Patch 12.0.1 Class Changes — April 1, 2026

Frost

• All damage dealt increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP.

Feral

• All damage dealt increased by 3%. Does not affect PvP.
• Damage of Feral Frenzy reduced by 8%. Does not affect PvP.

Developers' Notes

Our goal is to increase the raid damage of Bestial Wrath without increasing its Mythic+ dungeon damage, which is already at a competitive level.

Beast Mastery

• All damage dealt increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP.

Survival

• All damage dealt increased by 4%.

Arcane

• Burden of Power now increases the damage of Arcane Blast by 25% (was: 5%) and the damage of Arcane Barrage by 15% (was: 5%).

Developers' Notes

Arcane's Sunfury is falling slightly short of our single-target damage expectations.

Shadow

Developers' Notes

The damage of Shadow Word: Death was insufficient even during the execute phase, so we are significantly increasing its power to fix this situation. To improve damage in multi-target situations, we will focus on some area damage sources and shift some power away from certain single-target damage sources in favor of Shadowy Apparition damage.

• Damage of Shadow Word: Death increased by 80%.
• Damage of Mind Blast and Void Blast reduced by 10%.
• Damage of Shadowy Apparition and Void Apparition increased by 35%.
• Phantasmal Pathogen now increases the damage of Void Apparitions against targets affected by Shadow Word: Insanity by 30% (was: 50%).
• Mind Devourer now allows direct-damage spells to transfer 25% of their damage to other targets with Vampiric Touch (was: 20%).
• The Void Spike of the Voidwraith now deals 25% more damage to additional targets.
• The Mind Sear of the Voidwraith now deals 25% more damage.

Arms

Developers' Notes

Arms' single-target damage is still below planned levels, especially for the ability Execute.

• Damage of Execute increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP.
• Damage of Overpower increased by 10%. Does not affect PvP.