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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.

  • Paladin: Client build 70707 added the Retribution talent Turn Evil (unannounced).
  • Paladin: Client build 70707 moved Divine Intellect from Holy’s first row to Protection’s.
  • Paladin: Client build 70707 removed Blessing of Light and Greater Blessing of Light (unannounced).
  • Paladin: Client build 70707 removed Salvation, Mass Salvation and Revoke (unannounced).
  • Paladin: Client build 70707 removed Improved Seal of Fury.
  • Paladin: Client build 70707 removed Instrument of Law.
  • Hunter: Endurance Training moved ahead of Pathfinding, so the talent points from level 17 on come up to three levels later.
  • Hunter: Client build 70707 moved Freezing Trap and Frost Trap to a new spell category (unannounced).
  • Hunter: Client build 70707 moved Pathfinding to need 10 points above it, so Endurance Training 3 now comes before it in Hunter leveling orders and builds (unannounced).
  • Hunter: Client build 70707 put Entrapment, Counterattack, Improved Wing Clip, Improved Hamstring and Frostbite in one shared diminishing-returns group (unannounced).
  • Priest: Client 70707 turned Binding Heal, a separate cast that healed you and your target at once, into Holy Binding: when your Flash Heal heals someone else, you are healed for a share too.
  • Priest: Client build 70707 raised Shadow Word: Death's backlash from 10% to 30% of your maximum health (unannounced).
  • Priest: Binding Heal, a separate cast that healed you and your target for the same amount, became Holy Binding in client build 70707 (unannounced).
  • Mage: Ice Lance's bonus against Frozen targets went back to 300%, and every rank now shares Fire Blast's 8 s cooldown, not only rank 1.
  • Mage: Arcane Resilience went from 2 ranks to 3; the build keeps 2 points in it.
  • Mage: Client build 70707 changed Arcane Blast to 12% of your Intellect as spell damage, +100% cost per stack and 18 seconds (unannounced).
  • Mage: Client build 70707 raised Ice Lance's bonus damage against Frozen targets back to 300% and made Arctic Reach add range to it (unannounced).
  • Mage: Client build 70707 raised Frigid Power to +15% Frost damage, with 5% more while shielded (unannounced).
  • Mage: Client build 70707 raised Winter's Chill's damage taken per stack from 5% to 20% (unannounced).
  • Mage: Client build 70707 gave Ice Lance ranks 2 to 6 the same 8-second cooldown as Fire Blast, matching rank 1 (unannounced).
  • Warlock: Client build 70707 made Improved Drains cover Drain Mana instead of Wrack (unannounced).
  • Druid: Ferocious Bite gained a new rank 1, and its old ranks moved up one.
  • Druid: Lacerate became a Feral talent at 25; it was a level 42 spell.
  • Druid: Primal Bite became a 31-point Feral talent in Berserk’s old slot, with ranks at 40, 50 and 60 (was 25, 36 and 48) and damage 42, 62 and 77 (was 26, 38 and 59). Unannounced.
  • Druid: Lacerate gained a new rank 1 (level 25) and rank 2 (level 34); the old ranks 1 to 3 became ranks 3 to 5. Unannounced.
  • Druid: Shifting Power became a one-rank, 8-second-cooldown talent in the Feral 31-point row behind Predatory Discipline (was 16 s, 8 s only with Improved Shifting Power 2/2). Unannounced.
  • Druid: Furor moved to Feral tier 1 and Heart of the Wild to Restoration, swapping trees. Unannounced.
  • Druid: Leader of the Pack's crit and Moonkin Form's spell crit both began applying to spells as well (unannounced), so the two overlap.
  • Druid: Reflection and Subtlety swapped places; Reflection is now in Restoration’s second row. Unannounced.
  • Druid: Naturalist began covering Wild Growth (unannounced).
  • Druid: A Lacerate talent was added in Primal Bite's old 16-point slot, teaching Lacerate rank 1 at 25. Unannounced.
  • Druid: Predatory Discipline was added in Shifting Power's old slot. Unannounced.
  • Druid: Client build 70707 turned Gift of the Earthmother into Bloom (unannounced).
  • Druid: Client build 70707 removed Berserk (unannounced).
  • Druid: Client build 70707 removed Improved Shifting Power (unannounced).
  • Tier lists: Updated: Best Dungeon DPS tier list, Best Dungeon DPS tier list, 70450, Best Dungeon Healer tier list and 139 more.
  • Tools: Updated: Camp composer: buffs, clashes and kits.
  • Tier lists: Updated: Tier lists, Best Dungeon DPS tier list, Best Dungeon DPS tier list, 70450 and 143 more.
  • Zones: Updated: Dungeons and raids by level and Zones: levels, flight paths and lore.
  • Making gold: Updated: Making gold.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Best Dungeon DPS tier list, Best Dungeon DPS tier list, 70450, Best Dungeon Healer tier list and 141 more.
  • What WoW Forever changed: Updated: What WoW Forever changed.
  • About: Updated: Privacy.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Most Fun specs, ranked by how you play.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, 70450, Best World PvP Class: WoW Forever Tier List and 1 more.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Most Fun specs, ranked by how you play.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, 70450, Best World PvP Class: WoW Forever Tier List and 1 more.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Most Fun specs, ranked by how you play.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Open-World PvP Leveling tier list and Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, 70450.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Best Race for PvE: WoW Forever Tier List and Best Race for PvP: WoW Forever Tier List.
  • Tools: Updated: Mage talent calculator.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Most Fun specs, ranked by how you play.
  • About: Updated: About this site.
  • Legacy: Updated: Legacy perks: trees, ranks and costs, Legacy challenges and their points and Legacy rewards track.
  • Making gold: Updated: Making gold.
  • 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 and Orc: racials and lore.
  • Tools: Updated: Druid talent calculator, Hunter talent calculator, Mage talent calculator and 6 more.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Tier lists, Best Dungeon DPS: WoW Forever Tier List, Dungeon PvE DPS tier list, 70450 and 143 more.
  • Zones: Updated: Alterac Mountains zone guide, Alterac Mountains map details, Arathi Highlands zone guide and 169 more.
  • Mage: The Arcane leveling order now opens with Improved Channeling, because the 28 Oct client hotfix removed Arcane Focus.
  • Mage: The Fire leveling order was re-spent for the 70685 tree: Incineration takes Improved Fire Blast's early points, Critical Mass stops at 3/3, Incineration ends at 5/5 and Improved Channeling replaces Arcane Focus.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Duo PvP Leveling tier list.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Tier lists.
  • What to do first at launch: Updated: What to do first at launch.
  • Tier Lists: New: Most Fun specs, ranked by how you play. Updated: Tier lists.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Duo PvP Leveling tier list, Duo PvP Leveling tier list, 70450, Best Leveling Class: WoW Forever Tier List and 1 more.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Best Leveling Duo: WoW Forever Tier List, Duo PvP Leveling tier list, Duo PvP Leveling tier list, 70450 and 4 more.
  • Paladin: Repentance moved from 41 to 33 in the Retribution leveling order, as the live level-30 build takes it early.
  • Paladin: The Holy leveling order now follows the live level-30 build: Holy Shock at 30 instead of 58, and Light's Vigil at 40.
  • Paladin: The Protection leveling order now follows the live level-30 build: Templar's Bulwark at 30 instead of 58, and Holy Shield at 40.
  • Rogue: The Assassination leveling order now follows the live level-30 build, with Mutilate at 30 instead of leveling as Combat to 51.
  • Rogue: The Subtlety leveling order now follows the live level-30 build: Subtlety from the first point, with Hemorrhage at 30 and Thousand Cuts at 40.
  • Druid: The Balance leveling order now follows the live level-30 build, and takes Moonkin Form at 40 instead of 60.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Duo PvP Leveling tier list and Duo PvP Leveling tier list, 70450.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Tier lists, Best Leveling Class: WoW Forever Tier List and Solo PvE Leveling tier list, 70450.
  • Tier Lists: New: Duo PvE Leveling tier list, 70450. Updated: Tier lists and Best Leveling Duo: WoW Forever Tier List.
  • About: Updated: Contact.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Tier lists, Open-World PvP Leveling tier list and Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, 70450.
  • About: Updated: Contact and Privacy.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, 70450 and Best World PvP Class: WoW Forever Tier List.
  • About: Updated: Contact.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, Best World PvP Class: WoW Forever Tier List and Open-World PvP tier list, 70450.
  • About: Updated: About this site, Contact and Privacy.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Best Dungeon Healer: WoW Forever Tier List.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, Open-World PvP Leveling tier list, 70450, Best World PvP Class: WoW Forever Tier List and 1 more.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Best Dungeon Healer: WoW Forever Tier List, Dungeon PvE Healer tier list, 70450, Best World PvP Class: WoW Forever Tier List and 1 more.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Duo PvP Leveling tier list and Duo PvP Leveling tier list, 70450.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Best Dungeon DPS: WoW Forever Tier List, Dungeon PvE DPS tier list, 70450, Best Dungeon Tank: WoW Forever Tier List and 1 more.
  • Tier Lists: Updated: Duo PvP Leveling tier list, Duo PvP Leveling tier list, 70450, Best Leveling Class: WoW Forever Tier List and 4 more.

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