Beta development notes · 2026-09-24

Fixed an issue where Consecration would fail to apply its increased damage effect to some targets.

Wrath base damage increased ~50%.

Voidwalker Sacrifice now correctly scales with 10% of the Warlock’s spell healing.

Vengeance now activates off of non-periodic critical strikes.

Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Flametongue Weapon.

Bloodthrill’s chance to activate increased to 4/8/12/16/20% (was 2/4/6/8/10%).

All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite.

Flametongue Totem is no longer able to be stacked by repeatedly casting Flametongue Totem.

Sonic Blast ability now properly available to Bat pets.

Improved Slam now reduces the cooldown of Slam by 1.5/3 seconds.

Lightning Bolt: Damage on ranks 3 and 4 increased to make these spells always upgrades over previous ranks (despite changing cast times).

Sacred Arbiter now increases the damage of Holy Strike by 20% (was 10%).

Bloodthrill only activates off of Main Hand melee attacks. This includes Cleave and Heroic Strike.

Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul.

Fixed a bug causing the Flash of Light cast animation to not play at the end of the spell cast.

Corrected an issue and now Tranquility can land critical hits.

Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Windfury Totem.

Righteous Fury: Holy threat increase increased to 60% (was 90%).

Swapped the positions of the Elemental Fury (Row 3) and Elemental Alacrity (Row 6) talents.

Retribution Aura will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.

Developers’s notes: This increases Holy Strike’s damage at all points while leveling, and increases how much it contributes to your rotation. Early ranks of Holy Strike didn’t always feel like an upgrade when purchasing a new rank, and we wanted to adjust that.

Corrected an issue and now Lacerating Strikes can land critical hits.

Tooltip of Life Tap has been updated to correctly display the amount of Life converted, and only states that it scales with Spirit.

Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.

Swapped the positions of the Bastion (Row 5) and Focused Rage (Row 6) talents.

Fixed a bug where Feral Charge (Cat) could be cast on allies.

Flametongue Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Flametongue Totem” instead of “Flametongue Totem Effect”.

Corrected an issue and now Riptide can land critical hits.

Arcane Missiles no longer checks line of sight on each missile, just once at the beginning of the channel. So targets moving out of line of sight during the channel will not prevent the missiles.

Twist of Light now additionally reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%.

Sap now correctly flags the Rogue for PvP when used on a target that is PvP flagged.

Holy Power now increases the Critical Strike chance of Holy Strike by 15% and retains all of its old effects.

Tranquil Air Totem, Windfury Totem, and Grace of Air Totem no longer stack together even if used by different Shamans in the same group.

Fixed an issue where Consecration’s Z axis wasn’t functioning consistently.

The Primal Fury talent has been renamed and the icon replaced with the original Blood Frenzy name and icon.

Two-Handed Weapon Specialization’s damage increase reduced to 2/4/6% (was 3/6/9%).

Lava Burst damage on ranks 1 and 2 increased to be about 10% more base damage than the Lightning Bolt rank learned around the same level.

Talenting out of Lone Wolf will no longer cause the Hunter to have -4% damage while their pet is active.

Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.

Fixed a bug with Echo of Justice, causing it to have a higher than intended chance to activate.

Wake of Fire buff duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).

Holy Strike’s cooldown lowered to 10 seconds (was 12 seconds).

Corrected an issue and now Rejuvenation can land critical hits.

Sunder Armor: Corrected the threat values on all ranks, including a small increase to threat generated from Attack Power.

Hot Streak buff duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Fixed an issue where Consecration could pull targets vertically above or below the caster.

Slam’s cooldown has been increased to 18 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Holy Strike’s % of weapon damage per rank changed to 25%/29%/32%/36%/39%/43%/46%/50% (was 25%/25%/30%/30%/35%/35%/40%/40%).

Flametongue Totem no longer has a duration and is instantly replaced when placing another totem.

Corrected an issue and now Wild Growth can land critical hits.

Strider Kick now increases movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

Fixed various issues with Consecration.

Windfury Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Windfury Totem” instead of “Windfury Totem Passive”.

Vengeance’s maximum stacks lowered to 3 (was 5).

Light’s Vigil’s tooltip has been reorganized to make it more clear that the damage component is the only version that returns some of the Mana cost.

Ignite no longer double dips on % damage increase modifiers.

Rage of the Far Seer (Row 7) no longer increases the Shaman’s Spell Casting Speed.

Pets: Furious Howl Attack Power bonus reduced 40%.

Gnome: Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.

Pets: Tame Beast no longer works on Beasts that are higher than the Hunter’s level.

Gnome: Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match.

Night Elf: Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent.

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.

Undead: Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit.

Improved Holy Strike removed from the Talent Tree.

Undead: Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage.