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The history of the changes made to the Druid class during the beta and beyond are detailed below with the most recent at the top.

Contents 1 Patch 2.1.2 (2007-06-19) 2 Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22) 3 Patch 2.0.10 (2007-03-06) 4 Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09) 5 Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05) 6 Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22) 7 Patch 1.11.2 (2006-07-11) 8 Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-20) 9 Patch 1.10.1 (2006-04-11) 10 Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28) 11 Patch 1.9.1 (2006-01-10) 12 Patch 1.9.0 (2006-01-03) 13 Patch 1.8.0 (11 October 2005) 14 Patch 1.7.0 (13 September 2005) 15 Patch 1.6.0 (12 July 2005) 16 Patch 1.4.0 (20 April 2005) 17 Patch 1.3.0 (22 March 2005) 18 Patch 1.2.0 (21 December 2004) 19 Patch 1.1.1 (17 November 2004) 20 Patch 1.1.0 (7 November 2004) 21 Beta Patch 0.12.0 (10 October 2004) 22 Beta Patch 0.11.0(28 September 2004) 23 Beta Patch 0.10.0 (16 September 2004) 24 Beta Patch 0.9.0 (15 August 2004) 25 Beta Patch 0.8.0 (7 July 2004)

Patch 2.1.2 (2007-06-19)

• Druids in Swift Flight form can no longer loot herb nodes.
• Force of Nature: This spell will no longer causes players it is cast on to enter combat with nearby creatures. All of the treants summoned will now attack a neutral creature they are summoned on.
• Tree of Life: The bonus-healing aura from this talent will reactivate when a Banish effect wears off a Druid in Tree Form.

Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22)

• The Druid Epic Flight Form is now available through a series of quests.
• Barkskin now reduces all damage taken, with its duration reduced to 12 seconds and cooldown reduced to 1 minute. The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate this ability can be used while frozen, incapacitated, or cowering in fear. That functionality was already present, but not listed in the tooltip.
• Bear Form and Dire Bear Form: The bonus health from shapeshifting into these forms will again be removed correctly when shifting out of these forms.
• Bestial Wrath: The immunity granted by thtis ability now lasts the full duration of the ability. Bestial Wrath now grants immunity to Cyclone. Cyclone will no longer prevent the immunities from being granted.
• Celestial Focus: The delay on the stun effect for Starfire has been reduced.
• Cyclone: This ability will no longer work on hunters with The Beast Within active or hunter pets with Bestial Wrath active.
• Feral Charge now suppresses all Slowing effects while charging the target.
• Fixed a data error that caused Swiftmend to generate more threat than intended.
• Force of Nature: These pets will now come into the game with full health, including that gained from a percentage of their master's stamina.
• Force of Nature: The Treants summoned by this spell will now correctly attack your target even if it is neutral or non-aggressive.
• Gift of the Wild, ranks 1 and 2, are now available on trainers.
• Gift of the Wild: Rank 3 of this ability now has the same range as ranks 1 and 2.
• Improved Leader of the Pack: This ability will no longer generate threat.
• Lacerate: The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it does initial bleed damage when the ability first lands.
• Lifebloom: Each additional application of this spell will now include the full bonus from effects which increase healing. The finalheal, however, is still unaffected by stacking multiple applications of this spell.
• Mangle(Bear): Damage increased by 15%, but bonus threat reduced so that overall threat generation will be unchanged.
• Nature's Grace: This talent is now triggered by Swiftmend and Lifebloom, and is triggered by and affects Cyclone.
• Nature's Grasp: The mana cost has been removed from all ranks as intended.
• Omen of Clarity: This spell is no longer castable in Tree of Life Form or Moonkin Form.
• Prowlwill now be broken correctly by damage shields such as Oil of Immolation.
• Rake: The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate the initial damage done is bleed damage. In addition, Rake can now always be re-applied, even when Mangle is active.
• Shapeshifting will no longer remove the Rotting Putrescence creature debuff.
• Subtlety (Restoration Talent) now applies to all spells, not just healing spells.

Swiftmend: This ability will now be correctly penalized for casting low rank Rejuvenations and Regrowths just as other healing spells are penalized.

• Swiftmend: The button for this ability will now be greyed out when your current target does not have Rejuvenation or Regrowth.
• Teleport: Moonglade: This spell is no longer castable in Tree of Life Form.
• Tree of Life Form: The tooltip has been corrected to indicate Nature's Swiftness and Rebirth are castable in this form.

Patch 2.0.10 (2007-03-06)

• When the duration of "Cyclone" ends, area buffs such as "Leader of the Pack", "Tree of Life", and "Moonkin" will now be correctly resumed.
• "Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health.
• "Dire Bear Form" now grants 25% increased stamina instead of 25% increased health. In addition, the armor bonus has been reduced from 450% to 400%.
• The multiplier on base weapon damage for "Mangle (Bear)" ability has been changed from 130% to 100%. In addition, the bonus damage has been reduced by the same ratio.
• "Savage Fury" no longer affects "Mangle (Bear)".
• "Savage Fury" no longer applies to "Maul" or "Swipe".
• The critical damage bonus on "Predatory Instincts" reduced from 3/6/9/12/15% to 2/4/6/8/10%.
• "Improved Leader of the Pack" can no longer get critical heals.
• The armor bonus from "Moonkin Form" has been increased from 360% to 400% (to match Dire Bear Form).
• The rage normalization equation has been adjusted to grant more rage.

Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09)

• Due to various talent changes, all Druids will have all their talent points refunded.
• "Feline Swiftness" has been renamed "Feral Swiftness". The dodge % increase now also applies to Bear and Dire Bear Forms.
• "Improved Moonfire" has been reduced to 2 ranks, for a 5/10% bonus.
• "Insect Swarm" has had its damage on all ranks increased. The mana cost of ranks 1 and 3 has been increased. The mana cost of ranks 4,5 and 6 has been decreased.
• "Nurturing Instinct" now grants its benefit at all times, but the bonus has been reduced to 25/50% of Strength.
• "Improved Starfire" has been renamed to "Celestial Focus" and now also increases the chance to resist casting pushback when casting "Wrath" by 25/50/70%.
• "Blood Frenzy" benefits have merged with "Primal Fury".
• "Improved Leader of the Pack" has been reduced to 2 ranks for 2/4% total health healed.
• "Pounce" no longer requires the druid to be behind the target.
• "Barkskin" is now usable while stunned.
• Druids now need substantially less agility per dodge.
• "Dire Bear Form" armor bonus increased to 450% and health bonus changed to a 25% percent health increase instead of a flat increase.
• The Health bonus of "Bear Form" has changed to a 25% percent health increase instead of a flat increase.
• "Swipe" has had its threat bonus multiplier removed.
• "Maul" has had its threat bonus multiplier changed to a flat value similar in threat per time to "Heroic Strike".
• "Regrowth" has had its mana cost reduced by approximately 18%.
• "Tree of Life" healing bonus now increases the healing received by your party members instead of the healing dealt by your party members.
• The "Tranquility" base amount healed per second has increased by approximately 273%. The radius of effect has increased from 20 yards to 30 yards. Mana cost has increased by 40%. The Cooldown has increased from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. The Duration has decreased from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
• "Mangle" will not stack multiple copies from multiple forms or druids anymore. This was never intended behavior. The percentage modification on bleeds has increased from 25% to 30% and "Mangle" now increases the damage from "Shred" as well. In addition, "Mangle" will now benefit from the damage boost from "Tiger's Fury".
• "Enrage" will now show up in the combat log and in floating combat text.
• "Lifebloom" will now correctly consume clearcasting.
• "Predatory Instincts" has had its tooltip adjusted to indicate it only works in feral forms, and that it increases damage by a percent, not damage bonus by a percent.
• If a spell is resisted, it will no longer break stealth.
• "Tree of Life's" bonus healing aura will now reactivate correctly when "Banish" wears off.
• Shapeshifted druids will now be able to speak to npcs while shapeshifted.

Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05)

• The talent "Swiftmend" will now include bonus healing from the talents "Improved Rejuvenation" and "Empowered Rejuvenation".
• "Feline Swiftness" has been renamed "Feral Swiftness". Dodge % increase now also applies to Bear and Dire Bear Forms.
• "Improved Moonfire" has been reduced to 2 ranks, for a 5/10% bonus.
• "Insect Swarm" has had damage on all ranks increased. Mana cost of ranks 1,3 increased. Mana cost of ranks 4,5,6 decreased.
• "Nurturing Instinct" now grants the benefit at all times, but the bonus has been reduced to 25/50% of Strength.
• "Omen of Clarity's" duration has been increased to 30 min.
• "Improved Starfire" has been renamed to "Celestial Focus". It now also increases the chance to resist pushback when casting Wrath by 25/50/70%.
• "Blood Frenzy's" benefits have now merged with "Primal Fury".
• "Improved Leader of the Pack" has been reduced to 2 ranks for 2/4% total health healed.
• "Pounce" no longer requires the druid to be behind the target.
• "Barkskin" is now usable while stunned.

Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22)

• Barkskin: The tooltip has been changed to 25% due to the haste effect change.
• Cat Form: This form now has an innate threat reduction component.
• Ferocious Bite: Book of Ferocious Bite (Rank 5) now drops off The Beast in Black Rock Spire. In addition, Ferocious Bite now increases in potency with greater attack power.
• Furor: This talent now works correctly with Cat Form again.
• Improved Shred: The discounted cost for Shred will now be displayed correctly even when you are not in Cat Form.
• Rip: Lesser potency Rips will no longer overwrite greater potency ones.
• Fixed a bug where the incorrect sound was being played by the Claw attack.

Patch 1.11.2 (2006-07-11)

• The tool tip for the talent Omen of Clarity now reflects its new duration of 10 minutes.
• Fixed an issue where players with the Heart of the Wild talent were losing health each time they shifted to Bear Form or Dire Bear Form.
• Fixed an issue where players with the Furor talent were not staying in combat mode when shifting to bear form and were losing the extra rage generated.

Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-20)

• Innervate: This spell is now a base ability for all Druids, trainable at level 40. Any Druid who formerly had the Innervate talent now has the Swiftmend talent instead.
• Nature's Grace: You will no longer consume this effect when casting a spell which was made instant by Nature's Swiftness.
• Swiftmend: This new talent has been added to the Druid Restoration tree, replacing Innervate as the 31 point ultimate talent. It consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth aura to produce an instant heal.
• Enrage: Tooltip edited to clarify functionality.

Patch 1.10.1 (2006-04-11)

• Nature's Grace will now correctly trigger after every spell critical strike.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented the Omen of Clarity talent from casting.

Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28)

• Healing Touch - Mana cost on all ranks reduced approximately 9%.
• Ravage - Can no longer be dodged, parried, or blocked.
• Cure Poison - Can no longer be cast while in Moonkin form.
• Gift of the Wild - Range and area of effect increased.
• Rip - Is now properly considered a Bleed effect.
• All shapeshift forms can now use equipped items.
• Nature's Swiftness - Now makes Rebirth and Soothe Animal spells instant cast.
• Bear Form and Dire Bear Form - It is no longer possible at very low health to die when shifting out of these forms.
• Pounce - This ability will no longer apply its bleed effect when the attack misses or is dodged.
• Some creature Mana Drain spells were previously able to mana drain druids in forms that do not display mana. That has been fixed.
• Previously, shifting into an animal form granted a one-second immunity to roots and snares. That has been changed to dispelling roots and snares.
• A new level 52 druid quest that takes place in Un'Goro crater has been added.

Patch 1.9.1 (2006-01-10)

• Heart of the Wild - Previously, when shifting to Bear Form or Dire Bear Form, this talent would cause your current health to increase by the same amount as your max health. Now it will cause your percentage of max health to be the same before and after the shift, as well as shifting back to humanoid form. As a result, shifting in and out of these forms will no longer cause an increase in current health.
• Druids with the Symbol of Unending Energy will now be properly awarded 30 energy if their finishing move is dodged, parried, blocked, or missed.
• Feral Charge – Should no longer desync characters from the server when charging from land to water.

Patch 1.9.0 (2006-01-03)

• Bear and Dire Bear form - Effects that lower armor will now lower armor by a percentage of the druid's full armor, rather than just base (caster form) armor. However, Enrage will still only remove 75% of base armor.
• Omen of Clarity - Special attacks will no longer consume their own

 clearcasting state. All melee attacks will now be able to trigger the clearcasting state.

• Nature's Grasp - This spell can now trigger from special melee attacks. It will no longer be possible to cast Entangling Roots at no mana cost immediately after Nature's Grasp procs.
• Nature's Grace - The Nature's Grace buff will now appear on the player upon completion of casting, before the travel time of the spell. So, Wrath crits will now benefit the casting time of the next spell cast.
• Insect Swarm - New icon.
• Improved Starfire - The stun effect's duration no longer diminishes or is diminished by controlled stun abilities and spells (e.g. Cheap Shot, Hammer of Justice, Charge etc.).
• Omen of Clarity - This spell now works correctly with Bash, Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Demoralizing Roar, granting a decrease in the cost of the ability. Ferocious Bite will still use the entire energy

 bar to generate additional damage. 

• Cat Form - Feline Swiftness will now regain its speed increase when moving from indoors to outdoors.
• Cure Poison - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
• Remove Curse - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
• Abolish Poison - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.

Patch 1.8.0 (11 October 2005)

• Due to significant talent changes, talent points for Druids have been refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell/ability replacements have been significantly reduced.
• Hurricane - No longer a talent. Now available to all Druids at level 40. Damage and Mana cost increased on all ranks. Spell is now cast on a targeted area up to 30 yards away and affected by Nature’s Reach. Multiple Druids casting Hurricane will no longer stack the slowdown effect. Radius of effect decreased slightly.
• Remove Curse - Updated tooltip to reflect that it's usable on friendly targets only.
• Shapeshifting - Fixed a bug where the Chilled effect caused by Ice Armor/Frost Armor was not removed properly when shapeshifting.
• Swipe - Self cooldown removed.
• Tranquility - Cooldown reduced to 5 minutes. Mana cost reduced by 25%.
• Cat Form - The attack power bonus from the base cat form will now calculate correctly on zoning or logging in.

Patch 1.7.0 (13 September 2005)

• Improved Starfire - The stun effect can now be resisted.
• Druids should now be able to shapeshift back into caster form while Feared.
• Cat Form - The base weapon damage of the form has been increased.
• Cat Form - Each point of agility now adds 1 attack power.
• Cat Form - Rip's damage per combo point has been increased.
• Cat Form - Ferocious Bite's damage per combo point has been increased In addition, extra energy now converts to damage at a higher rate.
• Cat Form - Replaced global cooldown on Tiger's Fury with a 1 second self cooldown. In addition, its duration has been increased to 6 seconds.
• Cat Form - Rake's damage has been increased.
• Entangling Roots now shares the same duration in pvp as other long-duration forms of crowd control (ie: polymorph, fear, sap).

Patch 1.6.0 (12 July 2005)

• Shapeshifting will now counteract the slowing effects of frost-based spells (Frostbolt, Frost Shock, Cone of Cold, etc.).
• Feral Charge - Targets that are immune to immobilizing effects will no longer be affected by Feral Charge's immobilizing effect. The interrupt will still affect the target.
• Druid shapeshift form buttons are no longer dimmed while under the effects of Polymorph.

Patch 1.4.0 (20 April 2005)

• Ravage and Shred now properly increase the attack power contribution by the percent modifier.
• Shapeshifting into an animal form will now remove Polymorph effects.
• Feral Charge - Fixed a bug where the ability cost 10 rage instead of five as intended. Should now cost five rage.
• Entangling Roots - Now subject to diminishing returns in PvP. This is considered an immobilizing effect.

Patch 1.3.0 (22 March 2005)

• Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
• Rebirth - Casting time and mana cost reduced; now ignores resurrection timers.
• Swiftshifting - Talent changed. When leaving a shapeshift form, the next shapeshift form you take will have a 20%/40%/60% mana cost reduction if used within 6 seconds.
• Gift of the Wild - This spell is now cast on the target's party.
• Cat Form - DPS increase at levels 40-60.
• New Ability (Cat Form): Ferocious Bite (available at level 32). Finishing move that causes damage per combo point and converts each extra point of energy into additional damage.
• New Spell: Barkskin (available at level 44) - The druid's skin becomes as tough as bark. Physical damage taken is reduced. While protected, taking damage will not cause spellcasting delays, but non-instant spells take longer to cast and melee combat is slowed.
• New Ability (Bear Form): Frenzied Regeneration (available at level 36) - Converts an amount of rage into health every second for a short duration.

Patch 1.2.0 (21 December 2004)

• Entangling Roots: Rank 4 moved to level 38.
• New Spell: Gift of the Wild (Level 50).
• Longer lasting Mark of the Wild spell that buffs the entire group. Requires a reagent to cast. (Spell is available via loot drop only).
• Bear Form: Armor bonus increased from 65% to 180%.
• Dire Bear Form: Armor bonus increased from 125% to 360%.
• Hibernate: Players now have an increasing chance to break free of the effect, such that it is unlikely the effect will last more than 15 seconds.

Talent Changes

• A bug causing the Hurricane talent to not require channeling has been fixed. This spell now correctly requires channeling.

Patch 1.1.1 (17 November 2004)

• Bear Form has been improved to hold aggro more effectively.
• Growl: removed rage cost and global cool down.
• Cower: increased the effect, added a cool down.
• Reagent requirements have been removed from Mark of the Wild.
• Talent Changes The effect of Improved Moonfire has been reduced per rank.

Patch 1.1.0 (7 November 2004)

• Removed facing direction requirement from Entangling Roots, Faerie Fire, Hibernate, and Soothe Animal.
• New Spell: Rebirth (Level 20).
• New Ability: Feline Grace (Level 40).
• Bear Form abilities that target one or more enemies now generate additional threat.
• Enrage: Cool down increased.
• Growl: Now gives the target enough threat to attack you, cool down added.
• Hibernate: Increased the chance of breaking early.
• Mark of the Wild: Ranks 5, 6, and 7 now require reagents.

Beta Patch 0.12.0 (10 October 2004)

• Travel Form is now only useable outdoors.
• Cower, Growl and Challenging Roar are now useable against targetsthat are immune to physical attacks.
• New Spell: Hibernate (Level 18).
• Shapeshifting now breaks roots, snares, and freeze effects.
• All Shapeshift forms now include an immunity to polymorph effects.
• Bear Form - HP gain increased.
• Dire Bear Form - HP gain increased.

Beta Patch 0.11.0(28 September 2004)

• Dash can now be used while prowling.

Beta Patch 0.10.0 (16 September 2004)

• Cower no longer generates a combo point; energy cost reduced.
• Demoralizing Roar effect reduced at higher ranks.
• Track Humanoids now lasts until canceled, like other tracking abilities.
• Druid and Shaman talents are now available.

Beta Patch 0.9.0 (15 August 2004)

• Tiger's Fury damage should now scale properly when used with Shred and Ravage.
• Faerie Fire will now stack with other armor reducing debuffs.
• Entangling Roots should no longer end early based on damage caused by itself.
• When in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, Cat Form, Travel Form or Aquatic Form,the druid is now considered a Beast.
• Travel Form is no longer useable underwater.
• Shape shifting will no longer cancel all buffs on the Druid.
• Shape shifting cool down reduced from 10 to 1.5 seconds.
• Play Dead has been removed.
• Druids now regenerate mana while in shape shift form.
• When shape shifting into and out of Bear/Dire Bear forms, you shouldnow end with the same % of health as you had in the previous form.
• Bear Form’s armor increased.Dire Bear Form’s melee damage increased.
• Bear Form and Dire Bear Form mana cost slightly reduced.
• Cat Form mana cost slightly reduced, energy now starts generating immediately.
• Growl taunt effectiveness reduced.
• Aquatic Form mana cost now scales with level, speed no longer changes with level.
• Travel Form mana cost now scales with level.
• Healing Touch mana cost reduced.
• Starfire mana cost reduced.
• Thorns mana cost reduced for early ranks, raised for later ranks.

Beta Patch 0.8.0 (7 July 2004)

• Man Tracking has been renamed to Track Humanoid.
• Sneak: Renamed to Prowl.
• Feline Fury: Renamed to Tiger’s Fury.