Embrace of the Viper Turns Druids into a Snake in WoW Forever
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Druids who wear all five pieces of the Wailing Caverns set Embrace of the Viper turn into a snake in the Forever beta, a bonus the tooltip doesn’t show. The listed bonuses changed too: all four differ from Classic Era in the beta client, and the Deadmines’ Defias Leather set was reworked the same way.
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From the beta client (build 1.60.1.70862), names and tooltips as the game shows them: hover, tap or focus a card.
Embrace of the Viper(2) Set: +10 Intellect.(3) Set: +10 Attack Power.(4) Set: Taking damage while at or below 25% health causes you to restore 100 health and mana over 5 sec. This effect can only trigger once every 5 min.(5) Set: Grants your melee attacks a chance to inflict Dream Venom, stunning the target for 1 sec.Wailing CavernsHidden 5-piece bonus: a Druid turns into a snake (not on the tooltip)Embrace of the Viper (0/5)(2) Set: +10 Intellect.(3) Set: +10 Attack Power.(4) Set: Taking damage while at or below 25% health causes you to restore 100 health and mana over 5 sec. This effect can only trigger once every 5 min.(5) Set: Grants your melee attacks a chance to inflict Dream Venom, stunning the target for 1 sec.
Defias Leather(2) Set: +5 Arcane Resistance.(3) Set: +15 Attack Power against Humanoids.(4) Set: Grants your melee attacks a 5% chance when striking from behind to hit a vital point, causing the target to Bleed for 75 Physical damage over 5 sec.(5) Set: Increased Daggers +1.The DeadminesDefias Leather (0/5)(2) Set: +5 Arcane Resistance.(3) Set: +15 Attack Power against Humanoids.(4) Set: Grants your melee attacks a 5% chance when striking from behind to hit a vital point, causing the target to Bleed for 75 Physical damage over 5 sec.(5) Set: Increased Daggers +1.
The hidden snake form
Wowhead reported on September 23 that a player found the hidden 5-piece bonus: a Druid wearing the whole set turns into a snake. Zirene, a senior game designer at Blizzard, added that the snake’s color changes with the Druid’s race and that it has its own stealth animation for Prowl or Stealth.
The beta client (build 1.60.1.69913) agrees that the snake is hidden: the set’s bonus table lists four bonuses, at 2 to 5 pieces, and none of them is a form change.
The bonuses against Classic Era
The five leather pieces are Armor, Leggings, Gloves, Footpads and Belt of the Fang, each dropped by a different creature in Wailing Caverns, Wowhead says. Every listed bonus is different in Forever: the caster bonuses of Classic gave way to Intellect, Attack Power and two new effects.
| Pieces | Classic Era |
|---|---|
| 2 | Increases damage done by Nature spells and effects by up to 7. |
| 3 | Increased Staves +2. |
| 4 | Increases healing done by spells and effects by up to 11. |
| 5 | +10 Intellect. |
The Forever client doesn’t carry the pieces’ own stats yet, so whether they changed isn’t known. Other new sets in the client are in the beta datamine of new items.
Defias Leather was reworked too
The Deadmines’ five-piece Defias Leather set, which Wowhead also lists as updated, has new bonuses in the beta client as well.
| Pieces | Classic Era |
|---|---|
| 2 | +10 Armor. |
| 3 | +5 Arcane Resistance. |
| 4 | Increased Daggers +1. |
| 5 | +10 Attack Power. |
What this means for you
- Druids have a reason to farm Wailing Caverns. The snake is a cosmetic only a full set gives.
- The set now suits melee more. Classic’s bonuses were mostly for casters; Forever’s mix Intellect with Attack Power, a low-health heal and a melee stun.
- It’s beta data. The bonuses and the snake can change before launch on November 4.
Still unknown
- Which of a Druid’s forms the snake replaces, and whether other classes get a look of their own.
- Whether the five pieces’ own stats changed.
- How often Dream Venom procs.