Dragonflight Fury Incarnate PTR Notes - Resto Druid Buffs, Mistweaver Monk Buffs, Hallow's End Event Changes

Author: Shadostruct
Date: July 26, 2023
Updated: July 26, 2023
Expansion: World of Warcraft

It appears healers are getting some love in these notes, and good thing as it’s definitely a tough role that’s under-represented in a lot of content currently. The Restoration Druid changes are quite interesting as it seems they’re trying out having summoned treants which can replace Nourish and will cast healing spells for their duration. Replacing a non-instant cast spell with a version that offers value after it’s been casted definitely fits in with the theme of resto Druids and their ability to heal on the move.

For Mistweaver Monks there’s some changes to the way their Mana Tea works to offer more value from it. This will hopefully smooth out some of the mana concerns from Mistweavers. Their raw healing output can be quite high, but they also use a high amount of mana to achieve that throughput.

Although there’s not many details it appears the Hallow’s End event taking place around Halloween will be getting a bit of a redesign. There’s mention of player-specific modifiers you can apply to make the encounter more difficult. Although for what purpose making it more difficult has, we have yet to see.

For the full breakdown, numbers, and details – check out the article below!

Linxy – (Source)

The Fury Incarnate PTR has been updated. See the changes below:

CLASSES

DRUID
- Restoration
  - New Talent: Master Shapeshifter – Your abilities are amplified based on your current shapeshift form, granting an additional effect.
    - Bear Form – Ironfur grants 30% additional armor and generates 2,500 mana (at level 70).
    - Cat Form – Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Maim deal 60% additional damage and generate 10,000 mana (at level 70) when cast with 5 combo points.
    - Moonkin Form – Wrath, Starfire, and Starsurge deal 30% additional damage and generate 2,500 mana (at level 70).
  - New Talent: Grove Guardians – Summons a Treant which will immediately cast Swiftmend on your current target. The Treant will cast Nourish on that target or a nearby ally periodically. Lasts 15 seconds. Maximum 3 charges. Replaces Nourish.
  - Wild Synthesis has been updated – If talented into Grove Guardians, now causes your Treants from Grove Guardians to also cast Wild Growth immediately when summoned, healing allies within 40 yards over 7 seconds.
  - Embrace of the Dream is now a 1 point talent and its healing has been decreased by 20%.
  - All healing reduced by 2%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
  - Deep Focus has been removed.
  - Forest’s Flow has been removed.
MONK
- Mistweaver
  - New Talent: Energizing Brew – Mana Tea now channels 50% faster and generates 20% more mana.
  - Mana Tea has been redesigned – For every 25,000 mana (at level 70) you spend, you gain 1 stack of Mana Tea, with a chance equal to your critical strike chance to generate 1 extra stack. Activate to consume 1 stack of Mana Tea per 0.5 seconds to restore 3,000 mana (at level 70) and reduces the mana cost of your spells by 50% for 1 second per stack of Mana Tea consumed after drinking. Can be cast while moving, but movement speed is reduced by 40% while channeling.
  - Lifecycles has been redesigned – Vivify has a 25% chance to cause your next Rising Sun Kick or Enveloping Mist to generate 1 stack of Mana Tea. Enveloping Mist and Rising Sun Kick have a 25% chance to cause your next Vivify to generate 1 stack of Mana Tea.
  - Mastery of Mist is now a baseline effect for Renewing Mist.
  - Invigorating Mists has moved to Mastery of Mist’s previous location.
  - Mana Tea has moved to Invigorating Mists previous location.
  - Spirit of the Crane has been removed.
PALADIN
- Holy
  - Tower of Radiance has been redesigned – Flash of Light and Holy Light now generate 1 Holy Power.
PRIEST
- Angel’s Mercy has been redesigned – Now reduces the cooldown of Desperate Prayer by 20 seconds.

DRAGONRIDING

CHALLENGE COURSE
- Challenge courses are now available in the Azure Span.
Infinite Scales Drakewatcher Manuscripts that drop from the Dawn of the Infinite mega-dungeon have been renamed to Visage of the Infinite and now include: Scales, Hair Color, Horn Color and Eye Color instead of just scales. Players who have already earned the Infinite Scales will automatically unlock the Infinite themed Hair, Horn and Eye colors within the Rostrum of Transformation.

EVENTS

HALLOW’S END
- Ghouls, goblins and seekers of haunted mementos, Hallow’s End approaches, and with it, new content! We’re looking for some additional testing for this year’s Hallow’s End holiday event that’s now available on the PTR for the next two weeks. Be sure to hop in and submit feedback.
  - Developers’ note: Dates reflected on PTR do not reflect the actual holiday date. Looking forward to scaring, er sharing, this experience with you!
- New Headless Horseman dungeon encounter – Increase the difficulty of the encounter by adding new mechanics by speaking to the Wicker men at the dungeon’s entrance. The curses are not party wide and afflict only those who enable them.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

DRUID
- Restoration
  - Master Shapeshifter has been removed as a PvP talent option.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

PING SYSTEM
- Ping System settings have been added to the Options panel.
- Ping radial wheel categories have been reordered.
- Format for Ping chat lines have been updated.

About the Author

Shadostruct

I've been playing WoW since beta with some breaks here and there. I'm a semi-hardcore to hardcore raider that focuses on retail mainly. I'm a big fan of giant dragons and am excited for all that Dragonflight will have to offer.