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KEY - PvE Focus
Green = Buff
Red = Nerf
Yellow = Noteable


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Patch 4.1 PTR Notes Update - April 12

SOURCE: http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/1604 ... s-april-12

Druids

Lacerate bonus threat has been removed and replaced with increased initial damage done.
Efflorescence has a new spell effect.
Enrage no longer increases physical damage taken.
Lifebloom's bloom effect has been reduced by 20%.
Prowl has a new icon.
Savage Defense has been redesigned slightly. Instead of a single charge absorption, it now places an absorption effect on the druid absorbing up to 35% of the druid's attack power (modified by mastery, if applicable) in damage and lasting 10 seconds. There are no longer any charges on the effect.
Stampeding Roar's duration has been increased to 8 seconds, up from 6. The movement speed effect has been increased to 60%, up from 40% and is no longer cancelled by cancelling shapeshift form.
Swipe (Bear) cooldown has been reduced to 3 seconds, down from 6, and is now on trainable at level 18 (training cost has been reduced). In addition, the bonus threat from this ability has been removed and replaced with increased damage done.
Swipe (Cat) damage has been doubled.
Thrash bonus threat has been removed and replaced with increased damage done.
Druids now innately have 100% pushback protection from damage while channeling Tranquility.

Talent Specializations
Balance
Starsurge damage has been reduced by 20%.
Solar Beam is now more responsive when enemies move into or out of it.

Feral
Berserk is no longer on the global cooldown.
Feral Swiftness now also causes Dash and Stampeding Roar to have a 50/100% chance to instantly remove all movement impairing effects from the affected targets when used.

Restoration
Gift of Nature (passive) also reduces Tranquility's cooldown by 2.5/5 minutes.
Efflorescence has been redesigned. It creates a healing zone at the feet of a Swiftmend target, but this healing zone now restores health equal to 4/8/12% of the amount healed by Swiftmend to the three most injured targets within 8 yards, every 1 second for 7 seconds. This periodic effect now also benefits from spell haste, but the individual ticks cannot be critical effects.
In addition, Living Seed is no longer a prerequisite talent for Efflorescence.
Malfurion's Gift now reduces the cooldown of Tranquility by 2.5/5 minutes.
Nature's Swiftness now also increases the healing done by the affected nature spell by 50%.

Glyphs
Glyph of Rake is now Glyph of Pounce, which increases the range of Pounce by 3 yards.

Druid Bug Fixes
The troll druid models for Flight Form and Swift Flight Form has slimmed down to be more in scale with other druid flight forms.




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Patch 4.0.6 Hotfixes - February 14

SOURCE: http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/157148/patch-406-hotfixes-february-14


* Starfall will now hit any target in range which is in combat or not at full health (including the Exposed Head of Magmaw, which was causing issues with Starfall).

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Patch 4.0.6 Hotfixes - February 11 (Patch 4.0.6a)

SOURCE: http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/157148/patch-406-hotfixes-and-406a-changes-feb-11


* Starfall no longer exceeds 20 stars within its duration.
* Moonfury (Balance druid passive) now increases Arcane and Nature damage by 10%, down from 15%.
* Mangle (Bear) and Maul (Bear) damage has been increased by approximately 10%.
* Frost Nova, Tranquility, War Stomp, and Starfire are all properly scaled when used by or on a druid in Tree of Life form. The previous temporary hotfix which removed the ability to use War Stomp while in Tree of Life form has been reverted.

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World of Warcraft Client Patch 4.0.6 - Updated Feb 08

SOURCE: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2166872


Druid

* Barkskin is no longer dispellable.
* Entangling Roots now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
* Healing Touch is now trained at level 78, up from level 3.
* Hibernate now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
* Lacerate damage has been reduced by approximately 20%.
* Mangle (Bear Form) weapon damage (at level 80+) has been reduced to 235%, down from 300%.
* Mangle (Cat Form) weapon damage percent (at level 80+) has been increased to 460%, up from 360%.
* Maul damage has been reduced by approximately 20%.
* Moonfire mana cost has been reduced from 18% to 9%.
* Mount Up: This guild perk now applies to Flight Form and Swift Flight Form as well.
* Nature’s Grasp now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
* Nourish is now trained at level 8, down from level 78.
* Omen of Clarity can no longer trigger from helpful spells (aka heals), unless the Restoration talent Malfurion's Gift is chosen.
* Prowl is no longer broken by enemies using Demoralizing Shout or Demoralizing Roar.
* Rake damage has been reduced by 10%.
* Rejuvenation is now trained at level 3, down from level 8. In addition, its mana cost is now 20% of base mana.
* Rip damage has been reduced by 10%.
* Shapeshifts: Entering or leaving a shapeshift no longer cancels root effects. It continues to cancel movement slowing effects.
* Shred weapon damage percent (at level 80+) has been increased to 450%, up from 350%.
* Skull Bash's lockout time has been reduced to 4 seconds, down from 5.
* Soothe is now instant cast, down from 1.5 seconds.
* Worgen and troll druids now have new art for Swift Flight Form.


Talent Specializations
Balance

* Fungal growth duration has been increased to 20 seconds, up from 10. In addition, it should now be much more responsive when detonating Wild Mushrooms.
* Moonkin Form now grants 15% damage reduction instead of increased armor. In addition, shapeshifting in or out of this form now breaks roots. Note this is not stated in the tooltip.
* The Shooting Stars buff duration has been increased to 12 seconds, up from 8 seconds.
* Starfall will no longer strike targets that are not in combat and will now drop stars at a slightly faster rate.
* Sunfire mana cost has been reduced from 18% to 9%.
* Total Eclipse (Mastery) benefit from mastery increased by approximately 33%.
* Typhoon mana cost has been reduced by 50%.
* Wild Mushroom is now instant cast, down from 0.5 seconds. In addition, the radius of detonation has been increased to 6 yards, up from 3, and damage done increased by 30%.


Feral

* Berserk (instant Mangle proc) now has a new Spell Alert identifier. In addition, Berserk no longer breaks Fear or makes the druid immune to Fear.
* Blood in the Water: Timing on this effect has been improved so that Ferocious Bite will immediately refresh Rip, rather than be slightly delayed (which gave a chance for the Rip to expire despite being refreshed).
* Infected Wounds now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
* Pulverize weapon damage percent has been reduced to 80%, down from 100%.


Restoration

* Disentanglement (new specialization): Causes shapeshifting to remove roots in addition to snares.
* Empowered Touch now also affects Regrowth. In addition, after Tree of Life is no longer active, this talent will only refresh the most recently cast or refreshed Lifebloom, and will not refresh other copies of Lifebloom.
* Natural Shapeshifter has been reduced to a 3/6-second increase to Tree of Life's duration, down from 5/10.
* Nature’s Bounty no longer affects Swiftmend, but now has a new effect. When the druid has Rejuvenation on 3 or more targets, the cast time of Nourish is reduced by 10/20/30%.
* Symbiosis (Mastery) benefit from mastery increased by approximately 16%.
* Tree of Life duration has been reduced to 25 seconds, down from 30.
* Wild Growth healing has been increased by 30%, and the cooldown has been reduced to 8 seconds, down from 10.


Glyphs

* Glyph of Entangling Roots redesigned. It now reduces the cast time of Entangling Roots by 0.2 seconds, rather than making it instant cast.
* Glyph of Regrowth now causes the heal-over-time effect to refresh itself on targets at or below 50% health, up from 25%.
* Glyph of Wrath now increases damage done by Wrath by 10% and no longer requires Insect Swarm on the target.


Druid Bug Fixes

* Druid forms now have an Archaeology Survey animation.
* Balance of Power's tooltip now states that spell hit rating is increased only by Spirit gained from items and effects.
* Druids can correctly cast Barkskin while silenced.
* Feral Charge: Cat should always turn the druid around to face the back of the target.
* Hurricane should no longer proc when Polymorph is cast on the druid.
* Hurricane now remains at the same location it was cast at while on a moving transport.
* The mana return effect of Leader of the Pack is now consistent with its tooltip.
* Maul and other Feral druid ability tooltips should now show the correct damage.
* Druids in Moonkin Form should now correctly be able to mount.
* Rank 1 of Naturalist now reduces the cast time by what it states on the tooltip.
* Nature's Swiftness is no longer consumed when casting Entangling Roots that became instant cast via Glyph of Entangling Roots.
* The instant Rejuvenation heal from Gift of the Earthmother should no longer gain bonus healing from haste too soon, and should now correctly benefit from Symbiosis.
* The Thick Hide tooltip should now reflect the new increased values.
* The tooltip for Thrash's bleed effect listed the amount of damage per tick rather than the total damage for the effect. This has been corrected.
* Using Track Humanoids while in Cat Form should no longer cause loot windows to automatically close the first time they are opened.
* Druids should now make the correct laugh and cry emote sounds while in Tree of Life Form.
* Wild Mushroom's tooltip now shows the magic school.


Glyph Fixes

* Glyph of Ferocious Bite now correctly augments the Ferocious Bite tooltip.