Retribution Paladin Preview | Patch 11.0.2 | World of Warcraft: The War Within

We're days away from The War Within release. This Tuesday, August 13th, patch 11.0.2 is released as The War Within Launch Patch, bringing (Finally!) the most up to date changes to the Retribution Paladin talents and abilities. In this video, I'm covering some of the biggest changes I've seen and what's worked well for me since pre-patch and from testing on the beta. While some of these changes were already implemented with pre-patch, I wanted to wait until the full talent changes went live. Hope I can provide some good information to steer you into The War Within. Happy adventuring!
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[@thundergodd6086]

Thanks for sharing.

[@DeyrFe]

Thanks for checking out the video!

[@ShadowCreed7192]

Great video thanks for the detailed clarifications, it helped me a lot. i have a question if you care to answer.
I'm a little confused about the mastery stacking to the teeth, is it because of the holy damage it provides? for example at 53% mastery it says my judgement has 60% chance to do additional damage and with the talent "Boundless judgement" it gives another 50% chance to proc so I'm already procing the judgement damage on every cast right? or maybe there is something i am misunderstanding about the talents/mastery relations?

[@ShadowCreed7192]

I just realized without the "boundless judgement" talent i get 40% chance on my mastery.
does it also mean further in the expansion when we can stack appropriate mastery we can switch to "improved judgement" for more procs?

[@DeyrFe]

Thanks for watching and the nice words! And great questions. I do believe the additional 50% is meaning 50% of your current chance (so an additional 20% on your 40%, giving you the 60%) rather than 50% PLUS your chance, if that makes sense. For mastery, as with in the past it does buff our holy damage, which is basically everything, but now the added mastery damage proc and application to other talents increases the value greatly. I don’t generally believe in stacking fully into one stat and I know a lot of places like WoWhead do like to say Mastery and then everything else equal, but haste is important for HP generation and reducing downtime. Right now, i believe I have about 7k mastery, 6k haste, and around 4k crit/vers, but that is also reflecting my Blue Silken Lining x2. That does have me 80%+ chance to proc mastery. Ideally, I think I’d get a little more balance into vers/crit, but I do think it was feeling quite nice.

[@DeyrFe]

As for improved/boundless judgement, that’s a great point. I am leaning toward sticking with Boundless judgement, because of the additional HP generation combined with the proc bonus. With Highlord’s Wrath, we really don’t have to worry about maintaining the judgement dam buff, but I didn’t consider how more judgement casts would compare on the damage profile, especially as we get into later season stat levels.

[@GilezDavidson]

Thanks, good for now heh😎

[@DeyrFe]

Thanks for watching!

[@Verdis_deMosays]

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