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New Glyphs
* Glyph of Focus -- Increases the damage done by Starfall by 20%, but decreases its radius by 50%.
* Glyph of Typhoon -- Reduces the cost of your Typhoon spell by 8%, but it no longer knocks enemies back.

Skills
Feral
* Maim duration has been increased by 1 second. (3/4/5/6/7 seconds)
* Survival Instincts now temporarily grants you 30% of your current maximum health for 20 sec. (Old - 30% of your maximum health)

Talents

Feral
* Feral Instinct now affects all versions of Swipe. (Old - Swipe (Bear) only)
* Thick Hide now Increases your Armor contribution from cloth and leather items by 4/7/10%. (Old - All items)
* Protector of the Pack now Increases your attack power by 6% and reduces the damage you take by 12% while in Bear or Dire Bear Form. (Old - Only worked with Bear/Dire Bear Form, damage reduction was dependant of the amount of players in the group)
* Berserk now hit up to 1 target instead of 3. (Error ?

Balance
* Starfall has been slightly changed. Shapeshifting or mounting cancels the effect. Any effect which causes you to lose control of your character will supress the starfall effect.(Source )

* Feral Attack Power: All weapons now have the potential to grant feral attack power based on their dps (as compared to the best superior-quality weapons available at level 60). Players will see their existing feral weapons grant roughly the same attack power as they did before (+/- 2 or so), but many new weapons will be options for the feral druid. Some feral weapons have had strength converted to attack power to be more appealing to other classes able to equip them. All druids will see the amount of feral attack power granted by an item in the item tooltip, if it grants any, but other players will not see that information.
* Remove Curse and Abolish Poison can now be used in Moonkin form.
* Genesis: Now works with Tranquility and Hurricane.
* Growl: Range increased to 30 yards.
* King of the Jungle - The Bear effect is now physical, and thus cannot be dispelled.
* Nature's Grace - Now also effects Revive.
* Primal Tenacity: Now reduces the cost of Bear Form, Cat Form, and Dire Bear Form by 17/33/50% in addition to its previous effects.
* Protector of the Pack: No longer changes value based on party size.
* Savage Roar: The buff now persists outside of Cat Form but only provides its benefits while in Cat Form.
* Starfall will now be cancelled by any shapeshifting.
* Survival of the Fittest: This talent now grants 22/44/66% bonus armor in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form in addition to all of its previous effects.
* Swipe: Swipe (Cat) has now been added at level 71, dealing 260% weapon damage, costs 50 energy with no cooldown. All talents affecting the Bear Form version affect the Cat Form one as well.
* Wild Growth now has a 6 second cooldown.

Druid: Savage Fury - Mangle (Bear) damage was being increased by a higher percentage than intended. This has been fixed, and in result Mangle (Bear) should see roughly a 16% damage reduction. Also fixed a bug with Savage Fury where the Rake bleed effect was not being increased.

You missed one thing that's not really druid specific, but will make kitty druids happy while questing/grinding about:



Edited, Dec 11th 2008 3:18pm by Norellicus

* Nature's Grace - Now also effects Revive.

If ya'll don't mind my asking, when can we expect to see these changes in effect? A week or so?

Bear tanking idol
A Bear tanking idol is indeed needed and we are therefore looking into getting one added to the game (Source)

Feral Druid Weapons
It will be a slight nerf, but we're talking such a slight nerf that I would be surprised if you noticed it.

An item like the Staff of Trickery would give you a 10 AP loss, or 30 AP with Kings, after this change.

We use a conversion of 1 Str = 2.33 AP with Survival of the Fittest and Kings. I'm not sure where the extra AP is coming from in the conversion quoted above. (Source)

Changes to Starfall
We will let you shift from caster to Moonkin form or back without cancelling the spell.

We just didn't want players going cat or travel and racing around with Starfall hitting everything. It is an unusual spell since it requires no channeling and moves with you. We have to make it a little restrictive to solve some of these creative uses. (Source )