Items

Item Stat Changes

• MP5: This will be removed from items and replaced with Spirit. All healers will be given a meditation-like ability.
• Spell Power is removed. Instead Intellect will give you both mana and Spell Power.
• Attack Power is removed. Instead Agility will give AP to leather and mail item wearers and strength will give it to plate wearers.
• Defense is removed. All nessecary anti-crit will be dealt with through talents.
• Armor Penetration is removed. A new "mastery" system will be announced to replace it. It, according to the devs, "makes you better at what you do."
• Haste now increases the rate at which you gain mana, focus, rage, and runes.
• Block is removed. Instead you will just block a certain portion of the attack.
• Stamina: There's going to be more stamina on gear.

Notable Added Items

• Casters will get an legendary item drop in one of the first raids in Cataclysm.

Mastery

• A new type of item stat
• You will most likely select between Hit, Haste, and Mastery.
• Passive talents have been removed and are now granted on spending points in a skill tree. Mastery takes what you do best in your spec and make you do it better. Like Feral Druid attack power it will show up on an item as the type of stat its buffing. If it is buffing your rogues poison damage by 5% it'll show as a 5% poison damage buff, but if you trade it to your friend whos main buffed stat is hp then it will show as a 5% hp buff.

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