I think their intent is in the right place but the application of their ideas isn't doing what they want it to do. Martyr still scales off attack power, Sheath of light still gives more spell power than malleable protection, and having to take malleable to get full value from defense is a feelsbad. Hammer of the righteous still scales off attack power, Aegis resets depend on crit, as well as art of war procs. And having to take purifying power over hammer is a feelsbad. Consecration also is in a bad spot, needs a massive coefficient bonus. Lets hope they do some more cooking this week to flesh things out.
thank you for the birthday wish! and I agree, it could definitely use more love, but i do think they are in the right direction. My guess is, they are trying to push ret toward using martyr and sheath, while they'd rather prot use aegis(with seal of righteous) and malleable protection. there may be more spell power alone using sheath, but I imagine the defensive value + the spell power you get from it will come close, especially after some tuning. At the end of the day, I like that they are pushing tanks toward stacking tank gear and I also like that they are providing more differentiations between runes that protection equips vs. ret. I'm a tanking purist, so I'm fine with damage nerfs as an incentive to be tankier, but so far in SoD, threat has been too much of an issue to think about wearing anything other than dps gear, so with these changes empowering our holy damage, hopefully it will work out.
Also a tanking purist, and prot pally to me needs to be a blocking, mass enemy tanking holy spell threat machine, we should be absolutely dominating the trash tanking roll with solid but not absolute top single target boss tank, personally I'd like to think warrior sword and boars should be the best for tanking big physical damage bosses and paladins the best trash/multi target tank, druids can be half and half as they should be! I'd personally like to see a big buff to spell coefficients for HS, SoR, HotR ect. Using attack power just feels like a warrior thing, both ageis and reckoning should just be a chance when you receive a hit/chance of hit and not crit related, we shouldn't be focused on building crit, just Spell power and block is the dream for me
I think their intent is in the right place but the application of their ideas isn't doing what they want it to do. Martyr still scales off attack power, Sheath of light still gives more spell power than malleable protection, and having to take malleable to get full value from defense is a feelsbad. Hammer of the righteous still scales off attack power, Aegis resets depend on crit, as well as art of war procs. And having to take purifying power over hammer is a feelsbad. Consecration also is in a bad spot, needs a massive coefficient bonus. Lets hope they do some more cooking this week to flesh things out.
Oh and Happy belated Birthday!
thank you for the birthday wish! and I agree, it could definitely use more love, but i do think they are in the right direction.
My guess is, they are trying to push ret toward using martyr and sheath, while they'd rather prot use aegis(with seal of righteous) and malleable protection. there may be more spell power alone using sheath, but I imagine the defensive value + the spell power you get from it will come close, especially after some tuning. At the end of the day, I like that they are pushing tanks toward stacking tank gear and I also like that they are providing more differentiations between runes that protection equips vs. ret.
I'm a tanking purist, so I'm fine with damage nerfs as an incentive to be tankier, but so far in SoD, threat has been too much of an issue to think about wearing anything other than dps gear, so with these changes empowering our holy damage, hopefully it will work out.
Also a tanking purist, and prot pally to me needs to be a blocking, mass enemy tanking holy spell threat machine, we should be absolutely dominating the trash tanking roll with solid but not absolute top single target boss tank, personally I'd like to think warrior sword and boars should be the best for tanking big physical damage bosses and paladins the best trash/multi target tank, druids can be half and half as they should be!
I'd personally like to see a big buff to spell coefficients for HS, SoR, HotR ect. Using attack power just feels like a warrior thing, both ageis and reckoning should just be a chance when you receive a hit/chance of hit and not crit related, we shouldn't be focused on building crit, just Spell power and block is the dream for me
i love paladins but it's like blizzard has no idea how they want them to be played