[2019] Upcoming PTR Class Changes 4/23

We have a few more class changes coming to the Rise of Azshara PTR. We made the initial changes and the following will be active on the PTR soon.

Vengeance

• Metamorphosis
  • Health bonus 50% (from 30%)
  • Now causes Shear to generate 20 additional Pain and 1 additional Lesser Soul Fragment (was: generates 7 Pain per second).
    • Developers’ Note: This significantly increases the self-healing potential of Metamorphosis, as well as the health buffer, making it a more reliable major cooldown against all types of damage.

Guardian

• Frenzied Regeneration (Rank 3) is learned at level 85:
  • Frenzied Regeneration spends up to 30 additional Rage to immediately heal you for up to 18% additional health.
    • Note: This spell is affected by Guardian of Elune, but not affected by mastery.

Frost Death Knight

• Runic Empowerment has a 2.0% chance to proc per Runic Power spent (from 1.5%)
• Frost Fever’s chance to generate Runic Power increased to 30%
  • Chance now diminishes on targets beyond the first
• Breath of Sindragosa now has double the usual chance to proc Runic Empowerment
• Breath of Sindragosa costs 18 Runic Power/sec (from 15)
  • Developers’ Note: Frost was starved of resources too often, especially when using Breath of Sindragosa. This increases Frosts’s Rune income baseline and includes a further change that returns many extra Runes while using Breath of Sindragosa. Breath builds will now be able to fill more global cooldowns with casts of Obliterate, to make up for the lost Frost Strikes. The cost of Breath itself is increased to keep its overall duration roughly unchanged.