Midnight Beta Test Development Notes

By Kaivax
Published 4 months ago

Blue Posts are official communications from Blizzard Entertainment that provide updates, developer insights, and gameplay changes for World of Warcraft.

This post was originally published on the Battle.net forums by Kaivax from the Community Manager team.

Here are the 12.0.1 changes for the week:

CLASSES

MAGE
- Arcane
  - Developers’ notes: Touch of the Archmage has not been hitting the notes we wanted it to, both in gameplay and tuning, so we’re buffing up the last node and redesigning the first node to no longer increase Touch of the Magi charges, and putting that budget into Touch of the Magi’s burst window instead.
  - Apex Talents updated:
    - 1st node: Touch of the Magi increases the damage your target receives from you by 20%.
    - 2nd node: Now additionally increases Arcane Missile damage by 10%/20%.
    - 3rd node: Now deals 50% of Touch of the Magi’s accumulated damage (was 25%).
PALADIN
- Hero Talents
  - Herald of the Sun
    - Retribution
      - Walk Into Light no longer consumes a charge to cast Blade of Justice at 100% effectiveness.
- Retribution
  - Crusading Strikes now decreases auto-attack speed by 35% (was 50%).

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

In the Cooldown Manager, icon padding can now be set to zero.

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