May 10, 2020 update: Blizzard has again adjusted the Fodder to the Flame pact ability with the latest Shadowlands Alpha build, according to Wowhead. The change affects your attack speed and damage mitigation:
- The Demon Hunter's necrolord pact ability Fodder to the Flame ensures that vanquishing your inner demon creates a pool of demon blood. If you fight within this pool, your attack speed will increase by 20 percent and damage done to you by enemies will decrease by ten percent.
Update, May 3, 2020:
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, a new Shadowlands alpha build (verse 34199) was uploaded to the alpha servers. This resulted in balance changes to the Demon Hunter, Paladin, and Warlock pact abilities. The changes are in detail:
- The Demon Hunter's Necrolord Pact ability Fodder of the Flame has been adjusted to let you enter demon form for 15 (Devastation) or 10 (Vengefulness) seconds.
- The Paladin's Venthyr Pact ability Ashen Hallow no longer gives you Consecration bonuses while standing within the Consecrated area. Instead, you may now cast the Hammer of Wrath on any target.
- The Warlock's Necrolord Pact ability Decimating Bolt has been generated and now deals 800 200 percent Shadow damage and increases the damage of the next 3 Burn, Soul Thieves, and Shadow Bolts by 250 200 percent.
We have also expanded the table below with current Pact abilities. We additionally still point out that this is not yet the final version and is therefore still to be expected with numerous further updates.
Original message from April 6, 2020
Yesterday evening (6.4.20), the developers of WoW (buy now 14,99 € ) have announced the start of the Shadowlands Alpha for this week. In addition to new info such as the return of PvP merchants, the pact system was also officially introduced in detail. You make pacts with one of the following four factions in Shadowlands, which provide you with certain signature abilities for your class, among other things.
- Kyrians: These angelic beings inhabit the Bastion and are dedicated to humility and devotion to their goals.
- Necrolords: The Necrolords pact is made up of lichs, warlords, and spies and is based in Maldraxxus. They provide an army that defends the Shadowlands.
- Night Fae: The Night Fae, the guardians of nature, live in the Arden Forest and accompany all beings through the cycle of life and death. With their help, the demigod Cenarius was able to return to Azeroth during the events following the Cataclysm.
- Venthyr: The vampiric Venthyr inhabit Revendreth and, as punishers of the unworthy, seek to purify the sinful souls sent to them by the Soul Judge.
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Signature abilities of the pacts
Kyrian
'Summon Provost'
Summon your Provost, who will bring you a Vial of Equanimity. Drinking this restores a portion of your health and removes all curse, disease, poison, and bleed effects.
Provost also offers you a selection of useful amenities once per day.
Venthyr
'Shadow Gate'
You enter the world of shadows and reappear at your destination.
Necrolords
'Flesh Forming'
Creates a shield of flesh and bone that prevents damage equal to a portion of your maximum health. If you stand next to the corpse of a defeated enemy while casting this ability, you will gain a larger shield.
Night Fae
'Soul Form'
Take the form of a fox with increased movement speed. You can reactivate 'Soul Form' to teleport forward a short distance
You can also unlock and collect additional cosmetic shapes in a variety of game situations.
In the game world, this effect ends after a short time. In rest areas, it is unlimited in time.
The class abilities of the pacts
After you choose a pact, you unlock additional abilities for your class. It is still early in the alpha phase, so the following skills are still subject to change.
| Kyrian | Venthyr | Necrolords | Night Fae | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death Knight | 'Shackles of the Unworthy':Punishes your target for their past misdeeds, reducing the damage they deal to you and dealing regular arcane damage themselves.The cooldown of 'Shackles of the Unworthy' is reduced when you spend a rune to deal damage to the affected enemy with an ability. | Swarming Mist:A dense mist surrounds you and increases your chance to dodge attacks.Deals regular shadow damage to enemies within range. Each time the ability deals damage, you gain additional rune power, up to a maximum value. | Monstrous Limb:Creates an additional limb for a short time that deals shadow damage to nearby enemies. If an enemy is at a greater distance, it will be pulled towards you. | Right of Death (Replaces Death and Decay):Corrupts the ground at the target location, dealing regular Shadow damage to targets within the area of effect.Affected enemies deal reduced damage to you (up to a maximum), and their power is transferred to you as a corresponding amount of Strength.While in this area, hit additional targets with Necrotic Strike and Heart Strike. Scourge Strike and Ripping Shadows hit all enemies near the target. |
| Demon Hunter | 'Elysian Decree':Carves runes into the ground in front of you that deal arcane damage when exploded and drain small fragments of soul from your enemies. | Sinful Brand:Inflict the Mark of Venthyr on an enemy, reducing their melee attack and spell speed and dealing regular Shadow damage.When you activate Metamorphosis, all nearby enemies are inflicted with Sinful Brand. | Feed of Flames:Challenge a condemned demon from the Theater of Pain to a duel to the death. If you defeat the demon and consume its empowered soul fragment, you will enter demon form. | 'The Hunt':Charge at an enemy, dealing nature damage and immobilizing them. The target is marked for a period of time, so you will gain more Vigor by attacking with Demon Bite and Shear against the target.You can reactivate The Hunt every 30 sec to teleport behind the marked target, ignoring the field of view. |
| Druid | Soulmate:Establishes a connection with an ally. When used, you can strengthen the connection for a limited time. This gives you an effect based on your partner's role and your partner an effect based on your role. | Insatiable Frenzy:For a limited time, your druid spells increase your damage, healing, and speed by a percentage. This effect stacks.If you remain idle for a certain amount of time, frenzy overtakes you. It consumes a percentage of your health per stack, stuns you, and then ends. | 'Adaptive Swarm':Command a swarm that heals or deals shadow damage to a target and boosts your regular effects on that target.Upon expiration, it jumps to a new target within its range, alternating between enemies and allies for a set number of jumps. | 'Convocation of Spirits':Gather the Night Fae for an energy blast, channeling a quick succession of 16 druid spells and abilities over the course of 4 sec.While doing so, you cast Moonfire, Wrath, Regrowth, Rejuvenation, Slashing, Claw Slash, Shredding, and Iron Fur on appropriate nearby targets, depending on your current specialization. |
| Hunter | Resonating Arrow:Fires a resonating arrow at the target location, filling the area with reverberating anima. This effect causes your attacks to ignore the field of view of enemies in the target area and increases your critical strike chance against them. | Shin Shot:Fires a shot at an enemy, dealing regular shadow damage. Each time Shingle Shot deals damage, you have a chance to gain Mark of the Shingle, allowing your next Deadly Shot to be used on any target regardless of current health. | 'Death Chakram':Throws a deadly chakram at your current target, dealing additional shadow damage within a short time.Each time the chakram deals damage to another target, its damage increases and you generate additional focus. | 'Fae Transfusion':Transfers the life force of up to 8 enemies in the selected radius, adding nature damage to them every 0.5 seconds (for 3 seconds). If you select Fae Transfusion again within 20 seconds, you deal 75% of any Fae Transfusion damage and heal up to 8 friends around you. |
| Mage | Radiant Spark:Summons a radiant spark that deals instant arcane damage and additional regular damage.The target takes a percentage of increased damage from your direct damage spells, increasing with each hit. This effect ends after a certain number of spells. | 'Mirror of Torment':Summons mirrors that torment an enemy for a time. Each time the target uses a spell or ability, a mirror is consumed to inflict shadow damage and reduce movement and spell speed.The final mirror instead inflicts shadow damage, immobilizes, and silences the enemy for a period of time. | 'Deathborn':Temporarily transforms you into a powerful skeleton mage.As a skeleton mage, your Frostbolt, Fireball, and Arcane Strike are greatly enhanced and your spell damage is increased. | 'Power Shift':Draws power from the ground beneath you for a period of time, dealing regular nature damage to nearby enemies.While channeling, the cooldowns of your abilities are reduced. |
| Monk | 'Weapons of Order':For a short time, your mastery is increased by a certain percentage. Also:The cooldown of Windrunner's Rising Sun Kick is completed immediately, and your Rising Sun Kick reduces the cost of your Chi abilities.The cooldown of Brewmaster's Barrel Blow is completed, and you deal increased damage to enemies hit by Barrel Blow (stackable up to a set value).The cooldown of Essenceborn is completed immediately, and Essenceborn heals all nearby allies at the start and end of channeling. | (In Development) | (In Development) | (In development) |
| Paladin | 'Divine Chime':Immediately casts 'Holy Shock', 'Avenger's Shield', or 'Judgement' on multiple targets within range (based on your current specialization). | 'Ashen Consecration':Blesses the target area, dealing Shadow damage that is split among all enemies, and restores health over time that is split among all injured allies.The land remains filled with Anima, which deals additional Shadow damage to all enemies. While in the area, you can use Hammer of Wrath on any available target. | Vanquisher's Hammer: Throw a hammer at your target and inflict Shadow damage. This also empowers your next spell based on your specialization. | Seasonal Aura:Aura of Spring: Party members within 40 yards revitalize within your aura. This increases their healing received and dealt by 10 percent. Becomes Aura of Summer after 20 Holy Power.Aura of Summer: Party members within 40 yards bathe in the Aura of Summer, giving their attacks a high chance to deal Holy damage. Becomes the Aura of Autumn after 20 Holy Power.Aura of Autumn: Party members within 40 yards drop into the Aura of Autumn, causing your cooldowns to recharge 1% faster. Becomes the Aura of Winter after 20 Holy Power.Aura of Winter: Enemies within 40 yards freeze in the Aura of Winter, reducing their attack speed by 10 percent as well as their movement speed by 20 percent. Becomes the Aura of Spring after 20 Holy Power. |
| Priest | Blessing of the Ascended:Grants you Blessing of the Ascended, giving you access to Nova of Ascension and Surge of Ascension and increasing your movement speed. Both abilities deal damage to your enemies, heal your allies, and build up power, resulting in an explosion of damage and healing after Blessing of the Ascended expires. | 'Mind Games':Attacks an enemy's mind, dealing shadow damage and distorting their perception of reality.For a period of time, the enemy's next damage effect heals their target and the next healing effect deals damage. | 'Unholy Nova':A blast of dark energy heals nearby allies and infects nearby enemies with 'Unholy Transfusion'.Unholy Transfusion deals regular shadow damage. Enemies attacking the target are healed. | 'Fae Prayers':Surround yourself with helpful spirits that support your next 10 spells, depending on which spell you chose. Shadow Heal and Mind Blast reduce damage taken by an ally by 10% for 15 seconds.... Power Word: Shield transfers 2 percent mana or 20 percent of a resource to your target. Power Word: Shine: Reduces the cooldown of a major spell on all targets by 3 seconds. |
| Rogue | Resounding Blame: Inflicts arcane damage and drains anima from an enemy to recharge a combo point.Damaging finishing moves that consume the same number of combo points as your anima-charged points cause damage as if 7 combo points were consumed. | Slaughter slaughters the target and deals physical damage. The target's anima combines with your deadly poison and remains attached to your blades for the next 5 min.This poison deals regular shadow damage and steals a percentage of the target's healing received.Also grants combo points. | 'Jagged Bone Spike':Plunges a bone spike into the target's flesh, dealing regular physical damage until they die.Attacks with 'Jagged Bone Spike' splinter all active bone spikes, hitting your current target and increasing the initial damage per spike by a percentage. | (In Development) |
| Shaman | 'Vespertotem'Summons a totem at the target location for 30 sec. Through your next 3 damage spells or abilities, the totem radiates arcane damage to enemies near the totem and your next 3 healing spells heal up to 6 allies near the totem.Casting this ability again while the totem is active will move the totem. | 'Chain Harvest'Sends a wave of Anima to the target, which jumps to additional nearby targets. Inflicts shadow damage on enemies and heals allies.Chain Harvest's cooldown decreases with each critical hit dealt. | (In development) | (In development) |
| Warlock | Scourging Obolus deals arcane damage immediately, plus regular arcane damage. If an enemy dies while affected by Scourging Obolus, you will generate additional Soul Shards. If the enemy survives, the cooldown of Scourging Obolus is reset. | Impending Cataclysm Summons a cloud of chaotic anima that moves toward the targeted enemy, dealing shadow damage to enemies in its path. When the anima reaches its target, it explodes, inflicting a random curse on all nearby enemies and inflicting Shadow damage. | Decimation Bolt:Casts a bolt of Shadow Magic at your target, dealing Shadow damage and increasing the damage of your next use of Burn, Soul Thief, or Shadow Bolt.The damage of Decimation Bolt, as well as the bonus to Burn, Soul Thief, or Shadow Bolt, increases if your target loses health. | (In Development) |
| Warrior | Spear of Bastion'Throws a Kyrian spear at the target, dealing instant arcane damage as well as additional regular damage and generating rage. Enemies hit are bound to the location of Spear of Bastion for the duration. | Condemn(Replaces Execute)Condemns an enemy to suffer for their sins and deals Shadow damage. Can only be used against opponents who have more than 80% or less than 20% of their health.The primary target is weakened and its damage dealt to you is reduced.If your opponent survives, a portion of the spent rage is returned. | 'Banner of the Conqueror':Wield the Banner of the Necrolords, which increases your movement speed and causes your 'Deadly Strike', 'Furious Blow', and 'Shield Strike' to grant glory. For each enemy defeated, you will receive additional stacks of fame.Activating the ability again will place the banner in the ground, increasing your maximum health and attack speed and that of your allies within range of the banner. Duration increases with each stack of glory, up to a maximum. | 'Ancient Reverberation':Shake the ground with your weapon, releasing a shockwave that deals nature damage and stuns up to 5 enemies for 1.5 seconds. Hit enemies take nature damage every 2 seconds (for 12 seconds), giving you 6 rage. |
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