This week’s PTR changes come in the form of class tuning hotfixes, with almost exclusively healing specs affected. So we may see another, bigger change later today or during the week as well. 

10.2 PTR (Source)

Hello everyone. The below changes will be applied to the Guardians of the Dream PTR as hotfixes over the course of this week:

CLASSES

Demon Hunter

Vengeance

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus – Souls required to trigger Recrimination increased to 60 (was 20).

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus – Duration of Fiery Brand applied by Set Bonus reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).

Monk

Mistweaver

Blackout Kick damage increased by 15%. Does not apply in PvP combat.

Tiger Palm damage increased by 50%. Does not apply in PvP combat.

Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 5%.

Faeline Stomp healing and damage increased by 150% (was 100%).

Ancient Teachings of the Monastery may now stack up to 4 times (was 3).

Essence Font now heals 5 targets (was 6).

Essence Font healing increased by 40%.

Developers’ note: We aren’t looking to heavily push Essence Font rotationally in Guardians of the Dream, but it’s total healing output has fallen further behind than is comfortable and this may help Faeline Stomp’s initial heal feel more impactful.

Paladin

Holy

Healing reduced by 8% (was 5%).

Holy Prism heal increased by 40%.

Blessing of Sacrifice now splits 20% of all damage (was 30%).

Priest

Discipline

Developers’ note: We are doing another damage reduction pass on Discipline Priest, as our previous change was not significant enough to bring Discipline closer in line to other healers. This should bring them much closer to other healers while still retaining the ability to deal reasonably high damage as one of their strengths.

Sins of the Many increases damage by 20% (was 40%).

Atonement heals for 40% of damage done (was 35%).

Holy

Fixed an issue that caused Holy Word: Sanctify to hit 6 targets instead of 5.

Symbol of Hope now reduces the cooldown of major defensives by 30 seconds (was 40 seconds).

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus – Proc chance reduced by 10%.

Shadow

Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 17%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Shadow Apparition damage increased by 17%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Vampiric Touch damage increased by 25%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus – Now increases the initial damage of your next cast of Shadow Word: Pain by 225% (was 200%).

Shaman

Restoration

All healing increased by 3%.

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus – Now increases the healing of Riptide by 25% (was 20%) and has a 6% chance to create a new Riptide (was 5%).