Protection Paladin: First Impression of the New Paladin Talent Trees in Dragonflight

Dragonflight Опубликовано 06.08.2022 в 10:00 Lincoln

To learn about the best PvE talent builds in Dragonflight for this class, and export these builds into the game, please check out our Holy, Protection, and Retribution Paladin class guides:
Holy Paladin Talent BuildsProtection Paladin Talent BuildsRetribution Paladin Talent BuildsPaladin Dragonflight Class TreePaladin Dragonflight Talents - What’s NewБожественный замыселСвященный гневБезумный идеалЗакат и рассвет

Остаточное изображение: This is just a passive healing trait for Торжество. We’ll need to test how smart it is but with smart Длань защитника usage, it could be a nice passive bonus at the right tuning.

Компенсация: This talent will give more damage or healing based on the damage intake of our Жертвенное благословение target. You’ll want to pop it on the other tank to maximize damage output. It does add some co-op gameplay with your co-tank so you know when to use it. Communication will be key to using this well. However, I find this idea a bit toxic as it adds incentive to use a critical utility button for throughput.

Печать милости: The concept isn’t new. We had something similar in Shadowlands but this works off spenders and not builders.

Стремление к святости: This is a permanent stat buff that will always be up.

Сияние & Касание Света: These are just passive damage traits. Both are not fully working on Alpha so we can’t judge the damage gain. These will only be used if they sim well.

Печать порядка: This adds a new effect to Закат и рассвет. You get more damage in the Dawn phase and more defensive value in the Dusk phase.

Печать воина Света: This is a throwback to Classic/Vanilla Paladin!

Paladin Dragonflight Talent Tree - First Impressions

The tree is too inflexible with its pathing – This boils down to that the fact that it's very linear and vertical. There aren’t many connecting nodes into different paths of the tree. Once you’re on a path, you can’t pivot for another path like you can in the Shaman class tree. You are forced to pick up specific talents and go a specific path because it's the only way to move down the tree.

Too many two- and three-point talents – There are simply too many two- and three-point talents that water down the value of my talent points. It feels better to spend two points and get two unique talents than spend two points on the same talent.

Too much of a clear division between right and left – The character power is on the right side of the tree while the utility is more towards the left. This means that you have to go a completely separate branch/path to pick up utility. You can't just pick them up on your normal path to the bottom.

Too many trivial talents that should be "baseline" – This includes talents like Великое правосудие, Гнев карателя, Гнев карателя: сила, and even Божественный скакун. Even something like Возложение рук, should be baseline as its part of the current Shadowlands New Player Experience and it's such an iconic button in the history of the class.

Lessening of Rewarding gameplay – , for example, is much harder to justify because it doesn't mesh well with how Часовой works and our reduced Holy Power economy. is meant to reward a Protection Paladin with more damage for taking some risk to their survivability. The risk as presented is not worth the reward.

Gives away my only unique button – I’ve written a lot on Wowhead about Благословение защиты от заклинаний being such an important button in the tank meta as well in the meta of other Paladins. Now that Holy has access to it and Владение аурами, I’ve lost the one thing that made me unique. Holy Paladin is such a staple in PvE content that now any tank has access to Благословение защиты от заклинаний.

The left side/branch is a mini-game – Закат и рассвет was not an interesting mini-game in Shadowlands and it won't be an interesting mini-game in Dragonflight. It's too much work for what is extraordinarily little payoff.

View in Dragonflight Talent CalcБезумный идеалProtection Paladin Dragonflight Spec TreeProtection Paladin Dragonflight Talents - What’s New?

Часовой: This is the big new one. It adds a damage reduction effect to Avenging Wrath and some interplay with the Holy Power system. We'll need to optimize our resource economy to use it well. This looks like a must pick so far.

Внутренний свет: This was an Azerite trait in BFA and I’m really surprised that it was brought back. This trait was notorious for being insanely broken/overpowered for all BFA beta and nerfed beneath the ground the night before BFA launched. The pendulum in power swung so much that you never used this, ever. And I think it won’t be used again without a massive buff. The biggest issue is the ICD on the damage part. And if it’s ever “good” again, you’ll see potential /cancelaura macros to maximize damage output. This is a clear candidate for replacement in the iteration process.

Непреклонный инквизитор: This is a boring and passive haste trait. The reason it’s on here is to call out that I think they put the wrong version of this trait in the talent tree. This is the Azerite version that was in BFA but I think they meant to include the Shadowlands legendary version. The BFA Azerite version was not particularly good and if it remains, you'll skip over it.

Освящение огнем: This was a Legion Artifact trait that extended the duration of Освящение. But unlike then, this will be skipped unless it sims well for damage. The intent of the talent is to reduce the cast frequency of Освящение and make maintenance a bit easier. However, a one second duration increase is not even one global cooldown. You gain nothing in terms of rotation flexibility. It has to be at least three seconds for it to have an impact, even if that means the damage bonus is a bit lower.

Бастион Света: This is a returning talent from BFA. This is the type of thing that Protection Paladin needs as mitigation ramp-up e.g. the time into a fight it took to get Щит праведника and Освящение active was four global cooldowns in Shadowlands and it could be five in Dragonflight. This could be a good talent for those situations where a Protection Paladin could just die on the pull or to even offset potential usage. However, its placement could use some work as I think it should be more centralized and harder to dodge.

Свет титанов: This is a returning Legion Artifact trait. Back then it was quite weak but now it’s very strong after a huge buff. This could be a must pick.

Стойкость рыцаря: This is a returning set bonus from Tomb of Sargeras that gives your Щит мстителя a damage reduction effect to any target it hits. After thinking about this, as well as recollecting the Legion version of the bonus, I don't think this will be any good. It has two flaws: first, the hits on Щит мстителя are random. You can’t ensure it debuffs the mob you need especially if your priority is another target from the dangerous mob in a dungeon pull. And in raid, Великий воин Света procs vary a lot from boss to boss and you could have extremely poor uptime. With low uptime, you’ll get more damage reduction from Святилище which is more predictable and not subject to RNG.

Каратель Тира / Личная вражда / Рвение Феррена Маркуса / Защита веры: These are a series of talents to add more weight to Щит мстителя and keep it an important button in the rotation as they are meant to offset the loss of Holy Power. All of them have situational value and could see use in Dragonflight.

Вера в Свет: This is the return of a Mists of Pandaria set bonus. It will only be picked because of its tree location and pathing but it will add some better defensive value to free Торжество self-heals.

Дар золотой валь'киры: This is a returning Legendary from Legion. Back then it wasn’t used much and yet to be seen how much use it sees in Dragonflight. It’s on the same row as Праведный защитник which can be a better all-around talent. This could be a candidate for changes in future alpha builds.

Око Тира: And finally, we come to our Legion Artifact ability, which is returning for Dragonflight. I wrote a bit about this in my wish list and my general opinion remains. However, given the layout of the tree, I think it is a strong talent option that will be included in a number of builds.

Protection Dragonflight Talent Tree - First Impressions

There aren’t enough talents to change and customize our gameplay.

There are too many two-point talents. Again, it feels better to spend two points on two talents instead of two points on the same talent.

It’s way too linear without much horizontal movement. Once you’re stuck in a path, you usually can’t get out of it.

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