What changed for Spells?

Psychic Link now causes direct damage spells to inflict 20% of their damage to all other targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 25%). Does not apply to PvP combat.

Fixed an issue where Stasis could be used in the starting room of arenas and battlegrounds to store spells for after the gates opened.

Resolved an issue that could cause Dancing Rune Weapon to fail to cast spells when targeting the Venomous Heart.

Addressed issues with the voice lines not matching the spells.

Corrected the target location of Ula'tek's Venomous Heart so that AoE spells more consistently hit it and Ula'tek.

Fixed an issue where certain abilities could cause their breath spells to cancel unexpectedly.

Unbreakable Spirit reduces the cooldown of affected spells by 20% in PvP combat (was 30%).

Storm Conduit now reduces the cooldown of affected spells by 2 seconds (was 4 seconds).

Several Arcane spells have been added to the Spell Density system for additional visibility options for non-Mage players.

Fixed an issue where a Splitting Ice Frostbolt had a smaller search radius for its second target than other spells.

Player health and creature damage has been increased by 25% at max level. Health consumable values have been adjusted to match new health values.

• Developers' notes: In Curse of Ula'tek, we've decided to increase player health and enemy damage by 25% for max level players. We've made similar adjustments at the start of Midnight and also in early Dragonflight. Our intent is for damage to be less spiky and for healing gameplay to be more satisfying. When healing is too bursty, enemies have to be tuned to deal spiky damage which requires quick reactions to survive, and we feel that leads to unsatisfying and more stressful gameplay. While we are increasing overall creature damage with this change, we are hand tuning encounter abilities to deal appropriate damage alongside these changes to meet our goals. We're also making adjustments to several healing and absorb spells for DPS and Tank specializations so that they retain their relative impact.

Innervate has been redesigned – Now regenerates 25% of the target's maximum mana over 8 seconds, rather than causing spells to be free for 8 seconds.

Ashes of Inspiration has been redesigned – Each time your Phoenix casts a spell, gain 1 stack of Mana Cascade. Exceptional Spells grant 1 additional stack.

Fixed an issue for Arcane that caused Mana Cascade to be gained from some unintended spells.

Power of the Maelstrom has been redesigned – Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning have a 15% chance to cause your next Lava Burst to deal 20% increased damage, stacking up to 2 times. Lava Burst consumes one stack at a time.

• Developers' notes: Supercharge and Power of the Maelstrom both were extra, random Elemental Overloads. We feel that the other changes will make your damage more consistent, while still allowing other parts of your talent tree to still increase the quantity or power of Elemental Overload spells.

Fixed an issue where Apex Talent: Feedback Loop (Rank 2) did not properly increase the critical damage of several Elemental Shaman spells.

Havoc now causes spells to deal 50% of their damage to the marked target (was 60%).

Healers can now assign visual alerts to specific group buff spells through the Group Buff Filter UI.

Added the ability to ping the action bar and spells on the Cooldown Manager.

Updated ping macros to support pinging spells or items. Added the following slash commands: /pingspell:1234 (or spell name) and /pingitem:1234 (or item name)

Healing of all spells increased by 3% in PvP combat.

Farseer: Maelstrom Supremacy increases healing of affected spells in PvP by 20% (was 15%).

Damage of all spells and abilities increased by 6% in PvP.

Light spores in Sunkiller Sanctum should no longer interrupt channeled spells.

Fixed an issue causing some spells to be incorrectly locked during Party Sync.

Removed several spells from the Cooldown Manager, as they are no longer present in-game.

New Ability: Battle Visage – Activate to automatically assume your Visage whenever you are not casting draconic spells such as Fire Breath and Soar.

• Full list of abilities that temporarily shift you to Dracthyr: Deep Breath, Dream Flight, Breath of Eons, Fire Breath, Eternity Surge, Dream Breath, Upheaval, Hover, Spatial Paradox, Rescue, Zephyr, Verdant Embrace (without Dream Simulacrum talented), and Soar.
• Many abilities that used to force a shift to Dracthyr have adjusted visual treatments for Visage form.
• While active, Battle Visage also applies a camera height override to Dracthyr form to prevent the camera from adjusting rapidly when shifting between forms.

Vital Flame now causes you to heal for 40% of all Fire or Nature damage dealt by your spells and abilities (was 50%).

Sentinel: Fixed an issue causing area damage spells like Wildfire Bomb and Boomstick to not consistently apply Sentinel's Mark to their primary target.

Shift is now correctly affected by Evoker's Blessing of the Bronze and Time Spiral spells.

Psychic Link causes direct damage spells to inflicts 25% of their damage on all targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 20%).

Addressed an issue where some spells can target players not in combat.

Litany of Lightblind Wrath - Fixed a further issue preventing certain spells from triggering the damage effect such as Lavaburst.

Fixed an issue causing multiple Devourer spells to be castable while silenced.

The following spells now show on Raid Frames when Center Big Defensives is enabled in the Raid Frames Interface menu: Fortifying Brew, Divine Protection, Divine Shield, Enraged Regeneration, and Life Cocoon.

Scalecommander: Might of the Black Dragonflight bonus to Black spells reduced to 20% (was 30%) for Devastation Evoker only.

Fixed an issue causing Song of Chi-Ji to not be removed by spells that remove sleep effects, such as Tremor Totem.

Fixed an issue where spells would stop duplicating if Mayhem activated while Havoc was already active.

Fixed an issue causing Ziekket's summons to be targetable by certain spells while spawning.

Fixed an issue that could prevent Druids' Convoke the Spirits from using offensive abilities and spells against Chimaerus.

Player-cast long term raid buffs can no longer be canceled while the player is in combat. These buffs can still be canceled when outside combat and can always be applied regardless of combat state. The spells affected by this are: Mark of the Wild, Arcane Intellect, Battle Shout, Power Word: Fortitude, Skyfury, Source of Magic, Symbiotic Relationship, and Blessing of the Bronze.

Addressed an issue that made Druids untargetable by friendly spells upon dying to a death plane.

Psychic Link now causes direct damage spells to inflict 20% of their damage to all other targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 60%).

Spells such as Fists of Fury should now consistently hit hovering enemies such as mana wyrms.

On "One Will Not Kill", Knife Priestess Hezzia will now properly die upon her spell's expiration.

All Mage Barrier spells absorb an additional 5% maximum health.

The following spells are now prioritized on raid frames and always sorted near the beginning of tracked spells: (Preservation Evoker) Echo, (Restoration Shaman) Riptide, (Discipline Priest) Atonement, (Mistweaver Monk) Renewing Mist and Enveloping Mist, (Restoration Druid) Rejuvenation, Germination, and Lifebloom, and (Holy Paladin) Beacon of Light and Beacon of Faith.

Thorim's Invocation now discharges Lightning spells at 35% effectiveness while Doom Winds or Ascendance is active in PvP combat (was 50%).

Resolved an issue that could cause players to unintentionally flag for PvP when casting spells such as Mage's Ice Lance or Rogue's Secret Technique.