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For your troubles catch up on some Burning Crusade updates

Warrior

• (NEW SPELL) Stance Mastery - “You retain up to 10 of your rage points when you change stances.”
• Blood Frenzy - Moved up a tier one column to the left of Mortal Strike. Now 2 ranks for 2/4%.
• (NEW) Improved Mortal Strike - “Reduces the cooldown of your Mortal Strike ability by 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8/1 sec and increases the damage it causes by 1/2/3/4/5%.”
• Second Wind - Reduced to 2 ranks, now “Whenever you are struck by a Stun or Immobilize effect you will generate 10/20 rage and 5/10% of your total health over 10 sec.”
• Endless Rage - Now a passive effect. “You generate 15% more rage from damage dealt and taken.”
• Rampage - Rank 1 (30 AP), Rank 2 (40 AP), Rank 3 (50 AP).
• Improved Berserker Stance - Now 5 ranks for 2/4/6/8/10% bonus.
• Improved Pummel - Removed.
• Improved Whirlwind - Now “Reduces the cooldown of your Whirlwind ability by 1/2 sec.”
• Improved Bloodrage - Moved up one tier and generates 3/6 rage.
• Improved Shield Block - Reduced to 1 rank, duration bonus increased from .5 sec to 1 sec.
• Tactical Mastery - Reduced to 3 ranks. Now “You retain up to an additional 5/10/15 of your rage points when you change stances.” Also see the new trainer bought spell “Stance Mastery” which gives you 10 rage retention when switching stances.
• Last Stand - Cooldown reduced to 8 minutes, from 10.

Rogue

• Blade Twisting - Moved up two tiers to one column left of Weapon Expertise. Reduced to 2 ranks for 10/20% chance to proc the daze effect.
• (NEW TALENT) Combat Potency - Where Blade Twisting was. 5 ranks that “Gives your successful off-hand melee attacks a 20% chance to generate 3/6/9/12/15 Energy.”

Druid

• Tree of Life - Now slows by 20%, changed from 50%.

Paladin

• Lasting Judgement - Replaced with “Sanctified Light”, which “Increases the critical strike chance of your Holy Light spell by 2/4/6%.”
• Holy Shock - Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds.
• Empowered Judgement - Renamed “Sanctified Judgement”.

Shaman

• Stormstrike - Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds. Mana cost reduced to 277 (at level 70).

Mage

• Empowered Arcane Missiles - Mana cost increase is now 2/4/6%, changed from 3/6/10%.
• Prismatic Cloak - Moved up a tier to the left of Arcane Instability and reduced to 2 ranks for 2/4%.
• (NEW) Spell Power - Where Prismatic Cloak was. “Increases critical strike damage bonus of all spells by 25/50%.”
• Slow - Changed to “Reduces target’s movement speed by 50%, increases the time between ranged attacks by 50% and increases casting time by 50%. Lasts 15 sec. Slow can only affect one target at a time.”

Hunter

• Hawk Eye - Moved to first tier, where Deflection was.
• Deflection - Moved to second tier, where Savage Strikes was.
• Savage Strikes - Moved to first tier, to the right of where Hawk Eye was moved to.

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