Buffs and nerfs

Blizzard removed them for now. They go live with weekly maintenance (November 17 in the Americas, November 18 in Europe) and will be listed again in a later hotfix update.

Blizzard is looking into a critical bug.

They gave more spell damage than intended.

It uses your ranged hit chance and no longer counts as melee for item and effect procs.

Blizzard calls this a bug fix.

It kept channelling after moving because of a bug.

A bug stopped it working.

This stands in for the experience-to-gold conversion at level 60 from the original game. Quests that already give valuable items, repeatable quests and very quick quests are left out.

Delayed: Blizzard says the Auction House changes go live with weekly maintenance on November 17 (November 18 in Europe).

Some Bind on Pickup Leatherworking, Tailoring and Blacksmithing armor. Blizzard says these items are meant to be crafted once per character.

A bug gave pets 150% of their normal health. Blizzard set it to 115%.

The cost now rises slowly with level. Blizzard says it is almost the same at levels 6 and 60, and a little lower in between.

The same cost as Arcane Shot.

Blizzard says about 80%.

This was a bug.

Each stack now cuts cast time and mana cost by 20% at every rank (was 4/8/12/16/20%). It used to proc a flat 20 times per minute; now it rises with rank. The tooltip shows your chance per swing based on your main-hand weapon speed. Blizzard wants Enhancement back on Windfury and melee gear, not Spell Power and Intellect, before the first raid.

For example, Windfury Weapon and Windfury Totem can both proc on your attacks.

Wrack now lasts 6 seconds and deals Shadow damage every second. While you channel it, Siphon Life, Corruption and Bane of Agony tick twice as fast, and the time saved carries over after the channel. It no longer raises the damage of your other periodic effects. Bane of Agony still lasts 24 seconds.

Each of your Corruption, Siphon Life or Bane of Agony on the target adds the bonus. It used to boost any Affliction spell.

Blizzard says about 15% health. It does not give the Firebolt numbers.

Blizzard says about 15%.

Blizzard says about 15%.

This was a bug.

Experience from every enemy kill in dungeons.

A bug made them deal about 30% more damage than intended.

Creature health −25%, Deathless Sorcerer Fireball damage −25%, Deathless Watcher Charge damage −50%, and Deathless Guardian casts Shield Slam about 50% less often.

Such as Dash, Blink and Sprint.

A bigger change on the PvP ruleset. Blizzard keeps watching zones.

It could stop dealing increased damage after targets inside it had despawned.

Hunters sometimes pulled enemies from far away just by targeting them.

It no longer drops off when cast on someone else.

It wrongly gave a 10% chance on the cast and another 10% for each bolt.

Other specializations can no longer use it.

If you finished the quest before this fix, summon your Felsteed once to get apprentice riding and ride other mounts.

It used to start at the beginning of the cast.

It now activates only from spells that deal damage.

Leatherworking. It no longer blocks 125-skill patterns. Skill-ups from it were lowered by 15 points to match.

Its duration was fixed to the intended 18 seconds.

At all levels.

Wrack's own damage was wrongly increased by Soul Siphon.

A fix to how Bloom heals.

Some Warlock pet abilities benefited too much from it.

A bug let Shadowmelded Druids use Ravage and Pounce.

In battlegrounds, Plainsrunning can no longer stack and its stacks are cancelled when you carry a flag. It also no longer stacks during a battleground's preparation phase.

Blizzard raised damage for classes across the game, moving away from Classic power budgets.

To balance the stronger classes.

Talents no longer have a lower chance to trigger from low-rank spells. Blizzard (the Mage spell) is the exception.

Every class now pays about the same to train, and abilities learned at the same level cost the same. Warlock costs are lowered to make up for pet Grimoires.

Learning a spell no longer adds it to your action bars. Drag it from your spellbook.

New bags must be put into bag slots by hand.

Respawn rates adjusted, fastest in starting zones and slower as you level. Blizzard will slow low-level zones down once the launch rush settles.

Every race now has the right base stats; for example, Tauren Warriors start with +5 Strength over Humans (was +2).

Frostbite, Entrapment, Improved Wing Clip, Counterattack and Improved Hamstring.

Improved Slam now takes off 2.5/5 seconds.

Up to 25% less Rage.

Costs 25% of base health: your next 4 melee attacks generate 5 more Rage, 15-second cooldown.

Up to 2 seconds off Whirlwind's cooldown and 30% more damage to the closest enemy.

3 points: 10/20/30% attack speed for 3 swings after a crit. No longer needs Death Wish; Bloodthirst does.

Improved Tactical Mastery (3 points, 15 Rage kept) and Bloodthrill (2 points, 20%) keep their max values.

Gore Drinker moves to row 5; Enrage to row 3.

+33% threat from everything, and 90% more threat from Holy damage.

Was 1–5% for melee only.

2/4/6% Holy and Physical damage, and up to 20% less threat with a two-hander.

Now requires Seal of Command.

Now also shortens Silence effects by up to 20%.

Its offensive use was removed.

Protect one ally for 5 minutes, boosting your Holy Light, Flash of Light and Holy Shock on them.

Up to 30% more Holy Shock crit chance on allies without your Oath of Light.

Holy Strike cooldown −4 seconds; it strikes with your shield, triggers your block talents and lets you block spells for 6 seconds.

Stun and Charm effects on you last up to 20% less.

Faster, shorter-cooldown Turn Undead that also works on Demons.

Melee attacks store your active Seal for 15 seconds, up to 3 stacks. Requires Repentance.

Now +10–50% critical healing from Holy spells (was more crit chance).

Spell damage up to 60% of your Intellect, and faster Hammer of Wrath.

Now a Magic effect that can be dispelled.

Instantly unleashes your active Seal, separate from Judgement's cooldown.

3 points: Holy Strike threat +10/20/30% and 2/4/6% damage reduction for 6 seconds.

No more Stamina bonus; now also shortens Forbearance by up to 10 seconds.

Across all three trees, including Holy Shield (row 5, was 7) and several talents changing point counts.

Attack Power scaling 0.10 → 0.15.

Base damage about +20%.

Ranks 1–6: 20, 35, 50, 70, 90, 110.

Ranks 1–5: 20, 35, 50, 75, 100.

Fire and Frost traps had separate cooldowns.

0.0045 → 0.009.

0.005 → 0.01.

Plus higher bonus damage. Moves to row 7 (was 9).

Was 25% in 5 points.

Backstab, Garrote, Ambush and Mutilate.

Renamed from Improved Sinister Strike.

Your Rupture and Garrote deal 15% more.

For 7 seconds.

They dealt far more damage than intended.

5 Energy off-hand strike that can't miss: 50% weapon damage, +15 Energy (25 at rank 2, level 44), 10-second cooldown.

Out of combat at full Energy, your next Energy ability costs 10 less.

Replaces Thousand Cuts. Stores part of your damage per combo point and deals it after 6 seconds.

Longer Rupture and Garrote; stronger Poised; better Shank; Sap two targets; Shank can add 2 combo points.

Shank raises poison damage by 30% and poison chance by 20% for 6 seconds.

Up to 20% more Eviscerate and Death Mark damage.

Lethality, Relentless Strikes, Seal Fate, Camouflage and Aggression keep similar max values with different point costs.

Including Premeditation (row 3), Vigor (row 3) and Relentless Strikes (row 5).

When it doesn't kill. It no longer hurts you when it misses.

Replaces Binding Heal. Flash Heal on someone else also heals you for 50% of it, with no threat.

Higher base damage on all ranks, +80% on the top rank (about 78% of Classic Era base damage, with a faster cast).

Was 100% on an 8-second cooldown.

Replaces Lava Burst: +5% crit chance for Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning.

2.5-second cast; first target takes about 145% of a same-rank Lightning Bolt, for about 225% of its mana.

No initial heal, about 40% cheaper, 12-second cooldown (was 6).

Teleports your totems to you, 30-second cooldown. Elemental Reach no longer shortens it.

Lasts 18 seconds.

Back to 3 points.

+15% Frost damage for 1 minute when cast, and +5% more while the barrier holds.

Renamed from Elemental Precision, back to 3 points. Arcane Focus is merged into it.

Also cuts Arcane Wrath's cast time by up to 0.5 seconds.

Instead of reflecting, it can fully negate a spell without draining the ward.

Missile Barrage moves to row 2 and is used at the start of the channel; Arcane Resilience moves to row 1 (3 points, armor up to 75% of Intellect); Improved Fire Blast moves to row 3.

Spell damage scaling doubled; base damage per second at 60 goes from 36 to 86.

Shards on kill are unchanged.

They wrongly boosted Fire too.

Boosts Drain Mana, but no longer Wrack.

Bear and Dire Bear Form, to make up for Blessing of Salvation being removed.

Base damage and Attack Power scaling.

Periodic damage and healing.

Also cuts Wild Growth's cast time by up to 0.5 seconds.

The Rejuvenation or Regrowth on the target must be yours.

Out of combat at full Energy, your next Energy ability costs 10 less.

All older ranks moved up by one.

Replaces Shifting Power. Ferocious Bite still deals extra damage from excess Energy but no longer spends it.

Replaces Gift of the Earthmother. When Rejuvenation or Regrowth expires, the target is healed for 100% of your Spirit (50% if dispelled).

Replaces Primal Bite there, with two new ranks. No longer learned by every Druid.

Primal Bite (Bear, needs Leader of the Pack, 3 ranks) and Shifting Power (Cat, needs Predatory Discipline).

Both boost all types of critical strike again, and don't stack with each other.

Heart of the Wild and Furor swap trees; Predatory Strikes, Natural Instinct, Rend and Tear, Reflection and Subtlety change position.

+1% hit with spells and attacks, instead of 2% critical damage and healing.

+5% Hunter and Warlock pet damage, instead of +1% crit.

Cannibalize works again while immune to Physical damage.

Was 1% up to 30%; no longer affects mounted speed.

Its extra hit and critical damage bonuses were removed.

50% faster regeneration for 15 seconds (was 100%); 100% for 1 hour after using it at a Ley Line ("Attuned").

30% for 1 hour after using it at an elemental convergence ("Charged").