Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 PTR Development Notes (5/16) - Hybrid Healing and Balance Druid Changes
Blizzard has posted Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 development notes for today which includes a nerf to Nature's Vigil, Vampiric Embrace and Ancestral Guidance abilities and a large number of changes for Balance Druids.
TIME RIFTSThe time streams have become a bit more unstable with recent events and as the boundaries between the timelines weaken, minions from other timelines have begun making their way into Azeroth. Players will join together to take on Time Rifts, push back against the waves of minions, and plug the hole to set the timeways straight again.CLASSESDevelopers’ note: We are updating player totems and pets that are immune to buffs and debuffs to now only be immune to buffs.This is primarily a PvP change to allow damage over time effects to apply to totems so that all specializations have reasonable means to damage them. DRUID Nature’s Vigil duration is now 15 seconds (was 30 seconds).Developers’ Note: We are reducing the effectiveness of group healing from DPS from damage-to-healing conversion sources.
The abilities affected are Vampiric Embrace, Nature’s Vigil, and Ancestral Guidance. While we want hybrid DPS to be able to contribute healing to the group, these spells have become powerful enough to temporarily alleviate a healer’s role without interrupting the hybrid’s DPS rotation.
The Nature’s Vigil change above will be coming in a future PTR build. BalanceDevelopers’ note: The following changes are working toward providing more build diversity for Balance Druids, though we’re happy with the current builds and want them to remain popular.
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