Battle for Azeroth - Class Raid Buff Abilities and Dispel Utility

Posted 2018/02/08 at 3:11 PM by Squishei

This is a newspost made in early BFA testing. To see the final comprehensive guides on utility, updated regularly throughout BFA, click here.

BlizzCon Class Buff post.Primary Stat Buffs

Mage: Arcane Intellect - Infuses the target with brilliance, increasing their Intellect by 10% for 1 hour. If target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.

Priest: Power Word: Fortitude - Infuses the target with vitality, increasing their Stamina by 10% for 1 hour. If the target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.

Warrior: Battle Shout - Increases the Strength and Agility of all raid and party members within 100 yards by 10% for 1 hour.

Drums of FuryHeroismBloodlustTime Warp

War-Scroll of Intellect - Use: Increases the target's Intellect by 7% for 30 min. If target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.

War-Scroll of Fortitude - Use: Increases the target's Stamina by 7% for 30 min. If target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.

War-Scroll of Battle Shout - Use: Increases the target's Strength and Agility by 7% for 30 min. If target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.

Damage Modifier Raid Buffs

Monk: Mystic Touch - Your damage weakens the target, increasing Physical damage taken by 5%.

Demon Hunter: Chaos Brand - Your Chaos/Fire damage brands the target, increasing magic damage taken by 5%.

Class Dispel Utility

Demon Hunter have Consume Magic as a Magic Purge joining Mage, Priest, Shaman and Warlock (Felhunter).

Mage have Remove Curse back as a Curse Removal joining Druid and Shaman.

Hunter and Druid have regained the ability to Dispel Enrage effects using Soothe and Hunter Pets respectively.

Poisons can still be dispelled by Druid, Monk and Paladin.

Diseases can still be dispelled by Monk, Paladin and Priest.

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Comment by Calcitrantmakes you wonder what they'll give warlocks? maybe a crit buff like the fel orb in court of stars, or a haste buffComment by pyrogregNot sure if I'm happy or annoyedComment by Putster1Sad druids had their raid buff removed since they were one of the vanilla classes that had one.Comment by Slee90Demon hunters giving increased magic damage, wat? Meta I can kinda understand DHs stealing but I’m not following this one...Comment by arduousfrivolityWhy do Warriors get Agility? They didn't want to bring back Mark of the Wild? And what about Paladins; the buff class? Are we keeping out watered down to the point of them withholding one of our artifact's traits if we didn't use them so called buffs? Or will we get one of our main utilities back? Hopefully it is just because it's alpha and they're still working on it, but after Pally's intro to Legion, I worry...Comment by QuartrDollarKingWill Hunters be getting back raid buffs from certain pet types or is that staying gone? And will my mage be getting back Dalaran Intellect? I can see them bringing that back as a glyph if not a separate spell as it was before.Comment by justgeekingby If the target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.Comment by nyysjsweird, rogues will actually exist again.Comment by MeeboThat's great - if you have rogues or demon hunters in your raid...Comment by themguymanWhy would they take the magic debuff away from warlocks and give it to demonhunters? thats just silly. Like I know that Warlocks are basically already required because of healthstones summons brez and gateway but stillComment by VerraxiaWhy would they take the magic debuff away from warlocks and give it to demonhunters? thats just silly. Like I know that Warlocks are basically already required because of healthstones summons brez and gateway but stillDemon hunters giving increased magic damage, wat? Meta I can kinda understand DHs stealing but I’m not following this one...Comment by Fenril7Leave it to blizzard to screw over the druids ONCE AGAIN, So much for Mark of The Wild. Fracking blizzard, seriously they do EVERYTHING to screw over druids. EVERYTHING.

Thinking of going back to FF14, at least I will have classes that are loved (BLM) and I have a whole xpac to try.Comment by Nicholas0606GIVE RET PALADINS DEVOTION AURA BACK, DAMMIT BLIZZARD.Comment by Automag**************************************************************************************************

This is an EXTREMELY early build in a F&F Alpha. I doubt more then 15% of the game is actually in it. Don't get bent out of shape if something isn't in yet. We have a loooooooooong way to go before it's time to start yelling and throwing fits....Comment by TombsvI hope choice of pet will give buffs again!Comment by BadLuckPoppyIf you dig deep enough you will see that paladins give raid 10% increased armor. Not sure if that is gonna make it into alpha.Comment by AlmigraI hope choice of pet will give buffs again!Comment by Sepharious**************************************************************************************************

This is an EXTREMELY early build in a F&F Alpha. I doubt more then 15% of the game is actually in it. Don't get bent out of shape if something isn't in yet. We have a loooooooooong way to go before it's time to start yelling and throwing fits....Comment by BwgmonWill Hunters be getting back raid buffs from certain pet types or is that staying gone?Comment by SquirePipOnly way I want hunter pet buffs back is if EVERY pet family has access to it. I don't want to go back to days of having to always raid with a cat (for example) instead of a pet I'd like more like say a wolf. Really wish Blizz would make all pet family skills available to all pets through the pet trainer or something. Like paying a small amount of gold to train (assign) any of the available pet buffs to a specific pet, so I could pvp with a turtle and not a spider or give my goat the Heroism buff instead of having to use a Nether Ray, or have one Raptor have the Battle Rez spell and be able to give a different Raptor the pet shield spell.

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