Class Changes in Battle for Azeroth

In Battle for Azeroth, the upcoming WoW expansion following Legion, all playable classes have received a significant update. Many abilities removed with the mass prune from Legion as well as past expansions are back! In this overview, we'll highlight all class abilities, as well as new, changed, or removed talents. Grey to green text indicate changes between Legion and the current version of Battle for Azeroth; more information can be found by going to the Changelog within the relevant spell page. Keep in mind that information is largely derived from the tooltips, so typographical errors may be intentional to match.

Some notable overall changes:

• Individual buttons for Druid travel forms.

  • Each individual Druid travel form now has its own passive ability, meaning druids can glyph different forms for each of their travel forms.
• Arcane Torrent and Every Man for Himself changed.

  • Two of the strongest racial effects have received changes in BfA, with Arcane Torrent receiving a new effect and added to the GCD and Every Man for Himself having its cooldown increased.
• The majority of class cooldowns have been added to the GCD.

  • Abilities that are in the Global Cooldown, or GCD, cannot be used at the same time, meaning you must wait for the default GCD, 1.5s reduced by haste, until you can use your next ability.
  • Before BfA, many abilities were called "off-GCD" as you could two or more of them at the same time, even in the same button macro. For BfA, Blizzard started to reduce to amount of abilities in this state.
• All melee abilities now scale with both Attack Power and Weapon Damage.

  • The actual ability damage formula for all non-casters has changed, and now all those abilities use both weapon damage and attack power, even abilities like Shield Slam or Howling Blast.
  • This appears to be intended to create a better balance between classes, rather than some favoring weapons heavily ( Warrior), while others hardly at all ( Monk).
• Bleed and Poison ticks now scale with Haste.

  • Bleeds and poisons from Hunter, Rogue, and Warrior were the only over time effects not affected by haste, which is being changed in Battle for Azeroth.
• Hunter pets have set specializations, which offer different types of utility, and several pet families have changed specs.

  • Hunter pets are receiving an overhaul in BfA to improve their utility and streamline their usability.
• Battle for Azeroth has a huge stat and ilvl squish.

  • Battle for Azeroth implements the second stat squish for World of Warcraft, two expansions after the Warlords of Draenor Squish.
  • Unlike Warlords, Battle for Azeroth will also have an item level squish, changing the item level previously found on classic items as well.
    
    
    
    
    
    Specialization
    Blood Death Knight   Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done by 15% 29%.
• Blood Boil   Deals (375%30% of Attack power) Shadow damage.
• Dancing Rune Weapon   Summons a rune weapon for 8 sec that mirrors your melee attacks and bolsters your defenses.
  While active, you gain 40% parry chance.
  Cooldown changed from 3 min cooldown to 2 min cooldown
• Death and Decay   Blood: Corrupts the targeted ground, causing iffmod">28.62%[color=#66ff33]3.6036% of Attack power) * 11] Shadow damage over 10 sec to targets within the area.
  While you remain within the area, your Heart Strike will hit up to 3 additional targets.
• Death's Caress   Reach out with necrotic tendrils, dealing (90%14.742% of Attack power) Shadow damage and applying Blood Plague to your target.
• Gorefiend's Grasp   Shadowy tendrils coil around all enemies within 2015 yards of a hostile or friendly target, pulling them to the target's location.
• Heart Strike   Instantly strike the target and 1 other nearby enemy, causing 203%24.219% of Attack Power Physical damage, and reducing enemies' movement speed by 50%20% for 8 sec.
  Generates 5 bonus runic power.
• Icebound Fortitude   Your blood freezes, granting immunity to Stun effects and reducing all damage you take by 20%30% for 8 sec.
  
• Marrowrend   Smash the target, dealing 315%37.557% of Attack Power Physical damage and generating 3 charges of Bone Shield.
  Bone Shield: Surrounds you with a barrier of whirling bones, reducing all damage you take by 16% and increasingincreasing Armor by (40 * Strength / 100), and your Haste by 10%. Each melee swingattack against you consumes a charge. Lasts 30 sec or until all charges are consumed.
• Mastery: Blood Shield   Each time you heal yourself with Death Strike, you gain 12%12.0% of the base amount healed as a Physical damage absorption shield.
  Also increases your attack power by 8.0%.
• Veteran of the Third War   Increases StaminaStamina increased by 50% and Armor by 15%.increased by 20%.
  
  Talents
  
  
  
  Removed
  
  REMOVED Blood Mirror   Afflict an enemy with Blood Mirror for 10 sec.  While active, 20% of any damage dealt to you is redirected to the target.
• REMOVED Blood Tap   Consume shadowy essence.
  Generates 1 Rune.
  Maximum 2 charges. the essence around you to generate 1 Rune.
  Recharge time reduced by 2 sec whenever a Bone Shield charge is consumed.
• REMOVED Heart of Ice   Death Strike extends the duration of Icebound Fortitude by 2 sec.
• REMOVED March of the Damned   Wraith Walk lasts 100% longer and breaks stun, snare, and root effects when cast.
• REMOVED Spectral Deflection (NYI/TBD)   Attacks that deal more than 25% of your maximum health will consume an additional Bone Shield charge to further reduce the damage.
• REMOVED (Spell #206960)   Enemies damaged by your Death and Decay have a chance to cower in place for 3 sec, but cannot suffer from this effect more than once per 10 sec. Damage may cancel the effect.
  
  
  New
  
  NEW Consumption   Strikes all enemies in front of you with a hungering attack that deals (40% of Attack power)% Physical damage and heals you for 100% of that damage.
  Tier 2 Talent