The new World of Warcraft Forever patch notes include a first round of beta class tuning, and the cooldown manager is available for testing.
Blizzard has just dropped some bulky World of Warcraft Forever patch notes on our heads, and there are a whole heap of class tuning balance changes to dig through. We're now one week into the WoW Forever beta, and things are being shaken up pretty dramatically. Alongside the list of class buffs and nerfs, there are also some welcome improvements to campfires, a first rollout of the cooldown manager, updated controller support, and some more "aesthetically pleasing" audio design.
Let's get the general changes out of the way before we dig through all the class adjustments in the new World of Warcraft Forever update. When at a campfire, you'll be able to gain the campfire buffs while performing a wider range of resting actions, and you can also use buffs, casts, and crafts without interrupting the process. Both the water splash effect and Human death sounds have been adjusted, missing fog has been resolved, and the occasionally blinding ooze in the Undercity Canal has been toned down.
You're can now enable the first version of WoW Forever's cooldown manager, although for the moment it only works for Druids, Mages, Priests, Warriors, and Warlocks, and doesn't currently support spell ranks. Blizzard notes that it's designed "to enhance gameplay by pulling critical information from the buff bar or action bar and placing it in a fully customizable location." To start with, the team wants feedback on "spells that you wish were tracked by default."
One of the biggest additions in Forever is gamepad support, and Blizzard is continuing to make rapid changes to improve its implementation. There are new class-specific flyouts for Druids, Hunters, Warlocks, Paladins, and Warriors, which additionally stops pet bars from replacing your bottom action bar. The settings now offer a 'compact' layout, fixed party targeting for small groups, and the ability to swap certain functionality between opposite sides of your controller.
Moving onto the balance changes, Blizzard notes up-front that it's introduced a temporary cheap respec option during the beta. If you haven't changed talents recently, you'll only have to pay one silver; this cost will become 'much higher' immediately after using it to dissuade constant fiddling, but will drop back down again after an hour.
Race-wise, Gnome's Eureka now offers a 10% discount on Mana, Rage, or energy abilities across every class. Tauren's Cultivation now has a player-level requirement for every herb, equal to one-fifth of the skill level required to pick it (but capped at 60). Tauren's Touch of the Grave, meanwhile, no longer breaks CC or activates from spells and abilities without a damage component. This means you can't pull characters out of stealth with Distract, for example, while Shadow Word: Pain will trigger it on initial cast but not the subsequent ticks.
As usual, I'll run down the class tuning summaries alphabetically. Druids can now land crits with Rejuvenation, Tranquility, and Restoration's Wild Growth. Wrath gets a huge 50% damage buff, and Thorns will dynamically update based on the caster's spell power. Feral's Mangle is now 'Primal Bite,' because the removal of its signature debuff meant "the former name no longer accurately represented the ability." All associated talents have been adjusted to match.
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