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  • Specialization
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  • Upon the release of Patch 5.0.4 (the main pre-patch before the Mists of Pandaria expansion), specialization turned certain class spells exclusive under a specific class specialization. With the major revision of the talent system, most of the existing talents that are learned previously by spending talent points have been incorporated as specialization abilities and are learned automatically at a designated character level.
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  • Bornakk
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  • Vengeance: This is a mechanic to ensure that tank damage doesn't fall behind as damage-dealing classes improve their gear during the course of the expansion. All tanking specs will have Vengeance as their second talent tree passive bonus. Whenever a tank gets hit, Vengeance will give them a stacking attack power buff equal to 5% of the damage done, up to a maximum of 10% of the character's un-buffed health. For boss encounters, we expect that tanks will always have the attack power bonus equal to 10% of their health. The 5% and 10% bonuses assume 51 talent points have been put into the Protection tree. These values will be smaller at lower levels. Remember, you only get this bonus if you have spent the most talent points in the Protection tree, so you won't see Arms or Fury warriors running around with it. Vengeance will let us continue to make tank gear more or less the way we do today – there will be some damage-dealing stats, but mostly survival-oriented stats. Druids typically have more damage-dealing stats even on their tanking gear, so their Vengeance benefit may be smaller, but overall the goal is for all four tanks do about the same damage when tanking.
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  • Cataclysm Class Preview: Warrior
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  • Upon the release of Patch 5.0.4 (the main pre-patch before the Mists of Pandaria expansion), specialization turned certain class spells exclusive under a specific class specialization. With the major revision of the talent system, most of the existing talents that are learned previously by spending talent points have been incorporated as specialization abilities and are learned automatically at a designated character level. Specialization selection still happens upon reaching level 10. Each point of Mastery bonus (not rating) obtained from gear and other sources will increase specialization Mastery by 12.5% or one-eighth of the base value.[citation needed]