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7.1.5 PTR: Compilation of All Class Changes From All Builds

posted 2016/12/18 at 6:45 PM by perculia

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Class Tools

Blood

Frost

Unholy

Blooddrinker: AP Mod increased from 4.31 to 10.

Blood Tap Consume shadowy essence.
Generates 1 Rune.
Maximum 2 charges. Recharge time reduced by 12 sec whenever a Bone Shield charge is consumed.

Bloodworms Your auto attack critical strikes have a chance to summon a Bloodworm.
Bloodworms deal minor damage to your target for 15 sec and then burst, healing you for 5%15% of your missing health.
If you drop below 50% health, your Bloodworms will immediately burst and heal you.

Bonestorm A whirl of bone and gore batters nearby enemies every 1 sec, dealing (115.9% of Attack power) Shadow damage every 1 sec, and healing you for 1%2% of your maximum health every time it deals damage. Lasts 1 sec per 10 Runic Power spent.

Heartbreaker Heart Strike generates 32 additional Runic Power per target hit.

March of the Damned Wraith Walk lasts 50%100% longer and breaks stun, snare, and root effects when cast.

Mark of Blood Places a Mark of Blood on an enemy for 25 sec. The enemy's damaging auto attacks will also heal their victim for 2% of maximum health.3% of the victim's maximum health.

Purgatory An unholy pact that prevents fatal damage, instead absorbing incoming healing equal to the damage prevented, lasting 3 sec.
If any healing absorption remains when this effect expires, you will die. This effect may only occur every 3 min.4 min.

Rapid Decomposition Your Death and Decay deals damage 50%15% more often, and while in your Death and Decay you generate 15% more Runic Power.1 Runic Power per sec.

Rune Tap Consume a Rune to reduce all damage taken by 25%40% for 3 sec.

Spectral Deflection (NYI/TBD) Attacks that deal more than 25% of your maximum health will consume a secondan additional Bone Shield charge to further reduce the damage.

Tightening Grasp Reduces the cooldown on Gorefiend's Grasp by 6030 sec, and your Death and Decay also reduces the movement speed of enemies within its radius by 70%.

Tombstone Consume allup to 5 Bone Shield charges. For each charge consumed, you gain 36 Runic Power and absorb damage equal to 3%6% of your maximum health for 8 sec.

Will of the Necropolis Damage taken below 35% Health is reduced by 20%35%.

Gorefiend's Grasp Shadowy tendrils coil around all enemies within 20 yards of a hostile or friendly target, pulling them to the target's location.
Cooldown changed from 3 min cooldown to 2 min cooldown

Icebound Fortitude Your blood freezes, granting immunity to Stun effects and reducing all damage you take by 20% for 8 sec.
Specializations changed from Frost/Unholy to Blood/Frost/Unholy

Marrowrend Smash the target, dealing 315% Physical damage and generating 3 charges of Bone Shield.
Bone Shield
Surrounds you with a barrier of whirling bones, reducing all damage you take by 16% and increasing your Haste by 10%. Each damaging attackmelee swing against you consumes a charge. Lasts 30 sec or until all charges are consumed.

Vampiric Blood Embrace your undeath, increasing your maximum health by 30% and increasing all healing and absorbs received by 30% for 10 sec.

Vampiric Fangs Vampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 5% and increases all healing and absorbs received by an additional 5%.

Abomination's Might Obliterate critical strikes have a 20% chance to drive lesser enemies to the ground, stunning them for 2 sec. Players are Dazed for 5 sec instead.

Breath of Sindragosa Continuously deal (175%287.5% of Attack power) Shadowfrost damage every 1 sec to enemies in a cone in front of you. Deals reduced damage to secondary targets. You will continue breathing until your Runic Power is exhausted or you cancel the effect.

Cost changed from 0 Runic Power, plus 13 per sec to 0 Runic Power, plus 15 per sec

Freezing Fog Howling Blast and Frost Fever deal 25%30% increased damage.

Gathering Storm Each Rune spent during Remorseless Winter increases its damage by 10%, and extends it15%, and extends its duration by 0.5 sec.

Horn of Winter Blow the Horn of Winter, gaining 2 rune and generating 1020 Runic Power.

Hungering Rune Weapon Empower your rune weapon, gaining 1 Rune and 5 Runic Power instantly and every 1.5 sec for 1215 sec.

Murderous Efficiency Consuming the Killing Machine effect has a 50%65% chance to cause you to gain 1 Rune.

Volatile Shielding Your Anti-Magic Shell turns your enemies' pathetic' magic against them, absorbing 35% more damage, but generating no Runic Power. WhenPower.
When it expires, 25% of all damage absorbed is dealt as ArcaneShadow damage divided among nearby enemies.

White Walker You take 20%30% reduced damage while Wraith Walk is active. When you enter or leave Wraith Walk, all nearby enemies are slowed by 50%70% for 3 sec.

Howling Blast Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing (82.5% of Attack power)
Northrend Winds
Frost damage and applying Frost Fever to the target
Frost damage to that foe, and * (82.5% of Attack power)] Frost damage to all other enemies within 10 yards, infecting all targets with Frost Fever.
Frost Fever
A disease that deals Frost damage over 24 sec and has a chance to grant the Death Knight 5 Runic Power each time it deals damage.

Icebound Fortitude Your blood freezes, granting immunity to Stun effects and reducing all damage you take by 20% for 8 sec.
Specializations changed from Frost/Unholy to Blood/Frost/Unholy

Runic Empowerment When you spend Runic Power, you have a 1%1.5% chance per Runic Power spent to gain a Rune.

Overpowered Rune Weapon EmpoweredEmpower Rune Weapon's cooldown is reduced by 2 minutes.

Unholy Death KnightEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 6%
Affected Spells:

Death Strike	Clawing Shadows	Soul Reaper
Epidemic	Death Coil	Scourge Strike
Festering Strike	Death and Decay

Sigma

Quick note on a small upcoming change: in the next PTR build, Apocalypse will burst up to 6 Festering Wounds (instead of 8). However, the damage of the summoned ghouls will be increased by 33% (which will not be obvious from data), keeping the total the same. This is also a large buff to the damage of Army of the Dead. Finally, in a separate change, the damage of Summon Gargoyle and Val'kyr (Dark Arbiter) will be increased.
However, will Apocalypse continue to burst 4 wounds in pvp?

Sigma

At the same time as Pestilent Pustules and Runic Corruption changes are on PTR, Unholy should also have increases to Portal to the Underworld damage, Armies of the Damned proc rate, Death Coil damage, and a small increase to all damage.

Blighted Rune Weapon Your next 45 auto attacks infect your target with 2 Festering Wounds.

Clawing Shadows Deals 130%156% Shadow damage and causes 1 Festering Wound to burst.

Dark Arbiter Summon a Val'kyr to attack the target for 15 sec. The Val'kyr will gain 1% increased damage for every 1 Runic Power you spend.
Cooldown changed from 3 min cooldown to 2 min cooldown

Defile Defiles the ground targeted by the Death Knight for 10 sec. EveryDefile the targeted ground, dealing Shadowfrost damage to all enemies over 10 sec.
Every 1 sec, if there are any enemiesany enemies are standing in the Defile, it deals (39.96% of Attack power) Shadowfrost damage to them and grows in radiusgrows in size and increases your Mastery by 1, stacking up to 10 times. Whiletimes.
While you remain within Defile, your your Defile, your
Clawing Shadows
Clawing Shadows
Scourge Strike will hit all enemies near the target.

Ebon Fever Virulent Plague deals the same damage20% more damage over time in half the time.duration.

Necrosis Dealing damage with Death Coil causes your next Scourge Strike to deal 35%40% increased damage.

Pestilent Pustules Every 68 Festering Wounds you burst, you gain 1 Rune.

Unholy Assault When a Festering Wound bursts, you gain 100% increased attack speed for 22.50 sec.

Death Coil Fires a blast of unholy energy at the target, causing (127.5%150% of Attack power) Shadow damage to an enemy.

Icebound Fortitude Your blood freezes, granting immunity to Stun effects and reducing all damage you take by 20% for 8 sec.
Specializations changed from Frost/Unholy to Blood/Frost/Unholy

Runic Corruption You have a 1.25%1.00% chance per Runic Power you spend to increase your Rune regeneration rate by 100% for 3 sec.

Apocalypse Strikes the enemy, dealing 900% Physical damage and bursting allup to 6 Festering Wounds on the target, summoning a member of your Army of the Dead for 15 sec for each burst Festering Wound.

Deadly Durability Increases the effectiveness of Anti-Magic Shell and Icebound Fortitude by 3%8%.
Rank 2: Increases the effectiveness of Anti-Magic Shell and Icebound Fortitude by 6%16%.
Rank 3: Increases the effectiveness of Anti-Magic Shell and Icebound Fortitude by 10%24%.
Rank 4: Increases the effectiveness of Anti-Magic Shell and Icebound Fortitude by 13%32%.
Rank 5: Increases the effectiveness of Anti-Magic Shell and Icebound Fortitude by 16%40%.
Rank 6: Increases the effectiveness of Anti-Magic Shell and Icebound Fortitude by 20%48%.

Class Tools

Havoc

Vengeance

Read an analysis of the changes by Kib and Munkky here.

Blind Fury Increases the duration of Eye Beam by 50%.Eye Beam generates 35 Fury every sec. and its duration is increased by 50%.

Increases all damage done by 8%11% (based on Mastery) for 12 sec.
While active, your auto attack deals 200% increased damage, and causes Chaos damage.

Chaos Cleave Chaos Strike hits an additional target for 50% damage.all nearby enemies for an additional 25% damage.
Now requires Level 102, up from 99
Tier 3 Talent, in place of Felblade

Demon Blades Your auto attacks have a 75%60% chance to deal additional Shadow damage and generate Fury.

Demonic Eye Beam causes you to enter demon form for 58 sec after it finishes dealing damage.

Demonic Appetite Chaos Strike has a 25% chance to spawn a Lesser Soul Fragment, and consuming any Soul Fragment grants 3035 Fury.

Desperate Instincts Blur now reduces damage taken by an additional %. Additionally, you automatically trigger Blur when you fall below 35% health. This effect can occur every 30 secwhen Blur is not on cooldown.

Fel Barrage At your command, unleash Fel, inflicting 250%300% of Attack power)] Chaos damage to your target and nearby enemies for each charge. Max 5 charges.
Your damaging abilities have a chance to generate a charge.

Fel Eruption Impales the target for (1050%1365% of Attack power) Chaos damage and stuns them for 2 sec. Inflicts an additional 100% damage against targets permanently immune to stuns.
Cooldown changed from 35 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

First Blood Reduces the Fury cost of Blade Dance by 20 and increases its damage to 100% + 23 * 96% + 288%) * (200300) / 100] against the first target struck.

Nemesis Increases damage you inflict against the target by 20%25% for 1 min.
When the target is slain, you will inflict 20%25% additional damage against all creature types matching the original target (Humanoid, Dragonkin, etc.) for the remaining duration.

Netherwalk Slip into the nether, increasing movement speed by 100% and becoming immune to damage, but unable to attack. Lasts 5 sec.
Cooldown changed from 1.5 min cooldown to 2 min cooldown

Soul Rending Gain 100%70% Leech while Metamorphosis is active.

Darkness Summons darkness around you in an 8 yd radius, cloaking friendly targets and grantinggranting friendly targets a 20% chance to avoid all damage from an attack. Lasts 8 sec.

Mastery: Demonic Presence Increases your Chaos damage by 8%11% and your movement speed by 8%.

Awaken the Demon Within If you reach 50% health, you automatically gain Metamorphosis for 6 sec. This effect has a 1 min cooldown. In addition, the duration of Metamorphosis will be refreshed up to a maximum of 6 sec while at or below 20% health.
Honor Talent 43, up from level 8

Mana Break Deals (210% of Attack power) Chaos damage plus an additional 1% of the target's health in Chaos damage per 2% of the target's missing mana.Deals 15% of the target's maximum health in Chaos damage. Damage is increased the lower the target's current mana, up to 30% of the target's maximum health in damage.
Cooldown changed from 1.5 min cooldown to 1 min cooldown

NEW Demonic Origins The cooldown of Metamorphosis is reduced by 2 min, but now lasts 15 sec.While not in Metamorphosis, your damage is increased by 10%.
Honor Talent 8, replaces Awaken the Demon Within

NEW Mana Rift You manifest an 6 yard wide mana rift under the feet of the target. After 1.5 sec, it erupts dealing 8% of enemies maximum health in Chaos damage and destroys 8% of the enemies total mana if present.
Honor Talent 25, replaces Rushing Vault

Pinning Glare Eye Beam reduces the target's movement speed by 70% for 4 sec.
Removed; replaced with Awaken the Demon Within

Rushing Vault Using Vengeful Retreat grants a charge of Fel Rush.
Removed; replaced with Mana Rift

Anytime you're victim to a magical effect, you gain 510 Fury.

Demon Speed Activating
Netherwalk
Netherwalk
Blur generates 2 charges of Fel Rush.Blur now grants a 30% movement speed bonus.

Vengeance Demon HunterEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 9%
Affected Spells:

Fiery Brand	Immolation Aura	Infernal Strike
Soul Cleave	Illidan's Grasp	Shear
Sigil of Misery	Sigil of Chains	Sigil of Flame
Sigil of Silence	Fiery Brand

Abyssal Strike Infernal Strike's range is increased by 10 yards, and its cooldown is reduced by 58 sec.

Agonizing Flames Immolation Aura increases your movement speed by 30%, and deals 30%20% increased damage.

Blade Turning Parrying an attack increases the Pain generation of your next Shear by 50%70%.

Burning Alive Every 2 sec, your Fiery Brand deals (45% of Attack power) Fire damage and spreads from the primary target to a nearby enemy.to one nearby enemy.

NEW Draw from the power of the Twisting Nether to instantly activate and then refill your charges of Demon Spikes.
Generates 60 Pain.
Tier 7 Talent, in place of Nether Bond

Brutally slam your target for (378% + 756%) Physical damage, and shatter two Lesser Soul Fragments from them.

Last Resort Sustaining fatal damage instead transforms you to Metamorphosis form, and returns you to 30% health.
This effect may only occur every 3 min.8 min.

Nether Bond Bind yourself to a friendly player for 15 sec. Every 1 sec, the health of you and your target is redistributed such that you are at the same percentage of maximum health.
Removed; replaced with Demonic Infusion

Razor Spikes While Demon Spikes is active, you deal 20%30% increased Physical damage and your melee attacks snare targets by 50% for 6 sec.

Sigil of Chains Place a Sigil of Chains at the target location that activates after 2 sec.
All enemies affected by the sigil are pulled to its center and are snared, reducing movement speed by 70% for 6 sec.
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 1.5 min cooldown

Shield yourself for 12 sec, absorbing (15002250 / 100 * Attack power * Percent health) damage. Consuming a Soul Fragment adds (250 / 100 * Attack power * Percent health) to the shield.
Soul Barrier's absorption cannot be reduced below (200300 / 100 * Attack power * Percent health).
Consumes all Soul Fragments within 25 yds.
Cooldown changed from 20 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

Launch a nearby Soul Fragment at your target, dealing (252% of Attack power) ShadowFire damage to all nearby enemies and afflicting them with Frailty for 15 sec.20 sec.
You heal for 15%20% of all damage you deal to enemies with Frailty.

Demon Spikes Surge with fel power, increasing your Parry chance by 20% and reducing Physical damage taken by 20%10% for 6 sec.

Demonic Wards Your tattoos reduce magicall damage taken by 10%, and increase your Stamina by 45%55% and your Armor by 120%.

Fiery Brand Brand an enemy with a demonic symbol, instantly dealing (648% of Attack power)% Fire damage and reducing the damage they dodeal to you by 40% for 8 sec.

Metamorphosis Transform to demon form for 15 sec, increasing current and maximum health by 30% and Armor by 100%, and greatly empowering your Shear ability.
Generates 7 Pain every 1 sec.

Illidan's Grasp You strangle the target with demonic magic, dangling them in place for 6 sec.
Use Illidan's Grasp again to toss the target to a location within 40 yards, stunning them and all nearby enemies for 3 sec and dealing 1 Shadow damage.
Cooldown changed from 1.5 min cooldown to 1 min cooldown

Blade Dance Strike all nearby enemies for (100% + 23 * 96% + 288%) Physical damage, and increase your chance to dodge by 100% for 1 sec.

Chaos Strike Slice your target for (275% + 440%305% + 485%) Chaos damage. Critical strikes refund 20 Fury.

Metamorphosis Leap into the air and land with explosive force, dealing (200% of Attack power) Chaos damage to enemies within 8 yds, and stunning them for 3 sec.
Upon landing, you are transformed into a hellish demon for 30 sec, greatly empowering your Chaos Strike and Blade Dance abilities, and gaining 25% Haste.gaining 30% Leech, and 25% Haste.

Felblade Charge to your target and deal 560% Fire damage.
Vengeance
Shear has a chance to reset the cooldown of Felblade.
Generates 20 Pain.
Havoc
Demon's Bite has a chance to reset the cooldown of Felblade.
Generates 30 Fury.

Now requires Level 99, down from 102, for Havoc
Tier 1 Talent, in place of Chaos Cleave

Detainment Imprison can now be used on Humanoids and BeastsI Imprison's PvP duration is increased by 1 sec, and targets become immune to damage and healing while imprisoned. Cooldown increased to 30 sec.

Eye of Leotheras You keep a watchful eye over the enemy. Whenever they cast a harmful spell, they suffer 4%6% of their health in Shadow damage and refresh the duration of Eye of Leotheras. Lasts 6 sec.

Reverse Magic Dispels all harmful magical effects from yourself and all nearby allies within 10 yards, and sends them back to their original caster if possible.

Critical Strikes Increases your chance to critically strike by 10%5%.

Imprison Imprisons a demon, beast, or humanoid for 1 min. Damage will cancel the effect. Limit 1.
Cooldown changed from 10 sec cooldown to 15 sec cooldown

Class Tools

Balance

Feral

Guardian

Restoration

Feral Druid
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 8%
Affected Spells:

Thrash	Shadow Thrash	Brutal Slash
Maim	Rake	Shred
Enraged Maim	Ashamane's Frenzy	Swipe

Brutal Slash Strikes all nearby enemies with a massive slash, inflicting 2025% Physical damage. Awards 1 combo point. Maximum 3 charges.
Cooldown changed from 18 sec recharge to 12 sec recharge

Elune's Guidance Immediately gain 5 combo points and an additional 1 combo point every 1 sec for 58 sec.

Guardian Affinity You gain:
Thick Hide
Reduces all damage taken by 10%.6%.
You also learn:
Mangle
Ironfur
Frenzied Regeneration

Incarnation: King of the Jungle An improved Cat Form that allows the use of Prowl while in combat, causes Shred and Rake to deal damage as if stealth were active, reduces the cost of all Cat Form abilities by 50%60%, and increases maximum Energy by 50.
Lasts 30 sec. You may shapeshift in and out of this improved Cat Form for its duration.

Moment of Clarity Omen of Clarity now affects the next 3 Cat Form abilities3 Shreds, Thrashes, or Swipes and increases their damage by 15% and your maximum Energy is increased by 30.

Predator The cooldown on Tiger's Fury resets when a target dies with one of your Bleed effects active, and Tiger's Fury last 4 additional seconds.

Renewal Instantly heals you for 30% of maximum health. Usable in all shapeshift forms.
Cooldown changed from 2 min cooldown to 1.5 min cooldown

Sabertooth Ferocious Bite deals 15% increased damage and always refreshes the duration of Rip.

Critical Strikes Increases your chance to critically strike by 10%5%.

Infected Wounds Rake causes an Infected Wound in the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 50%30% for 12 sec.

Maim Finishing move that causes Physical damage and stuns the target. Damage and duration increased per combo point:
1 point : 65%115% damage, 1 sec
2 points: 130%230% damage, 2 sec
3 points: 195%345% damage, 3 sec
4 points: 260%460% damage, 4 sec
5 points: 325%575% damage, 5 sec

Omen of Clarity Your auto attacks have a chance to cause a Clearcasting state, making your next Cat Form abilityShred, Thrash, or Swipe cost no Energy.

Rake Rake the target for (91.2% of Attack power) Bleed damage and an additional (456% of Attack power) Bleed damage over 15 sec.
Feral (Level 54)
Reduces the target's movement speed by 50%30% for 12 sec
Feral (Level 25)
While stealthed, Rake will also stun the target for 4 sec, and deal 100% increased damage
Awards 1 combo point.

Blood Trauma Maim damage increased by 100%, but now Incapacitates instead of Stuns. Any attack will break the Incapacitate.
Removed; replaced with Enraged Maim

NEW Earthen Grasp Entangling Roots is no longer dispellable, reduces the target's chance to hit by 80% but now has a 10 sec coooldown.
Level 43 talent, replaces Fury Swipes

NEW Enraged Maim You deal 600% Physical damage and incapacitate the target for 6 sec.
Level 25 talent, replaces Enraged Maim

NEW Ferocious Wound Attacking with a 5 combo point Ferocious Bite reduces the target's maximum health by 25% for 20 sec. Ferocious Wound can only be active on one target at once.
Level 28 talent, replaces Fresh Wound

Fresh Wound Rake has a 60% increased critical strike chance if used on a target that doesn’t already have Rake active.
Honor Level 10, down from 28

Fury Swipes Casting Thrash will remove the energy cost of your next Swipe for 12 sec.
Removed; replaced with Earthen Grasp

Leader of the Pack Shred heals all nearby allies within 10 yards of the target for (1.100% of Spell power).
Removed; replaced with Thorns

NEW Malorne's Swiftness Your Travel Form movement speed while within a Battleground or Arena is increased by 20% and you always move at 100% movement speed while in Travel Form.
Level 40 talent, replaces Primal Vitality

Pouncing Strikes Rip and Maim's range is increased by 5 yards.
Removed

Primal Vitality When you enter Prowl, the cast time of your next Regrowth is reduced by 100%.
Removed; replaced with Malorne's Swiftness

Savage Momentum Interrupting a spell with Skull Bash resets the cooldown of Tiger's Fury.
Honor Level 6, down from 10

Shapemender Each time you activate a shapeshift form, you are healed for 5% of your maximum health. This effect cannot occur more often than once every 5 sec.
Removed; replaced with Strength of the Wild

NEW Thorns Sprout thorns for 12 sec on the friendly target. When victim to melee attacks, thorns deals Nature damage equal to 5% of the attackers total health. Attackers also have their movement speed reduced by 50% for 4 sec.
Level 37 talent, replaces Leader of the Pack

NEW Strength of the Wild Maximum health while in Bear Form increased by 15% and damage while in Bear Form increased by 30%. Maul the target for 500% Physical damage.
Level 4 talent, replaces Shapemender

Razor Fangs Increase damage dealt by Rip by 7%4%.

Guardian Druid
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 4%
Affected Spells:

Moonfire	Thrash
Maul	Mangle

Also 4% increased periodic damage on Thrash and Moonfire.

Bear Form Passive: Apply Aura: Mod Rage % Generated From Damage Dealt Value 80%60%.

Galactic Guardian Your damage has a 10% chance to trigger a free automatic Moonfire on that target.
When this occurs, the next Moonfire you cast generates 108 Rage, and deals 300% increased direct damage.

Earthwarden Every 6 secWhen you deal direct damage with Thrash, you gain a charge of Earthwarden, reducing the damage of the next auto attack you take by 30%. Earthwarden may have up to 3 charges.

Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc An improved Bear Form that reduces the cooldown on all melee damage abilities and Growl to 1.5 sec, and causes Mangle to hit up to 3 targets, and increases armor by 15%.
Lasts 30 sec. You may freely shapeshift in and out of this improved Bear Form for its duration.

NEW Unleash a terrifying roar, causing all enemies within 10 yards to cower in fear, disorienting them for 3 sec. Usable in all shapeshift forms.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Displacer Beast

Lunar Beam Summons a beam of lunar light at your location, dealing Arcane damage and healing you for over 8 sec.
Cooldown changed from 1.5 min cooldown to 1.25 min cooldown

Pulverize A devastating blow that consumes 2 stacks of your Thrash on the target to deal 567%850% Physical damage, and reduces all damage you take by 8%9% for 20 sec.

Critical Strikes Increases your chance to critically strike by 10%5%.

Ironfur Increases armor by 100%80% for 6 sec. Multiple uses of this ability may overlap.

Mangle Mangle the target for 337% Physical damage.
Guardian (Level 44)
Deals 20% additional damage against bleeding targets
Generates 6 Rage.5 Rage.

Thick Hide Reduces all damage taken by 10%6%.

When nearby allies within 15 yards are critically hit by any attack, you automatically trigger your Gore effect.
Honor Talent 25, up from 8. Replaces Enraged Mangle

Demoralizing Roar Demoralizes all enemies within 10 yards, reducing the damage they do by 20% for 8 sec.
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

Enraged Mangle Mangle the target for 540% Physical damage. Deals 20% additional damage against bleeding targets.
Removed; replaced with

NEW Roaring Speed Reduces the cooldown of your Stampeding Roar by 60 sec.
Honor Talent 4, replaces Shapemender

Hibernating Growth When you remain in Bear Form for 10 sec seconds, the cast time of your next Regrowth is reduced by 75%.
Removed; replaced with Master Shapeshifter

NEW Master Shapeshifter Your Feral, Balance or Restoration Affinity is amplified granting an additional effect.
Honor Talent 19, replaces Hibernating Growth

Shapemender Each time you activate a shapeshift form, you are healed for 5% of your maximum health. This effect cannot occur more often than once every 5 sec.
Removed; replaced with Roaring Speed

NEW Raging Frenzy Your Frenzied Regeneration also generates 60 Rage over 3 sec.
Honor Talent 8, replaces

Sharpened Claws While in Bear Form, Thrash deals 100% more initial damage but now costs 15 Rage.Increases the damage done by your Swipe and Thrash by 100%.

Toughness The duration of all stun effects are reduced by 25%.
Honor Talent 34, down from 37

Gory Fur Mangle has a 15% chance to reduce the Rage cost of your next Ironfur or Mark of Ursol by 50%25%.

Balance DruidEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 4%
Affected Spells:

Moonfire	Sunfire	Stellar Flare
Fury of Elune	Sunfire	Starfall
Lunar Strike	Solar Wrath	Solar Wrath
Starsurge	New Moon

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 4%
Affected Spells:

Moonfire	Sunfire	Stellar Flare
Fury of Elune	Sunfire

Fury of Elune Calls down a beam of pure celestial energy at the target location, dealing 145%170% of Spell power)] Astral damage every 1 sec until your Astral Power is exhausted.
While Fury of Elune is active, you may recast it for no cost to direct the beam to move to a new location.

Guardian Affinity You gain:
Thick Hide
Reduces all damage taken by 10%.6%.
You also learn:
Mangle
Thrash
Ironfur
Frenzied Regeneration

Renewal Instantly heals you for 30% of maximum health. Usable in all shapeshift forms.
Cooldown changed from 2 min cooldown to 1.5 min cooldown

Shooting Stars Moonfire and Sunfire damage over time has a 10% chance to call down a falling star, dealing (42%55% of Spell power) Astral damage and generating 4 Astral Power.

Soul of the Forest Increases the damage bonus from Lunar and Solar Empowerment by an additional 15%.20%.
Reduces the Astral Power cost of Starfall by 10.20.

Stellar Drift Increases Starfall's radius by 30%, Starfall damage by 20%60%, and allows you to cast while moving while within Starfall's radius.

Stellar Flare Burns the target for (200%250% of Spell power) Astral damage, and then an additional (780%960% of Spell power) damage over 24 sec.
Stellar Flare benefits from Starfall's Stellar Empowerment.

Warrior of Elune Your next 23 Lunar Strikes are instant cast.

Increases Starfall and Starsurge damage, and the effect of Lunar, Solar, and Stellar Empowerments by an additional 16%18%.

Moonkin Form While in Moonkin Form, single-target attacks against you have a 15% chance make your next Lunar Strike Solar Wrath or Stellar Flare instant.instant.

Celestial Downpour Increases the duration of your Starfall by 100%, but only one may be active at a time.

Celestial Guardian While in Bear Form, you take 30%20% less damage from spells and receive 20% increased healing.

Echoing Stars Each time Starfall deals damage, it also damages another nearby enemy for (8.4%11% of Spell power) Astral damage.

Rapid Innervation Innervate also grants your target 20%10% haste for its duration.

Moon and Stars During Celestial Alignment, each harmfuldamaging Balance spell you cast grants 3% haste.

Touch of the Moon When you take damage, you have a 5% chance to heal yourself for (360% of Spell power). Cannot occur more than once every 20 sec.

Guardian Affinity You gain:
Thick Hide
Reduces all damage taken by 10%.6%.
You also learn:
Mangle
Thrash
Ironfur
Frenzied Regeneration

Omen of Clarity now affects the next 3
Feral
Cat Form abilities
Restoration
Regrowths
and your maximum Energy is increased by 30
Regrowths and increases their healing by 15%.
Specializations changed from Feral/Restoration to Restoration

Renewal Instantly heals you for 30% of maximum health. Usable in all shapeshift forms.
Cooldown changed from 2 min cooldown to 1.5 min cooldown

Mastery: Harmony Your healing is increased by 5% for each of your Restoration heal over time effects on the target$witch.target.

Focused Growth Reduces the mana cost of your Lifebloom by 50%, and your Lifebloom also applies Focused Growth to the target, increasing Lifebloom's healing by 20%. Stacks up to 3 times.

Fortified Bark Reduces the cooldown of your Ironbark by an additional 15 sec, and increases the damage reduction effect by an additional 30%15%.

Reduces the cast time of Healing Touch by 0.5 sec and your Healing Touch automatically applies one of your missing healing over time spells at to the target. If all of them are present, Healing Touch critically heals.

Power of the Archdruid Wild Growth has a 25% chance to cause your next Rejuvenation or Regrowth to also apply to 2 additional allies within 1520 yards of the target.

Displacer Beast Teleports you up to 20 yards forward, activating Cat Form and increasing your movement speed by 50% for 42 sec.
Now a Balance/Feral/Restoration spell

Mass Entanglement Roots the target in place for 2030 sec and spreads to additional nearby enemies. Damage may interrupt the effect. Usable in all shapeshift forms.

Class Tools

Beast Mastery

Marksmanship

Survival

Beast Mastery Hunter
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 9%
Affected Spells:

Chimaera Shot	Beast Cleave	Kill Command
Cobra Shot

Aspect of the Beast
Beast Mastery:
Kill Command causes an additional effect, based on your pet's Specialization.
Ferocity
The target also bleeds for (135%270% of Attack power) Physical damage over 6 sec.
Tenacity
Your pet also takes 15%30% reduced damage for 6 sec.
Cunning
The target's movement speed is also reduced by 50% for 4 sec.

Big Game Hunter Increases the critical strike chance of your auto shot and Cobra Shot by 50%60% on targets who are above 80% health.

Your pet's Basic Attack deals 50%100% increased damage, can now be used from 30 yards away, and will instantly teleport your pet behind its target. Your pet can teleport only once per 20 sec.

Chimaera Shot A two-headed shot that hits your primary target and another nearby target, dealing 180%288% Nature damage to one and 180%288% Frost damage to the other. Generates 10 Focus for every target hit.

Barbed Shot Causes your pet to enter a frenzy, performing a flurry of 5 attacks on the target, and gaining 30% increased attack speed for 8 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Generates 25 Focus.
Cooldown changed from 15 sec cooldown to 12 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

One with the Pack Grants Wild Call 15%30% increased chance to reset the cooldown on Dire
Dire Frenzy
Frenzy
Beast.

Way of the Cobra Cobra Shot deals 8%10% increased damage for every pet or guardian you have active.

Disengage Leap backwards
Now requires Level 45, up from 8

Dire Beast Summons a powerful wild beast to attack your target for 8 sec.
Generates 12 Focus over its duration.
Cooldown changed from 12 sec cooldown to 12 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

Kindred Spirits Increases your maximum Focus and your pet's maximum Focus by 20.
Now requires Level 44, up from 36

Multi-Shot
Beast Mastery:
Fires several missiles, hitting your current target and all enemies within 8 yards for 66%100% Physical damage and triggering Beast Cleave.

Sigma

This is further exacerbated in 7.1.5. Patient Sniper no longer provides an increased Focus pool, and Sidewinders generates only 35 Focus. With that in mind, and considering the passive Focus generation of 15 per GCD, Hunters are required to maintain 21.5% Haste in order to generate enough Focus to fire 3 Aimed Shots during Vulnerable. Firing a 3rd Aimed Shot during Vulnerable, especially with the new Patient Sniper design, is a huge DPS increase. 21.5% Haste will essentially be required for MM. This is a hard breakpoint, and should be eliminated before 7.1.5 goes live.

Aimed ShotAimed ShotAimed Shot

Black Arrow Fires a Black Arrow at the target, dealing (520% of Attack power) Shadow damage over 8 sec and summoning a Dark Minion to taunt it for the duration.
When you kill an enemy, the remaining cooldown on Black Arrow will reset.
Cost changed from 40 Focus to 10 Focus

Explosive Shot Fires a slow-moving munition directly forward. Activating this ability a second time detonates the Shot, dealing up to (1000% of Attack power) Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yds, damage based on proximity.
Cost changed from None to 20 Focus

True Aim Each successive Arcane Shot or Aimed Shot fired at the same target increases the damage those Shots deal to the target by 2%, stacking up to 810 times. Limit 1 target.

Barrage Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing Physical damage to the target and an average of Physical damage to each other enemyall enemies in front of you. Usable while moving.

Gain the patience of a veteran sniper, increasing your maximum focus by 30 and causing Vulnerable to increase your Marked Shot and Aimed Shot damage by 150%, but only last 6 sec and no longer stack.increasing the damage bonus of Vulnerable by 15% every 1 sec.

Piercing Shot A powerful shot which deals up to (2 * 675%500%) Physical damage to the target and up to 675%500% Physical damage to all enemies between you and the target. Damage increased against targets with Vulnerable.

Sentinel AppliesYour Sentinel watches over the target area for 20 sec, applying Hunter's Mark to all enemies near the target.every 10 sec.
Cooldown changed from 30 sec recharge to 1 min cooldown
Charges changed from 2 Charges to None

Sidewinders Launches Sidewinders that travel toward the target, weaving back and forth and dealing (300% of Attack power) Nature damage to each target they hit. Cannot hit the same target twice. Applies Vulnerable to all targets hit.
Generates 50 Focus.
Also replaces Multi-Shot.
Generates 35 Focus.
Also replaces Multi-Shot.

Steady Focus Using Arcane Shot or Multi-Shot threetwo times in a row increases your Focus Regeneration by 25% for 12 sec.

Aimed Shot A powerful aimed shot that deals * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 8 + 130) / 210)] Physical damage. Damage increased by 100% if the target is not in combat.
Replaces Cobra Shot.against a target you have not yet damaged.

Bursting Shot Fires an explosion of bolts at all enemies in front of you, knocking them back, disorienting them for 4 sec, and dealing 40%60% Physical damage.

Arcane Shot A quick shot that causes * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 5 + 80) / 130)] Arcane damage.
Generates 5 Focus.

Disengage Leap backwards
Now Level 45, up from 8

Approximately 56.5 procs per minute.

Rapidly fires shots at all targets with your Hunter's Mark, dealing 250%450% Physical damage and making them Vulnerable for 307 sec.
Vulnerable
Damage taken from Marked Shot andAimed Shot increased by 50%100% for 307 sec.

Multi-Shot
Marksmanship:
Fires several missiles, hitting your current target and all enemies within 8 yards for 66% Physical damage100% Physical damage
Generates 2 Focus per target hit.

Increases your maximum Focus by 20.
Now requires Level 44, up from 36

Freezing Arrow Fires a Frozen Arrow, incapacitating the target and all nearby enemies within 6 yards of the target for 8 sec. Any damage caused will break the ice.
Removed; replaced with Hi-Explosive Trap

NEW Hurls a fire trap to the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing (350% of Attack power) Fire damage and knocking all enemies away. Trap will exist for 1 min.

Sniper Shot Take a sniper's stance, firing a well-aimed shot dealing 822% Physical damage.850% Physical damage.
Increases the range of all shots by 40% for 10 sec.
Cooldown changed from 6 sec cooldown to None

Survival Hunter
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 12%
Affected Spells:

Butchery	Carve	Lacerate
Mongoose Bite	Flanking Strike	Raptor Strike

Ornyx

Sorry for the delay in replying to this. Long story short, we agree with the concerns laid out in this thread: Waylay as a damage mechanic isn't playing well, and the increased trap cooldown is a nerf that undermines other utility upgrades. We've been discussing exactly what we want to do about it, and can share some details:

For starters, the Trap cooldown is going back to a baseline of 30 seconds, just like it is in Patch 7.1. We had initially increased it to 40 based on some concerns that Hunter crowd control might end up too powerful in some situations, but after further consideration, we don't think that'll be necessary.

Regarding Waylay, the original intent of the passive was to reinforce Survival's niche as trap experts (especially with other Hunter specializations getting traps again) by rewarding clever placement of traps when you're able to anticipate your enemy's movement. After all, the very nature of a trap is a hazard set ahead of time for an unsuspecting victim, whereas traps today often end up feeling more like lobbed explosives. However, in group gameplay, the movement of your targets is largely outside of your direct control, and any sort of rotational damage benefit of Waylay is likely to be far more frustrating than fun. We're going to remove the damage-increasing benefit that Waylay provided to Explosive Trap and let its bonuses focus purely on utility. With the Freezing Trap and Tar Trap cooldown now unchanged, this makes Waylay simply a new utility perk over what Survival has on live, and we're excited about some of the potential ways Hunters can make use of it in both PvE and PvP.

As an aside (and this is relevant to all classes and specs), part of our goal to keep patches coming at a steady pace in Legion means that you're likely to see more half-completed ideas and strange experiments on PTR than even veteran testers might be used to in previous expansions. Just because a change shows up in a PTR build does not mean that it's something the team views as a final design (or even a design we're necessarily happy with). This has been especially true with 7.1.5, and we've done a poor job of communicating that thus far. We'd like to apologize for that failing, and it's something we're actively working to correct.

Aspect of the Beast
Survival:
Flanking Strike causes an additional effect, based on your pet's Specialization.
Ferocity
The target also bleeds for (135%270% of Attack power) Physical damage over 6 sec.
Tenacity
Your pet also takes 15%30% reduced damage for 6 sec.
Cunning
The target's movement speed is also reduced by 50% for 4 sec.

Butchery Strike all nearby enemies in a flurry of strikes, inflicting 518%620% Physical damage to each.
Cooldown changed from 15 sec recharge to 12 sec recharge

Caltrops Scatters Caltrops in an area for 15 sec. Enemies who step on Caltrops will take (25%50% of Attack power) Bleed damage every 1 sec, and have 70% reduced movement speed for 6 sec.

Expert Trapper All of your traps are improved in the following ways:
Freezing Trap
When Freezing Trap's incapacitate effect ends, the victim and all neaby enemies' movement speed is reduced by 50% for 4 sec.
Explosive Trap
Increases Explosive Trap's damage to the triggering enemy by 75%.
Tar Trap
$esc201158Enemies moving through the tar have a chance to be rooted in place for 4 sec.
Steel Trap
Your Steel Trap also deals an immediate (500% of Attack power) Bleed damage when triggered.
Caltrops
Increases Caltrops damage by 50%.

NEW Waylay's effects are further strengthened:
Freezing Trap will not break due to damage for the first 6 seconds.
Tar Trap reduces enemies' movement speed by (-- 20 -- 70)% for the first 4 sec seconds.
Survival
Explosive Trap causes the target to miss their next 2 melee attacks

Tier 4 Talent, in place of Improved Traps

Improved Traps Reduces the cooldown of Freezing Trap by 15% and the cooldown of Explosive Trap and Tar Trap by 50%.
Removed

Serpent Sting Targets hit by your Raptor Strike and Carve are also affected by Serpent Sting, dealing (435%720% of Attack power) Nature damage over 15 sec.

Snake Hunter (Replace) Instantly grants you 3 charges of Mongoose Bite.
Cooldown changed from 1.5 min cooldown to 2 min cooldown

Spitting Cobra Summons a Spitting Cobra for 30 sec that attacks your target for (20%100% of Attack power) Nature damage every 2 sec. While the Cobra is active you gain an extra 3 Focus every 1 sec.

Steel Trap Hurls a Steel Trap to the target location that immobilizes the first enemy that approaches for 30 sec and deals (1500% of Attack power) bleed damage over 30 sec. Other damage may break the immobilization effect. Limit 1. Trap will exist for 1 min.
Waylay: Fully arms after 2 sec, dealing 500% increased damage if triggered by an enemy that is not in combat.

Sticky Bomb Hurls a concussive grenade at your target which sticks to them and explodes after 32 sec, knocking back all nearby enemies.
Cooldown changed from 30 sec cooldown to 25 sec cooldown

Way of the Mok'Nathal Raptor Strike also grants you Mok'Nathal Tactics, increasing your attack power by 3% for 810 sec, stacking up to 4 times.

Explosive Trap TossesHurls a fire trap on the ground in front of youto the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing (350% of Attack power) Fire damage and burning all enemies within 5 yards for (350% of Attack power) additional Fire damage over 10 sec. Trap will exist for 1 min.
Range changed from 5 yd range to 40 yd range

Freezing Trap Hurls a frost trap to the target location that incapacitates the first enemy that approaches for 1 min. Damage will break the effect. Limit 1. Trap will exist for 1 min.
Specializations changed from Survival to Beast Mastery/Marksmanship/Survival
Now requires Level 18, up from 16

Lacerate Tears a bleeding wound in the target, dealing Physical damage over 12 sec.
Cooldown changed from 10 sec cooldown to None

Survivalist After you kill a target, you and your pet gain 15% health over 10 sec.
Now requires Level 16, down from 18

Tar Trap Hurls a tar trap to the target location that creates a 8 yd radius pool of tar around itself for 30 sec when the first enemy approaches. All enemies have 50% reduced movement speed while in the area of effect. Trap will exist for 1 min.
Specializations changed from Survival to Beast Mastery/Marksmanship/Survival

NEW Waylay After 2 sec, your Traps become fully armed, making them especially devastating:
Steel Trap deals 500% increased damage if triggered by an enemy that is not in combat
Freezing Trap will not break due to damage for the first 4 sec.
Tar Trap reduces enemies' movement speed by 70% for the first 4 sec.
Explosive Trap staggers the target, causing them to miss their next melee attack.

Fury of the Eagle Furiously strikes all enemies in front of you, dealing Physical damage over 4 sec. Damage increased by Mongoose Fury.

Farstrider Your ability critical strikes have a 10%15% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on
Survival
Harpoon
Beast Mastery and Marksmanship
Disengage
Disengage.
Now a Beast Mastery/Marksmanship spell

Class Tools

Arcane

Fire

Frost

Arcane MageEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 12%
Affected Spells:

Supernova	Nether Tempest	Arcane Explosion
Arcane Missiles	Arcane Blast	Arcane Barrage
Arcane Orb

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 12%
Affected Spells:

Nether Tempest

NEW Arcane Missiles deals an additional 15% damage per Arcane Charge.
Tier 1 Talent, in place of Presence of Mind

Arcane Orb Launches an Arcane Orb forward from your position, traveling up to 40 yards, dealing (81.7%500% of Spell power) Arcane damage to enemies it passes through.
Grants 1 Arcane Charge when cast and every time it deals damage.

NEW Arcane Barrage slows enemies by 50% and increases your movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.
Tier 5 Talent, in place of Ice Floes

NEW Prismatic Barrier has no cooldown, but your mana is drained by 50% of the damage it absorbs.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Cold Snap

Nether Tempest Places a Nether Tempest on the target which deals (66%56.4% of Spell power) Arcane damage over 12 sec to the target and 5.5%4.7% of Spell power) * 12 / 1] to all enemies within 10 yards. Limit 1 target.
Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge.

Overpowered Casting Arcane Missiles extends Arcane Power by 2 sec.Arcane Power now increases damage by 70% and reduces mana costs by 70%.

Presence of Mind Causes your next 2 Arcane Blasts to be instant cast.
Now requires Level 54, up from 30
Now Arcane ability

Quickening Arcane Blast and Arcane Explosion grant 5% Haste and increase the mana cost of your spells by 3% for 10 sec. This effect stacks, and is cleared when you cast Arcane Barrage.
Removed; replaced with Temporal Flux

NEW Arcane Missiles and Evocation may be channeled while moving.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Cauterize

Supernova Pulses arcane energy around the target enemy or ally, dealing (190%170% of Spell power) Arcane damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and knocking them upward. A primary enemy target will take 100% increased damage.

NEW Arcane Blast's cast time is reduced by 5% for each Arcane Charge.
Tier 7 Talent, in place of Quickening

Evocation Returns 100% of your total mana over 6 sec.
Cooldown changed from 3 min cooldown to 3 min recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

REMOVED Increases your Mastery by 5.
The duration of all harmful Magic effects used against you is reduced by 25%.

NEW Shields you for 30 sec, absorbing damage, reducing magical damage taken by 15%, and reducing the duration of all harmful Magic effects against you by 25%.

Force Barrier Increases damage absorbed by Ice Barrier by 33%.Prismatic Barrier by 20%.
Name changed from Mana Shield to Force Barrier

Fire MageEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 15%
Affected Spells:

Blast Wave	Cinderstorm	Meteor
Dragon's Breath	Flamestrike	Scorch
Fireball	Pyroblast	Fire Blast
Phoenix's Flames	Living Bomb

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 15%
Affected Spells:

Meteor

Living Bomb

NEW Dragon's Breath always critically strikes and contributes to Hot Streak.
Tier 4 Talent, in place of Blast Wave

Blast Wave Causes an explosion around the target enemy or ally, dealing (200%yourself, dealing (100% of Spell power) Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and reducing movement speed by 70% for 4 sec.A primary enemy target will take 100% increased damage.
Now requires Level 30, down from 60
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Cauterize

NEW Dealing Fire damage to targets within 8 yards of you refills your Blazing Barrier for 40% of the damage dealt.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Cold Snap

Cinderstorm Throws a spread of 6 cinders that travel in an arc, each dealing (58%65% of Spell power) Fire damage to enemies it hits. Damage increased by 30% if the target is affected by your Ignite.

Conflagration Fireball also applies Conflagration to the target, dealing an additional (20% of Spell power) Fire damage over 8 sec.
Enemies affected by either Conflagration or Ignite have a 10% chance to flare up and deal (40%45% of Spell power) Fire damage to nearby enemies.

Controlled Burn When you gain Heating Up, you have a 10%20% chance to instantly activate Hot Streak.

Firestarter Your Fireball spelland Pyroblast spells always deals a critical strike when the target is above 85%90% health.

Flame On Immediately grants 2 chargesReduces the cooldown of Fire Blast by 2 seconds and increases the maximum number of charges by 1.

Flame Patch Flamestrike leaves behind a patch of flames which burns enemies within it for 25%50% of Spell power)] Fire damage over 8 sec.

NEW Casting Scorch increases your movement speed by 30% for 3 sec.
Tier 5 Talent, in place of Ice Floes

Meteor Calls down a meteor which lands at the target location after 3 sec, dealing (562.5%1100% of Spell power) Fire damage, split evenly between all targets within 8 yards, and burns the ground, dealing 18.75%35% of Spell power)] Fire damage over 8 sec to all enemies in the area.

NEW Shields you for 30 sec, absorbing damage
Molten Skin
and reducing Physical damage taken by 0%
Melee attacks against you cause the attacker to take (50% of Spell power) Fire damage.

Combustion Engulfs you in flames for 10 sec, increasing your critical strike chance by 100% and granting you Mastery equal to 50% your Critical Strike stat. Castable while casting other spells.

Critical Mass MultipliesYour spells have a 15% increased chance to deal a critical strike.
Now requires Level 10, down from 57

NEW Critical Mass (rank 2) Critical Mass increases your Critical Strike stat from all sources by 10%.

Fire Blast Blasts the enemy for (140%160% of Spell power) Fire damage. Castable while casting other spells.

Fireball Throws a fiery ball that causes (175%200% of Spell power) Fire damage.

Flamestrike Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for (207%230% of Spell power) Fire damage and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.

Pyroblast Hurls an immense fiery boulder that causes (376%420% of Spell power) Fire damage.

Scorch Scorches an enemy for (50%60% of Spell power) Fire damage. Castable while moving.

Molten Skin Molten ArmorBlazing Barrier reduces all Physical damage you take by an additional 3%.5%.

Phoenix's Flames Hurls a Phoenix that causes (300%330% of Spell power) Fire damage to the target and splashes (100%110% of Spell power) Fire damage to other nearby enemies. This damage is always a critical strike.

Pyretic Incantation Each consecutive critical strike you deal increases critical strike damage you deal by 5%2%.

Frost MageEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 12%
Affected Spells:

Ice Nova	Comet Storm	Waterbolt
Cone of Cold	Ice Lance	Blizzard
Frostbolt	Ebonbolt	Flurry
Frozen Orb

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 12%
Affected Spells:

Water Jet

Ray of Frost

NEW All of your chilling effects reduces the target's movement speed by an additional 15%.
Tier 5 Talent, in place of Ice Floes

Frozen Touch Immediately generates 2 chargesIncreases your chance to generate Fingers of Frost charges by 40%.
Increases the maximum number of Fingers of Frost charges by 1.

NEW Ice Barrier increases your armor by 50% while active, and Ice Block applies Ice Barrier to you when it fades.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Cold Snap

Glacial Spike Conjures a massive spike of ice, and merges your current Icicles into it. It impales your target, dealing (750%1000% of Spell power) damage plus the damage stored in your Icicles, and freezes the target in place for 4 sec. Damage may interrupt the freeze effect.
Requires 5 Icicles to cast.
Passive:
Ice Lance no longer launches Icicles.

Ray of Frost For the next 10 sec, you can channel a beam of icy power at an enemy, slowing movement by 50% and dealing (194.3%205% of Spell power) Frost damage every 1 sec. Each time Ray of Frost deals damage, its damage increases by 20%.

NEW Resets the cooldown of your Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Ice Barrier, and Ice Block. Ice Block now has 2 charges and also heals you for 3% of your maximum health every 1 sec.
Now an ability, not a talent.

Cone of Cold Targets in a cone in front of you take (28.62%57% of Spell power) Frost damage and have movement slowed by 70% for 5 sec.

REMOVED Increases Haste by 8% and causes enemies who strike you to have movement speed slowed by 50% for 15 sec.

Fingers of Frost Frostbolt and Frozen Orb damage have a 12% chance, and Blizzard damage has a 5% chance, to grant a charge of Fingers of Frost.
Fingers of Frost causes your next Ice Lance to deal damage as if the target were frozen.
Maximum 2 charges.

Frostbolt Launches a bolt of frost at the enemy, causing (210%175% of Spell power) Frost damage and slowing movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.

Fire Blast Blasts the enemy for (140%160% of Spell power) Fire damage. Castable while casting other spells. Always deals a critical strike.

Ice Lance Quickly fling a shard of ice at the target, dealing (89.3%120% of Spell power) Frost damage
Splitting Ice
and 89.3%120% of Spell power) * 80 / 100] Frost damage to a second nearby target
Ice Lance damage is tripled against frozen targets.

Burst of Cold Your Frost Nova instantly resets the cooldown of your Cone of Cold and increases its damage by 600%250% for 6 sec.

Deep Shatter Your Frostbolt deals 200%150% additional damage to Frozen targets.
Frostbolt, Frozen Orb, Blizzard, Freeze, and Water Jet can no longer generate Fingers of Frost.

Ice Form Your body turns into Ice, increasing your Frostbolt damage done by 30% and granting immunity to stun and knockback effects. Lasts 12 sec.
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to 1 min cooldown

Chain Reaction Frostbolt critical strikes empower Ice Lance, increasing damage dealt by 20%10% for 6 sec, stacking up to 3 times.

Ebonbolt Deals (900%1100% of Spell power) Shadowfrost damage and grants two charges of Fingers of Frost.causes Brain Freeze.

It's Cold Outside Lonely Winter
Frostbolt, Ice Lance, Flurry, and Frozen Orb deal 3% increased damage
Your Water Elemental's Water Bolt deals 30% increased damage.and has a 5% chance to generate a charge of Fingers of Frost.

Shield of Alodi Increases damage absorbed by Ice Barrier by 33%.20%.

Ice Barrier Shields you for 1 min, absorbing (0 + Spell power * 10 * 1) damage. While the shield holds, spellcasting will not be interrupted by damage.Melee attacks against you reduce the attacker's movement speed by 50%.

Now a Frost spell
Now requires Level 26, down from 54

Ice Block Encases you in a block of ice, protecting you from all attacks and damage for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move, or cast spells.
Causes Hypothermia, preventing you from recasting Ice Block for 30 sec.
Now requires Level 50, up from 26
Cooldown changed from 5 min recharge to 4 min cooldown
Charges changed from 1 Charges to None

Cauterize Fatal damage instead brings you to 35% health and then burns you for 28% of your maximum health over 6 sec. While burning, movement slowing effects are suppressed and your movement speed is increased by 150%. This effect cannot occur more than once every 25 min.
Now a Fire spell
Now requires Level 52, up from 30
Now Fire ability

REMOVED Ice Block now has 2 charges and also heals you for 3% of your maximum health every 1 sec.
Now a frost ability

Ice Floes Makes your next Mage spell with a cast time shorter than 10 sec castable while moving. Unaffected by the global cooldown and castable while casting. Max 3 charges.
Now a Frost spell
Now requires Level 30, down from 75
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Cauterize

Mirror Image The abilities used by the Mirror Image "pet" have been buffed:
Frostbolt SP mod increased to 1.08 up from .6

Fireball SP mod increased to 1.08 up from .72

Rune of PowerUnstable Magic

NEW Damage over time effects deal 20% less damage to you.

Dense Ice Increases the amount your Ice Barrier absorbs by 60%, but your Ice Barrier can only absorb physical damage.
Removed; replaced with Dampened Magic

Temporal Shield Envelops you in a temporal shield for 46 sec. All damage taken while shielded will be instantly restored when the shield ends.

Class Tools

Brewmaster

Mistweaver

Windwalker

Brewmaster MonkEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 9%
Affected Spells:

Tiger Palm	Blackout Kick	Refreshing Jade Wind
Rushing Jade Wind	Song of Chi-Ji	Chi Burst
Blackout Strike	Keg Smash	Breath of Fire

Also 9% periodic damage increase to Crackling Jade Lightning and Eye of the Tiger.

Purifying Brew now clears an additional 15% of damage delayed with Stagger.
It also grants up to 15%20% Dodge and damage done for 6 sec, based on the level of Stagger damage purified.

Gift of the Ox has an up to 60%75% increased chance to trigger, based on your missing health.

NEW Mystic Vitality Stagger is 40% more effective against magical attacks.
Tier 5 Talent, in place of Diffuse Magic

Rushing Jade Wind
Windwalker:
Summons a whirling tornado around you, causing damage over 6 sec to enemies within 8 yards. Applies Mark of the Crane to up to 5 nearby targets.

Summon Black Ox Statue Summons a Black Ox Statue at the target location for 15 min, pulsing threat to all enemies within 30 yards.
You may cast Provoke on the statue to taunt all enemies near the statue.
Specializations changed from Brewmaster to Brewmaster/Windwalker

Breath of Fire Radius: 812 yards.

Stagger You shrug off attacks, delaying
High Tolerance
50
40% of Physical damage, instead taking it over 10 sec. Affects magical attacks at half effectiveness.50% effectiveness.

Critical Strikes Increases your chance to critically strike by 10%5%.

Eerie Fermentation Your Stagger now affects magic attacks at full effectiveness.You gain up to 30% movement speed and 15% magical damage reduction based on your current level of Stagger.

Avert Harm Guard against future attacks, absorbing up to damage for 15 sec.
Guard will also apply to the closest nearby ally within 10 yards.allies within 15 yards for 15 sec, allowing you to Stagger 30% of damage they take.
Now requires Level 25, up from 8
Row 5 Col 2 PvP Talent, in place of Guided Meditation

Guided Meditation The cooldown of Zen Meditation is reduced by 50%. While Zen Meditation is active, all harmful spells cast against your allies within 40 yards are redirected to you.
Zen Meditation is no longer cancelled when being struck by a melee attack.
Now requires Level 8, down from 25
Row 5 Col 1 PvP Talent, in place of Avert Harm

Hot Trub Purifying Brew deals 25%50% of your staggered damage to all enemies within 10 yards.

Incendiary Breath Your nextIncreases the radius and damage of Breath of Fire has
100% increased radius and damage, and disorientsby 100%, causing it to disorient all targets it strikes for 4 sec, but its cooldown is increased by 100%.
Name changed from Incendiary Brew to Incendiary Breath
Cast Time changed from Instant to None
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to None

Microbrew Reduces the cooldown of Fortifying Brew by 75%, and the duration by 66%.50%.

Brew-Stache Activating Purifying Brew or Ironskin Brew grants you 10% dodge for 1.504.50 sec.

Instantly dash to a friendly player and heal them for (350%420% of Attack power).

Song of Chi-Ji Conjures a cloud of hypnotic mist that slowly travels forward. Enemies touched by the mist fall asleep, Disoriented for 20 sec.
Cooldown changed from 30 sec cooldown to 15 sec cooldown

Zen Pulse Trigger a Zen Pulse around an ally. Deals (200%220% of Spell power) damage to all enemies within 8 yds of the target. The ally is healed for (200%220% of Spell power) per enemy damaged.

Mastery: Gust of Mists Effect #1: Apply Aura: Dummy (24) (SP mod: 1013)

Rising Sun Kick Kick upwards, dealing (910% of Attack power) damage
Windwalker (Level 20)
and reducing the effectiveness of healing on the target for 10 sec

Cost changed from 2.3% of base mana / 2 Chi to 2.0% of base mana / 2 Chi

Effuse, Enveloping Mist, Vivify, and Life Cocoon also trigger Soothing Mist.
After casting these spells, you continue to channel healing mists into the target, healing them for (70%64% of Spell power) every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action.

Spinning Crane Kick
Windwalker:
Spin while kicking in the air, dealing damage over 1.50 sec to enemies within 8 yds.
Spinning Crane Kick's damage is increased by 50% for each unique target you've struck in the last 15 sec with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, Rising Sun Kick, or Rushing Jade Wind.
Spinning Crane Kick's damage is increased by 50% for each unique target you've struck in the last 15 sec with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, or Rising Sun Kick.

Refreshing Breeze Increases the healing of Vivify by 25%20%, and Vivify refreshes the duration of Essence Font on targets it heals.

Counteract Magic Renewing Mist heals for 150%135% more when the target is affected by a magical damage over time effect.

Healing Sphere Coalesces a Healing Sphere out of the mists at the target location after 1.5 sec. If allies walk through it, they consume the sphere, healing themselves for 1 and dispelled of all harmful periodic magic effects.
Maximum of 3 Healing Spheres can be active by the Monk at any given time. Healing Sphere has a 15 sec cooldown.
Cooldown changed from 45 sec recharge to 15 sec recharge

Surge of Mist Enveloping Mist is now instant cast, but has a 67 sec cooldown.

Increases your Physical damage by 50%, you become immune to all stun, snare and root effects and you heal up to 3 nearest allies for 200% of all damage done. Lasts 15 sec.

Sigma

In addition to some changes that are visible normally in the client (damage of most Windwalker abilities), a recent hotfix included one change that won't be noticeable until you try it, which is a very large increase to Xuen's damage.

provided more details
Ok I need to run some tests but it looks like Blizzard buffed that Attack Power multiplier that Xuen and Niuzao get from players. On live Xuen gets 100% of the player's AP as it's own. On PTR, Xuen now gets 600% of the player's AP as it's own. Crackling Tiger Lightning still does 40% of Xuen's AP. Meaning, say a player has 30,000 AP, on PTR, Xuen will have 180,000 AP. Crackling Tiger Lightning will hit for 72,000 per tick

Niuzao was also buffed. on Live he gets 135% of the player's AP as it's own. on PTR he now gets 330% of the player's AP as it's own.Windwalker Monk
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 8%
Affected Spells:

Blackout Kick	Tiger Palm	Song of Chi-Ji
Chi Burst	Whirling Dragon Punch	Refreshing Jade Wind
Rushing Jade Wind	Rising Sun Kick	Blackout Strike
Strike of the Windlord

Also 8% periodic damage increase to Crackling Jade Lightning and Eye of the Tiger.

Effect #6 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 8%
Affected spells (in addition to Effect #1): Blackout Kick, Rising Sun Kick, Tiger Palm.

REMOVED Blackout Kick also reduces the target's movement speed by 70% for 3 sec.
Replaced with Summon Black Ox Statue

Rushing Jade Wind
Windwalker:
Summons a whirling tornado around you, causing damage over 6 sec to enemies within 8 yards. Applies Mark of the Crane to up to 5 nearby targets.

Critical Strikes Increases your chance to critically strike by 10%5%.

Cyclone Strikes Spin while kicking in the air, dealing damage over 1.50 sec to enemies within 8 yds.
Windwalker
Spinning Crane Kick's damage is increased by 50% for each unique target you've struck in the last 15 sec with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, Rising Sun Kick, or Rushing Jade Wind
Spinning Crane Kick's damage is increased by 50% for each unique target you've struck in the last 15 sec with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, or Rising Sun Kick

Disabling Reach Disable now has a 1210 yard range.

Crackling Jade Lightning Channel Jade lightning, causing (70%140% of Attack power) Nature damage over 4 sec to the target and sometimes knocking back melee attackers.

Dampen Harm Reduces all damage you take by 30% from the next 3 attacks that damage you for 15% or more of your maximum health. Castable while stunned.20% to 50% for 10 sec, with larger attacks being reduced by more.

Diffuse Magic Reduces magic damage you take by 60% for 6 sec, and transfers all currently active harmful magical effects on you back to their original caster if possible.
Now a Windwalker/Mistweaver spell
Cooldown changed from 2 min cooldown to 1.5 min cooldown

Ring of Peace Form a Ring of Peace around the friendly targetat the target location for 8 sec. Enemies in the ring that use a harmful spell or ability will be knocked out of the ring.that enter will be ejected from the Ring.

Control the Mists Every 2010 sec, Effuse can be cast instantly. Each Chi spent reduces the remaining time by 1 sec.

Spinning Fire Blossom Deals 0 Fire damage to your target.
If Spinning Fire Blossom is cast on a targetalways triggers Combo Strikes, and if cast ouside of melee range, the, damage is increased by 50%, and you root the target for 1.50 sec.
Generates 1 Chi.

Reduces all damage taken by 20% and increases incoming healing by 20% for 10 sec. Each attack that triggers Combo Strikes reduces this effect by 5%.
Cost changed from 5 Chi to 3 Chi

Ornyx

Hey all,

Just to reiterate here (saw it brought up in the Live Q&A chat today), but we are aware of feedback regarding both Storm, Earth, and Fire and Serenity on the 7.1.5 PTR.

I don't have anything specific for this moment, but know that we've passed along notes on both of these skills to the development team. We will update you once we have more to share.
Thank you for a response - any response.

Please, though, don't let this be like what happened on the 7.1 ptr and the Demon Hunters, where we got this exact sort of message, and then silence. Last time, when that happened, I rerolled to monk. I'm so anxious it will happen yet again.

SerenityHere's a linkStorm, Earth, and FireSerenity

Class Tools

Holy

Protection

Retribution

Retribution PaladinEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 12%
Affected Spells:

Crusader Strike	Judgment	Justicar's Vengeance
Eye for an Eye	Zeal	Consecration
Templar's Verdict	Divine Storm	Blade of Justice
Wake of Ashes

Divine Hammer Divine Hammers spin around you, damaging enemies within 8 yds for 45%90% Holy damage instantly and every 2 sec for 12 sec.
Generates 2 Holy Power.

Reduces your Divine Shield cooldown by 50%20%. In addition, any attack which would kill you instead reduces you to 20% of your maximum health and triggers Divine Shield.
Cannot occur while Divine Shield is on cooldown or Forbearance is active.

A hammer slowly falls from the sky, dealing (1100%1700% of Attack power) Holy damage after 7 sec.

NEW Each Holy Power spent reduces the remaining cooldown on Hammer of Justice by 2.5 sec.Judgment reduces the remaining cooldown on Hammer of Justice by 10 sec.

Holy Wrath Deals 200% of your missing health in Holy damage to 4 nearby enemies, up to 120% of your maximum health.
Deals 50%35% of missing health against enemy players.

REMOVED Infuse yourself with holy energy, increasing your movement speed by 20%.
Lasts 20 sec per Holy Power spent.
Replaced by Talent Judgment of Light

Heal yourself and up to 5 friendly targets within 15 yards for (900%1200% of Spell power). Maximum 2 charges.

Avenging Wrath Increases all damage and healing you dealdone by 35% and all healing done by 35% for 20 sec.

Places a blessing on an ally that grants them an absorption shield. It absorbs up to (1.82.7 * Spell power) damage, and will be refreshed to full strength every 6 sec, even if fully consumed.
You may only have 3 Greater Blessings active at one time.consumed. Limit 1.

REMOVED Places a blessing on an ally that gives their attacks a 10% chance to deal 30% additional damage as Holy.
You may only have 3 Greater Blessings active at one time.

Places a blessing on an ally that causes them to regenerate 1% of maximum health and mana per 15 sec.
You may only have 3 Greater Blessings active at one time.10 sec. Limit 1.

Shield of Vengeance Creates a barrier of holy light that absorbs (Attack power * 1020) damage for 15 sec. When the barrier is consumed, all damage absorbed is dealt as Holy damage divided across all enemies within 8 yds.
Fixing tooltip error.

Blessing of Sanctuary Instantly removes all stun, silence, fear and horror effects from the friendly target and reduces the duration of future such effects by 60% for 5 sec.
Cooldown changed from 25 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

Channels an Aegis of Light that protects you and all allies standing within 10 yards behind you for 6 sec, reducing all damage taken by 20%.
Cooldown changed from 5 min cooldown to 3 min cooldown

Blessed Hammer Throws a Blessed Hammer that spirals outward, dealing (57.4% of Attack power) Holy damage to enemies that it hits, and causing them to deal 15%12% less damage to you on their next auto attack.

Hammer of the Righteous has no cooldown.
Protection
Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, and Hand of the Protector now always gain the benefit of Consecration
Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, and Light of the Protector now always gain the benefit of Consecration

Calls down the Light to heal a friendly target for 30% of the target's missing health.
Cooldown changed from 10 sec cooldown to 10 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

Calls down the Light to heal a friendly target for 30% of the target's missing health.
Protection
While you are standing in your Consecration, Hand of the Protector's healing is increased by 20%

Holy Shield Increases your block chance by 10%15%, allows you to block spells, and your successful blocks deal (75% of Attack power) Holy damage to your attacker.

Judgment of Light Judgment now applies Judgment of Light to the target, causing the next 40 successful attacks against the target to heal the attacker for (20% of Spell power). This effect can only occur once per 1 sec on each target.
Now available to all specs

Avenging Wrath Increases all damage and healing you dealdone by 35% and all healing done by 35% for 20 sec.

Calls down the Light to heal you for 30% of your missing health.
Protection
While you are standing in your Consecration, Light of the Protector's healing is increased by 20%

Cooldown changed from 15 sec cooldown to 15 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

Guarded by the Light Reduces the mana cost of your Flash of Light by 50%, and Your Flash of Light reduces all damage the target receives by 10% for 6 sec. Stacks up to 32 times.

Hallowed Ground Your Consecration clears and suppresses all snare effects on allies within its area of effect.when cast.

Beacon of Faith Mark a second target as a Beacon, mimicking the effects of Beacon of Light. Your heals will now heal both of your Beacons, but at 20% reduced effectiveness.
Cooldown changed from 3 sec cooldown to None

Beacon of Virtue Apply a Beacon of Light to your target and 3 injured allies within 30 yards for 8 sec. Yoursec.
Your heals will heal all of them for 40% of the amount healed.healed.
Holy
Your Flash of Light and Holy Light on the targets will also refund 30% of their Mana cost

Cost changed from 15.0% of base mana to 10.0% of base mana

Fervent Martyr Casting Holy Light or Flash of Light on your Beacon of Light reduces the mana cost of your next Light of the Martyr by 50%, stacking.

Beacon of Light Places a Beacon of Light on a friendly target. Your heals on other party or raid members will also heal the Beacon of Light target for up to 40% of the amount healed.
Holy (Level 52)
Your Flash of Light and Holy Light on the Beacon of Light target will also refund 30% of their Mana cost
Cooldown changed from 3 sec cooldown to None

Holy Shock Triggers a burst of Light on the target, dealing (350%280% of Spell power) Holy damage to an enemy, or (400% of Spell power) healing to an ally. Holy Shock has double the normal critical strike chance.

Avenging Crusader You become the ultimate crusader of light, increasing your Crusader Strike, Judgment and auto-attack damage by 40%.
The cooldown recovery rate of your Crusader Strike and Judgment is increased by 50% and when you deal damage with those abilities, you and the nearest 2 injured allies will be healed for 200% of the damage done. Lasts 20 sec.
Cost changed from None to 35.0% of base mana

Ultimate Sacrifice Your Blessing of Sacrifice now transfers 100% of all damage to you into a damage over time effect, but no longer cancels when you are below 20% health.

Retribution
Your damage dealing abilities that spend Holy Power reduce the remaining cooldown on Hammer of Justice by 8 sec
Holy and Protection
JudgmentJudgment reduces the remaining cooldown on Hammer of Justice by 10 sec
sec.
Now a Holy/Protection spell

Luminescence Whenever you're healed by any sourceWhen you are healed by an ally, all nearby allies within 20 yards are also healed for 30% of the amount.

Class Tools

Discipline

Holy

Shadow

Masochism When you cast Shadow Mend on yourself, its damage over time effect heals you instead, and reduces all damage you take by 10%.

Draws on the power of shadow to heal up to 5 injured allies within 30 yds of the target for (550%450% of Spell power), but leaves a shell on them that absorbs the next 550%450% of Spell power) * 50 / 100] healing they receive within 6 sec.
Cast Time changed from 1.5 sec cast to Instant
No longer replaces Power Word: Radiance

Shining Force Creates a burst of light around a friendly target, knocking away nearby enemies and slowing their movement speed by 70% for 3 sec.
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 45 sec cooldown

Shadow Word: Pain
Discipline:
A word of darkness that causes (41% of Spell power) Shadow damage instantly, and an additional (287%369% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 14 sec.18 sec.

Dome of Light Power Word: Barrier reduces damage taken by an additional 25%45%, and the cooldown of Power Word: Barrier is reduced by (60)) sec.

Premonition Heals nearby targets within 20 yards for (300% of Spell power), and applies Atonement to yourself.
Deals (shadow% * $BC) Shadow damage to yourself for each Atonement you have active, and increases their duration by 3 sec.5 sec.

Power Word: Fortitude Infuses the target with vitality, increasing maximum health by 15%20% for 1 hour. Maximum of 2 targets.

Renewed Hope Power Word: Shield and Power Word: Barrier also heals targets affected for 200% of Spell power).1.
Removed; replaced with Ultimate Radiance

Searing Light The damage of your Smite is increased by 30%.15%.
When you deal damage with Smite the cooldown of your Penance is reduced by (1)) sec.

Strength of Soul Your Power Word: Shield instantly heals targets for (200% of Spell power) and reduces all Physical damage taken by 30% while the shield persists.

NEW Your Power Word: Radiance is now instant cast and the healing is increased by 250% but now has a 6 sec cooldown.

Forbidden Flame The unstable power within Light's Wrath succumbs to your command, further empoweirng your spells.empowering your spells.
Increases all damage and healing by 5%.4%.

Speed of the Pious You move 30% faster whilefor 2 sec after casting Penance.

Benediction Your Prayer of Mending has a 50%40% chance to leave a Renew on each target it heals.

Desperate Prayer Heals you for 30% of your maximum health, and increases your maximum health by 30%, decreasing by 2% every second.
Now requires Level 52, up from 30
Now Holy ability

NEW When you cast Renew on yourself, it reduces all damage you take by 10%.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Desperate Prayer

Piety Prayer of MendingMending's cooldown is reduced by 2 sec, and it now triggers Serendipity, reducing the remaining cooldown on Holy Word: Sanctify.

Symbol of Hope Bolster the morale of all healers in your party or raid within 40 yards, allowing them to cast spells for no mana for 1012 sec.

Holy Word: Serenity Perform a miracle, healing an ally for (2000% of Spell power).
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 1 min recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

Prayer of Healing A powerful prayer that heals up to 5 injured allies within 20 yds of the target for (200%the target and the 4 nearest allies within 40 yards for (250% of Spell power).

Delivered from Evil Leap of Faith removes all movement impairing effects and grants an absorption shield equal to 20% of their maximum health for 20 sec.Reduces the cooldown of Leap of Faith by 45 sec., and Leap of Faith removes all movement impairing effects.

Divine Attendant Reduces the cooldown of Guardian Spirit by 60%, but its duration is reduced to 3 sec.2 min.

Faith Renewed Your Renew instantly heals for 50% more when cast, and heals an additional 15% over time.
Removed

Greater Fade Fade out, removing all threat, increasing your movement speed by 50% and causing the next 3 melee attacks to be dodged.most melee, ranged and spells to miss you. Lasts 6 sec.

Greater Heal The healing done by your Heal is increased by 200% but the mana cost is increased by 30%.Reduces the cast time of your Heal by 15% and your Heal also causes Inspiration on the target, increasing their maximum health by 20% for 15 sec.

Holy Ward Wards the friendly target against the next full loss of control effect.
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

Rapid Mending Prayer of Mending is now instant cast, and its jump range is increased by 20 yards.

Ray of Hope For the next 6 sec, all damage and healing dealt to the target is delayed until Ray of Hope ends. All healing that is delayed by Ray of Hope is increased by 100%.
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 45 sec cooldown

Say Your Prayers Prayer of Mending has a 10%6% chance to not consume a charge when it jumps to a new target.
Rank 2: Prayer of Mending has a 15%12% chance to not consume a charge when it jumps to a new target.
Rank 3: Prayer of Mending has a 20%18% chance to not consume a charge when it jumps to a new target.
Rank 4: Prayer of Mending has a 25%24% chance to not consume a charge when it jumps to a new target.
Rank 6: Prayer of Mending has a 35%36% chance to not consume a charge when it jumps to a new target.

Shadow PriestEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 25%
Affected Spells:

Shadow Crash	Shadow Word: Void	Mind Spike
Shadow Word: Death	Void Eruption	Mind Blast
Shadow Word: Pain	Shadowy Apparition	Void Bolt

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 25%
Affected Spells:

Vampiric Touch	Mind Flay	Shadow Word: Pain
Void Torrent

Mind Blast Blasts the target's mind for (275% of Spell power) Shadow damage.
Shadow (Level 20)
Generates 12 Insanity.15 Insanity.

Mind Flay Assaults the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing (220% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%. Generates 812 Insanity over the duration.

Corrosive shadow energy radiates from the target, dealing Shadow damage over 5 sec to all enemies within 10 yards of the target. Generates 9 Insanity over the duration per target hit.When Mind Flay deals damage, if the target is afflicted by your Shadow Word: Pain, it deals (40% of Spell power) damage to all nearby targets. Generates 1 Insanity per target hit.

Shadow Word: Death A word of dark binding that inflicts (325% of Spell power) Shadow damage to the target. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.
Generates 1015 Insanity, or 30 Insanity if the target dies.

Void Eruption Releases an explosive blast of pure void energy, activating Voidform and causing (150% of Spell power) Shadow damage to all enemies afflicted by your Shadow Word: Pain or Vampiric Touch.
During Voidform, this ability is replaced by Void Bolt.
Requires 100 Insanity to activate.
Cooldown changed from 3 sec cooldown to 1.5 sec cooldown

Shadow Word: Pain
Shadow:
A word of darkness that causes (41% of Spell power) Shadow damage instantly, and an additional (287%369% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 14 sec.18 sec.
Generates 3 Insanity.4 Insanity.

Vampiric Touch A touch of darkness that causes 68 Shadow damage over 1824 sec, and heals the Priest for 50% of damage dealt.
If Vampiric Touch is dispelled, the dispeller flees in Horror for 3 sec.
Generates 46 Insanity.

Void Bolt For the duration of Voidform, your Void Eruption ability is replaced by Voidbolt: Sends a bolt of pure void energy at the enemy, causing (200% of Spell power) Shadow damage and extending the duration of Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to their original durationon all nearby targets by 3.0 sec Requires Voidform. Generates 16 Insanity.

Voidform Activated by casting Void Eruption. Twists your Shadowform with the powers of the Void, increasing allshadow damage you deal by 30%
When Voidform ends, you return to normal Shadowform, and you gain Lingering Insanity, allowing the Haste bonus to persist for 1 min or until you next enter Voidform.

Auspicious Spirits Your Shadowy Apparitions now deal 100% increased damage and generate 43 Insanity.

Legacy of the Void Voidform may be activatedVoid Eruption may be castanytime your Insanity level is 70 or higher.65 or higher and Voidform increases Shadow damage dealt by an additional 5%.

Mania You move 1% faster for every 53 Insanity you have.

Masochism When you cast Shadow Mend on yourself, its damage over time effect heals you instead, and reduces all damage you take by 10%.

Mind Bomb Inflicts the target with a Mind Bomb.
After 2 sec, or if the target dies, it unleashes a psychic explosion, stunning all enemies within 8 yds of the target for 2 sec.4 sec.

Mind Spike Assail the target with shadowy spikes, dealing (45% of Spell power) Shadowfrost damage and leaving a spike embedded in their mind. Mind Blast will detonate these spikes, each dealing 200% of their original damage to the main target, and 100% to all nearby targets.

Removed; replaced with Shadow Crash

NEW Vampiric Touch also applies Shadow Word: Pain to the target.
Tier 6 Talent, in place of Shadow Crash

Shadow Crash Hurl a bolt of slow-moving Shadow energy at the destination, dealing (640%960% of Spell power) Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yards.
Generates 15 Insanity.
Now requires Level 100, up from 90
Tier 7 Talent, in place of Mind Spike

Shadow Word: Void Blasts the target's mind for (220% of Spell power) Shadow damage.
Shadow (Level 20)
Generates 25 Insanity.

Cooldown changed from 30 sec recharge to 20 sec recharge

Surrender to Madness All your Insanity-generating abilities generate 150%100% more Insanity, and you can cast while moving, until you exit Voidform.
Then you die. Horribly.

Lingering Insanity Lingering Insanity persists for 8 seconds after you next enter Void Form.When Voidform ends, its haste bonus fades by 2% every second, instead of ending immediately.
Name changed from Void Lord to Lingering Insanity

Mind Trauma Mind Spike
Mind Spike
Mind Flay has a 100% chance and Mind Sear has a 25% chance to apply Shadow Word: Pain to the target.

Psychic Link Mind Blast now deals 30% of itsand Void Bolt now deal 100% of their damage to all targets within 40 yards that are afflicted by your Shadow Word: Pain within 40 yards.

Trinity The duration of your Atonement is increased to 1 minby 15 sec and the healing transferred through Atonement is increased by 20%.

However, Atonement can now only affect a maximum of 3 targets and can only be applied through Plea.

Lore

Thanks for this. Some great feedback here.

Overall, our goal in 7.1.5 is not to nerf Shadow's damage across-the-board, just the extreme cases that can occur with Surrender to Madness. Some of the mechanical changes will likely mean you're weaker or stronger in certain situations, but our intent is not to make Shadow "worse."

To speak more directly to your points:

1. Surrender to Madness

Since Legion launched, most of the changes we’ve seen to Shadow have revolved around the balance of Surrender to Madness (S2M). The main issue with Surrender to Madness is the amount of damage happening at high stacks of Voidform (VF). This gives Shadow a significant damage lead over other classes when played in the top 10 or so percentiles. This is illustrated in the WarcraftLogs analysis I made the week after the Mythic Emerald Nightmare opened: http://imgur.com/a/B84cl The top percentile players are able to extend their Surrender to Madness the most, allowing them to spend a significant period of the fight at 100 stacks of Voidform, which wasn’t the intention when designing the spell.

Surrender to Madness DPS definitely needs to be addressed. However, the methods being utilized right now are not only affecting top end players but also those at the lower ends of the spectrum. The drain formula change in the 7.1 hotfix (8+0.55 per stack) and the proposed change on the 7.1.5 PTR (6+2/3 per stack) "fix" the issue of the top end damage of Surrender to Madness but also make Surrender to Madness more difficult to play. This means that players who were struggling before may now find it impossible to reach decent Surrender to Madness uptimes and as a result the gap between top performers and the rest will widen.

A different approach, to address the exponential growth of damage between the two groups without negatively affecting gameplay, would be to limit the stacks from Mass Hysteria (MH). Consider Mythic Emerald Nightmare gearing over a 300s fight, using the 7.0 drain formula (9 + 0.5 per stack). A change to Mass Hysteria’s cap from 100 to 50 stacks would reduce overall Surrender to Madness single target damage by around 5% while reducing the peak DPS (100 stacks of Voidform and PI) by around 16%. The PTR proposed drain, and leaving Mass Hysteria capped at 100 stacks, reduces the overall damage by around 16% but only reduces the peak DPS by around 4%. This happens because, while they won’t be able to maintain 100 stacks of Voidform and Mass Hysteria for very long, high percentile players will still be able to reach that point and, combined with Power Infusion, they'll reach a similar peak DPS.

Bottom line, increasing the drain rate has a larger negative impact on Voidform as a whole than it helps to curb the extraordinarily high DPS achieved at high stacks of Voidform.

Mass HysteriaSurrender to Madness2. Void Bolt

The changes to Void Bolt (VB), having it interact with an area rather than only one target, are long overdue but they hurt Voidform's gameplay more than help in the current state. The main issue here is that by making it possible for DoTs to fall off during Voidform, you're stealth nerfing Voidform's average duration. When they fall off, we have to replace GCDs that would be used by Void Bolt, Mind Blast, or Mind Flay with Vampiric Touch or Shadow Word: Pain, both of which are poor insanity generators.

DoTs will fall off during VF with the current design because VB is only extending all DoTs in the area by 2 seconds. In order to keep a DoT duration the same, VB would need to have a 2s cooldown, which only happens at 125% haste , a value virtually unreachable at low stacks of Voidform.

For spread targets, Council-style fights (the ever famous niche of Shadow), the situation only gets worse; now we're having to refresh many different sets of DoTs, making the whole idea of VF being a "burn" phase a fallacy because we’re spending most of time inside Voidform refreshing DoTs instead of using nukes.

A possible solution would be for Void Bolt to refresh the duration of DoTs on the main target while increasing the duration of DoTs on nearby targets by a flat amount. That way we would have an improved version of today's multidotting for Dungeons and stacked groups, but wouldn't be punished on single or spread targets.Void BoltVoidformVoid Bolt3. Legacy of the Void

Right now Legacy of the Void (LotV) has no feeling around it. It’s just the talent that you pick when you don't want to Surrender to Madness; it offers nothing special and gives an almost negligible benefit. As a lvl 100 talent it needs to be spiced up and should offer the player something noticeable. In addition, prior to the 7.1 drain change, LotV was more of a trap than a benefit because if you entered at 70 insanity in a non-execute or multitarget situation you would likely never reach 100 insanity, effectively reducing your Voidform duration.4. Mind Spike

The recent rework of Mind Spike is something interesting. It opens up the talent for an option that the player can pick when they want passive cleave (Dungeons and some raid encounters) akin to what Mages and Warlocks have with Ignite and Fire and Brimstone. The version pushed to PTR (Build 23109) has the same issue as another talent you’ve tried in the past, Shadow Word: Insanity - The removal of DoTs in a base rotation.

Shadow is a DoT based spec. It has been centered around DoTs and so far that play style has been a success in most situations in Legion. Having a spell that "requires" you to apply both DoTs to a target just to remove them feels really wrong and runs counter to the core mechanics of the class.

Mind Spike has great potential in this new form. With the changes to Mind Flay, having it become when used against a target with Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Spike has the potential to be an upgraded version of that. The talent could replace Mind Flay, not remove DoTs, and give us a strong specialized filler AoE spell, while still preserving the multidotting aspect of Shadow.Mind SpikeMind Spike5. Multidotting Potential

Right now, one of the main balancing issues with Shadow is multidotting. When there are many high health targets Shadow is able to DoT them and melt them with Power Infusion and Surrender to Madness. While it creates a good gameplay to players, it becomes hard to balance when there are too many targets (3-4). A way to counter that effect would be to swap some of the damage today present on dots into Void Bolt or maybe into Mind Blast, but not too much because multidotting should feel strong.6. Lingering Insanity

Lingering Insanity (LI) delivered an odd situation for Shadow because our highest haste moment could be outside of Voidform. The new Lingering Insanity talent makes a nice middle ground, having you gradually lose haste while outside of Voidform. However, not having LI without the talent will create an even worse situation because you'll get to your peak haste and then drop straight to the bottom, making the rotation feel slow and a huge climb, like it is today at start of the fights. Even with the buffs to the insanity generators it hurts the flow the rotation had before.

A nice middle ground would be having the current PTR Lingering Insanity implementation baseline and having Void Lord back, but now it would allow Lingering Insanity to stay during Voidform, maybe now losing only 1 or 1.5 2 stack per second, which would reward getting back quicker to Voidform and make the haste change in the rotation smoother.VoidformVoidformLingering Insanity7. The Twins' Painful Touch

Having its effect tied to our filler spell creates two undesirable scenarios: either we underuse its effects, wasting it by using Mind Flay normally; or we’re forced to not use our filler spell in order to save the effect for future add spawns. Neither of these are fun gameplay scenarios and make an interesting Legendary a pain to utilize.

The advantage that the ring had before, having the DoT spread tied to , was that it allowed you to control when to spread them, promoting smart gameplay. Since that isn't an option anymore, a possible fix would be to have the ring modify the next SWP and VT casts, giving them a Sunfire-like effect where they spread to up to 3 nearby targets. This would allow us to use our filler spell normally and also maintain the controlled nature of the effect that we have on live. Furthermore, this would also allow us to recast our dots during periods of high drain as the extra applications would also generate insanity, an indirect effect of the ring on live.

PS.: I left mostly spell coeficients out of feedback because the issue we're having right now is a possible playstyle one. Numbers are easily tuned, but gameplay isn't.

Written in collaboration with HowToPriest Staff and MVPs

Lore

To clarify on the 18 seconds thing: The changes to Insanity drain are obviously an overall nerf to Surrender to Madness. That's intentional. We just disagree that it is proportionately more of a problem for lower-skilled players. If you weren't pushing Surrender past 100 stacks already anyway, the difference for you won't be as substantial. If anything, those players are likely to see an increase in duration of their non-Surrender Voidform.

That said, there's obviously a lot changing for Shadow in 7.1.5, and once things stabilize, we intend to take another look at the rate of Insanity drain to make sure things end up where they should be.

Couple other notes for you:

We're planning to increase Void Bolt's DoT extension to 3 seconds, up from 2.
We're also increasing Shadow's damage across the board in the next build.

Class Tools

Assassination

Outlaw

Subtlety

Assassination RogueEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 7%
Affected Spells:

Death from Above	Hemorrhage	Shuriken Storm
Fan of Knives	Poisoned Knife	Envenom
Ambush	Shuriken Toss	Deadly Poison
Kingsbane	Mutilate	Venomous Wound

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 7%
Affected Spells:

Rupture	Garrote	Deadly Poison
Kingsbane

Effect #4 Apply Aura: Modifies Spell Effectiveness (8)
Value: 5
Affected Spells:

Prey on the Weak

Coats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 20%30% chance to poison the enemy for 12 sec, increasing all damage taken from your abilities by 4.0%, stacking up to 5 times.
Damage bonus increased by Mastery: Potent Poisons.

Elaborate Planning Your finishing moves grant 15%12% increased damage done for 5 sec.

Internal Bleeding Kidney Shot also deals (124.2%144% of Attack power) Bleed damage per combo point over 12 sec.

Shadow Focus
Assassination:
Abilities cost 50%75% less Energy while Stealth is active.

Subterfuge
Assassination:
Your abilities requiring Stealth can still be used for 3 sec after Stealth breaks.
Also causes Garrote to deal 100%125% increased damage and have no cooldown when used from Stealth or 3 sec after Stealth breaks.

Crippling Poison Coats your weapons with a Non-Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 50% chance to poison the enemy, slowing movement speed by 50%30% for 12 sec.
Now requires Level 38, up from 24

Rupture Finishing move that tears open the target, dealing Bleed damage over time. Lasts longer per combo point.
1 point : 25%150% of Attack power) * 1) * 8 / 2] over 8 sec
2 points: 25%150% of Attack power) * 2) * 12 / 2] over 12 sec
3 points: 25%150% of Attack power) * 3) * 16 / 2] over 16 sec
4 points: 25%150% of Attack power) * 4) * 20 / 2] over 20 sec
5 points: 25%150% of Attack power) * 5) * 24 / 2] over 24 sec
Deeper Stratagem
6 points: 25%150% of Attack power) * 6) * 28 / 2] over 28 sec

Pick Pocket Pick the target's pocket.
Range changed from Melee Range to 10 yd range

Flying Daggers Fan of Knives' radius is increased by 100% and deals 150% more damage when it strikes 3 or more targets.

System Shock Casting Envenom with at least 5 combo points on a target afflicted by your Garrote, Rupture, and lethal poison deals 1 Nature damage, and reduces their movement speed by 90% for 42 sec.

Outlaw Rogue
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 16%
Affected Spells:

Cannonball Barrage	Ghostly Strike	Killing Spree
Death from Above	Ambush	Between the Eyes
Run Through	Pistol Shot	Saber Slash	Blunderbuss

Blind Blinds the target, causing it to wander disoriented for 1 min. Damage will interrupt the effect. Limit 1.
Specializations changed from Outlaw/Subtlety to Assassination/Outlaw/Subtlety

Command a ghost ship crew to barrage the target area with cannonballs doing 120%150% of Attack power) * 6] Physical damage over 1.802 sec and slowing enemies by 50% for 1.50 sec.

Ghostly Strike Strikes an enemy with your cursed weapon, dealing 176%194% Physical damage and causing the target to take 10% increased damage from your abilities for 15 sec.
Awards 1 combo point.
Tooltip fix, not a new change.

Killing Spree Teleport to an enemy within 10 yards, attacking 7 times over 3 sec for 210%260% Physical damage with your main-hand and 210%260% Physical damage with your off-hand.
While Blade Flurry is active, each Killing Spree attack will teleport to and damage a different nearby enemy target.

Pick Pocket Pick the target's pocket.
Range changed from Melee Range to 10 yd range

Pistol Shot Draw a concealed pistol and fire a quick shot at an enemy, dealing (150%165% of Attack power) Physical damage and reducing movement speed by 50%30% for 6 sec.
Awards 1 combo point.
Tooltip fix; not a new change.

Sinister Strike Viciously slash an enemy, causing * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 8 + 195) / 275)] Physical damage.
Saber Slash has a 35% chance to strike an additional time, making your next Pistol Shot free.
Awards 1 combo point each time it strikes.
Tooltip fix; not a new change.

Slice and Dice Finishing move that consumes combo points to increase attack speed by 100% and Energy regeneration rate by 15%. Lasts longer per combo point.
1 point : 12 seconds
2 points: 18 seconds
3 points: 24 seconds
4 points: 30 seconds
5 points: 36 seconds
Deeper Stratagem
6 points: 42 seconds

Blade Flurry While active, your melee attacks also strike all nearby enemies for 35%30% of normal damage, but your Energy regeneration is reduced by 20%. Lasts until cancelled.

Blunderbuss When Saber Slash strikes an additional time, there is a 33% chance that your next Pistol Shot will be replaced with Blunderbuss.
Blunderbuss
Draws a concealed blunderbuss and fires a quick shot at the target, dealing 55%121% of Attack power) * 7] damage and reducing movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.
Awards 1 combo point.

Blurred Time During Adrenaline RushWhile Adrenaline Rush is active, your ability cooldowns recover 15% faster.

Fatebringer Reduces the Energy cost of finishing moves by 32.

Fate's Thirst Increases damage dealt by Run Through by 6%4%.

Subtlety Rogue
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 9%
Affected Spells:

Gloomblade	Death from Above	Shadowstrike
Shuriken Storm	Backstab	Poisoned Knife
Shuriken Toss	Eviscerate

Also 12% periodic damage increase to Nightblade

Gloomblade Punctures your target with your shadow-infused blade for 425%525% Shadow damage.
Awards 1 combo point.

Master of Shadows You immediately gain 3025 Energy when you enter Stealth or activate Shadow Dance.

Master of Subtlety Attacks made while stealthed and for 65 seconds after breaking stealth cause an additional 10% damage.

Shadow Focus
Subtlety:
Abilities cost 20%25% less Energy while Stealth or Shadow Dance are active.

Nightblade Finishing move that infects the target with shadowy energy, dealing Shadow damage over time and causing attacks against the target to reduce movement speed by 50%30% for 8 sec. Lasts longer per combo point.
1 point : over 8 sec
2 points: over 10 sec
3 points: over 12 sec
4 points: over 14 sec
5 points: over 16 sec
Deeper Stratagem
6 points: over 18 sec

Pick Pocket Pick the target's pocket.
Range changed from Melee Range to 10 yd range

Blind Blinds the target, causing it to wander disoriented for 1 min. Damage will interrupt the effect. Limit 1.
Specializations changed from Outlaw/Subtlety to Assassination/Outlaw/Subtlety

Akaari's Soul After you use Cheap Shot or Shadowstrikeusing Shadowstrike or Cheap Shot, Akaari's Soul appears 42 sec later and Soul Rips theyour target, dealing (150% of Attack power) Shadow damage.

Goremaw's Bite Lashes out at the target, inflicting (500% + 500%1000% + 1000%) Shadow damage and reducing movement speed by 60% for 8 sec. Grants 30 Energy over 6 sec.
Awards 3 combo point.

Shadow Nova When you exit Stealth, youAfter using Shadowstrike or Cheap Shot or using Shuriken Storm while Shadow Dance is active, you explode, dealing (150% of Attack power) Shadow damage to all nearby enemies. This effect may occur once every 5 sec.

Critical Strikes Increases your chance to critically strike by 10%5%.

NEW Extend a cloak that wraps party and raid members within 20 yards in shadows, providing stealth for 15 sec.

Alacrity Your finishing moves have a 20 + (20 * ComboPoints)% chance per combo point to grant 1%2% Haste for 20 sec, stacking up to 2010 times.

Anticipation You may have a maximum of 810 combo points. Finishers still consume a maximum of 5 combo points.

Cheat Death Fatal attacks instead reduce you to 7% of your maximum health. For 3 sec afterward, you take 85% reduced damage. Cannot trigger more often than once per 26 min.

Death from Above
Assassination:
Finishing move that empowers your weapons with shadow energy and performs a devastating two-part attack.
You whirl around, dealing up to (366%440% of Attack power) damage to all enemies within 8 yds, then leap into the air and Envenom your target on the way back down, with such force that it has a 50% stronger effect.
Subtlety:
Finishing move that empowers your weapons with shadow energy and performs a devastating two-part attack.
You whirl around, dealing up to (366%440% of Attack power) damage to all enemies within 8 yds, then leap into the air and Eviscerate your target on the way back down, with such force that it has a 50% stronger effect.
Outlaw:
Finishing move that empowers your weapons with shadow energy and performs a devastating two-part attack.
You whirl around, dealing up to (366%440% of Attack power) damage to all enemies within 8 yds, then leap into the air and Run Through your target on the way back down, with such force that it has a 50% stronger effect.

Deeper Stratagem You may have a maximum of 6 combo points, your finishing moves consume up to 6 combo points, and your finishing moves deal 10%5% increased damage.

Feint Performs an evasive maneuver, reducing damage taken from area-of-effect attacks by 50%
Elusiveness
and all other damage taken by 0%
for 5 sec.
Cost changed from 20 Energy to 35 Energy

Marked for Death Marks the target, instantly generating 05 combo points. Cooldown reset if the target dies within 1 min.

Prey on the Weak
Assassination:
Enemies disabled with your Kidney Shot, Cheap Shot, or SapBlind, take 10% increased damage from all sources.

Sigma

Cheat Death at 6 minutes is ridiculous...

At the very least they need to make it reset on death, or no one is going to use it.

Cheat DeathCauterizePurgatoryLast ResortCheat DeathCheat DeathCheat DeathRebirthReincarnationCheat DeathLast ResortPurgatory

Class Tools

Elemental

Enhancement

Restoration

Earth Elemental Calls forth a Greater Earth Elemental to protect you and your allies for 15 sec.1 min.
Cooldown changed from 2 min cooldown to 5 min cooldown

Earth Shock Instantly shocks the target with concussive force, causing up to (800%920% of Spell power) Nature damage based on Maelstrom spent.

Earthquake Causes the earth within 8 yards of the target location to tremble and break, dealing (Spell power * 0.5 * 6) Physical damage over 106 sec and sometimes knocking down enemies.

Frost Shock Chills the target with frost, causing (56%64.4% of Spell power) Frost damage and reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 5 sec. Maelstrom increases damage and duration up to 100%.

Lava Burst Hurls molten lava at the target, dealing (220%275% of Spell power) Fire damage.
Elemental (Level 20) and Restoration (Level 20)
Lava Burst will always critically strike if the target is affected by Flame Shock

Generates 12 Maelstrom.

Mastery: Elemental Overload Your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst casts have a 18% chance to trigger a second cast on the same target for 75% of normal damage and Maelstrom generation.75% of normal Maelstrom generation.

Aftershock Your spells refund 25%30% of all Maelstrom spent on them.
Now requires Level 60, down from 90
Tier 4 Talent, in place of Elemental Blast

Searing Assault Increases haste by 10%6%.

Earthen Rage Your damaging spells incite the earth around you to come to your aid for 6 sec, repeatedly dealing (50%55% of Spell power) Nature damage to your most recently attacked target.

Elemental Blast Harnesses the raw power of the elements, dealing (525%680% of Spell power) Elemental damage and increasing your Critical Strike, Haste, or Mastery by 12002400 for 10 sec.
Now requires Level 75, up from 60
Tier 5 Talent, in place of Icefury

Master of the Elements Elemental forces empower you with 20% haste for 20 sec.
Now requires Level 60, down from 90
Tier 4 Talent, in place of Echo of the Elements

Icefury Hurls frigid ice at the target, dealing (180%900% of Spell power) Frost damage and causing your next 4 Frost Shocks to deal 400% increased damage.
Generates 24 Maelstom.
Now requires Level 100, up from 75
Tier 7 Talent, in place of Liquid Magma Totem

Liquid Magma Totem Summons a totem at the target location for 15 sec that hurls liquid magma at a random nearby target every 1 sec, dealing (80%110% of Spell power) Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards.
Now requires Level 90, down from 100
Tier 6 Talent, in place of Master of the Elements

Path of Flame Lava Burst deals 5%10% more damage and causes Flame Shock to spread from the target to a nearby enemy.

Storm Elemental Calls forth a Greater Storm Elemental to hurl gusts of wind that damage the Shaman's enemies and generate Maelstrom for the Shaman for 1 min.30 sec.
Cooldown changed from 5 min cooldown to 2.5 min cooldown

Control of Lava Your Lava Burst deals 100% additional damage, and generates 30 Maelstrom when it deals damage.Lava Burst damage increased by 25%. Your Flame Shock damage over time has a 10% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Lava Burst, and increase its damage by 25%, stacking up to 3 times.

The Ground Trembles Increases damage dealt by Earthquake Totem by 5%.

Enhancement Shaman
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 16%
Affected Spells:

Windsong	Lightning Shield	Boulderfist
Crash Lightning	Flametongue	Lava Lash
Lightning Bolt	Lightning Bolt	Rockbiter
Lightning Bolt	Stormstrike

Searing Assault Increases haste by 10%6%.

Ascendance Transform into an Air Ascendant for 15 sec, generating 1012 Maelstrom per second, and transforming your auto attack and Stormstrike into Wind attacks, which bypass armor and have a 30 yd range.

Slams your target with the power of stone, dealing (250% of Attack power) Nature damage and enhancing your weapons for 10 sec, increasing your critical strike chance by 5% and all damage you deal by 5%.

Crashing Storm Crash Lightning also electrifies the ground, leaving an electrical field behind which damages enemies within it for 14%16% of Attack power)] Nature damage over 6 sec.

Earthen Spike Summons an Earthen Spike under an enemy, dealing (800%1100% of Attack power) Physical damage and increasing Physical and Nature damage you deal to the target by 15% for 10 sec.
10 yard range

Empowered Stormlash Stormlash now spreads to 1 additional target and deals 35%50% additional damage.

Fury of Air Creates a vortex of wind 8 yards around you, dealing (30%40% of Attack power) Nature damage every 1 sec to enemies caught in the storm, and slowing them by 30% for 3 sec.
Cost changed from 5 Maelstrom, plus 5 per sec to 3 Maelstrom, plus 3 per sec

Elemental Assault Frostbrand now also enhances your weapon's damage, causing each of your weapon attacks to also deal 35%21% Frost damage.

Overcharge Lightning Bolt now consumes up to 4540 Maelstrom for up to 1500% increased damage, but has a 912 sec cooldown.

Blankets the target area in healing rain, restoring health to up to 6 allies over 10 sec. Stormstrike and Lava Lash extend the duration of Rainfall by 3 sec, up to a maximum of 30 sec.

Sundering Shatters a line of earth in front of you with your main hand weapon, causing (1000%1300% of Attack power) Physical damage and knocking enemies to the side.
20 Maelstrom cost down from 60

Crash Lightning Electrocutes all enemies in front of you, dealing 100% Nature damage. Hitting 2 or more targets enhances your weapons for 10 sec, causing Stormstrike and Lava Lash to also deal 100%110% Nature damage to all targets in front of you.

Critical Strikes Increases your chance to critically strike by 10%5%.

Lava Lash Charges your off-hand weapon with lava and burns your target, dealing 505%625% Fire damage.

Fires a bolt of lightning at the target, dealing
Overcharge
up to 30%45% of Spell power)]
(30%45% of Spell power) Nature damage.

Rockbiter Assaults your target with earthen power, dealing (155% of Attack power) Nature damage.
Generates 15 Maelstrom.20 Maelstrom.

Unleash Life Unleashes elemental forces of Life, healing a friendly target for (325%350% of Spell power) and increasing the effect of the Shaman's next direct heal by 45%.

Wellspring Creates a surge of water that flows forward, healing friendly targets in a wide arc in front of you for (375%450% of Spell power).

Chain Heal Heals the friendly target for (400%380% of Spell power), then jumps to heal the most injured nearby party or raid members. Healing is reduced by 30% after each jump. Heals 3 total targets.

Healing Stream Totem Summons a totem at your feet for 15 sec that heals
Rushing Streams
two injured party or raid members
an injured party or raid member within 40 yards for (70%82% of Spell power) every 2 sec.

Calming Waters After being interrupted while casting a spell, the duration of silence and interrupt effects is reduced by 70% for 20 sec.
Now requires Level 34, up from 22. Replaces Inner Renewal.

Earth Shield Protects the target with an earthen shield, reducing all damage the target recieves by 20% and causes the target to be healed for 0 when they take an attack equal to 6%8% of their total health. 3 Charges.
Earth Shield can only be placed on one target at a time.
Cooldown changed from None to 12 sec cooldown

Electrocute When you successfully Purge a beneficial effect, the enemy suffers (450%540% of Spell power) Nature damage over 3 sec.

Rippling Waters Riptide has 1 additional charge.
Riptide Heals for (175%270% of Spell power) when the spell ends its duration, is refreshed on the target, or is dispelled.

Spirit Link You link yourself and two closest allies within 15 yards together. When linked targets take damage, 50% is distributed among the other linked allies. Linked targets receive 100% increased healing from your Chain Heal and RiptideHealing Rain. Lasts for 2030 sec.
Cost changed from 28.0% of base mana to 15.0% of base mana
Cooldown changed from 30 sec cooldown to None

NEW Every 8 sec, the cast time of your next Chain Heal is reduced by 50%. Maximum of 2 charges.
Level 22 Honor talent, replaces Calming Waters.

Queen's Decree Healing Stream Totem heals each affected ally for an additional 60%72% of Spell power) * 2] over 6 sec.

Earthquake Causes the earth within 8 yards of the target location to tremble and break, dealing (Spell power * 0.3 * 10 * 10.5 * 6) Physical damage over 106 sec and sometimes knocking down enemies.

Earthgrab Totem Summons a totem at the target location for 20 sec. The totem pulses every 2 sec, rooting all enemies within 10 yards for 58 sec. Enemies previously rooted by the totem instead suffer 50% movement speed reduction.

Counterstrike Totem Summons an Air Totem with 10 health at the feet of the caster for 15 sec.
Whenever enemies within 20 yards of the totem deal direct damage, the totem will deal 100% of the damage dealt back to the lowest health enemy within range of the totem. attacker.

Windfury Totem Summons a Windfury Totem with 5 health at the target destination for 1 min. If the totem is destroyed, Windfury Totem incurs a 30 sec cooldown.
Windfury Totem enchants all allies' weapons within 10 yards with wind causing attacks to have a 40% chance to generate an additional 3 extra attacks, dealing 80% Physical damage.
Range changed from 40 yd range to None

Sigma

is intended as a talent choice that creates some gaps in your rotation, by replacing your no-cooldown resource builder with something that’s overall stronger, but has charges. In 7.1, the recharge time isn’t long enough for those gaps to ever actually happen, especially with the most popular Enhancement talent build adding several more active abilities to your rotation. Its power level was also simply too high, and in this case, we’d rather let this talent have its intended effect on the pace of your rotation and buff the spec as a whole to compensate.

Our intent is that if you want to use an ability every GCD, you should choose one of the other options in that row. should result in an overall more methodical pace that is more about having a little time to plan upcoming abilities. When is the hands-down best option in that row, that doesn’t feel like much of a choice, and as we continue tuning for 7.1.5, we hope to address this by bringing it in line with the others.
While I can appreciate that there was an original design intent behind Boulderfist, the spec as it currently exists on Live is as enjoyable to play as it's ever been since I rolled my Shaman back in BC.

We've heard it reiterated over and over (and over) again by the developers that if something about a spec felt too mandatory, it would just get rolled into the spec. I play this spec as my main because it is fun; if I cared strictly about maximum overall damage output, I'd focus on my Rogue instead. Changing a mechanic like this runs counter to the design philosophy that's been so oft repeated.

Rockbiter

Class Tools

Affliction

Demonology

Destruction

REMOVED Drains life from the target, causing 6 Shadow damage over 6 sec, and healing you for 600% of the damage done.
Affliction
Replaces Shadow Bolt

Removed; only for Demonology/Destruction

REMOVED Your Drain Life is massively empowered, dealing 200% increased damage (its healing is unchanged).

Seed of Corruption Embeds a demon seed in the enemy target that will explode after 18 sec, dealing (138%215% of Spell power) Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards and applying Corruption to them.
The seed will detonate early if the target is hit by other detonations, or takes (Spell power * 3.000) damage from your spells.
Cost changed from 4.5% of base mana / 0 Soul Shards to 1 Soul Shards

Unstable Affliction Afflicts the target with (386.4% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 8 sec. You may afflict a target with up to 5 Unstable Afflictions at once.
If dispelled, deals 200400 / 100] damage to the dispeller and silences them for 4 sec.
Affliction (Level 26)
Refunds 1 Soul Shard if the target dies while afflicted.

Contagion You deal 12%18% increased damage to targets affected by your Unstable Affliction.

Drain Soul Drains the target's soul, causing 6 Shadow damage over 6 sec, and healing you for 400%200% of the damage done.
Generates 1 Soul Shard if the target dies during this effect.
Affliction
Replaces Shadow Bolt

Now requires Level 13, down from 15
Now Affliction ability

Grimoire of Sacrifice Sacrifice your demon to gain Demonic Power, causing your spells to sometimes also deal (100%75% of Spell power) Shadow damage to the target and other enemies within 8 yds. Lasts 1 hour or until you summon a demon.

Haunt A ghostly soul haunts the target, dealing (805% of Spell power) Shadow damage and increasing your damage dealt to the target by 30% for 15 sec. If the target dies within 15 sec, Haunt's cooldown is reset.
Cooldown changed from 15 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

NEW Malefic Grasp While channeling Drain Soul, your damage over time effects deal 80% increased damage to the target.
Tier 1 Talent, in place of Drain Soul

Sow the Seeds Seed of Corruption will now consume a Soul Shard, if available, to embed a demon seed in 42 additional nearby enemies.

NEW Bane of Shadows Magical damage over time effects will strike the target an additional time for 30% of their damage as Shadow. Lasts 10 sec.
Level 46 Talent, replaces Soul Swap

NEW Corruption, Unstable Affliction and Agony deal an additional 100% damage on targets that are at or below 30% health.
Level 43 Talent, replaces Soul Siphon

NEW Soulshatter Consumes all of your damage over time effects on the 5 nearest enemies within 40 yards, dealing 10% of their total health in Shadow damage. For each enemy hit by Soulshatter, you gain 1 Soul Shard and 10% Haste for 8 sec.
Level 25 Talent, replaces Soulburn

Soul Siphon When you have Unstable Affliction active on 2 or more targets, you generate 1 Soul Shard every 3 sec.
Removed; replaced with

Soul Swap Inhales your damage over time effects from the target, preserving their duration.
Your next use of Soul Swap within 10 sec will exhale those damage over time effects onto the new target and deal 6% of the target's total health in Shadow damage.
Removed; replaced with Bane of Shadows

Soulburn Consumes a Soul Shard, increasing the duration of your next Unstable Affliction by 10 sec. Lasts 10 sec.
Removed; replaced with Soulshatter

Demonbolt Draws energy from your demons and launches a ball of demonic energy at the target, dealing (88% of Spell power) Chaos damage. Damage increased 20%18% for each demon you have active.
Generates 1 Soul Shard.

Grimoire of Synergy Damage done by you or your demon has a chance to grant the other one 40%25% increased damage for 15 sec.

Impending Doom Doom alsodeals damage 3 sec faster, and it summons 1 Wild Imp when it deals damage.

Power Trip Demonic Empowerment has a 50%65% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard when used in combat.

Thal'kiel's Discord Demonbolt
Demonbolt
Shadowbolt and Demonwrath sometimes enrages Thal'kiel, causing him to teleport to an enemy and scream for Shadow damage to all nearby enemies over 6 sec.

Destruction Warlock
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 4%
Affected Spells:

Cataclysm	Shadowburn	Felbolt
Firebolt	Doom Bolt	Rain of Fire
Chaos Bolt	Conflagrate	Immolate
Incinerate

Also 4% periodic damage increase to Immolate.

Backdraft Casting Conflagrate reduces the cast time of Incinerate and Chaos Bolt by 30% for 5 sec.your next two Incinerates or Chaos Bolts by 30%.

Cataclysm Conjures a cataclysm at the target location, dealing (777% of Spell power) Shadowflame damage to all enemies within 8 yards and afflicting them with
Destruction
Immolate

Now requires Level 60, up from 30
Tier 4 Talent, in place of Eradication

Channel Demonfire Launches 15 bolts of felfire over 3 sec at random targets afflicted by your Immolate within 40 yds. Each bolt deals (46.62%64% of Spell power) Fire damage to the target and (23.31%32% of Spell power) Fire damage to nearby enemies.

Eradication Chaos Bolt increases the damage you deal to the target by 12% for 6 sec.
Now requires Level 30, down from 60
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Cataclysm

Reverse Entropy Reduces the cast time of Chaos Bolt and Rain of Fire by (-- 500 / 1000) sec and they restore 35% of your maximum mana, and Chaos Bolt's cast time is reduced by (-- 500 / 1000) sec.

Shadowburn Blasts a target for (315% of Spell power) Shadowflame damage.
Generates 2 Soul Shard1 Soul Shard, and an additional 1 if the target dies within 5 sec.
Cost changed from 1 Soul Shards to 2.0% of base mana
Cooldown changed from None to 12 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

Conflagrate Triggers an explosion on the target, dealing (226.551% of Spell power) Fire damage.
Backdraft
Reduces the cast time of Incinerate and Chaos Bolt by 30% for 5 sec10 sec
Generates 1 Soul Shard.

Cremation Immolate is now instant cast, and ConflagrateYour Incinerate automatically applies Immolate, and Conflagrate deals an additional 5% of the target's totalmaximum health in Fire damage.

Entrenched in Flame Conflagrate roots targets for 43 sec. This effect does not break from damage.

Fel Fissure Chaos Bolt creates ana 5 yard wide eruption of Felfire under the target, dealing Shadow damage every 1 secreducing movement speed by 50% and reducing all healing received by 50% for 10 sec sec toon all enemies within 5 yards of the initial target.the fissure. Lasts 15 sec.

Firestone Restores 2 Soul Shards and increases your spell critical strike chance by 100% for 7 sec.
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to 25 sec cooldown

Focused Chaos Chaos Bolt damage is increased by 150%100%, but no longer strikes additional targets afflicted by Havoc.

Subjugate Demon Enslaves the target demon up to level 5557, forcing it to do your bidding for 5 min.

NEW Empowered Life Tap Life Tap increases your damage dealt by 10% for 20 sec.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Mana Tap

REMOVED Consumes 25% of your current mana to grant 10% increased damage for 20 sec.

Demonic Circle Summons a Demonic Circle for 615 min, allowing you to cast it again to teleport to its location and remove all movement slowing effects. Limit 1.

Mortal Coil Horrifies an enemy target into fleeing, incapacitating for 3 sec and healing you for 11%20% of maximum health.

Soul Harvest
Affliction:
Increases your damage and your pets' damage by 20%. Lasts 1015 sec, increased by 2 sec for each target afflicted by your Agony up to a maximum of 30 sec.35 sec.
Demonology:
Increases your damage and your pets' damage by 20%. Lasts 1015 sec, increased by 2 sec for each target afflicted by your Doom up to a maximum of 30 sec.35 sec.
Destruction:
Increases your damage and your pets' damage by 20%. Lasts 1015 sec, increased by 2 sec for each target afflicted by your Immolate up to a maximum of 30 sec.35 sec.

Essence Drain Whenever you heal yourself with Drain Life, the enemy target deals 10%5% reduced damage to you for 6 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

Sigma

One problem that Destruction Warlock had was a number of talent rows with very obvious "single-target" vs. "AoE" talent picks. This has clear downsides--a requirement to swap talents often (and as a corollary, a feeling of being significantly crippled when not using the ideal talent loadout for a given situation). Clearly, it's a DPS loss single-target to say you can no longer have both Eradication and Reverse Entropy, and a DPS loss in some AoE situations to say you can no longer have both Cataclysm and Fire and Brimstone. But making that swap, and then making sure throughout PTR that Destruction DPS remains reasonably consistent with live, will leave the spec more well-rounded and not as pigeonholed by talent choices in a given situation. PTR already has buffs to Doomguard and Imp damage that help with numbers in all situations, as well as buffs to various talents to help futher improve flexibility.

Sigma

Incidentally--Imp/Succubus/Voidwalker/Felhunter/Felguard all deal 20% more damage. Most of that was datamined normally, but in particular, the increase to Felguard's attack power likely was not (simply because it's something that happens server-side).

Class Tools

Arms

Fury

Protection

Arms WarriorEffect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 5%
Affected Spells:

Deep Wounds	Heroic Throw	Heroic Leap
Impending Victory	Storm Bolt	Overpower
Shockwave	Bladestorm	Ravager
Rend	Ravager	Bladestorm
Whirlwind	Whirlwind	Cleave
Victory Rush	Slam	Execute
Execute	Colossus Smash	Mortal Strike
Hamstring

Anger Management
Protection:
Every 10 Rage you spend reduces the remaining cooldown on Battle Cry, Last Stand, and Shield WallShield Wall, and Demoralizing Shout by 1 sec.

Fervor of Battle Whirlwind deals 30%45% increased damage to your primary target.

Mortal Strike refunds 2030 Rage when used against targets that are below 20% health.

Ravager Throws a whirling weapon at the target location that inflicts 270%337.5% of Attack power)] damage to all enemies within 8 yards over 7 sec.

Rend Wounds the target, causing (540%108% of Attack power) Bleed damage instantly and an additional (559% of Attack power) over 15 sec.
Cost changed from 15 Rage to 10 Rage

Shockwave Sends a wave of force in a frontal cone, causing (47.5% of Attack power) damage and stunning all enemies within 10 yards for 43 sec. Cooldown reduced by 20 sec if it strikes at least 3 targets.

Mortal Strike and Execute hit a second nearby target.2 additional nearby target.

Titanic Might Increases the duration of Colossus Smash by 16 sec.but reduces its effectiveness by 20%.

Trauma Slam and Whirlwind now cause the target to bleed for 20%25% additional damage over 6 sec. Multiple uses accumulate increased damage.

Hamstring Maims the enemy for 5%105% Physical damage, reducing movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.

NEWDuel You challenge the target to a duel. While challenged, all damage you and the target deal to all targets other than each other is reduced by 50%. Lasts 8 sec.Level 25 Talent, replaces Shadow of the Colossus

Echo Slam Colossus Smash deals an additional 5% of the target's total health in damage 2.50 sec later. Damage done ignores all armor.
Removed; replaced with Shadow of the Colossus

Run at high speed toward an ally or enemy.
When targeting an enemy, Intercept will root them for 1.50 sec
When targeting an ally, Intercept will intercept all melee and ranged attacks against them within 10 sec while the target remains within 10 yards.
Generates 20 Rage.
This ability replaces Charge.
Removed; replaced with

Shadow of the Colossus Charge resets the cooldown of your Colossus Smash and Rage gained from Charge increased by 15.
Honor Level 28, up from 25

: Reduces the cooldown of Battle Cry by 15 sec and Battle Cry now also affects all nearby allies within 10 yards.
Honor level 8 down from 43.

Sharpen Blade When activated, your next Mortal Strike will deal 30% increased damage and reduce healing taken by 70% for 4 sec.
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to 25 sec cooldown

NEWStorm of Destruction Reduces the cooldown of Bladestorm by 33%, and Bladestorm now also applies Mortal Wound to all targets you hit.
Level 10 Talent, replaces Wrecking Crew

NEWWar Banner You throw down a war banner at your feet, rallying your allies. Increases movement speed by 30% and reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 50% to all allies within X yards of the war banner. Lasts 15 sec.
Level 43 Talent, replaces

Wrecking Crew Mortal Strike's effect now also is applied to all nearby enemies within 8 yards of the target.
Removed; replaced with Storm of Destruction

Fury WarriorEffect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 5%
Affected Spells:

Heroic Throw	Storm Bolt	Bladestorm
Dragon Roar	Shockwave	Whirlwind
Whirlwind	Bladestorm	Execute
Furious Slash	Bloodthirst	Rampage
Execute	Odyn's Fury

Dragon Roar Roar explosively, dealing (162% of Attack power) damage to all enemies within 8 yards and increasing all damage you deal by 20%16% for 6 sec. Dragon Roar ignores all armor and always critically strikes.

Fresh Meat Bloodthirst has a 40%60% increased critical strike chance against targets above 80% health.

Frothing Berserker When you reach 100 Rage, your damage is increased by 10%15% and your movement speed by 30% for 6 sec.

Berserker Rage now causes Enrage, and its cooldown is reduced by 15 sec.

Reckless Abandon Battle Cry lasts 2 sec longer and generates 100 Rage.

Killing a target grants you 30% Haste and 30% movement speed for 1015 sec.

Wrecking Ball Your attacks have a chance to make your next Whirlwind deal 200%250% increased damage.

Death Wish Increases your damage done by 5% at the cost of 10% of your health. Stacks up to 515 times.
Cooldown changed from None to 10 sec cooldown

Anger Management
Protection:
Every 10 Rage you spend reduces the remaining cooldown on Battle Cry, Last Stand, Shield Wall, and Demoralizing Shout by 1 sec.

Best Served Cold Revenge generates 2 additional Rage for each target that it hits.deals 5% more damage per target hit, up to 5.
Now requires Level 45, down from 75
Tier 3 Talent, in place of

Booming Voice Demoralizing Shout also generates 5060 Rage, and increases damage you deal to affected targets by 20%25%.

Crackling Thunder Increases the radius of Thunder Clap by 100%50%.

NEW Your auto attacks deal an additional Physical damage, generate 5 Rage, and have a 30% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Shield Slam.
Tier 5 Talent, in place of Best Served Cold

Heavy Repercussions Shield Slam extends the duration of Shield Block by 1.51.0 sec, and Shield Block increases the damage of Shield Slam by an additional 30%.

Into the Fray You gain 3% Haste for each enemy within 1015 yards, up to 5 enemies.

Never Surrender Ignore Pain will ignore up to 75%100% more damage, based on your missing health.

Ravager Throws a whirling weapon at the target location that inflicts 270%337.5% of Attack power)] damage to all enemies within 8 yards over 7 sec.
Protection
Also increases your Parry chance by 30%35% for 12 sec

Safeguard Intercepting a friendly target now also causes 20%30% of their damage taken to transfer to you for 6 sec.

Your Shield Slam critical strikes cause your next Focused Rage to cost no Rage.
Removed

Vengeance Ignore Pain reduces the Rage cost of your next Focused RageRevenge by 35%, and Focused RageRevenge reduces the Rage cost of your next Ignore Pain by 35%.

Warbringer Charge now deals (108% of Attack power) damage to all enemies within 5 yds of the target, and stuns them for 1.50 sec.until cancelled.

Reduces the cooldown on Berserker Rage by 15 sec, and while Berserker Rage is active you may use Taunt with no cooldown and Taunted enemies move 50% faster towards you.

Focus your rage on your next Shield Slam, increasing its damage by 50%, stacking up to 3 times. Unaffected by the global cooldown
Removed

Intercept Run at high speed toward an ally or enemy.
When targeting an enemy, Intercept will root for 1.5reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 6 sec, but has a minimum range of 8 yds.
When targeting an ally, Intercept will intercept the next melee or ranged attack against the ally within 10 sec while the target remains within 10 yards.
Generates 10 Rage.15 Rage.

Revenge Swing in a wide arc, dealing (340.2%440% of Attack power) damage to all enemies in front of you.

Your successful dodges and parries cause your next Revenge to become free.Your successful dodges and parries reset the remaining cooldown on Revenge up to once per 3 sec.
Cost changed from None to 30 Rage
Cooldown changed from 9 sec cooldown to 3 sec cooldown

Shield Block Raise your shield, blocking every melee attack against you for 6 sec. These blocks can be critical blocks. Increases Shield Slam damage by 30% while active.
Cost changed from 10 Rage to 15 Rage

Shield Slam Slams the target with your shield, causing (492.8% of Attack power) Physical damage. Devastate, Thunder Clap, and Revenge have a 30% chance to reset the cooldown of Shield Slam

Thunder Clap Blasts all enemies within 8 yards for (165.4%330.8% of Attack power) damage
Thunderstruck
rooting them for 1 sec and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 10 sec
and reduces their movement speed by 50% for 10 sec.
Generates 5 Rage.

Bodyguard Protect an ally, causing 40% of all Physical damage they take to be transfered to you. When the target takes Physical damage, your RevengeShield Slam cooldown has a 30% chance to be reset. Bodyguard is cancelled if the target is further than 15 yards from you. Lasts 1 min.
Only one target can be Bodyguarded at a time.

Ready for Battle Rage gained from Charge increased by 15.
Now a Protection spell; Honor Level 40

Tenderizer Auto-attacks against targets above 80% health generate 5 Rage.
Removed; replaced with Disarm

Might of the Vrykul Shield Slam and RevengeThunder Clap generate 50% increased Rage during Demoralizing Shout.

Blood Hunt When within 10 yards of enemies at execute range, your movement speed is increased by 15% and all snares are suppressed for at least 5 sec.
Removed; replaced with Disarm for Arms and Fury

NEWDisarm Disarm the enemy's weapons and shield for 8 sec. Disarmed creatures deal significantly reduced damage.
Level 19 Talent, replaces Blood Hunt

NEWMaster and Commander Cooldown of Commanding Shout reduced by 2 min.
Level 40 Talent, replaces Ready for Battle

Ready for Battle Rage gained from Charge increased by 15.
Removed; replaced with Master and Commander for Arms and Fury

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Comment by perculiaFixed the issue with Posthaste/Narrow Escape - it looks like Disengage is treating Narrow Escape data like a real talent, when it shouldn't be. Hid those areas to emphasize that the change with Disengage is the level.Comment by ExaltysSeal of Light was good for farming old instances. Get around a little quicker.Comment by ghostnaut@Eostare, I think its both. A buff that reduces the cast time on your next 2 Chaos Bolt/Incinerate, duration of 10 seconds (expiration?). I used to be able to do 3 spells (1-3 incinerate + 1-2 chaos bolt) but now we'll be stuck with 2. This change makes me recall it being like this before (MoP?), but having a stack of 3? Now its only 2?Comment by Joker1313What is with these Feral nerfs? Aren't they reducing crit with the secondary stats overhaul anyway? And now a flat 5% crit decrease as well? Not to mention Omen of Clarity now affecting only Shred, Thrash and Swipe is just damn stupid...I don't understand what warrants these nerfs...Comment by khooter1Protection warrior is in a really good place, in my opinion. Been playing the spec on and off since BC. We'll see how these changes unfold in the coming patch.

RIP 100% area increase Thunder Clap. That was awesome!Comment by AlemiaIs seed of corruption forever requiring 1-2 soul shards depending on if sow the seed talent is specced or not? If so we need to dot up with agony first to get the soul shards coming first.
Plus 2 soul shards for up to 3 seeds feels waay to expensive to be viable!
"Cost changed from 4.5% of base mana / 0 Soul Shards to 1 Soul Shards"Comment by PiffinatourHold up, the above change list says that each damaging Balance spell cast while under Celestial Alignment using the Moon and Stars AT increases the haste by 3% per spell, but as of right now the increase is only 1% per spell. Is this actually being buffed, or is that a typo?Comment by markdI do not know how many, but it seems to me that the shaman just become a mage. Fireball, lightning, earthquake. Sometimes Elemental. All. How is this different from the mage? This shaman! Need more shamanism. Shaman commands spirits, elements and totems! It would be much more interesting if the feature of the shaman was the fact that it can localize its damage and other abilities via totems, and at the same time getting free time to control spirits. I feel a deep need to revise this specialization.Comment by ztClownQuestion regarding the flat damage buffs that are being applied to some specs.

How is it defined which spells will be affected by the buff?
I see that the obviously inherent spec spells/abilities are included, but this compilation also shows that some talents are included, but not others? And why are spec dependent cooldowns, such as spirit wolves for enhance, excluded?

Thanks in advance.Comment by LeonsghostWay to go Blizzard! The one class/spec (Warlock destruction) I like and you messed it up in the worst way. You said in the begin you wanted to make Warlocks more tankie to survive. Moving the Demon armor talent removed that tankie idea you wanted, now you go and switch the talents that will make our single target and aoe target dps crap. You also made a horrible mastery this expansion it was way better in Dreanor. Only brought that up because it seems the only gear I find is Mastery Mastery and Mastery. This is my opinion Blizzard, but maybe you want the mastery to work with our spell like incinerate, immolate, and chaos bolt. I guess i have to switch to demonology now ugh...Comment by stefanetI remember when Frost Mage was good for PVP... Now is a real Glass Cannon, but only this and useful only for PVEComment by Chaosdancerbiggest patch in Legion and almost 0 changes to broken demonology spec. I am so disappointed. Blizzard ruined my favorite spec :(Comment by JeiDragonSo Demonology wont have life tap anymore? Then why did they make thalkiel's discord proc on demonwrath when it drains so much mana and no way to get it back? Did I miss something? Someone please fill me in with knowledge.Comment by Gotnovsurprised they didn't nerf Throwing Axes talent for survival hunters, it's really good at low level (10-30) battleground pvp.Comment by ChaosDecidesCan we please just get the damn AK catch-up mechanic? Unbundle it from 7.1.5 and release it already.Comment by Porsche1992So what will be the best spec for mages in the coming patch?Comment by PotatoempnI notice the big F-U to Warlocks. Nerfed Demos best talent, Grimoire of Synergy.
And they no longer have Drain Life.

But then my Warrior is going to be getting a huge buff with the duration of Colossus Smash being nearly 30 seconds without being a diminished effect.Comment by dek1979Our characters walk slower than others so why not just give a passive bonus so we can walk faster Also it would help if the reforge was brought back some sttas on gear is useless to damage dealers likewise for the tanks and healers.Comment by DentvanbooWoW! Just WOW!

I cant believe that 90% of Demon Hunter abilities are being buffed.. and not by a small amout, we re talkin about 5 or more %! Blizz must really love Demon Hunters, they do insane dmg already and they still get buffs on the other hand, my Destro warlock which is the only character I play gets nerfs everywhere... Backdraft is for 2 solids spells now instead of 5 sec... fu*kin awesome I could cast 4 chaos bolts when I got my procs now I will ALWAYS cast only 2.. Chaos Bolt gettin more and more nerfs in PvP.. The only reason to play Destro and not affliction was because of that awesome damage which made it enjoable but thats goin slowly to hell too.. this is second nerf done to it. You only buff Demonology by a small amount... forcing us more and more to play that spec which I personally hate. If I want millions of pets around me I would play hunter! Give me back my shadow bolt and metamorphosis and delete that demon hunter sh*t... So dissapointed -_-Comment by DentvanbooSo which is it? Is Backdraft going to be a 10s buff or is it just gonna affect the next 2 CB/Inc cast?

Fiery Brand	Immolation Aura	Infernal Strike
Soul Cleave	Illidan's Grasp	Shear
Sigil of Misery	Sigil of Chains	Sigil of Flame
Sigil of Silence	Fiery Brand

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