11-16-2007, 06:45 AM
Quote:Now that 2.3 is live Tribade has respeced. Unfortunately the talent calculators have not been updated yet to link. Here is the question:
Is it better to take the last 8 points and put them into Redoubt (5) and Precision (3) -- or to pick up Deflection (2), Eye for an Eye (2), Crusade (3), and Sanctity Aura (1)? She is primarily a healer who does PvP, and needs to defend herself while questing and mining.
She has had Eye for an Eye for a while now and it does proc, but the choice is primarily between extra damage or increased chance to hit.
40/21 Holy/Ret is the build my Paladin uses for PvP most frequently. Simply defined, the shock jock build is the Paladin's answer to the Three Minute Mageâ¢. You're a support healer for the most part (lacking a couple of talents in Holy and all of the Protection talents that the normal cookiecutter Holy/Prot healbot builds have), and burst DPS when you need to. Once you break 1000 spellpower (which is somewhat difficult to do; you'll only have around 800-900 base through arena gear), you can quite easily burst 7,000-9,000 Holy damage in a few seconds with Avenging Wrath going and Judgement of the Crusader on your target; this is against a target with light Resilience, though. You could probably break 12,000 with the battleground Berserker buff as well.
I wouldn't recommend Deflection; before the buff to Improved Seal of the Crusader and Vindication, I grabbed it because I felt the 5% extra avoidance while soloing and between bursts while fighting in melee was better than the alternatives. Now that Vindication's gotten one hell of a buff, though, I can't see putting anything into Deflection since you can't avoid attacks while casting.
ArrayPaladins were not meant to sit in the back of the raid staring at health bars all day, spamming heals and listening to eight different classes whine about buffs.[/quote]
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