WoW: Forever Class Changes — October 8, 2026

• Mana potions can now be used in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, and Cat Form.
• Bonus rage from the Druid's own critical strikes has been increased from 75% to 100%.
• Thorns: base damage has been restored to its original-game values, and the spell power coefficient has been reduced from 13.3% to 6%.
• Cat Form: fixed a bug that caused shapeshifting to reduce maximum health.
• Bear Form: threat generation bonus increased from 30% to 50%.
• Dire Bear Form: threat generation bonus increased from 30% to 50%.
• Effects that alter the appearance of shapeshift forms now have additional restrictions. Your current form should be easier to identify in combat; some transformations with extra benefits will continue to work.
• Demoralizing Roar: now generates threat on all affected enemies. Previously, the ability incorrectly generated no threat.
• Wrath: base values and per-level scaling for ranks 1–5 have been adjusted. Its progression through rank 6 is now more consistent, and learning a new rank always improves the spell.

Feral

• Bonus Healing from Intellect: the updated talent now also increases healing spell power by 12% or 25% of Intellect, depending on talent rank.
• Mana-to-Energy Conversion: can no longer be used while at maximum Energy.
• Thick Hide: fixed the talent when changing equipment in shapeshift form.

• Disengage: the threat reduction has been doubled. The previously planned buff was not actually working.
• Fixed a bug that could repeatedly grant a pet bonus health while it was at low health.

Beast Mastery

• Frenzy: now correctly increases pet damage.

Marksmanship

• Improved Concussive Shot: fixed the talent's proc chance.

Survival

• Improved Wing Clip: fixed its proc chance. The chance is reduced when using ranks far below the character's level.
• Loot Detection: duration increased from 5 to 10 seconds.
• Entrapment: now correctly follows diminishing return rules for repeated crowd control.
• Entrapment: now triggers only when Freezing Trap is first placed, not from its periodic effects.

• Impact: no longer triggers from periodic damage dealt by Flamestrike.
• Frostbolt: base damage and per-level scaling for ranks 1–5 have been adjusted for more consistent progression through rank 6.
• Fireball: base damage and per-level scaling for ranks 1–5 have been adjusted. Each new rank should now be an improvement over the previous one.
• Arcane Missiles: ranks 1–3 have been similarly updated for more consistent scaling through rank 4.

• Retribution Aura: now uses the Paladin's own spell power instead of that of the ally being attacked.
• Retribution Aura: base damage has been restored to its original-game values, a reduction of about 33%. Its spell power coefficient has been reduced from 13.3% to 6%.

Protection

• Reckoning: a 1.5-second internal cooldown has been added between triggers.
• Seal of Fury: no longer restores mana without the Improved Seal of Fury talent.
• Improved Seal of Fury: mana restoration no longer generates threat.
• Shield Specialization: mana restoration no longer generates threat. This removes the extra threat Paladins gained from maintaining mana while tanking.

• Smite: base values and per-level scaling for ranks 1–4 have been adjusted for more consistent progression through rank 5.
• Lesser Heal: base healing for ranks 1–3 has been adjusted.
• Heal: base healing for ranks 1–2 has been adjusted. Together with the previous spell's changes, this makes progression between ranks through rank 3 more consistent.

Discipline

• Penance: damage and healing have been reduced to correct an erroneous calculation. The spell was previously calculated as a three-second channeled spell, although its actual duration is 2 seconds.
• Penance: mana costs have been revised to preserve its mana-efficiency advantage over regular direct-healing spells. Rank 1 cost increased by 50%.
• Penance: ranks 2 and 4 received separate healing increases as part of the overall recalculation.

• Flametongue Totem: for a target in an altered form, it now uses the target's attack speed instead of the speed of its equipped weapon.
• Lightning Bolt: base values and per-level scaling for ranks 1–5 have been adjusted for more consistent progression through rank 6.

Elemental

• Elemental Focus: fixed its interaction with Ring of Fire, which caused the talent effect to trigger and be consumed immediately.

Restoration

• Water Shield: the buff tooltip now shows the correct amount of mana restored.
• Water Shield: removed the tooltip mention of a 15-second cooldown, which the ability did not actually have.
• Mana Tide Totem: restored the visual effect for its periodic pulses.

• Your current pet is now stunned while a new pet is being summoned.
• Shadow Bolt: base values and per-level scaling for ranks 1–4 have been adjusted for more consistent progression through rank 5.

Demonology

• Demonic Mark: bonus pet damage now generates increased threat only when dealing Shadow damage.

• Demoralizing Shout: now generates threat on all affected enemies. Fixed a bug that prevented it from generating threat.

Arms

• Deep Wounds: the talent is once again required to learn Impale.
• Deep Wounds: removed incorrect scaling from off-hand weapon attack power. The effect should not scale with attack power; damage from new applications is added to the active periodic effect.

Protection

• Last Stand: fixed the amount of health granted when the ability is used.