose from 25% to 30% at 5/5. - Shaman:
Elemental Reach no longer reduces the cooldown of Totemic Call. -
Mage: 
Arcane Blast's cost per stack is 100% (it was 175%), its duration is 18 s (it was 15 s) and it gives 12% of your Intellect (it was 15%); Blizzard confirmed the changes on 2 Nov. - Mage:
Arcane Missiles can now trigger Clearcasting (bug fix). - Mage:
Missile Barrage is now consumed at the start of the Arcane Missiles channel instead of the end, and Arcane Missiles no longer consumes Clearcasting while Missile Barrage is active. - Mage:
Ignite now applies to 
Flamestrike damage past the first hit (bug fix). -
Druid: 
Shred rose to 200% weapon damage, 
Claw to 140% and 
Ravage to 435%; Rip, 
Rake, 
Ferocious Bite and 
Pounce gained about 25% base points and attack power scaling; 
Starfire about 40% stronger. - Druid: Bear and
Dire Bear Form threat bonus rose from 50% to 115%, to make up for Blessing of Salvation being removed. - Druid:
Leader of the Pack and Moonkin Aura crit apply to all crit types again, and the two are exclusive. - Druid: Starfire base damage rose about 40%.
- Druid: Bear Form and Dire Bear Form threat bonus rose from 50% to 115%.
- Druid:
Swiftmend now needs a 
Rejuvenation or 
Regrowth placed by the casting Druid, not any Druid’s. - Druid: Shred rose from 155% to 200% weapon damage.
- Druid: Claw rose from 110% to 140% weapon damage.
- Druid:
Naturalist rose from 1–5% to 2–10% damage per rank. - Druid:
Genesis rose from 1–5% to 2–10% per rank. - Druid:
Rend and Tear rose from 2–10% to 3–15% damage to Bleeding targets. - What WoW Forever changed: Updated: What WoW Forever changed.
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Paladin: 
Divine Favor moved from row 4 to row 3 of the Holy tree, and 
Anticipation from row 2 to row 4 of the Protection tree (client build 70707, confirmed by Blizzard on 2 Nov). - Tier lists: Updated: Best Leveling Duo tier list, Best Leveling Duo tier list, 70450 and Best Leveling Duo tier list, 70658.
- Druid: Pounce's base points and attack power scaling went up by about 25%.
- Tier lists: Updated: Best Dungeon Tank tier list and Most Fun specs, ranked by how you play.
- Tier lists: Updated: Best Dungeon Tank tier list and Best World PvP Class tier list.
- Tier lists: Updated: Best Dungeon DPS tier list, Best Dungeon DPS tier list, 70450, Best Dungeon DPS tier list, 70658 and 3 more.
- Tools: Updated: Paladin talent calculator.
- Tier lists: Updated: Best Balance Druid professions PvE, Best Feral Bear Druid professions PvE, Best Feral Cat Druid professions PvE and 7 more.
- Tier lists: Updated: Best Protection Paladin professions PvE and Best Retribution Paladin professions PvE.
- Tier lists: New: Best Dungeon DPS tier list, 70658, Best Dungeon Tank tier list, 70658, Best Leveling Duo tier list, 70658 and 6 more. Updated: Best Dungeon DPS tier list, Best Dungeon DPS tier list, 70450, Best Dungeon Healer tier list and 21 more.
- Professions: Updated: Professions: recipes, pairs and camp items,
Blacksmithing profession guide, Blacksmithing leveling guide 1–325 and 5 more. - Races: Updated:
Dwarf: racials and lore, 
Human: racials and lore, 
Orc: racials and lore and 5 more. - Tools: Updated: Druid talent calculator,
Hunter talent calculator, Mage talent calculator and 3 more. - Tier lists: Updated: Best Duo PvP Leveling tier list, Best Leveling Class tier list, Best Launch Gold Professions tier list and 9 more.
- What WoW Forever changed: Updated: What WoW Forever changed.
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Warrior: Client build 70707 made 
Revenge scale with attack power; rank 6 had hit for 138–168 (unannounced). - Paladin: Client build 70707 re-spent the
Retribution leveling order on the new tree: 
Repentance now comes at 30 and 
Champion of the Light runs 35 to 39. - Paladin: Client build 70707 re-spent the Holy leveling order on the new tree:
Oath of Light at 29, 
Boundless Light at 32 and 33, and 
Divine Intellect at 42 to 46. - Paladin: Client build 70707 moved
Templar's Bulwark to 20 and 
Holy Shield to 30 in the Protection leveling order, and re-spent it on the new tree. - Paladin: Client build 70707 removed One-Handed Weapon Specialization.
- Paladin: Client build 70707 removed Voice of Truth (unannounced).
- Paladin: Client build 70707 made
Righteous Fury add 33% to all threat you generate, on top of its Holy bonus (unannounced). - Paladin: Client build 70707 made Holy Shield a 21-point talent (level 30) with no prerequisite, moved its ranks 10 levels earlier (30, 40 and 50 instead of 40, 50 and 60), lowered its block damage (75, 110 and 153 instead of 110, 153 and 221) and mana cost, and added a rank 4 that deals 221.
- Paladin: Client build 70707 made Templar's Bulwark the 11-point Protection talent instead of the 21-point one, learned at level 0 instead of 30, and a Magic effect that enemies can dispel.
- Paladin: Client build 70707 changed Champion of the Light from 3 ranks to 5 ranks of 12% of your Intellect each, for the same 60% at 5/5.
- Paladin: Client build 70707 made
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization cut your threat by 7–20% while a two-hander is equipped. - Paladin: Client build 70707 moved
Holy Conduit from Retribution's first row to Holy’s third row. - Paladin: Client build 70707 cut
Conviction from 5 ranks to 3 and made it add crit to all spells and attacks, 2% per rank, instead of 1% melee crit per rank. - Paladin: Client build 70707 cut
Shield Specialization from 3 ranks to 2 (absorb 10–20%, mana chance 33–66%) and made its proc cover blocked spells. - Paladin: Client build 70707 made
Sacred Duty shorten Forbearance by 5 to 10 seconds. - Paladin: Client build 70707 made
Swift Judgement a second 
Judgement with its own cooldown instead of finishing Judgement’s cooldown and making the next one free, and changed its prerequisite from Improved Seal of Fury to Templar's Bulwark. - Paladin: Client build 70707 raised
Spiritual Focus from 2 ranks to 5. - Paladin: Client build 70707 cut
Reverence from 3 ranks (10–30%) to 2 ranks (15–30%). - Paladin: Client build 70707 raised
Improved Seals from 3 ranks (5–15%) to 5 ranks (3–15%). - Paladin: Client build 70707 moved
Toughness from Protection’s first row to its third row. - Paladin: Client build 70707 removed
Vindication's 1, 2 or 3% bonus to your own Attack Power. - Paladin: Client build 70707 moved
Unyielding Faith from Holy’s second row to Retribution's. - Paladin: Client build 70707 cut
Iron Creed from 5 ranks (25% threat, 10% damage reduction) to 3 ranks (30% threat, 6% damage reduction). - Paladin: Client build 70707 reworked
Holy Power from +15% crit chance on 
Holy Shock and Holy Strike (5% on other spells) to a 50% bonus to crit healing at 5/5. - Paladin: Client build 70707 made
Light's Vigil heal-only: it can no longer target an enemy, and the damage version (175 to 189) and its mana refund are gone. - Paladin: Client build 70707 moved
Divine Precision from row 5 (needing Holy Shock) to row 4, cut it from 3 ranks (6, 12 and 18% hit) to 2, and added shorter 
Silences on you. - Paladin: Client build 70707 renamed Twist of Light as
Unsealed Wrath (unannounced). - Paladin: Client build 70707 reworked Unsealed Wrath: Seals no longer cost 20% less, it stores up to 3 stacks of your Seal instead of one Echo with one swap per swing, and it needs Repentance.
- Paladin: Client build 70707 added the Holy talent Oath of Light (unannounced).
- Paladin: Client build 70707 added the Holy talent Boundless Light (unannounced).
- Paladin: Client build 70707 added the Protection talent
Shieldsworn (unannounced). - Paladin: Client build 70707 added the Protection talent
Stoicism (unannounced).