What changed for Talents?

The lowest-cost talent point re-spec for Legacy Points now costs 1s, and the cost to re-spec will reduce by one re-spec per hour.

• Developers' notes: This is similar to how re-spec costs work for class talents and only applies during the Beta.

View Talents is now an option below Inspect in the target frame's context menu.

On the character sheet, when mousing over Spell Damage and Spell Healing, it is now explained that spells cast using spell ranks vastly below your current level receive less benefit from your Spell Damage and Spell Healing and have a reduced chance to activate your Class abilities and Talents. (examples: Frostbite and Omen of Clarity)

• Developers' notes: Another example of this reduction in activation chance – Using a Rank 1 Frostbolt at level 60 will result in a 0% chance to get a Frostbite activation. So you now are making a decision between getting a slow off quickly, or using a spell that can potentially get a Frostbite activation, instead of getting both.

Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.

• All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite.

Improved Holy Strike removed from the Talent Tree.

• Developers' notes: Even though there are sometimes cases where talents feel 'required' by classes, like Relentless Strikes for Rogues, having one that reduces the cooldown of a core ability so early on in a healing talent tree made this feel like a talent that was required. So we've removed it and made its behavior baseline.

Swapped the positions of the Elemental Fury (Row 3) and Elemental Alacrity (Row 6) talents.

• Developers' notes: Critical Strike damage increases early on in trees are exciting for other specializations, but its not as exciting for the core specialization while leveling, since they don't have enough critical strike chance to really appreciate it. So we're moving one of the better talents for Elemental Shaman functionality, earlier in the tree, to allow them to feel like they're hitting important progression moments (something Elemental has lacked in the early levels). We understand that this affects Enhancement Shaman's critical strike damage with spells, but we will use this room created to add more to Enhancement Shaman in the future.

Swapped the positions of the Bastion (Row 5) and Focused Rage (Row 6) talents.

• Developers' notes: We wanted to give players Focused Rage sooner to smooth out progression, as opposed to more damage from Bastion. This should smooth out some of the feeling while leveling as Protection before obtaining Shield Slam.