Update - Added the new Tree of Life model!



Patch 4.0.1 Changes
All Patch 4.0.1 classes changes have been moved to their respective classes pages, for the rest of Patch 4.0.1 changes check the dedicated post.






Cataclysm Beta - Build 13183
Just when I thought I was done with class changes, they pull me back in!

Achievements Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Guilds - PvP

Professions

Exploration

Raids & Dungeons
  • Heroic: Deadmines - Defeat Vanessa VanCleef in Deadmines on Heroic difficulty.
  • Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls now requires you to kill 10 Angered Earth, up from 3.
  • Arrested Development - Allow all three of Corla's zealots to evolve, then defeat Corla after slaying the evolved zealots in Blackrock Caverns on Heroic difficulty.
  • Don't Need to Break Eggs to Make an Omelet - Defeat Erudax without letting a Faceless Corruptor begin to cast Twilight Corruption on any of Alexstraza's Eggs in Grim Batol on Heroic difficulty.
  • Sun of a.... - Defat Rajh before he completes an entire recharging phase in the Halls of Origination on Heroic difficulty.
  • Pardon Denied - Defeat Baron Ashbury without letting him heal with Stay of Execution in Shadowfang Keep on Heroic difficulty.
  • To the Ground! - Defeat Commander Springvale without allowing him to receive Unholy Empowerment in Shadowfang Keep on Heroic difficulty.

Feats of Strength

General

Class Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Companion Pets
  • Lil' Alexstrasza - Right Click to summon or dismiss Lil' Alexstrasza. / Instant
  • Lil' Ragnaros - Right Click to summon or dismiss Lil' Ragnaros. / Instant

Death Knight (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Blood
  • Rune Strike now deals 150% weapon damage, down from 200%. No longer requires you to dodge or parry, only usable while in Blood Presence. Now costs 30 Runic Power, up from 20 Runic Power.
  • Improved Blood Presence now increases your rune generation by 10/20%

Druid (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Balance
  • Moonfury now also affects Starsurge.
  • Cyclone now has a 1.7 sec cast time, down from 2 sec.
  • Starfire now costs 11% of base mana, down from 16%. Cast time changed to 3.2 sec, down from 3.5 sec.
  • Entangling Roots now has a 1.7 sec cast time, down from 2 sec.
  • Thorns damage reduced by 66%, now deals [ 16.8% of Spell Power + 178.58 ] or [ 16.8% of AP + 178.58 ] depending on the highest.
  • Moonfire base additional damage increased by 50%.
  • Wrath now costs 9% of base mana, down from 14%.
  • Euphoria now restores 8/16% (up from 6/12%) mana when you reach a Solar or Lunar eclipse.

Feral
  • Swipe base damage reduced by 50%. Now costs 15 Rage, down from 30 Rage.
  • Nurturing Instinct now increases healing spells by up to 50/100% of your Agility, up from 35/70%.

Restoration

Hunter (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Marksmanship

Survival

Mage (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Arcane
  • Polymorph now has a 1.7 sec cast time, down from 2 sec.

Frost
  • Ring of Frost now has a 2 min cooldown, down from 3 min.
  • Shatter now also increases the damage done by Frostbolt against frozen targets by 10/20%.

Fire
  • Combustion reworded to clarify its effect - Consumes all your damaging periodic Fire effects on an enemy target, instantly dealing 954.57 to 1131.92 Fire damage and creating a new periodic effect that lasts 10 sec and deals damage per time equal to the sum of the consumed effects. / 40 yd range, Instant, 2 min cooldown

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy
  • Holy Radiance now heals all friendly targets within 20 yards, up from 10 yards.
  • Exorcism now scales from 22,5% of AP or Spell Power, up from 15%.
  • Lay on Hands Forbearance effect no longer includes Divine Protection or self-targeted Lay on Hands.
  • Paragon of Virtue now also reduces the cooldown of Hand of Sacrifice by 15/30 sec.
  • Infusion of Light now reduces the cast time of your next Divine Light in addition to Holy Light.

Retribution
  • Acts of Sacrifice has an additional effect - In addition, your Cleanse will remove one movement impairing effect if cast on yourself.
  • Divine Purpose now also procs from Hammer of Wrath
  • Crusade has an additional effect - In addition, for 15 sec after you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor, your next Holy Light heals for an additional 100/200/300%.

Protection
  • Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases your chance to block melee attacks by 24%, up from 16%. Each point of Mastery increases block chance by an additional 3%, up from 2%.

Priest (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Discipline
  • Power Word: Barrier now has a 2 min cooldown, down from 3 min.
  • Evangelism now has a 100% chance to proc from Mind Flay, up from 40%. Now lasts 20 sec, up from 15 sec.

Shadow
  • Mind Flay now costs 8% of base mana, down from 9%.
  • Mind Spike no longer causes a high amount of threat. Now extinguishes your shadow damage-over-time effects from the target in the process. Range increased from 35 to 40 yards.
  • Mind Control now lasts up to 30 sec, down from 1 min.
  • Masochism now gives you 5/10% of your total mana, up from 4/8%.

Rogue (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Subtlety

Shaman (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Glyph
  • Lava Lash now Increases the damage dealt by your Lava Lash ability by 20% and no longer requires your weapon to be enchanted with Flametongue.
  • Stormstrike now increases the Nature damage bonus of Stormstrike by an additional 10%, up from 8%.

Warlock (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Affliction
  • Fear now has a 1.7 sec cast time, down from 2 sec.
  • Drain Life now restores 2% health every 1 sec, up from 0.5 sec. Lasts 1.5 sec, down from 3 sec. Now costs 12% of base mana, down from 17% of base mana.

Destruction

Pet
  • Whiplash now scales from 42.5% of Spell Power. (Probably already does, but reflected in tooltip now)

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

Fury

Protection
  • Concussion Blow now scales from 75% of Attack Power, up from 38%
  • Mastery: Critical Block now increases your chance to critically block by 20%, up from 10%. Each point of mastery now increases your block chance by an additional 1.25% and your critical block chance by an additional 2.5% (Up from 1.25%).
This article was originally published in forum thread: Cataclysm Beta - Build 13183 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 223 Comments
  1. mmocb2358cdeee's Avatar
    The EU realms are UP 20 minutes before time, just logged in
  1. bayi's Avatar
    aaah and i still have ~18 mins of work ....

    but good to hear, is everything (lag, fps etc.) alright ?
  1. mmocb2358cdeee's Avatar
    everything looks fine so far.

    Well except a bunch of addons are not working but expected as much.
  1. Zookz25's Avatar
    Finally, thank you; Blood presence can actually stand up on it's own now.
  1. Stormscream's Avatar
    I GET >>SCREEN FREEZE<< AFTER THE LOGIN SCREEN and all that I can do to get out of it is restart my computer..i engaged this problem on PTR also,i sent them feedback ..they did nothing !!! THIS IS AN ANGRYYY POST >>>I CAN"T PLAY WOW !!! FIX IT PLS >>> BOUB KICK BLIZZARD IN THE BUTT TO FIX THIS !!! ...AAARRRRRGGHHHHHHH ..THE PAAAIN ...NEEED WOW TO BREATHE ......



    P.S. I belive the problem is in the config file at the "WTF" folder ..i fixed this on the 1st 4.0.1. PTR launch by coping over the WTF folder but it doesn't work now.
  1. Zinzani's Avatar
    Ugh, well any notions that I had to continue playing my druid are gone, replaced with a shaman. Druid is officially the gatherer.
  1. rhaezorblue's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Evory View Post
    Some people will just never be satisfied, they said they wanted to update the other druid form models sometime down the road after the update to bears and cats (that got alot of criticism at the time as well, but most have gotten used to by now)
    Yeah I know, they could lower the price to $5 a month and people would bitch about "the influx of n00bs!!!!!"

    I like the updated model, plus people are jumping the gun as actually seeing how this model "feels" in motion is a huge factor in whether people will like it or not.

    Compared to what the tree of life is currently, they could have made us a high def mossy rock and I would have been happy. lol

    I still wish for the day where your gear would display on your bear.. bear in armor, yes yes. Some how.
  1. Merkhadian's Avatar
    Now I wish I could stay a tree forever! wtf blizz xD
  1. TheMobGoblin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stormscream View Post
    I GET >>SCREEN FREEZE<< AFTER THE LOGIN SCREEN and all that I can do to get out of it is restart my computer..i engaged this problem on PTR also,i sent them feedback ..they did nothing !!! THIS IS AN ANGRYYY POST >>>I CAN"T PLAY WOW !!! FIX IT PLS >>> BOUB KICK BLIZZARD IN THE BUTT TO FIX THIS !!! ...AAARRRRRGGHHHHHHH ..THE PAAAIN ...NEEED WOW TO BREATHE ......



    P.S. I belive the problem is in the config file at the "WTF" folder ..i fixed this on the 1st 4.0.1. PTR launch by coping over the WTF folder but it doesn't work now.
    If you'd just wait a few mins it'll log you in.Also Ctrl alt delete or alt F4 are your friends.
  1. Jonin's Avatar
    Look at that fro on those trees!
  1. Qhara's Avatar
    I love the ToL now..far better than the other one i saw.
  1. stupid11's Avatar
    Ew.... old Tree is a fucking classic. This new model looks retarded. I guess Tree Druids have diabetes now? They got fucking fat.
  1. Stormscream's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TheMobGoblin View Post
    If you'd just wait a few mins it'll log you in.Also Ctrl alt delete or alt F4 are your friends.
    U don't understand the situation ..it screen freezes forever after i pass the log in screen(blue bar) and i can't use windows task manager,alt+tab or anything ..the only thing that gets me out is restarting the comp
  1. Jet's Avatar
    Sorry some are having issues with the game. At least you don't have to buy a new computer by decree of Blizz. I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't happen during events that have a limited duration. I'd like to see it all. Someone take screenshots please! Oh and Blizz,if you could suck back the 4 gig of stuff you made me download that is useless to me,that would be cool. Thanks.
  1. SuperGalaxyBlue's Avatar
    Oh man, I've been waiting for the ToL form changes for a long time. I am in no way disappointed, those look amazing! An actual healing tree, instead of that withered old piece of dead broccoli that we've used for so long.
  1. TheMobGoblin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stormscream View Post
    U don't understand the situation ..it screen freezes forever after i pass the log in screen(blue bar) and i can't use windows task manager,alt+tab or anything ..the only thing that gets me out is restarting the comp
    Try playing in Windows mode maybe( maybe it'll let you close it) .I know last night I let it sit at the load screen for 10 mins and it let me in(not sure on exact time I went and made a snack).I apologize for being a douche in my previous post I'm used to all the mouth breathers last night being stupid.If it's the same issue you were having in the PTR deleting the Cache folder in the data folder helped me when I had that problem.
  1. Revrant's Avatar
    They give us beautiful new tree forms after they turn them into a lame short CD?

    What?
  1. Tanfastic's Avatar
    Cat
    Bear
    Tree of Life

    All updated...

    I sure hope Moonkin is next followed by Flight, Travel, and Aqua forms! All with the Cat/Bear barbershop type goodness! (Really the barbershop is all flight form needs...)
  1. snuzzle's Avatar
    I hope that's just the Night Elf model, because it really looks strictly elven. :|
  1. Frontenac's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TheRabidDeer View Post
    1) Tree of Life in WC3 is a building. Tree of Life in WoW is a form.
    2) They have similarities, but they are drastically different
    3) I say this again, ToL in WC3 was a BUILDING.
    Tree of Life was considered a building in WCIII only for game mechanics, because they trained units and researched technologies. You could even uproot them, move them or even attack with them. All ancients are living creatures. You see Ancients of War, Ancients of Lore and Ancient Protectors in WoW. Do you consider them as buildings? Uprooted Trees of Life looked more like the new form than our old twiggy treant form.

    The new Tree of Life looks very good. They said they will be tall, so I think they will look even better in game.

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