This is coming from MMOC and the Official Wrath of the Lich King forums. Now in the title I say that they’re possible class changes because anything can happen; they could push these as hotfixes, they could come out with 3.0.3, they could come out on Nov. 13th with the retail Wrath of the Lich [...]

As I stated yesterday, we are happy with Ret’s PvE damage and sustatined damage in PvP, but were concerned that the burst damage in PvP could be too high. We discussed this for literally hours yesterday, which was certainly not the first time we have discussed the issue. Thus I hope these changes are not [...]

DoT Crits
Originally, we liked the fact that dots didn’t crit. It’s one of the things that made them different from other types of spells. In turn, it meant that classes and specs that focused on dots cared about different stats than other classes. We think it’s interesting when say a ring drops, and the group [...]

Some of this is going to be seen live, the rest on November 13th.
Aspects and the GCD
Aspects are now off the GCD. It’s true. There will still be a 1 sec cooldown to switch from one aspect to another. It should feel a lot more like warrior stances or death knight presences.
We’re also going to [...]

Nah I’m just kidding, so is Ghostcrawler. I actually got on my paladin last night and got him to level 69 in about 12 mintues, felt great but REALLY overpowered considering my gear really is, complete shit. I can only imagine what fully geared ret. paladins are doing right now and how they love it, [...]

A lot of Blue attention here from Kalgan and Ghostcrawler so I’ll try to itemize it properly.
We need to fix two problems with Shadow priests. One is that their damage is too low, especially at epic level. The second is that stacking Vampiric Embrace from too many priests probably represents a balance problem. These changes [...]

With Patch 3.0.2 coming out today (long maintenance) it’s officially the end of Arena Season 4. So what do arena players have to look forward to then with the new class changes and such besides extremely manic skirmishes where you have to relearn your class and different comps?
Why, two new arenas of course!
Orgrimmar Arena
The Orgrimmar [...]

Death Knight
Unholy tree dps being tuned down
Gargoyle does do nice burst damage, but that’s at the expense of Unholy Blight usually, which in turn hurts your Scourge Strikes. But we are messing with Unholy now to deflate its damage a little. (src)
Frigid Dreadplate
We rewrote the spell and the tooltip to be simpler and less confusing. [...]

Quoted from Ghostcrawler on the Wrath of the Lich King Beta forums.
Also remember that people get hung up sometimes on the avoidance tank who dodges, dodges and then dies when a hit connects. Without crushing blows, you aren’t going to run into as many situations where the very next hit can kill you, unless you’re [...]

Last minute scrambles are AWESOME! Spooner is going to have to hurt somebody tonight so help me. While go try and put out the flames, here be some last minute breaking news.
How much will Cold Weather Flying cost in Live?
Yes, it will be 1000g when it goes live. It was originally part of a quest [...]

I’m glowing right now, emitting a certain type of radiation brought on by terrible siezures of joy and elation. So Feilynn walks into the room with a set of new luggage and pretty much any supplies I might need for the trip which completely floored me. That was an awesome way to start my day! [...]

Also please take note: TO DELIVER THE HORSE PRESS 1.
You’ll know what I mean when you get there.
Death Knight Creation F.A.Q. (src)

Q. What races can be a death knight?
A. Every race has the availability of being a death knight.
Q. Who is eligible to create a death knight?
A. Players who have at least one level 55 [...]

Got this message from Tanner the other night (or early morning I was in a substance induced sleep early last night)
Hi! I was wondering if in the new expansion, WOTLK, can pets of the same family still have better stats than each other? Look at it like this. I tamed Rak’Shiri and Encheyakee. Even though [...]

This comes from the Beta forums quoting Ghostcrawler:

Tidal Waves — Riptide now also procs this effect.
Riptide — We’re going to increase the initial healing component.
Storm Reach — now called “Elemental Reach” and includes Lava Burst.
Improved Fire Nova Totem - Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova Totem by 10/20%, and your Fire Nova totem [...]

The previous post I started a while back has gotten a lot of attention from you all, so here’s even MORE fuel for the fire. Expect me to be covering this HEAVILY while I’m there.
Don’t expect us to be ripping up every other talent tree in the game at this stage. We will continue to [...]

All my Moonkin out there should enjoy this post.
Here is what we’re inclined to do about Balance. It isn’t a done deal yet because we just talked about it and didn’t make the actual changes yet, so it’s possible we’ll hit a snag (though I don’t see why).
Moonfury and Earth and Moon down to 3 [...]

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 [...]

First and foremost I want to say that I have the utmost confidence that the game will be ready by November 13th. It will be as balanced and solid as possible and I know for a fact it’s going to be unbelievably fun.
With that said there are many concerns though to the contrary where the [...]

Just going to lump a lot of these smaler and more varied Blizzard threads into this post for now. There’s a lot going on today and especially tomorrow in regards to Blizzcon. I know I;ll be providing some excellent coverage from the event as well as the trip to get there!
Arena testing and bug exploits
As [...]

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 [...]

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%)