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Cataclysm
?There isn't any plan to prevent ganking in the contested zones of Azeroth, even with flying mounts available here. This is just part of being on a PvP server.
?They can't spoil the Thrall / Garrosh storyline, but with the cataclysm raging everywhere, what do you think the world's mightiest shaman would need to do?
?Northrend and Outland won't really be affected by the Cataclysm but some of the areas will be updated for the expansion. For example, you will be able to level up Archeology in Outland.
Itemization
?The 5 second rule might be removed with the changes made to spirit but there isn't any final decision about that.
?There is no plans to prevent Paladins and Shamans from using cloth, but there were some discussions to limit it somehow.
?Armor Penetration is removed from the gear but not from the game. There are plans to reintroduce it in another way to allow players to kill plate wearers. (Armor Penetration talents, etc ...)
?Spirit is going to be a healer stat only, it won't exist on DPS Gear. Healers need it to regen and other casters don't use it at all. (Other casters will use Intellect for Spell Power)
Classes
?They won't add a new class in Cataclysm, they have to be very careful about adding more classes and do not want tons of them.
?The philosophy about pure DPS classes is still the same, they don't want hybrid to do everything they can do. The elevated hybrid DPS in Wrath of the Lich King is in a "good place" now.
Classes - Pets
?In Patch 3.3, pets will scale of all of your stats and allow buffs from raid encounters to affect them.
?In Patch 3.3, there will be changes to make sure that pets can't be hit by AOEs from bosses but others (PvP) will be able to affect them.
?Pets classes might get a "move to this location" command for their pet, long cooldown abilities that let your pet teleport to you to get out of trouble. This would be good feature since developers can't make pet AI as smart as a player.
Druid
?There isn't any immediate plan to give feral druids a legendary, casters are next on the list.
?Trolls and Worgens Druids will get their own bear, cat, travel, and aquatic forms.
Hunter
?Hunters might be able to choose the talent tree of their pet to let them pick the pet that looks best to them. Zhevra is a possibility for Cataclysm.
Mage
?Night Elves Mages have been added because it sounded pretty cool to have Elves using arcane when they shouldn't be anymore.
?Mage abilities like Molten Armor will be changed to use other stats since mages won't have Spirit anymore.
Rogue
?They want to see rogues use more daggers, they're THE rogue weapon and we don't see enough of them. In Patch 3.2.2 they might add an assassination talent to make daggers more attractive.
?One of the plans for cataclysm is to take a lot of the early subtlety tree and make it passive for the class. The unattractive stuff will be taken out to let you get the cool talents.
