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Cataclysm Beta - Build 13202 (Codename Pumpkin)
A wild beta build appears! It might or might not be deployed on beta servers soon depending on Blizzard's mood and raid testing.
Achievements Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Guild Perks
- Bartering now reduces the price of items from all vendors by 10%, up from 5%.
Companion Pets
- Moonkin Hatchling - Right Click to summon or dismiss a Moonkin Hatchling. / Instant
Enchanting
- Enchant Weapon - Landslide no longer works with ranged weapons.
- Enchant Weapon - Power Torrent now increases Intellect by 500 instead of spell power.
- Enchant Weapon - Hurricane no longer works with ranged weapons.
- Enchant Weapon - Elemental Slayer no longer works with ranged weapons.
- Enchant Weapon - Avalanche no longer works with ranged weapons.
- Enchant 2H Weapon - Mighty Agility *New* - Permanently enchant a two-handed weapon to increase Agility by 130. Requires a level 300 or higher item.
Creates Greater Celestial Essence. / Reagents: Hypnotic Dust x 3, Greater Celestial Essence x 3, Heavenly Shard x 3
Engineering
- Spinal Healing Injector is now applied to the gloves instead of belt.
- Z50 Mana Gulper is now applied to the gloves instead of belt.
Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Feral
- Rip now scales from 18/37/55/74/92% of Attack Power depending on combo points, up from 8/16/24/32/40%.
- Ferocious Bite now scales from 10.9/21.8/32.7/43.6/54.5% of Attack Power depending on combo points, up from 7/14/21/28/35%.
- Rake now causes scales from 2% of Attack Power for bleed damage, up from 1%. Now scales from 42% of AP for additional bleed damage over 9 sec, up from 18% of AP.
- Mangle additional damage has been increased from 726 to 1136.
- Vengeance - Entering Cat Form will cancel this effect.
Mage (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Arcane
- Arcane Specialization now increases damage of your Arcane spells by 25%, up from 15%.
Fire
- Fire Specialization now increases damage of your Fire spells by 25%, up from 10%.
Frost
- Frost Specialization now increases damage of your Frost spells by 25%, up from 15%.
Paladin (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Holy
- Seal of Insight - Unleashing this Seal's energy now also restores 15% of the Paladin's base mana.
- Mastery: Illuminated Healing now only affects your direct healing spells, instead of all healing spells.
Protection
- Touched by the Light now increases spell hit by 8%, up from 6%.
Retribution
- Guardian of Ancient Kings now causes 1750 damage plus 1750 per Application, down from 5250 plus 5250.
- Sheath of Light now increases spell hit by 8%, up from 6%.
Priest (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Holy
- Holy Nova now heals up to 5 targets.
Shadow
- Mind Soothe now also affects Dragonkin. Does not cause threat.
- Shadow Word: Death now deals three times as much damage to targets below 25% health.
Warlock (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Affliction
- Seed of Corruption now deals 567 to 660 to all enemies within 15 yards, down from 1186 to 1379.
Demonology
- Summon Infernal now deals 438 to 494 fire damage when it lands, up from 29.
Destruction
- Incinerate now deals 579 to 673 Fire Damage and an additional 96 to 112 Fire damage if the target is affected by Immolate. Changed from 540 to 627 with an additional 135 to 156.
- Rain of Fire now deals 2455 Fire damage over 8 sec, up from 1890.
Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Arms
- Taste for Blood will not occur more than once every 5 sec, down from 6 sec.
Cataclysm Raid Loot Update
Last night's testing revealed more loot on beta servers!
| ilvl | Type | Spec | Slot | Item |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 359 | Axe | Phys.DPS | Off-Hand | Maimgor's Bite |
| 359 | Crossbow | Phys.DPS | Ranged | Dragonheart Piercer |
| 359 | Dagger | Spell DPS | Main Hand | Incineratus |
| 359 | Dagger | Spell DPS | Main Hand | Blade of the Witching Hour |
| 359 | Finger | Melee | Finger | Ring of Rivalry |
| 359 | Fist Weap. | Melee | Off-Hand | Blackwing Descent Trash Loot Strength Fist Weapon - Set |
| 359 | Fist Weap. | Phys.DPS | Main Hand | Blackwing Descent Trash Loot Agility Fist Weapon - Set |
| 359 | Mace | Melee | Two-Hand | Akirus the Worm-Breaker |
| 359 | Sword | Melee | One-Hand | Lava Spine |
| 359 | Sword | Phys.DPS | One-Hand | Fang of Twilight |
| 359 | Sword | Spell DPS | Main Hand | Maldo's Sword Cane |
| 359 | Plate | Heal | Chest | Breastplate of Avenging Flame |
| 359 | Plate | Melee | Feet | Treads of Savage Beatings |
| 359 | Plate | Tank | Feet | Molten Tantrum Boots |
| 359 | Plate | Tank | Head | Daybreaker Helm |
| 359 | Plate | Tank | Shoulder | Heaving Plates of Protection |
| 359 | Spell | Legs | Phase-Twister Leggings | |
| 359 | Spell | Waist | Lifecycle Waistguard | |
| 359 | Spell | Waist | Waistguard of Hatred | |
| 359 | Phys.DPS | Legs | Leggings of Lethal Force | |
| 359 | Leather | Spell | Chest | Scorched Wormling Vest |
| 359 | Leather | Phys.DPS | Head | Tsanga's Helm |
| 359 | Leather | Phys.DPS | Wrist | Parasitic Bands |
| 359 | Cloth | Heal | Head | Helm of Eldritch Authority |
| 359 | Cloth | Spell DPS | Legs | Flame Pillar Leggings |
| 359 | Cloth | Spell DPS | Wrist | Bracers of the Dark Pool |
| 359 | Cloak | Tank | Back | Ironstar's Impenetrable Cover |
| 359 | Cloak | Spell Spirit | Back | Drape of the Twins |
| 359 | Neck | Phys.DPS | Neck | Necklace of Strife |
| 359 | Neck | Spell DPS | Neck | Valiona's Medallion |
| 359 | Trinket | Tank | Trinket | Vial of Stolen Memories |
| 359 | Trinket | Spell DPS | Trinket | Theralion's Mirror |
| 359 | Trinket | Tank | Trinket | Symbiotic Worm |
Class balance as of Oct 18, 2010
Beta Raid Testing Schedule for Oct. 19
BlizzCon 2010 Begins This Week
BlizzCon is indeed this week and you can expect a full coverage of the event on MMO-Champion!
Cataclysm System Requirements
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What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been 310% Hotfix
The hotfix is scheduled to go live tonight. (Source)
Missing Glyphs in 4.0.1
The missing glyphs we know of are Mage Armor, Long Word and possibly Vanish. The others have been found through discovery as far as we know. (Source)
Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Unshifting clears Vengeance
We could make shifting to Cat clear Vengeance but let it stay on in caster form. We're only paranoid about Cat AP for obvious reasons. (Source)
Paladin (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy Paladins on Beta
After looking at more of the raid attempts on beta, we are worried that Holy paladins are doing too much area healing and not enough single target healing.
While we definitely want to scoot paladins away from their Lich King monopoly on tank healing and towards raid healing, we don't want to go too far. We're thinking about nerfing Holy Radiance and buffing single target healing. Again, the goal is not that Holy paladins only ever heal the tank, but we want them to actually be able to heal the tank as well.
On Holy Radiance, we think the 20 yard range shifted the spell from one where position was relevant to just blowing it on cooldown. We'll probably keep the 20 yard radius, but have a falloff to where the healing is highest within 8-10 yards of the paladin. This will also help the spell stay relevant in 5-player dungeons without being overpowered in larger raids. The cap for Holy Radiance (and Healing Rain for that matter) also aren't working correctly at the moment.
If we decide to buff single target healing, it would probably just be points on the 5 direct heals. We think Beacon is in a good place and aren't looking to overhaul the overall Holy mechanics. It's just a numbers issue.
Judging Seal of Insight (a change I alluded to earlier) will help with mana problems, especially when Divine Plea is on cooldown or you're nervous about using it. (Source)
Beacon of Light Nerf
We thought Beacon was overpowered when the paladin could literally heal two targets to 100% at once. In that era, there was never a reason to heal the Beaconed target. Not only was it powerful, it was really easy and required little action or decision on the part of the paladin. Having the Beacon splash some healing onto a target who may or may not need it feels balance-able to us. It means the paladin still needs to decide when to heal the Beaconed target indirectly (i.e. use Beacon) or when to heal them directly. It means there is the risk of doing the wrong thing, which could mean switching Beacon when you shouldn't have or healing the Beacon when you should have healed someone else. (Source)
The hotfix is scheduled to go live tonight. (Source)
Missing Glyphs in 4.0.1
The missing glyphs we know of are Mage Armor, Long Word and possibly Vanish. The others have been found through discovery as far as we know. (Source)
Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Unshifting clears Vengeance
We could make shifting to Cat clear Vengeance but let it stay on in caster form. We're only paranoid about Cat AP for obvious reasons. (Source)
Paladin (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)Holy Paladins on Beta
After looking at more of the raid attempts on beta, we are worried that Holy paladins are doing too much area healing and not enough single target healing.
While we definitely want to scoot paladins away from their Lich King monopoly on tank healing and towards raid healing, we don't want to go too far. We're thinking about nerfing Holy Radiance and buffing single target healing. Again, the goal is not that Holy paladins only ever heal the tank, but we want them to actually be able to heal the tank as well.
On Holy Radiance, we think the 20 yard range shifted the spell from one where position was relevant to just blowing it on cooldown. We'll probably keep the 20 yard radius, but have a falloff to where the healing is highest within 8-10 yards of the paladin. This will also help the spell stay relevant in 5-player dungeons without being overpowered in larger raids. The cap for Holy Radiance (and Healing Rain for that matter) also aren't working correctly at the moment.
If we decide to buff single target healing, it would probably just be points on the 5 direct heals. We think Beacon is in a good place and aren't looking to overhaul the overall Holy mechanics. It's just a numbers issue.
Judging Seal of Insight (a change I alluded to earlier) will help with mana problems, especially when Divine Plea is on cooldown or you're nervous about using it. (Source)
Beacon of Light Nerf
We thought Beacon was overpowered when the paladin could literally heal two targets to 100% at once. In that era, there was never a reason to heal the Beaconed target. Not only was it powerful, it was really easy and required little action or decision on the part of the paladin. Having the Beacon splash some healing onto a target who may or may not need it feels balance-able to us. It means the paladin still needs to decide when to heal the Beaconed target indirectly (i.e. use Beacon) or when to heal them directly. It means there is the risk of doing the wrong thing, which could mean switching Beacon when you shouldn't have or healing the Beacon when you should have healed someone else. (Source)
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