#0 - Oct. 14, 2006, 11:11 a.m.
Balance
- Moonfury scales with gear (!!), confirmed by Lissanna (US).
- Meleeing in Moonkin form now gives the druid a chance to regen mana equal to a percentage of his AP. Spell crit aura raised to 5% and AP in this form is increased by 150%. In addition for Feral/Balance builds, Predatory Strikes now increase AP of Moonkin Form as well.
- Insect Swarm - Now in the balance tree, Switches the place of Omen of Clarity which is now in the restoration tree. Still a talent.
- Improved Wrath and Improved Starfire - The casttime component of these two spells have been merged to Starlight Wrath and takes the place of the old talent "Improved Wrath", 5 ranks total. The starfire stun is now a seperate talent.
- Improved Starfire - Gives a 5%/10%/15% chance to stun the target with Starfire, 3 ranks. Same location as the old "Improved Starfire"
- Improved Moonfire - Moved to the old Natural Weapons location (NOTE: Improved Moonfire is NOT a prereq for Insect Swarm). Talent unchanged. Its still unconfirmed if the damage icnreasing part will scale like Moonfury.
- Focused Starlight - 2 ranks. Takes the place of the old Improved Moonfire talent and will be pre-req for Vengeance. Increases the crit chance of your Wrath and Starfire spells by 2%/4%.
- Natural Shapeshifter - Moved to Restoration
- Improved Moonfire reduced to 2 ranks (5%/10% increased damage and crit chance). Screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/ydeakm
- Data on Insect Swarm rank 6 is here: http://tinyurl.com/yztsem
- Improved Starfire now gives a 75% chance to avoid Interruptions when you are casting Wrath.
- *** NEW *** Barkskin no longer gives a casttime penalty, but cooldown was nerfed to 2 minutes. Castable while stunned.
Feral:
- Feral Instinct and Thick Hide - Both talents reduced to 3 ranks granting 5%/10%/15% increased Threat while in Bear Form (Stealth improvements assumed to scale as well) and 4%/7%/10% increased armor.
- Nurturing Instinct - Reduced from 3 to 2 ranks. Effect unchanged at maximum talent rank.
- Survival of the Fittest - Reduced to 3 ranks but the effect won't scale, so 3% melee crit reduction and 3% increased stat bonuses are now the max for this talent.
- Shredding Attacks now reduce the Energy cost of Shred to 9 (!!) energy per rank, aka. fully talented Shred only costs 42 energy now!
- Nurturing Instinct changed to passive instead of a 6 second buff. SS: http://tinyurl.com/yng7cl
- 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 ).
- Nurturing Instinct nerfed from 100% to 50%.
- Improved LotP nerfed to 4% healed instead of 6%, 2 talent points instead of 3.
Restoration:
- All +healing talents (Imp. Rejuvenation, Gift of Nature) scale with +healing gear.
- New talent, Naturalist, replaces Improved Healing Touch, 5 ranks. Decreases the casttime of Healing Touch by 0.1 second per rank, and increases all melee damage done by 2% per rank. So basically its Improved Healing Touch and Natural Weapons merged. Location is unchanged.
- Natural Shapeshifter - Moved from Balance, talent unchanged. Takes the place of Improved Enrage.
- New talent, Intensity, replaces Reflection, 3 ranks. Allows 5%/10%/15% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting, and causes your Enrage ability to instantly generate 4/7/10 rage. Basically Imp. Enrage and Reflection merged.
- Omen of Clarity - Takes the place of Insect Swarm. Talent unchanged.
- 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 movement speed reduction changed from 50% to 20%, so you know move at 80% speed.
- Omen of Clarity is now a 30 minute buff, and the clearcasting proc lasts 30 seconds.
