Patchnotes

General

• Guild bank vouchers that players unlock as guild rewards now correctly state that they can only be used by Guild Leaders.
• Many rare creatures that went into hiding upon Deathwing's emergence into Azeroth have made a return! In addition to finding new homes in a post-Cataclysm world, they drop new, improved loot, provide a healthy experience bonus, and respawn much more quickly when killed. Happy hunting!

Dungeons & Raids

• Level 85 players can now choose any normal dungeon via the Dungeon Finder. Choosing Random Dungeon will still not add Blackrock Caverns or Throne of the Tides into the rotation.

Blackrock Caverns

• Beauty now spawns with only two pups in Heroic difficulty. Not to worry though, the missing pup has been adopted by a wonderful, if not insane family.

Grim Batol

• Faceless Corruptors now move 10% more slowly.
• Players may still use spell and abilities while afflicted by Forgemaster Throngus's Impaling Slam.
• Valiona's Devouring Flame damage has been reduced by 20%.

Halls of Origination

• The duration of the Flame Wardens' Raging Inferno has been reduced by 80%.
• Anraphet's Nemesis Strike now does 75% of weapon damage, up from 50%. In addition, the damage-over-time effect applied by this ability does 15,000 damage every 2 seconds, up from 9,000.
• Earthrager Ptah's Flame Bolt now deals more damage per second on Heroic difficulty.
• Setesh seeks a portal every 25 seconds, up from 20.

Lost City of the Tol'vir

• Lockmaw no longer tolerates fighting in his treasure room.

Shadowfang Keep

• Baron Ashbury
  • Sadly, in his hubris he has forgotten how to Mend Rotten Flesh.

• Lord Walden
  • Conjure Poisonous Mixture now deals more initial damage.
  • Frost Mixture is now area-of-effect damage.
  • Toxic Catalyst now deals less damage over time.

The Stonecore

• Stonecore Earthshapers' Dust Storm does slightly less damage.
• Corborus
  • The warning time for Thrashing Charge has been increased by 1 second. In addition, Thrashing Charge now happens 4 times, down from 5.
  • The visual for Rock Borers spawning during the submersion phase is now different from the Thrashing Charge visual.

• High Priestess Azil
  • She grew! She's now 175% the size of a human, up from 125%.
  • Gravity Wells should kill Devout Followers more quickly.
  • The cast time of Force Grip is now 1.5 seconds, up from 1.
  • The size of the warning visual for Seismic Shard has been increased to more accurately reflect the area it affects.
• Slabhide
  • The ground phase lasts longer and has fewer stalactites.
• Ozruk
  • There is now a precast visual on the ground to make it clear how far away a player must get to be clear of Shatter.
  • The cast time of Shatter has been increased to 3 seconds, up from 2.5.
  • Shatter damage is now reduced by armor, but has been increased by 33.3% (repeating, of course) as a result.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that made Ozruk's Shatter knockback component 10-yard range while the damage had a 15-yard range. Both are 15 yards now.

Throne of the Tides

• The damage done by Lady Naz'jatar's Shock Blast and Naz'jar Tempest Witch Chain Lightning has been reduced.
• Tainted Sentries Swell damage has been reduced.
• The damage of Blight of Ozumat has been reduced by 25% per stack.

The Vortex Pinnacle

• Creatures
  • Desperate Speed cast by Temple Adepts has had its duration reduced significantly.

• Altairus
  • The visual effects in this encounter have been adjusted to make the wind direction easier to read.
  • Cyclones now knock players straight up, and players hit by a cyclone cannot be hit again for a few seconds.
• Asaad
  • Skyfall Stars are now summoned to help him defeat players.
  • Static Cling has had its cast time increased to 1.25 seconds, up from 1.
• Grand Vizier Ertan
  • His health has been reduced slightly.
  • He now knocks away players standing too close to him when he retracts his Cyclone Shield, which now inflicts Nature damage if it touches players.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that made Ozruk's Shatter knockback component 10-yard range while the damage had a 15-yard range. Both are 15 yards now.

PvP
Tol Barad

• Players will now be teleported out of the Tol Barad micro dungeons 15 minutes before the beginning of the next battle.

Classes
 Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)

• Necrotic Strike's absorption effect is now reduced by the target's resilience. In addition, its debuff duration has been reduced to 10 seconds, down from 15.
• The spell hit bonus previously given by Virulence (Unholy) has been rolled into the Runic Focus passive effect that all death knights possess.

Blood

• Bone Shield now has 4 charges, up from 3.
• If Death Strike is used while a Blood Shield is already active, the new absorb will stack with the old one instead of replacing it.
• Scarlet Fever now applies via Blood Plague, rather than Blood Boil.

Frost

• Chilblains now also causes Chains of Ice to root the target for 1.5/3 seconds.
• Hungering Cold now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.

Unholy

• Blightcaller (Mastery) has been redesigned and renamed Dreadblade. It increases all Shadow damage by 2.5% per point of mastery.
• Death's Advance (new talent): While both Unholy Runes are depleted, movement-impairing effects cannot reduce the death knight below 75/100% of normal movement speed.
• Sudden Doom is now triggered only from main-hand auto attacks, and is normalized according to weapon speed rather than having a fixed percentage chance.
• Virulence has been redesigned. It now grants 10/20/30% additional disease damage.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Dark Succor (new talent) raise the minimum healing done by Death Strike from 7% to 20% of maximum health, but only while in Unholy or Frost Presence.

Runeforging

• Swordbreaking and Swordshattering now reduce disarm duration by 60%, up from 50%.

 Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)

• Entangling Roots now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
• Hibernate now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
• Moonfire mana cost has been reduced from 18% to 9%.
• Nature's Grasp now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
• Prowl is no longer broken by enemies using Demoralizing Shout or Demoralizing Roar.
• Skull Bash's lockout time has been reduced to 4 seconds, down from 5.
• Soothe is now instant cast, down from 1.5 seconds.
• Worgen and troll druids now have new art for Swift Flight Form.

Balance

• Sunfire mana cost has been reduced from 18% to 9%.
• Total Eclipse (Mastery) benefit from mastery increased by approximately 33%.

Feral

• Infected Wounds now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.

Restoration

• Empowered Touch now also affects Regrowth. In addition, after Tree of Life is no longer active, this talent will only refresh the most recently cast or refreshed Lifebloom, and will not refresh other copies of Lifebloom.
• Natural Shapeshifter has been reduced to a 3/6-second increase to Tree of Life's duration, down from 5/10.