WoW Forever: warlock, hunter and shaman tuning goes live

The first class tuning for WoW Forever started to reach live realms with the weekly reset on 10 November. Blizzard announced the changes last week with a date but without the exact numbers, and the first of them can now be seen in the game. Not everything on that list is in yet.

Affliction warlocks get the biggest change. At rank 1, Wrack now deals 60 Shadow damage every second instead of 86, and it no longer makes the target take 10% more damage from your other Shadow damage over time effects. Instead, while you channel Wrack, your Siphon Life, Corruption and Bane of Agony on the target deal their damage 100% faster.

Soul Siphon now names those same 3 spells as the effects that boost Drain Life, Drain Soul and Wrack, where before any other Affliction effect on the target counted. The aim, as Blizzard set out last week, is that always channelling Wrack should no longer beat also casting damage over time spells. The Imp's Firebolt hits harder too, with a bigger increase at lower levels and a smaller one at higher levels.

Hunters get a mana change: Summon Hawk and Arcane Shot now cost a flat 11% of base mana at every rank.

For Enhancement shamans, the class weapon Rage of the Storm has been hotfixed in line with Blizzard's plan to make Strength their main stat. Its attack speed goes from 3.2 to 3.6 and its 12 Intellect is replaced by 16 Strength, while damage per second stays at 35.6. The rest of the announced changes are still to come.