Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5: Fractures in Time Class Changes

By Paryah Updated: 2023/07/10

Changes to All Classes in Patch 10.1Developers' Notes:

We are lowering the effectiveness of all Primordial Stones that deal damage by 40% to increase gearing options for players. We are compensating specific specializations that are commonly using the Onyx Annulet ring for this damage loss. Alongside this, we are reducing the effectiveness of damage to healing spells to maintain similar healing outputs. This will result in an overall increase in Healer damage in content where the Onyx Annulet is not utilized, but we feel there is room for healer damage to increase in this space without overly incentivizing offensive play. See each class section for specifics.

We’re adjusting the mana economy for all hybrid DPS and hybrid tank specializations. Our goal is to allow for more continuous casts of utility and healing spells while maintaining limits on how much hybrids can contribute to healing, defensive dispels, and offensive dispels. In short, this is a deeper mana pool with less regen.

We are reducing the effectiveness of group healing from DPS from damage-to-healing conversion sources. The abilities affected are Vampiric Embrace, Nature's Vigil, and Ancestral Guidance. While we want hybrid DPS to be able to contribute healing to the group, these spells have become powerful enough to temporarily alleviate a healer's role without interrupting the hybrid's DPS rotation.

Death Knight Class Changes in Patch 10.1DK Class

Death Coil healing increased by 75%.

Ghouls summoned by Raise Dead now inherit 85% of the Death Knight’s health (was 50%).

Blood

All ability damage increased by 8%.

FrostUnholyDemon Hunter Demon Hunter Class Changes in Patch 10.1HavocVengeance

All ability damage increased by 4%.

Druid Class Changes in Patch 10.1Druid Class

New Talent: Rising Light, Falling Night – Increases your damage and healing by 3% during the day. Increases your Versatility by 2% during the night.

Rebirth now costs 2% of base mana (was 0%). The cost is unchanged for Guardian Druids in Bear Form.

Nature's Vigil duration is now 15 seconds (was 30 seconds). Read the developer note at the top of the Classes section for details.

Restoration and Balance Starter Builds have been updated.

Improved Sunfire has been moved to row 3, connected to Sunfire.

Rising Light, Falling Night occupies Improved Sunfire’s previous location.

Balance

All spell damage dealt increased by 5%.

Lunar Shrapnel has been redesigned – Starfall deals 20% increased damage and is now a 1 point talent.

Waning Twilight damage and healing increased to 10% (was 8%).

Astral Smolder duration is now 6 seconds (was 8 seconds).

Wild Surges bonus to Wrath and Starfire critical strike chance reduced to 12% (was 15%).

Warrior of Elune now starts its cooldown as soon as it's activated, but the bonuses to your next 3 Starfires must be used within 25 seconds.

Umbral Intensity increases damage dealt by Wrath by 20% per point (was 10%) and the damage Starfire deals to nearby targets increased by 15% per point (was 10%).

Nature's Grace now only triggers after an Eclipse ends, not when extending an Eclipse with Celestial Alignment.

New Moon damage increased by 100%.

Half Moon damage increased by 45%.

Full Moon damage increased by 15%.

Orbit Breaker's Full Moon power is now 60% (was 80%).

Fury of Elune damage reduced by 10%.

Radiant Moonlight Fury of Elune cooldown reduction is now 15 seconds (was 20 seconds).

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Regrowth now costs 10% of base mana (was 25%).

Swiftmend now costs 10% of base mana (was 8%).

Rejuvenation now costs 5% of base mana (was 11%).

Wild Growth now cost 15% of base mana (was 22%).

Remove Corruption now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

The Primordial Arcanic Pulsar tracking buff now counts up to 100 (was 15). This is a visual change only.

Feral

New Talent: Dire Fixation – Attacking an enemy with Shred fixates your attention on it for 10 seconds. You can fixate on a single target at once. Your attacks deal 8% increased damage to your fixated target. Dire Fixation is located in row 2 and is a 1 rank talent.

Rampant Ferocity has been redesigned – Ferocious Bite also deals damage per combo point spent to all nearby enemies affected by your Rip. Damage reduced beyond 5 targets. Rampant Ferocity is now also affected by Mastery: Razor Claws.

Ferocious Bite damage increased by 5%.

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Regrowth now costs 10% of base mana (was 25%).

Swiftmend now costs 10% of base mana (was 8%).

Rejuvenation now costs 5% of base mana (was 11%).

Wild Growth now cost 15% of base mana (was 22%).

Remove Corruption now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Primal Claws has been removed.

Guardian

Innate Resolve has been redesigned – Frenzied Regeneration's healing is increased by a value based on your missing health. Frenzied Regeneration has 1 additional charge.

All ability damage increased by 6%.

Raze no longer replaces Maul.

Updated the tooltips of Vulnerable Flesh, Vicious Cycle, and Tooth and Claw to specify both Maul and Raze.

Lunar Beam radius increased to 8 yards (was 5 yards) and now grants 15% Mastery on cast.

Moonless Night damage increased to 20% (was 10%).

Untamed Savagery now also increases maximum Thrash stacks by 1 per rank.

Galactic Guardian can no longer consume existing procs.

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Regrowth now costs 10% of base mana (was 25%).

Swiftmend now costs 10% of base mana (was 8%).

Rejuvenation now costs 5% of base mana (was 11%).

Wild Growth now cost 15% of base mana (was 22%).

Remove Corruption now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Fixed a tooltip issue with Lunar Beam's buff showing an incorrect amount of Mastery.

Pulverize and Rend and Tear/Untamed Savagery nodes switched positions.

Connections added from Incarnation/Convoke node to Raze and Rage of the Sleeper nodes.

Dream of Cenarius moved into row 2.

Thorns of Iron moved to row 6.

Soul of the Forest position adjusted on row 6.

Galactic Guardian moved to row 8.

Flashing Claws moved to row 9.

Scintillating Moonlight moved to row 9.

Moonless Night moved to row 9.

Front of the Pack has been removed.

Restoration

All ability damage increased by 25%.

Fixed an issue that caused Lifebloom to cost more mana than intended when using the Undergrowth talent.

Evoker Class Changes in Patch 10.1Evoker Class

New Talent: Potent Mana – Source of Magic increases the target’s healing and damage done by 3%.

Potent Mana is located in Regenerative Magic’s previous position in row 8, beneath Source of Magic.

Regenerative Magic has been redesigned – Now increases your Leech by 3%.

Regenerative Magic has moved to row 6, beneath Instinctive Arcana.

Emerald Blossom's flower now grows immediately on cast and heals after 1.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).

Draconic Legacy has been reduced to 1 rank (was 2). 1 rank value is equal to the previous 2 rank value (6% Stamina).

Draconic Legacy's position swapped with Inherent Resistance.

Blast Furnace has been reduced to 1 rank (was 2). 1 rank value is equal to previous 2 rank value value (4 seconds).

Scarlet Adaptation stores 40% more total power.

The amount of damage Scarlet Adaptation adds to Living Flame now matches the amount stated in the tooltip. For Devastation, this damage will still be amplified by Mastery: Giantkiller based on the target’s remaining health.

Devastation

Mastery: Giantkiller reduced by 20%. For example at level 70, 180 Mastery rating now grants 2% Mastery (was 2.5%).

All damaging abilities increased by 6.5%.

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Living Flame now costs 12% of base mana (was 10%).

Expunge now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Cauterizing Flame now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Verdant Embrace now costs 10% of base mana (was 15%).

Emerald Blossom now costs 15% of base mana (was 24%).

Preservation

All spell and ability damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

All healing abilities increased by 2%.

Life-Giver's Flame now heals for 35/70% of damage done (was 40/80%).

Life-Giver’s Flame now heals up to 5 injured targets, split evenly amongst them (was 1 injured target). Range increased to 40 yards (was 25 yards).

Rewind now rewinds 40% of damage taken in the last 5 seconds (was 50%).

Exhilarating Burst now increases critical healing effectiveness by an additional 30% per rank (was 15%).

Vault of the Incarnates 2-set bonus has been adjusted – Now increases Reversion’s healing by 35% instead of increasing its critical healing chance by 25%.

Hunter Class Changes in Patch 10.1Hunter Class

Fixed an issue where Scatter Shot would incorrectly stop Spiteful Shades from Mythic+ Spiteful affix from slowly dying.

Beast MasteryMarksmanshipSurvivalMage Class Changes in Patch 10.1Mage Class

New Talent: Ice Cold – Ice Block now reduces all damage taken by 70% for 6 seconds but no longer grants Immunity, prevents movement, attacks, or casting spells. Does not incur the global cooldown. Ice Cold is located on Shifting Power's previous location on the talent tree.

New Talent: Mass Barrier – Cast Prismatic/Blazing/Ice Barrier (based on your specialization) on yourself and 4 nearby allies. 2 minute cooldown. Mass Barrier is located as a choice node with Mass Invisibility.

New Talent: Mass Invisibility – You and your allies within 40 yards instantly become invisible for 12 seconds. Taking any action will cancel the effect. Does not affect allies in combat. Mass Invisibility located as a choice node with Mass Barrier.

Invisibility is now learned by all specializations at level 16.

All ability damage increased by 15%.

Accumulate Shielding is now a 1 rank talent (was 2). Barrier cooldowns now recharge 30% faster while the shield persists at rank 1.

Accumulate Shielding now connects to the Time Anomaly/Temporal Warp choice node.

Time Manipulation is now a 1 rank talent (was 2). Now reduces the cooldown of your loss of control abilities by 2 seconds at rank 1.

Time Manipulation now connects to the Time Anomaly/Temporal Warp choice node.

Displacement now heals the caster for 20% of their maximum health when returning to the Blink location.

Displacement is now located after Flow of Time.

Winter's Protection now reduces the cooldown of Ice Block by 30 seconds per rank.

Diverted Energy's barriers now heal you for 20/40% of the damage absorbed (was 10/20%).

Flow of Time reduces the cooldown of Blink by 2/4 seconds (was 1/2 seconds).

Temporal Velocity's movement speed duration increased to 3 seconds and 5 seconds after using Blink and Alter Time, respectively.

Temporal Velocity's movement speed after Blinking increased by 10/20% (was 5/10%).

Incantation of Swiftness now increases movement speed by 40/80% for both Invisibility and Greater Invisibility.

Incanter’s Flow damage now flows between 2% and 10% (was 4% and 20%).

Incanter's Flow now replaces Invisibility in the Class tree.

Shifting Power has been moved to Incanter's Flow previous location.

Greater Invisibility now replaces Invisibility when talented and is located below Temporal Velocity.

Rune of Power and Meteor have been removed.

Arcane

New Talent: Concentrated Power – Clearcasting makes your next Arcane Missiles channel 20% faster or causes your next Arcane Explosion to echo for 40% damage.

Orb Barrage has been redesigned – Arcane Barrage has a 10% chance per Arcane Charge consumed to launch an Arcane Orb in front of you.

Arcane Barrage has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 11.

Arcane Barrage damage increased by 6% and no longer has a 3 second cooldown.

Resonance now increases Arcane Barrage damage by 12% per target hit (was 15%).

Clearcasting has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 12.

Arcane Surge duration has been increased by 3 seconds and now increases spell damage by 35% (was 10%).

Clearcasting no longer makes Arcane Missiles channel time faster.

Arcane Explosion damage reduced by 6%.

Arcane Orb damage reduced by 6%.

Siphon Storm no longer grants Arcane Charges and now halves Evocation's channel time.

Improved Prismatic Barrier reduces magic damage taken by 10% (was 5%) and reduces harmful Magic effect durations by 15% (was 10%).

Improved Prismatic Barrier no longer connects to Touch of the Magi.

Arcing Cleave no longer connects to Touch of the Magi.

Nether Tempest now connects to Chrono Shift and Supernova in the Arcane tree.

Reverberate is no longer a choice node with Nether Tempest and is located directly after Arcane Missiles.

Arcane Power has been removed.

Fire

New Talent: Convection – Each time Living Bomb explodes it has a 30% chance to reduce its cooldown by 2 seconds. Convection is located on row 7, directly after Living Bomb and Incendiary Eruptions.

New Talent: Deep Impact – Meteor’s damage is increased by 20% but is now split evenly between all enemies hit. Additionally, its cooldown is reduced by 15 seconds.

New Talent: Inflame – Hot Streak increases the amount of Ignite damage from Pyroblast or Flamestrike by an additional 10%. Now a choice node with Pyromaniac.

New Talent: Unleashed Inferno – While Combustion is active your Fireball, Pyroblast, Fire Blast, Scorch, and Phoenix Flames deal 50% increased damage and reduce the cooldown of Combustion by 1.25 seconds. Unleashed Inferno is located as a choice node with Sun King's Blessing.

New Talent: Intensifying Flames – While Ignite is on 3 or fewer enemies it deals 15% increased damage. Intensifying Flames is located on row 5, replacing Cauterize.

New Talent: Fuel the Fire – Flamestrike has a chance equal to 100% of your critical strike chance to contribute to Hot Streak. Fuel the Fire is located on row 4 after Surging Blaze.

Wildfire has been redesigned - Now grants 3/6% critical strike damage and an additional 2/4% critical strike damage when you activate Combustion.

Mastery: Ignite now causes Fire Blast to spread Ignite to 3 targets (was 4).

Flamestrike has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 12.

Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.

Flamestrike cast time reduced to 3.5 seconds (was 4 seconds).

Cauterize has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 19.

Pyroblast damage increased by 5%.

Pyroblast cast time reduced to 4 seconds (was 4.5 seconds).

Tempered Flames now reduces Pyroblast cast time by 15% (was 30%).

Flame Patch damage reduced by 9%.

Fireball damage increased by 3%.

Ignite damage reduced by 9%.

Fire Blast damage reduced by 12%.

Scorch damage reduced by 10%.

Meteor damage increased by 10%.

Meteor no longer splits damage evenly between targets hit by default and its damage is reduced when hitting beyond 8 targets.

Phoenix Flames damage reduced by 12%.

From the Ashes now increases Mastery by 2% for each Phoenix Flames charge on cooldown (was previously for each charge off cooldown).

Surging Blaze now increases the cast speed of Pyroblast and Flamestrike by 0.5 seconds and their damage by 10%.

Fevered Incantation max ranks reduced to 1 (was 2) and critical strike damage increased to 2% per stack (was 1% at rank 1).

Fevered Incantation critical strike damage increases up to 8% (was 10%).

Sun King’s Blessing now also increases the damage of your next Pyroblast or Flamestrike by 275% in addition to granting Combustion.

The temporary buff granted by Sun King's Blessing that increased damage and Combustion has been renamed to Fury of the Sun King and it now has new icon to better differentiate between the stacking buff and actual buff.

Fury of the Sun King duration increased to 30 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Call of the Sun King now also increases Phoenix Flames damage by 15%.

Improved Scorch max ranks reduced to 1 (was 2) and damage dealt to targets with the debuff increased to 4% per stack at rank 1 (was 2%).

Searing Touch increases Scorch damage by 175% when the target is below 30% health (was 150%).

Firefall's number of Fireballs and Pyroblasts required to call down a Meteor reduced to 15 (was 30).

Conflagration damage over time increased by 12% and the chance for enemies to flare up increased to 15% (was 10%).

Conflagration damage over time now rolls over when the damage over time is refreshed instead of only refreshing the duration.

Master of Flame now spreads Ignite to 2 additional enemies during Combustion (was 4).

Hyperthermia's duration increased to 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).

Hyperthermia now triggers when Hot Streak is consumed instead of when it is activated.

Hyperthermia will no longer trigger while Combustion is active.

Kindling now causes Scorch critical strikes to reduce Combustion's cooldown in addition to its current effect.

Living Bomb cooldown increased to 30 seconds (was 12 seconds), no longer scales with Haste, damage over time increased by 110%, and explosion damage increased by 105%.

Firemind max ranks reduced to 1 (was 2).

Feel the Burn max ranks reduced to 1 (was 2) and now also triggers off Phoenix Flames.

Feel the Burn increases Mastery per stack by 2% (was 4%).

Pyrotechnics is now located on row 2.

Improved Flamestrike has been renamed to Surging Blaze. Surging Blaze is now located on row 3 after Pyrotechnics.

Fervent Flickering is now located on row 4 after Phoenix Flames.

Pyroclasm has been removed.

Fevered Incantation is now located on row 8, replacing Pyroclasm.

Master of Flame is now located below the Firemind and Improved Combustion choice node.

Pyromaniac is no longer a choice node with Firefall. It's now located after the Feel the Burn and Improved Combustion choice node.

Meteor is now located on row 9.

Fiery Rush is now located on row 9 directly after Kindling.

Sun King’s Blessing/Unleashed Inferno now available as the center capstone (swapped with Hyperthermia).

Hyperthermia is now available as the left side capstone (swapped with Sun King’s Blessing/Unleashed Inferno choice node).

Frost

New Talent: Winter’s Blessing – Your Haste is increased by 8% and you gain 10% more of the Haste stat from all sources. Winter's Blessing is located on row 4 in Cold Snap's previous location.

New Talent: Cryopathy – Each time you consume Fingers of Frost the damage of your next Ray of Frost is increased by 5%, stacking up to 80%. Icy Veins grants 10 stacks instantly. Cryopathy is available as a choice node with Splintering Ray.

New Talent: Coldest Snap – Cone of Cold's cooldown is increased to 45 seconds and resets the cooldown of Frozen Orb and Comet Storm. In addition, Cone of Cold applies Winter's Chill to all enemies hit. Cone of Cold's cooldown can no longer be reduced by your cooldown reduction effects.

Cone of Cold’s cooldown while Coldest Snap is talented can no longer be reduced or reset by Time Manipulation, Shifting Power, or Cold Snap.

Mastery: Icicle - damage of icicles reduced by 25%. Mastery now also increases the damage of Blizzard, Comet Storm, Ice Lance, Glacial Spike, and Ray of Frost.

Blizzard has been removed from the talent tree is and is now learned baseline at level 12.

Blizzard damage reduced by 12%.

Cold Snap has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned baseline at level 19.

Wintertide's Frostbolt damage reduced to 5/10% (was 7/15%).

Comet Storm damage increased by 11%.

Glacial Assault damage increased by 15% and now also causes your Comet Storm to increase the damage enemies take from you by 6% for 6 seconds. Chance to trigger increased by 25%. Now a 1 rank talent (was 2 ranks).

Splitting Ice now causes Glacial Spike to deal 100% damage to a second nearby target.

Splitting Ice's tooltip now correctly causes Ice Lance and Icicles tooltip to display that it deals 80% damage to secondary targets.

Deep Shatter now causes Frostbolts to deal 10/25% increased damage to Frozen targets (was 20/40%).

Glacial Spike cast time reduced by 0.5 seconds and damage increased by 7%.

Chain Reaction now increases Ice Lance damage per stack by 2% (was 1%).

Thermal Void increases Icy Veins duration by 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Thermal Void causes Ice Lance to increase Icy Veins' duration by 0.5 seconds (was 1 second) and causes Glacial Spike to increase Icy Veins' duration by 1 seconds (was 3 seconds).

Thermal Void now also extends Icy Veins an additional 3 seconds when Glacial Spike hits a frozen enemy in addition to its current effect.

Ray of Frost damage increased by 16%.

Ray of Frost cooldown reduced to 60 seconds (was 75 seconds).

Icy Veins cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes) and Haste reduced to 20% (was 30%).

Activating Icy Veins now also summons a water elemental to your for its duration.

Icy Veins Water Elemental abilities:
Water Jet cooldown increased to 20 seconds (was 45 seconds).

Water Jet damage increased by 75%.

Waterbolt damage increased by 50%.

Freeze now applies maximum stacks for Frigid Empowerment.

Frigid Empowerment increases the Frost damage you deal by 3%, up to 15%.

Developers' note: After some consideration we have decided to remove Ebonbolt from the talent tree. In Fractures in Time, Frost has seen a few talent updates to make existing abilities more viable in single target which in turn increased the complexity of Frost. While some added complexity in the single target rotation can be a nice option, it felt like Ebonbolt was tipping things a little too much in the wrong direction.

Monk Class Changes in Patch 10.1Monk Class

New Talent: Yu'lon's Grace – Find resilience in the flow of chi in battle, gaining a magic absorb shield for 2% of your max health every 2 seconds in combat, stacking up to 10%. Yu'lon's Grace is located as a choice node with Diffuse Magic.

New Talent: Dance of the Wind – Your Dodge chance is increased by 10%. Dance of the Wind is located as a choice node with Dampen Harm.

Generous Pour's tooltip has been updated to more accurately describe its functionality. No functionality has changed.

Brewmaster

New Talent: Press the Advantage – Your auto-attacks reduce the cooldown on your brews by 0.5 seconds and block your target's chi, dealing additional Nature damage and causing them to take 1% increased damage from your abilities for 20 seconds. Upon reaching 10 stacks, your next cast of Rising Sun Kick or Keg Smash consumes all stacks to strike again at 100% effectiveness. This bonus attack can trigger effects on behalf of Tiger Palm. Replaces Tiger Palm.
Bonus attacks from Press the Advantage trigger Chi Surge when talented and have a chance to summon Niuzao, the Black Ox when Call to Arms is talented.

Chi Surge effectiveness reduced when triggered by Press the Advantage.

Mistweaver

All spell and ability damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Ancient Teachings now heals for 135% of damage done (was 150%).

Font of Life now increases Essence Font's initial heal by 25% (was static amount).

Awakened Faeline now heals for 70% of the damage done (was 75%).

Windwalker

All ability damage increased by 2%.

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 2-set bonus now has as caster-only visual.

Paladin Class Changes in Patch 10.1Holy

New Talent: Beacon of the Lightbringer – Mastery: Lightbringer now increases your healing based on the target's proximity to either you or your Beacon of Light, whichever is closer.

New Talent: Light's Conviction – Holy Shock now has 2 charges.

New Talent: Holy Infusion – Crusader Strike generates 1 additional Holy Power and deals 25% more damage.

New Talent: Awestruck – Holy Shock, Holy Light, and Flash of Light critical healing increased by 20%.

New Talent: Glistening Radiance – Spending Holy Power has a 25% chance to trigger Glimmer of Light's healing and damage.

New Talent: Overflowing Light – 50% of Glimmer of Light's overhealing is converted into an absorb shield. The shield amount cannot exceed 15% of your max health.

New Talent: Light's Protection – Your allies with Glimmer of Light take 16% reduced damage, split evenly among them.

New Talent: Righteous Judgment – Judgment has a 50% chance to cast Consecration at the target's location. The limit on Consecration does not apply to this effect.

New Talent: Hand of Divinity – Call upon the Light to empower your spells, causing your next 2 Holy Lights to heal 80% more, cost 50% less mana, and be instant cast.

New Talent: Shining Righteousness – Shield of the Righteous deals damage to its first target struck. Every 5 Shields of the Righteous make your next Word of Glory or Light of Dawn cost no Holy Power.

New Talent: Daybreak – Absorb your active Glimmer of Lights, triggering their effects at 200% value and granting 3000 Mana per Glimmer of Light consumed.

New Talent: Rising Sunlight – After casting Daybreak, your next 3 Holy Shocks cast 2 additional times.

New Talent: Glorious Dawn – Holy Shock has a 10% chance to refund a charge when cast, increasing by 1.5% for each Glimmer of Light you have active. Glimmer of Light's healing and damage is increased by 10%.

New Talent: Blessed Focus – Glimmer of Light's healing and damage is increased by 25%, but it can only affect 1 target at a time.

New Talent: Reclamation – Holy Shock and Crusader Strike refund up to 15% of their Mana cost and deal up to 50% more healing or damage, based on the target's missing health.

New Talent: Merciful Auras – Your auras restore health to 3 injured allies within 20 yards every 2 seconds. While Aura Mastery is active, heals all allies within 40 yards and healing is increased by 50%. Shares a choice node with Blessing of Seasons.

Illumination has been redesigned – Glimmer of Light can affect 5 additional targets.

Awakening has been redesigned – While in combat, your Holy Power spenders generate 1 stack of Awakening. At 12 stacks of Awakening, your next Judgment deals 30% increased damage, will critically strike, and activates Avenging Wrath for 12 seconds.

Divine Glimpse has been redesigned – Holy Shock and Judgment have a 8% increased critical strike chance. Divine Glimpse is now a 1 point node.

Veneration has been redesigned – Hammer of Wrath heals up to 5 injured allies for 200% of the damage done, split evenly among them. Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Judgment critical strikes reset the cooldown of Hammer of Wrath and make it usable on any target, regardless of their health.

Greater Judgment has been redesigned – Judgment deems the targets unworthy, preventing damage dealt by the target.

Seal of the Crusader has been redesigned for Holy Paladins – Your auto attacks heal a nearby ally.

Blessing of Freedom is now granted by default.

Echoing Blessings is now located on the class tree.

Holy Light is now learned baseline at level 11.

Divine Protection is now learned baseline at level 26.

Glimmer of Light healing increased by 360% and damage increased by 700%.

Glimmer of Light's healing and damage is now reduced per active Glimmer of Light. Now capped at 3 targets.

Glimmer of Light now triggers its healing or damage on its current target at full value if dispelled.

Glimmer of Light's aura no longer appears on the personal resource display.

All healing reduced by 3%.

All spell and ability damage increased by 10%.

Flash of Light healing increased by 50%.

Flash of Light now costs 18% base mana (was 22%).

Holy Light healing increased by 40%.

Holy Light now costs 2.4% base mana (was 16%).

Holy Shock now costs 2.4% of base mana (was 16%).

Holy Shock healing increased by 10% and cooldown increased to 8.5 seconds (was 7.5 seconds).

Holy Shock no longer has an increased chance to critically strike.

Word of Glory healing increased by 9%.

Imbued Infusions now reduces the cooldown of Holy Shock by 2 seconds.

Tyr’s Deliverance healing increased by 25% and now has a 40 yard range (was 20 yards).

Tyr's Deliverance now also increases the healing of Holy Shock by 25%.

Tyr's Deliverance's base duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Boundless Salvation causes Flash of Light to extend the duration of Tyr’s Deliverance by 4 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).

Boundless Salvation causes Holy Light to extend the duration of Tyr’s Deliverance by 8 seconds (was 5 seconds).

Boundless Salvation now also causes Holy Shock to extend the duration of Tyr's Deliverance by 2 seconds.

Boundless Salvation can now extend Tyr's Deliverance by up to 40 seconds (was 50 seconds).
Developers' note: Tyr's Deliverance's base duration did not feel competitive with other singular talent points within the final section of the tree. We are increasing its duration and reducing the effectiveness of Boundless Salvation accordingly with the goal of each talent point spent standing on its own merits while leaving a similar overall power level.

Developers' note: Zealot’s Paragon extensions of Avenging Wrath have contributed to higher cooldown-uptime than we would like when combined with other talents. We are replacing it with Vanguard’s Momentum as we feel it combines with other talents in compelling ways and leans into Holy Paladin as a particularly effective healer in execute scenarios.

Developers' note: The rate of Hammer of Wrath expenditure has still felt faster than we would like, so we are slightly increasing its cooldown with the goal of making each use feel more impactful and deliberate without crowding the rotation. We expect the new Vanguard’s Momentum option to be a powerful option for players who would like to opt-in to this spell being more of a main stay rotationally.

Developer’s note: Adding a mana cost to Holy Power spenders accomplishes a few important things including leveling out the rate of mana expenditure, reducing risk factors involved with mana-free healing, and allowing us to lean more into mana regeneration as a powerful tool in a Holy Paladin’s kit. We are also purposefully not attaching a mana cost to Shield of the Righteous as we would like Holy Paladin to be more mana-neutral when actively playing offensively.

Developers' note: We’re reducing Avenging Wrath’s/Avenging Crusader’s overall uptime and effectiveness to shift more of this power into the base kit and make talents such as Avenging Wrath: Might and Avenging Crusader feel more optional.

Developers' note: Breaking Dawn’s previous location could feel limiting considering the competitive options in the final section of the specialization tree. We feel there is more optionality involved with this node in its new location, hopefully allowing for clever use of point expenditure to optimize for each specific encounter a Holy Paladin may find their group in.

Developers' note: We would like to leave the Light of the Martyr sub-spec as an option for players who enjoy it, but not heavily encourage it to be a dominant spell rotationally. For now, we are making minor tuning updates to account for our specialization-wide mana updates and we are removing the negative PvP multiplier and increasing the risk factor slightly to see if it can find a niche within that section of the game.

Developers' note: We are increasing the target count of Beacon of Virtue and increasing its mana cost with the goal of this spell being a way to trade mana efficiency for throughput.

Developers' note: We feel confident that removing Radiant Onslaught is an overall positive as the rotation with two charges of Crusader Strike does not meet our goals of slowing down offensive generators to give space for more healing spells.

Protection

All ability damage increased by 4%.

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Flash of Light now costs 10% of base mana (was 24%).

Cleanse Toxins now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Word of Glory now costs 10% of base mana.

Shining Light tooltip adjusted to clarify that it only removes the Holy Power cost from Word of Glory, not mana cost.

Retribution

All ability damage increased by 2%.

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Flash of Light now costs 10% of base mana (was 24%).

Cleanse Toxins now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Intercession now costs 2% of base mana (was 0%).

Word of Glory now costs 10% of base mana.

Hammer of Wrath now generates Holy Power when cast on Immune targets.

Fixed tooltip errors in Jurisdiction.

Fixed a tooltip issue with Crusade when applied by Instrument of Retribution.

Priest Class Changes in Patch 10.1Priest Class

New Talent: Benevolence – Increases the healing of your spells by 3%. Shares a choice node with Power Word: Life on the talent tree.

New Talent: Essence Devourer – Attacks from your Shadowfiend and Mindbender siphon life from enemies, healing a nearby injured ally. Shares a choice node with Void Shift on the talent tree.

There is now a connection between Light's Inspiration and Benevolence/Power Word: Life.

Discipline

New Talent: Luminous Barrier – Create a shield on all allies within 40 yards, absorbing damage on each of them for 10 seconds. Absorption increased by 100% when not in a raid. Luminous Barrier returns as a choice node against Power Word: Barrier.

All spell and ability damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Atonement now transfers 36% of all damage (was 40%).

Holy

New Talent: Epiphany – Your Holy Words have a 13%/25% chance to reset the cooldown of Prayer of Mending. Epiphany has moved to Burning Vehemence’s previous position in the talent tree.

All spell and ability damage increased by 10%.

Holy Word: Sanctify and Prayer of Healing have swapped positions in the talent tree.

Searing Light has been removed.

Burning Vehemence has moved to Searing Light’s position in the talent tree and is now a 1-point talent.

Fixed an issue causing Holy Word: Salvation to appear in the wrong Spell Book.

Shadow

The duration of Vampiric Embrace is now 12 seconds (was 15 seconds). Read the developer note at the top of the Classes section for details.

Mana pool at level 70 increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Flash Heal now costs 10% of base mana (was 25%).

Power Word: Shield now costs 10% of base mana (was 25%).

Dispel Magic now costs 14% of base mana (was 10%).

Mass Dispel now costs 20% of base mana (was 55%).

Renew now costs 4% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Prayer of Mending now costs 4% of base mana (was 10%).

Divine Star now costs 2% of base mana (was 2.5%)

Halo now costs 4% of base mana (was 5%).

Fixed an issue causing Halo to sometimes appear twice in the Spell Book.

Rogue Class Changes in Patch 10.1AssassinationOutlaw

All ability damage increased by 9%

Grand Melee, one of the buffs granted by Roll the Bones, has been redesigned – Blade Flurry deals 10% additional damage to nearby enemies, including your primary target.

Ghostly Strike's effect has been changed to correctly match its tooltip description (only increasing damage of Rogue abilities).

Subtlety

All ability damage increased by 4%.

Shaman Class Changes in Patch 10.1Shaman Class

Brimming with Life now increases your maximum health by 8% at all times (was while Reincarnation is off cooldown).

Ancestral Guidance now caps the amount of potential healing per tick at 20% of your maximum health, to up to 3 targets.

Ancestral Guidance can no longer cause healing from non-class abilities (such as trinkets, weapon enchants, potion, etc.).

Resolved an issue causing Nature's Guardian to sometimes trigger before its intended health threshold.

Elemental

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Healing Surge now costs 10% of base mana (was 24%).

Chain Heal now costs 15% of base mana (was 30%).

Healing Stream Totem now costs 5% of base mana (was 9%).

Earth Shield now costs 5% of base mana (was 10%).

Purge now costs 14% of base mana (was 10%).

Greater Purge now costs 21% of base mana (was 20%).

Cleanse Spirit now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Lava Bursts are no longer fired at enemies affected by breakable crowd control when triggered by Deeply Rooted Elements or Primordial Wave. If the Shaman's primary target is in breakable crowd control when casting a Lava Burst that triggers either Primordial Wave or Deeply Rooted Elements, the additional Lava Burst will still fire.

Earthquake's tooltip now states that multiple Earthquakes can overlap.
Developers' note: This is not a change in functionality, only a clarification on the spell's tooltip.

Enhancement

Stormstrike and Windstrike (Ascendance Stormstrike) damage increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Lava Lash damage increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Ice Strike damage increased by 20%.

Vault of the Incarnates 4-Set bonus has been adjusted – Now grants 0.5% Haste per maelstrom weapon stack consumed (was 1%).

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 4-Set bonus has been adjusted – Next 2 Chain Lightning casts now deal 20% increased damage (was 100%).

Maelstrom Weapon trigger rate increased to 20% (was 16%).

Maximum mana increased to 250,000 (was 50,000).

Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 6%).

Healing Surge now costs 10% of base mana (was 24%).

Chain Heal now costs 15% of base mana (was 30%).

Healing Stream Totem now costs 5% of base mana (was 9%).

Earth Shield now costs 5% of base mana (was 10%).

Purge now costs 14% of base mana (was 10%).

Greater Purge now costs 21% of base mana (was 20%).

Cleanse Spirit now costs 10% of base mana (was 6.5%).

Lightning Bolts are no longer fired at enemies affected by breakable crowd control when triggered by Primordial Wave. If the Shaman's primary target is in breakable crowd control when casting a Lightning Bolt that triggers Primordial Wave, the additional Lightning Bolt will still fire.

Area of effect damage from a Deeply Rooted Elements proc will no longer damage nearby enemies in breakable crowd control.

Restoration

All spell and ability damage increased by 10%.

All healing increased by 3%.
Developer's note: Ancestral Guidance's functionality is being adjusted in Fractures in Time and we are expecting this to be a slight overall healing loss. We are compensating this by increasing all healing for Restoration Shaman.

Warlock Class Changes in Patch 10.1Warlock Class

Warlock glyphs are now on-use Grimoires to unlock pet customizations.

Glyph of the Observer is being deprecated and will no longer be an available customization option for felhunters.

Nightmare has been redesigned – Now increases the amount of damage required to break your fear effects by 60%.

Grimoire of Sacrifice no longer has a duration and should no longer be removed when logging out, entering instances, or in between rounds of Solo Shuffle.

Affliction

Malefic Affliction has been removed.

New Talent: Xavius’ Gambit – Unstable Affliction deals 15/30% increased damage. Xavius’ Gambit is located in Malefic Affliction’s previous location.

Dread Touch has been redesigned – Malefic Rapture causes targets suffering from your Unstable Affliction to take 30% additional damage from your damage over time effects for 8 seconds.

Doom Blossom has been redesigned – When Seed of Corruption damages targets suffering from your Unstable Affliction, they explode for Shadow damage.

Unstable Affliction damage increased by 10%.

Seed of Corruption’s cast time has been reduced to 2 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).

Xavius’ Gambit no longer increases the damage of Unstable Affliction’s backlash damage.

Demonology

Ripped Through the Portal, Fel Covenant, Demonic Meteor, and Fel Might have been removed.

New Talent: Heavy Handed – Increases your primary Felguard’s critical strike chance by 10%. Heavy Handed is located in Fel Might’s previous location.

New Talent: Cavitation – Your primary Felguard’s damaging critical strikes deal 10/20% increased damage. Cavitation is located in Umbral Blaze’s previous location.

Fel and Steel has been redesigned – Your primary Felguard’s Legion Strike damage is increased by 10%. Your primary Felguard’s Felstorm damage is increased by 5%.

New Talent: Imp-erator – Increases the critical strike chance of your Wild Imp’s Fel Firebolt by 5/10%. Imp-erator is located in Demonic Calling’s previous location.

New Talent: Malefic Impact – Hand of Gul’dan deals 8/15% increased damage and the critical strike chance of Hand of Gul’dan is increased by 8/15%. Malefic Impact is located in Inner Demons’ previous location.

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-set bonus has been adjusted – Demonbolt damage increased 20% (was 15%). Consuming a Demonic Core reduces the cooldown of Grimoire: Felguard by 1 second.

Hand of Gul’dan damage increased by 25%.

Implosion damage increased by 15%.

Dreadstalker damage increased by 15%.

Demonbolt damage increased by 20%.

Bilescourge Bombers’ Soul Shard cost has been reduced to 0 (was 2).

Umbral Blaze now has a 15/30% chance of occurring (was 8/15%) and now retains remaining damage when reapplied.

Umbral Blaze has been moved to Fel Covenant’s previous location.

Dread Calling has been moved to Ripped Through the Portal’s previous location. Dread Calling is now 2 ranks (was 1 rank).

Demonic Calling has been moved to Demonic Meteor’s previous location. Demonic Calling is now 1 rank (was 2 ranks).

Inner Demons has been moved to Dread Calling’s previous location. Inner Demons is now 1 rank (was 2 ranks).

Destruction

Crashing Chaos has been redesigned – Summon Infernal increases the damage of your next 8 casts of Chaos Bolts by 50% (10% in PvP combat) or your next 8 casts of Rain of Fire by 70% (15% in PvP combat).

Dimensional Rift damage increased by 15%.

Warrior Class Changes in Patch 10.1ArmsFuryProtection

All ability damage increased by 6%.

Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5: Fractures in Time Class Changes

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