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Although we already announced the release of Patch 4.1, now we have something more official and more complete with changes to classes included. It has taken me a long time to translate it but… that's it!

Here you have the most important:

Zul'Aman is back as a 85-player Level 5 Heroic Dungeon with a complete dungeon overhaul and improved loot!
Zul'Gurub is back as a 85-player Level 5 Heroic Dungeon with new encounters, achievements, and improved loot!
Both dungeons will be at a higher difficulty level in Dungeon Finder, above the current level 85 heroic dungeons and will offer level 353 epic quality items.
These dungeons may only be partially available for testing for now. Stay tuned for additional changes.
Work has begun on a new guild search system. We will give more details when we are ready to receive feedback.
Spells bound to a key now begin to be cast when the button is pressed by default, instead of waiting for the key to go up. This option can be disabled in the interface menu in Combat. The mouse click has not changed and works when the mouse is released.

Sounds good about the quest for brotherhood, doesn't it?

The full notes are after the jump.

General

Flying mounts can now be used in Ghostlands
The temper scaling has been modified for linear results, rather than increasing the results. With the new formula, going from 30 Resilience to 40 gives the player the same survivability increase as going from 0 to 10. Resistance now scales in the same way that armor and magic resistances do. A player with 32.5% resilience damage reduction at 4.0.6 should see their damage reduction unchanged at 4.1. Those with less than 32.5% will win a little. Those with more damage reduction will lose a little although it will increase as their mettle does.
A dead player can be resurrected by marking them using the Party or Raid frames even if they have freed. No more searching for bodies.
Honor Points can now be purchased from Justice Point Vendors at the price of 250 Honor Points per 375 Justice Points.
Justice Points can now be purchased from Honor Point Vendors at the price of 250 Justice Points for 375 Honor Points.
Conquest Points can now be purchased from Valor Point Sellers at the price of 250 Conquest Points for 250 Valor Points.

Classes: General

All non-damaging interrupts outside of the Global Cooldown will always hit the target now. This includes Spanking, Shield Lash, Kick, Mind Freeze, Reprimand, Headbutt, Counterspell, Wind Slash, Sunbeam, Silencing Shot, and related pet abilities.
Several of the lingering effects that freeze now display different visual styles for hostile and friendly players. The following spells have the same visual effects for friendly players, but new visual effects for hostile players: Ring of Frost, Consecration, Desecration, Wild Mushroom, Power Word: Barrier, Smoke Bomb, and Hand of Gul'dan. As a general rule, alternate effects have a reddish tint or hue, indicating that they were created by an enemy player.

Death knights

Dark Simulacrum now works on numerous additional spells in dungeon encounters.
Raise Ally has been redesigned to be a combat resurrection, analogous to Reborn. It is instant cast, but costs 50 runic power to use and has a 10 minute cooldown. Shares the same global combat resurrection limit with Reborn and Soul Stone.
Howling Blast now has a facing requirement.
Talent Specializations:
- Blood
  - Mortal Strike's self-heal no longer generates threat
  - Blood Shield now only works when in Blood Presence
- Frost
  - Northern Blood (passive) now permanently converts both Blood Runes to Death Runes. There is no longer any proc interaction with Blood Strike required to activate Runes of Death.
  - Frost Strike now deals 130% of the weapon's damage, up from 110%.
  - Awakening Blast's damage has been increased by 20%. To compensate, the area of effect splash effect now deals 50% damage to the target, up from 60%. The result of this change leaves the area of effect damage on the same line as in Patch 4.0.6
- Profane
  - Desecration no longer triggers when an applicable hit hits a target immune to root effects. This is primarily to prevent unnecessary spell effects from accumulating during boss encounters.
  - Rivendars Wrath applies an additional 15/30/45% damage to Scourge, Scourge Strike, and Festering again, up from 12/24/36%.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Raise Ally is now Glyph of Gate of Death, making casting Gate of Death 60% faster.

Druids

Bloom now has a new spell effect.
The effect of the Flower of Life Flower has been reduced by 20%.
The duration of Stampede Roar has been increased to 8 seconds, up from 6. The movement speed effect has been increased to 60%, up from 40%.
Swipe (Bear) cooldown has been reduced to 3 seconds, down from 6.
Howl has a new icon
Druids now innately have 100% knockback protection from damage when channeling Tranquility.
Bloom has been redesigned. Creates a healing zone at the feet of the Swift Mend target, but this healing zone now restores health equal to 4/8/12% of the healing granted by Swift Mend to the three targets with the most damage within 8 yards each second for 7 seconds. This periodic effect now also benefits from spell haste, but individual ticks cannot be critical effects. Additionally, Living Seed is no longer a prerequisite talent for Bloom.
Threat bonus has been removed from Lacerate and has been replaced by an increase to the initial damage dealt.
Savage defense has been slightly redesigned. Now instead of absorbing a single charge, it sets an absorb effect on the druid that absorbs up to 35% of the druid's attack power (modified by mastery, where applicable) in damage and lasts for 10 seconds . The effect no longer has charges.
The cooldown of Flagellum (bear) has been reduced to 3 seconds, up from 6, and is now available for training at 18th level (training cost reduced). Additionally, the threat bonus from this ability has been removed and replaced with an increase in damage dealt.
Threat bonus has been removed from Thrashing and has been replaced by an increase in damage dealt.
Enrage no longer increases Physical damage taken.
The duration of Stampede Roar has been increased to 8 seconds, up from 6. The movement speed increase effect has been increased to 60% instead of 40%, and is no longer canceled when canceling the change of shape.
Rivendars Wrath applies an additional 15/30/45% damage to Scourge, Scourge Strike, and Festering again, up from 12/24/36%.
Talent Specializations:
- Equilibrio
  - Solar Beam now responds better when enemies move in or out
  - Starsurge damage has been reduced by 20%.
- Feral
  - Feral Swiftness now also causes Dash and Stampede Roar to have a 50/100% chance to instantly remove all movement-impeding effects from affected targets when used.
  - Rage is no longer on the global cooldown.
- Restaurants
  - Gift of Nature (passive) also reduces the cooldown of Tranquility by 2.5 / 5 minutes.
  - Bloom has been redesigned. Creates a healing zone at the feet of the swift relief target, but this healing zone now restores health equal to 4/8/12% of the amount healed by swift relief to the 3 most damaged targets within 8 yards, each second for 7 seconds. This periodic effect now also benefits from haste, but individual ticks cannot be critical.
  - Offering of Malfurion now reduces the cooldown of Tranquility by 2.5 / 5 minutes.
  - Now Nature's Quickness also increases the healing done by the affected Nature spell by 50%.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Scratch is now Glyph of Pounce, increasing Pounce's range by 3 yards.
Bug fixes
- The Flight Form and Swift Flight Form models for Trolls have been scaled down a bit to maintain scale with other druid flight forms.

Hunters

Blast Trap now has a new spell effect
Master's Call now has a new spell effect
Tame Beast now tames pets to match the hunter's level, up from 5 levels below
Multishot damage has been increased by 250%.
Summoned pets now start at 100. focus instead of 0.
Survival
- Deterrence no longer requires a melee weapon to be equipped.
Pets
- Bloodthirsty no longer generates happiness.
- Scavenger no longer restores happiness
- The Feed Pet ability now instantly heals for 50% of the pet's health. It cannot be used in combat. It requires food from the proper diet.
- Watchdog no longer causes Roar to generate bonus happiness.
- The pet's Happiness / Loyalty system has been removed. Hunters will no longer have to manage the happiness of their pets and the previous benefit that was obtained when pets were happy will now be the basis for all trained pets.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Mend Pet is now a larger Glyph that increases pet size slightly.
Error correction
- Distraction Shot and Multi Shot now have a correct range of 40 meters.
- Multi-Shot now has a correct global cooldown of 1 second.
- Hunters will automatically get a new target in case their target dies in the middle of a cast.
- Aimed Shot y Steady shot they should no longer start casting Automatic shooting against a new target when the "Stop Auto Attack" option is activated.
- Now Automatic shooting automatically deactivates until it is activated again, after launching a Freezing trap against an enemy player.
- The disorientation effect of Scatter shot It should no longer be interrupted from time to time by the Hunter's Auto Fire.
- Deterrence: The area of damage from the paladin's ability Hammer of the Righteous will no longer hit Hunters with Deterrence activated.

Magi

Arcane Blast damage has been increased by 13%. Additionally, Arcane Blast's cumulative effect now increases the damage dealt by Arcane Explosion and Arcane Blast does not consume the effect.
Arcane Explosion damage has been increased by 13%.
Arcane Missiles damage has been increased by 13%.
Blizzard's damage has been increased by 70%.
Frostbolt damage has been increased by 10%.
The cast time of Arcane Blast to 2,0 seconds, instead of 2,35. Additionally, Arcane Blast's cumulative effect now increases the damage dealt by Arcane Explosion and Arcane Explosion does not consume that effect.
Frost Armor has been rebuilt:
- Now reduces physical damage taken by 15%, instead of giving an additional 20% armor.
- Frost Armor's freeze effect can no longer trigger Fingers of Frost.
- The attack speed reduction for the Freeze effect is now 20%, up from 25%, but it also affects the speed of ranged attacks.
Talent Specializations:
- Arcane
  - Arcane Barrage's damage has been increased by 13%.
  - Improved Arcane Explosion now also reduces the mana cost of Arcane Blast by 25/50%.
- Fuego
  - Ignition is no longer triggered by periodic critical effects
  - Combustion no longer has a global cooldown.
- Frost
  - Shattered Barrier's rooting effect now shares diminishing returns with the effects of Improved Cone of Cold.
  - Ice Barrier's base damage has been increased by approximately 120%. Additionally, the benefit of spell power has been increased by approximately 8%.
  - Fingers of Frost damage bonus applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 25%, up from 15%.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Frost Armor (new glyph): Frost armor now also causes the mage to regenerate 2% of his maximum mana every 5 seconds.

Paladins

Word of Glory now has a 20 second cooldown
Selfless Healing: The bonus damage from this talent now lasts for 30 seconds, up from 10.
Talent Specializations:
- Sagrado
  - Path of Light (passive) removes the cooldown of Word of Glory
  - Aura Mastery: This ability no longer increases the buff granted by Crusader Aura.
  - Illuminated Heal Shield duration is now 15 seconds, up from 8 seconds. Additionally, Enlightened Healing has been increased to give a 1.5% effect per point of Mastery, up from 1.25%.
- Protection
  - The cooldown of Divine Guardian is now 3 minutes, up from 2.
  - Great Crusader now generates a charge of Holy Power if Avenging Shield's effect is used within 6 seconds.
  - Now Sacred duty can be activated with Avenger's Shield in addition to the Sentences.
- Rebuke
  - Divine Storm now generates 1 point of Holy Power if it hits (correctly) 4 or more targets.
  - Sacred Shield's internal cooldown has been increased to 60 seconds, up from 30.
Bug fixes.
- Avenger's Shield can no longer be blocked.
- The Righteous Judgment effect can no longer activate talents or other effects.
- Seal of Truth: Fixed a bug in a tooltip stating that hitting targets with the maximum number of Censure doses would deal 9% of the weapon's damage. In fact, they do 15% of the damage and the tooltip has been updated accordingly.

Priests

Divine Aegis duration has been increased to 15 seconds, up from 12.
Dispel magic can only be cast on the casting priest as a base effect.
Holy Word: Sanctuary has a new spell effect.
The duration of Power Word: Shield has been reduced to 15 seconds, up from 30.
Inner Will and Inner Fire now last until canceled.
Holy Fire's damage has been increased to be approximately 30% higher than Smite.
Scorch's damage has been doubled.
Priests now innately have 100% knockback protection for damage when channeling Divine Hymn and Hymn of Hope.
Talent Specializations:
- Discipline
  - Absolution (new passive) allows the priest to use Dispel Magic on up to two debuffs on friendly targets.
  - The cooldown of Power Word: Barrier has been increased to 3 minutes, up from 2, and its effects have been reduced to 25%, up from 30%.
  - Weakened Soul's effects that were the result of another Power Word: Shield can now be removed through Soul Force.
  - Contrition now works on Holy Fire in addition to Smite.
  - The direct portion of Holy Fire damage can now trigger Evangelism
  - Healing done by Sacred Word: Sanctuary: Sanctuary. Also, it has a new spell effect.
- Sagrado
  - Absolution (new passive) allows the priest to use Dispel Magic on up to two debuffs on friendly targets.
  - Chakra now lasts until canceled, up from 1 minute.
  - Surge of Light can now also trigger from Joint Heal.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Divine Precision now also affects Holy Fire in addition to Smite

Rogues

Replenish's base effect now heals for 3% per tick, up from 2%.
Stealth's base cooldown has been reduced to 4 seconds (from 10) and the movement penalty from being Stealth has been removed.
Secrets of the Trade range is now 100 meters instead of 20.
Talent Specializations:
- Combat
  - Improved Replenishment now adds 0.5% / 1% to Replenish's health restoration effect, up from 1% / 2%.
- Subtlety
  - Nightstalker now reduces the cooldown of Stealth by 2/4 seconds, and instead of bypassing Stealth's movement penalty, adds a 5/10% speed bonus (which stacks with other effects) when in Stealth.
  - Now Cheat death reduces damage taken by 80%, up from 90%, while its effect remains active. Internal cooldown increased to 90 seconds, up from 60.

Shamans

Fire Nova has been redesigned and has been unleashed from the Shaman's fire totems. Instead, it now pulses the same area of effect from each target that is affected by the Shaman's own Flame Shock effect. Now deals damage to all enemies except the target hit by Flame Strike. The ability's cooldown has been reduced to 4 seconds, down from 10.
Magma Totem now lasts 60 seconds, up from 21.
Stone Claw Totem's threat area effect no longer affects creatures (level 1 yellow)
Knockdown Totem's cooldown has been increased to 25 seconds, up from 15.
Talent Specializations:
- Elemental combat
  - Earthquake is no longer a channeled spell. Now has a 2 second cast time, lasts 10 seconds, and has a 10 second cooldown. Its damage has been reduced by approximately 40% from its channeled version.
- Constant improvement
  - Improved Fire Nova has been redesigned and replaced with a talent called Dry Winds. When an enemy spell is correctly prevented by Wind Slash or Tremor's Totem, the shaman gains mechanical magic resistance (in an amount equal to what an aura / totem of protection would give, stacking) with the spell's school interrupted (except for Spells sacred), which lasts 10 seconds.
- Restaurants
  - Deep Healing now benefits all healings, not just direct ones.
  - Spirit Binding Totem (New Talent) reduces damage taken by the entire party or raid within 10 yards by 10%. It lasts 6 seconds and every second that all affected players are active, the health is redistributed among them, so that each player ends up with the same percentage of their maximum health. Counts as an Air totem and has a 3 minute cooldown.
  - Now Cleaning waters has an internal cooldown of 6 seconds.
  - The healing done by Earth Shield by Restoration Shamans has been reduced by 20%.
  - Nature's Blessing has been enhanced to offer a 6/12/18% direct healing boost to Earth Shield targets, up from 5/10/15%.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Knockdown Totem now increases the cooldown of the ability by 35 seconds, up from 45 seconds.

Witches

Rain of Fire's damage has been increased by 25%.
Seed of Corruption damage has been increased by 20%.
Talent Specializations
- Affliction
  - Haunt damage has been increased by 30%
  - Shadow Mastery (Passive) has been increased to 30%, down from 25%.
  - Damage dealt when dispelled doubled Unstable affliction, but this damage can no longer be critical.
  - The damage dealt by Unstable Affliction when dispelled has been doubled, but this damage can no longer be critical.
- Demonology
  - Feed Mana now restores more mana (four times as much) when the Warlock is using a Felguard or Felguard.
Pets
- Doom Guard damage has been increased by 50%. The Apocalyptic Guard is thought to be the best guardian for a single target, and the Infernal the best when there are multiple targets.
- Painful Lash (Succubus) damage now scales with level, reducing damage dealt at low levels so that it deals 50% damage at level 20 and 100% damage at level 80 and above.
Glyphs
- Now Glyph of Soul Trade Increases the cooldown of Soul Swap by 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds.

Warriors

Charge and Intercept no longer have diminishing returns on their stun effects.
Colossal Smash now ignores 70% of an opponent's armor, up from 100%.
Inner Rage is now available at level 56.
Intercept now has a stun effect for 1,5 seconds, up from 3 seconds.
Overwhelm's damage has been increased to 140% of Weapon damage, up from 125%.
Summoning Scream (new ability) is available from trainers at level 83. Temporarily grants the warrior and all members of his party or raid within 30 yards 20% of maximum health for 10 seconds. After the effect expires, health is lost. It has no cost or attitude requirement and is not on the global cooldown. It has a 3 minute cooldown, but it also shares a cooldown with Last Stand.
Whirlwind now has its cooldown reduced by 6 seconds when dealing damage to 4 or more targets. The effect of Whirlwind caused by Bladestorm.
Heroic Throw is now available from trainers at level 20.
Spanking can now be used on all poses.
Shield Lash has been removed from the game.
Spell Reflection cooldown has been increased to 25 seconds, up from 10.
Colossal Smash now ignores 50% of a hostile player's armor (PvP), but continues to ignore 100% of a non-player character's armor (PvE)
Heroic jump It is no longer included in the global cooldown, like other warrior movement abilities.
Talent Specializations:
- Weapons
  - Improved Slicing now reduces Slicing's global time by 0.5 / 1 seconds in addition to its current effects.
  - Improved Slam increases Slam damage by 20/40% instead of 10/20%.
  - Irresistible Force no longer adds two seconds to Charge's stun, but reduces the cooldown of Charge by 3 seconds (to 12 seconds total).
  - Mortal Strike's damage has been increased to 17% of the weapon's damage, up from 150%.
  - Irresistible Force no longer adds 2 seconds to Charge's stun, but instead reduces the cooldown of Charge by 2 seconds (to 13 seconds total without the glyph).
  - Lambs to Slaughter now causes Mortal Strike to refresh Rend in addition to its current effects.
  - Opportunity Strike damage has been increased by 10% to maintain attribute parity with other hit changes.
  - The value of Opportunity Strike per Mastery Point has been increased by 10%.
  - Improved Slash now reduces the global cooldown on Slash by 0.25 / 0.5 seconds in addition to its current effects.
- Furia
  - Raging Blow's damage has been increased back to 120% weapon damage (was 100%)
  - Flurry haste bonus has been doubled to 16/32/50%.
  - Indomitable Fury now only grants 2 base Mastery points instead of 8. This change offsets Flurry's buff to control Fury's explosive damage.
  - Accuracy (Passive) now increases auto-attack damage by 40%, in addition to the 3% currently offered.
- Protection
  - Shield Mastery no longer affects the cooldown of Spell Reflection, however, it now allows Shield Block to reduce magic damage as well.
  - Gag Order now only affects Heroic Throw.
  - Now Gag order It applies to Spanking y Heroic throw, and gives these abilities a 100% chance to silence the target for 3 seconds. What's more, Gag order Reduces the cooldown of Heroic Cast by 30 seconds.
Glyphs
- Glyph of Spell Reflection reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflection by 5 seconds, up from 1 second.

Dungeons and Raids

New dungeons available for partial tests.
- Zul'Aman is back as a 85-player Level 5 Heroic Dungeon with a complete dungeon overhaul and improved loot!
- Zul'Gurub is back as a 85-player Level 5 Heroic Dungeon with new encounters, achievements, and improved loot!
- Both dungeons will be at a higher difficulty level in Dungeon Finder, above the current level 85 heroic dungeons and will offer level 353 epic quality items.
- These dungeons may only be partially available for testing for now. Stay tuned for additional changes.
Dungeon Finder
- Dungeon Finder now tries to avoid putting classes that deal damage with the same armor type in the same group.
- Players will now earn additional rewards 7 times per week (while earning less than 980 Valor Points) instead of once per day when using the Dungeon Finder).
- When there is only 1 player left in the Dungeon Finder party, they can now queue up for replacement while queuing for at least 2 minutes or staying in the dungeon.
- The Call to Arms will now identify which class role is currently least represented in the queue and offer you additional rewards for entering the Dungeon Finder queue and completing a random level 85 dungeon.
- The icon for the underrepresented class will appear in the dungeon finder to indicate the role that is eligible for the bonus reward.
- Players must queue with only the least represented class (by the system) and complete the dungeon up to the final boss included in order to get the reward.
- The additional reward will be displayed to the additional classes in the User Interface.
- Once the dungeon is complete, the eligible player will receive a Wallet of Exotic Mysteries (linked to account) with various potential rewards, including: gold, rare gems, vanity pets, and mounts (very rare).
Blackwing Descent
- Blinding Bomb (Golem Sentry Ability) now has a clearer visual alert
- Magmaw now triggers a raid alert when summoning Lava Parasites.
- Improvements have been made to the Maloriak encounter to prevent Hasty Freeze from targeting tanks.
- atramedes
  - Searing Flames now causes a 6 second cooldown on Modulation.
  - Searing Flames no longer increases Sound on players.
  - Players should no longer be able to avoid Searing Flames' first period of damage and this ability now deals damage every 2 seconds. Searing Flame's damage has been increased to compensate for it dealing damage less frequently.
- Nefarian
  - Fire Bomb Barrage's damage has been reduced by 15% (Normal and Heroic 10-player difficulty only)
  - Tail Lash damage reduced by 20% (Normal and Heroic 10 player difficulty only)
The Bastion of Twilight
- Valiona and Theralion
  - Blackout can now be dispelled on Heroic Difficulty.
- Cho'gall
  - Blood of the Old God's health on the 10-player Heroic difficulty has been reduced by approximately 20%.
  - The health of Darkened Creations on the 10-player Heroic difficulty has been reduced by approximately 20%.
  - Corruption: Accelerated 10-player Heroic difficulty has been slightly reduced.
  - Knockdown and Deadly Pull abilities can now be used to interrupt players who have been converted by Cho'gall.
The amounts of gold in the following encounters have been substantially reduced: Flame Leviathan, Magtheridon, Gruul the Dragon Slayer, Doom Lord Kazzak, and all encounters in Karazhan.

The North Massacre

Gordok's Yard Key in Fengus's Chest regenerates after a few seconds.

The Mechanar

The Legion Cache now unlocks when the Giromata Gatekeeper is turn-eliminated.

Uldaman

The Staff of Prehistory is no longer required to open the doors in the map room.
Baelog's chest has received new loot. If it's gray that's fine, right?

Zul'Farrak

Executioner's Keys are no longer required to open Troll cages.

Blackrock Caverns

Arcane Celerity Aura now has a clearer visual aspect of the wearer of the aura.
Bound Flames no longer create lava puddles when killed in the Karsh Ironbend encounter.
The range of the Short Throw ability used by Twilight Sadists has been reduced to 10 meters.

The Mines of Death

Zone of Rage cast by Defias Blood Dowsers now only increases damage dealt, no longer increases damage taken.

Grim batol

General Umbriss's Bleeding Wound damage reduced by 20%.
Evil Troggs now move more slowly.
Forgemaster Throngus's Overcharged damage bonus reduced by 50%.
Summoned Flame Spirits should prefer to target non-tank targets.
The Twilight Flame Zone has been removed from the Twilight Drake.
The cooldown portion of the Arcane Distortion buff cast by the Seers of the Blue Hatchling has been removed.

The Stone Core

Ground Slam now has a visual effect on the ground before launch in front of Ozruk. Additionally, Ground Slam damage and radius have been reduced.
High Priestess Azil's Earthquake Fragment now has a more obvious visual warning effect.

The Vortex Summit

The knockback effect of the Air Nova ability that triggers when a burst soldier dies has been reduced.
Now Altairus appears near the center of his platform, away from the edge.
Temple Adepts and Air Ministers now wait 2 seconds before starting to cast spells when first attacked.

Wailing Caves

The maze section has been removed, and nearby creatures and bosses have been adjusted to compensate.

Chambers of Origins

The Anhuur Temple Guardian should now enter his 33% shield phase even if he was channeling his 66% shield phase.

Lost City of the Tol'vir

Soul Fragments spawned during the High Prophet Barim encounter should now emote when fused with Harbinger of Darkness.

Brotherhoods

Guild upgrade, Source of Income, no longer prompts via chat. Instead, the daily amount deposited is shown in the Brotherhood's Money Register. Additionally, players can view the weekly contribution in a new window at the bottom of the money register.
We've added two new Guild Custom Tabards as Guild rewards. Tabards are account bound and offer a benefit in gaining reputation with the guild.
The amount of guild experience awarded because a rated guild Battleground group wins has been dramatically increased.
Players now receive guild experience for Honorable Kills on the field.
Players now receive Guild XP from winning Battlegrounds if they do so past level 80.
Arena groups now receive guild experience for victories. The entire group must be from the same guild to earn this experience.
The requirements for many of the career-related achievements have been significantly lowered.

Guild Challenges

Guild Challenges available for testing.
- These challenges are found in the Info panel of the guild interface.
- Guild Challenges are divided into three categories: Dungeons, Raids, and Rated Battlegrounds.
- Each challenge can be completed a certain number of times per week. Guild groups participating in Heroic or Normal difficulty dungeons and raids of the appropriate level, or rated battlegrounds, will automatically be eligible for Challenge Credit.
- Each time a challenge is completed, the guild will earn experience and a gold reward will be deposited directly into the Guild Chamber, as well as the option to earn new achievements. A pop-up or notice will appear to confirm that a guild challenge has been completed (similar to achievement prompts).
- Guild experience gained through Guild Challenges may exceed the daily limit. Guild experience limit will be expanded relative to Guild XP earned by completing Guild Challenges (similar to experience for rested characters). Guilds that have already reached the cap will receive significantly more gold instead of Guild experience.
- Guilds that have already reached the cap will receive significantly more gold instead of Guild experience.
- To get gold rewards, guild group members have to have a reputation for being honorable with their guild, and the guild has to be level 5.
- Gold rewards are deposited in the guild bank once the guild reaches level 5. The Income Stream upgrade text has been updated appropriately.

Objects

PvP Horde and Alliance trinkets have a new spell effect.
All items available for purchase with Honor or Justice Points from partner vendors have seen their prices reduced by 50%.
Maelstrom Crystal can now be purchased with Honor or Justice points from partner vendors.
Object sets
- The current buff from the Death Knight DPS 4-piece set now also grants increased attack power when Killing Machine is activated, as well as when the Death Knight gains Death Runes.
- The current buff from the Holy Paladin 4-piece set now grants 540 Spirit points for 6 seconds after casting Holy Shock.
- The current buff from the Healing Priest's 4-piece bonus no longer requires a target that is under the effects of Weakened Soul for the Priest to receive the Spirit buff. Instead, the buff will be granted each time the spell, Penance, heals a target.
- The 4-piece bonus from the Spellcasting Shaman PvP set now reduces the cooldown of Knockdown Totem by 3 seconds, up from 1,5.
- Items linked to the account
  - Many "account-linked" relics now appear as "Battle.net account-linked," which means they can be sold or mailed to characters on but within different World of Warcraft accounts. Battle.net account.
  - Mail sent to characters on the same Battle.net account now arrives instantly, just as it does with the same World of Warcraft account.
  - When mailing account-bound items to characters from opposing factions on the same Battle.net account, the faction-specific items are now correctly transformed into their proper counterpart.

Careers

All major cities now have each type of profession instructor and their supply vendor associates.
Alchemy
- Now Steel Skin Flask grants 450 p. Stamina, up from 300. The Science of Blending bonus for Alchemists is still 120. of endurance.

PvP

The rate at which Honor Points are earned has been doubled.
Arenas
- The Ring of Valor is back! It should be playable again in the arena map rotation.
- New starting areas have been added to the Ring of Valor. Players will no longer enter the Arena by elevator. Has been deleted. Instead, players will start in a room at opposite locations in the Arena.
- Arena gear quest can now be extended beyond the team's battlegroup.
Battlefields
- Battleground Raid Leaders can now move players from other realms between raid subgroups.
- Arathi Basin
  - Flags should now cap at 7 seconds, up from 8.
  - Arathi Basin is now available as a 10v10 player rated battleground.
- Twin Summits
  - Changes in Cemeteries
    - Players will now only appear in their base graveyard when dying in the enemy base.
    - Defending players will respawn in the center graveyard.
    - Players in the middle of the field will respawn in the center graveyard.
    - Attacking players will respawn in their base graveyard.
- The Battle for Gilneas
  - Changes in cemeteries
    - Players who die at a checkpoint they own will be teleported to the nearest graveyard, rather than where they died.
    - If a team controls the mine and pump station and dies at the pump station, they will be teleported to the mine.
    - If an Alliance group only has the Lighthouse and dies in the lighthouse, it will respawn at its base.
    - If a Horde team owns the pump station and mine and dies at the Lighthouse, they will respawn at the pump station.
  - Flags should now cap at 7 seconds, up from 8.
Focused Assault and Brutal Assault buffs have changed
- After 3 minutes of both teams holding the flag, players holding the flag will have Focused Assault, increasing damage taken by 10%.
- Every minute thereafter, an additional dose will be applied to increase damage taken by an additional 10%.
- After 7 minutes, Brutal Assault will be applied instead of Focused Assault. In addition to the increased damage taken effect, this effect also limits the player's movement speed by 100%. The effect of increased damage taken works the same and will add a 10% up to a maximum of 100% increase in damage taken.

Breeds

The gnomish racial, Escape Artist, is no longer affected by the global cooldown triggered by other abilities.
The Human Racial, For Himself May, has a new spell effect.

Achievements

A new Feat of Strength with the associated title, "the Acaparacamels", has been associated for players who have defeated Dormus the Acaparacamels and obtained the Reins of the Gray Riding Camel - because there must always be a Acaparacamels.
PvP
- Rated Battlegrounds
  - The achievement for winning 100 rated Battlegrounds has been renamed "Veteran of the Alliance" and "Veteran of the Horde", and these titles are now rewarded.
  - Achievements for winning 300 Battlegrounds have been added, awarding the titles "Warbound" and "Warbringer" for the Alliance and Horde respectively.
- Arathi Basin
  - The achievement The victory was clear * ahem * now requires a player to win Arathi Basin by 50 points or less, instead of 10 points or less.
- The Battle for Gilneas
  - The achievement You want the revenge?»Now requires the player to win The Battle for Gilneas by 100 points or less, instead of by 10 points or less.
  - The achievement "Alone in the mist»Requires the player to defend 2 bases in a single battle, instead of 3.
  - The achievement "One, two, three, little English bird»Requires the player to raid 2 bases in a single battle, instead of 3.
  - The achievement "I am not just anyone»Now requires a total of 10 flag defenses, up from 50.
  - The achievement "Battle Star for Gilneas»Now requires a single round and flag defense in a battle, up from 2.
The following Battleground Achievements have been permanently removed from the game as they do not work properly with the Achievement Tracking system:
Achievement bug fixes
- Guild achievements for achieving Exalted reputation with factions (Embajadores, Diplomacyand United Nations) have been fixed to correctly count different Exalted guild members with factions. Previously, these achievements only counted the Exalted reputation of one of the guild members.
- Guild Scored Battleground Achievement Titles should now be awarded correctly.

Missions and creatures

Several missions have been added to The Wastes of the North to give more content at levels 18-20. Look for new missions at Ollaboquilla Outpost and Darsok Outpost.
The loot of the creatures Garr, Julak Doom, Mobus, and Poseidus has been adjusted to commensurate with their rarity and effort invested.
New Cooking and Fishing Daily Quests have been added to Darnassus, Ironforge, Thunder Bluff, and Undercity.

User interface

Guild Finder has been implemented! As we continue to refine this feature, we invite all testers to give it a try. Feedback can be given here.
Spells bound to a key now begin to be cast when the button is pressed by default, instead of waiting for the key to go up. This option can be disabled in the interface menu in Combat. The mouse click has not changed and works when the mouse is released.
Like the focus frame, the Unit and Objective frames can be unlocked and moved to one's content.
Focus targets and targets are now displayed on the minimap.
Video and Sound have been moved to a new Options screen.
A Network category has been added to the new Options screen and two selection boxes have been included.
- The Network category contains the options "Optimize network for speed" and "Enable IPv6 when available". "Optimize network for speed" will be available by default and will send packets more frequently at the cost of bandwidth. The bandwidth requirement may cause disconnections for some players with limited bandwidth. Players who find themselves disconnected frequently should try unchecking this option.
Visual settings updates
- Removed the red bar that prevented the graphics slider from advancing to ultra based on computer characteristics.
- When the user moves the slider to a setting that would have previously been bypassed, any option that can go higher than this setting will have a warning icon with a tooltip explaining why it cannot go further. For example, the user moves the slider to Ultra while the water settings can only go to Good. The water setting will automatically change to Good.
- DirectX 11 Support can now be found in the Advanced tab of the Options screen.
On the login screen
- The "Reset user options" button from the pop-up window that appears when you click on Options has been moved to the current options window.
- Clicking on Options now goes directly to the Video tab of the Options screen.
- The now unnecessary pop-up window has been removed.
The «New Features (!) Options screen has been updated:
- Launch Action on Key Press (Combat)
- Pick Up Action Key
- Type of movement of nameplates (Names)
- Graphics API (Advanced)
- Network Category

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