Latest PvP news from WoW: Forever.
Blizzard's November 13 WoW: Forever hotfixes cover dungeons, quests, enemies, items and classes, including Wild Growth's healing coefficient rising to 6.6% and Judgement of Command now counting as melee.
Enhancement Shaman changes are now live in Forever: Stormstrike drops to 100% weapon damage with an 8-second cooldown, and Maelstrom Weapon gets a rank-scaled proc rate.
Restoration Druid Wild Growth can no longer be cast while moving in WoW: Forever, but its spell power coefficient doubles from 0.033 to 0.066 to offset the change.
Hunter pets drop from 150% to 115% of normal health, and Enhancement Shaman's Stormstrike and Maelstrom Weapon are reworked in Forever's November 10 hotfixes.
Warlock and Hunter tuning is live in Forever: Wrack's damage per tick drops, but Corruption, Siphon Life and Bane of Agony tick twice as fast while channeling, and Hawk and Arcane Shot mana costs are flattened.
Enhancement Shaman's class weapon Rage of the Storm was hotfixed on the Weekly Reset, raising attack speed from 2.3 to 2.6 and swapping +12 Intellect for +16 Strength ahead of the wider class tuning.
Blizzard is making character creation on the more populated faction on Forever PvP realms harder, aiming for a closer 50/50 split. Horde is the larger faction on NA PvP and Alliance on EU RP-PvP.
Blizzard plans Forever hotfixes on November 10 to make Hunter and Warlock Voidwalker pets sturdier as tanks, curb Affliction's always-on Wrack, and shift Enhancement Shamans toward Strength and Attack Power.
Crix's interview with Kris Zierhut and Tim Jones covers Forever's Tier 1 set spread across three raids, Shaman and Warlock pet tuning, Frost Mage PvP, and the roadmap of two content updates.
Blizzard's Kris Zierhut says Shaman talents could be revisited early next year via a patch, with Enhancement's spell power gear and Elemental's Lava Burst under watch, after the Shaman Classic Discord shut down in protest.
Blizzard's WoW: Forever pre-launch notes overhaul class tuning, raising damage across most classes and reworking talents, races and gamepad support ahead of the November 4 launch.
Hunters receive a broad Forever hotfix buff on live servers, with Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot, Sniper Shot and Trueshot Aura all rising and partly reversing last week's nerfs.
A new Poised passive for Druids (level 32) and Rogues (level 18) reduces Energy ability costs out of combat at max energy, datamined on live Forever servers.
Druids and Paladins get massive talent tree overhauls, and Hunters, Mages, Priests, Warlocks and Warriors receive tuning changes, all live on Forever servers before its November 4 launch.
Hunters were nerfed on live Forever servers, with Aspect of the Hawk and raid buff Trueshot Aura both cut back, and the low-level Elixir of Wisdom potion was weakened too.
Blizzard's Forever tuning follow-up cuts Blood Fury's cooldown to 2 minutes for Orcs and Touch of the Grave's internal cooldown to 15 seconds for Undead, and clarifies Skyborne's Charged and Attuned persist through death.
Blizzard announces a final racial ability tuning pass before WoW: Forever launches, removing Dwarf's Earth Fury and Orc's Savage, re-adding Command, and adjusting Tauren Plainsrunning and Skyborne Read Leyline.
Warlockguy won the Forever Open, Tipsoutbaby's community PvP tournament on the Forever beta, and Warlocks posted a 79% win rate among the level 30 entrants.
Protection Paladins took a significant hit in the Forever beta: Consecration's spell power coefficient was halved and Shield Specialization mana was cut from 6% to 4%, though Salvation no longer competes with other blessings.
Blizzard says solo battleground queues in WoW: Forever will no longer be matched against premade groups, while a small-group option of around 2-3 players is still being decided.
