The War Within Alpha Development Notes - 40 Talent Slots Now Available

21.05.2024 - 19:39 / wowhead.com

Blizzard has posted The War Within Alpha development notes for today which now includes 40 talent loadouts, and more changes to Warlocks and Mages!

Note that despite stating that Deathstalker is now available for testing, it does not appear to be in this build.

• The number of talent loadouts that can be saved on a per character basis to has been increased to 40 (was 10).
• We are removing increased melee range talents across the game, such as Astral Influence and Acrobatic Strikes. Default melee range has increased since these talents were originally created, so they now allow specs to attack from well outside where it appears they should be able to. They make the melee experience inconsistent across classes in a way we’re not happy with, so we’re removing them.
  
  ROGUE
  
  Deathstalker (Assassination/Subtlety) Hero Talents are now available for testing.
  
  The harbingers of death, Deathstalkers strike from the shadows to bring a swift end to their targets.

• New Talent: Unyielding Will – Anti-Magic Shell’s cooldown is increased by 20 seconds and it now also removes all harmful magic effects when activated. Now a capstone talent available after Rune Mastery and Subduing Grasp.
• The class tree has had further adjustments in talent locations and pathing updates.
• Osmosis healing received while Anti-Magic Shell is active is increased by 15%. Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
• Runic Protection armor increased to 6% (was 3%). Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
• Blood Draw cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
• Blood Draw is no longer a capstone and is now available in Death’s Echo old location.
• Icebound Fortitude is now the first available talent on the left of the tree replacing Mind Freeze.
• Runic Attenuation is now available directly after Icebound Fortitude.
• Death’s Echo now a capstone ability available after Will of the Necropolis and Subduing Grasp.
• Subduing Grasp now reduces damage by 6% for 6 seconds when you pull an enemy (was 8% at rank 2). Now a 1-point talent (was 2).
• Vestigial Shell no longer a choice node with Null Magic and is available in the right capstone space.
• Null Magic no longer a choice node with Vestigial Shell and is available in the left capstone space.
• Unholy
  
  Sudden Doom now reduces the cost of your next Death Coil/Epidemic by 10 (was free).
  
  Developers’ notes: With the update to Sudden Doom’s proc rate it further flooded Unholy with Runic Power and you weren’t able to spend the RP down fast enough in a lot of scenarios to prevent overcapping. This next iteration we are going to try a reduced cost Death Coil or Epidemic to help combat the problem of Runic Power overcapping. Internally we tested