All the Class and Artifact Trait Changes in Patch 7.2.5

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Blood

Frost

Unholy

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 015%
Affected Spells:

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 015%
Affected Spells:

NEW Death Strike extends the duration of Icebound Fortitude by 2 sec.
Tier 2 Talent, in place of

Consume your Blood Plagues within 30 yards, dealing (101.3% of Attack power) Shadow damage to each infected enemy, and empowering you for 24 sec with up to 15% Rune regeneration per plague. Plagues closer to expiration grant more Rune regeneration.
Passive: Blood Boil no longer applies Blood Plague.
Removed

Your blood freezes, granting immunity to Stun effects and reducing all damage you take by 20% for 8 sec.
Now requires Level 57, down from 65

Your Obliterate has a 45% chance and Frostscythe has a 22.5% chance to cause your next Howling Blast to consume no runes and deal 300% additional damage.

Crystalline Swords damage reduces the cooldown of Sindragosa's Fury by 31 sec.

Obliterate has a 100% chance and Frostscythe has a 50% chance to cause the target to be pierced from behind by a Crystalline Sword.

Increases the maximum hit points granted by Vampiric BloodVampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 35% and increases healing recievedall healing and absorbs received by an additional 35%.

Increases the maximum hit points granted by Vampiric BloodVampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 20% and increases healing recievedall healing and absorbs received by an additional 20%.

Increases the maximum hit points granted by Vampiric BloodVampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 30% and increases healing recievedall healing and absorbs received by an additional 30%.

Increases the maximum hit points granted by Vampiric BloodVampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 40% and increases healing recievedall healing and absorbs received by an additional 40%.

Increases the maximum hit points granted by Vampiric BloodVampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 15% and increases healing recievedall healing and absorbs received by an additional 15%.

Increases the maximum hit points granted by Vampiric BloodVampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 25% and increases healing recievedall healing and absorbs received by an additional 25%.

Increases the maximum hit points granted by Vampiric BloodVampiric Blood increases your maximum health by an additional 10% and increases healing recievedall healing and absorbs received by an additional 10%.

Fires a blast of unholy energy at the target, causing (150%226% of Attack power) Shadow damage to an enemy and restoring 10 Energy to your abomination / ghoul

Cost changed from 35 Runic Power to 45 Runic Power

Your blood freezes, granting immunity to Stun effects and reducing all damage you take by 20% for 8 sec.
Now requires Level 57, down from 65

Your auto attacks have a chance to make your next Death Coil cost no Runic Power.
Procs per minute changed from 3.45 to 2.875

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 65%
Affected Spells:

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 65%
Affected Spells:

Deals 156%165% Shadow damage and causes 1 Festering Wound to burst.

Summon a Val'kyr to attack the target for 1520 sec. The Val'kyr will gain 1% increased damage for every 1 Runic Power you spend.

Defile the targeted ground, dealing 48%70% of Attack power) * (11) / 1)] Shadowfrost damage to all enemies over 10 sec.
Every 1 sec, if any enemies are standing in the Defile, it grows in size and increases your Mastery by 1, stacking up to 10 times.
While you remain within your Defile, your Clawing Shadows / Scourge Strike will hit all enemies near the target.

Causes each of your Virulent Plagues within 100 yds to flare up, dealing (150%159% of Attack power) Shadow damage to the infected enemy, and an additional (27.5% of Attack power) Shadow damage to all other enemies near them.

While your Sludge Belcher / abomination ghoul is not transformed, Death Coil will also reduce the remaining cooldown of Dark Transformation by 5 sec.7 sec.

Strike an enemy's soul for 350%371% Shadow damage, afflicting them with Soul Reaper for 5 sec.
Bursting a Festering Wound on an enemy afflicted by Soul Reaper grants 7% Haste for 15 sec, stacking up to 3 times.

Apocalypse grants 32 Runes upon use.

Whenever enemies are healed while afflicitedEnemies healed while afflicted by your Festering Wound, they take (85%Wounds have a chance to take (200% of Attack power) Shadow damage.

Blizzard

We are increasing the cost and damage of in 7.2.5. Even with no other changes, that change is likely a pure buff (even though it looks neutral), since the resource it's draining is one that was being wasted anyway.

It's not yet clear whether we'll open up further changes in 7.2.5, since the core rotation is generally working well. Having 3 main buttons (, , ) that all have no cooldowns, but instead juggle 3 resources (Runes, Runic Power, s), is a relatively unusual melee rotation that we think has turned out pretty interesting. The biggest thing it needs is space to breathe on the resources, as has been discussed a lot. We'll see how it looks with the change in addition to the earlier change, as well as the loss of T19 set bonuses, and see if there's still a problem.

If we need to make further changes, the goal would likely be to focus on talents that cause a very large swing in resource generation or GCD usage. Because the rotation needs to not be flooded for max-level players with endgame bonuses, but also not too slow for leveling players, as was pointed out. This is an issue we're starting to pay more attention to across all specs (especially melee specs). As we have more rotation-affecting talents in the game than ever before, and we buffed a lot of of them in 7.1.5, many talents (or legendaries or similar bonuses) are trying to effect large DPS increases solely through giving more of a resource or proc. It's becoming a more common problem that specs which initially had good pacing get flooded in certain setups, and we want to start correcting those where we can.

Crypt Fever is changing to have a high chance on each healing event to deal more damage than it does currently on live. This change is to smooth out the Honor Talent's power based on the type of healer you are facing, while still keeping an emphasis that this is powerful against heal over time effects. We'll be tuning the proc rate and internal cooldown to make sure we're hitting the numbers we want against each type of healer.
Fix Necrotic Strike!

Howling Blast now generates 86 Runic Power while Rime is active.

NEW Blood Boil grants you Gravewarden for 10 sec, increasing your Versatility by 2500.

NEW While Gravewarden is active, the cost of your Death Strike is reduced by 5 Runic Power.

NEW Every 40 Runic Power spent while Pillar of Frost is active increases the duration of Pillar of Frost by 1.0 sec.

NEW Every 3 Runes spent increases the Strength bonus of your next Pillar of Frost by 1%.

NEW Each ghoul summoned by Army of the Dead increases your damage dealt by 15% for 3 sec. Duration extends and does not stack.

NEW Each rune you spend reduces the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 6.0 seconds.

Focuses dark power into a strike that deals 258%284% Physical damage and heals you for 20% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec, minimum 10% of maximum health.

Class Tools

Havoc

Vengeance

Increases all damage done by 11% (based on Mastery) for 12 sec30% for 18 sec.
While active, your auto attack deals 150% increased damage, and causes Chaos damage.

Your auto attacks have a 60%100% chance to deal additional Shadow damage and generate Fury.

At your command, unleash Fel, inflicting ) * (300% of Attack power)] Chaos damage to your target and nearby enemies for each charge. Max 5 charges.
over 2 sec.
Your damaging abilities have a chance to generate a charge.reduce the cooldown of Fel Barrage by 5 sec.
Cooldown changed from 30 sec recharge to 1 min cooldown
Charges changed from 5 Charges to None

Reduces the cooldown of Vengeful Retreat by 10 sec, and generates 40 Fury over 5100 Fury over 10 sec if you damage at least one enemy with Vengeful Retreat.

Reduces magical damage taken by 30% for 6 sec.
Cooldown changed from 20 sec cooldown to 20 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

Brand an enemy with a demonic symbol, instantly dealing (648%813% of Attack power)% Fire damage and reducing the damage they deal to you by 40% for 8 sec.
Effect #2 School Damage
Value: 0 (AP mod: 6.488.13)

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 90%
Affected Spells:

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 90%
Affected Spells:

Effect #5 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: -50-35%
Affected Spells:

Effect #6 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: -68-60%
Affected Spells:

Talents

Parrying an attack increases your Pain generation of your next Shear by 70%.by 20% for 5 sec.
Every 2 sec, your Fiery Brand deals (45%52% of Attack power) Fire damage and spreads to one nearby enemy.
Draw from the power of the Twisting Nether to instantly activate and then refill your charges of Demon Spikes.
Generates 60 Pain.
Cooldown changed from 2 min cooldown to 1.5 min cooldown
Soul Cleave heals you for an additional (Attack power * Percent health * 1.3 * 3117 / 100 * 4) over 6 sec.
Unleash the fel within you, damaging enemies directly in front of you for 90%115% of Attack power) * 10] Fire damage over 2 sec. Causing damage also heals you for up to health.
Brutally slam your target for (378% + 756%475% + 945%) Physical damage, and shatter two Lesser Soul Fragments from them.
30 Pain, up from 20 Pain
Consume all Soul Fragments within 25 yds and then explode, afflicting nearby enemies with Frailty for 20 sec and damaging them for (252%300% of Attack power) Fire per fragment.
You heal for 20% of all damage you deal to enemies with Frailty.
Tier 6 Talent, in place of

Artifact Traits

Soul Cleave deals (100%115% of Attack power) additional damage for each Soul Fragment it consumes.
Carve into the soul of your target, dealing (441% + 441%507% + 507%) Fire damage and an additional 135%155% of Attack power)] Fire damage over 3 sec. Immediately shatters 2 Lesser Soul Fragments from the target and 1 additional Lesser Soul Fragment every 1 sec.

Increases your Chaos Strike critical strike chance by 10%8%.
NEW Blade Dance refunds 40 Fury if it hits at least one enemy.
NEW Blade Dance's critical strike chance is increased by 50%.
NEW When you consume a Soul Fragment, all enemies within 10 yards deal 5% less damage to you for 6 sec.
NEW After using Soul Cleave, you gain 2000 Versatility for 8 sec.

Class Tools
Balance	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Feral	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Guardian	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Restoration	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 170%
Affected Spells:
NEW
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 170%
Affected Spells:
NEW
NEW NEW
NEW

Finishing move that causes Physical damage per combo point and consumes up to 25 additional Energy to increase damage by up to 100%.
Feral (Level 66)
When used on targets below 25% health
Ferocious Bite will also refresh the duration of your Rip on your target
1 point : 374.5%600% of Attack power) * 1 / 5] damage
2 points: 374.5%600% of Attack power) * 2 / 5] damage
3 points: 374.5%600% of Attack power) * 3 / 5] damage
4 points: 374.5%600% of Attack power) * 4 / 5] damage
5 points: 374.5%600% of Attack power) * 5 / 5] damage

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (AP mod: 3.7456)

Rake the target for (91.2%111.264% of Attack power) Bleed damage and an additional (456%556.32% of Attack power) Bleed damage over 15 sec.
Feral (Level 54)
Reduces the target's movement speed by 50% for 12 sec
Feral (Level 25)
While stealthed, Rake will also stun the target for 4 sec, and deal 100% increased damage
Awards 1 combo point.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (AP mod: 0.9121.11264)

Finishing move that causes Bleed damage over 24 sec. Damage increases per combo point:
1 point : 16%19.52% of Attack power)) * 12)] damage
2 points: 16%19.52% of Attack power)) * 12)] damage
3 points: 16%19.52% of Attack power)) * 12)] damage
4 points: 16%19.52% of Attack power)) * 12)] damage
5 points: 16%19.52% of Attack power)) * 12)] damage

Shred the target, causing * ((min(Level - 1, 19) * 18 + 353) / 695)] Physical damage to the target.
Feral (Level 44)
Deals 20% increased damage against bleeding targets
Feral (Level 56)
While stealthed, Shred deals 50% increased damage, and has double the chance to critically strike
Awards 1 combo point.

Talents

Strikes all nearby enemies with a massive slash, inflicting 2025%2470% Physical damage. Awards 1 combo point. Maximum 3 charges.
Your finishing moves grant 12deal 10% increased damage and grant 5 Energy per combo point spent.

Artifact Traits (2)

Unleash Ashamane's Frenzy, clawing your target 15 times over 3 sec for 20%24.4% of Attack power) * 15] Physical damage and an additional 20%24.4% of Attack power) * 3 * 15] Bleed damage over 6 sec.
Awards 3 combo point.
Thrash has a 25% chance to release part of Ashamane's soul, causing all nearby enemies to take 100%122% of Attack power)] Shadow damage over 2 sec.

Specialization

Using Thrash, Swipe, or Moonfire hasThrash, Swipe, Moonfire, and Maul have a 15% chance to reset the cooldown on Mangle, and to cause it to generate an additional 4 Rage.
REMOVED Reduces magical damage taken by 30% for 6 sec.
Maul the target for 100%500% Physical damage.
Cost changed from 20 Rage to 45 Rage
Cooldown changed from 3 sec cooldown to None
Increases armor by 80%65% for 6 sec. Multiple uses of this ability may overlap.

Talents

Mangle increases the duration of your next Ironfur or Mark of Ursol by 2 sec, or the healing of your next Frenzied Regeneration by 20%.
Your damage has a 10%7% chance to trigger a free automatic Moonfire on that target.
When this occurs, the next Moonfire you cast generates 8 Rage, and deals 300% increased direct damage.

Honor Talents

Charge to an enemy, stunning them for 3 sec and knocking back their allies within 15 yards.
Range changed from Unlimited range to 8 - 25 yd range
Increases the damage done by your Swipe and Thrash by 50%25%.

Artifact Traits (3)

Mangle has a 15% chance to reduce the Rage cost of your next Ironfur or Mark of Ursol by 25%.
Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 3%5%.
Rank 2: Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 6%10%.
Rank 3: Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 9%15%.
Rank 4: Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 12%20%.
Rank 5: Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 15%25%.
Rank 6: Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 18%30%.
Rank 7: Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 21%35%.
Rank 8: Increases the critical strike chance of Maul by 24%40%.
Increases the duration of Barkskin Ironfur, and Mark of Ursoland Ironfur by 0.5 sec.

Blizzard Posts

Blizzard

In my earlier post on this thread, I mentioned we were already considering what the right changes to Guardian would be going into Tomb, but that it was likely going to be for 7.2.5 and not 7.2. In the first 7.2.5 PTR, you can expect to see the following changes to Guardian:

--Mark of Ursol removed
-- costs 30 Rage (from 20), is now on the GCD, can now proc , and damage increased by 400%.

I imagine the first change is most pertinent to those focused on the broader issue of tank balance. It may seem rather extreme, and that's part of why doing it mid-tier wasn't the plan we went with. But two factors that were important were 1) Mark of Ursol's design (trade your physical AM for a magical AM) was somewhat incompatible with any use of magic damage other than an occasional threatening spike, and 2) Druids had little in the way of identifiable weaknesses or things that potentially scare them. Even without Mark of Ursol, they have a mastery that's fully effective against magic, multiple medium to long cooldowns, Frenzied Regeneration, and some passives like Adaptive Fur. While we'll be continuing to watch this in 7.2.5 development, our expectation is that they will not struggle to complete content that involves magic damage--which the clearest test of why a button that allows them to mitigate it so much further is not needed at all.

Specialization

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 40%
Affected Spells:
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 40%
Affected Spells:
NEW
NEW NEW
NEW NEW NEW
NEW Effect #3 Apply Aura: Modifies Buff Duration
Value: 6000
Affected Spells:

REMOVED
Call down a strike of lunar energy, causing (284%295.36% of Spell power) Arcane damage to the target, and 284%295.36% of Spell power) * 35 / 100] Arcane damage to all other enemies within 5 yards.
Generates 12 Astral Power.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (SP mod: 2.842.9536)

Hurl a ball of solar energy at the target, dealing (200%208% of Spell power) Nature damage.
Balance (Level 10)
Generates 0 Astral Power.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 22.08)

Calls down waves of falling stars at the targeted area, dealing 44%45.76% of Spell power)] Astral damage over 8 sec.
Balance (Level 65)
Also applies Stellar Empowerment to each target, which increases periodic damage taken from your Moonfire and Sunfire by 20%

Starfall applies Stellar Empowerment to each target, which increases periodic damage taken from your Moonfire and Sunfire by 20%.

Launch a surge of stellar energies at the target, dealing (450%520% of Spell power) Astral damage.
Also grants you Lunar and Solar Empowerments, which increase the damage of your next Lunar Strike and Solar Wrath by 20%, respectively.
Balance (Level 70)
You can accumulate up to 1 of each Empowerment

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 4.55.2)

Restoration:
A quick beam of solar light burns the enemy for (110%114.4% of Spell power) Nature damage and then an additional (330%343.2% of Spell power) Nature damage over 12 sec to the primary target and all enemies within 5 yards
Balance:
A quick beam of solar light burns the enemy for (110%114.4% of Spell power) Nature damage and then an additional (330%343.2% of Spell power) Nature damage over 12 sec to the primary target and all enemies within 5 yards
Generates 0 Astral Power.

Talents

An improved Moonkin Form that increases the damage of all your spells by 35% and causes your Lunar Strike and Solar Wrath to generate 35%50% additional Astral Power.
Lasts 30 sec. You may shapeshift in and out of this improved Moonkin Form for its duration.
Calls down a beam of pure celestial energy at the target location, dealing 170%176.8% of Spell power)] Astral damage every 1 sec until your Astral Power is exhausted.
While Fury of Elune is active, you may recast it for no cost to direct the beam to move to a new location.
Moonfire and Sunfire damage over time has a 10% chance to call down a falling star, dealing (55%57.2% of Spell power) Astral damage and generating 4 Astral Power.
Increases Starfall's radius by 30%, Starfall damage by 60%50%, and allows you to cast while moving while within Starfall's radius.
Burns the target for (250%260% of Spell power) Astral damage, and then an additional (960%998.4% of Spell power) damage over 24 sec.
Stellar Flare benefits from Starfall's Stellar Empowerment.
Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 2.52.6)

Artifact Traits

Each time Starfall deals damage, it also damages another nearby enemy for (11%11.44% of Spell power) Astral damage.
Deals (450%468% of Spell power) ArcaneAstral damage to the target and empowers New Moon to become Half Moon.
Generates 10 Astral Power.
Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 4.54.68)

Starsurge has a chance to summon the Spirit of Goldrinn, which immediately deals (400%416% of Spell power) Arcane damage to the target.

Moonfire increasesand Sunfire increase the direct damage of your next Moonfire by 5%Moonfire and Sunfire by 25%, stacking up to 5 times.

Specialization

Restoration:
A quick beam of solar light burns the enemy for (110%114.4% of Spell power) Nature damage and then an additional (330%343.2% of Spell power) Nature damage over 12 sec to the primary target and all enemies within 5 yards
Balance:
A quick beam of solar light burns the enemy for (110%114.4% of Spell power) Nature damage and then an additional (330%343.2% of Spell power) Nature damage over 12 sec to the primary target and all enemies within 5 yards
Generates 0 Astral Power.

Talents

When Rejuvenation heals a target below 60% health, it applies Cultivation to the target, healing them for (144%120% of Spell power) over 6 sec.

Honor Talents

NEW Ironbark now also grants the target Nature's Grasp, rooting the first 2 attackers for 8 sec.
New level 8 Honor Talent
Reduces the cooldown of your Ironbark by an additional 15 sec, and increases the damage reduction effect by an additional 15%.
Removed
Reduces the mana cost of your Lifebloom by 50%60%, and your Lifebloom also applies Focused Growth to the target, increasing Lifebloom's healing by 20%50%. Stacks up to 3 times.
Reduces the cast time of Healing Touch by 0.2 sec and Your Healing Touch automatically applies one of your missing healing over time spells to the target. If all of them are present, Healing Touch critically heals.
Instantly applies Regrowth, Lifebloom, Rejuvenation and Wild Growth Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, and Regrowth's heal over time effect to the target.
Cost changed from 30.0% of base mana to 40.0% of base mana
When targets with your Rejuvenation are hit by a melee critical attack, they will be healedCasting Rejuvenation grants the target 2 charges of Revitalize.
Revitalize will heal the target for (200% of Spell power) andafter taking a melee critical strike, and increase the duration of your Rejuvenation will be refreshed.Rejuvenation by 3 sec.

NEW Increase your maximum Astral Power by 30 and the critical strike damage of your Starsurge by 30%.
NEW Starsurge and Starfall increase your Haste by 3% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times, but gaining a stack does not refresh the duration.
NEW Gain 2 Energy each time Rip deals damage.
NEW Rip deals 15% increased damage and lasts 8 sec longer.
NEW The cooldown of Frenzied Regeneration is reduced by up to 40%, based on your current health when you use it. Cooldown is reduced more when used at lower health.
NEW The cooldown of Frenzied Regeneration is reduced by 1 sec for every 20 Rage you spend.
NEW The cooldown of Swiftmend is reduced by up to 40%, based on the current health of the target. Cooldown is reduced more when cast on a lower health target.
NEWSwiftmend increases your Efflorescence healing by 100% for 15 sec.

Spells (9)

Feral, Guardian, Restoration:
A quick beam of lunar light burns the enemy for (110%114.4% of Spell power) Arcane damage and then an additional (440%457.6% of Spell power) Arcane damage over 16 sec.
Balance:
A quick beam of lunar light burns the enemy for (110%114.4% of Spell power) Arcane damage and then an additional (440%457.6% of Spell power) Arcane damage over 16 sec.
Generates 0 Astral Power.

Class Tools
Beast Mastery	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Marksmanship	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Survival	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 206%
Affected Spells:
NEW
NEW NEW
NEW
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 06%
Affected Spells:
NEW NEW NEW
NEW NEW NEW
NEW
REMOVED Effect #3 Apply Aura: Modifies Buff Duration
Value: 5000
Affected Spells:
Effect #5 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 98100%
Affected Spells:

Sends you and your pet into a rage, increasing all damage you both deal by 25% for 10 sec. 15 sec.
Beast Mastery (Level 54)
Bestial Wrath's remaining cooldown is reduced by 1512 sec each time you use Dire Frenzy
Bestial Wrath's remaining cooldown is reduced by 1512 sec each time you use Dire Beast

A quick shot causing * ((min(Level - 1, 19) * 12 + 112) / 340)] Physical damage.

Give the command to kill, causing your pet to savagely deal 33.6)) * 1 * (0.5 + min(Level, 20) * 0.025) * (1 + Versatility)] Physical damage to its target. 25 yard range.40 yd range.

Summons a powerful wild beast to attack your target for 8 sec.
Generates 12 Focus over its duration.8 sec.
Charges changed from 1 Charges to 2 Charges

Talents
- Causes your pet to enter a frenzy, performing a flurry of 5 attacks on the target, and gaining 30% increased attack speed for 8 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
  Generates 25 Focus.24 Focus over 8 sec.
  Charges changed from 1 Charges to 2 Charges
- A two-headed shot that hits your primary target and another nearby target, dealing 600%720% Nature damage to one and 600%720% Frost damage to the other. Generatesother.
  Generates 10 Focus for each target hit.
  Cooldown changed from 9 sec cooldown to 15 sec cooldown
Honor Talents
- Summons a slow moving basilisk near the target for 30 sec that attacks the target for heavy damage.
  Now requires Level 28, down from 46
  Row 6 Col 2 PvP Talent, in place of
- Summons a hawk to circle the target area, attacking all targets within 10 yards over the next 10 sec.
  Now requires Level 10, down from 28
  Row 6 Col 1 PvP Talent, in place of
- When you Kill Command a target at 30% health or lower, the cooldown is reset.
  Removed
- NEW The next hostile spell cast on the target will cause hostile spells for the next 3 sec. to be redirected to your pet.
  Your pet must be within 10 yards of the target for spells to be redirected.
  New Level 46 PvP Talent, in place of
- When your pet attacks a target alone without your assisting for 5 sec, it becomes enraged increasing its damage by 15%. Attacking your pet's target calms it down, removing the enrage effect. When your pet is further than 20 yards away from you, it gains up to 50% additional movement speed and 20% damage reduction. Effect increased when your pet is further away from you.
- Reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 1510 sec, and you become immune to all Fear and Horror effects while Bestial Wrath is active.
- Your Pet protects allies within 8 yards, reducing damage taken by 15%10%.
Artifact Traits
- While Aspect of the Wild is active, Hati and your primary pet also trigger a Thunderslash with each auto attack, dealing (100%50% of Attack power) Nature damage.
- Kill Command has a 10%8% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
  Rank 2: Kill Command has a 20%16% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
  Rank 3: Kill Command has a 30%24% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
  Rank 4: Kill Command has a 40%32% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
  Rank 5: Kill Command has a 50%40% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
  Rank 6: Kill Command has a 60%48% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
  Rank 7: Kill Command has a 70%56% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
  Rank 8: Kill Command has a 80%64% chance to deal an additional 50% of its damage as Nature damage.
- Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 5%3%.
  Rank 2: Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 10%6%.
  Rank 3: Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 15%9%.
  Rank 4: Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 20%12%.
  Rank 5: Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 25%15%.
  Rank 6: Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 30%18%.
  Rank 7: Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 35%21%.
  Rank 8: Increase damage dealt by Kill Command by 40%24%.
Blizzard Posts
Note: the following mechanic was discussed but later scrapped in favor of the later blue post.
Blizzard

In 7.2.5, we are changing from a cooldown reset mechanic to a cooldown reduction mechanic.

The base proc chance will be doubled and the cooldown reduction per proc will be 3.0 sec (affected by haste), roughly half the average expected value of current live procs. Baseline, the amount of total casts and uptime should be roughly the same as on live, except the changes should result in smoother Focus regeneration from more well-paced casts.

Additionally, these changes have the desired side effect of bringing the power level of more in line with other legendaries.

How is this going to affect ? If the proc chance is doubled, then seems to be getting weaker.

One with the Pack's proc chance increase to will also be doubled. With the talent, will have 100% chance to proc.
Blizzard

Hi Beast Masters. We’ve been reading your feedback and trying different sets of changes for Beast Mastery Hunters internally and on PTR.

To start, we are reverting all 7.2.5 changes we’ve made so far to how triggers. Instead, and will have 2 charges baseline. The (legendary shoulders that currently add +1 charge to /) will be changed to instead further increase the proc chance of .

Overall, this will result in more Focus for all Beast Mastery Hunters, resulting in a more active rotation. Additionally, this gives all Beast Mastery Hunters access to a / with 2 charges playstyle that is more engaging and fun, allowing you to make decisions on when to use the buttons, instead of feeling like you should most often simply push them on cooldown.

We’ve been trying other iterations of changes surrounding / and , including increasing / Focus generation or versions that avoided changing the legendary shoulders drastically, but ultimately reached the conclusion that giving 2 charges to the abilities baseline, which many of you have asked for, was the best change for the spec at the current time. We appreciate your patience while we try different iterations on PTR.

We are also making a few other less major changes to the spec in the next PTR patch, including:
- will reduce the global cooldowns of your damaging abilities by 0.2 seconds, allowing you to more reliably spend the Focus you’re generating while it's active, especially with / going off.
- and will cause your pet/Hati to charge up to 40 yds (up from 25 yds) to the target, matching the max range of your ranged abilities.
- When your pet casts , Hati will also gain for the same duration.
Dire Frenzy is bugged right now on PTR.

The DIre Frenzy change should read as "Instead of generating 25 Focus instantly, generates 24 Focus over 8 secs, similar to how Dire Beast generates Focus." This is to address issues with using Dire Frenzy while near full Focus, especially combined with Dire Stable.

Also currently the Dire Frenzy Focus regen buff is overwriting itself rather than stacking independently like Dire Beast's Focus regen buff.

These issues should be fixed by next week's build.

Specialization
- Effect #3 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
  Value: 812%
  Affected Spells:
Effect #4 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 812%
Affected Spells:

A powerful aimed shot that deals * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 8 + 130) / 210)] Physical damage. Damage increased by 100%50% against a target you have not yet damaged.

A quick shot causing * ((min(Level - 1, 19) * 12 + 112) / 340)] Physical damage.

Rapidly fires shots at all targets with your Hunter's Mark, dealing 550% Physical damage and making them Vulnerable for 7 sec.
Vulnerable
Damage taken from Aimed Shot
Piercing Shot
and Piercing Shot
increased by 100%30% for 7 sec.

Talents

Gain the patience of a veteran sniper, increasing the damage bonus of Vulnerable by 10%6% every 1 sec.
A powerful shot which deals up to (2 * 500%775%) Physical damage to the target and up to 500%775% Physical damage to all enemies between you and the target. Damage increased against targets with Vulnerable.
Launches Sidewinders that travel toward the target, weaving back and forth and dealing (400%500% of Attack power) Nature damage to each target they hit. Cannot hit the same target twice. Applies Vulnerable to all targets hit.
Generates 35 Focus.
Also replaces Multi-Shot.

Artifact Traits

Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 10%3%.
Rank 2: Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 20%6%.
Rank 3: Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 30%9%.
Rank 4: Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 40%12%.
Rank 5: Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 50%15%.
Rank 6: Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 60%18%.
Rank 7: Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 70%21%.
Rank 8: Increases the effectiveness of Vulnerability by 80%24%.
Reduces the cooldown of Scatter Shot / Bursting Shot by 5%.

Honor Talents

NEW Your Aimed Shots that strike Vulnerable targets reduce the remaining cooldown of Aspect of the Cheetah, Aspect of the Turtle, and Exhilaration by 5 sec.
Replaces Spray and Pray as Level 28 Honor Talent
A short-range shot that deals 35% weapon damage, removes all harmful damage over time effects, and incapacitating the target for 4 sec. Any damage caused will remove the effect. Turns off your attack when used.
Cooldown changed from 20 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown
Take a sniper's stance, firing a well-aimed shot dealing 850% Physical damage.700% Physical damage.
Increases the range of all shots by 40% for 10 sec.
Sidewinders
Reduces the cooldown of Sidewinders by 30%
Dealing damage with Bursting Shot now grants Bombardment.
Bombardment now also reduces the global cooldown of Multi-Shot by 0.5 sec.
Removed
Reduces the cooldownIncreases the range of Bursting Shot by 10)) sec.30%, and applies Concussive Shot to all targets hit by Bursting Shot.
Reduces the cooldown of Trueshot by 3020 sec, and Trueshot also restores 100% Focus.

Talents

Hurls a dragonsfire grenade at the target that explodes into flames, inflicting 980%1304% of Attack power) + (300%400% of Attack power)] Fire damage over 8 sec and reducing movement speed by 20%. The volatile flames on the target also scorch nearby enemies.

Artifact Traits

Flanking Strike has a 10%20% chance to summon the spirit of Ohn'ara to smite your foe for (1000% of Attack power) Nature damage.

Dire Frenzy
Dire Frenzy
Dire Beast reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by an additional 8 sec.4 sec.
Every 3545 Focus you spend reduces the cooldown of Trueshot by 1 sec.
Flanking Strike now has 32 times the normal chance to trigger Hunting Companion.
When Mongoose Fury reaches 6 applications, you gain 20%15% increased damage to all abilities for 10 sec.
NEW Cobra Shot, Multi-shot, and Kill Command increase the damage bonus of Bestial Wrath by 1.5% for its remaining duration.
NEW Cobra Shot, Multi-Shot, and Kill Command deal 15% increased damage while Bestial Wrath is active.
NEW Aimed Shot reduces the cast time of your next Aimed Shot by 20% and reduces its Focus cost by 20%.
NEW Casting two Aimed Shots in a row increases your critical strike damage by 15% for 6 sec.
NEW Lacerate Deals 15% additional damage and lasts 6.0 sec longer.
NEW Mongoose Bite deals 10% increased damage to targets bleeding from your Lacerate.

Spells

Tell your pet to wake up.
Range changed from 100 yd range to 1000 yd range

Class Tools
Arcane	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Fire	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Frost	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Launches bolts of arcane energy at the enemy target, causing (130%157.3% of Spell power) Arcane damage.
Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge
Arcane (Level 34)
Hits 0 additional target within 10 yds per Arcane Charge for 50% damage
Consumes all Arcane Charges.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 1.31.573)

Blasts the target with energy, dealing (192.4%232.804% of Spell power) Arcane damage.
Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge.
Mana cost increased by 125% per Arcane Charge.
Generates 1 Arcane Charge

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (SP mod: 1.9242.32804)

Causes an explosion of magic around the caster, dealing (75%90.75% of Spell power) Arcane damage to all enemies within 10 yards.
Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge.
Mana cost increased by 125% per Arcane Charge.
Generates 1 Arcane Charge if any targets are hit.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (SP mod: 0.750.9075)

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 210%
Affected Spells:
NEW
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 210%
Affected Spells:
NEW NEW NEW
NEW
NEW NEW

Launches five waves of Arcane Missiles at the enemy over 2 sec, causing a total of 44.3%53.603% of Spell power)] Arcane damage.
Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge.
Each damaging spell cast has a 15% chance to activate Arcane Missiles. Chance doubled for Arcane Blast. Limit 3 charges.
Generates 1 Arcane Charge.

Talents

Launches an Arcane Orb forward from your position, traveling up to 40 yards, dealing (500%605% of Spell power) Arcane damage to enemies it passes through.
Grants 1 Arcane Charge when cast and every time it deals damage.
Your attacks erode the target's resistances, increasing all damage the target takes from your Arcane spells by 1%, stacking up to 8 times. After 3 sec of not taking damage from your spells, this effect decreases by 1% every 1 sec.
Places a Nether Tempest on the target which deals (56.4%68.244% of Spell power) Arcane damage over 12 sec to the target and 4.7%5.687% of Spell power) * 12 / 1] to all enemies within 10 yards. Limit 1 target.
Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge.
Pulses arcane energy around the target enemy or ally, dealing (170%205.7% of Spell power) Arcane damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and knocking them upward. A primary enemy target will take 100% increased damage.
Effect #2 School Damage
Value: 0 (SP mod: 1.72.057)

Specialization

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 06%
Affected Spells:
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 06%
Affected Spells:

Artifact Traits

Phoenix's Flames has a 50% chance to grant 800 Critical Strike to you and 4 allies for 1012 sec.

Honor Talents

After standing still in combat for 2 sec, your maximum health increases by 3%, damage done increases by 3%, and spell range increasesrange of your Fire spells increase by 3 yards.
This effect stacks up to 5 times and lasts for 5 sec.

Specialization

Ice shards pelt the target area, dealing 49.5%57.915% of Spell power) * 8] Frost damage over 8 sec and reducing movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.
Frost (Level 63)
Each time Blizzard deals damage, the cooldown of Frozen Orb is reduced by 0.5 sec
Targets in a cone in front of you take (57%180% of Spell power) Frost damage and have movement slowed by 70% for 5 sec.
Unleash a flurry of ice, striking the target 3 times for a total of 152.3%178.191% of Spell power) * 3] Frost damage. Each hit reduces the target's movement speed by 70% for 1 sec. While Brain Freeze is active, Flurry also applies Winter's Chill to the target.
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 170%
Affected Spells:
NEW
NEW
NEW
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 170%
Affected Spells:
NEW NEW NEW
NEW NEW
NEW

Launches a bolt of frost at the enemy, causing (175%204.75% of Spell power) Frost damage and slowing movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.

Launches an orb of swirling ice up to 40 yards forward which deals up to 26.3%30.771% of Spell power)] Frost damage to all enemies it passes through. Grants 1 charge of Fingers of Frost when it first damages an enemy.
Enemies damaged by the Frost Orb are slowed by 50% for 15 sec.

Quickly fling a shard of ice at the target, dealing (120%140.4% of Spell power) Frost damage
Splitting Ice
and 120%140.4% of Spell power) * 80 / 100] Frost damage to a second nearby target
Ice Lance damage is tripled against frozen targets.

Talents

Calls down a series of 7 icy comets on and around the target, each of which deals (130%152.1% of Spell power) Frost damage to all enemies within 4 yards6 yards of its impact.
Places a Frost Bomb on the target for 12 sec. Limit 1 target. Your Ice Lances that benefit from Shatter will trigger the release of a wave of freezing ice, dealing (157.5%184.275% of Spell power) Frost damage to the target and (98.4%115.128% of Spell power) Frost damage to all other enemies within 10 yards.
Conjures a massive spike of ice, and merges your current Icicles into it. It impales your target, dealing (1000%1170% of Spell power) damage plus the damage stored in your Icicles, and freezes the target in place for 4 sec. Damage may interrupt the freeze effect.
Requires 5 Icicles to cast.
Passive:
Ice Lance no longer launches Icicles.
Causes a whirl of icy wind around the target enemy or ally, dealing (450%526.5% of Spell power) Frost damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and freezing them in place for 2 sec. A primary enemy target will take 100% increased damage.
Effect #2 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 4.55.265)

For the next 10 sec, you can channel a beam of icy power at an enemy, slowing movement by 50% and dealing (230%269.1% of Spell power) Frost damage every 1 sec. Each time Ray of Frost deals damage, its damage increases by 20%.

YourIcy Veins' duration is increased by 10 sec.
Your Ice Lances against frozen targets extend your Icy Veins by 2an additional 1 sec.

Honor Talents

Frozen Orb's damage is increased by 250%225% and is now castable at a location with a 40 yard range but no longer moves.
Your Frost Nova instantly resets the cooldown of your Cone of Cold and increases its damage by 800%400% for 6 sec.

Artifact Traits (2)

Deals (1100%1287% of Spell power) Shadowfrost damage and causes Brain Freeze.
When Ebonbolt damages a target, a pillar of ice bursts from the ground at that location after 1 sec, dealing (500%702% of Spell power) Shadowfrost damage.

Frost Bolt has a 10%8% increased chance to trigger Brain Freeze.
Hot Streak has a 10% chance to also grant you 15% Haste for 10 sec.
NEW Activating Presence of Mind generates 4 Arcane Charges and increases your damage dealt by 10% for 6 sec.
NEW Casting Arcane Missiles reduces the cooldown of Presence of Mind by 4.0 sec.
NEW Fireball has a 15% chance to cause your next Pyroblast or Flamestrike to be a guaranteed critical strike.
NEW Pyroblast and Flamestrike critical strikes increases the damage of your next Pyroblast or Flamestrike by 10% for 8 sec.
NEW Frozen Orb increases your critical strike damage by 30% for 10 sec.
NEW The cooldown of Frozen Orb is reduced by 5.0 sec whenever you gain Brain Freeze.

Honor Talents

After you Blink, spells have a 100% chance to miss you for 1.50 sec.Shimmer / Blink, you take 50% less magical damage for 2 sec.

Class Tools
Brewmaster	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Mistweaver	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Windwalker	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Breathe fire on targets in front of you, causing (180% of Attack power) Fire damage
Brewmaster (Level 78)
and generating a stack of Elusive Brawler for each target
Targets affected by Keg Smash will also burn for (97.2% of Attack power) Fire damage over 8 sec.
Cooldown changed from 20 sec cooldown to 15 sec cooldown
NEW Effect #11 Apply Aura: Modifies Buff Duration
Value: 50%
Affected Spells:

Strike with a blast of Chi energy, dealing (373.5% of Attack power) Physical damage.damage
Brewmaster (Level 78)
and generating a stack of Elusive Brawler

Breathe fire on targets in front of you, causing (180% of Attack power) Fire damage. Targetsdamage
Brewmaster (Level 78)
and generating a stack of Elusive Brawler for each target
Targets affected by Keg Smash will also burn for (97.2% of Attack power) Fire damage over 8 sec.

NEW Your Armor is increased by 25%.

Turns your skin to stone for 15 sec, increasing your current and maximum health by 20%, increasing the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 20%10%, and reducing all damage you take by 20%.

Increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 40%35% for 6 sec.
Shares charges with Purifying Brew.

Smash a keg of brew on the target, dealing (670% of Attack power) damage to all enemies within 8 yds and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.
Reduces the remaining cooldown on your Brews by 4 sec.
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges
Clears 50%40% of your damage delayed with Stagger.
Shares charges with Ironskin Brew.

Each time you are hit by a melee attack, or hit with Blackout Strike or Breath of Fire, you gain stacking 8% increased Dodge chance until your next successful Dodge.
Also increases your attack power by 8%.

Talents

Blackout Strike also empowers your next ability:
Tiger Palm: Damage increased by 200%.
Breath of Fire: Cooldown reduced by 63 sec.
Keg Smash: Reduces the remaining cooldown on your Brews by 2 additional sec.
Ironskin Brew: Pauses Stagger damage for 3 sec.
Purifying Brew: Grants you a stack of Elusive Brawler.
Purifying Brew now clears an additional 15%20% of damage delayed with Stagger.
It also grants up to 20% Dodge and damage done for 6 sec, based on the level of Stagger damage purified.
Drinking Ironskin or Purifying Brew has a 30%100% chance to toss a keg high into the air that lands nearby after 3 sec, dealing (810%243% of Attack power) damage to all enemies within 8 yards and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.

Artifact Traits

Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 2%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 1% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
Rank 2: Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 4%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 2% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
Rank 3: Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 6%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 3% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
Rank 4: Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 8%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 4% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
Rank 5: Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 10%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 5% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
Rank 6: Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 12%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 6% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
Rank 7: Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 14%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 7% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
Rank 8: Fortifying Brew increases the damage you delay with Stagger by an additional 16%.Purifying Brew clears an additional 8% of the damage delayed by Stagger.
After using Breath of Fire, you breathe fire 2 additional times, each dealing (63% of Attack power) Fire damage.
Increases the duration of Breath of Fire by 100%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 150%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 12% (6% with Spitfire).6%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 50%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 4% (2% with Spitfire).2%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 75%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 6% (3% with Spitfire).3%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 100%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 8% (4% with Spitfire).4%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 200%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 16% (8% with Spitfire).8%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 25%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 2% (1% with Spitfire).1%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 125%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 10% (5% with Spitfire).5%.
Increases the damage of Breath of Fire's periodic burning effect by 175%, and causes it to also reduce the target's damage done to you by 14% (7% with Spitfire).7%.

Blizzard

Hail! First round of Brews is on me, Monks. Shall we talk a bit about Brewmasters?

As Seph talked about in a recent Rogue thread, 7.2.5 will include much more significant class change than 7.2 did, and one of the specs that we're focusing on is Brewmaster. Brewmasters are currently quite strong, performance-wise, but have a few notable issues that we'd like to work out.

Offensive Abilities
Rotationally, Brewmasters are using a mixture of offensive and defensive buttons. Some parts of this worked well, such as and granting partial charges of your Brews. One part that hasn't worked out well is in and . Having no direct defensive value, or interaction with other abilities in your rotation, they end up feeling disconnected, and leave you wondering why you're hitting them. There are a couple minor artifact traits that give them some defensive value, but that's ultimately negligible as far as rotation design goes. One saving grace here is the talent, which gives a strong reason to care about , and add a lot of depth (and complexity) to your rotation.

Another problem is that has a 3.0s/Haste cooldown, which is actually rather bizarre on a class with a 1.0s GCDs. Experienced players have learned that you should get a significant enough amount of Haste to bring that down to something in the 2.2-2.5sec range, and alternate s with other abilities, with awkward 0.2-0.5sec gaps in between your abilities. This also means that with the forced gaps, you become GCD-capped, and Energy stops functioning. Finally, one last problem we're looking at is that there are rather limited options for customizing the rotation through talents (pretty much just ), and no baseline variability, leading to some people finding it repetitive and predictable.

We'd like to clean this up, and here are our current thoughts on how (not set in stone, very interested in discussion and PTR testing).

First, and will have a direct defensive value: they'll grant a stack of (per target hit, in 's case).
Second, will more smoothly fit into the rotation. We're going to try it having a cooldown, but significantly reducing that cooldown, such that you can every few GCDs, and not have any forced partial-second pauses. We want to make sure that Energy (and thus Haste) controls the speed of your rotation, so that that's in your control. If you want a more full, button-spammy rotation, you can favor Haste. If you prefer being more tactical with your GCDs, optimizing the timing of each one, you can favor other stats.
And finally, to let you customize the rotation with both higher GCD utilization and some variance, we're planning to add a talent that gives a high chance to reset the cooldown of . (Where exactly to put that talent is unclear; replacing Chi Burst is the current idea, but we're not super thrilled with that.)

Defensive Abilities
Overall, is working quite well in the general case. Ironskin vs Purify (and in particular when to Purify) is a good choice, though maybe a tad bit skewed toward Ironskin right now. However, it becomes problematic in the extreme case, where is used to cheese mechanics that aren't intended to be survivable. For example, a Brewmaster may use and in order to get 100% , soak several of some raid mechanic that is intended to be entirely unsurvivable (probably even piercing immunities), Purify twice quickly, and get healed through what little of the damage is remaining.

The key source of this is when reaches 100% or near-100%, and our planned changes to solve this focus on that:

We'll be reducing the gain of , and slightly reduce the gain of .
We'll be raising Brewmaster's base armor to compensate.
We're going to add a cap on how much damage can be ed (high enough that you won't hit it in normal gameplay, but enough to stop cheesing mechanics).
There is also an artifact trait that increases the gain of that has been mostly-useless since 7.1.5, which we're going to redesign.

Again, the point of this is not at all to be a nerf in intended circumstances, but rather to shift around where the mitigation comes from, such that it can't be used to unintentionally bypass mechanics.

Relatedly, one mechanic that causes imbalance with tanks is that in a tank-swap situation in a raid, tanks can store up a large amount of active mitigation while not actively tanking, both in terms of ability charges, and buff durations. In general, this is fine, but it can be taken to extremes, and Brewmasters are a good example of that, frequently being able to go into their tanking with a 30+sec duration rolling. Some amount of this is fine, but to keep it within a reasonable range, we're going to put a cap on how long you can extend tank active mitigation buffs, to a maximum of twice their base duration.

Thanks for reading! We look forward to your feedback.
What are you doing to address the fact that ISB has basically become the new shuffle and requires 100% uptime? That's literally brew gameplay right now -> 100% ISB uptime and anything left goes into purify.

I touched on that a bit, that the decision is skewed a tad bit towards right now. There are 3 changes here that will help with that:

The increase to base armor will help you feel like falling off is a death sentence.
The reduction to effectiveness will slightly decrease the difference between being up and not.
Our current plan for the mentioned artifact trait replacement is percentage, which will increase the value of .

How does a talent like resetting Breath Fire work when you have the legendary chest? Clearly we wouldn't take it since is resetting breath about every 5 seconds. With both it would be absurd.

Occasional legendaries that push you away from or toward a particular talent are generally OK. If you have the chest, you likely will want to pick one of the other talents instead of Spitfire (the resets Breath of Fire one), and that's OK.

Will there be exceptions added to this rule? For example, will this not just completely negate the use of the '' talent for Protection Paladins? Gaining the instant charges allows them to go much further beyond the "twice their base duration", essentially throwing away all that additional SotR uptime that comes from the talent during the activation window.

There may be, yes. We don't want to invalidate any existing gameplay, just prevent the "I've been offtanking for a bit and have a crazy long duration buff up when I take over, skewing my priorities.

Without hard numbers, it is difficult to see if this will be a blessing or a curse.

Numbers matter for performance, and I want to reemphasize the fact that the changes I'm talking about are intended to be net-neutral, performance-wise. Of course they will affect performance, but we'll offset them with number tweaks, in whichever direction is necessary.

The point of all of these is gameplay, mechanics, and particularly rotational flow.

My first concern on hearing that there is a stagger cap is what does that mean for damage intake: once you're at stagger cap, do you take full damage from hits? How do you anticipate this working on mobs like The Demon Within, which is already hitting for approximately 5 million white damage per auto set? Extrapolating further to future mythic tiers, it's not necessarily unreasonable to anticipate mobs that will be hitting a monk in excess of 7+ million white damage (for example) every 1-1.5s. Given brew generation in your most favorable circumstances, it seems there is a real possibility of brewmasters essentially hitting some upper limit of mob they're able to tank before they're essentially as squishy as a dps, save dodging, due to having capped stagger.

To be clear, the stagger cap is not on the amount you can stagger per-hit, but on the total amount you can have delayed in your "stagger bar" at once. As stated, it's mainly a limit to avoid abusive cases, similar to how spells like Guardian Spirit have a point where they stop working. If you're about to try to soak something that will do a few times your maximum health in damage (even after cooldowns), you should expect to die immediately. This should come into play only in relatively extreme cases.
On the AM max duration discussion, there's been a ton of great feedback on that so far. I'd like to go into why we're considering this change a little more. Forgive me for the verbosity (hah):

This effects Brewmasters more than other tanks, but not exclusively. The main reason that this affects Brewmasters more is that they are meant to split their resource between two brews: Ironskin and Purifying.

Consider a simple situation of two bosses, each beating on a tank. The Brewmaster is using a mixture of their Brews, maintaining ISB while using excess on PB (or maybe even letting ISB fall off when the boss stops to cast something, or is otherwise unthreatening for a moment). She gets more Brew charges than she needs to keep ISB up, but she's using those excess charges on PB, so ISB duration is remaining low.

The co-tank, let's say a Warrior for example, is built a little differently, having two separate defensive resources (Shield Block charges and Rage for Ignore Pain). Both are being generated and consumed at a similar rate, also not gaining increasing Shield Block duration.

Things are good here, and let's suppose for the sake of argument the two tanks are 'balanced' in this context.

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OK, now let's change the design of the fight, to one where there's one huge boss, and the two tanks take turns tanking for 30sec at a time. Arguments of this being a less-engaging fight aside, let's look at how that affects the tank balance.

While the Warrior is OTing, he's building up Shield Block charges, but once he hits max charges, they're being wasted. He can use one at a time as they're generated, but they don't last longer than it takes to generate, so his Shield Block buff duration doesn't grow over time. Similar deal with Rage and Ignore Pain. He builds up Rage, and when that caps out, he builds up an Ignore Pain stack, but that caps out pretty quickly too. Excess Rage is wasted (at least defensively anyway; they can put it into damage). When the Warrior taunts, he goes into it with some buffer of his max Shield Block charges, maybe a single partial Shield Block buff, and max Rage and Ignore Pain. Overall, he could carry over some value from that time not tanking, but not all of it.

Meanwhile, when the Brewmaster is not tanking, they're building up charges of their single defensive resource, Brew charges. Once at max Brew charges, she starts using Ironskin Brews, as they're generated. Since there's nothing to Purify, she never does so, and all of her charges go into Ironskin Brew, creating a surplus of Ironskin duration that just grows over time. When she taunts, she goes into it with max Brew charges, and a 1min long Ironskin buff. She never has to Ironskin the whole time she's tanking, and can send all of her Brew charges into Purifying, over tripling (if not more) how often she can Purify, providing a sizable gain over her Warrior counterpart. All that time she spent not tanking goes into storing up defensive value for when she is tanking, with no limit.

If the two tanks were 'balanced' in the first fight, then the Brewmaster is overpowered in the second. Alternatively, if you argue that they're balanced in the second fight, that means they're underpowered in the first. The goal of this change is to place a reasonable limit on how much value you can carry over from time spent not tanking, so that we can tune the tanks to be balanced in both of these situations, not just one of them.

I totally get that right now you can always get benefit out of hitting Ironskin Brew, never being fully wasted, and so the prospect of going to a system where there may be a time where you're just sitting on full charges, wasting them sounds like a negative. Please understand that for most other tanks, that's just normal; a Warrior that's not tanking is just wasting the defensive value of their Shield Block charges once at max charges, and that's just an accepted norm. By bringing Brewmasters into parity in this regard, we can then tune them to be more consistently balanced with other tanks, which is the core goal of the change.

One of the most common responses so far has been "I understand wanting a cap, but 2x*duration is too short". Totally reasonable argument, and we'll need your help finding what the right cap is. We chose that to start with because that's consistent with things like Ignore Pain, Mark of Ursol, Blood Shield, Soul Fragments, etc. Given the more liberal use of Brew charges, it may be more appropriate to be higher for Brewmasters.

I'd love to keep hearing your thoughts on this, and I hope that this massively-over-verbose post helped better explain our thought process here. Thanks to those of you that stuck with it, reading it all the way through. :)

How much of a threshold are we talking? One stagger bar? Two? Five? Ten?

When we reach this threshold, what happens? Do we begin to take unmitigated hits? Will stagger simply stop working? If so, what's the plan for taking an unmitigated raid boss hit, as a few bosses are capable of 100-0% a 910 brewmaster in a single swing?

The current idea is that the Stagger bar that the UI shows is the cap, which matches up with your health bar, since that'll be the most understandable and intuitive. Then, however much of a buff to max health is needed to make that balanced.

Example, with 80% Stagger, 33% Armor for convenient numbers:

HP: 100/100 ~ Stagger: 0/100

Take a hit for 30, armor reduces that to 20, then stagger takes 16, and 4 goes through to HP.
HP: 96/100 ~ Stagger: 16/100

Time passes and 8 of the Stagger damage goes over into HP.
HP: 88/100 ~ Stagger: 8/100

Then you take a big hit for 60, armor reduces that to 40, then stagger takes 32, and 8 goes through to HP.
HP: 80/100 ~ Stagger: 40/100

You quickly Purify 50% of that.
HP: 80/100 ~ Stagger: 20/100

Then you take a *massive* hit for 210 (something cheesy), armor reduces that to 140. Stagger would take 112, but there's only room for 80 in your Stagger bar. So Stagger takes 80, and 60 goes through to HP.
HP: 20/100 ~ Stagger: 100/100

TL;DR: The Stagger bar on your UI is now representative of your maximum stagger pool, and any overflow damage continues on into your HP bar.Alright, second round is on me as well, Brewmasters. Now that the weekend is over, we've had a chance to discuss all the great feedback you all have provided so far. Here's what we're thinking:

(Note that the below changes likely won't make it into the first PTR build.)

Stagger Cap
As I said, the goal of this was cheese-prevention, not intended to impact normal gameplay. A Stagger cap of 100%*HP has a lot of value to us due to it functioning intuitively within the UI. We had hoped that the amount we need to buff HP/Armor would be reasonable in order to make that work, but looking at the numbers and your feedback, we don't think there's enough room there. Therefore, we're now leaning toward a 200%*HP cap, and that just won't be visible in the UI (but then, neither is the cap of and the like).

Active Mitigation Duration Cap
There has been a ton of useful feedback about this topic. Being able to carry over a ton of banked Active Mitigation (and absolutely is AM in context) from tank swaps and low damage phases is extremely powerful, and contributes to imbalance between tanks. But we're also sympathetic to how it adds an additional complication that you need to keep in your mental space. We think that just loosening the restriction up a bit so that the window you can safely press in is much wider will satisfy that, so we're going to try a cap of 3x Duration instead of 2x. And to clarify, calling this "base duration" was inaccurate; I meant the duration of a single cast of , including traits (so 3x Duration would be 24sec with 4/4 of that trait).

Magic DR
We've talked about having armor and potentially HP as tuning knobs to use. We also have the % of that applies to Magic to use. All of the changes we're discussing in this thread are for mechanical and playstyle reasons, and then tuning is a separate (but big and important) issue. Just to set expectations, Brewmasters with are currently seen as extremely strong against Magic damage, sometimes overpowered. Guardian Druids are also overpowered against Magic damage, and that will be adjusted as well.

Thanks, and keep the feedback coming!
Another point of feedback is that Brew charges feel totally wasted when not tanking (or in a low damage phase), whereas on other tanks they can at least get some offensive value out of them.

This is rather experimental, but we're going to try adding an additional effect to Purifying Brew: "Also increases the damage of your next Breath of Fire by 50%." (tuning not final of course).

And FYI, it looks like we are going to be able to fit these latest changes (this one included) into the first PTR build.

A smarter approach to the cheesing problem, is a 'stagger-per-strike' limit.

A per-hit Stagger limit is not a possible option, since the damage in question is not guaranteed to be a single hit. Ex: Something like Spellblade's Annihilation, or a pack of many adds.

Blizzard

Today's PTR build has a number of changes for Brewmasters. Continuing to iterate based on feedback, we've done the following things:

- Removed the Tiger Palm -> Blackout Strike interaction, and dropped Blackout Strike back to a 3sec cooldown (but still unaffected by Haste). This should provide a simple BoS - X - X rotation that is extremely flexible.
- Returned Breath of Fire to a 15sec cooldown. There's enough room in the rotation for it to be back at its previous usage rate.
- Moved Spitfire down to the level 90 talent row, preserving the level 15 talent row as is on live, replacing Niuzao instead. The level 90 row is a DPS row though, with no direct survivability value. To offset the increased usage of BoF that Spitfire allows, the Hot Blooded artifact trait now provides half as much benefit when you have Spitfire. Yes, this makes Spitfire directly incompatible with the legendary chest, and that's OK.

It also has one highly experimental change: Blackout Combo now also reduces Blackout Strike's cooldown to 2sec, and the other level 110 talents have been adjusted to preserve talent balance. I say highly experimental because this is something we were trying out internally, but didn't work out too well.

We found it to be too frantic, too much pressure to not miss any BoSs due to BoS having a survivability benefit now, and too restrictive on the rotation. It also meant that you had to avoid all of the talents that add anything to your rotation, because your GCDs are completely full, even with no talents that add GCDs, even with no Haste, etc.

There are enough ways to customize your GCD utilization now that you can fill up nearly all of your GCDs with the 3sec Blackout Strike if you want to (and it doesn't require a ton of Haste). As such, we're planning to return to a 3sec Blackout Strike (both with and without Blackout Combo), and let you fill up however much of that time that you want. I think you'll find that you can fill that time (or not) pretty easily. Regardless, the 2sec version made it into this build, so give it a try and let us know if your experience matches ours or not.

As always, feedback on any of this is welcome and appreciated.

P.S. One tweak to High Tolerance and Elusive Dance that we're likely going to keep is raising their benefits at Light Stagger, so that you still get most of their value even when not getting smashed.

EDIT: Typos...
The ISB duration, we've listened to a lot of feedback about.

It's definitely a significant change for high skill players. It's definitely a nerf, on its own, for those players, in some situations. However, it's a good nerf. And I don't just mean in terms of a theoretical 'better game', I mean it's a nerf that is in your personal benefit.

In simple terms, Brewmasters are currently strong in situations where they can exploit this, and weak in situations where they can't. By reducing your ability to exploit this, we can then also tune you up across the board (and have, if you notice the rest of the changes), so that you're strong in both situations.

TL;DR: The ISB duration change is a nerf in some situations for some players, that is compensated for with buffs in all situations for all players, resulting in a net gain for you.
Lots of great feedback here on the latest build so far. Thanks.

Latest thoughts:
Spitfire - It's a fun playstyle option for people, but having both defensive (even without it being an increase to Hot Blooded, it's still more Elusive Brawler stacks) and offensive value (more Breath of Fires for damage), it's hard to fit it anywhere in the talent tree, and it complicates artifact trait values. We're going to just cut if for now (may return at some point in the future when it fits in better). Niuzao will return, and will simply deal more damage to make him competitive with the row.

Blackout Combo - Yeah, the 2sec rotation is problematic. Some people like the frantic gameplay, but we think other talent combinations deliver on that better anyway. The main problems with it are that it invalidates a ton of other talent choices, actually *reduces* rotational choice because you just combo everything instead of having to choose what you combo, causes energy capping issues, is a massive buff to the talent potentially upsetting talent balance, and is too fast-paced without any other contribution. We're going to return it to 3sec, where you can pair it with other GCD-filling talents to create the frantic playstyle if you prefer, without causing the above issues.

Hot Blooded and Dragonfire Brew - Baseline, Hot Blooded is very strong. 1% DR per bronze trait is already on the extremely strong side. The Legendary chest was created with Hot Blooded in mind as its defensive benefit. But that gets a little out of hand when we added 4th points to Bronzes, and you min/max relics, increasing it to the massively-OP level of 7% DR for a legendary. Then the 7.2.5 changes also add more Elusive Brawler stacks to that. We're going to adjust these two traits in order to better balance trait and legendary values: Dragonfire Brew will also increase the duration of Breath of Fire's DoT by 100%, giving it defensive value. Hot Blooded will now be active the whole time, instead of ~half the time without the Chest, and so is changing to 1% DR per point to compensate.

EDIT: Overall Tuning - As always, overall tuning happens late in the process. Don't worry about overall power level of Brewmasters when giving feedback on these changes.

Thanks all!
I have a feeling theres a disconnect between how much the monk community value those elusive brawler stack and how the Developpers value them.

First off, as said many times, dodge doesn't do anything VS magic damage or VS any kind of boss threatening ability as they are undodgeable even if physical (ex: spellblade annihilate).

From a mythic raider point of view, those dodge stacks hardly do anything, as bosses auto-attack (the only thing that's dodgeable) are the least threatening form of damage we have to face.

From a M+ dungeon point of view, those stack comes and go so fast nobody will notice the buff... having 100% dodge chance for 1 auto-attack out of the 5+ weak mob training you hardly change anything...

It's also one of the reason people hardly, if ever, use blackout combo to empower purify.

We value it based upon its actual real world value, not a theoretical worst case that doesn't actually exist. You should too.

Yes, Elusive Brawler does nothing against Magic/undodgeable damage. However, apart from some extremely niche situations like Star Auger, it's not that piercing damage alone that kills you; it's the combination of those and other damage that is dodgeable. Nowhere is this more true than on Brewmasters, where there is no spike damage, only smoothed total damage (which is mostly auto attack damage). Mastery drastically reduces the total damage you take, which is the only thing scary to a Brewmaster anyway.

Specialization

Causes a surge of invigorating mists around the target, healing them and their 2 nearest injured allies for (275%300% of Spell power).
Cost changed from 4.5% of base mana to 4.0% of base mana
Unleashes a rapid twirl of healing bolts at up to 6 allies within 25 yds, every 1.002 sec for 3 sec. Each bolt heals a target for (110%135% of Spell power)
Mistweaver (Level 58)
plus an additional (36%48% of Spell power) over 6 sec.8 sec.
Gust of Mists will heal affected targets twice
Castable while moving.
Cost changed from 8.0% of base mana to 7.2% of base mana
Cooldown changed from None to 12 sec cooldown
Each bolt of Essence Font heals a target for an additional (36%48% of Spell power) over 6 sec.8 sec.
Gust of Mists will heal affected targets twice.
Encases the target in a cocoon of Chi energy for 12 sec, absorbing 31.16442) + 1)) * (1 + Versatility)] damage and increasing all healing over time received by 50%.
Receive a jolt of energy, empowering your next spell cast:
Effuse: Healing increased by 200%.
Enveloping Mist: Instant cast.
Essence Font: Castable while moving.Channels 100% faster.
Mistweaver (Level 63)
Renewing Mist: Does not trigger cooldown.
Vivify: No mana cost
Kick upwards, dealing (910% of Attack power) damage
Windwalker (Level 20)
and reducing the effectiveness of healing on the target for 10 sec

Cost changed from 2.0% of base mana / 2 Chi to 1.5% of base mana / 2 Chi

Talents

Summon a whirling tornado around you, causing 9] healing over 613] healing over 9 sec to up to 6 allies within 810 yards, and increasing the healing of Essence Font by 20% while active.
Cost changed from 5.0% of base mana to 3.5% of base mana
Cooldown changed from 6 sec cooldown to 9 sec cooldown

Honor Talents

Increases your Physical damage by 50%, you remove and become immune to all stun, snare and root effects and you heal up to 3 nearest allies for 200% of all damage done. Lasts 15 sec.
Soothing Mist is now an active spell, and no longer is automatically applied through casting Effuse, Enveloping Mist or Vivify.

Soothing Mist - 0.3%0.2% per second

Blizzard Posts

Blizzard

On the initial 7.2.5 PTR, we are trying out a version of that is even stronger, but has a cooldown. In addition to some combination of a healing increase and mana cost reduction, the duration of the HoT will be increased.

having no cooldown has held back the spell and the spec in a few ways. It essentially says that three relatively heavy heals (, , ) have to compete with each other at all times. The texture of using a heavy spell on a short cooldown, then falling back to the decision between spammable spells (selecting based on cost, number of targets, etc.) is common among healers for good reason. And 's HoT mechanic that improves mastery is meant to specifically enhance that sort of gameplay, and will be more effective on a spell with a cooldown.

As already mentioned, the first change that comes along with it is buffing itself. It no longer has to be held back by "if it gets too much stronger than e.g. Vivify, people will only use ", and can simply be a high-priority spell. We will make other adjustments as needed for gameplay or tuning.

Blizzard

However, one point that I would like addressed is what are we supposed to do when Essence Font is on cooldown, Uplifting Trance isn't available, Whispers of Shaohao has been used, and the the group still needs to be healed?

The initial version going out has a small buff to baseline . Also, the changes greatly increase the practical value of mastery, which is a hidden buff to the , , and casts you'll be making in between s.

Part of it, though, is you should have more of cadence between the high-priority heals that somewhat solve problems on their own, and the spells that don't always do that. You asked what to do when the "best" 3 or 4 things are on cooldown or not available, and that's similar to a Druid falling back to laying down s when she can't use or , or a using between and cooldowns. Making use of the no-cooldown spells that are more limited is meant to be a moment when you look forward to the next heavy hitter coming back (even if it's just a few seconds for an ).

The concerns in feedback seem to mostly reflect tuning--that the "filler" kit of , , , and isn't strong enough. Possibly that's true and the problem has been papered over on live by the ability to focus everything on . Overall tuning will be something to watch on PTR, as with any spec getting any degree of shakeup. debates usually aren't too productive in early feedback, but maybe a helpful thing to say is: "if we hadn't been making any changes to Mistweaver, it would probably have gotten a small flat throughput buff before the next raid."

With the changes to Mistweaver during the transition to Legion, there was already a degree of homogenization from what was previously a fairly unique gameplay experience to something more similar to what already existed in other healing classes. As you consider further changes to Mistweaver, is further samey-ness something that's "on the radar"?

It is, although possibly in the opposite way. If anything, thinking that Essence Font had to be forced into an off-cooldown design from the start "just to be different" probably didn't help anybody. The spec flowing better for everyone using it matters more than symmetries or antisymmetries between specs and how they look on paper. Nobody actually playing either spec is going to forget whether they're on a Mistweaver or a Resto Druid just because Essence Font follows a successful design like Wild Growth. The spells around them, the different interactions they have, and the whole pile of talents, traits, and item bonuses all doing different things ensures that.

There's always a balance between lessons and good designs that are generally true throughout the game, and variance between specs. And powerful AoE heals usually having some cooldown (for a number of reasons) is a factor that's more likely to improve Mistweaver gameplay than worrying about being a carbon copy of other specs (which it's pretty far from, all things considered).

Blizzard

also has a mana cost reduction that didn't make it into this build, similar to other talented heal spells mentioned in a recent PTR note.
We're looking into a some of the various things mentioned on this thread and others, for an upcoming PTR build:

--We understand the complaint about losing your channel due to movement, now that it has a cooldown. Going straight to "Essence Font can always be cast while moving" is still the sort of thing we want to be careful about. Cast-while-moving isn't something that should proliferate too much outside of special buffs or spells that have that as a main purpose, but it's an option that we may try out on PTR.

--We'll buff Life Cocoon to better account for the large HP inflation in Legion.

--We're going to try a version of that no longer has the hook, and is much more efficient simply based on its own healing. That likely means making it cheaper rather than stronger, and probably means a longer cooldown or duration than what it has now. Both so that it's less disruptive by using fewer GCDs, and so that it's not a limitless way of pouring mana into smart healing. It should be a basic rotational option for a constant healing boost, with a positional factor.

--We're going to buff , initially simply using the same knob as in beta of changing 's cost. That version of fistweaving was generally popular (among the crowd that wants something with that much complexity), and possibly only fell away because it was never tuned back up enough to account for the loss of the beta version of Black Flame.

Our overall approach to Mistweaver in 7.2.5 is more focused on looking at specific issues like these, rather than any kind of deep overhaul. We also expect that the overall package of changes so far effects an increase to the total healing power of the spec (which was intended), and of course can do further tuning as we get a more solid idea of how much that is.

Specialization

Pummels all targets in front of you, dealing 525%420% of Attack power)] damage over 4 sec. Can be channeled while moving.
Effect #5 School Damage
Value: 0 (AP mod: 5.254.2)

Range changed from Melee Range to 8 yd range

Windwalker:
Spin while kicking in the air, dealing damage over 1.50 sec to enemies within 8 yds.
Spinning Crane Kick's damage is increased by 50%40% for each unique target you've struck in the last 15 sec with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, Rising Sun Kick, or Rushing Jade Wind.
Spinning Crane Kick's damage is increased by 50%40% for each unique target you've struck in the last 15 sec with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, or Rising Sun Kick.

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 819%
Affected Spells:
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 819%
Affected Spells:

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

Cost changed from 2.0% of base mana / 2 Chi to 1.5% of base mana / 2 Chi

Blizzard

It is an astute observation that Windwalker has very little scaling with its weapon DPS. It's not something we have a short-term fix for, and we recognize the problem relating to relic choice. Longer-term, it's probably best for us to reevaluate the difference between weapondamage-based attacks and AP-based attacks entirely, and what purpose it serves.

To be clear, being focused mostly on AP-based attacks doesn't impair your overall scaling with ilvl--your AP still increases in the correct proportion as you upgrade all of your items. It just means that weapons make up less of the pie (and armor fills up more of it) for Windwalker compared to other specs. It would be nicer to clean this all up so that weapons were consistently important on all specs, and so that we didn't run into things like the relic choice issue.

Talents

Each successive attack that triggers Combo Strikes in a row grants 2% increased damage, stacking up to 86 times.
Summons an effigy of Xuen, the White Tiger for 45 sec. Xuen attacks your primary target, and strikes 3 enemies within 10 yards every 1 sec with Tiger Lightning for (40%30% of Attack power) Nature damage.
Windwalker:
Summons a whirling tornado around you, causing damage over 6 sec to enemies within 8 yards. Applies Mark of the Crane to up to 4 nearby targets.2 nearby targets.

Artifact Traits

Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 3 sec.5 sec.
Rank 2: Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 6 sec.10 sec.
Rank 3: Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 9 sec.15 sec.
Rank 4: Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 12 sec.20 sec.
Rank 5: Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 15 sec.24 sec.
Rank 6: Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 18 sec.28 sec.
Rank 7: Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 21 sec.31 sec.
Rank 8: Reduces the cooldown of Serenity / recharge time of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 24 sec.34 sec.

Honor Talents

Your first strike of Fists of Fury knocks targets to the ground, stunning them for 3 sec. Fists of Fury has a 5 yard increased range.4 sec.

Blizzard

The increased range is becoming baseline for PvE, so that's why.

Correct, Fists of Fury is gaining a range increase baseline, so this part of the Honor Talent has been removed.

Renewing Mist has a 2%1% increased chance to increase the healing of your next Vivify.
NEW Consuming a brew has a 100% chance to generate a Gift of the Ox Healing Sphere.
NEW When a Gift of the Ox Healing Sphere is consumed, your current Stagger amount is lowered by 5%.
NEW When Fists of Fury ends, the critical strike chance of Rising Sun Kick is increased by 50% for 5 sec.
NEW Rising Sun Kick critical strikes reduce the cooldown of Fists of Fury by 2.0 sec.
NEW Essence Font has a 30% chance to grant Surge of Mists, reducing the cost of your next Enveloping Mist by 75%.
NEW When you consume Surge of Mist, your healing done is increased by 12% for 10 sec.

Class Tools
Holy	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Protection	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Retribution	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 1216%
Affected Spells:
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 1216%
Affected Spells:

Talents

Divine Hammers spin around you, damaging enemies within 8 yds for 90%68% Holy damage instantly and every 2 sec for 12 sec.
Generates 2 Holy Power.

Honor Talents

Increases the duration of your Judgment effect by 16 sec Judgment now applies Lawbringer to its initial targets hits for 30 sec. Casting Judgment causes all enemies with your Lawbringer effect to suffer 5% of their total health in Holy damage.
Hurls a magical hammer that strikes an enemy for (700% of Spell power) Holy damage. When you or allies with your Greater Blessings take damage, the damage of your next Hammer of Reckoning increases.When you or allies with your Greater Blessings take damage, you gain Reckoning. Consume 50 stacks of Reckoning to hurl a magical hammer that strikes an enemy for (700% of Spell power) Holy damage, and you gain Avenging Wrath for 12 sec / Crusade for 6 sec.

Talents

Casting Holy Light or Flash of Light on your Beacon of LightHoly Light and Flash of Light reduces the mana cost and damage taken from your next Light of the Martyr by 50%25%, stacking.
Hurls a Light-infused hammer into the ground, where it blasts a 10 yard radius every 2 sec for 14 sec. Each blast deals (103.2% of Spell power) Holy damage to enemies and heals up to 6 allies for (50% of Spell power).
Cost changed from 35.0% of base mana to 28.0% of base mana

Honor Talents

Increases the healing done by your Holy Light by 100%50%, and your Holy Light reduces all damage the target receives by 5% for 8 sec. Stacks up to 3 times.

Artifact Traits

Releases a blinding flash from Truthguard, causing (270% of Attack power) Holy damage to all nearby enemies within 8 yds and reducing all damage they deal to you by 25% for 9 sec.
Your Judgment grants you Blessed Stalwart, increasing the damage and damage reduction of your next Shield of the Righteous by 25%8%.

Artifact Traits

When your Greater Blessings are active, gain Blessing of the Ashbringer. Blessing of the Ashbringer grants 20004% Strength.
Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 5%.8%.
Rank 2: Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 10%.16%.
Rank 3: Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 15%.24%.
Rank 4: Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 20%.32%.
Rank 5: Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 25%.40%.
Rank 6: Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 30%.48%.
Rank 7: Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 35%.56%.
Rank 8: Your Holy Power spending abilities increase the damage of your next Divine Hammer / Blade of Justice by 40%.64%.

Honor Talents (1)

When you or nearby allies within 40 yards drop below 40% health, you gain Avenging Wrath / Crusade for 5 sec. This effect cannot occur more than once every 60 sec.

Shield of the Righteous has a 35%25% chance to reset the cooldown on Light of the Protector.
Your Holy Power spending attacks deal 10%7% more damage.
NEW Reduces the cooldown of Light of Dawn by 2.0 sec.
NEW For 5 sec after casting Light of Dawn, your healing spells will transfer an additional 40% to your Beacon of Light target.
NEW Judgment has a 30% chance to reset the cooldown of Avenger's Shield.
NEW Enemies hit by Avenger's Shield deal 5% reduced damage to you for 10 sec.
NEW Blade of Justice generates 1 additional Holy Power.
NEW Judgment also increases the damage of Blade of Justice by 15% for 8 sec.

Class Tools
Discipline	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Holy	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Shadow	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Discipline Priest core passive
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 2436%
Affected Spells:
Effect #3 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 2436%
Affected Spells:

Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing
Castigation

Holy damagedamage
Discipline
to an enemy or healing to an ally
<br /> over 2 sec. Castable while moving.

A quick, efficient plea to heal an ally for (225% of Spell power). Mana cost increased by 100% for each Atonement you have active
Cost changed from 0.4% of base mana to 1.8% of base mana
A burst of light heals the target and 24 injured allies within 30 yards for (250% of Spell power), and applies Atonement for 60% of its normal duration.
Cast Time changed from 2.5 sec cast to 2 sec cast
Cooldown changed from None to 18 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 2 Charges
Shields an ally for 15 sec, absorbing damage, and preventing damage from delaying spellcasting.
Cost changed from 2.0% of base mana to 2.3% of base mana
Smite absorbs the next 2.253) * (1 + Versatility)] damage dealt by the enemy.
Name changed from Smite to Sanctuary
Now requires Level 15, down from 36
Summons a holy barrier to protect all allies at the target location for 10 sec, reducing all damage taken by 25% and preventing damage from delaying spellcasting.
Cost changed from 6.3% of base mana to 4.0% of base mana

Talents

Shields the target with a protective ward for 20 sec, absorbing damage.
Now requires Level 75, down from 90
Tier 5 Talent, in place of
Throw a Divine Star forward 24 yds, healing allies in its path for (90% of Spell power) and dealing (145% of Spell power) Holy damage to enemies. After reaching its destination, the Divine Star returns to you, healing allies and damaging enemies in its path again.
Cost changed from 2.5% of base mana to 2.0% of base mana
Creates a ring of Holy energy around you that quickly expands to a 30 yd radius, healing allies for (287.4% of Spell power) and dealing (431.1% of Spell power) Holy damage to enemies.
Cost changed from 3.6% of base mana to 2.7% of base mana
Penance may be cast on a friendly target, healing them for over 2 sec.
Now Discipline ability
Contrition Increases Atonement duration by 3 sec.
Now Removed
NEW Extends the duration of all of your active Atonements by 8 sec.
Tier 7 Talent, in place of
Strikes an enemy with heavenly power, dealing (300%350% of Spell power) Holy damage and restoring 1.00% of your maximum mana.
Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (SP mod: 33.5)

Cleanses the target with fire, causing (100% of Spell power) Fire damage and an additional (480%520% of Spell power) Fire damage over 20 sec. Spreads to an additional nearby enemy when you cast Penance on the target.
Now requires Level 90, down from 100
Tier 6 Talent, in place of
NEW Smite's absorption effect is increased by 50%.
Tier 5 Talent, in place of
Draws on the power of shadow to heal up to 5 injured allies within 30 yds of the target for (450%500% of Spell power), but leaves a shell on them that absorbs the next 450%500% of Spell power) * 50 / 100] healing they receive within 6 sec.

Effect #1 Heal
Value: 0 (SP mod: 4.55)

Now requires Level 75, down from 100
Tier 5 Talent, in place of Contrition

Artifact Traits

Power Word: Shield absorbs 50% additional damage, but the target takes 3% of the remaining absorb amount as Shadow damageabsorb amount decays by 3% every 1 sec.
Increases damage
The Penitent
and healing done
dealt by Penance by 4%. Discipline (Level 1)
and healing done
dealt by Penance by 4%.
Purge the Wicked
Purge the Wicked
Shadow Word: Pain has a chance to increase damage
The Penitent
or healing done
dealt by your next Penance by 50%. Discipline (Level 1)
or healing done
dealt by your next Penance by 50%.

Honor Talents

Your Power Word: Radiance is now instant cast and the healing is increased by 250% but now has a 6 sec cooldown.200%.

Blizzard Posts

Blizzard

The reduction to 's bonus is reverted in the next PTR build. That actually wasn't meant to go to PTR after the buffs to and (if we'd kept the change, we'd likely have buffed the spec flat at the same time). Sorry about the confusion.

As with other specs, we'd like to get some discussion early in the PTR process about our goals for any significant changes, so that people giving feedback have context for what we're expecting.

First, some problems with live Discipline:
--The mana cost mechanic on is clumsy and makes the spell require a complex evaluation to use at all.
--Relatedly, PW:Radiance is a no-cooldown applicator that is better than in almost every way, and is basically limited only by total mana.
--So the spec is now balanced around very high count in raids (from using as much as possible) being the only time Discipline is strong. High-end players have gotten used to this as a playstyle as well.
--The spec is very dependent on mana, since more mana turning into more s is virtually the only thing constraining your healing.

We understand that toppling any aspect of this situation gives alarm to high-end raiders, mainly related to power level of the spec. There was one way to make the spec "work" in raids, and the dedicated Discipline players have learned to optimize it to get good performance. And we can probably start assuaging some concerns by saying: without using all nearly your mana on concentrated usage, and without using focused s to push that even further, we understand the power level of the spec would be clearly impacted absent other changes.

It is our intention to have fewer average s out in raids after the patch, which will likely involve an increase to either transfer or simply to damage dealt. This, among other results, should result in an increase in power in all situations other than mass spread raid healing. And even in that situation, there's no overall reduction in power intended, other than perhaps in extreme cases of stacking. Ideally, Discipline will more regularly and stably be near that level of performance through a normal playstyle.

Because the spec is so complex, there will surely a lot of tuning of mana costs and damage amounts and the like throughout PTR, to get everything into the right place. But for some further goals on the changes that are in so far:
--The damage increase is on (I believe this PTR build only has a small damage increase, but the internal build has a much larger one) moreso than . So that your incentive is not to spam out as many s as possible and then convert them to healing with . A decision of more s vs. more damage should be more relevant than it is now, when more s are essentially always right.
--For similar reasons, reducing mana costs to free up overall mana on the spec was done to rather than . should never feel wrong to cast, whereas shifting to cast a heal spell is an expenditure of mana to get an , very similar to any heal on a typical healer.
--PW:R going to more, shorter s rather than fewer, longer s is to allow a quick payoff on a lot of targets (5 or 10) through a and some s. Cases such as group damage in dungeon healing should have a tool that's a smoother fit for them now.

These details are very much open to feedback like anything else, but the main point at the outset is: we're very aware we're poking at the one trick of a spec that is a bit of a one-trick pony in raids. And that requires making sure that all the other parts of the toolkit are up to snuff in the same process. Our hope is that it's not only a clear upgrade for everyone outside the high-end raid setting, but also that those players have a less degenerate and more varied rotation while still performing at the right level.
Thanks for the post. Any thoughts on making penance heal untalented again? IMO the spec is way hard to play in most situations for the average player. I found myself having a hard time keeping up tanks spike damage in 5 mans, even when out gearing the content.

This is in the current PTR build-- can be used in either mode baseline.

Also, the problem of the time used to apply s is an issue, because the casting time has to be considered into how long you actually get to make use of those s.

Yes, the current cast time and duration might be a little constrained--both are potential things to look at as we see how it plays out. The payoff from a PWR shouldn't feel like it's overly conditioned on getting an exact sequence of a few spells with no interruption.

Yeah, sure, makes sense, except one crucial point... you removed the absorb per-cast. That was the one feature about the spell that actually favored having fewer s. A Smite that heals 5 people now does actually even less healing than before, and while it's nice and all that it costs almost no mana, it's the time constraint on Disc now to actually cast that creates a problem.

It's true that works against lower- healing somewhat. Overall this effect should work as a talent since it's somewhat situational in a way that contrasts nicely to , but there could be something different here if it becomes a problem. is definitely better baseline since it's an option that is rarely a net power increase to use, but allows some important convenience/flexibility in some cases.

Lack of mana is not why is not cast. is not cast because by the time you're done doing everything else in the spec that costs a GCD, nobody with is still damaged unless you're on a fight that has literally constant damage every second from start to finish or your fellow healers are really, really bad at the game.

If nobody in the raid is damaged, then basically no healer has anything to do other than 1) set up something like a HoT (analogy: apply an ), or 2) do some damage. So that's not unusual, and favors making sure that is near-free or free and the mana decisions are on applying the heals (s).
There are various things still being discussed, so it will be better to talk about it after some changes settle down more, but one good point of feedback was about the targeting on PW: Radiance. We're going to try smart targeting of some sort in the next PTR build. Details TBD, but potentially: "true smart" (lowest-HP) targeting while maintaining the current behavior of favoring targets without .

Blizzard

Thanks for all the feedback. As I mentioned last week, there was a lot of rapid iteration going on so it was hard to give any detailed updates. This build is a more complete set of changes that seems to be going in a good direction, though there are still some issues to work out.

--Talent balancing. In particular, Evangelism is an idea we like, but finding serious competition for it as a raid talent might be hard. It probably needs to be against heavier hitters like (especially if that helps it be less of a one-note cooldown stacking build). There will likely be further iteration on talent arrangement to better accommodate the new additions.

--Mana. The spell whose cost is most important for balance purposes is , because it is now the most efficient way to convert excess mana into s. We reduced the cost so it would make more sense when compared against and , but have to keep an eye on whether that leaves mana as a reasonable limiter on how much you can spread over the course of an encounter.

--Overall Atonement count. The changes in the last build helped fix a lot of mechanical issues, but also added a lot of raw power to the spec, particularly in terms of spread/uptime. And particularly Evangelism returns a lot of the burst- coverage that currently dominates Disc raiding. That's not necessarily a problem if everything else about the spec is working well, and it's good to continue having a bit of a niche that Disc is used to in Legion. But as discussed in my first post, if it's as easy to blanket the raid as it is on live, that limits the spec somewhat.

While this is something we'll monitor throughout PTR, especially with more internal and external raid testing, there is definitely a worry that in order to balance the spec at this point, the transfer % would have to go down, which is the opposite of the stated goal. We don't want to be in that position at the end of PTR when it's harder to make other changes.

Talents

Heals you, another friendly target, and a third friendly target within 20 yards for (300% of Spell power).
Triggers Serendipity, reducing the remaining cooldown on both Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify by 3 sec.
Cost changed from 2.5% of base mana to 1.7% of base mana
Heals up to 5 injured allies within 30 yards of the target for (260%300% of Spell power).
Effect #1 Heal
Value: 0 (SP mod: 2.63)

Cost changed from 5.0% of base mana to 3.0% of base mana
Throw a Divine Star forward 24 yds, healing allies in its path for (90% of Spell power) and dealing (145% of Spell power) Holy damage to enemies. After reaching its destination, the Divine Star returns to you, healing allies and damaging enemies in its path again.
Cost changed from 2.5% of base mana to 2.0% of base mana

Creates a ring of Holy energy around you that quickly expands to a 30 yd radius, healing allies for (287.4% of Spell power) and dealing (431.1% of Spell power) Holy damage to enemies.
Cost changed from 3.6% of base mana to 2.7% of base mana

Honor Talents

While Voidform is not active, being attacked will grant you 5 Insanity.12 Insanity over 3 sec.
While at 100 Insanity and not in Voidform, your damage is increased by 30%20%.
Shields an ally for 15 sec, absorbing damage, and preventing damage from delaying spellcasting.
Cost changed from 2.0% of base mana to 2.3% of base mana
Having Vampiric Touch on 2 or more targets grants you 3 Insanity every 2 sec.
Increases the healing of Vampiric Touch by 50%.35%.
Mind Spike
Mind Spike
Mind Flay has a 100% chance to apply Shadow Word: Pain to the target.Fully-channeled Mind Flays cause you to steal 1% haste from the target for 20 sec. Only 10% haste can be stolen from a single target.
Stacks up to 20 times.

Artifact Traits

Increases the duration of Mindbender by 1.0 / Shadowfiend by 4.5 sec.Mindbender by 1.5 / Shadowfiend by 4.5 sec.

For 42.50 sec after activating Voidform, the cooldown on Void Bolt is reduced by 100%.
NEW The first bolt of light from your Penance deals an additional 100% damage or heals for an additional 100%.
NEW Power Word: Shield has a 15% chance to cause your next Penance to be free and have 50% reduced cooldown.
NEW Serendipity reduces the cooldown of your Holy Words by up to an additional 1.0 sec.
NEW Your Holy Words have a 40% chance to trigger a 50% reduced cooldown.
NEW Mind Flay damage increases the damage of your next Mind Blast by 3% and its Insanity generation by 1. Stacks up to 10 times.
NEW Insanity drains 15% slower (10% with Surrender to Madness) while in Voidform.

Honor Talents

Purify no longer has a cooldown, and costs 50% less mana, but only dispels 1 Magic and Disease effect.

Glyphs

NEW Triggering Serendipity grants you angelic wings.

Class Tools
Assassination	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Outlaw	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Subtlety	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 1122%
Affected Spells:
NEW NEW NEW
NEW
NEW
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 1122%
Affected Spells:
NEW
NEW NEW
NEW NEW NEW
NEW NEW NEW
NEW

Twist your blades into the target's wounds, causing your Bleed effects on them to bleed out 100%125% faster.
Cost changed from None to 20 Energy

Subtlety:
Your abilities requiring Stealth can still be used for 3 sec after Stealth breaks.
Also increases the duration of Shadow Dance by 2 sec.1 sec.

Sprays knives at all targets within 10 yards, dealing (107.9%150% of Attack power) Physical damage and applying your active poisons at their normal rate.
Awards 1 combo points.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (AP mod: 1.0791.5)

Talents

Coats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 30% chance to poison the enemy for 12 sec, increasing all damage taken from your abilities by 4.0%, stacking up to 5 times.
Damage bonus increased by Mastery: Potent Poisons.
Removed
Subtlety:
Abilities cost 75% less Energy while Stealth or Shadow Dance are active.is active.
NEW Stab your enemy with a toxic blade, dealing 600% Nature damage.

The critical strike chance of your Nature damage abilities against the target is increased by 40% for 8 sec.

Awards 1 combo point.
Stab your enemy with a toxic blade, dealing 600% Nature damage.
The critical strike chancedamage of your Nature damage abilities against the target is increased by 40%30% for 8 sec.
Awards 1 combo point.

Blizzard Posts

Blizzard

Legion came with a tremendous amount of class changes, and s were a big part of this. We've been making adjustments/improvements to many specs since Legion has launched, and that will continue, especially for s in the near future. Let's talk fantasy and mechanics a bit.

Assassination
Assassination has always had the Poison theme, but we think Bleeds pair well with Poisons here, both fantasy-wise and mechanically. The idea that you can apply a slew of Poison and Bleed damage over times to the target, dooming your enemy to certain death is one of our core fantasies for Assassination. At this point Assassination is clearly less of a "get in, kill, and get out" spec - that distinction is now more on Subtlety.

Agree that the balance of Bleeds vs. Poisons might be a little heavy on the Bleeds side currently on the baseline spec. That wasn't really super intentional. Assassination got , , , and (probably the most obvious choices for a baseline rotation) after we divided up many of the skills between specs in 7.0. So the spec essentially already started a little Bleed-heavy. Add on top of that (which is fairly strong and everyone has) and (which was overtuned at launch), both of which prop up bleeds more.

We like that the Assassination talent tree has two thematic paths - Poison ( + ) and Bleed ( + ). But we lean on our talent trees to do so much more than just let you choose between 2 thematic paths for your spec fantasy - they have to offer simple passives vs. added complexity via new buttons, single target vs. AOE mechanics, playstyle/pacing customization, and more. And of course, all of this is extremely sensitive to the tuning and design of talents, set bonuses, legendaries, and artifact traits. Any one of these variables could be newly introduced or overtuned/undertuned and easily push Assassination down either the Poison or Bleeds talent path, essentially against your will if you like one theme over the other but want to maximize damage. For example, at Legion launch, Hemo + Exsan was the standard build, and now it's switched over to + Agonizing. Tier 19 pushes Poison damage a bit via , but Tier 20 might push Bleed damage a bit via (note: T20 designs are still in flux, many are likely to change). We want to make both paths viable, but should be realistic and recognize that many variables can and will affect this, and that the balance will fluctuate over time.

On a couple talents:

: We don't really like for many reasons. It replaces (which feels core to ) with an extremely passive, mostly invisible, and currently very strong Poison debuff that makes target-swapping and AOE more difficult. It's got a lot of things going wrong with it and is on the chopping block for the next patch. Ideas for replacements include a short-cooldown AOE Poison damage button that costs high energy or something that deals Poison damage in a rotationally-interesting way.
: This is a good talent. It has a clear theme with interesting mechanical and rotational implications. We'll look at tuning based on what happens with , but plans are to buff its damage and add a small energy cost, not because of tuning but because on-GCD buttons that don't cost Energy sometimes lead to Energy-capping, which doesn't feel good.

Overall we think the single-target Assassination rotation is in a good place. There are nuances to applying and maintaining your bleeds with maximizing uptime being an underlying core part of the rotation, as it has been for a long time.

Specialization

Increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100%60% and your attack speed by 20% for 1520 sec.
Ambush the target, causing 450% Physical damage.600% Physical damage.
Awards 2 combo point.
Your off-hand attacks have a 30% chance to generate 1510 Energy.
NEW Finishing moves reduce the remaining cooldown of Adrenaline Rush, Between the Eyes, Sprint, Grappling Hook, Cannonball Barrage, Killing Spree, Marked for Death, Death from Above and Vanish by 0.5 sec per combo point spent.
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 2030%
Affected Spells:

Talents

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

Artifact Traits

Invoke the Curse of the Dreadblades, causing each Saber Slash, Ghostly Strike, Ambush, or Pistol Shot to fill your combo points. However, The Dreadblades will consume 5% of your current health when you use a finishing move for the next 12 sec.
Combat Potency generates 1 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 2% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.
Rank 2: Combat Potency generates 2 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 4% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.
Rank 3: Combat Potency generates 3 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 6% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.
Rank 4: Combat Potency generates 4 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 8% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.
Rank 5: Combat Potency generates 5 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 10% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.
Rank 6: Combat Potency generates 6 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 12% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.
Rank 7: Combat Potency generates 7 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 14% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.
Rank 8: Combat Potency generates 8 additional Energy.Your off-hand attacks have a 16% increased chance to trigger Combat Potency.

Blizzard Posts

Blizzard

Outlaw
The pirate theme is clear, and clearly contentious. I think it would be accurate to say there are many players who like the fantasy of the spec and many who don't. As a class with 3 specs of the same role, this is probably an okay place to be in.

We have a couple major mechanical goals for Outlaw in the next patch:

Rebalance : This is a two-parter.

The first part is tuning each of the single-buffs against each other, narrowing the gap in power level between any two single-buffs. You should see this when the next patch hits PTR.

The second part is more complex - we're considering removing the incentive to reroll almost entirely and re-acclimating everyone to getting 1 buff from RTB most of the time and not rerolling. The main problem involves ensuring the average expected value of casting is close enough to 1.0 buffs that it's not better to reroll. With either the current 6-dice or an alternate 5-dice natural system, the probabilities are such that it's too lucrative to reroll when you get a single-buff right now.

The current proposal is to reduce the number of dice being rolled from 6 to 5 and to hand-set probabilities to something like 79% chance for 1-buff, 20% chance for 2-buffs, and 1% chance for 5-buffs (yahtzee), bringing the expected value of a roll down to 1.24 buffs (plus additional value for synergies between buffs). The downside to this is that if you take a deep look at the probability distribution, in order for this to work, you realize that the dice would have to be loaded against the player. This isn't something we'd prefer to do (adjust randomness against the player's favor), but it might be something we have to do with the current dice system in order to remove the incentive to reroll.

Overall we want to reduce how much the spec is defined by . RTB can be most of the time a single buff that might change your pacing or rotation slightly with relatively rare bonuses of 2-buffs or 5-buffs, but that the spec should completely work both mechanically and damage-wise without RTB, if you want to take as a replacement.
Smooth out Energy Generation : Outlaw suffers a bit rotationally from unpredictable Energy generation and Energy-flooding during . The changes we're doing here are pretty simple and direct but should help to alleviate this issue - reduced Energy regen increase but increased duration and procs twice as often for half the Energy each proc.

I dont think the first point of one rtb buff will ever be possible. There will always be a buff sought after more than the others, and if you were to somehow put a CD on rtb for the duration of the buff to lockout rerolls it will simply feel punishing to play the class.

The second idea I think has a lot more merit, taking out one of the buffs will greatly improve getting a good combo. I enjoy outlaw as a playstyle for the most part, the only time I ever feel punished for playing the spec is when I'm trying to fish for TB and continue to get any one buff besides that. So I am all for your second idea here. Personally I think Grand Melee wont be missed.

To be clear, the (tentative) proposal is to reduce the number of dice, not the number of possible buffs (the dice remain d6's).

Players finding certain cases where rerolling has some use is not the end of the world. But the goal is similar to what we expressed way back in beta--rerolling, and especially very frequent rerolling, aren't a major part of standard gameplay. That's still the goal, and it wasn't borne out on live so far, and the feedback has been very consistent with the notion that we should still try to get there.

Some variance in buff values is inevitable, not necessarily a problem. It doesn't even lead to rerolling, if the difference isn't large enough to be worth giving up high-damage Run Throughs. But as Seph said, in our estimation the bigger issue isn't the variance between buffs, but the variance in the number of buffs and the fact that a single buff is so far below the average outcome.

Hoooooooooooold up. Really? Because this is the first time a dev has said that they want SND to equal RTB. To this point, we've been told that SND was "an option," but intentionally not as strong as RTB.

That's a huge about-face. But one I approve of.

There's probably some miscommunication here. is a level 100 talent and should of course have positive DPS value. Therefore it should be stronger, on its own, than . That was always the intention, although it may not have turned out consistently true so far. will, however, likely be less strong than plus Marked for Death (for example).

Seph

Overall it would be more ideal if the RTB buffs were closer in value. True Bearing has gradually crept up over the course of the expansion (around the time of Legion launch, I believe Shark Infested Waters was considered best, and they haven't changed much since then). I expect True Bearing climbs in value as the rotation gets faster due to stat increases and other bonuses being added over the course of the expansion, which all feed into the True Bearing positive feedback loop. Simply making it baseline would speed up the spec even further and contribute to the energy flood and other issues that it can have. While the similar effect was passive in Warlords, I'm sure (I haven't dug into this closely) that the Legion spec churns combo points much more rapidly. In any case the Legion version of True Bearing has the added synergy with Marked For Death that heaps even more combo points into the rotation during True Bearing.

Point being, while there's not a specific plan yet for balancing out the different RTB buffs, we agree that it would be better they were more even again. Longer-term, there's something to be said for tweaking the rules/probabilities of RTB in a way that would further reduce the value of rerolling frequently.
Two things I think many of us can agree on right now:

1. 's cooldown reduction per combo point spent mechanic is fun to play with. The mechanic has been on the spec for a long time as a passive with a different name (), and largely drove the pacing and feel of the spec.
2. is much stronger than any of the other single buffs, on average.

That said, we're going to make two changes to s in 7.2.5:

1. The True Bearing mechanic is being added to as a baseline passive (called ), tuned to an appropriate pacing and power level for how many combo points the spec currently generates. , currently in 7.2.5 is tuned at 0.5 sec of cooldown reduction per combo point because realistically, the spec now generates easily 2-3x more combo points compared to a couple expansions ago, and the pacing impact and tuning of should reflect that.
2. will remain as one of the 6 buffs, but will be tuned down from 2.0 to 1.0 sec of cooldown reduction per combo point. We're serious about balancing each of the 6 individual buffs against each other, and at 2.0 sec is clearly out of line.

We'll be keeping a close eye on during 7.2.5 development, and as usual will make further tuning/adjustments as necessary.

*looks at the date* Please please don't let this be a joke!

Specialization

Stab the target, causing * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 11 + 260) / 370)] Physical damage. Damage increased by 30%20% when you are behind your target.
Awards 1 combo point.
Your finishing moves reduce the remaining cooldown on Shadow Dance by (315% / 10) sec per combo point spent.
NEW Shuriken Storm increases the damage of your next Eviscerate by 10% for each enemy hit beyond the first. Stacks up to 5 times.
Finishing move that infects the target with shadowy energy, dealing Shadow damage over time and causing attacks against the target to reduce movement speed by 50% for 8 sec. Lasts longer per combo point.
1 point : 138%90% of Attack power) * 8 / 2] over 8 sec
2 points: 138%90% of Attack power) * 10 / 2] over 10 sec
3 points: 138%90% of Attack power) * 12 / 2] over 12 sec
4 points: 138%90% of Attack power) * 14 / 2] over 14 sec
5 points: 138%90% of Attack power) * 16 / 2] over 16 sec
Deeper Stratagem
6 points: 138%90% of Attack power) * 18 / 2] over 18 sec
You deal 15% increased damage to enemies afflicted by your Nightblade.
Your finishing moves have a 20% chancegenerate 6 Energy per combo point to generate 40 Energy.spent.
Allows use of all Stealth abilities and grants all the combat benefits of Stealth for 34 sec. Effect not broken from taking damage or attacking.
Charges changed from 3 Charges to 2 Charges
Strike through the shadows,
Subtlety (Level 42)
appearing behind your target and
dealing 850% Physical damage.
Awards 1 combo point.dealing 850% Physical damage to your target.
Subtlety (Level 42)
Shadowstrike's range is increased to 25 yds and damage is increased by 30% when you are out of combat
Awards 12 combo point.
Shadowstrike (Rank 2) deals 30% increased damage and will now teleport you to a target up to 15 yards away.25 yards away when used from out of combat while Stealth is active.
NEW Sprint now allows you to run over water.
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 930%
Affected Spells:
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 930%
Affected Spells:
NEW Effect #7 Apply Aura: Modifies Cooldown
Value: -20000
Affected Spells:

Invoke ancient symbols of power, increasing all damage you deal by 20% for 35 sec, and causing your next Shadowstrike to critically strike. Unaffected by the global cooldown empowering the next use of several of your abilities:
Gloomblade / Backstab: Generates 2 additional combo points.
Shadowstrike: Generates 2 additional combo points.
Eviscerate: Critical strike chance increased by 35%.
Cost changed from 35 Energy to 25 Energy
Cooldown changed from 10 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown
Sprays shurikens at all targets within 10 yards, dealing (72.15%120% of Attack power) Physical damage.
Damage increased by 200%100% while Stealth or Shadow Dance is active.
Awards 1 combo points per target hit.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (AP mod: 0.72151.2)

Talents

NEW While Shadow Dance is active, all damage you deal is increased by 30%.
Tier 6 Talent, in place of Premonition
You immediately gain 25 EnergyGain 25 Energy over 3 when you enter Stealth or activate Shadow Dance.
Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike generate 1 additional combo point.
Removed
Subtlety:
Your abilities requiring Stealth can still be used for 3 sec after Stealth breaks.
Also increases the duration of Shadow Dance by 2 sec.1 sec.
You heal 3% of your maximum life every 1 sec while Stealth or Shadow Dance is active.

Honor Talents

Your damage while stealthed is increased by an additional 20% and the cooldown of your Vanish spell is reduced by 9060 sec. Maximum health reduced by 25%.

Artifact Traits

Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 3%.5%.
Rank 2: Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 6%.10%.
Rank 3: Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 10%.15%.
Rank 4: Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 13%.20%.
Rank 5: Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 16%.25%.
Rank 6: Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 20%.30%.
Rank 7: Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 23%.35%.
Rank 8: Increases damage dealt by Gloomblade / Backstab by 26%.40%.
Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 5 Energy. 2 Energy.
Rank 2: Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 10 Energy. 4 Energy.
Rank 3: Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 15 Energy. 6 Energy.
Rank 4: Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 20 Energy. 8 Energy.
Rank 5: Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 25 Energy. 10 Energy.
Rank 6: Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 30 Energy. 12 Energy.
Rank 7: Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 35 Energy. 14 Energy.
Rank 8: Cheap Shot and Shadowstrike have a 25%Gloomblade Backstab, Shadowstrike, and Cheap Shot have a 50% chance to refund 40 Energy. 16 Energy.
Activating Sprint and then taking no damage and dealing no damage for three seconds will activate Vanish without triggering its cooldown.Reduces the cooldown of Sprint by 10 sec and Vanish by 30 sec.
Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 5%.8%.
Rank 2: Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 10%.16%.
Rank 3: Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 15%.24%.
Rank 4: Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 20%.32%.
Rank 5: Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 25%.40%.
Rank 6: Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 30%.48%.
Rank 7: Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 35%.56%.
Rank 8: Increases the critical strike damage of Gloomblade Backstab and Shadowstrike by 40%.64%.
Replaces Etched in Shadow
Shadow Techniques also grants you 58 Energy.
Shuriken Storm has a chance per target hit to deal (33.8%100% of Attack power) additional Physical damage to that target.
Damage increased by 200%100% while Stealth or Shadow Dance is active.
After using Shadowstrike or Cheap Shot or using Shuriken Storm while Shadow Dance is active, you explode dealing (150%250% of Attack power) Shadow damage to all nearby enemies.
This effect may occur once every 5 sec.

Blizzard Posts

Blizzard

Subtlety
Subtlety in the long-term it has some room for improvements. For the next patch the first things we're looking at are:

: s happen a lot more than they used to and in PvE, that's been mostly a welcome change. The rotation is more dynamic than it used to be in previous expansions, with you going in and out of more often. However, set bonuses, artifact traits, and legendaries frequently grant resources (to any spec) as their bonus (because it's mechanically interesting), and in the case of Subtlety, increased Energy/Combo Points has pushed uptime to be higher than we think is good for the spec.

Additionally, from both PvE and PvP Subtlety Rogues, we've heard that the spec's feeling of burstiness has been severely reduced, partially as a result of s happening more frequently. We'd like to address this in the next patch with a couple changes. First, Deepening Shadows will be reduced from 3 to 1-1.5 sec of cooldown reduction per Combo Ppoint baseline. baseline charges reduced from 3 to 2. New talents on the same row that compete against each other will either 1) increase back up to the current 3 sec or 2) grant you increased damage during . This lets you customize your Shadow Dance to happen more often, or be most bursty when it does happen. As usual, we'll retune the damage of the spec alongside these changes, but the first focus should be on changes to pacing and mechanics.
: On single-target, works okay mechanically as a damage button that you press occasionally, but it doesn't really play as we'd like in AOE situations. The AOE rotation of Shuriken Storm-> everything isn't what we feel Subtlety should be about, on top of being basically identical to the Assassination AOE rotation. A direction we'd like to go is - Subtlety deals increased damage in AOE by dealing massively increased damage to a single target. In this vein, we're considering a new baseline passive that does something like "Each enemy hit by increases the damage of your next by ~25%, up to a max of ~5 stacks", which would push completely out of the AOE rotation on 4+ targets.

Separately but related, we don't think is a perfect fit for the Subtlety fantasy. On top of being a core rotational damage over time ability on a "get in and get out/bursty" Rogue spec, it's also the passive snare on the spec, which we think could be delivered more simply by re-adding back to the spec at some point in the future. Tying Subtlety Rogue's snare to a shadow-themed DoT was clearly an attempt at further separating Subtlety vs. Assassination as Shadow vs. Poison, but in hindsight might have been overkill, and it probably wouldn't hurt Subtlety's fantasy that much to have utility poisons back, if we don't find a better fantasy+mechanical alternative for the spec. Don't have concrete long-term plans on this specific subtopic, but it's on our minds.

As an aside on the topic of adding back spells - after doing a lot of class fantasy-focusing and spell pruning in Legion 7.0 (which had many successes as well as failures), we've been adding back some spells to specs (though we do have some strict requirements here) which in hindsight didn't need to be removed. Good examples for are (which we removed from Assassination) and (which we removed from all specs), both of which we have since added back. The removal of from Assassination made the spec a little too one-dimensional on the crowd-control front and the removal of cost the class a interesting button that provided rare moments of coolness, without any rotational complexity or huge downsides aside from being an additional button.
: In the PvE rotation, coming with a 15 yd teleport is mostly unnecessary, and also sometimes causes usability issues as an uncontrolled teleport on your core rotation. You might be in melee range, and suddenly the boss moves and rotates a bit, and suddenly you teleport into a spot you don't want to be in.

What we want to do here is add back to the spec as the replacement in the core rotation for , and move Shadowstrike to a 30 second cooldown and back up to 25 yd range. would become the second gap closer for Subtlety, different from in that it's essentially + in one button. On the table are alternatives like removing entirely and giving reduced cooldown or 2 charges, but we currently feel is cool enough of a button and high enough on the usability meter that it deserves a spot on the spec. We'd probably keep the damage, cost, and stealth requirement of and identical in all cases to make 's only benefit over being the teleport.

Mutilate also causes the target to Bleed for 30%20% additional damage over 8 sec.
Envenom deals 10%7% additional damage per Bleed you have on the target.
NEW Garrote's cost is reduced by 25 Energy and cooldown is reduced by 12 sec.
NEW Garrote generates 1 additional combo point and deals 60% increased damage.
NEW Free Pistol Shots increase your critical strike chance by 10% for 8 sec.
NEW Adrenaline Rush persists for 15 sec longer when it ends, at half power.
NEW Symbols of Death costs 15 less Energy and has 5 sec reduced cooldown.
NEW When you consume a Symbols of Death effect, you generate 10 Energy.

Spells

Subtlety:
Increases your movement speed by 70% for 8 sec. Usable while stealthed.
Allows you to run over water.

Class Tools
Elemental	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Enhancement	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Restoration	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

Calls forth a Greater Earth Elemental to protect you and your allies for until cancelled.1 min.
Range changed from 30 yd range to 40 yd range
Calls forth a Greater Fire Elemental to rain destruction on your enemies for 1 min.
Range changed from 30 yd range to 40 yd range

Talents

Calls forth a Greater Storm Elemental to hurl gusts of wind that damage the Shaman's enemies and generate Maelstrom for the Shaman for 30 sec.
Range changed from 30 yd range to 40 yd range

Honor Talents

Frost Shock now deals 20% additional damage, and Flame Shock's periodic damage generates 3 Maelstrom. Flame Shock and Frost Shock no longer consume additional Maelstrom. Increases the duration of Flame Shock and Frost Shock by 100%, and the damage of Frost Shock by 100%.

Specialization

Electrocutes all enemies in front of you, dealing 100%150% Nature damage. Hitting 2 or more targets enhances your weapons for 10 sec, causing Stormstrike and Lava Lash to also deal 100%150% Nature damage to all targets in front of you.
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 217%
Affected Spells:
NEW NEW
NEW NEW
NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 4%7%
Affected Spells:

Scorches your target, dealing (120%150% of Attack power) Fire damage, and enhances your weapons with fire for 16 sec, causing each weapon attack to deal up to (0.1250.2 * Attack power) Fire damage, based on weapon speed.

Effect #2 School Damage
Value: 1 (AP mod: 1.21.5)

Charges your off-hand weapon with lava and burns your target, dealing 625%781% Fire damage.

Fires a bolt of lightning at the target, dealing
Overcharge
up to 45%56.25% of Spell power)]
(45%56.25% of Spell power) Nature damage.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (SP mod: 0.450.5625)

Increases your chance to trigger Stormbringer and Windfury by 1.00%0.64%, and increases all Fire, Frost, and Nature damage you deal by 16.00%.
Assaults your target with earthen power, dealing (155%343.75% of Attack power) Nature damage.
Generates 2025 Maelstrom.
Cooldown changed from None to 6 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 2 Charges

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (AP mod: 1.553.4375)

Each of your main hand attacks has a 5%Your weapon attacks have a 5.0% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, and cause your next Stormstrike to cost 50% less Maelstrom and trigger no cooldown.

Energizes both your weapons with lightning and delivers a massive blow to your target, dealing a total of (600% + 600%) Physical damage.750% + 750%) Physical damage.

Each of your main hand attacks has a 20% chance to trigger two extra attacks, dealing 80%100% Physical damage each.

Talents

Transform into an Air Ascendant for 15 sec, generating 12 Maelstrom per secondreducing the cooldown and cost of Stormstrike by 75%, and transforming your auto attack and Stormstrike into Wind attacks which bypass armor and have a 30 yd range.
Rockbiter enhances your weapons for 10 sec, increasing all damage you deal by 5%.Rockbiter's recharge time is reduced by 15% and it deals 20% increased damage.
Now requires Level 100, up from 15
Summons an Earthen Spike under an enemy, dealing (1100%1375% of Attack power) Physical damage and increasing Physical and Nature damage you deal to the target by 15%30% for 10 sec.
Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (AP mod: 1113.75)

Stormlash now spreads to 1 additional target and deals 50%25% additional damage.

Rockbiter now also enhances your weapon, increasing your Agility by 8% for 10 sec.
Now requires Level 15, down from 100
Tier 1 Talent, in place of
Stormbringer now affects the next 2 Stormstrikes.Stormbringer increases the critical strike chance of your next Stormstrike by 40%.

Lashes your enemy for (400%500% of Spell power) Nature damage, and enhances your weapons with wind, increasing your attack speed by 35% for 20 sec.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 45)

Artifact Traits

Boulderfist
Boulderfist
Rockbiter generates an additional 1 Maelstrom.
Increases damage dealt by Flametongue,
Boulderfist
Boulderfist
RockbiterRockbiter, and Frostbrand by 3%.
Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 5%8%.
Rank 2: Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 10%16%.
Rank 3: Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 15%24%.
Rank 4: Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 20%32%.
Rank 5: Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 25%40%.
Rank 6: Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 30%48%.
Rank 7: Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 35%56%.
Rank 8: Increases damage dealt by Windfury by 40%64%.
When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 10%3% attack speed for 36 sec.
Rank 2: When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 20%6% attack speed for 6 sec.
Rank 3: When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 30%9% attack speed for 6 sec.
Rank 4: When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 40%12% attack speed for 6 sec.
Rank 5: When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 50%15% attack speed for 6 sec.
Rank 6: When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 60%18% attack speed for 6 sec.
Rank 7: When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 70%21% attack speed for 6 sec.
Rank 8: When Stormbringer resets the remaining cooldown on Stormstrike, you gain 80%24% attack speed for 6 sec.

Honor Talents (1)

You turn ethereal, making you immune to all physical damage, but unable to attack or cast spells and your movement speed is reduced by 50%. Lasts for 15 sec.
Use Ethereal Form again to shift out.

Blizzard

The flat buff to the spec's damage to account for the talent changes is a very rough number on current PTR. As always, total DPS tuning gets its closest look at the end of the process, but we often put in some loose compensation for changes along the way to keep things in the ballpark (which facilitates testing/feedback).

The same is true for the new talents, which haven't had much of any look at tuning. New Tempest may well be a little low--that said, possibly reducing the power of that row and buffing the baseline spec instead would be worthwhile, since part of the point was reducing the importance of Stormbringer procs. New Boulderfist is mostly tuned based on pacing--it's a talent that makes the rotation quite full and a little more hectic in terms of GCDs. If its DPS value is too low, it will probably have some sort of damage bonus added.

Both new Tempest and new Boulderfist intentionally are relatively simple passive talents. This is because the overall potential rotational complexity added in the Enhancement tree is rather high (also because they are replacing effects that were quite passive in the first place--old Tempest, and Boulderfist's 100% uptime damage bonus).

The overall goal is somewhat surgically fixing a few core rotational problems that affect nearly all players of the spec, without opening up a huge number of changes or causing much disruption. Longer-term, I wouldn't be surprised to see iteration on ideas like Stormlash, but there's not a specific plan yet, and this patch isn't the right time for it. Of course we will try to adjust isolated talent/trait balancing issues as we can, especially ones that have gameplay impact (for example, I believe there was a good comment somewhere in these threads, that Wind Strikes contributes to the chain-proccing feel of Stormbringer because of its huge short-duration boost).

Talents

Creates a surge of water that flows forward, healing friendly targets in a wide arc in front of you for (450% of Spell power).
Cost changed from 35.0% of base mana to 20.0% of base mana

Honor Talents

Every 8 sec, the cast time of your next Chain Heal is reduced by 50%, and jump distance increased by 100%. Maximum of 2 charges.

Elemental Focus increases damage and healing by an additional 10%7%.
Stormbringer also increases the critical strike chance of Stormstrike by 40%.Stormstrike's damage is increased by 10%
NEW While Fire Elemental is active, your Flame Shock deals 75% increased damage over time and always critically strikes.
NEW Reduce the cooldown of Fire Elemental by 2.0 sec when Flame Shock periodic damage deals a critical strike.
NEW Stormbringer has an additional 2% chance to trigger.
NEW Stormstrike increases the initial damage of your next Crash Lightning by 25%, stacking up to 15 times.
NEW Your healing spells have a chance to increase the Critical Strike chance of your next Riptide by 100%.
NEW When Riptide's initial heal critically strikes, the healing done by your next Healing Rain is increased by 50%.

Spells

Scorches your target, dealing (120%150% of Attack power) Fire damage, and enhances your weapons with fire for 16 sec, causing each weapon attack to deal up to (0.1250.2 * Attack power) Fire damage, based on weapon speed.
Energizes both your weapons with lightning and delivers a massive blow to your target, dealing a total of (600% + 600%) Physical damage.750% + 750%) Physical damage.
Energizes both your weapons with lightning and delivers a massive blow to your target, dealing a total of (600% + 600%) Physical damage.750% + 750%) Physical damage.
Each of your main hand attacks has a 20% chance to trigger two extra attacks, dealing 80%100% Physical damage each.
Hurl a staggering blast of wind at an enemy, dealing a total of (600% + 600%750% + 750%) Physical damage, bypassing armor.
Hurl a staggering blast of wind at an enemy, dealing a total of (600% + 600%750% + 750%) Physical damage, bypassing armor.
Hurl a staggering blast of wind at an enemy, dealing a total of (600% + 600%750% + 750%) Physical damage, bypassing armor.

Honor Talents

Summons a Windfury Totem with 5 health at the target destination for 1 min. If the totem is destroyed, Windfury Totem incurs a 30 sec cooldown.
Windfury Totem enchants all allies' weapons within 10 yards with wind causing attacks to have a 40% chance to generate an additional 3 extra attacks, dealing 80% Physical damage.100% Physical damage.
While in Ghost Wolf, you heal 3% health every 2 sec.
Increases the movement speed of Ghost Wolf by an additional 10%.
Summons a Fire Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 15 sec that increases the critical effect of damage and healing spells of all nearby allies within 40 yards by 30%20% for 15 sec.
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to 40 sec cooldown

Class Tools
Affliction	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Demonology	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc
Destruction	Talents	Honor Talents	Artifact Calc

Specialization

NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 25%
Affected Spells:
NEW Effect #3 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 25%
Affected Spells:

Agony canmay now ramp up to 10 stacks.

Talents

You deal 18%15% increased damage to targets affected by your Unstable Affliction.
Agony, Corruption, Unstable Affliction, Seed of Corruption, Phantom Singularity and Drain Soul deal up to 50% increased damage on targets below 35% health. Higher damage increase against lower health targets.
Tier 7 Talent, in place of Soul Effigy
A ghostly soul haunts the target, dealing (805%500% of Spell power) Shadow damage and increasing your damage dealt to the target by 30% for 15 sec15% for 10 sec. If the target dies, Haunt's cooldown is reset.
Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 8.055)

Cost changed from 5% mana to 1 Soul Shards / 5% of base mana
While channeling Drain Soul, your damage over time effects deal 70%25% increased damage to the target.

Places a phantom singularity above the target, which consumes the life of all enemies within 2515 yards, dealing 173.9%180% of Spell power)] damage over 16 sec, healing you for 30%20% of the damage done.
Now requires Level 60, down from 100
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 40 sec cooldown
Tier 4 Talent, in place of
Siphons the target's life essence, dealing 0 damage over 15 sec and healing you for 100%60% of the damage it deals.done.
Now requires Level 100, up from 60
Tier 7 Talent, in place of
Creates a Soul Effigy bound to the target, which is attackable only by you. 35% of all damage taken by the Effigy is duplicated on the original target. Limit 1. Lasts 10 min.
Removed, replaced with
Agony's damage may now ramp up twice as high.to 15 stacks.

Artifact Traits

Increases damage by 10% and Stamina by 10%.
Affliction
Unaffected by Reap Souls
Drain Soul damage has a 12%4% chance to rend the target's soul, dealing (300% of Spell power) Shadow damage and summoning an additional Tormented Soul.
Ulthalesh heeds your call, deeply scarring enemies afflicted by your magic.
Increases all damage by 5%.
Affliction
Unaffected by Reap Souls
After you kill a target, your damage over time effects deal 2%1% increased damage for the next 20 sec, stacking up to 5 times.

Blizzard Posts

Blizzard

Hi Affliction Warlocks. Thanks for the posts and feedback so far. I'd like to talk a bit about the change to . In general, we agree that communication is warranted since we changed/nerfed a widely taken talent.

is very powerful on live. With the current state of Affliction, the talent is taken on virtually every situation in Nighthold, from single-target to sustained multi-target boss fights. There are things about Affliction that we're not entirely happy with, many of which the community has echoed, and the current feel of Affliction being a single-target spec that focuses its damage into one target rather than spreads its damage out over many targets more evenly, is generally one of them. at a high tuning value is a heavy contributor to that. It's not ideal that even on a sustained multi-target fight right now, wins out over Writhe in Agony on the same row, when at first glance Writhe in looks like it should be the go-to talent for sustained multi-target since its benefit scales up uniformly per additional target whereas reads as a single-target talent.

Separately, we want to allow Haunt to be a viable spender talent. We've heard this from players and also want a spender other than in single-target situations. Ways to make as a spender competitive with a at the live value of 70% include dramatically increasing its instant nuke damage, drastically increasing its damage bonus %, or reducing its cooldown further – none of which would feel right on Affliction for a variety of reasons.

Lastly, Affliction's first talent tier is a really high-power talent tier compared to most talent tiers we have, with being over a 20% DPS increase as a single talent. Generally, we aim for talent tiers to be more in the 5-10% range. Very high values can both have distortive effects on the spec and make it hard to balance other talents on the same tier.

That all said, in the next PTR patch, changes you should see are:

All Affliction damage done increased by 15%
will go down to a +25% damage increase (down from +70% on live)
Writhe in will be reduced to increase 's max stacks by +5 (down from +10 on live)
will stay as it currently is on PTR

Based on our numbers, 1) this 15% damage buff negates the 70%->25% reduction to , coming out as neutral change DPS-wise for Affliction Warlocks using going from 7.2->7.2.5 and 2) brings the relative balance of the Level 15 talent tier much closer to each other. As usual, the numbers may change during PTR according to further playtesting and feedback.

As a footnote, the most recent PTR patch with the current reduction to from 70%->40% that came with no other explanation or indication that further changes (compensatory buffs to the baseline spec, further relevant talent adjustments) were coming wasn't ideal and we'll try to be more mindful of that in future PTR cycles.
We hear you all on . We're going to remove it in the next PTR patch. It's concerning when the community sentiment towards a talent isn't that it's overpowered or underpowered, but that everyone is terrified they're going to have to play that way if it becomes strong.

It should be understandable how the original concept of would seem fun in theory, despite it clearly not working out in practice. As an Affliction Warlock, I'm very happy to walk into a 2-target boss fight. At a basic level, you know you're going to get double value out of your DoTs. Walking into a 1-target fight with just doesn't feel nearly the same. Mechanically, the gameplay of the two situations is very similar, but in the end doesn't play out well. Could be any of a number of actors - the reduced damage transfer, feeling like the effigy is just there for increased soul shard generation, the usability issues, or the unnaturalness of it as a concept.

Anyways, it's gone. Replacement talent to come.
Thanks for the comment Seph, can you clarify whether Affliction will be receiving the nerf to or not? The notes said only demo was excluded from the SC nerf however on PTR the talent remains 20% for Aff (the tooltip at least, I have not tested the actual %).

should be unchanged for Affliction. Latest patch notes should reflect that.

This is also further compounded by our current T20 set bonus, which puts a lot of emphasis on drain damage and complete drains - both of which are part of the MG play style, which was just effectively neutered.

The Tier 20 set bonus for Affliction is changing soon. It won't be so focused on .

Specialization

Calls down a demonic meteor full of Wild Imps which burst forth to attack the target for 12 sec.
Deals up to 43.2%120% of Spell power)] Shadowflame damage on impact to all enemies within 8 yds of the target
Hand of Doom
applies Doom to each target
and summons up to 4 Wild Imps, based on Soul Shards consumed.

Honor Talents

Summons a demonic Observer to keep a watchful eye over the area for 20 sec.
Anytime an enemy within 20 yards casts a harmful magical spell, the Observer will instantly deal 5% of the target's total health in Shadow damage.
Range changed from 40 yd range to Melee Range

Artifact Traits

Increases the damage of your pet by 5%. 2.5% with Grimoire of Supremacy
Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 10%8%.
Rank 2: Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 20%16%.
Rank 3: Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 30%24%.
Rank 4: Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 40%32%.
Rank 5: Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 50%40%.
Rank 6: Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 60%48%.
Rank 7: Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 70%56%.
Rank 8: Increases damage dealt by your Wild Imps' Firebolt by 80%64%.
Dreadbite increases damage taken from your Wild Imps' Fel Firebolt by 20%10%.

Specialization

Unleashes a devastating blast of chaos, causing (400%dealing a critical strike for of Spell power)] Chaos damage. Chaos Bolt always critically strikes andDamage is further increased by your critical strike chance.increases its damage.

Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 1 (SP mod: 45.6)

Triggers an explosion on the target, dealing (226.551% of Spell power) Fire damage.
Backdraft
Reduces the cast time of Incinerate and Chaos Bolt your next two Incinerates or Chaos Bolts by 30% for 10 sec
Generates 1 Soul Shard5 Soul Shard Fragments.

Marks a target with Havoc for 810 sec, causing your single target spells to also strike the Havoc victim. Limit 1.
Cooldown changed from 20 sec cooldown to 45 sec cooldown
Burns the enemy, causing (133.2% of Spell power) Fire damage immediately and an additional (432.9% of Spell power) Fire damage over 18 sec.
Periodic damage generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment and has a 15%50% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard Fragment. Chance doubledan additional 1 on critical strikes.

Draws fire toward the enemy, dealing (233.1% of Spell power) Fire damage.
Generates 2 Soul Shard Fragments and an additional 1 on critical strikes.
Cost changed from 6.0% of base mana to 5.0% of base mana
Calls down a rain of hellfire, dealing 72%80% of Spell power) * 8] Fire damage over 8 sec to enemies in the area.

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 421%
Affected Spells:
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 421%
Affected Spells:

Your spells deal 8% increased damage, plus a random amount of additional damage, up to 24%. Damage you take is reduced byup to 8% additional increased damage.
You take 1.66667% reduced damage, plus a random amount up to 5%.of up to 1.66667% additional reduced damage.

Talents
- Conjures a cataclysm at the target location, dealing (1000%750% of Spell power) Shadowflame damage to all enemies within 8 yards and afflicting them with Immolate.
  
  Effect #1 School Damage
  Value: 0 (SP mod: 107.5)
Cast Time changed from 3 sec cast to 2.5 sec cast
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown
Launches 15 bolts of felfire over 3 sec at random targets afflicted by your Immolate within 40 yds. Each bolt deals (64%100% of Spell power) Fire damage to the target and (32%50% of Spell power) Fire damage to nearby enemies.
Cooldown changed from 15 sec cooldown to 25 sec cooldown
Chaos Bolt and Rain of Fire restore 35% of your maximum mana and Chaos Bolt's cast time is reduced by (-- 500 / 1000) sec.deal 10% increased damage.

Blasts a target for (315% of Spell power) Shadowflame damage.
Generates 1 Soul Shard5 Soul Shard Fragments and an additional 1 Soul Shard5 Soul Shard Fragments if the target dies within 5 sec.

Chaos Bolt increases the damage you deal to the target by 12% for 6 sec.15% for 7 sec.

Havoc now lasts 20 sec, and has no cooldown.Reduce the cooldown of Havoc by 20 sec.

Honor Talents
- Curses the ground with a demonic bane, causing all of your single target spells to also strike targets marked with the bane. Lasts 10 sec.
- Shadowburn
  Shadowburn
  Conflagrate roots targetsthe enemy target for 3 sec. This effect does not break from damage.
- Chaos Bolt creates a 5 yardyd wide eruption of Felfire under the target, reducing movement speed by 50% and reducing all healing received by 50% on all enemies within the fissure. Lasts 6 sec.
Artifact Traits
- Increases the damage of Conflagrate / Shadowburn by 8%.
- Shadowburn / Conflagrate has a 50% chance to guarantee your next Shadowburn / Conflagrate critically strikes, and to increase its damage by your critical strike chance.
- Rips a hole in time and space, opening a portal that damages your target.
  Generates 3 Soul Shard Fragments.
- Chaos Bolt has a 5%3% chance to refund 1 Soul Shard.
  Rank 2: Chaos Bolt has a 10%6% chance to refund 101 Soul Shard.
  Rank 3: Chaos Bolt has a 15%9% chance to refund 101 Soul Shard.
  Rank 4: Chaos Bolt has a 20%12% chance to refund 101 Soul Shard.
  Rank 5: Chaos Bolt has a 25%15% chance to refund 101 Soul Shard.
  Rank 6: Chaos Bolt has a 30%18% chance to refund 101 Soul Shard.
  Rank 7: Chaos Bolt has a 35%21% chance to refund 101 Soul Shard.
  Rank 8: Chaos Bolt has a 40%24% chance to refund 101 Soul Shard.
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As we've mentioned before, we're making a number of changes to the resource model for Destruction Warlocks in the next patch. The goal is to create smoother, more granular, less random generation and make casts feel more impactful.

First, for Destruction Warlocks, Soul Shards are being split into parts of 10 , which we're currently calling Soul Shard Fragments. Mechanically, this will be similar to the Mists of Pandaria resource system of , except we want to go with a consistent visual, updated Soul Shard UI (work in progress), and name for the resource across all 3 specs. Some relevant spell changes:
- generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment. Doubled on critical strikes. Fire and (talent) will cause Incinerate to generate 1 Soul Shard Fragment per target hit, also doubled on critical strikes.
- periodic damage has a 50% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard Fragment. 100% chance on critical strikes.
- generates 6 Soul Shard Fragments.
- (artifact active) generates 3 Soul Shard Fragments.
The net result of these changes is that every baseline rotational damage spell will contribute to generation, pushing your resource forward at a steady pace.

Second, Soul Shard generation/refund rate is being reduced overall , mainly for the single-target rotation. However, this is coupled with major damage increases to both spenders - and . Combined, this means that s will be cast less frequently, but they will hit much harder:
- refund chance of (talent) reduced to 12%. (artifact bronze trait) reduced to 3% per point.
- damage increased by 40%. damage increased by 25%.
For the AOE rotation, (talent) will cause Incinerate to generate Soul Shard Fragments per target hit, which would largely push out of the AOE rotation with enough targets. Alternately, if you want to go down the route of maintaining on all targets in a clumped AOE situation, Cataclysm (talent) will have reduced cooldown (30 sec) and slightly reduced cast time, making it easier for you to do so.

As usual, everything discussed here will continue to be iterated on during 7.2.5 PTR and may change based on further playtesting and feedback.
Any chance you can tell us whats happening with ?

It's probably holding destro back more than almost anything else. It has way too much power in it.
We generally agree with this.

In 7.2.5, will no longer remove the cooldown of - it will only increase 's duration to 20 sec. baseline will have a 10 sec duration, 45 sec cooldown (subject to tuning).

's cooldown has gradually crept down over the years, resulting in very high uptime, and culminating in 100% uptime via . This has made a pretty forgettable button in a multi-target situation. You take , apply Havoc once every 20 seconds, then go about your single-target rotation as usual. Instead of being an important actual cooldown that you planned your casts around, it became a button you always had to just apply first, in order to start doing your rotation.

With Havoc not having 100% uptime, gameplay-wise Destruction will care more about when you generate , how you bank them, and how you prepare to spend them with coming off cooldown. Additionally, with Chaos Bolt casts becoming relatively rarer but dealing more damage, those times when you do have available will be even more meaningful.

Despite these changes to , I want to state that we still want Destruction to stay among the top several 2-target specs. Destruction has a clear niche of being great at 2-targets, especially 2-target spread out (which some specs can't handle as well) and we don't intend to disrupt that.
- Agony has 1.151.10 times the normal chance to generate a Soul Shard.
- Dreadstalkers last 42.5 sec longer.
- Conflagrate gains an additional charge and 3has 2 sec reduced cooldown.
- NEW Corruption has a chance to generate a soul shard whenever it deals damage.
- NEW Spending a Soul Shard has a 25% chance to grant you 15% Haste for 8 sec.
- NEW Shadow Bolt and Demonwrath has a 20% chance to reset the cooldown of Call Dreadstalkers.
- NEW When you cast Call Dreadstalkers, you gain 10% Haste for 5 sec.
- NEW Incinerate has a 100% chance to generate 1 additional Soul Shard Fragment.
- NEW Chaos Bolt always gains maximum benefit from your Mastery: Chaotic Energies.
Spells
- NEW Soul Shards are generated by some of your spells and consumed to cast your most powerful spells and summon demon to serve you.
  
  While out of combat you regenerate up to 3 Soul Shards.
Talents
- Affliction:
  Increases your damage and your pets' damage by 20%. Lasts 1512 sec, increased by 24 sec for each target afflicted by your Agony up to a maximum of 35 sec.36 sec.
  Demonology:
  Increases your damage and your pets' damage by 20%. Lasts 1512 sec, increased by 24 sec for each target afflicted by your Doom up to a maximum of 35 sec.36 sec.
  Destruction:
  Increases your damage and your pets' damage by 20%. Lasts 1512 sec, increased by 24 sec for each target afflicted by your Immolate up to a maximum of 35 sec.36 sec.
Glyphs
- NEW
  As a Destruction Warlock your Soul Shards can be encased in burning embers that float above your head.
- NEW Your Soul Shards have been touched by fel energy.
- NEW Your Soul Shards now float above your head.
Class Tools
Arms Talents Honor Talents Artifact Calc
Fury Talents Honor Talents Artifact Calc
Protection Talents Honor Talents Artifact Calc

Specialization
- Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
  Value: 515%
  Affected Spells:
- Effect #3 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
  Value: 515%
  Affected Spells:
Increases the damage of your Colossus Smash by 16%13%, and causes it to increase damage you deal to the target by an additional 16%13%.

Strikes all enemies in front of you with a sweeping attack for 90% Physical damage.110% Physical damage.
Arms (Level 55)
For each target up to 5 hit, your next Whirlwind deals 20% more damage

Smashes the enemy's armor, dealing 202%222% Physical damage, and increasing damage you deal to them by 15% for 8 sec.
Cooldown changed from 30 sec cooldown to 20 sec cooldown
Attempts to finish off a foe, causing 162%202% Physical damage, and consuming up to 10 additional Rage to deal up to (162%202% * 10 / 10) additional damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.

A vicious strike that deals * ((max(0, min(Level - 5, 15)) * 8 + 207) / 327)] Physical damage and reduces the effectiveness of healing on the target for 10 sec.

Slams an opponent, causing 226%305% Physical damage.

Unleashes a whirlwind of steel, striking all enemies within 8 yards for (3 * 61%90%) Physical damage.
Cost changed from 25 Rage to 30 Rage

Talents
- Arms:
  Every 1020 Rage you spend reduces the remaining cooldown on Battle Cry and Bladestorm by 1 sec.
- Your abilities cost 20%10% less Rage.
- Battle Cry also reduces the Rage cost of your abilities by 100%75% for the duration.
- Whirlwind deals 45%80% increased damage to your primary target.
  Now requires Level 75, up from 45
  Tier 5 Talent, in place of
- Focus your rage on your next Mortal Strike, increasing its damage by 30%, stacking up to 3 times. Unaffected by the global cooldown.
  Cost changed from 15 Rage to 20 Rage
  Now requires Level 90, up from 75
  Tier 6 Talent, in place of
- Mortal Strike refunds 30 Rage when used against targets that are below 20% health. Colossus Smash grants you 15% Haste for 8 sec.
  Tier 6 Talent, in place of
- Your melee abilities have up to a 60% chance, based on the target's missing health, to trigger an extra attack that deals 160% Physical damage and generates 5 Rage.
- Overpowers the enemy, causing 375% Physical damage. Cannot be blocked, dodged or parried, and has a 60% increased chance to critically strike.
  All your melee attacksYour other melee abilities have a chance to activate Overpower.
  Cost changed from 10 Rage to None
- Throws a whirling weapon at the target location that inflicts damage to all enemies within 8 yards over 7 sec.
  Generates 7 Rage each time it deals damage.
- Wounds the target, causing 108%150% Physical damage instantly and an additional (559%1000% of Attack power) Bleed damage over 158 sec.
  Cost changed from 10 Rage to 30 Rage
- Increases the duration of Colossus Smash by 16 sec.8 sec, and reduces its cooldown by 8 sec.
  Now requires Level 75, down from 90
  Tier 5 Talent, in place of
- Slam and Whirlwind, Whirlwind, and Execute now cause the target to bleed for 25% additional damage over 6 sec. Multiple uses accumulate increased damage.
  Now requires Level 45, down from 90
  Tier 3 Talent, in place of
Artifact Traits
- Execute causes the target to take 50%75% more damage from your next Mortal Strike, stacking up to 2 times.
- Spending Rage has a 0.50%1.00% chance per Rage spent to heal you for (1000%1500% of Attack power).
- Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 15%10%.
  Rank 2: Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 30%20%.
  Rank 3: Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 45%30%.
  Rank 4: Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 60%40%.
  Rank 5: Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 75%50%.
  Rank 6: Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 90%60%.
  Rank 7: Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 105%70%.
  Rank 8: Colossus Smash reduces the Rage costincreases the critical strike chance of your next Mortal Strike or Execute by 120%80%.
- After using Colossus Smash, your next Mortal Strike or Execute gains 30% increased critical strike chance and deals 30%60% additional damage.
- When Cleave strikes at least 3 targets, Strom'kar releases a burst of void energy, dealing (75%150% of Attack power) Shadow damage to all nearby enemies.
Honor Talents
- You challenge the target to a duel. While challenged, all damage you and the target deal to all targets other than each other is reduced by 50%. Lasts 86 sec.
  Cooldown changed from 25 sec cooldown to 1 min cooldown
Specialization (1)
- Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
  Value: 510%
  Affected Spells:
  NEW
  NEW
- Effect #2 Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
  Value: 510%
  Affected Spells:
Talents (1)
- Furious Slash increases your Haste by 5% for 1015 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Artifact Traits
- Execute increases damage dealt by Execute by 5% for 68 sec, stacking up to 99 times.
- Bloodthirst has a 10%15% chance to trigger a second Bloodthirst.
Specialization
- Swing in a wide arc, dealing (400%350% of Attack power) damage to all enemies in front of you.
  Your successful dodges and parries cause your next Revenge to become free.
  Effect #1 School Damage
  Value: 1 (AP mod: 43.5)
Raise your shield, reflecting spells cast on you and reducing magical damage you take by 30%. Lasts 5 sec or until a spell is reflected.
Cooldown changed from 25 sec cooldown to 25 sec recharge
Charges changed from None to 1 Charges

Honor Talents
- Reflects all spells cast on you and on all party and raid members within 20 yards, and reduces magical damage taken by 30% for 3 sec.
- Disarm the enemy's weapons and shield for 64 sec. Disarmed creatures deal significantly reduced damage.
  Cooldown changed from 30 sec cooldown to 45 sec cooldown
- Increases the duration of Battle Cry by 21 sec.
- Increases the duration of your Enrage by 1.51.0 sec.
- NEW Colossus Smash reduces the cooldown of Bladestorm by 3.0 sec.
- NEW While Bladestorm is active, you automatically cast a total of 6 Mortal Strikes at random nearby enemies.
- NEW Bloodthirst critical strikes have a 50% chance to grant you Raging Thirst, increasing the damage of your Raging Blow by 50% for 8 sec.
- NEW Raging Blow increases the damage and healing of your next Bloodthirst by 20%, stacking up to 10 times.
- NEW Berserker Rage instantly generates 20 Rage an additional 10 Rage every 1 sec for 6 sec.
- NEW Shield Slam reduces the cooldown of Berserker Rage by 3.0 sec.

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Commento di JakeXR I am actually not looking forward to this patch in the slightest, because if the time-table is to be believed, sometime in June, then that is still too soon for the dramatic changes that they are trying to do.
Basically, it just feels rushed. Commento di Sherokiel They just F*ck affliction warlocks xD thx blizzard Commento di Kreatif Don't like these affliction changes at all.. Commento di Gerya The BM section is outdated, the mentioned cooldown reduction mechanic was scrapped and the old reset put back in place. Commento di perculia The BM section is outdated, the mentioned cooldown reduction mechanic was scrapped and the old reset put back in place.this postCommento di THEBuzzard Well... Don't know if I should be happy or sad that nothing changes for blood. Commento di Garnzel This doesn't show the 10% damage increase to Death Strike that was in the first build. Was that removed? Commento di neoslayyer I just can not believe the changes to Laws of Thunder, PAck Leader and Thunderslash. Those are DRASTIC changes and leave me wondering WTH i even cared about putting points in them in the first place. Another thing i see, Enhancement Shaman, REALLY? I see these shaman already pulling packs of 10-15 mobs and mowing them down like they have 20HP, while im sitting there as BM at the same Ilvl having to actually use the dang helm and feign death to heal if i pull 10 mobs(mostly by mistake because of the insane spawn rate of imps and other mobs) on the "dead" Broken Shore. WTH did i buy another overpriced token i will never know. I mean Kill Command looks all messed up to boot.

Welp i will be putting even more miles on the motorcycle as i see it. Commento di perculia This doesn't show the 10% damage increase to Death Strike that was in the first build. Was that removed?Commento di Bumz So essentially Balance Druids lost their 4% dmg modifier aura and got a ~4% dmg increase to the individual skills? That's a pretty elaborate way of not changing anything.

EDIT: Do like the Starsurge buff (which I assume is meant to compensate for the loss of T19 4set). No more empowerment stacking though? Commento di Dawnrider How about just removing weapons from Monks all together and increase the ap scaling? The whole point of the creation of monks was learning to fight without weapons anyways. "Yay we beat the mogu. Ok start handing out the weapons we learned to fight without." Commento di EvielthinStealth The brewmaster build mentioned is from 2 builds ago I believe. Current build has breath of fire cd back to where it should be, and Blackout Strike cd at 3 seconds not reduced by haste. Commento di Stormeey why why why the huge nerfs to BM ? its incomprehensible Commento di banshey Do u really have any idea what you are talking about? Commento di Corveroth So essentially Balance Druids lost their 4% dmg modifier aura and got a ~4% dmg increase to the individual skills? That's a pretty elaborate way of not changing anything.Commento di perculia So essentially Balance Druids lost their 4% dmg modifier aura and got a ~4% dmg increase to the individual skills? That's a pretty elaborate way of not changing anything.Commento di hotaru251 so...Bears getting shafted vs any spell heavy fight.

Aff can do mroe dmg....but lacks shard generation.

Destro gets shafted by big CB's, but the rate u gain shadrs is a joke..

oh AND Blizz finally changed their mastery....shouldnt of taken 10 months to realize it needed an actual constant bonus :| Commento di NicKris12 So that means Outlaw got a 30% dmg buff? Commento di JakeXR so...Bears getting shafted vs any spell heavy fight.frenzied regen and such should be enoughheavy-handed approach is their signature moveCommento di GiftedMonster So.

They're taking a giant nail-studded bat to the sphincters of Marksmanship hunters. Well, I suppose it is par for the course.

Vulnerability down to a baseline of 30% instead of 100%...so that's 70% damage loss right out the gate. Rank 8 of Unerring Arrows is now...24% instead of 80%. So that's another 56% damage lost.

Blizz, listen. If you're trying to stop people from enjoying marksmanship, just say it. We can handle it, just stop giving us these sack-taps until we quit and you remain free and clear.

I mean, first you crucified us in the Vulnerability department with it now being a slowly-ramping thing that is reset with each and every marked shot and a damage loss, then you shaft Patient Sniper...

Just give it to us straight. You clearly hate Marksmanship hunters because it takes skill and you lack it.

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