Score by class
| Class | Buffs | Nerfs | Changes | Fixes | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warrior | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Paladin | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -2 |
| Hunter | 0 | 6 | 6 | 11 | -6 |
| Rogue | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Priest | 2 | 1 | 11 | 12 | +1 |
| Shaman | 2 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 0 |
| Mage | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | -1 |
| Warlock | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | +1 |
| Druid | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
A line counts as a buff or a nerf only when Blizzard gives the old and new number, or a plain direction for cost, cooldown, damage, healing or duration. A line about an effect laid on someone else (a slow, a healing reduction, damage taken) counts as a change. Fixes and reworks never count. Score: buffs minus nerfs.
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Battle Shout is now Raid wide. -
Slam is no longer subject to spell pushback. -
Fixed an issue where
Overpower was not able to activate vs. significantly lower level enemies. -
Fixed an issue where
Weaponmaster’s Sword Specialization could be activated by 
Shield Bash and 
Shield Slam. -
Lingering Rage no longer stops the player’s Health Regeneration after combat. -
Fixed an issue where
Improved Berserker Rage was not removing Movement Impairing Effects.
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Seal of Fury is no longer overwritten by 
Power Word: Shield. -
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. -
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.
- Developers’ notes: This is to restore the functionality of giving the Paladin more finesse and control over who has
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Judgement of Righteousness and Judgement of Fury now have the correct spell power coefficients for instant cast spells. -
Fixed an issue causing
Seal of Righteousness to gain almost twice as much benefit from Spell Damage than intended. -
Fixed an issue where
Judgement of Righteousness had an incorrect Spell Damage coefficient. -
Consecration’s Spell Power Coefficient per tick has been changed to 0.042 (was 0.095). -
Righteous Fury’s Holy damage threat generation increased to 90% (was 60%). - Seal of Fury Rank 3 is now correctly available for training at level 26 (was incorrectly level 25).
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Light's Vigil Fixed an issue where using a focus macro to cast
Light’s Vigil was causing it to not go onto the appropriate target. -
Fixed an issue causing
Infusion of Light to grant 
Holy Shock 50% increased damage against enemies. -
Shield Specialization Mana restored to the Paladin lowered to 4% with a 3 second internal cooldown (was 6% with a 3 second internal cooldown). -
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.
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Champion of the Light now increases your spell damage by 10/20/30% of your Intellect (was 20/40/60%). -
Sanctified Judgement’s Mana restore effect no longer generates threat.
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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.
- Developers’ notes: Your character will still fire
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Arrows should now be visible when a character has their bow drawn back.
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Pets now correctly benefit from Expertise.
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The Hunter’s Fire traps now correctly scale with Attack Power.
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The Hunter may now correctly have 1 active Fire Trap and 1 active Ice Trap (was 1 Trap among all types).
- 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.
- Pets ›
Dismember (Crocolisk) Healing reduction reduced to 25% (was 50%).
- Pets › Dismember (Crocolisk)
Duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
- Pets › Dismember (Crocolisk)
Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (was 6 seconds).
- Pets › Sonic Blast (Bat)
Cast speed reduction reduced to 30% (was 60%).
- Pets › Sonic Blast (Bat)
Duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds).
- Pets › Sonic Blast (Bat)
Cooldown increased to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
- Pets ›
Mine! (Bird of Prey) Duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Pets › Mine! (Bird of Prey)
Cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
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Summon Hawk Summon Hawk will now correctly cause the Hawk to spawn at the target the spell was cast on. - Summon Hawk Summon Hawk will now stick your Hawk to the target that it was summoned on.
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Fixed an issue causing the
Improved Mend Pet talent to increase the Mana cost of Mend Pet instead of decrease. -
Trueshot Aura Trueshot Aura is now Raid wide. - Sniper Shot
Fixed an issue where
Sniper Shot was not benefitting from a few Marksmanship talents. -
Strider Kick Strider Kick can now be used while disarmed or while no weapon is equipped in your Main Hand. -
Resourcefulness now correctly reduces the Mana cost of Strider Kick. - 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.
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Updated the tooltip for
Predator’s Edge changed to better convey that it only increases the critical strike damage of your abilities.
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Rogue Poisons will no longer incorrectly activate against targets that are attacking them.
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Sap no longer has a chance to activate weapon procs. -
Fixed an issue where Rogues could swap specializations to keep their energy full.
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Cold Blood is now correctly consumed when 
Mutilate lands a critical strike.
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Fixed an issue where high ranks of
Renew were preventing other Priests from applying Renew to the target. -
Fixed an issue causing
Holy Fire Rank 5 periodic damage to be higher than Rank 6. - 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.
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Fixed an issue where casting
Power Word: Shield would say SHIELDED twice in your scrolling combat text. -
Devouring Plague cooldown reduced to 24 seconds (was 1 minute). -
Shadow Word: Death cooldown increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds). -
Fixed an issue where casting
Mind Vision would cause the target to stand up and interrupt drinks. -
Inner Focus will now correctly only be used on a single spell, even if you spell queue another spell into 
Penance’s channel. -
Added to the tooltip for
Divine Aegis explicitly that it is activated by Non-Periodic critical heals. -
Added to the tooltip for
Divine Aegis what the maximum value for the shield is. - Power in Light now increases
Smite and Penance if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word Pain. -
Silence Resolve threat reduction now applies to all spells. -
Mental Strength moved to Row 2 from Row 4 and changed to increase your intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%. - Improved Power Word: Shield moved to Row 3 from Row 2.
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Twin Disciplines now correctly benefits Shadow Word: Death, 
Mind Flay, 
Starshards and Penance. -
Fixed an issue where
Shadow Word: Death was not benefitting from 
Shadowform’s increase to critical strike damage. -
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. -
Vampiric Embrace Changed
Vampiric Embrace so that it can’t be resisted. - Vampiric Embrace Vampiric Embrace cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute).
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Fade Improved Fade removed.
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Shadow Infinity removed.
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Improved Mind Blast moved from Row 3 to Row 2. -
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. -
Improved Mind Flay changes to: Each instance of damage of Mind Flay deals 10/20% more damage than its previous instance of damage. - Devouring Contagion now spreads to 2 targets.
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Fixed an issue with
Shadow Weaving’s Tooltip. It now correctly states that it causes the target to take increased damage from you.
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Fixed an issue where
Totemic Recall cost 70 silver on the trainer instead of 22 silver, as intended. -
Grounding Totem is now correctly destroyed after redirecting a spell. -
Windfury Weapon’s attacks now appear as White hits in the scrolling combat text. -
Grace of Air Totem is no longer exclusive with 
Windfury Totem and 
Flametongue Totem.- Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem retain their exclusivity.
- Grace of Air Totem,
Strength of Earth Totem, Windfury Totem, and Flametongue Totem are now Raid wide. -
Chain Lightning: Mana cost reduced by approximately 35% on all four ranks. -
Fire Nova’s Spell Power Coefficient has been changed to 0.143 (was 0.214). - Fire Nova’s base damage has been significantly reduced.
- Fire Nova’s mana cost has been significantly reduced.
- Flametongue Totem and Windfury Totem now correctly only affect players.
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Added a little green to the visual of
Chain Heal without overpowering the original effect. -
Your Clearcasting from the
Elemental Focus talent will no longer have a way to be spent on the same Fire Nova that activates it. -
Elemental Mastery 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. - Lava Burst 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.
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Elemental Fury: Now has 
Lightning Overload as pre-requisite. - Lightning Overload: Now has
Elemental Alacrity as pre-requisite. - Elemental Alacrity: Moved from 3rd row to 2nd row.
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Elemental Warding: Moved from 2nd row to 3rd row. -
Call of Thunder: Talent removed.
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Earthbound: Moved to 4th row as the 16-point gold medal talent. -
Elemental Reach: Now also reduces the cooldown on 
Totemic Projection by 10/20 seconds. -
Call of Flame: Now also extends duration of 
Flame Shock by 3/6/9 seconds. -
Column Arrangement: Many talents moved to make room for other talents and their connections.
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Clearcasting will no longer be consumed by
Lightning Overload activations. - Fire Nova’s tooltip now correctly increases when placing talents into Trial By Fire (the talent formerly known as Improved Fire Nova).
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Stormstrike Your
Stormstrike debuff is no longer consumed if your spell does not land. - Stormstrike
Fixed an issue where
Stormstrike could be consumed by other players or pets that weren’t the casting Shaman. - Stormstrike Stormstrike’s cost changed to 8% of Base Mana (was 125 Mana at all points in the game).
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Mana Tide Totem 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). -
The
Restorative Totems talent now correctly increases the effect of the entirety of Healing Stream totem (was the base value). -
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. -
Water Shield: Can now trigger from any critical spell cast by the Shaman (was only critical heals).
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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.
- Developers’ notes: The purpose of this spell is to provide the functionality formerly granted by Rank 1
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Fixed an issue where
Presence of Mind would not be consumed by spell casts. -
Fixed an issue where
Missile Barrage could reduce the cost and duration of a second 
Arcane Missiles cast. - 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.
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Arcane Blast 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%. -
Arcane Wrath 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. -
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. -
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. - Critical Mass: Mages can now spend up to 5 points in this talent for 10% total critical strike increase.
- 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.
- Developers’ notes: Specifically, the effects which can grant increased Fire damage from this talent are
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Frost Channeling now correctly reduces the Mage’s threat. -
Ice Block Fixed an issue where
Ice Block was too transparent. -
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. -
Fixed an issue preventing
Frostbite and 
Fingers of Frost from activating from your 
Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells. -
Ice Lance Ice Lance damage against Frozen targets changed to a 200% increase (Was 300%). -
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.
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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. -
Slightly changed the positioning of the spell visual for
Cone of Cold. -
New spell Frost Blast. 1.5 second cast. Deals low frost damage. Slows/chills. Benefits from talents that benefit
Frostbolt. - 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.
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Fixed an issue where
Summon Incubus was available to summon at no Soul Shard cost with the Reagent Economy Legacy Perk. -
Fixed an issue allowing multiple Cure of Recklessness debuffs to be active on a target.
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Malediction replaced with
Grim Reach, which increases the range of your Affliction spells by 10/20%. -
Shadow Mastery changed to increasing your Shadow spell damage by 2/4/6/8/10% (Was 1/2/3/4/5%). -
Soul Link Fixed an issue where you couldn’t cast
Soul Link on your pet. -
Destructive Reach changed to Increases the range of your Destruction spells by 10/20%.
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Fixed an issue where high ranks of
Rejuvenation were preventing other Druids from applying Rejuvenation to the target. -
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. - Faerie Fire: Now generates threat while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form (instead of just initiating combat at 0 threat).
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Fixed an issue allowing multiple
Faerie Fire debuffs to be active on a target. -
Shred (Rank 1) is now learned at level 20 (was 22). It was possible to get Shredding Attacks before knowing Shred or 
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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. -
Insect Swarm Multiple instances of
Insect Swarm will no longer continue to reduce the target’s hit chance. -
Moonkin Aura now only increases Spell Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide.
- Leader of the Pack now only increases Melee and Ranged Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide.
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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.
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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.
- Developers’ notes: Bear and Dire
Quotes: Blizzard Entertainment, 16 October 2026. Words in the lines are Blizzard's, unchanged.