In the next major content patch, we intend to adjust mount requirements to further improve the leveling experience in World of Warcraft. In addition, cast times for summoning all mounts will be reduced to 1.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds. The following is a breakdown of the upcoming cost and level requirement changes we are making for each riding skill.

• Apprentice Riding (Skill 75)
  • Requires level 20
  • Cost: 4 gold
  • Mount cost: 1 gold
  • Mail will be sent to players at level 20 guiding them to the riding trainer

• Journeyman Riding (Skill 150)
  • Requires level 40
  • Cost: 50 gold
  • Mount cost: 10 gold
  • Mail will be sent to players at level 40 guiding them back to the riding trainer

• Expert Riding (Skill 225)
  • Requires level 60
  • Cost: 600 gold (faction discounts now apply)
  • Mount Cost: 50 gold
  • Can now be learned in Honor Hold (Alliance) or Thrallmar (Horde)

• Artisan Riding (Skill 300)
  • Requires level 70
  • Cost: 5,000 gold (faction discounts now apply)
  • Mount Cost: 100 gold

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Another 2 bosses in Ulduar 10 down: Thorim & Hodir. Good job everyone!

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For our third installment, we’d like to offer you a look at the new art for tauren cat form. Here’s a peek at the current look of cat form along with the five new textures. As a reminder, tauren will be able to change which look they use by switching skin tones in the barber shop –a new feature for tauren in the next major content patch.

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Inspiration

Increases your target’s armor by 25% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from your Flash Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, Binding Heal, Penance, Prayer of Healing, or Circle of Healing spell.

In order to understand the true value of this talent, you have to understand how armor works when tanking.

Basically, every ounce of armor is as valuable as the equal amount before it. So even though 1000 armor is 8.7% damage reduction, and the next 1000 armor on top of that only yields an extra 7.3% reduction (16% total), the increase in life-span is the same.

This holds true even at very high armor values where 1000 armor might only provide 1% extra damage absorption.

When Inspiration grants the tank an extra 25% armor, even though it might only increase his DR from 60% to 64%, the difference is huge. For example:

Say Boss-X hits for 20,000 raw damage. Tank-Y has 16,000 armor (57.22% DR vs lvl 73 mob).

When Boss-X hits Tank-Y, he takes 8,556 damage.

Now increase Tank-Y’s armor by 25% to 20,000 (62.58% DR vs lvl 73 boss).

When Boss-X hits Tank-Y, he now takes 7,484 damage.

So that buff just cut the amount of damage the MT was taking by 12.5% from what he was taking before.

For a mere 3 talent points, any Priest who raids and doesn’t take this ability should re-evaluate his thinking.

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Auriya facedown in Ulduar 10 and official guildkill of Emalon.

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Zarhym has announced:

In our next major content patch, druids will find a host of new textures for two major forms, cat and bear. There will be five different designs for each of these forms for the Horde and Alliance. Night elves can choose to change their cat and bear look at any time by visiting the barber shop and changing their character’s hair color, while tauren will be able to change which look they use by switching skin tones in the barber shop — a new feature for tauren in the next major content patch. Given that there are more hair colors and skin tones than unique form looks, some colors and tones will overlap with these new textures. The hair and skin colors chosen will, in most cases, correspond with the color seen in the look of each form. Some similar colors that may share a particular cat texture will not necessarily share the same bear texture.

We’d like to share with you this new art for each form and faction in four installments. So without further ado, our first preview is for the five new textures of the tauren druid bear form. We’ll also show the current form design so you can easily see the extra detail and textures of the new art. Work continues on new looks for the remaining druid forms and we hope to add them in future content patches.

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Spell Hit:

The unmodified spell hit cap without any modifications is 446. Various talents will modify this value. In all cases, you can take off 1% (27 rating for spell casters) if a Draenei is present in your party, due to Heroic Presence. Furthermore, you can take off 3% (79 rating for spell casters) if a Shadow Priest provides the Misery debuff or a Balance Druid provides the Improved Faerie Fire debuff.

Modified values:

• Death Knight: 368 with Virulence
• Druids: 342 with Balance of Power, 263 with Balance of Power and Improved Faerie Fire
• Mages: 368 with Precision for fire and frost mages, or Arcane Focus for arcane mages; 289 for arcane mages with both Arcane Focus and Precision
• Priests: 368 hit rating with Misery, 289 hit rating with Misery and Shadow Focus
• Shamans: 368 with Elemental Precision
• Warlocks: 368 with Suppression (affliction) or Cataclysm (destruction)

Physical Hit:

The unmodified physical hit caps without any modifications are
Dual-wield auto attack: 886
Special attacks and auto-attack: 263

Various talents will modify these values. In all cases, you can take off 1% (33 rating) if a Draenei is present in your party, due to Heroic Presence.

Modified values for special attacks:

• Death Knights: 164 dual-wielding 1H weapons with Nerves of Cold Steel
• Hunters: 164 with Focused Aim
• Rogues: 99 with Precision The poison hit cap is 315 with Precision and 446 without (based on spell hit).
• Shamans: 66 with Dual-Wield Specialization For Maelstrom Weapon, enh shamans will however have to gear for the spell hit cap 446.
• Warriors: 164 with Precision

I was unable to find any modifier for paladins and feral druids, so their cap for special attacks is 263.

Because it bears mentioning, two additional values:

26 expertise (about 214 expertise rating at level 80) to negate a boss’ dodge chance,
60 expertise (about 492 expertise rating at level 80) to prevent parries

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