Spooncraft

Tanking in WotLK & Blessing of Salvation
One change we made recently is baking in the old bonus from Blessing of Salvation into tanking forms. Up until now you were pretty much just doing without the old Salv because there was no way to replace it, and many raiding guilds will tell you that buff is (was) mandatory. Now you get it for free.

That obviously won’t help survival much, but it will affect threat enormously. (src)

I’m reserved and excited at the same time because if you try and run any raid in Burning Crusade without a Paladin to give salvation out, it’s going to be noticeably more difficult than a raid that has that crutch.

Raid Spots
The overall goal is that you should want to bring raiders because they are your friends or because they are very good players, not because their buff is so awesome that you can’t live without it. We would like you to be able to get all of the big buffs and still have some remaining slots that you can fill how you want (you know assuming you have enough healers and CC or whatever). We would like to get things to where no single spec always justifies a raid spot because their buff is impossible to replace or live without. (src)

This is how it should have been from the beginning.

Inscription - Major & Minor Glyphs, Scrolls, Tarot Cards
The core of the profession is the ability to make glyphs. Glyphs are what you apply to your spells and abilities to enhance them in different ways. We have two categories, we have major and minor glyphs. The major ones are all very core, substantive glyphs that affect the power of your class in one way or another. The minor glyphs are intended more for flavor or convenience. Players are able to use up to three major glyphs and a few minor glyphs, so they get to pick and choose from all the glyphs that are available for their class…so it’s really just another form of character customization. Other than that the profession has some other auxiliary components such as the ability to make scrolls [that] provide buffs for other characters. Also they are able to create these tarot cards that are used as quest turn-ins that return random items. (src)

I think right now the only Tarot cards are the Rogue Deck which wheny ou turn into the Darkmoon Fair you get some green loot. But looking at Inscription as another support profession, you have to go down the list. Enchants for my gear, Gems to socket, Armor kits for pants, Glyphs for spells, Helm enchant, shoulder enchants… that’s a lot of hooch.