Retribution Buffs, Frost DK Nerfs and More: Heavy 11.2 Class Tuning

With hotfixes that will be deployed over the next few days, we will be making the following class adjustments on the Ghosts of K’aresh PTR:

Death Knight

• Hero Talents
  • Deathbringer
    • Frost
      • Wave of Souls critical strikes now increase the Shadowfrost damage the target takes by 3% per stack (was 5%).
      • Swift and Painful now increases Strength by 5% for 8 seconds when no enemies are struck by Soul Rupture (was 10%).
      • Swift and Painful now causes Wave of Souls to be 50% more effective on its main target (was 100%).
      • Exterminate first scythe damage reduced by 15%.
  • Rider of the Apocalypse
    • Fixed an issue causing Undeath to benefit only one Death Knight in a group with multiple Death Knights.
  • San’layn
    • Frenzied Bloodthirst now increases the damage of Death Coil 4% per stack of Essence of the Blood Queen (was 8%).
    • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Now extends the duration of Virulent Plague on your main target by an additional 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
    • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Now increases the damage of Infliction of Sorrow by 30% (was 35%).
• Blood
  • Bone Shield increases Armor by 115% of Strength (was 100%).
• Frost
  • All ability damage reduced by 3%.
  • Obliterate damage reduced by 5%.
• Unholy
  • Death Coil damage reduced by 20%.

Demon Hunter

• Vengeance
  • Deflecting Spikes increases parry during Demon Spikes by 8% (was 10%).

Druid

• Hero Talents
  • Wildstalker
    • Vigorous Creepers causes Bloodseeker Vines to increase damage targets take from you by 6% (was 5%).
• Feral
  • Sabertooth causes Ferocious Bite to increase damage taken from your bleeds and other periodic effects by 5% per combo point (was 3%).

Evoker

• Hero Talents
  • Flameshaper
    • Essence Bomb damage reduced by 30%.
  • Scalecommander
    • Fixed an issue where sometimes the Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus squadron would not follow the Evoker’s target.

Hunter

• Hero Talents
  • Dark Ranger
    • Marksmanship
      • Black Arrow damage reduced by 8%.
  • Sentinel
    • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus updated – Aimed Shot damage bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%).
• Beast Mastery
  • All damage dealt reduced by 3%.
• Marksmanship
  • Trick Shots effectiveness reduced to 60% (was 75%).

Mage

• Hero Talents
  • Sunfury
    • Meteorite damage reduced by 15%.
    • Arcane Phoenix area-of-effect spell damage reduced by 10%.
• Arcane
  • Resonance damage bonus reduced to 12% (was 15%).
• Fire
  • All damage dealt reduced by 3%.
  • Flamestrike damage reduced by 15%.

Monk

• Hero Talents
  • Conduit of the Celestials
    • Mistweaver
      • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Haste reduced to 10% (was 15%).
    • Windwalker
      • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Heart of the Jade Serpent duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 8 seconds).
      • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Haste reduced to 10% (was 15%).
• Windwalker
  • All damage increased by 8%.

Paladin

• Hero Talents
  • Herald of the Sun
    • Holy
      • Eternal Flame healing increased by 15%.
      • Sun’s Avatar healing reduced by 40%.
      • Dawnlight now radiates 5% of its healing onto nearby allies (was 8%).
      • Second Sunrise now has a 100% chance to activate (was 15%), but no longer grants Holy Power from Holy Shock casts and casts at 15% effectiveness (was 30%).
      • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Increases Dawnlight healing by 60% (was 30%).
      • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Increases holy power spenders by 30% during Solar Wrath (was 15%).
    • Retribution
      • Sun Sear damage increased by 100%.
• Retribution
  • Divine Storm damage increased by 10%.
  • Wake of Ashes damage increased by 10%.
  • Seething Flames damage increased by 20%.
  • Truth’s Wake damage increased by 20%.
  • Fixed an issue causing Wake of Ashes to not benefit from Avenging Wrath when it activates Radiant Glory.

Priest

• Discipline
  • Holy Nova mana cost reduced by 75% (was 87%).

Rogue

• Cold Blood cooldown now begins immediately upon use and has a 15 second max duration.
• Hero Talents
  • Deathstalker
    • Assassination
      • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Now increases effectiveness of Deathstalker damage effects and bonuses by 60% (was 50%).
      • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Now increases Shiv duration by 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
    • Subtlety
      • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Now increases effectiveness of Deathstalker damage effects and bonuses by 40% (was 50%).
      • Fixed an issue that prevented Deathstalker damage events from benefitting from the Lingering Darkness effect.
  • Fatebound
    • Fatebound Coin: Tails and Lucky Coin damage increased by 17%.
    • Assassination
      • Fixed an issue that caused Kingsbane’s ramping damage effect to reset while Kingsbane was still active with the Manaforge Omega 2-set equipped.
  • Trickster
    • Outlaw
      • Nimble Flurry bonus to Blade Flurry damage reduced to 20% (was 25%).
    • Subtlety
      • Nimble Flurry percent of ability damage dealt reduced to 60% (was 65%).
      • Nimble Flurry now deals a matching percent of increased damage while Shadow Blades is active (20% PvE; 10% PvP).
• Assassination
  • All damage increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP combat.
• Outlaw
  • All damage increased by 3.5%.
  • Killing Spree damage increased by 15%.
• Subtlety
  • All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Warlock

• Hero Talents
  • Hellcaller
    • Destruction
      • Wither damage reduced by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
      • Blackened Soul damage reduced by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.
• Destruction
  • Chaos Bolt damage increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP combat.