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Druid in WoW Forever: what the datamine says is coming

Druid talent tree paintings from the WoW Forever client

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The WoW Forever client and Blizzard's posts show 2 new abilities and 83 new class items for Druids. We list them all and give our read on the class.

Speculation. This outlook is built from datamined WoW Forever client data (build 1.60.1.70862) and official Blizzard posts. Level 60 is the launch cap: everything here is playable, and Blizzard can still change it.

What Blizzard's notes changed

Kaivax posted these Druid changes in WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated November 2 on 3 November 2026:

  • Lacerate is now a Feral talent and not learned by all Druids.
  • Ferocious Bite has a new Rank 1 at level 24. All the existing ranks were re-labeled one rank higher.
  • Bear Form and Dire Bear Form: Threat bonus increased from 50% to 115%. This is to compensate for Blessing of Salvation being removed.
  • Poised: New passive ability learned at level 32. “When you are not in combat and have your maximum Energy, you will gain Poised. Poised reduces the Energy cost of your next Energy ability by 10.”
  • Shred: Weapon damage percent increased to 200% from 155%.
  • Claw: Weapon damage percent increased to 140% from 110%.
  • Ravage: Weapon damage percent increased from 350% to 435%.
  • Rip: Base points and attack power scaling increased by about 25%.
  • Rake: Base points and attack power scaling increased by about 25%.
  • Ferocious Bite: Base points and attack power scaling increased by about 25%.
  • Pounce: Base points and attack power scaling increased by about 25%.
  • Starfire: Base damage points increased by about 40%.

Balance

  • Genesis: Now increases periodic damage and healing by 2/4/6/8/10%, up from 1/2/3/4/5%.
  • Moonkin Form: The critical strike bonus from this talent is again an increase to all types of critical strikes and is again exclusive with Leader of the Pack.

Feral

  • Heart of the Wild: The talent has moved to the Restoration tree, swapping with Furor.
  • Lacerate: This is now a 1-point talent on row 4, replacing Primal Bite. Lacerate has two new ranks added to accomodate being learned earlier.
  • Predatory Discipline: This is a new 1-point talent on row 4 in column 3, replacing Shifting Power. “Your Ferocious Bite ability no longer converts extra Energy into damage but still deals extra damage based on your excess Energy.” It has no pre-requisite talents.
  • Predatory Strikes: Moved to column 1 (was column 3).
  • Leader of the Pack: The critical strike bonus from this talent is again an increase to all types of critical strikes and is again exclusive with Moonkin Aura.
  • Natural Instinct: Moved to column 4 (was column 1).
  • Rend and Tear: Moved to column 1 (was column 3). Damage bonus increased to 3/6/9/12/15% (was 2/4/6/8/10%).
  • Berserk talent removed.
  • Primal Bite: Replaces Berserk as a 1-point talent on row 7, column 2, with Leader of the Pack as a pre-requisite. Number of ranks reduced to 3.
  • Shifting Power: Now a 1-point talent on row 7, with Predatory Discipline as a pre-requisite. Like row 4, we now have two different 31-point talents for Feral – one focused on Bear gameplay and one focused on Cat gameplay.

Restoration

  • Furor: This talent has moved to the Feral tree, swapping with Heart of the Wild.
  • Naturalist: Now increases all damage by 2/4/6/8/10%, up from 1/2/3/4/5%. Now also reduces the cast time of Wild Growth by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 seconds.
  • Reflection: This talent has moved to row 2 from row 3, swapping with Subtlety.
  • Subtlety: This talent has moved to row 3 from row 2, swapping with Reflection.
  • Gift of the Earthmother: This talent has been removed.
  • Bloom: New 1-point talent in 3rd row, replacing Gift of the Earthmother. “When your Rejuvenation or Regrowth spell expires due to its duration, the target is instantly healed for an amount equal to 100% of your Spirit. If either spell expires due to being dispelled, the target is healed for 50% of your Spirit instead.”
  • Swiftmend: Now requires the Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect on the target to be one placed by the casting Druid.
There is an incorrect statement in the tooltip for Swiftmend. The usage of the word “consume” is incorrect and will be fixed soon. This ability does not consume the Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect on the target. Kaivax, WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated November 2
  • Wild Growth: Now has a base casting time of 3 seconds.

New abilities in the client

These 2 Druid abilities are in the Forever client but not in Classic Era, with what rank 1 does:

  • Revive (level 12). Rank 1: Brings a dead player back to life with 70 health and 135 mana. It has 5 ranks, the last at level 60.
  • Poised (level 32). Rank 1: While at maximum Energy, and out of combat, reduce the Energy cost of your next ability by 10.

Talent trees

Talents that are new in Forever, by tree:

Tuning signals in the spell data

In the client, 18 Druid spell ranks have a different spell-power coefficient from Classic Era. The biggest changes:

Druid-only gear that's new in Forever

Our read (speculation)

Feral is the spec Forever's new talent tree changes most. Feral Charge is a tier 3 talent from level 20, and Lacerate is a tier 4 talent from 25 that needs Savage Fury at 2/2. Tier 5 at 30 has Leader of the Pack and the new Natural Instinct (Predatory Instincts until Blizzard renamed it and added spell healing from Intellect), and tier 6 at 35 adds Rend and Tear, a new talent for more damage on bleeding targets. The bottom of the tree, at 40, holds two capstones: Primal Bite, the renamed Mangle, for bears and Shifting Power for cats. Blizzard's 1 October notes removed King of the Jungle and Tiger's Fury and added Shifting Power, which in Blizzard's words converts 55% of base Mana into 40 Energy on a 16 second cooldown. The same notes renamed Primal Fury back to Blood Frenzy, which sits in Feral tier 4. Berserk, which made Primal Bite hit 3 targets with no cooldown, is still in the client, but nothing teaches it. Shred now comes at 20 with Cat Form, Rake, Dash, Cower and Travel Form follow between 24 and 30, the stealth openers Ravage and Pounce arrive at 32 and 36, and Dire Bear Form at 40.

Most of what Balance and Restoration get makes levelling easier. The new tree moves Insect Swarm into Balance and Swiftmend up to Restoration tier 4, and Omen of Clarity is now a passive every Druid learns from the trainer at 20. In the 24 September notes Wrath's base damage rose by about 50%, Thorns started scaling with spell power, and Rejuvenation, Tranquility and Wild Growth gained the ability to crit. Of the 18 coefficient changes, early Wrath and Healing Touch ranks gain the most, which helps while levelling and when downranking. Revive at 12 gives Druids an out-of-combat resurrection early on. Talons of Wrath, a level 40 idol that can refund mana on Wrath casts, suggests Blizzard sees Wrath as a spell you level with.

No class has more gear in the client than the Druid: 120 items, with three PvP set lines (Sanctuary, Refuge and Wildhide) and idols from level 1 upward, which suits a hybrid that covers several roles. Blizzard also says Skyborne get Druid forms made just for them. The Deep Dive recap lists Improved Mark of the Wild among the talents made baseline, and the new tree no longer has it, though its old rank spells are still in the files. Mark of the Wild has the bonus built in instead: every rank gives about 35% more than in Classic Era, the old talent's full effect, so rank 7 is 385 armour instead of 285.

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