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Cataclysm: Mastery System Preview

Here is a preview of the mastery system changes we’re making in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and explained how these changes will ultimately provide players with more interesting gear choices and make stats easier to understand. Today we’d like to go into more detail about a brand-new feature that’s an integral part of this overhaul: [...]

Cataclysm Class Preview: Mage

In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, we’ll be making lots of changes and additions to class talents and abilities across the board. In this preview, you’ll get an early look at what’s in store for the mage class, including a rundown of some of the new spells, abilities, and talents, and an overview of how the [...]

Cataclysm Class Preview: Death Knight

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will bring with it several changes to class talents and abilities. In this preview, you’ll get a glimpse at some of the new abilities, spells, and talents in store for the death knight class, along with an early look at some improvements we plan to make to the rune resource system. [...]

Cataclysm Class Preview: Rogue

In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, we’ll be making several changes to class talents and abilities across the board. Here, you’ll get a glimpse at what’s in store for the rogue class, including a look the new high-level abilities and an overview of how the new Mastery system will work with the rogue’s different talent specs. [...]

Cataclysm Class Preview: Paladin

In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm we’ll be making several changes to class talents and abilities across the board. While this list only outlines some of our plans for the paladin class, we want to give you a look at the new high-level abilities and an overview of how the new Mastery system will work with [...]

Cataclysm Stat & System Changes

As many of you know from panels at last year’s BlizzCon and posts here on the forums since then, Cataclysm will bring about major changes to familiar character stats such as Intellect, Armor Penetration, Defense, and others, ultimately designed to make the effects of stats more easily understandable and make gear choices more interesting. As [...]

Upcoming Cataclysm Dispel Mechanics

We wanted to introduce some of the changes to dispel mechanics coming in Cataclysm. Our goals were to make dispelling a little less trivial to do in PvP, and to make sure there is more equity in dispel capabilities among healers in both PvP and PvE.
Within the system, there are currently five types of [...]

Arcane Brilliance: Mage AoE in Cataclysm, part 1

If there’s one thing mages have been known for during the course of this fine game we all play, it’s mass murder. We have at our disposal a wide array of spells that wreak havoc over a large area, perhaps more so than any other class. When it comes to killing things in large numbers, [...]

Cataclysm Guild Achievements

General
Profit Sharing - Loot 50,000 gold from creatures.
Time To Open A Savings Account - Loot 200,000 gold from creatures.
Extended Storage - Purchase the 7th guild bank tab.
Critter Kill Squad - Kill 10,000 critters
A Class Act - Reach level 85 on each of the classes listed below.
Stay Classy (Horde) - Complete the classy achievmenets listed below.
Classy [...]

Player Achievements

Here is a preview of the new player Achievements.

General
Breaking The Sound Barrier - Learn the master riding skill.
Feats of Strength
Realm First! Level 85 - First person on the realm to achieve level 85.
Realm First! Level 85 Shaman - First shaman on the realm to achieve level 85.
Realm First! Level 85 Druid - First druid on [...]