WoW: Forever Class Changes for October 1, 2026

• Damage from the base spell Wrath has increased by approximately 50%.
• Rejuvenation can now critically heal.
• Tranquility can now critically heal.
• Wild Growth can now critically heal.
• The effect of Thorns now dynamically accounts for the spell power of the character who applied it.

Feral

• Bear Forms now generate more Rage on a critical strike.

• Swipe now correctly accounts for Attack Power.

• Tiger’s Fury and its associated talent have been removed.

• Cat Form now has an ability to convert some Mana into Energy, and a separate talent reduces this ability’s cooldown.

• Shapeshift Forms now prevent disarms, but do not remove an existing disarm effect.

• Faerie Fire no longer resets the auto-attack timer.

• Threat from the new primary Cat Form ability has been approximately doubled.

• The pet howl Attack Power bonus has been reduced by 40%.
• You can no longer tame a beast higher level than your character.
• Pet ability ranks have been fixed.
• Aggressive pet behavior is available again.

Marksmanship

• A new ranged talent increases the range of your next three shots by 10 yards for 10 seconds. The ability itself has a range of 45 yards.

Survival

• The Parry bonus from one talent has been reduced.
• One ability in the tree now increases movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

• Arcane Missiles now checks line of sight once, at the start of the cast. The spell can finish casting if the target moves behind an obstacle.
• Scrolls learned by a character can no longer be used while moving.

Fire

• The duration of two effects has been increased.
• Combustion no longer benefits twice from percentage-based damage increases.
• The number of charges for one of Fire’s primary buffs has been reverted from four to three.

Frost

• The resistance check for one of the Frost effects has been fixed.

• Damage and threat now account for spell power more accurately.
• Bugs with Consecration have been fixed, including incorrect behavior against targets at different elevations.
• The damage of Holy Strike has been increased while leveling.
• Threat from Righteous Fury has been adjusted.

Holy

• The cooldown of Holy Strike has been reduced. The talent previously required to reduce this cooldown has been removed from the tree, and its effect is now baseline.

Protection

• The Block chance from one talent has been reduced and from another talent increased.

Retribution

• One part of damage scaling from Intellect has been weakened.
• One talent now increases the damage of Holy Strike by more.
• Vengeance has been fixed.

• Critical healing procs for Renew, as well as several racial and class effects, have been fixed.
• Power Word: Shield can now be recast on a target if they are not affected by Weakened Soul.

Discipline

• The critical bonus from Inner Focus no longer increases periodic effects.

Shadow

• The application of Shadow Weaving has been fixed.
• Devouring Plague can now correctly critically strike.
• The check for the talent that increases Shadow Word: Death now accounts for the target’s health.

• Gouge now works correctly if the target has already entered PvP combat.
• Missing with Expose Armor should no longer reset your combo points.
• The cooldown tracker now supports class and racial abilities.

Subtlety

• Combo points are awarded to your current target only if that target was the one that dodged the attack or resisted the spell.

• Lightning Bolt damage has been increased for two early ranks.

• Damage for the initial ranks of Lava Burst has also been increased.

• Totemic Recall has been fixed.

• The duration of Disease Cleansing Totem has been fixed.

• Several buffing totems can no longer stack with one another or be repeatedly refreshed to accumulate their effects.

Elemental

• Talents have been reordered so a useful leveling talent becomes available earlier.

Enhancement

• One talent no longer grants a spellcasting speed bonus.

• Drain Soul is interrupted if the character begins casting another spell.

• Hellfire can now critically strike.

• The interaction between the Voidwalker’s Sacrifice and healing spell power has been fixed.

• The tooltip for Life Tap now correctly describes the health conversion and its dependency on Spirit.

• Aggressive behavior is available for pets again.

Affliction

• One talent has been renamed. Its Mana restoration now works as intended.

• Critical strikes with basic attacks now generate more Rage.
• Rend now immediately assigns the attacked enemy to the character.
• Sunder Armor now immediately assigns the attacked enemy to the character.
• Queuing Heroic Strike no longer increases the hit chance of off-hand attacks.

Arms

• The talent associated with a spear strike no longer requires a two-handed weapon, but it does require Battle Stance.

Fury

• The talent tree has been reworked.
• New options have been added for off-hand attack accuracy and retaining Rage after leaving combat.
• Talents affecting Whirlwind, Sunder Armor, Shout, and health regeneration have been changed.
• Some previous talents have been removed or moved.

Protection

• Talents have been moved closer to the start of the tree. Defensive talents are available earlier, including to characters without a shield.