Beta Build 15677: Moar Druid Changes
by Sunfyre on May.10, 2012, under Mists of Pandaria
MMO-Champion has data-mined a lot of interesting things have been added to beta build 15677. First off, the druid cat forms now have armor for incarnation. We can expect the same for moonkin coming along shortly.
(Images credited to MMO-Champion)
Night Elf Cat Form
Tauren Cat Form
As for the spell changes:
- Hurricane now costs 50.3% of Base Mana, down from 75.5% of Base Mana.
- Moonfire base DoT-damage has been increased by 11%.
- Ursol’s Vortex now has a 20 yards range. (Bug Fix)
- Heart of the Wild tooltip clarification: 6% Agility and Intellect bonus applies at all times.
- Nature’s Vigil now only affect single-target healing and damage spells.
The change to Nature’s Vigil is expected, since Mushrooms, Starfall, Hurricane, etc would have made it quite OP. The mana reduction to Hurricane is nice, although I’m still not sure if I like where the damage is. We’ll need Recount to really tell. The Moonfire DoT increase is welcomed, but DoTs are still weaker compared to Cataclysm by a considerable amount in both damage and duration, so I’m still not satisfied.
Other various abilities and talents also had their wording clarified that they can’t be cast in travel or aquatic form. Basically, if an ability does not specifically specify “in all forms”, it won’t work in either of those two.
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: Hey Sunfyre. I get the legendary Meta soon. Does anything Major change when i get to gem? Statweights, Playstyle. thx
: Wait, what you just said doesn't make sense. What makes us go straight to 20 energy? With SotF it takes 2 casts to reach lunar. 2 casts to reach solar. Without SotF it takes 3, correct me if i'm wrong.
: Sorry, I don't understand where your getting the 20 from, 100 80 60 40 20 0 40 80 100 or sotf 100 80 60 40 20 0 (40 sf + 40 sotf) 80 120 ??
: Hi sunfyre, how would you say the 4p t15 will be with SoTF? Does that also maybe make mastery more valuable?
: Hey Sunfyre. I'm trying to wrap my head around what you've been saying about SotF. How exactly does it not reduce Starfire casts by 1?
: Started a Druid....3 days ago or something like that.... Anyways i got to lvl 60 and im not using gear SETS so much as im using the things that look especially helpful such as Int and Spir Stacke, Occasionally with some 14-15 haste involved..... Im not one of those guys who go out and get the best pve/pvp gear But i really need some help..... im a resto balance mix and well my hits are only doing about 5K at lvl 60 :/ what sohuld i do?
May 11th, 2012 on 5:12 am
Ursol’s Vortex is not the player spell. As far as i can tell, it’s the gripback-effect when an enemy tries to get out.
Hurricane… i’m pretty sure it actually does more DPS than (Sunfire only)multidotting does now. It hits for the same as Moonfire does, but twice as often.