Pally Changes, Info on Mana Burn

[Roth'rili]

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/12891294929-consolidated-list-of-upcoming-paladin-changes.html


We have already announced or suggested all of these changes would be forthcoming in the next minor content patch. I thought I would list them all in one place for ease of use.

Divine Shield: Penalty changed so that all damage done is reduced by 50% instead of a attack speed penalty.

1) Divine Protection no longer causes an attack penalty. Divine Shield's penalty was changed to 50% less damage done by the paladin.

2) Sacred Duty: This Protection talent no longer affects the attack penalty of Divine Shield and Divine Protection, but grants additional bonus Stamina.

3) Avenging Wrath, Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Hand of Protection have a shared, 30-second cooldown. The Forbearance effect is no longer triggered by Avenging Wrath.

CLARIFICATION: You can use Hand of Protection while under the shared cooldown. You just can't use it on yourself.

4) Judgement of Wisdom now returns a percentage of base mana instead of a percentage of max mana.

5) All mana drain effects now return a percentage of max enemy mana (making mana drains less punishing to paladins and other characters without large mana pools.)

6) Judgements of the Pure: This Holy talent now increases the damage done by Seals and Judgements in addition to its current effects.

7) Hand of Judgement - All paladins receive a single-target, 30 yard taunt on an 8 sec cooldown. This spell also does minor Holy damage in order to break CC and the like for pulling ease.

EDIT: Clarified HoJ, J o' Pure and taunt.

Example of the new concept of mana burn



Since this seems confusing:

Before:

Drain Mana on a mage with 15,000 mana drains 2500 mana (16% of their mana)
Drain Mana on a paladin with 5000 mana drains 2500 mana (50% of their mana)

After:

Drain Mana on a mage with 15,000 mana drains 3000 mana (20% of their mana)
Drain Mana on a paladin with 5000 mana drains 1000 mana (20% of their mana)

Those are not real numbers -- just indicating the concept of what the change will do.

[Roth'rili]

Now I know the Ret pally thread got locked if its taboo to be talking about pally changes anymore I just wanted to post some info I found to anybody that didn't know.

My personal opinion is that I like the changes and that they see that us holy pallies need to be tossed a bone so our soloing isn't the slowest. I do enjoy the penalty to the DS now more then the attack speed one (which I thought was hardly a debuff with instant dmg attacks from ret). I will gladly take the 50% reduction to get all the protection buffs to be set on a 30 second cooldown so AW can be off forbearance, and HoP can still be used they state while others are on CD.

This is from a Holy pallies PoV though, not sure if Ret will be outraged by the 50% reduction in dmg with DS up. All I know is that yeah while playing another class and a ret pally had that bubble up hitting with instances that were pretty high kind of sucked >>

[Yatokth]

These are good changes, makes Bubble not godly (since you can't use it offensively and be immune to everything and do basically full damage, now it's a defensive move only) and AW is usable again in arenas.

Also mana burn change is great.

[Skaadvik]

I am thinking that this will possibly maybe make Shockadin viable once more. the extent to which I would cream my pants cannot be described by words if this were the case.