{"id":1353,"date":"2010-08-21T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2010-08-24T03:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T10:27:30","slug":"cataclysm-beta-balance-druid-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/cataclysm-beta-balance-druid-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataclysm Beta: Balance druid changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.wow.com\/media\/2010\/08\/sp82010-1282390309.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Blizzard snuck in another beta build last night, and it was more than a little exciting for the balance druid side of the world. Although I wouldn&#8217;t say that druids or balance in particular were the &#8220;primary&#8221; focus of this build, as paladins have been in the past few builds while Blizzard fixes the new holy power mechanic, it certainly held quite a number of changes that we&#8217;ve been looking forward to for a long time. I&#8217;ve dawdled on long enough, though, so let&#8217;s just get right on with it. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">Spell changes<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faerie Fire range increased to 35 yards, up from 30 yards<\/li>\n<li>Insect Swarm range increased to 40 yards, up from 35 yards<\/li>\n<li>Starfire range increased to 40 yards, up from 35 yards<\/li>\n<li>Entangling Roots range increased to 35 yards, up from 30 yards<\/li>\n<li>Moonfire range increased to 40 yards, up from 35 yards<\/li>\n<li>Wrath range increased to 40 yards, up from 35 yards<\/li>\n<li>Cyclone cast time increased to 2 seconds, up from 1.5 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Thorns now lasts 20 seconds, down from 10 minutes; damage increased by 1,400%<\/li>\n<li>Wild Mushroom is now limited to 3 mushrooms, down from 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2010\/08\/21\/cataclysm-beta-balance-druid-changes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Cataclysm Beta: Balance druid changes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/druid\/\" rel=\"tag\">Druid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/shifting-perspectives\/\" rel=\"tag\">(Druid) Shifting Perspectives<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/cataclysm\/\" rel=\"tag\">Cataclysm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2010\/08\/21\/cataclysm-beta-balance-druid-changes\/\">Cataclysm Beta: Balance druid changes<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\">WoW.com<\/a> on Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:00:00 EST.  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Although I wouldn&#8217;t say that druids or balance in particular were the &#8220;primary&#8221; focus of this build, as paladins have been in the past few builds while Blizzard fixes the new holy power mechanic, it certainly held quite a number of changes that we&#8217;ve been looking forward to for &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/cataclysm-beta-balance-druid-changes\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[399,32,69,42,1223],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}