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New Raid: - More information coming soon.
New Feature: Flexible Raid Difficulty- This is a new raid difficulty designed for pre-made groups of 10 to 25 players or any number in between. This means it's possible to have raids of 15 or 22 players! Difficulty will adjust automatically based on the number of players present with encounters intended to provide a challenge roughly between Raid Finder and Normal difficulty.
- Flexible Raid difficulty requires a pre-made group to join but has no minimum item level requirements or role restrictions. Both BattleTag™ and Real ID friends are eligible to participate.
- Loot quality will be between Raid Finder and Normal difficulty and awarded through a personal loot system (similar to Raid Finder). Bonus rolls and loot specialization will also be supported.
- Players will be able to earn raid achievements just like in Normal or Heroic difficulty.
- Flexible Raid difficulty has a lockout that is separate from Raid Finder and Normal difficulty.
- To learn more about Flexible Raids, please visit our blog titled: A Raid for All Seasons: Flexible Raid Preview.
New Area: Timeless Isle- More information coming soon.
New Feature: Proving Grounds- Proving Grounds is a new feature for individual players to test and improve their combat skills.
- At the Proving Grounds, players may undertake trials, designed for Damage, Tank, or Healer roles.
- It provides a great opportunity to learn how to Tank or Heal, without the need of a group.
- Each trial is available in four separate difficulties: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Endless. Harder difficulties include more difficult and varied enemies.
- Endless mode allows you to test your mettle against increasingly difficult enemies. Compare your best scores to friends and guildmates!
- : Access to the Proving Grounds and more information is coming soon.
New Feature: Virtual Realms- Virtual Realms are sets of realms that are fused together, and will behave exactly as if they were one cohesive realm. Players on the same Virtual Realm will be able to join guilds, access a single Auction House, join arena teams and raids, as well run dungeons or group up to complete quests.
- Players belonging to the same Virtual Realm will have a (#) symbol next to their name.
ClassesРыцарь смерти- Fears cast by players no longer increases the target's movement speed.
- All taunt type abilities now increase all threat generated against the target while the taunt is active by 200%.
- Vengeance gains from being critically hit have been halved.
General- Незыблемость льда no longer costs Runic Power.
- is a new passive ability learned at level 76. When the Death Knight dodges or parries any attack, they gain 50% of their Parry and Dodge as additional bonus to Critical Strike for 20 seconds.
Talents- Зона антимагии has been redesigned. The talent now reduces magic damage taken in the area-of-effect by 40% for 3 seconds, and the ability no longer scales with strength.
- Смертельное поглощение had its damage increased by 10%.
- Вытягивание чумы now tries to convert 2 fully-depleted runes (up from 1) into a Death Rune based on specialization.
Blood: Restores 1 Frost Rune, 1 Unholy Rune - Frost: 1 Frost Rune, 1 Unholy Rune
- Unholy: 1 Blood Rune, 1 Frost Rune
Glyphs- Обугленный символ now reduces damage dealt by diseases by 15% (down from a 30% reduction).
- Обугленный символ now reduces the cooldown of Mind Freeze by 1 second, and raises its cost by 10 Runic Power (down from 2 seconds and 20 Runic Power).
- Обугленный символ now causes Outbreak to cost 30 Runic Power (down from 40).
Blood- Обугленный символ no longer costs Runic Power.
- no longer reduces the cost of Icebound Fortitude.
Unholy- now reduces the cooldown of Raise Dead by 60 seconds.
General- Смерч no longer has a 20-second cooldown for Feral Druids.
- now has a duration of 20 seconds while in PvP combat (down from 40 seconds).
- Озарение now causes the target to gain mana equal to 50% of the casting Druid’s Spirit every second for 10 seconds.
- Wild Mushroom's Restoration version of the ability now summons a single mushroom at the friendly target’s location. If the mushroom is recast, the mushroom moves to the new location and retains its accumulated bonus healing. A single mushroom now heals for as much as what 3 mushrooms combined healed for previously.
- Гнев has its mana cost increased by 50%.
Talents- has been completely redesigned to reduce complexity and increase usability, but maintain the spirit of the effects. Benefits now varies by specialization.
Balance: Increases the amount healed by by 20%. Casting increases the damage bonus of the Druid's next Затмение by 10%. - Feral: Increases the amount healed by Healing Touch by 20%. Casting Healing Touch increases the damage for the Druid's next two melee abilities by 25%.
causes the Druid's next Rip to deal 15% increased damage. - Guardian: Increases the amount healed by by 20%. Mangle (Bear) critical strikes have a 20% chance to make the next or Возрождение instant, free, and castable in all forms.
- Restoration: Causes Гнев to deal 20% more damage and heals a nearby friendly target for 100% of the damage done.
Force of Nature Treant summoned by the Feral version of this talent will now cast Entangling Roots instead of Bash.
when activated, now also provides a 25% bonus to healing for Restoration Druids.
Массовое оплетение no longer has a limit on the number of targets that could be affected, up from 5.
Природная стремительность is no longer a talent, and is now an ability learned by Restoration Druids at level 30.
Природная чуткость when activated, causes healing spells now trigger an additional heal on a nearby ally for 25% of the amount healed. This is in addition to the existing effect where it damages a nearby enemy target for 25% of the healing done.
Душа леса has been partially redesigned to make it more attractive to Balance, Guardian, and Restoration Druids.
- Balance: Гнев, , and Звездный поток casts have a 8% chance to cause the next to grant 100 Lunar Power or Solar Power instead of activating the next Eclipse.
- Guardian: Increases Rage generation from Mangle (Bear) by 20% instead of 30%, but the bonus now also applies to Rage generated by Primal Fury.
- Restoration: Now causes the Druid to gain 100% haste (up from 75%) on their next spell after casting Быстрое восстановление.
Дар Изеры, a new talent healing the Druid for 5% of their maximum health every 5 seconds. If the Druid is at full health, it will heal the most injured friendly target nearby instead. This talent fills the spot vacated by
Природная стремительность.
Glyphs- New Glyph: Glyph of Efflorescence increases the healing done by Swiftmend by 20%, causes the Efflorescence healing effect to be triggered by Wild Mushroom instead of Swiftmend, and lasts as long as the Wild Mushroom is active.
- Обугленный символ now causes Ferocious Bite to heal the Druid for 2% of their maximum health for each 10 Energy used (up from 1%).
- Обугленный символ now causes Innervate to give both the Druid and the target 60% of the normal effect of the spell if it's cast on a target other than the Druid.
- Обугленный символ now reduces the mana cost of all shapeshifts by 100% (up from 90%).
- Обугленный символ now increases the range of Pounce by 8 yards (up from 3 yards).
- Обугленный символ now increases the duration of Skull Bash's interrupt by 2 seconds, and increasing the cooldown by 5 seconds (down from a 4 second interrupt and 10 second increase to cooldown).
Balance- Затмение now energizes the Druid for 50% of their maximum mana when triggered, up from 35%.
- Облик лунного совуха no longer reduces all damage taken by 15%.
- has its mana cost increased by 50%.
- Звездный поток has its mana cost increased by 50%.
FeralRestoration- is a new Restoration spell learned at level 88. Genesis targets all party or raid members within 60 yards and accelerates the casting Druid's Rejuvenation effects, causing them to heal and expire at 400% of the normal rate. Costs the same amount of mana to cast as Rejuvenation.
- Living Seed effects can now stack, up to 50% of the casting Druid's maximum health.
- Быстрое восстановление's area-of-effect healing effect is now called Efflorescence.
- is no longer capable of critical strikes, and accumulates overhealing done by Rejuvenation by 100%, down from 150%. Overhealing bonus no longer benefits from Naturalist or Mastery: Harmony.
General- had its damage and focus cost increased by 50%.
- Hunter's Mark now has a duration of 20 seconds while in PvP combat (down from 30 seconds).
- now finishes the cooldowns on Rapid Fire, Feign Death, Deterrence, Disengage, and Camouflage when activated (was all Hunter abilities with a base cooldown of less than 5 minutes).
- Воскрешение питомца no longer requires the Hunter to have line-of-sight to their pet.
Talents- Железный ястреб now reduces all damage taken by 10%, down from 15%.
- Чуть не попался!'s root effect is now a nature spell (was a physical spell).
- is no longer a talent and is now an ability for Marksman Hunters.
- now regenerates 3% of total health every 2 seconds while the Hunter's pet is active (up from 2%).
- Укус виверны now has a range of 40 yards (up from 35 yards).
Glyphs- Обугленный символ now has a 100% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from the Hunter's pet on each tick (up from 50% chance).
- Обугленный символ now increases the ranged critical strike chance against targets affected by the Hunter's Freezing Trap by 100% (up from 20% chance).
Marksman- Binding Shot is no longer a Marksman Hunter ability and is once again a talent.
Survival- Взрывная ловушка no longer shares a cooldown with Black Arrow but can no longer activate Lock and Load.
Talents- now deals 70% damage to players (up from 60%).
- Живая бомба now deals 85% damage to players (up from 70%).
- Буря Пустоты now deals 85% damage to players (up from 70%).
- now also reduces damage taken by 15% while active in addition to existing effects.
Glyphs- Обугленный символ now increases distance travelled with the Blink spell by 8 yards (up from 5 yards).
- Обугленный символ now increases the damage dealt by 15% after successfully removing a curse (up from 10%).
- Обугленный символ now heals the Mage for 5% of their maximum health after successfully stealing a spell (up from 3%).
Frost- Искусность: кристаллы льда has been redesigned. Fingers of Frost now increases the damage of Ice Lance by an additional 2%, Brain Freeze increases the damage of the instant cast Frostfire Bolt by 2%, and damage done by the Mage's Water Elemental is increased by 2%.
Talents- Отвар Черного Быка will now also generate 3 stacks of Brew/Teas based on the Monk's specialization. (Brewmaster: Elusive Brew, Mistweaver: Mana Tea, Windwalker: Tigereye Brew)
- Целебный эликсир will no longer activate if the Monk is already at full health, and activate automatically when the Monk has less than 35% of their maximum health.
- Усиливающие удары will now activate from all Chi generating abilities; Jab, Expel Harm, Spinning Crane Kick (when it hits at least 3 targets), Keg Smash, Crackling Jade Lightning, and Soothing Mist.
- Круг мира has a new visual effect and now disarms both enemies and those attacking allies within the Круг мира's area-of-effect for 4 seconds (up from 3 seconds); the silence effect for casting spells remains unchanged at 3 seconds.
Glyphs- Обугленный символ now increases the chance to summon a Healing Sphere by 100% (up from 25% chance).
GeneralTalents- Burden of Guilt has been replaced with a new talent called Evil is a Point of View, which allows the Paladin to use Turn Evil on players and beasts.
- 's initial healing has been reduced by 30%.
- now reduces damage taken from harmful periodic effects by 80% (up from 70%) and reduces damage taken from harmful periodic effects that cannot be prevented by immunities by 40% (up from 0%).
- Sacred Shield (Old) has been renamed to Священный щит and is no longer a talent. Священный щит is a Protection Paladin ability learned at level 85.
- (New)
Holy: When the Paladin or their Beacon of Light target falls below 30% health, that target gains a absorbing damage equal to 30% of their maximum health. can only occur once every 2 minutes. - Protection, Retribution: When the Paladin falls below 30% health, they gain a Sacred Shield absorbing damage equal to 30% of their maximum health. can only occur once every 2 minutes.
Священный гнев - Holy: Now also increases the critical strike chance of Holy Shock by 20%.
- Protection: Now reduces the cooldown of Judgment by 100% (up from 50%).
Самоотверженный целитель stacks now also work on
Свет небес in addition to
Вспышка Света.
- will now apply Самоотверженный целитель's bonus to healing to the casting Paladin as well as other targets and consume all stacks of in the process.
Несломленный дух has been simplified. It now reduces the cooldown on
Божественный щит,
Божественная защита, and
Возложение рук by 50%.
Glyphs- Обугленный символ now increases damage for the next Щит праведника by 10% per stack (down from 20% per stack).
- Обугленный символ now causes Шок небес to reduce the cast time of the next Denounce by 0.5 seconds, and the effect can stack up to 3 times.
- Обугленный символ has been redesigned. The glyph now increases the duration of Дознание by 30 seconds (up to a maximum of 2 minutes) each time the Paladin lands a killing blow on targets that yield experience or honor.
Holy- no longer activates from periodic healing effects.
- no longer reduces the amount of healing done by 50%.
Retribution- (Retribution version) now has a reduced cooldown of 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes, and the maximum number of stacks has been reduced to 12.
- Дознание now lasts 20 seconds per charge of Holy Power consumed, up from 10 seconds.
GeneralTalents- Божественное перышко now increases allies' movement speed by 80%, up from 60% and the feathers have a duration of 10 minutes, up from 5 minutes.
- for Discipline Priests now has a 100% chance to activate its effect after using Исповедь, up from 40% and now displays an effect in the UI when it's active.
- Пробуждение Света
Discipline, Holy: Now also has a chance to activate its effect on cast for these following spells; Исповедь, Слово Света: Освящение, Молитва восстановления, and Молитва исцеления. - Shadow: Now has a 20% chance to activate its effect for Shadow Priests (up from a 15% chance).
Прихоти судьбы's damage and healing threshold to activate has been increased to 35%, up from 20%.
GlyphsHoly- Слова Света no longer displays a spell effect when in the UI when it's active.
Shadow- now increases the Priest's armor by 60%, but no longer reduces all damage taken by 15%.
Class Armor- Restoration PvP 4-piece set bonus is no longer an area-of-effect and only affects the character that dispels Прикосновение вампира.
General- now restores 4% of maximum health every 3 seconds, up from 3%.
Talents- Ночной ловец now increases damage dealt by abilities while stealthed by 50%, up from 25%.
GlyphsCombatGeneralTalents- Астральный сдвиг now has a cooldown of 90 seconds, down from 120 seconds.
- has been redesigned. Casting , Волна исцеления, Healing Surge, or Цепное исцеление, increases the duration of Целительный ливень by 1 second. Damaging an enemy with , , Земной шок, or Удар бури increases the duration of Целительный ливень by 1 second.
- Тотем целительного прилива now heals for 50% more.
- Тотем каменной преграды's initial damage absorption shield now absorbs an additional 33% in damage.
effect now applies to the Shaman, not the target.- effect now increases damage by 30%, up from 20%.
GlyphsEnhancementRestoration- now only increases healing done by Healing Stream Totem by 50% (was healing done by all Water totems).
- Быстрина's mana cost has been reduced by 25%.
General- The debuff from using a Demonic Gateway has been increased to 60 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
- Доспех Скверны no longer reduces all damage taken by 10%.
- now deals 13% more damage, costs 2% less mana, and no longer increases the duration of damage-over-time spells.
- Огненный ливень now has a reduced chance to generate Burning Embers.
Talents- Вой ужаса is no longer a talent and is now a baseline skill for all Warlocks.
- , a new talent replacing Вой ужаса. The Warlock sends out a cone of Shadow damage, snaring targets, has a 20-second cooldown.
- no longer reduces movement speed, and will now allow the Warlock to cast Incinerate, Malefic Grasp, and Shadow Bolt while moving.
is no longer a passive ability. now has a duration of 15 seconds with a 1.5 minute cooldown. - is no longer a passive ability. 10 seconds with a 60 second cooldown, and increases the area of area-of-effect by 500% and increases damage by 100% for Семя порчи, Адское пламя, , and Огненный ливень.
- Поглощение души can now also activate from Ожог Тьмы, and caps out at 15% of the Warlock and their pet's maximum health (down from 100%).
General- now also increases the damage of Удар грома by 50%.
- Enrage now also triggers on critical hits from Сокрушение and Мощный удар щитом.
- Подрезать сухожилия is no longer on a global cooldown.
- is a new passive ability learned at level 76. When the Warrior dodges or parries any attack, they gain 50% of their Parry and Dodge as an additional bonus to Critical Strike for 20 seconds.
- Сокрушительный бросок no longer costs rage.
- Глухая оборона no longer requires a shield. If the Warrior does not have a shield equipped, it will show a visual of an equipped shield.
- Отражение заклинаний no longer requires a shield. If the Warrior does not have a shield equipped, it will show a visual of an equipped shield.
Talents- now instantly heals the warrior for 10% of their total health (up from 5%), and an additional 10% over 5 seconds (up from 5%).
- now heals the Warrior for 20% of their maximum health at all times (up from 15% on attack and 20% on kills that yield experience or honor).
- Удар громовержца now also has an off-hand attack for Fury Warriors.
- Бдительность no longer transfers damage to the Warrior. The talent now reduces amount of damage the target takes by 30% for 12 seconds.
- Вестник войны now roots the target for 4 seconds instead of stunning them for 3 seconds. The 50% reduction to movement speed snare effect for 8 seconds remains unchanged. Glyph of Blitz will now cause Вестник войны to root an additional 2 nearby targets.
Arms- now also reduces the cost of Удар грома by 10 Rage.
- Slam now does an additional 10% damage to targets affected by the warrior’s .
- now causes melee attacks to strike an additional nearby target for 75% of the initial damage (up from 50%).
FuryProtection- now activates from critical hits with Shield Slam instead of a flat 20% chance, and the ability will make the next or Cleave be a critical hit in addition to costing no Rage.
Quests
- Сила врагов: For players on this step of the legendary quest; all Престол Гроз bosses now have a chance to drop a Печать власти or Печать мудрости in addition to their normal loot. Players should no longer be receiving excess Sigils of Power or Sigils of Wisdom.
Creatures
- Bonus Roll change: Players that don’t have a coin or elect to not use a Bonus Roll when defeating one of the world bosses (Sha of Anger, Galleon, Nalak, and Oondasta) can come back later that same week to use the Bonus Roll. The limit has not changed and remains one attempt and one bonus roll per boss, per week.
Pet Battles
Pet Battle General- A new pet battle tournament is available on the Timeless Isle, more details coming soon!
- Round timers in PvP Pet Battles will now get progressively shorter for a player who takes more than 15 seconds to issue a command during their turn.
- Players are now able to trade in any 3 of the same family specific Flawless Battle-Stones for a single Marked Flawless Battle-Stone.
- Viewable pet battles will now display working health bars.
- Battle Pet levels are now only shown on the map if you are tracking Battle Pets.
- Aquatic type's passive effect now reduces damage from damage-over-time effects by 50%, up from 25%.
- Critter type's passive effect now makes critters immune to roots, stuns, and sleep effects.
- Dragonkin type's passive effect now activates after an attack brings a target's to below 50% health, up from 25%.
- Elemental type's passive effect now only affects negative direct effects of weather. (E.g. Sandstorm's accuracy reduction won't be applied, but the damage reduction will.)
- Magic type's passive effect now caps damage taken at 35% of maximum health, up from 40%.
Battle Pets
Battle Pet Abilities- Accuracy now affects the entire team.
- Dark Simulacrum has been replaced with a new ability, Rot. Rot deals Undead damage and temporarily turns the enemy pet's type into Undead.
- Рывок трирога damage has been reduced by 11.5% and now has a 1-round cooldown.
- Щит трирога now displays the correct amount of damage reduction.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
RaidsDungeons- Players who obtain a realm-best time in a Challenge Mode dungeon (group must contain at least 3 people from the same realm to qualify) will receive a temporary title specific to each dungeon (e.g. Siegebreaker for Siege of Niuzao temple, Darkmaster for Scholomance, etc.). This title will persist for as long as a player retains the top time on the realm. Holding a realm-best time at any point will also confer a permanent Feat of Strength to record the accomplishment.
PvP
- Season 14 Grievous gear is now available. Elite versions of Grievous gear will require a rating of 2000 to purchase.
- Season 13 Tyrannical gear can now be purchased with Honor Points.
- Season 12 Malevolent gear can now be crafted.
- : For testing purposes, the item level scaling of gear in Arenas, Battlegrounds and Rated Battlegrounds has been increased to 512 during the 5.4 PTR. Season 14 Grievous Conquest gear is exempt from this item level ceiling.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
Arenas- For Arena matches lasting longer than 15 minutes, one of the teams will receive a buff called Толпа выбрала вас!!! that increases damage, critical strike chance, stealth detection, and reduces damage taken. The buff is awarded based on the following criteria.
Team with the largest number of players alive. - Team that brought an enemy player closest to death (lowest health).
Arena Rating scaling in the 2v2 bracket has been tuned to be consistent with the 3v3 bracket.
Items
- All permanent item enhancements provided by Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, and various vendors and quests are now able to be applied to items of any level. This means all enchantments can now be applied to heirloom items.
High level enhancements applied to items equipped by low level players have their power scaled down to be similar to enhancements intended for that level range. - Low level enhancements applied to items equipped by high level players do not grow further in power beyond their intended level range.
: For testing purposes, Flaskataur, Esq. will be available near the Niuzao Temple selling normal Tier-16 armor for gold.
UI
- The vestigial Use Hardware sound option has been removed.
