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Racial ability tuning before launch
Blizzard has made two rounds of racial ability changes ahead of launch on November 4. Here is every change, race by race. Older values are shown in brackets.
Human
- Ruthless: +1% critical strike chance (was 2%).
- Human Spirit: +10% Spirit (was 5%).
Dwarf
- Removed: Earth Fury (2% increased critical strike damage and healing).
- Added: Artisan’s Precision: +1% hit chance with spells and attacks.
Tauren
- Plainsrunning: 2% movement speed per stack (was 1%), up to 60% total (was 30%).
- Plainsrunning no longer increases mounted speed.
- Endurance: now only +5% Health; its hit chance and critical damage bonuses are gone.
Orc
- Removed: Savage (+1% critical strike chance).
- Command is back: +5% damage for Hunter and Warlock pets.
- Blood Fury: 2-minute cooldown (was 3 minutes).
Troll
- Berserking: lasts 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
Undead
- Touch of the Grave: 15-second internal cooldown (was 25 seconds).
Skyborne
- Wind-Blessed Haste: 2% haste (was 3%).
- Read Leyline: +50% Mana and Health regeneration for 15 seconds (was 100%). It can’t be used while Innervate is active.
- Using Read Leyline at a Ley Line also grants Attuned for 1 hour, which raises Read Leyline back to +100% regeneration.
- Skysight: +15% movement speed for 15 seconds (was 10%).
- Using Skysight at an elemental convergence also grants Charged for 1 hour, which raises Skysight to +30% movement speed.
- Attuned and Charged both last through death but are removed when you enter a raid.
Sources: Racial Ability Tuning Pass for WoW: Forever and More Racial Ability Tuning on WoW: Forever (Wowhead News). Changes may still shift before launch.