Autor: Myrddin

Finally the druid talents have been released. Apart from a 6 second incapacitate in cat form, druids will also definitely get flightform.

I also like the new feral talents, improved leader of the pack and the stun and fear resists.

More details on the official homepage here.

WoW Insider has published information about the coming Burning Crusade hunter talents. They are most likely fake but nevertheless interesting lecture. Follow the link for full details on talents and spells.
Hunter’s stat mechanics are being fundamentally altered.

• In the current alpha, hunters only receive 1 RAP per point of AGI instead of 2.
• They have lowered the agi/crit ratio for hunters to something like 33 (more like rogues)
• They have boosted the dps value of all ranged weapons in the game by about 10%
• from anecdotal accounts it sounds like you epic hunters will gain about 5% crit or so and lose about 400 AP. While your bows will be boosted in magnitude, (anecdotal accounts would place the boosted Ash’rethul on par with the Slavemaker from Naxx)
• Hopefully that will leave you about in the same place, powerwise
• This will however change what hunters look for in stats, and significantly change how your talents function, which may be why yours were saved for the second batch.

%crit and %hit will be replaced by crit rating and hit rating

• this is to ensure a level scalability for crit/hit items. As levels go up, these static % bonuses would become more and more valuable, you’d see people at 70 running around with Blackhand’s breadth and other such items because they were still amazing.
• This is for both melee and spells
• at 60, 14 crit rating will equal 1% crit. Blackhand’s bredth will be 28 crit rating. At 70, that 28 crit rating will be worth something around 1.2% crit
• This change may or may not make stats inherently more useful, as they often degrade at a slower rate (example, at 60 warriors require 20 agi for 1 crit. Going by the same scaling factor they’d require 23.3 agi for 1 crit at 70. If this is true, then for some classes, items with stats like Chromatic boots etc will be significantly more useful than items with +crit% for longer

Beast Mastery

Improved Aspect of the Cheetah
Bestial Discipline
Evolution
Masters Influence
Natural Avoidance
Bestial Unity

Marksmanship

Hawk Eye
Improved Scorpid Sting
Trueshot Aura
Ranged Weapon Expertise
Unparalalled Precision
Arachnid Sting
Hasted Response

Survival

Improved Feign Death
Brawn
Mental Trap
Improved Mental Trap
Survival Of The Fittest
Master Survivalist

Spells

Sentry Owl
Stampede
Frozen Arrow
Fire Shrapnel
Frost Shrapnel
Nature Shrapnel
Shadow Shrapnel
Track Invisibility

With the latest update of the Burning Crusade Alpha Client a new Spell has been introduced.

Flight Form
Shapeshift
Requires Level 68
Self20 Mana
3.000 sec cast
Transforms the Druid into Flight Form. While in this form you are able to fly in Outland. The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Polymorph and Movement Impairing effects.

I found it here at the Curse Gaming Spell Database.

I have just been sent this nice screenshot of the the Burning Crusade honor tab. The upper part shows the current honor that is used to „buy“ honor awards, while the lower part of the tab shows the Arena Achievements. Apparently there are 3 types of teams: 2 on 2, 3 on 3 and 5 on 5.

 Thanks for sending me that picture.

Vaneck gave out a few more details on the upcoming changes to the honor system in Burning Crusade. You can read the whole Forum post here. Read the more important information below:

We’d like to share the following Honour changes that will be introduced with The Burning Crusade:

After the Expansion, the old Honor system will be completely removed and players who achieved ranks in the old Honour system will be able to choose to display their highest gained Rank as a title. We are interested in reintroducing these titles in the future but we have no specific plans in place yet.

Honour:
Players participating in Battlegrounds and outdoor world pvp gain honor points and players will be able to spend these on special honour rewards. The level 70 honour rewards are not currently planned to have item levels as high as the best raid or arena stuff.

Arenas:
If you’re on an arena team, you gain arena points at the end of each week based on your arena team’s rating. You spend arena points on arena rewards, and it will be seriously phat lewt, which will also most likely be more PvP oriented.