На тестовые игровые миры установлена свежая сборка альфа-версии дополнения Midnight, в которой разработчики внесли большую порцию классовых изменений и иных корректировок.
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Midnight Alpha Test Development NotesMidnight Alpha Week 4 is now available for testing!
CHARACTER LEVELDevelopers’ notes: With each phase, we encourage players to make a new template character and avoid using their previous characters as they could potentially be in a broken state. After making a new template character, make sure to talk to Questzertauren and he will prepare you for any available content.
- Level 88 Character Template
- Maximum Level: 90
ZONE- Voidstorm
- Slayer’s Rise – PvP zone located in Voidstorm
STORY AND QUESTS- Level-up Campaign
- Local Stories
HOUSING- Housing has been disabled while we work on addressing a few issues. We will update this post once it has been re-enabled. Thank you for your patience!
DUNGEONS- Nexus-Point Xenas
- Voidscar Arena
- Magisters’ Terrace
DELVES- Sunkiller Sanctum
- Shadowguard Point
CLASS SETS- Blood Death Knight
- 2-set bonus: Your Blood Boil deals 15% increased damage and generates 3 Runic Power.
- 4-set bonus: Your Death Strike deals 8% increased damage has a 20% chance to grant a charge of Blood Boil.
- Unholy Death Knight
- 4-set bonus redesigned: Putrefy deals 20% increased damage and causes your next Scourge Strike to cost no Rune.
- Devastation Evoker
- 2-set bonus: Azure Sweep damage increased by 50% and its damage against your primary target is increased by an additional 100%.
- 4-set bonus: Eternity Surge grants an additional use of Azure Sweep. Casting Azure Sweep reduces the cooldown of Eternity Surge by 2 seconds.
- Beast Mastery Hunter
- 2-set bonus: Bestial Wrath damage increased by 25%.
- 4-set bonus: Bestial Wrath summons a Dire Beast for 8 seconds.
- Marksmanship Hunter
- 2-set bonus: Precise Shots damage increased by an additional 20%.
- 4-set bonus: Spending Precise Shots has a small chance to release a volley of arrows at your target, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
- Survival Hunter
- 2-set bonus: Wildfire Bomb damage increased by 10%.
- 4-set bonus: Wildfire Bomb provokes an additional Strike as One at 100% effectiveness.
- Arcane Mage
- 2-set bonus: Each Arcane Charge increases your critical strike chance by 1%.
- 4-set bonus: The critical strike damage of your Arcane spells is increased by 10%.
- Fire Mage
- 2-set bonus: Pyroblast and Flamestrike deal 8% increased damage.
- 4-set bonus: Casting Pyroblast or Flamestrike reduces the cooldown of Fire Blast by 0.5 seconds.
- Frost Mage
- 2-set bonus: Flurry and Blizzard deal 8% increased damage.
- 4-set bonus: Fingers of Frost increases Shatter’s damage by 10%.
- Holy Priest
- 2-set bonus: Casting Benediction has a high chance to summon a Divine Image.
- 4-set bonus: Divine Image lasts for an additional 3 seconds and its healing and damage is increased by 30%.
- Elemental Shaman
- 2-set bonus: Casting Stormkeeper increases your Haste by 15% for 10 seconds.
- 4-set bonus: Stormkeeper grants an additional charge when cast. Stormkeeper increases Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning damage by 25%.
- Restoration Shaman
- 2-set bonus: Unleash Life cooldown reduced by 3 seconds and its direct healing is increased by 100%.
- 4-set bonus: Unleash Life affects an additional spell cast at 100% effectiveness.
CLASSES- Battle Resurrection spells will now highlight when a group member dies in Raid and Dungeon instances.
- Raid Buff spells will now highlight outside of combat when a group member is missing the buff aura in Raid and Dungeon instances.
Death Knight- Unholy
- Reaping secondary effect has been updated – Putrefy has a 25% chance to reset Soul Reaper’s cooldown and allow it to be used on any target.
Demon Hunter- Hero Talents
- Aldrachi Reaver
- New Talent: Broken Spirit – The Hunt/Sigil of Spite shatters 1 Soul Fragment. Chaos Strike/Soul Cleave has a 20% chance to shatter a Soul Fragment.
- New Talent: Keen Edge – Reaver’s Glaive damage is increased by 20% and other Physical-only damage is increased by 10%.
- New Talent: Bladecraft – Fury of the Aldrachi further empowers Blade Dance/Soul Cleave when cast after Chaos Strike/Fracture, increasing slashes to 12. Reaver’s Mark now stacks up to 3 times and further empowers Chaos Strike/Fracture when cast after Blade Dance/Soul Cleave, applying an additional stack.
- Some talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
- Vengeance
- Art of the Glaive is now granted by casting Sigil of Spite (was The Hunt).
- Devourer
- Devourer Demon Hunters now have access to a Void-Themed variant of the Fel-Scarred Hero Talent Tree: Void-Scarred.
- Havoc
- Apex Talents: Eternal Hunt
- The Hunt empowers your next Eye Beam, increasing damage by 100% and affecting enemies in a wider area.
- The Hunt has 15 seconds/30 seconds reduced cooldown, deals 30% more damage, and its damage over time effect applies to 2/4 additional enemies.
- Blade Dance damage increased by 20%. Fully channeling Eye Beam causes your next Blade Dance to refresh its own cooldown.
- Eye Beam cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 40 seconds).
- Cycle of Hatred now reduces Eye Beam cooldown by 2.5 seconds per stack (was 5 seconds), stacking up to 10 seconds (was 20 seconds).
- Some talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
Druid- Hero Talents
- Druid of the Claw
- New Talent: Limb from Limb – Your auto-attacks are 30% more likely to make your next Ferocious Bite/Maul to become Ravage.
- New Talent: Twin Claw – You have a 16%/18% chance to follow up any single target melee ability or Raze with a Twin Claw, dealing High Physical damage and generating 3 Energy/5 Rage.
- New Talent: Exacerbating Wounds – Your Dreadful Wounds increase the damage afflicted enemies take from your Bleed damage over time effects by 8%/15%.
- Strike for the Heart has been updated –
- Feral: Shred, Swipe, and Rake damage increased by 10% and their critical strike chance is increased by 8%.
- Guardian: Mangle damage increased by 20% and its critical strike chance is increased by 10%. Mangle heals you for 5% of maximum health.
- Tear Down the Mighty has been updated –
- Feral: Damage dealt by Chomp and Feral Frenzy increased by 20%.
- Guardian: The cooldown of Sundering Roar is reduced by 15 seconds.
- Claw Rampage has been updated – The chance for various attacks to trigger Ravage reduced to 20% (was 25%).
- Ravage has been updated – Your auto-attacks are 15% more likely to make your next attack a Ravage.
- Empowered Shapeshifting increases the damage and Shred and Swipe by 10% (was 6%).
- The Ruthless Aggression/Killing Strikes choice node has changed position.
- Guardian
- Wildpower Surge now increases the damage of your next Ferocious Bite or Rip by 50% when its bonus is active (was 200%).
- Elune’s Chosen
- New Talent: Star Cascade
- Balance: Gaining Astral Power with Wrath or Starfire has a 40% chance to launch a Starsurge at a victim at 70% effectiveness.
- Guardian: Thrash has a 50% chance to launch a Starsurge at a victim at 120% effectiveness.
- New Talent: Penumbral Swell
- Balance: Lunar Eclipse increases Arcane damage by an additional 3%.
- Guardian: Lunar Beam increases Arcane damage you deal by 10% while it is active.
- New Talent: Bask in Moonlight
- Balance: Starsurge damage increased by 10%. Starfall damage increased by 10%.
- Guardian: Maul/Raze damage increased by 10%. Lunar Beam’s damage dealt to its primary target increased by 30%.
Evoker- Hero Talents
- Chronowarden
- New Talent: Nozdormu Adept – Temporal Anomaly mana cost reduced by 15% and cooldown reduced by 4 seconds or Prescience cooldown reduced by 2 seconds and it grants 1% additional critical strike chance.
- Threads of Fate has been removed.
- Preservation
- Primacy duration is now 15 seconds (was 8 seconds).
- Scalecommander
- Devastation
- Melt Armor and the damage effect from Maneuverability now extends its duration when Deep Breath is cast multiple times while the effect is active.
- Class
- New Talent: Inner Radiance – Your Living Flame and Emerald Blossom are 30% more effective on yourself.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Quell (moved to the Augmentation and Devastation talent trees)
- Augmentation
- Imminent Destruction has been redesigned – Breath of Eons reduces the Essence cost of your next 6 Eruptions by 1.
- Molten Embers has been redesigned – Enemies affected by Fire Breath’s damage over time effect take 25% increased damage from your Black spells.
- Quell is now learned in the Augmentation specialization tree (was a class talent).
- The following talents have been removed:
- Imposing Presence
- Inner Radiance
- Devastation
- Developers’ notes: We’re updating a couple specialization talents with the intent that they play more fluidly with other changes to the specialization. Molten Embers and Imminent Destruction require delaying the second Deep Breath from Strafing Run, but we’d like for you to choose the best moment to use it instead, so we’re updating them to be beneficial whether you use them back to back or wait. Scorching Embers has been adjusted to simplify its interaction with the new Consume Flame mechanic. Our intent is that you are maintaining Fire Breath on your target as Flameshaper regardless of the Empower level needed to do so.
- Apex Talents: Rising Fury
- While Dragonrage is active, you gain Rising Fury every 6 seconds, increasing your Haste by 4%. Stacks up to 5 times.
- When Rising Fury reaches 5 stacks, it increases all spell damage dealt by 8%/15%.
- When Dragonrage ends, gain Risen Fury for 4 seconds per stack which grants the damage and Haste bonuses accumulated from Rising Fury and generates Essence Burst every 4 seconds.
- Imminent Destruction has been redesigned – Deep Breath reduces the Essence cost of your next 4 Disintegrates or Pyres by 1. Stacks up to 8 times.
- Scorching Embers has been redesigned – Enemies affected by Fire Breath’s damage over time effect take 25% increased damage from your Red spells.
- Quell is now learned in the Devastation specialization tree (was a class talent).
- The following talents have been removed:
- Imposing Presence
- Inner Radiance
- Preservation
- Wings of Liberty has been redesigned – Now causes Verdant Embrace to gain an additional charge.
- Tempo Charged has been redesigned – Bronze healing and absorption increased by 15%.
- Lifebind duration increased to 8 seconds (was 5 seconds).
- Temporal Anomaly radius increased to 12 yards (was 10 yards).
Hunter- Hero Talents
- Dark Ranger
- Beast Mastery
- Withering Fire has been updated – Duration reduced to 10 seconds.
- Withering Fire and Wailing Dead now trigger from Bestial Wrath (was Bloodshed).
- Sentinel
- Stalk and Strike no longer applies Sentinel’s Mark.
- Survival
- Moon’s Blessing updated to benefit Tip of the Spear consumption.
- Can’t Miss, Won’t Miss now increases Tip of the Spear’s damage bonus by 10% (was Raptor Strike’s damage).
- Sentinel now triggers from consuming Tip of the Spear (was casting Raptor Strike).
- Class
- New Talent: Guardian’s Hide – Your pet protects you at all times, reducing the damage you take by 3%. Your pet receives 100% of the damage it mitigates. Choice node with Roar of Sacrifice.
- Developers’ notes: Guardian’s Hide is intended to be an option for players who still want to benefit from Roar of Sacrifice’s damage mitigation, but don’t want the extra keybind or responsibility.
- Lone Survivor has been updated – Now increases Survival of the Fittest’s duration by 2 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Beast Mastery
- Bloodshed has been updated – Bestial Wrath provokes your pets to tear into your target, causing your target to bleed for heavy damage. Damage from Bloodshed has a 10% chance to summon a Dire Beast.
- Developers’ notes: Bloodshed was not hitting the notes we wanted as its own button, so we’re folding its behaviors into Bestial Wrath, and will tune around its increased frequency. Dark Ranger nodes that previously keyed into Bloodshed will now affect Bestial Wrath.
- Wild Thrash has been updated – Now charges to your target and delays the spell cast until the pet reaches its target.
- Solitary Companion has returned – Your pet damage is increased by 35% and your pet’s size is increased by 10%.
- Survival
- Developers’ notes: The following changes are targeted at adding another layer of depth to Survival’s gameplay by reintroducing Tip of the Spear. Alongside this reintroduction, we’ll be including a new suite of Tip of the Spear-centric talents. Additionally, we’re reworking a portion of Sentinel’s talents to key into Tip of the Spear directly. We’re making Boomstick easier to access and granting more cooldown reduction via Quick Reload and Lethal Calibration so that players will more reliably have access to its area damage. We would still like Survival’s area damage events to be sparser and higher impact, but we agree with the community that it felt too infrequent. We appreciate your continued feedback and will continue to iterate as necessary.
- New Talent: Quick Reload – Boomstick’s cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds.
- New Talent: Primal Surge – Kill Command grants 1 additional stack of Tip of the Spear. Tip of the Spear’s damage bonus is increased by 5%.
- New Talent: Twin Fangs – Takedown grants 3 stacks of Tip of the Spear.
- Tip of the Spear has been updated – Kill Command increases the direct damage of your other spells by 15%, stacking up to 3 times.
- Strike as One has been updated – Consuming Tip of the Spear provokes your pet to attack, dealing Physical damage.
- Explosives Expert has been updated – Now additionally benefits Boomstick.
- Wildfire Tar has been updated – Now increases Wildfire Bomb’s periodic damage. No longer increases pet damage to enemies affected by Wildfire Bomb.
- Wildfire Shells has been updated – Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction reduced to 2 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Lethal Calibration has been updated – Wildfire Bomb reduces the cooldown of Boomstick by 1 second for each enemy hit, up to 5 seconds.
- Flamebreak has been updated – Fire damage dealt increased by 8% (was 15%).
- Raptor Swipe damage increased by 100%.
- Flamefang Pitch cooldown is now 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
- Developers’ notes: With Boomstick’s cooldown becoming shorter, we wanted to give Flamefang Pitch some room to breathe, and reduce the situations where you have many spells coming off cooldown at the same time.
- Flamefang Pitch visuals have been updated.
- Many talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Quick Toss
- Sticky Bombs
- Wildfire Tar
Mage- Hero Talents
- Frostfire
- Elemental Conduit has been updated – Now grants 2% Haste (was 10% increased Ignite critical strike damage).
- Flash Freezeburn has been updated – No longer reduces the cooldown of Combustion or Ray of Frost. Now grants Frostfire Empowerment from casting Combustion or gaining 5 Icicles.
- Spellslinger
- Developers’ notes: Splinters have become significantly easier to generate while remaining powerful, especially for Arcane Mage, so we’re reducing their frequency and power while also adding some non-Splinter-based damage hooks to ensure your Frost and Arcane core spells are contributing meaningfully to your damage.
- Frost Splinter direct damage reduced by 50%.
- Arcane Splinter direct damage reduced by 50%.
- Splintering Orbs has been updated – Now causes Arcane Orb to generate 2 Splinters (was 4).
- Spellfrost Teachings has been updated – Arcane Orb and Frozen Orb cooldown reduction reduced to 0.25 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
- Infused Splinters has been updated - Now has a 15% chance to apply 1 stack of Freezing (was 25%).
- Polished Focus has been updated – Now additionally increases Arcane Barrage and Shatter damage by 15%.
- Signature Spell has been updated – Now additionally increases Arcane Blast, Arcane Pulse, Blizzard, and Frostbolt damage by 15%.
- Sunfury
- Sunfury Execution has been updated – Now increases Pyroclasm’s damage bonus by 30% and Meteor grants Pyroclasm.
- Class
- New Talent: Brainstorm – Hot Streak, Clearcasting, and Brain Freeze increase your Intellect by 1% for 8 seconds. Multiple applications may overlap.
- New Talent: Improved Spellsteal – Spellsteal repeats its effect after 4 seconds, but it now has a cooldown of 4 seconds.
- New Talent: Improved Counterspell – Counterspell prevents casting for an additional 1 second.
- New Talent: Improved Remove Curse – Casting Remove Curse on a friendly target also casts it on yourself, but its cooldown is increased by 20 seconds.
- New Talent: Mana Confluence – Your mana costs are reduced by 5%.
- New Talent: Reflection – After casting Blink, it is replaced with Reflection for 8 seconds. Reflection teleports you back to where you last Blinked. Choice node against Spatial Manipulation.
- Incantation of Swiftness has been updated – Now grants 20%/40% movement speed (was 30%/60%).
- Cone of Cold cooldown increased to 25 seconds (was 12 seconds).
- Reduplication has been removed.
- Arcane
- Eureka is now a 1-point talent.
- Big Brained has been removed.
- Fire
- Developers’ notes: The goal with the following changes is to further reduce the baseline power of Ignite while also adding some more power to Master of Flame. Additionally, we’re making Meteor easier to access to increase its appeal in lower target count scenarios. Lastly, we’re adjusting Fired Up to be able to trigger regardless of Combustion to help create more excitement and add some more power outside of your burst cooldown. We’ve also adjusted the 3rd node to help retain the feel and excitement of Combustion with Fired Up’s previous iteration. We appreciate your continued feedback and will continue to make changes as necessary.
- New Talent: Conflagration – Fire Blast deals additional damage to up to 8 nearby enemies.
- New Talent: Burnout - When Combustion expires, all of your active Ignites explode, dealing 50% of their remaining damage.
- New Talent: Pyromastery – Pyroblast damage increased by 5% and its size is increased by 15%. Choice node with Mark of the Firelord.
- New Talent: Mark of the Firelord – Meteor and Flamestrike deal 8% increased damage. Choice node with Pyromastery.
- New Talent: Mote of Flame – All Fire damage dealt increased by 3%.
- Fired Up has been updated:
- 1st node – No longer requires Combustion. Chance increased to 20% (was 15%). Now increases Fire damage by 4% (was 5%).
- 2nd node – Now additionally increases your Fire damage by 3%/6%.
- 3rd node – Combustion significantly increases your chance of gaining Fired Up, reducing each time you gain Fired Up. Additionally, Fired Up now extends Combustion’s duration by 1 second.
- Ignition has been updated – Fire Blast now spreads 50% of your target’s Ignite (was 100%).
- Master of Flame has been updated – Now additionally causes your Fire Blast to spread an additional 50% of your Ignite.
- Controlled Destruction has been updated – Now triggered from Pyroblast, Flamestrike, and Fireball damage.
- Kindling has been updated – Now a 2 point talent and reduced Combustion’s cooldown by 30 seconds/60 seconds.
- Fervent Flickering has been updated – Now grants 1 additional Fire Blast charge and increases Fire Blast’s damage by 25%.
- Flame On has been updated – No longer a 2 point talent. Now grants Fire Blast 1 additional charge and reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds.
- Meteor has been updated – No longer deals 40% increased damage to the enemy closest to Meteor’s center baseline.
- Deep Impact has been updated – Now causes Meteor to deal 50% increased damage to the enemy closest to Meteor’s center.
- Blast Zone has been updated – Now reduces Meteor’s cooldown by 15 seconds.
- Feel the Burn updated – Duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 8 seconds). Mastery gain reduced to 3% (was 4%).
- Pyromaniac has returned to the Fire Mage tree.
- Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.
- Fireball damage increased by 50%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Meteor is now located in gate 1.
- Molten Fury is now located in gate 2.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Firefall
- Developers’ notes: Firefall was exclusively played by Frostfire Mages and doubled the number of Isothermic Core procs available, heavily impacting how we must tune Meteor, Isothermic Core, and Firefall. By removing Firefall, we will be able to keep more power in the Meteor button itself.
- Flame Patch
- Surging Blaze
- Frost
- Frigid Focus has been updated – Now increases Ray of Frost damage by 30% (was 100%).
- Fingers of Frost has been updated – Now causes your next Ice Lance to Shatter the maximum number of Freezing stacks Ice Lance is capable of Shattering without consuming Freezing stacks.
- Freezing duration increased to 15 seconds (was 8 seconds).
- Comet Storm now replaces Ray of Frost (was Blizzard).
- Many issues with Mastery: Freeze and Shatter have been fixed.
Monk- Hero Talents
- Master of Harmony
- New Talent: Harmonic Surge – Casting Thunder Focus Tea, Celestial Brew, or Celestial Infusion guarantees that your next 2 casts of Tiger Palm or Vivify will cause a Harmonic Surge, dealing Nature damage split between your target and other nearby enemies, and healing up to 5 injured allies.
- New Talent: Potential Energy – Casting Keg Smash, Rising Sun Kick, or Rushing Wind Kick causes your next Tiger Palm or Vivify to release a Harmonic Surge.
- New Talent: Zenith –
- Brewmaster: Blackout Combo increases Tiger Palm’s damage by an additional 50% and Keg Smash’s Brew cooldown reduction by an additional 1 second; Press the Advantage’s Nature damage is increased by 50% and its cooldown reduction is increased by an additional 0.25 seconds.
- Mistweaver: Ancient Teachings transfers an additional 50% damage to healing.
- Shado-Pan
- Brewmaster
- Stand Ready, Weapons of the Wall, and Wisdom of the Wall are now activated by Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox.
- Efficient Training now reduces the cooldown of Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox.
- Mistweaver
- Developers’ notes: This round of updates for Mistweaver is focused on injecting tuning knobs and gameplay we can utilize to balance out builds between different content.
- New Talent: Amplified Rush – The healing of Gusts of Mist caused by Renewing Mist is increased by 50%.
- Restore Balance has been redesigned – Now increases healing done while Yu’lon and Chi-Ji are active by 5%.
- Yu’lon’s Whisper’s healing has been increased by 100%.
- Celestial Harmony no longer grants 2 instant cast Enveloping Mists and instead reduces Enveloping Mist’s cast time by 60% while Yu’lon is present.
- Jade Bond no longer causes Enveloping Mists from Spiritfont’s Chi Cocoons.
- Spiritfont’s Chi Cocoons now scale their effectiveness based on the amount of Soothing Mists cast by Spiritfont.
- Sheilun’s Gifts clouds now increase the healing of Sheilun’s Gift by 50% per stack (was 100%).
- Invigorating Mists now increases the primary healing of Sheilun’s Gift by 500% (was 75%).
- Chi-Ji’s Gust of Mists are now 50% effective to regular Gusts of Mists.
- Fixed an issue that caused Soothing Mist to still activate Gusts of Mist.
- Fixed an issue that caused Jade Serpent Statue’s passive talent to prevent Jade Serpent Statue from healing.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Energy Transfer
- Refreshing Jade Wind
- Spear Hand Strike
- Tea of Plenty
- Tea of Serenity
Paladin- Hero Talents
- Lightsmith
- New Talent: Masterwork – After casting a Holy Armament, your next 3 abilities cast a Lesser Armament of the same kind on a nearby ally.
- New Talnet: Resounding Strike – Divine Toll/Holy Armaments activate Hammer and Anvil at 100% effectiveness.
- New Talent: Reflection of Radiance – When your Holy Bulwark absorbs damage or your Sacred Weapon deals damage or healing, you have a chance to gain Grand Crusader or Awakening.
- Hammer and Anvil’s healing effect now has a 30 yard radius (was 20) and a cap of 5 targets.
- Hammer and Anvil has moved locations.
- Class
- Hammer of Wrath’s icon and visual have been updated.
- Holy
- Developers’ notes: Our goal for this update is to better define Holy Light’s position within Holy Paladin’s kit as a high powered, always available single target healing nuke that is limited by its mana expenditure. Previously it had been tied behind too many modifiers that we felt restricted its use too heavily on top of its mana cost and cast time. Additionally, we are continuing to condense Holy Paladin’s aura tracking by redesigning Unending Light, removing Power of the Silver Hand, removing Blessing of An’she’s aura modifier, and redesigning Shining Righteousness. We’ve also added tuning knobs to several pieces of Holy Paladin’s kit that were not previously tunable without affecting the baseline power of a spell. We’re also experimenting a bit with Call of the Righteous’ tuning as we didn’t feel it matched our goal of offering a reasonable trade off for the power of reducing the cooldown of Avenging Wrath and adding functionality to Beacon of the Savior that rewards healing them directly as well to ensure value is being received in scenarios where the best target to heal is that Beacon target.
- New Talent: Seek Deliverance – While Avenging Wrath is not active, you gain 5% Mastery. While Avenging Wrath is active, you gain 30% movement speed.
- New Talent: Divine Overload – Holy Light’s healing is increased by 30%, but its mana cost is increased by 20%.
- Blessing of An’she has been redesigned – Now increases the healing of Holy Shock by 15%.
- Divine Favor has been redesigned – Now reduces the mana cost of Holy Light by 15% and reduces its cast time by 20%.
- Unending Light has been redesigned – Now increases the benefit Light of Dawn receives from Mastery: Lightbringer by 20%.
- Holy Shock healing increased by 20%.
- Holy Light healing increased by 50%.
- Divine Toll and Rising Sunlight now cast Holy Shock at 60% effectiveness.
- Beacon of the Savior’s 2 point talent now increases the amount of healing allies with Beacon of the Savior receive from you by 20%.
- Walk into Light now only generates Holy Power.
- Hand of Divinity no longer increases the healing of Holy Light.
- Infusion of Light no longer empowers Holy Light.
- Divine Revelations no longer mentions Holy Light.
- Shining Righteousness now increases the Shield of the Righteous’s chance to activate Divine Purpose to 35%
- Call of the Righteous now decreases the duration of Avenging Wrath by 4 seconds/8 seconds (was 2.5 seconds/5 seconds) and decreases the duration of Avenging Crusader by 2.5 seconds/5 seconds (was 1.5 seconds/3 seconds).
- Sanctified Wrath no longer decreases the cooldown of Holy Shock, but now increases the duration of Avenging Wrath by 50% (was 25%).
- Aura Mastery is now connected to Unending Light.
- Tirion’s Devotion now reduces the cooldown of Lay on Hands by 30% (was 50%).
- Hand of Divinity now activates 1 stack if talented into Avenging Crusader (was 2).
- Fixed an issue that caused Hammer of Wrath to not function with Infusion of Light.
- Tirion Devotion’s talent location has changed.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Power of the Silver Hand
- Punishment
- Rebuke
Priest- Hero Talents
- Archon
- Shadow
- Halo healing reduced by 75%.
- Shadow
- All damage done reduced by 25%.
Rogue- Subtlety
- Developers’ notes: This week’s changes related to Subtlety’s most iconic ability, Shadow Dance, are intended to help address concerns about cooldown cadence. But we recognize these are minor changes that do not solve all problems; many more changes will be coming in future patches. We have been and will continue to evaluate feedback, and we plan on revising Subtlety’s approachability updates to address community concerns and to work towards better achieving stated goals for the Subtlety spec as well as those for combat approachability in general.
- Deepening Shadows has been redesigned – Shadow Dance duration is increased by 100% of your Haste.
- Shadow Dance cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 45 seconds).
- Shadow Dance duration increased to 8 seconds (was 6 seconds).
- Improved Shadow Dance has been removed.
Shaman- Hero Talents
- Farseer
- Restoration
- Ancestors are summoned by Unleash Life instead of Healing Stream Totem through Call of the Ancestors, once again.
- Totemic
- Surging Totem cooldown reduced by 5 seconds.
- Reactivity has been renamed to Splitstream.
- Restoration
- Splitstream now also increases the healing of Healing Tide Totem by 25%.
- Primal Catalyst now also affects Healing Tide Totem.
- Earthsurge is no longer a separate aura and has been merged into Earthliving’s periodic heal aura.
- Class
- Static Charge is now a 2-point talent – Reduces the cooldown of Capacitor Totem by 8 seconds/15 seconds.
- Brimming with Life is now a 2-point talent – Stamina increased by 5%/10%. While you are at full health, Reincarnation cools down 50%/100% faster.
- Winds of Al’Akir is now a 2-point talent – Increases your movement speed by 3%/6% and the movement speed bonus of Ghost Wolf by an additional 5%/10%.
- Therazane’s Resilience and Reactive Warding are now a choice in the Class tree instead of the Restoration tree.
- Totemic Surge no longer reduces the cooldown of Surging Totem, Wind Rush Totem, Healing Tide Totem, Spirit Link Totem, and Static Field Totem.
- Restoration
- Developers’ notes: We’ve been monitoring community feedback closely and agree that the specialization is missing some gameplay after our recent changes. We are adding Unleash Life back to the Restoration tree with some minor tweaks to its functionality. We still want normal spell casts to be impactful, but being able to respond according to the situation with a short cooldown allows for fun and rewarding gameplay. We’ve also taken a look at Ascendance and feel this is a good opportunity to update its functionality for some fresh gameplay. Looking forward to your continued feedback!
- Unleash Life has returned to the talent tree and has been redesigned – Unleash elemental forces of Life, healing a friend target. Increases the healing of your next Riptide, Chain Heal, or Healing Wave by 25% and reduces their cast time by 30%.
- Unleash Life healing increased by 30% and now has a 20 second cooldown (was 15 seconds).
- New Talent: Earthen Accord – Unleash Life heals for 30% more and its bonus healing effect is increased by 20%.
- Ascendance has been redesigned – Transform into a Water Ascendant, immediately healing nearby allies. While ascended, casting Riptide causes your next Healing Wave or Chain Heal to be instant, Healing Wave and Chain Heal apply Riptide to your target, and all healing done is increased by 30%.
- Healing Wave healing increased by 12%.
- Chain Heal healing increased by 12%.
- Riptide healing increased by 12%.
- Wind Shear cooldown is now 30 seconds (was 12 seconds).
- Earthliving’s periodic heal is now visible on Raid Frames.
- Stormstream Totem’s initial heal now heals for 200% more.
Warlock- Hero Talents
- Hellcaller
- Wrath of the Wildshaper has been renamed to Through the Felvine.
- Thorngrin’s Iniquity has been renamed to Alzzin’s Iniquity.
- Affliction
- Seeds of Their Demise now has a chance to grant Shard Instability (was Tormented Crescendo).
- Class
- Developers’ notes: Several talents that were not yet implemented last build are now implemented and ready for testing.
- Infernal Beneficiary now causes Drain Life to heal your primary demon at 400% effectiveness (was 100%).
- Blight of Weakness now turns into Blight of Exhaustion while Pact of Exhaustion is active:
- Blight of Exhaustion: Call forth a cloud of cloying shadow mist that envelopes the target and all enemies within 10 yards, reducing their movement speed by 80% for 12 seconds.
- Blight of Weakness now turns into Blight of Tongues while Pact of Tongues is active:
- Blight of Tongues: Call forth a cloud of cloying shadow mist that envelopes the target and all enemies within 10 yards, increasing their casting time of all spells by 100% for 12 seconds.
- Several talent positions and paths have changed.
Warrior- Hero Talents
- Colossus
- New Talent: Decimator – Demolish’s final strike applies Deep Wounds to all targets at 100% effectiveness.
- New Talent: Cut to the Bone – Mortal Strike/Shield Slam critical strikes increase your Rend and Deep Wounds damage by 50% for 8 seconds.
- New Talent: Celeritous Conclusion – Demolish’s final strike grants10% Haste for 10 seconds and increases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike/Shield Slam by 100%.
- Mountain Thane
- New Talent: Storm Surge – Avatar increases the damage of Thunder Clap by 50% and reduces its cooldown by 50%.
- New Talent: Conductivity – Lightning Strike damage increased by 10% and critical strike damage increased by 10%.
- New Talent: Capacitance –During Avatar Thunder Blast extends Avatar’s duration by 2 seconds.
- Slayer
- New Talent: Violent Euphoria – Bladestorm puts you into a battle trance, granting you 15% Haste for 8 seconds after you stop Bladestorming.
- New Talent: Deadly Focus – Executioner’s Duration is increased by 6 seconds.
- New Talent: Unhinged – Every 2 strikes of Bladestorm, you automatically cast a Mortal Strike or Bloodthirst at your target or random nearby enemy, dealing 100% of normal damage.
- Slayer’s Dominance has been updated – Slayer’s Strike now grants you a stack of Executioner, increasing your Execute damage by 3% for 12 seconds. Multiple stacks of Executioner may overlap.
- Show No Mercy has been updated – Executioner also increases your Execute critical strike chance and critical strike damage by 3% per stack.
- Unrelenting Onslaught has been updated – Using Execute causes you to both reduce the cooldown of Bladestorm by 3 seconds and apply 1 stack of Overwhelmed to your primary target for each stack of Executioner you have.
- Class
- New Talent: Field Dressing – Healing received increased by 3% and all self-healing increased by an additional 10%.
- New Talent: Fearless – Cooldown of Berserker Rage is reduced by 50% and Berserker Rage removes all movement speed-impairing effects. Choice node with Berserker Shout.
- New Talent: Javelineer – Storm Bolt, Shattering Throw, Wrecking Throw, and Champion’s Spear apply Hamstring to all affected targets, reducing their movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds.
- Champion’s Spear has been redesigned – Throw a spear at the target location, chaining all enemies in the area to the spear’s location and dealing Physical damage instantly and additional Physical damage over 6 seconds. While the spear is active, activating this ability will cause you to leap to the spear, slamming down to deal Physical damage to all targets. All damage dealt reduced beyond 5 targets. Generates 10 Rage.
- Developer’s notes: The previous iteration was an experiment to see if a softer version of a pull-in effect would be useful. We don’t feel that this was a success, so we’re trying another approach to Champion’s Spear that leans into Warrior’s natural mobility and providing a new tool for engagement or gap-closing.
- Intimidating Shout has been updated – Enemies other than the primary target are no longer feared in place, but flee from the Warrior, however, their movement speed is reduced by 70%. Now on a choice node with Piercing Howl.
- Developers’ notes: We’re experimenting with many of Warrior’s iconic shouts to give them more utility in more situations. Here we’re adding a snare to Intimidating Shout to make it less risky to use in dungeon and open-world content, and positioning it against Piercing Howl with a similar snare, but a movement speed buff for allies. We’re interested to see what new uses players come up with for these abilities.
- Honed Reflexes now has an additional effect – Successfully interrupting an enemy increases the damage you deal to them by 5% for 10 seconds.
- Battlefield Commander has been updated:
- Rallying Cry: Increases the health granted by Rallying Cry by an additional 2% and increases its duration by 3 seconds. No longer grants movement speed or Leech.
- Berserker Shout: Radius increased by 100% (was 8 yards).
- Barbaric Training has been updated – Slam, Whirlwind, and Thunder Clap damage increased by 10% (was 20%) and critical strike damage increased by 5% (was 10%). Now a 2-point talent.
- Thunder Clap will now automatically apply Rend to 5 targets if talented into Rend.
- Crushing Force is now a 2-point talent.
- The talent tree layout has been updated and many talents have changed positions.
- Developers’ notes: We are continuing to iterate on the Warrior class tree goals, aiming to add more utility to the Warrior class tree to allow for different playstyles and builds for different types of content.
- The following talents have been removed:
- Blood and Thunder
- Developer’s notes: Rend is an iconic core Warrior ability and we want it to be available to all Warriors. However, we’d like to find a balance between Rend being applied by Thunder Clap (and thus Thunder Clap being required for all Warrior builds), and Rend being added as an active button to all builds, even those that use Thunder Clap. The previous iteration of a choice between Rend and Blood and Thunder was deemed to be unnecessarily confusing, so we’re simplifying things. If Protection and Mountain Thane warriors (or any others that enjoy the fantasy) want to use Rend, they simply take Rend and continue using Thunder Clap, whereas other specs can have access to AOE Rend without needing to invest in Thunder Clap or incorporate it into their rotations.
- Cacophonous Roar
- Concussive Blows
- Deft Strikes
- Menace
- Fury
- Bloodborne no longer requires Bloodthirst to critically strike. All targets hit by Bloodthirst will take additional damage from your bleeds.
PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER- Shaman
- Restoration
- Living Tide has been removed.
ITEMS- Developers’ notes: This week’s deploy has a Known Issue with how items are generated – currently they are generating at a lower item level than intended. This will mean that items from quests and other sources will be a lower item level than intended.
USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY- External Defensives is a new buff tracker located in the Combat section of Edit Mode. These buffs are curated spells and cannot be changed.
- Cooldown Manager
- Sounds for cooldown alerts can now be previewed by clicking the music note icon to the right of the sound name. Sound preview is also available in the context menu of existing alerts.
- Addon Security Changes
- Addons are now allowed to pass text containing secret values into our Text To Speech APIs.
- Made improvements to the ability for addons to access secret values in tables and mixins.
- Made various quality of life changes to addon spell, cooldown, faction and aura APIs.
- Added a way for addons to colorize unit frame health bars in combat based on the health of the unit.
- Removed recently-added restrictions on gossip APIs.
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