Upcoming Class & PvP Tuning - Feb 21

With the next weekly maintenance, we're planning a large round of PvP tuning changes, as well as a few PvE buffs for Unholy. Please see below for the full list of changes that are currently planned. As always, this may not be the final list - additional tuning may be added or removed before these changes go live.

Classes

Death Knight

• Unholy
  
  • Virulent Plague damage over time effect has been increased by 67%. Damage unchanged in PvP.
  • Summon Gargoyle: Gargoyle Strike damage has been increased by 50%. Damage unchanged in PvP.
  • Dark Arbiter: Val'kyr Strike damage has been increased by 16%. Damage unchanged in PvP.

Player versus Player

Death Knight

• Dark Simulacrum's cooldown has been reduced to 25 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Blood
  
  • Blood Death Knights no longer deal reduced damage in PvP situations (was a reduction of 10%).
• Unholy
  
  • Crypt Fever's damage has been reduced by 15%.

Druid

• Restoration
  
  • Nourish now reduces the cast time of Healing Touch by 0.2 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
  • Nourish will now only apply Regrowth's heal over time effect (was both the initial heal and the heal over time effect).
  • Abundance now reduces the cast time of Healing Touch by 5% per Rejuvenation active in PvP situations (was 10%).
  • Fixed a bug that caused Nature's Essence to fail to heal on Wild Growths cast in PvP if the Druid had the Nourish or Overgrowth Honor Talents.

Hunter

• Survival
  
  • Caltrops now deals 20% less damage in PvP, and reduces movement speed by 50% (was 70% speed).
  • PvP Template Agility has been reduced by 2.5%.
• Marksmanship
  
  • Healing Shell now heals for its full value in PvP.
  • Aimed Shot now deals an additional 5% damage in PvP situations.
  • PvP Template Agility has been increased by 5%.
  • PvP Template Haste has been reduced by 15%.
  • PvP Template Mastery has been increased by 33%.
  • PvP Template Armor has been increased by 20%.
• Beast Mastery
  
  • PvP Template Agility has been increased by 5%.
  • PvP Template Haste has been increased by 30%.
  • PvP Template Versatility has been increased by 25%.
  • PvP Template Mastery has been reduced by 25%.
  • PvP Template Critical Strike has been reduced by 30%.
  • PvP Template Armor has been increased by 20%.

Mage

• Fire
  
  • Cauterizing Blink's heal has been reduced by 33% in PvP situations.
  • PvP Template Intellect and Stamina have been reduced by 5%.

Paladin

• Holy
  
  • Avenging Crusader once again ignores line of sight when healing.
  • Avenging Crusader will now cause Judgment and Crusader Strike to heal even if their damage is absorbed.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Spreading the Word to make Blessing of Freedom trigger Cleanse's cooldown.
• Retribution
  
  • PvP Template Strength has been increased by 3%.

Priest

• Discipline
  
  • Inner Renewal now causes Power Word: Radiance to refund 25% of its mana cost when self-cast (was 50%).

Rogue

• Assassination
  
  • Fixed a bug that caused Deadly Brew's additional free Wound Poison effect to increase to Kingsbane's damage.
  • Poison Bomb's damage has been reduced by 30% in PvP.
  • Wound Poison's healing reduction effect has been reduced to 20% in PvP (24% with Master Poisoner).
  • PvP Template Agility has been reduced by 5%.

Shaman

• Elemental
  
  • PvP Template Intellect and Stamina have been increased by 5%.
• Enhancement
  
  • Stormstrike deals 20% less damage in PvP (was 15% less damage).
  • PvP Template Agility has been increased by 10%.
  • PvP Template Stamina has been increased by 5%.
• Restoration
  
  • PvP Template Versatility has been increased by 30%.

Warrior

• Arms
  
  • PvP Template Strength and Stamina has been increased by 5%.
  • PvP Template Armor has been increased by 10%.
  • PvP Template Versatility has been increased by 17%.
• Fury
  
  • Endless Rage now increases the duration of Enrage by 1 second (was 2 seconds).

Warlock

• Destruction
  
  • Chaos Bolt's damage has been increased by 25% in PvP situations.
  • Reverse Entropy reduces the cast time of Chaos Bolt by 0.25 seconds in PvP situations (was 0.5 seconds).
  • Backdraft reduces the cast time of Chaos Bolt and Incinerate by 15% in PvP situations (was 30%).
• Demonology
  
  • PvP Template Intellect has been increased by 5%.
  • PvP Template Haste has been increased by 50%.
  • PvP Template Versatility has been reduced by 25%.
  • PvP Template Mastery has been reduced by 25%.

02/17/2017 06:58 PMPosted by Nelsôn

Backdraft reduces the cast time of Chaos Bolt and Rain of Fire by 15% in PvP situations (was 30%).

???

That should be Incinerate no?

I... have no idea how that happened. Fixed.