Dragonflight Beta Development Notes - Class Tuning and Spell Changes

Dragonflight Posted 2022/10/11 at 9:49 PM by Archimtiros

PTR update earlier today

Take a look a this week’s Dragonflight Beta update:CLASSES

NEW TALENT SYSTEM

DEATH KNIGHT

Blood

Shattering Bone – Damage reduced by 40%. Now properly deals increased damage when Tombstone consumes multiple Bone Shield charges.

Frost

Everfrost – Damage per stack increased to 6% (was 4%).
Biting Cold – Increases Remorseless Winter damage by 35% (was 30%).
Chill Streak – No longer costs runic power. Now costs 1 Rune.

DRUID

Class Tree

Natural Recovery – Effectiveness reduced to 2/4% (was 3/6%).

Balance

Umbral Embrace – Now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 25/50% (was 50/100%).
Astral Smolder – Now causes targets to languish for an additional 20%/40% (was 4%/8%).
A new connection exists between Lunar Shrapnel and Force of Nature.
A new connection exists between Orbit Breaker and Astral Communion.
A new connection exists between Rattle the Stars/Starweaver and Wild Mushroom.
Warrior of Elune has been moved to row 10.
Sundered Firmament has been moved to the right side of the tree.
Nature’s Balance has been moved to row 2.
Stellar Innervation has been moved to row 5.
Stellar Inspiration has been removed.
Twin Moons has been moved to row 5 and is no longer a choice against Stellar Flare.

Restoration

Reforestation – Now on the Personal Resource Display.
All healing spells reduced by 10%.

EVOKER

Devastation

Verdant Embrace – Healing increased by 20% for Devastation only.

Preservation

Ouroboros – Now reduces the cast time of Echo by 5% per stack. You can now gain stacks even if you are healing a full health target.
Cycle of Life – Gathers 15% of healing over 10 seconds (was 10% over 15 seconds).
Cycle of Life – The counter now counts down each time you cast Emerald Blossom instead of when the Emerald Blossom expires
Fixed an issue that caused Cycle of Life’s Dream Sprouts to replace any active Dream Sprouts when they spawned.

HUNTER

Beast Mastery

Dire Beast – Damage increased by 400%.
Barbed Shot – Damage reduced by 23%.

MAGE

Arcane

Arcane Surge – The spell damage bonus from the Rune of Power cast from Arcane Surge is now applied to its damage. Mana regeneration reduced to 425% (was 450%), and damage reduced by 30%.
Arcane Missiles – Damage reduced by 25%.
Arcane Power – Spell damage reduced to 20% (was 25%).
Arcane Echo – Now scales with Mastery. Damage reduced by 25%.
Enlightened – Increases Arcane damage by 6% while above 70% Mana (was 8%).
Mana Gem – Cooldown now reduced by Shifting Power.
Touch of the Magi – Now accumulates 20% of damage (was 25%).

MONK

Brewmaster

Attenuation – Cooldown reduction can now trigger up to 10 times (was 5).

Mistweaver

Ancient Teachings – Now has a 30 yard range (was 20 yards). Now on the Personal Resource Display.
Secret Infusion – Increased stats granted to 8/15% (was 5/10%).
Vivify – Reduced healing by 25% for Mistweaver.
Rapid Diffusion – Now does not override existing Renewing Mists that are longer than 6 seconds.
Attenuation – Cooldown reduction can now trigger up to 10 times (was 5).

Windwalker

Attenuation – Cooldown reduction can now trigger up to 10 times (was 5).
Fury of Xuen – Now grants flat 10% Haste rather than a stat value.

PALADIN

Holy

Power of the Silver Hand – Now triggers twice a minute on average. Now on the Personal Resource Display.
Tyr’s Deliverance – Now on the Personal Resource Display.
Awakening – Now grants Avenging Wrath for 8 seconds (was 10 seconds).
Saved by the Light – Absorb shield has been increased by 100%.

Retribution

Divine Storm – Damage reduced by 35%.

PRIEST

Class Tree

Binding Heals – Casting Flash Heal on allies with Binding Heals talented now applies Atonement to the Priest. Only applies to Discipline specialization.

SHAMAN

Class Tree

Brimming with Life – Now grants Stamina in arena matches even when Reincarnation is on cooldown.

Enhancement

Corrected an issue that caused Gathering Storms to scale damage incorrectly.
Corrected an issue that prevented Crashing Storms from increasing Crash Lightning’s maximum buff stack cap.
Corrected an issue with Maelstrom Weapon not counting the correct amount of stacks consumed.
Stormflurry – Procs no longer benefit or consume Stormblast’s bonus nature damage effect for Stormstrike.
Windstrike – Cooldown lowered to 7.5 seconds to match Stormstrike’s cooldown.
Thorim’s Invocation – Will now default to Lightning Bolt if you have not used either Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning before pressing Ascendance.
Thorim’s Invocation – Will no longer consume or benefit from more than 5 Maelstrom Weapon stacks per Windstrike.
Corrected an issue where the 5% bonus from Raging Maelstrom wasn’t functioning when Overflowing Maelstrom was selected.
Lightning Lasso – Now properly affected by Mastery: Enhanced Elements.
Lightning Lasso – Now affected by the Lightning Feral Spirit’s nature damage increase buff.
Doom Winds – Global cooldown now scales with Haste.
Ice Strike – No longer improperly not usable while silenced.

Restoration

Earthliving Weapon – Healing increased by 250%.

WARRIOR

Class Tree

Refactored all bleed effects to ensure they receive damage modifiers correctly and can critical strike correctly.
Barbaric Training (Protection) – Revenge now deals 25% increased damage (was 20%).

Fury

Slaughtering Strikes – Now correctly consumed by Rampage when using Annihilator.
Berserker Stance – Now increases auto attack damage by 15% (was 10%).

Protection

Champion’s Bulwark – Now correctly doesn’t consume charges of Shield Block or trigger cooldowns of Shield Block.
Violet Outburst – Now grants 100% increased Rage generation for Shield Slam and Thunderclap and includes benefits any existing rage generation modifiers on those abilities. Its tooltip is now updated to correctly represent its functionality.

CLASS SETS

DRUID

Feral

(2) Set Bonus: Ferocious Bite and Rip damage bonus increased to 8% (was 5%).
(4) Set Bonus: For each combo point spent, finishing moves increase your Bleed damage by 4% and increase the chance for your attacks that generate combo points to Critically Strike by 2% for 4 seconds.

Guardian

(2) Set Bonus: Using Mangle with Gore also deals 30% of damage dealt to nearby enemies, damage reduced beyond 5 targets. It also increases your damage done and reduces damage you take by 5% for 6 seconds.
(4) Set Bonus: Gore has a 5% increased chance to trigger. Using Mangle with Gore heals you over 6 seconds.

Restoration

(4) Set Bonus: Wild Growth power proc can now only proc once from each tick of Efflorescence. Increase to Wild Growth healing changed to 5% per stack (was 10%).

HUNTER

Beast Mastery

(4) Set Bonus: Barbed Shot damage increased by 5% and Barbed Shot increases damage of your next Kill Command by 20%.

Marksmanship

Updated 2-set and 4-set descriptions to be correct if Chimaera Shot taken.
(2) Set Bonus: Arcane Shot and Multi Shot critical hits cause your next Aimed Shot to cause targets hit to bleed for 40% of damage dealt over 6 seconds.
(4) Set Bonus: Increase chance for ranged auto-attacks to trigger effect to 15% (was 10%).

Survival

(2) Set Bonus: Damage bonus increased to 15% (was 10%).
(4) Set Bonus: Raptor Strike / Mongoose Bite, Carve, and Butchery have a 20% chance to make your next Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Carve, or Butchery cost no Focus and deal 50% increased damage.

MONK

Mistweaver

Fixed an issue preventing Mistweaver’s 4-set bonus from working with the Essence Font heal applied by Faeline Stomp.

Windwalker

(4) Set Bonus: Fists of Fury now enhances your next 3 Rising Sun Kicks or Spinning Crane Kicks and enhanced kicks increase the damage of your next Fists of Fury by 5%, stacking up to 3 times.

PALADIN

Holy

(2) Set Bonus: Holy Shock increases the critical strike chance of your spells by 4% for 10 seconds.
(4) Set Bonus: Holy Light, Flash of Light, Light of Dawn, Word of Glory and Bestow Faith healing is increased by 6% and their critical effects increase the damage or healing of your next Holy Shock by 20%.

Retribution

(2) Set Bonus: Judgment, Blade of Justice, and Wake of Ashes/Radiant Decree damage increased by 15%.
(4) Set Bonus: Templar’s Verdict / Final Verdict and Divine Storm damage increased by 10%.

SHAMAN

Elemental

2-set and 4-set bonuses now work with Elemental Blast if taken.
(2) Set Bonus: Now increases the damage of your next Earth Shock / Elemental Blast or Earthquake by 5%, stacking 5 times (was 2.5% stacking 10 times).

Enhancement

(2) Set Bonus: Stormstrike increases the damage of your next fire, frost, or nature ability by 10% and causes it to generate 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
(4) Set Bonus: Consuming Maelstrom Weapon stacks increases your Haste by 1% for each stack for 4 seconds.

Restoration

(4) Set Bonus: Your critical heals have 215% effectiveness instead of the usual 200%.

WARLOCK

Destruction

(4) Set Bonus: Your critical strikes deal 208% damage instead of the usual 200%.

WARRIOR

Protection

Ignore Pain granted changed to 5% of damage dealt (was 10%).

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

RATED SOLO SHUFFLE

Cross-faction has been enabled for Rated Solo Shuffle. Horde and Alliance can now match and play against each other.

CLASSES

DRUID

Regrowth’s initial heal is no longer reduced by 15% in PvP.

HUNTER

Kill Command no longer deals 15% reduced damage in PvP.
Marksmanship

Aimed Shot no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.
Rapid Fire no longer deals 10% increased damage in PvP.

MAGE

Arcane

Arcane Missiles no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.

Fire

Fireball no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.
Pyroblast no longer deals 15% reduced damage in PvP.

Frost

Ice Lance no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.
Comet Storm no longer deals 10% reduced damage in PvP.

MONK

Mistweaver

Enveloping Mist no longer heals for an additional 10% in PvP
Vivify no longer heals for an additional 10% in PvP.

PALADIN

Retribution

Divine Storm no longer deals 10% reduced damage in PvP.

PRIEST

Power Word: Shield absorb value no longer increased by 10% in PvP.
Renew heal is no longer increased by 15% in PvP.
Shadow

Vampiric Touch no longer deals 10% increased damage in PvP.

ROGUE

Outlaw

Between the Eyes no longer deals 9% reduced damage in PvP.

Subtlety

Eviscerate no longer deals 10% reduced damage in PvP.

SHAMAN

Restoration

Riptide’s heal is no longer reduced by 15% in PvP.

WARLOCK

Affliction

Agony no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.
Corruption no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.
Siphon Life no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.
Shadow Bolt no longer deals 10% increased damage in PvP.
Unstable Affliction no longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP.

WARRIOR

Class Tree

Bounding Stride – Cooldown reduction now has 50% effectiveness in PvP. Speed increase now has 70% effectiveness in PvP.
Double Time – Cooldown reduction now has 50% effectiveness in PvP.

Arms

Overpower no longer deals 9% reduced damage in PvP.
Execute no longer deals 13% reduced damage in PvP.

PROFESSIONS

Grand Apothecary Alchetaur, located in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, now also sells Cosmetic Class Glyphs for testing on the Valdrakken server.
KNOWN ISSUES

Knowledge spent on Specializations for Leatherworking in the process of fixing a larger issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Engineering Bracer discovery recipes are currently not functioning. This will be fixed in a later build.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

NEW HUD UI

ACTION BARS

3 extra bars are added, enable them by going to Options > Gameplay > Action bars

The Guild banner art in the minimap have been updated.

Added an option to play a sound when the player is in range to use the Interact Key

Comment by Yeezus1kThey really trying figuring warrior damage love the constant buffing and fixing of talentComment by BonkyWait did they just nerf Divine storm twice by 35%?Comment by Daillemand3 extra action bars! YES !Comment by Qi1200who does the paladin changes and why is he/she not fired already?Comment by SqixsThanks Blizzard for nerfing Rdruid Hps, that's what i was expectingComment by KoumaruGlad to see the Earthliving Weapon change. It needed a major buff, so much so that the +250% it received seems fairly modest. But I appreciate that it's not just a 5-10% boost.Comment by Wildnightshade7 % nerf to healing for resto druid at the begining of Shadowlands.
10% nerf to healing for resto druid at the begining of Dragonflight.

Why consistently nerf your HPS healer for doing good HPS?
Why not give them damage reduction or something that would make up for the consistent nerfs?
I'd recommend giving resto druid damage reduction for all allies during tranquility, it would give resto druid a more useful raid cooldown since DR is so helpful in raid.Comment by Keasbey11Wait did they just nerf Divine storm twice by 35%?Comment by KerathrasArcane Surge – The spell damage bonus from the Rune of Power cast from Arcane Surge is now applied to its damage. Mana regeneration reduced to 425% (was 450%), and damage reduced by 30%.Comment by Caleb95Hardly touched the rogues! They must be perfectly balanced, can't wait!Comment by RavithorAnd I thought Shadowlands had some messy balancing.Comment by Auri7 % nerf to healing for resto druid at the begining of Shadowlands.
10% nerf to healing for resto druid at the begining of Dragonflight.

Why consistently nerf your HPS healer for doing good HPS?
Why not give them damage reduction or something that would make up for the consistent nerfs?
I'd recommend giving resto druid damage reduction for all allies during tranquility, it would give resto druid a more useful raid cooldown since DR is so helpful in raid.Comment by Sqixs7 % nerf to healing for resto druid at the begining of Shadowlands.
10% nerf to healing for resto druid at the begining of Dragonflight.

Why consistently nerf your HPS healer for doing good HPS?
Why not give them damage reduction or something that would make up for the consistent nerfs?
I'd recommend giving resto druid damage reduction for all allies during tranquility, it would give resto druid a more useful raid cooldown since DR is so helpful in raid.Comment by WikkitOkay, blizzard, so about the arcane mage...
Utility reduced: check
Difficulty not reduced: check
No more defensives: check
Nothing to offer that a frost or fire mage already can: check
Damage reduced: check

Please, could you stop pretending you want to balance this spec and delete it? Or geez, hire someone who is not clueless about it. I mean, it's not necessary to make it a one button top dps, but do something to increase its close to non existent appeal to the players at least.Comment by ZouraAnd I thought Shadowlands had some messy balancing.