Wrath Of The Lich King Beta Patch Notes!
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The WotLK beta patch notes have been opened to the public! Hooray! Now we can find out exactly what all of those "Friends and Family" have been up to. There is a ton of interesting stuff in there, so here are just a couple of my personal favorites.Druid - Hurricane: No longer has a cooldown (was 1 minute). AoE for druids. Even more overpowered!
Hunter - Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw (never both). Maybe now turtles will show up more!
Mage - Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled. Good, now it matters which one you use in PvP!
Paladin - Lay on Hands no longer drains all mana, cooldown reduced to 20 minutes. Makes this a ton more useful.
Priest - Circle of Healing (Holy): Now works on any targets in the caster's raid, and is now a "smart" heal and chooses the lowest health targets to heal first within it's range. Also now has a 6 second cooldown. Also no longer will heal summoned Snakes from Hunter's Snake Trap. Resto Shaman start looking for a new job.
Rogue - Vanish no longer requires the reagent Flash Powder. No more complaining about "if only I hadn't run out of Flash Powder."
Shaman - Shapeshifting will no longer cancel Water Walking. That's absolutely awesome. Of course, all of the water will probably be frozen in Northrend.
Warlock - All demon abilities and spells will automatically be learned as pets gain levels. That should save some gold while leveling to 80. If only they would refund all of the money already spent on Grimoires!
Warrior - Shield Block now increases chance to block and amount blocked by 100% for the next attack. Cooldown increased to 30 seconds. This is going to change some things, no?
General - Macros and key bindings are now saved server-side so there is no longer a need to reconfigure them when logging in using another computer. This is great for those of us who play both from home and from a secret location.
There are plenty of other noteworthy changes in there, so go look already!
Reader Comments (10)
Wow 30 second cd on Shield Block? That sucks, yes that indeed will change some things. Hmm....
I love the priest changes, I think the change to Lifewell might make it a viable talent, allowing it to continue to heal unless you get hit for 30% of your total health.
Still hoping to get a dang Beta invite though!
Feral charge in cat form? WHAT?
OMG I might actually USE lay on hands now...
...wait what? Stormwind Harbour???
"NPC Transportation Locations
* Horde:
o Undercity to Vengeance Landing (Howling Fjord)
o Orgrimmar to Warsong Hold (Borean Tundra)
* Alliance:
o Menethil Harbor to Valgarde (Howling Fjord)
o Stormwind Harbor to Valiance Keep (Borean Tundra)"
Awesome
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/wotlk/maps/stormwind.jpg
I like that Priests Inner Fire spell increases healing done by (at rank 9) 120 :O That'll make me remeber to put it on !
Mmmm although i love the xtra bag room no flash powder will give us....how do u explain how we disapear than, its missing a little logic dont u think....thats my 2 cents
@Kate, hmm going by that logic how do you explain magic and me being an undead? It's a madeup world if we try to go by logic here wouldn't really be the WoW we know today would it.. Sorry had to do it just couldn't help myself :D
Other than that looks bloody awsome!
Now if they make Arcane Intellect also undispellable for mages that'll be great......
Awesome changes made to all classes! Gonna be a lot of players having to adapt and find new strategies!
On another note if you get a Beta invite you may want to just ignore it.
By the time you manage to download the launcher and patches for it you'll be able to just buy the blasted thing.
Also I can't wait to give my toons a new hairdo! Been thinking about being able to do that since before BC!