Warlords of Draenor Alpha Patch Notes

[Kelerei]

Full patch notes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/13423478

It's very long reading, so here's the TLDR version:

• Character stats have been squished into smaller numbers that are easier to understand. It's important to understand that this is not a nerf as enemies have been squished as well.
• A new row of talents has been added for level 100, and new Draenor Perks from levels 91 to 99.
• The Garrison is a new feature available in Draenor, where you can build a base, recruit followers, and send them on missions.
• We've balanced the functionality of Agility, Strength and Intellect.
• Hit and Expertise have been removed; they're no longer needed in order to reliably land attacks!
• The pace of healing have been adjusted to allow for more tactical decisionmaking regarding efficiency and throughput, on both single-target and multi-target heals. Passive and auto-targeted healing have been reduced in effectiveness in order to emphasize the actions and choices of healers.
• Racial traits have been rebalanced so that all races have similar combat performance.
• All classes have had several abilities pruned, with a focus on redundant and less-used abilities, to cut down on button and keybind bloat.
• The amount of crowd control in the game (primarily PvP) has been drastically reduced. Many crowd-control abilities have been removed, and many diminishing returns categories are now merged together.
• Several common buffs and debuffs have been merged, or removed, where they were redundant.
• All characters now learn a few important Major Glyphs automatically as they level up.
• The amount of instant healing in the game has been toned down by giving cast times to several instant cast heals.
• Vengeance has been redesigned and renamed Resolve. Resolve does not increase outgoing damage, but does now increase tank self-healing and absorption based on damage taken.
• Facing requirements (character position) on some prominent abilities have been loosened or removed.
• The mana cost of Resurrection spells has been reduced to make it a little easier to recover from a wipe.
• Professions no longer have combat benefit perks tied to them.
• There are a multitude of class-specific changes, including things like improved distinction between different Talent specializations, and new Masteries. Consult the class-specific sections below for more information.