Blackmouth Oil and Fire Oil no longer require a vial.
Elixir of Greater Spellpower now grants spell power to all schools of magic.
The Crazy Alchemist Potion is now correctly increased by Alchemist Stones.
Increased the health granted by the Flask of Stoneblood.
The Mercurial Stone is no longer required as a tool for alchemists. It is instead a green quality bind-on-equip trinket.
You can now sometimes find Alchemist's Caches from bosses in Ulduar. Only players with an Alchemy skill of 425 or higher can loot these secret caches.

Blacksmithing

Most of the recipes in the 1-300 skill range of blacksmithing have had their stats updated to be more useful.
Added a new recipe for the Titansteel Spellblade, an epic one-handed caster dagger, available from trainers.
Titanium Plating now reduces the duration of disarm effects by 50% as well as increasing your block value.
Added new recipes for epic gear, found rarely on Ulduar bosses. These recipes are unbound and can be traded.

Cooking

A new recipe has been added to cooking trainers for making Black Jelly, using several Borean Man 'O War as ingredients. While it looks disgusting, it restores more health and mana than the highest level food.
Flint and Tinder is no longer necessary for creating a campfire. You're just that resourceful!
Grub now sells the Dig Rat Stew recipe to players who completed the quest.
Prospector Khazgorm, found in Bael Modan in southern Barrens, now sells the recipe for Dig Rat Stew to the Alliance.
Ingredients such as Spices, Apples, and the like have been removed from most cooking recipes.
Players no longer need to complete the Clamlette Surprise quest to gain Artisan cooking. The quest now offers the unique recipe, Clamlette Magnifique. If you already completed the quest, you can visit Dirge Quickcleave in Gadgetzan to learn this recipe (for free).
Several Northrend recipes were given greater skill up ranges to make it easier to reach 450 cooking skill.
You no longer need to learn cooking from books. The trainers have finally done their reading and are able to teach you the same thing.

Enchanting

Added a recipe for enchanting staves with spell power.
Greatly increased the drop rate of recipes found in pre-Lich King dungeons and raids.
Several recipes in the 250-300 skill range have been rebalanced, and the reagent requirements have been reduced.
Some enchants now have level restrictions. Note: the enchant is never removed from the item to which it's applied, however, the player no longer receives its benefit until they reach the required level. Any enchants modified in this way have had their tooltips updated.
The enchanting interface now correctly sorts grey recipes by skill difficulty.

Engineering

Added a new Reticulated Armor Webbing engineering enchant that increases the armor on plate gloves.
Added a new Springy Arachnoweave engineering enchant that grants passive spell power in addition to turning your cloak into a parachute.
Flexweave Underlay now grants passive agility in addition to its normal effect.
Nitro Boosts now grant passive critical strike rating in addition to their speed boost.
Nitro Boosts now make you drop PVP flags when used, as well as preventing you from picking them up while the effect is active.

Fishing

A new (and very rare) special mount can now be caught from Northrend fishing pools.
A new clam, the Giant Darkwater Clam, can be obtained by fishing in Wintergrasp. This mighty clam has a greatly increased chance to drop pearls, and yields up to five times the regular amount of clam meat.
New fishing dailies are now offered from Marcia Chase in Dalaran City!
Players are no longer required to do the Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme quest to gain Artisan fishing. The quest now offers a special superior-quality fishing pole instead. If you already completed the quest, you can visit Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh to receive this new fishing pole.
The time needed to catch fish has been reduced.
You can now fish anywhere, regardless of skill. Every catch has the potential for fishing skill gains, but you are likely to catch worthless junk in areas that are too difficult for your skill.
You can now fish in Wintergrasp, and the fishin' is good!
You no longer need to learn fishing from books. The trainers have finally done their reading and are able to teach you the same thing.

Gathering Skills

Toughness, Master of Anatomy, and Lifeblood now have level requirements equal to the level required for the corresponding skill rank: Apprentice (1), Journeyman (1), Expert (10), Artisan (25), Master (40), Grand Master (55).
You can no longer fail when Mining, Herbing, and Skinning.

Herbalism

Find Herbs no longer tracks Glowcaps.
Northrend herbs now yield more herbs on average.
The herbalism requirement for gathering Tiger Lily has been reduced to 375.
The time it takes to gather herbs has been reduced.

Inscription

Added a recipe to trainers for creating a level 70 superior-quality off-hand item.
Added a recipe for creating a different level 70 superior-quality off-hand item. Scribes will find the recipe is dropped from residents of Silverbrook.
Added around 50 new glyph recipes. These new recipes can be obtained from Books of Glyph Mastery found as world drops on Northrend monsters. Reading a Book of Glyph Mastery randomly discovers one of the newly-added recipes.
Glyph icons have been updated so it is easy to distinguish between classes.
Players will now learn 3 recipes the very first time they perform Northrend Inscription Research. This does not apply to players who have already discovered recipes from Northrend Inscription Research (sorry).

Jewelcrafting

Added a new recipe to cut black diamonds.
Added a recipe for Shifting Twilight Opal to the daily jewelcrafting vendor.
Added recipes for superior-quality PVP rings and necklaces to Northrend jewelcrafting trainers.

Leatherworking

Added a recipe for combining Borean Leather Scraps into Borean Leather. You can still use Borean Scraps from your inventory to combine them.
Added new recipes for epic gear, found rarely on Ulduar bosses. These recipes are unbound and can be traded.
Several lower-level items crafted by leatherworkers have received major changes to make them more appealing.
Shadowskin Gloves and Dusky Boots no longer require Shadowcat Hide to create, but instead require an equal quantity of Shadow Silk. Shadowcat Hides can no longer be obtained from skinning.

Quests

The fight event for the "Grim(oire) Business" quest at Vim'gol's Circle in the Blade's Edge Mountains now only requires one character to stand within a fire circle in order to summon Vim'gol the Vile. However, it still takes five characters, one in each of the fire circles, in order to interrupt Vim'gol the Vile's Unholy Growth cast.
Horde characters may now obtain the quest CLUCK! from Chickens. While Farmer Saldean won't be selling Special Chicken Feed to the Horde, perhaps "Westfall" William Saldean in Brill might...

Dungeons and Raids

New dungeon maps have been added for all Wrath of the Lich King dungeons.

Eye of Eternity

Malygos will now properly delay before breathing after a Vortex on Heroic difficulty.

Naxxramas

The Chains of Kel'Thuzad will no longer reset the raid's threat.
The Portal of Shadows created by Shade of Naxxramas will only persist for a maximum of one minute.
Players with pets who attempt to use the Obedience Crystals in Naxxramas will have their pets dismissed automatically so they may possess an Understudy.

User Interface

New Advanced features for quest tracking are now available. Players will need to activate this option within the Interface panel.
A new Color Blind option is available under the Interface panel.
Spell Effect Level setting has been split into Particle Density and Projected Textures. Previously, Spell Effect Level controlled both of these features.
Added new Video Mode Ultra (should only be used on the highest-end systems).
Shadow Quality has a new higher level of detail. The slider for adjusting Shadow Quality remains the same, though there is an additional step at the high end of the spectrum.
A new feature has been added allowing players to allocate talent points before confirming they'd like to spend them. This feature must be turned on in the Interface Options.
A new Equipment Manager feature has been added. This feature can be turned on from the Interface Options, and will enable managing up to ten separate sets of equipped items.
New high-resolution player textures for Northrend armor sets have been added. Players can enable this feature by setting Player Textures to High in the Effects Panel of the Video Options.
Players can now return items purchased with an alternate currency back to the original vendor within 2 hours of the purchase time for the original cost of the item. Stackable items (such as Frozen Orbs and gems) and charged items that can be purchased with an alternate currency are not eligible.
Confirmation boxes have been added to purchases over 150 gold.
The calendar now supports a guild-wide sign-up sheet, allowing the event organizer to invite his or her entire guild.
Class roles (i.e. damage, tanking, healing) have been added to the Looking For Group feature. Class roles will be displayed when sorting through the Looking For More section.Quest and Achievement tracking are now combined in a new Objectives Tracking window. Advanced features can be activated from the Objectives Options panel.
On-Use items will display in the Objectives Tracking when tracking a quest that uses them. No more searching through your bags for that on-use quest item!
Health and Fuel/Ammo bars have been added to the vehicle interface whenever operating a vehicle.
The mini-map has been optimized for better performance. Displays for vehicles, class colors, and off-map pings have been added as well.
New elite mob frames have been added for V-Key frames.
Players first entering any dungeon that will result in a lock-out timer will be warned if they are going to be saved to the instance. This warning will include an option to port to the nearest graveyard before being saved.
For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.

Items

Arena Master Trinket: Dodge rating has been replaced with stamina.
Badges and emblems looted off of any dungeon bosses by a member of the party or raid will automatically be given to all eligible party or raid members. Party or raid members must still be inside the instance to receive badges or emblems.
Enhancement Shaman PvP Set Bonus: The cooldown reduction of Stormstrike has been increased to 2 seconds, up from 1 second.
Existing crafted resilience armor sets now offer additional stamina and resilience ratings through set bonuses.
Gift of Arthas: Now considered a curse instead of a disease.
Hearthstone: Cooldown has been reduced to 30 minutes down from 60 minutes.
Darkmoon Cards of the North will now take three seconds per card to create.
Divine Hymn will now trigger Illustration of the Dragon Soul.
Frozen Scepter of Necromancy now sounds like other maces.
Heavy Junkboxes will no longer have deprecated poison materials.
Magic Dust now has a 10-second PvP duration.
Old Naxxramas Shoulder Enchants will now soulbind items.
Outrider's Lammellar Legguards and Sentinel's Mail Leggings have had their costs reduced to the correct value.
Pack of Endless Pockets can now be mailed.
Paladin Healer PvP Set Bonus: The bonus for Holy Shock healing has been reduced to 10%.
Patroller's Pack now sounds like a bag.
PvP Trinkets will now break Shackle Undead.
Several beverages missing from the "Beverages Consumed" statistic have been added.
Several foods missing from the Food Eaten statistic have been added.
Sigil of the Frozen Conscience: The bonus to Icy Touch from this relic has been reduced to a value appropriate to the itemÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s level.
Sprite Darter Eggs: May now (very rarely) drop from Sprite Darters in Feralas. Note that only Horde characters can attack and kill Sprite Darters.
Three new mounts are available from Horde mount vendors, equalizing the number of purchasable normal and epic mounts: the Black Wolf, the White Kodo, and the Black Skeletal Horse (in Orgrimmar, Bloodhoof Village, and Brill respectively).
Thunder Capacitor again requires four charges.
Tiny Emerald Whelplings: May now (very rarely) drop from Adolescent Whelps in the Swamp of Sorrows.
White Tickbird Hatchling is now classified as a Pet.

Glyphs

Death Knight

Glyph of Blood Boil: This has been replaced with Glyph of Heart Strike, which adds a snare effect to Heart Strike.
Glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon: Increases the duration of Dancing Rune Weapon by 10 seconds.
Glyph of Dark Death: Increases the damage done by Death Coil by 15%.
Glyph of Death Strike: This glyph now increases Death Strike damage by 1% per 2 runic power, but has a limit of 25% increase.
Glyph of Disease: Your Pestilence ability now refreshes disease durations on your primary target back to their maximum duration.
Glyph of Howling Blast: Your Howling Blast ability now infects your targets with Frost Fever.
Glyph of Hungering Cold: Reduces the cost of Hungering Cold by 10 runic power.
Glyph of Icebound Fortitude: Icebound Fortitude now grants at least 30% damage reduction, regardless of defense skill.
Glyph of Plague Strike: Bonus lowered to 20%.
Glyph of Strangulate: This glyph has been changed to reduce the cooldown by 20 seconds.
Glyph of Unbreakable Armor: Increases the amount of damage absorbed by Unbreakable Armor by 20%.
Glyph of Unholy Blight: Increases the duration of Unholy Blight by 10 seconds.

Druid

Glyph of Berserk: Increases the duration of Berserk by 5 seconds.
Glyph of Monsoon: Reduces the cooldown of your Typhoon spell by 3 seconds.
Glyph of Nourish: Your Nourish heals an additional 6% for each of your heal-over-time effects present on the target.
Glyph of Rebirth: Target now returns to life with full health.
Glyph of Savage Roar: Your Savage Roar ability grants an additional 6% bonus damage done.
Glyph of Shred: Now increases remaining duration on Rip by 2 seconds each time it is used, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
Glyph of Starfall: Changed to reduce the cooldown by 30 seconds.
Glyph of Wild Growth: Wild Growth now affects up to 6 targets.

Hunter

Glyph of Aimed Shot: Now reduces cooldown by 2 seconds.
Glyph of Chimera Shot: Reduces the cooldown of Chimera Shot by 1 second.
Glyph of Explosive Shot: Increases the critical strike chance of Explosive Shot by 4%.
Glyph of Explosive Trap: The periodic damage from your Explosive Trap can now be critical strikes.
Glyph of Kill Shot: Reduces the cooldown of Kill Shot by 6 seconds.
Glyph of the Monkey: This glyph has been converted to Glyph of Mending, which increases the healing done by Mend Pet by 40%.
Glyph of Raptor Strike: For 3 seconds after using Raptor Strike, you take 20% less damage.
Glyph of Scatter Shot: Increases the range of Scatter Shot by 3 yards.
Glyph of Snake Trap: Now reduces damage taken by snakes from area damage by 90%.
Glyph of Wyvern Sting: Now reduces the cooldown by 6 seconds, down from 15 seconds. No longer reduces the damage done by Wyvern StingÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s effect.

Mage

Glyph of Arcane Barrage: Reduces the mana cost of Arcane Barrage by 20%.
Glyph of Deep Freeze: Increases the range of Deep Freeze by 10 yards.
Glyph of Ice Armor: Now increases resistance and armor by 50%.
Glyph of Ice Barrier: Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Ice Barrier by 30%.
Glyph of Living Bomb: The periodic damage from your Living Bomb can now be critical strikes.
Glyph of Mirror Image: Your Mirror Images gain the Winter's Chill talent, granting their Frostbolt spell a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.

Paladin

Glyph of Beacon of Light: Increases the duration of Beacon of Light by 30 seconds.
Glyph of Divine Plea: While Divine Plea is active, you take 3% reduced damage from all sources.
Glyph of Divine Storm: Your Divine Storm now heals for an additional 15% of the damage it causes.
Glyph of Divinity: Now Lay on Hands grants 100% bonus mana, and that amount of mana is granted to the paladin and their target.
Glyph of Exorcism: Changed to 20% bonus damage.
Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous: Your Hammer of the Righteous hits 1 additional target.
Glyph of Holy Light: Can no longer critically strike and has had its range updated.
Glyph of Holy Shock: Reduces the cooldown of Holy Shock by 1 second.
Glyph of Lay on Hands: Now reduces the cooldown of Lay on Hands by 5 minutes.
Glyph of Salvation: When you cast Hand of Salvation on yourself, it also reduces damage taken by 20%.
Glyph of Seal of Blood: Grants 30% bonus mana from Spiritual Attunement.
Glyph of Seal of Righteousness: Increases damage done by this seal by 30%.
Glyph of Shield of Righteousness: Reduces the mana cost of Shield of Righteousness by 80%.

Priest

Glyph of Dispersion: Reduces the cooldown on Dispersion by 45 seconds.
Glyph of Fade: Now reduces cooldown by 9 seconds.
Glyph of Fear Ward: Now reduces duration and cooldown by 1 minute.
Glyph of Guardian Spirit: If your Guardian Spirit lasts its entire duration without being triggered, your Guardian Spirit cooldown is reset to 60 seconds.
Glyph of Hymn of Hope: Your Hymn of Hope provides 2 times the normal amount of mana-per-time, but its duration is 50% shorter.
Glyph of Inner Fire: Increases bonus armor by 50%.
Glyph of Mind Control: Increases duration by 30 seconds.
Glyph of Mind Sear: Increases the radius of effect on Mind Sear by 5 yards.
Glyph of Pain Suppression: Allows Pain Suppression to be cast while stunned.
Glyph of Penance: Reduces the cooldown of Penance by 2 seconds.
Glyph of Psychic Scream: Increases duration by 2 seconds, but increases cooldown by 8 seconds.

Rogue

Glyph of Adrenaline Rush: Now increases duration by 5 seconds.
Glyph of Backstab: Now increases remaining duration on Rupture by 2 seconds each time it is used, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
Glyph of Cloak of Shadows: While Cloak of Shadows is active, you take 40% less physical damage.
Glyph of Crippling Poison: Poison chance bonus increased to 20%.
Glyph of Deadly Throw: Increases the movement reduction by 10%.
Glyph of Fan of Knives: Increases the damage done by Fan of Knives by 20%.
Glyph of Hunger for Blood: Increases the bonus damage from Hunger for Blood by 3%.
Glyph of Killing Spree: Reduces the cooldown on Killing Spree by 45 seconds.
Glyph of Mutilate: Reduces the cost of Mutilate by 5 energy.
Glyph of Pick Lock: Now reduces cast time by 100%.
Glyph of Sap: Increases duration by 20 seconds.
Glyph of Shadow Dance: Increases the duration of Shadow Dance by 4 seconds.
Glyph of Sprint: No longer reduces the duration.
Glyph of Tricks of the Trade: Your Tricks of the Trade grants an additional 10% bonus damage to your target.

Shaman

Glyph of Earth Shield: Increases the amount healed by your Earth Shield by 20%.
Glyph of Feral Spirit: Your spirit wolves gain an additional 30% of your attack power.
Glyph of Hex: Increases the damage your Hex target can take before the Hex effect is removed by 20%.
Glyph of Riptide: Increases the duration of Riptide by 3 seconds.
Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem: Your Stoneclaw Totem also places a damage absorb shield on you, equal to 4 times the strength of the shield it places on your totems.
Glyph of Thunder: Reduces the cooldown on Thunderstorm by 7 seconds.
Glyph of Totem of Wrath: When you cast Totem of Wrath, you gain 30% of the totem's bonus spell power for 5 minutes.

Warlock

Glyph of Banish: This glyph has been removed.
Glyph of Chaos Bolt: Reduces the cooldown on Chaos Bolt by 2 seconds.
Glyph of Demonic Circle: Reduces the cooldown on Demonic Circle by 4 seconds.
Glyph of Haunt: The bonus damage granted by your Haunt spell is increased by an additional 3%.
Glyph of Incinerate: Increases damage of Incinerate by 5%.
Glyph of Imp: Increases your ImpÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s Firebolt damage by 20%.
Glyph of Life Tap: When you use Life Tap, you gain 20% of your spirit as spell power for 20 seconds.
Glyph of Metamorphosis: Increases the duration of your Metamorphosis by 6 seconds.
Glyph of Shadowflame: Your Shadowflame also applies a 70% movement speed slow on its victims.
Glyph of Soul Link: Increases the percentage of damage shared via your Soul Link by an additional 5%.

Warrior

Glyph of Barbaric Insults: Increases threat on Mocking Blow by 100%.
Glyph of Bladestorm: Reduces the cooldown on Bladestorm by 15 seconds.
Glyph of Enraged Regeneration: Your Enraged Regeneration ability heals for an additional 10% of your health over its duration.
Glyph of Last Stand: Now reduces the cooldown of Last Stand by 60 seconds. The penalty on maximum health gained has been removed.
Glyph of Overpower: Now provides 100% chance on all parries.
Glyph of Shield Wall: Reduces the cooldown on Shield Wall by 2 minutes, but Shield Wall now only reduces damage taken by 40%.
Glyph of Shockwave: Reduces the cooldown on Shockwave by 3 seconds.
Glyph of Spell Reflection: Reduces the cooldown on Spell Reflection by 1 second.
Glyph of Sweeping Strikes: Now makes Sweeping Strikes cost 0 rage.
Glyph of Vigilance: Your Vigilance ability transfers an additional 5% of your target's threat to you.

Mac

Support for Logitech G-15 and G-19 keyboards with LCD displays has been added.
A number of performance and smoothness enhancements have been implemented.
The new high-res player textures are supported on dual processor systems running OS X 10.5.
A crashing bug involving chat channel commands has been fixed.
A problem involving window focus and foreground/background status has been fixed.
Movie recording feature has had some user interface improvements.

Bug Fixes

Dartol's Rod of Transformation has had its tooltip corrected.
Glyph of Mocking Blow: Correctly increases damage of the ability by 25%.
Glyph of Shocking: Tooltip has been corrected.
Leaving a group while in an instance will now port you to the nearest graveyard rather than your Hearthstone location.
Lifebloom: Corrected some bugs with the new blooming functionality and dispels.
Loot from clams now stacks correctly!
Mace of Unending Life is correctly a two-handed weapon.
Many Northrend maces now make correct noises when sheathed and unsheathed.
Many items with 110 attack power now correctly grant 110 ranged attack power.
Oracle Talisman of Ablution's spell data has been clarified.
Personal Rating Requirements for offhand Deadly Gladiator items should now display correctly.
Several Hateful and Deadly plate helms have had their stats correctly reduced.
Several Naxxramas items with block values were not providing the correct stat amounts and have been fixed.
Thunder Capacitor's cooldown functions.
Yaaarrrr! now has a detailed tooltip.

Death Knight Fixes

Dancing Rune Weapon: Fixed a bug making it trigger an unusual number of effects from the weapon equipped by the death knight. In addition, it will now only echo death knight spells whose primary purpose is dealing damage. Also corrected a bug making the effect last 8 seconds longer than intended.

Hunter Fixes

Savage Rend (raptor special ability): Fixed a tooltip error to correctly note this ability boosts damage rather than attack power.

Shaman Fixes

Cleanse Spirit is now properly in the Nature spell school.
Tremor Totem: Now correctly pulses every 3 seconds, up from 1 second.

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