Season 2 Class Tuning: More Beast Mastery Hunter Nerfs & Druid Changes (March 4)

We’ve added the following to the OP:

Druid

• Lycara’s Meditation does not retain the bonus from your last shapeshift form if you enter and then leave caster form.

Hunter

• Beast Mastery
  • All ability and pet damage increased by 5%.

Classes

Death Knight

• Unholy
  • Liberation of Undermine 2-set Bonus – Now increases the damage of Death Coil and Epidemic by 4.5% (was 3%).

Demon Hunter

• Havoc
  • Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver’s Mark now increases damage dealt to its target by 6%.
  • Aldrachi Reaver: Thrill of the Fight’s increase to ability damage is now 15% (was 20%).
  • Liberation of Undermine 2-set Bonus – Winning Streak!’s chance to activate increased by 25%.

Druid

• Lycara’s Meditation does not retain the bonus from your last shapeshift form if you enter and then leave caster form.
• Feral
  • Sunfire damage reduced by 40%.
  • Lycara’s Teachings’ Mastery bonus granted from being in Moonkin Form reduced by 66%.

Evoker

• Devastation
  • Firestorm damage increased by 40%.

Hunter

• Beast Mastery
  • The Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Barbed Shot now fires at 100% (was 200%).
  • The Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Potent Mutagen damage reduced by 50% and reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 0.25 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
  • All ability and pet damage increased by 5%.

Monk

• Mistweaver
  • All Healing reduced by 4%.
  • Liberation of Undermine set bonus: Insurance! healing decreased by 30%.

Priest

• Discipline
  • Lenience no longer stacks its damage reduction effect when multiple Priests apply Atonement to a target.
  • Oracle: Preventive Measures now increases the damage of Penance, Smite, and Holy Nova by 20% (was 40%).

Rogue

• Assassination
  • All ability damage increased by 4%.
• Subtlety
  • Secret Technique damage reduced by 5%.
  • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Winning Streak! max stacks reduced to 8 (was 10).

Shaman

• Elemental
  • Developers’ notes: The new tier set bonuses were performing higher than we would have liked, so we’re lowering the value of the new 2-piece set bonus while increasing the damage Elemental Shaman deal baseline.
  • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Now summons an elemental for 6 seconds (was 8 seconds).
  • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Frequency of getting a bonus elemental summon from your spells lowered.
  • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus – Damage bonus of Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Tempest, and Lava Burst increased to 30% for 8 seconds (was 20% for 8 seconds).
  • Deeply Rooted Elements Ascendance procs no longer activate either the 2-piece or 4-piece bonus of the new Liberation of Undermine tier set.
  • Echo of the Elementals no longer causes the Jackpot! Buff to refresh when they appear.
  • All damage dealt increased by 5%.
• Enhancement
  • Developers’ notes: Enhancement Shaman in the Liberation of Undermine patch are performing higher than we would like. We’re making adjustments to the new Flowing Spirits talent as well as the Nerub-ar Palace and Liberation of Undermine tier set bonuses.
  • Nerub-ar Palace 4-piece set Bonus – Now has a 20% chance to summon an extra spirit when talented into Flowing Spirits. The tooltip will not reflect this change until a future patch.
  • Flowing Spirits now has a 6% chance to summon a Feral Spirit.
  • Flowing Spirits now properly summons a random Elemental Spirit when Elemental Spirits are talented.
  • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now triggers Doom Winds for 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
  • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now increases the damage of Crash Lightning by 12% per stack (was 15%).
  • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now increases the primary target damage of Crash Lightning by 75% (was 100%).

Warlock

• Demonology
  • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Casting Hand of Gul’dan causes your active Dreadstalkers to cast Dreadbite at 20% effectiveness (was 50%).
  • Hand of Gul’dan damage increased by 20%.
  • Doomguards summoned by Pact of the Ered’ruin deal 15% increased damage.
  • Gloomhound’s Gloom Slash damage increased by 30%.
  • Wild Imp damage increased by 30%.
• Destruction
  • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot! that fires a flurry of 6 Demonfire bolts at 100% effectiveness (was 200%). Casting Summon Infernal always hits a Jackpot!.
  • Chaos Bolt damage increased by 20%.
  • Summon Infernal damage increased by 35%.
  • Developers’ notes: We’re making adjustments to Hellcaller to reduce its Soul Shard economy and increase its damage as compensation. When the availability of Soul Shards increases for Destruction, it reaches a point where Rain of Fire begins to surpass Chaos Bolt in damage output for single target due to the difference in casting times.
  • Hellcaller: Wither damage increased by 35%.
  • Hellcaller: Wither now deals damage every 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: We recognize that with these changes Wither damage will also be impacted. We are distributing the lost throughput across the rest of the Hellcaller kit for Destruction.
  • Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage increased 40%.
  • Hellcaller: Xalan’s Ferocity now increases Fire damage by 4% (was 2%).
  • Hellcaller: Xalan’s Cruelty now increases Shadow damage by 4% (was 2%).

Warrior

• Arms
  • Execute damage reduced by 15%.

Player vs. Player

• The Gladiator’s Distinction set bonus now increases Stamina by 10% (was 5%) for Tank and Damage specializations.
• The Gladiator’s Distinction set bonus now increases Stamina by 15% (was 10%) for Healer specializations.

Death Knight

• Blood
  • San’layn: The damage bonus from Frenzied Bloodthirst is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
• Frost
  • Death’s Cold Embrace (PvP talent) now increases Remorseless Winter’s damage by 400% (was 750%).

Druid

• Feral
  • Berserk now increases damage dealt by 5% in PvP combat (was 10%).
  • Ferocious Bite damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.

Mage

• Arcane
  • Magi’s Spark now echoes spells at 25% effectiveness (was 50%) in PvP combat.
  • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
  • Arcane Barrage damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
• Fire
  • Blazing Barriers from Overpowered Barrier now reflect 60% of damage absorbed (was 100%).
• Frost
  • Frostfire: Blazing Barriers from Overpowered Barrier now reflect 60% of damage absorbed (was 100%).

Monk

• Mistweaver
  • Jade Empowerment’s damage increase reduced to 1250% (was 2500%) in PvP combat.
• Windwalker
  • Slicing Winds damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat. Slicing Winds now fails if cast while in a root.

Warrior

• Arms
  • Mortal Strike damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
  • Execute damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Demolish final hit damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
• Fury
  • Rampage damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Bladestorm damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
• Protection
  • Execute damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
  • All damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.