Update - Added Cataclysm release date: December 7th
Update - Added Warrior's Tier 11 video.
Update - Added Warrior's Tier 11.


Cataclysm Release Date - December 7th
Season 9 starts on December 14th, a blue post stated that Cataclysm would be released one week earlier.


  • +ARENA_MASTER_NO_SEASON_TEXT = "Arena battles and Rated Battlegrounds are only available during an active player versus player combat season. Season nine will begin on December 14th, so be prepared at that time to take your shot at glory!";

Originally Posted by Zarhym (Blue Tracker)
The next Arena Season will begin for level-85 players approximately one week after the official launch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

Cataclysm Beta - Build 13117 (Codename Sparkles)
Another day, another build.

Tier 11 Preview - Warrior
Most of the files for the Warrior set are now available, one of the recolor is still missing on male models and only the green set has a textured helm.

Update - Added Warrior's Tier 11.





Professions Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Alchemy

Enchanting

Engineering

Tailoring
Time to repost the video of the Sandstone Drake now that Vial of the Sands is confirmed as an Alchemy recipe.



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Mounts
  • Spectral Wolf - Summons and dismisses a rideable Spectral Wolf. / 1.5 sec cast
  • Spectral Steed - Summons and dismisses a rideable Spectral Steed. / 1.5 sec cast

Guild Perks

Death Knight (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Runeforging

Blood

Unholy
  • Unholy Command now also gives you a 50/100% chance to refresh Death Grip's cooldown when dealing a killing blow to a target that grants experience or honor.

Druid (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Balance
  • Fungal Growth now slows enemy targets by 25/50%, down from 35/70%.

Feral
  • Savage Defense now reduces damage taken from the nextp hysical attack by 65% of your attack power, down from 75%.
  • Tiger's Fury now increases physical damage done by 15% for 6 sec.
  • Skull Bash now costs 15 rage.

Restoration
  • Efflorescence now heals all nearby friendly targets within 8 yards by 20/40/60%, down from 40/80/120%.
  • Malfurion's Gift now has a 2/4% chance to proc, down from 3/6%.
  • Fury of Stormrage now has a 6/12% chance to proc, down from 15/30%.

Hunter (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery
  • Kill Command now scales from 35% of RAP, down from 63% of RAP.
  • Bestial Wrath now causes 20% additional damage, down from 50%.
  • Focus Fire now has a 30 sec cooldown, up from 15 sec.
  • Mastery: Master of Beasts now increases damage done by your pets by 13.6%, down from 20%. Each point of Mastery increases pet damage by 1.7%, down from 2.5%.

Marksmanship
  • Aimed Shot base damage increased by 14%
  • Mastery: Wild Quiver now grants a 14.4% (down from 16%) chance for your ranged attacks to also instantly fire an additional ranged shot for 100% normal damage (up from 50%). Each point of Mastery increases the chance by 1.8%, down from 2%.

Survival
  • Mastery: Essence of the Viper now increases all elemental damage you deal by 8% (down from 20%). Each point of Mastery increases elemental damage by 1%, down from 2.5%.

Pet Skills
  • Tailspin now lasts 30 sec, up from 8 sec. Cooldown changed to 25 sec, down from 40 sec.
  • Lock Jaw (Dog) *New* - Dog locks its jaws on the target, holding it in place for 4 sec. / 5 yd range, Instant, 40 sec cooldown

Mage (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Fire

Frost

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy
  • Exorcism base damage increased by 50%.
  • Protector of the Innocent now has proper Rank 2 and 3 values, base healing is now [1240.83 to 1427.62] / [2481.66 to 2855.24] / [3722.48 to 4282.86]

Retribution

Priest (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Discipline
  • Mana Burn now has a 2.5 sec cast time, down from 3 sec.
  • Atonement now heals for 40/80% of the damage dealt, down from 60/120%. If the Priest is healed through Atonement, the effect is reduced in half.

Shadow

Rogue (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Assassination
  • Eviscerate base damage increased by 30%, now scales from 9.1/18.2/27.3/36.4/45.5% of AP depending on the amount of combo points, up from 7/14/21/28/35%.

Combat
  • Backstab now deals 200% weapon damage, up from 175%. Additional base damage increased by 33%.
  • Revealing Strike now causes 125% of your normal weapon damage, up from 100%.
  • Improved Sinister Strike now increases damage dealt by your Sinister Strike ability by 10/20/30%, up from 2/4/6%.
  • Vitality (Passive) now also increases Attack Power by 15%.

Shaman (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Restoration

Warlock (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Affliction

Demonology
  • Molten Core revamped - You have a 2/4/6% chance to gain the Molten Core effect when your Immolate deals damage. The Molten Core effect empowers your next 3 Incinerate spells cast within 15 sec, increasing damage done by 6% and reduces cast time by 10/20/30%.

Warrior (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Arms

Fury
  • Slam now costs 20 rage, up from 15 rage.
  • Bloodthirst now restores 0.5% of max health, down from 1%.

Protection
This article was originally published in forum thread: Cataclysm Beta - Build 13117 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 291 Comments
  1. Kiro's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Deos View Post
    druids =/= fuken resto. resto is only 1/4 of the class. Now tell me how feral which is 1/2 of the class has EVER been anything but complete opposite of what ur saying.
    Oh hi, you must be new around these parts. Let me fill you in. Not every tree (lol tree) is viable for every class. Resto druids are so OP, you should enjoy the fact that you have your face roll to gladiator spec. You should be happy that Balance thanks to Blizzard purposely breaking Starfall has made Boomkins viable in 3's/5's. You have a class that has what is basically 4 different roles, don't expect them all to be viable in PVP. There are many classes that have one, READ ONE usable PVP spec. I'm trying to decide if Hunters or Druids are the new "MAGE QQ".
  1. mmoc46d18d2db1's Avatar
    The new name for pyroblast is a throwback to an ancient patch where the only new thing mages got was a new icon for Arcane Intellect. Every other class got something new, but mages got a new icon, and in those days the only reason to bring a mage was, decursing and water, because mages couldn't output any kind of competetive dps.
  1. methus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kitingisfun View Post
    1. KC was still hitting hard
    2. BW nerf makes less "OMGUBERZERGMODELOL UR DEAD" beastcleave style.
    3. They BUFFED wild quiver, read it again.
    4. SV was quite powerful when stacking mastery rating, tree bonus made mastery stat OP
    Dunno if u played recently at least on the ptr but other classes hit harder than pet does with 2 cds. 40k easymode mindblast word of death crits sp combo(while having 1500 resil). 30k starsurge with eclipse balance druid when all the stars align but who cares right(main is balance druid). You people need 2 learn to pvp which means treat the pet as a player opposed to y he should hit for nothing I'm just gonna let him hit me instead of running or ccing him.

    Guess the easiest way to fix all the excess dmg we got in wotlk is nerf everything to the ground. Seen some of tb's vids while he plays on his mage(lvl 85)18-19k fireballs with probably mastery ratings and all isn't that much.

    New form of balance is lower damage, more time to respond. At least this is what Blizz seems to be going for.
  1. Kuja's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ambivalent View Post
    from what i've heard/seen from beta BM hunters were incredibly overpowered. quit shitting a brick just because you're being balanced...huntard QQ is funny.
    Maybe so, but after so many nerfs they're prolly as bad as they are on live servers. And I hope BM would be a viable raiding build again.

    Kinda funny actually. Let Kill Command scale by 63%. No wait, let it scale by 35% instead. Or not, its too low. Let's put it back to 63%. Oh no, it's doing too much damage again. Lets put it back to 35% instead!
  1. LolphDundgren's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by stonecolde View Post
    woot cant w8t for the mount even tho my bank toon is my alchemy toon its a 80 mage may have to start playing him
    Its not that good looking/unique though...are you gonna do fly by's to impress the boyz?
  1. mmoc1885a907b4's Avatar
    Ugly tier bah!!
  1. lolipopp's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tharaldriel View Post
    Beast Mastery

    Marksmanship? Eh? MM sucks atm, yes, you can spam Arcane Shot because Chimera Shot sucks but that justifies an Arc Shot nerf, not a Wild Quiver nerf. As for survival... No words. Just no words. Survival is way way way undertuned at the moment, and they nerf it?

    .
    all i can see is massive buff to MM u nab !!!!!!!!! ;p
  1. Arson's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sentinex View Post
    Ugly tier bah!!
    AWESOME looking IMO. Looks like an earth elemental á la Nagrand
  1. Certin's Avatar
    i was sooo looking forward playing my hunter as BM
  1. Redbullz's Avatar
    NOES! I'll get drafted by then!

    oh well, playing on weekends is ok I guess... :<
  1. Neoz's Avatar
    Hunter (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
    Beast Mastery

    * Kill Command now scales from 35% of RAP, down from 63% of RAP.
    * Bestial Wrath now causes 20% additional damage, down from 50%.
    * Focus Fire now has a 30 sec cooldown, up from 15 sec.
    * Mastery: Master of Beasts now increases damage done by your pets by 13.6%, down from 20%. Each point of Mastery increases pet damage by 1.7%, down from 2.5%.

    BM Hunters were doing +15k dps on beta while combat rogues were doing 5-7k (and crying for buffs for months into beta) what did everyone expected? -_-
  1. theniffrig's Avatar
    My god, the gnomes were right! 12/7!
  1. valiorik's Avatar
    WTB pics of shaman t11 QQ
  1. mmoc44e5154f48's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Naoto View Post
    " * Pyroblast's old boring name has been replaced with the infinitely more awesome Pyroblast!"

    lol I love these changes, add a ! at the end and that is one change to add to the list!

    I mean come on, did they seriously need to tell us they put a ! at the end of pyroblast? O_O
    It's called a joke. It's humour. You know, that stuff that makes your face use never before used muscles to pull the corners of your mouth up?
  1. Ottius's Avatar
    December... jeez.
  1. Druchii's Avatar
    Fury nerfs...

    Time to QQ some more...
  1. Voidgazer's Avatar
    Warrior T11 looks well. Except for those huge stitches on the breastplate. Plate armor doesn't work that way, ugh.
    And now one of my professions won't suck at least.
  1. afhald's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rivermark View Post
    December... jeez.
    gooooooooood
  1. AvalonTLW's Avatar
    Aha!

    I had a hunch (since Spring) that we would get Cataclysm (CTC) around 7th to 13th December.

    =)
  1. mmoc9b34f4f14b's Avatar
    About release date (add the missing points, I cannot post links :P).
    //www worldofwarcraft com/info/underdev/3p9/gnomeregan2.xml
    Here you can read the infamous:
    the chance of any cataclysmic event taking place in the foreseeable future is "less than 12.7%,"

    note the LESS than... ok... now read this blue:
    //forums wow-europe com/thread.html?topicId=14574469135&sid=4&pageNo=1

    It's an Spanish blue, well... it's THE spanish blue... saying:
    Según los gnomos, las posibilidades de que haya un cataclismo son del 12.6% (sólo tenéis que hacer la Operación: Gnomeregan para poder leerlo con vuestros propios ojos).

    Y no seré yo quién ponga en duda la palabra de los gnomos :-)

    Traduction:
    the chance of any cataclysmic event ARE 12.6% (you only have to do the Operation: Gnomeregan to see that with your own eyes).

    And it will be not me who doubts about the gnome's words :-)

    So it will be 6.12.2010 - Monday :P

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