Blizzard has just released Development Notes for the upcoming Phase 4 of Season of Discovery, which includes a sneak peek at the new class runes coming to Season of Discovery in Phase 4 — we've broken each of these new runes down by class below!
Druid Runes in Phase 4
Druid
New Runes – Cloak Slot:
- Improved Swipe: Adds the Swipe (Cat) ability and causes Swipe in Bear form to cause 100% increased damage and hit 3 additional targets.
- Tree of Life: Transform into a Tree of Life. While active reduces the mana cost of all Heal over Time abilities by 20%, increases healing received by all party members by 10%, increases the Druid’s spirit by 25% and increases the Druids armor by 200%, but the druid may not cast any harmful abilities.
- Starfall: The druid calls down a rain of up to 20 falling starts over 10 seconds hitting enemies within 30 yards of the druid for Arcane damage. 90 second cooldown. Cancelled by loss of control effects, mounting, and shapeshifting.
Hunter Runes in Phase 4
Hunter
New Runes – Cloak Slot:
- Improved Volley: Increases Volley damage by 3% of attack power each time it deals damage. Volley also no longer has a cooldown and no longer suffers pushback from damaging attacks against the Hunter and the mana cost of Volley is reduced by 50%
- Resourcefulness: Reduces the mana cost of all traps by 100% and their cooldowns by 6 seconds.
- Hit and Run: Raptor Strike increases movement speed by 15% for 4 seconds.
Mage Runes in Phase 4
Mage
New Runes—Cloak Slot:
- Arcane Barrage: An instant attack dealing high arcane damage. 3 Second Cooldown.
- Overheat: Fire Blast is now castable while casting another spell, is unaffected by the global cooldown, and always crits.
- Frozen Orb: The Mage launches a frost orb that damages nearby enemies and snares them. Can trigger fingers of frost.
Paladin Runes in Phase 4
Paladin
New Runes—Cloak Slot:
- Shield of Righteousness: Slam the target with your shield, causing Holy damage based on your block value.
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