12-09-2005, 08:13 AM
IMHO: holy shield isn't powerful enough as a 31 point protection talent. It would need to be beefed up significantly. Same with Blessing of Sanctuary (24 damage reduction at level 60).
Blessing of Kings is quite powerful, more so as a raid buff. It should go in the raiding tree - that's Holy.
Blizzard is saying here, 'We don't want you to be able to spec in one tree for everything you want, we want you to have to sacrifice and take only half of what would help you tank better, fight better, or heal better.' And that's really insanely strange, since druid talent trees don't work that way. We have some cross-tree stuff but they're all at low levels, i.e. furor, natural weapons, natural shapeshifting.
If I were Blizzard: swap Holy Shock with Blessing of Kings. Double damage on Holy Shock and dump that silly heal thing. (it's about 500 mana for 400 damage at the moment) Keep Repentance in Protection.
Sanctity Aura is okay in Retribution as well. Put Consecration at 11 in Protection.
Now, repentance in Retribution isn't completely stupid. You can use it to judge an extra Seal of Command, thus a bit more DPS. But Holy Shock in Holy is just totally orphaned now, you can never get Sanctity Aura with it, meaning you'll get 90% of the damage you used to be able to do, and it was not buffed in damage. Putting Holy Shock in Retribution gives paladins the controlled burst DPS they want. Putting BOKings in Holy gives paladins a great raid buff without having to spec PvP.
Blessing of Kings is quite powerful, more so as a raid buff. It should go in the raiding tree - that's Holy.
Blizzard is saying here, 'We don't want you to be able to spec in one tree for everything you want, we want you to have to sacrifice and take only half of what would help you tank better, fight better, or heal better.' And that's really insanely strange, since druid talent trees don't work that way. We have some cross-tree stuff but they're all at low levels, i.e. furor, natural weapons, natural shapeshifting.
If I were Blizzard: swap Holy Shock with Blessing of Kings. Double damage on Holy Shock and dump that silly heal thing. (it's about 500 mana for 400 damage at the moment) Keep Repentance in Protection.
Sanctity Aura is okay in Retribution as well. Put Consecration at 11 in Protection.
Now, repentance in Retribution isn't completely stupid. You can use it to judge an extra Seal of Command, thus a bit more DPS. But Holy Shock in Holy is just totally orphaned now, you can never get Sanctity Aura with it, meaning you'll get 90% of the damage you used to be able to do, and it was not buffed in damage. Putting Holy Shock in Retribution gives paladins the controlled burst DPS they want. Putting BOKings in Holy gives paladins a great raid buff without having to spec PvP.