wow Shadowlands Expansion Content Notes

Staff · November 23, 2020

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They're finally here! The FULL Shadowlands expansion patch notes!

Shadowlands Patch Notes (source)

Sylvanas Windrunner, fallen leader of the Horde, has pierced the veil between Azeroth and the realm of the dead, setting in motion a series of events that threaten to upset the cosmic balance between life and death. Azeroth’s heroes will confront the wonders and horrors of the afterlife as they deal with the consequences of Sylvanas’ actions.

New Level Cap: 60	Five New Zones
Eight New Dungeons	Castle Nathria Raid
Torghast, Tower of the Damned	Covenants and Covenant Campaigns
Covenant Class and Signature Abilities	Renown
Soulbinds	Conduits
Adventures	Empyrean Domain Arena
PvP Vendors Return	Runecarving Legendary Items System
Customizable Crafting	New mounts, pets, achievements, transmog gear, and more!
Death Rising Event	Levels, Items and Stats Adjusted
New Character Customization	New Starting Experience
Achievements	Allied Races
Auction House	Black Market Auction House
Classes	Dungeons and Raids
Items and Rewards	Pet Battles
Player versus Player	User Interface
World Events	WoW Companion App

New updates are highlighted in gold.

Head over to Orgrimmar or Stormwind to begin your journey into the Shadowlands and experience the new content the expansion has to offer, including:

New Level Cap: 60

The level cap has been increased by 10 levels. Learn new effects that enhance key abilities for your class as you make your way towards level 60.

Five New Zones

Bastion

When first arriving in Bastion, you’ll be greeted by elysian vistas, resplendent skies, gleaming spires, and ethereal sights. This paradisiacal realm is inhabited by the steadfast Kyrian, who safeguard mortal souls as they pass into the Shadowlands. [LEARN MORE]

Maldraxxus

Within war-torn Maldraxxus, might—of all kinds—makes right. Here, in the birthplace of necromantic magic, those who master the powers of death turn legions of ambitious souls into relentless immortal armies. [LEARN MORE]

Ardenweald

A twilight-tinged afterlife for those closely connected to the wild, Ardenweald is a domain of restoration tended by the mystic night fae. Within this eternal forest, massive dream trees draw in precious anima—the essence of souls that flows through the Shadowlands—to feed the spirits of nature awaiting rebirth into the cycle. [LEARN MORE]

Revendreth

Revendreth is made up of seven distinct districts, each presided over by a Harvester — powerful Venthyr who have upheld the ways of this place since creation to encourage spirits to repent for their past sins. Those who are successfully reformed are presented with a choice: Return to Oribos to be sent on to another afterlife, or remain in Revendreth and become one of the Venthyr. As for those who resist redemption? They’re banished to the Maw. [LEARN MORE]

The Maw

To be cast into the Maw is to be doomed to a bleak eternity. In this tumultuous, hopeless land, the vilest souls in the cosmos are imprisoned and tormented forever. Should the ancient evil chained here break free, all of reality will be consumed. [LEARN MORE]

Eight New Dungeons

There are four dungeons available as you adventure through the new zones on your way towards the max level 60.

The Necrotic Wake (Level 51+)

In an unthinkable act of treachery, forces from Maldraxxus, the realm charged with defending the Shadowlands, have invaded the Temple of Courage. They have pillaged anima and taken slaughtered kyrian to fuel their dark practices. If left unchecked, the necrotic forces of the necropolis Zolramas will pillage Bastion leaving destruction in their wake.

Plaguefall (Level 53+)

Underneath the ruined House of Plagues, lies one of the most destructive forces Maldraxxus has ever known. Those who covet this power search the plague-ridden debris in a race to claim this weapon for themselves. Whoever captures this prize will hold the fate of the Shadowlands in their clutches.

Mists of Tirna Scithe (Level 55+)

The lush grove called Tirna Scithe has ever been diligently protected by the fae folk, for it is a sacred place said to hold ancient secrets. Legends warn that an unwary traveler might find themselves lost for an eternity wandering its countless mist-shrouded paths. But as drought depletes the forests of Ardenweald, enemies seek to plunder the grove’s potent magic. Even the realm’s native denizens are driven by hunger and desperation to consume that which the Winter Queen holds most dear.

Halls of Atonement (Level 57+)

Under the Accuser, the Halls of Atonement were a tribute to Revendreth's mission. While the halls rang with suffering and sin, it was all directed to redeeming the souls and keeping them from falling into the Maw. But the recently promoted Lord Chamberlain has bent the hall's purpose to selfish reaping of anima, often to the point of leaving the souls unable to be redeemed. Someone will have to put an end to the depravity that has grown within these walls.

Upon reaching level 60, four more dungeons will become available for you to explore and earn the treasures that they hold.

Theater of Pain

In Maldraxxus you must constantly be tested and measured as the best to defend the Shadowlands. The best place to prove yourself is the Theater of Pain. Throngs of contenders face off for the hope of facing one of the champions. Brutality! Mayhem! Violence! And of course Pain! Only the strongest become champions of their house, and only one can be the strongest.

De Other Side

Bwonsamdi has kept a secret place in the Shadowlands he refers to as De Other Side. When the dead started funneling into the Maw, Bwansamdi hid several souls in his little domain, keeping his troll followers safe. But this broke an old deal with Mueh'zala and now the ancient loa has come to harvest those souls and destroy their caretaker. Bwonsamdi will need help collecting on some of his other dealings if he is to survive this onslaught and protect the souls within.

Spires of Ascension

Floating among the clouds and representing the pinnacle of kyrian ideals, the Spires of Ascension is the Archon’s seat of power. Unquestioned and unchallenged for countless eons, the ruler of Bastion has always embodied the virtues of duty and service. But with drought and instability causing fractures in the belief system of the Ascended, the Archon’s reign faces an unimaginable peril as one of her most trusted followers falls under the sway of the darkest of evils.

Sanguine Depths

Far below Castle Nathria lies the Sanguine Depths, a prison created to house Sire Denathrius's most intriguing dissidents. Prisoners here are kept for eons, drained of their anima for research and study. The Sinfall resistance knows of a particular prisoner here that could help tip the balance of their fight with Sire Denathrius to their favor, and have asked for assistance in extracting them.

Castle Nathria Raid

Infiltrate the iron-barred walls of Castle Nathria, a 10-boss raid located in the shadowy realm of Revendreth. Face off against unfathomable horrors in a race to uncover a sinister plot and save these lands from a dark and twisted future. [LEARN MORE]

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

At the heart of the Maw lies Torghast, Tower of the Damned, a cursed otherworldly prison where the wickedest souls in the universe are locked away. Highly replayable and inspired by roguelike games, heroes are invited to explore its ever-changing halls and chambers and do battle with the minions of the Jailer, Torghast’s vile ruler. Those who brave its trials can claim legendary treasures and help free the heroic spirits wrongfully trapped within. [LEARN MORE]

Covenants and Covenant Campaigns

Quest through four new zones ruled by ancient and powerful Covenants. Upon reaching the max level of 60, players will be able to join one of these Covenants as they continue to explore the Warcraft universe’s afterlife and the many mysteries and adventures that it holds.

Kyrian

The kyrian are steadfast guardians of the afterlife who bear the souls of the dead into the Shadowlands. Eternally devoted to duty and service, only the worthy may enter their ranks. [LEARN MORE]

Necrolords

Among the necrolords, strength is rewarded and weakness cast aside. The souls of the ambitious and contentious are forged into an immortal army charged with the defense of the Shadowlands. [LEARN MORE]

Night Fae

The night fae tend to fallen nature spirits who slumber within the tranquil forest. Those with a deep bond to nature may join their cause, ensuring that the rejuvenated spirits can one day rejoin the eternal cycle. [LEARN MORE]

Venthyr

The venthyr are aristocratic overseers of souls burdened with excessive pride and wickedness. They guide troubled souls upon the rigorous path to atonement, harvesting anima to keep their realm strong. [LEARN MORE]

When you choose a Covenant, you’ll gain access to a unique Covenant Campaign that delves deeper into the story of your chosen Covenant. You’ll begin by setting up your Covenant’s Sanctum and gaining access to some initial services.

Covenant Class and Signature Abilities

Each Covenant has unique class abilities and signature abilities available to players who choose to join them at max level. As you level up on your initial journey through each of their domains, you’ll get to experience these abilities firsthand—before you ultimately choose the Covenant you wish to dedicate yourself to. [LEARN MORE]

Renown

As you progress through your Covenant’s story, you’ll build Renown and increase the amount of trust your character has earned within the Covenant. Renown is earned by performing worthy actions through the Covenant Campaign, returning Anima to the Sanctum, and by rescuing souls from the Maw. If you fall behind or are leveling an alternate character, you’ll be able to earn additional Renown from endgame activities such as dungeons, raids, PvP, and Callings until you’ve reached the current maximum.

Increasing your Renown will grant specific rewards at each Renown Level, including:

Unlocking a new row of power for a Soulbind character.
Increasing the item level of items you receive from World Quests.
Earning legendary recipes for the Runecarver in Torghast.
Earning unique Covenant-themed cosmetic items such as mounts, pets, a title, back attachment transmog, and transmog armor.

Soulbinds

During your travels in the Shadowlands, you’ll meet key members from each Covenant and, if you choose to walk in their path, you’ll be able to Soulbind with them. Soulbinding allows you to gain access to traits that provide bonuses or enhance your skills so you can effectively combat all who stand in your way. [LEARN MORE]

Conduits

Conduits are a new type of item that players can obtain and socket into Soulbind trees to enhance their class and Covenant abilities while bound with that character. There are three types of Conduits: Potency (damage/healing), Endurance (survivability), and Finesse (utility).

Adventures

Once you’ve joined your chosen Covenant, you’ll be able to begin undertaking Adventures from the dedicated table within your Sanctum. Through the interface, you’ll be able to view available Adventures, the associated rewards, the cost to undertake them, the state of your units, and how challenging the enemies are within that Adventure. You’ll want to choose a solid mix from your Adventurers, Soulbinds, and troops to create a party of up to 5 units to deal with the various threats.

You’ll also be able to check in on and continue your Adventures offline with the WoW Companion App. [LEARN MORE]

Empyrean Domain Arena

Battle head to head against other players in the Empyrean Domain arena, the sparring grounds for Aspirants and Ascended.

PvP Vendors Return

Engage in rated PvP to earn Conquest points to spend on specific PvP items of your choosing at the PvP Vendor in Oribos. Additionally, you can use Conquest points to upgrade that gear even further, making them more powerful than before.

Runecarving Legendary Items System

In the Shadowlands, you’ll be able to create your own Legendary armor within the Runecarver’s Oubliette, a place of exceptional power locked away in Torghast. To craft Legendary armor, you’ll first need to retrieve specific memories that contain Legendary powers. These memories can be found all over Shadowlands – from questing, running dungeons with friends, fighting against the enemy faction, or defeating powerful foes in Castle Nathria and the Maw, there will be plenty of work for the bravest of champions to do in order to collect them all. Once found, players can take these memories back to the Runecarver in Torghast, who will then be able to imbue specific Profession-crafted armor pieces with this power. [LEARN MORE]

Customizable Crafting

Optional Reagents are a new feature in Shadowlands that allow players to have greater control over the equipment they create. Optional Reagents come in two varieties:

Crafter's Marks are used to modify the item level of a crafted piece and are an untradable item crafted by any Profession that uses them.
Missives allow the crafter to choose which secondary stats the item will have. Missives are a tradable item created with the Inscription profession and can be bought and sold on the Auction House.

New mounts, pets, achievements, transmog gear, and more!

Death Rising – Limited Time Event

Shortly after the pre-expansion launch, you’ll be called upon to defend Azeroth from an undead invasion as the Scourge sweep across the land. Players will embark on a quest to establish a foothold in Icecrown, where the barrier between Azeroth and the afterlife has been shattered, and prepare for the coming journey into the Shadowlands. This limited time pre-expansion event will only be available until the launch of Shadowlands, so make sure to log in to experience it and earn special rewards.

Levels, Items and Stats Adjusted

Levels, items and stats have been adjusted to make reaching a new level feel more meaningful while simultaneously making the leveling experience faster than before. Characters at level 120 will become level 50 after the content update.

New Character Customization

The character creation experience has been revitalized with a brand new user interface and many new character customization options to choose from. Some of the new options are selecting your eye color, new skin tones, new hairstyles and hair/fur colors.

All of these new options are available at Barber Shops throughout Azeroth, including the option for Druids to choose the appearance of their shapeshifting forms and the ability to swap genders. Now all customization is available in game at any time so the Appearance Change service will no longer be sold in the Shop. [LEARN MORE]

New Starting Experience

Exile's Reach

Exile's Reach is an all-new starting experience that will take you on an excursion that will introduce you to the fundamentals of playing World of Warcraft and the important mechanics for your chosen class. If you’re new to World of Warcraft and have never created or leveled a character, you will automatically begin your journey into Azeroth with the starting experience. If you’re a veteran player or you’ve leveled a character before, you can choose to opt out of the starting experience and begin instead at level 1 in the starting area for your race.

Upon reaching level 10, new players will continue their journey through Battle for Azeroth and into Shadowlands. [LEARN MORE]

Timewalking Campaigns

Players who have already experienced Battle for Azeroth and reached level 50 on at least one character can now choose to level any subsequent characters in a different expansion using Timewalking Campaigns. This new feature allows content from locations like Northrend or Pandaria to scale to a player’s level, so they can adventure from level 10 all the way to 50 and experience the stories of these areas at their originally intended pacing. Visit Chromie near the embassies in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to select your expansion leveling experience. If you'd like to select a different expansion to level through, simply speak to Chromie again.

Newcomer Chat

After creating your character and beginning your journey into World of Warcraft for the first time, you will enter the Newcomer Chat channel where you can chat with other new players and experienced players on the same faction who will be your guides as you level through the new starting zone – Exile's Reach. New players and guides will be able to recognize one another in the chat channels and with icons above their characters' heads that only they can see. Upon reaching level 20, new players will be prepared to continue their journey ahead on their own and will no longer have access to the Newcomer Chat.

If you're a veteran player and are interested in guiding new players as they experience World of Warcraft for the first time, head over to Stormwind Embassy or Orgrimmar Embassy and speak to the guide recruiter once you've met the following criteria:

Have an account in good standing
Reach level 50
Complete 3000 quests
Earn at least two of the following achievements: Terrific Trio, Rival: Battle for Azeroth Season Four, Battle for Azeroth Keystone Conqueror: Season Four, The Waking Dream or We Have the Technology.

If you no longer wish to be a guide, you can speak to the guide recruiter once again.

Achievements

Flying in Warlords of Draenor and Legion no longer requires earning the achievements, Draenor Pathfinder and Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two.
Players who have completed the criteria for The Alterac Blitz but did not receive the achievement may receive it upon login.

Allied Races

Unlocking Allied Races no longer requires reaching Exalted reputation with that race’s associated faction.

Auction House

Sold auctions will now show buyer or bidder player names in a tooltip.
Commodities (stackable items) are now sold by selected stacks before other stacks from the inventory.
Personal auctions can now be sorted by time remaining.
The “Level Range” filter now also filters battle pets by level.
A “Runecarving” option for Profession-crafted armor pieces for Legendaries has been added under each Armor category. These materials are not yet available until Shadowlands.

Black Market Auction House

Max level is now required to access the Black Market Auction House.
The Mighty Caravan Brutosaur is no longer sold by vendors and will now be occasionally available on the Black Market Auction House.

Classes

General

Most non-periodic damage or healing abilities on all classes will have a 5% variance on each individual use.
Power Word: Fortitude, Arcane Intellect, and Battle Shout give 5% of their respective stats (was 10%).
Area target spells can now be cast at the player's position using self-cast modifier keys.
Abilities (like Mortal Strike or Wound Poison) that reduce the healing received by a target have had their effectiveness doubled against creatures. The value of these abilities will remain the same against players.
- Warrior, Hunter, Monk: Mortal Wounds now reduces healing taken by 50% (25% against players).
- Rogue: Wound Poison now reduces healing taken by 8% per stack (4% against players).
- Warlock: Mortal Cleave/Legion Strike now reduces healing taken by 20% (10% against players).
Many area-of-effect abilities have had their damage and their maximum number of targets adjusted. See individual class sections for a list of specific spells.

General

Level 54: New Ability: Sacrificial Pact – Sacrifice your ghoul to deal Shadow damage to 8 nearby enemies and heal for 25% of your maximum health.
Rune Strike is no longer a Blood Death Knight Talent and has been redesigned to be a Rune spender and Runic Power generating ability used during the initial Death Knight leveling experience. Rune Strike will be replaced with Festering Strike, Heart Strike or Howling Blast when a specialization has been chosen.
When swapping weapons, the Off Balance debuff is applied and prevents the Death Knight from gaining the bonuses of Runeforge enchantments for 30 seconds.
Dark Command is now learned at level 9 (was 14).
Anti-Magic Shell is now learned at level 14 (was 9).
All Death Knights can now use the following abilities:
- Death Coil – Fires a blast of unholy energy at the target, causing Shadow damage to an enemy or healing an Undead ally.
- Death and Decay – Corrupts the targeted ground, causing Shadow damage over 10 seconds to targets within the area.
- Raise Dead – Raises a ghoul to fight by your side for 1 minute. Only one ghoul can be up at a time.
- Chains of Ice – Shackles the target with frozen chains, reducing movement speed by 70% for 8 seconds.
- Lichborne – Draw upon unholy energy to become Undead for 10 seconds, increasing Leech by 10%, and making you immune to Charm, Fear, and Sleep.
- Anti-Magic Zone – Places an Anti-Magic Zone for 10 seconds that reduces spell damage taken by party or raid members by 20%.
Runeforging now has five new runes available to engrave upon your weapon:
- Rune of Sanguination – Your Death Strike deals increased damage based on the target’s missing health. When you fall below 35% health, you heal for 50% of your maximum health over 6 seconds. Can only occur once every 5 minutes.
- Rune of Spellwarding – Deflects 3% of all spell damage and has chance to create a shield that absorbs magic damage equal to 10% of your maximum health. When an enemy damages the shield, their cast speed is reduced by 10% for 6 seconds.
- Rune of Hysteria – Increases maximum Runic Power by 20 and your attacks have a chance to increase Runic Power generation by 20% for 8 seconds.
- Rune of Unending Thirst – When you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor, gain 5% Haste, 5% movement speed and heals you for 5% of your maximum health. Additionally, increases your movement speed while dead by 10%.
- Rune of the Apocalypse – Your ghoul's attacks have a chance to apply an additional effect:
  - Famine: Reduces damage dealt to the Death Knight.
  - Death: Reduces healing done.
  - Pestilence: Slows the target and deals damage over time.
  - War: Increases damage taken from the Death Knight.
PvP Talent changes:
- Lichborne has been removed.

Blood

Level 52: Heart Strike (Rank 3) – Increases damage done by 20%.
Level 54: Vampiric Blood (Rank 2) – Increases all healing and absorbs by 5% and duration by 2 seconds.
Level 58: New Ability: Ossuary – While you have at least 5 Bone Shield charges, the cost of Death Strike is reduced by 5 Runic Power. Additionally, your maximum Runic Power is increased by 10.
Rune Tap is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Blood Death Knights at level 19. Additionally, Rune Tap has two charges and the global cooldown is removed.
Death and Decay damage has been increased by 25%.
Death Strike damage has been increased by 21%.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Relish in Blood – While Crimson Scourge is active, your next Death and Decay heals you per Bone Shield charge and you immediately gain 10 Runic Power.
- New Talent: Death Pact – Create a death pact that heals you for 50% of your maximum health, but absorbs incoming healing equal to 30% of your maximum health for 15 seconds.
- Mark of Blood has had its Runic Power cost removed and healing increased to 3% (was 2%).
- Rapid Decomposition now has an additional effect – Your Blood Plague leeches 50% more health.
- Anti-Magic Barrier now reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell by 20 seconds (was 15 seconds) and increases its duration and amount absorbed by 40% (was 30%).
- Voracious now grants you 15% Leech for 8 seconds (was 6 seconds) and has an additional effect – Death Strike's healing is increased by 20%.
- Red Thirst now reduces the cooldown on Vampiric Blood by 1.5 seconds per 10 Runic Power spent (was 1 second).
- Consumption and Bonestorm now capped at 8 targets.
- Ossuary has been removed and will be learned by all Blood Death Knights in Shadowlands.
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Rot and Wither – Your Death and Decay rots enemies each time it deals damage, absorbing healing equal to 100% of damage dealt.
- Unholy Command has been removed.

Frost

Level 52: Obliterate (Rank 2) – Increases damage done by 20%.
Level 56: Empower Rune Weapon (Rank 2) – Reduces cooldown by 15 seconds.
Level 58: Killing Machine (Rank 2) – Your next Obliterate also deals Frost damage.
Obliterate, Frost Strike, Frostscythe and Glacial Advance can now be used with two-handed weapons.
New Passive: Might of the Frozen Wastes
- Rank 1: While dual-wielding your Obliterate and Frost Strike will also strike with your off hand and you can engrave each weapon with a Runeforge Enchant.
- Rank 2: Increases your Obliterate damage by 35% and Killing Machine Proc chance when using a two-handed weapon.
Frostwyrm's Fury is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Frost Death Knights at level 44.
Empower Rune Weapon and Pillar of Frost no longer have a global cooldown.
Howling Blast and Breath of Sindragosa now deal reduced damage on secondary targets.
Pillar of Frost duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 15 seconds) and cooldown increased to 60 seconds (was 45 seconds).
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Hypothermic Presence – Embrace the ice in your veins, reducing the Runic Power cost of your abilities by 35% for 8 seconds.
- Runic Attenuation proc rate has been adjusted to bring Dual Wield and Two-Handed closer together and the Runic Power gain has been increased to 5 (was 3).
- Blinding Sleet now has an additional effect – When Blinding Sleet ends, enemies are slowed by 50% for 6 seconds.
- Icecap now reduces the remaining cooldown of Pillar of Frost by 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
- Frostscythe now capped at 5 targets.

Unholy

Level 56: Scourge Strike (Rank 2) – Increases damage done by 20%.
Level 58: Apocalypse (Rank 3) – Apocalypse generates 2 Runes.
Mastery: Dreadblade now also increases the damage of your Minion’s abilities.
Epidemic is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Unholy Death Knights at level 34. Additionally, Epidemic’s range has been reduced to 40 yards (was 100 yards) and will fail to cast if there are no nearby enemies afflicted with Virulent Plague.
Sudden Doom now causes your auto attacks to have a chance to make your next Death Coil or Epidemic cost no Runic Power.
Scourge Strike now prefers targets with Festering Wounds while inside Death and Decay.
Outbreak duration of Virulent Plague increased to 28 seconds (was 21 seconds).
Virulent Plague no longer has a 30% chance for infected enemies to erupt to nearby enemies each time it deals damage, and area of effect range increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
Army of the Dead Rune cost reduced to 1 (was 3).
Scourge Strike and Clawing Shadows now capped at 5 targets while inside Death and Decay. Both abilities will prefer targets inflicted with Festering Wound.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Unholy Pact – Dark Transformation creates an unholy pact between you and your pet, igniting flaming chains that deals Shadow damage over 15 seconds to enemies between you and your pet. While active, your Strength is increased by 5%.
- Unholy Blight's disease now stacks up to 4 times and has an additional effect – Your minions deal 3% increased damage per stack to enemies affected by Unholy Blight. Additionally, it applies Virulent Plague to enemies.
- Soul Reaper has been reworked and now costs 1 Rune and has a 6 second cooldown. Strike an enemy for Shadow damage and afflict the enemy with Soul Reaper. After 5 seconds, if the target is below 35% health this effect will explode dealing additional Shadow damage to the target. If an enemy dies while afflicted gain Runic Corruption.
- Defile now has an additional effect – If any enemies are standing in the Defile, it grows in size and deals increasing damage every second.
- Army of the Damned now has an additional effect – Apocalypse and Army of the Dead summon a Magus of the Dead for 15 seconds who hurls Frostbolts and Shadow Bolts at your foes.
- Unholy Frenzy has been reworked and renamed Unholy Assault. Strike your target with an unholy blow dealing Shadow damage, infecting the target with 4 Festering Wounds, and sending you into a killing frenzy, increasing haste by 20% for 12 seconds.
- Bursting Sores now capped at 8 targets.

General

Newly created Demon Hunters now begin at level 8.
Immolation Aura is no longer a Talent for Havoc and is learned by all Demon Hunters through their initial questing experience or at level 10.

Havoc

Level 52: Fel Rush (Rank 3) – Fel Rush damage increased by 25%.
Level 54: Metamorphosis (Rank 4) – When you activate Metamorphosis, the cooldown of Eye Beam and Blade Dance is immediately reset.
Level 56: Chaos Strike (Rank 3) – Chaos Strike damage increased by 10%.
Level 58: Eye Beam (Rank 3) – When Eye Beam finishes fully channeling, your Haste is increased by an additional 15% for 12 seconds.
New Passive: Unending Hatred – Increases maximum Fury to 120.
Blur now reduces all damage taken by 20% for 10 seconds (was 35%).
Metamorphosis no longer provides 20% Leech. Soul Rending (Talent) will now return 25% Leech to Metamorphosis.
Blade Dance and Death Sweep now capped at 5 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Burning Hatred – Immolation Aura generates an additional 60 Fury over 12 seconds.
- New Talent: Unbound Chaos (replaces Fel Mastery) – Unbound Chaos has been redesigned – Now causes your next Immolation Aura cast to increase the damage of your next Fel Rush by 300%. Lasts 20 seconds.
- New Talent: Glaive Tempest – Launch two demonic glaives in a whirlwind of energy, causing Chaos damage over 3 seconds to 5 nearby enemies.
- Insatiable Hunger now causes Demon’s Bite to deal 20% more damage and generates 5 to 10 additional Fury.
- Cycle of Hatred now reduces the cooldown of Eye Beam by 3 seconds when Chaos Strike refunds Fury (was Metamorphosis).
- Soul Rending Leech increased by 5% (was 10%) and gain an additional 25% Leech while Metamorphosis is active (was 10%).
- Netherwalk cooldown is now 3 minutes (was 2 minutes).
- Dark Slash has been renamed to Essence Break – Slash all enemies in front of you for Chaos damage, and increase the damage your Chaos Strike and Blade Dance deal to them by 40% for 8 seconds.
- Demonic now causes you to enter demon form for 6 seconds when using Eye Beam (was 8 seconds).
- Nemesis has been removed.
- Fel Barrage now capped at 8 targets.
- Glaive Tempest is now affected by Mastery: Demonic Presence, and its damage has been reduced by 15%.

Vengeance

Level 52: Infernal Strike (Rank 3) – Infernal Strike damage increased by 25%.
Level 54: Fiery Brand (Rank 3) – The duration of Fiery Brand is increased by 2 seconds.
Level 56: Soul Cleave (Rank 3) – Soul Cleave damage is increased by 10%.
Level 58: New Passive: Revel in Pain – When Fiery Brand expires on your primary target, you gain a shield that absorbs damage for 15 seconds, based on your damage dealt to them while Fiery Brand was active.
Vengeance Demon Hunters now use Fury as a resource instead of Pain.
Demonic Wards increase to Stamina and Armor have been moved into a new Passive: Thick Skin which increases Stamina by 65% and Armor by 100%.
Soul Cleave replaces Chaos Strike, Shear replaces Demon's Bite and Infernal Strike replaces Fel Rush when selecting the Vengeance specialization.
Fel Devastation is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Vengeance Demon Hunters at level 11. Additionally, Fel Devastation now costs 50 Fury.
Soul Cleave now heals you for an additional amount for each Soul Fragment consumed.
Soul Cleave now capped at 5 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Infernal Armor (replaces Flame Crash) – Immolation Aura increases your Armor by 20% and causes melee attackers to suffer Fire damage.
- New Talent: Ruinous Bulwark (replaces Void Reaver) – Fel Devastation heals for an additional 15%, and 50% of its overhealing is converted into an absorb shield for 10 seconds.
- New Talent: Bulk Extraction (replaces Soul Barrier) – Demolish the spirit of all around you, dealing Fire damage to nearby enemies and extracting a soul fragment from the 5 closest enemies, drawing them to you for immediate consumption.
- New Talent: Demonic – Fel Devastation causes you to enter demon form for 6 seconds after it finishes dealing damage.
- Abyssal Strike now causes Infernal Strike to create a Sigil of Flame when you land and its cooldown is reduced by 8 seconds.
- Agonizing Flames no longer increases the damage of Immolation Aura. It now increases its duration by 50%.
- Feast of Souls healing increased by 25%.
- Charred Flesh has been redesigned – Immolation Aura damage now increases the duration of your Fiery Brand by 0.5 seconds.

General

Level 52: Regrowth (Rank 2) – Regrowth's initial heal now has a 40% increased chance for a critical effect if the target is already affected by Regrowth.
Level 56: Entangling Roots (Rank 2) – Entangling Roots can withstand 20% more damage before breaking.
Travel Form’s ground forms are no longer mountable.
The Stag Form ability has been renamed Mount Form and ground forms are mountable when using this ability. The ability is learned from Tome of the Wilds: Mount Form available in the Druid Order Hall, The Dreamgrove, and is automatically learned for players who have already learned Tome of the Wilds: Stag Form prior to the update.
The Lunarwing appearance is mountable when selected as the Flight Form appearance at the Barber Shop.
Lunar Strike has been renamed back to Starfire.
Solar Wrath has been renamed back to Wrath.
Growl is now learned at level 9 (was 14).
Moonfire (Rank 2) is now learned at level 14 (was 9).
All Druids can now use the following abilities:
- Ferocious Bite – Finishing move that causes Physical damage per combo point and consumes up to 25 additional Energy to increase damage by up to 100%. Requires Cat Form.
- Barkskin – Your skin becomes as tough as bark, reducing all damage you take by 20% and preventing damage from delaying your spellcasts. Lasts 12 seconds. Usable while stunned, frozen, incapacitated, feared, or asleep, and in all shapeshift forms.
- Cyclone – No longer a PvP Talent. Tosses the enemy target into the air, disorienting them but making them invulnerable for up to 6 seconds. Only one target can be affected by your Cyclone at a time.
- Stampeding Roar – Shift into Bear Form and let loose a wild roar, increasing the movement speed of all friendly players within 15 yards by 60% for 8 seconds.
- Ironfur – Increases armor for 7 seconds. Requires Bear Form.
- Wrath – Hurl a ball of energy at the target, dealing Nature damage.
Swipe now capped at 5 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Heart of the Wild (replaces Typhoon) – Abilities associated with your chosen Affinity are substantially empowered for 45 seconds. 5 minute cooldown. Shifts you into the appropriate form upon cast, except in Restoration Affinity.
  - Restoration Affinity: Healing of your Restoration spells increased by 30%, and mana costs reduced by 50%.
  - Balance Affinity: Damage of Balance spells increased 30% Damage of your Balance abilities increased by 30% and Starsurge is instant cast.
  - Feral Affinity: Damage of your Feral abilities increased by 30%, and critical strikes with attacks that generate a combo point generate an additional combo point.
  - Guardian Affinity: Bear Form gives an additional 20% Stamina, multiple uses of Ironfur may overlap, and Frenzied Regeneration has 2 charges.
- Mighty Bash now stuns the target for 4 seconds (was 5 seconds) and has a 1 minute cooldown (was 50 seconds).
- New abilities have been added to their respective Affinities:
  - Restoration Affinity: Ursol's Vortex
  - Balance Affinity: Typhoon
  - Feral Affinity: Maim
  - Guardian Affinity: Incapacitating Roar
PvP Talent changes:
- Cyclone is no longer a Talent and learned by all Druids at level 48.
- Heart of the Wild has been renamed to Strength of the Wild.
- Master Shapeshifter: Balance Affinity no longer reduces the cast time of Starsurge and now also increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 20% for 10 seconds.
- Master Shapeshifter: Feral Affinity now only increases bleed damage by 30% (was 25%).
- Deep Roots now increases the damage required to break your Entangling Roots and Mass Entanglement by 250% (down from 400%).

Balance

Level 54: Starfall (Rank 2) – Casting Starfall extends the duration of active Moonfires and Sunfires by 4 seconds.
Level 58: Starsurge (Rank 2) – Starsurge further empowers the damage bonus of any active eclipse.
New Mastery: Total Eclipse – Solar Eclipse increases Nature damage by 11%, and Lunar Eclipse increases Arcane damage by 11%.
Eclipse passive has been redesigned and works with Balance Affinity (Talent): Casting 2 Starfires empowers Wrath for 15 seconds. Casting 2 Wraths empowers Starfire for 15 seconds. These Eclipses occur in alternation.
- Eclipse (Solar): Wrath cast time reduced by 15% and damage increased 20%.
- Eclipse (Lunar): Starfire cast time reduced by 15% and increases the critical strike chance of Starfire by 20%.
Starsurge now increases the damage bonus to Wrath and Starfire for the duration of the Eclipse and costs 30 Astral Power (was 40).
Celestial Alignment maintains both Eclipses and grants 10% Haste for 20 seconds. Starfall now has a 40 yard radius around the caster and moves with the caster for the duration, avoiding targets not in combat. Starfall damage increased substantially.
Shooting Stars is no longer a Talent and learned by all Balance Druids at level 49. Shooting Stars now generates 3 Astral Power (was 4) and the proc chance has been increased by 50%.
Moonfire and Sunfire now generate 2 Astral Power (was 3).
Wrath now generates 6 Astral Power (was 8).
Starfire now generates 8 Astral Power (was 12).
Celestial Alignment and Incarnation: Chosen of Elune (Talent) no longer have a global cooldown.
Innervate’s duration has been reduced to 10 seconds and it no longer has a global cooldown.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Solstice (replaces Shooting Stars) – During the first 6 seconds of every Eclipse, Shooting Stars fall 300% more often.
- Nature's Balance now generates 1 Astral Power every 2 seconds while in combat (was 2 Astral Power every 3 seconds).
- Soul of the Forest redesigned – Eclipse increases Wrath's Astral power generation by 50% and increases Starfire's damage to all other enemies by 150%.
- Starlord now grants you 4% Haste for 15 seconds (was 3% Haste for 20 seconds).
- Incarnation: Chosen of Elune now grants the benefits of Celestial Alignment and 10% Critical Strike.
- Stellar Drift now increases Starfall duration by 2 seconds and damage by 15%.
- Fury of Elune deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
PvP Talent changes:
- Prickling Thorns now causes Entangling Roots to deal damage every 3 seconds instead of damage upon removal.
- Moon and Stars radius increased to 5 yards (was 3 yards). Moon and Stars now triggers each time you enter an Eclipse, instead of when using Celestial Alignment.

Feral

Level 54: Shred (Rank 4) – While in stealth, Shred generates 1 additional combo point.
Level 58: Berserk (Rank 2) – When Berserk grants combo points, it grants 1 additional combo point.
Survival Instincts now has 1 charge (was 2).
Rake deals 60% increased damage while stealthed (was 100%).
Shred deals 60% increased damage while stealthed (was 30%).
Berserk has been redesigned – Go berserk for 20 seconds, causing Rake and Shred to deal damage as though you were stealthed, and giving finishing moves a 20% chance per combo point spent to refund 1 combo point.
Berserk and Incarnation: King of the Jungle (Talent) no longer have a global cooldown.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- Sabertooth now extends Rip by 1 second (was 4 seconds).
- Balance Affinity Moonkin Form no longer has a 90 second cooldown.
- Incarnation: King of the Jungle now grants the benefits of Berserk, reduces the energy cost of all Cat Form abilities by 20%, and allows the use of Prowl once while in combat.
- Bloodtalons has been redesigned – When you use 3 different combo point- generating abilities within 4 seconds, the damage of your next 2 Rips or Ferocious Bites is increased by 30%.
- Brutal Slash now capped at 5 targets.

Guardian

Level 54: Frenzied Regeneration (Rank 3) – Frenzied Regeneration increases all healing received by 20%.
Level 58: Berserk (Rank 2) – Berserk reduces the cooldowns of Mangle, Thrash, Growl and Frenzied Regeneration by an additional 25%.
New Ability: Berserk – Go berserk for 15 seconds, reducing the cooldowns of Mangle, Thrash, Growl, and Frenzied Regeneration by 50% and the cost of Ironfur by 50%. 3 min cooldown.
New Ability: Infected Wounds – Mangle and Maul slow the target’s movement speed by 50% for 12 seconds.
Incapacitating Roar now shifts you into Bear Form when used.
Berserk no longer has a global cooldown.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Renewal (replaces Ursol's Vortex) – Instantly heals you for 30% of maximum health.
- New Talent: Tooth and Claw (replaces Lunar Beam) – Auto attacks have a 20% chance to empower Maul, stacking up to 2. Empowered Mauls deal 40% increased damage and reduce the target’s damage to you by 15% for 6 seconds.
- Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc has been redesigned – An improved Bear Form that grants the benefits of Berserk, causes Mangle to hit up to 3 targets, and increases maximum health by 30%. Lasts 30 seconds.
- Pulverize now reduces the damage the target deals to you by 35%. for 10 seconds and has a 45 second cooldown (was reduces damage from all targets by 9% for 20 seconds).

Restoration

Level 54: Innervate (Rank 2) – If you cast Innervate on somebody else, you gain its effect at 50% effectiveness.
Level 56: Ironbark (Rank 2) – Ironbark increases healing from your heal over time effects by 20%.
Level 58: New Ability: Nature's Swiftness – Your next Regrowth, Rebirth or Entangling Roots is instant, free, castable in all forms, and heals for an additional 100%.
Ironbark now has a 1.5 minute cooldown (was 1 minute).
Swiftmend cooldown is now 15 seconds (was 25 seconds), costs 11% mana (was 14%), and consumes an active Regrowth, Wild Growth, Rejuvenation or Germination healing over time effect to instantly heal an ally.
Innervate’s duration has been reduced to 10 seconds and it no longer has a global cooldown.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Nourish (replaces Prosperity) – Heals a friendly target for 135% spell power. Costs 15% mana, 2 second cast time and receives triple bonus from Mastery: Harmony.
- New Talent: Overgrowth (replaces Stonebark) – No longer a PvP Talent. Apply Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, Regrowth's heal over time effect to an ally. Now a 1 minute cooldown (was 45 seconds).
- Stonebark is no longer a Talent and its increased healing bonus effect will be learned once again in Shadowlands.
PvP Talent changes:
- Encroaching Vines has been redesigned and renamed High Winds – Cyclone leaves the target reeling, reducing their damage by 25% for 4 seconds.
- Nourish has been removed.
- Revitalize has been renamed to Reactive Resin.

General

Level 52: Mend Pet (Rank 2) – Mend Pet heals for an additional 15% of your pet's health over its duration.
Level 54: Tranquilizing Shot (Rank 2) – When Tranquilizing Shot successfully dispels an effect, gain 10 focus.
Level 56: Improved Traps (Rank 2) – The cooldown of Tar Trap and Freezing Trap is reduced by 5 seconds.
Level 58: Kill Shot (Rank 2) – Kill Shot critical damage is increased by 25%.
Many new beasts can be tamed.
- Runestag, larion, owl steed, death chimaera, death roc, mawrat, shadebeast, glimmerfly, vulpin, shadehound, gargon, gorm wasp, maw roach, skullboar, etherwyrm, tauralus, giraffe, ram, alpaca, pig, horse, flat snake, and more!
- Many undead beasts are now tameable – Skeletal and mummy devilsaurs, raptors, eagles, zombie dogs, wind serpents, and hell hounds.
  - Undead beasts are automatically tameable by Forsaken while other races must acquire the Tome of Bone-Binding hidden somewhere within the Shadowlands.
- Battle for Azeroth dungeon bosses – The Golden Serpent, K.U.-J.O., The Sand Queen, Merektha, and Cragmaw
- Raid bosses – Guarm and Skorpyron
- Cloud Serpents
  - Cloud Serpents are automatically tameable by Pandaren while other races must acquire the How to School Your Serpent Tome after reaching Exalted with Order of the Cloud Serpents.
New pet families have been added.
- Mammoth – Tenacity: Contains Mammoths and Elekk
- Courser – Ferocity: Contains Horses, Horned Horses, and Zebras
- Camel – Cunning: Contains Camels and Alpacas
Some pet families have been renamed.
Rare, rare elite, and quest bosses retain their names upon taming.
Stable size has been increased to 200 (was 60).
Wing Clip can now be used with bows, guns and crossbows. Wing Clip will be replaced with Concussive Shot at level 13 for Beast Mastery and Marksmanship Hunters.
Revive Pet now has a 4 second cast time (was 2 seconds).
All Hunters can now use the following abilities:
- New Ability: Kill Shot – You attempt to finish off a wounded target, Physical damage. Only usable on enemies with less than 20% health.
- New Ability: Scare Beast – Scares a beast, causing it to run in fear for up to 20 seconds. Damage caused may interrupt the effect. Only one beast can be feared at a time.
- New Ability: Eyes of the Beast – Take direct control of your pet and see through its eyes for 1 min.
- New Ability: Tranquilizing Shot – Removes 1 Enrage and 1 Magic effect from an enemy target.
  - Pets that used to have Tranquilizing Shot as their special family ability now remove 1 poison, magic, and disease effect from the pet. 10 second cooldown.
- Hunter's Mark – No longer a Marksmanship Talent. Apply Hunter's Mark to the target, allowing the target to always be seen and tracked by the Hunter. Only one Hunter's Mark can be applied at a time.
- Arcane Shot – A quick shot that causes Arcane damage.
PvP Talent changes:
- Survival Tactics now reduces damage taken by 90% (down from 99%) and can now be used to reduce damage from spells that are already mid-air.

Beast Mastery

Misdirection threat percentage increased by 100%.
Spirit Mend (Spirit Beast pet ability) healing reduced by 66%.
Aspect of the Wild no longer has a global cooldown.
Bestial Wrath now causes your pet to instantly deal damage to your target upon activation.
Multi-Shot and Beast Cleave now capped at 5 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Bloodshed – Command your pet to tear into your target, causing your target to bleed over 18 seconds and increase all damage taken from your pet by 15% for 18 seconds. 1 minute cooldown.
- Dire Beast no longer costs focus.
- Scent of Blood has been redesigned – Activating Bestial Wrath grants 2 charges of Barbed Shot.
- Venomous Bite has been redesigned and renamed Spitting Cobra: When Bestial Wrath ends, summon a Spitting Cobra to aid you in combat for 15 seconds. Each Cobra Shot used during Bestial Wrath increases the damage this Spitting Cobra deals by 10%.
- Stampede now has a 2 minute cooldown (was 3 minutes) and capped at 5 targets per beast per wave of Stampede.
- Barrage now capped at 8 targets.

Marksmanship

Rapid Fire duration lowered to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds). Total damage dealt by Rapid Fire is unchanged.
Aimed Shot focus cost increased to 35 (was 30).
Arcane Shot focus cost increased to 20 (was 15).
Multi-Shot focus cost increased to 20 (was 15) and damage is now capped at 5 targets.
Binding Shot is no longer a Talent and learned by all Marksmanship Hunters at level 33.
Trueshot now increases your Focus regen and Focus generation by 50% while active in addition to its current effects.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Chimaera Shot – A two-headed shot that hits your primary target and another nearby target for reduced damage, dealing Nature damage to your primary target and reduced Frost damage to your secondary target. Replaces Arcane Shot, is instant cast and costs 20 focus.
- New Talent: Binding Shackles (Passive) – Targets rooted by Binding Shot deal 20% less damage to you for 8 seconds after the root effect ends.
- New Talent: Dead Eye (Passive) – Kill Shot has 2 charges, and causes Aimed Shot to recharge 50% faster for 3 seconds.
- New Talent: Volley (replaces Piercing Shot) – Rain a volley of arrows down over 6 seconds, dealing Physical damage to any enemy in the area, and gain the effects of Trick Shots for as long as Volley is active. Volley is instant cast and has a 45 second cooldown.
- Master Marksman has been redesigned – Your critical shots cause your target to bleed for 15% of the damage dealt over 6 seconds.
- Serpent Sting duration increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds).
- Careful Aim has had the low health benefit removed as it felt redundant with Kill Shot returning. Additionally, now the bonus damage is applied to targets above 70% health (was 80%).
- Steady Focus has been redesigned – Casting Steady Shot twice in a row now increases your haste by 7% for 15 seconds.
- Streamline (Passive) has been redesigned – Rapid Fire damage is increased by 15%, and Rapid Fire now also reduces the cast time of your next Aimed Shot by 30%.
- Lethal Shots proc chance has been increased to 30% (was 20%).
- Lock and Load's proc chance has been increased to 8% (was 5%).
- Barrage now capped at 8 targets.
- Explosive Shot now capped at 6 targets.

Survival

The following Talents have been adjusted:
- Tip of the Spear now causes Kill Command to increase the damage of your next Raptor Strike by 25% (was 20%), stacking up to 3 times.
- Flanking Strike now has a 30 second cooldown (was 40 seconds).
- Chakrams now costs 15 focus (was 30).
- Carve and Butchery now capped at 5 targets.

General

Level 52: New Ability: Teleport: Oribos – Teleports you to Oribos.
Level 58: New Ability: Portal: Oribos – Creates a portal, teleporting group members that use it to Oribos.
Mirror Image is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Mages at level 44. Mirror Images damage greatly reduced, Frostbolt added to all Mirror Images, and while your images are active, damage taken is reduced by 20%. Taking direct damage will cause one of your images to dissipate.
All Mages can now use the following abilities:
- Arcane Explosion – Causes an explosion of magic around the caster, dealing Arcane damage to all enemies within 10 yards.
- Frostbolt – Launches a bolt of frost at the enemy, causing Frost damage and slowing movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds.
- Fire Blast – Blasts the enemy for Fire damage.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Focus Magic – Increases the target's chance to critically hit with spells by 5% for 30 minutes. When the target critically hits, your chance to critically hit with spells is increased by 5% for 10 seconds. Cannot be cast on self. Limit 1 target.
- Shimmer cooldown increased to 25 seconds (was 20 seconds).
- Rune of Power now places a Rune of Power on the ground for 15 seconds (was 10 seconds) and has an additional effect – Casting Arcane Power, Combustion or Icy Veins will also create a Rune of Power at your location.
- Ring of Frost incapacitate duration in PvE increased by 50% and has an additional effect – When the incapacitate expires, enemies are slowed by 65% for 4 seconds.

Arcane

Level 52: Arcane Barrage (Rank 3) – Arcane Barrage grants you 2% of your maximum mana per Arcane Charge spent.
Level 54: Presence of Mind (Rank 2) – Arcane Blast can be cast instantly 1 additional time.
Level 56: Arcane Power (Rank 3) – Duration increased by 5 seconds.
New Ability: Alter Time – Alters the fabric of time, returning you to your current location and health when cast a second time, or after 10 seconds. Effect negated by long distance or death.
Mastery: Savant now has an additional effect – Increases all other Arcane damage.
Clearcasting now has additional effects – Stacks up to 3 times and causes your Arcane Missiles to fire 1 additional missile.
Arcane Power cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
Touch of the Magi is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Arcane Mages at level 33. Touch of the Magi has been redesigned – Applies Touch of the Magi to your current target, accumulating 25% of the damage you deal to the target for 8 seconds, and then exploding for that amount of Arcane damage to the target and reduced damage to all nearby enemies. Generates 4 Arcane Charges on cast and has a 45 second cooldown.
Arcane Power no longer has a global cooldown.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Master of Time (replaces Mana Shield) – Reduces the cooldown of Alter Time by 30 seconds. Alter Time resets the cooldown of Blink when you return to your original location.
- New Talent: Arcane Echo (replaces Charged Up) – Direct damage you deal to enemies affected by Touch of the Magi, causes an explosion that deals Arcane damage to 8 nearby enemies.
- Amplification causes Arcane Missiles to fire 2 additional missiles when Clearcast (was 1).
- Resonance damage per target hit with Arcane Barrage increased to 15% (was 10%).
- Time Anomaly now grants Time Warp for 6 seconds and no longer grants 4 Arcane Charges.
- Nether Tempest now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
PvP Talent changes:
- Rewind Time has been removed.

Fire

Level 52: Flamestrike (Rank 3) – Damage increased by 15%.
Level 54: Pyroblast (Rank 2) – Deals additional fire damage over 6 seconds.
Level 56: Combustion (Rank 2) – Duration increased by 2 seconds.
Level 58: New Ability: Alter Time – Alters the fabric of time, returning you to your current location and health when cast a second time, or after 10 seconds. Effect negated by long distance or death.
Mastery: Ignite now causes your Phoenix Flames to spread your Ignites to 8 nearby enemies Ignite no longer spreads to a nearby enemy every 2 seconds.
Phoenix Flames is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Fire Mages at level 19. Now Phoenix Flames has a 25 second recharge time (was 30 seconds), damage increased by 15%, and no longer guarantees a critical strike.
Enhanced Pyrotechnics is now Fireball (Rank 2).
Phoenix Flames now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: From the Ashes (Passive) – Increases Mastery by 2% for each charge of Phoenix Flames off cooldown and your direct-damage critical strikes reduce its cooldown by 1 second.
- Blast Wave damage increased by 5% and duration increased to 6 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Alextrasza's Fury now always critically strikes for 50% increased critical strike damage and has an additional effect – Damage done by your next Pyroblast or Flamestrike is increased by 35%.
- Kindling now reduces the remaining cooldown on Combustion by 1.5 seconds (was 1 second).
- Pyroclasm now increases Pyroblast bonus damage by 250% (was 225%).
- Living Bomb now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.

Frost

Level 52: Blizzard (Rank 3) – Damage increased by 15%.
Level 54: Cold Snap (Rank 2) – Cooldown reduced by 30 seconds.
Level 56: Icy Veins (Rank 2) – Duration increased by 3 seconds.
Level 58: New Ability: Alter Time – Alters the fabric of time, returning you to your current location and health when cast a second time, or after 10 seconds. Effect negated by long distance or death.
Flurry now reduces the target's movement speed by 80% (was 70%).
Icy Veins no longer has a global cooldown.
Frozen Orb now capped at 8 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted.
- Frigid Winds additional movement speed reduction is now 10% (was 15%).
- Ice Nova now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.

General

Level 56: Paralysis (Rank 2) – Reduces the cooldown of Paralysis by 15 seconds.
Leg Sweep radius increased to 6 yards (was 5 yards).
Monks Peak of Serenity Enlightenment buff now grants rested experience (was experience bonus).
Spinning Crane Kick now capped at 6 targets.
Provoke is now learned at level 9 (was 14).
Roll (Rank 2) is now learned at level 14 (was 9).
All Monks can now use the following abilities:
- Expel Harm – Expel negative chi from your body, healing you and dealing 10% of the amount healed as Nature damage to an enemy within 8 yards. Now has 15 second cooldown.
- Spinning Crane Kick – Spin while kicking in the air, dealing Physical damage over 1.5 seconds to enemies within 8 yards.
- Touch of Death – You exploit the enemy target's weakest point, instantly killing creatures if they have less health than you. Deals damage equal to 35% of your maximum health against players and stronger creatures under 15% health and has a 3 minute cooldown.
- Fortifying Brew – Turns your skin to stone for 15 seconds, increasing your current and maximum health by 15% and reducing all damage you take by 15%.

Brewmaster

Level 52: Touch of Death (Rank 3) – Clears Stagger damage based on 200% of damage dealt.
Level 54: New Ability: Clash – You and the target charge each other, meeting halfway then rooting all targets within 6 yards for 4 seconds.
Level 56: Zen Meditation (Rank 2) – Zen Meditation is no longer cancelled by moving.
Level 58: Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox (Level 58) – Purifying Stagger damage while Niuzao is active increases the damage of Niuzao's next Stomp by 25% of damage purified, split between all enemies.
New Passive: Shuffle – Niuzao's teachings allow you to shuffle during combat, increasing the effectiveness of your Stagger by 75%. Shuffle is granted by attacking enemies with your Keg Smash, Blackout Kick, and Spinning Crane Kick.
New Ability: Celestial Brew (replaces Ironskin Brew) – A swig of strong brew that coalesces purified chi escaping your body into a celestial guard, absorbing damage. Additionally, Purifying Stagger damage increases absorption by up to 200%. Stacks up to 10 times at 20% absorption per stack.
Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Brewmaster Monks at level 42. Niuzao no longer taunts the target and now has a 25 second duration (was 45 seconds).
Purifying Brew now has 2 charges (was 3), no longer shares charges with other Brews, and has the additional effect – Increases the absorption of your next Celestial Brew by up to 200%, based on your current level of Stagger.
Expel Harm now has an additional effect – Cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds and draws in the positive chi of all your Healing Spheres to increase the healing done by Expel Harm.
Blackout Strike renamed to Blackout Kick and now grants Shuffle for 3 seconds.
Keg Smash now reduces Brew recharge time by 3 seconds (was 4 seconds) and has an additional effect – Grants Shuffle for 5 seconds.
Spinning Crane Kick has an additional effect – Dealing damage with Spinning Crane Kick grants Shuffle for 1 second, and causes your Gift of the Ox healing spheres to travel towards your location.
Blackout Kick can now be used while dual-wielding weapons.
Breath of Fire and Keg Smash now deal reduced damage on secondary targets.
Fortifying Brew cooldown is now 6 minutes (was 7 minutes).
The following Talents have been adjusted.
- New Talent: Exploding Keg – Hurls a flaming keg at the target location, dealing Fire damage to nearby enemies and causing them to miss their melee attacks for the next 3 seconds.
- New Talent: Celestial Flames (replaces Guard) – Drinking from Brews has a 30% chance to coat the Monk with Celestial Flames for 6 seconds, increasing the damage reduction of Breath of Fire by 5%. Spinning Crane Kick also causes a Breath of Fire on targets.
- Light Brewing has been redesigned – Reduces the cooldown of Purifying Brew and Celestial Brew by 20%.
- Black Ox Brew now also resets the cooldown of Celestial Brew.
- Special Delivery now procs off of all your Brews.
- Rushing Jade Wind now capped at 6 targets.

Mistweaver

Level 52: Touch of Death (Rank 3) – Touch of Death increases the Monk's Physical damage for 10 seconds.
Level 54: Expel Harm (Rank 3) – Expel Harm can be cast during Soothing Mist, and heals the Monk and their Soothing Mist target.
Level 58: New Passive: Enveloping Breath – While active, Yu'lon and Chi'ji heal nearby targets with Enveloping Breath when you cast Enveloping Mist, healing over 6 seconds and increasing the healing they receive from you by 10%.
New Ability: Invoke Yu’lon, the Jade Serpent – Summons an effigy of Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent for 25 seconds. Yu’lon now idles near the Mistweaver and casts Soothing Breath on an injured target, healing the target and up to 2 nearby injured allies. Soothing Breath gains benefit from Soothing Mist bonuses, similar to Summon Jade Serpent Statue.
The following Talents have been adjusted.
- Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane has been redesigned – Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane, and become immune to movement impairing effects for 25 seconds. Chi-Ji kicks up Gusts of Mists with your Blackout Kick, Rising Sun Kick, and Spinning Crane Kick, healing up to 2 allies, and reducing the cost and cast time of your next Enveloping Mist by 33%, stacking 3 times. Chi-Ji now assists the Monk and deals melee damage.
- Mana Tea’s duration has been reduced to 10 seconds (from 12 seconds) and it no longer has a global cooldown.

Windwalker

Level 52: Touch of Death (Rank 3) – Touch of Death spawns 3 Chi Spheres, granting 1 Chi when you walk through them.
Level 58: Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger (Rank 2) – Xuen strikes your enemies with Empowered Tiger Lightning every 4 seconds, dealing 10% of the damage you have dealt to those targets in the last 4 seconds.
Fists of Fury can now be used while holding a two-handed weapon.
Touch of Death now has a 3 minute cooldown (was 2 minutes).
Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Windwalker Monks at level 42. Its duration has been increased to 24 seconds (was 20 seconds).
Spinning Crane Kick damage is increased by up to 6 Mark of the Crane debuffs inflicted upon targets (was 5).
Storm, Earth and Fire no longer has a global cooldown.
Fists of Fury now capped at 6 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted.
- Serenity and Energizing Elixir no longer have a global cooldown.
- Rushing Jade Wind now capped at 6 targets.
PvP Talent changes:
- Reverse Harm has been redesigned – Now a passive that increases the healing done by your Expel Harm by 100% and causes it to generate 2 Chi when used.
- Pressure Points has been redesigned – Touch of Karma’s cooldown is reduced by 60 seconds when a player is killed by Touch of Death.

General

Level 52: New Ability: Concentration Aura – Interrupt and Silence effects on party and raid members within 40 yards are 30% shorter.
Level 54: New Ability: Sense Undead – Shows the location of all nearby undead on the minimap until cancelled. Only one form of tracking can be active at a time.
Level 56: Retribution Aura (Rank 2) – Duration increased by 4 seconds.
Level 58: Hammer of Wrath (Rank 2) – Hammer of Wrath may be used on any target during Avenging Wrath.
The Aura bar has returned, containing Crusader Aura, Devotion Aura, Concentration Aura, and Retribution Aura. All auras have a 40 yard range, and one can be active at a time.
Avenging Wrath and Holy Avenger no longer have a global cooldown.
Hand of Reckoning is now learned at level 9. (was 14).
Lay on Hands is now learned at level 14 (was 9).
All Paladins can now use the following abilities:
- New Ability: Turn Evil – The power of the Light compels an Undead, Aberration, or Demon target to flee for up to 40 seconds. Damage may break the effect. Only one target can be turned at a time.
- Crusader Aura – Increases mounted speed by 20% for all party and raid members with 40 yards.
- Devotion Aura – Party and raid members within 40 yards are bolstered by their devotion, reducing damage taken by 3%.
- Retribution Aura – When any party or raid member within 40 yards dies, you gain Avenging Wrath for 8 seconds.
- Word of Glory – Calls down the Light to heal a friendly target. Costs 3 Holy Power.
- Shield of the Righteous – Slams enemies in front of you with your shield, causing Holy damage and increasing your Armor for 4.5 seconds. No longer limited by charges, costs 3 Holy Power.
- Crusader Strike – Strike the target for Physical damage. Generates 1 Holy Power and costs 14% of base mana.
- Hammer of Wrath – Hurls a divine hammer that strikes an enemy for Holy damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health or during Avenging Wrath. Now generates 1 Holy Power.
- Consecration – Consecrates the land beneath you, causing Holy damage over 12 seconds to enemies who enter the area. Limit 1.
- Blessing of Sacrifice – Blesses a party or raid member, reducing their damage taken by 30%, but you suffer 75% of damage prevented. Last 12 seconds, or until transferred damage would cause you to fall below 20% health.

Holy

Holy Paladins now use Holy Power as a resource.
Holy Shock now generates 1 Holy Power and its cooldown has been reduced to 7.5 seconds (was 9 seconds).
Beacon of Light no longer refunds mana; casting Flash of Light or Holy Light on your Beacon of Light grants 1 Holy Power. Additionally, the Beacon of Light will be healed for 50% of the amount healed (was 40%).
Light of Dawn now costs 3 Holy Power and has no cooldown. Light of Dawn healing has been increased by 25%.
Avenging Crusader (Talent) no longer has a global cooldown.
Infusion of Light now reduces the cost of Flash of Light by 30% or increases healing of Holy Light by 30%.
Aura Mastery now empowers your chosen aura for 8 seconds:
- Concentration Aura: Immune to Interrupt and Silence effects.
- Devotion Aura: Reduced damage taken increased from 3% to 15%.
- Crusader Aura: Mounted speed increased from 20% to 60%.
- Retribution Aura: Duration increased by 50%.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Saved by the Light – When an ally with your Beacon of Light is damaged below 30% health, they gain an absorb shield. You cannot shield the same person this way twice within 1 minute.
- New Talent: Seraphim – The Light magnifies your power for 15 seconds, granting 8% Haste, Critical Strike, and Versatility, and Mastery increased by 12%.
- New Talent: Glimmer of Light – Holy Shock leaves a Glimmer of Light on the target for 30 seconds. When you Holy Shock, all targets with Glimmer of Light are damaged or healed. You may have Glimmer of Light on up to 8 targets.
- Holy Avenger has been redesigned – Your Holy Power generation is tripled for 20 seconds.
- Divine Purpose has been redesigned – Holy Power abilities have a 15% chance to make your next Holy Power ability free and deal 20% increased damage and healing.
- Fist of Justice has been redesigned – Each Holy Power spent reduces the remaining cooldown on Hammer of Justice by 2 seconds.
- Awakening now also procs from Word of Glory.
- Bestow Faith now generates 1 Holy Power.
- Sanctified Wrath reduces Holy Shock’s cooldown by 40% (was 50%).
- Divine Favor now reduces the cast time of Holy Light and Flash of Light by 60% but no longer reduces their mana cost.

Protection

Protection Paladins now use Holy Power as a resource.
New Passive: Shining Light – Every 5 Shield of the Righteous make your next Word of Glory cost 0 Holy Power.
Avenger’s Shield no longer increases the effects of your next Shield of the Righteous and now generates 1 Holy Power.
Judgment now causes the target to take 25% increased damage from your next Holy Power ability and generates 1 Holy Power.
Hammer of the Righteous now generates 1 Holy Power.
Consecration reduces the Protection Paladins' damage taken by 5% while they stand inside their Consecration, in addition to any bonus added by Mastery.
Light of the Protector has been removed.
Word of Glory now has an additional effect: When you cast Word of Glory on yourself, it is increased by up to 150% based on your missing health.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Divine Purpose – Holy Power abilities have a 15% chance to make your next Holy Power ability free and deal 20% increased damage and healing.
- New Talent: Holy Avenger – Your Holy Power generation is tripled for 20 seconds.
- New Talent: Sanctified Wrath (replaces Last Defender) – Avenging Wrath lasts 25% longer and causes Judgment to generate 2 Holy Power.
- New Talent: Moment of Glory (replaces Bastion of Light) – Reset the cooldown of Avenger's Shield. Your next 3 Avenger's Shields have no cooldown and deal 20% additional damage.
- Fist of Justice has been redesigned – Each Holy Power spent reduces the remaining cooldown on Hammer of Justice by 2 seconds.
- Redoubt has been redesigned – Shield of the Righteous increases your Strength and Stamina by 2% for 10 seconds, stacking up to 3.
- Blessed Hammer now has a 6 second recharge (was 4.5 seconds), generates 1 Holy Power, and reduces the enemies next damage they deal to you.
- First Avenger has been redesigned – Avenger's Shield hits 2 additional targets, and grants you an absorb shield for 100% of all damage it deals.
- Hand of the Protector now increases Word of Glory's healing by the target's missing health, on any target.
- Final Stand is now an area trigger that taunts all targets for 8 seconds, instead of a one-time taunt.
- Righteous Protector now reduces the remaining cooldown of Avenging Wrath and Guardian of the Kings by 1 second with each Holy Power spent.

Retribution

Wake of Ashes is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Retribution Paladins at level 34. Wake of Ashes damage increased 50%, now deals reduced damage on secondary targets, and generates 3 Holy Power (was 5).
Blade of Justice cooldown is now 12 seconds (was 10.5 seconds).
Crusade (Talent) no longer has a global cooldown.
Greater Blessing of Kings and Greater Blessing of Wisdom have been removed.
Divine Storm now capped at 5 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Empyrean Power (replaces Hammer of Wrath) – Crusader Strike has a 15% chance to make your next Divine Storm free and deal 25% additional damage.
- New Talent: Healing Hands (replaces Word of Glory) – The cooldown of Lay on Hands is reduced up to 60%, based on the target's missing health. Word of Glory's healing is increased by up to 100%, based on the target's missing health.
- New Talent: Seraphim (replaces Wake of Ashes) – The Light magnifies your power for 15 seconds, granting 8% Haste, Critical Strike, and Versatility, and Mastery increased by 13%.
- New Talent: Holy Avenger (replaces Consecration) – Your Holy Power generation is tripled for 20 seconds.
- New Talent: Sanctified Wrath – Avenging Wrath lasts 25% longer. During Avenging Wrath, each Holy Power spent causes you to explode with Holy light damage to nearby enemies.
- New Talent: Final Reckoning (replaces Inquisition) – Call down a blast of heavenly energy, dealing Holy damage to all targets in the target area and causing them to take 50% increased damage from your Holy Power abilities for 8 seconds. Passive: While off cooldown, your attacks have a high chance to call down a bolt that deals Holy damage and causes the target to take 10% increased damage from your next Holy Power ability.
- Execution Sentence has been redesigned – A hammer slowly falls from the sky upon the target. After 8 seconds, they suffer Holy damage, plus 20% of damage taken from your abilities in that time.
- Divine Judgment has been removed.
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Aura of Reckoning – When you or allies within your Aura are critically struck, you gain Reckoning. At 50 stacks of Reckoning, your next weapon swing deals 200% increased damage. In addition, it activates Avenging Wrath for 6 seconds.
- Vengeance Aura now functions on crowd control that strikes all allies, rather than allies that have your Greater Blessings. Vengeance Aura’s range has been increased to 40 yards (was 20 yards).
- Hammer of Reckoning has been removed.
- Luminescence now heals up to 5 allies, preferring injured targets (was all allies). Additionally, the range of this ability has been increased to 40 yards (was 20 yards).

General

Level 52: New Ability: Mind Soothe – Soothes the target, reducing the range at which it will attack you. Only affects Humanoid and Dragonkin targets.
Level 54: Psychic Scream (Rank 2) – Psychic Scream can withstand 20% more damage before breaking.
Level 58: New Ability: Power Infusion – Infuses the target with power for 20 seconds, increase Haste by 25%. 2 minute cooldown.
Fade now has an additional effect – Fade now reduces the range at which enemies will attack you.
All Priests can now use the following abilities:
- Shadow Word: Pain – A word of darkness that causes Shadow damage instantly, and an additional Shadow damage over 12 seconds. Shadow Priests generate 4 Insanity.
- Shadow Word: Death – A word of dark binding that inflicts Shadow damage to the target. If the target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, the caster takes damage equal to the damage inflicted upon the target. Damage increased by 175% to targets below 20% health.
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Thoughtsteal – Peer into the mind of an enemy, attempting to steal a known spell. If stolen, the victim cannot cast that spell for 20 seconds. Can only be used on Humanoids with mana. If you’re unable to find a spell to steal, the cooldown of Thoughtsteal is reset.

Discipline

Level 56: Holy Nova (Rank 2) – If your Holy Nova deals damage to at least 3 enemies, a second Holy Nova will be cast a moment later at 50% effectiveness at the same location.
New Ability: Mind Sear – Corrosive shadow energy radiates from the target, dealing Shadow damage over 4.5 seconds to all enemies within 10 yards of the target.
New Ability: Mind Blast – Blasts the target's mind for Shadow damage and has an additional effect: Mind Blast prevents some of the next damage dealt by the enemy.
Rapture now immediately casts Power Word: Shield on your friendly target when used, if no ally is targeted Power Word: Shield will be cast on yourself and its duration has been reduced to 8 seconds (from 10 seconds).
Shadow Covenant has been redesigned – Make a shadowy pact, healing the target and 4 other injured allies within 30 yards. For 9 seconds, your Shadow spells deal 25% increased damage and healing, but you cannot cast Holy spells. 30 second cooldown, costs 5% base mana.
Holy Nova now deals reduced damage if there are more than 5 targets.
Power Word: Shield is no longer increased by 10% in PvP combat.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Spirit Shell (replaces Luminous Barrier): For 10 seconds, Penance, Power Word: Radiance, and Atonement create absorb shields instead of healing. Replaces Rapture when talented. Spirit Shell does not have a global cooldown.
- Schism now increases your spell damage to the target by 25% (was 40%).

Holy

Level 56: Holy Nova (Rank 2) – If your Holy Nova deals damage to at least 3 enemies, a second Holy Nova will be cast a moment later at 50% effectiveness at the same location.
Circle of Healing is no longer a Talent and learned by all Holy Priests at level 39.
Holy Fire's instant damage has been increased by 300%, but now has a 1.5 second cast time.
Holy Nova now deals reduced damage if there are more than 5 targets.
Power Word: Shield is no longer increased by 10% in PvP combat.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Renewed Faith (replaces Enduring Renewal) – Your healing is increased by 10% on targets with your Renew.
- New Talent: Prayer Circle (replaces Circle of Healing) – Using Circle of Healing reduces the cast time of your Prayer of Healing by 25% for 8 seconds.
- Afterlife now also increases the range of your healing spells while in Spirit of Redemption by 30%.
- Apotheosis now also resets the cooldowns of your Holy Words when activated.
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Cardinal Mending – Prayer of Mending now heals the target for 10% of their maximum health, ignoring any healing reduction effects.
- New PvP Talent: Divine Ascension – You ascend into the air out of harm’s way. While floating, you are only able to cast Holy spells.
- Divine Attendant has been removed.
- Delivered from Evil no longer reduces Leap of Faith’s cooldown by 45 seconds. Instead, it increases the healing of your next spell on the target by 100%.
- Miracle Worker now also reduces the cooldown of Holy Word: Serenity by 25%.

Shadow

Level 56: Silence (Rank 2) – Increases the range of Silence by 10 yards.
New Mastery: Shadow Weaving – Your damage is increased by 4% for each of Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch and Devouring Plague on the target. During Void Form, all targets receive the maximum effect.
New Ability: Devouring Plague – Afflicts the target with a disease that instantly cause Shadow damage plus an additional 4 Shadow damage over 6 seconds. Heals you for 300% of damage dealt.
New Ability: Dark Thoughts (Passive) – For each of your damage over time effects on the target, your Mind Flay and Mind Sear have a 2% chance to instantly add a charge of Mind Blast, causing it to be instantly cast, and allowing it to be cast while channeling Mind Flay or Mind Sear within 6 seconds.
Voidform has been redesigned – Now has a 90 second cooldown and increases damage by 20% for 15 seconds. Voidform no longer reduces the cooldown of Mind Blast, but now refreshes the cooldown of Mind Blast and you gain 2 charges while in Voidform. You no longer gain Haste every 0.5 seconds while in Void Form.
Void Eruption cast time reduced by 40% and no longer requires 90 Insanity to cast.
Shadowy Apparitions has been redesigned – When you use Mind Blast, Devouring Plague or Void Bolt you also create a shadowy version of yourself that floats towards all targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch dealing Shadow damage. Critical strikes will cause two Apparitions to be created.
Shadow Word: Death no longer generates Insanity.
Mind Blasts Insanity generation is now 8 (was 12).
Vampiric Touch’s Insanity generation is now 5 (was 6).
Void Bolt’s Insanity generation is now 15 (was 20).
Mind Sear Insanity generation is now 6 (was 8).
Dark Thoughts duration has been increased to 10 seconds (was 6 seconds).
Mind Flay damage has been reduced by 15%.
Mind Sear damage has been reduced by 15%.
Devouring Plague’s initial damage has been reduced by 15% and its periodic damage has been reduced by 12%.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Death and Madness (replaces Shadowy Insight) – If a target dies within 6 seconds after being struck by your Shadow Word: Death, you gain 73 Insanity over 4 seconds and the cooldown of your Shadow Word: Death is reset.
- New Talent: Unfurling Darkness (replaces Shadow Word: Void) – After casting Vampiric Touch on a target, your next Vampiric Touch within 8 seconds is instant cast and deals Shadow damage immediately. This effect cannot occur more than once every 15 seconds.
- New Talent: Psychic Link (replaces Shadow Word: Death) – Mind Blast deals 50% of its damage to all targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch within 40 yards.
- New Talent: Searing Nightmare (replaces Dark Void) – Instantly deals Shadow damage to enemies around the target and afflicts them with Shadow Word: Pain. If the enemy is already afflicted by your Shadow Word: Pain, Searing Nightmare's damage is increased by 185%. Only usable while channeling Mind Sear.
- New Talent: Damnation (replaces Lingering Insanity) – Instantly afflicts the target with Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch and Devouring Plague free of cost.
- New Talent: Ancient Madness (replaces Dark Ascension) – Voidform increases your critical strike chance by 30% for 15 seconds, reducing by 2% every second.
- New Talent: Hungering Void (replaces Legacy of the Void) – Void Bolt causes the target to become vulnerable to the void, increasing damage taken from the Priest for 6 seconds. Void Bolt cast on vulnerable targets will also extend the duration of your Voidform by 1 second, 2 seconds if Void Bolt critically strikes. This effect can only be active on one target at any one time.
- Shadow Crash has been redesigned – Hurl a bolt of slow-moving, far-reaching Shadow energy at the destination, dealing Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yards.
- Void Torrent no longer pauses your Insanity while used, but now applies Devouring Plague.
- Surrender to Madness no longer instantly generates 100 Insanity when used and has a 1.5 minute cooldown (was 3 minutes). Additionally, Surrender to Madness now has a heartbeat sound effect that speeds up as you reach the end of the spells' duration.
- Searing Nightmare Insanity cost has been reduced to 30 (was 35).
- Auspicious Spirits now generates 2 Insanity (was 1) and its damage increase to Shadowy Apparitions has been reduced to 15% (was 30%).
- Shadow Crash no longer has 3 charges and no longer applies a Shadow Crash damage vulnerability debuff on targets hit. Shadow Crash now deals 100% more damage and is on a 30 second cooldown (was 45 seconds).
- Void Torrent’s duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds) and damage increased by 20%. Void Torrent now generates 60 Insanity over its duration (was 30), no longer refreshes your damage over time effects, and its cooldown has decreased to 30 seconds (was 45 seconds).
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Lasting Plague – Increases the duration of your Devouring Plague by 6 seconds.
- Driven to Madness has been redesigned – Now reduces the cooldown of your Void Eruption by 3 seconds when you take damage.
- Shadow Mania has been removed.

General

Level 54: New Ability: Numbing Poison – Coats your weapons with a Non-Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 50% chance of poisoning the enemy, clouding their mind and slowing their attack and casting speed by 15% for 10 seconds.
Crimson Vial now heals 20% of maximum health (was 30%), duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 6 seconds) and energy cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
Cheap Shot now generates 1 combo point (was 2).
Shiv damage has been increased by 150%.
All Rogues can now use the following abilities:
- Instant Poison – Coats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 30% chance of poisoning the enemy which instantly inflicts Nature damage.
- Shiv – Attack with your off-hand dealing Physical damage, and applying a concentrated form of your Non-Lethal poison. Awards 1 combo point.
- Kidney Shot – Finishing move that stuns the target. Lasts longer per combo point.
- Wound Poison – Coats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 30% chance to poison the enemy, which instantly inflicts Nature damage and reduces all healing received by 5% for 12 seconds, now stacking up to 3 times.
- Crippling Poison – Coats your weapons with a Non-Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 30% chance to poison the enemy, slowing movement speed by 50% for 12 seconds.

Assassination

Level 52: Improved Poisons (Rank 2) – While Stealth is active, your attacks have a 100% chance to apply your active Lethal and Non-Lethal Poisons.
Level 56: Slice and Dice (Rank 2) – Slice and Dice increases energy generation by 10%.
Level 58: Shiv (Rank 2) – Shiv now also increases your Nature damage done against the target by 20% for 9 seconds.
Improved Poisons now has an additional effect – Poisons are applied to your weapons 33% faster.
Wound Poison now has an additional effect – Stacks up to 2 additional times.
Vendetta no longer has a global cooldown.
Fan of Knives now capped at 8 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Alacrity (replaces Toxic Blade) – Your finishing moves have a chance per combo point to grant 2% Haste for 20 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
- Blindside is now a passive ability and gives Mutilate a 20% chance to make your next Ambush free and usable without Stealth. Chance increased to 40% if the target is under 35% health.
- Crimson Tempest damage increased by 30% and now capped at 8 targets.
- Venom Rush now grants you 8 Energy (was 5) when you use Mutilate against a poisoned target.

Outlaw

Level 52: Blade Flurry (Rank 2) – Blade Flurry now instantly strikes up to nearby 5 targets for Physical damage.
Level 56: Grappling Hook (Rank 2) – Cooldown reduced by 15 seconds.
Level 58: Evasion (Rank 2) – Dodging an attack while Evasion is active will trigger Mastery: Main Gauche.
Pistol Shot is now an off-hand attack for passives such as Combat Potency and reduces movement speed by 30% (was 50%).
Roll the Bones no longer consumes combo points, has a 45 second cooldown and a 30 second duration. Additionally, Roll the Bones is no longer replaced by Slice and Dice.
Grand Melee no longer increases attack speed and now grants 2 seconds of Slice and Dice per combo point spent.
Between the Eyes no longer stuns the target and replaces Kidney Shot. Now has a 45 second cooldown (was 30 seconds) and increases critical strike chance.
Restless Blades now causes finishing moves to also reduce the remaining cooldown of Roll the Bones and Blade Flurry.
Blade Flurry normal damage increased to 40% (was 30%), no longer has 2 charges and now has a 30 second cooldown (was 25 second recharge). Additionally, all secondary hits from Blade Flurry with a weapon coated in Instant Poison, Crippling Poison, Numbing Poison, or Wound Poison will now apply the Poison to the targets.
Adrenaline Rush no longer has a global cooldown.
Blade Flurry now capped at 4 additional targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Dreadblades (replaces Slice and Dice) – Strike at an enemy, dealing Physical damage and empowering your weapons for 10 seconds, causing your Sinister Strike, Ambush, and Pistol Shot to fill your combo points, but your finishing moves consume 5% of your current health.
- Retractable Hook now reduces the cooldown of Grappling Hook by 15 seconds (was 30 seconds) and increases its retraction speed.
- Killing Spree now capped at 4 additional targets while Blade Flurry is active.

Subtlety

Level 52: New Ability: Shadow Vault – Finishing move that leaps you into the air, sprays shuriken at up to 8 nearby targets dealing Physical damage.
Level 56: Shuriken Storm (Rank 2) – Shuriken Storm critical strikes apply Find Weakness for 6 seconds.
Level 58: Shadow Vault (Rank 2) – Shadow Vault now deals additional Shadow damage to targets affected by your Find Weakness.
Shadow Dance now has 1 charge (was 2), grants all the combat benefits of Stealth for 8 seconds (was 5 seconds), and also increases damage dealt by 15%.
Find Weakness is now applied when attacking from Stealth (was Shadowstrike and Cheap Shot). Additionally, Find Weakness causes all of your attacks to bypass 30% (was 40%) of that enemy's armor for 18 seconds (was 10 seconds).
Eviscerate damage is no longer increased by 50%, now the ability deals an additional 50% Shadow damage to targets with your Find Weakness active.
Backstab now has an additional effect – When you are behind your target, Backstab now also exposes a flaw in their defenses, applying Find Weakness for 6 seconds.
Symbols of Death now has an additional effect – Symbols of Death causes your next combo point generator to critically strike.
Shadow Blades no longer has a global cooldown.
Nightblade has been removed.
Shuriken Storm now capped at 8 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Premeditation (replaces Find Weakness) – After entering Stealth, your next Shadowstrike grants up to 10 seconds of Slice and Dice, and generates 2 additional combo points if Slice and Dice is active.
- Dark Shadow damage increased by 5%.
- Secret Technique damage increased by 20% and now capped at 6 targets.
- Deepening Shadows now causes your finishing moves to reduce the remaining cooldown on Shadow Dance by .5 seconds per combo point spent (was 1 second per combo point spent).
PvP Talent changes:
- Shiv is no longer a Talent and learned by all Rogues at level 32.

General

Level 54: Astral Shift (Rank 2) – Astral Shift lasts an additional 4 seconds.
Level 56: Hex (Rank 2) – The cooldown of Hex is reduced by 10 seconds.
New Passive: Improved Reincarnation – Reincarnation now revives you with an additional 20% health.
All Shaman can now use the following abilities:
- New Ability: Flametongue Weapon – Imbue your weapon with the element of Fire for 1 hour, causing each of your attacks to deal additional Fire damage.
- Chain Heal – Heals the friendly target, then jumps to heal the 2 most injured nearby allies (3 for Restoration). Healing is reduced by 30% with each jump.
- Healing Stream Totem – Summons a totem at your feet for 15 seconds that heals an injured party or raid member within 40 yards for every 2 seconds.
- Lightning Shield – Surround yourself with a shield of lightning for 30 minutes. Melee attackers have a 100% chance to suffer Nature damage. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at a time.
- Chain Lightning – Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets.
- Flame Shock – Sears the target with fire, causing Fire damage and then additional Fire damage over 18 seconds.
- Frost Shock – Chills the target with frost, causing Frost damage and reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 6 seconds.
PvP Talent changes:
- Skyfury Totem, Grounding Totem, and Counterstrike Totem now have 50 health (was 5). Any damage taken automatically kills the totem.

Elemental

Level 52: Elemental Fury (Rank 2) – Elemental Fury now also causes your healing critical strikes to heal for 250% instead of the normal 200%.
Level 56: Fire Elemental (Rank 2) – While your Fire Elemental is active, any newly applied Flame Shock lasts 100% longer.
New Ability: Spiritwalker's Grace – Calls upon the guidance of the spirits for 15 seconds, permitting movement while casting Shaman spells. Castable while casting.
Flame Shock now has an 18 second duration (was 24 seconds).
Lightning Shield: Generates 5 Maelstrom for the Shaman when attacked.
Lava Surge proc chance reduced to 10% (was 15%).
Ancestral Guidance (Talent) no longer has a global cooldown.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Echoing Shock (replaces Call the Thunder) – Shock the target for Elemental damage and create an ancestral echo, causing your next direct damage or healing spell to be cast a second time 1 second later for free.
- New Talent: Static Discharge – Discharge excess energy from your Lightning Shield, dealing Nature damage to an enemy within 40 every 0.5 second for 3 seconds. Targets with your Flame Shock on them are preferred.
- Elemental Blast now increases your Critical Strike, Haste or Mastery by 3% instead of stat ratings and generates 30 Maelstrom. Elemental Blast Overload generates 15 Maelstrom.
- Totem Mastery has been removed.
- Ascendance now fires a Lava Burst at all of your Flame Shock targets, and refreshes their Flame Shock durations to up to 18 seconds upon activation.
- Primal Elementalist Primal Fire Elemental's Meteor now capped at 8 targets.
- Primal Elementalist Primal Storm Elemental's Eye of the Storm now capped at 6 targets per pulse.
PvP Talent changes:
- Control of Lava now increases Flame Shock’s damage by 25%, instead of increasing Lava Burst’s damage.

Enhancement

Level 52: Chain Lightning (Rank 2) – Each target hit by Chain Lightning reduces the cooldown of Crash Lightning by 1 second.
Level 58: Windfury Totem (Rank 2) – Windfury Totem has an additional 10% chance to grant party members an extra swing.
Maelstrom resource and Maelstrom bar have been removed.
New Ability: Windfury Weapon (replaces Windfury passive) – Imbue your main-hand weapon with the element of Wind for 30 minutes. Each main-hand attack has a 25% chance to trigger two extra attacks, dealing Physical damage each.
New Ability: Windfury Totem – Summons a Windfury Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 2 minutes. Party members within 30 yards have a 10% chance when they auto-attack to swing an extra time.
Maelstrom Weapon has been redesigned – When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to gain Maelstrom Weapon, stacking up to 10 times. Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon reduces the cast time of your next damage or healing spell by 20% and increase the damage or healing of your next spell by 20%. A maximum of 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon can be consumed at a time.
Feral Spirit now generates one stack of Maelstrom Weapon immediately, and one stack every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
Lightning Shield now has an additional effect – When Lightning Shield deals damage, you have a 50% chance to generate a stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
Chain Lightning has an additional effect – If Chain Lightning hits more than 1 target, each target hit by your Chain Lightning increases the damage of your next Crash Lightning by 20%.
Stormbringer no longer causes your next Stormstrike to trigger no cooldown, but will still have a 5% chance to reset the remaining cooldown of Stormstrike.
Lava Lash damage reduced by 50%, now has a 12 second cooldown, and has an additional effect: Damage is increased by 100% if your offhand weapon is imbued with Flametongue Weapon.
Frostbrand has been replaced with Frost Shock.
Frost Shock shares a cooldown with Flame Shock.
Frost Shock and Flame Shock now have their cooldowns shortened by Haste.
Flametongue has been replaced with Flametongue Weapon.
Rockbiter has been removed.
Crash Lightning now deals reduced damage against additional targets.
Windfury Weapon’s proc damage has been increased by 240%.
Healing Surge healing has been increased by 50%.
Maelstrom Weapon spending abilities have had their damage or healing increased by 30%.
Feral Spirit’s pet damage has been increased 270%.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Lashing Flames (replaces Boulderfist) – Lava Lash now increases the damage of Flame Shock on its target by 100% for 12 seconds.
- New Talent: Stormflurry (replaces Landslide) – Stormstrike has a 25% chance to strike the target a second time for 40% of normal damage.
- New Talent: Ice Strike (replaces Totem Mastery) – Strike your target for Frost damage, snaring them by 50% for 6 seconds. Ice Strike will also reset the cooldown of your Flame and Frost Shock spells.
- New Talent: Elemental Assault (Passive) (replaces Overcharge) – Stormstrike damage is increased by 15%, and Stormstrike now generates 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
- New Talent: Fire Nova (replaces Searing Assault) – Erupt a burst of fiery damage from all targets affected by your Flame Shock, dealing Fire damage to up to 6 targets within 8 yards of your Flame Shock targets.
- New Talent: Stormkeeper (replaces Fury of Air) – Charge yourself with lightning, causing your next 2 Lightning Bolts or Chain Lightnings to deal 150% more damage and be instant cast.
- Hot Hand now causes melee auto-attacks with Flametongue Weapon active to have a 5% chance to reduce the cooldown of Lava Lash by 75% and increase the damage of Lava Lash by 100% for 8 seconds. Hot Hand additionally resets the cooldown of Lava Lash when it activates.
- Elemental Blast now increases your Critical Strike, Haste or Mastery by 3% instead of stat ratings.
- Forceful Winds Windfury bonus damage is now 50% (was 80%).
- Hailstorm has been redesigned – Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon consumed increases the damage of your next Frost Shock by 35%, and causes your next Frost Shock to hit 1 additional target per Maelstrom Weapon stack consumed.
- Sundering no longer has a Maelstrom cost and now has a 6% mana cost.
- Ascendance now causes you to explode with Nature damage upon activation, dealing damage to all enemies within 8 yards.
- Ice Strike damage has been increased by 75%.
- Forceful Winds Windfury damage bonus per stack has been reduced to 35% (was 50%).
- Lashing Flames duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 12 seconds).
- Elemental Blast damage has been increased by 25%.
- Hailstorm’s Frost Shock damage bonus has been lowered to 15% (was 35%).
- Fire Nova damage has been increased by 75%.

Restoration

Level 52: Mana Tide Totem (Rank 2) – Mana Tide Totem's radius is increased by 100%.
Level 58: Healing Tide Totem (Rank 2) – Healing Tide Totem lasts an additional 2 seconds.
New Ability: Water Shield – The caster is surrounded by globes of water, granting 50 mana per 5 seconds. When a melee attack hits the caster, the caster regains 2% of their mana. This effect can only occur once every few seconds. Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
New Ability: Mana Tide Totem – Summons a Mana Tide Totem at the feet of the caster for 8 seconds, granting 100% increased mana regeneration to party and raid members within 10 yards.
Earth Shield is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Restoration Shaman at level 22.
Riptide duration is now 18 seconds (was 15 seconds).
Flame Shock now has an 18 second duration (was 21 seconds).
Lava Surge proc chance reduced to 10% (was 15%).
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Surge of Earth (replaces Earth Shield) – Consume up to 3 charges of Earth Shield to heal up to 3 allies near your Earth Shield target per charge consumed.
- Torrent now increases the initial heal from Riptide by 20% (was 30%).

General

Level 52: Fear (Rank 2) – You no longer suffer spell pushback when casting Fear.
New Ability: Fel Domination – Your next Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter, or Felguard Summon spell has its casting time reduced by 5.5 seconds. Fel Domination now also removes the Shard cost to summon your pet.
New Ability: Ritual of Doom – Begins a ritual that sacrifices a random participant to summon a Doomguard. Requires the caster and 4 additional party members to complete the ritual.
Demonic Circle is no longer a Talent and is now learned by all Warlocks at level 41.
Demonic Gateway no longer despawns when the caster dies. When the gateway is close to despawning, it begins dissolving out of view to warn the caster and allies that they may wish to replace it.
Enslave Demon has been renamed to Subjugate Demon.
Eye of Kilrogg can now be used in Arenas and Battlegrounds, can be killed by enemy players, and has 1% of the caster's health (was 100%).
Summon Imp, Voidwalker, Felhunter, Felguard, and Succubus cast time is now 6 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
All Warlocks can now use the following abilities:
- Curse of Tongues – Forces the target to speak in Demonic, increasing the casting time of all spells by 30% for 30 seconds. A warlock can only have one Curse active per target.
- Curse of Weakness – Increases the time between an enemy's attacks by 20% for 2 minutes.
- Curse of Exhaustion – Reduces the target's movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds.
- Curse of Exhaustion duration has been increased to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds).
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Howl of Terror (replaces Demonic Circle) – Let loose a terrifying howl, causing 5 enemies within 10 yards to flee in fear, disorienting them for 20 seconds. Damage may cancel the effect.
- Dark Pact now also provides additional health over 20 seconds.
- Darkfury now also increases Shadowfury radius by 2 yards.
- Players and enemies afflicted with Howl of Terror can now take more damage before the ability is canceled.
- Dark Pact spell power bonus has been increased to 120% (was 40%).
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Amplify Curse – Your next Curse of Exhaustion, Curse of Tongues or Curse of Weakness is amplified.
  - Curse of Exhaustion: Reduces the target's movement speed by an additional 20%.
  - Curse of Tongues: Increases casting time by an additional 30%.
  - Curse of Weakness: Enemy is unable to critically strike.
- Gateway Mastery is now available for all Warlocks – Increases the range of your Demonic Gateway by 20 yards and reduces the cast time by 30%. Reduces the time between how often players can take your Demonic Gateway by 15 seconds.
- Curse of Tongues is reduced to 15% effectiveness in PvP. This can be increased to 30% effectiveness with Amplify Curse Talent.
- Curse of Fragility has been renamed to Bane of Fragility.
- Entrenched in Flame has been removed.

Affliction

Level 54: Corruption (Rank 3) – Corruption now instantly deals damage.
Level 56: Unstable Affliction (Rank 3) – Unstable Affliction's duration is increased by 5 seconds.
Level 58: New Passive: Shadow Embrace – Shadow Bolt and Haunt apply Shadow Embrace, increasing your damage dealt to the target by 3% for 12 seconds (was 10 seconds). Stacks up to 3 times.
New Ability: Malefic Rapture – Your damaging periodic effects erupt on all targets, causing Shadow damage per effect.
Unstable Affliction duration is now 16 seconds (was 8 seconds), no longer costs a Soul Shard, and no longer stacks.
Unstable Affliction damage backlash when dispelled has been increased substantially.
Sow the Seeds now embeds demon seeds into 2 additional enemies (was 1).
Shadow Embrace is no longer a Talent and learned by all Affliction Warlocks in Shadowlands.
Shadow Bolt damage has been increased by 13%.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Inevitable Demise (replaces Deathbolt) – Damaging an enemy with Agony increases the damage of your next Drain Life by 15%. This effect stacks up to 50 times and can no longer be dispelled.
- New Talent: Dark Caller (replaces Shadow Embrace) – Reduces Summon Darkglare's cooldown by 1 minute.
- Nightfall now procs more often as Corruption spreads to more targets.
- Writhe in Agony now causes Agony's damage to start at 4 stacks and may now ramp up to 18 stacks (was 15).
- Deathbolt has been removed and is now a PvP Talent.
- Haunt duration is now 18 seconds (was 15 seconds).
- Dark Soul: Misery no longer has a global cooldown.
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Rapid Contagion – For the next 15 seconds, all of your periodic effects occur 50% more often. Instant cast, costs 3 Soul Shards.
- New PvP Talent: Rampant Afflictions – Unstable Affliction can now be applied to up to 3 targets.
- New PvP Talent: Deathbolt – Launches a bolt of death at the target, dealing 60% of the total remaining damage of your damage over time effects on the target. With Absolute Corruption Talent, counts up to 14 seconds of your Corruption's damage. Costs 3 Soul Shards.
- Soulshatter now consumes all of your Corruption effects on the 5 nearest enemies instead of damage over time effects, and you no longer gain Haste for each enemy hit by Soulshatter.
- Curse of Shadows has been renamed to Bane of Shadows.
- Demon Armor for Affliction Warlocks now increases armor by 150% (was 90%).

Demonology

Level 54: Call Dreadstalkers (Rank 2) – Call Dreadstalkers cast time is reduced by 0.5 seconds, and they gain a Pursuit spell to close the gap when their target is greater than 10 yards away.
Level 56: Fel Firebolt (Rank 2) – Teaches your Wild Imps how to spend 20% less energy when casting Fel Firebolt.
Level 58: Summon Demonic Tyrant (Rank 2) – Summoning your Demonic Tyrant instantly generates 5 Soul Shards.
Wild Imps now spawn more immediately after Hand of Guldan, and 2-3 imps spawn in faster succession. In addition, if they path fail, they now teleport to the Warlock.
Axe Toss now interrupts stun immune targets, such as dungeon or raid bosses. This does not affect PvP combat.
Felguard's Felstorm now capped at 8 targets.
Axe Toss now stuns and interrupts the target.
Shadow Bolt damage has been increased by 13%.
Dreadstalker’s attack power has been increased by 20%. Dreadstalker’s Dreadbite and Dreadlash damage has been reduced by 10%.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- Power Siphon now also adds 30% damage to your next 2 casts Demonbolt.
- Demonic Calling reduces shard cost of Call Dreadstalkers by 2.
- Doom no longer has a small chance to summon a Doomguard when it kills the target.
- From the Shadows is now triggered by Dreadbite (was Call Dreadstalkers).
- Inner Demons random demons summoned attack power increased by 21%.
- Nether Portal demons summoned attack power increased by 21%.
- Demonic Consumption no longer sacrifices imps. Now instead drains 15% health of all active demons, empowering itself based on HP consumed.
- Minions spawned from Nether Portal have had their attack power increased by 15%. Additionally, Vicious Hellhounds, Void Terrors, Wrathguards and Darkhounds spawned from Nether Portal can now charge to enemies.

Destruction

Level 54: Havoc (Rank 2) – Havoc lasts 2 seconds longer.
Level 56: Rain of Fire (Rank 2) – Rain of Fire deals 10% additional damage.
Level 58: Summon Infernal (Rank 2) – Your Infernal Awakening deals 100% additional damage on impact.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- Soul Fire now generates 1 Soul Shard (was 4 Soul Shard Fragments), applies Immolate, has a 3.5 second cast time (was 1.5 seconds), and a 45 second cooldown (was 20 seconds).
- Shadowburn, now costs a Soul Shard, has 50% critical strike chance on targets that have 20% or less health, and its cooldown is now reduced by Haste.
- Fire and Brimstone now generates 2 Soul Shard Fragments (was 1).
- Inferno now also increases Rain of Fire damage by 20%.
- Grimoire of Supremacy renamed to Rain of Chaos and now every Soul Shard you spend has a 20% chance to summon an additional Infernal that lasts 10 seconds (was increase Chaos Bolt damage by 8%).
- Roaring Blaze has been redesigned – Conflagrate increases your Soul Fire, Channel Demonfire, Immolate, Incinerate, and Conflagrate damage to the target by 30% for 8 seconds.
- Channel Demonfire primary target damage increased by 10%.
- Dark Soul: Instability no longer has a global cooldown.

General

Level 54: New Ability: Challenging Shout – Taunts all enemies within 10 yards to attack you for 6 seconds.
Level 56: Rallying Cry (Rank 2) – Grants an additional 5% temporary and maximum health.
Whirlwind now capped at 5 targets.
Taunt is now learned at level 8 (was 14).
Charge (Rank 2) is now learned at level 14 (was 8).
All Warriors can now use the following abilities:
- New Ability: Shattering Throw – Hurl your weapon at the enemy, causing Physical damage, ignoring armor, and removing any magical immunities. Deals up to 500% increased damage to absorb shields.
- New Ability: Intervene – Run at high speed toward an ally, intercepting all melee and ranged attacks against them for 6 seconds while they remain within 10 yards.
- Slam – Slams an opponent, causing Physical damage.
- Shield Block – Raise your shield, blocking all melee attacks against you for 6 seconds.
- Hamstring – Maims the enemy for Physical damage, reducing movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds.
- Whirlwind – Unleashes a whirlwind of steel, striking up to 5 nearby targets for Physical damage.
- Spell Reflection – No longer a PvP Talent. Raise your weapon reflecting spells cast on you and reducing magical damage you take by 20%. Lasts 5 seconds or until a spell is reflected.
- Ignore Pain – Fight through the pain, ignoring 50% of damage taken, up to a maximum of 2 times the total damage taken.
- Shield Slam – Slams the target with your shield, causing Physical damage.
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Overwatch (replaces Spell Reflection) – When you intervene an ally, they gain Spell Reflection for 5 seconds or until a spell is reflected.

Arms

Level 52: Die by the Sword (Rank 2) – Cooldown reduced by 60 seconds.
Level 58: Sweeping Strikes (Rank 3) – Duration increased by 3 seconds.
New Ability: Piercing Howl – Snares all enemies within 12 yards, reducing their movement speed by 70% for 8 seconds.
Mastery: Deep Wounds has been redesigned – Mortal Strike, Cleave, Ravager, Colossus Smash, Warbreaker and Bladestorm inflict Deep Wounds, dealing Bleed damage over 12 seconds and increasing the damage the enemy takes from you by 9%.
Sweeping Strikes now has a 0.75 second global cooldown (was 1.5 second).
Bladestorm now capped at 8 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- Fervor of Battle no longer increases the damage of Whirlwind.
- Rend now has a 15 second duration (was 12 seconds). Additionally, it increases the target’s critical damage taken from the casting Warrior’s abilities by 10%.
- Collateral Damage has been redesigned – When Sweeping Strikes ends, your next Whirlwind deals 25% increased damage for each ability used during Sweeping Strikes that damaged a second target.
- Cleave has been redesigned – Replaces Sweeping Strike. Strikes up to 5 enemies in front of you for Physical damage, inflicting Deep Wounds. Cleave will consume your Overpower effect to deal increased damage.
- Deadly Calm has been redesigned – Reduces the Rage cost of your next 4 abilities by 100%. Passive: Your maximum Rage is increased by 30.
- Dreadnaught has been redesigned – Overpower has 2 charges and causes a seismic wave, dealing damage to up to 5 enemies in a 10 yard line.
- Ravager now has a 45 second cooldown (was 1 minute), duration increased to 12 seconds (was 7 seconds), periodic damage increased to 2 seconds (was 1 second), and now chases nearby enemies in combat. Additionally, Ravager is now capped at 8 targets.
- Impending Victory healing increased to 30% (was 20%).
- Avatar no longer has a global cooldown.

Fury

Level 52: Recklessness (Rank 2) – Duration increased by 2 seconds.
Level 58: Execute (Rank 4) – Damage increased by 15%.
New Ability: Single-Minded Fury (Passive) – While dual-wielding a pair of one-handed weapons, your damage done is increased by 12% and your movement speed is increased by 5%.
Bloodthirst now restores 3% of your health (was 5%).
Rampage now costs 80 Rage (was 85).
Recklessness now instantly generates 40 additional Rage.
Piercing Howl no longer costs Rage, now has a 30 second cooldown (was 0), has a 12 yard radius (was 15 yards), reduces enemies movement speed by 70% (was 50%), and has a 8 second duration (was 15 seconds).
Recklessness no longer has a global cooldown.
Bladestorm now capped at 8 targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: Frenzy (replaces Inner Rage) – Rampage increases your Haste by 3% for 12 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. This effect is reset if you Rampage a different primary target.
- New Talent: Onslaught (replaces Furious Slash) – Brutally attack an enemy for Physical damage. Requires Enrage. Generates 15 Rage.
- New Talent: Cruelty – While Enraged, Raging Blow deals 20% more damage and has a 30% chance to instantly reset its own cooldown.
- New Talent: Seethe (replaces Carnage) – Bloodthirst generates 2 more Rage, or 4 more Rage when it critically strikes your primary target.
- Fresh Meat no longer increases the healing of Bloodthirst. Now Fresh Meat causes Bloodthirst to always Enrage you the first time you strike a target with Bloodthirst.
- Massacre now has an additional effect – Reduces the cooldown of Execute by 1.5 seconds.
- Dragon Roar now has a 30 second cooldown (was 35 seconds), no longer reduces enemy movement speed, and critically strikes for 3 times normal damage.
- Frothing Berserker has been redesigned – Rampage has a 20% chance to immediately refund 40 Rage.
- Meat Cleaver has been redesigned – Whirlwind deals 30% more damage and now affects your next 4 single-target melee attacks, instead of the next 2 attacks.
- Reckless Abandon has been redesigned – Recklessness generates 50 Rage and greatly empowers Bloodthirst and Raging Blow.
- Impending Victory healing increased to 30% (was 20%).
- Endless Rage has been removed and replaced with Sudden Death on the Talent row.

Protection

Level 52: Avatar (Rank 2) – Generates 10 more Rage.
Level 58: Shield Wall (Rank 2) – Reduces damage taken by an additional 10%.
Revenge now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets, no longer has a cooldown, costs 20 Rage (was 30) and replaces Slam when learned. Your successful dodges and parries now have a chance to make Revenge cost no Rage, instead of being guaranteed.
Avatar no longer has a global cooldown.
Intercept has been removed.
Thunder Clap now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
The following Talents have been adjusted:
- New Talent: War Machine – Your auto attacks generate 20% more Rage. Killing an enemy instantly generates 10 Rage, and increases your movement speed by 30% for 8 seconds.
- New Talent: Double Time (replaces Safeguard) – Increases the maximum number of charges on Charge by 1, and reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
- Dragon Roar now has a 30 second cooldown (was 35 seconds), no longer reduces enemy movement speed, and critically strikes for 3 times normal damage. Generates 20 Rage (was 10).
- Ravager now has a 45 second cooldown (was 1 minute), duration increased to 12 seconds (was 7 seconds), periodic damage increased to 2 seconds (was 1 second), generates 10 Rage each time it deals damage, and now chases nearby enemies in combat. Additionally, Ravager is now capped at 8 targets.
- Best Served Cold has been redesigned – Revenge deals 20% more damage, or 50% more damage when your successful dodges or parries have made it cost no Rage.
- Menace has been redesigned – Intimidating Shout will knock back all nearby enemies except your primary target, and cause them all to cower in fear for 15 seconds instead of fleeing.
- Punish damage reduction effect can now overlap and has a maximum of 5 stacks.
- Impending Victory healing increased to 30% (was 20%).
- Bolster now grants the Shield Block effect for the duration of Last Stand (was increase block chance to 100%).
- Indomitable now has an additional effect – Every 10 Rage you spend heals you for 1% of your maximum health.
- Never Surrender now causes Ignore Pain to prevent 40% to 100% based on missing health (was 0% to 100%).
- Into the Fray now grants 2% Haste for each enemy or ally within 10 yards (was 3% Haste).
- Booming Voice damage done bonus increased to 20% (was 15%).
- Heavy Repercussions now causes Shield Slam to generate 3 additional Rage and no longer increases the damage of Shield Slam during Shield Block.
- Anger Management no longer reduces the cooldown of Demoralizing Shout or Last Stand.
- Crackling Thunder now has an additional effect – Increases Thunder Clap movement speed reduction by an additional 10%.
- Vengeance has been removed.
PvP Talent changes:
- New PvP Talent: Rebound – Reflecting spells causes them to deal 33% extra damage back to the attacker.
- Mass Spell Reflection has been removed.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic Keystone Dungeon Affixes
- Bursting
  - Bursting is now a dispellable Magic debuff.
  - Bursting deals a flat amount of damage instead of a percentage based off of max HP.
- Volcanic
  - Players are now knocked in the air when hit by Volcanic.
  - Volcanic now deals damage equal to 15% of the player’s health (was 40%).
- Sanguine
  - Sanguine's duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 60 seconds).
- Grievous
  - Non-periodic heals now removes 1 stack of Grievous.
  - Grievous now deals a flat amount of damage instead of a percentage based off of max HP.
- Explosive
  - Explosive Orbs now spawn 4 to 8 yards from the unit that summoned them (was 3 yards).
  - Explosive Orb health has been reduced and no longer scales with keystone level.
  - Explosive Orbs now have a sound effect when defeated.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- With the Black Empire turned to ash upon the defeat of N’Zoth the Corruptor, Corruption effects on items will no longer function.
Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve
- With Corruption receding, Malefic Core will be temporarily removed from MOTHER until the launch of Shadowlands.
Heart of Azeroth
- Rank 4 Essences are no longer obtainable.
- Heart of Darkness (Azerite Trait) no longer requires 25 Corruption Level to be active.
- Memory of Lucid Dreams (Azerite Essence) now affects Holy Power instead of Shield of the Righteous for Protection Paladins.
- Memory of Lucid Dreams (Azerite Essence) now affects Mana for Enhancement Shaman.
- The PvP Talent granted with Conflict and Strife (Azerite Essence) Major Power has been changed for the following classes:
  - Mistweaver Monks now learn Chrysalis (was Way of the Crane).
  - Affliction Warlocks now learn Rot and Decay (was Endless Affliction).
  - Restoration Druids now learn Reactive Resin (was Overgrowth).
  - Discipline Priests now learn Purification (was Premonition).
  - Mages now learn Netherwind Armor (was Temporal Shield).
- The effects of Azerite Essences, Azerite Traits, and Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve Draconic Empowerment will no longer function in Shadowlands content.
- Conflict and Strife Rank 1-3 can now be purchased for Honor once the rating requirements are met.
- Rank 1-3 Essences from Mythic Keystone dungeons can now be acquired from non-Keystone Mythic dungeon final bosses.
All Legion Legendary items' bonuses no longer activate.
Leatherworking drums now provide 15% Haste (was 25%).
War-Scrolls of Battle Shout, Intellect and Fortitude can no longer be used by characters above level 50.
Many consumables now have a 5 minute cooldown.
Water now regenerates mana slower in the first seconds you begin drinking, increasing to a rapid return as you drink continuously.
Reduced the amount of value that Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, and Versatility secondary stats provide when reaching high thresholds.
Heirlooms no longer have experience bonuses and now have a set bonus. The new set bonus can be obtained from all Heirloom pieces except weapons and trinkets.
- (2) Set: Rested experience consumed is reduced by 30%.
- (3) Set: Increases your out-of-combat regeneration in the outdoors, normal dungeons and battlegrounds.
- (4) Set: Gaining a level triggers Burst of Knowledge, dealing Holy damage to nearby enemies and granting you 40% primary stat for 2 minutes. Defeating additional enemies extends this effect, up to 2 additional minutes.
- (6) Set: Rested experience consumed is reduced by an additional 30%.
Elixir of Ancient Knowledge, Elixir of the Rapid Mind, and Excess Potion of Accelerated Learning will become Poor quality and no longer usable.
The Draught of Ten Lands will still retain the 10% experience bonus but will now be capped at level 50.
Glyphs that change the appearance of a Druid’s form are now one time use and unlock the appearance permanently at the Barber Shop.
PvP Weapon Illusions can be used by all characters across the account.
You can no longer champion a Mists of Pandaria faction for bonus reputation.
To fix several visual issues with the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera MKll, characters will no longer hold the camera in selfie mode.
The "Lost Flight" quest item that rewards the Uncorrupted Voidwing mount is no longer obtainable when defeating N'Zoth the Corruptor on Heroic difficulty.
Glacial Tidestorm from Jaina Proudmoore (Mythic) and Ny'alotha Allseer from N'Zoth the Corruptor (Mythic) are no longer a 100% drop rate.
Experience points can no longer be disabled in current expansion content, only in previous expansions.
All Titan Residuum that you have on your character(s) has been converted to Silver and provided to you in your Mailbox.

Pet Battles

Flat damage-taken modifiers (e.g. Black Claw) now happen after multipliers such as Shattered Defenses, or pet species strengths/weaknesses.
Shattered Defenses now increases damage taken by 50% (was 100%).
Abilities that dealt damage twice per round (e.g. Hunting Party) had their total damage dealt increased by 25%.
Abilities that dealt damage three times per round (e.g. Flock) had their second round damage increased by 66% and their third round damage increased by 133%.
Damage over time effects dealt by Aquatic pets increased by 25%.
Money Meteor and Twilight Meteorite damage reduced by 10%.
Jar of Smelly Liquid cooldown has increased to 2 rounds.
Righteous Inspiration starts on cooldown when a pet battle begins.
The following pets have had their stats lowered:
- Boghopper
- Hermit Crab
- Slimy Darkhunter
- Crypt Fiend
- Mechanical Prairie Dog
- Tiny Blue Carp
- Mechanical Cockroach
- Cinder Kitten

Player versus Player

Battle for Azeroth Season 4 will end with the launch of the Shadowlands pre-patch. During the off-season, Mythic Keystone dungeons will still be playable using Season 4 affixes and rewards, but their seasonal achievements will no longer be available. Additionally, it will still be possible to queue for Rated PvP based on your Season 4 rating, but titles and associated rewards will no longer be earnable.
All Gladiator mounts, including those from previous seasons, can be used by all characters across the account the mounts were earned on.
Gladiator’s Medallion, Adaptation, and Relentless have been removed from Honor Talents. The functionality of removing control-impairing effects will be restored as a powerful PvP trinket option that can be purchased with Honor from Aneka Melae in the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar and Alice Fischer in the Champion's Hall in Stormwind.
The damage required to break root and fear effects while engaged in combat with enemy players has been increased by 25%.
All Honor (currency) has been converted to Silver and provided to you in your Mailbox.
The Conquest counter has been reset to zero.
Battle for Azeroth unrated PvP ensembles can now be purchased from Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and Xander Silberman (Horde).

User Interface

A navigational marker will now appear on screen to direct you to quest objectives reducing the need to open and close the map.
Pins can now be placed on the World Map by pressing Ctrl+Left Click at the targeted location. The map pin can be tracked with the navigational marker and shared in chat.
Druids are now able to customize their shapeshift forms, including Artifact appearances, in the Barber Shop separately from their hair color and weapon transmogs.
Campaign quests now have separate headers in the Quest Tracker.
There is now a collapse button for each section in the Quest Tracker.
Player spells have been rearranged in the Spellbook. Each class now has a tab that shows abilities that are available to all players of that class, while specialization-specific spells appear under individual specialization tabs.
Hovering over the resource bar will now show the tooltip at the cursor location.
Using the Self Cast Key modifier on friendly target location spells now places it at your location.
You can now adjust key bindings when mousing over an action or micro menu button from the new Quick Keybind Mode option in the Key Bindings menu.
Encounter abilities are now searchable in the Adventure Guide search field.
The Item Sets tab has been removed from the Adventure Guide.
Group leaders can now start a countdown timer using group manager tools, or by typing /countdown 10.
Auction House and player mail notifications will now show on the character selection screen.
The UI Scale setting has moved from the Advanced section to the Graphics section in System Settings.
New Accessibility options are now available in Interface settings:
- Added Motion Sickness options.
- Added an Override Screen Fade option that changes the color of full screen flashes to fade to black.
- Added keybind, camera, cursor control, and movement support for Gamepad controllers.
- Cinematic subtitles are now defaulted on.
The ability to join a Battle.net Group voice chat from the game client has been temporarily disabled.
The Credits screen has been updated and redesigned for Shadowlands.

World Events

The Brawler's Guild is now temporarily closed. This forum for fisticuffs and furious fighting will return in the future.

WoW Companion App

Legion missions and followers are now available.
Characters can now be favorited in the Character Selection screen.
The latest WoW news is now available in the app.
When Shadowlands launches, players will be able to play Adventures and manage companions in the app after the Adventures system is unlocked.
When Shadowlands launches, Shadowlands maps, World Quests, and Callings will become visible after the player has joined a Covenant Sanctum.
Fixed an issue with Mac'Aree World Quests failing to display.
Fixed an issue with Legion and Battle for Azeroth mission success chance and bonus loot displaying incorrectly or disappearing.
Fixed an issue with character level up from Legion missions displaying the incorrect level.
Reverted character sorting algorithm back to "descending level" followed by "alphabetical".

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Shadowlands Patch Notes (source)

Table of Contents

New updates are highlighted in gold.

New Level Cap: 60

Five New Zones

Bastion

Maldraxxus

Ardenweald

Revendreth

The Maw

Eight New Dungeons

The Necrotic Wake (Level 51+)

Plaguefall (Level 53+)

Mists of Tirna Scithe (Level 55+)

Halls of Atonement (Level 57+)

Theater of Pain

De Other Side

Spires of Ascension

Sanguine Depths

Castle Nathria Raid

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

Covenants and Covenant Campaigns

Kyrian

Necrolords

Night Fae

Venthyr

Covenant Class and Signature Abilities

Renown

Soulbinds

Conduits

Adventures

Empyrean Domain Arena

PvP Vendors Return

Runecarving Legendary Items System

Customizable Crafting

New mounts, pets, achievements, transmog gear, and more!

Death Rising – Limited Time Event

Levels, Items and Stats Adjusted

New Character Customization

New Starting Experience

Exile's Reach

Timewalking Campaigns

Newcomer Chat

Achievements

Allied Races

Auction House

Black Market Auction House

Classes

General

General

Blood

Frost

Unholy

General

Havoc

Vengeance

General

Balance

Feral

Guardian

Restoration

General

Beast Mastery

Marksmanship

Survival

General

Arcane

Fire

Frost

General

Brewmaster

Mistweaver

Windwalker

General

Holy

Protection