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I just gotta say ... Blessing of Kings ... ABOUT F'ING TIME!!! We've been suggesting/asking for this for years now, and they're finally doing it!

Now, I don't want to get TOO excited, because after all these are "subject to change", but I really, really, really hope this change goes through.

The other changes look nice too. Kinda bummed to have Exorcism changed though ... I like having a few "niche" spells instead of every spell usable on everything. Bah, oh well. Oh, Divine Plea nerf sucks too, but maybe it won't be a huge issue.

Since it wasn't in the OP, though I believe a different thread:

Well, Rogue's Kick is a 5 sec interrupt on a 10 sec cooldown, right?

15 seconds.

Im looking forward to seeing exactly what the trees will look like. Protection has been an increidibly bloated tree with big point heavy talents that are mandatory since TBC, with little change in Wrath. Sure it was buffed, but the bloating was still there. I'd like to see things streamlined a little.

With spell interrupts being the traditional Paladin weakness, I'm torn between being overjoyed that I can chain an AS>Shield>Hammer>Shield>Torrent spell lock to keep casters out and being saddened. I read the changes and see class distinction going further out the window.

If we HAD to blurr some of the lines between Warriors and Paladins, I would have much rather seen Holy Wrath be universally targetable. Warriors have a nice short AoE stun that will work on anything while ours is still limited to undead. Even if it were a Protection talent that allowed it, to keep the parity with Warriors up.

It was kind of a rhetorical "right?" it really does have a 10 sec cd

Anyone else wondering if the spec swap system is coming in 3.1?

Edited, Feb 6th 2009 2:18pm by angryempath

All I gotta say is, three cheers for Kings and the new Exorcism.

Yeah, we were given the taunt for ranged pulls, but now we'll actually have an anytime-ranged attack that does damage.

It's about time if you ask me.

Edited, Feb 6th 2009 3:01pm by Lockebeez

My big question:

Is this Blessing of Kings, or Blessing of Kings AND Improved Blessing of Kings?

Just regular kings sucks without the Improved talents. You'll save -1- talent point, with this change. And most paladins end up taking Kings anyways, as it is.

IMO, they should just get rid of Improved Blessing of Kings, and make the Blessing of Kings itself 10% and just be done with it, but that's just my opinion.. *shrug* they could give us a better talent in its place.

i said it a long long time ago. they need to make all seals, auras, and blessings baseline for all pallies. the improvement talent would go in the respective trees. Kings, being a generic buff for all would remain baseline at 10% with no improvement.

I can't speak for other pallies, but unless Ulduar starts introducing trash fights where an uninterrupted spell represents the serious risk of a wipe, I don't see myself tabbing through packs of mobs trying to find the cast-in-progress to smash them with my shield. 3 second silence on Avenger's Shield is mainly a LoS solution that works for me. It's really hard to reign in your dps when you LoS a pull and the mobs are all slowed. The dps all seem to be nursing itchy trigger fingers and I've lost track of the number of times a clean pull went to hell because the dps didn't wait for the mobs to get to me before they opened up with the big nukes.

I do know this, however: as long as there's a warrior tank in the raid, my chances of tanking Kel'Thuzad are slim to none. Our guilds main RL is a savvy guy and he knows that he can't always count on the dps to do much of anything beyond mash a rotation, so he puts the warrior tank on KT because the warrior has a vested interest in interrupting those frost bolt casts as often as possible.

Having access to a silence on SoR and AS will also add an element of strategy to a tanking rotation that currently consists of triggering abilities as they come off cooldown. I can see a shift in paladin tanking that will result in a reduction in tps for fights that involve heavy caster damage because we'll be holding back on the SoR and AS so they're ready to be used as an interrupt when needed.

>.> What?

That's serious overkill. 10 minutes is just about any boss fight. Of course, I like not having to re-seal during a fight, but, no one needs 30 minutes. Lazy mode seals.

Back in my day seals lasted 30 seconds and were removed on casting Judgement. And we only had one Judgement.

anyone getting tired of learning your class every 3 weeks? Ret is getting some side-effect buffs from all the class-wide changes. im lookin at moving 5 pts from Kings, another holy attack in Exorcism, saving mana from re-sealing, and a few other things i cant think of.

Yeah, while I'm all for a bit more spell interruption this seems to be a bit much. With all the DKs running around I usually just assign them to yank the casters to me, or I LOS. Casting mobs aren't really such an issue that there isn't a work-around.

Plus as mentioned there are probably unintended interactions with at least 3 or so Glyphs which might need toning down to avoid a huge cryfest from the pvp caster crowd.