We have more changes arriving to the 20th Anniversary patch, with class tuning, event improvements, a trinket nerf/fix and more.
We start with some more missing tuning changes from the original patch notes. Feral’s buffs seem to have been misplaced and are now back! Shamans got a few bugs fixed, both Enhancement and Resto, and Hunters got a PvP fix. Burst of Knowledge got some major nerfs/fixes as it was not sharing a cooldown with other trinkets, and it could proc multiple times off the same spell. There’s also Anniversary event improvements, with a new Bronze source and a Dagan raid boss fix.
There was also a later nerf to Elemental Shamans’ Lignting Rod Hero talent that hasn’t been added to the hotfixes yet. Its power was halved from 20 to 10%. You can read about the reasoning and details it here.
Classes
- Druid
- Feral
- Shred damage increased by 20%.
- Rake damage increased by 5%.
- Wild Slashes increases Swipe and Thrash damage by 40% (was 25%).
- Druid of the Claw: Ravages cast by Convoke the Spirits now trigger Killing Strikes.
- Developers’ notes: The Feral changes above were intended to be a part of the 11.0.5 patch, but temporarily went missing.
- Feral
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Corrected an issue causing Phantom Pain to unintentionally deal repeated damage to the same enemy player.
- Beast Mastery
- Shaman
- Enhancement
- Resolved an issue causing Fire Nova to be disabled while there are Flame Shock targets around.
- Restoration
- Resolved an issue causing Ascendance to not duplicate healing as Restorative Mists.
- Enhancement
Items
- Fixed an issue where the Burst of Knowledge trinket was not sharing a cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
- Added a 1-second cooldown to the Burst of Knowledge trinket, to prevent some spells from causing more than one stack.
User Interface
- The world boss icon for Orta, The Broken Mountain will now appear on Azj-Kahet’s zone map as well as the City of Threads map.
WoW’s 20th Anniversary
- The Awakening the Machine weekly quest now rewards a Bronze Celebration Token as intended.
- Blackrock Depths
- Moira Bronzebeard will now respect her cooldown for Shadow Word: Nemesis in the Emperor Dagran Thaurissan encounter on Raid Finder difficulty.