WoW Druid

Ah…so much going on in the World of Warcraft when it comes to the Druid Class. The most recent patch, 3.2, offers a few nuggets of goodness and a few points that aren’t so hot. Overall grade for this patch as it effects Druids is about a C-.

Here is the full run down for the Druid Class…

• 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.
• Talents
  • Balance
    • 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.
  • Feral Combat
    • 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.
  • Restoration
    • 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%.
    
    

Also, this on the Innervate Glyph…Duration reduced to 10 seconds

And, finally…some Druid Bug fixes…

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

So there you go. You can read the entire patch over on mmo-champion.com