Preview of SoD Phase 2 Runes - Rallying Cry, Pain Suppression, Maelstrom Weapon

Classic Posted 2024/01/29 at 8:45 PM by Jezartroz

January 30th Edit: We have datamined ALL runes coming in Phase 2! Please see our Phase 2 Datamined Runes post for the full list.Druid

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Eclipse is a player favorite ability from future expansions that we've brought back for Season of Discovery. Eclipse increases the critical strike chance of your next two Wrath abilities by 30% and Wrath increases the critical strike chance of your next Starfire by 30% with each effect stacking up to 4 times.

King of the Jungle fundamentally changes your Tiger's Fury by increasing all physical damage you deal by 15%, as well as instantly granting you 60 energy. As a trade-off for this, Tiger's Fury now has a 30 second cooldown.

Hunter

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Melee Specialist is a passive ability which will reduce the cooldown on Raptor Strike, cause it to trigger instantly, and each usage of Raptor Strike has a chance not to trigger its cooldown. Melee Specialist will also remove the cooldown of Mongoose Bite.

Trap Launcher allows you to place traps at any location within 40 yards and allows you to place your traps while in combat. Additionally, your fire-based and frost-based traps have separate shared cooldowns.

Mage

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Missile Barrage gives your Arcane Blast, Fireball, and Frostbolt spells a chance to reduce the channeled duration of your next Arcane Missiles spell by half, reduce its mana cost to 0, and cause missiles to fire every .5 seconds.

Chronostatic Preservation is a great new spell that allows you to store some of your arcane, fire and frost energy for later use. You can only hold this energy for a short time before it combusts and expires, but you can use this energy to heal a friendly target.

Paladin

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Sheath of Light will cause damage dealt with your melee weapon to also increase your spell power. It will also cause your critical heals to apply an additional heal over time on the target.

Guarded by the Light will cause your melee weapon hits to restore mana over time, however; the amount healed by Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Holy Shock will be reduced by half.

Priest

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Cast Mind Spike to blast your target with Shadowfrost damage and apply a debuff which increases the critical strike chance of your next Mind Blast on that target. This debuff can stack up to 3 times.

As a favorite from later expansions, Pain Suppression can be cast on a friendly target to significantly reduce their damage taken and increase their resistance to Dispel mechanics for a short time.

Rogue

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Use Shuriken Toss to throw a shuriken at your enemy, dealing damage to your target and up to 4 additional nearby.

Master of Subtlety causes attacks made while stealthed—and for a short time after exiting stealth— to cause additional damage.

Shaman

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Maelstrom Weapon causes damage dealt with melee attacks to have a chance to reduce the cast time of your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lesser Healing Wave, Healing Wave, Chain Heal, or Lava Burst spell by 20%. The cast time reduction can stack up to five times.

Spirit of the Alpha is almost the opposite of Blessing of Salvation and casts a 30-minute buff on a friendly target to increase the threat generated by that target.

While some Shaman choose to battle with one weapon in each hand, others prefer to hand out devastating blows with a 2-handed weapon. If dealing damage with a two-handed weapon is your playstyle, then you will want to pick up Two-Handed Mastery. Each time you strike an enemy with a two-handed weapon, you gain 30% attack speed with this weapon for 10 seconds.

Warlock

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With Invocation, when you refresh some of your damage over time effects while they have less than 6 seconds remaining, instant damage will be dealt to your target equal to one tick of that spell’s periodic damage. So, you no longer have to worry about refreshing your damage over time (DoT) spells at the perfect moment.

Dance of the Wicked will trigger a buff which increases you and your pets’ dodge chance any time either of you deal a critical strike to an enemy. You will also gain 2% of your maximum mana when this occurs.

Warrior

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Rallying Cry is a defensive ability which can be activated to increase the health of all party and raid members within 40 yards.

Blood Surge gives some of your abilities a chance to make your next Slam instant and cost no Rage.

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Comment by HeirachiThis doesn't need a separate article after the Phase 2 post.

Why do you always do this WoWhead?Comment by LionButLeonEle? xddComment by itskevinlolabsolutely garbage shaman and mage runes.Comment by handovdoom666priest rune screenshots are both mind spikeComment by BlightyCan blizz PLEASE stop giving priest mind spike. It's a @#$% ability, it's clunky and the way it conflicts with Mind flay is just unhealthy for the spec. Why add an ability that completely eclipses one the class was designed with in the first place.

Really have to hope there are alternative runes on that slot for shadow, but considering they have to make space for 2 healer specs worth of runes, I won't get my hopes high...Comment by wetwilly2002That's the highlighted shaman runes...... ugh...... I hope they tested that spirit of the alpha when people will most likely be carrying an extra pair of boots with that rune to buff their tanks threat and swap it out, Maelstrom Weapon could be nasty... stack it up to 5 then lava bust while having flame shock up.Comment by ShuviR.I.P. range hunter :-(
If I want to play stupid melee classes I would prefer rouges or brainless warriors. Why not making the melee hunter to a tank class?

This doesn't need a separate article after the Phase 2 post.

Why do you always do this WoWhead?Comment by TattytaigerGood melee hunter runes, they dunked on my elementals, and give all attention to enh. And who at blizz is main slam spec cause those warrior runes suck tho.Comment by thugnificenti dont think people realize this is just a preview its not all the runes in the cases where people think certain specs arent getting anythingComment by SeanyneThe Warlock Invocation rune is a joke.... right? Right?

Do bad, clip dots, no problem!Comment by Rammboowtf worst runes ever and only 2 --..--Comment by dewdmight aswell just play retail with xp stopComment by Yuro0oTime to delete my warrior.. so after 3 months of getting smashed by druids from 42yards aswell as hunters killing me 2v1 with pet... we again get terrible useles runes? this is crazyComment by HaetheiHoping one of the other Warrior runes will be something to enable Arms Slam spec in SoD. Really enjoyed it a lot in TBC, but it's not very good with the vanilla talent trees. The instant slam rune in this article is alright, but kinda boring for me.Comment by PreyfarWtf no one wanted mindspike in retail … why are they forcing it on us even in classic …. its just so trash man … worst ability ingame for priest in all expacs just noComment by UnluckerproTerrible runes for rogue. I would take Fleet Footed over this anytime. This just goes to show that SOD will be retail-like where every class has to have access to everything like aoe. MOS just plain boring. Sigh.Comment by AscenTVAs an ele main who's been made to heal all 25 bracket some new usable rune would have been nice.

Edit: These are just some of the runes not all mb for complaining but some ele dopamin reveal still would have been nice.Comment by TebaWHERE Leap of Faith REEEEEEEEEEEEEComment by UrwetterNo Moonkin want to use Starfire it's a Dead Spell, even Power of Goldrinn would be better than Eclipse, or give us something new!Comment by FlayOnDarkIronabsolutely garbage shaman and mage runes.Wtf no one wanted mindspike in retail … why are they forcing it on us even in classic …. its just so trash man … worst ability ingame for priest in all expacs just no

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