Battle for Azeroth Class Ability Changes on the Demo Floor

Posted 2017/11/05 at 1:48 AM by Squishei

The majority of the changes were to AoE stun abilities and Tanks.

Talents will be covered in a future post.

A few abilities that were pruned have been readded to the game.

Many details have changed since BlizzCon, please check out our Class Changes in Battle for Azeroth Overview for a full list of current changes.

Death Knight Changes	Demon Hunter Changes	Druid Changes
Hunter Changes	Mage Changes	Monk Changes
Paladin Changes	Priest Changes	Rogue Changes
Shaman Changes	Warlock Changes	Warrior Changes

Updated 11/5 with more changes to tanks, AoE Stuns and AoE slows.

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Anti-Magic Shell: Surrounds you in an Anti-Magic Shell for 5 sec, absorbing up to 30%8% magic damage and preventing application of harmful magical effects. Damage absorbed generates Runic Power.

NEW Death's Advance: For 10 sec, you cannot be slowed below 100% of normal speed, you resist forced movement effects by 80%, and you are immune to external knockbacks. Passive: You cannot be slowed below 70% of normal speed. 30 second cooldown.

Bone Shield: Surrounds you with a barrier of whirling bones, reducing all damage you take by 16%increasing your armor by 10% and increasing your Haste by 10%. Each damaging attack consumes a charge. Lasts 30 sec or until all charges are consumed.

Red Thirst: Spending Runic Power will decrease the remaining cooldown on Vampiric Blood by 1 sec per 610 Runic Power.

Tightening Grasp: Reduces the cooldown on Gorefiend's Grasp by 30 sec, and your Death and Decay also reduces the movement speed of enemies within its radius by 70%.50%.

Chaos Nova: Unleash an eruption of fel energy, stunning all nearby enemies for 5 sec and dealing Chaos damage and disorienting all nearby enemies for 5 sec. Damage will cancel the effect. Each enemy disoriented by Chaos Nova has a 50% chance to generate a Lesser Soul Fragment.

Eye Beam: Blasts all enemies directly in front of you for Chaos damage. Eye Beam always critically strikes. Your primary target now also takes 100% increased damage.

Demon Spikes: Surge with fel power, increasing your Parry chance by 20%15% and reducing Physical damage taken by 12%increasing your Armor by 150% for 6 sec. 2 charges. Costs 20 25 Pain.

Mastery: Fel Blood: Demon Spikes reduces Physical damage taken by an additional 6.00%.increases your Armor by an additional %. Also increases your attack power by %.

NEW Painbringer: Each Soul fragment you consume reduces all damage you take by 5% for 4 sec. Passive.

: While Demon Spikes is active, you deal 30% increased Physical damage and your melee attacks snare targets by 50%20% for 6 sec.

Spirit Bomb: Consume all Soul Fragments within 25 yds and then explode, afflicting nearby enemies with Frailty for 20 sec and damaging them for Fire damage per fragment. You heal for 20%10% of all damage you deal to enemies with Frailty

NEW Soothe: Soothes the target, dispelling all enrage effects.

NEW Hibernate: Forces the enemy target to sleep for up to 40 sec. Any damage will awaken the target. Only one target can be forced to hibernate at a time. Only works on Beasts and Dragonkin.

Frenzied Regeneration: Heals you for 50% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec over 3 sec, minimum 5% of maximum health. 25% of maximum health over 5 sec. 36 second cooldown. 2 charges. 10 rage.

Ironfur: Increases armor by 65% for 6 7 sec.

Guttural Roars: Increases the radius of Stampeding Roar by 200%, tThe radius of Incapacitating Roar by 100%, and reduces the cooldown of Stampeding Roar by 50%.

Balance Affinity: Increases the range of all of your abilities by 53 yards.

NEW Tranquilizing Shot: Removes 1 Enrage and 1 Magic effect from an enemy target.

Binding Shot: Fires a magical projectile, tethering the enemy and any other enemies within 5 yards for 10 sec, stunning themrooting them in place for 5 sec if they move more than 5 yards from the arrow. Player targets are stunned for a shorter duration.

Cobra Shot: A quick shot causing Physical damage and reduces the cooldown of Kill Command by 1 second.

Barbed Shot: is now baseline. Dire Beast is now a talent.

Brain Freeze: Frostbolt has a 15% 20% chance to empower your next Flurry to be instant cast and deal 50% increased damage and apply Winter's Chill to the target.

Flamestrike: Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for Fire damage and reducing their movement speed by 50%20% for 8 sec.

Leg Sweep: Knocks down all enemies within 5 yards, stunning them for 53 sec.

Stagger: You shrug off attacks, delaying 40% of Physical damage, instead taking it over 10 sec. Affects magical attacks at 40% 20% effectiveness.

Breath of Fire: Breathe fire on targets in front of you, causing Fire damage and generating a stack of Elusive Brawler for each target. Targets affected by Keg Smash will also burn for Fire damage and deal 5% reduced damage to you for 12 seconds.over 8 sec.

Purifying Brew: Clears 40%50% of your damage delayed with Stagger.

Blessing of Freedom: Places a blessing on a party or raid member, granting immunity to movement impairing effects. 2545 sec recharge.

Shield of the Righteous: Slams the target with your shield, causing Holy damage, and reducing damage you take by 25% increases armor by 125% for 4.5 sec.

: Calls down the Light to heal you for 30% of your missing health. 1,678, increased by up to 200% based on missing health. While standing in consecration, its effects are increased by 20%.

: Calls down the Light to heal a friendly target for 30% of the target's missing health. 1,398, increased by up to 200% based on missing health. While standing in consecration, its effects are increased by 20%.

: After 2 sec, or if the target dies, it unleashes a psychic explosion, stunning all enemies within 8 yds of the target for 42 sec.

Feint: Performs an evasive maneuver, reducing damage taken from area-of-effect attacks by 50%40% for 5 sec.

Grappling Hook: Now baseline. 30 sec1 min cooldown.

Shuriken Combo: Shuriken Storm increases the damage of your next Eviscerate by 10% 5% for each enemy hit beyond the first. Stacks up to 5 times.

Capacitor Totem: Summons a totem at the target location that gathers electrical energy from the surrounding air and then explodes after 2 sec to stun all enemies within 8 yards for 53 sec.

Chain Lightning: Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets. Generates 64 Maelstrom per target hit.

Create Healthstone: Creates a Healthstone that can be consumed to restore 25%40% health.

Recklessness: Renamed to Recklessness.

Rallying Cry: Renamed to Rallying Cry.

NEW Rallying Cry: Lets loose a commanding shout, granting all party or raid members within 30 yards 15% increased maximum health for 10 sec. After this effect expires, the health is lost.

Shockwave: Sends a wave of force in a frontal cone, causing damage and stunning all enemies within 10 yards for 32 sec. Cooldown reduced by 20 sec if it strikes at least 3 targets.

Ignore Pain: Fight through the pain, ignoring 90% of the next up to damage you take from any sources, based on Rage spent. for the next 4 sec, causing 60% of damage taken to reduce your Rage instead.

Vanguard: A tanking combat stance that decreases damage taken, increases threat generation, and causes you to generate 3 Rage from damage taken instead of dealt. whenever you are hit by a melee attack.

Thunder Clap: Blasts all enemies within 8 yards for (300% of Attack power) damage and reduces their movement speed by 50%20% for 10 sec.

Shield Slam: Slams the target with your shield, causing Physical damage. Devastate, Thunder Clap, and Revenge have a 30% chance to reset the cooldown of Shield Slam. Generates 2015 Rage.

Shield Block: Raise your shield, blocking every melee attack against you for 64 sec. These blocks can be critical blocks. Increases Shield Slam damage by 30% while active.

Demoralizing Shout: Demoralizes all enemies within 10 yards, reducing the damage they do to you by 20% for 8 sec. 1.5 min cooldown.

Vengeance: Ignore Pain reduces the Rage cost of your next Revenge by 35%33%, and Revenge reduces the Rage cost of your next Ignore Pain by 35%33%.

Indomitable: Increases your maximum health by 20%, and the maximum effect of Ignore Pain by 20%.

Never Surrender: Ignore Pain will ignore up to 100% more damage, based on your missing health.now ignores an additional 20% damage.

Devastator: Your auto attacks deal additional Physical damage, generate 52 Rage, and have a 30% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Shield Slam.

Battle for Azeroth at BlizzCon 2017

Battle for Azeroth, World of Warcraft's next expansion was revealed!

6 Allied Races are being added in the expansion with custom appearances and special Heritage Armor sets.
We previewed the Lightforged Draenei and Highmountain Tauren races on the show floor.

Zandalari can be druids!

Dungeon Journal was available

The Design a Dungeon Boss panel also highlighted the Shrine of the Storm Dungeon.

class changes

We also found that Class Buffs are returning in the expansion, with one for every class (except Shamans).

We also looked at all the large Talent Changes and some classes got Artifact Traits available as Talents.

Blizzard discussed these topics in some interviews.

Wowhead's interview

An item level and stat squish update is coming in Battle for Azeroth.

Legendaries and Titanforging info was revealed, including no Titanforging on Azerite armor.

The Heart of Azeroth is empowered by Azerite and can empower latent energies in pieces of gear.

Island ExpeditionsKul Tiras and Zandalar

Check out more expansion art in the Art of WoW Panel.

Stormwind and Orgrimmar also received updates!

WarfrontsWarcraft Q&A

We learned increased default bagpack slots are on the way if you use an authenticator.

At the end of the Q&A we also learned that the Battle for Azeroth Beta Opt-In is now open.

coming in Patch 7.3.5

Zone Scaling and Leveling Improvements - all pre-Legion zones will now scale up to certain levels.

Ulduar Timewalking will be the second Timewalking raid, as part of the Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking Event.

previewed at the Opening Ceremony

The events of the cinematic were transformed into a record-setting diorama for the Battle of Lordaeron.

The novel Before the Storm covers the events leading up to the cinematic. The book cover was revealed and convention-goers received a copy of the Prologue.

We speculated on the Burning of Teldrassil which directly leads to the Battle for Lordaeron.

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Comments

Comment by gnomergency

"every class received a buff that will affect other players in the raid."

Looking forward to this again.

Comment by 1f1n1ty

Wow. getting druid sap back.. yus!

Comment by Zethigar

What I want to know, is what's happening with artifact weapons? Are we keeping them or are they being destroyed, lost, etc?

Comment by Uxok

I hope for some buffs to priests. I also hope for some druid buffs.

Comment by AnotherSheep

Slight tweaks and changes here and there, seems alright :)

Comment by Eipril

Tranquilizing Shot is back. Again. xDD

Comment by Nulgar

Hibernate and Soothe are back!

What I want to know, is what's happening with artifact weapons? Are we keeping them or are they being destroyed, lost, etc?

Lore-wise, they will likely be used to heal/cauterize the Wound in Silithus and ingame, the items will remain as the weapons you use until the expansion gives you better ones, but the abilities and traits will be merged into the base class with 8.0

Comment by NefarianZ

Really loving the new / old class abilities. It's great to see them coming back!

Comment by Seregon

Death's Advance is back? Cool. I'm OK with this.

Comment by 1550121

The hibernate ability for druids seems so cool! Reminds me of that one move you use in Blackwing Lair as Razorgore to put those dragonkin in a slumber for a few seconds while you take out the eggs. Awesome changes :)

Comment by pcgamergurl247

Priest got nothing or no one played it?

Comment by Fragkitty

Yees, been wanting those druid abilities back :D

Comment by Kblade44

not impressed with warlock change... just a healthstone buff

Comment by Verona

Woo more hype! Ready for day 2!

Comment by KesBul

Looking forward to be able to debuff again.

Comment by pmkaboo

cant help but wonder how the tank changes are going to work out.

Comment by 1654941

What I want to know, is what's happening with artifact weapons? Are we keeping them or are they being destroyed, lost, etc?

They've already answered this several times. It will be happening in legion the weapons will receive a send off which they have not said what it was yet.

Comment by dinerbr

bring out the buffs

Comment by rubenmsalles

blessing of freedom 45 seconds recharge
nice buff, i hope that this nerf to utility will be a buff to heal/dps

Comment by Uzira

What I want to know, is what's happening with artifact weapons? Are we keeping them or are they being destroyed, lost, etc?

We will not lose them. But we dont know yet what will happen to hem lore wise.

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