WoW SoD Phase 6 Hotfixes: World Buffs and Class Changes

A lot more quality-of-life changes as well as class balancing have been added to World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Phase 6. While the devs are hard at work preparing the next and final phase for SoD, some balancing issues occur here and there given the very experimental version of WoW Vanilla.

Having that in mind, we will go over all of the adjustments presented by the World of Warcraft Classic development team.

World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Changes

This time around, the devs have focused on some WoW classes as well as the Chronoboon Displacer and its functionality with certain world buffs.

Druid

• Improved Moonfire now correctly increases the damage of Starfall.
• Improved Moonfire and Moonfury no longer affect base damage of their associated spells.
• Improved Moonfire and Moonfury now affect the entire damage of their associated spells.

Hunter

• Tranquilizing Shot no longer has a minimum range.
• Trueshot Aura will now grant the Marksmanship Hunter using it 100/150/200 additional ranged attack power (was 50/75/100).
• Melee T2.5 set 2-piece bonus now increases Wyvern Strike damage over time by 50%, and increases the maximum focus of your pet by 50 (was Increases Wyvern Strike damage over time by 50%).
• Melee T2.5 set 4-piece bonus now increases the impact damage of Mongoose Bite and all Strikes by 15% (was 10%).
• Beast Mastery rune now increases your pet's damage and health by 15% (was 10%).

Priest

• Shadow Priest T2.5 set -piece bonus now increases the damage of Mind Spike by 20% (was 30%).

Rogue

• 5 damage set 2-piece bonus will now only affect Saber Slash and Mutilate (was Sinister Strike and Saber Slash).
• 5 tank set 2-piece bonus will now persist for 10 seconds after using Main Gauche (was tied to having the Parry buff active, and fell off when an attack was parried).
• The Attack Power ratio on Instant Poison with Deadly Brew has been increased to 5% (was 3%).
• Slaughter from the Shadows Ambush and Backstab increased against non-players increased to 60% (was 50%).

Shaman

• 5 Enhancement 2-piece bonus that increases the damage of Stormstrike and Lava Lash by 50%, is now twice as effective for 2-handed weapons.
• 5 Enhancement 4-piece bonus now causes your Stormstrike, Lava Lash, and Lava Burst critical strikes to burn your target for 30% of the damage done over 4 seconds (was only Stormstrike and Lava Lash).
• Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj 3-piece set will now correctly increase the damage of Lava Burst from Overload.
• 5 Enhancement 4-piece bonus will now correctly work with Off-hand Stormstrike.

Warlock

• Haunt's increase to Shadow damage over time effects increased to 40% (was 20%).
• Haunt now correctly has a return animation.

General Changes

Chronoboon Displacer:

Known Issue: these consumable items list their duration as Until Cancelled instead of 1 or 2 hours. That will be corrected in another hotfix.

And that covers all of the updates to World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Phase 6. Best of luck on your runs and hopefully your guild doesn't wipe. You can also check out the official notes, here.