The 1.11 patch is on the test realms!

[Kevin]

Something else that isn't in the notes (or I didn't see it anyway) is that the shaman talent anticipation does NOT add to your defense skill, but instead adds to dodge.

I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen more comment on this. 5% >> 10 defense, especially for a class that can only wear mail. That change alone has me looking at the enhancement tree a bit differently for my PvE shaman. A elemental/enchancement shaman would have good reason to look at going 21 deep in enhancement as mixing up the spells and melee can be a very good way to do DPS in many situations. That 21st point for parry would give essentially 5% damage avoidance which made it something to think about (depending on your playstyle) over elemental mastery. Now that you can get extra dodge chance going down that tree to get your flurry (which when you couple it with the new elemental devasation talent could do some fun things for damage) even if you just go 20 and the improved totems so just drop 2 points in dodge the 20 point build goes from .08% extra damage avoidance to 2% more damage avoidance. So you are only giving up about 3% melee damage avoidance if you take elemental over parry mastery as opposed to the 5% with the old anticipation talent. And you can then get a forced crit on a damage spell which will then give you 9% more crit on your melee attacks (so about 3 swings worth) just upping your chance of flurry going off to give you yet more damage.

Seems like a small unimportant change but I see it helping make certain talent and playstyle choices more viable.