World-of-warcraft – How do the Christmas decorations work

To be honest I think it's a bit too early to say right now. On the PTR even in heroics tanks are getting beaten up pretty hard, as they scaled up monster damage output, so the numbers will probably get rebalanced a bit before the patch goes live.

The biggest thing to get your head around right now is the revamped system of every healer having the three base heals - the slow, small efficient heal, the slow large heal, and the fast inefficient heal. They apparently expect healers to use the slow small heal when there is not much else to do, and to balance the other heals with their cooldowns during heavier damage.

Also, right now I'd pay more attention to what Blizzard says about healing than what the experience is like on the PTR. Here are some recent examples:

• State of Holy Paladins
• Holy paladin nerfs
• On healing difficulty

The reason I say to watch what they say more than what they do is, they've been very clear that if the PTR behavior doesn't match what they have in mind, they'll tweak the numbers until it does. In the last PTR patch most healers just spammed their slow, efficient spell because it was getting the job done... so in the next patch Blizzard nerfed those spells, as they want them to be only a fallback and not strong enough to stand alone. That sort of thing may well happen once or twice more before the patch goes live.

Incidentally, I find that checking the top page of mmo-champion to be the easiest way to keep track of Blizzard's position on things.

If I remember correctly, the deposit gets returned to you when something sells, but the auction house itself takes 5% out of the winning bid as it's fee. I do know that it's a fixed portion, and not affected by duration.

The Neutral Auction house takes a larger cut -- 15%. Filthy goblins.

As a reminder, you don't get your deposit back if your item doesn't sell. The cost of the deposit itself varies with duration (as you noticed) but the vendor price of the item in question as well.

Taken from WowWiki

Faction-Based Auction Houses:
Deposit (12hr) = 15% of Merchant Sell Value
Deposit (24hr) = 30% of Merchant Sell Value
Deposit (48hr) = 60% of Merchant Sell Value

Again, the goblin-run Auction Houses charge more:

Neutral Auction Houses:
Deposit (12hr) =  75% of Merchant Sell Value
Deposit (24hr) = 150% of Merchant Sell Value
Deposit (48hr) = 300% of Merchant Sell Value