Retribution Paladin State on the Shadowlands Beta - Covenants, Concerns, Legendaries

Bêta Publié 15/08/2020 à 00:31 par Bolas

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Traînée de cendres - Now generates 3 Holy Power instead of 5 and has had its base damage slightly increased, but does a lot less damage to secondary targets than it used to. Frontloading its damage into the actual spell itself rather than the extra finishers it let you cast makes it a lot easier to fit into your rotation. Traînée de cendres was pretty much exclusively picked in its talent row for all situations, so making it a baseline ability and freeing up an extra talent row for other options makes a lot of sense.

Marteau de courroux - It's been an iconic ability for Retribution for a very long time so picking it as one of the baseline abilities to return seems like an obvious choice. Its design hasn't changed much from BfA, it's still a Holy Power generator that can either be cast as an execute or during Courroux vengeur.

Consécration - Pretty much unrecognizable from the talent it was in BfA, it now generates no holy power and does very little damage at all. Unlikely to be used outside of massive pulls or when every other button you could press is on cooldown.

Mot de gloire - No longer has a cooldown but is now a single target heal instead of the 3 target smart heal it used to be and does significantly less healing than it used to.

Bouclier du vertueux - Requires a shield to be equipped to cast, costs 3 Holy Power and grants Armor. None of that sounds appealing for Retribution and it's not likely to be used very often as a result.

Bénédiction de sacrifice - This is actually a really cool piece of utility since damage specializations so rarely get single target damage reduction cooldowns, and it’s great to have it as an option in our toolkit of blessings.

Auras - These are raid wide buffs with a restriction only one can be used at a time per Paladin. Multiple buffs of the same type don't stack.
Aura de dévotion - Grants a small damage reduction. Probably the most valuable aura for a raid as a whole.

Aura de concentration - Reduces the duration of silence effects. Very few uses for most PvE content.

Aura de croisé - Increases mounted speed. Notably also increases the speed of Palefroi divin.

Aura de vindicte - Rather than being a raidwide buff like the other auras, the Paladin using the aura gains Courroux vengeur if an ally dies within range.

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Tempête divine - Now capped at 5 targets but base damage has been slightly increased. This is in line with similar changes to most melee specs to have their primary AoE abilities target capped going into Shadowlands.

Lame de justice - now has a 12s base cooldown instead of 11s. This is not a significant change at all.

Talents

Vengeur sacré - Returns after a long hiatus except now with a 3 minute cooldown. This means it won't sync very well with Courroux vengeur and will be mostly good as an option for situations where burst damage is required.

Séraphin - A similar design to Inquisition except slightly more burst oriented than a flat increase. Also has an awkward cooldown to line up with the most of our abilities but syncs up nicely to get the most of out Traînée de cendres.

Courroux sanctifié - Décret de la Lumière with a different name. Unfortunately can't be picked with Croisade since they now share a talent row.

Puissance empyréenne - Another old Azerite Power that's been converted into a talent. Instead of an RPPM proc it's now a flat 15% chance on Frappe du croisé, which seems like a very low proc chance given that Frappe du croisé is one of the lowest priority abilities in our rotation.

Mains de médication - It seems difficult to try and snipe people to get the most out of this talent and it's going to result in some disappointment when another heal just brings them above 30% health before you manage to Imposition des mains them.

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Parangon fou is likely to be the frontrunner for most powerful Retribution legendary. Paired with Night Fae’s Bénédiction de l’automne it can extend Courroux vengeur’s duration by 15-20 seconds very easily or more than double the duration of Croisade.

Verdict final turns Verdict du templier into a ranged ability which means that we can use all of our abilities apart from Frappe du croisé and auto attacks at a 10 yard range, allowing for a potential semi-ranged playstyle that melee specs rarely get. The extra damage from free Marteau de courrouxs isn’t bad either.

Tempête du Porteur de Lumière is a throwback to an old Legion artifact trait. While the extra 20% bonus damage on Tempête divine is great for Mythic+, projectile-ing it is often not going to help it hit any extra enemies due to its new target cap.

Inquisiteur implacable is an old Azerite trait turned into a new legendary effect. It wasn’t especially strong in BfA and it likely won’t be in Shadowlands either unless it’s tuned especially high.

Impulsion de l’avant-garde gives some potentially explosive openers but requires the use of most of your longer cooldown defensive and utility spells to maximize its Holy Power gain. It could be used in situations you really need high burst damage in a small window but the drawbacks it entails make it a much less enticing option.

Aube et crépuscule involves some fun gameplay of trying to gain then spend holy power rapidly to maintain its buffs rather than just keeping Holy Power generators on cooldown like normal, but it’s not tuned high enough for it to be worth the change in rotation priority at the moment.

Jugement du magistrat is basically the old 4 piece tier bonus from Antorus, except only 50% of the time. It’s not generally fun gameplay to be unable to predict when you’ll be able to cast your finishers and this is unlikely to be one of the stronger options for legendaries anyway.

Dévotion d’Uther is the only legendary that’s purely utility without any damage component. While it’s possible there could be situations you really want access to frequent Blessings, it’s unlikely to be worth a legendary slot over the other powerful damage options.

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