With the launch of WotLK, many people have returned to the game. For someone who hasn't played in a few months, there are many changes to face when logging back in. In a recent forum thread by a returning player, Twoflower, Shellar, Clevins and many more of you put together a list of some things they ought to know:
What else would you tell someone who was returning to WoW now after a break?
- Achievements!
- +heal is gone, spellpower is in its place.
- You can only consume one pot of ANY type during a fight.
- There are various glyphs which modify spells. Glyphs are created by the Inscription profession.
- Downranking? Gone. Well, technically not, but lower ranks of a spell cost the same or more mana for less effect
- Death Knights are here!
- Spellpushback changed : you can only get pushed back twice now, you are immune after the second push back.
- All tank classes can AoE tank now. Forget cc in leveling instances.
- New flying is from lvl 77.
- Lvl 70-71 instances : Utgarde keep does not have prequests, you can pick up 2 quests just at the entrance. The nexus does have 3 long quest chains to do before you go in, I'd say 2-3 hours till you have all the quests that lead in there. the nexus quest chains start just at the flying point where you land.
- Despite many cool little changes, generally the classes play the same.
- Dont rush for lvl 80, there is not much to do yet. only 3 raids, and they are all pushovers. enjoy the questing.
- A number of spells that couldn't crit before are now capable of doing so. For Mages, this includes Blizzard. For priests, it's Mind Flay. Furthermore, Shadowform now increases the damage from all DoTs by a percentage equal to the priest's crit chance.
- Player-cast raid buffs have been consolidated. With a couple of exceptions, any buff that can be placed by one class/spec can also be cast by another, and buffs of the same type don't stack (for example, Battle Shout shares a 'buff slot' with Blessing of Might)
- Pretty much all group buffs are now raidwide (this includes totems, auras, drums and Bloodlust). VE and PoH healing are notable exceptions to this.
What else would you tell someone who was returning to WoW now after a break?
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