wow Patch 9.1.5 Build 40078 Class Changes

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Here's a recap of all class changes that went live in Patch 9.1.5 Build #40078.

Death Knight

• Sacrificial Pact - Sacrifice your ghoul to deal [ 75% of Attack Power ] Shadow damage to 8 all nearby enemies and heal for 25% of your maximum health. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Blood

• Bonestorm (Talent) - A sweeping attack that strikes up to 5 all enemies in front of you for [ 14.98% of Attack Power ] Frost damage. This attack benefits from Killing Machine. Critical strikes with Frostscythe deal 4 times normal damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Consumption (Talent) - Strikes up to 8 all enemies in front of you with a hungering attack that deals 0 Physical damage and heals you for 150% of that damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Frost

• Frostscythe (Talent) - A sweeping attack that strikes up to 5 all enemies in front of you for [ 14.98% of Attack Power ] Frost damage. This attack benefits from Killing Machine. Critical strikes with Frostscythe deal 4 times normal damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Unholy

• Bursting Sores (Talent) - Bursting a Festering Wound deals 25% more damage, and deals [ 20% of Attack Power ] Shadow damage to 8 all nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Covenant Abilities

• Abomination Limb - Sprout an additional limb, dealing [ 307.7% of Attack Power ] Shadow damage over 12 sec to 5 all nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Every 1 sec, an enemy is pulled to your location if they are further than 8 yds from you. The same enemy can only be pulled once every 4 sec.

Legendary Powers

• Reanimated Shambler - Your attacks have a chance to summon a Super Zombie that shambles forward and explodes, dealing [ 157.5% / 180.2% (Unholy) of Attack Power ] Shadow damage and applying a Festering Wound to 8 all nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Demon Hunter

Havoc

• Blade Dance
  • Normal: Strike 5 all nearby enemies for [ 66% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
  • First Blood: Strike your primary target for [ 155.1% of Attack Power ] Physical damage and 5 all nearby enemies for [ 66% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Fel Barrage (Talent) - Unleash a torrent of Fel energy over 3 sec, inflicting [ 314.6% of Attack Power ] Chaos damage to 8 all enemies within 8 yds. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Vengeance

• Soul Cleave - Viciously strike 5 all enemies in front of you for [ 70.2% of Attack Power ] Physical damage and heal yourself for [ 50% of Attack Power ]. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Spirit Bomb (Talent) - Consume up to 5 Soul Fragments within 25 yds and then explode, afflicting nearby enemies with Frailty for 20 sec and damaging them for [ 22.11% of Attack Power ] Fire per fragment. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Druid

Feral

• Brutal Slash (Talent) - Strikes up to 5 all nearby enemies with a massive slash, inflicting [ 69% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

PvP Talents

• Grove Protection - Summon a grove to protect allies in the area for 10 sec, reducing damage taken by 40% from enemy players enemies outside the grove.

Hunter

Beast Mastery

• Multi-Shot - Fires several missiles, hitting up to 5 targets all nearby enemies within 8 yards of your current target for [ 12.6% of Attack Power ] Physical damage and triggering Beast Cleave. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Beast Cleave - After you Multi-Shot, your pet's melee attacks also strike up to 5 other all nearby enemy targets enemies for 90% as much for the next 4 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Barrage (Talent) - Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing an average of [ 156.2% of Attack Power ] Physical damage to up to 8all nearby enemies in front of you. Usable while moving. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Marksmanship

• Multi-Shot - Fires several missiles, hitting your current target and up to 5 all enemies within 10 yards for [ 41.2% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Explosive Shot (Talents) - Fires an explosive shot at your target. After 3 sec, the shot will explode, dealing [ 188.5% of Attack Power ] Fire damage to up to 6 all enemies within 8 yards. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Barrage (Talent) - Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing an average of [ 156.2% of Attack Power ] Physical damage to up to 8all nearby enemies in front of you. Usable while moving. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Survival

• Carve - A sweeping attack that strikes up to 5 all enemies in front of you for [ 28% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Reduces the remaining cooldown on Wildfire Bomb by 1 sec for each target hit, up to 5 sec.
• Butchery - Attack up to 5 all nearby enemies in a flurry of strikes, inflicting [ 88% of Attack Power ] Physical damage to each. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Reduces the remaining cooldown on Wildfire Bomb by 1 sec for each target hit, up to 5 sec.

Covenant Abilities

• Death Chakram - Throw a deadly chakram at your current target that will rapidly deal [ 31.6% of Attack Power ] Shadow damage 7 times, bouncing to other targets if they are nearby. Enemies struck by your Death Chakram take 3% 10% more Physical damage from you and your pet for 10 sec. until cancelled.

Mage

• Frozen Orb - Launches an orb of swirling ice up to 40 yards forward which deals up to [ 325.4% of Spell Power ] Frost damage to 8 all enemies it passes through. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Grants 1 charge of Fingers of Frost when it first damages an enemy.

Arcane

• Arcane Echo (Talent) - Direct damage you deal to enemies affected by Touch of the Magi, causes an explosion that deals [ 10.92% of Spell Power ] Arcane damage to 8 all nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Legendary Powers

• Glacial Fragments - Ice Lance has a 20% chance to explode into shards of ice when it hits a target, dealing [ 40% of Spell Power ] Frost damage to up to 5 all enemies near your target. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. This chance is increased to 100% if your target is standing in a Blizzard.

Monk

• Fists of Fury - Pummels all targets in front of you, dealing [ 603.7% of Attack Power ] Physical damage over 4 sec to your primary target and [ 422.6% of Attack Power ] damage over 4 sec to up to 5 all other enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Can be channeled while moving.

Brewmaster/Windwalker

• Rushing Jade Wind (Talent) - Summons a whirling tornado around you, causing [ 90% of Attack Power ] Physical damage over 6 sec to up to 6 all enemies within 8 yards. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Paladin

Retribution

• Divine Storm - Unleashes a whirl of divine energy, dealing [ 134% of Attack Power ] Holy damage to up to 5 all nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Covenant Abilities

• Vanquisher's Hammer
  • Holy: Throws a hammer at your target dealing [ 136% of Spell Power ] Shadow damage, and empowering your next Word of Glory to automatically trigger Light of Dawn with 25% increased effectiveness.
  • Protection, Initial: Throws a hammer at your target dealing [ 136% of Spell Power ] Shadow damage, and empowering your next Word of Glory to automatically trigger Shield of the Righteous with 25% increased effectiveness.
  • Retribution: Throws a hammer at your target dealing [ 136% of Spell Power ] Shadow damage, and empowering your next Templar's Verdict to automatically trigger Divine Storm with 25% increased effectiveness.

Rogue

Assassination

• Fan of Knives - Sprays knives at up to 8 targets all enemies within 10 yards, dealing [ 24.6% of Attack Power ] Physical damage and applying your active poisons at their normal rate. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Crimson Tempest (Talent) 
  • Normal: Finishing move that slashes at up to 8 all enemies within 10 yards, dealing instant damage and causing victims to bleed for additional damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Lasts longer per combo point.
  • Deeper Stratagem: Finishing move that slashes at up to 8 all enemies within 10 yards, dealing instant damage and causing victims to bleed for additional damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Lasts longer per combo point.

Subtlety

• Black Powder
  • Normal: Finishing move that launches explosive Black Powder at up to 8 all nearby targets enemies dealing Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. All nearby targets with your Find Weakness suffer an additional 40% damage as Shadow.
  • Deeper Stratagem: Finishing move that launches explosive Black Powder at up to 8 all nearby targets enemies dealing Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Shuriken Storm - Sprays shurikens at up to 8 targets all enemies within 10 yards, dealing [ 16.2% of Attack Power + 16.2% of Off-hand Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Secret Technique (Talent)
  • Normal: Finishing move that creates shadow clones of yourself. You and your shadow clones each perform a piercing attack on up to 6 all enemies near your target, dealing Physical damage to the primary target and reduced damage to other targets. Cooldown is reduced by 1 sec for every combo point you spend.
  • Deeper Stratagem: Finishing move that creates shadow clones of yourself. You and your shadow clones each perform a piercing attack on up to 6 all enemies near your target, dealing Physical damage to the primary target and reduced damage to other targets.

Outlaw

• Dreadblades (Talent)
  • Normal: Strike at an enemy, dealing [ 95% [ 120% of Attack Power ] Physical damage damage, filling your combo points, and empowering your weapons for 10 sec, causing your Sinister Strike, Ambush, and Pistol Shot to fill your combo points, but your finishing moves consume 5% of your current health.
  • Ghostly Strike: Strike at an enemy, dealing [ 95% [ 120% of Attack Power ] Physical damage damage, filling your combo points, and empowering your weapons for 10 sec, causing your Sinister Strike, Ghostly Strike, Ambush, and Pistol Shot to fill your combo points, but your finishing moves consume 5% of your current health.

Warlock

• Nether Portal - Cooldown changed to 2.5 minutes (was 3).

Warrior

• Whirlwind
  • Normal: Unleashes a whirlwind of steel, striking up to 5 all nearby targets for [ 54.6% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
  • Fervor of Battle: Unleashes a whirlwind of steel, hitting your primary target with Slam and striking up to 5 all nearby targets for [ 54.6% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Whirlwind Off-Hand - Unleashes a whirlwind of steel, striking up to 5 all nearby enemies for [ 51.6% of Attack Power ] Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Ravager - Throws a whirling weapon at the target location that chases nearby enemies, inflicting [ 254.4% of Attack Power ] Physical damage and applying Deep Wounds to up to 8 all enemies over 12 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Impending Victory (Talent) - Instantly attack the target, causing [ 50% of Attack Power ] damage and healing you for 30% 40% of your maximum health. Cooldown changed to 25 seconds (was 30).

Arms

• Bladestorm - Become an unstoppable storm of destructive force, striking up to 8 all nearby targets enemies for [ 350% of Attack Power ] Physical damage over 6 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Cleave (Talent) - Strikes up to 5 all enemies in front of you for [ 70% of Attack Power ] Physical damage, inflicting Deep Wounds. Cleave will consume your Overpower effect to deal increased damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Dreadnaught (Talent) - Overpower has 2 charges and causes a seismic wave, dealing [ 46% of Attack Power ] damage to up to 5 all enemies in a 10 yd line. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Fury

• Bladestorm (Talent) - Become an unstoppable storm of destructive force, striking up to 8 all nearby targets enemies for [ 500% of Attack Power ] Physical damage over 4 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

[Frogspoison 63]

TBH All the AoE specs that are currently hard capped at 8 are getting solid AoE nerfs since they go down to a soft cap of 5.

[Starseed 113]

6 hours ago, Frogspoison said:

TBH All the AoE specs that are currently hard capped at 8 are getting solid AoE nerfs since they go down to a soft cap of 5.

yes thats true but in the end the dps goes up with the number of mobs and now you can pull really big packs again