Ghosts of K’aresh Development Notes

In Development Ghosts of K'aresh PTR
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With hotfixes that will be deployed over the next few days, we will be making the following class adjustments on the Ghosts of K’aresh PTR:

Death Knight

  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer
      • Frost
        • Wave of Souls critical strikes now increase the Shadowfrost damage the target takes by 3% per stack (was 5%).
        • Swift and Painful now increases Strength by 5% for 8 seconds when no enemies are struck by Soul Rupture (was 10%).
        • Swift and Painful now causes Wave of Souls to be 50% more effective on its main target (was 100%).
        • Exterminate first scythe damage reduced by 15%.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse
      • Fixed an issue causing Undeath to benefit only one Death Knight in a group with multiple Death Knights.
    • San’layn
      • Frenzied Bloodthirst now increases the damage of Death Coil by 4% per stack of Essence of the Blood Queen (was 8%).
      • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Now extends the duration of Virulent Plague on your main target by an additional 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
      • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Now increases the damage of Infliction of Sorrow by 30% (was 35%).
  • Blood
    • Bone Shield increases Armor by 115% of Strength (was 100%).
  • Frost
    • All ability damage reduced by 3%.
    • Obliterate damage reduced by 5%.
  • Unholy
    • Death Coil damage reduced by 20%.

Demon Hunter

  • Vengeance
    • Deflecting Spikes increases parry during Demon Spikes by 8% (was 10%).

Druid

  • Hero Talents
    • Wildstalker
      • Vigorous Creepers causes Bloodseeker Vines to increase damage targets take from you by 6% (was 5%).
  • Feral
    • Sabertooth causes Ferocious Bite to increase damage taken from your bleeds and other periodic effects by 5% per combo point (was 3%).

Evoker

  • Hero Talents
    • Flameshaper
      • Essence Bomb damage reduced by 30%.
    • Scalecommander
      • Fixed an issue where sometimes the Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus squadron would not follow the Evoker’s target.

Hunter

  • Hero Talents
    • Dark Ranger
      • Marksmanship
        • Black Arrow damage reduced by 8%.
    • Sentinel
      • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus updated – Aimed Shot damage bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%).
  • Beast Mastery
    • All damage dealt reduced by 3%.
  • Marksmanship
    • Trick Shots effectiveness reduced to 60% (was 75%).

Mage

  • Hero Talents
    • Sunfury
      • Meteorite damage reduced by 15%.
      • Arcane Phoenix area-of-effect spell damage reduced by 10%.
  • Arcane
    • Resonance damage bonus reduced to 12% (was 15%).
  • Fire
    • All damage dealt reduced by 3%.
    • Flamestrike damage reduced by 15%.

Monk

  • Hero Talents
    • Conduit of the Celestials
      • Mistweaver
        • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Haste reduced to 10% (was 15%).
      • Windwalker
        • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Heart of the Jade Serpent duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 8 seconds).
        • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Haste reduced to 10% (was 15%).
  • Windwalker
    • All damage increased by 8%.

Paladin

  • Hero Talents
    • Herald of the Sun
      • Holy
        • Eternal Flame healing increased by 15%.
        • Sun’s Avatar healing reduced by 40%.
        • Dawnlight now radiates 5% of its healing onto nearby allies (was 8%).
        • Second Sunrise now has a 100% chance to activate (was 15%), but no longer grants Holy Power from Holy Shock casts and casts at 15% effectiveness (was 30%).
        • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Increases Dawnlight healing by 60% (was 30%).
        • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Increases holy power spenders by 30% during Solar Wrath (was 15%).
      • Retribution
        • Sun Sear damage increased by 100%.
  • Retribution
    • Divine Storm damage increased by 10%.
    • Wake of Ashes damage increased by 10%.
    • Seething Flames damage increased by 20%.
    • Truth’s Wake damage increased by 20%.
    • Fixed an issue causing Wake of Ashes to not benefit from Avenging Wrath when it activates Radiant Glory.

Priest

  • Discipline
    • Holy Nova mana cost reduced by 75% (was 87%).

Rogue

  • Cold Blood cooldown now begins immediately upon use and has a 15 second max duration.
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathstalker
      • Assassination
        • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Now increases effectiveness of Deathstalker damage effects and bonuses by 60% (was 50%).
        • Manaforge Omega 4-set bonus – Now increases Shiv duration by 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
      • Subtlety
        • Manaforge Omega 2-set bonus – Now increases effectiveness of Deathstalker damage effects and bonuses by 40% (was 50%).
        • Fixed an issue that prevented Deathstalker damage events from benefitting from the Lingering Darkness effect.
    • Fatebound
      • Fatebound Coin: Tails and Lucky Coin damage increased by 17%.
      • Assassination
        • Fixed an issue that caused Kingsbane’s ramping damage effect to reset while Kingsbane was still active with the Manaforge Omega 2-set equipped.
    • Trickster
      • Outlaw
        • Nimble Flurry bonus to Blade Flurry damage reduced to 20% (was 25%).
      • Subtlety
        • Nimble Flurry percent of ability damage dealt reduced to 60% (was 65%).
        • Nimble Flurry now deals a matching percent of increased damage while Shadow Blades is active (20% PvE; 10% PvP).
  • Assassination
    • All damage increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Outlaw
    • All damage increased by 3.5%.
    • Killing Spree damage increased by 15%.
  • Subtlety
    • All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Warlock

  • Hero Talents
    • Hellcaller
      • Destruction
        • Wither damage reduced by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
        • Blackened Soul damage reduced by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Destruction
    • Chaos Bolt damage increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP combat.