Blizzard Details World of Warcraft Shadowlands Class Updates

Death Knights

General Changes

• Will be able to use Death and Decay to deal damage to surrounding enemies
• Can neutralize attacks with Anti-Magic Zone
• Can temporarily become undead with Lichborne
• Can use Raise Undead to summon a minion to fight with them
• Can use Sacrificial Pact to sacrifice a minion to gain health and damage enemies

Blood

• New abilities
  • Blood Tap: Consume essence from dead enemies to generate a rune
  • Rune Tap: Can be selected without needing it to be a Talent
  • Relish in Blood: Heals users for each active Bone Shield charge and grants additional effects based on other abilities

Frost

• Can choose between one-handed or two-handed weapons
• Frostwyrm's Fury to be accessible to all Frost Death Knights without needing to be a Talent
• New Hypothermic Presence Talent temporarily halves Runic Power cost of abilities

Unholy

• Summon Gargoyle is no longer a Talent
• Army of the Damned Talent can summon a Magus of the Dead
  • Death Coil and Epidemic casts will reduce Army of the Dead's cooldown
• Mastery: Dreadblade increases damage of users and minions

Demon Hunter

General Changes

• All Demon Hunters share Fury as a single resource
• Immolation Aura becomes available to both specializations

Havoc

• New passive, Unending Hatred, expands max Fury capacity
• Dark Slash Talent becomes Essence Break, deals Chaos damage and increases damage of Chaos Strike and Blade Dance

Vengeance

• Demonic becomes a Talent option
• Fel Devastation becomes baseline ability
• New Talent, Bulk Extraction, rips soul fragment from up to five enemies and consumes them
• Ruinous Bulwark talent increases healing of Fel Devastation and converts overheal to shield

Druid

General Changes

• Ferocious Bite, Barkskin, Cyclone, Stampeding Roar, and Ironfur will be usable by all specializations
• Heart of the Wild returns as Talent
• Affinity Talents gain new utilities:
  • Balance receives Typhoon
  • Feral gets Maim
  • Guardian gets Incapacitating Roar
  • Restoration can use Ursol's Vortex

Balance

• Wrath and Starfire to grant alternating Lunar and Solar Eclipses for longer duration
• Starsurge extends Eclipse to focus power on either Wrath or Starfire
• Starfall extends current Moonfire and Sunfire effects
• Starfall return to previous design from Wrath of the Lich King

Feral

• Bloodtalons Talent reworked to deal more Rip damage after using Shred, Rake, and Ferocious Bite in quick succession

Guardian

• Berserk reduces costs of Mangle, Thrash, Growl, and Frenzied Regeneration and halves cost of Ironfur
• Renewal becomes Talent option to heal based on maximum health

Hunter

General Changes

• Arcane Shot, Eyes of the Beast, Hunter's Mark, Kill Shot, Scare Beast, and Tranquilizing Shot available to all Hunters
• Stable size significantly increased

Beast Mastery

• New Bloodshed Talent can be taught to companions, damaging enemies and causing them to bleed and take more subsequent damage
• Scent of Blood Talent reworked to activate Bestial Wrath when used, granting two charges of Barbed Shot
• Venomous Bite replaces Spitting Cobra and summons a cobra when Bestial Wrath ends

Marksman

• New Dead Eye Talent stores two charges of Kill Shot and makes Aimed Shot recharge faster
• New Binding Shackles Talent reduces damage from enemies rooted by Binding Shot
• New Volley Talent shoots AOE arrows and grants Trick Shots buff to make Armed Shot and Rapid Fire abilities ricochet to hit more enemies

Survival

• Hydra's Bite, Butchery, Steel Trap, Tip of the Spear, and Flanking Strike will do more damage
• Chakrams will cost less Focus

Mage

General Changes

• Arcane Explosion, Fireblast, Frostbolt, and Mirror Image become available to all Specializations
• Fire Ward, Frost Ward, and Alter Time return
• New Focus Magic Talent will grant an ally a boost in critical hit chance for spells and grants Arcane Mages the same buff if a spell crits

Arcane

• Clearcasting will gain additional stack
• Mastery: Savant will affect all spells
• New Enlightened Talent empowers abilities when above a mana threshold and increases mana regen when below a threshold

Fire

• Mastery: Ignite will be reworked to make Fireblast the catalyst, can be spread to up to eight enemies by hitting Ignited target
• Blast Wave will do more damage with increased slow duration
• Kindling will offer increased cooldown reduction
• Pyroclasm damage bonus will be increased
• Flurry's Winter's Chill debuff will become a much longer debuff that causes next to spells to treat target as frozen, thus increasing critical hit chance

Monk

General Changes

• Expel Harm, Fortifying Brew, Spinning Crane Kick, and Touch of Death will be available to all Monks
• Touch of Death reverted to original design
• Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger; Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox; and Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent will no longer be Talents, will let specializations summon their Celestials

Brewmaster

• Will be able to choose between one-handed or two-handed weapons
• Shuffle passive will return
• New Celestial Brew ability will absorb damage based on attack power
• Clash ability will return to challenge enemy and root them
• Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox, previously a Talent, will be usable to increase Stagger damage
• New Celestial Flames Talent will be able to increase Breath of Fire's damage reduction
• Exploding Keg Talent will return to damage and blind enemies

Mistweaver

• Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent, will be usable to heal allies and kill creatures when combined with Touch of Death
• Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane Talent will be reworked to buff damage and healing effects while making Monks immune to movement-impairing abilities

Windwalker

• Will be able to choose between one-handed and two-handed weapons
• Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger will damage enemies with Tiger Lightening and kill enemies with less health than Monk when used with Touch of Death
• Dance of Chi-Ji passive will grant chance to make Spinning Crane Kick free and deal more damage

Paladin

General Changes

• Blessing of Sacrifice, Hammer of Wrath, Sense Undead, Shield of the Righteous, Turn Evil, and Word of Glory will be available to all Paladins
• Holy Power will return as a resource, is granted by Crusader Strike and Hammer of Wrath
• Will be able to use Concentration Aura and reworked Retribution Aura with Crusader and Devotion Auras available to all Paladins
• New Divine Purpose Talent will grant Paladins chance to make next Holy Power-spending ability free and have increased output
• New Holy Avenger Talent will grant ability to charge burst of Holy Power in short windows
• New Seraphim Talent will allow Paladins to spend Holy Power to buff secondary stats

Holy

• Glimmer of Light trait will move to space in Level 50 Talent row

Protection

• Shining Light passive will make next cast of Word of Glory free whenever Judgment critically strikes

Retribution

• Wake of Ashes will be available to all Retribution Paladins instead of being a Talent
• Empyrean Power will become a Talent instead of an Azerite Trait

Priest

General Changes

• Mind Blast, Mind Soothe, Power Infusion, Shadow Word: Death, and Shadow Word: Pain will be available to all Priests
• Power Infusion will be castable on allies

Discipline

• New Light's Caress Talent will let Priests heal allies by blessing them with Power Word: Barrier
• Reworked Shadow Covenant Talent will heal chosen hero and four other allies while increasing Priest damage at the cost of temporarily restricting use of Holy spells
• New Mind Blast ability will create burst of damage, Atonement healing, and absorption shield

Holy

• Circle of Healing will become a baseline spell
• New Prayer Circle Talent will empower Circle of Healing by reducing cast time

Shadow

• New Death and Madness Talent will grant Insanity and reset Shadow Word: Death when the ability kills an enemy
• Surrender to Madness ability will return to grant burst of Insanity and cast Void Eruption on target while causing abilities that create Insanity to generate 100% more and allows Priests to cast spells while moving, but it kills the caster if the target isn't killed during the buff's effect

Rogue

General Changes

• Shiv ability will poison targets for short time
• Pick Pocket will uncover new ingredients to be used with the Crimson Vial

Assassination

• Shiv will create stronger poisons than other Rogues are capable of, will always affect targets attacked from Stealth
• Ambush will be an attack option from Stealth
• Blindside Talent reworked to give Assassins chance to Ambush when out of stealth
• Shiv will get a Toxic Blade upgrade to decrease cooldown

Outlaw

• Roll the Bones will trade in Combo Point requirement to grant modifiable cooldown
• Restless Blades will reduce cooldown of Roll the Bones through spent Combo points
• Kidney Shot will return
• Between the Eyes will make enemies more susceptible to critical strikes instead of stunning them
• Evasion will return
• Riposte will become an upgraded Talent
• Retractable Hook Talent will increase speed of Grappling Hook

Subtlety

• Find Weakness Talent will be usable by all Subtlety Rogues
• Eviscerate will cause additional Shadow damage when striking from stealth
• Find Weakness will be usable to mark foes to set up Shadow Vault which attacks targets for additional Shadow damage
• Dark Shadow, previously a Talent, will increase all active damage
• Rupture will become a damage-over-time bleed move

Shaman

General Changes

• Chain Heal, Chain Lightning, Healing Stream Totem, Flametongue Weapon, Flame Shock, Frost Shock, and Lightning Shield will be available for all Shaman
• Searing Totem ability returns to attack enemies with fireballs

Elemental

• Maelstrom resource will be removed
• New Echoing Shock Talent will damage enemies and doubles the cast of next spell for free

Enhancement

• Maelstrom resource will be removed
• Maelstrom Weapon will return
• Flametongue Weapon and Windfury Weapon will be able to be applied to weapons
• Hailstorm passive will be redesigned to reset Flame Shock and Frost Shock when a Shaman uses Stormstrike
• Searing Assault will cause significant fire damage and will cause Searing Totem to cast faster
• Overcharge will grant five stacks of Maelstrom Weapon instantly and another stack each second
• Stormkeeper will cause two Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning spells to instantly cast and deal bonus damage
• Elemental Blast will become a Talent option to damage foes from a distance

Restoration

• Earth Shield will be usable by all Restoration Shaman
• New Surge of the Earth Talent will use Earth Shield charges to heal target and nearby allies

Warlock

General Changes

• Curse of Tongues, Curse of Recklessness, Curse of Weakness, and Curse of Doom will be usable by all Warlocks
• New Tongue Tied will empower spells used against targets afflicted by Curse of Tongues to prevent them from gaining healing effects

Affliction

• Unstable Affliction will lose stacking effect for increased duration
• New Malefic Rapture ability will damage all enemies afflicted by periodic spells
• New Sow the Seeds Talent will grant two additional seeds into nearby enemies

Demonology

• Dark Pact will scale with Spell Power
• Dark Fury Talent will gain new effect by empowering Shadowfury

Destruction

• Fire and Brimstone will be upgraded to create two Soul Shard Fragments for each additional enemy struck hit by empowered Incinerate

Warrior

General Changes

• Execute, Hamstring, Ignore Pain, Shield Block, Shield Slam, Slam, Spell Reflection, and Whirlwind will be available to all Warriors
• Challenging Shout and Intervene will return
• Shattering Throw will return and grant bonus damage against foes using absorption shields
• Double Time and War Machine Talents will be usable by all

Arms

• Piercing Howl will be usable by Arms Warriors to daze and slow enemies
• Cleave Talent will be reworked to allow Warriors to use Cleave after hitting three targets with Whirlwind to hit enemies and inflict Mastery: Deep Wounds, a bleeding effect
• Deadly Calm Talent will be reworked to remove Rage cost of next four abilities and increases maximum Rage
• Dreadnaught will gain Seismic Wave Azerite Trait to empower Overpower to deal damage to enemies in a line

Fury

• New Fervor of Battle Talent will Slam enemies and grant additional Rage
• New Onslaught ability will allow Enraged Warriors to cause big damage and grant Rage
• Frothing Berserker will be redesigned to grant Warriors Haste and movement speed when reaching 100 Rage
• Wrecking Ball will return as a Talent to give Whirlwind a chance at dealing massive damage
• Fresh Meat will always grant Enrage when first striking a target with Bloodthirst

Protection

• Best Served Cold ability will increase damage of Revenge
• Menace will empower Intimidating Shout to fear all enemies
• Indomitable will passively increase max health for a time with spent Rage healing Warriors
• Never Surrender will increase Ignore Pain based on missing health