Patch 5.0.4 is the pre-Pandaria build, where most of the interesting things and mechanics are already enabled, yet players cannot enter the new content yet. (Pet Battles, Scenarios, Level 90, New Zones, Pandaria, New Skills, New items are inaccesible).

I've reported about the 30% buff increase in Dragon Soul a week ago .

It's very likely that this Patch will go live with the 35% Dragon Soul buff, which we can expect in late August. Every 5% addition to the buff lasts about a month before another 5% is added, so according to that we can assume Mists of Pandaria going live in September/October latest.

RESTRICTIONS: Players with an account enabled for Mists of Pandaria BETA won't be able to access the Public Test realms at any point of the testing.

This restriction is not Battle.net account-based. So should you have more than one WoW account (be it WoW2, WoW3) unflagged for the BETA, you can go ahead and give it a go.

Patch 5.0.4 Patch Notes a.k.a "What to expect ?"

GENERAL

Account-wide achievements, pets and mounts

In Patch 5.0.4 and beyond, the majority of your character's achievements, pets, and mounts will be shared with your other characters.

World Event: Attack on Theramore Isle

Warchief Garrosh, obsessed with assuring the Horde's supremacy over Kalimdor, launches an all-out attack against Jaina's island home of Theramore. Though valiant Alliance defenders rush to repel the sudden onslaught, they'll soon find themselves unprepared for the terrible scope of Garrosh's true plans...

AOE Looting

Area of effect looting comes to World of Warcraft with this patch. After killing a group of enemies in close proximity, when you loot one of their corpses, the loot window will include items from all of the nearby corpses for which you have loot rights.

BattleTag support for World of Warcraft

Players who have enabled their BattleTag will now be able to:

See BattleTag friends in your list.

Add and remove BattleTag friends.

Send BattleTag invites to other players via right-click.

CLASSES: GENERAL

All classes have been updated with a new talent system, improved abilities, and spells (accessible throughout levels 1-85). Your character's talents have been reset.

Many old talents have been converted to specialization abilities.

Druids now have access to a fourth class specialization: Guardian.

New spells are now learned automatically. Class trainers are only needed to change talents, glyphs, class specialization, or to utilize the dual specialization feature.

All characters now take 30% less damage from other players.

ITEMS

Head enchants removed. Enchants that modify the gear in your head slot have been removed from the game. This includes older head enchants of every type.

Relics, ranged, and thrown items. The slot in which ranged, relics, and thrown items were previously equipped has been removed. All weapons should now be equipped in the weapon slot.

Ranged weapons, including wands, have been adjusted to be more powerful.

Ranged weapons no longer have a minimum range.

PROFESSIONS

Prime glyphs have been removed.

USER INTERFACE

There is a new user interface for your mounts and pets.

Character creation screens have been updated.

Buffs have been consolidated in the UI.

New roll results frame added. This new feature can be accessed by clicking the word "[Loot]" in chat, or by typing "/loot".

The PvE queue frames have been unified. You can now queue for dungeons, raids, and other queueable content in one handy place.

Vendors now offer item filtering.

Spellbooks have been updated to reflect changes to core abilities, and now include a brief overview of specializations.

The Dungeon Journal has been expanded with information on all pre-Cataclysm encounters.

A new help system has been added to many frames. You can toggle this on and off by clicking the "ï" button in the upper left corner of the frame.

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO ACCESS THE PUBLIC TEST REALMS PLEASE CLICK HERE.