Blizzard has announced a series of Class changes and adjustments coming to Season of Discovery. These changes will go live beginning on December 12, as weekly maintenance is completed on regional realms.
Tomorrow, with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we're going to implement some adjustments based on class performance and feedback.
Season of Discovery
- Druid
Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%. - Starsurge cooldown reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
- Starsurge mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 3% of base mana).
Hunter - Flanking Strike now gains the benefit of weapon enhancements like sharpening stones, is now on global cooldown, and is now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers to dodge, parry, block, crit, hit, etc.
- Flanking Strike is now prevented by Pacify.
- Flanking Strike now requires a weapon equipped.
- Flanking Strike pet damage is now properly treated as a melee attack, with same benefits as listed above for the hunter's damage.
- Additional changes to normalize Hunter pet performance are still to be determined.
Priest - Priest Homunculi damage increased by 100%.
- Void Plague damage increased by 200%.
- Twisted Faith now increases damage done by Mind Blast and Mind Flay by 50% (was 20%) on targets afflicted with Shadow Word: Pain.
Rogue - Saber Slash, Shiv, and Main Gauche will now properly consume Remorseless Attacks.
- Saber Slash's tooltip fixed; damage not reduced.
- Saber Slash damage is now properly considered a Bleed and benefits from the Mangle debuff. Note: Bleed-immune creatures will no longer be affected by it.
Shaman - Lava Lash damage increased to 150% weapon damage (was 100% weapon damage).
- Lava Lash mana cost reduced to
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