First Look at Protection Paladin in Dragonflight 10.0.7 - Feedback & Wishlist

PTR Опубликовано 20.02.2023 в 11:21 Lincoln

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Длань защитника is way more accessible in this tree than it was before. Before it was locked behind Свет титанов but now you can pick up Вера в Свет instead. Вера в Свет makes spending that GCD on Торжество just a bit safer especially if you use Holy Power for it.

Speaking of Вера в Свет, it's actually a viable choice to pick now for some passive damage reduction. It's 15/30% block for 5s after you press Торжество and in normal play, you'll have ~25% uptime on it or ~7.5% more Block chance.

It's now easier to pick up Святилище for some passive damage reduction while in Освящение.

Рыцарский суд is now less costly as it's not gated behind a low power 2-point node.

Личная вражда has been redesigned so it's not as punishing on raid fights with split Single Target and AoE phases. The old version was not playable at all on some bosses this raid tier and the only choice was to take Парящий щит or to unspec the node. Now, you can pick up Личная вражда for some extra single target damage while still maintaining the ability to hold AoE threat.

Сокровенный Свет is back! The beloved Legion Legendary is now back as a talent option to modify Око Тира and make it the heavy hitter that people remember.

Cooldown reduction galore: You can get sub two-minute cooldown on Благословение защиты от заклинаний and Божественный щит, sub one minute cooldown Око Тира and Ревностный защитник, and even sub three-minute cooldown on Возложение рук! This is on top of retaining access to sub two-minute Защитник древних королей and one minute Часовой/Гнев карателя.

10.0.7 Protection Paladin Sample BuildСвятилищеВера в СветДлань защитникаБлагословение защиты от заклинанийПоследний бойРевностный защитникОко Тира10.0.7 Protection Paladin SuggestionsherePaladin Class Tree Suggestions

Separate Божественный резонанс and Ускоренные воззвания into two separate nodes that can be taken together. With the removal of , Ускоренные воззвания might not be powerful enough to take on its own so being able to combo it with Божественный резонанс for stronger Божественный благовест could make it more appealing for some situations

Give value to Protection for Дар озаренных and Милость Света. Neither work with anything in the Protection kit so we're just not going to take them if things don't change.

Гаснущий свет will likely need a buff for Protection as the shield will never outvalue spending that point on Печать порядка or even on another talent node all together.

Redesign Наказание so it's not such a blatant DPS increase. Encouraging kicks and interrupting is good for dungeon gameplay but make it more nebulous like movement speed or even cooldown reduction on Укор itself.

Броня веры should be switched to trigger on Торжество for Protection. This would help align it with the newly buffed Вера в Свет talent. Getting armor when your primary Holy Power spender gives armor is ... weird. I would also consider moving it up a row. It's currently exceedingly difficult to select as a talent below the 20-point gate.

Печать расторопности has two issues. First, it's increasing the cooldown on Правосудие - not reducing it. The second is that the tooltip is deceptive for Protection. Protection has a 50% reduction to the cooldown of Правосудие on the spec aura, which is modifying the value of cooldown reduction provided by Печать расторопности. It's really giving .25s/.5s reduction for Protection. The tooltip should be fixed to reflect this.

Buff the healing options on the left side of the tree -- Золотой путь is very weak, and Остаточное изображение has some weird behavior with free procs like Божественный замысел. Paladins should have more viable off-healing options in their class tree like Druid's Природная чуткость or Shaman's Наставления предков and none of the current options hit that mark.

Protection Spec Tree Suggestions

Make Совет Утера playable. This is the hardest talent to include in any build right now for Protection and that's because the tree structure has six required talents after the 20-point gate for difficult content: 1 in Священный гнев, 2 in Решительный защитник, 1 in Праведный защитник, 1 in Дар золотой валь'киры, and 1 in the Личная вражда/Парящий щит choice node. That leaves 4 points to pick between Око Тира/Сокровенный Свет, Минута славы, Оплот праведной ярости, Последний бой, and Совет Утера. Out of these options, Совет Утера is strictly utility and is a lower priority pick. One solution could be to swap it with Печать воздаяния so all the choices below the 20-point gate are pure damage and power increases, while the middle section has some flexibility to opt into utility with some flex points. That said, I could see this being tabled till a future patch as it could require more structural changes to the tree that aren't on the table right now.

Свет титанов needs some love. In a lot of cases, it's just overheal and ineffective healing. This is disappointing as it blocks access to Печать милости, which could be very nice to use.

Reconsider Преданность Тириона and move it to the class tree. This could be a useful talent for all Paladins, especially if it were in the healing section of the class tree. It could be extremely hard to spend a Protection spec tree point on this talent.

Change Минута славы to 80% cooldown reduction on Avenger's Shield. This is mostly quality of life. All of Protection's abilities have a cooldown that are a multiple of 1.5 and Минута славы messes with that. It creates these micro-gaps in the rotation that are less than a GCD and are very awkward.

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