Official WoW Forever news. Check the realm version before trying these changes on our independent server.
What this update covers
These are changes to Blizzard’s official WoW Forever , build 70425. The development thread is marked Updated October 15, while this post was published on October 16 at 00:15 UTC, or 03:15 in Kyiv. The publication time does not establish the exact deployment time. The sections below retain the scope and numerical details of this part of the notes.
Priest: shared spells
Higher Renew ranks no longer block another Priest’s Renew. Holy Fire rank 5 no longer has greater periodic damage than rank 6. Power Word: Shield now explains when an existing stronger shield prevents replacement, and its scrolling text no longer duplicates the shield notification.
Devouring Plague’s falls from 60 to 24 seconds; Shadow Word: Death rises from 12 to 18 seconds. Mind Vision no longer forces its target to stand up and interrupt drinking. These are separate and behavior changes, so check both spell timing and the target’s state when comparing the build.
Inner Focus is spent on only one spell, including when another spell is queued during Penance. Divine Aegis’s now identifies non-periodic critical heals as its trigger and states the shield cap. Power in Light increases Smite and Penance against a target with Holy Fire or Shadow Word: Pain. ’s reduction now covers every spell.
Mental Strength moves from row 4 to row 2 and grants 2/4/6/8/10% . Improved Power Word: Shield moves from row 2 to row 3. Twin Disciplines correctly benefits Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance. Revisit the talent layout before reproducing an older allocation.
Shadow Word: Death now receives Shadowform’s critical-damage benefit. Devouring Contagion’s bouncing Devouring Plague no longer incorrectly costs , plays a cast animation or restarts the caster’s full . Vampiric Embrace cannot be resisted and has a 30-second instead of 60. Improved Fade and are removed; Improved Mind Blast moves from row 3 to row 2.
The new row-4 Dark Inspiration triggers from Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay, increasing your and your party’s by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 seconds. Improved Mind Flay makes each damage instance deal 10/20% more than the preceding instance. Devouring Contagion now spreads to two targets. Shadow Weaving’s clarifies that the extra damage taken is from you.
Rogue
Rogue poisons no longer activate incorrectly against attackers, and Sap no longer triggers weapon . Switching specializations can no longer be used to keep full. In , a critical Mutilate now correctly consumes Cold Blood. These fixes concern trigger conditions and resource handling rather than a new ability being added.
Shaman: costs, totems and visuals
Totemic Recall’s trainer price is corrected from 70 to 22 silver. Grounding Totem is destroyed after redirecting a spell. Windfury Weapon attacks appear as white hits in scrolling combat text. Grace of Air can coexist with Windfury or Flametongue Totem, but those last two remain mutually exclusive. Grace of Air, Strength of Earth, Windfury and Flametongue Totems now cover the .
Chain Lightning costs approximately 35% less at all four ranks. Fire Nova’s coefficient falls from 0.214 to 0.143, with substantial reductions to both base damage and cost. Flametongue and Windfury Totems correctly affect players only. Chain Heal’s visual gains a little green while retaining its original appearance.
: talent path and Clearcasting
Elemental Focus’s Clearcasting cannot be spent by the Fire Nova that activates it. Elemental Mastery returns as the 31-point gold-medal talent: for 15 seconds it cuts Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst cast times by 0.5 seconds and removes Chain Lightning’s ; its own is three minutes and it requires Lava Burst. Lava Burst moves from row 7 to row 5 as the 21-point gold-medal talent, gains rank 4 with ranks redistributed, and has no prerequisite.
Elemental Fury now requires Lightning Overload, and Lightning Overload requires Elemental Alacrity. Elemental Alacrity moves from row 3 to row 2; Elemental Warding makes the opposite move, from row 2 to row 3. Call of Thunder is removed. Earthbound moves to row 4 as the 16-point gold-medal talent.
Elemental Reach also shortens Totemic Projection’s by 10/20 seconds. Call of Flame additionally extends Flame Shock by 3/6/9 seconds. Several talent columns are rearranged for the new connections. Lightning Overload activations no longer consume Clearcasting. Fire Nova’s correctly rises with points in Trial By Fire, formerly Improved Fire Nova.
, and practice
Stormstrike is not consumed when your spell misses, nor by other players or pets rather than the Shaman who applied it. Its cost becomes 8% of base instead of a fixed 125 . Mana Tide Totem gains a level-38 rank, giving ranks at 25/38/48/58 instead of 25/48/58. Restorative Totems strengthens the whole Healing Stream effect, not just its base. Tidal Focus moves to row 1 and Totemic Focus to row 2. Water Shield can trigger from any Shaman critical spell, not only critical heals.
On our free TWOW.PARTY server, practise class controls, resource timing and group coordination using mechanics actually available there. Start at https://twow.party/?lang=en#play. It is an independent training environment; this official changelog does not establish that these talents, coefficients or Blizzard are installed on our realm.
Sources
- WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 15us.forums.blizzard.com
