Category: The War Within

Here are this week’s changes to The War Within beta:

CLASSES

• Developer’s note: In today’s build, Avoidance and Leech rating on gear gives half as much percent value as before, and we’ve reduced the amount of these stats given by most talents. Both stats, Avoidance in particular, are extremely effective against the damage non-tank players face. By the end of an expansion, the amount of Avoidance appearing on gear reduces so much damage that acquiring pieces with it can feel required to do the hardest content, particularly extremely high Mythic+ keys. By reducing the amount of value given per rating, our goal is for pieces with those stats to remain valuable, but for the gap between players with and without them to be closer.
• Reduced the percentage granted by Avoidance and Leech rating by 50%.
• The following Leech and Avoidance effects have also been reduced:
  • Death Knight
    • Lichborne now grants 6% Leech (was 10%).
    • Vampiric Aura now grants 2% Leech (was 3%).
    • Blood Scent now grants 3% Leech (was 5%).
  • Demon Hunter
    • Soul Rending now grants 6% Leech (was 10%).
  • Evoker
    • Regenerative Magic now grants 2% Leech (was 3%).
  • Hunter
    • Sentinel’s Protection now grants 3% Leech (was 5%).
    • Predator’s Thirst now grants 6% Leech (was 10%).
    • Hunter’s Avoidance now grants 5% Avoidance (was 6%).
  • Mage
    • Merely a Setback now grants 3% Leech (was 5%).
  • Paladin
    • Sanctified Plates now grants 3% Avoidance (was 5%).
  • Priest
    • Sanguine Teachings now grants 2% Leech (was 3%).
  • Rogue
    • Leeching Poison now grants 3% Leech (was 5%).
    • Shadowheart now grants 2% Leech (was 3%).
  • Warlock
    • Lifeblood now grants 4% Leech (was 7%).
  • Warrior
    • Leeching Strikes now grants 3% Leech (was 5%).
    • Seasoned Soldier now grants 5% Avoidance (was 10%).
• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Icecap has been updated – Crits with Obliterate and Frost Strike no longer reduce Icecap cooldown. Now grants 15 second cooldown for Pillar of Frost.
    • Spending runes no longer increases the Strength bonus of Pillar of Frost.
    • Enduring Strength’s Strength bonus decreased to 15% (was 25%).
    • The functionality that increased Obliteration’s Frost Strike runic power cost and damage has been removed.
    • Murderous Efficiency’s chance to grant a Rune reduced to 25% (was 50%).
    • Frost Strike damage increased by 23%.
    • Obliterate damage increased by 23%.
    • Howling Blast damage increased by 23%.
    • Frost Fever damage increased by 23%.
    • Remorseless Winter damage increased by 23%.
    • Glacial Advance damage increased by 23%.
    • Frostsycthe damage increased by 5%.
    • Chill Streak damage increased by 23%.
    • Frostwyrm’s Fury damage increased by 10%.
    • Breath of Sindragosa damage increased by 23% and cost per second reduced to 17 (was 18).
    • Icy Death Torrent damage increased by 100%.
    • Inexorable Assault damage increased by 23%.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Hero Talents
    • Aldrachi Reaver
      • Art of the Glaive’s Soul Fragment threshold to activate Reaver’s Glaive reduced to 30.
• DRUID
  • Connectors repositioned to avoid a scenario where Improved Stampeding Roar could be taken without Stampeding Roar.
  • Positions of Fluid Form and Forestwalk swapped.
  • Hero Talents
    • Keeper of the Grove (Balance/Restoration)
      • Grove’s Inspiration increases damage dealt by Wrath and Starfire by 10% (was 15%).
      • Cenarius’ Might increases your Haste by 10% (was 8%).
  • Balance
    • All ability damage increased by 5%.
    • Starsurge damage increased by 15%.
    • Starfall damage increased by 15%.
    • Fury of Elune damage increased by 15%.
    • Full Moon damage increased by 15%.
    • Shooting Stars damage increased by 20%.
    • Stellar Flare damage increased by 10%.
    • Power of Goldrinn damage increased by 10%.
    • Denizen of the Dream damage increased by 10%.
    • Orbital Strike damage increased by 25%.
    • Greater Alignment causes Celestial Alignment to increase the damage your eclipses grant by 8% (was 5%).
• HUNTER
  • New Talent: Blackrock Munitions – The damage of Explosive Shot is increased by 8%.
  • New Talent: Implosive Trap – Hurls a fire trap to the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing Fire damage and knocking all enemies up. Limit 1. Choice node with High Explosive Trap.
  • Territorial Instincts has been redesigned – Casting Intimidation without an active pet summons one from your stable.
  • Talent nodes in Gate 2 have been repositioned.
  • Concussive Shot and Wilderness Medicine now connect to Scare Beast and Scout’s Instinct respectively.
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Steel Trap
    • Death Chakram
      • Developer’s note: One of the biggest complaints we’re seeing in the Hunter community is button bloat. Death Chakram was a relatively high-frequency button that you had to click before all of your damage abilities, creating something of a launch sequence for every Hunter specialization. Its removal will let us bake the lost power into each spec’s kit while also reducing the button-presses required before you can begin damage.
  • Beast Mastery
    • Alpha Predator and Improved Kill Command have swapped locations.
    • Improved Kill Command has a new icon.
    • Hunter’s Prey and Venom’s Bite have swapped locations.
    • Pathing in Gate 2 has been adjusted.
    • Huntmaster’s Call sound effect volume has been lowered.
  • Marksmanship
    • Arcane Shot damage increased by 3%.
    • Small Game Hunter’s Multi-Shot damage bonus reduced to 75% (was 100%).
    • Multi-Shot Focus cost increased to 30 (was 20).
    • Fixed a baseline passive bug that was causing Multi-Shot to deal 20% increased damage for Marksmanship only.
    • Wailing Arrow and Rapid Fire will now properly generate Wind Arrows when talented into Legacy of the Windrunners.
  • Survival
    • Sic’ Em has been redesigned – Kill Command has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown of Kill Shot, make it usable on targets regardless of Health, and strike up to 2 additional targets. This chance is doubled during Coordinated Assault.
    • Coordinated Assault initial damage increased by 60%.
    • Coordinated Assault has been redesigned – You and your pet charge your enemy, striking them for combined Physical damage. You and your pet’s bond is then strengthened for 20 seconds, causing you and your pet to deal 20% increased damage. While Coordinated Assault is active, Kill Command’s chance to reset its cooldown is increased by 15%.
      • Developer’s note: Coordinated Assault’s previous iterations have been disproportionately complex relative to its output. Our goal with these changes is to simplify Coordinated Assault’s effects, increase the power gain from Coordinated Assault, and disjoint it from Kill Shot so that you can opt-in to Kill Shot bonuses as you see fit. We also believe that the increased Kill Command reset chance will be more broadly appealing with the new talents introduced in the Survival update.
    • Symbiotic Adrenaline has been updated – Additionally causes Coordinated Assault to grant 3 stacks of Tip of the Spear.
    • Quick Shot has been updated – Now has a 30% chance to fire an Arcane Shot when you cast Kill Command (was when Kill Command reset).
    • Butchery damage increased by 100%.
    • Flanking Strike now replaces Kill Command after casting Kill Command 3 times.
    • Flanking Strike range increased to 25 yards (Medium-Short range).
    • Flanking Strike no longer benefits from Tip of the Spear and now generates 15 Focus.
    • Flanker’s Advantage no longer grants additional reset chance based on your critical strike.
      • This effect also had a bug that was causing you to roll for Kill Command resets twice per cast of Kill Command, which was creating substantially increased Kill Command resets.
    • Mongoose Fury now refreshes its duration when a new stack is applied.
    • Mongoose Fury max stacks reduced to 3 (was 5).
    • Mongoose Fury duration reduced to 10 seconds .
      • Developer’s note: The previous design of Mongoose Fury was rewarding you for pressing nothing but Mongoose Bite in your damage window while the new Tip of the Spear is asking you to weave in Kill Commands. These two designs were pulling your rotation in two separate directions, and these adjustments should help to harmonize these two mechanics.
    • Wildfire Infusion’s Kill Command reset chance reduced to 10% (was 15%).
    • Wildfire Infusion’s Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction reduced to 0.5 seconds (was 1 second).
      • Developer’s note – We’re still making adjustments to Survival’s action economy and reducing how crowded the rotation feels. Part of this is reducing the increased access of Wildfire Bomb from the various spec tree changes we’ve made, particularly through Wildfire Infusion.
    • Many effects that were consuming multiple stacks of Tip of the Spear have been fixed.
    • Spearhead now only makes your pet charge.
    • Spearhead description updated.
    • Spearhead visuals and sound effects updated.
• MAGE
  • Hero Talents
    • Spellslinger (Frost/Arcane)
      • Slippery Slinging has been updated – Now also grants 40% move speed during Evocation (only if Slipstream is talented).
      • Fixed an issue where over-capping on Splinters would cause Splinterstorm to lower its cast threshold.
      • Frost
        • Frost Splinters now scale with Frost’s Mastery.
    • Sunfury (Arcane/Fire)
      • Spellfire Sphere and Lingering Embers spell damage bonus for Fire Mages decreased to 1% (was 2%).
      • Lingering Embers no longer has a stack limit.
      • Burden of Power Pyroblast damage bonus reduced to 15% (was 30%).
      • Memory of Al’ar’s Hyperthermia base duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
  • Arcane
    • Many talents have been moved across all gates.
    • New Talent: Consortium’s Bauble – Reduces Arcane Blast’s mana cost by 3% and increases its damage by 3%.
    • New Talent: Resonant Orbs – Arcane Orb damage increased by 10%.
    • New Talent: Dematerialize – Spells empowered by Nether Precision cause their target to suffer an additional 8% of the damage dealt over 6 seconds.
    • New Talent: Energy Reconstitution – Damage from Dematerialize has a small chance to conjure an Arcane Explosion at 50% effectiveness at its target’s location. Arcane Explosions conjured this way do not generate Arcane Charges.
    • New Talent: Big Brained – Gaining Clearcasting increases your Intellect by 1% for 8 seconds. Multiple instances may overlap.
    • New Talent: Static Cloud – Each time you cast Arcane Explosion, its damage is increases by 25%. Bonus resets upon reaching 100% damage.
    • New Talent: High Voltage – Damage from Arcane Missiles has a 20% chance to grant you 1 Arcane Charge. Chance is increased by 5% every time your Arcane Missiles fails to grant an Arcane Charge.
    • Arcane Orb is now baseline.
    • Arcane Blast damage increased by 10%.
    • Baseline Clearcasting proc chance reduced to 8% (was 10%).
      • Developer’s note: It is currently too easy to acquire more Clearcasting stacks than you know what to do with. We’re going to continue to watch Clearcasting proc rates and adjust accordingly.
    • Clearcasting now utilizes bad luck protection instead of true randomness.
    • Improved Arcane Missiles damage bonus reduced to 5% (was 10%).
    • Crackling Energy damage bonus reduced to 5% (was 10%).
  • Fire
    • Pyromaniac proc chance reduced to 6% (was 8%).
    • Improved Scorch damage bonus increased to 6% (was 5%).
    • Pyromaniac Pyroblast and Flamestrike now echo at 50% effectiveness (was 100%).
    • Molten Fury damage bonus decreased to 7% (was 8%).
    • Phoenix Reborn damage bonus decreased to 100% (was 200%).
    • Ashen Feather damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 100%).
    • Ashen Feather Ignite bonus reduced to 50% (was 25%).
    • Developer’s note: We’re cleaning up the Living Bomb talents. Our goal with these changes is to increase the appeal of Gate 3 Living Bomb talents. We still expect Living Bomb to be fairly appealing in single target and low-cleave situations, since the damage decrease from the following changes in low-target contexts is marginal, and we will be watching it closely.
    • Living Bomb implementation has been refactored and many bugs have been fixed.
    • Living Bomb now applies Ignite.
    • Living Bomb now spreads to 3 targets (was 5).
    • The wording of many Lit Fuse proc chance increase talents has been changed.
    • Lit Fuse proc chance increased to 15% (was 10%).
    • Lit Fuse now applies 1 Living Bomb (was 3).
    • Explosivo has been updated – Now increases Living Bomb’s damage by 50% while under the effects of Combustion. Chance of gaining Lit Fuse is increased by 30% while under the effects of Combustion.
    • Blast Zone has been updated – Lit Fuse now turns up to 3 targets into Living Bombs. Living Bombs can now spread to 5 enemies.
    • Explosive Ingenuity now increases Living Bomb’s damage by 25% (was 50%).
    • Sparking Cinders now separately increases Pyroblast and Flamestrike’s damage, now 10% and 20% respectively.
    • Sparking Cinders now triggers 2 times per minute, scaling with Haste (was 3).
  • Frost
    • Death’s Chill has been updated – While Icy Veins is active, damaging an enemy with Frostbolt increases spell damage by 2%. Stacks up to 10 times.
      • Developer’s note: We’re increasing the ramp of Death’s Chill and giving it a stack limit so that you can comfortably switch off of Frostbolt after reaching max stacks.
    • Fractured Frost has been updated – While Icy Veins is active, your Frostbolts hit up to 2 additional targets and deal 15% increased damage.
    • Ice Lance damage increased by 12%.
• MONK
  • Hero Talents
    • Shado-Pan (Windwalker/Brewmaster)
      • Damage required to accumulate a Flurry Charge increased.
        • Developer’s note: We’re happy with the change to Attack Power as the primary driver for Flurry Charge generation, but the current tuning was generating charges too quickly and leaving little room for skilled player to differentiate themselves. We will continue to keep a close eye on this and appreciate your feedback.
  • Brewmaster
    • Fundamental Observation has been removed.
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue that caused Gust of Mist’s healing to not be increased as intended.
• PALADIN
  • Hero Talents
    • Lightsmith (Holy/Protection)
      • Sacred Weapon damage increased by 60%.
      • Sacred Weapon healing increased by 50%.
      • Divine Guidance damage and healing increased by 100%.
      • Blessing of the Forge echo values brought into alignment with originating spells:
        • Light of Dawn echo reduced.
        • Denounce echo increased.
        • Shield of the Righteous echo increased.
        • Word of Glory echo increase.
      • Hammer and Anvil damage and healing increased by 50%.
    • Templar (Retribution/Protection)
      • Sacrosanct Crusade has been redesigned – Eye of Tyr/Wake of Ashes surrounds you with a Holy barrier for 15/20% of your maximum health. Hammer of Light heals you for 15/20% of your maximum health, increased by 2/2% for each additional target hit. Any overhealing done with this effect gets converted into a Holy barrier instead.
      • An issue with free Hammer of Light casts consuming Divine Purpose proc has been resolved.
  • Holy
    • New Talent: Extrication – Word of Glory and Light of Dawn gain up to 30% additional chance to critically strike, based on their target’s current health. Lower health targets are more likely to be critically struck.
    • New Talent: Liberation – Word of Glory and Light of Dawn have a chance equal to your Haste to reduce the cost of your next Holy Light, Crusader Strike, or Judgment.
    • New Talent: Truth Prevails – Judgment heals you and its mana cost is reduced by 30%. 50% of overhealing from this effect is transferred onto 2 allies within 40 yards.
    • Glistening Radiance has been redesigned – Spending Holy Power has a 25% chance to trigger Saved by the Light’s absorb effect at 30% effectiveness without activating its cooldown.
    • Light’s Protection has been redesigned – Allies with Beacon of Light receive 5% less damage.
    • Overflowing Light has been redesigned – 15% of Holy Shock’s overhealing is converted into an absorb shield. The shield amount cannot exceed 10% of your max health.
    • Rising Sunlight has been redesigned – After casting Avenging Wrath, your next 2 Holy Shocks cast 2 additional times. After casting Divine Toll, your next 2 Holy Shocks cast 2 additional times.
    • Glorious Dawn has been redesigned – Holy Shock has a 12% chance to refund a charge when cast and its healing is increased by 10%.
    • Several talent locations have been moved.
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Glimmer of Light
      • Daybreak
  • Retribution
    • Divine Wrath now extends the duration of Radiant Glory separately. New Tooltip – Increases the duration of Avenging Wrath and Crusade by 3 seconds, and Radiant Glory by 1.5 seconds.
    • Divine Wrath no longer extends the duration of Radiant Glory.
    • Vanguard of Justice has been updated – Enemies hit by other Holy Power spending abilities take 30% increased damage from your next Divine Storm stacking up to 3/5 times. 2-point talent.
    • Judge, Jury and Executioner has been updated – Holy Power generating abilities have a 15% chance to cause your next Templar’s Verdict to hit an additional 3 enemies at 100% effectiveness (was triggering from Divine Storm and was 40% chance).
    • Judge, Jury and Executioner no longer highlights Templar’s Verdict but instead has a UI overlay.
    • Templar Slash damage over time debuff is no longer displayed in the personal nameplates.
• PRIEST
  • Hero Talents
    • Oracle (Holy/Discipline)
      • Preventive Measures now also increases damage dealt by Penance, Holy Fire, Smite, and Holy Nova by 15%.
• ROGUE
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathstalker (Assassination/Subtlety)
      • Flensing Knives has been removed and replaced by Fatal Intent.
      • New Talent: Fatal Intent – Your damaging abilities against enemies above 20% health have a very high chance to apply Fatal Intent. When an enemy falls below 20% health, Fatal Intent inflicts Plague damage per stack.
      • Deathstalker’s Mark has had the following updates:
        • Can no longer be re-applied if the target has a Deathstalker’s Mark.
        • Duration increased to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
        • Now again applies 3 stacks (was 2).
        • Plague damage on consuming a Mark has been increased by 16.5%.
        • Next ability damage on consuming a Mark has been increased by 20%.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Eviscerates and Envenoms empowered by Darkest Night to deal less damage than intended.
      • Darkest Night is now granted to the Rogue when a target with Deathstalker’s Mark dies.
    • Fatebound (Assassination/Outlaw)
      • Hand of Fate has had the following updates:
        • Streak buffs now have a duration of 15 seconds (was unlimited).
        • Heads buff now increases damage by 3% (was 5%) plus an additional 1% per stack.
        • Tails base damage increased by 72%.
        • Tails buff now increases its damage by 10% per stack (was 20%).
      • Fateful Ending has had the following updates:
        • Lucky Coin buff now increases Agility by 7% (was all primary/secondary/tertiary stats by 1%).
        • Lucky Coin out-of-combat timer increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
        • Lucky Coin now deals Cosmic damage (170% of Tails’ base damage) to your target if you already have the Lucky Coin buff upon flipping the same face for the seventh time in a row.
      • Fate Intertwined now duplicates 20% of Dispatch/Envenom critical damage (was 15%).
• SHAMAN
  • Hero Talents
    • Totemic (Enhancement/Restoration)
      • Surging Totem is now cast at a destination within 40 yards. For Enhancement, it creates Tremors around itself every 6 seconds for the duration, and for Restoration maintains Healing Rain around itself for 24 seconds. Totemic Projection can be used to move the Totem and its effects and it will be prioritized as the central totem.
• WARLOCK
  • Hero Talents
    • Soul Harvester (Demonology/Affliction)
      • Shadow of Death has been redesigned – Your demonic soul lures lost spirits to you, granting you a Succulent Soul every 30 seconds while in combat. In addition, your demonic soul empowers your Soul Rot/Summon Demonic Tyrant causing it to grant 2 Succulent Souls when cast.
      • Sataiel’s Ambition has been renamed to Wicked Reaping.
      • Mantle of the Harvester has been renamed to Sataiel’s Volition.
  • Affliction
    • The chance for Ravenous Afflictions to activate has been increased.
  • Destruction
    • Summon Infernal now paths to Eradication and to Reverse Entropy/Internal Combustion.
• WARRIOR
  • Blood and Thunder talent removed.
  • Thunder Clap will now apply Rend by default if it is known.
  • Crackling Thunder no longer increases Thunder Clap damage.
  • Champion’s Might now causes you to deal 25% increased critical strike damage to targets chained to your Spear.
    • This critical damage bonus is now additive instead of multiplicative, matching other similar effects.
  • Piercing Challenge now increases all damage dealt by Champion’s Spear (was only initial damage).
  • Uproar now reduces the cooldown of Thunderous Roar by 45 seconds (was 30 seconds).
  • Fixed an issue that caused Rallying Cry to increase maximum health by 15% instead of the intended 10%.
  • Hero Talents
    • Colossus (Protection/Arms)
      • Protection
        • Revenge now generates a stack of Colossal Might when it hits 3 or more targets.
    • Mountain Thane (Protection/Fury)
      • Keep Your Feet on the Ground no longer increases your Armor and instead reduces Physical damage taken by 2%.
    • Slayer (Fury/Arms)
      • Opportunist now increases the damage and critical strike damage of your next Overpower by 15% (was 10%).
  • Arms
    • All ability damage increased by 30%.
    • Overpower damage increased by an additional 20%.
  • Fury
    • Anger Management now reduces cooldowns by 1 second per 30 Rage spent (was 20 Rage).
    • Anger Management now reduces cooldowns by 1 second per 20 Rage spent (was 30 Rage, this reverts a recent change).
    • All ability damage increased by 30%.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• WARBANDS
  • Honor can be transferred between characters at a 80% conversion rate.
• CLASSES
  • MAGE
    • Fire
      • Blazing Barrier’s effectiveness is no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 75% effective).
      • Unleashed Inferno is now 30% effective in PvP combat (was 20%).
  • MONK
    • Brewmaster
      • Charred Passions is now 100% effective in PvP combat (was 0%).
      • Elusive Footwork is now 100% effective in PvP combat (was 50%).
      • Niuzao’s Training is now 100% effective in PvP combat (was 50%).
    • Mistweaver
      • Enveloping Breath is now 100% effective in PvP combat (was 111%).
      • Invigorating Mists is now 100% effective in PvP combat (was 112%).
      • Soothing Mist is now 100% effective in PvP combat (was 115%).
    • Windwalker
      • Rising Star’s critical strike damage is now 100% effective in PvP combat (was 50%).
• REWARDS
  • Throngus’s Finger dodge effect may now trigger from parrying, blocking or dodging attacks (was parry only). Dodge effect duration increased to 20 seconds and increased significantly.
  • Developer’s note: Greetings folks! We would like to provide some insight as to how crafting and sockets integrate with PvP.
    • To replace the removal of sockets from the Great Vault, a new item called the Vicious Jeweler’s Setting will be purchasable from a vendor at a cost of Honor and Bloodstones. This item will allow you to put a socket on any piece of PvP equipment that is eligible to have a socket, and rings and necklaces can have up to two sockets like the PvE counterpart. Note that the Jewelcrafting version of the socketer is not compatible with PvP equipment. We would like for the journey to full gems on PvP gear to be meaningful but effort-gated rather than time-gated, and intend for the cost to be roughly comparable to the effort required were this still sourced from
      the Great Vault.
    • Additionally, this item can occasionally drop from end-of-match victory boxes with a much higher chance to drop from certain War Mode activities.
    • Crafted PvP gear is receiving a few updates as well. In Dragonflight Season 2, we added Optional Reagents that allowed you to enhance any piece of crafted Spark equipment with Honor or Conquest item level. This allowed for much greater stat customization and enabled most crafted embellishments to exist as options within the PvP ecosystem. Unfortunately, this came with the downside of being gated by the acquisition of your bi-weekly Crafting Sparks which ultimately slowed down the ability to acquire and use this gear and proved to be an obstacle in gearing simultaneously for PvP and PvE content. Finally, the seasonal nature of our starter PvP gear resulted in a flood of largely duplicate recipes.
    • In The War Within, we’re working to smooth out these rough edges through the following changes:
      • Crafted PvP recipes will now be primarily sourced through a vendor at a heavy cost of Honor. These recipes will continue to drop from victory boxes, but at a much lower rate.
      • Regardless of how you acquire them, the recipes are not Bind on Pickup and can be sold or traded to other players.
      • These recipes are evergreen for the expansion, and you will not need to collect a full suite of recipes season over season.
      • What was previously optional reagents are now required reagents that function similarly to the spark. You can purchase these with Honor and Conquest just as before, and each recipe will require a quantity equivalent in cost to what the vendor offers for that slot. Essentially, if you have the currency, you can choose to craft PvP gear.
      • The “Starter” set of crafted PvP gear will remain BoE and the reagent used to craft it will drop in high quantities from victory boxes and is also tradeable. You will be able to purchase this reagent with honor as well, though at a slightly higher cost to Honor gear due to its tradability.
      • When we enter a new season, this set of reagents will no longer be obtainable and a new set with updated item levels will take their place. As usual, you can Recraft these to higher item levels once you acquire the reagents necessary.
  • Raid Rewards
    • Treacherous Transmitter has had the following updates:
      • Effect reworked to be triggered on use with a 1 minute cooldown.
        • Developer’s note: Completing a random task at random times proved more disruptive than intended. Players may now decide the optimal moment to continue working on their shadowy benefactor’s behalf. Nothing bad ever happened from listening to voices in the darkness, so why stop now?
      • Fixed several bugs related to the trigger tasks.
    • Mad Queen’s Mandate has had the following updates:
      • Now castable while moving.
      • Periodic healing effect can now critically heal.
      • Fixed an issue preventing the heal effect from triggering when the target was killed by the trinket.
    • Skyterror’s Corrosive Organ primary target periodic and splash damage effects may now critically strike.
    • Swarmlord’s Authority has had the following updates:
      • Absorb amount and duration increased; damage decreased.
      • Fixed an issue that could cause the absorb shield to reach unintended values and affect client stability
      • Scarabs now properly grant absorb value if they killed the target.
    • Spymaster’s Web’s Spying spiders now grant Intellect if the triggering spell killed the target.
    • Key to the Unseeming now grants Haste and Mastery (was Critical Strike and Versatility).

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN
  • Screen now displays up to four characters from your Warband at once. Characters can be reordered or moved in and out of the scene via the character list panel.
  • Characters are clickable and rotatable within the scene.
  • Hovering over characters will provide more information about that character, including class specialization, professions, and more.
  • A search field has been added to the character list panel to easily find your characters.
  • Artwork updates and clarity improvements have been made to game service menus.
• The number of character macro slots has increased to 30 (was 18).
• A map legend has been added to the main map next to the pin and filter options.

Hello everyone! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta.

NEW FEATURES

• WARBANDS
  • Known Issue: A Warband conversion popup may appear when you log in, however Warband conversion is not yet implemented for Beta characters.
• CROSS-REALM GUILDS
  • Guild functionality has been extended to allow for recruitment and management of Guild members across all realms in their respective regions.
    • Developer’s note: Guild banks are currently restricted to the realm the Guild is located on for initial testing. Guild bank functionality will be included in a future Beta release.
      To facilitate testing we have spun up an additional level-up realm, “Turnip’s Delight”, so players can create Guilds and invite members across multiple realms in their region.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Death’s Bargain renamed to Pact of the Deathbringer.
      • Exterminate now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • Visceral Regeneration renamed and redesigned: Visceral Strength – When Crimson Scourge/Sudden Doom is consumed, you gain 5% Strength for 8/5 seconds.
      • Infliction of Sorrow now deals 100% of the remaining damage of the consumed disease (was 200%).
      • Fixed an issue that prevented Blood Beasts from spawning.
      • Unholy
        • Infliction of Sorrow now only functions with Virulent Plague for Unholy Death Knight.
  • Blood
    • New Talent: Bloodied Blade – Parrying an attack grants you a charge of Bloodied Blade, increasing your Strength by 0.5%, up to 4% for 15 seconds. At 8 stacks, your next parry consumes all charges to unleash a Heart Strike at 200% effectiveness, and increases your Strength by 10% for 6 seconds.
    • Several talents have moved around on the Blood tree.
  • Frost
    • Obliteration now has an additional effect – While Pillar of Frost is active it will now also increase the cost of your Frost Strike by up to 15 Runic Power to deal up to 52.5% additional damage.
  • Unholy
    • Foul Infections now correctly increases disease crit chance by a flat 5% (was previously multiplicative crit chance).
    • Unholy Blight is now passive and now surrounds the ghoul instead of the Death Knight. New Tooltip – Dark Transformation surrounds your ghoul with a vile swarm of insects for 6 seconds, stinging all nearby enemies and infecting them with Virulent Plague and an unholy disease that deals damage over 14 seconds, stacking up to 4 times.
    • Sudden Doom no longer causes Epidemic to burst Festering Wound on targets.
    • When talented into Harbinger of Doom, Sudden Doom now displays the activation overlay images separately, left and right, for each stack.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Illuminated Sigils now grants an additional charge only to Sigil of Flame (was all Sigils) and also reduces Sigil of Flame cooldown by 5 seconds.
  • Hero Talents
    • Aldrachi Reaver
      • New Talent: Fury of the Aldrachi – When enhanced by Reaver’s Glaive, Blade Dance/Soul Cleave deals 3 additional glaive slashes to nearby targets. If cast after Chaos Strike/Fracture/Shear, deal 6 slashes instead.
      • Art of the Glaive has been redesigned – Begins a well-practiced pattern of glaivework and enhances your next cast of Chaos Strike and of Blade Dance. The enhanced ability you cast first deals 10% increased damage, and the second deals 20% increased damage.
      • Intent Pursuit has been redesigned – When enhanced by Reaver’s Glaive, Chaos Strike/Fracture/Shear applies Reaver’s Mark which causes the target to take 15% increased damage for 20 seconds. If cast after Blade Dance/Soul Cleave, Reaver’s Mark is increased to 30%.
      • Casting The Hunt allows you to cast Reaver’s Glaive.
      • Incisive Blade always increases Chaos Strike/Soul Cleave damage (was only when enhanced).
      • Adjusted positions of Incisive Blade, Keen Engagement, and Preemptive Strike.
      • Escalation has been removed.
• DRUID
  • Hero Talents
    • Elune’s Chosen (Balance/Guardian)
      • Moondust now slows enemies by 20% (was 30%).
      • Stellar Command now increases Full Moon damage by 25% (was 15%).
• EVOKER
  • Hero Talents
    • Chronowarden (Augmentation/Preservation)
      • Temporal Burst now increases Haste, movement speed, and cooldown recovery rate by 30%, decreasing over 30 seconds (was 1% increasing up to 40% over 40 seconds).
    • Scalecommander (Devastation/Augmentation)
      • Unrelenting Siege now increases the damage of Disintegrate/Eruption, Living Flame, and Azure Strike by 1% every second, up to 15%. Stacks are now also used to communicate the value (was Living Flame and Azure Strike stacking up to 50%).
• HUNTER
  • Trailblazer and Pathfinding have swapped locations in the Hunter class tree.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing Posthaste to only grant 25% movement speed. It now grants 50% movement speed.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing Born to Be Wild to falsely claim to reduce the cooldown of Survival of the Fittest.
  • Hero Talents
    • Sentinel (Survival/Marksmanship)
      • Symphonic Arsenal damage reduced by 40%.
      • Symphonic Arsenal target cap reduced to 5 (was 6).
  • Beast Mastery
    • Thrill of the Hunt now properly stacks up to 3 times.
    • War Orders now properly grants a 50% chance to reset the cooldown of Kill Command.
    • The position of Hunter’s Prey and Wild Call have been swapped.
    • Killer Cobra in Gate 2 has been renamed to Venom’s Bite.
    • Developer’s note: Huntmaster’s Call is providing a substantial amount of damage despite how easy it is to access.
    • Huntmaster’s Call has had the following adjustments:
      • Fenryr’s Ravenous Leap damage reduced by 30%.
      • Hati now increases all pet damage by 8% (was 15%).
      • Hati and Fenryr attack damage has been normalized and reduced.
    • Hunters have new visuals and sound effects when Huntmaster’s Call summons Hati or Fenryr.
    • Kill Command damage increased by 8%.
    • Dire Beast damage increased by 10%.
    • Dire Beast now grants 20 Focus.
  • Survival
    • Harpoon and Aspect of the Eagle are now baseline to Survival Hunter.
    • Fury of the Eagle will now properly benefit from Tip of the Spear.
    • Fury of the Eagle does not consume a stack of Tip of the Spear until the channel ends.
    • Contagious Reagents no longer plays the Serpent Sting animation or audio multiple times.
    • Terms of Engagement is now located where Harpoon used to be on the Survival Spec tree.
    • Exposed Flank has been redesigned – Flanking Strike exposes a weakness in your enemy’s defenses, causing it to strike 2 additional targets at 100% effectiveness and causing Kill Command to hit 2 additional nearby enemies for 10 seconds.
    • Explosive Shot now benefits from and consumes Tip of the Spear.
    • Developer’s note: The following changes are targeted at smoothing out Survival’s rotation, such that you can reasonably maintain a spell priority, aren’t munching procs, and will have to more actively manage your Focus economy. We will continue to read feedback and adjust Survival’s action and focus economy as necessary.
    • Fixed an isasue that was causing Flanker’s Advantage to substantially increase Kill Command’s chance to reset its cooldown and substantially increase Tip of the Spear’s damage bonus.
    • Flanking Strike damage increased by 40%, now costs 20 Focus, and generates 2 stacks of Tip of the Spear.
    • Wildfire Bomb now costs 10 Focus.
    • Explosives Expert now reduces Wildfire Bomb cooldown by 1/2 seconds (was 2/4 seconds).
    • Wildfire Infusion now makes Kill Command reduce the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 1 second (was 2 seconds).
    • Grenade Juggler now makes Explosive Shot reduce the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 2 seconds (was 4 seconds).
    • Grenade Juggler now causes Wildfire Bomb to have a 25% chance to also fire an Explosive Shot at your target at 100% effectiveness (was 25% chance to reset the cooldown of Explosive Shot).
    • Bombardier now grants two free charges of Explosive Shot after Coordinated Assault ends (used to make Explosive Shot have 0 cooldown and cost 0 Focus for 4 seconds).
• MAGE
  • Hero Talents
    • Spellslinger (Frost/Arcane)
      • Splintering Orbs updated for Arcane only – The first enemy damaged by your Arcane Orb conjures 4 Arcane Splinters.
      • Spellfrost Teachings updated for Arcane only – Spellfrost Teachings now automatically launches an Arcane Orb when it procs, rather than resetting the cooldown of Arcane Orb.
        • Developer’s note: The difference in effectiveness between Arcane Orb and Frozen Orb in single target versus AOE is stark. These changes should help Arcane Mages to feel as though they’re still getting full benefit out of their Hero Talents in single target relative to Frost Mages, who can much more easily get full benefit.
    • Sunfury (Arcane/Fire)
      • Lessons in Debilitation no longer casts a crowd-controlled spell when you summon your Phoenix.
        • Developer’s note: Mages having access to a free, off global cooldown crowd-controlled spell every time they use their cooldowns was proving to be too problematic in all forms of content.
      • Gravity Lapse now benefits from Time Manipulation in the Mage Class Tree.
        • Fixed an issue that was causing Spellfire Spheres to be removed from players upon starting an encounter.
      • Meteorites will now properly benefit from damage amplification effects and proc on-damage effects.
      • Codex of the Sunstriders has been redesigned – Over its duration, your Arcane Phoenix will consume each of your Spellfire Spheres to cast an exceptional spell. Upon consuming a Spellfire Sphere, your Arcane Phoenix will grant you Lingering Embers, increasing your spell damage by 2%. Stacks up to 5 times.
      • Spellfire Spheres now properly increase periodic spell damage.
      • Arcane
        • Glorious Incandescence has been redesigned – Consuming Burden of Power causes your next cast of Arcane Barrage to grant 4 Arcane Charges and call down a storm of 4 Meteorites on its target.
        • Mana Cascade has been redesigned – Casting Arcane Blast or Arcane Barrage grants you 1% Haste. Stacks up to 10 times. Multiple instances may overlap.
        • Spellfire Spheres are now generated by casting 6 Arcane Blasts or Arcane Barrages (was consuming Clearcasting).
      • Fire
        • Sun King’s Fury-enhanced Pyroblasts and Flamestrikes will correctly grant Combustion when you gain Hyperthermia during the Sun King’s Fury hard-cast.
  • Arcane
    • The position of many nodes on the Arcane spec tree has changed.
      • Developer’s note: We’re making some updates to the Arcane tree this week but some extra talent nodes didn’t quite make the build. Expect to see them in the coming weeks.
    • Nether Munitions has been redesigned – When your Touch of the Magi detonates, it increases the damage all affected targets take from you by 8% for 12 seconds.
    • Improved Touch of the Magi is no longer a choice node with Magi’s Spark.
    • Magi’s Spark and Nether Munitions are now a choice node.
    • Magi’s Spark explosion damage increased by 300%.
    • Magi’s Spark echo damage increased to 100% (was 50%).
    • Magi’s Spark’s explosion will now properly benefit from spell damage amplification effects and will contribute to Touch of the Magi.
    • Arcane Blast damage increased by 10%.
    • Arcane Barrage damage increased by 12%.
    • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 10%.
    • Leydrinker chance to trigger increased to 15% (was 10%).
    • Leydrinker now echoes for 50% damage (was 15%).
    • Arcane Missiles, Arcane Barrage, Supernova, and Shifting Power can now properly generate Clearcasting.
    • Wizened Wit removed.
    • Nerub-ar Palace Class Set
      • (2) Set and (4) Set Bonus updated – Now benefits Arcane Barrage instead of Arcane Explosion.
      • (4) Set Bonus proc chance reduced to 5% (was 10%).
      • (4) Set Bonus damage buff increased to 20% (was 10%).
  • Fire
    • Pyromaniac procs now count as consuming a Hot Streak, and this is now communicated in the talent tooltip.
    • Pyromaniac Flamestrike and Pyroblast echoes can no longer contribute to Hot Streak.
    • Living Bomb damage reduced by 30%.
    • Sparking Cinders damage bonus reduced to 10% (was 15%).
    • Sparking Cinders will now trigger at most 3 times a minute, increased with Haste.
    • Phoenix Flames damage reduced by 10%.
    • Pyroblast damage reduced by 10%.
    • Intensifying Flames Ignite damage bonus reduced to 20% (was 25%).
  • Frost
    • New Talent: Permafrost Lances – Frozen Orb increases Ice Lance’s damage by 15% for 15 seconds.
    • Ice Caller is now located at Snowstorm’s previous location.
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Frost Spellslingers to generate Splinters with other player’s Winter’s Chill.
    • Snowstorm removed.
    • Nerub-ar Palace Class Set
      • (2) Set Bonus has been redesigned – Ice Lance damage increased by 8%.
      • (4) Set Bonus has been redesigned – Damage from Fingers of Frost enhanced Ice Lances invoke a Frigid Pulse, dealing Frost damage to nearby enemies. Damage reduced beyond 8 targets.
      • Developer’s note: The previous Frost Mage set bonuses were benefitting Spellslinger far more than Frostfire, which contradicted our stated goals for the 11.0 Tier Sets. We’re glad everyone liked the designs of the previous iterations of the tier sets and are investigating implementing them into the Frost tree.
• MONK
  • Brewmaster
    • Heightened Guard reduced to 40%.
  • Windwalker
    • Chi Burst has been redesigned – Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance to activate Chi Burst, allowing you to hurl a torrent of Chi energy up to 40 yards forward, dealing Nature damage to all enemies, and healing to the Monk and all allies in its path. Healing and damage reduced beyond 5 targets.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Chi Burst to deal more damage than intended while Storm, Earth, and Fire was active.
• PALADIN
  • Hero Talents
    • Herald of the Sun (Holy/Retribution)
      • Holy
        • Sun’s Avatar healing reduced by 40%.
        • Dawnlight healing reduced by 20%.
        • Sun’s Avatar now activates 1 Dawnlight when Awakening activates Avenging Wrath (was 4).
        • Second Sunrise can no longer active Divine Purpose.
        • Sun’s Avatar will now always pick players when applying its friendly Dawnlights.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Awakening to stack from Second Sunrise.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Sun’s Avatar to not activate when Awakening extends an Active Avenging Wrath.
      • Retribution
        • Sun’s Avatar now triggers 1 Dawnlight when Avenging Wrath is triggered by Radiant Glory (was 4).
    • Lightsmith (Holy/Protection)
      • Sacred Weapon now deals area of effect damage/healing.
      • Shining Light stacks to a maximum of 2.
  • Holy
    • Divine Favor has been redesigned – Now a passive that triggers automatically after you cast Holy Prism or Barrier of Faith.
    • Several talent locations have moved to facilitate Divine Favor’s choice node moving below Holy Prism’s choice node.
• PRIEST
  • Cauterizing Shadows can now trigger from enemies dying with Shadow Word: Pain or Purge the Wicked active regardless of the duration of the effect.
  • Added 5% spell variance to Power Word: Shield and Luminous Barrier.
  • Hero Talents
    • Voidweaver (Discipline/Shadow)
      • Void Blast damage reduced by 25%.
  • Discipline
    • Fixed an issue causing Dark Reprimand to consume 2 charges of Premonition of Insight.
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue causing Holy Fire with Empyreal Blaze active to consume Premonition of Insight.
    • Fixed an issue causing Holy Word: Chastise to consume 2 charges of Premonition of Insight.
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing the range of Psychic Link to not be increased by Phantom Reach.
• ROGUE
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathstalker (Assassination/Subtlety)
      • Deathstalker’s Mark damage increased by 100% and it now applies 2 marks baseline (was 3).
      • Hunt Them Down damage increase by 100%.
      • Lingering Darkness increased to 30 seconds.
      • Flensing Knives damage increased by 100%.
      • Darkest Night now grants 40 Energy (was 60), applies 2 stacks of Deathstalker’s Mark (was 3) and its damage has been increased by 100%.
      • Developer’s note: These changes were applied via hotfix during last week’s Beta testing.
• WARLOCK
  • Hero Talents
    • Diabolist (Destruction/Demonology)
      • The cast time of Infernal Bolt has been increased to 2 seconds (was 1 second).
      • Ruination damage is now reduced beyond 8 targets.
      • Overlord, Mother of Chaos, and Pit Lord are now visible to other players at a reduced scale and will retain their original scale for the summoner.
      • Overlord now charges its target rather than leaps.
      • Mother of Chaos’ Chaos Salvo visual has been updated.
    • Hellcaller (Destruction/Affliction)
      • Seeds of Their Demise has been redesigned for Destruction – Blackened Soul damage increased by 30%. When Blackened Soul deals damage, you have a chance to gain 2 stacks of Flashpoint.
      • Zevrim’s Resilience healing increased by 90%.
    • Soul Harvester (Demonology/Affliction)
      • New Talent: Gorefiend’s Resolve – Targets resurrected with Soulstone resurrect with 40% additional health and 80% additional mana.
      • Spirited Away has been removed.
  • Affliction
    • Death’s Embrace has been redesigned – Increases Drain Life healing by 30% while your health is at or below 35% health. Damage done by your Agony, Corruption, Unstable Affliction, and Malefic Rapture is increased by 10% (was 5%) when your target is at or below 35% health (was 20%).
    • Malediction has been redesigned – Increases the critical strike chance of Agony, Corruption, and Unstable Affliction by 10%.
    • Malign Omen has been moved to row 9.
    • Dark Harvest has been moved to row 10.
  • Demonology
    • Blood Invocation has been redesigned – Power Siphon increases the damage of Demonbolt by an additional 25%.
    • Doom is now passive and has been redesigned – When Demonbolt consumes a Demonic Core it inflicts impending doom upon the target, dealing Shadow damage to enemies within 10 yards of its target after 20 seconds. Damage is reduced beyond 8 targets. Consuming a Demonic Core reduces the duration of Doom by 2 seconds.
    • Impending Doom has been redesigned – Increases the damage of Doom by 30% and Doom summons 1 Wild Imp when it expires.
    • Doom Eternal has been redesigned – Demonic Cores reduce the duration of Doom by an additional 2 seconds.
    • Infernal Presence damage reduced by 50%.
  • Destruction
    • New Talent: Unstable Rifts – Bolts from Dimensional Rift deal 25% of damage dealt to nearby enemies as Fire damage.
    • Chaos Incarnate has been redesigned – Chaos Bolt, Rain of Fire, and Shadowburn always gain at least 70% of the maximum benefit from your Mastery: Chaotic Energies.
    • Dimension Ripper has been redesigned – Incinerate has a chance to tear open a Dimensional Rift or recharge Dimensional Rift if learned.
    • Raging Demonfire now extends Immolate by 0.5 seconds (was 0.2 seconds).
    • Summon Infernal has been moved to row 6.
    • Crashing Chaos has been moved to row 7.
    • Rain of Chaos has been moved to row 7.
    • Crashing Chaos and Rain of Chaos now share a node.
    • Ruin has been moved to row 8.
    • Dimensional Rift has been moved to row 9.
    • Diabolic Embers has been moved to row 9.
    • Improved Chaos Bolt has been moved to row 9.
    • Dimension Ripper has been moved row 10.
    • Infernal Brand has been removed.
• WARRIOR
  • Reverted an unintentional change to Intervene’s tooltip.
  • Hero Talents
    • Arms
      • Reap the Storm now also triggers from Cleave for Arms.
  • Arms
    • Blademaster’s Torment has been redesigned – Activating Avatar casts Sweeping Strikes and while Avatar is active the cooldown of Cleave is reduced by 1.5 seconds.
      • Developer’s note: With recent updates to Bladestorm, this talent went from strong synergy to a near-lock-in, particularly for Slayers. Total Bladestorm uptime was also becoming disruptive, so we’ve redesigned this talent to be useful in AOE situations and provide a different rotational cadence during Avatar.
    • Warlord’s Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
  • Fury
    • Berserker’s Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
    • Titan’s Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
    • Odyn’s Fury damage increased by 133% overall.
    • Reckless Abandon now buffs your next Bloodthirst and Raging Blow.
  • Protection
    • Immovable Object tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.

PET BATTLES

• Added a gossip to Questzertauren so that players can unlock 3 battle pets from The War Within as well as 3 ultimate battle pet training stones to test the new pet battles.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• CLASSES
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Strangulate (PvP Talent) now overrides Asphyxiate, but its cooldown is decreased to 45 seconds (was 60 seconds), its duration is increased to 5 seconds (was 4 seconds), and its range is increased to 20 yards (was 15 yards).
  • DEMON HUNTER
    • Cleansed by Flame now cleanses 1 magical effect (was all).
  • DRUID
    • New PvP Talent: Tireless Pursuit – For 5 seconds after leaving Cat Form or Travel Form, you retain up to 40% movement speed.
    • High Winds has been redesigned – Increases the range of Cyclone, Typhoon, and Entangling Roots by 5 yards.
  • HUNTER
    • Tranquilizing Darts (PvP Talent) has been removed.
  • MAGE
    • New PvP Talent: Fireheart – Blazing Barrier’s damage is increased by 500%.
    • Flamecannon (PvP Talent) has been removed.
  • MONK
    • Grapple Weapon (PvP Talent) range reduced to 20 yards (was 30 yards).
    • Mistweaver
      • New PvP Talent: Rodeo – Every 3 seconds while Clash if off cooldown, your next Clash can be reactivated immediately to wildly Clash an additional enemy. This effect can stack up to 3 times.
    • Windwalker
      • New PvP Talent: Rodeo – Every 3 seconds while Clash if off cooldown, your next Clash can be reactivated immediately to wildly Clash an additional enemy. This effect can stack up to 3 times.
      • New PvP Talent: Rising Dragon Sweep – Whirling Dragon Punch knocks enemies up into the air and causes them to fall slowly until they reach the ground.
      • The following PvP talents have been removed:
        • Mighty Ox Kick
        • Alpha Tiger
  • PALADIN
    • New PvP Talent: Wrench Evil – Turn Evil’s cast time is reduced by 100%.
    • Judgments of the Pure (PvP Talent) has been removed.
  • SHAMAN
    • Skyfury Totem has been redesigned – Now triggers when casting Primordial Wave (was actively cast).
  • WARLOCK
    • Call Fel Lord damage increased by 80%.
    • Fel Obelisk (PvP Talent) has been removed.
  • WARRIOR
    • Master and Commander now reduces the cooldown of Rallying Cry by 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
    • Battlefield Commander (PvP Talent) now increases the radius of Piercing Howl by 50% (was root targets for 2 seconds).
    • Death Sentence (PvP Talent) has been removed.
    • Arms
      • Storm of Destruction has been redesigned – Now reduces healing on affected targets by 25% for 10 seconds (was reduce the cooldown of Bladestorm and Ravager).
      • Duel (PvP Talent) duration increased to 12 seconds and its sound effect has been changed to be more noticeable.
    • Fury
      • Enduring Rage (PvP Talent) can now activate Recklessness without Enrage active and the duration of the Recklessness granted has been increased by 1 second.
      • Slaughterhouse now stacks its effect if another healing reduction effect is active and overrides its effect once its effectiveness would surpass the active healing reduction effect or the active healing reduction effect is removed.
      • The following PvP talents have been removed:
        • Bloodrage
        • Storm of Destruction (Fury only)
• REWARDS
  • Developer’s note: In conjunction with the conquest earned update, we wanted to provide additional context on how players will earn their weapons. In 11.0 Season 1, players can earn a set of Conquest weapons suitable to their specialization without having to spend Conquest. Players can pick up the quest, “Weapons of Conquest” either by entering a Rated PvP match or by going to Dornogal to speak with the Conquest Quartermaster, Lalandi. This quest will task them with earning 2500 Conquest, which is achievable on Week 3 of the season. Players can then complete this quest by speaking with Lalandi. She will give you weapons, shields, and off-hands appropriate for your specialization. After completing this quest, players will be able to use Conquest to purchase weapons from Lalandi as normal.

Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • Infliction of Sorrow has been redesigned – When Vampiric Strike damages an enemy affected by your Virulent Plague, it extends the duration of the disease by 3 seconds and deals 20% of the remaining damage to the enemy. After Gift of the San’layn ends, your next Scourge Strike consumes the disease to deal 200% of its remaining damage to the enemy.
      • An issue with Blood Beast heal and damage values have been fixed.
  • Blood
    • New Talent: Carnage – Blooddrinker and Consumption now contribute to your Mastery: Blood Shield. Each time an enemy strikes your Blood Shield, the cooldowns of Blooddrinker and Consumption have a chance to be reset.
  • Unholy
    • Decomposition now functions with Gargoyle.
    • Ghoulish Frenzy is now a 1-point talent (was 2). Value at 1-point unchanged.
    • Improved Death Coil is now a 1-point talent (was 2). Value at 1-point unchanged.
    • Apocalypse now always summons 4 ghouls regardless of Wounds burst.
    • Defile damage increased by 200% and no longer increases Mastery when dealing damage to enemies.
• DRUID
  • Hero Talents
    • Druid of the Claw (Feral/Guardian)
      • Aggravate Wounds now causes attacks to increase the duration of Dreadful Wounds by 0.6 seconds (was 0.4 seconds), up to 8 additional seconds (was 6 seconds).
      • Killing Strikes lasts 8 seconds (was 6 seconds).
      • Chance for Ravage to proc increased by 30%.
      • Feral
        • Dreadful Wound damage increased by 10%.
      • Guardian
        • Ravage damage increased by 20%.
        • Dreadful Wound damage increased by 10%.
    • Keeper of the Grove (Balance/Restoration)
      • Power of Nature treant melee damage increased by 200% (was 100%).
      • Dream Burst damage increased by 100%.
      • Grove’s Inspiration increases Wrath and Starfire damage by 15% (was 10%)
      • Harmony of the Grove increases damage by 6% per treant (was 5%).
      • Wild Mushroom damage increased by 25%.
• EVOKER
  • Hero Talents
    • Chronowarden (Augmentation/Preservation)
      • Golden Opportunity has been redesigned – Prescience and Echo have a 20% chance to cause your next Prescience/Echo to have a 100% increased duration/effect (was 25% chance to be free/not trigger their cooldown).
      • Golden Opportunity is no longer a choice node with Master of Destiny.
      • Instability Matrix is now a choice against Master of Destiny.**
  • Augmentation
    • Echoing Strike now also increase Azure Strike damage by 15%.
    • Reactive Hide increases damage of Blistering Scales by 15% per stack (was 10%).
    • Fixed an issue where Molten Embers was not functioning correctly.
• HUNTER
  • Many talents have moved locations or have had their pathing updated.
  • New Talent: Padded Armor – Survival of the Fittest gains an additional charge.
  • New Talent: Kodo Tranquilizer – Tranquilizing Shot removes up to 1 additional Magic effect from its target.
  • New Talent: Devilsaur Tranquilizer – If Tranquilizing Shot removes only an Enrage effect, its cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Scout’s Instincts – You cannot be slowed below 80% of your normal movement speed while Aspect of the Cheetah is active.
  • New Talent: Scrappy – Casting Aimed Shot reduces the cooldown of Intimidation and Binding Shot by 0.5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Kindling Flare – Stealthed enemies revealed by Flare remain revealed for 3 seconds after exiting the flare.
  • New Talent: Unnatural Causes – Your damage over time effects deal 10% increased damage. This effect is increased by 50% on targets below 20% health.
  • New Talent: Moment of Opportunity – When a trap triggers, you gain Aspect of the Cheetah for 3 seconds. Can only occur every 1 minute.
  • New Talent: No Hard Feelings – When Misdirection targets your pet, it reduces the damage they take by 50% for 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Territorial Instincts – Intimidation summons a pet if you do not have one out and stuns two additional nearby enemies at 50% effectiveness.
    • Developer’s note: This talent is not fully implemented yet, but we wanted to give players access to it early for feedback. The intended vision for this spell is for Hunters to summon their pet, and then it Intimidates their target. We are not interested in circumventing a Hunter’s need for their pet to be out to access Intimidation.
  • New Talent: Tar-Coated Bindings – Binding Shot’s root duration is increased by 1 second.
  • New Talent: Serrated Tips – You gain 5% more critical strike from critical strike sources.
  • New Talent: Moment of Opportunity – When a trap triggers, you gain Aspect of the Cheetah for 3 seconds. This effect has a 60 second cooldown.
  • New Talent: Ghillie Suit – You take 20% reduced damage while in Camouflage. This bonus persists 3 seconds after leaving Camouflage.
  • New Talent: Specialized Arsenal – Kill Command, Aimed Shot, and Wildfire Bomb damage increased by 10%.
  • Lone Survivor now also reduces Counter Shot and Muzzle’s cooldown by 2 seconds.
  • Survival of the Fittest now reduces all damage you and your pet take by 30% (was 20%).
  • Improved Tranquilizing Shot now also grants 10 focus when you interrupt an effect with Counter Shot or Muzzle.
  • Quick Load now resets the cooldown of Scatter Shot and Bursting Shot.
  • Steel Trap damage reduced by 80%.
  • Born to be Wild now reduces Aspect of the Cheetah, Survival of the Fittest, and Aspect of the Turtle by 30 seconds (was 7/15%).
  • Explosive Shot now explodes early when applied to a target that already is affected by Explosive Shot.
    • Developer’s note: Survival has gotten substantially increased access to Explosive Shot, so we wanted to make Explosive Shot stacking feel more responsive and exciting.
  • Explosive Shot projectile and explosion visual effects have been updated.
  • Barrage, Kill Command, Improved Kill Command, Killer Instinct, and Alpha Predator have moved to the Beast Mastery talent tree.
  • Barrage, Master Marksman, and Hydra’s Bite have moved to the Marksmanship talent tree.
  • Kill Command and Alpha Predator have moved to the Survival talent tree.
  • Bursting Shot is now a choice node with Scatter Shot (was in Marksmanship tree).
  • The following talents are now 1 point:
    • Improved Traps
    • Pathfinding
    • Trailblazer
    • Wilderness Medicine
    • Natural Mending
    • Rejuvenating Wind
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Sentinel Owl
    • Sentinel’s Perception
    • Sentinel’s Protection
    • Serpent Sting
    • Poison Injection
    • Stampede
    • Beast Master
    • Arctic Bola
    • Nature’s Endurance
    • Serrated Shots
  • Beast Mastery
    • New Talent: Laceration – Whenever your pets critically strike, they cause their target to bleed for 15% of the damage dealt.
    • New Talent: Go For the Throat – Kill Command deals increased critical strike damage equal to 100% of your critical strike chance.
    • New Talent: Killer Cobra – Kill Shot applies Serpent Sting for 12 seconds.
    • New Talent: Venomous Bite – Bloodshed damage bonus increased by an additional 15% and makes Kill Command deal 20% increased damage to the target.
    • New Talent: Shower of Blood – Bloodshed now hits two additional targets near the primary target.
    • New Talent: Basilisk Collar – Each damage over time effect on your target increases the damage they receive from your pet’s attacks by 5%/10%.
    • New Talent: Huntmaster’s Call – Every third cast of Dire Beast sounds the Horn of Valor to summon a legendary wolf to aid you in battle for 15 seconds, either Hati or Fenryr. Hati increases the damage of all your pets by 15%. Fenryr applies a heavy bleed on your target and grants you additional Haste.
    • New Talent: Explosive Venom – Every 5 casts of Cobra Shot or Multi-Shot makes your next Multi-Shot or Explosive Shot apply Serpent’s Sting to up to 5 targets.
    • Bloodshed is now in gate 3 and has been updated – Command your pet to tear into your target, causing your target to bleed for high damage over 18 seconds and take 15% increased damage from your pet.
    • A Murder of Crows is now passive and has been updated – Every 5 casts of Kill Command summons a Murder of Crows. Murder of Crows no longer resets its cooldown if the affected target dies.
    • Barrage, Kill Command, Improved Kill Command, Killer Instinct, and Alpha Predator are now Beast Mastery talents (was Class).
    • Killer Instinct now deals 25/50% increased damage against enemies below 35% health.
    • Barrage now also grants Beast Cleave.
    • Bestial Wrath initial damage increased by 280%.
    • Many 2-point talents are now 1 point.
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • One With the Pack
      • Sharp Barbs
      • Wailing Arrow
      • Cobra Sting
  • Marksmanship
    • New Talent: Rapid Fire Barrage – Your Barrage now instead shoots Rapid Fires at up to five nearby enemies at 30% effectiveness but has its cooldown increased to 60 seconds.
    • New Talent: Small Game Hunter – The damage of Multi-Shot is increased by 100% and the damage of Explosive Shot is increased by 25%.
    • New Talent: Penetrating Shots – Gain critical strike damage equal to 20% of your critical strike chance.
    • New Talent: Kill Zone – Your spells and attacks deal 8% more damage and ignore line of sight against any target in your Volley.
    • Legacy of the Windrunners has been redesigned – Each time Rapid Fire deals damage, there is a 5% chance to coalesce a Wind Arrow at your target.
    • Wind Arrows damage increased by 300%. Wind Arrows are longer affected by Aimed Shot modifiers. No longer grants Focus or Aimed Shot charges after firing 24 Wind Arrows.
    • Wailing Arrow has been redesigned and is now passive – Now replaces your Aimed Shot with a Wailing Arrow after generating 20 Wind Arrows.
    • Wailing Arrow only silences the primary target and it now benefits from bonuses to Aimed Shot such as Trick Shots.
    • Readiness now causes Trueshot to immediately grant you Wailing Arrow and you generate 2 additional Wind Arrows while in Trueshot. Wailing Arrow resets the cooldown of Rapid Fire and generates 2 charges of Aimed Shot.
    • Eagle Talon’s True Focus has been redesigned – Trueshot lasts an additional 3 seconds. During Trueshot, Aimed Shot’s Focus cost is reduced by 50% and Arcane Shot and Multi-Shot casts an additional time at 30% effectiveness.
    • Barrage, Master Marksman, and Hydra’s Bite are now Marksmanship talents (was Class).
    • Hydra’s Bite has been redesigned – When Aimed Shot strikes an enemy affected with your Serpent Sting, it spreads Serpent Sting to up to 2 nearby enemies. Serpent Sting’s damage over time is increased by 20%.
    • Killer Accuracy has been updated – Kill Shot’s critical strike chance and critical strike damage are increased by 20%.
    • Razor Fragments has been updated – Kill Shot damage increase to 75% (was 50%). Moved to Gate 3.
    • Lone Wolf reduced to 5% increased damage when you do not have an active pet (was 10%).
      • Developer’s note: The opportunity cost of having your pet out as a Marksmanship Hunter is so high that it can feel as though you’re locked out of all pet based utility, especially in AOE situations. Marksmanship is always going to be the Hunter spec that provides more throughput without a pet, but lowering this talent’s power should help to make those times where you’re the only lust or need an extra defensive feel a bit less bad.
    • Rapid Fire damage reduced by 8%.
    • Precise Shots now always grants 2 stacks and reduces the Focus cost of your next Multi-Shot or Arcane Shot by 50%.
    • Calling the Shots is no longer a choice node with Unerring Vision.
    • Surging Shots is no longer a choice node with In The Rhythm.
    • Many 2-point talents are now 1 point.
    • Bursting Shot has moved to the Class tree.
  • Survival
    • Mastery: Spirit Bond has been redesigned – You and your pet deal increased damage and take 3% reduced damage, increased by 100% when within 25 yards of each other.
      • Developer’s note: We’ve also implemented a “Mercy” effect to Spirit Bond that allows the proximity bonus to persist up to 10 seconds after you or your pet breaks the Mastery’s boundary.
    • New Talent: Sulfur-lined Pockets – Every third Quick Shot is replaced with an Explosive Shot at 100% effectiveness.
    • New Talent: Grenade Juggler – Wildfire Bomb deal 5% increased damage and has a 25% chance to reset the cooldown of Explosive Shot and reduce its Focus cost to 0. Explosive Shot reduces the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 4 seconds.
    • New Talent: Exposed Flank – Your Flanking Strike exposes a weakness in your enemy’s defenses, increasing the damage of Kill Command by 10% and allowing your Kill Command to also hit two additional enemies for 10 seconds.
    • New Talent: Contagious Reagents – Reapplying Serpent Sting spreads it to up to 2 nearby enemies.
    • New Talent: Outland Venom – Each damage over time effect you have on a target increases the critical strike damage they receive from you by 2%.
    • New Talent: Merciless Blow – Casting Butchery makes your next Raptor Strike or Mongoose Bite to hit up to three nearby targets.
    • New Talent: Sic ‘Em – Kill Shot critical strikes reset the cooldown of Kill Command.
    • New Talent: Symbiotic Adrenaline – The cooldown of Coordinated Assault is reduced by 60 seconds.
    • New Talent: Relentless Primal Ferocity – While Coordinated Assault is active, Kill Command generates 2 stacks of Tip of the Spear, you gain 10% Haste, and Tip of the Spear’s damage bonus is increased by 50%.
    • Tip of the Spear has been redesigned – Kill Command increases the damage of your next non-pet spell by 15%, stacking up to 3 times.
    • You now consume one stack of Tip of the Spear at a time and multiple stacks of Tip of the Spear no longer increase its damage bonus.
      • Developer’s note: We’re pleased with the theme and gameplay that Tip of the Spear provides and enjoy its role as a meaningful outlet for Kill Command resets. As such, we’re expanding this talent’s use case and introducing a range of effects across the tree to make it more of a core rotational concept.
    • Flanking Strike now gains double the damage bonus from Tip of the Spear.
    • Flanker’s Advantage has been redesigned – Kill Command has a 10% increased chance to immediately reset its cooldown, increased by 100% when Kill Command critically strikes a target. Tip of the Spear’s damage bonus is increased by up to 100%, based on your critical strike chance.
    • Spearhead has been redesigned – You and your pet charge your enemy target, applying a heavy bleed that increases your chance to critically strike them by 30% for 10 seconds.
    • Deadly Duo has been redesigned – The cooldown of Spearhead is reduced by 30 seconds and increases your critical strike damage against the target by 30% for 10 seconds.
    • Viper’s Venom has been redesigned – Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite apply Serpent’s Sting.
    • Aspect of the Eagle has been redesigned – Increases the range of your Raptor Strike and Mastery: Spirit Bond to 40 yards for 15 seconds.
    • Bombardier has been redesigned – Casting Coordinated Assault grants 2 charges of Wildfire Bomb. When Coordinated Assault ends, Explosive Shot has no cooldown and costs zero Focus for 4 seconds.
    • Ruthless Marauder has been redesigned – Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction effect is now 1 second by default and no longer is increased by the second talent point.
    • Coordinated Assault has been updated – Now also allows Kill Shot to be usable on targets regardless of Health.
    • Wildfire Infusion has been redesigned – Mongoose Bite and Raptor Strike have a 15% chance to reset Kill Command’s cooldown. Kill Command reduces the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 2 seconds.
    • Kill Command and Alpha Predator are now Survival talents (was Class).
    • Wildfire Bomb’s damage over time effect is now a rolling periodic.
    • Grenade Juggler and Bombardier now use an activation overlay.
    • Many 2-point talents are now 1 point.
    • The following talents have been removed:
      • Carve
      • Coordinated Kill
      • Birds of Prey
      • Intense Focus
      • Sharp Edges
• MAGE
  • Hero Talents
    • Spellslinger (Frost/Arcane)
      • Spellfrost Teachings Orb damage bonus reduced to 20% (was 50%).
      • Spellfrost Teachings chance to trigger reduced to 2%.
      • Frost Splinter damage reduced by 66%.
      • Embedded Frost Splinter damage reduced by 66%.
      • Arcane Splinter damage reduced by 15%.
      • Embedded Arcane Splinter damage reduced 15%.
    • Sunfury (Arcane/Fire)
      • Mana Addiction now grants 0.5% Haste per stack (was 2%) for Fire Mages.
        • Developer’s note: Mana Addiction was taking up a lot of Sunfury’s power budget and was creating a powerful snowball effect with the rest of Fire’s kit. This adjustment should bring Sunfury more in line with the damage output of other Hero Talents and open us up to making the more active parts of Sunfury more exciting.
• MONK
  • Hero Talents
    • Shado-Pan (Windwalker/Brewmaster)
      • Flurry Charges are now accumulated based on Attack Power rather than maximum health.
  • Mistweaver
    • Mana Tea no longer grants its mana reduction effect if its channel begins before a raid encounter or Mythic+ dungeon starts.
  • Windwalker
    • New Talent: Power of the Thunder King – Crackling Jade Lightning now chains to 4 additional targets and its channel time is reduced by 50%.
    • New Talent: Darting Hurricane – After you cast Strike of the Windlord, the global cooldown of your next 2 Tiger Palms is reduced by 50%. Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance to grant 1 stack of Darting Hurricane.
• PALADIN
  • Hero Talents
    • Herald of the Sun (Holy/Retribution)
      • Retribution
        • Activating Crusade applies 4 Dawnlights onto nearby allies or enemies.
        • Activating Avenging Wrath applies 2 Dawnlights onto nearby allies or enemies.
        • Activating Radiant Glory applies 1 Dawnlight onto a nearby ally or enemy.
• PRIEST
  • New Talent: Cauterizing Shadows – When your Shadow Word: Pain or Purge the Wicked expires or is refreshed with less than 5 seconds remaining, a nearby ally within 40 yards is healed.
  • New Talent: Phantom Reach – Increases the range of most spells by 15%.
  • Manipulation has been redesigned – Now causes you to take 1%/2% less damage from targets affected by Shadow Word: Pain, Purge the Wicked, or Holy Fire.
  • Power Word: Life healing increased by 15%.
  • Mindgames has been removed from the Priest talent tree and is now a PvP talent.
  • Shattered Perceptions has been removed.
  • Hero Talents
    • Oracle (Holy/Discipline)
      • Premonition of Insight is now the first spell in the Premonition sequence.
      • Premonition of Insight now reduces cooldowns by 7 seconds (was 5 seconds).
      • Premonition of Solace has been redesigned – Now causes your next single target healing spell to grant your target a shield that absorbs damage and reduces damage taken by 15% for 15 seconds.
      • Premonition of Piety now increases healing done by 10% (was 5%).
      • Premonition of Piety now lasts 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
      • Fatebender now increases the effects of Premonition by 40% (was 30%).
      • Updated the spell icons for the Premonition spells.
      • Updated the tooltip for Clairvoyance to more accurately reflect its functionality.
  • Shadow
    • Mind Flay: Insanity now deals damage every 0.5 seconds for 2 seconds (was every 0.75 seconds for 3 seconds).
    • Mind Flay: Insanity now generates 12 Insanity over its duration (was 16).
    • Void Torrent damage increased by 30%.
      • Developer’s note: We’re updating Mind Flay: Insanity so that it fits into Shadow’s rotation better. There are several spells competing for the spotlight, so we’re cutting the length to create some room. Void Torrent’s damage has fallen off as we’ve increased the power of spells throughout Dragonflight, so we’re increasing its damage to return it to a high priority position in the rotation.
• WARLOCK
  • Mortal Coil projectile has been updated with a newer visual.
  • Hero Talents
    • Hellcaller (Destruction/Affliction)
      • Mark of Peroth’arn has been redesigned – Critical strike damage dealt by Wither is increased by 10%. Wither has a chance to gain a stack when it critically strikes. Stacks gained this way do not activate Blackened Soul.
      • Mark of Xavius has been redesigned – Agony damage increased by 20%/Wither damage increased by 25%. Blackened Soul deals 2% increased damage per stack of Wither.
    • Soul Harvester (Demonology/Affliction)
      • Demonic Soul damage reduced by 50%.
      • Soul Anathema damage reduced by 50%.
      • Shared Fate damage reduced by 30%.
      • The visual for Demonic Soul and Sataiel’s Ambition has been updated.
  • Demonology
    • Pact of the Ered’ruin has been redesigned – When Doom expires, you have a chance to summon a Doomguard that casts 5 Doom Bolts before departing. Each Doom Bolt deals Shadow damage.
    • Charhound’s Infernal Presence damage reduced by 50%.
    • Gloomhound’s Gloom Slash damage reduced by 50%.
    • Doom damage reduced by 50%.
  • Destruction
    • Chaos Bolts cast by Overfiend no longer gains modifiers active on its summoner.
    • The visual for casting Dimensional Rift has been updated.
• WARRIOR
  • Honed Reflexes has been redesigned – Cooldown of Die By the Sword, Enraged Regeneration, Shield Wall, Pummel, Intervene, Spell Reflection, and Storm Bolt reduced by 5%.
  • Sudden Death can now stack 2 times.
  • The visual for Shockwave will now properly match its radius, both with and without the Rumbling Earth talent. Impact visual has also been updated.
  • The visual for Thunderous Roar has been adjusted.
  • Hero Talents
    • Mountain Thane (Protection/Fury)
      • Call of Thunder renamed to Crashing Thunder.
      • Crashing Thunder’s bonus to Thunder Clap damage reduced to 40% (was 50%).
      • Burst of Power increases Bloodthirst damage by 35% (was 25%).
      • Strength of the Mountain increases Rampage and Bloodthirst damage by 15% (was 10%).
      • Protection
        • Thunder Blast damage bonus increased to 40% (was 20%).
    • Slayer (Fury/Arms)
      • Imminent Demise slightly redesigned – Instead of increasing Sudden Death’s chance to trigger, now every 3 Slayer’s Strikes will grant Sudden Death.
  • Arms
    • Cleave now replaces Whirlwind.
      • Developer’s note: We feel that Arms has an overwhelming number of abilities they must use in their AOE rotation, so we’re making Cleave replace Whirlwind to help alleviate that.
    • Cleave cooldown increased to 4.5 seconds (was 3 seconds).
      • Developer’s note: We are happy with Cleave’s position as the focus of Arms AOE but feel that the 3 second cooldown put too much pressure on the rotation. Increasing the cooldown will allow more room for Overpower and rotational cooldowns like Sweeping Strikes and Warbringer.
    • Dance of Death has been redesigned – When an enemy dies while affected by your Bladestorm, all damage you deal is increased by 5% for the remainder of the Bladestorm and for 2 seconds afterwards. When an enemy dies while affected by your Ravager, its duration is extended by 2 seconds. These effects can trigger a maximum of 3 times per use of Bladestorm or Ravager.
  • Fury
    • The positions and connections of the Tier 3 talents have been adjusted.
      • Developer’s note: We’ve received feedback that pathing to some abilities at the bottom of the Fury tree is difficult, so we’re repositioning these abilities to allow for more synergistic pathing.
    • Developer’s note: We’ve been seeing extremely high uptime of Recklessness, which leads to a cycle of high Rage generation and a lack of variance in Fury’s rotation. We’d like Recklessness to be an ability that is active only some of the time to create some variance to Fury’s rotation, so we’re adjusting several talents to reduce overall Recklessness uptime. We will be closely monitoring Fury’s rotational cadence and damage output and making adjustments where necessary.
    • Anger Management now reduces cooldowns by 1 second per 30 Rage spent (was 20 Rage).
    • Unbridled Ferocity no longer triggers from Onslaught and its chance to trigger is reduced to 6% (was 20%).
      • Developer’s note: Unbridled Ferocity was a major offender in Recklessness uptime, and it triggering from Onslaught added additional talent choice pressure in Fury’s Tier 3 talents. We’re reducing the proc chance to put it on par with other Tier 3 talents and removing Onslaught from the list of triggers to reduce talent choice pressure in Tier 3.
    • All ability damage increased by 15%.
    • Rampage damage increased by 10%.
  • Protection
    • Dance of Death has been redesigned – When an enemy dies while affected by your Ravager, its duration is extended by 2 seconds. This effect can trigger a maximum of 3 times per use of Ravager.
    • Dance of Death and Storm of Steel are now on a choice node.

ITEMS

• Trinkets
  • Many item effects have had their tuning significantly adjusted due to scaling changes.
  • Fixed an issue preventing Creeping Coagulum’s burst heal from casting when reaching the healing threshold.
  • Fixed an issue causing Void Reaper’s Contract’s secondary phantoms to deal no damage.
  • Fixed various issues related to Sikran’s Endless Arsenal’s stance effects and tooltip descriptions.
  • Foul Behemoth’s Chelicera now triggers more consistently from class abilities. Tooltip updated to clarify effect behavior when leaving combat.
  • Fixed an issue preventing several specializations from triggering Aberrant Spellforge’s Aberrant Empowerment with their intended class abilities. Tooltip updated for effect clarity.
  • Gruesome Syringe’s passive Intellect changed to Critical Strike.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• PRIEST
  • Mindgames is now a PvP talent (was a Class talent).
  • Mindgames duration increased by 2 seconds.
  • Mindgames damage, damage reversal, and healing reversal increased by 33%.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• For any item in the quest tracker, right-clicking and selecting “Remove Focus” will remove supertracking behavior.
• The quest bang visual for quests that are in-progress has been updated.
• Artwork updates and clarity improvements have been made to game service menus on the character select screen.
• The camera will now allow for the player character to be more obstructed by the environment before colliding and pushing the camera forward.
  • Use the console command “cameraIndirectVisibility [0,1]” to turn the feature off or on, and use “cameraIndirectOffset [0, 10.0]” to modify the sensitivity.

Hello Hunters! We’re very excited to unveil the class and spec tree updates for Hunter today!

We had a few goals going into this update, and we wanted to communicate those so the Hunter community will have some more direction when giving feedback in the coming weeks.

Across the Hunter core tree and all spec trees, we had these goals:

• Improve secondary stat scaling across all Hunter specializations
• Condense existing damage effects
• Conservatively expand on the range of Hunter utility
• Solidify rotational gameplay and fantasy of each spec

Core Tree

The Hunter core tree had a substantial amount of throughput relative to other core trees, which all had to be generic given how differently each spec can utilize the Hunter class tools and spells. This led to a lot of passive damage instances and didn’t do a ton to expand on each spec’s gameplay.

We’ve culled a lot of passive damage procs in the core tree, added some more situational utility, expanded on Hunter defensives, and made sure that each Hunter spec can meaningfully utilize the spells available to them in their core tree.

Beast Mastery

Beast Mastery’s gameplay has remained solid through Dragonflight, and we weren’t interested in rocking the boat too violently with this update.

Beast Mastery and the Hunter class in general have had a host of passive damage over time effects across many abilities. To help add some more cohesion to all these disparate damage over time effects, we added some bonuses like Basilisk Collar to help push the damage over time gameplay in a very Beast Mastery direction.

Beast Mastery is not a damage over time spec, and we are aiming to keep it that way. Your pets will always be the primary source of your damage and the DoTs you apply will more often than not be completely passive or passive procs– but we felt the sheer number of DoT effects Beast Mastery has merited some deeper support.

Lastly, we were interested in pushing on the boundaries of Beast Mastery’s fantasy by adding talents like Huntmaster’s Call. We feel that it is important for Beast Mastery to be primarily about your tamed and summonable pets, but we’re also interested in more deeply expressing the “Wildcaller” part of Beast Mastery’s fantasy. We hope that calling upon beasts of legend and summoning swarms of crows should help to make you feel like the flavor of Hunter that can call upon the wilds to aid you in battle.

Marksmanship

At the beginning of the update process, we were feeling mostly pleased with the individual effects found across the Marksmanship tree. However, we had more of an issue with how these effects all worked in concert.

Precise Shots is a meaningful and expressive part of Marksmanship gameplay, but currently Aimed Shots has a hard time sharing the spotlight with all the other various effects found across the Marksmanship tree—especially during Trueshot. We are aiming to “unclog” the Marksmanship Trueshot rotation with a redesigned Eagletalon’s True Focus. With Eagletalon’s True Focus talented, firing an Arcane Shot or Multi-Shot will immediately fire another Arcane Shot or Multi-Shot that will benefit from and consume Precise Shots. This should help you to continue to get value out of Precise Shots in your Trueshot rotation, and you can focus on the more exciting parts of Trueshot, which are Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire.

The Wind Arrow suite of talents have been an exciting visual and gameplay component of Marksmanship for quite some time, but their effects and bonuses have gotten more complex over time. With this update, we wanted to dramatically simplify the effects of Legacy of the Windrunners and add some more exciting payoffs via a now-passive Wailing Arrow and an update to the Readiness capstone that should add some more skill expression and further increase the excitement of Trueshot.

Lastly, we wanted to ensure Marksmanship was owning its niche of burst AoE. Talents like Kill Zone and Rapid Fire Barrage are intended to not only be fantasy-forward and exciting talents in their own right, but encourage groups to try out a Marksmanship hunter if they want some sizeable burst every 60 seconds.

Survival

Survival has had a few different iterations over the course of WoW’s history, and with the addition of the Dragonflight talent tree, we saw a collision of many effects both old and new. With this talent tree update, we wanted to take a swing at making Survival’s kit more cohesive and taming some of the more complicated effects across the tree.

The more impactful core change to Survival is going to be Tip of the Spear’s new design. We really liked the story that this talent told and the gameplay behind it– the Survival Hunter and their pet working in concert to deal more damage. As such, we’re expanding its effects on the talent itself and also opening it up to be augmented across the talent tree in various ways. We hope that this new core rotational concept will help to create satisfying gameplay and help to sell the Survival fantasy a bit more.

Many of Survival’s spells were either very simple (Flanking Strike) or incredibly complex (Coordinated Assault + Supporting Talents). We wanted to take some steps to smooth out the average complexity of Survival’s talents while also honing in on the core rotational gameplay and how that might be more cleanly augmented by supporting talents. More complicated talents like Deadly Duo and Wildfire Infusion have been replaced with effects that are simpler, stronger, and have more moment-to-moment implications for your gameplay.

Explosions are a core part of the Survival experience, and alongside the core rotational changes we made, we also proliferated access to Wildfire Bomb and Explosive Shot. Grenade Juggler and the new Bombardier are working in concert to make Explosive Shot a more appealing and excitement-driving rotational spell, and we hope you enjoy blowing things up in the War Within!

Lastly, we are aware that Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration provided a great splash of color to the Survival experience that is now lost. We are interested in exploring ways we can amp up the visual excitement of Survival in the future, but we do not have anything to share at this time.

Phew, that’s a lot of changes! We are really excited to read everyone’s feedback regarding these updates and can’t wait for you to get your hands on them!

Thank you for reading!