So I suppose I'm back from my unofficial posting hiatus. The new theme is a template, I'll tinker with the layout replace the Drupal logo with something else later; I don't have access to Photoshop or my WoW screenshots on my work machine. Also thinking that it's probably time to update and/or prune off some of the articles in the guide section, since half of them seem to be out of date.
I think i've finally decided on a new build to go with: 0/49/12 -> 0/44/17. Dropping Reckoning and putting 5 more points into retribution. 3/3 Improved Seal of the Crusader and 2/2 Improved Retribution Aura. Reckoning rarely procs when I tank, to the point where it is more or less a waste of 5 talent points.
Patch 2.3 is going to revamp the ret tree: The current Improved Seal of the Crusader talent will be added to the spell's base ability. The new Improved SotC talent will give the same effects as Sanctified Crusader (increases critical strike chance of all attacks against the target by 1%/2%/3%).
Mana cost for Exorcism, Holy Wrath, and Hammer of Wrath is being lowered. The duration of Vengeance (the ret talent) is being upped to 30 seconds. Crusader strike cooldown will be lowered to 6. The increased cooldown blew not only because it lowered DPS, but because it screwed the Judgement refresh timing a bit if it missed (I leveled as a retnub on the BC beta realms).
Some time in the future, all gear will receive an additional spell damage bonus of about 1/3 +heal. So 1500 +heal will translate to +500. This was announced at BlizzCon, I don't know if it's for 2.3 or the expansion pack. Regardless, zomg? Supposedly, 2.3 is going be on the PTRs first week of October. I am assuming that they are aiming for a late October release, so that the holiday event stuff can be on the live realms in time for Halloween.
Unfortunately I don't have links for the following blue posts. All were pulled from the WoW class forums. The same quotations are floating around on various WoW sites, shouldn't be that hard to find.
- "Q: ETA on when zul'aman will hit ptr for testing? A: hopefully, first week of october."
- "We're pretty much focused on Retribution with 2.3, but some more general changes are being made like lowering the mana cost for Exorcism, Holy Wrath, and Hammer of Wrath. Another Ret change (just to keep the momentum going) will be an increase to the duration of Vengeance to 30 seconds."
- "Q: comon blue guys give us some teasers! Cursader strike cool down lowered to 6? A: You're amazing, that's absolutely correct."
- "No, it's about a third. So 1500 +heal would give about +500 +spell damage."
- "This is correct. It's actually in addition to the healing and is "free". It's not going to reduce the healing bonus on the gear. It's going to be in addition."
- "I believe that it was said at BlizzCon that it would be about 1/3 of healing, but that's not gospel and could change."
Comments (2)
WoW. Do like the new look, thats a lot of changes. Theme do looks nice also. Its great you can customize your own blog theme.
I like the fact Blizz is lowing the mana cost of some of our spells. That will help all Paladins and especially us Protection Paladin allot with our lower mana pool.
Wondering when Blizz will they get to working on the Protection Paladin tree? The buff to holy paladins is nice 1/3 of +Healing Spell now will become Spell damage converted. Nice so gives holy something to use when soloing. Yet Protection Paladins can use a bit of bump in Spell Damage and having some way to boost that Spell Damage would be nice. A Holy Paladin with +1500 Healing which gives 500 Spell Damage would have way way more Spell Damage ability than me a Protection Paladin who does indeed need that spell damage to boost our Damage and threat on mobs tanking. So something from Blizz for Protection Paladins would be nice.
Thanks :D
I was hoping that they would be looking at the prot tree a little in 2.3, but it looks like the focus will be ret. Guess we'll have to wait and see when the PTRs are (supposedly going to be up) later this week.
These notes were supposedly posted on the EU paladin forums by a blue and then removed. Not holding my breath, they smell fake. Still interesting though.
•(NEW SPELL)Blessing of Defiance - Greatly increase Paladin's block value. Detail Coming Soon
•(NEW SPELL)Seal Of Protection -5 minutes cooldown Temporarily increase total Paladin Hit Points.Unleashing this Seal's will judge an enemy,decreasing all damage done by judged target. Detail Coming soon
•The Tier 4, Tier 5, Tier6 and all Gladiator Sets have had their Spell Damage removed and the points have been reinvested in other stats, such as Strength and Critical Strike Rating.
•Precision(Protection): Now increase chance to hit with spell as well
•SpellWarding(Protection): Now reduce damage taken by spell by 3/6% instead of 2/4%.
•Weapon Expertise(Protection): In addiction to current effect now Increase Paladin Total hit points by 3/6/9/12/15 per level and convert 1/2/3/4/5% of all damage received in mana.
•Two-Handed Weapon Specialization (Retribution) now also reduces threat caused while wielding a Two-Handed Weapon by 8/16/25%.
•Vengeance (Retribution) duration increased from 15 to 30 seconds and now increases Healing done as well.
•Seal of Command (Retribution) now does 85% Weapon Damage, but is no longer affected by Spell damage.
•Judgement of Command (Retribution) now does holy damage equal to 25% of your Attack Power and 50% when the target is stunned or disoriented and is no longer affected by Spell Damage.
•Crusader Strike (Retribution) cooldown reduced from 10 to 6 seconds and does 110% weapon damage instead of weapon damage plus 40% of your Holy Spell damage.
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