Class Changes Patch 12.0.5 — April 22 2026

Frost

• Chosen of Frostbrood (Rank 3) has been updated – When Frostwyrm's Fury is recalled, it now grants the full Haste bonus at 50% duration instead. The ability used to recall Frostwyrm’s Fury is no longer on the global cooldown.
• Deathbringer
• Echoing Fury secondary effect has been redesigned – Casting Reaper's Mark grants 1 stack of Exterminate with 100% first scythe and 100% second scythe effectiveness.
• Exterminate has been updated – After Reaper's Mark explodes, your next 2 Obliterates or Frostscythes cost 1 Rune and summon 2 scythes to strike the enemies. The rest of the effect remains the same.

Unholy

• New Talent: Cycle of Death – Putrefy reduces the cooldown of Death and Decay by 1 second. Death and Decay reduces the cooldown of Putrefy by 0.3 seconds for each enemy it damages, up to 3 seconds.
• Raise Abomination has been updated – Disease Cloud no longer causes enemies to take increased damage from minions. Now deals Plague damage periodically to nearby enemies.
• Putrid Echoes has an additional effect – Putrefy now consumes up to 2 available charges on cast.
• Lesser Ghoul damage reduced by 17%.
• Scourge Strike now applies Virulent Plague in addition to spreading it.
• Pestilence renamed to Blightfall and now overrides Dark Transformation instead of Outbreak.
• Necrotic Coil's Shadowstrike damage now prefers the primary target.
• Some talents have changed locations in the talent tree.
• The following talents have been removed:
• Blightfall
• March of Madness
• Scythe of Decay
• Rider of the Apocalypse
• Unholy Armaments has an additional effect – Your Ghoul and skeletal archer deal 10% and Lesser Ghouls deal 20% increased damage.
• A Feast of Souls has been updated – While you have 2 or more Horsemen aiding you, your Death Coil deals 20% and Epidemic deals 20% increased damage.
• San'layn
• Frenzied Bloodthirst has been updated – Essence of the Blood Queen increases the damage of your Death Coil and Death Strike by 3%, and Epidemic by 3% per stack.
• Thrill of Blood has an additional effect – Dread Plague deals 5% and Virulent Plague deals 5% increased damage.
• Desecrate has been updated – Death and Decay deals its damage 100% faster.

• Demon Hunters can now further customize their appearance with new eye options: a new void blue eye color and a flameless option for both fel green and void blue eyes.

Devourer

• Spontaneous Immolation has been redesigned – Soul Immolation heals for an additional 6% of your maximum health over its duration and its cooldown is reset upon killing an enemy that yields experience or honor.
• Soul Immolation has been updated – No longer deals self-damage. Now heals for 24% of your maximum health over its duration.
• Sweet Suffering has been updated – Now increases the duration of Feast of Souls by 1 second/2 seconds (was 2 seconds/4 seconds).
• Eradicate now deals separate damage to its primary target and its area damage targets.
• Feast of Souls is no longer capped at 20 stacks.
• Removing Grim Focus via a macro or right-clicking the aura will prevent it from being reapplied for 10 seconds.
• Void-Scarred
• Burning Blades has been updated – Now affects Hungering Slash (was Reap) and now additionally increases Reap's damage by 20%.
• Untethered Fury has been updated – Now increases Void Ray damage by 15%.
• Monster Rising has been updated – Now increases Collapsing Star damage by 15%.
• Violent Transformation has been updated – Now additionally causes the Hunt to deal 25% increased damage and reset the cooldown of Soul Immolation.
• Student of Suffering increases Mastery by 4% (was 8%) and grants 2 Fury (was 5 Fury).
• Blind Focus increases Cosmic damage dealt by 2% (was 3%).

Vengeance

• Feast of Souls now heals instantly upon activating Soul Cleave (was heal over 6 seconds).
• Untethered Rage trigger effect now lasts 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Fracture base cooldown reduced to 5.5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Annihilator
• Celestial Echoes now causes Fracture to generate 3 additional Fury and deal 25% increased damage (was 5 Fury and 30% damage).

Balance

• Meteorites has been updated – Every time Starfall drops a wave of stars, a meteorite also falls on up to 2 targets in its range, each dealing Astral damage.
• Meteorite projectile damage reduced by 30%.

Feral

• Unseen Predator (Rank 1) now has an additional effect – Unseen Attack damage is reduced if less than 5 combo points and 50 Energy are spent on Ferocious Bite.
• Unseen Predator (Rank 2) has been updated – Unseen Attacks increase your damage done by 8%/15% for 1 second per combo point spent to trigger it. Additional applications extend this effect.
• Unseen Predator (Rank 3) has been updated – Tiger's Fury causes you to perform an Unseen Attack for maximum damage after your next 2 combo point generating attacks. Rip and Unseen Attack damage increased by 30%.
• Unseen Slash and Unseen Swipe base damage increased by 25%.

Guardian

• Wild Guardian (Rank 2) now grants 1 charge/2 charges of Dream Guide or Dream of Cenarius.
• Wild Guardian (Rank 3) now empowers Maul, causing it to deal 40% additional damage over time.
• Galactic Guardian’s interaction with Red Moon has been updated – Stacks of Lunar Wrath are now consumed upon spending 20 Rage.
• Regrowths cast by Dream Guide now heal for an additional 100%.

Restoration

• Everbloom (Rank 2) has been redesigned – When Lifebloom's final bloom occurs, it heals 6 allies within 40 yards for 25%/50% of its healing amount.
• Everbloom (Rank 3) Blooming Frenzy now triggers 3 times (was 5).
• Wrath damage increased by 40%.
• Starfire damage increased by 40%.
• Starsurge damage increased by 40%.
• Sunfire damage increased by 25%.
• Moonfire damage increased by 25%.

• New Ability: Battle Visage – Activate to automatically assume your Visage whenever you are not casting draconic spells such as Fire Breath and Soar.
• Full list of abilities that temporarily shift you to Dracthyr: Deep Breath, Dream Flight, Breath of Eons, Fire Breath, Eternity Surge, Dream Breath, Upheaval, Hover, Spatial Paradox, Rescue, Zephyr, Verdant Embrace (without Dream Simulacrum talented), and Soar.
• Many abilities that used to force a shift to Dracthyr have adjusted visual treatments for Visage form.
• While active, Battle Visage also applies a camera height override to Dracthyr form to prevent the camera from adjusting rapidly when shifting between forms.
• Unravel damage increased by 300%.
• Blessing of the Bronze is now castable on friendly players who are not in your party or raid group, similar to other group buffs like Arcane Intellect.
• Fixed an issue where Twin Guardian was applying its bonus at the start of Rescue rather than upon landing.

Augmentation

• New Talent: Mighty Inferno – Inferno’s Blessing’s damage is increased by 40%, and your effects that extend Ebon Might also extend Inferno’s Blessing.
• Inferno’s Blessing will now correctly always apply to the casting Evoker, and will no longer apply to pets.
• Regenerative Chitin has a new icon.
• Molten Embers has been removed.
• Chronowarden
• New Talent: Chronal Dynamo – Living Flame’s cast time is reduced by 0.2 seconds, and it deals 50% increased damage or healing when it is a non-instant cast.
• Energy Cycles has been removed.

Preservation

• New Talent: Temporal Barrier – Summon a vortex of temporal energy, absorbing 900% spell power and applying Echo at 30% effectiveness on your target and up to 4 allies within 40 yards.
• Temporal Anomaly now has an additional effect – Applies Echo at 30% effectiveness on the first 5 allies it passes through.
• Fluttering Seedlings has been redesigned slightly – Emerald Blossom sends out 1/2 flying seedlings when it bursts, plus up to 2/4 additional seedlings if Emerald Blossom heals fewer than 5 allies. Each seedling heals an ally up to 40 yards away.
• Fluttering Seedlings healing increased by 67%.
• Fluttering Seedlings is now considered a Green spell and its healing is increased by Ouroboros.
• Life-giver's Flame now also functions with Deep Breath, causing the first 5 targets hit to heal nearby allies for 80% of damage done.
• All healing reduced by 5%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
• Verdant Embrace mana cost reduced by 27%.
• Resonating Sphere has been removed.
• Chronowarden
• New Talent: Chronal Dynamo – Living Flame’s cast time is reduced by 0.2 seconds, and it deals 50% increased damage or healing when it is a non-instant cast.
• Energy Cycles has been removed.

Marksmanship

• New Talent: Explosive Shot – Fires an explosive shot at your target. After 3 seconds, the shot will explode, dealing Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• New Talent: Shrapnel Shot – Casting Explosive Shot has a 100% chance to grant Lock and Load.
• New Talent: Precision Detonation – When Aimed Shot damages a target affected by your Explosive Shot, Explosive Shot instantly explodes, dealing 20% increased damage.
• Precise Shots has been updated – No longer reduces the global cooldown and no longer provides bonuses to auto shot. Damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 100%). Now affects Kill Shot and Black Arrow at 100% effectiveness.
• Windrunner Quiver has been redesigned – Consuming Precise Shots has a 30% chance to grant Precise Shots. The damage bonus of Precise Shots is increased by an additional 15%.
• Unmatched Precision has been updated – Now increases Precise Shots damage by 10%/20% (was 20%/40%).
• Small Game Hunter has been updated – Now increases Explosive Shot damage by 15% and Volley damage by 25%.
• Eagle's Accuracy has been updated – Now increases Aimed Shot damage by 5%/10% and Rapid Fire damage by 10%/20%.
• Steady Shot damage increased by 100%.
• Arcane Shot damage increased by 33%.
• Multi-Shot damage increased by 33%.
• The following talents have been removed:
• Bullet Hell
• In the Rhythm
• Lethality
• Target Acquisition
• Sentinel
• Can't Miss Won't Miss has been updated – Now increases Precise Shots damage by 10% (was 40%).

Survival

• Sic 'Em has been updated – Now triggers from Strike as One critical strikes (was Kill Command).
• Lunge has been updated – No longer grants Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction. Now additionally grants 2% Agility, increased by an additional 2% while dual-wielding.
• Shrapnel Bomb has been updated – Now additionally causes Wildfire Bomb to grant 15 Focus over 3 seconds.
• Takedown now communicates that it removes Root effects from your pet.
• Pack Leader
• Hogstrider has been redesigned – Each time your Boar deals damage, the damage of your next Boomstick is increased by 5%, up to 20%.
• Hoof and Blade has been redesigned – Now increases Hogstrider's damage bonus by 2%.
• Sharpened Fangs has been updated – Now additionally increases the damage Wildfire Bomb deals to its primary target by 15%.
• Lethal Barbs now grants 1 Focus (was 2 Focus).

Arcane

• Arcane Pulse cast time is now 2.25 seconds (was 1.75 seconds) and its cast time is reduced by 8% for each Arcane Charge you have.
• Fixed an issue where Arcane Missiles with Aether Attunement talented or an Overpowered Missiles proc would target critters and pull them into combat, but not deal damage to them.

Frost

• Icicles has been updated – No longer generates rapidly out of combat.
• Glacial Spike now has a duration of 60 seconds (was unlimited).
• Frozen Orb can now be cast without a target selected.
• Fixed an issue causing Freezing Rain's effect duration to not match the duration of Frozen Orb.

Brewmaster

• Master of Harmony
• Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Celestial Brew or Celestial Infusion grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge. Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
• Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Keg Smash grants a charge of Potential Energy.
• Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
• Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.

Mistweaver

• All healing reduced by 5%.
• Sheilun's Gift's healing is increased by 5% per cloud consumed (was 10%).
• Spiritfont now causes Enveloping Mist to be instant cast.
• Way of the Serpent no longer causes Soothing Mist and Crackling Jade Lightning to be cast while moving. This is now default behavior.
• Emperor’s Elixir’s tooltip has been adjusted to better reflect its effect.
• Conduit of the Celestials
• Inner Compass now rotates its stances on an 8 second timer.
• Master of Harmony
• Harmonic Surge has been redesigned – Casting Thunder Focus Tea grants 2 charges of Potential Energy. Your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify consumes all charges of Potential Energy to cause a Harmonic Surge.
• Harmonic Surge: For each charge of Potential Energy, deal Nature damage to your target and nearby enemies, and heal up to 5 allies. Damage and healing increased per stack of Potential Energy consumed.
• Potential Energy has been redesigned – Casting Rising Sun Kick or Rushing Wind Kick grants a charge of Potential Energy.
• Coalescence’s tooltip has been adjusted for clarity, and it now applies its own distinct periodic healing and damage effect.
• Several tooltips have been updated to clarify that they interact with both Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion.

Windwalker

• Crashing Fists has been redesigned – Fists of Fury damage is increased by 20% (was extends duration by 1 second).
• Tigereye Brew (Rank 1) has been redesigned – Every 3 Chi spent generates Tigereye Brew. Zenith consumes up to 20 Tigereye Brew stacks to increase your critical strike chance for its duration by 1% per stack. Generates quickly up to 10 stacks while out of combat and may generate up a maximum of 30 stacks.
• Tigereye Brew (Rank 3) has been redesigned – Zenith now grants access to 2 additional Zenith Stomps.
• Xuen's Battlegear may now additionally trigger from Spinning Crane Kick, reducing the cooldown of Fists of Fury by 0.5 seconds for each unique target struck, up to 2.5 seconds.
• Zenith Stomp now generates 2 Chi.
• Zenith no longer generates 2 Chi on cast.

• Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Spellwarding now show on Raid Frames when Center Big Defensives is enabled in the Raid Frames Interface menu.

Holy

• Holy Shock healing increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Word of Glory healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Eternal Flame healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Light of Dawn healing increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Greater Judgment absorb increased by 250%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Beacon of the Savior (Rank 3) now causes Flash of Light and Holy Light to move Beacon of the Savior to their target once per 5 seconds.
• Herald of the Sun
• Walk Into Light has been redesigned – Now increases the chance for Infusion of Light to occur by 100% during Avenging Wrath.
• Lightsmith
• Holy Armaments now generate 3 Holy Power.

Discipline

• Atonement now causes spell damage to heal all targets affected by Atonement for 28% of damage done (was 35%). Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Void Shield absorption increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Flash Heal healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Shadow Mend healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Plea healing increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Holy

• All healing done increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

• New Talent: Sanguine Vial – When you deal the killing blow to a target that yields experience or honor, the cooldown of Crimson Vial is reduced by 15 seconds and your next use heals 5% of your health instantly.
• Airborne Irritant has been updated – Blind has 50% reduced cooldown, 70% reduced duration, and applies to all nearby enemies.

Assassination

• New Talent: Negotiable Contract – If the target of your Deathmark dies, Deathmark jumps to a nearby enemy combatant for its remaining duration.

• Deathstalker

• Deathstalker's Mark has been updated – Garrote applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker's Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker's Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker's Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
• Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker's Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.
• Trickster
• Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Adrenaline Rush creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks from within the cloud to apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud.

Outlaw

• Ace Up Your Sleeve has been updated – Between the Eyes has a 3%/6% chance (was 5%) per combo point spent to grant 4 combo points (was 2/4) and reset its own cooldown.
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• Deathstalker
• Deathstalker's Mark has been updated – Shadowstrike applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker's Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker's Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker's Mark, dealing 120% Plague damage.
• Mark for Death: Move your active Deathstalker's Mark to your target. 10 yard range, 20 second cooldown, 25 Energy, and not on the global cooldown.
• Trickster
• Cloud Cover has been updated – Activating Shadow Blades creates a cloud of smoke for 10 seconds, allowing attacks from within the cloud to apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 10 seconds after leaving the cloud.

Enhancement

• Overflowing Maelstrom secondary effect has been updated – Each Maelstrom Weapon stack consumed grants Overflowing Maelstrom, reducing the cast time and increasing the healing of your next Healing Surge or Chain Heal by 10%. Overflowing Maelstrom can accumulate up to 20 stacks, benefiting each cast by up to 10 stacks.
• The names of Raging Maelstrom and Overflowing Maelstrom talents have been swapped to better reflect their effects.

Restoration

• All healing done increased by 8%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
• All damage dealt increased by 30%.

• Rend radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
• Wrecking Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Absorb shield.
• Shattering Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active Immunity effect, or a Mage’s Ice Wall.

Arms

• Mortal Wounds now triggers from Mortal Strike and Slam (was Mortal Strike and Cleave).
• Crushing Combo removes the cooldown from your next 2 uses of Cleave (was 3).
• Colossus
• Practiced Strikes now increases Mortal Strike and Slam damage by 15% and Cleave and Whirlwind damage by 15%.
• Demolish’s area of effect strike radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
• Dominance of the Colossus reduces the cooldown of Demolish by 5 seconds when you would gain a stack of Colossal Might and are already at max stacks (was 2 seconds).
• Slayer
• Reap the Storm has been updated – When Cleave hits 3 or more targets you have a 20% chance to unleash a flurry of steel, striking all nearby enemies for high Physical damage and applying Overwhelmed.
• Unrelenting Onslaught now also increases damage dealt by Bladestorm by 20%.

Fury

• Hack and Slash has been redesigned – Rampage has 100% chance to refund a charge of Raging Blow.
• Improved Whirlwind now causes Whirlwind to apply Rend to all targets if Rend is known.
• 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%).
• Slayer
• Reap the Storm has been updated – When Rampage hits 3 or more targets via Improved Whirlwind you have a 20% chance to unleash a flurry of steel, striking all nearby enemies for high Physical damage and applying Overwhelmed.
• Unrelenting Onslaught now increases damage dealt by Bladestorm by 20%.

Protection

• Colossus
• Practiced Strikes now increases Shield Slam damage by 15% and Revenge and Thunder Clap damage by 15%.
• Demolish’s area of effect strike radius increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
• Dominance of the Colossus reduces the cooldown of Demolish by 5 seconds when you would gain a stack of Colossal Might and are already at max stacks (was 2 seconds).

Demonology

• Grimoire: Fel Ravager has been updated – Summons a Fel Ravager to assist you in combat for 20 seconds and will purge 1 beneficial magic effect from an enemy. Turns into Devour Magic while on cooldown.
• Antoran Jailer’s Soul Barrage has been updated – Releases a volley of Chaos magic that deals Chaos damage to the target and up to 10 additional targets within 10 yards.

Destruction

• Conflagration of Chaos has been updated – Conflagrate and Shadowburn have a 100% chance to guarantee your next cast of either ability to critically strike and increases its damage by your critical strike chance.
• Conflagration of Chaos icon has been updated.
• Chaos Incarnate and Inferno have swapped positions in the talent tree.