More Class Tuning for Druids and Warriors in Patch 12.0.5 - PTR Development Notes

Posted 2026/04/13 at 7:20 PM by Squishei

Here are the latest changes to the 12.0.5 PTR:

FIELD ACCOLADES AND COSMETICS TUNING

Mounts, pets, decor, and cosmetic boxes are now primarily sold for Voidlight Marl. Supply drops from Void Assaults and Ritual Sites have been adjusted to reflect this.
Cosmetic Caches will be available immediately, allowing players to focus on increasing power and/or collecting cosmetic items as they choose.
These items will be prominent in 12.0.7 as well and we intend to make these features remain available in Season 2 at lower reward levels, and they will continue to be available for players to complete on alts throughout Midnight.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Fixed an issue where players who already owned the Sun Darter Hatchling pet were not receiving Mind-Seeker progress and were required to loot the pet again.

CLASSES

DRUID

Restoration

Everbloom (Rank 2) now heals for 25%/50% of Lifebloom’s final bloom on 6 allies (was heals all allies for 30%/60%, reduced beyond 5).
Everbloom (Rank 3) Blooming Frenzy now triggers 3 times (was 5).

WARRIOR

Arms

Slayer

Imminent Demise no longer requires Sudden Death to damage a second target to trigger Reap the Storm.

Fury

Slayer

Imminent Demise no longer requires Sudden Death to damage a second target to trigger Reap the Storm.

Protection

Mountain Thane

~~Storm Surge causes Avatar to increase the damage of Thunder Clap by 10% (was 50%) and reduce its cooldown by 25% (was 50%).~~

This change has been reverted.

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Comment by Dasronimagine if resto shaman had anything that would be crazyComment by CenathorThe change to thunderclap has been reverted on fury too right? ... right?Comment by MyqinThank you Blizzard. The MT nerf NEVER made sense.Comment by TOMRUSPoor hunters will never be playable... Shame...Comment by WildnightshadeBoth Mistweaver hero specs have higher HPS than Resto Druid in keys and in raid, but nerf to resto druid HPS?Comment by ancineniI wish they would tune the dev who made midnight's eclipse iteration.
I could compare him to the Necrotic affix... same but he is on the balance spec since SL.Comment by MeluanLacklessCan we discuss why holy priest and holy paladin are being ignored? No one wants to take a holy of either kind to raid unless desperate for a buff, so far behind every other healer it's actually insane. There is zero balance to the healing classes... Unless you're a presvoker, mw monk or disc priest you're in the bin. Even if you flat buffed hpriest by 15% we'd still be way behind the top 3... Blizzard? Worst healer balancing I've seen in 24 years on this game.Comment by FrympourThe change to thunderclap has been reverted on fury too right? ... right?Comment by CorpselanceSlayer ST saved, MT nerf reverted for Prot.

They are listening, guys!

...If only they didn't come up with bad changes to begin with.Comment by TastelikelemonResto Druid still gona play apex-less in raids , what a shame , the previous version in PTR was way better one. This version will further buff M+ healing to feel more bursty due to the increased % , but in raids where other healers top the raid way faster than you , those heals just gona overheal and push us as i mentioned already to stay apex-less...resto druid devs are the worst thing that happened to resto druid in ages...and it was so beautiful class...Comment by jthm91how about buffing holy paladinComment by nicesmelliesThe change to thunderclap has been reverted on fury too right? ... right?Comment by EliodenWardTHANK YOU Blizzard. The nerf to Storm Surge for prot was going to be so bad.Comment by XmenttorBuff Affliction Hpala Rshaman Hpriest and destro.Comment by OjikoriThe change to thunderclap has been reverted on fury too right? ... right?Comment by Beargod(Declined)
Is it because I'm a guardian druid?
YesComment by st1flerbuff warriorsComment by Etamalgren...any chance Moonbears will get a buff to compensate for the stray nerfs they took from Druid of the Claw's overperformance?Comment by FrostyGearIt's time for Blizzard to admit that Affliction is a failed experiment and revert the whole spec to it's TWW build. DMG is bad and UA/Seed spam is boring gameplay that actually makes me really miss MR.Comment by RaZz0r65Both BM and SV are still in shambles SV damage is still low and for some reason Tip of the spear no longer effects boomstick in 12.0.5.
BM still need to spend 3-4 talent points to gain AOE damage while most other specs only need to spend 1 or 2 which severely cripples our ST damage.
Meaning we have to choose if we want to do ST or AOE while pretty much all raid fights needs a mix of both ST and AOE making the spec extremely weak.
It's okay in m+ since its mostly AOE but even then our damage is pretty weak hell even on the rare ST raid bosses our damage is still weak so we go from mediocre at best and outright useless at the worst.
And the fact that BM just runs out of steam randomly where you have no buttons to press so you just have to stand around like a doofus waiting for your buttons and or focus to come back, and it feels horrible to play you know the classic saying always be casting well BM can't do that

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