Druid TBC Changes Listed v2

#0 - Dec. 13, 2006, 9:04 a.m.
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Cleaned it up. All changes listed below to the talent trees are the changes that isn't in live and will be implemented in the expansion.

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
#15 - Dec. 15, 2006, 3:40 p.m.
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Q u o t e:
Since my Girlfriends account ran out and she is not reactivating for the time being, i have decided to update this thread here instead. So Vaneras, if you would be so nice to unsticky the change list above and replace it with this one, it would be sooooooooo sweet :-)


*Wink Wink* :-)