Wrath Of The Lich King Beta Patch Notes!

The WotLK beta patch notes have been opened to the public! Hooray! Now we can find out exactly what all of those “Friends and Family” have been up to. There is a ton of interesting stuff in there, so here are just a couple of my personal favorites.

Druid - Hurricane: No longer has a cooldown (was 1 minute). AoE for druids. Even more overpowered!

Hunter - Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw (never both). Maybe now turtles will show up more!

Mage - Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled. Good, now it matters which one you use in PvP!

Paladin - Lay on Hands no longer drains all mana, cooldown reduced to 20 minutes. Makes this a ton more useful.

Priest - Circle of Healing (Holy): Now works on any targets in the caster’s raid, and is now a “smart” heal and chooses the lowest health targets to heal first within it’s range. Also now has a 6 second cooldown. Also no longer will heal summoned Snakes from Hunter’s Snake Trap. Resto Shaman start looking for a new job.

Rogue - Vanish no longer requires the reagent Flash Powder. No more complaining about “if only I hadn’t run out of Flash Powder.”

Shaman - Shapeshifting will no longer cancel Water Walking. That’s absolutely awesome. Of course, all of the water will probably be frozen in Northrend.

Warlock - All demon abilities and spells will automatically be learned as pets gain levels. That should save some gold while leveling to 80. If only they would refund all of the money already spent on Grimoires!

Warrior - Shield Block now increases chance to block and amount blocked by 100% for the next attack. Cooldown increased to 30 seconds. This is going to change some things, no?

General - Macros and key bindings are now saved server-side so there is no longer a need to reconfigure them when logging in using another computer. This is great for those of us who play both from home and from a secret location.

There are plenty of other noteworthy changes in there, so go look already!