WoW Forever Beta Gets Big Update With Druid Changes and Bug Fixes
by JR Cook - 1 month ago show comments
Blizzard just dropped a new build for the WoW Forever Beta yesterday (September 24), and it’s packed with changes. The big headline is a major overhaul to Druid abilities, including substantial damage buffs to Wrath and some interesting mechanical tweaks to how Thorns works. Plus there’s a temporary talent respec system that lets you experiment freely, at least for your first change.
Beyond class changes, this patch cleans up a ton of quality-of-life issues that have been bugging players. Casters can finally animate properly again, the Campfire buff system makes way more sense, and Mac users got some much-needed display fixes. There’s also a memory leak patch that should help performance for folks who’ve been seeing gradual slowdowns during longer sessions.
The Druid changes are particularly interesting if you’re testing Feral or Resto builds. Mangle has been renamed to Primal Bite (the debuff was removed, so the name no longer fit), and Rejuvenation plus Tranquility can now crit. Wrath got a roughly 50% base damage increase, which should make Balance feel considerably better for leveling and solo content. If you’re diving into the Forever Beta to theorycraft class builds before whatever comes next, this is a good time to respec and try things out.
Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following updates.
Change Log
- Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting.
- Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically pleasing.
- Adjusted Human death sounds.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to craft items or cast spells was causing players to stand up while waiting to obtain their Campfire buff.
- Players may now buff each other, cast, and craft while waiting for their Campfire buffs.
- Players may now obtain a Campfire buff if they are sitting, sitting in a chair, sleeping, lying down, or using the kneeling emote.
- Resolved an issue where Huey Sunnydale’s legs failed to render properly.
- Fixed an issue that made a Season of Discovery rune ability visible.
- Fixed an issue where Pet Happiness was not decreasing once your pet was at max loyalty.
- Fixed an issue causing the Undercity Canal ooze to be much brighter than intended.
- Removed a setting that could disable fog in an unintended manner.
- Resolved a water display issue and fixed various other display artifacts on Mac.
- Fixed a memory leak causing gradual performance degradation for some players.
- Fixed an issue where in-game mail could ignore surnames.
- Classes
- If you have not recently changed your talents, the cost is now 1 silver to re-spec. This is temporary for the Beta only. After your first talent reset, the subsequent cost will be much higher, but it will drop to 1 silver after 1 hour has passed.
- Druid
- Corrected an issue and now Rejuvenation can land critical hits.
- Corrected an issue and now Tranquility can land critical hits.
- Wrath base damage increased ~50%.
- Thorns will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.
- If the caster cannot be found or is too far away, Thorns reverts to its base values.
- Feral
- Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.
- All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite.
- Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.
