WotLK Profession Specific Bonus Perks Summary

October 3, 2008 by Donjo · 1 Comment

Blizzard will be continuing the trend of giving each profession it’s own perk with special abilities and BoP enchants, item enhancements, and items. Here is a summary of what we know so far:

Alchemy Profession Bonus Perks

- Mixology
- WotLK Flasks get 32 itemization points, elixirs get 16 points. Doubles duration on all flasks and elixirs.
- Using WotLK Flasks, gives 37 spellpower, 64 attack power, 13 MP5, or 320 health
- Crazy Alchemist’s Potion
- Alchemists can still transmute items on a daily cooldown
- Endless Mana Potion, Endless Healing Potion, and Endless Rejuvenation Potion
- Indestructible Alchemist’s Stone, Mercurial Alchemist’s Stone, and Mighty Alchemist’s Stone
- Alchemy discoveries are on a weekly cooldown - Northrend Alchemy Research - Spell - World of Warcraft

Leatherworking Profession Bonus Perks

- New WotLK drums are not in the spell database at the moment Current drums are unusable at level 80.
- Reduced cost on leg armor - does not give a special bonus
- Fur Lining - Enchantment on bracers. - fur lining - Wowhead Search - Gives a large stat boost over the equivalent enchant (+40 spell damage, +82 attack power). There’s also a stamina one for 90 stamina, but no stamina enchant yet. There is also resistances for fur linings, for an additional 60 resists.

Jewelcrafting Profession Bonus Perks

- Dragon’s Eye gems - dragon’s eye - Wowhead Search
- A Jewelcrafter can have up to three Dragon’s Eye gems equipped. They can be the same or different. They act like every color of gem for socket bonuses and metagems.
- Ruby Hare, Emerald Board, Sapphire Owl, Twilight Serpent, and Monarch Crab
- Gem Perfection - Spell - World of Warcraft — A chance to craft green-quality gems into slightly better cuts. The gems produced will be in between uncommon and rare in stats.
- Jewelcrafting has its own set of dailies, with which rare gem recipes (5 tokens), metagem recipes (8 tokens), and Dragon’s Eyes (1 token) can be purchased. - Dalaran Jewelcrafter’s Token

Inscription Profession Bonus Perks

- Shoulder enchants - master inscription - Wowhead Search - Effectively a bonus of +37 spell power, 64 attack power, or 32 dodge rating over the epic version
- Tarot cards - can make cards to get items from the Darkmoon Faire. Implementation not yet known
- Inscription discoveries are on a daily cooldown - Northrend Inscription Research - Spell - World of Warcraft and Minor Inscription Research

Tailoring Profession Bonus Perks

- Lightweave Embroidery - Spell - World of Warcraft - 50% proc rate with 45 second cooldown
- Swordguard Embroidery - Spell - World of Warcraft
- Darkglow Embroidery - Spell - World of Warcraft - 35% proc rate with 75 second cooldown
- Four epic flying carpets and one regular version - carpet - Wowhead Search - acts exactly like a mount - Swift Flying Carpet
- Frostweave Net
- Reduced cost for spellthreads on armor
- Three transmutable cloths - Spellweave, Moonshroud - Spell - World of Warcraft , and Ebonweave - Spell - World of Warcraft
- A Guide to Northern Cloth Scavenging

Engineering Profession Bonus Perks

- Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket - Spell - World of Warcraft
- Hyperspeed Accelerators - Spell - World of Warcraft
- Flexweave Underlay - Spell - World of Warcraft
- Nitro Boosts - Spell - World of Warcraft
- Personal Electromagnetic Pulse Generator - Spell - World of Warcraft
- Belt-Clipped Spynoculars - Spell - World of Warcraft
- Various goggles - Armored Titanium Goggle, Charged Titanium Specs, Electroflux Sight Enhancers, Greensight Gogs, Truesight Ice Enhancers, Visage Liquification Goggles, and Weakness Specrtalizers
- Bombs and decoys - Explosive Decoy, Saronite Bomb, Cobalt Frag Bomb, and Goblin Thermal Sapper Charge
- Gnomish Army Knife
- Trinkets - Gnomish Lightning Generator, Noise Machine, and Sonic Booster
- Portable mailbox and vendor - MOLL-E and Scrapbot Construction Kit
- Wormhole: Gadgetzan Group portal to Gadgetzan

Blacksmithing Profession Bonus Perks

- Smelt Titansteel - Spell - World of Warcraft (20 hour cooldown transmute)
- Socket Gloves - Spell - World of Warcraft and Socket Bracers - Spell - World of Warcraft

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Wrath of the Lich King Hunter Talents

July 20, 2008 by Zuggy · 1 Comment

Good news for all you hunters out there, we finally have the official wrath of the lich king hunter talents. A good friend of mine who has the beta took some great screen shots for us, detailing all of the new and updated hunter talents.

Beast Mastery Hunter Talents

Aspect Mastery (Rank 5/5) - Increases the mana returned from your aspect of the viper by 10% reduces the damage done to you while in aspect of the monkey by 10% and increases the attack power bonus gained with aspect of the hawk by 10%.

Cobra Strikes (Rank 3/3) - You have 60% chance when you critically hit with Arcane Shot, steady shot or kill shot to cause your pet’s next 3 special attacks to critically hit.

Invigoration (Rank 2/2) - When your pet scores a critical hit with a special ability you instantly regain 2% mana.

Longevity (Rank 3/3) - Reduces the cooldown on your Bestial wrath, intimidation and pet special abilities by 30%.

Master’s Call (Rank 1/1) - Your pet attempts to remove all stun and movement impairing effects on the target, and cause them to be immune to all effects for 4 seconds.

Marksmanship Hunter Talents

Careful Aim (Rank 3/3) - Increases your ranged attack power by an amount equal to 100% of your total intellect.

Chimera Shot (Rank 1/1) Costs 540 Mana, Instant Cast, 10 Second Cooldown, 5-35 range - You deal 30% weapon damage, consuming the current String on your target and triggering an effect…

Serpent Sting - Instantly deals 40% of the damage done by your serpent sting.

Viper Sting - instantly burns 30% of the amount of your mana drained on your viper sting, restoring 100% back to you

Scorpid Sting - reduces damage done by the target’s next three attacks by 60%. The damage reduction is diminished by 20% following each attack. Lasts 10 seconds.

Focused Aim (Rank 3/3) - Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting Aim shot and Steady Shot.

Go for the Throat (Rank 2/2) - Your ranged critical hits cause your pet to generate 50 focus.

Improved Steady Shot (Rank 3/3) - Your steady shot hits have a 5% chance to increase the damage done by your next Aim Shot, Arcane Shot or Kill shot by 30%, and reduce the mana cost of your next aim shot, arcane shot or kill shot by 25%.

Lethal Shots (Rank 5/5) - Increases your critical strike chance with ranged weapons by 5%.

Marked for Death (Rank 5/5) - Increases damage done by your shots to marked targets by 5%, and increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Aim shot, Steady Shot and kill by by 10%.

Mortal Shots (Rank 5/5) - Increases your ranged weapon critical strike damage bonus by 30%.

Piercing Shots (Rank 3/3) - Your steady shot and Aim shot abilities ignore 6% of your target’s armor.

Rapd Killing (Rank 2/2) - Reduces the cooldown of your rapid fire ability by 2 min. In addition, after killing an opponent that yields experience of honor, your next Aimed shot, arcane shot or auto shot causes 20% additional damage. Lasts 20 seconds.

Rapid Recuperation (Rank 3/3) - Reduces the mana cost of all shots and abilities by 20% while under the effect of Rapid Fire and Rapid Killing.

Wild Quiver (Rank 3/3) - You have a 12% chance to shoot an additional shot when doing damage with your auto shot, dealing 60% damage.

Survival Hunter Talents

Explosive Shot (Rank 1/1), 540 Mana, 6 Second Cooldown, Instant Cast, 5-35 Range - You fire an explosive charge into the target, dealing 742-812 fire damage every second for 2 seconds to all enemies within 5 yards of the target.

Improved Tracking (Rank 5/5) - Increases all damage done by targets that are being tracked by 5%.

Point of No Escape (Rank 3/3) - Increases the critical strike chance of all attacks on targets affected by your frost, freezing and bear trap by 6%.

Potent Venom (Rank 3/3) - Increases your damage done to targets afflicted by your wyvern sting or serpent sting by 3%, and reduces the mana cost of your serpent sting by 30%.

Resourcefulness (Rank 3/3) - Reduces the mana cost of all traps and melee abilities by 60% and reduces the cooldown of all traps by 6%.