Spooncraft

Since it’s going to be a while before we get to play the new hotness on the live servers, I thoguht it would be wise to refresh everyone on all the changes that are hitting.

Below is a big list of all the mian points from dungeon and raid changes, barbershops, world changes in new areas, leveling speed increases, itemization, and so forth:

• The Atiesh quest-chain will not be completable anymore. Obviously because Naxx will be in Northrend.
  
• The Bear Mount from Zul’aman will no longer drop.
• The Onyxia quest-chain has been removed from the game because the King of Stormwind is back and he slapped the ho.
  
• Naxxramas has been moved to the Dragonblight so we won’t see it until Nov. 13th.
• The ability to get titles related to Tier 4 or Tier 5 content is being removed. Of course, players who got them before the patch keep them. I’m talking about the Hand of A’dal and Champion of the Narru deal for doing the TK and Mag quests.
  

• We got Barbershops in the capital cities now.
  
• The amount of experience needed to level from 60 to 70 has been lowered significantly so there should be no reason to not hit 70 before Nov. 13th if you’re in your 50’s right now.
  
• New graphical effects are being added to the game, including the new shadow engine and increased particle effects.
  
• The Stormwind Harbor will be available, but you won’t be able to travel to Northrend until the release of WotLK. However it does have a working boat traveling between Auberdine and Stormwind which will cause all of Darkshore and Teldrassil to become 100% emptier.
  
• The Caverns of Time have been slightly modified to add an entrance for CoT: Stratholme. The instance itself won’t be available before WotLK, only the entrance is being added.
• Mounts and Vanity Pets are now trainable spells and the old items will be used to teach you these spells. Once a mount or pet is learned you can access it through the Character Panel. (Ctrl+P)
• Various tokens like Badges of Justice or Honor Tokens are all merged in the new Token Interface. It will also remove the Badges of Justice and PvP Tokens from your bags to free up even more space
• The in-game Calendar used to schedule raids or events between your friends and guildies will be available by typing /calendar or clicking on the minimap button
  

• +Healing and +Spell damage stats are being merged into a single +Spell power stat. Healers’ talents and spells have been updated accordingly to compensate this change.
• Items with magic school-specific damage like +shadow or +nature have been converted to +spell power as well. This include most of the TBC items except for some enchantments like Sunfire or Soulfrost.
• Protection Paladin and Tanking Warrior sets to reflect changes on the new mechanics. A lot of non set items are also being changed.

• Raids buffs, debuffs, and auras stacking have been revamped so raid composition is going to be dramatically switched.
• All TBC raid monsters will have their health reduced by about 30%, their melee dmg nerfed, and although boss abilities remian unchanged; Illidan won’t use BS moves like Shear anymore.