Werewolves Updated

If you have a character that carries the curse of lycanthropy, you can enjoy a series of broad improvements and changes to how the Werewolf Skill Line plays with Update 19. These changes place an emphasis on improving their ferocity and momentum in combat, and they affect both the Skill Line's Passive and Active Abilities. For example, the Blood Rage Passive will now increase the duration of your transformation when you deal damage instead of when you take it, and the Roar Active Ability is now instant cast.

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Werewolf
Developer Comments – Werewolf Changes: There were a significant number of changes made to Werewolf this update. Some of these changes were made to improve the quality of life with leveling and maintaining the form, while others open up new gameplay possibilities.

First, you’ll find leveling and maintaining your Werewolf is now considerably easier. The Devour passive is now granted automatically from the very start, so you can sustain the form better at lower levels before you’ve unlocked all the other skills. We’ve also significantly reduced the experience requirements to morph all skills.

Second, you’ll be able to do more core combat actions as a Werewolf, such as resurrecting your allies or using Synergies. Werewolves will have a much easier time engaging in group content now that they can help their friends more effectively. This, coupled with some other changes such as the Blood Rage passive triggering on damage dealt instead of damage taken, means they can be more viable in group PvE activities such as dungeons.

Finally, many morphs and abilities were changed to improve the cohesiveness of the Werewolf kit. Some combos and effects that weren’t very effective have been removed, while others were tweaked to better support the fast and ferocious playstyle of the Werewolf. As an example, we removed the stuns from Pounce and Piercing Howl, but dramatically improved Roar by making it instant cast, fear more targets, and have more competitive morph effects.

• Werewolf Transformation:
  • You can now resurrect other players while transformed.
  • You can now use synergy abilities while transformed. You will use a unique Werewolf-themed animation instead of the synergy’s usual animation.
  • You can now use Siege Weapons while transformed.
  • Your Werewolf timer will no longer tick down while you are reviving in place while transformed.
  • Updated the tooltip of this ability and its morphs to better describe all the additional effects of transforming.
  • This ability and its morphs no longer increase your Movement Speed or your Spell and Physical Resistance as a baseline effect. These bonuses have been moved to passive abilities in the skill line.
    Developer Comments:
    These bonuses were moved to passive abilities to help reinforce the feeling of progression you get from leveling the Werewolf skill line. It also allows for extra space to add more information to the Werewolf Transformation tooltip about all the other bonuses you have while transformed, such as your Max Stamina being increased or your Heavy Attacks dealing splash damage.
    • Pack Leader (morph):
      • The direwolves now scale with the bonuses from damage done.
      • The direwolves now randomly alternate between 2 direct damage abilities, previously 4, and they no longer use a non-damaging snare ability.
      • Fixed an issue where the direwolves would throttle their attacks against the same target. They now attack much more rapidly.
      • Fixed an issue where the direwolves would not respawn with you whenever you respawned.
• Blood Rage: This ability now increases the timer of your Werewolf Transformation when you deal damage, rather than when you take damage. It adds 2/4 seconds to your timer with a 5 second cooldown.
• Devour:
  • This is now the first passive you unlock in the skill line, and is a free passive that does not require you to spend a skill point. Points already spent into this will be automatically refunded.
  • The devour corpse ability is now a 4-second channel, instead of a 4-second cast time. Every second you spend devouring a corpse increases your Werewolf timer and restores Health. Each corpse can be devoured for up to 4 seconds.
  • Updated the visual effects on enemy corpses that can be devoured.
  • Improved the targeting and reliability for devouring corpses.
• Hircine’s Bounty: This ability and its morphs now heal based on your Max Health; Hircine’s Bounty and Hircine’s Rage heal for 45% of your Max Health, while Hircine’s Fortitude heal for 60% of your Max Health.
  • Hircine’s Rage (morph): This morph now grants Major Brutality for 20 seconds.
• Infectious Claws: Updated the visual effects for this ability and its morphs.
• Piercing Howl:
  • This ability and its morphs no longer stun the target.
  • Decreased the cost of this ability and its morphs to 3510 Stamina from 4050.
  • Updated the visual effects for this ability and its morphs.
    • Howl of Despair (morph): The synergy now grants the ally Empower for all Light Attacks for 5 seconds. Previously, it granted 10% more Light and Heavy Attack damage for 15 seconds.
• Pounce: This ability and its morphs no longer stun the target if they were already set Off Balance.
• Pursuit: This ability now also increases your Movement Speed by 15/30%.
  • Note: This bonus was moved from a baseline effect of Werewolf Transformation to this passive.
• Roar:
  • This ability and its morphs are now instant-cast, previously 1 second.
  • This ability and its morphs can now fear up to 6 targets, previously 3 targets..
  • This ability and the Rousing Roar morph no longer set enemies Off Balance.
    • Ferocious Roar (morph): This morph now sets feared targets Off Balance.
    • Rousing Roar (morph): This morph has been renamed to Deafening Roar, and now applies Major Fracture for 10 seconds to feared targets.
• Savage Strength: This ability now also increases your Spell and Physical Resistance by 5000/10000.
  • Note: This bonus was moved from a baseline effect of Werewolf Transformation to this passive.
• All Werewolf abilities now require less experience to morph. The experience requirements to level up the Werewolf abilities now match the Weapon Skill Line abilities, and the Werewolf Transformation Ultimate experience requirement now matches Class Ultimate abilities.
• Curing Lycanthropy will now refund all Skill Points that are invested in the Skill Line.
• Fixed an issue where casting another ability while in the middle of a Werewolf Heavy Attack would cancel the Heavy Attack, instead of queuing the ability to cast when the Heavy Attack completed.