Class Changes for June 24 on the Mists of Pandaria Classic Beta

Over the last few days, we’ve made additional class changes.

As always, please be reminded that these updates:

• Are subject to change.
• Only affect PvE and have no impact on Arenas and Battlegrounds.
  • The changes to Inferno Blast and all of the Bugfixes do affect PvP, as they are not adjustments. These are bug fixes.
• Are only active for the spec they`re listed under, even if the ability is available to multiple specs.

Death Knight

• Blood
  • Your Raise Dead Ghoul no longer benefits from Vengeance attack power. New
  • Your Army of the Dead no longer benefits from Vengeance attack power. New
  • Blood Presence damage reduction raised to 12% (was 10%). New
• Frost
  • Mastery: Frozen Heart’s Obliterate and Soul Reaper bonuses are lowered to 20% effectiveness when wielding a two-handed weapon. New

Druid

• Feral
  • Shattering Blow inside of PvE Instanced content is now instant cast and does not reset your swing timer. New
  • Duration of Predatory Swiftness raised to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds). New
• Guardian
  • The chance to activate Dream of Cenarius off a Mangle (Bear) crit been raised to 50% (was 40%). New
  • The cooldown on Heart of the Wild has been lowered for Guardian Druids to 3 minutes (was 6 minutes). New
  • When Bear Hug is cast on an enemy and they are permanently immune to Stuns, Bear Hug instead lowers their damage dealt by 10% for 5 seconds. New
    • The duration of this Bear Hug effect is NOT increased by the Gladiator gloves.

Mage

• Arcane
  • Arcane Missiles damage raised by 28%. 5.2 Revert
  • Arcane Blast damage raised by 37% (was 29%). New
  • Arcane Barrage damage raised by 30% (was 19%). New
• Fire
  • The way Inferno Blast spreads Ignite has been changed to be more intuitive, spreading full duration Ignites instead of allowing players to compress Ignites into very large ticks. New/Bugfix
    • We’re attempting to allow the ability to weave Ignites in hopes it can unlock some interesting Gameplay for Fire Mage. Ignite is a notoriously volatile spell where even the slightest change can have far reaching consequences, so we`re going to monitor this closely.

Monk

• Mistweaver
  • When Vital Mist is at 5 stacks, your instant cast of Surging Mist will not reset your swing timer. New

Warlock

• Affliction
  • Haunt’s damage increase to your Damage Over Time effects lowered back to 35% (was 40%). 5.5.0 Revert
  • Agony’s damage over time lowered by 11% making the overall increase to Agony during Beta a 5% increase (was 18%). Partial 5.5.0 Revert

Warrior

• Shattering Throw inside of PvE Instanced content is now instant cast and does not reset your swing timer. New

Bugfixes

• Feral Druid
  • Dream of Cenarius will no longer incorrectly consume two stacks when using Pounce. Bugfix
• Blood Death Knight
  • Dancing Rune Weapon’s damage was incorrectly reduced by 50%, it will no longer be reduced. Bugfix
  • Dancing Rune Weapon’s Rune Strike was using the incorrect version. Bugfix
  • Glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon will now correctly reduce Dancing Rune Weapon’s damage by 25% (was not reducing it at all). Bugfix
  • Rune Strike will no longer have an erroneous 10% attack power Ratio. Bugfix