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

RPT Publié 20/02/2023 à 11:21 par Lincoln

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Main du protecteur is way more accessible in this tree than it was before. Before it was locked behind Lumière des Titans but now you can pick up Foi en la Lumière instead. Foi en la Lumière makes spending that GCD on Mot de gloire just a bit safer especially if you use Holy Power for it.

Speaking of Foi en la Lumière, it's actually a viable choice to pick now for some passive damage reduction. It's 15/30% block for 5s after you press Mot de gloire and in normal play, you'll have ~25% uptime on it or ~7.5% more Block chance.

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

Jugement du croisé is now less costly as it's not gated behind a low power 2-point node.

Inimitié ciblée 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 Poussée de bouclier or to unspec the node. Now, you can pick up Inimitié ciblée for some extra single target damage while still maintaining the ability to hold AoE threat.

Lumière intérieure is back! The beloved Legion Legendary is now back as a talent option to modify Œil de Tyr and make it the heavy hitter that people remember.

Cooldown reduction galore: You can get sub two-minute cooldown on Bénédiction de protection des sorts and Bouclier divin, sub one minute cooldown Œil de Tyr and Ardent défenseur, and even sub three-minute cooldown on Imposition des mains! This is on top of retaining access to sub two-minute Gardien des anciens rois and one minute Sentinelle/Courroux vengeur.

10.0.7 Protection Paladin Sample BuildSanctuaireFoi en la LumièreMain du protecteurBénédiction de protection des sortsRésistance finaleArdent défenseurŒil de Tyr10.0.7 Protection Paladin SuggestionsherePaladin Class Tree Suggestions

Separate Résonance divine and Invocation accélérée into two separate nodes that can be taken together. With the removal of , Invocation accélérée might not be powerful enough to take on its own so being able to combo it with Résonance divine for stronger Glas divin could make it more appealing for some situations

Give value to Protection for Bénédiction sancteforge and Sursis du croisé. Neither work with anything in the Protection kit so we're just not going to take them if things don't change.

Lumière faiblissante will likely need a buff for Protection as the shield will never outvalue spending that point on Sceau de l’Ordre or even on another talent node all together.

Redesign Punition 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 Réprimandes itself.

Armure de foi should be switched to trigger on Mot de gloire for Protection. This would help align it with the newly buffed Foi en la Lumière 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.

Sceau d’empressement has two issues. First, it's increasing the cooldown on Jugement - not reducing it. The second is that the tooltip is deceptive for Protection. Protection has a 50% reduction to the cooldown of Jugement on the spec aura, which is modifying the value of cooldown reduction provided by Sceau d’empressement. 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 -- Voie dorée is very weak, and Image rémanente has some weird behavior with free procs like Dessein divin. Paladins should have more viable off-healing options in their class tree like Druid's Veille de la nature or Shaman's Soutien ancestral and none of the current options hit that mark.

Protection Spec Tree Suggestions

Make Conseil d’Uther 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 Courroux sanctifié, 2 in Défenseur résolu, 1 in Protecteur vertueux, 1 in Don de la Val’kyr dorée, and 1 in the Inimitié ciblée/Poussée de bouclier choice node. That leaves 4 points to pick between Œil de Tyr/Lumière intérieure, Moment de gloire, Rempart de la fureur vertueuse, Résistance finale, and Conseil d’Uther. Out of these options, Conseil d’Uther is strictly utility and is a lower priority pick. One solution could be to swap it with Sceau de représailles 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.

Lumière des Titans needs some love. In a lot of cases, it's just overheal and ineffective healing. This is disappointing as it blocks access to Sceau de charité, which could be very nice to use.

Reconsider Dévotion de Tirion 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 Moment de gloire 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 Moment de gloire messes with that. It creates these micro-gaps in the rotation that are less than a GCD and are very awkward.