Real 1.12 Patch Notes

[MongoJerry]

Some happy feral druid news from the latest PTR build: cat form is getting a passive aggro reduction.

Cats deal enough damage to pull aggro?

always thought of the +30 spell damage enchant that it would only benefit damage and not healing. Now I'm reading that it should have a benefit to healing spells too.

I always thought it was a bug or at least a poor implementation. Compare the +55 healing enchant to the +30 damage enchant. That's about the same ratio that you would expect between an equal valued item with +healing versus +damage/healing. It just should have been +damage/healing all along.

So why is it named spell damage and not 'spell damage & healing'?

The zandalarian shoulder enchantment with +18 to damage and healing has the correct wording for example.

Probably because the person who originally implemented the enchant was a mage dork who thought "Priests should only be healing, so they're covered with the +55 healing enchant, and mages only pew pew, so we'll give them the +30 damage enchant. Let's go out back and smoke something. This buzz is wearing off."

Also, there was briefly a time in the game where some items really did come with purely +damage on them and did not help healing spells. Enough players balked at that that the Blizzard developers changed their minds and changed everything to +damage/healing. This enchant was the only holdover from that change.

Another thing that bugs me to no end is that equipment specifically designed for mages only has the wording +spell damage & healing on it too. Am I missing something, or does the polymorph spell benefit from that? Poor mages.

There is now only +damage/healing, which could also be read "+to all schools of magic," +healing, and +specifc schools of magic.