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Gnome Alliance

Five Alliance classes, including the new Priest pairing, with Escape Artist and Eureka!

Racial abilities

Escape Artist

Active
Instant 2 min cooldown

Escape any movement impairing effect and gain immunity to them for 3 sec.

Eureka!

Active
Instant 2 min cooldown

For 8 sec, non-periodic damaging or healing abilities cost 10% less Mana, Rage or Energy and deal 10% more damage or healing. Also improves Power Word: Shield.

Does not benefit periodic effects; channeled spells are eligible. The buff has no charge limit.

Expansive Mind

Passive

Increases maximum Mana, Rage and Energy by 5%.

Engineering Specialization

Passive

Reduces the rate of Engineering devices failing or backfiring by 20%.

Priest racials

Additional abilities available to Gnome Priests. Fear Ward is now baseline for every Priest.

Confounding Flash

Active
3% base Mana 0.5 sec cast 2 min cooldown

Confuses up to 5 enemies within 8 yd for 3 sec. Any damage breaks the effect.

Learned at level 10. The Mana cost is based on base Mana, before bonuses from Intellect and gear.

Contingency Plan

Active
Rank 2 Instant 30 yd range 10 min cooldown

Wards an ally for 30 sec. The next hit that leaves them below 35% health grants a shield absorbing 290 damage and heals 200 base Health over 15 sec, increased by healing bonuses. Only one ward can be on a target.

Rank 2 is learned at level 30. Healing occurs in five ticks of 40 before healing power and talent bonuses, and can critically strike. The triggered shield lasts 15 sec.

Playable classes

5 classes
Mage Priest New! Rogue Warlock Warrior

Class synergies

Likely benefits based on the documented racial effects.

Mage
Eureka! · Expansive Mind

Eureka! gives a Mage an 8-second window of stronger, cheaper spells. Expansive Mind increases the Mana pool.

Warlock
Eureka! · Expansive Mind

A Warlock benefits from Eureka!'s damage and Mana-cost bonuses, plus a larger Mana pool from Expansive Mind.

Priest
Eureka! · Contingency Plan

Eureka! improves a Priest's damage, healing and Power Word: Shield for 8 seconds while reducing Mana costs. Contingency Plan protects an ally after a hit drops them below 35% health.

Sources Updated

Racials include Blizzard's October 27 updates. Spell ranks and costs were checked against Forever beta client 1.60.1.70707 and its hotfixes.

Class synergies are inferred from the interactions between racial effects and class abilities.

Ability data adapted from TalentsForever by Chris Baldwin, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Game artwork belongs to Blizzard Entertainment.

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