Class Changes in Patch 12.1

Blood

• Permafrost grants a shield equal to 50% of the damage dealt (was: 40%).
• Voracious grants 15% Leech (was: 12%).
• Healing from Relish in Blood increased by 25%.
• Rapid Decomposition increases healing from Blood Plague by 85% (was: 50%).
• Sanguinary Burst heals you for 18% of the damage dealt (was: 15%).
• Umbilicus Eternus absorbs damage equal to 6 times the damage dealt by Blood Plague (was: 5 times).

Frost

• Permafrost grants a shield equal to 35% of the damage dealt (was: 30%).

Unholy

Developers' Notes

In "Curse of Ula'tek" we aim to smooth out the damage difference between periods with active and inactive cooldown abilities. In addition, we are revisiting the current pet density of the Death Knight (Unholy). During the Midnight rework, the Unholy specialization was reimagined as a Scourge summoner, and we are very happy with the result. However, combined with the summoning abilities from the Rider of the Apocalypse hero talent tree, the number of summons exceeded a level we were comfortable with. It is extremely important to us to provide players with a clear gameplay space, and we felt we had no room left for new summoning abilities without violating this core principle.

• Zombify has been renamed Lord of the Dead, and its secondary effect has been reworked — when you have 3 Magus of the Dead under your control, you sacrifice them to summon Lord of the Dead for 15 sec., which fires Frostbolt that bounces between 2 enemies. Magi with more remaining duration grant increased power.
• Apex talent: Forbidden Knowledge (rank 3) updated — Magus of the Dead no longer grants stacking damage to Necrotic Coil and Graveyard. The effectiveness of Putrefy, activated by Dread Plague, increased to 100% (was: 60%).
• Soul Reaper updated — no longer consumes charges of Putrefy. Now consumes up to 3 charges of Lesser Ghoul to summon them instantly.
• Unholy Aura updated — Magus of the Dead now grants a Haste effect when it appears for 15 sec.
• Army of the Dead updated — summons or empowers Lesser Ghoul, forming an unholy army of 8 creatures for 30 sec. While the army is active, you command it through Scourge Strike, issuing orders based on nearby enemies instead of summoning Lesser Ghoul.

• Death Order — Lesser Ghoul strikes alongside you, dealing shadow damage to the target.
• Plague Order — Lesser Ghoul explodes with viscera, dealing shadow damage to nearby enemies. Damage is reduced when striking more than 5 targets.

• Menacing Magus gains an additional effect — the Frostbolt of your Lord of the Dead now bounces to 3 additional enemies.
• Damage of Lesser Ghoul increased by 10%.
• Damage of Lesser Ghoul from Army of the Dead reduced by 20%.
• Damage of Necrotic Coil increased by 20%.
• Damage of Graveyard increased by 20%.
• Commander of the Dead now allows Dark Transformation to increase the damage of your summoned creatures by 10%/20% for 30 sec. (was: 15%/30%).
• Ruptured Viscera now deals reduced damage when striking more than 5 targets.
• Players other than the death knight themselves now see no more than 3 Lesser Ghoul at once.
• Permafrost grants a shield equal to 35% of the damage dealt (was: 30%).

• Demon hunters can now use daggers.

Developers' Notes

This will allow the Demon Hunter (Devourer) to receive and use daggers with Intellect.

Devourer

Developers' Notes

We are lowering the mastery scaling of the Devourer, Mastery: Monster Within, so that other stats can compete with it, and compensating for this with an overall increase to ability damage. Because of this and several targeted changes, we expect damage during Void Metamorphosis to be slightly reduced, while damage outside of Void Metamorphosis will increase significantly.

• Mastery: Mastery: Monster Within updated — the damage bonus during Void Metamorphosis reduced by 66%.
• Damage of all abilities increased by 20%.
• Void Metamorphosis now increases the damage of Void Ray by 40% (was: 67%).
• Impending Apocalypse now allows each Collapsing Star to grant a 20% increase to the damage of the next one (was: 30%).
• Damage of Consume increased by 60% (does not affect Devour).

Havoc

• Demon Blades, Blade Dance, and Chaos Strike now require equipped paired blades, axes, swords, and fist weapons.
• New talent: Never Surrender — damage increased by 3% while your health is above 50%. Leech increased by 5% while your health is below 50%.
• Dash of Chaos has been removed.

Vengeance

• Fracture and Soul Cleave now require equipped paired blades, axes, swords, and fist weapons.
• Charred Warblades heals you for 5% of the fire damage you deal (was: 4%).
• Healing from Soul Cleave increased by 25%.
• Healing from Fel Devastation increased by 25%.
• Frailty allows you to heal for 10% of the damage dealt to affected targets (was: 8%).
• Healing from Feast of Souls increased by 25%.
• Revel in Pain allows 6% of your fire damage to grant you a shield (was: 5%).

• Absorb from Matted Fur increased by 25%.
• Healing from Wild Growth, empowered by Heart of the Wild, increased by 25%.

Balance

Developers' Notes

Our goal for Balance in "Curse of Ula'tek" is to emphasize its core gameplay: generating, spending, and banking Astral Power. In Midnight, Balance had high Astral Power generation and many free procs of its spending abilities, which left little GCD time available after using them. In "Curse of Ula'tek" we have lowered Astral Power generation and the number of free spending abilities, but increased the damage of each of them. The idea is to give more time to react to Astral Power gains and to make banking Astral Power outside of Eclipse to spend inside it more meaningful. We have also adjusted the power of some talents to increase build diversity.

• New passive ability, learned at level 42: Astral Insurance — if Moonfire and Sunfire are dispelled from a target, Stellar Flare is applied to it. Generates 12 Astral Power.
• Umbral Intensity updated — now always increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 10%.
• Apex talent: Ascendant Eclipses (rank 2) — the damage of Astral Smolder reduced to 10%/20% of the critical strike damage (was: 12%/24%), and its duration increased to 8 sec. (was: 6 sec.).
• All damage dealt increased by 4%.
• Damage of Starsurge increased by 10%.
• Damage of Starfall increased by 10%.
• Healing from Rejuvenation increased by 25%.
• Healing from Wild Growth increased by 25%.
• Healing from Regrowth increased by 25%.
• Celestial Fire increases the damage of Moonfire, Sunfire, and Shooting Stars by 10% (was: 8%).
• The effectiveness of Orbit Breaker reduced to 50% (was: 60%).
• The proc chance of Touch the Cosmos from Wrath reduced to 12% (was: 15%), and from Starfire — to 15% (was: 20%).
• The proc chance of Total Eclipse increased to 15%/30% (was: 10%/20%).
• Sculpt the Stars and Astral Communion have swapped places in the talent tree.
• Sculpt the Stars reduces the cooldown of Eclipse by 3 sec. (was: 2 sec.).
• Added a counter aura for Orbit Breaker, showing your progress toward casting Full Moon. This aura can be tracked in the Cooldown Manager and manually canceled to reset Orbit Breaker progress.
• Elune's Chosen
• Lunar Calling increases the damage of Starfire on your primary target by 100% (was: 120%).
• Keeper of the Grove
• Bounteous Bloom now extends the duration of an ancient Force of Nature by 4 sec. instead of adding a fourth treant.
• The Haste bonus from Cenarius' Might reduced to 6% (was: 8%).
• The Haste bonus from Potent Enchantments reduced to 6% (was: 10%).

Feral

Developers' Notes

The Feral changes in "Curse of Ula'tek" are aimed at talent diversity. We want Chomp to be stronger for those who enjoy it, and we are adjusting some other talents to bring their power closer together and open up more build options.

• The damage bonus from Saber Jaws increased to 60% per point (was: 50%).
• The damage bonus from Focused Frenzy reduced to 15% (was: 20%).
• The damage bonus from Rip and Tear increased to 20% (was: 15%).
• Damage of Chomp increased by 30%.
• The base proc chance of Apex Predator's Craving reduced to 4% (was: 5%).
• Healing from Rejuvenation increased by 25%.
• Healing from Wild Growth increased by 25%.
• Healing from Regrowth increased by 25%.

Restoration

Developers' Notes

In this update we are making a number of quality-of-life improvements for the Druid (Restoration) to address usability problems with Tranquility, Nature's Swiftness, and Incarnation: Tree of Life. We are also making several changes to Swiftmend to restore some of its power as a strong single-target heal. Finally, we want to address the problems with Abundance by reworking it with a clear threshold for when to use Regrowth.

• New talent: Overgrowth — Nature's Swiftness allows your next Regrowth to apply the periodic healing effect of Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, and Wild Growth to an ally.
• New talent: Flash of Clarity — Omen of Clarity increases the healing of Regrowth by 40%. Now available where Cultivation previously was.
• Cultivation is now available under Flash of Clarity in the talent tree.
• Innervate reworked — now restores 25% of the target's maximum mana over 8 sec. instead of making spells free for 8 sec.
• Abundance reworked — while you have at least 5 Rejuvenation effects active, the critical strike chance of Regrowth is increased by 50%, and its mana cost is reduced by 50%.
• Tranquility updated — protective roots now sprout at your feet, absorbing damage equal to 60% of your health and preventing knockback.
• Incarnation: Tree of Life updated — now, upon the initial transformation, it applies Regrowth to 3 nearby injured allies.
• Swiftmend updated — healing increased by 40% of the absorbed periodic healing effect.
• Everbloom (rank 3) updated — its healing effect now triggers when Swiftmend is used (was: Soul of the Forest).
• Verdant Infusion updated — no longer extends periodic healing effects.
• Germination updated — no longer increases the duration of Rejuvenation by 2 sec.
• Ysera's Gift updated — if its healing exceeds the druid's maximum health, the excess healing is instead transferred to a nearby ally.
• All healing from spells and abilities increased by 6%.
• Healing from Wild Growth increased by 20%.
• Mana cost of Wild Growth increased by 15%.
• Healing from Verdancy increased by 40%.
• Mana cost of Rejuvenation reduced by 10%.
• Mana cost of Regrowth reduced by 10%.
• Mana cost of Lifebloom reduced by 20%.
• Passing Seasons reduces the cooldown of Nature's Swiftness by 15 sec. (was: 12 sec.).
• Symbiotic Relationship now highlights on the action bar while it is not active.
• Germination and Verdancy have swapped places in the talent tree.
• Nature's Splendor has been removed.

Guardian

Developers' Notes

Our goals with these Druid (Guardian) changes are mainly about addressing problems with the specialization's damage composition and ability breakdown. In particular, we are reworking Lunation to remove the awkward rotational pressure it creates, and our adjustments to Gory Fur and Wild Guardian are meant to encourage greater balance between Rage-spending abilities, as well as to spread the apex talent's effect over a longer duration and a wider portion of the kit.

• Gory Fur reworked — Ironfur grants a chance to make your next Maul, Raze, or Ravage free. Maul, Raze, or Ravage grant a chance to make your next Ironfur free.
• Apex talent: Wild Guardian reworked (not yet implemented) —

• Rank 1: spending Rage grants a chance to awaken a Guardian Spirit for 8 sec., which attacks the nearest enemy and generates 3 Rage when you cast Thrash or Mangle.
• Rank 2: Mangle and Thrash deal 20%/40% more nature damage over 12 sec. Your mastery is increased by 3%/6%.
• Rank 3: when the spirit awakens, the cooldowns of Thrash and Mangle are reset. After casting Berserk or Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc, you gain 2 charges of Wild Guardian.
  • Wild Guardian: your next cast of Maul is guaranteed to awaken the spirit.

• Absorb from Brambles increased by 25%.
• Healing from After the Wildfire increased by 25%.
• Ursoc's Fury grants an absorb equal to 35% of the damage from Thrash and Maul (was: 30%).
• Elune's Favored heals you for 18% of the arcane damage dealt (was: 15%).
• Healing from Lunar Beam increased by 25%.
• Lunation reduces the cooldown of Lunar Beam by 20 sec. (was: 3 sec. for each arcane ability).
• Elune's Chosen
• Boundless Moonlight — Lunar Beam now allows you to leech 12% of the damage dealt to affected enemies (was: 10%).

Augmentation

Developers' Notes

The additional stopping power created by Upheaval from Duplicate distorted dungeon gameplay more than we would like, and could be frustrating in some situations due to its uncontrollable timing.

• Apex talent: Duplicate — the Upheaval applied by your Duplicate no longer knocks enemies into the air.
• Healing from Living Flame increased by 25%.
• Healing from Verdant Embrace increased by 25%.
• Healing from Emerald Blossom increased by 25%.
• Chronowarden
• Double-time updated — the additional stats granted on a critical strike of Ebon Might now last 15 sec. (taking into account mastery: Mastery: Timewalker). The interaction of Double-time with Prescience is unchanged.

Developers' Notes

The behavior where the stat bonus from a critical strike of Ebon Might lasted for the entire duration of Ebon Might shifted too much emphasis onto tracking the critical state of Ebon Might and created an unintuitive decision space around whether to refresh Ebon Might.

Devastation

Developers' Notes

The Devastation apex talent, for all its power, influenced gameplay less than we had hoped. We reworked the rank 3 effect so that, after Dragonrage ends, it replaces it with a limited number of uses of a powerful new spell — Unbound Flame. Additionally, Rising Fury and Risen Fury are merged into one effect. Try Unbound Flame on the PTR and tell us how this new spell feels!

• Rising Fury (rank 3) reworked — when Dragonrage ends, Rising Fury persists for 4 sec. per charge, and Dragonrage becomes Unbound Flame. Unbound Flame can be cast 4 times before Dragonrage finishes its cooldown.

• Unbound Flame — you exhale destructive flame, dealing critical fire damage to the target and nearby enemies. Damage is reduced when striking more than 5 targets. Generates 1 Essence Burst. Instant cast, 25 yd range.

• Tyranny updated — now interacts with Unbound Flame, allowing it to always gain the maximum benefit from mastery: Mastery: Giantkiller regardless of the targets' health.
• Healing from Living Flame increased by 25%.
• Healing from Verdant Embrace increased by 25%.
• Healing from Emerald Blossom increased by 25%.
• Risen Fury has been removed.

Preservation

Developers' Notes

The goal of this change is to make Dream Breath a flexible heal that can once again serve as a strong periodic heal or as burst healing when empowered. This also distinguishes it more strongly from spells like Verdant Embrace and Merithra's Blessing, which performed a similar role of on-demand burst healing.

• Merithra's Blessing updated — now increases all healing from Dream Breath by 60% (was: 250%, and applied only to its instant healing).
• Font of Magic updated — now also reduces the empower time of Dream Breath and Fire Breath by 20%.
• Instant healing from Dream Breath reduced by 50%.
• Periodic healing from Dream Breath increased by 118%.
• Absorb from Temporal Barrier increased by 30%.

• Damage of ranged auto shot increased by 600%.
• Hunter's Mark can now be applied to 5 targets (was: 1).

Developers' Notes

This change should let hunters more reliably apply the Hunter's Mark effect in raid or dungeon boss fights where there are multiple bosses, without needing to bring multiple hunters.

• Dark Ranger
• Damage of Bleak Arrows increased by 300%.
• Damage of Black Arrow from Withering Fire reduced by 40%.

Beast Mastery

Developers' Notes

The Hunter (Beast Mastery) felt a bit weak outside of the Bestial Wrath damage windows, so we are increasing their steady damage by empowering Kill Command, Cobra Shot, and Barbed Shot. We are increasing the duration of Beast Cleave to 10 sec., so you will be able to maintain 100% uptime in AoE situations while using Wild Thrash when it is available.

• Heart of the Pack has been renamed Razor Sharp and reworked — it increases the damage of your pet's Bite, Claw, and Smack by 100%.
• Piercing Fangs reworked — the critical damage of Kill Command increased by 15%.
• Bloody Frenzy updated — now reduces the periodic damage rate increase of Barbed Shot by 33% (was: 50%).
• Kill Cleave updated — Kill Command now ricochets for only 20% of its damage during Beast Cleave (was: 40%).
• Damage of Barbed Shot increased by 25%.
• Damage of Kill Command increased by 20%.
• Damage of Cobra Shot increased by 20%.
• Duration of Beast Cleave increased to 10 sec. (was: 8 sec.).
• Summons of Dire Beast can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Wild Instincts has been removed.
• Dark Ranger
• Summons of the Dark Hound can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.

Marksmanship

Developers' Notes

The last round of Hunter (Marksmanship) changes brought back Explosive Shot as a button players could choose, but it did not fit well with how the specialization plays. In Midnight Season 2, we are redesigning Explosive Shot and some of its supporting talents. The Headshot talent was also a source of frustration, so we are removing it and adjusting how Deathblow works to make it clearer when to follow up an Aimed Shot with a Kill Shot or Black Arrow. Finally, we are adjusting the Marksmanship apex talent nodes so that Aimed Shot is no longer a guaranteed critical strike, reducing the emphasis on Aimed Shot modifiers.

• New talent: Unstable Trigger — Explosive Shot can be used a second time if you do so within 3 sec. Explosive Shot includes all remaining damage from previous Explosive Shot on your target.
• Explosive Shot reworked — fires an explosive projectile at the target. Every 1 sec. for 3 sec., the target explodes, dealing fire damage to all enemies within 8 yd. Damage is reduced when striking more than 5 targets. Recasting Explosive Shot includes all remaining damage from previous Explosive Shot on your target.

Developers' Notes

We are changing the design of Explosive Shot quite a bit, trying to find a more distinct identity for it. The changes to Explosive Shot itself and its related talents should give it a special feel in-game compared to other core abilities.

• The visual effect of Explosive Shot has been updated.
• The tooltip of Explosive Shot has been updated and now includes contextual notes when Unstable Trigger is chosen.
• Precise Detonation reworked — Explosive Shot lasts 1 sec. longer.
• Unstable Trigger has been renamed Accuracy By Volume and reworked — the cooldown of Explosive Shot reduced by 10 sec.
• Accuracy By Volume and Unstable Trigger are now a choice node.
• Apex talent: Take Aim (rank 2) reworked — your critical damage increased by 5%/10%. Your ranged abilities deal 3%/6% more damage.
• Apex talent: Take Aim (rank 3) updated — Spotter's Mark now increases the damage of your next Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire on the target (was: only Aimed Shot).

Developers' Notes

The previous version of the Marksmanship apex talents put too much emphasis on Aimed Shot and its critical damage modifiers. This new version should interact better with a larger number of the specialization's abilities.

• Bulletstorm reworked — Rapid Fire now increases the damage of your next Aimed Shot by 20%.
• Accuracy By Volume reworked — Bulletstorm now affects your next 2 Aimed Shot.
• Deathblow updated — Aimed Shot now grants a chance for your next Aimed Shot to grant the Deathblow effect.

Developers' Notes

Our goal with the Deathblow changes for the Hunter (Marksmanship) is to make it clear when to follow up an Aimed Shot with a Kill Shot or Black Arrow, instead of leaving it uncertain which button to press. The 100% chance to gain the Deathblow effect from Rapid Fire is unchanged — you should always be able to follow up Rapid Fire with Kill Shot or Black Arrow.

• Aspect of the Hydra updated — Arcane Shot no longer ricochets.
• Damage of Aimed Shot increased by 20%.
• Damage of Rapid Fire increased by 20%.
• Damage of Arcane Shot increased by 20%.
• Damage of Multi-Shot increased by 20%.
• Damage of Kill Shot increased by 20%.
• Eagle's Accuracy is now a 1-point talent, increasing the damage of Aimed Shot by 5% (was: 10%) and Rapid Fire by 10% (was: 20%).
• Focused Aim now reduces the cooldown of Aimed Shot by 1 sec. (was: 2 sec.).
• Fixed an issue where Deathblow did not trigger at the expected rate when Aimed Shot was cast.
• Aimed Shot has a new icon.
• Some talents have changed positions in the second gate of the talent tree to make Explosive Shot easier to obtain.
• The Grit/Cunning talent node has been moved and is no longer required to reach Trueshot.
• Small Game Hunter is now a 2-point talent. Values are unchanged.
• The following talents have been removed:

• Double Tap
• Headshot

• Dark Ranger
• Through the Eyes reworked — increases the damage of Kill Shot and Black Arrow by 10%.
• Black Arrow is no longer highlighted when it can be cast on the target.
• Direct damage of Black Arrow reduced by 40%.
• Ebon Bowstring now allows Black Arrow to grant a chance for your next Aimed Shot to grant the Deathblow effect.
• Summons of the Dark Minion can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Sentinel
• Moon's Blessing now reduces the cooldown of Aimed Shot by only 1 sec. (was: 2 sec.).

Survival

• New talent: Razor's Edge — Raptor Strike, Raptor Swipe, and Kill Command gain 10% to their critical strike chance and 10% to their critical damage dealt.
• Primal Tide has been moved higher, to a more accessible spot in the talent tree.

Developers' Notes

We hope that simplifying access to this talent will open up more diversity in talent builds.

• Bloody Deluge has been removed.
• Sentinel
• Lethal Barbs updated — auto attacks now have a very high chance to generate 3 Focus instead of granting 1 Focus per auto attack.

Developers' Notes

The previous version of the Lethal Barbs talent favored using two weapons with the highest attack speed. We are changing it to a very high chance to generate 3 Focus, which should normalize Focus gains and allow the use of preferred weapon types.

• Scout's Vigil no longer increases the stealth detection radius while using Camouflage.

Developers' Notes

We are making a number of adjustments to mages' defensive abilities with the goal of improving the mage's survivability overall and slightly reducing the power of Glacial Bulwark.

• New talent: Enhanced Defenses — damage taken from area attacks reduced by 4%.
• Improved Prismatic Barrier updated — now grants an additional charge of Prismatic Barrier in addition to its former bonuses.
• Temporal Realignment updated — now instantly heals for 20% of your health and additionally heals for 30% over 6 sec.
• Spellslinger
• The tooltip of Spellfrost Teachings has been adjusted for clarity. Functionality is unchanged.
• Sunfury

Developers' Notes

We are reworking Rondurmancy, emphasizing improving your 3 orbs rather than granting 5 orbs, to more closely match the sources of inspiration for Sunfury and reduce visual clutter on your character. We are also removing the cap on Mana Cascade so that it matches other "casts can stack" effects.

• Rondurmancy reworked — your chance to create Spellfire Spheres increased by 6%/12%. Spellfire Spheres grant an additional 1% spell damage.
• Ashes of Inspiration reworked — each time your Phoenix casts a spell, you gain 1 charge of Mana Cascade. Exceptional spells grant 1 additional charge.
• Memory of Al'ar updated — Combustion and Arcane Surge no longer grant the mage twice as many charges of Mana Cascade.
• The orb generation chance of Spellfire Spheres reduced to 6% for Arcane and 12% for Fire (was: 12% and 25%).
• Mana Cascade no longer has a limit on the number of charges.
• Mana Cascade now also stacks when the mage casts Arcane Impulse or Prismatic Discharge.
• Fixed an issue for Arcane where Mana Cascade stacked from certain unintended spells.

Arcane

Developers' Notes

We are reworking the Mage (Arcane) apex talent to provide a more exciting visual moment and greater influence over your talent build and rotation. Arcane Impulse is also reworked to strengthen its identity as a meaningful AoE damage event and a way to quickly restore charges in AoE.

• New apex talent: Prismatic Discharge

• Rank 1: Arcane Barrage has a 1% chance per Arcane Charge spent by Arcane Salvo to trigger Prismatic Discharge. Prismatic Discharge crushes the target with overwhelming energy, dealing arcane damage to the target and reduced damage to nearby enemies. Damage is reduced when striking more than 5 targets. Generates 4 Arcane Charges. Not affected by talents and effects of Arcane Blast and does not scale its damage or mana cost with Arcane Charges.
• Rank 2: Prismatic Discharge has a 50%/100% chance to grant Clearcasting. Damage of Arcane Missiles increased by 15%/30%.
• Rank 3: Arcane Salvo grants an additional 1% chance to trigger Prismatic Discharge. Damage of Arcane Barrage increased by 15%.

• Arcane Impulse reworked — cast time reduced to 2 sec. (was: 2.25 sec.). Radius increased to 8 yd (was: 2 yd). Now has a 15-sec. cooldown, generates 1 Arcane Charge per enemy struck, and costs 10% of base mana. Its cast time, radius, mana cost, and cast speed no longer depend on Arcane Charges.
• Expanded Mind updated — casting Prismatic Discharge now grants 4 charges of Arcane Salvo.
• Impetus no longer affects Arcane Impulse.
• Prodigious Savant no longer affects Arcane Impulse.
• Touch of the Archmage has been removed.

Fire

Developers' Notes

Our goal with these changes is to shift the relative value of Fire's steady damage versus its burst damage in the Combustion window. It is important that time outside of Combustion remains meaningful and affects your overall effectiveness.

• Damage of Pyroblast increased by 15%.
• Damage of Flamestrike increased by 15%.
• Apex talent: Fevered Incantation (rank 1) now grants 2% to fire damage for 8 sec. (was: 4% for 12 sec.).
• Apex talent: Fevered Incantation (rank 2) now increases fire damage by 5%/10% (was: 3%/6%).
• Apex talent: Fevered Incantation (rank 3) — the proc chance during Combustion has been slightly reduced.

Frost

• Glacial Bulwark updated — no longer grants an additional charge of Ice Barrier.
• All damage dealt increased by 4%.
• Apex talent: Hand of Frost (rank 2) now grants 0.5%/1% to spell damage (was: 1%/2%).

Developers' Notes

Hand of Frost combined with the Frostfire hero talents granted more burst damage than we would like.

• Transfer the Power now allows Touch of Death to heal you for 60% of the damage it deals (was: 50%).
• Vivacious Vivification increases healing from Expel Harm by 6% (was: 5%).

Brewmaster

• The Stagger reduction from Staggering Strikes increased by 25%.
• The chance for Spirit of the Ox to create a healing sphere increased by 20%.
• Absorb from Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion increased by 25%.
• The maximum absorb value from Awakened Spirit increased by 25%.
• Invigorating Flame heals for 50% of the fire or nature damage dealt (was: 40%).
• The following effects are now tracked in the Cooldown Manager: Fuel the Fire, Hot Potato, Scalded, Crackling Jade Lightning, and Blessing of the August.

Mistweaver

Developers' Notes

We are making several adjustments to the Monk (Mistweaver) with the goal of making Mastery a more viable secondary stat and shifting some effectiveness from Spinning Crane Kick into Ancient Teachings.

• New talent: Vital Expenditure — healing from Soothing Mist increased by 300%, but mana cost increased by 200%. Choice node with Dancing Mists.
• All healing reduced by 3%.
• Mastery: healing from Mastery: Gust of Mists increased by 50%.
• Damage of Spinning Crane Kick reduced by 15%.
• Way of the Crane now transfers 280% of the damage dealt (was: 340%).
• Jade Flame Teachings now increase the amount transferred by Ancient Teachings by 320% (was: 270%).

Windwalker

Developers' Notes

We are making several adjustments to the Windwalker damage profile to close the gap between their steady damage and their high burst.

• Damage of melee auto attack increased by 30%.
• Damage of Zenith Stomp reduced by 30%.
• Damage of Blackout Kick increased by 50%.
• Damage of Tiger Palm increased by 200%.
• Damage of Dual Threat increased by 30%.
• Wind Weapon now increases damage during Zenith by 5% (was: 10%).
• Tiger's Eye Brew now increases critical damage by 5%/10% (was: 10%/20%).
• Healing from Vivify increased by 25%.
• Conduit of the Celestials
• Damage of Celestial Conduit reduced by 25%.
• Temple Training increases the damage of Fists of Fury and Spinning Crane Kick by 30% (was: 10%).

• Healing from Golden Path increased by 25%.
• Healing from Blessing of the Enlightened increased by 25%.
• Healing from Drawn to the Light increased by 25%.
• Lightsmith
• Healing from Rite of Adjuration increased by 25%.

Protection

Developers' Notes

With these changes we intend to lower the cost of choosing Sentinel and broaden the set of defensive talents. We are also shifting some power out of strong cooldown ability windows into baseline effectiveness, to reduce threat problems and improve the feel of combat outside of active-ability periods.

• New talent: Blessed Word — Word of Glory can no longer critically strike, but its healing is increased by your critical strike chance, and 80% of its overhealing directed at you instead wraps you in Light, granting an absorb shield.
• Improved Ardent Defender reworked — now increases maximum health by 20% while active, and no longer ends its remaining duration when you take fatal damage.
• Seal of Reprisal reworked — Blessed Hammer reduces the damage an enemy deals to you by 10% for 8 sec.
• Masterwork updated — after casting Holy Armaments, your next 3 casts of Hammer of the Righteous/Blessed Hammer/Crusader Strike grant a Lesser Armament of the same type to a nearby ally.
• Damage of Judgment increased by 100%.
• Damage of Consecration increased by 100%.
• Damage of Shield of the Righteous increased by 150%.
• Base damage of Hammer of the Righteous increased by 50%.
• Avenging Wrath increases damage dealt and healing by 10% and critical strike chance by 10%.
• Damage of Avenger's Shield increased by 30%.
• Damage of Lesser Armament increased by 50%.
• Damage of Hammer of Light reduced by 33%.
• Damage of Empyrean Hammer reduced by 33%.
• The effectiveness of Divine Toll from Divine Reckoning reduced to 80% (was: 150%).
• Duration of Sentinel increased to 20 sec.
• Undying Embers heal you for 125% of the damage dealt by Purifying Fire (was: 100%).
• Absorb from Bulwark of Order increased to 75% of the damage of Avenger's Shield (was: 60%).
• Solace allows Consecration to heal you for 375% of the damage it deals (was: 300%).
• Holy Armaments and Holy Bulwark extend their duration when reapplied by the same caster.
• Vanguard's Glory now deals damage as a percentage of the initial damage of Avenger's Shield.
• Sentinel has been moved and now inherits the critical strike bonus from Avenging Wrath.
• Sanctified Wrath has been removed.

Retribution

Developers' Notes

In addition to addressing the effectiveness spikes in ability windows, in "Curse of Ula'tek" we aim to smooth out the rotation by reducing the pressure to spend Art of War/Righteous Cause effects. Along with these changes, we are also removing some interactions with the Empyrean Fury effect that heavily influence the rotation and Holy Power economy. We believe this is a healthier direction for the Paladin (Retribution) that will give the player more choice and agency.

• Apex talent: Light Within (rank 1) gains an additional effect — Art of War and Righteous Cause can now stack one time higher each.
• Art of War updated — now increases the damage of Blade of Justice by 80% (was: 150%).
• Damage of Blade of Justice increased by 40%.
• Damage of Final Verdict increased by 15%.
• Damage of Divine Storm increased by 15%.
• Avenging Wrath now increases damage dealt and critical strike chance by 15% (was: 20%).
• Damage of Templar Strike increased by 50%.
• Damage of Templar Slash increased by 50%.
• Damage of Judgment increased by 50%.
• Damage of Hammer of Wrath increased by 50%.
• Judgment from Divine Toll now deals 50% more damage (was: 100%).
• Apex talent: Light Within (rank 3) — damage reduced by 25%.
• Healing from Flash of Light increased by 25%.
• Healing from Word of Glory increased by 25%.
• Healing from Eternal Flame increased by 25%.
• Art of War is no longer triggered by the additional attacks of Empyrean Fury.
• The additional attacks of Empyrean Fury no longer generate Holy Power when Crusading Strikes is chosen.
• Crusading Strikes now increase auto attack speed by 15% (was: reduced it by 20%).
• Execution Sentence — the area-of-effect radius increased to 10 yd and now includes the target's model radius (was: 8 yd).
• Templar
• Damage of Hammer of Light reduced by 30%. Does not affect PvP.
• Hammer of Light now costs 3 Holy Power (was: 5).

Discipline

Developers' Notes

For Discipline in "Curse of Ula'tek", our changes are aimed at reducing the specialization's reliance on procs for effective healing, improving its sources of steady damage, and improving the balance of the hero talents. We felt the specialization relied too heavily on procs of Shadow Mend and Void Shield for effective healing, so we are making Shadow Mend a passive improvement to Flash Heal and adding a deterministic way to access Void Shield. In addition, Smite contributes little to damage despite being cast frequently, so we are increasing its damage and updating the talent tree for easier access to Greater Smite.

• New talent: Grim Deliverance — Shadow Mend heals for 30% more and applies Atonement for an additional 4 sec., but its cast time is increased by 0.5 sec.
• The proc chance of Shadow Mend no longer depends on the damage of Shadow Word: Pain and has been reworked into a passive improvement — Flash Heal is upgraded to Shadow Mend, a stronger heal with a higher mana cost.
• Apex talent: Master of Darkness (rank 3) updated — Mind Blast now upgrades your next Power Word: Shield to Void Shield. The proc chance of Void Shield from Penance reduced to 25% (was: 33%).
• Apex talent: Master of Darkness (rank 3) updated — Void Shield now reflects 15% of the damage taken (was: 25%).
• Apex talent: Master of Darkness can now stack up to 2 charges.
• Healing from Flash Heal increased by 25%.
• Damage of Smite increased by 40%.
• Damage of Inescapable Torment reduced by 30%.
• Penance no longer applies Atonement when cast on an ally.

Developers' Notes

We updated Penance to apply Atonement with the launch of Midnight, but felt it played poorly, as it created too much friction between casting Penance on allies who need healing, allies who need Atonement applied, and enemies you want to deal damage to.

• Greater Smite is now a 1-point talent.
• Oracle
• Unfolding Vision reworked — when Power Word: Shield or Void Shield expires with remaining absorb, it jumps to the nearest injured ally. Can happen only once per shield.
• Voidweaver
• Damage of Void Blast increased by 25%.
• Damage of Voidwraith increased by 30%.
• Void Infusion now increases the Atonement healing from Void Blast and Penance by 75% while Entropic Rift is active (was: 50%).

Holy

• Archon
• Resonant Energy slightly reworked — creating Halo increases healing by 2% for 10 sec., stacking up to 4 times.
• Divine Hymn updated — now additionally grants Guardian Spirit while channeling.

Developers' Notes

We are adding a benefit to channeling Divine Hymn to make it easier to use. If you already have Guardian Spirit active on yourself, Divine Hymn will add 5 sec. to its duration. If the channel of Divine Hymn is interrupted early, as much time will be removed from the added duration as is left remaining.

Shadow

Developers' Notes

For Shadow in "Curse of Ula'tek", we intend to improve the gameplay of Voidform and add an additional source of multi-target damage to reduce the specialization's reliance on Psychic Link in AoE situations. For Voidform, we are updating Void Volley, making it an ability with a limited number of uses per Voidform, which leaves more room in the rotation and gives the option to use it at the most appropriate moment. We have also updated the talents that support Voidform so that their effects are more noticeable.

• New talent: Burst of Darkness — the Shadowy Apparitions floating toward your primary target explodes, dealing shadow damage to all enemies within 8 yd. Damage is reduced when striking more than 5 targets.
• Improved Voidform reworked — Voidform increases the damage of your spells by an additional 5% and grants 2 additional uses of Void Volley.
• Ancient Madness reworked — Shadow Word: Madness increases your Haste during Voidform by 2% and its duration by 1.5 sec., stacking up to 5 times. When Voidform ends, the Haste persists and fades over 10 sec.
• Voidform now grants 3 uses of Void Volley instead of Void Volley having a cooldown during Voidform.
• Absorb from Power Word: Shield increased by 25%.
• Phantasmal Threat has been removed.
• Archon
• Focused Outburst reworked — Void Volley deals 15% more damage, and casting Shadow Word: Madness during Voidform releases a Void Volley at your target.
• Resonant Energy slightly reworked — creating Halo increases the damage of your spells by 2% for 10 sec., stacking up to 4 times.

Class

• Thistle Tea is now a choice talent — players can choose between the existing version, which is applied automatically at low Energy and can additionally be used actively, and a new version that must be used actively.
• Atrophic Poison now reduces damage dealt by 4% (was: 3%).
• Duration of Atrophic Poison increased to 60 sec. (was: 10 sec.). In PvP the duration is unchanged.
• Fatebound
• Deal Fate now has a 60% chance to grant an extra combo point when Seal Fate triggers (was: 100%).

Assassination

Developers' Notes

We are making a number of changes to the Assassination Energy economy in "Curse of Ula'tek". We are not satisfied with how the rank 1 apex talent Inevitability plays — it is unintuitive to intentionally let Envenom fall off for optimal play. We are updating its design so that refreshing Envenom later is consistently the best way to play, and we are giving it steady Energy-restoration value. We are also making some changes aimed at increasing talent build options.

• New talent: Unstable Toxin — the damage of Envenom increased by 18%, but its duration reduced by 2 sec.
• Apex talent: Inevitability (rank 1) updated — the damage of Envenom increased by 10%. Envenom now restores 2 Energy per combo point spent.
• Internal Bleeding updated — now triggers from casting Kidney Shot and Rupture, rather than also being applied when Rupture is copied by Blood Storm. Damage increased by 10%.
• Iron Wire updated — Garrote cast from stealth or during the Improved Garrote window now silences the target for 5 sec. The damage reduction behavior is unchanged.
• Dashing Scoundrel updated — the Envenom effect now also increases the critical strike chance of your weapon poisons by 10% (was: 5%). Your Energy generation is increased by 4% per lethal poison on your weapons.
• All damage dealt increased by 3%.
• Deathmark increases the damage of your Rupture, Garrote, and lethal poisons by 75% (was: 100%).
• Damage of Kingsbane reduced by 15%.
• Shrouded Suffocation increases the damage of Garrote by 30% (was: 20%).
• Rejection increases the damage of Rupture by 25% (was: 20%).
• Driven Assassin — Energy increased to 30% (was: 20%).
• Quick Injection — the damage bonus increased to 20%/40% (was: 15%/30%).
• Venomous Wounds generate more Energy when multiple targets are affected by your bleeds.
• The proc chance of Blindside reduced to 10% (was: 15%) and to 20% when the target is at low health (was: 30%).
• The visual effect of Poison Bomb has been adjusted so that other important visual effects on top of it are easier to distinguish.
• Several talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
• Deadly Momentum has been removed.

Outlaw

Developers' Notes

The Outlaw changes in "Curse of Ula'tek" are meant to improve the diversity and flexibility of talent builds. We have boosted the power of some ineffective talents and weakened those that could feel "mandatory". The damage of Killing Spree has been significantly increased, because the damage it dealt was not sufficiently higher than using other abilities during its channel. This talent should now increase your overall damage roughly the same as other comparable talents.

• Improved Between the Eyes updated — critical strikes of Between the Eyes now deal 2.5 times normal damage (was: 3 times).
• Quick Draw updated — now reduces the cooldown of Between the Eyes by 8 sec. (was: 5 sec.) and increases the damage bonus from each charge of Between the Eyes by 1%.
• Damage of Killing Spree increased by 60%.
• Heavy Hitter increases the damage of attacks that generate combo points by 15%/30% (was: 10%/20%).
• The value of Precision per charge reduced to 2% (was: 3%).

Developers' Notes

We do not want players to feel obligated to use daggers in the off-hand to maximize the value of this talent. Precision now has a 30% chance to fail to trigger when triggered from a weapon with a speed of 1.8, giving it the same proc rate when attacking with daggers and other one-handed weapons.

• The chance for Hidden Opportunity to have Ambush grant Opportunity increased to 100% (was: 80%) of the chance for Sinister Strike to grant Opportunity.
• Added new connectors between Ruthlessness and Find Weakness, as well as between the Flickering Steel choice node and Grand Melee.

Subtlety

• Relentless Strikes now generate 4 Energy per combo point spent on finishing moves (was: 5 Energy).
• Shadow Mastery no longer stores 1 additional combo point. The proc rate bonus from auto attacks increased to 75% (was: 40%).

Developers' Notes

Energy and combo point generation during ability windows was often excessive. These reductions are meant to reduce instances of resource overflow while still preserving strong relative generation in these windows.

• Lingering Shadow now also applies to Shuriken Storm.
• The tooltip of Shadow Dance has been updated to include its threat-reduction effect.
• Apex talent: Ancient Arts now accounts for the total damage of Secret Technique when creating a shadow clone, rather than only its initial strike.
• Fixed an issue where the damage from the secondary strikes of Secret Technique was attributed to summoned pets instead of the attacking rogue.

• Ascendance has a new icon for all three specializations.
• Farseer

Developers' Notes

In a previous tuning hotfix for the Shaman (Elemental), the Farseer spirits received a small change to scale with the Elemental Fury talent. We are changing several more places where they did not scale the same way as the shaman's abilities.

• Chain Lightning now strikes up to 5 targets (was: 3).
• Lava Burst now also increases damage by a percentage equal to your critical strike chance.

Elemental

Developers' Notes

The Shaman (Elemental) burst damage during the Ascendance window is higher than we would like with the Midnight changes. We do not want Ascendance to stop being a noticeable damage amplifier, but the combination of effects amplifying the damage of your Elemental Awakening from both Ascendance and the apex talents stacked on top of one another. We are distributing much more damage across your spells to consistently deal higher damage, while still preserving a satisfying burst during Ascendance.

• Power of the Maelstrom reworked — Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning have a 15% chance to allow your next Lava Burst to deal 20% more damage, stacking up to 2 times. Lava Burst consumes one charge at a time.

Developers' Notes

Supercharge and Power of the Maelstrom were both additional random Elemental Awakenings. We believe the other changes will make your damage more consistent, while still allowing other parts of the talent tree to increase the number or power of Elemental Awakening spells.

• Stormkeeper reworked — your next 2 Lightning Bolt become instant and deal 150% more damage, or your next 2 Chain Lightning become instant and trigger Elemental Awakening on all targets struck.
• Damage of Lava Burst increased by 30%. Does not affect PvP.
• Damage of Lightning Bolt increased by 30%. Does not affect PvP.
• Damage of Chain Lightning increased by 60%.
• Damage of Flame Shock increased by 60%.
• Direct damage of Tempest reduced by 20%.
• Healing from Healing Surge increased by 25%.
• Healing from Earth Shield increased by 25%.
• Healing from Healing Stream Totem increased by 25%.
• Ascendance now increases the damage of Elemental Awakening by 30% (was: 75%).
• The bonus Lava Burst triggered when Ascendance activates now grant 50% of the normal value (was: 100%).
• Molten Fury now increases the damage of Lava Burst by 10% (was: 15%).
• Apex talent: Feedback Loop (rank 1) now increases the damage of Elemental Awakening by 10% (was: 35%) and also increases nature damage dealt by 10%.
• Apex talent: Feedback Loop (rank 2) now grants 15%/30% to critical damage (was: 25%/50%).
• Casts of Elemental Blast from Fusion of Elements now grant only 40% of the normal duration of the stat bonuses from Elemental Blast (was: 100%).
• Fixed an issue where Voltaic Blaze did not receive the proper effect from the critical damage bonus of Elemental Fury.
• Fixed an issue where Elemental Resonance did not affect periodic nature damage.
• Fixed an issue where the apex talent Feedback Loop (rank 2) did not properly increase the critical damage of several Shaman (Elemental) spells.
• Stormcaller
• Supercharge reworked — the overloads of Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Tempest deal 10% more damage.

Enhancement

• Healing from Healing Surge increased by 25%.
• Healing from Earth Shield increased by 25%.
• Healing from Healing Stream Totem increased by 25%.

Restoration

• Healing Rain now has a 12-sec. cooldown and an 18-sec. duration. Recasting Healing Rain while one is already active will dispel the previous one. This cooldown change does not affect the Healing Rain from Surging Totem of the Totemic hero talents.

Developers' Notes

This change should give the player more flexibility in moving Healing Rain when desired.

• Demonic Gateway is now a utility spell by default in the Cooldown Manager.
• Hellcaller

Developers' Notes

We are updating Blackened Soul to give the Hellcaller a better tool for focusing damage on a priority target, increasing the overall flexibility of the hero talent tree, rather than having it shine only in multi-target situations. At the same time, we are keeping the functionality of Malevolence unchanged, so it remains a cool and meaningful tool in the Hellcaller's kit.

• Blackened Soul reworked — if a target is affected by your Wither, your Chaos Bolt and Shadowburn increase its number of stacks by 1. Each time Wither gains a stack, it has a chance to collapse, consuming one stack every 1 sec. to deal shadowflame damage to its bearer until 1 stack remains.
• Mark of Peroth'arn reworked — critical strikes dealt by Wither deal 215% damage instead of the normal 200%. Critical strikes dealt by Blackened Soul deal 225% damage instead of the normal 200%.

Destruction

• Conflagration of Chaos reworked — Incinerate and Shadowburn have a 100% chance to critically strike, and their damage is increased by your critical strike chance.
• Conflagration of Chaos has been removed from the Cooldown Manager.
• Apex talent: Cinders of Nihilam (rank 1) — the tooltip has been updated to show players the percentage chance that Incinerate will trigger Echo of Sargeras.

Developers' Notes

Rend is an iconic and core warrior ability with a different relationship to each specialization. Our approach to Rend in Midnight did not work out as we had hoped, so we are changing how each specialization applies and interacts with Rend in "Curse of Ula'tek".

• The Rend ability is now exclusive to Arms, has returned to single-target effect, and its Rage cost has been reduced to 10. Cleave will apply Rend to all targets if the warrior knows Rend.
• New talent (Fury): Blood Storm — Whirlwind applies Rend to all targets. Crashing Thunder allows Blood Storm to also apply to Thunder Clap for Mountain Thane.
• New talent (Protection): Blood and Thunder — Thunder Clap applies Rend to all targets.
• Thunder Clap no longer applies Rend on its own if it is learned.
• Spearman has a new icon.

Arms

• Ravager updated:

Developers' Notes

Ravager is a unique ability, and we want Ravager itself and its positioning to matter, but the current design places more emphasis on its value as an area-of-effect damage amplifier than on Ravager itself. We are slightly reworking Ravager to address this, as well as to increase its value in all combat situations.

• Damage of Ravager increased by 50%.
• Ravager no longer increases the damage of Cleave and Whirlwind while active. Ravager now causes all enemies it strikes to take 25% more damage from your bleeds for 12 sec.
• The duration of Ravager is no longer reduced by Haste.

• Bloodletting updated — your abilities have a 5% greater chance to critically strike targets affected by Rend. If you know Rend, Mortal Strike applies Rend to targets with health below 35%. Deep Wounds last 33% longer.
• Sweeping Strikes updated — Colossus Smash now grants 6 charges of Sweeping Strikes when used.

• Charges of Sweeping Strikes from the Sweeping Strikes ability and from Sweeping Strikes stack normally, regardless of the order in which they are used.

• Sweeping Strikes now displays the number of active charges of Sweeping Strikes.
• Improved Cleave has been removed.
• Mass Execution and Overwhelming Finale are now on a choice node with each other.
• Battlelord and Tactician have swapped places in the tree.
• Colossus

Developers' Notes

The variable cooldown of Demolish proved to be more annoying than interesting, so we are changing it to align closely with Colossus Smash, allowing the Warrior (Arms, Colossus) to coordinate their use for maximum devastation.

• Tide of Battle increases the damage of Overpower and Execute (was: only Overpower).
• Cooldown of Demolish reduced to 30 sec. (was: 45 sec.).
• Dominance of the Colossus no longer reduces the cooldown of Demolish.

Fury

• Whirlwind updated:

Developers' Notes

Whirlwind has historically been a core part of Fury gameplay, even in single-target situations. We want to open up the possibility for Whirlwind to once again be a useful single-target ability.

• Whirlwind now generates 3 Rage on its own.
• Improved Whirlwind updated — no longer causes Whirlwind to generate 3 Rage on its own, but still increases the Rage generation from Whirlwind by 1 per target struck, up to 8 Rage total.
• New talent: Slicing Blades — Whirlwind deals 50% more damage when it strikes only one target. Talent on a choice node with Meat Cleaver.

• Devastating Devastation reworked — while Improved Whirlwind is active, the final blow of Rampage crashes down to the ground, dealing physical damage to all enemies within 8 yd of your target. Damage is reduced when striking more than 5 targets.

Developers' Notes

Devastating Devastation is meant to help loosen the target cap on Fury's AoE rotational abilities. The current design proved very difficult to understand regarding when it is best to use Devastating Devastation; the new design should make this choice much more intuitive.

• Hack and Slash updated — Rampage now has a 75% chance to return a charge of Raging Blow and increases the damage of your next Raging Blow by 20%.

Developers' Notes

We believe Fury plays best when there is a degree of uncertainty about which ability you use after the current one. Previous iterations of Hack and Slash provided extremely regular and consistent resets of Raging Blow, which made Raging Blow available almost always. We believe this change will help preserve the variability of Fury rotations and allow more difference in feel between builds that emphasize Raging Blow and those that do not.

• Mountain Thane

Developers' Notes

The base damage of Thunder Clap grew significantly in Midnight, which caused the overall damage of Thunder Clap for Mountain Thane to rise sharply, which in turn devalued Thunder Blast. We are shifting the damage bonus from Crashing Thunder into Thunder Blast itself to preserve the feeling of specialness and power of Thunder Blast.

• Damage of Thunder Blast increased by 40%.
• Crashing Thunder increases the damage of Thunder Clap by 10% (was: 30%).

Protection

• Devastator updated — now increases the damage of Revenge and Execute on the target (was: only Revenge).
• Bloodborne updated — now increases the damage of all bleeds (was: only Rend and Deep Wounds).
• Fueled by Violence heals you for 125% of the damage from bleeds (was: 110%).
• The absorb value of Ignore Pain increased by 25%.
• Brutal Vitality adds 10% of the damage dealt to Ignore Pain (was: 8%).
• Ravager updated:

Developers' Notes

Ravager is a unique ability, and we want Ravager itself and its positioning to matter, but the current design places more emphasis on its value as an area-of-effect damage amplifier than on Ravager itself. We are slightly reworking Ravager to address this, as well as to increase its value in all combat situations.

• Damage of Ravager increased by 50%.
• Ravager no longer increases the damage of Revenge and Thunder Clap while active. Ravager now causes all enemies it strikes to take 25% more damage from your bleeds for 12 sec. The duration is reduced to 4 sec. with Storm of Steel.
• The duration of Ravager is no longer reduced by Haste.

• Colossus

Developers' Notes

The variable cooldown of Demolish is difficult to fit smoothly into the Protection rotation, so we are making the cooldown fixed, so that Demolish is more reliably available for burst damage or additional damage reduction.

• Cooldown of Demolish reduced to 30 sec. (was: 45 sec.).
• Dominance of the Colossus no longer reduces the cooldown of Demolish.
• Tide of Battle increases the damage of Revenge and Execute (was: only Revenge).
• Mountain Thane

Developers' Notes

The base damage of Thunder Clap grew significantly in Midnight, which caused the overall damage of Thunder Clap for Mountain Thane to rise sharply, which in turn devalued Thunder Blast. We are shifting the damage bonus from Crashing Thunder into Thunder Blast itself to preserve the feeling of specialness and power of Thunder Blast.

• Damage of Thunder Blast increased by 40%.
• Crashing Thunder increases the damage of Thunder Clap by 10% (was: 30%).