Patch 2.0.10

[nodonn]

Druids

When the duration of "Cyclone" ends, area buffs such as "Leader of the Pack", "Tree of Life", and "Moonkin" will now be correctly resumed.
"Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health.
"Dire Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health. In addition, the armor bonus has been reduced from 450% to 400%.
The multiplier on base weapon damage for "Mangle (Bear)" ability has been changed from 130% to 100%. In addition, the bonus damage has been reduced by the same ratio.
"Savage Fury" no longer affects "Mangle (Bear)".
"Savage Fury" no longer applies to "Maul" or "Swipe".
The critical damage bonus on "Predatory Instincts" reduced from 3/6/9/12/15% to 2/4/6/8/10%.
"Improved Leader of the Pack" can no longer get critical heals.
The armor bonus from "Moonkin Form" has been increased from 360% to 400% (to match Dire Bear Form).
The rage normalization equation has been adjusted to grant more rage.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *catches breath*weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ;D

Sorry, but it was needed

[Tabazan]

On bear damage, it sounds like something is needed but not so much. Armour and HP reduction is less warranted. Some people have said to me that they think the patch is only a minor change.

Buffing prot warriors would be nice.

I dunno, it seems too early in to our ventures in Outlands for such a big 'adjustment'. Class balance will change again as people get in to end-game content and pick up their purples.

Tab

[Fagur]

Anyone have a link to the patch notes? I wanna see what they're doing to my class.

[falky]

Upcoming patch notes can always be found on this link:
www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/testrealm.html

[Tardon]

irdamajere said:

Anyone have a link to the patch notes? I wanna see what they're doing to my class.

Interesting that they dont mention the (confirmed) nerf to Frost Nova >.>

[Fagur]

tardon said:

Interesting that they dont mention the (confirmed) nerf to Frost Nova >.>

What nerf?

[Tardon]

Frost Nova breaks on any crit, of (as far as we have been told) any kind, perhaps even crits that arent your own.
Yay for molten armor breaking frost nova! -_-

[Fagur]

Argh! d**n PVP whiners. Ever notice they only seem to nerf things that bother the other classes (whatever the nerfed class may be) in PVP?

And it really f'ing sucks for us PVE players. Grrrrrr.

[Grul]

Some buffs too!

* The Druid ability Lacerate will now land a small amount of instant damage, causing it to generate threat against bleed-immune creatures.
* The Druid ability Mangle (Bear) will now generate 50% bonus threat.

[Felbane]

After a quick test, the rumors of the nerf on frostnova has turned out to be hugely exaggerated.
I have successfully and repeatedly critted without breaking frostnova with molten armor, fireblast and lowrank frost bolt. Full rank frost bolt always had extremely high chance to break the frostnova due to the high damage crit, so I'm not the least surprised that I haven't been able to get a nonbreaking crit with that.

lesson learned? don't whine before the patch is out. (and never in guid chat!)

[krktie]

Seems it breaks on spell (!) crits over 1500 damage, from what I read.

Anyway, Grul posted it already but here's more druid stuff:
forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=79628116&sid=1&pageNo=1

Additional explanation for these fixes and information on Armor:

We’ve taken a close look at constructive feedback provided on our Druid Bear changes, and are hotfixing the following changes today:

1. Lacerate will now do a small amount of direct damage to the target. This means it will generate threat rather than an immune message when used on bleed-immune creatures. However, bleed-immune creatures will still not receive the debuff from Lacerate. This should address concerns about Druids being able to tank in specific bleed-immune encounters.

2. Mangle (Bear) now generates 50% bonus threat on its damage. We realized that in reducing Mangle damage, we made it less useful as a snap aggro tool. This threat bonus moves it back up to almost where it was before the 2.0.10 changes.

In addition, we examined concerns about the best Feral Druid armor pieces being outdoor world quest rewards, and Druids feeling their tanking ability would not scale with better gear. We are adjusting superior and epic leather pieces designed to be used by Bear Druids and increasing the armor on many of those items, particularly raid sets. These changes, however, will not show up until patch 2.1.0.

[mard]

yeah, zomg poor nerfed druids ! clearly no point in playing one now after the nerf ! ;P

[Saedoc]

Lets remove rogues stealth and fix it in next patch!

[mard]

...and are hotfixing the following changes today

next patch, eh ?