TalonBot
03-27-2009, 09:41 AM
Filed under: Paladin (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/paladin/), Patches (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/patches/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/03/zz03a523d3.jpg (http://ptr.wowhead.com/?compare=46152:46153:46154:46155:46156:45205:45330)A new build was pushed to the patch 3.1 (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/patch-3.1) PTR yesterday, and while the list of changes wasn't huge, there are a few significant ones for paladins:
Seal of the Martyr (http://wowhead.com/?spell=53720)/Seal of Blood (http://wowhead.com/?spell=31892) now add 48% of weapon damage, up from 22%, to all your melee attacks as holy damage. However, the Judgment was changed from 16% of AP + 25% of spell power + 26% of minimum weapon damage to 11% AP + 18% SP + 26% min weapon damage.
In other words, the bonus damage per attack was roughly doubled, while the coefficients of AP and SP on the judgment were cut by 30% (approximately).
The general expectation is that this will keep overall damage pretty much the same, while reducing burst damage. This makes the seal significantly less powerful in PvP. A benefit of the change is that you won't see quite as big hits on your health when you judge the seal: more survivability in PvE, which is something the blues have shown concern about (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15864259508&sid=1&pageNo=16#312) with respect to this seal.
There was one other change: a new talent called Divine Guardian (http://ptr.wowhead.com/?spell=53530) was added, at tier 4 in the Protection tree. Note that this is not the same as the old Divine Guardian (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53530), which was reworked and renamed Divine Sacrifice (http://ptr.wowhead.com/?spell=64205). I do really like the icon, so I'm glad they're reusing it, but the naming is slightly confusing.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/02/ah0209patch31swipeimg.jpg (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1) Patch 3.1 brings us Ulduar (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/ulduar), dual specs (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/dual-spec), significant changes to all the classes, and more! We've got you covered from top to bottom with our Guide to Patch 3.1 (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1/).http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Paladin changes in WoW Patch 3.1 PTR build 9733 (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/27/paladin-changes-in-wow-patch-3-1-ptr-build-9733/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/03/zz03a523d3.jpg (http://ptr.wowhead.com/?compare=46152:46153:46154:46155:46156:45205:45330)A new build was pushed to the patch 3.1 (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/patch-3.1) PTR yesterday, and while the list of changes wasn't huge, there are a few significant ones for paladins:
Seal of the Martyr (http://wowhead.com/?spell=53720)/Seal of Blood (http://wowhead.com/?spell=31892) now add 48% of weapon damage, up from 22%, to all your melee attacks as holy damage. However, the Judgment was changed from 16% of AP + 25% of spell power + 26% of minimum weapon damage to 11% AP + 18% SP + 26% min weapon damage.
In other words, the bonus damage per attack was roughly doubled, while the coefficients of AP and SP on the judgment were cut by 30% (approximately).
The general expectation is that this will keep overall damage pretty much the same, while reducing burst damage. This makes the seal significantly less powerful in PvP. A benefit of the change is that you won't see quite as big hits on your health when you judge the seal: more survivability in PvE, which is something the blues have shown concern about (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15864259508&sid=1&pageNo=16#312) with respect to this seal.
There was one other change: a new talent called Divine Guardian (http://ptr.wowhead.com/?spell=53530) was added, at tier 4 in the Protection tree. Note that this is not the same as the old Divine Guardian (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53530), which was reworked and renamed Divine Sacrifice (http://ptr.wowhead.com/?spell=64205). I do really like the icon, so I'm glad they're reusing it, but the naming is slightly confusing.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/02/ah0209patch31swipeimg.jpg (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1) Patch 3.1 brings us Ulduar (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/ulduar), dual specs (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/dual-spec), significant changes to all the classes, and more! We've got you covered from top to bottom with our Guide to Patch 3.1 (http://www.wowinsider.com/guide-to-patch-3-1/).http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Paladin changes in WoW Patch 3.1 PTR build 9733 (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/27/paladin-changes-in-wow-patch-3-1-ptr-build-9733/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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