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

PTR Geposted 20.02.2023 um 11:21 von Lincoln

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Hand des Beschützers is way more accessible in this tree than it was before. Before it was locked behind Licht der Titanen but now you can pick up Vertrauen in das Licht instead. Vertrauen in das Licht makes spending that GCD on Wort der Herrlichkeit just a bit safer especially if you use Holy Power for it.

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

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

Richturteil des Kreuzfahrers is now less costly as it's not gated behind a low power 2-point node.

Konzentrierte Feindseligkeit 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 Segelnder Schild or to unspec the node. Now, you can pick up Konzentrierte Feindseligkeit for some extra single target damage while still maintaining the ability to hold AoE threat.

Innerstes Licht is back! The beloved Legion Legendary is now back as a talent option to modify Auge von Tyr and make it the heavy hitter that people remember.

Cooldown reduction galore: You can get sub two-minute cooldown on Segen des Zauberschutzes and Gottesschild, sub one minute cooldown Auge von Tyr and Unermüdlicher Verteidiger, and even sub three-minute cooldown on Handauflegung! This is on top of retaining access to sub two-minute Wächter der Uralten Könige and one minute Schildwache/Zornige Vergeltung.

10.0.7 Protection Paladin Sample BuildRefugiumVertrauen in das LichtHand des BeschützersSegen des ZauberschutzesGlanzstundeUnermüdlicher VerteidigerAuge von Tyr10.0.7 Protection Paladin SuggestionsherePaladin Class Tree Suggestions

Separate Göttliche Resonanz and Beschleunigte Anrufung into two separate nodes that can be taken together. With the removal of , Beschleunigte Anrufung might not be powerful enough to take on its own so being able to combo it with Göttliche Resonanz for stronger Göttlicher Glockenschlag could make it more appealing for some situations

Give value to Protection for Lichtgeschmiedeter Segen and Begnadigung des Kreuzfahrers. Neither work with anything in the Protection kit so we're just not going to take them if things don't change.

Schwindendes Licht will likely need a buff for Protection as the shield will never outvalue spending that point on Siegel der Ordnung or even on another talent node all together.

Redesign Strafe 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 Zurechtweisung itself.

Glaubensrüstung should be switched to trigger on Wort der Herrlichkeit for Protection. This would help align it with the newly buffed Vertrauen in das Licht 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.

Siegel des Eifers has two issues. First, it's increasing the cooldown on Richturteil - not reducing it. The second is that the tooltip is deceptive for Protection. Protection has a 50% reduction to the cooldown of Richturteil on the spec aura, which is modifying the value of cooldown reduction provided by Siegel des Eifers. 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 -- Goldener Pfad is very weak, and Nachbild has some weird behavior with free procs like Göttliche Bestimmung. Paladins should have more viable off-healing options in their class tree like Druid's Wache der Natur or Shaman's Führung der Ahnen and none of the current options hit that mark.

Protection Spec Tree Suggestions

Make Uthers Rat 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 Geweihter Zorn, 2 in Resoluter Verteidiger, 1 in Beschützer der Rechtschaffenen, 1 in Gabe der goldenen Val'kyr, and 1 in the Konzentrierte Feindseligkeit/Segelnder Schild choice node. That leaves 4 points to pick between Auge von Tyr/Innerstes Licht, Ruhmreicher Moment, Bollwerk des rechtschaffenen Zorns, Glanzstunde, and Uthers Rat. Out of these options, Uthers Rat is strictly utility and is a lower priority pick. One solution could be to swap it with Siegel der Vergeltung 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.

Licht der Titanen needs some love. In a lot of cases, it's just overheal and ineffective healing. This is disappointing as it blocks access to Siegel der Wohltätigkeit, which could be very nice to use.

Reconsider Tirions Hingabe 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 Ruhmreicher Moment 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 Ruhmreicher Moment messes with that. It creates these micro-gaps in the rotation that are less than a GCD and are very awkward.