With scheduled weekly maintenance on February 7, we intend to deploy a number of tuning adjustments to specializations based on their performance in endgame content.

Due to the nature of our internal testing, some of these changes will also appear in the 10.0.7 PTR between now and February 7. This thread is for changes that will go into the live game on version 10.0.5 next week.

Classes

Death Knight

Blood
- Heart Strike damage increased by 15%.
- Blood Plague damage increased by 15%.
- Blood Boil damage increased by 15%.
- Death and Decay damage increased by 20%.
- Shattering Bone damage increased by 5%.
- Sanguine Ground damage while inside Death and Decay increased to 6% (was 5%).
Frost
- Unleashed Frenzy duration increased to 10 seconds (was 6 seconds).
- Cleaving Strikes Obliterate now hits 2 additional targets (was 1).
- Frost Fever damage increased by 15%.
- Glacial Advance damage increased by 20%.
- Frost Strike damage increased by 10%.
- Frostwhelp’s Aid damage increased by 100%.
- Frostscythe damage increased by 35%

Druid

Guardian
- Armor from Ironfur increased by 20%.
- Reinforced Fur now increases Armor from Ironfur by 15% (was 8%) and Barkskin’s damage reduction by 10% (was 5%).
- Ursoc’s Fury now grants an absorb shield based on 50% of damage dealt by Thrash and Maul (was 30%).
- Reinvigoration’s Frenzied Regeneration cooldown reduction increased to 20/40% (was 15/30%).
- Layered Mane chance to proc increased to 10/20% (was 5/10%).
- Lunar Beam healing increased by 130% and cooldown reduced to 1 minute.
Developers’ notes: We are keeping a close eye on variances in survivability across tank specializations. These changes are intended to alleviate some difficulties Guardian Druids have been experiencing with certain damage types, as well as targeting some underperforming talents which were not delivering meaningful survivability improvements.
Restoration
- All healing reduced by 3%. This does not apply to PvP combat.

Evoker

Preservation
- All healing reduced by 5%.

Hunter

Beast Mastery
- Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
Marksmanship
- Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
Survival
- Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.

Monk

Mistweaver
- All healing increased by 3%.
- Vivify healing increased by 5%.
- Clouded Focus now increases healing and decreases mana cost by 20% (was 15%) for Enveloping Mist and Vivify.
- Peaceful Mending now increases the healing of Enveloping Mist and Renewing Mist by 25/50% (was 15/30%).
- Spinning Crane Kick Damage increased by 15%.
- Ancient Concordance increases the chance for Rising Sun Kick to reset by 5/10% (was 3/6%).
- Lesson of Doubt increases healing and damage by up to 40% (was 35%).

Paladin

Protection
- Avenger’s Shield damage increased by 10%.
- Blessed Hammer/Hammer of the Righteous/Crusader Strike damage increased by 30%.
- Hammer of Wrath damage increased by 15%.

Priest

Holy
- All healing increased by 3%.

Shaman

Healing Surge healing increased by 10%.
Chain Heal healing increased by 10%.
Restoration
- Healing Wave healing increased by 10%.
- Healing Rain healing increased by 10%.
- Overflowing Shores healing increased by 10%.

Warlock

Inquisitor’s Gaze Fel Barrage damage increased 35%.
Inquisitor’s Gaze no longer casts Fel Blast.
Summon Soulkeeper damage increased 35%.
Developers’ notes: Inquisitor’s Gaze and Summon Soulkeeper are not contributing to the Warlock damage profile as much as we’d like. After this adjustment, we’ll continue to watch Warlocks’ overall performance and we will make further adjustments if needed.
Destruction
- Soul Fire damage increased 20%.
- Incinerate damage increased 5%.
Demonology
- Wild Imp damage increased 15%.
- Vilefiend damage increased 30%.
Developers’ notes: We feel that both Destruction and Demonology could use some improvements to their overall contribution in single-target situations. These adjustments are specifically targeting talents that we feel could be more competitive, while also putting additional power into rotational spells.

Player versus Player

Items

Neltharax, Enemy of the Sky now grants 1% attack speed in PvP Combat (was 5%).

Demon Hunter

Havoc
- Restless Hunter (Talent) damage bonus for next Blade Dance/Death Sweep reduced by 40% in PvP Combat.
Developers’ notes: We’ve continued to see the potential burst provided by Restless Hunter much higher than we would like, especially in combination with Essence Break and The Hunt.