Wowhead have released their Cataclysm site – http://cata.wowhead.com/. It’s very shiny! Just don’t mouse over the vortex thing, or you’ll be trapped staring at it for hours…..


I don’t have a beta key (yet, I hope!), so I can’t experiment personally, but I’ve been digging around in Wowhead’s database to see if I can find some more information.

Unfortunately there’s still nothing on the buffed spell effects in the new Tree of Life form, but there are a few interesting tidbits. Here are a few I’ve found. Remember, though, that none of these are final, they could be incomplete or incorrect (and I could also be misinterpreting tooltips, missing something, etc). Remember also that the Wowhead database contains old abilities mixed with new, so sometimes it can be hard to work out what is correct. But – nonetheless – here are a few snippets to tantalise!


Cat form learned at level 10, bear form learned at level 15

The druid abilities section shows that cat form is now learned at level 10, along with Claw (Demo Roar is also in the list, but that is an example of an old ability in the new database).

Bear form is learned at 15, along with Maul and Growl. Dire Bear Form doesn’t seem to exist anymore, but shows up on bear form ability tooltips. Hey, it was never very “dire” anyway, so if it’s gone, no biggie – just means adjusting the numbers at later levels of bear. Beta testers will be able to confirm.. but it’s not exactly ultra-important.

Cat at 10 will mean faster levelling, rather than enduring the 5-year swing timer on Maul. Not that this will be a problem anymore anyway, since Blizzard is doing away with “on next attack” mechanics like Maul and Heroic Strike. So that might make bear-ing a little less painful when all you have is Maul.


Insect Swarm trained at 20

It looks as though Insect Swarm is a trained ability, picked up at 20. This was guessed by a lot of people when IS disappeared from the talent trees.


Remove Corruption

Remove Corruption is trained at 24 – removing 1 magic effect, 1 curse, and $3 poison. Not sure what the $3 will end up being.


Innervate at 28, based on the caster’s max mana pool

Holy moly, Innervate trained 12 levels early!

It’s also going to be based on the caster’s max mana pool, not a percentage of base mana. So it will still give the same amount whether you use it on yourself, a hunter, a mage, or a paladin – but I assume the “max mana pool” allows it to scale according to level and gear, rather than just by your base mana at level X.


Lifebloom: one target only

As predicted by some, Lifebloom appears to be limited to a single target only. I assume this means LB will drop off your first target if you put it on someone else. This nudges it squarely into “main tank healing only” territory; it has never been as effective as a raid healing tool as it was in TBC, but this change will make it even rarer to “toss the odd lifebloom”. I personally don’t use LB much for raid healing, but I know some who do. And obviously this means you can’t slow stack LBs on two targets at a time – another fairly rare practice these days, but still handy.


Efflorescence numbers

Efflorescence, the “stand in my HoTs puddle” spell that you get after critting with a Regrowth, is worded: “When you critically heal with your Regrowth spell you also sprout a bed of healing flora underneath the target, healing all nearby friendly targets within 15 yards who stand on them for 10% of the amount healed by your Regrowth every sec for 7 sec.”

I am going to take this to mean that if you crit for 10,000, each person standing on your prize petunias will be healed for 1,000hp/sec for 7 seconds.


Master Shapeshifter DOES buff your caster form

Master Shapeshifter buffs caster form as well as Tree of Life, by 4%. This was a bit unclear to many people because some sites showed the “caster form” wording, and others didn’t.


Swiftmend heals for a static amount

Swiftmend will no longer heal for X seconds of Rejuv or Y seconds of Regrowth. Instead, it will heal for “5229″ (subject to change!), unbuffed/talented, regardless of whether you are consuming a Rejuv or Regrowth. This means that you’ll never have to try to Swiftmend a Rejuv for a larger Swiftmend than a Regrowth Swiftmend.


That’s all for now! :)



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