Combo Points
Combo Points for rogues and feral druids are now stored on the player, not the target. This makes target swapping smoother and improves multi-target gameplay.
Talent and Glyph Updates
The new Skill Trees combine base spells, talent nodes and glyphs in one place. The classic talent and glyph panes are gone.
Most effects stay true to Wrath of the Lich King and are simply reorganized. A few talents and glyphs that were mandatory but uninteresting are redesigned to add gameplay depth.
Below is a non-exhaustive overview of the ones we have changed.
Hunter
Survival
New raid buff. Grants your raid and party 3% total Agility and 3% melee and ranged attack speed.
Beast Mastery
- New capstone. Your pet inherits 100% of your Haste, Critical Strike chance and Attack Power. Exotic Beast critical strikes reduce the cooldown of Kill Command by 50%.
- Bestial Wrath also increases the effect of your next Kill Command by 100%.
Rogue
Subtlety
- Honor Among Thieves now grants an additional 5% Critical Strike chance to the entire raid.
- Sleight of Hand: your melee attacks have a 10%/20% chance to extend your Garrote by 2 seconds, up to 6 seconds total.
- Glyph of Hemorrhage: leaves a bleed that deals 40% of Hemorrhage's damage over 24 seconds.
- Glyph of Blade Flurry: reduces Blade Flurry's cooldown by 30 seconds.
- Glyph of Envenom: Envenom increases your poison damage by 12% for 6 seconds.
- Glyph of Ghostly Strike: increases Ghostly Strike's damage by an additional 5%.
Druid
Feral (Tank)
- Glyph of Survival Instincts: also reduces all magic damage taken by 20% during its duration.
- Natural Reaction: also reduces all damage taken by 2%/4%/6%.
Balance
- Gale Winds: also reduces the mana cost of Hurricane by 15%/30%.
- Eclipse Burst: when you enter an Eclipse, your next Wrath or Starfire deals damage to all enemies within 8 yards of your target.
Mage
Frost
- Enduring Winter: your Water Elemental inherits your Critical Strike chance and Haste, and reduces your spell mana costs by 3%/6%/9%.
- Empowered Frostbolt: also increases Frostfire Bolt's spell coefficient.
- Winter's Chill: can also be applied by Ice Lance.
- Glyph of Ice Lance: Ice Lance deals quadruple damage against targets immune to freezing effects.
Warrior
Arms
- Tactical Mastery: after changing stance, your next special ability within 4 seconds costs 5/10/15 less rage. Swapped positions with Improved Thunder Clap.
- Improved Thunder Clap: increases Thunder Clap's damage by 33%/66%/100%.
- Taste for Blood: cooldown reduced to 5 seconds (was 6).
- Sweeping Strikes: now lasts 10 seconds and no longer has a charge limit.
- Glyph of Bloodrage: in addition to the previous effect, after using Bloodrage your next ability does not consume rage.
Shaman
Elemental
- Elemental Mastery: haste bonus increased to 20% (from 15%).
- Thunderstorm: now a baseline ability at level 80.
- Earthquake: now the final talent in the Elemental tree.
Paladin
Retribution
- Haste now reduces the cooldown of Crusader Strike and Divine Storm.
- Seal of Command: now strikes all enemy targets.
- Consecration: mana cost reduced from 22% to 15% of maximum mana.
No more LFG
We removed the Looking for Group (LfG) system. We bring back the old school way of finding groups for dungeons. This also means you'll have to travel in the world and use summon stones again.
Cross-Faction
All possible cross-faction interactions are enabled.
PvP
Ebonhold focuses on world content and PvE. With the new trees and affixes, we do not plan PvP-specific balance beyond the following baseline updates:
- Unified arena rating. You no longer have separate ratings per bracket.
- Arena rating requirements removed from PvP gear purchases.
- PvP trinket set bonus. Equipping two PvP trinkets grants new set bonuses.
These changes refine class gameplay and modernize outdated systems,
while staying true to the spirit of Wrath of the Lich King.