Thick buffs are once again shaping World of Warcraft. Priests, warlocks, and many others will be drastically strengthened.
The balance in World of Warcraft is a delicate matter that can never be quite perfect. Therefore, the developers are constantly making minor and major adjustments – even in the middle of the season. A new round of buffs is set to ensure that the neglected classes, which are currently underperforming in dungeons or raids, can compete with the others again.
Which classes will be strengthened? In total, the following classes along with their corresponding specializations will be boosted:
- Caller: Preservation
- Hunter: Survival
- Wizard: Frost
- Paladin: Holy
- Priest: Shadow
- Rogue: Subtlety
- Shaman: Restoration
- Warlock: Destruction
- Warrior: Arms, Fury
There are only nerfs for an old tier set of the Caller, which was stronger than intended in the current content.
WoW Patch Notes 28.05.2025 – All Class Changes
From here you will find all changes to the classes in detail.
Caller
- Strengthening
- The 2-piece bonus from the Palace of the Nerub’ar now only increases damage by 15% per stack (previously 30%).
- Preservation
- All healing from spells and abilities is increased by 4%.
- The healing from Living Flame is increased by 30%.
- The healing from Spirit Bloom is increased by 20%.
- The base healing from Echo is increased by 100%. This only affects the raw healing and not how strong the copied spells are.
Hunter
- Survival
- Explosive Shot deals 15% more damage.
- Aspect of the Eagle deals 25% more damage.
Wizard
- Frost
- All damage dealt is increased by 3%.
Paladin
- Holy
- Lightweaver: Blessing of the Smith now calls forth 15% more healing.
- Lightweaver: Hammer and Anvil now calls forth 15% more healing.
Priest
- Shadow
- Psychic Link now causes 35% of single-target damage to be transferred to targets affected by Vampiric Touch (previously 30%).
- Radiant Burst deals 30% more damage.
- Void Weaver: Entropic Rift deals 12% more damage.
Rogue
- Subtlety
- All damage is increased by 5%.
Shaman
- Restoration
- Farseer: Elemental Resonance increases the healing from Tidal Waves by 20% (previously 10%).
- Farseer: Maelstrom Supremacy increases the healing from Healing Wave, Healing Surge, Life Bloom, Deluge, and Chain Heal by 25% (previously 15%).
- Farseer: Offering from the Beyond reduces the cooldown of Tidal Waves by 3 seconds (previously 2 seconds).
- Farseer: Ancient Capacity increases maximum mana by 10% (previously 5%).
- Farseer: Hydroblase has a 25% increased absorption.
- Farseer: Hydroblase now lasts for 15 seconds (previously 10 seconds).
Warlock
- Destruction
- Diabolist: Devastation deals 35% more damage.
- Diabolist: Deceptive Split deals 15% more damage.
- Diabolist: Chaos Barrage deals 15% more damage.
- Diabolist: Infernal Hunter deals 15% more damage.
- Diabolist: Darkness of Nazthreza increases damage taken by enemies when the target is affected by Devastation by 7% (previously 5%).
Warrior
- Arms
- Whirlwind deals 100% more damage.
- Fury
- Whirlwind deals 120% more damage.
- Thunderclap deals 25% more damage.
- Odyn’s Fury deals 30% more damage.
- Mountaintop: Thunder Explosion deals 25% more damage.
When do the changes go live? The adjustments will go live during the next maintenance, which is on May 28, 2025. From then on, you can benefit from the numerous buffs and perhaps find more joy in the strengthened specializations.
With these buffs, it might also not be so hard to bear that soon a whole lot of addons will no longer work …
