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Rogue – Assassination

* Tier 1

o Improved Eviscerate (3 points) – Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 7/14/20%.
o Remorseless Attacks (2 points) – After killing an opponent that yields experience or honor, you receive a 20/40% increased critical strike chance on your next ability. Lasts 20 seconds.
o Malice (5 points) – Increases your critical strike chance by 1/2/3/4/5%.
* Tier 2

o Ruthlessness (3 points) – Gives your melee finishing moves a 20/40/60% chance to add a combo point to your target.
o Deadly Momentum (2 points; Requires 2 points in Remorseless Attacks) – After killing an opponent that yields experience or honor, Deadly Momentum gives you a 50/100% chance to refresh your Slice and Dice or Recuperate abilities to their original duration.
o Blackjack (2 points) – Even after your Sap wears off, its effects linger on enemies, reducing their damage done by 25/50% for 5 seconds.
* Tier 3

o Puncturing Wounds (3 points) – Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab ability by 10/20/30%, and the critical strike chance of your Mutilate ability by 5/10/15%.
o Vigor (1 point) – Increases your maximum Energy by 10.
o Lethality (5 points; Requires 5 points in Malice) – Increases the critical strike damage bonus of all combo point-generating abilities that do not require Stealth by 6/12/18/24/30%.
* Tier 4
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Priest – Discipline

* Tier 1

o Unbreakable Will (5 ranks available) – Reduces the duration of stun, fear, and silence effects done to you by an additional 6/12/18/24/30%.
o Twin Disciplines (5 ranks available) – Increases the damage and healing done by your instant spells and the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield by 1/2/3/4/5%.
* Tier 2

o Penitence (3 ranks) – Increases the critical effect chance of your Smite and Penance spells by 5/10/15%.
o Improved Inner Fire (3 ranks available) – Increases the effect of your Inner Fire spell by 15/30/45%.
o Focused Power (2 ranks avaialble) – Reduces the cast time of your Mind Control spell by 0.3/0.5 seconds, and your Mass Dispel cast time is reduced by 0.5/1 second.
o Martyrdom (2 ranks available) – Gives you a 50/100% chance to gain the Focused Casting effect that lasts for 6 seconds after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting priest spells and decreases the duration of interrupt effects by 10/20%.
* Tier 3
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Druid – Balance

* Tier 1
o Starlight Wrath (5 points) – Reduces the cast time of your Wrath and Starfire spells by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 seconds.
o Genesis (5 points) – Increases the damage and healing done by your periodic spell damage, healing effects and Swiftmend by 1/2/3/4/5%.
* Tier 2
o Moonglow (3 points) – Reduces the Mana cost of your Moonfire, Starfire, Starfall, Starsurge, Wrath, Healing Touch, Nourish, Regrowth and Rejuvenation spells by 3/6/9%.
o Nature’s Majesty (2 points) – Increases the critical strike chance of your Wrath, Starfire, Starfall, Nourish and Healing Touch spells by 2/4%.
o Improved Moonfire (2 points) – Increases the direct damage of your Moonfire spell by 5/10%.
* Tier 3
o Nature’s Grace [TBR] (3 points) – All non-periodic spell criticals have a 33/66/100% chance to grace you with a Blessing of Nature, increasing your spell casting speed by 20% for 3 seconds.
o Solar Beam (1 point) – You summon a beam of solar light over the enemy target’s location, interrupting the enemy target and silencing all enemy targets under the beam within 10 yards while it is active. Solar Beam lasts for 12 seconds.
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The NDA for a recent Blizzard press event ended last evening, and a deluge of brand new Cataclysm information has hit the net. Some highlights include:

* Patch of the Titans has been scrapped and will not be implemented.
* Inscription will be receiving an overhaul; glyphs will now come in three tiers rather than two.
* Guild leveling will happen, but it will not be coming with guild talents or currency.
* The Bastion of Twilight will be Cataclysm’s entry-level raid with Cho’gall as the end boss.
Path of the Titans and glyphs

* Path of the Titans has been scrapped. Blizzard will be overhauling Inscription’s systems instead. Glyphs will have three tiers rather than two. Rather than Minor and Major, there will be Minor, Medium and Major. Medium will not be the final name, but you get the idea. Glyphs may become permanent additions. You purchase it, you learn it and then you always know it. You can only use three of each type of glyph at a time, but you can switch them freely after learning it.
o Major glyphs will be powerful, core glyphs. They will be expected to be used at the level cap.
o Minor glyphs will change very little.
o Medium glyphs will be fun/cosmetic glyphs for non-core abilities.
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Druids

* Prowl: This ability no longer has multiple ranks and penalizes movement speed by 30%.
* Rebirth: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 20 minutes down to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
* Rejuvenation: The base duration on all ranks of this spell is now 15 seconds.
* Tranquility: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.
* Talents
o Balance
+ Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse. In addition, Eclipse now grants a 40% critical strike chance to Starfire and 40% increased damage to Wrath, up from 30%.
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