So speculate how long until MOP? June, August, October, December or ?

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Brewmoon Festival Scenario
Today we have another Scenario preview, the Brewmoon Festival. This is one of the longer scenarios that are able to be tested right now. Keep in mind this is still an early preview and everything is subject to change.

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Horde Theramore Scenario Voiceovers
The previous beta patch also added the voice acting for the Theramore scenario. This is the Horde version of events.

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Blue Posts

The New Spellbook
We know from feedback and from testing that dividing spells among 3 tabs felt arbitrary to a lot of players. Some players didn't even realize they had access to some spells. The current design has all of your class spells in alphabetical order, with the exception that active abilities (those you can drag to your bar) come before passive abilities. We would consider a design where the passives are mixed in with the actives. (The general tab is for anything that isn't related to your class, such as racial abilities and things like riding.)

We've seen some ideas from players that we should attempt to categorize class abilities further, such as offensive vs. defensive, or buffs vs. heals, but worry that it would be very challenging to come up with a single organizational scheme that is intuitive to most of our players. I think it's like one of those deals where everyone organizes their hard drive, desktop or email inbox differently. Some people have tons of little categories that make sense to them (key point) and some keep everything in one big bucket. There isn't a one-size fits all scheme that works.

Jumping the Shark Quest Bug
Fix for this is coming in the next build. It's a bug.

Glyph of Stampede
The design intent is that Stampede skips over any unusable pets (such as an exotic for a non-BM) hunter or any blank slots (in the case that maybe you left a hole in case you tame something interesting along the way). For any skipped slots, Stampede would just clone your current pet for that slot, so you would still always have 5 pets when you Stampede.

The idea of the glyph is that it would use the clone mechanic all the time. Theoretically, a hunter with only one pet would be wasting the glyph.

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New Models
A Celestial Serpent and Celestial Human were added in this build.

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Pandaren Race Intro Audio
This is just the audio, we will update with the video as soon as we can!

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Pet Battle Music
This is some of the music that will play during pet battles.

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New Pandaren Emotes
The Pandaren got a few new emotes in this build!

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New Loading Screens
Scarlet Halls and Terrace of Endless Spring have loading screens now.

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New Items
For a full list of new items, check out WoWDB!

90	Junk		N/A	Ghost Iron Lockbox
1	Junk		N/A	Krastinov's Bag of Horrors
1	Quest		N/A	Nat's Fishing Journal
1	Quest		N/A	Nat's Fishing Journal
414	Armor		Trinket	Explosive Barrel
429	Armor		Trinket	Dislodged Stinger
429	Armor		Trinket	Nurong's Gun
500	Sword		One Hand	Plasma Sword
1	Spear		Main Hand	Sharpened Tuskarr Spear
419	Food & Drink		N/A	Cup of Kafa
85	Other		N/A	Iron Belly Spirits
85	Other		N/A	Totem of Harmony
85	Other		N/A	Exploding Keg
85	Other		N/A	Trophy Wolf
419	Other		N/A	Covered Basket
85	Other		N/A	Jin Warmkeg's Brew
85	Other		N/A	Trophy Fox
85	Other		N/A	Ken Ken's Mask

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Achievement Changes

Kalimdor

Exploration

• R. P. Walker (New) Speak with Randall P. Walker in the following zones of Kalimdor.

Pet Battles
Pet Battles

• Newbie (New) Raise a pet to level 3.

Pandaria
Quests

• One Step at a Time - Complete The Crumbling Hall and The Thunder Below without taking damage from any source.

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Spell Changes

Companions

• Thundering Serpent Hatchling is now a battle pet.

Druid (Forums)

Major Glyphs

• Glyph of Shred no longer removes the positional requirement from Ravage.

Hunter (Forums)

• Fetch now has a 0.1 sec cast time.

Talents

• Narrow Escape now lasts until cancelled.

Pets

• Cackling Howl (New) The hyena lets out a cackling howl, increasing the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10% for 2 min. Instant. 1.5 min cooldown. Special Ability.
• Dust Cloud weakens the armor of the target by 4% for 30 sec. Stacks up to 3 times.
• Serpent's Swiftness (New) Increases the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10% for 2 min. Instant. 1.5 min cooldown. Special Ability.
• Tear Armor weakens the armor of the target by 4% for 30 sec. Stacks up to 3 times.

Mage (Forums)
Talents

• Cauterize has a 2 minute cooldown.

Fire

• Pyroblast DoT damage remains the same, but is spread out over 18 sec instead of 12 sec.

Monk (Forums)

• Legacy of the Emperor now costs 50 Energy / 6% of Base Mana, down from 60 Energy / 6% of Base Mana.

Talents

• Rushing Jade Wind no longer allows you to move at 100% speed while using Spinning Crane Kick after you cast Rushing Jade Wind.
• Zen Sphere had a tooltip fix to show damage at 460 + 65% of AP.

Brewmaster

• Avert Harm now works on nearby party and raid targets rather than all friendly targets.
• Breath of Fire had the bonus damage from when Dizzying Haze is on the target increased by 355%.
• Summon Black Ox Statue passive now absorbs 197.1% of AP + 50 damage, rather than 14,232.

Mistweaver

• Renewing Mist now also generates 1 Chi.

Windwalker

• Legacy of the White Tiger had the energy power cost reduced to 50, down from 60.

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Priest (Forums)

• Cascade is now instant cast, down from 3 sec. Range reduced to 40 yd from 100.
• Flash Heal now costs 6.6% of Base Mana, up from 6%.
• Halo: Creates a ring of Shadow energy around you that quickly expands and grows in power, up to 30 yds away. Deals up to (20,216 + 195.0% of SP) Shadow damage to enemies, and up to 0 healing to allies, with the greatest effect at 25 yds. 100 yd range. Instant.
• Halo: Creates a ring of Holy energy around you that quickly expands and grows in power, up to 30 yds away. Deals up to (20,216 + 195.0% of SP) Holy damage to enemies, and up to 0 healing to allies, with the greatest effect at 25 yds. 100 yd range. Instant.
• Prayer of Mending now costs 3.9% of Base Mana, up from 3.5%.
• Renew now costs 2.9% of Base Mana, up from 2.6%.
• Shadowfiend no longer grants this bonus effect for Shadow: Your Mind Flay critical strikes reduce the remaining cooldown of this ability by 10 sec.

Talents

• Archangel now has a 2 minute cooldown for the Dark Archangel portion of the spell.
• Mindbender no longer grants this bonus effect for Shadow: Your Mind Flay critical strikes reduce the remaining cooldown of this ability by 10 sec.

Discipline

• Meditation now allows 40% of your mana regeneration from Spirit to continue while in combat, up from 25%.
• Penance now costs 3.4% of Base Mana, up from 3.1%.

Holy

• Divine Hymn no longer has a maximum of 20 heals.

Holy & Discipline

• Greater Heal now costs 6.6% of Base Mana, up from 6%.
• Heal now costs 2.2% of Base Mana, up from 2%.
• Holy Fire is now a Holy & Discipline Specialization spell.

Shadow

• Devouring Plague had the healing component reworked: Also heals the caster for 1% of their maximum health when it deals direct damage, and 0.30% of their maximum health when it deals periodic damage. Damage and healing increased based on the number of Shadow Orbs consumed.

Warlock (Forums)
Affliction

• Drain Soul now causes double the normal damage and your periodic damage spells tick 50% (was 100%) faster if the target is at or below 20% health.
• Malefic Grasp: Now your periodic damage spells tick 50% faster while afflicted by Malefic Grasp, down from 100%.
• Unstable Affliction base damage was increased by 100%.

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New and Updated Maps

Several maps were updated or had concept art added to them in this build.

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Strings Changes

• AUTO_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY_TEXT - Auto Open Loot Rolls Window|TInterface\\OptionsFrame\\UI-OptionsFrame-NewFeatureIcon:0:0:0:-1|t
• CHAT_MSG_WORLDDEFENSE_FORMAT - [%s] %s
• FEATURE_NOT_AVAILBLE_PANDAREN - This feature unlocks after you choose a faction.
• INSTANCE_PARTY_LEAVE - Leave Instance Group
• OPTION_TOOLTIP_AUTO_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY - When checked, the Loot Rolls window will automatically open to show you your group members' rolls when Bind on Pickup items drop.
• SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY1 - /loot
• SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY2 - /loot
• SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY3 - /lootrolls
• SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY4 - /lootrolls
• SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_165 - You have already sampled sap from this Feeder.
• SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_166 - Requires you to be near a Mantid Feeder in the Heart of Fear.