#0 - Dec. 13, 2006, 9:04 a.m.
Balance
- Improved Starfire - Will in the expansion give a 25%/50%/75% chance to avoid casting interruptions while casting wrath in addition to the stun proc. Renamed "Celestial Focus"
- Improved Moonfire - Will in the Expansion be reduced to 2 talent points for same benefit.
- Barkskin no longer gives a casttime penalty, but cooldown was nerfed to 2 minutes. Castable while stunned.
- Insect Swarm's damage greatly increased.
Feral:
- Dire Bear Form now grants a 450% armor bonus and a 25% HP bonus.
- Nurturing Instinct - Goes from 50%/100% of Strength to 25%/50% of Strength but the effect is now passive.
- Shredding Attacks now reduce the Energy cost of Shred to 9 (!!) energy per rank, aka. fully talented Shred only costs 42 energy now! Also reduces the rage cost of Lacerate by 2.
- Feline Swiftness now also grants a 2%/4% Dodge Chance increase for (Dire) Bear Form: http://tinyurl.com/yzmq85
- Primal Fury and Blood Frenzy merged ( http://tinyurl.com/stnk4 + http://tinyurl.com/y2w4lc ).
- Improved LotP nerfed to 4% healed instead of 6%, 2 talent points instead of 3.
- Idol of Brutality changed to increase the damage of Maul/Swipe by 50. No longer reduces rage costs.
- Idol of Ferocity changed to increase the damage of Claw and Rake by 20. No longer reduces energy costs.
- Mangle now increases damage from bleeds AND Shred by 30%. Debuff duration increased to 12 seconds. Now applies to Bleed Immune mobs.
- Shredding Attacks now reduces the Energy cost of Shred by 9 per rank.
Restoration:
- All +healing talents (Imp. Rejuvenation, Gift of Nature) scale with +healing gear.
- Natural Perfection - Changed to "Your critical strike chance with all spells is increased by 1/2/3% and melee and ranged critical strikes against you cause 4/7/10% less damage."
- Tree of Life can cast all Healing Spells except Healing Touch, including Regrowth and Tranquility.
- Regrowth mana cost reduced on all ranks.
- The aura from Tree of Life now grants a bonus to healing taken for all party members instead of +healing.
- Tranquility Changed, cooldown Increased back to 10 minutes, but now heals heals for 1096 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds at level 60 untalented. Mana cost increased to 1295.
Base mana cost of abilities untalented:
- Travel forms (cheetah and aquatic) now cost 199 mana at level 60, 379 mana at level 70
- Feral combat forms (bear and cat) now cost 547 mana at level 60, 1042 mana at level 70
- Moonkin and Tree of Life mana cost reduced to 348 mana at level 60, 663 mana at level 70