Spooncraft

Warlock
Eradication might need a few changes
Thanks. We’ll take a look at it. (src)
Demonic Circle recast
If you cast a new one, it should just cast a new one. We’ll look into it. (src)
Demonic Circle isn’t intended to be a pew pew spell. Not every ability has to be. (src)

Shadowflame buffs?
Shadowflame is something we’re looking at. (src)

Shaman
Riptide and Restoration tree
Riptide probably isn’t going to be a crazy awesome raiding tool *unless* you’re in a fight with a lot of movement, in which case it does its job very well. It is situational, but we actually made a lot of the new spells situational because almost every class already had bread and [...]

Paladin
Blessing of Sanctuary
We like Blessing of Sanctuary as a buff you can put on anyone. However, we might do something like let it benefit the paladin more than other targets. (Self buffing gives a better result than buffing someone else.) Or we might just add more paladin mitigation somewhere else in the tree. That all [...]

Hunter
Hunters in Arenas
Arenas were not kind to hunters. We do get that. We talk about it all the time. Did we buff hunters too much now for Arenas? I have no doubt you’ll disagree, but it is a concern. We need to actually see a lot more arenas (with fewer broken classes in them) to [...]

Druid
Feral abilities
With regard to abilities, we have been torn between giving bears (and cats) more unique abilities versus giving them tanking abilities that many players considered “core.” We could have certainly come up with something more original than Last Stand for bears, but at the time, a lot of bears were comparing laundry lists of [...]

Death Knight
Black Ice and damage increase spells effects
The Black Ice tooltip may very well still be wrong. Sometimes text doesn’t get updated at the same time. But the spell effect should be that Black Ice only buffs Frost. Frost got some other buffs and Unholy got some other nerfs too. These might not all be [...]

Mages are sitting in a good spot right now in the Beta. These changes seem to really help round out some of the more glaring issues mages are having in general.
We think mages are still having mana problems and don’t want to reduce Evocation’s cooldown anymore. Nor do we want to buff mage armor too [...]

Yeah I’m not even going to edit this Deac, muahahaha.
Thanks a lot for the submission! I read over it and feel like a have a better understanding of the Priest class. So for anybody who plays a priest or is aspiring to pickup the class then you should check out this post. It was written [...]

Alrighty folks sorry for the later start, it’s a Saturday monring spoon here and I’m a little out of it yet but let’s roll with this regardless. Last night I decided NOT to post all the new class change information because in the past if I report these kinds of things right the second they [...]

Warrior
Arms

Strength of Arms now Increases your total Strength and Stamina by 2/4% and your Expertise by 2/4. (Old - Increases your total Strength and total health by 2/4%.)
Sudden Death now let you keep 3/7/10 rage after using Execute.

Fury

Unending Fury has been revamped and doesn’t reduce rage cost of abilities anymore. Now Increases the damage done [...]

Warlock
Destruction

Molten Core duration has been increased. Your Shadow spells and damage over time effects have a 5/10/15% chance to increase the damage of your Fire spells by 10% for 12 sec. (Up from 6 sec)

Affliction

Improved Corruption now Increases the damage done by your Corruption by 6/8/10% (Down from 12/16/20%), and increases the critical strike chance [...]

Shaman
Elemental

Improved Fire Nova Totem doesn’t have a chance to stun targets anymore and will reduce their movement speed instead.

Enhancement

Flurry attack speed increase has been modified to 10/15/20/25/30%. (Up from 5/10/15/20/25%)
Dual Wield Specialization now increases your chance to hit while dual wielding by 2/4/6%. (Up from 1/2/3%)
Maelstrom Weapon now has a 100% chance to reduce the [...]

Rogue
Combat

Blade Twisting (Rank 2) now has a chance to daze the target for 8 sec. (Up from 4 sec)

Subtlety

Enveloping Shadows now reduces the damage taken by area of effect attacks by 10/20/30%. (Up from 5/10/15%)

Paladin
Holy

Divine Plea - You gain 25% of your total mana over 15 sec, but the amount healed by your spells is reduced by 20%. (Down from 100%)

Glyphs

Glyph of Flash of Light - Your Flash of Light heals for 50% less initially, but also heals for 140% of its inital effect over 12 sec. (Down from [...]

Hunter
Marksmanship

Marked for Death now Increases your damage done by your shots and the damage done by your pet’s special abilities by 1/2/3% (down from 2/4/6%) on marked targets, and increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Aimed Shot, Steady Shot, Kill Shot or Chimera Shot by 2/4/6%.

Mage
Arcane

Torment the Weak doesn’t affect all damage anymore, [...]

Druid
Feral

Predatory instinct now reduces the damage taken from area of effect attacks by 10/20/30%. (Up from 5/10/15%)

Dire Bear Form armor contribution from items has been lowered from 400% to 370%
Growl range has been increased from 5 yards to 20 yards

Restoration

Wild Growth healing value has been greatly increased. (Up from 350 to 686 for Rank 1, [...]

Death Knight
Blood

Blade Barrier now increase your parry chance by 2/4/6/8/10% for 10 seconds whenever your Blood Runes are on cooldown. (Old - Only worked whenever you had no runes active)
Heart Strike damage has been increased. (From 50% Weapon Damage plus 184 and 92 damage per disease to 60% Weapon Damage plus 220 and 110 damage [...]

Wow, Hunters got a lot of Blue attention recently. Mine is still dwindling at Lv. 30 because I’ve been spending more time on the Beta and less time leveling him currently, but it’s still a class I’d like to check out.
BRACE FOR IMPACT!
Abandon pet from stables
Abandoning from the stable is on the list. It’s not [...]

Afternoon folks, it’s been a pretty busy day thus far, and last night too mind you; so let’s jump right into it.
I didn’t make an individual post for the priests and warriors because frankly, there was one comment and nothing really too game breaking. So here they are for your inquiring minds:
Moving Fort & Shield [...]

Developer Q/A (src)
Firestone/Soulstone – Will there be a Crit/haste swap? Will they be useable in arena?
Firestones and Spellstones should be usable in Arena. We’ll get that fixed.
Is there more ‘polish’ coming to the trees? Destro is pretty odd in terms of skills and rotation still.
We will continue to polish the trees. I want to be [...]

The ongoing battle to give Rogues any kind of utility or worth outside of DPS continues.
Regarding Poisons and Sap
The immune bosses is a topic we’re discussing. This applied to elemental resist and disease immune bosses too.
On the one hand, I totally understand why it can be frustrating. On the other hand, there aren’t that many [...]

Not much here but it’s worth posting.
Arcane Blast mana penalty lowered
We are going to lower the mana penalty after the first blast… but it’s possible you already have that change. (src)
Water Elemental not inheriting Master’s hit
We’ll check it out. (src)

Pet level rate change
We just recently increased the pet level rate. Pets needed 1/16th of hunter experience to gain a level, but don’t benefit from quests or rest. Those two account for a lot of experience, especially at higher levels (where quest content tends to be denser).
We changed the experience needed for 1/10th. You should [...]

Ghostcrawler lets loose on Enhancement Shaman Changes
Here are our concerns: Lavaburst makes scaling from spell damage so good that Enhancement shamans were debating wearing Elemental gear. Enhancement shamans were also looking at using caster daggers to maximize procs. Both of these trends would cause us severe item headaches down the road and also don’t fit [...]

Divine Plea Changed
We are still showing good healing from Holy paladins. However, we are getting feedback that they may be struggling with mana and perhaps even with boredom. To help with both of these potential problems, We are going to change Divine Plea to only reduce your healing by 20% (up from 100%). However, the [...]

Ghostcrawler on Druid Healing Changes
Here are the changes we’re making next patch. See how they feel.

Wild Growth: Coefficient and healing increased. Mana cost decreased. Cost should be about the same as Circle of Healing. It doesn’t heal instantly, but will heal for about double what CoH does over its duration.
Nourish: Reduced mana cost by somewhere [...]

Frost tree to get some buffs
Disease damage went down a little, which will lower’s Unholy’s overall dps. Dancing Rune Weapon was doing a huge portion of blood’s dps. We thought it was cooler to let it hit hard but be out less often.
When we made these changes, Blood’s dps was higher than Unholy’s, which was [...]

Alright folks it’s the 1st of the month and we’re breaking into October with quite a few changes.
I’m by no means an expert at all these classes but I’m going to give my impressions and I hope you folks will give yours too.
Death Knights: They got some damage buffs for sure and some complete redesigns [...]

Skills
Enhancement

Fire Resistance Totem now increases fire resistance by 130 (Up from 70) and lasts 5 minutes. (Up from 2 minutes)

Talents
Elemental

Totem of Wrath now lasts 5 minutes. (Up from 2 minutes)

Enhancement

Maelstrom Weapon proc chance changed from 20/40/60/80/100% on critical hit to 3/6/9/12/15% when you deal damage with a melee weapon. Now affects Chain Heal as well.
Dual [...]

Talents
Assassination

Focused Attacks now gives 2 energy regardless of the rank.

Combat

Vitality increases your Energy regeneration rate by 8/16/25%. (Up from 3/6/10%)
Blade Twisting changed to : Increases the damage dealt by Sinister Strike and Backstab by 5/10%, and your damaging melee attacks have a 10% chance to Daze the target for 4 sec.
Aggression has been moved from [...]