Druid patch notes · WoW Forever Tracker

Druid: Beta build, Oct 15

2026-10-16T00:15:23.135000+00:00

Fixed an issue where high ranks of Rejuvenation were preventing other Druids from applying Rejuvenation to the target.
Omen of Clarity: Fixed a bug where this could be triggered by Faerie Fire while in Cat Form, Bear Form, or Dire Bear Form. Since Faerie Fire costs no resources in those forms, it cannot trigger Omen of Clarity.
Faerie Fire: Now generates threat while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form (instead of just initiating combat at 0 threat).
Fixed an issue allowing multiple Faerie Fire debuffs to be active on a target.
Shred (Rank 1) is now learned at level 20 (was 22). It was possible to get Shredding Attacks before knowing Shred or Lacerate
Fixed an issue where Heart of the Wild, Feral Swiftness, Thick Hide, and Leader of the Pack were not applying correctly to characters when they logged in.
Balance
- Multiple instances of Insect Swarm will no longer continue to reduce the target’s hit chance.
- Moonkin Aura now only increases Spell Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide.
Feral
- Leader of the Pack now only increases Melee and Ranged Critical Strike chance, and is Raid wide.
- The flat damage on Shred’s tooltip will now correctly scale with the % damage increase of the Savage Fury talent.
  - Developers’ notes: This was just a visual bug. The damage is unchanged.
- Furor now allows the player to retain the Energy they had when they were last in Cat Form even if they go into Bear or Dire Bear Form.
  - Developers’ notes: Bear and Dire Bear Form still prevent Energy regeneration.

Druid: Beta build, Oct 8

2026-10-08T21:32:38.124000+00:00

Fixed a bug where Druids couldn’t use Mana Potions while in Bear/Dire Bear/Cat Form.
Additional Rage generated from landing Critical Strikes increased to 100% increased Rage (Was 75%).
The base damage of Thorns has been returned to the Vanilla WoW values and the spell power ratio has been reduced to 6% (was 13.3%).
Fixed an issue where Cat Form was reducing your maximum health.
Bear Form and Dire Bear Form: Threat bonus increased to 50% from 30%.
The effects that override shapeshifting now more closely resemble Classic wow.
- Developers’ notes: The Druid’s form is a critical piece of information in combat and preserving the ability for players to see what form the Druid is currently in is important. We appreciate the desire for Druid players to still transform, so there are effects that will still work, it is just now much more limited and largely based on if that transform has other benefits (for example, Noggenfogger Elixir will still transform you because it lets you breathe underwater.)
Demoralizing Roar: Fixed an issue where it generated no threat. Now puts some threat on all affected targets.
Wrath: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-5 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-6 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade.
Feral
- Predatory Instincts: This talent has been renamed “Natural Instinct” and now also increases spell healing by 12/25% of Intellect.
- Shifting Power can no longer be used while already at Full Energy.
- Thick Hide: This talent is now properly implemented in code, rather than script, resolving some bugs with equipping gear while shapeshifted not triggering it.

Druid: Beta build, Oct 1

2026-10-01T22:56:04.517000+00:00

Bear Form and Dire Bear Form now generate 75% increased Rage when landing a Critical Strike.
Fixed a bug causing Swipe to not scale with Attack Power. It will now correctly gain 3% of the Druid’s attack power.
- Developers’ notes: The tooltip will not update correctly until a future update.
Tiger’s Fury has been removed.
All Shapeshift Forms are now IMMUNE to Disarm effects.
- Developers’ notes: This is a gameplay adjustment to match how it felt in original WoW. If a Druid gets disarmed before entering a form, their form will not remove the Disarm effect, and they will also deal reduced damage for the duration of the disarm effect, so disarming a Druid before they shift will result in them dealing reduced damage.
Faerie Fire no longer resets your swing timer when used.
Feral
- Primal Bite: Threat generated by this ability has been roughly doubled.
- The King of the Jungle talent has been removed.
- Tiger’s Fury has been removed.
- Connected to Shredding Attacks in the 4th row is a new talent - Shifting Power.
  - Cat Form Only. 16 second cooldown. Costs 55% of Base Mana.
  - Instantly convert 55% of Base Mana into 40 Energy. Shifting Power’s cost is reduced by effects that reduce the cost of Shapeshifting.
  - Shifting Power costs the same amount of Mana as Cat Form.
- Connected to Shifting Power in the 5th row is a new talent - Improved Shifting Power.
  - Reduces the cooldown of your Shifting Power spell by 4/8 seconds.

Druid: Beta build, Sep 24

2026-09-24T22:23:24.849000+00:00

Corrected an issue and now Rejuvenation can land critical hits.
Corrected an issue and now Tranquility can land critical hits.
Wrath base damage increased ~50%.
Thorns will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.
- If the caster cannot be found or is too far away, Thorns reverts to its base values.
Feral
- Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.
  - All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite.
- The Primal Fury talent has been renamed and the icon replaced with the original Blood Frenzy name and icon.
- Fixed a bug where Feral Charge (Cat) could be cast on allies.
Restoration
- Corrected an issue and now Wild Growth can land critical hits.