ramera wrote:
I woke up to find a billion changes to the talents in WotLK.
thats an understatement.. lol. i like 90% of the changs.. just a few i didn't like. even fewer i thought were pointlessly bad...
ramera wrote:
Prot:
Kings now requires 5 talent points.
sucks, but it IS just about the best buff in the game so i can kinda understand it. Tier 1 now so any pally can get it :)
ramera wrote:
Redoubt is fixed, sorta. It was rolled into Shield spec and is only 3 talent points. +30% Block Value and the normal 10% chance to gain +30% block. Again, all for 3 points.
sorta? i'm loving the change. they had put shield spec back to 30% increase amount absorbed which didn't help our threat from ShoR. now it does. and on top of being a threat boost again (like it was briefly a few builds back) and its a 30% chance now to gain 10% block, which means less advantage, but up more of the time and like you said, all that for only 3 talent points... this is an amazing change and unerstandable why its deeper now in the prot tree.
ramera wrote:
Avenger's Shield is instant. (Might not be new, but new to me)
yep, reduced to .5 secs recently and now instant :) means it benefits from Benediction ;) which is likely why they did this.
ramera wrote:
Combat Expertise now buffs Crit by 6% and the bonus stam was nerfed to 6%.
the stam isn't my fav, but its not unfair either. in TBC this stam was added to close the gap between pallies and warriors due to gear itemization. nerfing it slightly now that we'll be using the same gear is fair so we won't have the advantage over them that this fixed in the first place. the crit is awesome for solo'ing/questing prot pallies in addition to better strike options. a little more threat too now that much more of our threat is from melee damage based abilities.
ramera wrote:
1 handed weapon spec is now +10%
Spell warding and Guarded by the light were combined.
Rolled Improved holy shield into the base talent. *Maulgak
all very nice :) i'm a fan.
ramera wrote:
Ret:
Deflection is now Tier 1 ret.
nice for prot, although taking benediction now will be standard for sure...
ramera wrote:
Benediction doesnt suck. (Flat -10% to all instant attacks).
Sheath of light was moved further down in ret. It is now out of holy's reach.
benediction is now awesome for everyone and holy got a nerf with SoL moving down in the tree like this.
ramera wrote:
Holy:
Holy guidance was weakened.
the one change i really thought was completely unnecessary...
great changes for ret include:
Divine storm only 12% base mana now
Art of War now increases crit damage of judgements, CS and DS by 10/20% and when you crit with these your next FoL cast time is reduced by .75/1 seconds. (someone said 1.5 but i haven't had an opportunity to log in today since i'm at work...) this new AoW is a great change imo. for 2 points i'll definitely be taking this.
sanctified seals moved to tier 4 so holy can grab this after conviction and get the 8% crit that ret does and its good for spells too.
vengeance back up to 3 stacks, but only stacks of 3% each for a total of 9%. makes me sad, but i guess i'll have to deal :(
crusade now increases all damage by 1/2/3% and an additional 1/2/3% to those it previously affected.
SoC - stuns only double the base judgement damage and doesn't double the 30% weapon damage.
all in all the worst parts are Divine Plea for holy (change is better fr prot and ret now), Holy Guidance and the even further reduced damage of judgements. judgements are still scaling better than TBC and doing more damage than in live, though. Best part is the new Prot tree. I'm a huge fan of the changes to Prot. now we just wait for the rest of Holy's changes and the balancing of the classes DPS...