Druid Changes Coming in Season 5

We’ve taken the data from both DonTheCrown‘s and Rob‘s Season 5 sheets and compiled them into actual class changes. Blizzard has confirmed these changes for Season 5 during the content creator roundtable, but the list is incomplete and we’ll need to wait until the official Season 5 patch notes to have a full list of all changes. You can also check out the previously datamined changes notes for Druids based on the old PTR here.

Main Stat Scaling

Druids are also getting a big change to how their main stat affects their damage, with Willpower now granting 16.67% more damage to all skills than previously.

Skill Changes

Boulder

• Damage increased to 70%.

Blood Howl

• Is now always a Shout skill.

Cataclysm

• More consistently hits enemies with its strikes.

Rabies

• Rabies has been reworked.
• The Natural Rabies skill upgrade which causes it to spread faster is now baseline.

Key Passives

Earthen Might

• Luck Hit chance doubled to 10%.

Perfect Storm

• Multiplier increased to 40%.

Paragon Nodes

Earthen Devastation

• Critical Hit damage bonus maximum increased to 60%.

Survival Instincts

• Maximum damage bonus now 60%.

Thunderstruck

• Damage bonus increased to 60%.

Unique Item Changes

Greatstaff of the Crone

• Up to 100% Critical Strike Damage
• Up to 270% damage to Close Enemies.
• Storm Strike now chains to 2 extra targets.
• Up to +4 to all Basic skills.

Mad Wolf’s Glee

• Up to 1427 Maximum Life.
• Increases Werewolf Attack Speed by up to 15%.
• Increases Lupine Ferocity damage by 17%.
• Grants up to +5 to Digitigrade Gait.
• Grants up to +5 to all Werewolf skills.

Storm’s Companion

• Increases Wolves Attack Speed by up to 25%.
• Pack Leader Spirit Boon Lucky Hit chance increased to up to 85%.
• Up to 17.5% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies.
• Up to +5 bonus to Wolves.

Legendary Aspect Changes

Balanced Aspect

• Spirit regeneration bonus more than doubled to 50%.

Aspect of the Blurred Beast

• Damage bonus increased to up to 55%.

Aspect of Retaliation

• Bonus damage increased to up to 35%.

Runeworker’s Conduit Aspect

• Base duration increased to 3 seconds.
• Deals up to 350% weapon damage.
• Grants up to 40% bonus damage to all summoned Lightning Bolts.

Seismic-shift Aspect

No longer adds a cooldown to Earth Spike.

Shepherd’s Aspect

• No longer affects Core and Wrath skills, now only affects Companion skills.

Stormclaw’s Aspect

• Damage increased to up to 40%