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• Cloth Specialization - Increases your Intellect by 5% while wearing only Cloth armor.
• Leather Specialization - Increases your Agility by 5% while wearing only Leather armor.
• Wild Leather Specialization - Increases your Stamina in Bear Form by 5% while wearing only Leather armor.
• Wild Leather Specialization - Increases your Agility in Cat Form by 5% while wearing only Leather armor.
• Mail Specialization - Increases your Agility by 5% while wearing only Mail armor.
• Tribal Mail Specialization - Increases your Intellect by 5% while wearing only Mail armor.
• Plate Specialization - Increases your Strength by 5% while wearing only Plate armor.
• Defender's Plate Specialization - Increases your Stamina by 5% while wearing only Plate armor.
• Blessed Plate Specialization - Increases your Intellect by 5% while wearing only Plate armor.
• Astral Leather Specialization - Increases your Intellect by 5% while wearing only Leather armor.
• Elemental Mail Specialization - Increases your Intellect by 5% while wearing only Mail armor.
• Furious Plate Specialization - Increases your Strength by 5% while wearing only Plate armor.

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

• Festering Strike *New* - An instant attack that deals 150% weapon damage plus 840.54 and increases the duration of your Blood Plague, Frost Fever, and Chains of Ice effects on the target by up to 6 sec. / 5 yd range, Instant
• Runic Empowerment *New* is now baseline - When you use your Death Coil, Frost Strike, or Rune Strike ability, you have a 45% chance to activate a random fully depleted rune. /
• Chains of Ice now reduces movement speed by 60% for 8 sec. (Down from 95% + 10% movement each sec over 10 seconds)
• Chill of the Grave now has a chance to generate 5/10 Runic Power. (Up from 2.5/5)
• Nerves of Cold Steel is now a Tier 1 talent, down from Tier 2.
• Improved Icy Touch now increases the damage of Icy Touch by 10/20/30%. (Up from 5/10/15%)
• On a Pale Horse is back as a Tier 2 talent.

Unholy

• Anti-Magic Shell no longer costs Runic Power.
• Ebon Plaguebringer is now a 2 ranks talent (Down from 3) and now increases damage taken from Disease by 15/30%. (Old - 10/20/30%)
• Dirge now has a chance to generate 5/10 Runic Power. (Up from 2.5/5)
• Virulence now increases your chance to hit with spells by 2/4/6%. (Up from 1/2/3%)

Blood

• Crimson Scourge is now a 2 rank talent. Increases damage dealt by Blood Boil by 20/40% (Down from 15/30/45%) and 50%/100% chance to proc. (Up from 33/67/100%)
• Improved Blood Presence is now a Tier 4 talent, down from Tier 5.
• Blood Parasite is now a 2 rank talent with a 5/10% chance to proc. (Up from 3/6/9%)
• Toughness is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 4.
• Sanguine Fortitude is now a Tier 4 talent, down from Tier 3. 2 ranks instead of 3.
• Hand of Doom *New* - Reduces the cooldown of your Strangulate ability by 60 sec.

Druid (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Balance

• Starsurge is now a baseline spell.
• Owlkin Frenzy is now a Tier 4 talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Lunar Guidance is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 4.
• Planetary Alignment is gone.
• Balance of Power is now a Tier 2 talent. Down from Tier 3.
• Lunar Justice is gone.
• Moonkin Form is now a Tier 3 talent.
• Typhoon is now a Tier 3 talent.
• Earth and Moon - Your Wrath and Starfire spells have a 100% chance to apply the Earth and Moon effect, which increases spell damage taken by 2/5% for 12 sec. Also increases your spell damage by 2/4%.
• Nature's Majesty - Increases the critical strike chance of your Wrath, Starfire, Starfall, Nourish and Healing Touch spells by 2/4%.

Feral

• Primal Fury has an additional effect - your critical strikes from Cat Form abilities that add combo points have a 50/100% chance to add an additional combo point.
• Ferocity is gone.
• Heart of the Wild is back as a Tier 1 talent.

Restoration

• Wild Growth is now a Tier 5 talent. Down from Tier 6.
• Swiftmend is now a primary skill.
• Empowered Touch is now a Tier 4 talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Natural Perfection is now a Tier 6 talent. Up from Tier 5.
• Fury of Stormrage is now a Tier 5 talent. Up from Tier 4.
• Master Shapeshifter - Grants an effect which lasts while the Druid is within the respective shapeshift form. Bear Form - Increases physical damage by 2%. Cat Form - Increases critical strike chance by 2%. Moonkin Form - Increases spell damage by 2%. Tree of Life/Caster Form - Increases healing by 2%. /

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

• Cobra Shot now increases the duration of Serpent Sting on the target by 6 sec. (Up from 3 sec)
• Bestial Wrath no longer costs focus.

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

• Spellsteal now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Arcane Barrage now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Polymorph now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Mana Shield now has a 10 sec cooldown.
• Arcane Blast now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Slow Fall now has a 40 yards range. Up from 30 yards.
• Counterspell now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Arcane Missiles now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Focus Magic now is a Tier 4 talent. Down from Tier 6.
• Incanter's Absorption now is a Tier 4 Talent. Down from Tier 5. Additional effect - In addition, when your Mana Shield is destroyed, all enemies within 6 yards are knocked back 12 yards.
• Slow now has a 35 yards range. Up from 30 yards.
• Arcane Flows now is a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Invocation now is a Tier 2 Talent. Down from Tier 4.
• Improved Counterspell now is a Tier 1 talent. Down from Tier 3.
• Arcane Repulsion is gone.
• Arcane Concentration is now a 3-rank talents (Up from 2) and now has a 3/6/10% chance to proc.
• Torment the Weak is now a Tier 5 talent. Up from Tier 1. Now only boosts the damage of Arcane damage spells.
• Nether Vortex *New* - Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 50/100% chance to apply the Slow spell to any target it damages if no target is currently affected by Slow.

Fire

• Flamestrike now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Scorch now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Pyroblast now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Fire Blast now has a 30 yards range. Up from 20 yards.
• Fireball now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Living Bomb now has a 40 yards range. Up from 35 yards.
• Blazing Speed now is a Tier 2 Talent. Down from Tier 3.
• Burning Soul now is a Tier 1 talent. Down from Tier 2.
• Impact now is a Tier 3 Talent. Up from Tier 2.
• Improved Fire Blast now is a Tier 2 Talent. Up from Tier 1.
• Incineration now increases damage instead of critical strike chance.

Frost

• Ice Lance now has a 35 yards range. Up from 30 yards.
• Blizzard now has a 35 yards range. up from 30 yards.
• Frostbolt now has a 35 yards range. Up from 30 yards.
• Frostfire Orb has an additional effect - Targets damaged by the Frostfire Orb are slowed by 40% for 2 sec.
• Cold as Ice is gone.
• Ice Floes now also affects Cold Snap and Ice Barrier.
• Piercing Chill is now a Tier 2 Talent. Down from Tier 4.
• Brain Freeze is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 4.
• Fingers of Frost is now a Tier 4 talent. Up from Tier 3.
• Piercing Ice is now a Tier 1 Talent. Down from Tier 2.
• Frostbite is gone.
• Improved Freeze *New* - Gives your Water Elemental's Freeze spell a 50/100% chance to cause Fingers of Frost to activate.
• Improved Cone of Cold *New* - Your Cone of Cold also freezes targets for 2/4 secs.

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy

• Divine Plea is now trained at level 44, down from 58. Now reduces the amount healed by all your healing spells.
• Concentration Aura is now trained at level 42, down from 54.
• Holy Wrath is now trained at level 28, down from 50.
• Lay on Hands is now trained at level 16, down from 38.
• Seal of the Pure is now named Seal of Insight.
• Tower of Radiance - Directly healing the target of your Beacon of Light has a 33/66/100% chance to generate Holy Power.
• Healing Light - Increases the amount healed by your Word of Glory and the damage and healing of your Holy Shock by 10/20/30%.

Protection

• Hand of Protection is now trained at level 18. Down from 42.
• Divine Protection now reduces all damage taken by 20% for 10 sec. (Down from 50% for 12 sec) Cooldown lowered from 5 min to 1 min. Spells restrictions (Divine Shield/Divine Protection/Hand of Protection/Avenging Wrath) removed.
• Devotion Aura is now trained at level 18, down from level 22.
• Blessing of Kings is now trained at level 22, up from 18.
• Hammer of the Righteous now causes 160% weapon damage as holy damage. (Old - 3 times your main hand damage per second as Holy damage.)
• Shield of the Templar has been revamped - Reduces the cooldown of Avenger's Shield by 2/4 sec, Guardian of Ancient Kings by 10/20 min, and increases the amount absorbed by your Sacred Shield by 10/20%.
• Holy Shield now Holy Shield - Consumes Holy Power to grant 5% block per stack of Holy Power and deals 97.8 Holy damage for every attack blocked. Lasts 15 sec. / 10% of base mana, Instant cast
• Sacred Duty has been revamped - Increases the critical strike chance of your Hammer of the Righteous by 5/10%. In addition, your Hammer of the Righteous critical strikes have a 50/100% chance of making your next Judgement a critical strike. /
• Grand Crusader - When your Crusader Strike deals damage, it has a 10/20% chance of refreshing the cooldown on your next Holy Wrath.
• Ardent Defender is now a Tier 7 talent (Up from Tier 4). Cooldown increased from 2 to 3 min.
• Judgements of the Wise is now a primary skill.

Retribution

• Inquisition is now Exclusive with Holy Shield.
• Seal of Vengeance is now named Seal of Truth and its Holy Vengeance renamed to Censure.
• Zealotry now has a 2 min cooldown, down from 30 min. Now lasts 15 sec. (Down from 30 sec)
• Wrath of the Lightbringer gone.
• Acts of Sacrifice *New* - Decreases the cooldown by 10/20/% and mana cost by 10/20% of your Hand of Freedom and Hand of Salvation.
• Righteous Vengeance is now Inquiry of Faith - Increases the periodic damage done by your Seal of Truth by 20/40/60%.
• Swift Retribution now also increases damage by 3%. Moved from Tier 6 to Tier 5.
• Sanctified Retribution is gone.
• Improved Crusader Strike is gone.
• Heart of the Crusader is gone.
• Sanctity of Battle no longer reduces the cooldown of Exorcism.
• Templar's Verdict is now a primary skill of Retribution.
• Communion *New* - Your Judgement grants the Replenishment effect to up to 10 party or raid members mana regeneration equal to 1% of their maximum mana per 5 sec for 15 sec.
• Improved Judgement no longer decreases the cooldown of Judgement.
• Judgements of the Wise is now a primary skill.
• Selfless Healer (Tier 5) - Increases the healing of your Word of Glory by 30/60% when used to heal others.
• Divine Purpose is now a Tier 4 talent - Your Templar's Verdict, Divine Storm and Inquisition have a 40% chance to generate Holy Power.
• Divine Storm is now a Tier 3 talent.

Priest (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Discipline

• Power Infusion is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 4.

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

• Backstab now causes 175% weapon damage. Up from 150%.

Subtlety

• Shadowstep now causes 30% additional damage (up from 20%) but no longer reduces threat.
• Initiative is now a 2 points talent, down from 3. Now has a 50%/100% chance to proc. (Up from 33/66/100%)

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

• Shamanism is now a primary skill.
• Elemental Mastery no longer shares a cooldown with Nature's Swiftness and now also increases your Fire, Frost, and Nature damage by 15% for the duration of the spell.

Enhancement

• Shamanistic Rage reduces the mana cost of your skills, totems, and offensive spells by 90 for 15 sec.
• Ancestral Swiftness is back as a Tier 2 talent.

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

• Dark Intent *New* - You link yourself with the targeted friendly target, increasing both of your haste by 3%. When you or the linked target gains a critical periodic damage or healing effect, the other gains an increased 3% increased periodic damage and healing lasting for 7 sec. Stacks up to 3 times. Dark Intent lasts for 30 min. / 6% of base mana, 30 yd range, Instant cast
• Soul Swap *New* - You instantly deal 167.45 damage, and removing your damage-over-time effects from the target. For 20 sec afterword, the next target you cast Soul Swap on will be afflicted by the damage-over-time effects and suffer 167.45 damage. You cannot Soul Swap to the same target. / 6% of base mana, 30 yd range, Instant cast, 45 sec cooldown

Demonology

• Summon Doomguard and Summon Infernal no longer require reagents.

Destruction

• Fel Flame now increases the duration of Immolate or Unstable by 6 sec instead of refreshing it.
• Aftermath now gives your Conflagrate a 50/100% chance to daze the target. (Up from 6/12%)

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

• Wrecking Crew now procs from your Mortal Strike critical hits instead of all melee critical hits. 33/66/100% chance to Enrage you.
• Lambs to the Slaughter has been revamped - After dealing a Mortal Strike, your next Execute, Overpower or Mortal Stike will cause 10/20/30% more damage.
• Impale now affects Overpower instead of Execute.
• Deadly Calm *New* - For the next 10 sec seconds, none of your abilities cost rage, but you continue to generate rage. / Instant, 2 min cooldown
• Endless Rage is now a primary skill.

Fury

• Bloodsurge now affects Raging Blow instead of Whirlwind.
• Meat Cleaver got an additional bonus - Increases the damage done by your Cleave and Whirlwind abilities by 20%, and your Cleaves and Whirlwinds have a 60% chance to increase the damage of your next Cleave or Whirlwind by an additional 10/20%.
• Intensify Rage is now a 2 ranks talent Reducing the cooldown of your Bloodrage, Berserker Rage, Recklessness and Death Wish abilities by 10/20%. (Down from 3 Ranks, 11/22/33% Reduction)
• Unbridled Wrath has been replaced by Battle Trance - Your Bloodthirst, Mortal Strike and Shield Slam hits have a 5/10/15% chance to make your next special attack consume no rage.

Protection

• Damage Shield is now a Tier 4 talent, down from Tier 6. Now causes damage equal to 20/40% of your Strength. (Old - 10/20% of your attack power)
• Improved Defensive Stance is now named Bastion of Defense.
• Safeguard is now a Tier 6 talent. Up from Tier 4.
• Blood and Thunder is now a Tier 2 talent. Down from Tier 3.
• Gag Order now Also lowers the cooldown on your Heroic Throw by 15/30 sec.
• Improved Revenge is now a Tier 3 talent. Up from Tier 2.

In the next beta build the minimum level for entering and questing in Mount Hyjal and Vashj’ir will change from level 78 to level 80. All associated creature will have their levels increased to match the new flow.

Additionally, after careful review and consideration we've decided to increase the hit point values of level 80+ Cataclysm creatures. The new hit point values are roughly double their previous values.

Level 80 (OLD) - 16400
Level 80 (NEW) - 31000

Players will also now need to be level 80 in order to use the Dungeon Finder System for Throne of Tides and Blackrock Caverns.

Guild Perks (Guild Perks)
Guild Perks
It won't be required or forced in my opinion. Larger guilds right now already enjoy a variety of advantages in getting groups together and such. So while the new system may encourage players to take part in guilds, it can be avoided if wanted.

I have a pvp guild that is very small (about 10 members). Will it be theoretically possible to earn all the guild perks, even if we dont raid at all?
I can't say anything is final right now, but the idea (last I heard) is that there would be multiple ways to level the guild - it just may take longer for a smaller one. As expected though, we hope to do some testing on this once things are ready in the beta to get a better feel for what works and what doesn't.

Small guilds disadvantaged by guild perks?
In my experience the people who like to focus on smaller guilds don't really care what the other larger guilds are doing as they are happily doing their own thing. It also sounds like you don't fully understand the guild system and we'll have more details to help you out when we are farther along in the beta. (Source)

"Balancing" Guild Perks
I'm sure we'll be playing around with it a fair amount in the beta. We don't want it to be a mega penalty to lose the rep to where players stay in a guild they don't like - but at the same time a lot of these changes are meant to encourage guilds as a whole so we don't want it to be extremely trivial to gain the reputation to where players give no thought to guild hopping (like now). We know this may shake things up for some players but we feel it will be a better result for the game as a whole to have a stronger setup for guilds. (Source)

Impact of Guild Perks on the game
We care about all of our players. We consider many different factors before implementing new systems especially when they may affect a lot of our players. That said, we do have to design and implement what we feel is best for the game. As a random example off the top of my head, players tend to dislike nerfs, but if one class is ahead of others we will nerf that one class and not buff 9 others.

A lot of players are also afraid of change. Before they even test things out or while it's in an early stage, they will declare the world has imploded. (See talent tree changes.) None of this means we don't care about our players. We understand that things will get shaken up, this won't be the first time gets shaken up and it won't be last, but we still need to design things the way we feel they are best for the game. Players can either choose to try it out or avoid it in favor of their own style.

There may be an impact on the economy, there may be an impact on recruiting, there may be an impact on guild sizes - but the end result is likely to be very positive on the game. We aren't designing it to cripple solo players and I haven't seen anybody provide a valid example of this so far. We have made a lot of changes recently to help support both smaller and larger guilds and want players to feel special for being part of a cool guild in this multiplayer game. We are looking forward to testing this feature with the thousands and thousands of players who are (and will be) in the beta and make it the best it possibly can be for as many of our players as possible. (Source)

Classes
Paladins and Warriors are too similar
They are going to end up looking more different from each other than they do on Live today. They have gotten too similar. (Source)

AE Tanking
Neither Thunder Clap (even with the new talents) nor Consecrate will do the entire job for you, even on AE pulls. You'll need to use other attacks to maintain threat. (Source)


Druid (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Sleep (This one is actually my fault. ^^)
Sleep is not a new class ability. I assume it refers to a creature ability. (Source)


Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
(Retribution paladins, please read that post about missing changes in yesterday's post)

Depth of Gameplay
You are using "depth" to mean "I have a large toolbox" or "an answer to everything." We use "depth" to mean there is more going on than just pop your cooldowns and kill someone. Good paladins will be able to manage those new mechanics and will do competitive damage as a result. Bad paladins will do lower damage. You will find other players who get killed by you (or get beaten by you in PvE) will complain more when they think they were "outplayed" because you pushed a button and beat them. They will complain less when they think you had to juggle a lot of balls in the air well to be able to achieve that damage.

Note that I did not say they won't complain at all. In PvP it's always because the other guy was overpowered. (Source)

Ardent Defender
Ardent Defender - Activate to reduce damage taken by 20% for 10 sec. While active, attacks which would otherwise kill you cause you to be healed for 15% of your maximum health. 3 minute cooldown. Off the GCD. (Source)

Seal of Wisdom Gone
Seal of Insight is the new healer-oriented Seal. It combines the effects of Light and Wisdom.

Judgement of Wisdom's effect (casters using wands on a target to regen mana) is what we cut. The communication error is probably mine. The new spell, just called Judgement, combines the Justice (limits movement speed) and Light (chance of a melee heal) effects.

[...] Seal of Insight: Fills the Paladin with divine power, giving each single-target melee attack a chance to heal the Paladin and restore 4% of the paladin's maximum mana. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Unleashing this Seal's energy will deal Holy damage to an enemy.

Judgement: Unleashes the energy of a Seal to judge an enemy for Holy damage. Judged targets move slower and cannot flee. Attacking a judged target has a chance of healing the attacker.

"Move slower" is a cap on run speed, as it is today.

Judgement is considered a melee attack for purposes of restoring mana via Seal of Insight.

We're iterating on all of this quickly though, so things might have changed by the next beta build. (Source)

Heart of the Crusader / Judgement of the Wise / Mana Regen
As clarification, Heart of the Crusader is cut. Judgements of the Wise is also cut as a talent. Instead, Ret and Prot generate mana on Judgement passively. Ret then has a 1 point talent to add Replenishment to that effect. (Source)

And do you mean that Ret and prot regain mana in way a similar to Judgements of the Wise (as in it restores mana to us upon cast)? or do you mean it is similar to Judgement of Wisdom (restores mana every time we hit the judged target)?
Judgements of the Wise. Incidentally, the Judgement of Wisdom mechanic no longer exists.

Both Ret and Prot will still have access to Divine Plea if needed for emergency mana, though we don't anticipate they will need to use it on cooldown. (Source)

Protection Paladins in Build 12539
There are no bonus Stamina talents. Prot paladins get +10% Stamina at level 10 for choosing Prot spec. We also cut the Spiritual Attunement mechanic and the "Improved Divine Plea" mechanic. Instead, Prot gets Judgement of the Wise (sans the raid Replenishment effect) as a passive, just like Ret. In essence, the melee paladins should rarely run out of mana, and if they do, they always have Divine Plea for emergencies.

Mana will still matter to them in the sense that if a Ret or Prot tries to be a healer or spam Consecrate, they'll blow through their bar more quickly than it will refill. But if they are using their normal attacks, mana should stay in a steady state.

(Note that Prot can still use Consecrate without spamming it by taking the long duration talent.) (Source)


Shaman (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Ancestral Swiftness removed from Enhancement Tree in beta is a bug
Ancestral Swiftness was not removed. Sorry for any confusion. It is still in the second tier of Enhancement, available to all. (Source)


Warlock (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Upcoming Warlock Changes
Here are a few upcoming changes you'll see in the next beta build:

-- Improved Drain Soul and Dark Pact have been cut / redesigned.
-- Aftermath is a 100% chance to proc with 2 points. That is just a tooltip error.
-- Soul Fire’s base cast time is reduced to 4 sec, and Emberstorm takes it down to 3 sec.
-- Demonic Aegis back to 15/30%.
-- Drain Life will do more competitive damage. (Source)


Warrior (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
New Impending Victory
The intent isn't that Victory Rush becomes some kind of awesome but unreliable defensive cooldown with this talent. It's more that if you spend the talent points, you can get an "Execute range" attack that isn't Execute and might heal you a little. I wouldn't consider it anywhere on par with say Toughness or Shield Mastery. (Source)

Berserker Rage requiring Berserker Stance is a bug
We did not change Berserker Rage. (Source)

Hi guys,

We've made some changes to the login server, however these changes didn't quite stick. You will not be able to login without doing the following:

1. Navigate to the following folder in your beta install.
~\Data\enUS**
2. Open up your realmlist.wtf file with a text editing document.
3. Change the "set portal public-beta" line to "set portal public-test"
4. Save this change.

At this point you should be able to login normally.

**This folder will differ depending on which language you installed WoW Beta with. For example if you have a German install, the folder will be deDE.

If you still have issues with logging in please post here!

Thanks guys and sorry for the inconvenience.

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

• Dark Simulacrum now costs 20 Runic Power and has a 1 min cooldown. (Old - No cost, 2 min cooldown)

Frost

• Icy Touch no longer generates very high threat when in Frost Presence.

Unholy

• Anti-Magic Shell - Damage absorbed no longer energizes the DK with additional runic power.
• Ebon Plaguebringer now also affects Chains of Ice
• Ghoul Frenzy now grants your pet 50% haste. (Up from 25%)
• Unholy Frenzy now increases melee and ranged haste by 20%. (Up from 10%)

Druid (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Balance

• Sleep (Tier 6) - Puts nearby enemies to sleep for up to 6 sec. Any damage caused will awaken them. / 80 Mana, 30 yd range, 1.5 sec cast
• Feral Swiftness is now a Tier 1 Talent. Down from Tier 2.

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

• Counterattack no longer costs mana.

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

• Mage Armor is now trained at level 68. Up from 64.
• Arcane Explosion is now trained at level 58. Up from 56.
• Mana Shield is now trained at level 46. Down from 52.
• Arcane Intellect is now trained at level 52. Up from 48.
• Conjure Mana Gem is now trained at level 48. Up from 46.
• Slow Fall is now trained at level 32. Up from 26.

Fire

• Frostfire Bolt is now trained at level 56. Down from 68.
• Molten Armor is now trained at level 64. Up from 54.
• Scorch is now trained at level 26. Down from 32.

Frost

• Frost Nova is now trained at level 8. Down from 9.
• Frostbolt is now trained at level 7. Down from 8.
• Frost Armor is now trained at level 54. Up from 7.

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy

• Healing Hands now has a 1 min cooldown.
• Divine Plea is now trained at level 58. Down from 68.
• Light's Beacon now affects each heal you cast on the target instead of just Holy Light and Holy Shock. Now heals the beacon for 50%. (Down from 100%)
• Holy Wrath no longer scales from attack power and deals 2400 Holy damage divided among all targets within 10 yards.
• Holy Shock now grants a charge of Holy Power.
• Seal of Wisdom is gone.
• Seal of the Pure now seems to have a chance to restore the Paladin's mana.
• Holy Light is now trained at level 14. Up from 5.
• Divine Light - A large heal that heals a friendly target for 7761.99 to 8648.14. Good for periods of heavy damage. / 30% of base mana, 40 yd range, 2.5 sec cast
• Divine Favor now increases your chance to critically hit with your next Word of Glory, Holy Shock, Flash of Light, Holy Light or Divine Light by 100%. / Instant, 1 min cooldown
• Denounce - You have a 50/100% chance when any of your Holy spells get a critical effect to make your next Exorcism spell instant and cost no mana.
• Sacred Cleansing is now a Tier 4 Talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Infusion of Light is now a Tier 3 Talent. Down from Tier 4. It now only affects Holy Light. (No longer affects Divine Light)
• Blessed Life is now a Tier 6 Talent. Up from Tier 4.
• Enlightened Judgements is now a Tier 3 Talent. Down from Tier 4.
• Healing Light now affects Words of Glory.
• Tower of Radiance (NYI) *New* - Directly healing the target of your Beacon of Light has a % chance to generate Holy Power.
• Judgements of the Pure is now a Tier 1 talent. Down from Tier 2.
• Sanctified Light now affects Word of Glory and increases critical chance by 6/12%. (Up from 5/10%)
• Speed of Light *New* - Casting Holy Shock grants 5/10/30% spell haste for your next Flash of Light, Holy Light or Divine Light, and casting Healing Hands grants you 10/20/60% movement speed for 10 sec. Also lowers the cooldown on Healing Hands by 10/20/30 sec at all times.
• Clarity of Purpose *New* - Reduces the casting time of your Holy Light and Divine Light spells by 0.1/0.2/0.3 sec.

Protection

• Shield of Righteousness is now trained at level 44. Down from 74.
• Sacred Duty now only Reduces the cooldown of Divine Protection by 1/2/3 min.
• Improved Crusader Strike has been replaced with Grand Crusader - When your Shield of Righteousness and Hammer of Righteousness deal damage, they have a 20% chance of refreshing the cooldown on your next Crusader Strike and causing it to hit for 50/100% additional damage.
• Ardent Defender is now a Tier 4 talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Divine Guardian is now a single rank talent and has been revamped (but is probably NYI) - Party or raid members within 30 take 20% reduced damage for 6 sec.
• Holy Shield has been revamped - Increases your chance to block by 30% for 10 sec, and deals 97.8 Holy damage for every attack blocked. Consumes Holy Power to extend duration by 10 sec per stack of Holy Power. / 10% of base mana, Instant cast, 1 min cooldown
• Hallowed Ground is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 4.
• Vindication is now a Tier 5 talent. Up from Tier 4.
• Shield of the Templar is now a Tier 6 talent and has been revamped - Increases the critical strike chance of your Shield of Righteousness by 5/10%. In addition, your Shield of Righteousness critical strikes have a 50/100% chance of making your next Judgement a critical strike.
• Spiritual Attunement is gone.
• Divine Sacrifice is gone.
• Improved Exorcism is now Wrath of the Faithful - Increases the damage by 10/20% and critical strike chance by 10/20% of your Holy Wrath spell.
• Improved Devotion Aura is now Protector of the Innocent - Your Auras reduce your damage taken by 1/2/3% and the amount healed on any target by 2/4/6%.
• Sanctuary Reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by melee attacks by 2/4/6% instead of reducing damage taken from all sources.
• Sacred Oath is gone.
• Reckoning now gives you a 10/20/30% chance after blocking an attack for your next 4 weapon swings within 8 sec to generate an additional attack.

Retribution

• Divine Storm - An instant weapon attack that causes 20% of weapon damage to up to all enemies within 8 yards. The Divine Storm heals up to 3 party or raid members totaling 25% of the damage caused. Consumes all applications of Holy Power to increase damage dealt:
  1 Holy Power: 22% Weapon Damage
  2 Holy Power: 50% Weapon Damage
  3 Holy Power: 90% Weapon Damage / 20% of base mana, Instant cast
• Crusader Strike now grants a charge of Holy Power.
• Inquisition *New* - Consumes Holy Power to increase your Holy Damage by 30%. Lasts 10 sec per charge of Holy Power consumed. / 20% of base mana, Instant cast
• Conviction is now a Tier 2 talent. Down from Tier 6.
• Sanctity of Battle is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 6. Now reduces cooldown of Exorcism by 3/6 secs. (Up from 2/4 secs)
• Swift Retribution is now a single rank talent increasing melee and ranged attack speed by 20%.
• Fanaticism (Tier 4) is now Improved Judgement (Tier 2) - Increases the damage of your Judgement spell by 15% and decreases its cooldown by 3 sec.
• Judgements of the Wise now grants you 40% of your base mana over 10 sec. (Old - immediately grants you 25% of your base mana)
• The Art of War is now a Tier 4 talent, down from Tier 3. It now has a 15/30% chance to proc from any melee attack (Old - 100% proc from Critical) and no longer reduce the casting time of Holy Light.
• Seals of Retribution is now a Tier 4 talent. Up from Tier 3.
• Eye for an Eye is now a Tier 1 talent. Up from Tier 2. It now gives you a 5/10% chance to cause 30% of the damage taken back to the attacker.
• Righteous Vengeance is now a Tier 6 talent. up from Tier 2.
• Improved Judgements is now Improved Crusader Strike - Increases the damage of your Crusader Strike by 15/30% and decreases its cooldown by 1.5/3 sec.
• Heart of the Crusader is now a Tier 3 (Up from Tier 1) single-rank (Down from 3 ranks) talent.
• Zealotry - Your Crusader Strike generates 3 stacks of Holy Power per strike for the next 30 sec. Requires 3 stacks of Holy Power to use. / Instant, 30 min cooldown
• Wrath of the Lightbringer - Increases the critical strike chance of your Holy Wrath ability by 25% and reduces the cooldown of your Avenging Wrath ability by 0.5/1 sec. /
• Rebuke - Interrupts spellcasting and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 4 sec. / 10 Mana, 5 yd range, Instant cast, 10 sec cooldown
• Templar's Verdict - An instant weapon attack that causes a percentage of weapon damage. Consumes all applications of Holy Power to increase damage dealt:
  1 Holy Power: 55% Weapon Damage
  2 Holy Power: 125% Weapon Damage
  3 Holy Power: 225% Weapon Damage / 20% of base mana, 5 yd range, Instant cast
• Rule of Law - Increases the critical strike effect chance of your Crusader Strike and Holy Light by 5/10/15%.

Priest (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy

• Healing Prayers is now Binding Prayers - Reduces the mana cost of your Binding Heal by 5/10%, and your Desperate Prayer also heals the lowest percentage health friendly party or raid target within 40 yards for 50/100% of the amount healed.

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

• Venomous Wounds now also gives you a chance to regain 3/6 Energy.
• Focused Attacks is gone.
• Master Poisoner is now a single rank talent - Increases the spell damage taken by any target you have poisoned by 8%, your Envenom has a 100% chance not to consume Deadly Poison, and the duration of all Poison effects applied to you is reduced by 50%.
• Murderous Intent is now a Tier 5 Talent. Up from Tier 4.
• Deadly Momentum now increases the critical chance of your next attack by 40% at both ranks.
• Deadened Nerves now reduces damage taken by 3/7/10%. (Up from 2/4/6%)

Subtlety

• Shadowstep no increases the damage of your next Ambush or Garrote. (Old - Increased the damage of the next ability)
• Redirect *New* - Transfers any existing combo points to the current enemy target. / 40 yd range, Instant, 1 min cooldown

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

• Elemental Devastation is now an Enhancement talent.
• Ancestral Knowledge is now an Elemental talent.
• Improved Lava Lash is now a 2 Ranks talent (Down from 3). Increases the damage of your Lava Lash ability by 15/30%, and by an additional 10/20% for each of your applications of Searing Flames on the target, consuming those applications in the process.

Enhancement

• Improved Shields is now a Tier 1 talent. Down from Tier 2.
• Ancestral Swiftness is gone.
• Frozen Power *New* - Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Lash and Shock spells by 5/10% on targets afflicted by your Frostbrand Attack effect, and your Frost Shock has a 50/100% chance to root the target in ice for 5 sec. when used on targets at or further than 15 yards from you.

Restoration

• Earth Shield is now trained at level 10. (Down from 50)

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

• Bane of Doom - Curses the target with impending doom, causing 2213.37 Shadow damage every 30 sec. When Bane of Doom deals damage, it has a 25% chance to summon a Demon guardian. Only one Bane per Warlock can be active on any one target. / 15% of base mana, 30 yd range, Instant cast, 1 min cooldown
• Jinx *New* - Your Curse of the Elements also effects all nearby enemy targets within 20/40 yards of the cursed target, and your Curse of the Weakness also reduces the targets energy, rage, focus or runic power generation by 5/10 while active.

Demonology

• Ritual of Doom is now Summon Doomguard - Summons a Doomguard to fight beside you for 45 sec. The Doomguard will assist you by attacking the target which is afflicted by your Bane of Doom or Bane of Agony spell, and will sometimes dispel harmful magic effects from you. / 80% of base mana, Instant cast, 10 min cooldown, Reagents: Demonic Figurine
• Inferno is now Summon Infernal - Summons a meteor from the Twisting Nether, causing 28.87 Fire damage and stunning all enemy targets in the area for 2 sec. An Infernal rises from the crater, under the command of the caster for 1 min. The Infernal deals strong area of effect damage, and will be drawn to attack targets afflited by your Bane of Agony or Bane of Doom spells. / 80% of base mana, 30 yd range, 1.5 sec cast, 10 min cooldown, Reagents: Infernal Stone
• Create Firestone is gone.
• Create Spellstone is gone.
• Detect Invisibility is gone.
• Sense Demons is gone.
• Unending Breath is gone.
• Nemesis is now a Tier 5 Talent. Down from Tier 6. Now 2 ranks, down from 3.
• Molten Core is now a Tier 4 Talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Demonic Brutality is gone.
• Hand of Gul'dan cast time has been increased from 2.5 to 3 sec.
• Ancient Grimoire now increases the duration of your Infernal and Doomguard summons by 10/20 sec. (Up from 6/12 Sec)
• Improved Succubus is gone.
• Improved Healthstone is gone.
• Improved Imp is gone.
• Dark Arts *New* - Reduces the cast time of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 0.25/0.5/0.75 sec, increases the attack power bonus of your Felguard's Demonic Frenzy by 1/2/3% and increases the damage done by your Felguard's Shadow Bite by 5/10/15%.

Destruction

• Empowered Imp now seems to gives your Imp's Firebolt a 6/12% chance to cause your next Soulfire spell to be instant cast within 8 sec. (Rank 2 Not Yet Implemented ... Could be a bug)
• Bane of Havoc now lasts 5 min. Up from 2 min.
• Nether Protection now reduces all damage by that spell school by 15%. (Down from 30%)
• Afterburn is now named Burning Embers, now lasts 7 sec (Down from 10). The damage done by your Burning Ember effect cannot exceed [ 1/2% of Spell Power + 167.45 ] total damage.
• Backlash now has a 13/26% chance to proc. (Up from 8/16%)
• Shadowburn base damage has been increased by 23%. Now only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.
• Improved Soul Fire now has a flat chance to increases your spell haste by 7/15% after you Soul Fire a target above 80% health.
• Emberstorm now reduces the cast time of Soul Fire by 0.5/1 sec. (Down from 1/2 sec)
• Bane no longer reduces the casting time of Soul Fire.
• Improved Shadow Bolt is now Shadow and Flame - Increases the damage done by your Shadow Bolt and Incinerate spells by 4%, and your Shadow Bolt has a 33/66/100% chance to cause the Improved Shadow Bolt effect to the target.
  The Improved Shadow Bolt effect causes the target to be vulnerable to spell damage, increasing spell critical strike chance against that target by 5% for 30 sec.
• Shadowflame now also fears the enemies.

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

• Thunder Clap now decreases attack speed for 30 sec. Up from 10 sec.
• Rend damage has been increased. Now deals [ 8.57% of Weapon Speed * AP + 60% of Weap. Min. Damage + 60% of Max. Weap. Damage ], up from [ 7.14% of MWS * AP + 50% of MWB + 50% of mwb ].
• Second Wind is now a Tier 6 talent. Up from Tier 5.
• Throwdown *New* - Knocks the target to the ground and stuns it for 5 sec. / 15 Rage, 5 yd range, Instant, 45 sec cooldown

Fury

• Heroic Leap now decreases attack speed for 30 sec. Up from 10 sec.
• Enraged Regeneration no longer consumes Enrage effects.
• Death Wish is now a Tier 3 talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Rampage is now a Tier 4 talent. Down from Tier 5.
• Heroic Fury now has a 30 sec cooldown. Down from 45 sec.
• Even the Odds is now named Meat Cleaver.
• Flurry is now a Tier 5 talent. Up from Tier 4.
• Impending Victory is now a Protection Talent.
• Piercing Howl is now a Tier 2 talent. Down from Tier 3.
• Enrage now procs from any damage.
• Unbridled Wrath now generates 5 rage points when you deal melee damage with a weapon. (Up from 1)
• Enrage - After taking any damage, you have a 30% chance to become Enraged, giving you a 6% damage bonus for 12 sec. /
• Raging Blow *New* - A mighty blow that deals 100% weapon damage from both melee weapons. Can only be used while Enraged. / 20 Rage, 5 yd range, Instant, 3 sec cooldown

Protection

• Shield Wall now reduces damage taken by 40%. Down from 60%.
• Shield Block now costs 10 Rage and has a 30 sec cooldown. (Old - No rage, 1 Min cooldown)
• Warbringer is now a Tier 6 Talent. Up from Tier 5.
• Vigilance now let you gain vengeance as if 20% of the damage was done to you.
• Sweep and Clear was changed to Thunderstruck - Your Thunder Clap leaves a crackling zone of energy on the ground for 5/10 sec, dealing 5.63 damage every sec to enemies that cross it.
• Hold the Line now increases the critical strike and critical block chance by 10% for 5 sec.
• Impending Victory *New* - Using Shield Slam on a target with 20% or less health has a 50/100% chance to allow the use of Victory Rush but that Victory Rush only heals for 5% of your health.

ETA on Extra Beta Keys
For those looking to get keys now that a patch is out, please be aware that we're still monitoring stability issues and will be releasing keys as needed once the service is a bit more stable.

It's not a real action/reaction situation. The patch is a big milestone for us, the beta, and the game, but keys are still going to be metered out as we feel additional testers are necessary for testing purposes. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Annoyance of picking up items
This is one of those user experience issues where some players really want convenience, and we have to sort of fight back against that for the betterment of the experience and enjoyment of the game.

It potentially sounds ridiculous. Of course convenience means you're able to have more fun, right? Actually it can seriously degrade even short term enjoyment of a game.

We maintain that the act of clicking to pick up items is important for a few reasons. It obviously allows you to pick and choose what you actually want to pick up, and that's actually an important player choice. And it happens a lot. You could argue that you want to pick up everything! For gold this is true, there's never a reason not to pick up gold, but for items the reality is that in the long term it's pretty unlikely that you're always going to want to pick up every item that drops. In fact I'd personally guarantee it. And for all of the convenience options we have, all of the streamlining, making the game easy to approach (but difficult to master), and all that junk, the fact remains that Diablo is about clicking, clicking, clicking. It works. It has always worked, and we know that it's integral to the formula of why it does.

In my personal outlook, it's a situation where - and this is potentially getting into the psychology of games a little - your direct interaction with the game, where upon completion of a goal (killing demons) you're presented a reward (phat lewt) it's important that you're involved in actually receiving the reward. Hitting a button to vacuum it all up devalues that system, and ultimately the enjoyment of the game. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Griswold's Edge No Longer Legendary
Griswald's Edge is now a blue item that randomly spawns from the Anvil of Fury. It is no longer a legendary. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Followers can't die
It is intended for Followers to not die when you die. Followers actually can't die, they can only get knocked unconscious. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)