PvP Talent Changes in Battle for Azeroth

BFA Posted 2018/05/12 at 2:14 PM by perculia

These talents are active in all Outdoor content.

They are accessed from the main Talent tab instead of a separate Honor Talent Tab.

You do not need to grind out Prestige in order to unlock PvP talents.

Instead of choosing between three Honor Talents per row, ending up with six total out of eighteen options, you instead choose one trinket-themed talent and then three out of a bucket of ~12 talents unique to your class or spec.

Learn more about the BFA PvP System in our PvP Overview and War Mode Overview.

PvP Talents for Each Class

Vengeance Demon Hunter

Changed PvP Talents from Legion to BFA

REMOVED Hardiness: While above 80% health, you take 20% less damage.

REMOVED Reinforced Armor: Health increased by 10%.

REMOVED Sparring: Physical melee attacks have a 20% chance to be blunted, dealing 50% reduced damage.

REMOVED Relentless Assault: Being attacked increases your damage by 3%. Lasts for 5 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

REMOVED Softened Blows: Any non-periodic attack that deals damage less than 10% of your maximum health is reduced by 20%.

REMOVED Train of Thought: Damage increased by 15%. Being attacked will cancel this effect for 8 sec.

REMOVED Mind Quickness: Increases haste by 6%.

REMOVED Initiation: Critical strike chance of your damaging abilities and attacks increased by 30% on targets at or above 80% health.

Blood for Blood Sacrifices 15% of your total health to increase the damage done by your Heart Strike by 60% for 12 sec.
Cooldown changed from 1.5 sec to none

Death Chain Chains 3 enemies together, dealing (180%29.484% of Attack power) Shadow damage and causing 25% of all damage taken to also be received by the others in the chain. Lasts for 15 sec.

Murderous Intent Intimidates the target, increasing their damage taken by 5%3% for 6 sec. Each unique player that attacks the target increases the damage taken by an additional 5%3%, stacking up to 5 times.
Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Intimidated.

Cadaverous Pallor: No longer available to Blood.

Overpowered Rune Weapon Empower Rune Weapon's cooldown is reduced by 2 minutes.60 sec.

Crypt Fever: Enemies healed while afflicted by your Festering Wounds have a chance to take (100%16.38% of Attack power) Shadow damage.

Necrotic Strike A vicious strike that deals 100%(16.4424% of Attack power) Plague damage, and converts 1 Festering Wound into a Necrotic Wound, absorbing the next (900225 / 100 * Attack power) healing received by the target.

Unholy Mutation When your Virulent Plague is dispelled or ends its duration, a Slime spawns dealing (10003% of Attack power) Plague damage and slowing all enemies within 8 yards by 50% for 3 sec.
The Slime lasts for 8 sec.

REMOVED Awaken the Demon Within: If you reach 50% health, you automatically gain Metamorphosis for 6 sec. This effect has a 1 min cooldown. In addition, the duration of Metamorphosis will be refreshed up to a maximum of 6 sec while at or below 20% health.

Eye of Leotheras You keep a watchful eye over the enemy. Whenever they cast a harmful spell, they suffer 6%5% of their health in Shadow damage and refresh the duration of Eye of Leotheras. Lasts 6 sec.

REMOVED Unending Hatred: Anytime you're victim to a magical effect, you gain 10 Fury.

Demonic Trample You enter Metamorphosis, moving at 200% increased speed for 85 sec, knocking down all enemies in your path and dealing (10.3194% of Attack power) Physical damage. During Demonic Trample you are unaffected by snares but cannot cast spells or use your normal attacks.

Tormentor Intimidates the target, increasing their damage taken by 5%3% for 6 sec. Each unique player that attacks the target increases the damage taken by an additional 5%3%, stacking up to 5 times.
Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Intimidated.

Solitude Increases your Fury generation by 20%10% and attack speed by 15%10% when there are no allies within 15 yards.

REMOVED Unending Hatred: Anytime you're victim to a magical effect, you gain 5 Pain.

REMOVED Rain of Chaos: Infernal Strike's impact radius is increased by 100%, and all enemies struck have their movement speed reduced by 50% for 5 sec.

Detainment Imprison's PvP duration is increased by 12 sec, and targets become immune to damage and healing while imprisoned. Cooldown increased to 4590 sec.

Reverse Magic DispelsRemoves all harmful magical effects from yourself and all nearby allies within 10 yards, and sends them back to their original caster if possible.

Deep Roots Damage no longer cancels your Entangling Roots.Increases the amount of damage required to cancel your Entangling Roots by 100%.

Prickling Thorns When your Entangling Roots is removed, dispelled, or ends, the target will take (300%75% of Spell power) damage.

Strength of the Wild Maximum health while in Bear Form increased by 15% and damage while in Bear Form increased by 30%.
You also learn: Enraged Maul. Maul the target for 500%(22.542% of Attack power) Physical damage.

Enraged Maim: You deal (600% 27.0504% of Attack power) Physical damage and incapacitate the target for 5 sec.

King of the Jungle: For every enemy you have Rip active on, your damage and movement speed is increased by 4% 3%. Stacks to 3 times.

Alpha Challenge Intimidates the target, increasing their damage taken by 5%3% for 6 sec. Each unique player that attacks the target increases the damage taken by an additional 5%3%, stacking up to 5 times.
Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Intimidated.

Master Shapeshifter Restoration Affinity - After you Swiftmend, the cast time of your Healing TouchRegrowth is reduced by 30% and its healing is increased by 30% for 8 sec.

Raging Frenzy Your Frenzied Regeneration also generates 60 Rage over 3 5 sec.

REMOVED Sharpened Claws: Increases the damage done by your Swipe and Thrash by 25%.

REMOVED Toughness: The duration of all stun effects are reduced by 25%.

Deep Roots Damage no longer cancels your Entangling Roots.Increases the amount of damage required to cancel Entangling Roots by 50%.

Your Healing TouchRegrowth automatically applies one of your missing healing over time spells to the target. If all of them are present, Healing TouchRegrowth critically heals.

Reactive Resin Casting Rejuvenation grants the target 2 charges of Revitalize. Revitalize will heal the target for (200% 50% of Spell power) after taking a melee critical strike, and increase the duration of Rejuvenation by 3 sec.

The Beast Within Reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 10 sec, and youBestial Wrath causes you and your pet to become immune to all Fear and Horror effects while Bestial Wrath is active.active.

REMOVED Separation Anxiety: When your pet is farther than 25 yards away from you, it gains up to 50% additional movement speed and 25% damage reduction. Effect increased when your pet is farther away from you.

Ranger's Finesse Your Aimed Shots that strike Vulnerable targets reduceCasting Aimed Shot reduces the remaining cooldown of Aspect of the CheetahAspect of the Turtle, and Exhilaration by 5 sec.

Scatter Shot: A short-range shot that deals (35% 25% of Spell power + 4.4616% of Attack power)% weapon damage, removes all harmful damage over time effects, and incapacitates the target for 4 sec. Any damage caused will remove the effect. Turns off your attack when used.

Sniper Shot Take a sniper's stance, firing a well-aimed shot dealing 700%(111.54% of Attack power) Physical damage.
Increases the range of all shots by 40% for 15 sec.

Sniper Shot: Take a sniper's stance, firing a well-aimed shot dealing 700% 111.54% Physical damage. Increases the range of all shots by 40% for 15 sec.
10 sec cooldown

REMOVED T.N.T.: Increases the range of Bursting Shot by 30%, and applies Concussive Shot to all targets hit by Bursting Shot.

Master's Call is now a Cunning Pet Talent instead of an Honor Talent.

REMOVED Catlike Reflexes: Critical melee strikes against you grant 30% dodge for 4 sec.

High Explosive Trap: Hurls a fire trap to the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing (350% 57.33% of Attack power) Fire damage and knocking all enemies away. Trap will exist for 1 min.

NEW Roar of Sacrifice: Protects a friendly target from critical strikes, making attacks against that target unable to be critical strikes, but 20% of all damage taken by that target is also taken by the pet. Lasts 12 sec.

REMOVED Quickshots: Increases haste by 6%.

NEW Arcane Empowerment: Clearcasting can now stack 2 additional times, and increases the damage of Arcane Missiles by 5% per stack. Clearcasting no longer reduces the mana cost of Arcane Explosion.

Torment the Weak Increases your damage by 15% on enemies afflicited by your Slow spell or any movement slow effect.the range of Slow by 15 yards, and affects up to 2 additional nearby targets.

REMOVED Concentrated Power: Arcane Power lasts 5 fewer seconds, but the damage bonus is increased by 10%.

Concentrated Coolness Frozen Orb's damage is increased by 225%150% and is now castable at a location with a 40 yard range but no longer moves.

REMOVED Burning Determination: After being interrupted while casting a spell, the duration of silence and interrupt effects is reduced by 70% for 8 sec.

Admonishment Intimidates the target, increasing their damage taken by 5%3% for 6 sec. Each unique player that attacks the target increases the damage taken by an additional 5%3%, stacking up to 5 times.
Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Intimidated.

Double Barrel Your next Keg Smash deals 50%15% additional damage, and stuns all targets it hits for 3 sec.

Avert Harm Guard the 4 closest allies within 15 yards for 15 sec, allowing you to Stagger 20% of damage they take.

Guided Meditation The cooldown of Zen Meditation is reduced by 50%75%. While Zen Meditation is active, all harmful spells cast against your allies within 40 yards are redirected to you. Zen Meditation is no longer cancelled when being struck by a melee attack.

Hot Trub Purifying Brew deals 50%30% of your purified staggered damage to all enemies within 10 yards.

REMOVED Ancient Mistweaver Arts: Soothing Mist is now an active spell, and no longer is automatically applied through casting Effuse, Enveloping Mist or Vivify. In BFA, Soothing Mist is an active spell.

Healing Sphere: Coalesces a Healing Sphere out of the mists at the target location after 1.5 sec. If allies walk through it, they consume the sphere, healing themselves for (400% 100% of Spell power) and dispelled of all harmful periodic magic effects. Maximum of 3 Healing Spheres can be active by the Monk at any given time.

Increases your Physical damage by 50%35%, you remove and become immune to all stun snare and root effects and you heal up to 3 nearest allies for 175%200% of all damage done. Lasts 15 sec.

REMOVED Fortune Turned: Your Effuse applies Fortune Turned to the target, increasing the healing received by your next Effuse by 50% for 6 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

NEW Surging Mist: Heals the target for (32.76% of Attack power) and increases the healing they take from Surging Mist by 50% for 6 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

Control the Mists: Every 10 sec, Effuse can be cast instantly. Each Chi spent reduces the remaining time by 1 sec. Every 10 sec, Vivify can be cast instantly, and reduces its Energy cost by 100%. Each Chi spent reduces the remaining time by 2 sec.

Ride the Wind Flying Serpent Kick forms a path of wind in its wake, causing all allies who stand in it to have 30% increased movement speed and to be immune to movement slowing effects.Increases the cooldown of Flying Serpent Kick by 10 sec.

REMOVED Zen Moment: Reduces all damage taken by 20% and increases incoming healing by 20% for 10 sec. Each attack that triggers Combo Strikes reduces this effect by 5%.

Shield of Virtue: 45 sec cooldown up from 25 sec.

Inquisition: Intimidates the target, increasing their damage taken by 5% 3% for 6 sec. Each unique player that attacks the target increases the damage taken by an additional 5% 3%, stacking up to 5 times. Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Intimidated.

Judgments of the Pure: Whenever you cast Judgment upon an enemy, a nearby ally within 40 yards is healed for (250% 62.5% of Spell power).

Warrior of Light: Increases the damage done by your Shield of the Righteous by 30%, but reduces armor granted by 30%. 10%

Aura of Reckoning: Consume 50 stacks of Reckoning to hurl a magical hammer that strikes an enemy for (700%175% of Spell power) Holy damage.

Pure of Heart: Whenever you or allies within 20 yards are healed from any source, they are cleansed of all1 Disease and Poison effects.

Avenging Crusader is now a level 90 Holy Paladin talent. It heals 3 targets up from 2, but is on a 2 minute cooldown.

Holy Ritual: Allies are healed for (400% 100% of Spell power) when you cast a Blessing spell on them, and healed again for (400% 100% of Spell power) when the blessing ends.
No longer Holy.

: Heals nearby targets within 20 yards for (300% 75% of Spell power), and applies Atonement to yourself. Deals (shadow% * $BC1) Shadow damage to yourself for each Atonement you have active, and increases their duration by 5 sec.

Power Word: Fortitude has been reworked into a Priest baseline ability. However it increases health by 10%, down from 20%, and benefits the entire raid.

Strength of Soul: Your Power Word: Shield instantly heals targets for (350% 87.5% of Spell power) and reduces all Physical damage taken by 20% while the shield persists.

Rapid Mending: Prayer of Mending is now instant cast, and its jump range is increased by 20 10 yards.

The Talent Last Word was likely inspired by the removed PvP talent.

Creeping Venom: Your Envenom applies Creeping Venom, dealing 12.5% 2.0475% of Attack power) * 12] Nature damage over 6 sec. Creeping Venom's duration is refreshed when the target moves.

Mind-Numbing Poison: Deadly Poison will also infect the target with Mind-numbing Poison. Casting spells while under the effects of Mind-numbing Poison will cause you to take (40% 6.55% of Attack power) Nature damage.

Neurotoxin Stabs the target with your off-hand weapon, causing (100% of weapon damage8.221% of Attack power) Nature damage, and applies a deadly neurotoxin for 10 sec. The neurotoxin causes any ability used to incur a 3 sec cooldown.

System Shock: Casting Envenom with at least 5 combo points on a target afflicted by your Garrote, Rupture, and lethal poison deals (200% 32.76% of Attack power) Nature damage, and reduces their movement speed by 90% for 2 sec.

REMOVED Thieves' Gambit: Your Tricks of the Trade allows your friendly target within 20 yards to also gain your next Cloak of Shadows, Crimson Vial, Evasion, or Vanish with reduced benefits.

REMOVED Unfair Advantage: Ability critical strikes on targets with a lower health percentage than you increases your critical strike damage by 20% for 3 sec.

Deals 500%(41.106% of Attack power) Physical damage, and reduces the target's movement speed by 70% for 4 sec.
Cannot be blocked, dodged or parried.

NEWDeath from Above is now a PvP talent instead of a level 100 talent. It is on a 30 sec cooldown, up from 20, and your special move deals 15% increased damage, down from 50%.

Forked Lightning: When you use Stormstrike, you conjure bolts of lightning to up to two furthest enemies within 40 yards dealing (200% 50% of Spell power) Nature damage.

REMOVED Leader of the Clan: When you use Stormstrike, you enchant up to 3 allies or yourself within 10 yards with Stormlash.

REMOVED Windfury Totem: Summons a Windfury Totem with 5 health at the target destination for 1 min. If the totem is destroyed, Windfury Totem incurs a 30 sec cooldown. Windfury Totem enchants all allies' weapons within 10 yards with wind causing attacks to have a 40% chance to generate an additional 3 extra attacks, dealing 100% Physical damage.

Earthfury Casting a 100 Maelstrom Earth ShockEarth Shock when you have at least 100 Maelstrom will stun the target for 2 sec.

REMOVED Fire and Ice: Flame Shock and Frost Shock no longer consume additional Maelstrom. Increases the duration of Flame Shock and Frost Shock by 100%, and the damage of Frost Shock by 100%.

Earth Shield is now a Talent in Battle for Azeroth. It is available to all specializations, unlike the Legion Honor Talent which was just available to Restoration.

Calming Waters: After being interrupted while casting a spell, the duration of silence and interrupt effects is reduced by 70% for 20 sec. Interrupts reduce the duration of the next successful silence or interrupt cast upon you within 10 sec by 50%.

Rippling Waters: Riptide has 1 additional charge. Riptide Heals for (270% 67.5% of Spell power) when the spell ends its duration, is refreshed on the target, or is dispelled.

REMOVED Nightfall: Corruption damage has a chance to reduce the cast time of your next Seed of Corruption by 100%.

Rot and Decay Each time your Drain SoulLife deals damage, it increases the duration of your Unstable Affliction, Corruption and Agony on the target by 1 sec.

REMOVED Firestone: Restores 2 Soul Shards and increases your spell critical strike chance by 65% for 7 sec.

Casting Circle: Summons a Casting Circle for 10 8 sec. While within the casting circle, the duration of silence and interrupt effects are reduced by 70%. Limit 1. you are immune to silence and interrupt effects. Learning Casting Circle causes Unending Resolve to no longer grant immunity to silence and interrupt effects.
1 min cooldown up from 30 sec
1.5 sec cast up from .5

REMOVED Pain Train: Reduces the cooldown of Battle Cry by 15 sec and Battle Cry now also affects all nearby allies within 10 yards.

Dragon Charge: Run at high speed at a distance in front of you. All enemies in your path will take (350% 273% of Attack power) Physical damage and be knocked back.

Oppressor Intimidates the target, increasing their damage taken by 5%3% for 6 sec. Each unique player that attacks the target increases the damage taken by an additional 5%3%, stacking up to 5 times.
Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Intimidated.

Shield Bash Bash the target with your shield dealing (410%319.8% of Attack power) Physical damage and reducing their damage done by 15%. If the target is casting, the cooldown is instantly reset.
Generates 3 Rage.

REMOVED Rage Machine: Non-periodic attacks against you generate 5 Rage.

Comment by selkie47Resto: Deep Roots Increases the amount of damage required to cancel Entangling Roots by 50%.

The hell is this? Why do we get 50% when the DAMAGE specs all get 100%? So I still have no silence and now my roots will break because I am a freakin healer? Way to go blizz, way to go... -.-Comment by KaozchicksAny ETA on when you guys will have this in calculator format, like for the talents ?Comment by nezullYou read it wrong its changed to 100% the glass is half full dudeComment by ArrayaI wish they made a talent where a 100 Maelstrom Earth Shock also spawned an Earthquake below the target's feet.Comment by Honduras888And of course they nerfed or removed the most useful Warmode "PvE talents"...Comment by SquirePipI wish they made a talent where a 100 Maelstrom Earth Shock also spawned an Earthquake below the target's feet.Comment by RashayResto: Deep Roots Increases the amount of damage required to cancel Entangling Roots by 50%.

The hell is this? Why do we get 50% when the DAMAGE specs all get 100%? So I still have no silence and now my roots will break because I am a freakin healer? Way to go blizz, way to go... -.-Comment by ArrayaI wish they made a talent where a 100 Maelstrom Earth Shock also spawned an Earthquake below the target's feet.Comment by perculiaAny ETA on when you guys will have this in calculator format, like for the talents ?Comment by CrunkenDrunkAnd of course they nerfed or removed the most useful Warmode "PvE talents"...Comment by DattofferI think the key word here is "increases". So you get 150% damages needed to break ?Comment by NathasilThis system will not survive the second patch of BFA. Making specs feel MUCH better, faster and gving them cool+fun abilities while worldquesting....and then take them away completely when you enter any kind of dungeon won't fly. Players will complain that their spec plays VASTLY superior while doing worldquests than while doing the thing that they actually care for: PvE progression.

In Legion, most players never really gave a @#$% about PvP-Talents. PvP is not popular in even the most remote sense of the word right now. And while doing worldquests you do NOT have access to PvP-Talents, even if flagged. Only in the areas of Towers/PvP-WQs you do.

Now they are shoving it down the throat of everybody...and many players will see and experience how much better their spec COULD be if they were just doing a stupid worldquest with War Mode enabled (not PvPing, mind you...just doing worldquests) instead of running the content most of us are actually playing this game for: Dungeons.

This will not stand.

Edit:
I also predict that shards will become dominated by one faction very quickly and players will abuse ways to NOT encounter enemy faction while doing worldquests with War Mode bonuses.Comment by AesiriaResto: Deep Roots Increases the amount of damage required to cancel Entangling Roots by 50%.

The hell is this? Why do we get 50% when the DAMAGE specs all get 100%? So I still have no silence and now my roots will break because I am a freakin healer? Way to go blizz, way to go... -.-anythingComment by FatCheeseManI think I am gonna like this system. May not be perfect but will get me to pvp flag in the open world.Comment by wolfenspeign@wowhead

We really need a proper calculator put up for these, the list above feels incompleteComment by wolfenspeignThe problem I see here is just more pruning by Blizzard. While I welcome war Mode, that main premise is good, however Our actual choices are only 3x talents to distinguish us. And that really sucks. That's far too little Choice. Some Classes by default will take a mandatory 2x talents (example ~ Warriors will be forced to take spell reflect and war banner and what?) 3x choices is crap. It's simply making the work Load on Blizzard + testing that much easier. This is a Solution that solves more problems for Blizzard while reducing player-side choice that much further. I'm sorry but having only 3x talents to choose SUCKS. It totally sucks. 4x at the minimum. Should be 6x.

Made a Thread about it on main here, open for discussion
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20764176430Comment by perculia@wowhead

We really need a proper calculator put up for these, the list above feels incompleteBlood DK Honor TalentsComment by FlapjakkWait, no more Racial Passives in PVP?Comment by wolfenspeign@wowhead

We really need a proper calculator put up for these, the list above feels incompleteBlood DK Honor TalentsComment by SuoSonIn all honesty, after testing DfA for rogue a little here and there...it's utterly useless, absolutely terrible. You are losing to much active dmg time on the enemy and it mainly just makes for some sort of extra shadowstep to get after the enemy, which you don't really need that much as Sub. 15% more dmg on the eviscerate does not even add up for the time you are incapable of attacking. I really wish they'd do that one over again :/

But warmode is great, all in all, I love the concept, execution, how it feels, it's great! a solution-bat for many of the open pvp problems.