Dire Bear Form (Passive)

Dire Bear Form (Passive), a Druid Feral Combat ability, shows the same tooltip in WoW Forever as in Classic Era, but behind it the client changed the effect type on 3 of its 7 effects, changed a value the tooltip never prints on 2 of its 7 effects (600 to 360; 120 to 600), added 4 effects, and moved internal columns the tooltip does not show (durationIndex 21 to 0). The client does not say what that changes in play. Requires level 40.

Dire Bear Form (Passive) tooltip: Classic Era vs WoW Forever

The same tooltip players see in-game, side by side, with each changed line marked.

Classic Era Oct 27, 2026

Dire Bear Form (Passive)

Passive · Nature school

Requires level 40

Forever Oct 22, 2026

Dire Bear Form (Passive)

Passive · Nature school

Requires level 40

changed value added in Forever removed in Forever

Both tooltips read the same. The client changed only data behind them: effects (not shown in a tooltip line). See the full field diff below for both values side by side.

Raw field diff every changed column

Field	Classic Era	Forever
durationIndex	21	0
effects	[ { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 142, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 359, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 1, "effect": 6, "index": 0, "miscValue": [ 1, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 34, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 599, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 1, "effect": 6, "index": 1, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 32, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 99, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 119, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 1, "effect": 6, "index": 2, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 3, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 } ]	[ { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 466, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 360, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 0, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 142, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 360, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 1, "miscValue": [ 1, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 230, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 600, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 2, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 32, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 99, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 120, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 3, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 3, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 108, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": -100, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 4, "miscValue": [ 14, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 107, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 6000, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 5, "miscValue": [ 11, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 77, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 0, "chainAmplitude": 1, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 6, "miscValue": [ 3, 0 ], "pointsPerResource": 0, "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 } ]

Dire Bear Form (Passive) changes between Forever builds

In the Oct 2, 2026 build (vs Sep 30, 2026): changed effect values changed, updated proc chance

Related to Dire Bear Form (Passive)

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Questions about Dire Bear Form (Passive)

Did Dire Bear Form (Passive) change in WoW Forever?

Not on the tooltip. Dire Bear Form (Passive) shows the same tooltip in WoW Forever as in Classic Era; behind it the client changed the effect type on 3 of its 7 effects, changed a value the tooltip never prints on 2 of its 7 effects (600 to 360; 120 to 600), added 4 effects, and moved internal columns the tooltip does not show (durationIndex 21 to 0).

Which class gets Dire Bear Form (Passive) in WoW Forever?

Dire Bear Form (Passive) is a Druid ability in WoW Forever, in the Feral Combat spellbook tab.

Read from the Oct 22, 2026 build (1.60.1.70532), compared against Classic Era Oct 27, 2026 (1.15.9.70576) ·synced Oct 27, 2026 · how we read this → · report a wrong value