Everything that changed in the WoW Forever beta, by class

General Warrior changes (16)

• Battle Shout is now Raid wide. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Slam is no longer subject to spell pushback. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Overpower was not able to activate vs. significantly lower level enemies.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• The Novice Warriors will no longer flag players for PvP during the quest “Sparring Match”.uncertain Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug where Rage calculations on Damage absorbs were not being handled correctly. Damage absorbs should now be properly ignored when calculating Rage received from attacks (as if the Warrior/Druid had no absorb active).fixuncertain Oct 8, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Previously, we were balancing Rage gained around Warriors having 50% Armor. While this was appropriate for a tank, it was not appropriate for questing Warriors. We have rebalanced Rage gains based on appropriate values per level in the 20% to 40% range, varying by level.

• Demoralizing Shout: Fixed an issue where it generated no threat. Now puts some threat on all affected targets.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where the Mausoleum Trigger for the quest “Ulag the Cleaver” would take a long time to reactivate.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Players now generate 75% increased Rage when landing a critical strike with a basic attack. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Rend and Sunder Armor will now instantly tap enemies to the Warrior. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Queueing Heroic Strike will no longer increase off-hand hit chance. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Additional Rage generated from landing Critical Strikes increased to 100% increased Rage (was 75%). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug that was causing Dual Wield Specialization to grant its increase to Hit Chance to both weapons.fix Oct 1, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Because of the above bug, our tests needed some correcting, so we did another pass on Fury Warrior.

• Warriors’ Dual Wield Specialization is granting both your Main hand and Off-hand 2/4/6/8/10% hit chance. It should only be granted to your Off-hand.known issueuncertain Oct 1, 2026 source
• Sunder Armor: Corrected the threat values on all ranks, including a small increase to threat generated from Attack Power. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• Stance flyout for Warriors.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Arms (8)

• Fixed an issue where Weaponmaster’s Sword Specialization could be activated by Shield Bash and Shield Slam.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Deep Wounds is once again a required talent to reach Impale. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug where Deep Wounds was scaling with attack power for your Offhand weapon.fix Oct 8, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Deep Wounds does not scale with Attack Power but is a rolling DoT compared to Classic/Vanilla.

• Spearing Strike no longer requires a 2handed weapon. Spearing Strike requires Battle Stance. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Bloodthrill’s chance to activate increased to 4/8/12/16/20% (was 2/4/6/8/10%). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Bloodthrill only activates off of Main Hand melee attacks. This includes Cleave and Heroic Strike. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Slam’s cooldown has been increased to 18 seconds (was 15 seconds). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Improved Slam now reduces the cooldown of Slam by 1.5/3 seconds. Sep 24, 2026 source

Fury (20)

• Lingering Rage no longer stops the player’s Health Regeneration after combat. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Improved Berserker Rage was not removing Movement Impairing Effects.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Dual Wield Specialization no longer provides a 20/40/60/80/100% increase to your Off-Hand weapon’s Rage generation. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue with Unbridled Rage having a lower proc chance than intended.fix Oct 1, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Our goal here is to give Fury more access to utility and meaningful choices early in the tree for leveling, and free up points later for more choices instead of being stuck placing points into Enrage to get Flurry.

• Booming Voice is now a 10/20/30/40/50% increase area of effect to your Shouts and a 5/10/15/20/25% reduction to their Rage costs. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Unbridled Wrath no longer grants twice as much Rage to two-handed weapons. Oct 1, 2026 source
• New Talent Lingering Rage in Row 2 of Fury. Lingering Rage increases the time before your Rage begins to decay when leaving combat by 2/4/6/8/10 seconds. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Blood Craze no longer activates off of Bloodthirst casts. Oct 1, 2026 source
• The Improved Cleave talent has been removed. Oct 1, 2026 source
• The Boundless Rage talent has been removed. Oct 1, 2026 source
• New Talent Furious Precision in Row 3 of Fury. Furious Precision increases your chance to hit with off-hand attacks by 4/7/10%. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Raging Blows now reduces the Rage cost of your Cleave and Whirlwind abilities by 3. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Raging Blows no longer causes your Whirlwind to strike with your offhand. Whirlwind will now always strike with both weapons without requiring a talent point. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Dual Wield Specialization no longer grants hit to your off-hand attacks. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Enrage is no longer required to reach the Flurry talent. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Death Wish is now required to reach the Flurry talent. Oct 1, 2026 source
• New Talent Gore Drinker in Row 6 of Fury, requires the Enrage talent. Your Enrage, Berserker Rage, Bloodrage, Death Wish, and Bloodthirst abilities cause your next 3 melee attacks to restore 0.5/1% of your maximum Health. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Improved Berserker Rage moved to Row 5 of Fury (Was Row 6). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Berserker Rage is now available at level 30 (Was 32) Oct 1, 2026 source
• Bloodthirst’s Attack Power ratio has been increased to 45% (Was 35%). Oct 1, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Our goal is to give non-shield users a clear path to the middle of the tree, where Protection could serve as a PvP tech secondary specialization, with more access to Improved Bloodrage, Iron Will, Improved Disarm, Last Stand, and Improved Shield Bash.

Protection (9)

• Fixed an issue causing Last Stand to not grant the correct amount of health to the player on activation.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Iron Will moved to the Row 1 of Protection (Was Row 2 of Fury). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Anticipation moved to Row 2 (Was Row 1). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Toughness has been removed. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Improved Bloodrage moved to Row 1 (Was Row 2). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Improved Revenge moved to Row 2 (Was Row 3). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Improved Disarm moved to Row 3 (Was Row 4). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Improved Shield Bash moved to Row 4 (Was Row 5). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Swapped the positions of the Bastion (Row 5) and Focused Rage (Row 6) talents. Sep 24, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: We wanted to give players Focused Rage sooner to smooth out progression, as opposed to more damage from Bastion. This should smooth out some of the feeling while leveling as Protection before obtaining Shield Slam.

General Paladin changes (22)

• Seal of Fury is no longer overwritten by Power Word: Shield. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Paladins now also learn Revoke when Salvation is learned. Revoke removes target party or raid member’s Salvation or Mass Salvation. Oct 15, 2026 source

  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.

• Judgement of Righteousness and Judgement of Fury now have the correct spell power coefficients for instant cast spells. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue causing Seal of Righteousness to gain almost twice as much benefit from Spell Damage than intended.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Judgement of Righteousness had an incorrect Spell Damage coefficient.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Consecration’s Spell Power Coefficient per tick has been changed to 0.042 (was 0.095). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Righteous Fury’s Holy damage threat generation increased to 90% (was 60%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Seal of Fury Rank 3 is now correctly available for training at level 26 (was incorrectly level 25). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue with Retribution Aura that caused it to use the target being struck’s spell power instead of the casting Paladin’s spell power.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• The base damage of Retribution Aura has been returned to the Vanilla WoW values (about a 33% reduction) and the spell power ratio has been reduced to 6% (was 13.3%). Oct 8, 2026 source
• Retribution Aura uses the target’s spell power instead of the Paladin’s.known issueuncertain Oct 1, 2026 source
• Retribution Aura will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug causing the Flash of Light cast animation to not play at the end of the spell cast.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Fixed various issues with Consecration.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Consecration would fail to apply its increased damage effect to some targets.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Consecration’s Z axis wasn’t functioning consistently.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Consecration could pull targets vertically above or below the caster.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Holy Strike’s % of weapon damage per rank changed to 25%/29%/32%/36%/39%/43%/46%/50% (was 25%/25%/30%/30%/35%/35%/40%/40%). Sep 24, 2026 source

  Developers’s notes: This increases Holy Strike’s damage at all points while leveling, and increases how much it contributes to your rotation. Early ranks of Holy Strike didn’t always feel like an upgrade when purchasing a new rank, and we wanted to adjust that.

• Fixed a bug with Echo of Justice, causing it to have a higher than intended chance to activate.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Righteous Fury: Holy threat increase increased to 60% (was 90%). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Aura flyout for Paladins.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Holy (6)

• Fixed an issue where using a focus macro to cast Light’s Vigil was causing it to not go onto the appropriate target.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue causing Infusion of Light to grant Holy Shock 50% increased damage against enemies.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Holy Strike’s cooldown lowered to 10 seconds (was 12 seconds). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Improved Holy Strike removed from the Talent Tree. Sep 24, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Even though there are sometimes cases where talents feel ‘required’ by classes, like Relentless Strikes for Rogues, having one that reduces the cooldown of a core ability so early on in a healing talent tree made this feel like a talent that was required. So we’ve removed it and made its behavior baseline.

• Light’s Vigil’s tooltip has been reorganized to make it more clear that the damage component is the only version that returns some of the Mana cost. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Holy Power now increases the Critical Strike chance of Holy Strike by 15% and retains all of its old effects. Sep 24, 2026 source

Protection (8)

• Shield Specialization Mana restored to the Paladin lowered to 4% with a 3 second internal cooldown (was 6% with a 3 second internal cooldown). Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Reckoning: Now has a 1.5 second cooldown on how often it can be triggered. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Seal of Fury was granting Mana back to the Paladin even if the Improved Seal of Fury talent was not active.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Improved Seal of Fury and Shield Specialization no longer generate threat when restoring Mana. Oct 8, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Paladins restoring enough Mana to sustain combat while tanking was causing more threat to be generated than intended.

• Redoubt’s chance to Block changed to 4/8/12/16/20% (was 6/12/18/24/30%). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Holy Shield’s chance to Block changed to 30% (was 20%). Oct 1, 2026 source

Retribution (8)

• Champion of the Light now increases your spell damage by 10/20/30% of your Intellect (was 20/40/60%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Sanctified Judgement’s Mana restore effect no longer generates threat. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Champion of the Light’s Intellect to Spell Damage ratio changed to 20/40/60% (Was 33/66/100%). Oct 1, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Champion of the Light had a tooltip issue saying it increased Healing; it did not. This tooltip has been removed.

• Vengeance now activates off of non-periodic critical strikes. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Vengeance’s maximum stacks lowered to 3 (was 5). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization’s damage increase reduced to 2/4/6% (was 3/6/9%). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Sacred Arbiter now increases the damage of Holy Strike by 20% (was 10%). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Twist of Light now additionally reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%. Sep 24, 2026 source

General Hunter changes (12)

• Added ‘Auto Attack/Auto Shot’ setting. If enabled, Hunters will automatically switch between auto attack and auto shot. This is now also supported for gamepad.uncertain Oct 15, 2026 source
• Auto Shot now requires you to stand still for 0.5 seconds before shooting, matching early versions of World of Warcraft. Oct 15, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Your character will still fire Auto Shot while casting spells like Aimed Shot or Sniper Shot.

• Arrows should now be visible when a character has their bow drawn back. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Pets now correctly benefit from Expertise. Oct 15, 2026 source
• The Hunter’s Fire traps now correctly scale with Attack Power. Oct 15, 2026 source
• The Hunter may now correctly have 1 active Fire Trap and 1 active Ice Trap (was 1 Trap among all types). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Disengage: Threat reduction was intended to be doubled but was missed. Now implemented. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug causing Hunter pets to gain health repeatedly when low health.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Kolkar Hunter’s Beltuncertain Oct 8, 2026 source
• Hunters who selected the Ferocity talent will not see the critical strike chance of their pet increase on the character sheet. This is a visual bug only.known issueuncertain Oct 8, 2026 source
• Pet control and pet spell flyouts for Hunters and Warlocks.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• The pet bar no longer replaces the bottom gamepad action bar for Hunters and Warlocks.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Pets (16)

• Fixed an issue where pets were only ever inheriting the player’s Melee Critical Strike chance instead of whichever is higher, melee or ranged.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Dismember (Crocolisk) Oct 15, 2026 source
• Healing reduction reduced to 25% (was 50%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (was 6 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Sonic Blast (Bat) Oct 15, 2026 source
• Cast speed reduction reduced to 30% (was 60%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Cooldown increased to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Mine! (Bird of Prey) Oct 15, 2026 source
• Duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 60 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Aggressive Mode has been brought back and can be found under the pet tab in your spell book. Oct 1, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: There were some tameable beasts with ranks of pet abilities that were too high level for that creature. They have all been fixed. This could result in a bug where your pet “forgot” the pet ability which should not happen after this fix.

• Furious Howl Attack Power bonus reduced 40%. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Sonic Blast ability now properly available to Bat pets. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Tame Beast no longer works on Beasts that are higher than the Hunter’s level. Sep 24, 2026 source

Beast Mastery (4)

• Summon Hawk will now correctly cause the Hawk to spawn at the target the spell was cast on. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Summon Hawk will now stick your Hawk to the target that it was summoned on. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue causing the Improved Mend Pet talent to increase the Mana cost of Mend Pet instead of decrease.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Unleashed Fury now correctly increases your pet’s damage. Oct 8, 2026 source

Marksmanship (6)

• Trueshot Aura is now Raid wide. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Sniper Shot was not benefitting from a few Marksmanship talents.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Improved Concussive Shot now has the correct chance to activate. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Icon for Improved Stings changed to be more Vanilla feeling. Oct 1, 2026 source
• The 31st talent Sniper Shot now has a 45-yard Range and increases the range of your next 3 shots made within 10 seconds by 10 yards. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Talenting out of Lone Wolf will no longer cause the Hunter to have -4% damage while their pet is active. Sep 24, 2026 source

Survival (12)

• Strider Kick can now be used while disarmed or while no weapon is equipped in your Main Hand. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Resourcefulness now correctly reduces the Mana cost of Strider Kick. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Is not activated by Traps.

• Updated the tooltip for Predator’s Edge changed to better convey that it only increases the critical strike damage of your abilities. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Improved Wing Clip now has the correct chance to activate and reduced chance to activate if using ranks substantially below your current level. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Expose Prey now lasts 10 sec (was 5). Oct 8, 2026 source
• Entrapment now correctly has diminishing returns. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Entrapment now correctly only activates on Frost Trap’s initial activation, not periodically. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Icon for Predator’s Edge changed to be more Vanilla feeling. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Deflection’s Parry increase changed to 1/2/3/4/5% (Was 2/4/6/8/10%). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Corrected an issue and now Lacerating Strikes can land critical hits.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Strider Kick now increases movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds. Sep 24, 2026 source

General Rogue changes (7)

• Rogue Poisons will no longer incorrectly activate against targets that are attacking them. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Sap no longer has a chance to activate weapon procs. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Rogues could swap specializations to keep their energy full.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Added map markers for the quest “Plundering the Plunderers”.uncertain Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Expose Armor missing would cause you to lose all of your combo points.fix Oct 1, 2026 source
• Rogue is now supported.uncertain Oct 1, 2026 source
• Sap now correctly flags the Rogue for PvP when used on a target that is PvP flagged. Sep 24, 2026 source

Assassination (1)

• Cold Blood is now correctly consumed when Mutilate lands a critical strike. Oct 15, 2026 source

Subtlety (1)

• Setup will now only add combo points to your current target if they are the one you dodged or resisted a spell from. Oct 1, 2026 source

General Priest changes (16)

• Fixed an issue where high ranks of Renew were preventing other Priests from applying Renew to the target.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue causing Holy Fire Rank 5 periodic damage to be higher than Rank 6.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where casting Power Word: Shield would say SHIELDED twice in your scrolling combat text.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Devouring Plague cooldown reduced to 24 seconds (was 1 minute). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Shadow Word: Death cooldown increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where casting Mind Vision would cause the target to stand up and interrupt drinks.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• The Quick and the Dead should now affect more Priest spells.uncertain Oct 15, 2026 source
• Smite: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-4 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-5 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Lesser Heal and Heal: The base points of ranks 1-3 of Lesser Heal and ranks 1-2 of Heal have been adjusted to make the growth rate of this family of spells up to Heal Rank 3 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Penance has received multiple updates to bring it more in line with powerful spells that have a cooldown.

• Devouring Plague can now correctly critically strike. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was always benefitting from the Early Demise talent regardless of the target’s health %.fix Oct 1, 2026 source
• Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• Priest tracks all spells by default.known issueuncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Discipline (12)

• Inner Focus will now correctly only be used on a single spell, even if you spell queue another spell into Penance’s channel. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis explicitly that it is activated by Non-Periodic critical heals. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis what the maximum value for the shield is. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Power in Light now increases Smite and Penance if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word Pain. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Silence Resolve threat reduction now applies to all spells. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Mental Strength moved to Row 2 from Row 4 and changed to increase your intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Improved Power Word: Shield moved to Row 3 from Row 2. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Twin Disciplines now correctly benefits Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Reduced Penance spell damage and healing to resolve a bug where it was being treated like a 3-second channel instead of a 2 -second channel.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Adjusted Penance mana costs so that it has a consistent advantage in mana efficiency over the Heal/Greater Heal family of spells. Rank 1 mana cost was increased by 50%. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Healing done by Penance has been increased on Penance ranks 2 and 4. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Inner Focus no longer applies its Critical Strike increase to Periodic Effects. Oct 1, 2026 source

Shadow (12)

• Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was not benefitting from Shadowform’s increase to critical strike damage.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Changed Vampiric Embrace so that it can’t be resisted. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Vampiric Embrace cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Improved Fade removed. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Shadow Infinity removed. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Improved Mind Blast moved from Row 3 to Row 2. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Improved Mind Flay changes to: Each instance of damage of Mind Flay deals 10/20% more damage than its previous instance of damage. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Devouring Contagion now spreads to 2 targets. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue with Shadow Weaving’s Tooltip. It now correctly states that it causes the target to take increased damage from you.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Shadow Weaving can no longer fail to apply. Oct 1, 2026 source

Gnome racial spells (2)

• Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match. Sep 24, 2026 source

Night Elf racial spells (1)

• Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent. Sep 24, 2026 source

Undead racial spells (2)

• Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit. Sep 24, 2026 source

General Shaman changes (27)

• Fixed an issue where Totemic Recall cost 70 silver on the trainer instead of 22 silver, as intended.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Grounding Totem is now correctly destroyed after redirecting a spell. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Windfury Weapon’s attacks now appear as White hits in the scrolling combat text. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Grace of Air Totem is no longer exclusive with Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem retain their exclusivity. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Grace of Air Totem, Strength of Earth Totem, Windfury Totem, and Flametongue Totem are now Raid wide. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Chain Lightning: Mana cost reduced by approximately 35% on all four ranks. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fire Nova’s Spell Power Coefficient has been changed to 0.143 (was 0.214). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fire Nova’s base damage has been significantly reduced. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fire Nova’s mana cost has been significantly reduced. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Flametongue Totem and Windfury Totem now correctly only affect players. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Added a little green to the visual of Chain Heal without overpowering the original effect. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Flametongue Totem will now correctly use the target’s attack speed if they are Shapeshifted, instead of using the speed of their equipped weapon. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Lightning Bolt: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-5 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-6 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source
• The various creatures needed for the quest “Storm, Earth, and Fire” respawn more quickly, creatures drop their twisted totems more often, Maraudine Scouts now drop Twisted Air Totems, Ongeku can now drop a Twisted Earth Totem, Murdaloc can now drop a Twisted Fire Totem. The Twisted Fire Totem can now additionally be obtained via Dustbelcher ogres across the Badlands. Larger encampents like Dustbelch Grotto will respawn more quickly, but smaller ones will not. Oct 8, 2026 source
• The Eye of the Tempest for “Heed My Call” is now multi-drop. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Ghost Wolf should now be more visible while in well-lit areas. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Disease Cleansing Totem wasn’t a 5-minute duration.fix Oct 1, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Totemic Recall was not restoring Mana.fix Oct 1, 2026 source
• Lightning Bolt: Damage on ranks 3 and 4 increased to make these spells always upgrades over previous ranks (despite changing cast times). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Windfury Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Windfury Totem” instead of “Windfury Totem Passive”. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Flametongue Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Flametongue Totem” instead of “Flametongue Totem Effect”. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Flametongue Totem no longer has a duration and is instantly replaced when placing another totem. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Flametongue Totem is no longer able to be stacked by repeatedly casting Flametongue Totem. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Flametongue Weapon. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Windfury Totem. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Tranquil Air Totem, Windfury Totem, and Grace of Air Totem no longer stack together even if used by different Shamans in the same group. Sep 24, 2026 source

Elemental (17)

• Your Clearcasting from the Elemental Focus talent will no longer have a way to be spent on the same Fire Nova that activates it. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Elemental Fury: Now has Lightning Overload as pre-requisite. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Lightning Overload: Now has Elemental Alacrity as pre-requisite. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Elemental Alacrity: Moved from 3rd row to 2nd row. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Elemental Warding: Moved from 2nd row to 3rd row. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Call of Thunder: Talent removed. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Earthbound: Moved to 4th row as the 16-point gold medal talent. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Elemental Reach: Now also reduces the cooldown on Totemic Projection by 10/20 seconds. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Call of Flame: Now also extends duration of Flame Shock by 3/6/9 seconds. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Column Arrangement: Many talents moved to make room for other talents and their connections. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Clearcasting will no longer be consumed by Lightning Overload activations. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fire Nova’s tooltip now correctly increases when placing talents into Trial By Fire (the talent formerly known as Improved Fire Nova). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Elemental Focus is no longer activated and immediately consumed when using Fire Nova. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Swapped the positions of the Elemental Fury (Row 3) and Elemental Alacrity (Row 6) talents. Sep 24, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Critical Strike damage increases early on in trees are exciting for other specializations, but its not as exciting for the core specialization while leveling, since they don’t have enough critical strike chance to really appreciate it. So we’re moving one of the better talents for Elemental Shaman functionality, earlier in the tree, to allow them to feel like they’re hitting important progression moments (something Elemental has lacked in the early levels). We understand that this affects Enhancement Shaman’s critical strike damage with spells, but we will use this room created to add more to Enhancement Shaman in the future.

• Lava Burst damage on ranks 1 and 2 increased to be about 10% more base damage than the Lightning Bolt rank learned around the same level. Sep 24, 2026 source

Enhancement (4)

• Your Stormstrike debuff is no longer consumed if your spell does not land. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Stormstrike could be consumed by other players or pets that weren’t the casting Shaman.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Stormstrike’s cost changed to 8% of Base Mana (was 125 Mana at all points in the game). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Rage of the Far Seer (Row 7) no longer increases the Shaman’s Spell Casting Speed. Sep 24, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Rage of the Far Seer’s spell casting speed was not necessary to include for the core functionality of this ability. So we removed it.

Restoration (8)

• 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). Oct 15, 2026 source
• The Restorative Totems talent now correctly increases the effect of the entirety of Healing Stream totem (was the base value). Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Water Shield: Can now trigger from any critical spell cast by the Shaman (was only critical heals). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Water Shield now accurately displays the mana restored in the buff tooltip. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Water Shield no longer says it has a 15 second cooldown (it didn’t have one). Oct 8, 2026 source
• Mana Tide Totem will once again display its visual when pulsing. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Corrected an issue and now Riptide can land critical hits.fix Sep 24, 2026 source

General Mage changes (9)

• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source

  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.

• Fixed an issue where Impact could proc off of Flamestrike’s periodic damage.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Frostbolt: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-5 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-6 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fireball: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-5 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-6 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Arcane Missiles: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-3 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-4 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source
• All Mage scrolls from comprehension have had an additional balance pass and can no longer be cast while moving. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Mages who learn Research can be prevented from accessing it.known issueuncertain Oct 1, 2026 source
• Arcane Missiles no longer checks line of sight on each missile, just once at the beginning of the channel. So targets moving out of line of sight during the channel will not prevent the missiles. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Arcane (5)

• Fixed an issue where Presence of Mind would not be consumed by spell casts.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Missile Barrage could reduce the cost and duration of a second Arcane Missiles cast.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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%. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source

Fire (13)

• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Critical Mass: Mages can now spend up to 5 points in this talent for 10% total critical strike increase. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source

  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.

• Frost Channeling now correctly reduces the Mage’s threat. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Ice Block was too transparent.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Hot Streak has been renamed to Heating Up, since it is no longer dependent on having a ‘streak’. Oct 1, 2026 source
• The number of charges of Combustion has returned to 3 (was 4). Oct 1, 2026 source
• Improved Scorch’s Fire Vulnerability will not roll a second time to see if it resists. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Wake of Fire buff duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds). Sep 24, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Wake of Fire was difficult to make proper use of while leveling, due to the Mage needing to restore mana between combat. The increased duration should help smooth out the experience.

• Hot Streak buff duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds). Sep 24, 2026 source
• Ignite no longer double dips on % damage increase modifiers. Sep 24, 2026 source

Frost (8)

• Fixed an issue preventing Frostbite and Fingers of Frost from activating from your Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Ice Lance damage against Frozen targets changed to a 200% increase (Was 300%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source

  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.

• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Slightly changed the positioning of the spell visual for Cone of Cold. Oct 15, 2026 source
• New spell Frost Blast. 1.5 second cast. Deals low frost damage. Slows/chills. Benefits from talents that benefit Frostbolt. Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Winter’s Chill’s application does not roll to see if it is resisted, since the original spell needed to hit. Oct 1, 2026 source

General Warlock changes (12)

• Fixed an issue where Summon Incubus was available to summon at no Soul Shard cost with the Reagent Economy Legacy Perk.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue allowing multiple Cure of Recklessness debuffs to be active on a target.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• A Warlock’s current pet will now be stunned while summoning a new pet. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Shadow Bolt: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-4 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-5 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Drain Soul is now correctly interrupted if the Warlock begins casting another spell. Oct 1, 2026 source
• The Incubus pet model has been replaced with a lower resolution model. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Hellfire can now critically strike. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Tooltip of Life Tap has been updated to correctly display the amount of Life converted, and only states that it scales with Spirit. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Voidwalker Sacrifice now correctly scales with 10% of the Warlock’s spell healing. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• Pet control and pet spell flyouts for Hunters and Warlocks.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• The pet bar no longer replaces the bottom gamepad action bar for Hunters and Warlocks.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Affliction (3)

• Malediction replaced with Grim Reach, which increases the range of your Affliction spells by 10/20%. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Shadow Mastery changed to increasing your Shadow spell damage by 2/4/6/8/10% (Was 1/2/3/4/5%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Soul Harvesting has been renamed to Soul Harvest. It now correctly grants its 50/100% increase to Mana regeneration. Oct 1, 2026 source

Demonology (2)

• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t cast Soul Link on your pet.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Demonic Brand bonus pet damage now only does high threat when it deals Shadow damage. Oct 8, 2026 source

Destruction (1)

• Destructive Reach changed to Increases the range of your Destruction spells by 10/20%. Oct 15, 2026 source

Pets (1)

• Aggressive Mode is back and can be found under the pet tab in your spell book. Oct 1, 2026 source

General Druid changes (31)

• Fixed an issue where high ranks of Rejuvenation were preventing other Druids from applying Rejuvenation to the target.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Faerie Fire: Now generates threat while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form (instead of just initiating combat at 0 threat). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue allowing multiple Faerie Fire debuffs to be active on a target.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Shred (Rank 1) is now learned at level 20 (was 22). It was possible to get Shredding Attacks before knowing Shred or Lacerate Oct 15, 2026 source
• 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.fix Oct 15, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug where Rage calculations on Damage absorbs were not being handled correctly. Damage absorbs should now be properly ignored when calculating Rage received from attacks (as if the Warrior/Druid had no absorb active).fixuncertain Oct 8, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Previously, we were balancing Rage gained around Warriors having 50% Armor. While this was appropriate for a tank, it was not appropriate for questing Warriors. We have rebalanced Rage gains based on appropriate values per level in the 20% to 40% range, varying by level.

• Fixed a bug where Druids couldn’t use Mana Potions while in Bear/Dire Bear/Cat Form.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Additional Rage generated from landing Critical Strikes increased to 100% increased Rage (Was 75%). Oct 8, 2026 source
• The base damage of Thorns has been returned to the Vanilla WoW values and the spell power ratio has been reduced to 6% (was 13.3%). Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Cat Form was reducing your maximum health.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Bear Form and Dire Bear Form: Threat bonus increased to 50% from 30%. Oct 8, 2026 source
• The effects that override shapeshifting now more closely resemble Classic wow. Oct 8, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: The Druid’s form is a critical piece of information in combat and preserving the ability for players to see what form the Druid is currently in is important. We appreciate the desire for Druid players to still transform, so there are effects that will still work, it is just now much more limited and largely based on if that transform has other benefits (for example, Noggenfogger Elixir will still transform you because it lets you breathe underwater.)

• Demoralizing Roar: Fixed an issue where it generated no threat. Now puts some threat on all affected targets.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Wrath: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-5 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-6 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. Oct 8, 2026 source
• The Revelation Enchant’s buff will no longer be removed when the caster Shapeshifts into Ghost Wolf or Druid Forms.uncertain Oct 8, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where Enchant Weapon - Recovery was not working for Druids while shapeshifted.fixuncertain Oct 8, 2026 source
• Bear Form and Dire Bear Form now generate 75% increased Rage when landing a Critical Strike. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug causing Swipe to not scale with Attack Power. It will now correctly gain 3% of the Druid’s attack power.fix Oct 1, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: The tooltip will not update correctly until a future update.

• Tiger’s Fury has been removed. Oct 1, 2026 source
• All Shapeshift Forms are now IMMUNE to Disarm effects. Oct 1, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: This is a gameplay adjustment to match how it felt in original WoW. If a Druid gets disarmed before entering a form, their form will not remove the Disarm effect, and they will also deal reduced damage for the duration of the disarm effect, so disarming a Druid before they shift will result in them dealing reduced damage.

• Faerie Fire no longer resets your swing timer when used. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Fixed an issue where players were not receiving loot reliably during the quests “The Great Cat Spirit” and “The Great Windborne Cat Spirit.”fix Oct 1, 2026 source
• High Order Skyborne can now do the quest “Power Over Poison” to learn the Cure Poison spell. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Corrected an issue and now Rejuvenation can land critical hits.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Corrected an issue and now Tranquility can land critical hits.fix Sep 24, 2026 source
• Wrath base damage increased ~50%. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Thorns will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power. Sep 24, 2026 source
• If the caster cannot be found or is too far away, Thorns reverts to its base values. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• Shapeshift flyout for Druids.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Balance (2)

• Multiple instances of Insect Swarm will no longer continue to reduce the target’s hit chance. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Moonkin Aura now only increases Spell Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide. Oct 15, 2026 source

Feral (19)

• Leader of the Pack now only increases Melee and Ranged Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide. Oct 15, 2026 source
• The flat damage on Shred’s tooltip will now correctly scale with the % damage increase of the Savage Fury talent. Oct 15, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: This was just a visual bug. The damage is unchanged.

• 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. Oct 15, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Bear and Dire Bear Form still prevent Energy regeneration.

• Predatory Instincts: This talent has been renamed “Natural Instinct” and now also increases spell healing by 12/25% of Intellect. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Shifting Power can no longer be used while already at Full Energy. Oct 8, 2026 source
• Thick Hide: This talent is now properly implemented in code, rather than script, resolving some bugs with equipping gear while shapeshifted not triggering it.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Primal Bite: Threat generated by this ability has been roughly doubled. Oct 1, 2026 source
• The King of the Jungle talent has been removed. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Tiger’s Fury has been removed. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Connected to Shredding Attacks in the 4th row is a new talent - Shifting Power. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Cat Form Only. 16 second cooldown. Costs 55% of Base Mana. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Instantly convert 55% of Base Mana into 40 Energy. Shifting Power’s cost is reduced by effects that reduce the cost of Shapeshifting. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Shifting Power costs the same amount of Mana as Cat Form. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Connected to Shifting Power in the 5th row is a new talent - Improved Shifting Power. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Reduces the cooldown of your Shifting Power spell by 4/8 seconds. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability. Sep 24, 2026 source
• All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite. Sep 24, 2026 source
• The Primal Fury talent has been renamed and the icon replaced with the original Blood Frenzy name and icon. Sep 24, 2026 source
• Fixed a bug where Feral Charge (Cat) could be cast on allies.fix Sep 24, 2026 source

Restoration (1)

• Corrected an issue and now Wild Growth can land critical hits.fix Sep 24, 2026 source

Human

• Sword Specialization: Replaced with Ruthless: 2% increased critical strike chance. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Adjusted Human death sounds.fixuncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• Changed the Will to Survive visual to match Dispel Magic instead of Will of the Forsaken. Sep 24, 2026 source

Dwarf

• Mace Specialization: Replaced with Earth Fury: 2% increased critical damage and healing. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Find Treasure: Now also grants a chance to find additional items in most chests. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Dwarf player-characters do not have updated splash sounds in water. This is fixed in a later build.known issueuncertain Oct 1, 2026 source

Night Elf

• Quickness: Movement speed increase now stacks with other movement speed increases. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Night Elves no longer display their shields while in Wisp Form. Oct 15, 2026 source

Gnome

• Eureka!: Now an 8 second buff with no charges. Same effect on damage and ability costs. Now also benefits Power Word: Shield. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Eureka! cannot correctly be used while in stealth or invisibility. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Eureka! no longer benefits periodic effects at all. Channeled spells do not count as periodics. Oct 1, 2026 source
• Changed Eureka on every class to a 10% discount on Mana, Rage, or Energy abilities. Sep 24, 2026 source

Skyborne

• Wind Blessed: Haste bonus increased to 3% (was 1%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Skysight: Now castable while moving. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Read Leyline: Now castable while moving. Minimum duration increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Walk on Air: Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds (was 2 minutes). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Increased the number of spawn locations of Elemental Convergences and Leylines in most Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor zones. Oct 15, 2026 source
• While texture updates to Skyborne druid bear and travel form are updated, texture updates to Skyborne druid cat form, various creatures in Zephras Isle, and some mounts, pets, and other creatures will arrive in a future build.known issueuncertain Oct 8, 2026 source
• Shenthul in Orgrimmar will now train Windshaper Skyborne.uncertain Oct 1, 2026 source
• Undercity - The Skyborne quest “Exploring the Horde” now completes the objective to talk with Lady Sylvanas Windrunner. Dark Lady watch over youuncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• Zephras Isle - The High Order Skyborne quest “Catching Wind” has been redesigned and adjustments were made to the spawns at the Overlook Standing Stones in Shen’dar Highlands.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

Orc

• Axe Specialization: Replaced with Savage: 1% increased critical strike chance. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Blood Fury: Cooldown increased to 3 minutes (was 2 minutes). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Shatter Curse: Now dispels Curses and Banes (was granting immunity). Magic damage taken reduced by 5% (was 15%). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Several areas have had their respawn rates increased and evened out, including Dragonmaw Orcs, Gnolls, and Incendicite Ore.uncertain Oct 15, 2026 source

Undead

• Touch of the Grave: Proc chance and cooldown adjusted to make benefit more consistent. Improvements made to visuals. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Undead will no longer have Will of the Forsaken available to them while under the effects of Scatter Shot. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Touch of the Dead now has a 30% chance to activate for casters and a 20% chance to activate for Paladins/Rogues/Warriors, as well as a 25 second internal cooldown. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Touch of the Dead no longer scales with Shadow increases on the target or the caster. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Touch of the Dead no longer suffers from a decreased multiplier when a lower ranked spell is used. Oct 15, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: This shouldn’t have been in place because it’s a racial, not a Class spell or ability.

• Fixed an issue where Will of the Forsaken could sometimes not be used while asleep or charmed.fix Oct 8, 2026 source
• Cannibalize cannot be used if the caster is immune to Physical damage. Oct 1, 2026 source

Tauren

• Endurance: Now grants 2% increased critical damage and healing (was 1% hit chance). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Plainsrunning: Also grants 3% increased mounted movement speed. This increase stacks with other mounted movement speed increases. Oct 15, 2026 source
• Plainsrunning now requires the Tauren to move a minimum distance per second to keep the effect. Oct 15, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: Stutter-stepping is no longer sufficient to maintain the effect. This minimum does make some allowance for movement speed penalties.

• Cultivation: Cooldown reduced to 15 minutes (was 60 minutes). Oct 15, 2026 source
• War Stomp: Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds (was 2 minutes). Oct 15, 2026 source
• Cultivation now has a player-level requirement for every Herb. The level required is equal to the Herb’s level required to pick it divided by 5. Herbs that require a higher than 300 Herbalism skill to pick can be Cultivated at player level 60.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source
• Touch of the Grave no longer breaks CC or activates from spells and abilities that don’t have a damage component to them.uncertain Sep 24, 2026 source

  Developers’ notes: This means that Shadow Word: Pain activates it on cast, but not on periodic damage. Distract won’t activate it, you can’t pull Rogues and Druids out of Stealth with Distract and it activating, and you won’t activate it off of Pickpocketing. Spells like Polymorph already didn’t get broken by Touch of the Grave, but Polymorph will no longer be able to activate it.

Troll

• Regeneration: Health regeneration bonuses increased to 20% (was 10%). Oct 15, 2026 source