Mists of Pandaria Talent Calculator Updates (2/15)

posted 2012/02/15 at 3:36 PM by Ashelia

Mists of Pandaria talent calculatormajor

A lot of these "removed" talents are becoming glyphs or spells unlocked by specialization

These are by no means the final product or even close to them, so don't roast Ghostcrawler and his team too much!

Death KnightSoul ReaperRaise AllyBone ShieldOutbreakVlie SpewUnholy BlightIcy GripLevel 15

Corpse Explosion and Outbreak removed.

Vile Spew: 30 Runic Power. Causes an undead minion to erupt in a shower of bile, dealing 249 Shadow damage to all enemies within 40 yards of the minion, and infecting t hem with Blood Plague and Frost Fever.

Unholy Blight: 1.5 minute cooldown. Surrounds the Death Knight with a vile swarm of unholy insects for 10 sec, stinging all enemies within 10 yards every 1 sec, infecting them with Blood Plague and Frost Fever.

Level 30

Bone Shield removed.

Replaced with Icy Grip: Reduces the cooldown on your Death Grip spell by 15 sec and causes your Death Grip to reduce the movement speed of the target by 50% for 6 sec.

Anti-Magic Zone: Places a large, stationary Anti-Magic Zone that reduces spell damage done to party or raid members inside a spell by 75%. The Anti-Magic Zone lasts for 10 sec or until it absorbs ~~10114~~10106 spell damage.

Level 45

Death's Advance: ~~While your Unholy Runes are both depleted,~~ Movement-impairing effects may not reduce you below 75% of normal movement speed.

Level 60

Death Pact: Drain ~~energy~~vitality from an undead minion, healing the Death Knight for ~~25%~~50% of his maximum health and causing the minion to suffer damage equal to 50% of its maximum health.

Death Siphon: ~~Consumes a Death Rune to~~ Deal ~~3116~~2920 Shadow damage to an enemy, healing the Death Knight for 75% of damage dealt.

Level 75

Runic Corruption: When you land a damaging Death Coil, Frost Strike, or Rune Strike, ~~your rune regeneration rate is increased~~you have a 45% chance to activate Runic Corruption, increasing your rune regeneration by 100% for 3 sec.

Level 90

Gorefiend's Grasp: Shadowy tendrils coil around all enemies within 20 yards (hostile or friendly), dealing ~~2543~~2324 Shadow damage and pulling them to the target's location.

Remorseless Winter: Surrounds the Death Knight with a swirling tempest of frigid air, dealing ~~3777~~374 Frost damage to enemies within 8 yards, every 1 sec for 8 sec. Each time Remorseless Winter deals damage, it reduces enemy movement speed by 15%, stacking up to 5 times. Upon receiving a fifth application, an enemy will be stunned for 6 sec.

Desecrated Ground: Corrupts the ground in a 8 yard radius beneath the Death knight, dealing ~~1246~~1125 Shadow damage every second for 10 sec. While standing in this corruption, the Death Knight is immune to crowd control effects.

Specialization Abilities

Soul Reaper

Requires level 87

Strikes an enemy for 50% weapon damage and afflicts the target with Soul Reaper. After 5 sec, if the target is below 35% heath, this effect will deal 46,549 additional Shadow damage. If the enemy dies before this effect triggers, the Death Knight gains 50% haste for 5 sec.

OutbreakBone ShieldDruidDemoralizing RoarBear HugWild ChargeMaster ShapeshifterDream of CenariusInsect SwarmSymbiosisLevel 15

Feline Swiftness: Increases your movement speed by ~~10%~~15% ~~and by an additional 20% while in Cat Form~~.

Displacer Beast: Teleports the Druid up to 20 yards ~~in a random direction, purging all periodic damage effects and providing stealth for 10 sec. Attacking or taking damage cancels this effect. Using this ability activates Cat Form~~forward and activates Cat Form and Prowl.

Tireless Pursuit removed, the movement-related components of the Level 60 ability Wild Charge took its place:
Grants a movement ability that varies by shapeshift form (15 sec cooldown):
Non-shapeshifted: Fly to an ally's position ~~and your next healing spell costs no mana~~.

Bear Form: Charge to an enemy, immobilizing them ~~and granting you 30% haste~~ for 4 sec.

Cat Form: Leap behind an enemy ~~and cause your next Ravage to cost no energy, not require stealth, and have no positioning requirement~~, dazing them for 3 sec.

Moonkin Form: Bound backward ~~and gain 20 Lunar or Solar Energy, whichever is more beneficial to you.~~.

Travel Form: Leap forward 20 yards ~~and take 20% reduced damage for 10 sec~~.

Aquatic Form: Increases swim speed by an additional 200% ~~and take 20% reduced damage for 10 sec~~ for 5 sec.

Level 30

No Changes.

Level 45

Faerie Swarm received an updated tooltip--the 6 sec cooldown in Cat and Bear form is gone, as well as the minor damage dealt while in Bear Form.
~~Decreases the target's armor by 12% for 5 min and~~Grants an improved version of Faerie Fire that also reduces the target's movement speed by 50% for 15 sec. ~~While affected, the target cannot stealth or turn invisible. Deals 16 damage when cast from Bear Form. Useable in all shapeshift forms, but incurs a 6 sec cooldown while in Bear Form or Cat Form.~~ This talent replaces Faerie Fire.

Level 60

Soul of the Forest replaces Wild Charge--it keeps the non-movement related aspects of that talent.
Aessina's blessing grants a benefit which varies by your combat specialization.
Balance: When a Lunar Eclipse ends you gain 20 Solar Energy and when a Solar Eclipse ends you gain 20 Lunar Energy.

Feral: Your finishing moves grant 2 Energy per combo point.

Guardian: Mangle now generates an additional 2 Rage.

Restoration: You gain 50% haste for your next spell when you cast Swiftmend.

Level 75

Demoralizing Roar has been updated to Disorienting Roar--now usable in all shapeshift forms.
~~The Druid roars~~Invokes the spirit of Ursol to roar, disorienting all enemies within 10 yards for 4 sec. ~~Using this ability activates Bear Form~~Useable in all shapeshift forms.

Bear Hug was changed to Mighty Bash--there is no longer a positional damage component and the cooldown is reduced.
~~Melee attack that stuns the target and deals 10% of the Druid's health in damage every 1 sec for 3 sec. Effect canceled if the Druid moves away, attacks, or takes any other action~~Invokes the spirit of Ursoc to stun the target to 5 sec. ~~Using this ability activates Bear Form~~Useable in all shapeshift forms. ~~1 min~~50 sec cooldown.

Level 90

Master Shapeshifter, an ability that tried to synergize melee abilities with spell damage, was replaced with Dream of Cenarius:
Wrath, Starfire, Starsurge, and melee abilities increase healing done by your hext healing spell by 30%.

Non-instant casts of Nourish, Healing Touch, and Regrowth increase the damage done by your next damaging spell or ability by 30%.

Each of these bonuses lasts 30 sec and cannot be gained more often than once every 30 sec.

Specialization Abilities

Eclipse:: Your Wrath now generates Lunar Energy.
Solar Eclipse: When you reach 100 Solar Energy you will trigger a Solar Eclipse, increasing all Nature damage done by 20%, transforming your Moonfire spell into Sunfire, and causing Wrath damage to refresh Sunfire's duration.

Lunar Eclipse: When you reach 100 Lunar Energy you will trigger a Lunar Eclipse, increasing all Arcane damage done by 20%, transforming your Hurricane spell into Arcane Storm, and causing Starfire damage to refresh Moonfire's duration.

When triggered, both Lunar and Solar Eclipes grant 15% spell haste for 15 sec and energize you for 35% of your maximum mana.

Insect SwarmMaimHurricaneHunterGlaive TossPowershotBinding ShotLock and LoadBlack ArrowLevel 15

Former level 15 talents removed, level 45 talents become 15.

Level 30

Wyvern Sting: A stinging shot that puts the target to sleep for 30 sec. Any damage will cancel the effect. When the target wakes up, the Sting causes ~~3093~~2829 Nature damage over 6 sec. Only one sting per Hunter can be active on the target at a time.

Level 45

Former 60 talents became 45.

Level 60

Former 75 talents became 60.

Level 75

Former 90 talents became 75.

Level 90

All new talents.

Glaive Toss: You hurl two glaives in front of you 30 yards, dealing 1XXX damage to all enemies and reducing their movement speed by 50%. The Glaives will return back to you, also dealing damage and snaring targets they hit. If Glaive toss hits at least 2 enemies in both directions, the cooldown is reset.

Powershot: You wind up a powerful shot, dealing 1XXX damage to all targets in front of you within 20 yards (width). The damage done is increased on targets furhter away:
15-30 yards: Double damage, Stunned 1 sec

30-50 yards, Tripple damage, Stunned 2 sec

Blinding ShotSpecialization Abilities

Lock and Load: You have a 100% chance when you trap a target with Freezing Trap or Ice Trap to cause your next Explosive Shot to cost no Focus, trigger no cooldown and deal double damage. Effect lasts for 12 sec.

MageInvocationRune of PowerIncanter's ShieldBlazing SpeedLevel 15

Talents remained relatively unchanged.
Scorch now does 1058 Fire damage, up from 927.

Level 30

Ice Barrier is now on a 25 sec cooldown, up from 20, and absorbs less damage.

Mana Shield replaced with Temporal Shield.
Temporal Shield: 3% of base mana. Instant cast. 25 sec cooldown. Envelops you in a temporal shield for 4 sec. Damage taken while shielded will be undone over 6 sec.

Mana Shield: Absorbs 1801 damage, draining mana instead. Drains 1.0 mana per damage absorbed. When your Mana Shield is destroyed, all enemies within 6 yards are knocked back 12 yards. Lasts 1 min.

Blazing Speed:impairing50%4being affected by a movement impairing effectLevel 45

Ring of Frost now lasts 10 seconds instead of 12.

Level 60

Cold Snap now finishes the cooldown on Cone of Cold instead of Water Elemental and restores 20% of your health instead of 10% of mana.

Level 75

Level 90 talents (Arcane Bomb, Living Bomb, and Frost Bomb) are now level 75 talents. No more polymorphs!

Level 90

Three new talents.

Invocation: Your Evocation spell no longer has a cooldown, but you no longer have any base mana regeration. Completing an Evocate causes you to deal 20% increased spell damage for 30 sec.

Rune of Power: 30 yd range. 1.5 sec cast. 10 sec cooldown. Places a Rune of Power on the ground, which lasts for 1 min. While standing in your rune of power, your mana regeneration is increased by 100% and your spell damage is increased by 15%. Only 2 Runes of Power can be placed at one time. Replaces Evocation.

Incanter's Shield: Instant cast. 25 sec cooldown. Absorbs damage, converting the damage into mana, up to a maximum of 30% of your maximum mana. Lasts 8 sec. When your Incanter's is destroyed, you gain 30% increased spell power for 15 sec.

Specialization Abilities

Arcane Charge (Passive)
Level 10, Arcane

An Arcane Charge, generated by Arcane Blast and Arcane Missiles, and consumed by Arcane Barrage. Stacks up to 4 times.
Arcane Blast: Generates a charge. Arcane Blast's damage is increased by 25% per charge, and its mana cost increased by 150% per charge.

Arcane Missiles: Generates a charge. Arcane Missiles' damage is increased by 25% per charge.

Arcane Barrage: Consumes all charges. Arcane Barrage's damage is increased by 25% per charge, and it hits 1 additional target per charge.

Critical Mass (Passive)

Level 24, Fire

Multiplies the critical strike chance of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Pyroblast, and Scorch by 1.3.

PaladinEternal FlameHand of PurityUnbreakable SpiritHoly PrismLight's HammerExecution SentenceHoly Insight (Passive)Boundless Conviction (Passive).Level 15

Speed of Light:
New: Increases your movement speed by ~~60%~~70% for 68 seconds.
~~Holy: Reduces damage taken by 20% for 12 sec~~

~~Protection: Increases damage done by 10% for 12 sec~~

~~Retribuition: Radiates 100 healing to allies within 10 yards for 12 sec~~

Level 30

No Changes

Level 45

Removed: Blessed Life and Ardent Defender.

Added Eternal Flame:
Consumes all Holy Power to place a protective Holy flame on a friendly target, which heals them for 2402 per charge of Holy Power every 3 sec for 30 sec.

Selfless HealerLevel 60Level 45Level 60

Removed: Holy Shield and Eternal Glory.

Added Hand of Purity:
Places a Hand on a friendly target, reducing damage of harmful periodic effects by 70% for 6 sec.

Unbreakable Spirit

When your Divine Shield, Divine Protection or Lay on Hands are on cooldown, spending Holy Power will reduce the remaining cooldown by 1% per Holy Power spent, up to a maximum of 50% reduction.

ClemencyLevel 75Level 60Level 75

Removed: Veneration and Acts of Sacrificed.

Former Level 90 talents (Holy Avenger, Sanctified Wrath, Divine Purpose) moved to Level 75.

Level 90

Three completely new talents.

Holy Prism:
Sends a beam of light toward a target, turning them into a prism for Holy energy.

If an enemy is the prism, they take 1581 Holy damage and radiate 1170 healing to allies within 10 yards.

If an ally is the prism, they are healed for 3509 and radiate 572 Holy damage to 5 nearby enemies within 10 yards.

Light's Hammer

Hurl a Light-infused hammer into the ground, where it will blast a 10 yard area with Holy magic for 15 sec. Allies within the area are healed for 6 every 2 sec while enmies take 6 holy damage every 2 sec.

Execution Sentence

A Hammer slowly falls from the sky causing increasing Holy damage to the designated target for the next 10 seconds and culminating in a final burst of damage.

Stay of Execution: If used on friendly targets, the falling hammer heals the target for the next 10 seconds and culminating in a final burst of healing.

Specialization Abilities

New level 85 ability: Boundless Conviction
You may store an additional 2 Holy Power beyond the maximum of 3. No ability ever consumes more than 3 Holy Power.

Holy Insight

Increases your mana pool by 400%.

PriestFrom Darkness, Comes LightPsyfiendSpectral GuiseLevel 15

All three talents received updates.

Void Tendrils: ~~15%~~4% base mana. Summons Shadowy tendrils out of the ground, rooting all targets within 108 yards for 20 sec. Killing the tendril will cancel the effect.

Psyfiend: 11.5 Minute Cooldown. ~~15%~~4% of base mana. Summons a Psyfiend that stands in place. The Psyfiend casts a Psychic Scream on a nearby enemy within 4030 yards every 21.5 seconds ~~lasting for 10 sec~~, preferring anything attacking the Priest. Psychic Scream causes enemies to flee for 1 min. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.

Psychic Scream: ~~15%~~3% of base mana. The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupted the effect.

Level 30

No Change.

Level 45

From Darkness, Comes Light:
Surge of Light (Caster Form): You have a 6%15% chance when you Smite, Heal, Flash Heal, Binding Heal or Greater Heal to cause your next Flash Heal to be instant cast and have no mana cost.

Surge of Darkness (Shadowform). You have a 6%15% chance when you deal damage with Mind Flay to cause your next Mind Blast to be instant cast and have no Shadow Orb cost.

Level 60

Angelic Bulwark: Increases the effectiveness of your own ~~shield effects~~Power Word: Shield, Divine Aegis and Spirit Shell on yourself by 30%.

Level 75

Power Infusion is now 6% of base mana instead of 16%.

Serendipity renamed to Divine Insight:
Serendipity (Caster form). When you heal with Binding Heal or Flash Heal, the cast time of your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing spell is reduced by 20% and mana cost reduced by 10%. Stacks up to 2 times. Lasts 1020 sec.

Mind Melt (Shadowform). When you deal damage with Mind Spike, the cast time of your next Mind Blast is reduced by 50% lasting 67 sec. Mind Melt can stack up to 2 times.

Level 90

No Changes.

Specialization Abilities

Spectral Guise removed.

RogueShuriken TossVersatilityRedirectAnticipationImproved RecuperateElusivenessShroud of ConcealmentShadow WalkSwiftblade's CunningRevealing StrikeHonor Among ThievesShadow DanceHemorrhageLevel 15

No change yet.

Level 30

Deadly Throw's damage is slightly buffed.

Level 45

Leeching Poison had the mechanics clarified slightly: Coats your weapons with a ~~poison~~Non-Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Your melee attacks have a 50% chance to poison the target, and all your subsequent weapon strikes against the poisoned target will heal you for 10% of damage dealt.

Improved Recuperate is removed.

New talent, Elusiveness: Your Feint ability also reduces all damage taken by 30% for 5 sec.

Level 60

No changes yet.

Level 75

No changes yet.

Level 90

All new level 90 talents.

Shuriken Toss: 40 Energy. Instant cast. 30 yd range. A ranged attack that deals 1,179 Physical damage to an enemy target. Generates 1 combo point.

Versatility: Your Redirect ability now has no cooldown.

Anticipation: When one of your attacks generates a combo point on a target that already has five combo points, you gain an Anticipation charge, up to a maximum of 5. When you perform an offensive finishing move on an enemy, any Anticipation charges are consumed to grant you an equal number of combo points on that target.

Specialization Abilities

New level 87 ability: Shroud of Concealment
Instant cast, 5 min cooldown

Extend a cloak that wraps party and raid members within 20 yards in shadows, concealing them from sight.

Shadow Walk

Instant cast, 1 min cooldown

Significantly increases Stealth effectiveness for 6 sec.

Swiftblade's Cunning

Increases the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10%.

Energetic RecoveryFleet FootedRevealing Strike

Level 20, Combat

An instant strike that deals 65% weapon damage and exposes the target's vulnerabilities, increasing the effectieness of your offensive finishing moves on that target by 35%, and giving your Sinister Strikes a 20% chance to generate an extra combat point, for 18 sec. Awards 1 combo point.

Honor Among Thieves

Level 50, Subtlety

When any player in your party or raid critically hits with a spell or ability, you gain a combo point on your current target. This effect cannot occur more than once every 2 seconds.

Shadow Dance

Level 80, Subtlety

Enter the Shadow Dance for 8 sec, allowing the use of abilities that ordinarily require Stealth. The energy cost of Ambush is reduced by 20 while Shadow Dance is active.

HemorrhageSinister StrikeShamanAscensionCall of the ElementsAncestral GuidanceHealing Tide TotemLevel 15

Talents swapped with Level 30 ones.

Level 30

Talents swapped with Level 15 ones.

Level 45

Removed: Improved Ghost Wolf, Windwalk Totem, and Tranquil Mind Totem.

New 45 talent: Call of the Elements: When activated, immediately finishes the cooldown on all totems, 5 min cd.

Other 45 talents formerly Level 90 ones: Totemic Restoration and Totemic Projection.

New tooltip for Totemic Restoration: IfWhen a totem is replaced or destroyed before its duration expires naturally, its cooldown is reduced in proportion to the lost duration, up to a maximum of 50% of the full cooldown.

Level 60

Talents swapped with Level 75 ones.

Elemental Mastery was completely reworked:
New: Call upon elemental forces, empowering you with 30% haste for 20 sec. 2 min cooldown.

Old: When activated, your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst spell becomes an instant cast spell. In addition, your Fire, Frost, and Nature damage is increased by 15% and you gain 20% spell haste for 15 sec. 3 min cooldown.

Level 75

Talents swapped with Level 60 ones.

Healing Tide Totem got a new tooltip and a health buff: Summons a Water Totem with ~~5 health~~10% of the caster's health at the feet of the caster for 10 sec. The Healing Tide Totem pulses every 2 sec, healing the 5 most injured raid members within 40 for ~~2229~~3179.

Level 90

New talents are not released yet.

New Abilities:

Ascendance
Level 87

5% base mana, instant cast, 3 minute cooldown

The Shaman surrenders his physical form to the power of the elements, transforming into a being of raw elemental energy for 15 seconds.

Elemental: While in the form of a Flame Ascendant, Lava Burst has no cooldown and Chain Lightning is empowered to become Lava Beam.

Enhancement: While in the form of an Air Ascendant, auto-attacks and Stormstrike deal pure nature damage and have a 30 yard range.

Restoration: While in the form of a water Ascendant, all healing done is duplicated and distributed evenly among nearby allies.

Burning Wrath (Passive)

Level 40

Fiery elemental energy emanates from the Shaman, empowering all nearby party and raid members and increasing their spell power by 10%.

Grace of Air

Level 80 (Passive)

Empowering winds swirl around the Shaman, granting all nearby party and raid members 5 Mastery.

WarlockSpell DrainUnbound WillSacrificial PactLevel 15

Harvest Life: Drains the life from all enemies within 15 yards of the target, causing ~~117~~107 Shadow damage and restoring 4% of the caster's total health every 1 sec. Lasts 6 sec.

Level 30

No Changes

Level 45

Dark Bargain moved from Level 60 to Level 45.

Removed: Spell Drain

Sacrificial Pact: Your demon sacrifices half its current health to ~~prevent all damage you would take for 10 sec~~shield its master for 300% of the sacrificed health. Lasts 20 sec. 31 min cooldown

Level 60

Dark Bargain is replaced by the new talent Unbound Will: Purges all stuns, disorients, roots and Magic effects from the warlock. Costs 25% of the Warlock's maximum health. 20 sec cooldown.

Burning Rush: Drains 5% of your maximum health per second to increase your movement speed by 50%. Lasts until cancelled. ~~Your life tap causes you to move 25% faster for 8 sec.~~

Level 75

The increased damage and health from Grimoire of Sacrifice now lasts for 15 minutes instead of 5.

Level 90

Archimonde's Vengeance now does more damage, lasts for a shorter period of time, and passively damages the enemy.
Curse an enemy, causing them to suffer ~~25%~~30% of all damage you take. Lasts 1510 sec. Enemies who attack you suffer 5% of all damage they deal to you. This effect is disabled while on cooldown.

Mannoroth's Fury

New: Increases the radius of your non-talent Area of Effect spells by 200%.

Old: Shadowbolt, Incinerate and Malefic Grasp deal 10% splash damage to enemies between you and your target. You can activate this ability to increase the splash amount to 100% for 20 sec. The passive effect ceases until the cooldown resets.

Specialization Abilities

Auto Wand
Level 17, Destruction

Automatically attack the target with an equipped wand until cancelled.

Burning Embers

Level 42, Destruction

Burning Embers are generated by casting Incinerate on Immolated targets and are consumed by Soul Fire. Burning Embers cause you to take damage over time and should be consumed frequently.

Chaotic Energy

Level 10, Destruction

Your mana regenerates substantially faster, Soul Fire and Fel Flame cost more mana and deal 12% more damage.

Demonic Tactics

Level 1, all specs

Causes your Imp, Succubus and Voidwalker to behave more intelligently.

Dark PactEmber Tap

Level 10, Destruction

Heals 19.29% of your health.

Fel Armor

Level 6, all specs

Increases your armor by 2,345, total Stamina by 10%, and the amount of health generated through spells and effects by 10%.

Hand of Gul'danMalady

Level 3, all specs

2% of base mana. 40 yd range. 2 sec cast. Harms the target, causing 1393 Shadow damage over 18 sec.

Curse of the ElementsCurse of EnfeeblementWarriorMass Spell ReflectionSafeguardVigilanceLevel 15

Warbringer: Your Charge also knocks a target to the ground and ~~roots a target for 5 sec~~stuns it for 3 sec.

Level 30

Second Wind: Whenever you are struck by a Stun or Immobilize effect, you generate 20 Rage ~~and 5% of your total health~~ over 10 sec. Whenever you take direct damage, you have a 10% chance to regenerate 3%10% of your total health over 510 sec.

Impending Victory replaces Victory Rush: 30 sec cooldown. Instantly attack the target causing 31 damage and healing you for 10% of your maximum health. If used within 30 sec after you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor, heals for 20% of your maximum health.

Level 45

Throwdown and Cripple removed.

Level 60 Disrupting Shout moved to 45.

Staggering Shout: 40 sec cooldown. Causes all enemies within 20 yards that are snared to become rooted for 5 sec.

Level 60

Rude Interruption and Gag Order removed.

Bladestorm: You become a whirling storm of destructive force, striking all targets ~~nearby~~within 8 yards for ~~150%]~~75% weapon damage ~~and continuing to strike all nearby targets~~every 1 sec for 6 sec. During a Bladestorm, you are immune to movement impairing and loss of control effects, but can be Disarmed, and you can only perform shout abilities.

Shockwave: Sends a wave of force in front of you, causing 4340 damage and stunning all enemy targets within 10 yards in a frontal cone for 4 sec.

Level 75

Level 75 talents became level 90 talents.

Mass Spell Reflection:Your Spell Reflection protects you from an additional spell and protects party and raid members within 2o yards from a single spell for 5 sec.

Safeguard: Run at high speed towards a party or raid member, removing all movement effects upon you, intercepting the next melee or ranged attack made against them and reducing their damage taken by 20% for 6 sec.

Vigilance: Focus your protective gaze on a party or raid member, transferring 30% of damage taken to you for 12 sec. During the duration of Vigilance, your Taunt has no cooldown and attacks against the target cause you to become Enraged for 6 sec.

Level 90

Deadly Calm: You enter a battle trance, causing your next 3 Heroic Strike or Cleave attacks to cost no rage and cause 50% extra damage. Lasts 15 sec.

Bloodbath now has a 1 min cooldown down from a 2 min cooldown.

Storm Bolt: Hurl your weapon at an enemy causing ~~100%]~~50% weapon damage and stunning the target for 3 sec. Deals an additional 300% weapon damage to targets that are permanently immune to stuns. Replaces Heroic Throw.

Specialization Abilities

Colossus Smash now places the Physical Vulnerability effect on the target, increasing their physical damage taken by 4% for 30 sec.

MoP Talent Calculator -- Blizzard Clarifications

We’ve just updated our Mists of Pandaria Talent Calculator to reflect many of the most recent changes and renovations currently being made to the next expansion of World of Warcraft.

We’d like to discuss these and other changes to talents and specializations in this thread. Here are a couple of thoughts to start with:

For shaman and hunters, we still have a ways to go with the revamp of talents, and this latest calculator doesn’t have some of the changes that we’re currently working on.
If you don’t see a favorite spell in the talent list, there is a good chance it is something you get automatically for choosing a particular spec. For example, all Fury warriors learn Raging Blow without having to choose it as a talent. All Discipline priests know Divine Aegis. Chances were almost certain that you were going to choose those anyway so we just gave them to you.
If you don’t see a favorite spell or mechanic as a class ability, spec ability or talent, then there is a good chance it is becoming a glyph. Examples include Atonement (priest), Gag Order (Warrior), Rude Interruption (Warrior), and the Acts of Sacrifice Cleanse component (Paladin).

Why did attacks using % weapon damage drop so much?

We are in the process of recalculating the way damage is dealt. Individual weapon damage is going up by the same proportion in order to keep DPS at level 85 about the same. This should ensure that, at lower levels, these abilities aren’t overpowered.

Why doesn’t every spec get a passive ability at level 10?

Some specs no longer need them. For example, Fire mages don’t get bonus damage with Fire spells – they just have mostly Fire spells to cast. Some hybrids still need passives to differentiate their DPS, healing, and tanking trees. Furthermore, we can always add more if the need arises.

Kaivax. I have to say, I had to sit down after looking at the Death Knight Talents and spells. I honestly didn't think you people could make me any more excited for this next expansion, but you have again left me flabbergasted. i just have one last question. WHEN?

Got a question regarding Protection Paladin and Crusader Strike/Hammer of the Righteous

In cataclysm, both abilities are linked and thus share their cooldown, what's more, they have an invisible haste buff baked into them when you choose the Protection spec that reduces their CD from 4.5 sec (which is what normally is for Retribution paladins) to 3.0 secs.

My questions are as follow, is this invisible haste buff still present for Protection Paladins going forward to 5.0, as the new talent tree update currently shows both CS and HoTR having 4.5 sec CDs and thus, actually in game they have a 3.0 sec cooldown -- or do they actually have a 4.5 sec cooldown? And if they have a 4.5 sec CD now, are they still linked or are they now unlinked?Warlock stuff looks mostly good, new soul fire seems incredibly powerful. Only thing that looks not so useful is the new Mannoroth's fury, KJ's cunning and Archimonde's Vengeance are both pretty compelling options but Mannoroth's fury seems too niche atm. I think expanding upon the auto-cleave mechanic that it used to be would make it comparable to cunning or vengeance.

But I know everything is subject to change and may very well already be outdated.

Also please consider reducing the cd on guardian demons, 5-6 minutes would be perfect.

Archimonde’s Vengeance has a 1 minute cooldown.

Grimoire of Sacrifice grants a 30% boost for 15 sec, which drops to 15% for the remaining duration.

Blood Fear replaces Fear.

Soul Link replaces Health Funnel.

Harvest Life does not hit polymorphed targets.

Demon Soul is not listed at this time, but this is just an error in the calculator.

Why didn’t the priest tree change?Do Discipline priests have Prayer of Healing or not?I have some concern not over the talent trees themselves but of some changes being made to certain class/specs...specifically prot warriors. The way I'm reading the trained skills, revenge's cooldown is being raised to 9 seconds, shield slam is still 6, and devastate is still 4.5 That leaves a lot of gaps in a normal tanking "rotation." One of the reasons I like to tank on my warrior is that there is, provided proper rage management, always an attack to perform. I do not like, for example, prot pallies because they're cooldown-based and not resource management based.

I don't deny that prot warriors don't have to manage their resource nearly as much as say, dps warriors, but I feel like this is a very large change in the playstyle of the protection warrior and makes them a bit more similar to paladins than I'm comfortable with.

Note that all this assumes HS/Cleave still work the same way they do now in that they are off gcd. If they are being reworked to be an actual gcd-triggering attack, I suppose that alleviates this issue. But as I'm reading it, I'm far from thrilled.POSSIBLE BUG -

DK - LvL 60 - Death Siphon - Has no cost, no recast timer, and is instant cast...

Crippling Poison reduces the target’s speed by 70% for 12 seconds.

Mind-Numbing Poison increases the casting time of an enemy's next spellcast within 8 seconds by 100%.

Wound Poison reduces the target’s healing received by 50% for 6 seconds.

Leeching Poison instantly restores 5% of the Rogue’s health.

Paralytic Poison roots the target in place for 4 seconds.

I think it was the great feedback provided by paladins that got them to step up their game with the paladin trees. It's a shame the same wasn't applied to the priest trees.http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4063167982What is "base mana regeneration"? How does mana regen work for casters (or mages)?What is the range for Alter time concerning the "moves too far away" part?Is AM a proc?Does Arcane Bomb have a target limit?A couple of Tanking concerns I have off the top of my head.

1. AE tanking, with all of our rage being poured into mitigation, this limits the usage of dps rage cost moves (as mentioned).
Cleave has too high of a rage cost and revenge/shockwave have 9/20 second cooldowns respectively. Thunder clap is therefore the go-to move for AE, yet it costs 20 rage (which will heavily impact our survivability if we use it more than maintaining its 30 second debuff). This may very well be by design, but its a concern, traditionally threat is hardest to maintain for warriors, how will this carry forward in MOP?-Spirit shell: How long will it last? No tooltip. this one will be the replacement for PW:S?Does that mean holy priests will be glyphing for evangelism so they can make use of the archangel talent? Current that talent has no purpose for holy priests, and I was under the impression that talents were no longer spec dependent.But we loved Corpse Explosion!Does Holy Insight mean Intellect plate is going away?I have a question about the Druid level 87 ability, Symbiosis.

The tooltip says that i am granted an ability of my current targets class based on my spec, and that my target will be granted a druid ability based on their spec and role.

This sounds like a very fun an interesting ability and i can't wait to try it out, however, how will this work in the spell book and action bar? is there a specific extra action button that i need to have set aside for the granted ability? does the ability i am granted take the spot on the action bar replacing symbiosis, and if so, how can i recast it it to change the ability i am granted by using symbiosis on a new target?

along the same lines, how will my target be granted the ability as well?

i'm sure you have many potential ways to have this work out, i'm just curious as to what some of them are.

Also... i'm even more excited for this expansion. Druid talents are phenomenal, as well as the abilities that are trained from the trainer. looking through that makes me really happy too. :) can't wait!

The Druid will select a raid or party member and cast Symbiosis on them.

The target cannot be another Druid.

The target gains a buff that tells them what spell they have temporarily learned, and that spell temporarily appears in their spellbook, and they can drag it to an action bar.

The Druid’s Symbiosis button will become the ability they gained from the target class.

The Symbiosis link is cancelled if: the Druid clicks off the Symbiosis buff, or the Druid or the target changes continents or enters or exits an instance, or the Druid or the target changes talent specializations.

Symbiosis fails to cast if Symbiosis is already active on that target.

Symbiosis cannot be cast in combat.

For the non-Druid target, the icon will revert to a placeholder (uncastable) Symbiosis icon when Symbiosis ends, but will become the Symbiosis-granted ability again the next time Symbiosis is cast on that target.

The ability gained from Symbiosis is always something chosen to match the Druid’s specialization and the target’s combat role.

The target always gets the same spell unless they change combat roles. A Druid of a given specialization always gets the same spell from each different class. If there is a change of specs, there is a change of spell.

Ask the Creative Devs #3ask over here if you're in North Americaover here if you're in Europe

Creative Development once again opens the floodgates for questions pertaining to the lore of the Warcraft universe!

Our last two "Ask CDev" projects generated thousands of unique questions across all the different regions, but ultimately the Creative Development team was able to sift through the sea of inquiries to focus on the questions with the juiciest answers. You can see the results of the last two "Ask CDev" endeavors here:

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Comment by TwinkPaladinOn a side note, if you are a Dwarf warrior the new talents are just a perfect chance to become a real Mountain King just like WC3!

Avatar + Storm Bolt = EPIC WIN!

...and your still gonna get War banners! You just can't stop a true warrior baby.Comment by 588688This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by runedragon1985The new Mage talents make me a happy monkey.Comment by InterestWill someone please explain to me where the rogue finishing cooldowns went? I might have just missed something but the last MOP spec calculator had them, this one does not. Instead we get a crappy throwing attack, a skill that reduces the CD on a move we hardly use went raiding or an actual useful skill that lets us extra combo points, but Id still prefer to have Vendetta , Killing Spree or Shadow Dance.blogComment by 954126This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by QuikhandzXD boomies are about to shut everything down!Comment by deangelis3I take DK's are starting out at a level lower than 55 now?Comment by NathanyalI take DK's are starting out at a level lower than 55 now?Comment by 946189This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by 954509This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by 877949This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by JAKEMAN0095I love how destruction warlocks are getting a boost:)Comment by VK107I'm sorry... CALCULATOR?
You must be mistaken. This is a pick and choose tree.Comment by AmryGood grief!

The bad news is, with MoP WoW would be like a whole new game for me.

The good news is, with MoP WoW would be like a whole new game for me.Comment by 950377This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by skumbananerThe great thing about MoP will be no more flying for a while, hence world pvp and new questing/instances/raids. The bad thing will be Pandas. But even that aint really a bad thing, i look forward to seeing panda death animations as i shield slam them straight in the snout.Comment by VoranilThe great thing about MoP will be no more flying for a while, hence world pvp and new questing/instances/raids. The bad thing will be Pandas. But even that aint really a bad thing, i look forward to seeing panda death animations as i shield slam them straight in the snout.Comment by Rankkornow all ghostcrawler has to do is keep his hands off that damn nerfbat of his.This nerfbat?Comment by 309917This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by 611255This post was from a user who has deleted their account.

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