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A heads up for you folks to not forget, some of these models are temporary until the real models are added to the game. It’s a Beta and they are not done yet, if that’s not obvious by this point then I don’t know how else to help you

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The brilliant and hard workers over at MMO-Champion put together this very comprehensive list of the undocumented changes that hit classes this latest Wrath Beta Build (8905) It’s a very long list as there were MANY changes which you would do well to check out, here are some shortcuts that should get you to the [...]

Here are the newest glyphs in build 8905 of the Wrath of the Lich King Beta courtesy of WOR.
Death Knight
Glyph of Dark Command - Increases the chance for your Dark Command ability to work successfully by 8%.
Glyph of Frost Strike - Your Frost Strikes have a 10% chance to Freeze the target for 8 [...]

Kenzi over at Death Knight Info discovered this nice little addition in the expansion Beta where if you’re a Death Knight and you enter a capital city, the common folk won’t really take a liking to your presence.
Aside form the role playing aspects of this change, it’s obviously really nice to add some more immersion [...]

It’s just been found out that there were some changes to Lake Wintergrasp in this latest build.

The losing team of Wintergrasp will now be rewarded as well as the winning side: Wintergrasp Defeat - “Grants the losing team 500 honor and 50 arena points for participating in Wintergrasp.” (Approx a third of what the winning [...]

Before you would have to quest in the Sholazar Basin to get the ability to fly in Northrend. That’s apparently changed as there is now a flight trainer over at Krasus’ Landing in Dalaran. Images courtesy of WOR.
Cold Weather Flying (required to use flying mounts in Northrend) is now trainable in Dalaran for 950gold.

Also the [...]

Alchemy
New healing and mana potions have been added and appear to be straight up Arena potions. With the new debuff where you can only pot once per combat period I imagine it won’t be as much of an issue as most think.

Alchemy: Endless Mana Potion
Alchemy: Endless Healing Potion

Cooking
These foods give a certain buff which strikes [...]

Chances are that these are upgraded and new versions of the shoulder enchants dropped by Sapphiron (the frost wyrm boss) in Naxxramas.

Inscription of High Discipline - Permanently adds 30 spell power and 15 critical strike rating to a shoulder slot item. Can only enchant your own items and doing so causes them to become soulbound.
Inscription [...]

Told you it wouldn’t take long. Here are the class armor sets for Naxxramas 10-man, Now keep in mind that these sets are not yet finished so there isn’t any set bonus marked yet as well the stats may be different from now until they go live.
Naxxramas was just opened up so people are providing [...]

Here is a MASSIVE compendium of all the loot discovered as of right now in the Naxxramas 10-man version raid in Wrath of the Lich King. Images courtesy of WOR.
The list is still presumably incomplete as there’s still much that needs to be explored with the instance and we’re not 100% sure that all the [...]

Premades weren’t supposed to be active today - Actually, the premades being available on the existing realms was a mistake. They are being removed. There will be a specific premade realm. (src)
Premade Realm - Murmur will be the new Premade realm. Premades will be removed from “Northrend” and “Lich King” (src)
The rate at which you [...]

Here’s my #1 concern as a tanking warrior… Our threat scales very, very, VERY badly. If we outgear an instance, we’re next to useless.
More dps will definitely help — it generates a lot of rage. But we’re still looking at granting more rage based on dodge and parry too. As far as your threat scaling [...]

New ranks of totems/enchants are incoming - Just built all the new ranks of totems/enchants etc., should be up in an upcoming build. (src)
Good to have this setup before Naxxramas obviously.
New Affliction talent inc - There will be a new talent in Affliction in an upcoming build.
Keywords: “DoT” and “Crit” (Well, sorta). (src)
No idea what [...]

This is is actually quite long as there’s a pretty in depth Q/A session.
Broken talents & Naxxramas - I feel ya on the broken talents, these are all working in my local build which should be public very soon. Don’t worry too much on talents being broken as why you feel the class is not [...]

Master’s Call to be fixed in an upcoming build - We did a major bug fixing pass recently, a lot of the bugged talents and abilities should be fixed in an upcoming build (including Master’s Call). (src)
Future Aspect of the Viper Changes - We’re going to be changing it so that procs/hits restore a % [...]

What I wanna know is why druid tanks cant parry.
Flavor. Believe me, if we ever hit a brick wall where we just can’t make druids work without parry, then guess what will happen.
We scaled EXTREMELY well with the few stats we could stack because we just hit Armor Cap and worked around it with [...]

Checking the official talent calculator you might notice a few changes that are most likely going into effect when the next build is applied.
Death Knight
Blood

Might of Morgraine (Tier 9) now affects Obliterate. Critical Strike Damage bonus has been reduced to 15/30/45%. (Previously 20/40/60%)
Dark Conviction (Tier 3) now increases crit chance with weapons, spells, and abilities [...]

With the activation of the level 80 premades it’s only common sense to think that Naxxramas is going to be released with the next build (which will probably be when the servers come back up, or am I the only one having connectivity issues)
The trash has indeed been adjusted. Highlights include:
- Longer trash sections between [...]

Well there goes the neighborhood. Lv. 80 premade characters are available on beta servers. Only existing Beta testers will be able to access them and there’s a maximum of 3 available copies. I’m not opposed to this at all really but it does kind of bother me. At the very least they could fix some [...]

Well, I guess enough people were put off and got vocal about their displeasure with the realm firsts titles. I can’t say i disagree with them either because some jerk who power levels his way to 80 gets a fancy new title which would add a few more dollars to the ebay value that you [...]

So as you know, leveling form 60-70 in Wrath of the Lich King is freaking unbelievably easy. My Death Knight went from level 58-68 in about 2-3 days and I didn’t even complete half the quests in Nagrand and only did 4 instances. The new patch that’s going to be introduced to the public as [...]

Right now you see a lot of passive mitigation talents in the Frost and Unholy trees for a Death Knight, as well you see multiple AOE aggro grabbing abilities or talents that enhance these abilities that are innate to the class itself. So what about Blood?
It was the most popular death knight spec due to [...]

There hasn’t been very much talk about itemization for tanking feral druids in the beta so far, but here is a little information on how blizzard thinks when it comes right down to bear tanks.
There are a lot of huge changes in the expansion though. Warrior tanks are worried they won’t be useful anymore because [...]

This is your chance Paladins. For all things paladin and tanking, you should read this thread and keep on it. For those of you in the Beta, by all means start posting feedback; it’s the only way this kind of stuff will change or be addressed in any way.
We are about ready to do our [...]

I’ll give you guys a fair warning as this is a pretty long post. I’ll shoot you some highlights and the rest can be found after the break.

Developers want you to be able to quest, solo, raid, and PVP as protection.
Protection warriors are going to be doing a lot more DPS than before.
Protection warriors in [...]

As you already know (hopefully by reading this site) Blizzard dramatically changed the stats required for shaman to attain attack power. Originally we worked more like warriors or druid in that 1 point of STR was equal to 2 points of attack power. Basically what this did was limit our possible itemization terribly and had [...]

This news is coming from WOR where it was recently discovered that typing:
/console showThreatMeter 1
/script function IsThreatWarningEnabled() return 1; end
Would bring up a still underconstruction threat meter UI. The finished product will be quite interesting as it’ll grant addon writers more accurate resources for developing their own threat meters.

Some people are saying that this is active in live but if it is then it’s not working for me. I ran into some issues yesterday so I deleted my entire WTF folder and had a fresh start on the game again as far as addons and settings and the likes. I have to admit [...]

I saw this over on the Death Knight Info forums and think it’s the coolest looking quest in the game. It’s one thing to be in a siege weapon blowing shit apart, another to be ground pounding it with the infantry trying to hold ground; but when you’re leaping from dragon to dragon completely dismanteling [...]

Blood of the North changed to 3 ranks (instead of 5)
We changed BoTN to be 3 ranks. That will leave Frost with not quite enough ranks in that tier for the moment though. (src)
Talent stacking and big crits
There are big crits and then there are big crits. The DK talents can probably be stacked too [...]