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Stoneform

Instant	2 min cooldown

Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic, and bleed effects and reduces all physical damage taken by 10% for 8 sec.

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Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

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GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

2 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Dispel (Poison)
Value: 100

Effect #2

Dispel (Disease)
Value: 100

Effect #3

Dispel (Curse)
Value: 100

Effect #4

Dispel (Magic)
Value: 100

Effect #5

Dispel Mechanic (Bleeding)
Value: 100

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Comments

Comment by Glidi

Stoneform will cleanse debuffs on you already.

One of the most underrated racials in the game. From level 1 any dwarf will have a free cleanse! Very useful in PvE on cleansable debuffs. Great in PvP, nothing better then being able to run from a rogue because you can cleanse Crippling Poison!

Comment by ennui

There are some very significant advantages for this racial in some end game encounters, like the poisons in naxx and bleeds in aq40, etc, but what got me hooked on the idea is the PvP aspect.

As a dwarf rogue, stoneform works MIRACLES in conjunction with vanish against other rogues, warriors, and hunters. Like the poster above said, very underrated and a very situationally powerful racial.

Comment by durogaul

For warriors this is an amazing skill especially while soloing. There are some very nasty poisons and diseases that gave me fits while leveling up (especially in the easter plague lands). Some can last up to 30 mins if i remember correctly. This skill is a godsend in those areas. I have no doubt it will be just as helpful in the new outland zones of the expansion.

Comment by 1Ska

The simple best reason this is good in pvp, is like WotF you can pre-emptively use it.

Comment by hellfirezkiv

Everybody seems to be ignoring the extra 10% armor. Stoneform is a Cleanse and a free Inspiration, and I'm pretty sure Main Tanks will find use for it somewhere.

Comment by robinhood36

Very Nice talent if you're a soloer or raider, there's always a palce for you to use it, as someone said before Soloing and not having a cleanser with a debuff for over 30 mins is a kill, also with PvP it can remove poison and diseases.

As a rogue this is great if you're fighting a warrior, just stoneform to get out of deepwounds and rend, then vanish.

As a warrior its good to get rid of the poison and deseases Mobs land on you

EDIT: Removed 'blind' from list, changed in 2.3. —Arideni

Comment by Fostex

with cloak of shadows now trainable skill it means dwarf rouges pop CoS and stoneform then just vanish and nothing can get them out :) unless they are found. but nothing previously put on them can get them out. wish my rogue was a dwarf :( im a smelly whisp form nightelf

Comment by Serge

Does it remove Mortal Strike?

Comment by thomasjs

Stoneform removes.
- Hunter Stings, Poison Spit (Serpent Pet), Scorpid Poison (Scorpid Pet)
- Rogue Poisons and Bleeds.
- Druid Bleeds, Infected Wounds (Feral Talent)
- Warrior Bleeds
- Priest's Devouring Plague
- Death Knight Diseases
- Poisons, Bleeds, and Diseases from mobs.

Edit: Removed Blind due to changes in patch 2.3.
Edit 2: Updated Devouring Plague since all priests have it now not just undead. And added Death Knight Diseases.

Comment by Archangel

As of 2.3, a Rogue's Blind ability is considered physical rather than poison. Stoneform no longer removes blind.

Comment by Aestu

As a priest, Stoneform can be used as Spirit of Redemption. No idea why you'd want to, though.

Comment by Quadrophenia

Does it work on high level bleed effects? Rok of Slave Pens' Hemorrhage? Moroes' Garrote?

Comment by wenziz

Question: Does this work with the global cooldown like seal spells on a paladin or does this have its own timer like Judgement?

Comment by oldiron79

Great bonus for any non healing class that can't use magic on debuffs like Warriors, Rogues, and Huntards.

The debuff removal would make this a great racial even if it didn't have the armour,

Comment by karbonii

In WotLK, as it stands now:

-Hunter Stings are getting buffed
-Rogue poisons do much more damage
-A new class (Deathknight) uses disease based attacks
-Feral Druids get a talented increase to damage on Bleeding targets

This racial looks to be even more useful in the expansion :)

Comment by Spicebringer

Armored to the teeth (Fury talent, warrior) will benefit greatly from this talent.

Comment by 1771

NO rupture for you filthy sneaksey.

Stoneform FTW.

Comment by gorkigorki

The spell of the paladin has almost the same effects as this ability, excluding the immunity to rend and the 10% armor. That makes the dwarf paladin less effective than the human paladin, imho, especially with the increased expertise with swords. http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=1152

Comment by DrPancake

As a Tanking Deathknight, this is Invaluable, as its adds to the amount of tanking cooldowns and is very synergistic with Unbreakable Armor, and allows it so that every time a Tanking DK pops all of his cooldowns his healers don't have to worry about Dispelling. EXTREMELY useful on Maexxna.

Comment by Orden

Wait, it'll only give armor next patch? What kind of racial would that be? Or is it made passive?

Comment by stevozip

Wait, it'll only give armor next patch? What kind of racial would that be? Or is it made passive?

A really bad one in comparison to everything else. Basically, dwarves will now have two worthless racials.

Comment by seanwantsrevenge

Accoring to mmo-champion, the undocumented changes for the latest PTR build include:

Stoneform no longer gives a 8 second immunity to disease, poison, and bleed effects.

Harsh blow, considering this was the reason MANY people rolled Dwarves.

Comment by DrPancake

Well, it's now on the same Cooldown as Unbreakable armor, and in terms of Sheer Mitigation it got a significant buff as it's 10% armor every 2min instead of 3.

Comment by bazooka

In Trial of the Champion, the bosses summoned by Argent Confessor Paletress apply the bleed effect Old Wounds which can be removed with Stoneform. On heroic, this means potentially mitigating up to 22500 damage (18000 on normal), making this an excellent use of the ability for Dwarf tanks.

Comment by haggers

people like to discuss how this gives you an edge when raiding or in pvp situations.

but dont forget the little things. when you are considering choosing a dorf or no, dont forget this is useful from day one. when questing you will encounter a huge load of mobs that throw these debuffs on you, while this comfortable ability allows you to strip free of them almost anytime you want to.
one can really get used to that, and in my book its almost as universally useful as the trollish attack speed racial.

Comment by kragathore

Dwarf Paladins can cleanse everything BUT Curses with this
and it costs 0 Mana, Schweet!

Comment by Rawrtashil

It also removes the poison Acidmaw from Trial of the Crusader (Northrend Beasts) gives you (Acidmaw is the poison worm) i have not tryed to remove the fire debuff yet but will try ASAP.

Like many other posters said its extremely powerful but yet underestimated, Personally i like the 10% increased armor most of all since my main is Tank.

Comment by Aaro

10%+ armor. A buff that scales with gear. When you're a tank, what's not to love?

Comment by bluewyvern

Cures all diseases eh? Well, with the places my dwarf goes, he certainly needs to do this a lot. Sadly, other races who go to those places aren't so lucky...

Although it's a nice scaling racial for warriors, it just doesn't cut it compared to the 5% extra base health for Taurens. After raid buffing this 10% armor won't provide more than a few % mitigation for the duration of the buff. For paladins on the other hand, this looks like the best tanking racial. Also, this is the best DPS racial for any alliance warriors, because of armored to the teeth. This will provide up to about 80 attack power for the duration after raid buffs. It's not much, but worth using if you have the free GCD.

If you're looking to make a macro with this racial in, put stoneform FIRST and then the ability which triggers the GCD. Otherwise, it will not activate.

Comment by corpsecraft

Great racial over all, PvP or as MT or OT or DPS. Is there any other spell that removes bleed effects?

Comment by YASINADIN

For rogues stoneskin is the best racial in pvp. with cloak of shadows and stoneskin ,dwarf rogues can remove all damge over time effects...

vs warriors
vs druids
vs rogues
vs hunters
vs death knights
cast stoneskin
cast wanish

and you are invis.

now in cataclysm

also stoneskin is very nice racial for dwarf hunters.

vs warriors
vs druids
vs rogues
vs hunters
vs death knights

cast feing death
cast stone skin
cast camouflage

and you are camouflaged.

Comment by RyokoYaksa

Stoneform, as of right now, generates a GCD on use in addition to being on the GCD. It certainly wasn't doing so any time before this point where I noticed this...

Edit: No longer valid in 4.0.6. No GCD on use, but on GCD behavior as always.

Comment by McBayne

In 4.0.6 they are planning to change 10% bonus armor to 10% damage reduction. I think that would be sweet.
Like an 8 second bonus resilience (for pvp).

Comment by Angeldragonn

"All the women of Azeroth love Dwarven men. Think about it: Stoneform.

All the men of Azeroth fear Dwarven women. Think about it: Stoneform."

Comment by JackMynock

How do similar buffs like this stack? Or do they stack at all?

Basically, I'm wondering if when I'm playing my dwarf enh shammy, would it be beneficial to combine Stoneform with Shamanistic Rage during aoe phases? What if a pally tank has popped Divine Guardian?

Comment by Kayriu93

The only thing that sucks as of now with Stoneform is that it's still on GCD, whereas most racials are off GCD.

Comment by homegrove

This is one of the best racials, imo. Particularly if you are a warrior, hunter, or rogue, with no reliable way to clear DoTs. And, this is one of only THREE moves able to remove bleeds, which is awesome (the other two being Ice Block and pally bubble). Particularly when facing a feral druid, having this move can crush their strategy. Just one more reason to love dwarves!

Comment by Nered

I recall that it never did increase the size of the character using it, and I have noticed that it does so ever since i started playing my shaman again.

Confirmation if it always increased the size would be much appreciated.

Comment by guatafu

Does not trigger the GCD but it is affected by it.

Comment by JonTargaryen

Does it remove Censure?

Comment by guatafu

Aside from absolute immunities, limited to paladin and mage, this is the only way to remove bleeds. Poisons and diseased may be removed by certain fellow healers.

Comment by Yakeshi

Dwarven Blood Death Knights can achieve a maximum of a 96% damage reduction with this racial. Probably lower, because of some sort of cap, but I'll leave that to someone else to figure out.

I've included the passive damage reduction from Blood Presence, by the way.

Comment by bearmax

As of 5.0.4, Stoneform graphics have changed. Now the ability turns your character to look like grey stone as well as the usual enlarging effect.

Comment by sprell

As someone else already has mentioned, as of patch 5.0.4, this ability transforms your lovely hairy dwarf into a grey, stone-like colour. The funny thing with this, is that if you mount up after popping Stoneform, your mount will also be coloured the same way. Looks especially awesome on Sea Turtle, Flametalon of Alysrazor and the firehawks from Firelands.

Comment by kebokaj

Imparts a nice grey hue to the dwarf.

Hide next to a statue!
Whilst hoping players don't notice the text above your character...and the fact they can select you

Comment by sylancer

Poison, Disease removal part of Stoneform benefit for classes available for Dwarf:

well for Warlock, Mage, Shaman, Rogue, Hunter, Death Knight, Warrior
not so well for Priest (Discipline, Holy) (Disease)
disaster for Monk and Paladin (Poison, Disease)

Comment by Whoisthiscook

STOOOOONE FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM!

Comment by Heimdallen

So, I'm sure I'm going to have players that are more informed than I am about the technical distinctions between damaging abilities strike me down, correct me, and otherwise inform me I'm...well....uninformed! However, stoneform never seems to do anything for me in situations that appear to me to be appropriate cases to use this ability. As we all know, the text reads "Removes all poison, disease, and bleed effects and reduces all damage taken by 10% for 8 seconds."

Well, in the last few encounters I've had with NPCs that perform some action that results in what I would consider to be a bleed effect on me, all stoneform does is reduce the damage of each tick of the bleed DOT on me by 10%, it doesn't remove it as the text for stoneform claims it does. Most recent example: while fighting a Kor'kron Commander, specifically Ruskan Goreblade, when he stabbed me performing Hemorrhagic Shadowstep on me, I activated stoneform after a couple ticks of the bleed effect damage, and all it did was reduce the damage of each tick by exactly 10% as stated. It definitely did not remove the bleed effect as stated, however.

And like I previously mentioned, this is not the only time this has happened. I cannot remember the exact details of the other recent encounters in which stoneform failed to remove a bleed effect, but I believe one other example was a rend bleed effect, and another something similar to that.

Maybe I'm just being a noob, but taking the text of stoneform literally, it seems pretty clear that these are the EXACT type of DOT...abilities, I don't want to call them spells because then it sounds like, well, a spell! and then doesn't seem relevant to being removed by stone form, but these are clearly abilities that are causing my character to receive damage in the form of bleeding over time. If stoneform doesn't remove hemorrhages and rends, what type of bleed effects DOES it remove? I mean, hemorrhaging literally means BLEEDING PROFUSELY! According to Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of Hemorrhage (verb) is "to undergo heavy or uncontrollable bleeding".

So what's the deal? Why does stoneform seem to not remove any of the bleed effects that, at least in my understanding of the simple explanation text of it's function and abilities, it's supposed/intended to? Am I misunderstanding the description of this and it's never supposed to or intended to remove these types of bleed effects, or is stoneform just not working properly? I appreciate any replies explaining why the game mechanics prevent stoneform from functioning to remove the common bleed effects like rends and hemorrhages in game, or if it should be working to remove these and just isn't for me personally or if it's the same situation for others as well. I'm left scratching my head over this issue!

Comment by jaspercheyney

Stoneform Now turns your characters Grey and double the size.

Comment by gimolos

Scale seems to be 30% increase. To test I used a vrykrul horn which is a non stacking growth buff(30%). When using stoneform no change in size was observed. Upon clicking off the horn buff no decrease was observed either, proving they share the same value of increase.

Comment by awol2shae

Did anyone test this in WoD beta? How does this work against debuffs that react upon forced removal (Unstable Affliction, Vampiric Touch)? Do you get silenced/horrified if you remove any of those two using Stoneform?

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