{"id":462,"date":"2016-07-28T16:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2016-07-28T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T23:48:06","slug":"quick-summary-of-legion-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Quick Summary of Legion changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with any expansion, a lot of changes have rolled out in patch 7.0.3, the Legion expansion pre-patch.\u00a0 For full comprehensive patch notes, you should check out <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofwarcraft.com\/en-us\/news\/20151961\" target=\"_blank\">the full patch notes here<\/a>.\u00a0 For the quick and dirty summary, here is what you need to know:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Classes<br \/>\n<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Note: There were also a number of class changes as part of the overhaul, but for those you\u2019ll want to read the official patch notes to get all the details on your particular class.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gnomes can now be hunters.<\/li>\n<li>The hunter Survival spec is now a melee spec<\/li>\n<li>The rogue Combat spec was removed and replaced with Outlaw, which is pirate-esque thematically.<\/li>\n<li>Demonology walocks lost metamorphism and have many new demon-centric spells.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Talents, Specs, &amp; Glyphs<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Specs and talents have been totally reworked, and a lot of spells removed or limited to particular specs.<\/li>\n<li>Major glyphs were removed.<\/li>\n<li>Minor glyphs are now applied directly to the spell in your spellbook.<\/li>\n<li>You can now change your spec or individual talents on the fly.\u00a0 Changing is free when in a rested area like a city, or can be done with a scribe-crafted reagent when out in the world or in an instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Buffs &amp; Stats<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raid buffs are gone.<\/li>\n<li>Multistrike was removed.\u00a0 It was replaced with crit on existing gear.<\/li>\n<li>Spell power was removed.\u00a0 It was replaced with intell on existing gear.<\/li>\n<li>Spirit and Bonus Armor were removed.\u00a0 Both were replaced with versatility on existing gear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gear<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Legacy (pre-Warlords) tier set bonuses no longer work.<\/li>\n<li>Plate-wearers now start in plate from level 1 (previously mail until 40).<\/li>\n<li>Mail-wearers now start in mail from level 1 (previously leather until 40).<\/li>\n<li>Legendary ring chain is now unavailable to pick up fresh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Transmog<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transmog gear is now account-wide, with some restrictions.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jjPwjj94RtA\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<li>You can now hide your shoulders!<\/li>\n<li>Hat, cloak, and shoulders are turned off at the transmog NPC rather than in the Interface settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Toys<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A ton of things were added the toybox. This includes many engineering items (teleport items, mailbox, blingtron, etc) but they still retain a profession restriction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PvP<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor and Conquest points are gone.<\/li>\n<li>Gear is now purchased with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/items\/137642-mark-of-honor\" target=\"_blank\">Marks of Honor<\/a> which are obtained in BGs, arenas, etc.\u00a0 Old school PvPers might remember a similar type currency long ago!<\/li>\n<li>PvP gear is now normalised when in a PvP instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General Changes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All regular mobs are shared tap with up to five players now.<\/li>\n<li>You now have 12 character slots per server, to make room for the incoming Demon Hunter class<\/li>\n<li>The gold cap has been increased to 9,999,999 gold.<\/li>\n<li>Garrison gold missions removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">User Interface<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character stat pane has been pared down and now only displays stats relevant to your character.<\/li>\n<li>New optional resource bar can be displayed under your character<\/li>\n<li>Max zoom script disabled <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">:sadtrombone:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;re ready to jump back in the game &#8211; renew that sub, dust off your character, and prepare for Legion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with any expansion, a lot of changes have rolled out in patch 7.0.3, the Legion expansion pre-patch.\u00a0 For full comprehensive patch notes, you should check out the full patch notes here.\u00a0 For the quick and dirty summary, here is what you need to know: Classes Note: There were also a number of class changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,27,3,74,59,14,108,6,82,645,9,109],"tags":[653,652,656,654,648,651,649,655,646,647,650,556,442,385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}