Druid: Forever against Classic

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New in Forever

Talents with no counterpart in Classic 1.12.

Balance	Genesis Increases your damage and healing over time.
Balance	Nature's Majesty Increases the critical strike chance of your spells.
Balance	Nature's Splendor Extends the duration of Moonfire and Rejuvenation.
Balance	Overgrowth Entangling Roots lasts longer and breaks less often.
Balance	Eclipse Wrath and Starfire strengthen one another in turn.
Feral Combat	Feral Swiftness Increases speed and dodge while shapeshifted.
Feral Combat	Shredding Attacks Reduces the energy cost of Shred and the rage cost of Lacerate.
Feral Combat	Lacerate Makes the target bleed, stacking up to five times, and generates a lot of threat.
Feral Combat	Predatory Discipline Ferocious Bite no longer spends excess energy but still deals the extra damage.
Feral Combat	Natural Instinct Increases the bonus damage of your melee critical hits and turns part of your Intellect into spell healing.
Feral Combat	Rend and Tear Increases damage against bleeding targets.
Feral Combat	Natural Reaction Increases dodge and rage generation in Bear Form.
Feral Combat	Primal Bite An instant bite in Bear or Cat Form for 100% of normal damage plus a flat bonus. Renamed from Mangle in the beta after its bleed-amplifying debuff was removed.
Feral Combat	Shifting Power Instantly turns mana into energy while in Cat Form.
Restoration	Naturalist Shortens the cast time of Healing Touch and Wild Growth and increases all damage you deal.
Restoration	Bloom When Rejuvenation or Regrowth expires, the target is healed instantly based on your Spirit; half as much if it was dispelled.
Restoration	Living Spirit Increases your Spirit.
Restoration	Wild Growth Healing over time for several allies at once.

Gone from Classic

Talents that existed in Classic and are not in the Forever client. The text below each one is the Classic tooltip, not our summary.

Balance	Nature's Grasp While active, any time an enemy strikes the caster they have a 35% chance to become afflicted by Entangling Roots (Rank 1). Only useable outdoors. 1 charge. Lasts 45 sec.
Balance	Improved Nature's Grasp Increases the chance for your Nature's Grasp to entangle an enemy by 15%.
Balance	Natural Weapons Increases the damage you deal with physical attacks in all forms by 2%.
Balance	Improved Thorns Increases damage caused by your Thorns spell by 25%.
Balance	Omen of Clarity Imbues the Druid with natural energy. Each of the Druid's melee attacks has a chance of causing the caster to enter a Clearcasting state. The Clearcasting state reduces the Mana, Rage or Energy cost of your next damage or healing spell or offensive ability by 100%. Lasts 10 min.
Feral Combat	Feral Aggression Increases the Attack Power reduction of your Demoralizing Roar by 8% and the damage caused by your Ferocious Bite by 3%.
Feral Combat	Feline Swiftness Increases your movement speed by 15% while outdoors in Cat Form and increases your chance to dodge while in Cat Form by 2%.
Feral Combat	Improved Shred Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 6.
Feral Combat	Primal Fury Gives you a 50% chance to gain an additional 5 Rage anytime you get a critical strike while in Bear and Dire Bear Form.
Feral Combat	Faerie Fire (Feral) Decrease the armor of the target by 175 for 40 sec. While affected, the target cannot stealth or turn invisible.
Restoration	Improved Mark of the Wild Increases the effects of your Mark of the Wild and Gift of the Wild spells by 7%.
Restoration	Improved Healing Touch Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1 sec.
Restoration	Improved Enrage The Enrage ability now instantly generates 5 Rage.

Moved to another tree

The talent is still there, in a different tree - which means different points and often a different build.

Restoration	Natural Shapeshifter from Balance to Restoration
Restoration	Heart of the Wild from Feral Combat to Restoration
Feral Combat	Furor from Restoration to Feral Combat
Balance	Insect Swarm from Restoration to Balance

Moved within its tree

Same tree, different row. A row is a price: from row 2 to row 5 the talent costs 25 points in the tree instead of 10.

Balance	Improved Wrath a different column in the same row - the price stays at 0 points
Balance	Improved Entangling Roots from 5 points in the tree to 10
Balance	Nature's Reach from 10 points in the tree to 5
Balance	Moonglow from 20 points in the tree to 5
Feral Combat	Feral Instinct a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Feral Combat	Brutal Impact a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Feral Combat	Thick Hide a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Feral Combat	Feral Charge a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Feral Combat	Sharpened Claws a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Feral Combat	Predatory Strikes a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Feral Combat	Blood Frenzy a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Feral Combat	Savage Fury from 20 points in the tree to 10
Feral Combat	Leader of the Pack from 30 points in the tree to 20
Restoration	Nature's Focus from 5 points in the tree to 0
Restoration	Reflection from 10 points in the tree to 5
Restoration	Subtlety a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Restoration	Improved Rejuvenation a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Restoration	Gift of Nature from 20 points in the tree to 10
Restoration	Swiftmend from 30 points in the tree to 15

A different number of ranks

The talent exists in both, with a different number of ranks.

Balance	Improved Moonfire 5 ranks in Classic, 2 in Forever
Feral Combat	Feral Instinct 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Feral Combat	Thick Hide 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Feral Combat	Sharpened Claws 3 ranks in Classic, 2 in Forever — our two Classic sources disagree here; the other one says 2
Restoration	Subtlety 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever

What changed since BlizzCon

20 changes between the trees shown at BlizzCon and the launch client.

gone	Balance	Balance of Nature Increases the damage of your Balance spells.
gone	Feral Combat	Predatory Instincts Increases the bonus damage of your critical hits.
new	Feral Combat	Predatory Discipline Ferocious Bite no longer spends excess energy but still deals the extra damage.
new	Feral Combat	Shifting Power Instantly turns mana into energy while in Cat Form.
renamed	Feral Combat	Primal Fury → Blood Frenzy Critical strikes generate additional rage.
replaced	Feral Combat	Mangle → Lacerate Makes the target bleed, stacking up to five times, and generates a lot of threat.
replaced	Feral Combat	King of the Jungle → Natural Instinct Increases the bonus damage of your melee critical hits and turns part of your Intellect into spell healing.
replaced	Feral Combat	Berserk → Primal Bite An instant bite in Bear or Cat Form for 100% of normal damage plus a flat bonus. Renamed from Mangle in the beta after its bleed-amplifying debuff was removed.
replaced	Restoration	Gift of the Earthmother → Bloom When Rejuvenation or Regrowth expires, the target is healed instantly based on your Spirit; half as much if it was dispelled.
moved	Feral Combat	Shredding Attacks Reduces the energy cost of Shred and the rage cost of Lacerate.
moved	Feral Combat	Predatory Strikes Increases attack power while shapeshifted.
moved	Feral Combat	Natural Reaction Increases dodge and rage generation in Bear Form.
moved	Feral Combat	Rend and Tear Increases damage against bleeding targets.
moved	Restoration	Subtlety Reduces the threat generated by your healing.
moved	Restoration	Reflection Mana regeneration continues while casting.
site.betabuilds.diff.retree	Restoration	Heart of the Wild Increases Intellect and the stats of your forms.
site.betabuilds.diff.retree	Feral Combat	Furor Shapeshifting immediately grants rage or energy.
reworded	Balance	Genesis Increases your damage and healing over time.
reworded	Feral Combat	Leader of the Pack Increases the raid’s critical strike chance.
reworded	Restoration	Naturalist Shortens the cast time of Healing Touch and Wild Growth and increases all damage you deal.

Two independent Classic 1.12 talent datasets, compared against each other: maladr0it/classic-talent-calculator and hseager/Classic-WoW-Talent-Planner. All 431 talents they share sit at identical positions in both. Names and positions are taken from the second, which is the complete one; the first is missing Faerie Fire (Feral).