The changes at a glance
The main class numbers from the November 10 hotfixes, with the old value where Blizzard gave one.
| Class | Change | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter | Pet health | 150% (a mistake) | 115% |
| Hunter | Arcane Shot mana cost | 11% of base mana, all ranks | |
| Hunter | Summon Hawk | 11% of base mana; the Hawk's melee damage up about 80% | |
| Shaman (Enhancement) | Stormstrike damage | 150% weapon damage | 100% weapon damage |
| Shaman (Enhancement) | Stormstrike cooldown | 6 seconds | 8 seconds |
| Shaman (Enhancement) | Mental Dexterity (Intellect to Attack Power) | 50/100/150% | 33/66/100% |
| Shaman (Enhancement) | Maelstrom Weapon activations | 20 per minute at every rank | 6/7/8/9/10 per minute by rank |
| Warlock | Imp, Voidwalker, Incubus, Succubus base health | about 15% higher | |
| Warlock | Imp Firebolt, ranks 1-4 | more base damage |
Hunter: pets back to the intended health
Hunter pets had 150% of their normal health by mistake; Blizzard corrected it to 115%. Arcane Shot now costs 11% of base mana at every rank, and so does Summon Hawk, whose Hawk also hits about 80% harder in melee.
If you level a Hunter, your pet will feel less tanky than in the first week. Our Hunter leveling guide covers pet handling from level 10.
Enhancement Shaman: several Beta changes reversed
This hotfix walks back earlier Beta changes to Enhancement. Stormstrike now deals 100% weapon damage on an 8 second cooldown, Mental Dexterity converts less Intellect into Attack Power, and Maelstrom Weapon activates 6 to 10 times per minute depending on rank, each application cutting cast time and mana cost by 20%. Weapon imbues and totems can now be used together.
Paladin's Redoubt and Shaman's Maelstrom Weapon can now be tracked in the built-in Cooldown Manager. See our Shaman leveling guide.
Warlock: sturdier demons
The Imp, Voidwalker, Incubus and Succubus all get about 15% more base health, and the first four ranks of the Imp's Firebolt deal more base damage. For Destruction, Bane of Havoc now correctly triggers the global cooldown.
Our Warlock leveling guide covers pets and leveling.
Druid, Priest and Warrior fixes
- Druid (Restoration): Nature's Swiftness now also makes Wild Growth instant. Omen of Clarity can activate again after a spec swap.
- Priest: Vampiric Embrace healing no longer triggers the Revelation enchant. Holy Nova is unlearned correctly when you are no longer talented into it.
- Warrior (Arms): Sweeping Strikes no longer loses charges when no second target is hit.
Quests, Auction House, mounts and professions
- Most quests of level 48 and higher now also reward gold. Quests with valuable item rewards, repeatable quests and trivial quests are left out.
- Auction House: the minimum deposit drops from 1 silver to 1 copper (applied with realm restarts). Two mail bugs are fixed, including mail that arrived far sooner than the intended 60 minutes.
- All racial vendor mounts are now Bind-on-Pickup.
- Shatterspear Trolls no longer give experience on kill.
- Professions: Coarse Grinding Stone now skills up to 90, the Journeyman Campfire Kit needs Cooking 90, Lesser Spirit boot and bracer enchants now grant Spirit, and several crafted armor pieces sell to vendors for less.
Earlier hotfixes this week
The same Blizzard page keeps all WoW Forever hotfixes since November 5. The ones most players will notice:
- November 9: experience from all enemy kills in dungeons went up by 50%. Player population was lowered in crowded zones, and a bug that let players mount inside Stratholme was fixed.
- November 6: the Voidwalker's base health went up by about 40 at all levels.
Which game build is this?
The live client is build 1.60.1.70888. Blizzard publishes these class changes as hotfixes on its news page, not as a numbered patch. Kaivax, a Blizzard developer, wrote on November 6 that more class tuning could follow on later Tuesdays if needed.
Questions
Why does my Hunter pet have less health now?
Pet health was 150% of normal by mistake. On November 10 Blizzard set it to the intended 115%.
Do quests give gold at level 60 instead of experience?
They give both: most quests of level 48 and higher now also reward gold. Quests with valuable item rewards, repeatable quests and trivial quests do not.
Did dungeons get more experience?
Yes. The November 9 hotfix raised experience from all enemy kills in dungeons by 50%.