Shadowlands Content Update Notes

General

• Level 54: New Ability: Sacrificial Pact – Sacrifice your ghoul to deal Shadow damage to 8 nearby enemies and heal for 25% of your maximum health.
• Rune Strike is no longer a Blood Death Knight Talent and has been redesigned to be a Rune spender and Runic Power generating ability used during the initial Death Knight leveling experience. Rune Strike will be replaced with Festering Strike, Heart Strike or Howling Blast when a specialization has been chosen.
• When swapping weapons, the Off Balance debuff is applied and prevents the Death Knight from gaining the bonuses of Runeforge enchantments for 30 seconds.
• Dark Command is now learned at level 9 (was 14).
• Anti-Magic Shell is now learned at level 14 (was 9).
• All Death Knights can now use the following abilities:
  • Death Coil – Fires a blast of unholy energy at the target, causing Shadow damage to an enemy or healing an Undead ally.
  • Death and Decay – Corrupts the targeted ground, causing Shadow damage over 10 seconds to targets within the area.
  • Raise Dead – Raises a ghoul to fight by your side for 1 minute. Only one ghoul can be up at a time.
  • Chains of Ice – Shackles the target with frozen chains, reducing movement speed by 70% for 8 seconds.
  • Lichborne – Draw upon unholy energy to become Undead for 10 seconds, increasing Leech by 10%, and making you immune to Charm, Fear, and Sleep.
  • Anti-Magic Zone – Places an Anti-Magic Zone for 10 seconds that reduces spell damage taken by party or raid members by 20%.
• Runeforging now has five new runes available to engrave upon your weapon:
  • Rune of Sanguination – Your Death Strike deals increased damage based on the target’s missing health. When you fall below 35% health, you heal for 50% of your maximum health over 6 seconds. Can only occur once every 5 minutes.
  • Rune of Spellwarding – Deflects 3% of all spell damage and has chance to create a shield that absorbs magic damage equal to 10% of your maximum health. When an enemy damages the shield, their cast speed is reduced by 10% for 6 seconds.
  • Rune of Hysteria – Increases maximum Runic Power by 20 and your attacks have a chance to increase Runic Power generation by 20% for 8 seconds.
  • Rune of Unending Thirst – When you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor, gain 5% Haste, 5% movement speed and heals you for 5% of your maximum health. Additionally, increases your movement speed while dead by 10%.
  • Rune of the Apocalypse – Your ghoul's attacks have a chance to apply an additional effect:
    • Famine: Reduces damage dealt to the Death Knight.
    • Death: Reduces healing done.
    • Pestilence: Slows the target and deals damage over time.
    • War: Increases damage taken from the Death Knight.
• PvP Talent changes:
  • Lichborne has been removed.

Blood

• Level 52: Heart Strike (Rank 3) – Increases damage done by 20%.
• Level 54: Vampiric Blood (Rank 2) – Increases all healing and absorbs by 5% and duration by 2 seconds.
• Level 58: New Ability: Ossuary – While you have at least 5 Bone Shield charges, the cost of Death Strike is reduced by 5 Runic Power. Additionally, your maximum Runic Power is increased by 10.
• Rune Tap is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Blood Death Knights at level 19. Additionally, Rune Tap has two charges and the global cooldown is removed.
• Death and Decay damage has been increased by 25%.
• Death Strike damage has been increased by 21%.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Relish in Blood – While Crimson Scourge is active, your next Death and Decay heals you per Bone Shield charge and you immediately gain 10 Runic Power.
  • New Talent: Death Pact – Create a death pact that heals you for 50% of your maximum health, but absorbs incoming healing equal to 30% of your maximum health for 15 seconds.
  • Mark of Blood has had its Runic Power cost removed and healing increased to 3% (was 2%).
  • Rapid Decomposition now has an additional effect – Your Blood Plague leeches 50% more health.
  • Anti-Magic Barrier now reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell by 20 seconds (was 15 seconds) and increases its duration and amount absorbed by 40% (was 30%).
  • Voracious now grants you 15% Leech for 8 seconds (was 6 seconds) and has an additional effect – Death Strike's healing is increased by 20%.
  • Red Thirst now reduces the cooldown on Vampiric Blood by 1.5 seconds per 10 Runic Power spent (was 1 second).
  • Consumption and Bonestorm now capped at 8 targets.
  • Ossuary has been removed and will be learned by all Blood Death Knights in Shadowlands.
• PvP Talent changes:
  • New PvP Talent: Rot and Wither – Your Death and Decay rots enemies each time it deals damage, absorbing healing equal to 100% of damage dealt.
  • Unholy Command has been removed.

Frost

• Level 52: Obliterate (Rank 2) – Increases damage done by 20%.
• Level 56: Empower Rune Weapon (Rank 2) – Reduces cooldown by 15 seconds.
• Level 58: Killing Machine (Rank 2) – Your next Obliterate also deals Frost damage.
• Obliterate, Frost Strike, Frostscythe and Glacial Advance can now be used with two-handed weapons.
• New Passive: Might of the Frozen Wastes
  • Rank 1: While dual-wielding your Obliterate and Frost Strike will also strike with your off hand and you can engrave each weapon with a Runeforge Enchant.
  • Rank 2: Increases your Obliterate damage by 35% and Killing Machine Proc chance when using a two-handed weapon.
• Frostwyrm's Fury is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Frost Death Knights at level 44.
• Empower Rune Weapon and Pillar of Frost no longer have a global cooldown.
• Howling Blast and Breath of Sindragosa now deal reduced damage on secondary targets.
• Pillar of Frost duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 15 seconds) and cooldown increased to 60 seconds (was 45 seconds).
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Hypothermic Presence – Embrace the ice in your veins, reducing the Runic Power cost of your abilities by 35% for 8 seconds.
  • Runic Attenuation proc rate has been adjusted to bring Dual Wield and Two-Handed closer together and the Runic Power gain has been increased to 5 (was 3).
  • Blinding Sleet now has an additional effect – When Blinding Sleet ends, enemies are slowed by 50% for 6 seconds.
  • Icecap now reduces the remaining cooldown of Pillar of Frost by 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
  • Frostscythe now capped at 5 targets.

Unholy

• Level 56: Scourge Strike (Rank 2) – Increases damage done by 20%.
• Level 58: Apocalypse (Rank 3) – Apocalypse generates 2 Runes.
• Mastery: Dreadblade now also increases the damage of your Minion’s abilities.
• Epidemic is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Unholy Death Knights at level 34. Additionally, Epidemic’s range has been reduced to 40 yards (was 100 yards) and will fail to cast if there are no nearby enemies afflicted with Virulent Plague.
• Sudden Doom now causes your auto attacks to have a chance to make your next Death Coil or Epidemic cost no Runic Power.
• Scourge Strike now prefers targets with Festering Wounds while inside Death and Decay.
• Outbreak duration of Virulent Plague increased to 28 seconds (was 21 seconds).
• Virulent Plague no longer has a 30% chance for infected enemies to erupt to nearby enemies each time it deals damage, and area of effect range increased to 10 yards (was 8 yards).
• Army of the Dead Rune cost reduced to 1 (was 3).
• Scourge Strike and Clawing Shadows now capped at 5 targets while inside Death and Decay. Both abilities will prefer targets inflicted with Festering Wound.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Unholy Pact – Dark Transformation creates an unholy pact between you and your pet, igniting flaming chains that deals Shadow damage over 15 seconds to enemies between you and your pet. While active, your Strength is increased by 5%.
  • Unholy Blight's disease now stacks up to 4 times and has an additional effect – Your minions deal 3% increased damage per stack to enemies affected by Unholy Blight. Additionally, it applies Virulent Plague to enemies.
  • Soul Reaper has been reworked and now costs 1 Rune and has a 6 second cooldown. Strike an enemy for Shadow damage and afflict the enemy with Soul Reaper. After 5 seconds, if the target is below 35% health this effect will explode dealing additional Shadow damage to the target. If an enemy dies while afflicted gain Runic Corruption.
  • Defile now has an additional effect – If any enemies are standing in the Defile, it grows in size and deals increasing damage every second.
  • Army of the Damned now has an additional effect – Apocalypse and Army of the Dead summon a Magus of the Dead for 15 seconds who hurls Frostbolts and Shadow Bolts at your foes.
  • Unholy Frenzy has been reworked and renamed Unholy Assault. Strike your target with an unholy blow dealing Shadow damage, infecting the target with 4 Festering Wounds, and sending you into a killing frenzy, increasing haste by 20% for 12 seconds.
  • Bursting Sores now capped at 8 targets.

General

• Newly created Demon Hunters now begin at level 8.
• Immolation Aura is no longer a Talent for Havoc and is learned by all Demon Hunters through their initial questing experience or at level 10.

Havoc

• Level 52: Fel Rush (Rank 3) – Fel Rush damage increased by 25%.
• Level 54: Metamorphosis (Rank 4) – When you activate Metamorphosis, the cooldown of Eye Beam and Blade Dance is immediately reset.
• Level 56: Chaos Strike (Rank 3) – Chaos Strike damage increased by 10%.
• Level 58: Eye Beam (Rank 3) – When Eye Beam finishes fully channeling, your Haste is increased by an additional 15% for 12 seconds.
• New Passive: Unending Hatred – Increases maximum Fury to 120.
• Blur now reduces all damage taken by 20% for 10 seconds (was 35%).
• Metamorphosis no longer provides 20% Leech. Soul Rending (Talent) will now return 25% Leech to Metamorphosis.
• Blade Dance and Death Sweep now capped at 5 targets.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Burning Hatred – Immolation Aura generates an additional 60 Fury over 12 seconds.
  • New Talent: Unbound Chaos (replaces Fel Mastery) – Unbound Chaos has been redesigned – Now causes your next Immolation Aura cast to increase the damage of your next Fel Rush by 300%. Lasts 20 seconds.
  • New Talent: Glaive Tempest – Launch two demonic glaives in a whirlwind of energy, causing Chaos damage over 3 seconds to 5 nearby enemies.
  • Insatiable Hunger now causes Demon’s Bite to deal 20% more damage and generates 5 to 10 additional Fury.
  • Cycle of Hatred now reduces the cooldown of Eye Beam by 3 seconds when Chaos Strike refunds Fury (was Metamorphosis).
  • Soul Rending Leech increased by 5% (was 10%) and gain an additional 25% Leech while Metamorphosis is active (was 10%).
  • Netherwalk cooldown is now 3 minutes (was 2 minutes).
  • Dark Slash has been renamed to Essence Break – Slash all enemies in front of you for Chaos damage, and increase the damage your Chaos Strike and Blade Dance deal to them by 40% for 8 seconds.
  • Demonic now causes you to enter demon form for 6 seconds when using Eye Beam (was 8 seconds).
  • Nemesis has been removed.
  • Fel Barrage now capped at 8 targets.
  • Glaive Tempest is now affected by Mastery: Demonic Presence, and its damage has been reduced by 15%.

Vengeance

• Level 52: Infernal Strike (Rank 3) – Infernal Strike damage increased by 25%.
• Level 54: Fiery Brand (Rank 3) – The duration of Fiery Brand is increased by 2 seconds.
• Level 56: Soul Cleave (Rank 3) – Soul Cleave damage is increased by 10%.
• Level 58: New Passive: Revel in Pain – When Fiery Brand expires on your primary target, you gain a shield that absorbs damage for 15 seconds, based on your damage dealt to them while Fiery Brand was active.
• Vengeance Demon Hunters now use Fury as a resource instead of Pain.
• Demonic Wards increase to Stamina and Armor have been moved into a new Passive: Thick Skin which increases Stamina by 65% and Armor by 100%.
• Soul Cleave replaces Chaos Strike, Shear replaces Demon's Bite and Infernal Strike replaces Fel Rush when selecting the Vengeance specialization.
• Fel Devastation is no longer a Talent and will be learned by all Vengeance Demon Hunters at level 11. Additionally, Fel Devastation now costs 50 Fury.
• Soul Cleave now heals you for an additional amount for each Soul Fragment consumed.
• Soul Cleave now capped at 5 targets.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Infernal Armor (replaces Flame Crash) – Immolation Aura increases your Armor by 20% and causes melee attackers to suffer Fire damage.
  • New Talent: Ruinous Bulwark (replaces Void Reaver) – Fel Devastation heals for an additional 15%, and 50% of its overhealing is converted into an absorb shield for 10 seconds.
  • New Talent: Bulk Extraction (replaces Soul Barrier) – Demolish the spirit of all around you, dealing Fire damage to nearby enemies and extracting a soul fragment from the 5 closest enemies, drawing them to you for immediate consumption.
  • New Talent: Demonic – Fel Devastation causes you to enter demon form for 6 seconds after it finishes dealing damage.
  • Abyssal Strike now causes Infernal Strike to create a Sigil of Flame when you land and its cooldown is reduced by 8 seconds.
  • Agonizing Flames no longer increases the damage of Immolation Aura. It now increases its duration by 50%.
  • Feast of Souls healing increased by 25%.
  • Charred Flesh has been redesigned – Immolation Aura damage now increases the duration of your Fiery Brand by 0.5 seconds.

General

• Level 52: Regrowth (Rank 2) – Regrowth's initial heal now has a 40% increased chance for a critical effect if the target is already affected by Regrowth.
• Level 56: Entangling Roots (Rank 2) – Entangling Roots can withstand 20% more damage before breaking.
• Travel Form’s ground forms are no longer mountable.
• The Stag Form ability has been renamed Mount Form and ground forms are mountable when using this ability. The ability is learned from Tome of the Wilds: Mount Form available in the Druid Order Hall, The Dreamgrove, and is automatically learned for players who have already learned Tome of the Wilds: Stag Form prior to the update.
• The Lunarwing appearance is mountable when selected as the Flight Form appearance at the Barber Shop.
• Lunar Strike has been renamed back to Starfire.
• Solar Wrath has been renamed back to Wrath.
• Growl is now learned at level 9 (was 14).
• Moonfire (Rank 2) is now learned at level 14 (was 9).
• All Druids can now use the following abilities:
  • Ferocious Bite – Finishing move that causes Physical damage per combo point and consumes up to 25 additional Energy to increase damage by up to 100%. Requires Cat Form.
  • Barkskin – Your skin becomes as tough as bark, reducing all damage you take by 20% and preventing damage from delaying your spellcasts. Lasts 12 seconds. Usable while stunned, frozen, incapacitated, feared, or asleep, and in all shapeshift forms.
  • Cyclone – No longer a PvP Talent. Tosses the enemy target into the air, disorienting them but making them invulnerable for up to 6 seconds. Only one target can be affected by your Cyclone at a time.
  • Stampeding Roar – Shift into Bear Form and let loose a wild roar, increasing the movement speed of all friendly players within 15 yards by 60% for 8 seconds.
  • Ironfur – Increases armor for 7 seconds. Requires Bear Form.
  • Wrath – Hurl a ball of energy at the target, dealing Nature damage.
• Swipe now capped at 5 targets.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Heart of the Wild (replaces Typhoon) – Abilities associated with your chosen Affinity are substantially empowered for 45 seconds. 5 minute cooldown. Shifts you into the appropriate form upon cast, except in Restoration Affinity.
    • Restoration Affinity: Healing of your Restoration spells increased by 30%, and mana costs reduced by 50%.
    • Balance Affinity: Damage of Balance spells increased 30% Damage of your Balance abilities increased by 30% and Starsurge is instant cast.
    • Feral Affinity: Damage of your Feral abilities increased by 30%, and critical strikes with attacks that generate a combo point generate an additional combo point.
    • Guardian Affinity: Bear Form gives an additional 20% Stamina, multiple uses of Ironfur may overlap, and Frenzied Regeneration has 2 charges.
  • Mighty Bash now stuns the target for 4 seconds (was 5 seconds) and has a 1 minute cooldown (was 50 seconds).
  • New abilities have been added to their respective Affinities:
    • Restoration Affinity: Ursol's Vortex
    • Balance Affinity: Typhoon
    • Feral Affinity: Maim
    • Guardian Affinity: Incapacitating Roar
• PvP Talent changes:
  • Cyclone is no longer a Talent and learned by all Druids at level 48.
  • Heart of the Wild has been renamed to Strength of the Wild.
  • Master Shapeshifter: Balance Affinity no longer reduces the cast time of Starsurge and now also increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 20% for 10 seconds.
  • Master Shapeshifter: Feral Affinity now only increases bleed damage by 30% (was 25%).
  • Deep Roots now increases the damage required to break your Entangling Roots and Mass Entanglement by 250% (down from 400%).

Balance

• Level 54: Starfall (Rank 2) – Casting Starfall extends the duration of active Moonfires and Sunfires by 4 seconds.
• Level 58: Starsurge (Rank 2) – Starsurge further empowers the damage bonus of any active eclipse.
• New Mastery: Total Eclipse – Solar Eclipse increases Nature damage by 11%, and Lunar Eclipse increases Arcane damage by 11%.
• Eclipse passive has been redesigned and works with Balance Affinity (Talent): Casting 2 Starfires empowers Wrath for 15 seconds. Casting 2 Wraths empowers Starfire for 15 seconds. These Eclipses occur in alternation.
  • Eclipse (Solar): Wrath cast time reduced by 15% and damage increased 20%.
  • Eclipse (Lunar): Starfire cast time reduced by 15% and increases the critical strike chance of Starfire by 20%.
• Starsurge now increases the damage bonus to Wrath and Starfire for the duration of the Eclipse and costs 30 Astral Power (was 40).
• Celestial Alignment maintains both Eclipses and grants 10% Haste for 20 seconds. Starfall now has a 40 yard radius around the caster and moves with the caster for the duration, avoiding targets not in combat. Starfall damage increased substantially.
• Shooting Stars is no longer a Talent and learned by all Balance Druids at level 49. Shooting Stars now generates 3 Astral Power (was 4) and the proc chance has been increased by 50%.
• Moonfire and Sunfire now generate 2 Astral Power (was 3).
• Wrath now generates 6 Astral Power (was 8).
• Starfire now generates 8 Astral Power (was 12).
• Celestial Alignment and Incarnation: Chosen of Elune (Talent) no longer have a global cooldown.
• Innervate’s duration has been reduced to 10 seconds and it no longer has a global cooldown.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Solstice (replaces Shooting Stars) – During the first 6 seconds of every Eclipse, Shooting Stars fall 300% more often.
  • Nature's Balance now generates 1 Astral Power every 2 seconds while in combat (was 2 Astral Power every 3 seconds).
  • Soul of the Forest redesigned – Eclipse increases Wrath's Astral power generation by 50% and increases Starfire's damage to all other enemies by 150%.
  • Starlord now grants you 4% Haste for 15 seconds (was 3% Haste for 20 seconds).
  • Incarnation: Chosen of Elune now grants the benefits of Celestial Alignment and 10% Critical Strike.
  • Stellar Drift now increases Starfall duration by 2 seconds and damage by 15%.
  • Fury of Elune deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
• PvP Talent changes:
  • Prickling Thorns now causes Entangling Roots to deal damage every 3 seconds instead of damage upon removal.
  • Moon and Stars radius increased to 5 yards (was 3 yards). Moon and Stars now triggers each time you enter an Eclipse, instead of when using Celestial Alignment.

Feral

• Level 54: Shred (Rank 4) – While in stealth, Shred generates 1 additional combo point.
• Level 58: Berserk (Rank 2) – When Berserk grants combo points, it grants 1 additional combo point.
• Survival Instincts now has 1 charge (was 2).
• Rake deals 60% increased damage while stealthed (was 100%).
• Shred deals 60% increased damage while stealthed (was 30%).
• Berserk has been redesigned – Go berserk for 20 seconds, causing Rake and Shred to deal damage as though you were stealthed, and giving finishing moves a 20% chance per combo point spent to refund 1 combo point.
• Berserk and Incarnation: King of the Jungle (Talent) no longer have a global cooldown.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • Sabertooth now extends Rip by 1 second (was 4 seconds).
  • Balance Affinity Moonkin Form no longer has a 90 second cooldown.
  • Incarnation: King of the Jungle now grants the benefits of Berserk, reduces the energy cost of all Cat Form abilities by 20%, and allows the use of Prowl once while in combat.
  • Bloodtalons has been redesigned – When you use 3 different combo point- generating abilities within 4 seconds, the damage of your next 2 Rips or Ferocious Bites is increased by 30%.
  • Brutal Slash now capped at 5 targets.

Guardian

• Level 54: Frenzied Regeneration (Rank 3) – Frenzied Regeneration increases all healing received by 20%.
• Level 58: Berserk (Rank 2) – Berserk reduces the cooldowns of Mangle, Thrash, Growl and Frenzied Regeneration by an additional 25%.
• New Ability: Berserk – Go berserk for 15 seconds, reducing the cooldowns of Mangle, Thrash, Growl, and Frenzied Regeneration by 50% and the cost of Ironfur by 50%. 3 min cooldown.
• New Ability: Infected Wounds – Mangle and Maul slow the target’s movement speed by 50% for 12 seconds.
• Incapacitating Roar now shifts you into Bear Form when used.
• Berserk no longer has a global cooldown.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Renewal (replaces Ursol's Vortex) – Instantly heals you for 30% of maximum health.
  • New Talent: Tooth and Claw (replaces Lunar Beam) – Auto attacks have a 20% chance to empower Maul, stacking up to 2. Empowered Mauls deal 40% increased damage and reduce the target’s damage to you by 15% for 6 seconds.
  • Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc has been redesigned – An improved Bear Form that grants the benefits of Berserk, causes Mangle to hit up to 3 targets, and increases maximum health by 30%. Lasts 30 seconds.
  • Pulverize now reduces the damage the target deals to you by 35%. for 10 seconds and has a 45 second cooldown (was reduces damage from all targets by 9% for 20 seconds).

Restoration

• Level 54: Innervate (Rank 2) – If you cast Innervate on somebody else, you gain its effect at 50% effectiveness.
• Level 56: Ironbark (Rank 2) – Ironbark increases healing from your heal over time effects by 20%.
• Level 58: New Ability: Nature's Swiftness – Your next Regrowth, Rebirth or Entangling Roots is instant, free, castable in all forms, and heals for an additional 100%.
• Ironbark now has a 1.5 minute cooldown (was 1 minute).
• Swiftmend cooldown is now 15 seconds (was 25 seconds), costs 11% mana (was 14%), and consumes an active Regrowth, Wild Growth, Rejuvenation or Germination healing over time effect to instantly heal an ally.
• Innervate’s duration has been reduced to 10 seconds and it no longer has a global cooldown.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Nourish (replaces Prosperity) – Heals a friendly target for 135% spell power. Costs 15% mana, 2 second cast time and receives triple bonus from Mastery: Harmony.
  • New Talent: Overgrowth (replaces Stonebark) – No longer a PvP Talent. Apply Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, Regrowth's heal over time effect to an ally. Now a 1 minute cooldown (was 45 seconds).
  • Stonebark is no longer a Talent and its increased healing bonus effect will be learned once again in Shadowlands.
• PvP Talent changes:
  • Encroaching Vines has been redesigned and renamed High Winds – Cyclone leaves the target reeling, reducing their damage by 25% for 4 seconds.
  • Nourish has been removed.
  • Revitalize has been renamed to Reactive Resin.

General

• Level 52: Mend Pet (Rank 2) – Mend Pet heals for an additional 15% of your pet's health over its duration.
• Level 54: Tranquilizing Shot (Rank 2) – When Tranquilizing Shot successfully dispels an effect, gain 10 focus.
• Level 56: Improved Traps (Rank 2) – The cooldown of Tar Trap and Freezing Trap is reduced by 5 seconds.
• Level 58: Kill Shot (Rank 2) – Kill Shot critical damage is increased by 25%.
• Many new beasts can be tamed.
  • Runestag, larion, owl steed, death chimaera, death roc, mawrat, shadebeast, glimmerfly, vulpin, shadehound, gargon, gorm wasp, maw roach, skullboar, etherwyrm, tauralus, giraffe, ram, alpaca, pig, horse, flat snake, and more!
  • Many undead beasts are now tameable – Skeletal and mummy devilsaurs, raptors, eagles, zombie dogs, wind serpents, and hell hounds.
    • Undead beasts are automatically tameable by Forsaken while other races must acquire the Tome of Bone-Binding hidden somewhere within the Shadowlands.
  • Battle for Azeroth dungeon bosses – The Golden Serpent, K.U.-J.O., The Sand Queen, Merektha, and Cragmaw
  • Raid bosses – Guarm and Skorpyron
  • Cloud Serpents
    • Cloud Serpents are automatically tameable by Pandaren while other races must acquire the How to School Your Serpent Tome after reaching Exalted with Order of the Cloud Serpents.
• New pet families have been added.
  • Mammoth – Tenacity: Contains Mammoths and Elekk
  • Courser – Ferocity: Contains Horses, Horned Horses, and Zebras
  • Camel – Cunning: Contains Camels and Alpacas
• Some pet families have been renamed.
• Rare, rare elite, and quest bosses retain their names upon taming.
• Stable size has been increased to 200 (was 60).
• Wing Clip can now be used with bows, guns and crossbows. Wing Clip will be replaced with Concussive Shot at level 13 for Beast Mastery and Marksmanship Hunters.
• Revive Pet now has a 4 second cast time (was 2 seconds).
• All Hunters can now use the following abilities:
  • New Ability: Kill Shot – You attempt to finish off a wounded target, Physical damage. Only usable on enemies with less than 20% health.
  • New Ability: Scare Beast – Scares a beast, causing it to run in fear for up to 20 seconds. Damage caused may interrupt the effect. Only one beast can be feared at a time.
  • New Ability: Eyes of the Beast – Take direct control of your pet and see through its eyes for 1 min.
  • New Ability: Tranquilizing Shot – Removes 1 Enrage and 1 Magic effect from an enemy target.
    • Pets that used to have Tranquilizing Shot as their special family ability now remove 1 poison, magic, and disease effect from the pet. 10 second cooldown.
  • Hunter's Mark – No longer a Marksmanship Talent. Apply Hunter's Mark to the target, allowing the target to always be seen and tracked by the Hunter. Only one Hunter's Mark can be applied at a time.
  • Arcane Shot – A quick shot that causes Arcane damage.
• PvP Talent changes:
  • Survival Tactics now reduces damage taken by 90% (down from 99%) and can now be used to reduce damage from spells that are already mid-air.

Beast Mastery

• Misdirection threat percentage increased by 100%.
• Spirit Mend (Spirit Beast pet ability) healing reduced by 66%.
• Aspect of the Wild no longer has a global cooldown.
• Bestial Wrath now causes your pet to instantly deal damage to your target upon activation.
• Multi-Shot and Beast Cleave now capped at 5 targets.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Bloodshed – Command your pet to tear into your target, causing your target to bleed over 18 seconds and increase all damage taken from your pet by 15% for 18 seconds. 1 minute cooldown.
  • Dire Beast no longer costs focus.
  • Scent of Blood has been redesigned – Activating Bestial Wrath grants 2 charges of Barbed Shot.
  • Venomous Bite has been redesigned and renamed Spitting Cobra: When Bestial Wrath ends, summon a Spitting Cobra to aid you in combat for 15 seconds. Each Cobra Shot used during Bestial Wrath increases the damage this Spitting Cobra deals by 10%.
  • Stampede now has a 2 minute cooldown (was 3 minutes) and capped at 5 targets per beast per wave of Stampede.
  • Barrage now capped at 8 targets.

Marksmanship

• Rapid Fire duration lowered to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds). Total damage dealt by Rapid Fire is unchanged.
• Aimed Shot focus cost increased to 35 (was 30).
• Arcane Shot focus cost increased to 20 (was 15).
• Multi-Shot focus cost increased to 20 (was 15) and damage is now capped at 5 targets.
• Binding Shot is no longer a Talent and learned by all Marksmanship Hunters at level 33.
• Trueshot now increases your Focus regen and Focus generation by 50% while active in addition to its current effects.
• The following Talents have been adjusted:
  • New Talent: Chimaera Shot – A two-headed shot that hits your primary target and another nearby target for reduced damage, dealing Nature damage to your primary target and reduced Frost damage to your secondary target. Replaces Arcane Shot, is instant cast and costs 20 focus.
  • New Talent: Binding Shackles (Passive) – Targets rooted by Binding Shot deal 20% less damage to you for 8 seconds after the root effect ends.
  • New Talent: Dead Eye (Passive) – Kill Shot has 2 charges, and causes Aimed Shot to recharge