World of Warcraft Reveals Patch 11.0.7 Class Balance Adjustments

World of Warcraft just revealed a round of class tuning coming in Patch 11.0.7, primarily in the form of buffs for underperforming specializations in both PvE and PvP. These gameplay adjustments will go live along with World of Warcraft Patch 11.0.7 on December 17.

Siren Isle, the last content patch of World of Warcraft: The War Within Season 1, is coming soon, bringing with it some quality-of-life improvements, character customization options, and a brand-new zone full of activities and rewards. Blizzard recently released the patch notes for this World of Warcraft update, but beyond describing buffs to a handful of racial abilities, there were no class balance adjustments to be found in the blog post.

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Now, World of Warcraft has revealed the class tuning that will accompany this patch. The vast majority of these changes are buffs. World of Warcraft gave Unholy Death Knight, Havoc Demon Hunters, Devastation Evokers, Marksmanship Hunters, Holy Paladins and Priests, Restoration Shamans, and Affliction Warlocks a power up in PvE content, and over a dozen specializations also got buffs specific to PvP.

Of course, a few classes caught nerfs as well. Despite the fact that they received buffs to compensate, Lightsmith Holy Paladin’s Tempered in Battle no longer activates in hard crowd control in PvE, and the damage for Windwalker’s Blackout Kick and Hellcaller Destruction Warlock’s Wither were both reduced specifically in PvP. The only class specialization to just get nerfs was the Augmentation Evoker, and even then, only for some abilities in PvP.

These class changes will go into effect on December 17, alongside the Siren Isle content update for World of Warcraft. Considering these adjustments are mostly numerical buffs, World of Warcraft fans who play the affected classes likely won’t have any of their talent points reset due to this patch, especially since no nodes are moving around on their trees.

Outside a few potential hotfixes, this is probably the last round of class balance World of Warcraft will see until Patch 11.1, Undermined. Considering The War Within has been running with an eight-week cadence between patches, current estimations after accounting for the holiday season put World of Warcraft Patch 11.1 around mid or late February 2025. This theoretical date is corroborated by the runtime for the second Plunderstorm event in World of Warcraft, which is currently set to run from January 14 until February 18, right in line with this projected release window.

World of Warcraft Patch 11.0.7 Class Balance Adjustments

We regularly make class balance adjustments based on gameplay data and feedback from players on class performance. The following changes to classes that are over- and under-performing in various areas will arrive alongside the 11.0.7 patch (December 17 in this region):

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Apocalypse ghoul damage increased by 30%.
    • Rotten Touch now increases the damage of your Scourge Strike against the target by 60% (was 50%).
    • Death Coil damage increased by 8%.
    • Scourge Strike, Clawing Shadows and Vampiric Strike damage increased by 10%.
• Demon Hunter
  • Felblade damage increased by 10%.
  • The Hunt initial damage increased by 10%.
  • Havoc
    • Chaos Strike/Annihilation damage increased by 10%.
    • Demon’s Bite/Demon Blades damage increased by 10%.
• Evoker
  • Devastation
    • All damage increased by 4%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Pyre damage increased by 20%.
• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Trick Shots damage percentage increased to 75% (was 65%).
    • Razor Fragments AOE damage percentage increased to 35% (was 25%).
    • Dark Ranger: Black Arrow damage increased by 15%.
    • Dark Ranger: Shadow Surge damage increased by 25%.
    • Dark Ranger: Bleak Powder damage increased by 25%.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Veneration now transfers 225% of damage done into healing (was 200%).
    • Saved by the Light absorb amount increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
    • Consecrate damage increased by 30%.
    • Lightsmith: Tempered in Battle no longer activates while the paladin is within crowd control.
      • Tempered in Battle no longer activates if its target is in Cyclone, Detainment Imprison, or Diamond Ice Freezing Trap.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Flash Heal healing increased by 15%.
    • Holy Fire damage increased by 15%.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Totemic: Surging Totem mana cost reduced by 25%.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Haunt damage increased by 75%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Focused Malignancy now causes Malefic Rapture to deal 25% increased damage to targets suffering from Unstable Affliction (was 15%). Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Oblivion damage increased 25%.
    • Xavius’ Gambit now increases the damage of Unstable Affliction by 20% (was 15%).
    • Perpetual Unstability damage increased by 25%.
    • Siphon Life now increases Corruption damage by 30% (was 20%).

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    • Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Frost
    • Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    • Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Elune’s Chosen: Lunar Calling is now 80% effective in PvP combat (was 62%).
  • Restoration
    • All healing increased by 5% in PvP combat.
• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Deep Breath damage reduced by 15%.
    • Molten Embers increases damage taken from Black spells by up to 20% (was 40%) in PvP combat
• Mage
  • Sunfury: Burden of Power now increases the damage of your next Pyroblast or Arcane Blast by 40% in PvP combat (was 20%).
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Conduit of the Celestials: Celestial Conduit healing increased by 50% in PvP combat.
  • Windwalker
    • Fists of Fury damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
    • Blackout Kick damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Touch of Karma now absorbs up to 50% of maximum health in PvP combat (was 80%).
    • Shado-Pan: Flurry Strike shadow damage from Wisdom of the Wall increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Voidweaver: Inner Quietus increases Power Word: Shield’s absorption by 40% in PvP combat (was 20%).
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Stormbringer: Tempest damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Restoration
    • Riptide healing increased by 15% in PvP Combat**.**
    • Healing Surge healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Warlock
  • Destruction
    • Chaos Bolt damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    • Immolate damage over time increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    • Hellcaller: Wither damage over time reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Rend damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Overpower damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Fury
    • Mountain Thane: Strength of the Mountain now increases the damage of Rampage and Bloodthirst by 45% in PvP combat (was 30%).

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