@PTR – 3.1 patch notes

Classes: General

Spirit: The amount of mana regeneration granted by this stat has been reduced by 40%.

Druids

• Abolish Poison: Now ticks every 3 seconds, up from every 2. Now lasts 12 seconds, up from 8.
• Innervate: This spell no longer costs mana.
• Lifebloom: Mana cost of all ranks doubled.When Lifebloom blooms or is dispelled, it now refunds half the base mana cost of the spell per application of Lifebloom, and the heal effect is multiplied by the number of applications.

Bug Fix 

• Lifebloom: Corrected some bugs with the new blooming functionality and dispels.
• Wild Growth: Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Wild Growth ranks from overwriting each other

Glyph

• Glyph of Nourish: Your Nourish heals an additional 6% for each of your heal-over-time effects present on the target.
• Glyph of Wild Growth: Wild Growth now affects up to 6 targets.

 Items  Talents

• Glyph of Rejuvenation: Effects which modify healing done will no longer be applied a second time to the healing granted by this glyph.

Tier 8 Set Bonus:

• Item – Druid T8 Restoration 2P Bonus (Class: Druid) — Increases the healing done by your Swiftmend spell by 10%.
• Item – Druid T8 Restoration 4P Bonus (Class: Druid) — Your Rejuvenation spell also instantly heals your target for its periodic healing amount. 

 

Talents

• Restoration
  • Living Seed: This talent now accounts for total healing including overhealing.
  • Improved Mark of the Wild:Now also increases all of your total attributes by 1/2%.
  • Intensity: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting.
  • New Talent: Improved Barkskin: Increases the damage reduction granted by your Barkskin spell by 5/10%, and increases your resistance to Dispel mechanics by an additional 30/60% while under the effect of Barkskin.
  • Improved Regrowth: This talent is renamed Nature’s Bounty. Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth and Nourish spells by 5/10/15/20/25%.
  • Replenish: This talent is now re-named Revitalize and also works with Wild Growth.
  • Tree of Life: Now receives 240% increased armor. You can now use Nature’s Grasp and Thorns while within this form. In addition, the discount on heal-over-time spells from this talent is now active at all times, whether or not the druid is in Tree of Life form. Mana cost reduced to match the cost of Travel Form
•   Balance
  • Nature’s Grace redesigned: All spell critical strikes have a 33/66/100% chance to grace you with a Blessing of Nature, increasing your spell casting speed by 20% for 3 seconds.
  • Celestial Focus redesigned: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Starfire, Hibernate and Hurricane by 23/46/70% and increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.

•  -continue- Balance
  • Eclipse: The benefit to Wrath triggered by casting Starfire has been increased to 30% bonus damage.
  • Insect Swarm: The bonus damage from spellpower on this damage-over-time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes.
  • Mark of the Wild and Gift of the Wild can now be cast while in Moonkin form.
  • Owlkin Frenzy is now properly considered an Enrage effect. Now also does not trigger from spell hits, only physical ranged and melee attacks.
  • Typhoon: Now causes a 3-second daze.
  • Starfall: Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds.
• Feral
  • New Talent: Primal Gore: Grants the periodic damage from your Lacerate and Rip abilities the chance to critically hit.
  • Heart of the Wild: Stamina bonus changed to 2/4/6/8/10%.
  • Predatory Strikes: This talent no longer works when in Moonkin form.
  • Primal Tenacity: The damage reduction while stunned effect now only works in Cat Form.
  • Rend and Tear: The critical strike bonus for Ferocious Bite reduced to 5/10/15/20/25%, down from 10/20/30/40/50%.
  • Savage Roar is now considered an Enrage effect and now increases physical damage done by 30% instead of increasing attack power.
  • Survival of the Fittest: Bonus armor reduced to 11/22/33% instead of 22/44/66%.
  • Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral): Now decreases armor of your target by 5%. Has a 5-minute duration, and a 40-second PvP duration.
  • Feral Faerie Fire: The damage generated by this ability in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form has been increased substantially.
  • Maim: This ability is now considered a stun, and shares a diminish category with all other stuns.It no longer has a chance to break from the target taking damage. Duration lowered to 1 second per combo point.
  • Pounce: No longer affected by diminishing returns with other stuns, however, it now shares a diminishing return with Cheap Shot (Rogue).
  • Savage Defense: Trainable at level 40 with Dire Bear Form as a prerequisite. When the Druid deals a melee critical strike, they gain a physical damage shield equal to 25% of their attack power. The next hit completely consumes the shield, regardless of how much damage was done. Only active in Bear Form.
  • Swipe: The Bear Form and Dire Bear Form version of this ability no longer has a targeting requirement and hits targets behind the druid and to the sides
•   Glyphs
  • Glyph of Barkskin: Reduces the chance you’ll be critically hit by melee attacks by 25% while Barkskin is active.
  • Glyph of Berserk: Increases the duration of Berserk by 5 seconds.
  • Glyph of Monsoon: Reduces the cooldown of your Typhoon spell by 3 seconds.
  • Glyph of Nourish: Your Nourish heals an additional 6% for each of your heal-over-time effects present on the target.
  • Glyph of Rebirth: Target now returns to life with full health.
  • Glyph of Savage Roar: Your Savage Roar ability grants an additional 3% bonus damage done.
  • Glyph of Shred: Now increases remaining duration on Rip by 2 seconds each time it is used, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
  • Glyph of Starfall: Changed to reduce the cooldown by 30 seconds.
  • Glyph of Survival Instincts: Increases the percentage of your maximum health received from Survival Instincts to 40%.
  • Glyph of Wild Growth: Wild Growth now affects up to 6 targets
•   Bug Fixes 
  • Bash: This ability will now still interrupt casting even if the victim is immune to the stun due to diminishing returns.
  • Feral Attack Power: Heirloom weapons now correctly grant the amount of attack power in Cat, Bear, and Dire Bear Forms that is stated on the weapon tooltip. In addition, the attack power bonus will now work properly for druids below level 60.
  • Lifebloom: Corrected some bugs with the new blooming functionality and dispels.
  • Predatory Strikes: This talent now properly affects the attack power gained from weapon enchants.
  • Swipe: Now properly affected by area-of-effect damage caps.
  • Thorns: This spell will now properly use the druid’s spell power to determine its scaling instead of the target’s spell power.
  • Wild Growth: Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Wild Growth ranks from overwriting each other