Official expansion talent previews

[Kevin]

Well prot / retribution looks like a traditional tanking build, but there are some nice holy talents that will help with tanking too... reduces damage done by 50% when you are less than 20% health, for example. When you look at the holy tree with tanking in mind, you see some talents that have decent dual purpose for a raid healer / buffer / cleanser that can also tank.

To me, it looks like they've done some good things with the paladin trees, I like seeing multiple ways of achieving similar purpose.

Yeah, the current paladin tanking almost does better being 31 holy anyway. Not for damage reduction but for aggro generation which is still the weak point of pally tanking. 31 holy/20 prot allows some decent burst aggro with holy shock and judged righteouness along with improved seal or righteousness. You can slap on warrior gear and go retribution + prot to up the melee damage which gives more sustained aggro generation but less burst.

But I'm kinda liking the paladin trees. I still think a shaman will be more fluid of a hybrid toon (just like they are now) but it does look like they are giving the pally a bit more usefulness than a rare stun and healbot.