Class Modifications

The Awakened

Lady Vashj, the Awakened, sells talents beyond the tier rules: master one tree, then buy your way deep into a second.

• ✦At level 80 with 51 points in one tree, choose ONE other tree to awaken. Permanent until a full talent reset at your class trainer.
• ✦Inside the awakened tree the 5-points-per-tier rule is waived: place up to 10 points through her into any talent, however deep. True prerequisites still apply.
• ✦10 Demon Hearts buy a permanent bonus talent point and raise her limit by one. Up to 10 purchases per character, for 20 awakened points at full depth.
• ✦Stage your picks in her dialog and confirm to apply them all at once. Your first session costs nothing; every later one costs 3 Demon Hearts.
• ✦Only your active spec is affected; your second spec can awaken its own tree. Scout other players' builds in the Armory.

Automatic solo-instance mutations

Mutation balance update: smoother Mage protection and lower shield mana costs, adjusted Shaman recovery, and new Balance and Tree of Life support.

Your mutation activates while you are the only player inside a dungeon or raid. Damage reduction starts at the listed value at average equipped item level 200 and accelerates to its cap at 284 (empty slots count as zero; a non-Titan's Grip two-hander fills both hand slots). Only effective damage heals: overkill and absorbed damage never count.

Paladin: Dual Blessing

• ✦Keep 2 different self-cast blessings on yourself at once; a third replaces the oldest. Normal and Greater ranks count as one blessing.
• ✦Gain passive damage reduction that scales from 0% at item level 200 to 24% at cap while the solo mutation is active.

Rogue: Solo Execution

• ✦Damaging finishers (Eviscerate, Rupture, Envenom, Deadly Throw) and Killing Spree strikes heal you for 100% of their damage.
• ✦Slice and Dice, Evasion or Cloak of Shadows grants 27% damage reduction (75% at cap). They do not stack.
• ✦Cloak of Shadows also heals 20% of your maximum health per second for 5 seconds.

Shaman: Empowered Shield

• ✦Your elemental shield is cast with 25 charges and grants 18% damage reduction (52% at cap) while active.
• ✦While shielded, your normal attacks and Shaman spell damage heal you for 15% and refund 3% as mana. Every 3,000 qualifying damage restores a charge.
• ✦Windfury, Flametongue and player-cast Fire Nova qualify. Lightning Shield, other retaliation, unrelated item spell procs, and damage dealt by pets or totems do not provide recovery.

Hunter: Pet Tank

• ✦Your pet generates 7x threat and takes 24% less damage (70% at cap).
• ✦Chimera Shot and Explosive Shot heal you for 100% of their damage; Mend Pet also heals you for 50% of what your pet gains.
• ✦Disengage grants 18% damage reduction (50% at cap) for 16 seconds and instantly halves your threat.

Warlock: Demon Tank

• ✦Your demon generates 12x threat and takes 24% less damage (60% at cap).
• ✦Your damage-over-time ticks (Corruption, Immolate, Curse of Doom, Curse of Agony, Seed of Corruption, Unstable Affliction) heal you for 20% and your demon for 25%.
• ✦Healthstones grant 30% damage reduction (78% at cap) for 45 seconds and halve your threat.

Priest: Solo Ward

• ✦Power Word: Shield absorbs 3x its normal amount and grants 21% damage reduction (55% at cap) while it holds.
• ✦Your damage repairs the shield for 30%, and self-healing also strikes your target for 100% of the amount as Holy damage.
• ✦When the shield breaks you gain 27% damage reduction (68% at cap) for 6 seconds.

Mage: Infinite Barrier

• ✦Mana Shield is not consumed by damage. It absorbs 25% of each hit for 15% of the normal mana cost; absorption still requires mana.
• ✦While active, Mana Shield grants 18% damage reduction (73% at cap), applied before absorption, with a smoother item-level curve.
• ✦While shielded, your spell damage against creatures heals you for 30% and refunds 3% as mana.

Druid: Living Hide

• ✦Applying any of your Druid DoTs or bleeds to a hostile creature activates Living Hide for 5 seconds; every effective DoT or bleed tick refreshes it.
• ✦While active, Living Hide reduces damage in caster, Moonkin, Cat, Bear, Dire Bear and Tree of Life forms, scaling with your gear. Caster form receives the most protection; travel and other forms receive none.
• ✦Your bleed ticks also heal you for 100% of their effective damage.
• ✦With Living Hide active in caster or Moonkin form, Wrath, Starfire, Moonfire and Insect Swarm heal you for 15% of their effective damage. Hurricane and Starfall do not provide this healing.
• ✦In Tree of Life, Living Hide grants 10% damage reduction (30% at cap). Keeping your own Druid HoT on yourself also maintains this protection, even at full health. HoT protection applies only in Tree form.

Death Knight: Eternal Army

• ✦Army of the Dead ghouls last 3x longer and have 10x health.
• ✦Gain passive damage reduction that scales from 0% at item level 200 to 28% at cap while the solo mutation is active.

Warrior: Purging Shouts

• ✦Your bleeds, Bloodthirst and Mortal Strike heal you for 100% of their damage; Revenge heals for 80%.
• ✦Each of your Shouts purges up to 2 harmful magic effects from you (anything a friendly Dispel Magic could remove).
• ✦Gain passive damage reduction that scales from 0% at item level 200 to 22% at cap while the solo mutation is active.