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Upcoming Changes for Saboteur, Justicar and Druid

Date: Feb 13 2012 Views: () Comments ()

1.8 Druid Changes Current On PTS

Shield of Oak: Now absorbs all damage types. Now increases movement speed by 5% while up.
Wild Strike: Now hits 5 targets.
Spirit of the Wood: Now also triggers off of Wild Strike.
Stone Burst: Removed.
Fae Step: New 20 point root ability. Teleports directly to the target. 20m range, 15s cooldown, no global cooldown.
Rage of the Fae: Reduced cooldown to 2 minutes.
Brutal Impact: Now increases the damage of Fervent Strike and Combined Effort by 3-9%.
Hot-Blooded: Now increases the Spell Power bonus of Bombard and Eruption of Life by 5-25%. No longer requires the purchase of Rage of the Fae.
Slothful Spirit: Increased resource cost penalty to 50%.

Raid buffs hit the entire raid, including pets. Pets benefit from those buffs.

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Stalwart Citadel: Now adds 33-100% of your Wisdom to Block. (latest update at RIFT Forum)
Devout Deflection: Now adds 33-100% of your Wisdom to Parry and 33-100% of your Intelligence to Dodge. (latest update at RIFT Forum)
Sovereignty: Now deals Life damage and stuns the enemy for 2 seconds.
Supremacy: Now reduces Physical damage taken by 9-18%.
Thorvin's Law: Now causes Mien of Leadership to reduce non-Physical damage taken by 2-4% plus an additional 1.2% per point spent in Justicar above 26. No longer has an additional Spell damage reduction.
Shield of Faith: Now reduces damage taken by 3-15%.
Mien of Leadership: Replaced the Endurance bonus with a 60% Max Health bonus.

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All traps now have no CD, aside from Landmines.
Combat Survival Changed to Combined Arms - Your Fragmentation Bomb has a 50% chance to detonate all Blast and Spike Charges you have attached to your enemies.(0/2)
Combat Survival Changed to Combined Arms - Your Fragmentation Bomb has a 50% chance to detonate all Blast and Spike Charges you have attached to your enemies.(0/2)
Demolition Specialist - Buffed to 4 Targets.
Trench Warfare - Increases the damage bonus from Attack Power of your Bombs, Traps, and Land mines by 5%. The damage bonus from Attack Power is increased by 3% for every point spent in Saboteur Soul above 26.
High Explosives - Now when you detonate it spreads the bleed to all surrounding targets.

2piece bonus - Increases the damage of Blast Charge and Spike Charge by 30%.
4piece bonus - Increases the damage of all Saboteur Area of effect abilities by 15%.

The Sab changes in PTS are still under review and are not yet finalized.

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