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Cataclysm Class Masteries
The latest beta build reintroduced class masteries in-game! Masteries are affected by the Mastery Rating on your gear.

For example, a level 82 player will get 1 Mastery point for each 93 Mastery Rating he has. This mastery point will increase the mastery bonus differently depending on the class, +1 Mastery Point doesn't necessarily means a +1% increase to the bonus. (e.g. A Beast Mastery hunter with +2 Mastery gets +4% increased pet damage)

Update
Mage definitely want to check the Upcoming Mage Changes Blue Post by Kalgan. I'll have it on the front page for my next news post just in case you miss it.

Cataclysm Beta - Build 12644
A new patch is being deployed on beta servers. Stay tuned for updates!

Lich King 25-Man No-Buff Heroic Kill by Paragon
Paragon is really done with Icecrown Citadel this time, they killed the Lich King in 25-Man Heroic mode without the ICC Zone Buff. Congratulations to them.

Cataclysm Guild UI Mini Preview
The Guild UI has been disabled during last night's maintenance but I guess a few people want to see how it looks for the moment. Not all parts of the UI are available yet, and I'd rather wait for the official launch on beta servers before I start posting because it looks like they're still changing a lot of things. Hopefuly it will be fixed on beta servers very soon.

If you can read this news post, you're probably not playing Starcraft 2 because just like me, you suck at RTS games. I like you, let's hug in Dalaran! Also, it looks like we will move to new servers very soon and I'll try to keep you updated on the situation.

Raid Weapons Previews
Let's start the day with previews of raid weapons models from Cataclysm! Keep in mind that these shots are from a modelviewer and might not be 100% representative of the final in-game model. (Well, 90% of the time they are fine)

Blackwing Descent Raid Weapons

Dungeon Sets Preview - Cloth Armor Sets
Shanai posted an interesting posts on the forums a few days ago. The first dungeon sets have been added to the beta files and Cloth sets are now available.

They are dungeon sets (5-man gear), they are NOT class raid sets. These sets drop from 5-man dungeons and possibly aren't even real "sets" with bonuses

Screenshots from

A few words on talent tree design
Originally Posted by Ghostcrawler (Source) Rather than derail threads on individual classes or specializations, I thought I would address some common

Forums Requiring Authenticator Code
Originally Posted by Bashiok (Source) As a part of our ongoing dedication to account security, players who utilize authenticators on their account

Cataclysm Beta - Build 12604
A new build is being deployed on beta servers.

Armor Specializations
The armor specializations skills are in.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Mini-update on the site: We're waiting on the shiny new servers, work already started and the search function has been reactivated on the site! A lot of tweaks have been made to the site to improve pages load and the site should be stable during heavy load ... most of the time. (Don't make me say we won't crash anymore, I'm not ready to say that yet) There is still a lot of work to do, but things are getting better.


StarCraft II - Ghosts of the Past Trailer
Blizzard released a pretty cool trailer of Starcraft 2.

Update - Berserker Rage is bugged in the current beta build, it's not supposed to require the Berserker Stance. The game shows Berserker Stance in the tooltip but it's still usable in all stances. (Confirmed by Ghostcrawler)
Update - Finally listed all the classes changes.

Cataclysm