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An example: Balance Druids, Unholy Death Knights and Warlocks all have a debuff which increases magic damage taken by the target by 13-15%. These debuffs do not stack. You definitely need this debuff in a raid, but you are no longer forced to look specifically for a warlock to get it. Warlocks won't like that, but there are many other examples. This change should make it easier to put a raid together without desperately looking for any one specific class

Tanking

Traditionally, warrior tanks have been the main tanks for the majority of 25 man raids. This changes ever so slightly with BC, which brought paladin and druid tanks a little more to the forefront. Blizzard decided it wasn't enough, and felt that the tanks should be much more equal. The goal was to make Death Knights, Feral Druids, Prot Paladins and Prot Warriors all equally viable in tanking raid content. All four received good AE aggro capabilities, easier threat management and good single target tanking tools.

Further tanking things of interest:–Crushing blows can only be dealt by mobs 4 levels above you. Raid bosses are at most 3 levels above you, which means that CB's are no longer a factor for tanks.–Defensive Avoidance stats have diminishing returns. Defense Rating, Parry, Dodge etc all provide a smaller increase the more of it you have.

Spell Interruption

Spell casting times have always been increased dramatically when taking direct damage. If you hit someone fast enough, it can take ages to get a spell with a cast time off. This has been changed for both regular and channeled spells. It now works like this:

Regular spellsWhile casting a spell, the first and second hit you take will increase casting time by 0.5 seconds each. Any damage taken beyond that does not effect the cast time. At most, someone can increase you cast time for any one spell by 1 second.

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Auction houses and Trainers

Just as with Outland, Northrend has no auction house or skill trainers available. You will still have to visit the old capital cities for this.

Game Mechanic Changes

A number of important changes to statistics and mechanics occurred in WotLK.

Damage and Healing

combinedOne of the most notable changes is the merging of +healing and + spell damage on gear into a singular stat named Spell Power. All passive item effects that strictly affect healing were converted to grant Spell Power. Healing spells were adjusted to compensate for the lower total amount of Spell Power. Healers will now be able to deal meaningful damage when healing doesn't require their undivided attention.

Ratings for both melee and spells

Hit Rating, Haste Rating and Crit rating found on items all apply to both physical abilities and spells

Fewer items

The aforementioned changes allowed Blizzard to reduce the amount of items you can find on instance bosses. This may not seem like a positive thing, but its meant to reduce the amount of overspecialized gear that no one wants.It will also result in healers now rolling on the stuff dps casters are gunning for and vice versa, which is expected to lead to more drama, sadly.

Raidwide Buffs

Previously group based buffs such as Power Word: Fortitude, Totems, Blessings, Blood Lust, etcetera now affect the entire raid. This is a pretty big shift from how things used to be, and it makes group composition much less important.

Buff and Debuff

stackingBuff and Debuff stacking has been changed. Blizzard decided to move away from having any one class bring a critical buff or debuff to the raid, so they spread these abilities around to multiple classes, whilst preventing them from stacking.

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Two Specs

This functionality will not be live at launch, but is scheduled to be patched in later. The idea is to let players save two talent specs they can easily switch between. Currently known is that you will be allowed to switch in most PvE situations, but not in Arena's. You will not be able to swap specs during combat.Lastly, you will also be able to save two different sets of Glyphs, which will switch along with your spec.

BoE Epics

Every raid boss Northrend has a chance to drop a Bind on Equip item.This gives non-raiders a chance to acquire raiding gear. Expect to pay serious gold to buy raid gear though.

Heroic Badges

Outland's Badges of Justice are replaced by two new types of badges; Emblem of Heroism and Emblem of Valor. Each offers access to different rewards.Emblem of HeroismThese can be gained in heroic instances and the 10 man versions of raid instances. They are essentially the new Badges of Justice.Emblem of ValorThese are gained in 25-man raids only. They can be used to purchase higher quality gear than the Emblems of Heroism

Account-bound Items

This new type of item tag allows it to be mailed to characters on your own account only.Heirloom ItemsThese items have a gold color. They're special in that they will scale in power relative to your level. They can be purchased with Emblems of Heroism. They are account-bound, so you will be able to mail them to an alt to make leveling easier.

Heroic Loot

Heroic instances have an entirely separate loot table from normal difficulty. You won't be finding a rare meant for level 73 when killing a heroic instance boss

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Inscription

Inscription is the new profession introduced with Wrath of the Lich King. It is remarkably similar to enchanting, with the distinction that it lets you enchant your spells and skills instead of your items. In addition, Inscribers produce Vellum, which can be used by Enchanters to make their Enchants tradable. Vellum itself can be traded, so that Enchanters aren't obliged to pick up Inscription. More info can be found in the Inscription chapter.

Target Dummies

Engineers could always make target dummies, but those could only be used as a distraction. However, you can now find special Target Dummies as a permanent addition to all capitals. They can be attacked to test out your skill, or to see what kind of damage you can put out. There are level 80 and 83 ones in Dalaran, but you'll find lower level versions in Outland and Azeroth.
More Daily QuestsDaily quests were added to Outland after Burning Crusade's release, they were available once you reached level 70. Things are different in Northrend. Nearly every zone has one or multiple daily quests available. The lowest level one requires 68.

Pets and Mounts

Non combat pets and mounts no longer take up inventory space. You can learn them, and they will appear in the pets and mount window, from which you can summon or hotkey them. This window can be accessed by hitting SHIFT-P (default binding). From there, you can click tabs to go to the Companions, Mounts and Pets tabs.

Currency

The various currency tokens no longer take up inventory space, they also have their own currency window. Tokens include heroic and PvP marks. The Currency window is not tied to a hotkey per default, but can be accessed through a tab underneath the Character Window. (Hotkey is C per default)

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seen, but at the least it could be a nice gimmick. Naturally, there are various new mounts to be obtained in Northrend, including Mammoths, Proto-Dragons, Flying Carpets and Motorcycles.

Quests

The precious Expansion introduced some new types of quests to make leveling up a bit more interesting, most notably the bombing runs. Those are a bit more prominent in WotLK, culminating in rather advanced mini-game type bombing runs in Icecrown, a top level zone. Wrath of the Lich King does its best to spice up your questing in its own way as well. New quest types include:A) Control quests: In these quests, you can control mobs (even bosses), siege weapons or guns to utterly destroy stuff. They all have their own special abilities, which makes these quests pretty sweet in general.B) Chase quests. Mount up and gun down or slow down mobs chasing you.C) Lore quests: Get teleported to a different location to relive an event from the past.

Professions

Giving players with a crafting profession access to so called 'best in slot' items was a concept introduced in in Burning Crusade, and heavily expanded on with its last major content patch, 2.4. Whether this trend continues as strongly Wrath of the Lich King is uncertain right now. The epic craftables by the various professions look solid, but only up to Naxxramas level gear, which is the first tier of raiding. Blizzard has commented that they thought some of the craftable gear felt like a requirement to raiders, and they were not entirely happy with this situation. This expansion with ship with decidedly less superior craftable gear, although each profession does get a different kind of self-only boost. For instance, Blacksmiths can add a socket to several items and Alchemists can craft self-only potions with unlimited charges. If the high level raids are to drop superior quality items, then the crafting professions may still have access to really good gear, but that all remains to be seen

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Where Burning Crusade came with Karazhan as a startup raid zone for 10 man groups and a very steep jump in difficulty to Zul'Aman much later on, WotLK allows for a much more gradual raiding progression. Small guilds should be able to more easily advance and actually make the jump from Naxxramas to the next raid zone, instead of sticking around in the Karazhan equivalent until the end of times.Also worth noting is that raids have no attunements; you can enter all WotLK raid zones freely when you've reached level 80.

Achievements

The Achievement system allows you to record and look back upon past achievements. There is an endless list of achievements for every element of the game. Through achievements, you can get some recognition for going the extra mile. Some achievements (often the especially difficult ones) will provide rewards in the form of titles, special items or mounts.Regular achievements reward you with points, which are used only for showing other players your unstoppable dedication when it comes to completing menial tasks. Did I mention Achievements are addictive?

World PvP and Siege Engines

Lake Wintergrasp is an outdoor zone dedicated entirely to PvP. In addition to the newness of that, the area contains Siege Engines and destructible buildings. Introduced as a feature Blizzard had in the planning even before Burning Crusade was released, Siege Engines got pushed back to this expansion. Various Siege Engines can be controlled by a single player, but often have room for multiple passengers. Some Siege Engines have a mounted gun for a second player to control. For more info on Lake Wintergrasp and Siege Engines, check out the PvP chapter.

Mount Passengers

There is no new tier of flying available in WotLK, no new mount type to unlock. In fact, you cannot use your flying mount in Northrend at all before reaching level 77, at which time you must learn 'Cold Weather Flying' from a trainer for the small fee of 1000 gold. Note: You do not need Epic Flying skill to train Cold Weather Flying, so you can use a regular flying mount in Northrend. There is something new to report when it comes to mounts; the ability to take passengers along with you. Whether this feature is actually useful will remain to be

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New Features And Changes

As expansions are expected to, WotLK added some new features to WoW. New zones to explore and levels to gain are a given, but just as with Burning Crusade, this expansion brought some large changes to other aspects of the game as well.

Death Knight

First and foremost is the introduction of the Death Knight class. A melee class with dps and tanking capabilities, specialized in disease and undead minions.

Progression based Areas

In progressions based areas, completing an important quest will change the world around you. These areas are also known as 'Phased' areas. You can first encounter this in the Death Knight zone, where the city you do your quests in slowly transforms into a scourged wasteland. These special areas are similar to instances in that people who aren't located in the same phase cannot see you or interact with you in any way other than chat. This means that what you see outside is linked to where you are in the story, and not related to the actions of other players. The downside of all this is that you cannot co-operate with other players who are on a different stage of the questline. All in all, its100% pretty awesome to see the world changing around you. Beside the DK area, you can find such quest chains in Northrend at the Wrathgate in Dragonblight and in Icecrown.

Raids

All raid zones in Northrend can be played with 10 or 25 man, your choice. The 10 and 25 man versions of a raid zone have separate loot tables and instance id's (meaning you can be saved to a 10-man Naxxramas and hop right into a 25-man Nax raid).

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BASICS

hile the true basics of the expansion can be found on the back of the box, most of the worthwhile info is omitted. This is especially true when it comes to major changes that occurred during the BC to WotLK transition. For this reason, it makes sense to lay out some of the important new stuff in this expansion.

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INTRODUCTION----Unofficial World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King Guide:Part 1

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INTRODUCTION

urning Crusade took us to Outland to find out what Kael'thas, Lady Vash and most notably, Illidan were up to. When those were are all dealt with, it was time for something new. Considering we haven't heard anything new from the Lich King since before the release of Burning Crusade, the thought of going to Northrend wasn't entirely alien to the expectant playerbase. Wrath of the Lich King takes place on Azeroth itself, and it picks up the Lich King's story more or less where it left off. The Lich King is working to gain control over most of Northrend and must be dealt with. By you, of course.BThis expansion brings more quests than Outland had, as well as more landmass. New features such as Siege engines, the Death Knight class, a new Battleground, 10-man raids and tons of other little changes and additions make this expansion, in my opinion, better than Burning Crusade was.In this guide, you will find whats new with the expansion explained in detail. You will find an extensive quest guide, helping you get from level 70 to 80 much quicker than you otherwise would. You will find Instance Guides, information on Northrend's Reputations, PvP, Professions, Gold earning, and more. I hope you enjoy reading it!

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