A guild news feed will be added

The world of Warcraft isn't the only thing that will get some changes in Cataclysm: There will be new class/race combinations, entirely new systems of advancement - and a ton of new raids, dungeons, and PvP areas.there was a ton of new information coming down the pipe at the Preview Panel immediately following. But beyond the new races and the complete reshaping of Azeroth, we got to take a look at the rest of the stuff, too.A Classy Expansion, But Not a Talented One: Ever wonder why Druids could only be Tauren or Night Elves? Or why only Blood Elves and Draenei could be Horde Paladins or Alliance Shamans, respectively? Cataclysm will add a bunch of new Class/Race combinations to the game - Troll Druids, Tauren Paladins, Dwarf Shamans, Human and Undead Hunters, and Gnome Priests (to name a few). Variety is the spice of life, after all. (Or, "Holy Cow!")On the other hand, there won't be any new levels of Talent trees - there will be five more talent points with the five more levels, and remade and refined talents, but the 51-pointers will still be as deep as the trees go.

Blizzard will be adding the "Mastery System" - while they intended for talents to be cool, fun options, they found that players didn't take talents that didn't give direct benefits: "More healing, more criticals, more damage."So instead, they will be taking some of those out of the talents, and putting them in the talent trees themselves - as the designers phrased it, it sounded like a Mage who put points in Fire - for example - would earn a boost to damage with every point he spent, no matter which talent it was in.Excavating the Path of the Titans - With only five levels, the problem that the designers faced was, how could players customize their characters in lieu of new talent points? The new Secondary Skill, Archaeology (yes, a Secondary Skill - anyone can have it, like Fishing, Cooking, and First Aid) will enable players to explore the Titan ruins across Azeroth, to research and discover Artifacts that they can bring to different groups in the world to advance down the Path of the Titans. These Paths are not class-specific: A Rogue may choose any of the Paths, and a Priest may choose the same one that he does.

Quote from Blizzard staffRated Battlegrounds?Rated Battlegrounds will be an alternative way to get arena points.?Each week, one of the BG will be the Rated Battleground of the week. Winning in this battleground will improve your rating and give you points. Losing will not lower your rating. ?New PvP titles will be added, as your rating progress you will unlock higher titles. If you earned a PvP title you will keep it. ?When a Battleground is rated for the week, its normal non-rated version will still be available. ?The amount of Arena Points will be limited to prevent grinding. ?You will also earn guild level by playing these rated battlegrounds with your guildmates.Tol'barad?Tol'barad is a mix of Lake Wintergrasp and the Isle of Quel'danas. ?Every x hours the Daily Quests of the zone will shutdown and players will fight to capture the control points, the first team to get all of them wins. ?The winning team gets access to better daily quests rewarding more gold/better items. Guild Leveling?Guild experience is earned through multiple ways, players leveling, killing bosses, leveling professions, PvP victories, reputations. ?Each guild level rewards you with one talent point, these talents affect the whole guild. The top 20 earners of the guild will contribute to the guild experience for the day. ?Some of the guild talents will allow you to remove reagent costs from spell, get increased gold drops, summon your entire raid, rez your entire raid after a wipe, automatically transfer a % of gold dropped by bosses to the guild bank.

Guild talents can be reset.?Once your guild reached level 20, the guild experience becomes a currency and let you buy things like mounts, professions plans, banners, potions, rare reagents and guild talent respecs. ?Anyone can learn a guild profession recipe, if you leave the guild after learning it you will loose the recipe and it will be transferred back to the guild bank. Guild heirlooms also work the same way and are bound to the guild. Guild Interface?Guilds will have their own achievements, some of the old achievements might be converted to guild achievements. Some of the achievements are building a legendary item, maxing out every profession, etc ...?A guild news feed will be added, it will shows boss kills, items looted, it will come with different filters to let you find specific information.?You can now check the professions of every members of your guild and check their recipes list to see if they can create an item. ?You will also be able to invite other guilds to your guild events through the in-game calendar.