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There are a few gripes right now with the state of warriors (the forums pretty much look like all the theorycrafters of the world roleld warrior and are fighting with their calculators and spreadsheets) but personally after playing a warrior for as many years as I have I’d have to say all the changes are [...]

If you can’t tell yet I’m pretty much just relaying the information all in one lump little package for all the class changes that will be going on during the different builds (like a more frequently occurring patch) that the Beta will receive.
Warlock talents were changed some as well recently.
Affliction
Death’s Embrace (Tier 9) does not [...]

It was originally desired, that Death Knights would be able to interchange the runes they use allowing them to further customize themselves. Out of the 6 slots for runes, they could change it to have 3 blood and 3 unholy or something like that. I believe it’s a good thing that Blizzard has decided to [...]

There is a lot of drama as always within the Shaman community. We have… how do you say, been the bastard red headed step children of WoW since classic vanilla WoW.
This post is turning into an article which is turning into a big fat rant about how shaman were pretty much shat all over by [...]

I’d venture to say that this isn’t something we didn’t already have access to via Yarr-Tools but whatever, at least the fine folks at Wowhead (and they are very very good at their craft) put everything into a really nice streamlined interface which is customary over on the light side. WH is still blocked on [...]

Nothing too fancy here folks just snagging some great images of the Worldwide Invitational off MMOC that documents some of the disclosures about class changes and additions in Wrath of the Lich King.

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The new Rock Stars got some much needed detail from the Class Panel. Here are a few points.

Developers don’t want talent trees to be pigeonholed into specific roles. Each tree will be functional both roles. This means that there won’t be a tanking tree versus a DPS tree.
Runes have a 10 second separate cooldown. So [...]

So in a nutshell Warriors are going to be Barbarians from Diablo II, Rogues get an AOE, Warlocks can shapeshift, Druids are getting Dire Cat, and Mages will become walking explosions.
Mage

Mage Armor will be reworked to reduce harmful debuff durations, so that’s a more suitable raid armor. Finally.
New ability: Frostfire Bolt. In itself it’s [...]

Priests actually need a lot of love. They’re a class that’s always been hands down meant to be the best healer and yet they’re pretty underrepresented in the end game raiding scene where a resto shaman, paladin, or druid can pick up the slack and outperform with certain spells. Luckily it seems that all around [...]

Alrighty I’m just going to go down the list from what’s most important to me that was disclosed during the 1st day of the WWI about class changes in Wrath of the Lich King. Now mind you none of this is fleshed out much yet but the signs have been pretty loud all over the [...]

This is going to make mages and warlocks both very happy. I on the other hand would normally be bothered since I normally go purge happy whenever I see a warlock or mage, but at least this way I conserve a little more mana.
Mages

Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no [...]

Maybe this thing will keep snowballing. We got Koraa (a Shaman class designer at Blizzard) posting on our forums regularly now and her cryptic message about the Shaman community being finally vindicated in WotLK seems to be holding water.
Totems are in the physical school now. (src)
This means that even when Silenced or Spell Locked you [...]

I would agree with the CM on this one. Even with Paladins and Druids in Burning Crusade getting some tanking utility, the best tank for many situations will always be a Warrior through the pure mitigated damage and tons of tools (shield block, shield wall, last stand, etc) they’re given.
I will say this much though, [...]

In case you see it anywhere on the web, Blizzard has not given any information that can be legitimately sourced and quoted regarding class changes in the coming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. So if you see “leaked Rogue talents here oooh~” then don’t click anything on it (lol keyloggers), don’t panic over it, [...]

See, yesterday I read that people were starting to go nuts that Patch 2.4.2 was coming out and that it must mean YES Arena Season 4 must be coming out now! Incorrect. However, the new changes that were to coincide with the arena season are live. I’ll highlight some of the major stuff here and [...]

Every Friday is kind of a long day folks so mind the late posting. Currently this site is undergoing a redesign which is nice because I’ll finally get to bring you the Spooner experience you so rightly deserve. Either way here are some changes that made it in today.
Specifically there are some class changes that [...]

For all my fellow shaman, the priests, paladins, rogues, mages, and the rest of you; seems like we’re not going to get anything major until the expansion comes out.
We currently don’t have any plans to make big changes to any class before Wrath of the Lich King. (src)
It sucks but it makes sense. Before Burning [...]

Ok people this post is going to quite lengthy as there are A LOT of undocumented changes. I’ll go ahead and put the class changes above the cut and the remainder beneath. Some of these changes I already reported in individual posts concerning them but for the sake of argument they’ll be here too.
Druid
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Kalgan has been a busy little bee lately on the forums. From (what feel like empty) promises on the shaman forums, to answering serious concerns and QQ’s in the warlock forums. Now he’s turned his sights to the cacophony on the mage forums.
The title of the original thread was “Kalgan please talk to us” it’s [...]

There’s a lot of frustration and mug slinging going around regarding the class changes in 2.4. The underlying argument being (although extreme) that the changes are being made to balance PVP in an atempt to turn WoW into an eSport game and that these changes are ruining PVE. Kalgan was in the forums “mixing it [...]

Shaman

Flametongue debuff now removes 25% of healing efficiency on the target for 5 seconds and stack up to two times. The duration remains 5 seconds.

Mechanics changes

We’ve recently made a change for an upcoming 2.4 PTR update that will increase the amount of targets affected by Mass Dispel to a total of 10. (Source)
Bloodlust/Heroism will, again, [...]

Looks like the new PTR build is coming up with the following changes to certain class spells.
Druid
- Nurturing Instinct has been changed:
old: Increases your healing spells by up to 50% of your Strength, and increases healing done to you by 5%/10% of your Attack Power while in Cat form.
new: Increases your healing spells by up [...]

Holy smokes it seems my shamanistic rage cannot be purged, dispelled, or spell stolen from me anymore! Woot! Also mages are getting some buffs to counter spell pushback  and destruction warlocks are getting a little buff to their fire damage. Here’s a list of the other undocumented changes with this build on the PTRs.
Undocumented Changes
Dungeons [...]

Howdy folks! I’ve almost beaten this cold so expect a lot more activity today than previously this week. Here are the new changes to the patch notes for the PTR and Patch 2.4.
The fact that Ghostwolf is now instant cast (with talents) is nice for us shamans, but I’m really excited about the ability to [...]

A lot of people are upset that there is a lack of class changes in Patch 2.4 compared to the amount of raid and quest changes. For some reason they neglect to even consider that there are still be a considerable amount of changes yet to be implemented in the PTR. Granted I’m being pretty [...]