Burning Crusade stirs up Druids, Paladins, and Warrior updates

The character tabulations for Blizzard‘s WoW: The Burning Crusade have been updated like crazy. Talents and spells have been changed left and right across the board. There are minor tweaks for the Warrior, and some interesting abilities for the Paladin. Take for example the new Crusader Strike ability for the Pallies. They’re going to cause some alarm during the game.

But up on center-stage is our dear little Druid class, with a handful of updates that are tempting other players to change classes. One big change is the elimination of Natural Weapons. This is now integrated into (here’s the good part) the improved Healing Touch talent, now called Naturalist. The Feral Combat changes are also worth a second glance, as there’s a good mix of improvements regarding offense and defense.

It seems like Blizzard is listening to the cries of woe from the Druid players and making some improvements to make them happy. See? All you need to do is voice out your thoughts and you’ll be heard!

Plan ahead and click the “Full Article” link to read the list of changes!

The character tabulations for Blizzard‘s WoW: The Burning Crusade have been updated like crazy. Talents and spells have been changed left and right across the board. There are minor tweaks for the Warrior, and some interesting abilities for the Paladin. Take for example the new Crusader Strike ability for the Pallies. They’re going to cause some alarm during the game.

But up on center-stage is our dear little Druid class, with a handful of updates that are tempting other players to change classes. One big change is the elimination of Natural Weapons. This is now integrated into (here’s the good part) the improved Healing Touch talent, now called Naturalist. The Feral Combat changes are also worth a second glance, as there’s a good mix of improvements regarding offense and defense.

It seems like Blizzard is listening to the cries of woe from the Druid players and making some improvements to make them happy. See? All you need to do is voice out your thoughts and you’ll be heard!

Here’s the full list of changes:

Druid:

Feral Combat

• Feral Instinct – Reduced to 3 ranks, 5/10/15%.
• Thick Hide – Reduced to 3 ranks, 4/7/10%.
• Nurturing Instinct – Reduced to 2 ranks, 50/100%.
• Survival of the Fittest – Reduced to 3 ranks, same 1/2/3% improvements.

Balance

• (NEW) Focused Starlight – “Increases the critical strike chance of your Wrath and Starfire spells by 2/4%.”
• Improved Thorns – Renamed “Brambles”, now increases damage from Entangling Roots as well.
• Omen of Clarity – Swapped with Insect Swarm, prerequisite from Natural Weapons removed.
• Improved Wrath – Renamed “Starlight Wrath”, reduces cast time of Wrath and Starfire by .1/.2/.3/.4/.5 sec.
• Improved Starfire – Reduced to 3 ranks, no longer reduces cast time of Starfire, just has the 5/10/15% stun chance.
• Natural Shapeshifter – Moved to Restoration tree, where Improved Enrage was.

Restoration

• Improved Healing Touch – Renamed “Naturalist”, in addition to the cast time reduction of Healing Touch it also increases all physical damage by 2/4/6/8/10%. Essentially, we folded Natural Weapons into it.
• Natural Weapons – Removed.
• Improved Enrage – Removed.
• Reflection – Renamed “Intensity”, mana regen in combat as it did in addition to causing Enrage ability to instantly generate 4/7/10 rage.
• Natural Perfection – Changed to “Your critical strike chance with all spells is increased by 1/2/3% and melee and ranged critical strikes against you cause 4/7/10% less damage.”

Paladin:

Retribution

• Divine Purpose – Now 3 ranks for 4/7/10%.
• Sanctified Crusader – Moved to one column to the left of Repentance. Now 3 ranks for increase of 1/2/3%.
• (NEW) Crusader Strike – “An instant strike that causes weapon damage plus 40% of your Holy spell damage and refreshes all Judgements on the target.”

Protection

• Redoubt – “Successful melee…” changed to “Damaging melee…”
• Reckoning – Changed to: “Gives you a 2/4/6/8/10% chance after being hit by any damaging attack that the next 4 weapon swings within 8 sec will generate an additional attack.”

Holy

• Blessed Life – Now 3 ranks for 4/7/10% chance.

Warrior:

Arms

• Weapon Mastery – Increased disarm resistance to 50/100%.