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Druid Changes in Patch 3.2

Posted 30. Jun, 2009 in Druids

Druid players rejoice, new cat and bear form artwork is coming! (as if you haven’t heard yet)

But there’s also a bunch of other interesting changes to the class you need to know about.

First up, here’s few screens of the new artwork taken from the official Blizzard dev page.

Each different color you see on these screens is determined by your skin color for Taurens, and your hair color for Night elves. You can visit a barber shop for a small fee to change this, and change it often I’m sure all you druids out there will be!

Here’s the hard & fast from Blizzard on changes coming in 3.2.

From a leveling perspective Druids will be happy to learn their travel skills a little earlier (especially the rather cool flight form at 60 which now gives 150% travel speed).

  • Flight Form: Can now be learned at level 60. Flight speed increased to 150%.
  • Innervate: Duration reduced to 10 seconds, and cooldown reduced to 3 minutes. This means each use of Innervate will give half as much mana as before, but it will be available twice as often.
  • Lifebloom: The final heal that occurs when this spell blooms has been reduced by 20% on the base and on the spell power coefficient.
  • Mangle: Ranks 4 and 5 base points reduced by about 11%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
  • Rake: Ranks 6 and 7 base points on initial and periodic damage reduced by about 7%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
  • Rip: Ranks 8 and 9 base points and points per combo point reduced by about 6%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
  • Savage Defense: The animation for gaining this buff will no longer make the bear stand upright
  • Shred: Ranks 8 and 9 base points reduced by about 10%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
  • Swipe (Cat): Percent of weapon damage done reduced from 260% to 250%.
  • Travel Form: Can now be learned at level 16.

    • Talents:

  • Balance

    • Balance of Power: Now reduces all spell damage taken by 3/6%, rather than reducing the chance to be hit by spells by 2/4%.
    • Eclipse: The Starfire and Wrath buffs from this talent are now on separate 30-second cooldowns. In addition, it is not possible to have both buffs active simultaneously.
    • Owlkin Frenzy: Now also restores 2% base mana every 2 seconds for the duration (10 seconds) in addition to its current effects.

  • Restoration

    • Empowered Touch: Now also increases the amount of bonus healing effects for Nourish by 10/20%.
    • Improved Barkskin: No longer provides dispel resistance to all effects on the druid, but now reduces the chance your Barkskin is dispelled by an additional 35/70%.

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    3. WoW 3.3 Patch Notes

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