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In taking a final pass on these, we’ve prioritized racial identity, which means that some races will naturally be slightly more effective than others at certain combat roles. In some places where we had replaced role- or class-focused racials with generic ones, we’re rolling those changes back. One exception to this is the weapon specialization racials, like humans’ Sword Specialization or orcs’ Axe Specialization. While those have a strong fantasy component to them, it is not healthy in the long run for future raid and dungeon loot tables to be evaluated through the lens of “required” weapon types.

At the same time, we’re doing a tuning pass on some of the remaining passive bonuses to help ensure that they aren’t skewing outcomes in a way that limits player preferences.

Human 2

• Ruthless now increases critical chance by 1% (was 2%).
• Human Spirit now increases Spirit by 10% (was 5%).

Dwarf 2

• Earth Fury (2% increased critical strike damage and healing) removed.
• Added: Artisan’s Precision - Increases hit chance with spells and attacks by 1%.

Tauren 3

• Plainsrunning now grants 2% movement speed per stack (was 1%), for a total max increase of 60% (was 30%).
• Plainsrunning no longer increases mounted movement speed.
• Endurance no longer provides any modifiers beyond 5% increased Health (no hit chance or critical damage modifiers).

Orc 3

• Savage removed (1% increased critical strike chance).
• Command re-added, increasing Warlock and Hunter pet damage by 5%.
• Blood Fury’s cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).

Troll 1

• Berserking duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Undead 1

• Touch of the Grave internal cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (was 25 seconds).

Skyborne 5

• Wind-Blessed Haste bonus reduced to 2% (was 3%).
• Read Leyline now increases Mana and Health regeneration by 50% (was 100%), with a 15-second duration. This ability cannot be used while Innervate is active, and will be replaced by Innervate as a more powerful effect.
• Using Read Leyline at a Ley Line now also grants “Attuned” for 1 hour. While Attuned, the benefit of Read Leyline is increased to 100% regeneration increase. Attuned persists through death, and is removed upon entering a raid.
• Skysight is now a 15% increased movement speed (was 10%), with a 15-second duration.
• Using Skysight at an elemental convergence now also grants “Charged” for 1 hour. While Charged, the benefit of Skysight is a 30% movement speed increase. Charged persists through death, and is removed upon entering a raid.

CHANGE LOG

Bug Fixes 5

• Resolved an issue with extra bright fog at lower shadow settings.
• Fixed an issue allowing Horde players to gain Kirin Tor reputation.
• Creatures will now properly regenerate health when out of combat.
• Fixed an issue with various Horde characters holding the Night Watchman’s Torch.
• Fixed an issue with various drink tooltips that were not displaying the correct amount of total Mana regeneration.

Changes and Updates 4

Added a new tutorial experience for new players.

Improved control over Lighting ‘Bloom Intensity’ in options to be a slider that has moved to the ‘Advanced’ graphics section.

Added ‘Auto Attack/Auto Shot’ setting. If enabled, Hunters will automatically switch between auto attack and auto shot. This is now also supported for gamepad.

• Racial abilities have been updated.
  • Tauren Endurance: Now grants 2% increased critical damage and healing (was 1% hit chance). Plainsrunning: Also grants 3% increased mounted movement speed. This increase stacks with other mounted movement speed increases. Plainsrunning now requires the Tauren to move a minimum distance per second to keep the effect. Developers’ notes: Stutter-stepping is no longer sufficient to maintain the effect. This minimum does make some allowance for movement speed penalties. Cultivation: Cooldown reduced to 15 minutes (was 60 minutes). War Stomp: Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds (was 2 minutes).
  • Dwarf Mace Specialization: Replaced with Earth Fury: 2% increased critical damage and healing. Find Treasure: Now also grants a chance to find additional items in most chests.
  • Skyborne Wind Blessed: Haste bonus increased to 3% (was 1%). Skysight: Now castable while moving. Read Leyline: Now castable while moving. Minimum duration increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds). Walk on Air: Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds (was 2 minutes). Increased the number of spawn locations of Elemental Convergences and Leylines in most Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor zones.
  • Human Sword Specialization: Replaced with Ruthless: 2% increased critical strike chance.
  • Orc Axe Specialization: Replaced with Savage: 1% increased critical strike chance. Blood Fury: Cooldown increased to 3 minutes (was 2 minutes). Shatter Curse: Now dispels Curses and Banes (was granting immunity). Magic damage taken reduced by 5% (was 15%).
  • Undead Touch of the Grave: Proc chance and cooldown adjusted to make benefit more consistent. Improvements made to visuals. Undead will no longer have Will of the Forsaken available to them while under the effects of Scatter Shot. Touch of the Dead now has a 30% chance to activate for casters and a 20% chance to activate for Paladins/Rogues/Warriors, as well as a 25 second internal cooldown. Touch of the Dead no longer scales with Shadow increases on the target or the caster. Touch of the Dead no longer suffers from a decreased multiplier when a lower ranked spell is used. Developers’ notes: This shouldn’t have been in place because it’s a racial, not a Class spell or ability.
  • Gnome Eureka!: Now an 8 second buff with no charges. Same effect on damage and ability costs. Now also benefits Power Word: Shield. Eureka! cannot correctly be used while in stealth or invisibility.
  • Night Elf Quickness: Movement speed increase now stacks with other movement speed increases. Night Elves no longer display their shields while in Wisp Form.
  • Troll Regeneration: Health regeneration bonuses increased to 20% (was 10%).

Classes 144

• Wands now require you to stand still for 0.5 seconds before shooting, matching early versions of World of Warcraft.
• Druid Fixed an issue where high ranks of Rejuvenation were preventing other Druids from applying Rejuvenation to the target.
• Druid Omen of Clarity: Fixed a bug where this could be triggered by Faerie Fire while in Cat Form, Bear Form, or Dire Bear Form. Since Faerie Fire costs no resources in those forms, it cannot trigger Omen of Clarity.
• Druid Faerie Fire: Now generates threat while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form (instead of just initiating combat at 0 threat).
• Druid Fixed an issue allowing multiple Faerie Fire debuffs to be active on a target.
• Druid Shred (Rank 1) is now learned at level 20 (was 22). It was possible to get Shredding Attacks before knowing Shred or Lacerate
• Druid Fixed an issue where Heart of the Wild, Feral Swiftness, Thick Hide, and Leader of the Pack were not applying correctly to characters when they logged in.
• Druid · Balance Multiple instances of Insect Swarm will no longer continue to reduce the target’s hit chance.
• Druid · Balance Moonkin Aura now only increases Spell Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide.
• Druid · Feral Leader of the Pack now only increases Melee and Ranged Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide.
• Druid · Feral The flat damage on Shred’s tooltip will now correctly scale with the % damage increase of the Savage Fury talent.
  • Developers’ notes: This was just a visual bug. The damage is unchanged.
• Druid · Feral Furor now allows the player to retain the Energy they had when they were last in Cat Form even if they go into Bear or Dire Bear Form.
  • Developers’ notes: Bear and Dire Bear Form still prevent Energy regeneration.
• Hunter Auto Shot now requires you to stand still for 0.5 seconds before shooting, matching early versions of World of Warcraft.
  • Developers’ notes: Your character will still fire Auto Shot while casting spells like Aimed Shot or Sniper Shot.
• Hunter Arrows should now be visible when a character has their bow drawn back.
• Hunter Pets now correctly benefit from Expertise.
• Hunter The Hunter’s Fire traps now correctly scale with Attack Power.
• Hunter The Hunter may now correctly have 1 active Fire Trap and 1 active Ice Trap (was 1 Trap among all types).
• Hunter · Pets Fixed an issue where pets were only ever inheriting the player’s Melee Critical Strike chance instead of whichever is higher, melee or ranged.
• Hunter · Pets · Dismember (Crocolisk) Healing reduction reduced to 25% (was 50%).
• Hunter · Pets · Dismember (Crocolisk) Duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Hunter · Pets · Dismember (Crocolisk) Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Hunter · Pets · Sonic Blast (Bat) Cast speed reduction reduced to 30% (was 60%).
• Hunter · Pets · Sonic Blast (Bat) Duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Hunter · Pets · Sonic Blast (Bat) Cooldown increased to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Hunter · Pets · Mine! (Bird of Prey) Duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
• Hunter · Pets · Mine! (Bird of Prey) Cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
• Hunter · Beast Mastery Summon Hawk will now correctly cause the Hawk to spawn at the target the spell was cast on.
• Hunter · Beast Mastery Summon Hawk will now stick your Hawk to the target that it was summoned on.
• Hunter · Beast Mastery Fixed an issue causing the Improved Mend Pet talent to increase the Mana cost of Mend Pet instead of decrease.
• Hunter · Marksmanship Trueshot Aura is now Raid wide.
• Hunter · Marksmanship Fixed an issue where Sniper Shot was not benefitting from a few Marksmanship talents.
• Hunter · Survival Strider Kick can now be used while disarmed or while no weapon is equipped in your Main Hand.
• Hunter · Survival Resourcefulness now correctly reduces the Mana cost of Strider Kick.
• Hunter · Survival Resourcefulness now correctly activates when landing a critical strike, but it has been changed to only activating on melee and ranged ability critical strikes to prevent spamming.
  • Developers’ notes: Is not activated by Traps.
• Hunter · Survival Updated the tooltip for Predator’s Edge changed to better convey that it only increases the critical strike damage of your abilities.
• Mage Frost Blast: This new spell is learned at level 24. It deals damage and slows the target’s movement by 40%. It has a 1.5 second cast time, and is affected by all talents that affect Frostbolt.
  • Developers’ notes: The purpose of this spell is to provide the functionality formerly granted by Rank 1 Frostbolt despite the penalization of “down-ranking”. It does have a higher Mana cost and deals a little more damage as well.
• Mage · Arcane Fixed an issue where Presence of Mind would not be consumed by spell casts.
• Mage · Arcane Fixed an issue where Missile Barrage could reduce the cost and duration of a second Arcane Missiles cast.
• Mage · Arcane Missile Barrage: This talent has moved to the first row and become a 2-point talent. It now also grants a chance for Arcane Missiles hits to trigger Missile Barrage.
• Mage · Arcane Arcane Blast: Redesigned. This spell is now a 1.5 second cast, and each time it is cast it grants the casting Mage 15% of their Intellect as additional Spell Damage. This effect also increases the cost of Arcane Blast as before and still stacks to 4 times. However, the effect now lasts 15 seconds from when it is first applied, instead of just until the next spell cast. Mana cost unchanged, but damage done and Spell Damage coefficients both reduced 40%.
• Mage · Arcane Arcane Wrath: New 16-point gold medal talent. This new spell deals base damage similar to Fireball, with a 3.5 second cast, but also deals damage as if the Mage had additional Spell Power equal to 5% of the Mage’s maximum Mana. 6 second cooldown.
• Mage · Fire Heating Up is no longer consumed if the Mage also had Presence of Mind active for the Pyroblast cast. Heating up also always gains an additional charge each time the Mage casts Fire Blast. This does mean Fire Blast critical strikes generate 2 charges.
• Mage · Fire Wake of Fire: Talent reverted back to Improved Fire Blast and no longer grants a bonus when the Mage kills a target. It also now increases the range of Fireblast by 8/15 yards.
• Mage · Fire Critical Mass: Mages can now spend up to 5 points in this talent for 10% total critical strike increase.
• Mage · Fire Fire Power: Redesigned. Now only 3 talent points. Increases damage done by Fire spells by 1/2/3% per the Mage’s Fire effects on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%. Spells that mix multiple schools of magic do not grant this bonus.
  • Developers’ notes: Specifically, the effects which can grant increased Fire damage from this talent are Ignite, Improved Scorch, Fireball, and Pyroblast, and Impact. Frostfire Bolt does not grant the damage increase but can benefit from it.
• Mage · Fire Frost Channeling now correctly reduces the Mage’s threat.
• Mage · Fire Fixed an issue where Ice Block was too transparent.
• Mage · Fire Fixed various issues around Clearcasting. Clearingcast now correctly does not roll for every target struck by a spell. Clearcasting no longer has a chance to activate off of Dampen Magic and Amplify Magic. Clearcasting no longer has a chance to be activated by abilities cast when not in combat.
• Mage · Frost Fixed an issue preventing Frostbite and Fingers of Frost from activating from your Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells.
• Mage · Frost Ice Lance damage against Frozen targets changed to a 200% increase (Was 300%).
• Mage · Frost Cone of Cold: Movement speed of the first 4 targets hit is decreased by an additional 10% and the slow lasts an additional 3 seconds on those targets.
  • Developers’ notes: The ability of this spell to control massive number of targets was the primary reason it was previously reduced in effectiveness and duration. It feels reasonable to let it retain this level of power when used against 4 or fewer targets.
• Mage · Frost Winter’s Chill: Redesigned. No longer increases critical strike chance. Instead, it causes Cone of Cold to deal 40% increase damage per stack of Winter’s Chill on the target, consumed by next Cone of Cold.
• Mage · Frost Slightly changed the positioning of the spell visual for Cone of Cold.
• Mage · Frost New spell Frost Blast. 1.5 second cast. Deals low frost damage. Slows/chills. Benefits from talents that benefit Frostbolt.
• Mage · Frost Winter’s Chill change to: Gives your Frostbolt, Frost Blast, and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to apply Winter’s Chill, increasing the target’s damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 5% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.
• Paladin Seal of Fury is no longer overwritten by Power Word: Shield.
• Paladin Blessing of Salvation and Greater Blessing of Salvation have been replaced with Salvation and Mass Salvation. These are applied in the same manner as the blessings were, but are not exclusive with blessings.
• Paladin Paladins now also learn Revoke when Salvation is learned. Revoke removes target party or raid member’s Salvation or Mass Salvation.
  • Developers’ notes: This is to restore the functionality of giving the Paladin more finesse and control over who has Salvation active and who doesn’t.
• Paladin Judgement of Righteousness and Judgement of Fury now have the correct spell power coefficients for instant cast spells.
• Paladin Fixed an issue causing Seal of Righteousness to gain almost twice as much benefit from Spell Damage than intended.
• Paladin Fixed an issue where Judgement of Righteousness had an incorrect Spell Damage coefficient.
• Paladin Consecration’s Spell Power Coefficient per tick has been changed to 0.042 (was 0.095).
• Paladin Righteous Fury’s Holy damage threat generation increased to 90% (was 60%).
• Paladin Seal of Fury Rank 3 is now correctly available for training at level 26 (was incorrectly level 25).
• Paladin · Holy Fixed an issue where using a focus macro to cast Light’s Vigil was causing it to not go onto the appropriate target.
• Paladin · Holy Fixed an issue causing Infusion of Light to grant Holy Shock 50% increased damage against enemies.
• Paladin · Protection Shield Specialization Mana restored to the Paladin lowered to 4% with a 3 second internal cooldown (was 6% with a 3 second internal cooldown).
• Paladin · Protection Reckoning: This talent has been adjusted so you gain a charge of Reckoning each time it triggers. Your next melee swing (auto attack) will trigger all accumulated charges for 1 extra attack each. You may have a maximum of 4 charges.
  • This restores the Classic Era functionality of storing up to 4 charges and delays all the triggers until your next swing so that it does not cause the auto attack timer to be reset by instant attacks.
• Paladin · Retribution Champion of the Light now increases your spell damage by 10/20/30% of your Intellect (was 20/40/60%).
• Paladin · Retribution Sanctified Judgement’s Mana restore effect no longer generates threat.
• Priest Fixed an issue where high ranks of Renew were preventing other Priests from applying Renew to the target.
• Priest Fixed an issue causing Holy Fire Rank 5 periodic damage to be higher than Rank 6.
• Priest Power Word: Shield will now correctly tell the player they can’t replace a Power Word: Shield on a target if the Power Word: Shield they have is stronger.
• Priest Fixed an issue where casting Power Word: Shield would say SHIELDED twice in your scrolling combat text.
• Priest Devouring Plague cooldown reduced to 24 seconds (was 1 minute).
• Priest Shadow Word: Death cooldown increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Priest Fixed an issue where casting Mind Vision would cause the target to stand up and interrupt drinks.
• Priest · Discipline Inner Focus will now correctly only be used on a single spell, even if you spell queue another spell into Penance’s channel.
• Priest · Discipline Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis explicitly that it is activated by Non-Periodic critical heals.
• Priest · Discipline Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis what the maximum value for the shield is.
• Priest · Discipline Power in Light now increases Smite and Penance if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word Pain.
• Priest · Discipline Silence Resolve threat reduction now applies to all spells.
• Priest · Discipline Mental Strength moved to Row 2 from Row 4 and changed to increase your intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Priest · Discipline Improved Power Word: Shield moved to Row 3 from Row 2.
• Priest · Discipline Twin Disciplines now correctly benefits Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance.
• Priest · Shadow Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was not benefitting from Shadowform’s increase to critical strike damage.
• Priest · Shadow Fixed an issue where Devouring Contagion was causing the bounced Devouring Plague to cost Mana, perform a cast animation, and put the caster’s Devouring Plague back on full cooldown.
• Priest · Shadow Changed Vampiric Embrace so that it can’t be resisted.
• Priest · Shadow Vampiric Embrace cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute).
• Priest · Shadow Improved Fade removed.
• Priest · Shadow Shadow Infinity removed.
• Priest · Shadow Improved Mind Blast moved from Row 3 to Row 2.
• Priest · Shadow New talent (Row 4): Dark Inspiration, Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party’s Spirit by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 seconds.
• Priest · Shadow Improved Mind Flay changes to: Each instance of damage of Mind Flay deals 10/20% more damage than its previous instance of damage.
• Priest · Shadow Devouring Contagion now spreads to 2 targets.
• Priest · Shadow Fixed an issue with Shadow Weaving’s Tooltip. It now correctly states that it causes the target to take increased damage from you.
• Rogue Rogue Poisons will no longer incorrectly activate against targets that are attacking them.
• Rogue Sap no longer has a chance to activate weapon procs.
• Rogue Fixed an issue where Rogues could swap specializations to keep their energy full.
• Rogue · Assassination Cold Blood is now correctly consumed when Mutilate lands a critical strike.
• Shaman Fixed an issue where Totemic Recall cost 70 silver on the trainer instead of 22 silver, as intended.
• Shaman Grounding Totem is now correctly destroyed after redirecting a spell.
• Shaman Windfury Weapon’s attacks now appear as White hits in the scrolling combat text.
• Shaman Grace of Air Totem is no longer exclusive with Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem.
  • Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem retain their exclusivity.
• Shaman Grace of Air Totem, Strength of Earth Totem, Windfury Totem, and Flametongue Totem are now Raid wide.
• Shaman Chain Lightning: Mana cost reduced by approximately 35% on all four ranks.
• Shaman Fire Nova’s Spell Power Coefficient has been changed to 0.143 (was 0.214).
• Shaman Fire Nova’s base damage has been significantly reduced.
• Shaman Fire Nova’s mana cost has been significantly reduced.
• Shaman Flametongue Totem and Windfury Totem now correctly only affect players.
• Shaman Added a little green to the visual of Chain Heal without overpowering the original effect.
• Shaman · Elemental Your Clearcasting from the Elemental Focus talent will no longer have a way to be spent on the same Fire Nova that activates it.
• Shaman · Elemental Elemental Mastery: This talent has returned as the new 31-point gold medal talent. Reduces the cast time of Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst by 0.5 seconds and removes the cooldown from Chain Lightning for 15 seconds. 3-minute CD. Lava Burst is pre-requisite.
• Shaman · Elemental Lava Burst: Moved from the 7th row to the 5th row as the 21-point gold medal talent. New rank 4 added and ranks reflowed. No longer has any pre-requisite.
• Shaman · Elemental Elemental Fury: Now has Lightning Overload as pre-requisite.
• Shaman · Elemental Lightning Overload: Now has Elemental Alacrity as pre-requisite.
• Shaman · Elemental Elemental Alacrity: Moved from 3rd row to 2nd row.
• Shaman · Elemental Elemental Warding: Moved from 2nd row to 3rd row.
• Shaman · Elemental Call of Thunder: Talent removed.
• Shaman · Elemental Earthbound: Moved to 4th row as the 16-point gold medal talent.
• Shaman · Elemental Elemental Reach: Now also reduces the cooldown on Totemic Projection by 10/20 seconds.
• Shaman · Elemental Call of Flame: Now also extends duration of Flame Shock by 3/6/9 seconds.
• Shaman · Elemental Column Arrangement: Many talents moved to make room for other talents and their connections.
• Shaman · Elemental Clearcasting will no longer be consumed by Lightning Overload activations.
• Shaman · Elemental Fire Nova’s tooltip now correctly increases when placing talents into Trial By Fire (the talent formerly known as Improved Fire Nova).
• Shaman · Enhancement Your Stormstrike debuff is no longer consumed if your spell does not land.
• Shaman · Enhancement Fixed an issue where Stormstrike could be consumed by other players or pets that weren’t the casting Shaman.
• Shaman · Enhancement Stormstrike’s cost changed to 8% of Base Mana (was 125 Mana at all points in the game).
• Shaman · Restoration Added an additional Rank of Mana Tide Totem that is learned at level 38, so now you have ranks at level 25, 38, 48, 58 (was levels 25, 48, 58).
• Shaman · Restoration The Restorative Totems talent now correctly increases the effect of the entirety of Healing Stream totem (was the base value).
• Shaman · Restoration Tidal Focus and Totemic Focus have swapped locations. Tidal Focus is now in the 1st row, and Totemic Focus is now in the 2nd row.
• Shaman · Restoration Water Shield: Can now trigger from any critical spell cast by the Shaman (was only critical heals).
• Warlock Fixed an issue where Summon Incubus was available to summon at no Soul Shard cost with the Reagent Economy Legacy Perk.
• Warlock Fixed an issue allowing multiple Cure of Recklessness debuffs to be active on a target.
• Warlock · Affliction Malediction replaced with Grim Reach, which increases the range of your Affliction spells by 10/20%.
• Warlock · Affliction Shadow Mastery changed to increasing your Shadow spell damage by 2/4/6/8/10% (Was 1/2/3/4/5%).
• Warlock · Demonology Fixed an issue where you couldn’t cast Soul Link on your pet.
• Warlock · Destruction Destructive Reach changed to Increases the range of your Destruction spells by 10/20%.
• Warrior Battle Shout is now Raid wide.
• Warrior Slam is no longer subject to spell pushback.
• Warrior Fixed an issue where Overpower was not able to activate vs. significantly lower level enemies.
• Warrior · Arms Fixed an issue where Weaponmaster’s Sword Specialization could be activated by Shield Bash and Shield Slam.
• Warrior · Fury Lingering Rage no longer stops the player’s Health Regeneration after combat.
• Warrior · Fury Fixed an issue where Improved Berserker Rage was not removing Movement Impairing Effects.

Gamepad Support 14

• Added a swing timer to the center reticle.
• Added bindings to enable and disable Voice Channel Transcription via the Chat Channels menu.
• Ensured your own fishing bobber is always targetable.
• Fixed using ground-targeted items. Using them a second time will now confirm the placement.
• Fixed an issue causing the gamepad action bar to be invisible upon relogging after creating and selecting a custom Edit Mode layout.
• Fixed an issue causing the cast bar to not be properly customizable with Edit Mode.
• Fixed an issue making it difficult to activate actions using the class-specific flyouts.
• Fixed an issue with quest reward selection that prevented completion of certain quests.
• Fixed an issue where quests offered by interactive objects or other non-character quest givers could not be turned in with a gamepad.
• Made the “Press and Hold Casting” setting compatible with gamepad.
• Updated the Trade confirmation dialog to be usable with a gamepad.
• Updated the Guild & Communities dialogs to be usable with a gamepad.
• Updated the Chat Channels menu to be usable with a gamepad.
• Updated the Transmog frame to be useable with a gamepad.

Items 6

• Mystic Mushroom now correctly increases Spirit.
• The Insight enchant now correctly increases Spirit.
• Morbent’s Bane no longer causes other nearby players to play visual effects.
• Scrolls now incur a global cooldown when used.
• Many items created by professions have had their vendor sell price reduced.
• Draught of Predatory Senses is now a Potion, on the Combat Potion cooldown, and had its duration reduced to fit within this design space.

Legacy System 3

• Fixed an issue where Bartering was discounting training and repairing.
• Visually moved the Master Chef and Luremaster perks 1 row to the left.
  • Developers’ notes: They were already available with only 5 points committed, so this is only a visual change.
• The Quick and the Dead should now affect more Priest spells.

Quests 13

• General Fixed several quest items that were multi-drop and should not be.
• Ashenvale
• There are more Bloodtooth Guards available during the quest “Raene’s Cleansing”
• Dalaran Members of the Horde are no longer welcome in Dalaran under any circumstances and will be attacked on sight. This does not affect access to the City of Dalaran dungeon, but the Horde questline to obtain the Dalaran Sewer Key no longer grants unrestricted access to the city in the open world.
• Darkshore Fixed an issue where many of the furbolg camps would not grant credit for the quest “How Big a Threat?”
• Darkshore The quest “For Love Eternal” can now be turned in to Cerellian Whiteclaw at all times.
• Darkshore “Body and Heart”: Cenarion Moondust is no longer used up when you sprinkle it on the stone, so if you need to try again, you can come back later and use it again to re-summon Lunaclaw.
• Mulgore The Novice Warriors will no longer flag players for PvP during the quest “Sparring Match”.
• Stormwind
• “The Attack!” is no longer an escort quest and is now shareable, even while the event is active. Speak to Tyrion to begin the event if it is not active.
• Teldrassil Lord Melenas no longer evades at low health during the quest “Twisted Hatred”.
• Wetlands Several areas have had their respawn rates increased and evened out, including Dragonmaw Orcs, Gnolls, and Incendicite Ore.
• Zephras Isle Addressed an issue that could prevent players from using Halaan’s Gift to scry on the anchors of Zephras and progress the quest “The Anchors of Zephras.”

Player versus Player 1

• Battleground Marks of Honor now stack up to 30 (was 20).

User Interface 15

• Unit Frames display has been updated.
• Minimap header display has been updated.
• Spells with different rankings now behaves as a single entry in the Cooldown Manager.
• Auction House now displays a column for equippable level.
• Auction House will now properly display equipment stats from items with suffixes (example: “___ of the Monkey”).
• Added detailed Scrolling Combat Text options under Options > Gameplay > Combat > Scrolling Combat Text for Self > Text on Me/Text on Target.
• Searching for “Threat” will now pull up the Aggro Display option.
• To reduce Nameplate clutter, the distance visibility for Nameplates for enemies and NPCs above and below the player have been adjusted. Your current target’s nameplate is not affected.
• Restored level-up messages showing stat increases and talent points gained.
• In-game Tutorials have been updated.
• If party members are different character levels, the Looking For Group UI will now properly update the eligibility statuses of the dungeon list.
• Group Finder checkbox “Show All Level Ranges” will properly update the dungeon list.
• Fixed an issue where art assets were running amok on the Professions UI panel.
• Who List search now supports subzones (example: characters in Northshire Valley will show up in both queries “/who northshire” and “/who elwynn”).
• Players can no longer accept the ‘refresh world’ prompt while in combat.

Bugfixes 12

• Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting.
• Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically pleasing.
• Adjusted Human death sounds.
• Fixed an issue where attempting to craft items or cast spells was causing players to stand up while waiting to obtain their Campfire buff.
  • Players may now buff each other, cast, and craft while waiting for their Campfire buffs.
  • Players may now obtain a Campfire buff if they are sitting, sitting in a chair, sleeping, lying down, or using the kneeling emote.
• Resolved an issue where Huey Sunnydale’s legs failed to render properly.
• Fixed an issue that made a Season of Discovery rune ability visible.
• Fixed an issue where Pet Happiness was not decreasing once your pet was at max loyalty.
• Fixed an issue causing the Undercity Canal ooze to be much brighter than intended.
• Removed a setting that could disable fog in an unintended manner.
• Resolved a water display issue and fixed various other display artifacts on Mac.
• Fixed a memory leak causing gradual performance degradation for some players.
• Fixed an issue where in-game mail could ignore surnames.

Classes 62

• If you have not recently changed your talents, the cost is now 1 silver to re-spec. This is temporary for the Beta only. After your first talent reset, the subsequent cost will be much higher, but it will drop to 1 silver after 1 hour has passed.
• Druid Corrected an issue and now Rejuvenation can land critical hits.
• Druid Corrected an issue and now Tranquility can land critical hits.
• Druid Wrath base damage increased ~50%.
• Druid Thorns will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.
  • If the caster cannot be found or is too far away, Thorns reverts to its base values.
• Druid · Feral Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.
  • All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite.
• Druid · Feral The Primal Fury talent has been renamed and the icon replaced with the original Blood Frenzy name and icon.
• Druid · Feral Fixed a bug where Feral Charge (Cat) could be cast on allies.
• Druid · Restoration Corrected an issue and now Wild Growth can land critical hits.
• Hunter · Pets Furious Howl Attack Power bonus reduced 40%.
• Hunter · Pets Sonic Blast ability now properly available to Bat pets.
• Hunter · Pets Tame Beast no longer works on Beasts that are higher than the Hunter’s level.
• Hunter · Marksmanship Talenting out of Lone Wolf will no longer cause the Hunter to have -4% damage while their pet is active.
• Hunter · Survival Corrected an issue and now Lacerating Strikes can land critical hits.
• Hunter · Survival Strider Kick now increases movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.
• Mage Arcane Missiles no longer checks line of sight on each missile, just once at the beginning of the channel. So targets moving out of line of sight during the channel will not prevent the missiles.
• Mage · Fire Wake of Fire buff duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: Wake of Fire was difficult to make proper use of while leveling, due to the Mage needing to restore mana between combat. The increased duration should help smooth out the experience.
• Mage · Fire Hot Streak buff duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Mage · Fire Ignite no longer double dips on % damage increase modifiers.
• Paladin Retribution Aura will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.
• Paladin Fixed a bug causing the Flash of Light cast animation to not play at the end of the spell cast.
• Paladin Fixed various issues with Consecration.
  • Fixed an issue where Consecration would fail to apply its increased damage effect to some targets.
  • Fixed an issue where Consecration’s Z axis wasn’t functioning consistently.
  • Fixed an issue where Consecration could pull targets vertically above or below the caster.
• Paladin Holy Strike’s % of weapon damage per rank changed to 25%/29%/32%/36%/39%/43%/46%/50% (was 25%/25%/30%/30%/35%/35%/40%/40%).
  • Developers’s notes: This increases Holy Strike’s damage at all points while leveling, and increases how much it contributes to your rotation. Early ranks of Holy Strike didn’t always feel like an upgrade when purchasing a new rank, and we wanted to adjust that.
• Paladin Fixed a bug with Echo of Justice, causing it to have a higher than intended chance to activate.
• Paladin Righteous Fury: Holy threat increase increased to 60% (was 90%).
• Paladin · Holy Holy Strike’s cooldown lowered to 10 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Paladin · Holy Improved Holy Strike removed from the Talent Tree.
  • Developers’ notes: Even though there are sometimes cases where talents feel ‘required’ by classes, like Relentless Strikes for Rogues, having one that reduces the cooldown of a core ability so early on in a healing talent tree made this feel like a talent that was required. So we’ve removed it and made its behavior baseline.
• Paladin · Holy Light’s Vigil’s tooltip has been reorganized to make it more clear that the damage component is the only version that returns some of the Mana cost.
• Paladin · Holy Holy Power now increases the Critical Strike chance of Holy Strike by 15% and retains all of its old effects.
• Paladin · Retribution Vengeance now activates off of non-periodic critical strikes.
• Paladin · Retribution Vengeance’s maximum stacks lowered to 3 (was 5).
• Paladin · Retribution Two-Handed Weapon Specialization’s damage increase reduced to 2/4/6% (was 3/6/9%).
• Paladin · Retribution Sacred Arbiter now increases the damage of Holy Strike by 20% (was 10%).
• Paladin · Retribution Twist of Light now additionally reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%.
• Priest Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.
• Priest Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul.
• Priest · Gnome Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.
• Priest · Gnome Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match.
• Priest · Night Elf Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent.
• Priest · Undead Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage.
• Priest · Undead Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit.
• Rogue Sap now correctly flags the Rogue for PvP when used on a target that is PvP flagged.
• Shaman Lightning Bolt: Damage on ranks 3 and 4 increased to make these spells always upgrades over previous ranks (despite changing cast times).
• Shaman Windfury Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Windfury Totem” instead of “Windfury Totem Passive”.
• Shaman Flametongue Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Flametongue Totem” instead of “Flametongue Totem Effect”.
• Shaman Flametongue Totem no longer has a duration and is instantly replaced when placing another totem.
• Shaman Flametongue Totem is no longer able to be stacked by repeatedly casting Flametongue Totem.
• Shaman Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Flametongue Weapon.
• Shaman Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Windfury Totem.
• Shaman Tranquil Air Totem, Windfury Totem, and Grace of Air Totem no longer stack together even if used by different Shamans in the same group.
• Shaman · Elemental Swapped the positions of the Elemental Fury (Row 3) and Elemental Alacrity (Row 6) talents.
  • Developers’ notes: Critical Strike damage increases early on in trees are exciting for other specializations, but its not as exciting for the core specialization while leveling, since they don’t have enough critical strike chance to really appreciate it. So we’re moving one of the better talents for Elemental Shaman functionality, earlier in the tree, to allow them to feel like they’re hitting important progression moments (something Elemental has lacked in the early levels). We understand that this affects Enhancement Shaman’s critical strike damage with spells, but we will use this room created to add more to Enhancement Shaman in the future.
• Shaman · Elemental Lava Burst damage on ranks 1 and 2 increased to be about 10% more base damage than the Lightning Bolt rank learned around the same level.
• Shaman · Enhancement Rage of the Far Seer (Row 7) no longer increases the Shaman’s Spell Casting Speed.
  • Developers’ notes: Rage of the Far Seer’s spell casting speed was not necessary to include for the core functionality of this ability. So we removed it.
• Shaman · Restoration Corrected an issue and now Riptide can land critical hits.
• Warlock Tooltip of Life Tap has been updated to correctly display the amount of Life converted, and only states that it scales with Spirit.
• Warlock Voidwalker Sacrifice now correctly scales with 10% of the Warlock’s spell healing.
• Warrior Sunder Armor: Corrected the threat values on all ranks, including a small increase to threat generated from Attack Power.
• Warrior · Protection Swapped the positions of the Bastion (Row 5) and Focused Rage (Row 6) talents.
  • Developers’ notes: We wanted to give players Focused Rage sooner to smooth out progression, as opposed to more damage from Bastion. This should smooth out some of the feeling while leveling as Protection before obtaining Shield Slam.
• Warrior · Arms Bloodthrill’s chance to activate increased to 4/8/12/16/20% (was 2/4/6/8/10%).
• Warrior · Arms Bloodthrill only activates off of Main Hand melee attacks. This includes Cleave and Heroic Strike.
• Warrior · Arms Slam’s cooldown has been increased to 18 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Warrior · Arms Improved Slam now reduces the cooldown of Slam by 1.5/3 seconds.

Races 4

• Gnome Changed Eureka on every class to a 10% discount on Mana, Rage, or Energy abilities.
• Human Changed the Will to Survive visual to match Dispel Magic instead of Will of the Forsaken.
• Tauren Cultivation now has a player-level requirement for every Herb. The level required is equal to the Herb’s level required to pick it divided by 5. Herbs that require a higher than 300 Herbalism skill to pick can be Cultivated at player level 60.
• Tauren Touch of the Grave no longer breaks CC or activates from spells and abilities that don’t have a damage component to them.
  • Developers’ notes: This means that Shadow Word: Pain activates it on cast, but not on periodic damage. Distract won’t activate it, you can’t pull Rogues and Druids out of Stealth with Distract and it activating, and you won’t activate it off of Pickpocketing. Spells like Polymorph already didn’t get broken by Touch of the Grave, but Polymorph will no longer be able to activate it.

Cooldown Manager 5

• The Cooldown Manager in World of Warcraft: Forever is intended to enhance gameplay by pulling critical information from the buff bar or action bar and placing it in a fully customizable location. By default, the Cooldown Manager is disabled, and it can be enabled in Options under the Gameplay Enhancement settings.
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.
• Additional classes will become testable in future updates.
• The most desired feedback for this feature is currently: spells that you wish were tracked by default.
• The Cooldown Manager does not yet support spell ranks. This will be resolved in a future Beta update.

Gamepad Support 6

• Class specific flyouts have been added to the action bar interface of some classes.
  • Shapeshift flyout for Druids.
  • Pet control and pet spell flyouts for Hunters and Warlocks.
  • Aura flyout for Paladins.
  • Stance flyout for Warriors.
• The pet bar no longer replaces the bottom gamepad action bar for Hunters and Warlocks.
• New options have been added to the Gamepad (Alpha) section of the game options.
  • Use Compact Action Bar: Replaces the normal gamepad action bar layout with one that only shows the currently active action bar at any given time.
  • Fixed Party Targeting: While in a non-raid party, rather than having the directional pad act as directions in the party interface, each button on the directional pad is assigned to a specific party member.
  • Swap Target Modifier Sides: Swaps sides of the friendly and hostile targeting modifiers, putting friendly targeting on the right and hostile on the left.
  • Swap Friendly Target Action Sides: Swaps the directional pad and face button actions when using the friendly targeting modifier.
  • Swap Hostile Target Action Sides: Swaps the directional pad and face button actions when using the hostile targeting modifier.
• Fixed an issue preventing edit mode layouts from being applied while the gamepad UI is enabled.
• Updated Map and Quest Log bindings.
  • New hover functionality for POI pins.
• Updated support for Compact Raid Frame Manager and Role Poll Frames.

Items 5

• A handful of guns and bows were not correctly consuming or using ammunition. They have been corrected.
• A number of quests have had their rewards updated to be the correct item level.
• A small number of early caster rewards have been adjusted.
• Wizard Oil: Minor Wizard Oil has been reverted to Classic Era value of 8 spell power, Lesser Wizard Oil to 16, and Wizard Oil to 24. Brilliant Wizard Oil remains unchanged.
• Wands: Wands no longer gain any additional damage from the user’s spell damage.

Quests 23

• Resolved an issue where several dungeon quests were shareable, which granted the receiving player a quest item when shared.
• Dalaran - Faction adjustments. Spawns are now present in the area just outside the city entrance.
• Dun Morogh - Snow Leopard Prowler has a much faster respawn time.
• Dun Morogh - Resolved an issue where some players were unable to loot the rifle for “Treacherous Cold”.
• Durotar - Reduced the respawn time for the escort NPC for “Lost in the Shadows”.
• Elwynn Forest - The quest “Book Return” now properly removes the extra Book Bag from the player’s inventory when the quest is completed.
• Elwynn Forest - Increased the amount of crates for the quest “Stolen Enchanting Supplies”.
• Elwynn Forest - Murloc camps around Crystal Lake should respawn more quickly. Mrrglrlrlrmgrr!
• Elwynn Forest - Mother Fang respawns a bit more slowly, and does not always drop a green item.
• Elwynn Forest - Shinyfinder Narf respawns more quickly. The quest item may now be looted by all party members.
• Elwynn Forest - Nimsy now respawns more quickly.
• Elwynn Forest - You can now learn skinning from Helene Peltskinner even while you have a quest with her.
• Elwynn Forest - Increased the amount of supply spawns for “Stolen Enchanting Supplies”.
• Elwynn Forest - Jasperlode Mine and Fargodeep Mine are a little more deadly than intended for solo players, so we’re taking their candles away. We do not anticipate any fallout from this theft.
• Mulgore - Water Pitchers now respawn faster for the quest “A Humble Task”.
• Silthus - Khonsu’s arrival has been removed from the beta phase, and in the future will return to Azeroth once more.
• Silverpine Forest - Pyrewood Village worgen respawn more quickly.
• Teldrassil - The objective count for the quest “Bounty: Gnarlpine Furbolg” has been reduced to 15 (was 20).
• Undercity - The Skyborne quest “Exploring the Horde” now completes the objective to talk with Lady Sylvanas Windrunner. Dark Lady watch over you
• Westfall - Increased the spawn rate of the Defias Messenger.
• Zephras Isle - The High Order Skyborne quest “Catching Wind” has been redesigned and adjustments were made to the spawns at the Overlook Standing Stones in Shen’dar Highlands.
• Zephras Isle - The druids of Nightclaw Cavern now award credit for “Wounds of Betrayal” properly when healed.
• Zephras Isle - “A Firm Response” no longer fails to grant credit to players.

User Interface 2

• Updated the Nameplate selection display.
• Personal Resource Display textures are updated.

Known issues 11

• Banes and Curses do not properly track if you drop your target and re-acquire a target with an existing bane or curse.
• Healthstone cooldown cannot be tracked.
• Priest tracks all spells by default.
• Arcane Blast cannot be tracked.
• Mana gem requires an additional spell to be cast by the mage to properly begin tracking its cooldown.
• Creating or changing party composition may transfer players to a different world instance. We’re working on improvements and will provide an update soon.
• Pet cooldowns cannot be tracked.
• Item enhancements (such as Windfury or rogue poisons) cannot be tracked
• The minimap in Stormwind has display issues and will be fixed in a later build.
• Personal Resource Display doesn’t show combo points.

Our full Known Issues post is here.