Blizzard
With this week’s maintenance period, we plan to apply several hotfixes to classes (particularly in regards to PvP balance) and item rewards. We’d like to share with you a preview of those changes, along with some insight from the development team.
ClassesЖрец- Shadow: Облик Бездны's Insanity drain now begins at 8 Insanity per second (down from 9), but will increase at a 10% faster rate
- Developers' Notes: We want to reduce the maximum amount of time that can be maintained, without significantly impacting Shadow otherwise. Our intent in this hotfix is that it's still effective to use similarly to how it is currently used, but that its maximum potential in ideal situations is slightly less extreme.
Items- All Legion Legendary items have had their item level increased by 15. This change will be applied retroactively.
- All items from the Испытание доблести have had their base item level increased by 5. This change will be applied retroactively.
PvP(Note: The changes listed in this section only apply in PvP situations)Рыцарь смерти- Frost: Strength reduced by 10%
- Blood: Вскипание крови no longer has its damage reduced in PvP (was previously reduced by 70%)
- Developers' Notes: Frost Death Knight damage continues to be higher than we'd like following the changes in Patch 7.1. For Blood, we no longer feel the damage reduction on Вскипание крови is necessary. We plan to make a broader set of changes for them (and other tanks) in Patch 7.1.5.
Druid
Маг- Fire: Intellect increased by 10%
- Developers' Notes: Fire Mages have simply fallen behind in terms of damage output, and we felt they needed an increase.
Паладин- Holy: Mana regeneration rate has been reduced by 23% while in a PvP instance
- Holy: Рыцарь-мститель (Honor Talent) now costs 110,000 mana (previously had no mana cost)
- Developers' Notes: Holy Paladins are too mana efficient in current PvP gameplay. We're reducing their overall regeneration, as well as adding a mana cost to Рыцарь-мститель, since it was essentially mana-free healing.
Разбойник- Уловка now reduces damage taken from player-cast area-of-effect spells by 30% (down from 50%)
- Stamina for all Разбойник specializations has been increased by 5%
- Developers' Notes: Feint's AoE damage reduction is intended to protect Разбойникs during dungeon and raid encounters, but many class abilities that feel like single target spells in PvP are treated as AoE effects (e.g. Звездный огонь, Кольцо обледенения). This makes Разбойникs unintentionally resistant to those abilities. We're reducing Feint's AoE damage reduction in PvP, but increasing Stamina to compensate.
Шаман- Elemental: Хранитель бурь now increases damage of Молния, Цепная молния, and Поток лавы by 100% against players (down from 200%)
- Elemental: Intellect increased by 5%
- Developers' Notes: Stormkeeper is at the center of a combination of cooldowns and procs that can cause extraordinarily high damage in a very short time. We're reducing its impact but increasing Elemental's damage overall to compensate.
Чернокнижник- Affliction: The damage caused by dispelling Нестабильное колдовство has been increased by 100%
- Destruction: Стрела Хаоса damage bonus against players increased to 35% (was previously increased by 20%)
- Developers' Notes: Patch 7.1 changed the design of Нестабильное колдовство, and our initial tuning on the dispel damage was simply too low. For Destruction, we want spending Soul Shards on Chaos Bolt to feel rewarding when weighed against the alternatives.