Wrath of the Lich King Class Information

Over the weekend at the World Wide Invitationals Blizzard sat down for a bit of Q and A with the fans that went out to see the event. As a result, additional information was added to the growing archive of Wrath of the Lich King archive and even more was verified.

Death Knight

• People playing a Death Knights will see the original voice of their race slightly modified to make it sound more … Death Knight-ish.
• Tanks will be interchangeable in 5-man dungeons but tanks will have a speciality in 25-man raids. Death Knights will be best against casters and shouldn’t be too far behind on other encounters.

Rogue

• Dagger specialization will be improved for rogues in Wrath of the Lich King.
• Rogues will get a talent called “Fan of Knives”, an AoE ability allowing them to attack all enemies within a short range. It will be some kind of “emergency” ability and you won’t be able to spam it.
• Sap will now work on more targets, humanoids, beasts, dragonkins, demons. “Anything with a skull and a brain inside of it”.

Warlock

• There isn’t any plan to change the soul shard farming as it’s part of the class, but an “emergency soul shard” ability might be added.
• Demonic Circle will allow warlocks to scribe a circle in the ground to teleport to it later with another spell.
• The 51-Point demonogy talent is a Demon-Form, this will allow you cast AOE Shadowbolts

Druid

• There will be a new model for the Druid’s Dire Bear form and the Dire Cat form will be introduced.
• Nourish will be a new healing spell, healing for more hit points for each HoT effect on the target.
• There isn’t any plan to change cyclone

Paladin

• Retribution paladins will share their itemization with Death Knights and Warriors. Their group utility will be increased by making them more efficient DPS-wise.
• Retribution paladins itemization will be moved to the same item as Warriors/Death Knights
• A new reactive healing spell will be added – Hand of Purity.
• Paladin’s short-term-blessings no longer overwrite long-term-blessings.

Warrior

• The plan is to improve the warrior specs to make sure that DPS warriors would be able to tank a little, while protection warriors would be able to DPS slightly more with new abilities like Shockwave.
• Titan’s Grip is a new Fury talent and allows warriors to wear 2 hand weapons with a single hand.
• Protection Warriors are getting a spell called “Shockwave” allowing them to damage and stun all the monsters in front of them.
• Bladestorm will be a new Arms talent whirlwinding all enemies in range every x seconds for a few seconds.

Raids & Dungeons

• Sunwell Plateau is the last content patch before the expansion release.
• There isn’t any plan to nerf Kil’jaeden right now, he’s intended to be the last boss before the expansion and is meant to be hard.
• Raiding armor sets and PvP rewards sets will look different and won’t share the same model anymore in Wrath of the Lich King.
• Uldum was on the original list of dungeons to be added to Wrath of the Lich King but right now it’s still unsure if we’ll see it or not.

PvP

• Raiding armor sets and PvP rewards sets will look different and won’t share the same model anymore in Wrath of the Lich King.

Professions

• Inscription trading skill is intended to be for both casters and melees, inscriptions benefits every class. The current plan is to use herbalism as the primary gathering profession.

Source: Blizzard Staff at Worldwide Invitationals Class and and Q & A Panels.

Zug Gaming’s WoW Talent Calculator

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Shadow Priest Macros

This guide is dated, please is our more complete and updated guide here: Priest macro guide.

These macros are ideal for the a shadow priest, though several of them could also be used with a more traditional holy or discipline talent spec.

Spam Mass Dispel without losing targeting circle
#showtooltip Mass Dispel
/cast !Mass Dispel
*This is for those of you who want to spam mass dispel without losing that “green targeting circle” it helps for those quick dispels

Shield yourself
/cast [target=player] Power Word: Shield
Note: You can also set the option in your interface to cast spells on yourself when no target is present

Flash heals your “mouse over” target
/cast [target=mouseover] Flash Heal

Shadow Form Healing
/castsequence Flash Heal, Shadowform

Mana burns your focus target
/cast [target=focus] Mana Burn

Summon pet and auto attack
/cast [nopet] Shadowfiend
/petattack

Strategy courtesy of Dumblepizzle