This page serves as a record of all past druid changes.

Official past patch notes can always be found here.


This is a mammoth list and I compiled most of it at 2am; there are bound to be some mistakes, I’m sure. Please let me know if there are major corrections that should be made.


Note: For simplicity I have rolled a few of the smaller patches/bug fixes into some of the main patches, rather than having a list for each minor patch, provided the minor patches followed very soon after (within days). It’s not perfect, but it gives you an idea of the timing of changes to the druid class. If you want exact patch timings, please visit the link above.



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3.2.2	Sep 2009
3.2	Aug 2009	Call of the Crusade
3.1.3	Jun 2009
3.1.2	May 2009
3.1.0	Apr 2009	The Secrets of Ulduar
3.0.9
3.0.8
3.0.3	Nov 2008	Wrath of the Lich King
3.0.2	Oct 2008	Echoes of Doom
2.4.3	Jul 2008
2.4.2	May 2008
2.4.0	Mar 2008	Fury of the Sunwell
2.3.2	Jan 2008
2.3.0	Nov 2007	The Gods of Zul’Aman
2.2	Sep 2007	Voice chat
2.1.2	Jun 2007
2.1.0	May 2007	The Black Temple
2.0.12	Apr 2007
2.0.3	Jan 2007	The Burning Crusade
2.0	Dec 2006	Before the Storm
1.12	Sep 2006	Drums of War
1.11	Jul 2006	Shadow of the Necropolis
1.10	Mar 2007	Storms of Azeroth
1.9	Feb 2006	The Gates of Ahn’Qiraj
1.8	Oct 2005	Dragons of Nightmare
1.7	Sep 2005	Rise of the Blood God
1.6	Aug 2005	Assault on Blackwing Lair
1.5	Jun 2005	Battlegrounds
1.4	May 2005	The Call to War
1.3	Mar 2005
1.2	Dec 2004




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Patch 3.2.2    Sep 2009   [return to top]



•  Druid Tier-8 Healer 4-Piece Set Bonus: The amount of healing this set bonus grants on the initial cast of Rejuvenation has been reduced by 50%. In addition, this set bonus no longer has strange interactions with Harold’s Rejuvenating Broach.





Feral changes



• Predatory Strikes: This talent now also causes the druid’s finishing moves to provide a 7/13/20% chance per combo point to make the next Nature spell with a cast time below 10 seconds instant cast.

• Infected Wounds: The debuff generated by this talent no longer stacks and instead causes the full effect with a single application.
• Infected Wounds now reduces the movement speed of the target by 16/34/50% (up from 8/17/25%) and its attack speed by 6/14/20% (up from 3/7/10%).





Balance changes



• Moonkin Form: This form now also reduces the damage the druid takes while stunned by 15%.

• Typhoon: The knockback distance from this spell has been increased to match Thunderstorm. The daze duration has been increased from 3 seconds to 6 seconds.
• Balance of Power: Misleading tooltip reworded. The tooltip previously reported an incorrect value for the increased chance to hit with spells. The actual benefit of the talent is unchanged.
• Glyph of Typhoon: This glyph now increases the range on Typhoon by 20 yards in addition to its current effects.







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Patch 3.2 (Call of the Crusade)    Aug 2009   [return to top]



• New druid art for Cat Form and Bear Form has been added. There are now five unique color schemes for each form and faction. Changing hair color (night elves) or skin tone (tauren) via the barbershop will change the look of one’s cat and bear forms.

• Enrage: This Bear Form ability now generates 20 rage initially, and 10 rage over the next 10 seconds. The armor penalty is unchanged.
• Flight Form: Can now be learned at level 60. Flight speed increased to 150%.
• Flight Form and Swift Flight Form: Now benefit from a paladin’s Crusader Aura.
• 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.
• Swift Flight Form: Druids who have acquired a mount able to go 310% flight speed will now also go that speed while in this form.
• Swipe (Cat): Percent of weapon damage done reduced from 260% to 250%.
• Travel Form: Can now be learned at level 16.
• 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.
• King of the Jungle: This talent now reduces the mana cost of Bear Form, Cat Form, and Dire Bear Form by 20/40/60%.
• Primal Tenacity: This talent no longer reduces the mana cost of Bear Form, Cat Form, and Dire Bear Form.
• 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%.
• Druids will now be able to see their mana bars when shape-shifted.
• Added a new Glyph of Claw for young feral druids who haven’t yet obtained Mangle. Scribes can learn this glyph from the trainer.
• Feral Druid PvP Gloves (seasons 3 and 4): Maim bonus changed from the Interrupt bonus used in The Burning Crusade Arena seasons to the cost reduction used in Wrath of the Lich King Arena seasons.
• Glyph of Innervate: Duration reduced to 10 seconds.
• Idol of the Corruptor: The agility buff from this idol is now exclusive with the agility buff from Idol of Terror.
• Bash: Tooltip now specifies that the Interrupt effect only occurs on non-player targets.
• Bear Form, Cat Form, and Dire Bear Form: Mana energizes that occur while in these forms will now appear in the combat log and floating combat text.
• Cyclone: Victims of Cyclone can no longer receive healing from health drain effects such as Devouring Plague while they are affected by Cyclone.
• Dash: Druids who have not learned Track Humanoids will now retain the benefit of Dash while shifting out of and back into Cat Form.
• Druids should no longer be removed from a form after using any engineered bombs.
• Maim: Tooltip now specifies that the Interrupt effect only occurs on non-player targets.
• Natural Perfection: Now properly triggered by periodic critical strikes.
• Nature’s Grasp: This talent will no longer be triggered spuriously by some ranged abilities such as Heroic Throw.




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Patch 3.1.3    Jun 2009   [return to top]



• Improved Barkskin: This talent now also grants 80/160% additional armor while in Travel Form or not shapeshifted.

• Improved Tree of Life: The armor bonus to Tree of Life Form from this talent has been reduced to 67/133/200% bonus armor.
• Druid Tier 8 Balance Set: The 4-piece bonus no longer has its effect consumed by Starfire casts in progress when it triggers. The chance for the effect to be triggered has been reduced down to 8%, as it was originally inflated to compensate.




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Patch 3.1.2    May 2009   [return to top]



• Innervate: This ability has been redesigned to grant 450% of the casting Druid’s base mana pool to the target over 20 seconds.

• Improved Moonkin Form: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell power.
• Glyph of Innervate: Has been adjusted to grant the Druid 90% of his or her base mana pool over 20 seconds.
• Nightsong Garb 4-Piece Set Bonus: Chance for Insect Swarm to trigger an instant Starfire changed to 15%.
• Maim: Rank 2 of this ability is properly considered a stun and can be escaped by Blink.




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Patch 3.1.0 (The Secrets of Ulduar)    Apr 2009   [return to top]



• Haste Rating: shamans, paladins, druids, and death knights now receive 30% more melee haste from Haste Rating.

• Taunts: All player or pet-generated taunts now have a shared diminish category. In addition, Taunt-type effects from pets and from classes other than death knight, druid, paladin, and warrior have been set such that bosses can be made immune to them while still affected by death knight, druid, paladin, and warrior taunts.
• Abolish Poison: Now ticks every 3 seconds, up from every 2. Now lasts 12 seconds, up from 8.
• Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral): Now decreases armor of your target by 5%. Has a 5-minute duration, and a 40-second PvP duration.
• Feral Faerie Fire: The damage generated by this ability in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form has been increased substantially.
• Innervate: This spell no longer costs mana.
• Lifebloom: Mana cost of all ranks doubled. When Lifebloom blooms or is dispelled, it now refunds half the base mana cost of the spell per application of Lifebloom, and the heal effect is multiplied by the number of applications.
• Maim: This ability is now considered a stun, and shares a diminish category with all other stuns. It no longer has a chance to break from the target taking damage. Duration lowered to 1 second per combo point.
• Pounce: No longer affected by diminishing returns with other stuns, however, it now shares a diminishing return with Cheap Shot (Rogue).
• Savage Defense: Trainable at level 40 with Dire Bear Form as a prerequisite. When the druid deals a melee critical strike, it gains a physical damage shield equal to 25% of its attack power. The next hit completely consumes the shield, regardless of how much damage was done. Only active in Bear Form.
• Starfall: Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds.
• Swipe: The Bear Form and Dire Bear Form version of this ability no longer has a targeting requirement and hits targets behind the druid and to the sides.
• Celestial Focus redesigned: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Starfire, Hibernate and Hurricane by 23/46/70% and increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.
• Eclipse: The benefit to Wrath triggered by casting Starfire has been increased to 30% bonus damage.
• Insect Swarm: The bonus damage from spellpower on this damage-over-time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes.
• Mark of the Wild and Gift of the Wild can now be cast while in Moonkin form.
• Moonkin Form: Mana cost reduced.
• Nature’s Grace redesigned: All spell critical strikes have a 33/66/100% chance to grace you with a Blessing of Nature, increasing your spell casting speed by 20% for 3 seconds.
• Owlkin Frenzy is now properly considered an Enrage effect. Now also does not trigger from spell hits, only physical ranged and melee attacks.
• Typhoon: Now causes a 3-second daze.
• Heart of the Wild: Stamina bonus changed to 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Predatory Strikes: This talent no longer works when in Moonkin form.
• New Talent: Primal Gore: Grants the periodic damage from your Lacerate and Rip abilities the chance to critically hit.
• Primal Tenacity: The damage reduction while stunned effect now only works in Cat Form.
• Rend and Tear: The critical strike bonus for Ferocious Bite reduced to 5/10/15/20/25%, down from 10/20/30/40/50%.
• Savage Roar is now considered an Enrage effect and now increases physical damage
• Survival Instincts: Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5.

• Survival of the Fittest: Bonus armor reduced to 11/22/33% instead of 22/44/66%.
• Living Seed: This talent now accounts for total healing including overhealing.
• Improved Mark of the Wild: Now also increases all of your total attributes by 1/2%.
• Intensity: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.
• New Talent: Improved Barkskin: Increases the damage reduction granted by your Barkskin spell by 5/10%, and increases your resistance to Dispel mechanics by an additional 30/60% while under the effect of Barkskin.
• Improved Regrowth: This talent is renamed Nature’s Bounty. Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth and Nourish spells by 5/10/15/20/25%.
• Replenish: This talent is now re-named Revitalize and also works with Wild Growth.
• Tree of Life: Now receives 240% increased armor. You can now use Nature’s Grasp and Thorns while within this form. In addition, the discount on heal-over-time spells from this talent is now active at all times, whether or not the druid is in Tree of Life form. Mana cost reduced to match the cost of Travel Form.
• Glyph of Barkskin: Reduces the chance you’ll be critically hit by melee attacks by 25% while Barkskin is active.
• Glyph of Berserk: Increases the duration of Berserk by 5 seconds.
• Glyph of Monsoon: Reduces the cooldown of your Typhoon spell by 3 seconds.
• Glyph of Nourish: Your Nourish heals an additional 6% for each of your heal-over-time effects present on the target.
• Glyph of Rebirth: Target now returns to life with full health.
• Glyph of Savage Roar: Your Savage Roar ability grants an additional 3% bonus damage done.
• Glyph of Shred: Now increases remaining duration on Rip by 2 seconds each time it is used, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
• Glyph of Starfall: Changed to reduce the cooldown by 30 seconds.
• Glyph of Survival Instincts: Increases the percentage of your maximum health received from Survival Instincts to 40%.
• Glyph of Wild Growth: Wild Growth now affects up to 6 targets.
• Bash: This ability will now still interrupt casting even if the victim is immune to the stun due to diminishing returns.
• Feral Attack Power: Heirloom weapons now correctly grant the amount of attack power in Cat, Bear, and Dire Bear Forms that is stated on the weapon tooltip. In addition, the attack power bonus will now work properly for druids below level 60.
• Lifebloom: Corrected some bugs with the new blooming functionality and dispels.
• Predatory Strikes: This talent now properly affects the attack power gained from weapon enchants.
• Swipe: Now properly affected by area-of-effect damage caps.
• Thorns: This spell will now properly use the druid’s spell power to determine its scaling instead of the target’s spell power.
• Wild Growth: Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Wild Growth ranks from overwriting each other.
• Glyph of Rejuvenation: Effects which modify healing done will no longer be applied a second time to the healing granted by this glyph.
• Druid leather helms will once again sit properly on their heads.




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Patch 3.0.9       [return to top]



• Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.




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Patch 3.0.8       [return to top]



• Shield Wall, Barkskin, Guardian Spirit, and Divine Protection are now off the Global Cooldown.

• Aquatic Form is now available from druid trainers at level 16.
• Celestial Focus (Balance) no longer includes Starfall.
• Feral Attack Power: All weapons now have the potential to grant feral attack power based on their dps (as compared to the best superior-quality weapons available at level 60). Players will see their existing feral weapons grant roughly the same attack power as they did before (+/- 2 or so), but many new weapons will be options for the feral druid. Some feral weapons have had strength converted to attack power to be more appealing to other classes able to equip them. All druids will see the amount of feral attack power granted by an item in the item tooltip, if it grants any, but other players will not see that information.
• Remove Curse and Abolish Poison can now be used in Moonkin form.
• Genesis: Now works with Tranquility and Hurricane.
• Growl: Range increased to 30 yards.
• King of the Jungle – The Bear effect is now physical, and thus cannot be dispelled.
• Moonglow: This talent now also benefits Nourish.
• Nature’s Grace – Now also effects Revive.
• Nourish: Wild Growth applied to a target now increases the healing done by this spell by 20% like other heal over time effects.
• Polearms: Now trainable by Druids.
• Primal Tenacity: Now reduces the cost of Bear Form, Cat Form, and Dire Bear Form by 17/33/50% in addition to its previous effects.
• Protector of the Pack: No longer changes value based on party size.
• Savage Roar: The buff now persists outside of Cat Form but only provides its benefits while in Cat Form.
• Starfall: Instead of canceling shapeshifting, now cancels on shapeshifting into an animal form.
• Survival of the Fittest: This talent now grants 22/44/66% bonus armor in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form in addition to all of its previous effects.
• Swipe: Swipe (Cat) has now been added at level 71, dealing 260% weapon damage, costs 50 energy with no cooldown. All talents affecting the Bear Form version affect the Cat Form one as well.
• Wild Growth now has a 6 second cooldown.
• Dreamwalker Battlegear: The Rip bonus is now 4 seconds instead of 3.
• Druid Feral Tier 7 Set: The 4 piece bonus now also decreases the cooldown on Tiger’s Fury by 3 seconds.
• Druid Restoration Tier 7 Set: The Rejuvenation bonus has been changed to affect Lifebloom instead.
• Bear Form: This ability will now grant the correct attack power per level for levels 71-80.
• Entangling Roots: When determining if a new Entangling Roots should overwrite an old one, and will now calculate the correct damage modifiers for the creature type of the target.
• Maim: Tooltip adjusted to match the duration the ability has always had.
• Opening: Opening doors and objects should no longer cause shapeshifted forms to be cancelled.
• Rake: The initial damage from this ability is now properly considered bleed damage, and will be increased by Mangle and Trauma.
• Savage Fury – Mangle (Bear) damage was being increased by a higher percentage than intended. This has been fixed, and in result Mangle (Bear) should see roughly a 16% damage reduction. Also fixed a bug with Savage Fury where the Rake bleed effect was not being increased.
• Starfall will no longer cause nearby creatures to become hostile for no apparent reason while the Druid is affected by fear effects. In addition, it will no longer pick ambient creatures as targets.
• Survival Instincts: The extra health from this ability now persists in all forms, but the ability can only be activated in Cat Form, Bear Form, or Dire Bear Form. This prevents the health gain from occurring multiple times if constantly shapeshifting.
• Swiftmend: Riptide will no longer cause this ability to light up, and this ability will no longer sometimes consume Earthliving off the target.
• Idol of the Emerald Queen: This idol was providing greater healing than implied by its tooltip. It has been reduced to correct value.
• Glyph of Rejuvenation: The heal from this glyph is now properly considered a periodic heal.




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Patch 3.0.3 (Wrath of the Lich King)    Nov 2008   [return to top]



• Druid talents points have been refunded. Players will need to visit a class trainer to relearn spells and abilities.

• The Swift Flight Form is now available on the trainer at level 71, requiring 300 riding skill, and Flight Form learned.
• Bash: The interrupt from this ability will now work on targets that are immune to the stun.
• Berserk: Now clears the cooldown on Mangle Bear.
• Earth and Moon and Moonfury (Balance) reduced from 5 ranks each to 3 ranks each.
• Eclipse: Buff duration extended to 15 sec and bonuses doubled. The cooldown has been increased to 40 seconds.
• Growl: Cooldown changed to 8 sec.
• Insect Swarm: Tooltip corrected to indicate it does not affect hit chance with spells.
• Moonkin: Only single target spell critical strikes can trigger the mana gain from this talent.
• Nature’s Swiftness: This ability will no longer give chances to trigger Omen of Clarity.
• Omen of Clarity: Will no longer be triggered by the Honorless Target buff gained when entering the world.
• Survival Instincts will no longer be on the Global Cooldown.
• Swiftmend: now benefits correctly from Genesis talent.
• Tiger’s Fury: Ranks 5 and 6 have had their damage bonus decreased.
• Glyph of Rejuvenation: Now works correctly when the target is not self.
• Druid: Omen of Clarity now has a reduced chance to be triggered by Hurricane.




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Patch 3.0.2 (Echoes of Doom)    Oct 2008   [return to top]



• Druid: The tooltip for Predatory Instincts is currently incorrect. This no longer works on Bear Form or Dire Bear Form and now reduces damage by 10/20/30%. Rank 2 is currently not reducing AoE damage properly.

• Brambles (Balance): Now increases the damage done by your Treants, and also damage caused from your Treants and Barkskin has a 5/10/15% chance to Daze the target for 3 sec.
• Celestial Focus (Balance): The stun proc now works with Starfall. This talent no longer has Wrath pushback protection, but instead increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.
• Challenging Roar now has a 3 minute cooldown, reduced from 10 minutes.
• Control of Nature (Balance) has been removed.
• Entangling Roots: Can now be used indoors.
• Faerie Fire (Feral): Now an 11-point talent, down from being a 21-point talent.
• Feral Charge (Feral) is now a 21-point talent, up from being a 11-point talent.
• Feral Charge (Feral): Can now be used in Cat form.
• Feral Instinct (Feral) no longer increases threat generated in Bear form, but now increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 5/10/15%.
• Feral Swiftness: The movement speed buff can now be used indoors.
• Focused Starlight (Balance)is now Nature’s Majesty (Balance): Increases the critical strike chance of your Wrath, Starfire, Starfall, Nourish, and Healing Touch spells by 2/4/6%.
• Force of Nature (Balance): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes, down from 3.
• Furor (Restoration): Now increases your total Intellect while in Moonkin form by 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Hurricane: No longer has a cooldown (was 1 minute).
• Improved Faerie Fire (Feral): Now also works with spell hit, in addition to ranged and melee hit %.
• Improved Mark of the Wild (Restoration): Now a 2-point talent, down from a 5-point talent.
• Improved Tranquility (Restoration): Now also reduces the cooldown of your Tranquility spell by 25/50%.
• Mangle (Feral): Now increases the damage done by Maul in addition to Shred.
• Moonglow (Balance): Now also works with Starfall. Moved to tier 2, up from tier 5.
• Moonkin Form (Balance) no longer increases your attack power or causes you to regenerate mana off melee attacks, but now has a chance to cause you to instantly regenerate 2% of your total mana every time you critically hit with a spell.
• Nature’s Focus (Restoration): Now a 3 point talent, down from a 5-point talent. Also moved to Tier 1, up from Tier 2. Now also includes Nourish, Entangling Roots, Wrath, and Cyclone.
• Nature’s Grace (Balance): Now also reduces the global cooldown of your Wrath spell by 50% while in effect.
• Nature’s Grasp (Balance): Can now be used and can proc indoors. This is now a base ability at level 11 and has a 100% chance to proc.
• New Talent- Protector of the Pack (Feral): Increases the bonus attack power for Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by an additional 20/40/60% for each friendly player in your party, damage taken is reduced while in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by 1/2/3%.
• Nature’s Reach (Balance): Now also reduces threat generated by Balance spells by 15/30%.
• Nature’s Splendor now increases the duration of Lifebloow by 2 secs, (down from 3.)
• New Spell: Revive – Returns the spirit to the body, restoring a dead target to life with health and mana. Cannot be cast when in combat. (Ranks 1-7 added)
• New Talent – Genesis (Balance): Increases the damage and healing done by your periodic spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.
• New Talent – Improved Insect Swarm (Balance): Increases your damage done by your Wrath spell to targets afflicted by your Insect Swarm by 1/2/3%, and increases the critical strike chance of your Starfire spell by 1/2/3% on targets afflicted by your Moonfire spell.
• New Talent – Mother Bear (Feral): Increases the bonus attack power for Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by an additional 20/40/60%, and for each friendly player in your party, damage you take is reduced while in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by 1/2/3%.
• New Talent – Natural Reaction (Feral): Increases your dodge chance while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form by 2/4/6%, and you regenerate 1/2/3 rage everytime you dodge while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form.
• New Talent – Nature’s Splendor (Balance): Increases the duration of your Moonfire, Insect Swarm, Rejuvenation, Regrowth, Lifebloom and Flourish spells by 10/20/30%.
• Omen of Clarity (Restoration): Now a passive spell. Now also works for spells (healing and damage). Proc rate is roughly 6% with a 10 second internal cooldown.
• Predatory Instincts no longer works on Bear Form or Dire Bear form and now reduced damage by 10/20/30%.
• Primal Tenacity (Feral) now reduces damage while stunned by 5/10/15%, and reduces the duration of fear effects by 5/10/15%.
• Rake: The damage for this ability has been increased.
• Remove Curse can now be used in Tree of Life form.
• Soothe Animal can now be used on Dragonkin as well as Beasts.
• Soothe Animal is now instant cast.
• Subtlety (Restoration): Now a 3-point talent, down from a 5-point talent. Also moved to Tier 2, up from Tier 3. Also now only reduced threat for Restoration spells, and reduces the chance that your healing over time spells (Lifebloom, Regrowth and Rejuvenation) will be dispelled, rather than all Druid spells. Threat management for Balance can now be found in the Balance tree, within Nature’s Reach.
• Survival of the Fittest (Feral): Increased to 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%.
• Swipe now affects targets within a range.
• The mana regeneration penalty when in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form and Cat Form has been removed.
• Tranquil Spirit (Restoration) now also includes Nourish.
• Tree of Life (Restoration): 30% snare penalty has been removed.
• Tree of Life (Restoration): Can now cast Dispel Curse.
• Tree of Life (Restoration): You can now cast all Restoration spells (Healing Touch) in the form, but Tree of Life now only reduces the mana cost of your healing over time spells (Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, Regrowth and Flourish) by 20%.
• Vengeance (Balance): Now also works with Starfall.
• Wild Growth: The Coefficient and healing amount has been increased and the mana cost decreased.
• Druids and Shaman can now use items while shapeshifted.




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Patch 2.4.3    Jul 2008   [return to top]



• Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.

• Druids: Mangle will no longer incorrectly indicate a 100-yard range on the tooltip.
• Taking the Druid flight path from Moonglade will no longer dispel buffs.




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Patch 2.4.2    May 2008   [return to top]



• Talent: Primal Fury (Rank 2) will now be properly unlearned when it is untalented.

• The Shadowy Disguise will no longer be applied to druids while they are in Moonkin or Tree of Life form for the quests “Who Are They?”




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Patch 2.4.0 (Fury of the Sunwell)    Mar 2008   [return to top]



• Cyclone range is now 20 yards, down from 30.

• Empowered Rejuvenation: This talent now properly affects the final heal from Lifebloom.
• Gift of Nature: This talent now properly affects the healing from Tranquility.
• Insect Swarm: Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
• Lacerate: This ability now deals additional damage based on the attack power of the Druid.
• Lifebloom: The bonus coefficient on the final bloom effect has been reduced by 20%. This spell will no longer cause error messages when interacting with Spellsteal or while the Druid is under the effects of Mind Control.
• Mangle (Bear) now properly triggers a 1.5 second global cooldown, increased from 1.0 second.
• Many shapeshift form tooltips have been updated to be consistent with each other.
• Natural Perfection: This ability will no longer be triggered by taking critical strikes while sitting. In addition, it is now affected by the Subtlety talent and reduces damage by 2/3/4%, down from 1/3/5%.
• Nurturing Instinct increases your healing spells by up to 50/100% of your Agility, and increases healing done to you by 10/20% while in Cat form.
• Regrowth: The mana cost of this spell has been reduced by approximately 20%.
• When a Druid in cat form casts Pounce it will now properly animate.
• Druid Balance PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Wrath and Starfire.
• Druid Restoration PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Regrowth.
• Idol of the Crescent Goddess: The mana discount on Regrowth has been increased.
• Idol of Feral Shadows: The bonus damage to Rip has been increased.
• Idol of the Raven Goddess: The bonus healing, critical strike rating, and spell critical strike rating from this item have been increased. In addition, it no longer sometimes fails to apply the healing bonus.
• Idol of the Unseen Moon: The cooldown added in a previous patch has been removed.
• Idol of Ursoc: The bonus damage to Lacerate has been increased and the tooltip clarified to indicate it applies to both initial and periodic damage.
• Idol of the White Stag: Duration increased.
• PvP Relics: The bonus resilience from Idols, Librams, and Totems is no longer stackable by swapping between multiple relics.
• Weightstones and Sharpening Stones: The bonus damage from these temporary enchantments now works while shapeshifted.




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Patch 2.3.2    Jan 2008   [return to top]



• Lifebloom: When this ability is refreshed it will take on the strength of the incoming Lifebloom effect, rather than maintain the existing strength.
• Ravage: The damage multiplier on this ability has been increased from 350% to 385%.
• Idol of the Unseen Moon: This item now has a 30 second cooldown on being triggered.
• Idol of Terror: The triggered agility buff from this item no longer overwrites other agility buffs.




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Patch 2.3.0 (The Gods of Zul’Aman)    Nov 2007    [return to top]



• Barkskin: It is no longer possible to cast this spell while Cycloned.

• Challenging Roar: The chance for this ability to land successfully on its targets is now increased by hit rating.
• Cure Poison and Abolish Poison are now usable in Tree of Life Form.
• Cure Poison, Abolish Poison and Remove Curse range increased to 40 yards.
• Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible for multiple Druids to have Entangling Roots on the same target. In addition, it will now always be removed correctly if multiple Druids overwrite each other’s Entangling Roots.
• Entangling Roots: This ability will no longer be overwritten when the new Entangling Roots would do less damage.
• Feral Attack Power: Items that granted bonus attack power in Cat, Bear, Dire Bear, and Moonkin forms have been re-evaluated. In almost all cases, the attack power on the item has been increased. This change corrects an issue where feral weapon damage was not keeping up with other classes in its rate of increase.
• Feral Charge: It is now possible for the interrupt and root effects from this ability to be resisted separately.
• Force of Nature: This ability will no longer automatically break stealth on victims in its casting area. Nearby stealthed characters may still be attacked if they are too close to the summoned Treants.
• Growl: The chance for this ability to land successfully on its target is now increased by hit rating.
• Heart of the Wild: This talent no longer provides 4/8/12/16/20% bonus Strength in Cat Form. Instead it provides 2/4/6/8/10% bonus attack power.
• Hibernate: This spell will now always be removed correctly if multiple Druids overwrite each other’s Hibernate.
• Intensity (Restoration) increased to 10/20/30% mana regeneration.
• Natural Perfection (Restoration) – Now also grants the Natural Perfection effect after being critically hit, reducing all damage taken by 1/3/5% for 8 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times.
• Natural Perfection: This talent can now trigger while the Druid is sitting.
• Primal Fury: This talent will now be learned correctly even if purchased while the Druid is dead.
• Rebirth cooldown reduced to 20 minutes, from 30 minutes.
• Remove Curse is now usable in Moonkin Form.
• Shapeshifting Spells: Some of these spells were causing additional unintended threat. That additional unintended threat has been removed.
• Soothe Animal: This spell now properly consumes Nature’s Swiftness.
• Tranquility now gains additional benefit from spell damage and healing bonuses.
• Tree of Life: It is no longer possible to have the bonus healing aura from this ability while not actually in Tree of Life Form.
• If you are in a shapeshift form and try to use an ability that may only be used in caster form, you will leave the form and use that ability. This means that you can shift from one form to another in one action. If you don’t have mana to shift form, you will get an error message and remain in your current form. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0
• Overseer Disguise: It is no longer possible via use of this item to be on a mount while in Moonkin Form or Tree of Life Form.




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Patch 2.2 (Voice chat)    Sep 2007   [return to top]



• Cat Form (Night Elf) melee attack range was too short compared to Tauren Cat Form and other attack ranges. It has been increased.

• Cyclone: It is no longer possible to Cyclone two targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
• Cyclone: Paladin Auras, Trueshot Aura, and Aspect of the Pack will now be automatically reactivated when Cyclone wears off of a victim who had one of the abilities active.
• Enrage: If this buff is clicked off early, the armor penalty it causes will now be removed as well.
• Enrage and Furor should no longer initiate combat, though it will prevent rage decay for the duration.
• Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible to have Entangling Roots on two targets at the same time in the outdoor world.
• Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible to have more than one rank of this spell active on a player.
• Force of Nature: Using this spell in a neutral town will no longer cause its victim to be attacked by town guards. It also will no longer cause nearby party members to lose stealth.
• Hibernate and Entangling Roots duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
• Hurricane: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus damage coefficients have also been increased.
• Hurricane: A tooltip error in rank 3 has been corrected.
• Lacerate: The damage from this ability will now stack properly when two different characters are applying Lacerate to a target.
• Mangle: The duration remaining graphic will now display properly for Mangle after it has been refreshed on a target. It will also no longer sometimes apply the Mangle debuff to nearby targets when the Mangle victim is killed by Mangle.
• Nature’s Grasp: This ability can now trigger while the Druid is sitting.
• Tree of Life: The party aura from this shapeshift now extends the full 40-yard radius as stated in the tooltip.
• Shiny Red Apple: Druids in animal forms can no longer eat this food item.




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Patch 2.1.2    Jun 2007   [return to top]



• Improved Mend Pet, Abolish Disease, and Abolish Poison no longer play sounds when there is nothing to dispel.

• Druids in Swift Flight form can no longer loot herb nodes.
• Force of Nature: This spell will no longer causes players it is cast on to enter combat with nearby creatures. All of the treants summoned will now attack a neutral creature they are summoned on.
• Tree of Life: The bonus-healing aura from this talent will reactivate when a Banish effect wears off a Druid in Tree Form.




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Patch 2.1.0 (The Black Temple)    May 2007   [return to top]



• The Druid Epic flight form will be available through a series of quests, similar to the Warlock and Paladin Epic mount quests before it. This quest series will also open up a new boss in Sethekk Halls, and ultimately lead to the epic flight form.

• Taunts: The taunt system has been adjusted so that Warrior Taunt, Druid Growl, and Paladin Righteous Defense will now grant the player the correct amount of threat even when the creature or its target is crowd controlled.
• Barkskin now reduces all damage taken, with its duration reduced to 12 seconds and cooldown reduced to 1 minute. The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate this ability can be used while frozen, incapacitated, or cowering in fear. That functionality was already present, but not listed in the tooltip.
• Bear Form and Dire Bear Form: The bonus health from shapeshifting into these forms will again be removed correctly when shifting out of these forms.
• Bestial Wrath: The immunity granted by this ability now lasts the full duration of the ability. Bestial Wrath now grants immunity to Cyclone. Cyclone will no longer prevent the immunities from being granted.
• Celestial Focus: The delay on the stun effect for Starfire has been reduced.
• Cyclone: This ability will no longer work on hunters with The Beast Within active or hunter pets with Bestial Wrath active.
• Feral Charge now suppresses all Slowing effects while charging the target.
• Fixed a data error that caused Swiftmend to generate more threat than intended.
• Force of Nature: These pets will now come into the game with full health, including that gained from a percentage of their master’s stamina.
• Force of Nature: The Treants summoned by this spell will now correctly attack your target even if it is neutral or non-aggressive.
• Gift of the Wild, ranks 1 and 2, are now available on trainers.
• Gift of the Wild: Rank 3 of this ability now has the same range as ranks 1 and 2.
• Improved Leader of the Pack: This ability will no longer generate threat.
• Lacerate: The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it does initial bleed damage when the ability first lands.
• Lifebloom: Each additional application of this spell will now include the full bonus from effects which increase healing. The final heal, however, is still unaffected by stacking multiple applications of this spell.
• Mangle(Bear): Damage increased by 15%, but bonus threat reduced so that overall threat generation will be unchanged.
• Nature’s Grace: This talent is now triggered by Swiftmend and Lifebloom, and is triggered by and affects Cyclone.
• Nature’s Grasp: The mana cost has been removed from all ranks as intended.
• Omen of Clarity: This spell is no longer castable in Tree of Life Form or Moonkin Form.
• Prowl will now be broken correctly by damage shields such as Oil of Immolation.
• Rake: The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate the initial damage done is bleed damage. In addition, Rake can now always be re-applied, even when Mangle is active.
• Shapeshifting will no longer remove the Rotting Putrescence creature debuff.
• Subtlety(Restoration Talent) now applies to all spells, not just healing spells.
• Swiftmend: This ability will now be correctly penalized for casting low rank Rejuvenations and Regrowths just as other healing spells are penalized.
• Swiftmend: The button for this ability will now be greyed out when your current target does not have Rejuvenation or Regrowth.
• Teleport: Moonglade: This spell is no longer castable in Tree of Life Form.
• Tree of Life Form: The tooltip has been corrected to indicate Nature’s Swiftness and Rebirth are castable in this form.
• Cenarion Raiment Set: The spell critical strike rating set bonus will now stack properly with other effects that give spell critical strike rating.
• Nordrassil Regalia: The Regrowth set bonus will now correctly be consumed by the first casting of Regrowth.
• Earthwarden: Damage when not shapeshifted reduced on this weapon; this was intended to be reduced like other feral weapons, but was overlooked.
• The Shadowy Disguise for the quest, Who Are They? can no longer be gained while shapeshifted.
• The bleed effect from the druid ability Pounce will now properly apply to targets who are immune to stun.




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Patch 2.0.12    Apr 2007   [return to top]



• The cost of the “Idol of Tenacity” has been decreased to 1000 arena points.
• When the duration of “Cyclone” ends, area buffs such as “Leader of the Pack”, “Tree of Life”, and “Moonkin” will now be correctly resumed.
• “Bear Form” now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health.
• “Dire Bear Form” now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health. In addition, the armor bonus has been reduced from 450% to 400%.
• The multiplier on base weapon damage for “Mangle (Bear)” ability has been changed from 130% to 100%. In addition, the bonus damage has been reduced by the same ratio.
• “Savage Fury” no longer affects “Mangle (Bear)”.
• “Savage Fury” no longer applies to “Maul” or “Swipe”.
• The critical damage bonus on “Predatory Instincts” reduced from 3/6/9/12/15% to 2/4/6/8/10%.
• “Improved Leader of the Pack” can no longer get critical heals.
• The armor bonus from “Moonkin Form” has been increased from 360% to 400% (to match Dire Bear Form).
• The rage normalization equation has been adjusted to grant more rage.
• The bonus to “Swipe” from the “Idol of Brutality” has been reduced from 50 to 10.




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Patch 2.0.3 (The Burning Crusade)    Jan 2007   [return to top]



• Due to various talent changes, all Druids will have all their talent points refunded.
• “Feline Swiftness” has been renamed “Feral Swiftness”. The dodge % increase now also applies to Bear and Dire Bear Forms.
• “Improved Moonfire” has been reduced to 2 ranks, for a 5/10% bonus.
• “Insect Swarm” has had its damage on all ranks increased. The mana cost of ranks 1 and 3 has been increased. The mana cost of ranks 4,5 and 6 has been decreased.
• “Nurturing Instinct” now grants its benefit at all times, but the bonus has been reduced to 25/50% of Strength.
• “Improved Starfire” has been renamed to “Celestial Focus” and now also increases the chance to resist casting pushback when casting Wrath by 25/50/70%.
• “Blood Frenzy” benefits have merged with “Primal Fury”.
• “Improved Leader of the Pack” has been reduced to 2 ranks for 2/4% total health healed.
• “Pounce” no longer requires the druid to be behind the target.
• “Barkskin” is now usable while stunned.
• Druids now need substantially less agility per dodge.
• “Dire Bear Form” armor bonus increased to 450% and health bonus changed to a 25% percent health increase instead of a flat increase.
• The Health bonus of “Bear Form” has changed to a 25% percent health increase instead of a flat increase.
• “Swipe” has had its threat bonus multiplier removed.
• “Maul” has had its threat bonus multiplier changed to a flat value similar in threat per time to “Heroic Strike”.
• “Regrowth” has had its mana cost reduced by approximately 18%.
• “Tree of Life” healing bonus now increases the healing received by your party members instead of the healing dealt by your party members.
• The “Tranquility” base amount healed per second has increased by approximately 273%. The radius of effect has increased from 20 yards 30 yards. Mana cost has increased by 40%. The Cooldown has increased from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. The Duration has decreased from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
• “Mangle” will not stack multiple copies from multiple forms or druids anymore. This was never intended behavior. The percentage modification on bleeds has increased from 25% to 30% and “Mangle” now increases the damage from “Shred” as well. In addition, “Mangle” will now benefit from the damage boost from “Tiger’s Fury”.
• “Enrage” will now show up in the combat log and in floating combat text.
• “Lifebloom” will now correctly consume clearcasting.
• “Predatory Instincts” has had its tooltip adjusted to indicate it only works in feral forms, and that it increases damage by a percent, not damage bonus by a percent.
• If a spell is resisted, it will no longer break stealth.
• “Tree of Life’s” bonus healing aura will now reactivate correctly when “Banish” wears off.
• Shapeshifted druids will now be able to speak to npcs while shapeshifted.
• “Idol of Ferocity” now increases “Claw” and “Rake” damage instead of reducing energy cost.
• “Idol of Brutality” now increases “Maul” and “Swipe” damage instead of reducing rage cost.
• “Idol of Health” now provides bonus healing on “Healing Touch” instead of reducing its cast time.
• The “Stormrage Raiment Set” +15% mana regeneration has been replaced with 20 mana per 5 sec.
• The druid Restoration Talent “Tree of Life” healing buff is no longer being removed from the Druid if afflicted by a “Banish” spell.
• “Moonkin Form” and “Tree of Life” form now have a casting animation for “Warstomp”.
• The druid talent skill “Tree of Life” now has a swimming animation.
• Adjusted the tooltip for Barkskin to reflect the proper functionality.
• “Insect Swarm” Rank 6 will now benefit from the clearcasting effect from “Omen of Clarity”.




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Patch 2.0 (Before the Storm)    Dec 2006   [return to top]



• All players will have their talent points reimbursed and will have access to new talents throughout their trees; this includes the 41-point talents. Several new abilities have also been added for all classes.
• HoTs from different sources will now stack (i.e. multiple druids can cast the Rejuvenation spell on 1 target).
• The talent “Swiftmend” will now include bonus healing from the talents “Improved Rejuvenation” and “Empowered Rejuvenation”.
• “Omen of Clarity’s” duration has been increased to 30 min.




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Patch 1.12 (Drums of War)    Sep 2006   [return to top]



• Fixed an issue in which the “Blessing of the Claw”from the 6 piece Dreamwalker set was causing players to stand up after trying to eat or drink.

• Barkskin: The tooltip has been changed to 25% due to the haste effect change.
• Cat Form: This form now has an innate threat reduction component.
• Ferocious Bite: Book of Ferocious Bite (Rank 5) now drops off The Beast in Black Rock Spire. In addition, Ferocious Bite now increases in potency with greater attack power.
• Furor: This talent now works correctly with Cat Form again.
• Improved Shred: The discounted cost for Shred will now be displayed correctly even when you are not in Cat Form.
• Rip: Lesser potency Rips will no longer overwrite greater potency ones.
• Fixed a bug where the incorrect sound was being played by the Claw attack.
• Heals from spells such as Frenzied Regeneration will no longer close the loot window.




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Patch 1.11 (Shadow of the Necropolis)    July 2006   [return to top]



• The tool tip for the talent Omen of Clarity now reflects its new duration of 10 minutes.

• Fixed an issue where players with the Heart of the Wild talent were losing health each time they shifted to Bear Form or Dire Bear Form.
• Fixed an issue where players with the Furor talent were not staying in combat mode when shifting to bear form and were losing the extra rage generated.
• The Omen of Clarity talent now lasts 10 minutes. The tooltip does not yet correctly reflect the new longer duration, and will be updated in a future patch.
• Innervate: This spell is now a base ability for all Druids, trainable at level 40. Any Druid who formerly had the Innervate talent now has the Swiftmend talent instead.
• Nature’s Grace: You will no longer consume this effect when casting a spell which was made instant by Nature’s Swiftness.
• Swiftmend: This new talent has been added to the Druid Restoration tree, replacing Innervate as the 31 point ultimate talent. It consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth aura to produce an instant heal.
• Enrage: Tooltip edited to clarify functionality.
• A new LEGENDARY item quest has been added! Casters rejoice (and druids too)!
• Shapeshifted Druids now maintain proper voice over.




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Patch 1.10 (Storms of Azeroth)    Mar 2006   [return to top]



• Nature’s Grace will now correctly trigger after every spell critical strike.

• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented the Omen of Clarity talent from casting.
• Fixed a bug that crashed the client when players in Moonkin, Noggenfogger, Gordok Ogre Suit, Hallow’s End form/costume attempted to create a guild tabard.
• All spells/abilities that remove existing effects (e.g. Dispel Magic, Cleanse, Remove Curse etc…) will now verify that there is an effect that can be removed before casting.
• Healing Touch – Mana cost on all ranks reduced approximately 9%.
• Ravage – Can no longer be dodged, parried, or blocked.
• Cure Poison – Can no longer be cast while in Moonkin form.
• Gift of the Wild – Range and area of effect increased.
• Rip – Is now properly considered a Bleed effect.
• All shapeshift forms can now use equipped items.
• Nature’s Swiftness – Now makes Rebirth and Soothe Animal spells instant cast.
• Bear Form and Dire Bear Form – It is no longer possible at very low health to die when shifting out of these forms.
• Pounce – This ability will no longer apply its bleed effect when the attack misses or is dodged.
• Some creature Mana Drain spells were previously able to mana drain druids in forms that do not display mana. That has been fixed.
• Previously, shifting into an animal form granted a one-second immunity to roots and snares. That has been changed to dispelling roots and snares.
• A new level 52 druid quest that takes place in Un’Goro crater has been added.
• Relics have been introduced to the game. These are class specific items for Druids, Paladins, and Shaman which can be equipped in the ranged slot. Currently there are a handful for each class which can be found scattered throughout Blackrock Depths, Blackrock Spire, Dire Maul, Scholomance, Stratholme, and The Temple of Ahn’Qiraj. We hope that you enjoy the first round of available relics and we will continue to add more in future patches.
• The following item sets have had their set bonuses adjusted: Valor, Magister’s, Lightforge, Shadowcraft, Dreadmist, Devout, Wildheart, Beaststalker, and Elements.




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Patch 1.9 (The Gates of Ahn’Qiraj)    Feb 2006   [return to top]



• Grammar fixed for gossip associated with the quest “Trial of the Sea Lion” in Moonglade.

• Heart of the Wild – Previously, when shifting to Bear Form or Dire Bear Form, this talent would cause your current health to increase by the same amount as your max health. Now it will cause your percentage of max health to be the same before and after the shift, as well as shifting back to humanoid form. As a result, shifting in and out of these forms will no longer cause an increase in current health.
• Druids with the Symbol of Unending Energy will now be properly awarded 30 energy if their finishing move is dodged, parried, blocked, or missed.
• Feral Charge – Should no longer desync characters from the server when charging from land to water.
• Bear and Dire Bear form – Effects that lower armor will now lower armor by a percentage of the druid’s full armor, rather than just base (caster form) armor. However, Enrage will still only remove 75% of base armor.
• Omen of Clarity – Special attacks will no longer consume their own clearcasting state. All melee attacks will now be able to trigger the clearcasting state.
• Nature’s Grasp – This spell can now trigger from special melee attacks. It will no longer be possible to cast Entangling Roots at no mana cost immediately after Nature’s Grasp procs.
• Nature’s Grace – The Nature’s Grace buff will now appear on the player upon completion of casting, before the travel time of the spell. So, Wrath crits will now benefit the casting time of the next spell cast.
• Insect Swarm – New icon.
• Improved Starfire – The stun effect’s duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).
• Omen of Clarity – This spell now works correctly with Bash, Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Demoralizing Roar, granting a decrease in the cost of the ability. Ferocious Bite will still use the entire energy bar to generate additional damage.
• Cat Form – Feline Swiftness will now regain its speed increase when moving from indoors to outdoors.
• Cure Poison – Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
• Remove Curse – Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
• Abolish Poison – Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
• Fixed typos in both quest versions of “Power over Poison”.
• Druids can preview different weapons in the dressing room while in moonkin form.




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Patch 1.8 (Dragons of Nightmare)    Oct 2005   [return to top]



• Due to significant talent changes, talent points for Druids have been refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell/ability replacements have been significantly reduced.

• Hurricane – No longer a talent. Now available to all Druids at level 40. Damage and Mana cost increased on all ranks. Spell is now cast on a targeted area up to 30 yards away and affected by Nature’s Reach. Multiple Druids casting Hurricane will no longer stack the slowdown effect. Radius of effect decreased slightly.
• Remove Curse – Updated tooltip to reflect that it’s usable on friendly targets only.
• Shapeshifting – Fixed a bug where the Chilled effect caused by Ice Armor/Frost Armor was not removed properly when shapeshifting.
• Swipe – Self cooldown removed.
• Tranquility – Cooldown reduced to 5 minutes. Mana cost reduced by 25%.
• Cat Form – The attack power bonus from the base cat form will now calculate correctly on zoning or logging in.
• The 5-piece set bonus for the Druid’s Stormrage set now properly displays the reduction in casting time.
• The Cenarion Druid set bonus that improves Thorns damage now properly works when Thorns is cast on other players.




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Patch 1.7 (Rise of the Blood God)    Sep 2005   [return to top]



• Fixed a bug where area of effect periodic damage spells were being resisted more frequently than they should have been when casting lower level ranks of the spell (affected spells were Blizzard, Consecration, Explosive Trap, Flamestrike, Hurricane, Rain of Fire and Volley).

• Spells and effects that reduce attack speed will no longer stack with each other. Some spells this change effects include Thunderclap, Frost Armor, the Doomguard’s Cripple spell, the Icy Chill enchantment, and Hurricane.
• Improved Starfire – The stun effect can now be resisted.
• Druids should now be able to shapeshift back into caster form while Feared.
• Cat Form – The base weapon damage of the form has been increased.
• Cat Form – Each point of agility now adds 1 attack power.
• Cat Form – Rip’s damage per combo point has been increased.
• Cat Form – Ferocious Bite’s damage per combo point has been increased. In addition, extra energy now converts to damage at a higher rate.
• Cat Form – Replaced global cooldown on Tiger’s Fury with a 1 second self cooldown. In addition, its duration has been increased to 6 seconds.
• Cat Form – Rake’s damage has been increased.
• Entangling Roots now shares the same duration in pvp as other long-duration forms of crowd control (ie: polymorph, fear, sap).
• A few items in the Alliance PvP Rogue and Druid sets were previously misnamed, this has been corrected.
• The Cenarion and Earthfury Vestments now have proper durability values.
• Cenarion Helm texture fixed.




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Patch 1.6 (Assault on Blackwing Lair)    Aug 2005   [return to top]



• Shapeshifting will now counteract the slowing effects of frost-based spells (Frostbolt, Frost Shock, Cone of Cold, etc.).

• Feral Charge – Targets that are immune to immobilizing effects will no longer be affected by Feral Charge’s immobilizing effect. The interrupt will still affect the target.
• Shadowmeld (Night Elf Racial) – Now reports the correct error message when attempted in shapeshift form.
• Druid shapeshift form buttons are no longer dimmed while under the effects of Polymorph.
• Fixed a bug in aquatic form which sometimes prevented the Druid from returning to caster form upon exiting lava.
• Felheart, Cenarion, Giantstalker’s and Earthfury item sets now have updated art. The Felheart Skullcap is now also called something more appropriate to the new art.
• The stealth detection bonus on the Druid PvP set gloves has been changed to work in all forms, including caster form.
• The Feral Speed Increase ability of the PvP Reward Druid sets has been temporarily removed in this patch. The ability will be readded to the sets in a future patch.




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Patch 1.5 (Battlegrounds)    Jun 2005   [return to top]



• Barkskin – Now has a new visual.

• Viper sting will not drain mana from Druids while they are shapeshifted.
• The following item sets have had their statistics, effects, and set bonuses updated: Arcanist, Netherwind, Prophecy, Transcendence, Felheart, Nemesis, Cenarion, Stormrage, Nightslayer, Bloodfang, Giantstalker, Dragonstalker, Earthfury, Ten Storms, Might, Wrath, Lawbringer, and Judgement.




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Patch 1.4 (The Call to War)    May 2005   [return to top]



• Druid ability: Rip – greatly increased in attack power.

• Charm and Polymorph mechanics can now be reactively countered by spells and abilities (e.g. Druid Shapeshifting will now cancel Polymorph effects).
• A handful of spells were added to the list of spells subject to diminishing returns in PvP. It is our goal to set as few spells as possible to be diminished. We’ve identified this short list of spells as having durations and cooldowns sufficient to almost permanently slow or immobilize targets but without adequate controls or other limiting factors. When a spell with diminishing returns is used against a target in PvP, the first effect has full duration. On the second use of the same category of spell (e.g. slowing), that spell’s duration is reduced by 50%. On the third use, the duration is reduced by 75%. On the fourth attempt, the target becomes immune to the spell. Spells must be used on the same target within 15 seconds of the *end* of the duration in order to be diminished. In other words, if a target hasn’t had a slowing spell active on them for more than 15 seconds, the next slowing spell will have full effect. The list of affected spells is:
  

  • Frost Shock
  • Entangling Roots
  • Frost Nova
• Ravage and Shred now properly increase the attack power contribution by the percent modifier.
• Shapeshifting into an animal form will now remove Polymorph effects.
• Feral Charge – Fixed a bug where the ability cost 10 rage instead of five as intended. Should now cost five rage.
• Entangling Roots – Now subject to diminishing returns in PvP. This is considered an immobilizing effect.
• The following set items have had their art updated:
  • Devout Crown and Mantle, Magister’s Crown, Circlet of Prophecy, all parts of the Warrior “Might” set, Lightforge Helm, Helm of Valor, Dreadmist Mask, Wildheart Cowl and Pauldrons, and Coif of Elements. Other class sets will receive updated art in future patches.
• The drop rate for Gift of the Wild and Prayer of Fortitude has been considerably increased.
• Lunaclaw’s spirit should stay around longer before despawning, and the spirit should simply despawn as oppose to “die”.




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Patch 1.3    Mar 2005   [return to top]



• Several of the dungeon and raid armor sets have been updated with their non-placeholder textures. These sets include the Devout, Prophecy, Elements, Arcanist’s and Wildheart sets. Future patches will update more dungeon and raid sets.

• Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
• Rebirth – Casting time and mana cost reduced; now ignores resurrection timers.
• Swiftshifting – Talent changed. When leaving a shapeshift form, the next shapeshift form you take will have a 20%/40%/60% mana cost reduction if used within 6 seconds.
• Gift of the Wild – This spell is now cast on the target’s party.
• Cat Form – DPS increase at levels 40-60.
• New Ability (Cat Form): Ferocious Bite (available at level 32) – Finishing move that causes damage per combo point and converts each extra point of energy into additional damage.
• New Spell: Barkskin (available at level 44) – The druid’s skin becomes as tough as bark. Physical damage taken is reduced. While protected, taking damage will not cause spellcasting delays, but non-instant spells take longer to cast and melee combat is slowed.
• New Ability (Bear Form): Frenzied Regeneration (available at level 36) – Converts an amount of rage into health every second for a short duration.




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Patch 1.2    Dec 2004   [return to top]



• A bug causing the Hurricane talent to not require channeling has been fixed. This spell now correctly requires channeling.

• Entangling Roots: Rank 4 moved to level 38.
• New Spell: Gift of the Wild (Level 50) – Longer lasting Mark of the Wild spell that buffs the entire group. Requires a reagent to cast. (Spell is available via loot drop only.)
• Bear Form: Armor bonus increased from 65% to 180%.
• Dire Bear Form: Armor bonus increased from 125% to 360%.
• Hibernate: Players now have an increasing chance to break free of the effect, such that it is unlikely the effect will last more than 15 seconds.