A new build is on the beta, and with it, a few changes to our spells:
- Wild Mushroom changed, only 3 mushrooms can be placed at one time (Down from 5).
- Cyclone cast time increased to 2 sec. Up from 1.5 sec.
- Faerie Fire now has a 35 yards range, up from 30 yards.
- Insect Swarm now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.
- Starfire now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.
- Entangling Roots now has a 35 yards range, up from 30 yards.
- Thorns now lasts 20 sec, down from 10 minutes. Damage increased by 1400% (Deals 447 damage instead of 32)
- Moonfire now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.
- Wrath now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.
- Moonkin Form now increases Nature and Arcane spell damage by 10%.
- Starlight Wrath now reduces cast time by 0.15/0.25/0.5 sec. (Up from 0.1/0.2/0.3 sec)
First off, props to the creative way to make us want to stay in moonkin form. Ah well, we don’t really need anything fancy to do that, the “you get more damage here” sign will do the trick.
A lot of our spells have gotten increased range. In our case, it seems like a generic 40 yard range, but this is not the case for all classes! It would seem like some spells, for all classes, are capped at 30 yards where others have a 40 yard range. This is interesting because it means I can nuke a warlock from 40 yards range, but he would have to walk 10 yards to be close enough to cast a fear. Not a bad way to force people to make the decision between nuking, healing or CCing.
Starligth Wrath was buffed, which makes sense, while Wild Mushroom was nerfed to 3 shrooms at any one time. Lets take a moment to write up a long blog post about Shrooms being nerfed, so that we.. wait, nevermind. We don’t know the amount of damage it does, how it plays into our rotation, what glyphs it will have and so on. I guess we’ll just wait and see instead.
Lastly, a very interesting change to thorns: It is now a defensive spell. Defensive in the way of saying “If you touch me, you’re going to hurt!”. It is a fine way to do some extra damage, especially if you are either AOE grinding, tanking a bunch of mobs, or if you are being ganked by a rogue. It is no longer a weak retribution aura, but an offensive defense spell, which should give us a bit of fun.
- QQ
