Yet another new PTR buildFollow

Buff to normal damage of SoB/SoM and took out the self-inflicting effect of the seal (22% weap damage -> 48% weap damage). Judgement of those seals took a nerf (16%AP 25%SP 36%weapon -> 11%AP 18%SP 26%weapon), and still inflicts damage on judgement. I imagine this was done to balance out the damage from the seal, and ease the strain on healers. And the Tier 4 Prot talent is not a great choice for ret, no damage increase at all, so we rets still have about 6 talent points to throw around.

Anyone know if Divinity effects Judgement of Light heals?

they more then doubled the Seal damage, which means, an indirect buff to haste as a stat. in fact, i think its safe to say that our SoB is an Offhand weapon but without the massive hit penelty.

with this and the +30% haste buff, haste may end up a sought after stat. we'll have to see. at the very least its not a trash stat anymore.

this also makes useing Seal of Blood alot more favorable in pvp then before. sure we lose our burst from the judge, but now every proc does more damage the SoComm proc thats only 45% on a 1 sec CD. SoComm just had its last Nail pounded in.

another thing to understand is that the nerf to the Judgment damage is also an indirect nerf to RV damage. (but CS is now on RV so overall not terrible)

another thing to look at is now that SoB is doing more damage, they indirectly buffed CS. . . . which is a power thats on my list of things blizz is about to break.


over all, this looks like a boost to PvE damage, a nerf to burst(maybe, the first salvo of: white hit, CS, DS procs may make up for the loss in judgment damage, which if done in the first 5 sec of the fight, is still considered burst to me), a very large reduction in Recoil. (10% per proc is gone, and the nerf to judgments should mean no gimmick fight self kills). in the end, very good changes imo.



and like Cap said, still no reason to go prot with our left over talents.

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PeeVPea

overall it looks like Blizz may be heading in the right direction. i guess they put "Jump to Conclusions" back in the closet and are actually thinking before they implement.

i haven't seen the word Forebearance used in quite some time, i'm nervous.

DON'T you guys go giving Blizz any ideas!!! If you suggest it (nerf), they will come ...

as long as a good portion of our DPS bypasses block parry and dodge, Expertise will still be a lack luster stat, and NO STAT will EVER be better then STR which we get huge bonuses from.

i still dont know why so many Ret pally are holding on to this stat. . . one less stat to worry about is a good thing . . . get over expertise, it will never be a good stat unless they re hack apart our class at the next expansion.

they may have slightly buffed Expertise with the rebalance of damage from judgement to seal proc, but then reverted it back when they allowed Exorcism to be used on all targets.

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