Warlords of Draenor Paladin Changes

By Wowhead Last Updated: 2016/07/17 Patch: 6.1.0

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Paladin ability pruning focused on removing niche abilities and trimming cooldowns.

Inquisition was removed for Retribution

no longer affects the periodic healing of . It still affects the direct healing portion of the ability. Prot self-healing was too powerful with it, and the talent was unbalanced in its tier.

Changes to healer mana and mobility also indirectly increased the value of Selfless Healer by a large amount, so it was brought back down to be even in power with the other talents on its row.

In line with general healer changes, most Holy Power spenders for Holy Paladins now have a cast time.

Beacon of Light now has a mana cost.

Several self-cooldowns have become spec-specific to combat cooldown stacking.

Avenging Wrath and Guardian of Ancient Kings visuals are being merged into the relevant spec-specific spell

Each point of Agility or Strength now grants 1 Attack Power (down from 2). All other sources of Attack Power now grant half as much as before.

Intellect no longer provides an increased chance to critically strike with spells.

The base chance to critically strike is now 5% for all classes. There are no longer different chances to critically strike with melee, ranged, and spells.

Weapon Damage values on all weapons have been reduced by 20%.

Attack Power now increases Weapon Damage at a rate of 1 DPS per 3.5 Attack Power (up from 1 DPS per 14 Attack Power).

Attack Power, Spell Power, or Weapon Damage now affect the entire healing or damage throughput of player spells.

Patch 6.1 Updates

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Talents

Empowered Seals (Protection, Retribution) has been improved. Liadrin's Righteousness now increases haste by 20% (up from 15%). Uther's Insight now heals the Paladin for 2% of maximum health every 3 seconds (up from 1% every 2 seconds).
's healing dealt by has increased by 100%.
Final Verdict (Retribution) now increases the radius of the next Divine Storm by 50% (down from 100%).
now reduces damage taken by 15% (up from 10%).
Barrier of Faith's (Holy) mana cost has been reduced by 34%.

Glyphs

Glyph of Alabaster Shield has been removed.
is now only available to Holy Paladins.

Holy

Denounce damage has increased by 50%.
Holy Shock damage has increased by 50%.

Holy

Beacon of Light heals should no longer benefit or consume 's effect.

Protection

is no longer available to Protection Paladins. is now replaced by instead of .

Talents

(Holy) now increases healing received by the target by 40% (up from 30%) and moves to the next most injured ally when the target reaches 90% health (instead of full health).

Glyphs

Glyph of Alabaster Shield has been removed.
is now only available to Holy Paladins.
is now only available to Retribution Paladins.
is now automatically learned at level 25.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus (Item - Paladin WoD PvP Holy 2P Bonus) for Holy Paladins now lasts 12 seconds (up from 8 seconds).
PvP 4-piece set bonus () for Holy Paladins has been redesigned. or now also reduces damage taken by the target by 5% for each Holy Power consumed (maximum of 15%) for 6 seconds. This effect only works in PvP combat.

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Set Bonuses

Item - Paladin T17 Holy 2P Bonus: When you cast Light of Dawn, you have a 25% chance to also be able to cast a free 3 Holy Power Word of Glory.

Item - Paladin T17 Holy 4P Bonus: When you cast Word of Glory, you have a 20% chance to be able to cast a free 3 Holy Power Light of Dawn.

Item - Paladin T17 Retribution 4P Bonus: Hammer of Wrath causes your next Exorcism to generate 3 Holy Power.

Item - Paladin T17 Retribution 2P Bonus: Spending Holy Power has a 20% chance to allow the use of Hammer of Wrath regardless of your target's current health.

Item - Paladin T17 Protection 2P Bonus: When you use Avenger's Shield, your block chance is increased by 12% for 5 sec.

Item - Paladin T17 Protection 4P Bonus: When you block a physical attack, you have a chance increases your shield block value by 20% for 8 sec. (Approximately 1.55 procs per minute)

Item - Paladin WoD PvP Holy 2P Bonus: Denounce grants you 100% of the critical strike chance of the target for 8 sec.

: Reduces the cooldown of Hand of Sacrifice by 10 sec.

Item - Paladin WoD PvP Protection 2P Bonus: Targets hit by your Hammer of Justice take 10% more damage for 6 sec.

Item - Paladin WoD PvP Protection 4P Bonus: Reduces damage taken while Ardent Defender is active by an additional 10%, and when you activate Ardent Defender, it will also apply to the nearest ally within 15 yards.

Item - Paladin WoD PvP Retribution 2P Bonus: When you cast Avenging Wrath, the duration of all incoming crowd control effects on yourself is reduced by 50% for 15 sec.

Item - Paladin WoD PvP Retribution 4P Bonus: Spending Holy Power increases your damage and healing by 3% per Holy Power spent for 8 sec.

TalentsClick here

Beacon of Faith: Mark a second target as a Beacon, mimicking the effects of Beacon of Light. Beacon of Light Your heals, including multistrikes, on other party or raid members will also heal the Beacon of Light target for up to 50% of the amount healed. Your Flash of Light and Holy Light on the Beacon of Light target will also generate 1 Holy Power.refund 40% of their Mana cost.

: Places a Beacon of Insight on an ally, increasing their healing received from your next direct single-target heal, or Holy Radiance, within 1 min by 30%. When consumed, or when the target reaches full health, it moves to the most injured ally within 40 yards. Limit 1.

Saved by the Light: When you or your Beacon of Light target drop below 30% health, you instantly grant the injured target a protective shield, absorbing up to 30% of their maximum health for 10 sec. You cannot shield the same person this way twice within 1 min.

Empowered Seals: Your Seals also cause your Judgment to empower you with an additional beneficial effect which persists through changing Seals:

Judgment of Insight
Heals you for 1% of your maximum health every 2 sec for 20 sec.

Judgment of Righteousness
Increases your haste by 10% for 20 sec.

Judgment of Truth
Increases your attack power by 15% for 20 sec.

Holy Shield: Increases your block chance by 15%, and allows you to block spells Additionally, when you block, you deal (+ 50% of Attack power) Holy damage to your attacker.

: All heals you receive , including multistrikes have a chance equal to your multistrike chance to trigger Shining Protector, healing you for an additional 30% of the triggering heal.

Final Verdict: Empowers your weapon with holy energy, and performs a devastating strike, dealing 280%200% Holy damage. Also increases the damage and radius of your next Divine Storm by 100%. Replaces Templar's Verdict.

Blinding Light: Now a Talent

: Abilities that cost Holy PowerYour Word of Glory, Beacon of Light, Shield of the Righteous, Templar's Verdict, and Eternal Flame abilities Word of Glory havehas a 25% chance to cause your next Holy PowerWord of Glory or Templar's Verdict or Divine Storm to consume no Holy Power but cast as if 3 were consumed.

: Consumes up to 3 Holy Power to place a protective Holy flame on a friendly target, which heals them for 1 (+ 65 to 71 (+ 49%88.1969% of Spell power) and an additional 1 (+ 9 (+ 8.19%10% of Spell power) every 3 sec for 30 sec 2 sec for 10 sec.. Healing increasedInitial healing amount and heal over time duration per charge of Holy Power. The heal over time is increased by 50% if used on the Paladin. Replaces Word of Glory.
Now has a 1.5 sec cast for Holy Paladins. Protection and Retribution paladins have abilities that make cast time instant.

: The formula has changed and Healing increases over time, culminating in a final burst. Dispelling the effect triggers the final burst.This healing is a large burst at first, and then decreases over time.

Holy Prism: An enemy target takes (300% of Spell power) Holy damage and radiates (300% of Spell power) healing to 5 nearby allies within 15 yards. A friendly target is healed for (400% of Spell power) and radiates (225% of Spell power) Holy damage to 5 nearby enemies within 15 yards

Selfless Healer: No longer works on Holy Radiance, and Judgment does not generate 1 Holy Power for Holy Paladins anymore. Increases effect by 35%, up from 20%.

Light's Hammer: Hurls a Light-infused hammer into the ground, where it blasts a 10 yard radius every 2 sec for (15.50 sec - 1.5) sec. Each blast deals 41 to 49 (+ 32.1%86% of Spell power) Holy damage to enemies and reduces enemy movement speed by 50% for 2 sec and heals allies for 0 (+ 32.1%67% of Spell power) every 2 sec.

Sanctified Wrath: New Protection version. Your Holy Wrath now generates 1 Holy Power, and deals 100% additional damage.

Sacred Shield: Changed formula, see tooltip for details.

GlyphsClick here

: Ardent Defender no longer reduces damage taken, but if its duration expires without being consumed, its cooldown will be reset to 60 sec.

: Your Consecration effect now moves with you.

: Reduces all mana costs while Divine Favor is active by 25%, but Divine Favor increases healing done by 50% less.

: Hand of Freedom's cooldown is reduced by 5 sec when not cast on self.

: Hand of Freedom immediately reduces the remaining duration of all effects which cause loss of control of a character by 25%. Any additional loss of control effects applied within 4 sec sec are have 25% reduced duration.

: Increases the range of Judgment by 10 yards.

: Reduces the cooldown and effect of Avenging Wrath by 50%.

: While Avenging Wrath is active, you are healed for 1% of your maximum health every 24 sec. Now Retribution and Holy only.

: Now Holy only.

: Removing harmful effects with Divine Shield heals you for 10%7% for each effect removed. This heal cannot exceed 50%35% of your maximum health.

: Your Divine Storm also heals you for 5%4% of your maximum health.

: Reduces all mana costs while Divine FavorAvenging Wrath is active by 25%, but Divine FavorAvenging Wrath increases healing done by 50% less.

: Your Avenger's Shield hits 2 fewer targetsonly one target, but for 30% more damage.

: Your Holy Shock criticals grant 1% mana return, but Holy Insight returns 10% less mana.reduces your base mana regeneration before Spirit by 5%.

: Melee attacks from Inner Light heal the most woundedwhile Seal of Insight is active no longer heal you, but instead heal a random injured member of your raid or partyparty or raid for 45% of the normal heal instead of you.amount.

: Now Protection and Retribution only. Increases the instant damage done by Seal of Truth by 40%30%, but decreases the damage done by Censure by 50%.

: Cleanse now has a maximum of 2 charges, but its cooldown is increased by 4 sec.

: Now Protection and Retribution only.

: Now Retribution only.

: Now Retribution and Holy only.

Glyph of Pillar of Light: Spell effect changed to not create huge flashy mini model of the Sunwell.

: When you use Word of Glory to heal another target, including multistrikes, it also heals you for 20% of the amount.

Glyph of Winged Vengeance: Now Retribution and Holy only.

Consecration: and

Blessing of Freedom: and

Judgment: , ,

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: Increases your healing and absorption done to yourself, based on Stamina and damage taken (before avoidance and mitigation) in the last 10 sec.

Riposte: You gain Parry equal to 100% of your Critical Strike from gear.

: You gain 5% more of the Haste stat from all sources.

: Increases the cooldown recovery rate by 0% on your Hand of Protection, Divine Shield, Avenging Wrath, Divine Protection, Guardian of Ancient Kings, and Ardent Defender abilities. Affected spells are not yet final and reflect 5.4 spells instead of 6.0 changes. Readiness has been removed.

: You radiate holy energy, granting all nearby party and raid members 3% Versatility.

: You gain 5% more of the Mastery stat from all sources.

: Increases the cooldown recovery rate by 0% on your Hand of Freedom, Hand of Protection, Divine Shield, Avenging Wrath, Divine Protection, and Guardian of Ancient Kings abilities. Affected spells are not yet final and reflect 5.4 spells instead of 6.0 changes. Readiness has been removed.

: You gain 5% more of the Critical Strike stat from all sources.

: Increases the cooldown recovery rate by 0% on your Devotion Aura, Hand of Protection, Avenging Wrath, Divine Protection, and Guardian of Ancient Kings abilities. Affected spells are not yet final and reflect 5.4 spells instead of 6.0 changes. Readiness has been removed.

Ardent Defender: Reduce damage taken by 20% for 10 sec. While Ardent Defender is active, the next attack that would otherwise kill you will instead cause you to be healed for 15%12% of your maximum health.

Avenger's Shield: Hurls your shield at an enemy target, dealing 75 to 90 (+ 31.5% (+ 160% of Spell power) Holy damage, interrupting and silencing the target for 3 sec, and then jumping to 2 additional nearby enemies. Additional 5% increase applied via hotfix - not in tooltip

Consecration: Consecrates the land beneath you, causing 33.52%13.2% of Attack power) * 9] Holy damage over 9 sec to enemies who enter the area. Additional 5% increase applied via hotfix - not in tooltip

: Increases your total Stamina by 25%15% and your block chance by 10%.Reduces the chance you will be critically hit by melee attacks by 6%.Word of Glory is instant and no longer on the global cooldown.Your spell power is now equal to 100% of your attack power, and you no longer benefit from other sources of spell power.Grants 15% of your maximum mana every 25 sec.

Hammer of the Righteous: Hammer the current target for 20%42% weapon damage, causing a wave of light that hits all other targets within 8 yards for 35%24% Holy weapon damage and applying the Weakened Blows effect. Grants 1 Holy Power.

: 15 sec cooldown, up from 9 Sends bolts of power in all directions, causing 1.82192%] Holy damage divided among all enemies within 10 yards, stunning Demons and Undead for 3 sec. Additional 5% increase applied via hotfix - not in tooltip

Mastery: Divine Bulwark: Increases the damage reduction of your Shield of the Righteous by 8%, adds 8% to your Bastion of Glory, and increases your chance to block melee attacks by 8%. Also increases your attack power by 8%.

Sanctuary: Decreases damage taken by 15%10%, increases armor value from items by 10%, and increases your chance to dodge by 2%, and reduces the chance for your attacks to be parried by 3%.

: No longer costs mana. Now Protection and Retribution only. Fills you with Holy Light, causing melee attacks to deal 9%12% weapon damage to all targets within 8 yards.

: No longer costs mana. Now Protection and Retribution only. Fills you with Holy Light, causing melee attacks to deal 12%18% additional weapon damage as Holy and apply Censure to the target. Replaces Seal of Command. Censure - Deals of Spell power) * 5] additional Holy damage over 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

Shield of the Righteous: Instantly slam the target with your shield, causing 836 (+ 61.7% of Attack power) (+ 192% of Attack power) Holy damage, reducing the physical damage you take by (25 *- 1 ; Min 3020, Max 80)% for 3 sec, and causing Bastion of Glory. Additional 5% increase applied via hotfix - not in tooltip

Avenging Wrath: Now 2 min cooldown.

Divine Storm: Deals 100%65% weapon damage as Holy damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

: Blasts the target with Holy Light, causing 6578 to 7342 (+ 67.7% of Attack power)(+ 140.52% of Attack power) Holy damage and generating 1 Holy Power. Your autoattacks have a 20% chance of resetting the cooldown of your Exorcism.

: Your Crusader Strike, Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of Wrath, Templar's Verdict, Divine Storm, and their multistrikes deal 15.0% additional damage as Holy damage.

: No longer costs mana. Fills you with Holy Light, causing melee attacks to deal 15%12% additional Holy damage and reduce the target's movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.

: No longer costs mana. Now Protection and Retribution only. Fills you with Holy Light, causing melee attacks to deal 9%12% weapon damage to all targets within 8 yards.

Templar's Verdict: A powerful weapon strike that deals 275% weapon damage plus 8.200% weapon damage.

: Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 30% 15%25%. Your spell power is now equal to 50% of your attack power, and you no longer benefit from other sources of spell power. Grants 6% of your maximum mana every 2 sec. Increases the healing done by Word of Glory by 60% and Flash of Light by 100%.

: Now Holy and Retribution only. For 8 sec after you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor, your next Flash of Light will be a critical increased by 50% and has 100% increased critical strike chance.

: This was formerly named Divine Favor. It now increases healing done by 100%, and haste, crit, and damage done by 20%.

Beacon of Light: Your heals, including multistrikes on other party or raid members will also heal the Beacon of Light target for up to 50% of the amount healed. Your Flash of Light and Holy Light on the Beacon of Light target will also generate 1 Holy Power.refund 40% of their Mana cost.

: Daybreak now heals 6all allies within 10 yards for 15% of Holy Shock's healing (instead of 75%, split between each ally).

Denounce: Now has a 40 yard range, up from 30 yards. Casts down the enemy with a bolt of Holy Light, causing (122%109.8% of Spell power) Holy damage and preventing the target from causing critical effects for the next 4 sec.

: Increases your spell casting haste by 20% and spell, critical chance by 20%, and healing done by 100% for 20 sec. This spell ID was formerly for Divine Favor, now removed.

: Increases the effectiveness of your healing by 25% and your Word of Glory, Eternal Flame and Light of Dawn by 50%. Increases your mana pool by 400%. Allows 50% of your mana regeneration from Spirit to continue while in combat. Increases your chance to hit with Holy Shock, Judgment, and Denounce by 15%.

Holy Light: Now 10.4% of base mana, down from 19.5%. Heals a friendly target for (218.005% 300% of Spell power). This spell ID was formerly used for Divine Light, now removed.

: Now 35.6% of base mana, up from 36.0%. Imbues a friendly target with radiant energy, healing that target for 63 to 76 (+ 67.5%151.319% of Spell power) and allup to 6 allies within 10 yards for half of that amount.

Holy Shock: Now 7.3% of base mana, down from 8.0%. Deals 17 to 180 (+ 140% of Spell power) Holy damage to an enemy, or 111 to 119 (+ 83.3%0 (+ 140% of Spell power) healing to an ally, and grants 1 Holy Power. Holy Shock has an additional 25% chance to be a critical strikedouble the normal critical strike chance.

: Damage formula changed, see toolip for changes.

Infusion of Light: Now also increases haste by 10%.

Light of Dawn: Consumes up to 3 Holy Power to unleash a wave of healing energy, healing 6 injured allies within 30 yards for up to 20 to 22 (+ 15.2% of Spell power) *3]. Now a 1.5 sec cast, up from Instant.

: Your healing spells and their multistrikes also place an absorb shield on your target for 10% of the amount healed lasting 15 sec. Does not trigger from healing caused by Beacon of Light.

Divine Light, Holy: A large heal that heals a friendly target for 15910 to 17725 (+ 149% of Spell power). Good for periods of heavy damage.

Divine favor, Holy: This is now integrated into the new Avenging Wrath.

Divine Plea, Holy: Instantly regain 7.0% of maximum mana.

Guardian of Ancient Kings is now removed for Retribution and Holy. The Holy version has been integrated into the new Avenging Wrath.

Holy Light, Holy: Heals a friendly target for 8390 to 9347 (+ 78.5% of Spell power).

Inquisition, Retribution: Consumes up to 3 Holy Power to increase your Holy Damage by 30% and critical strike chance by 10%. Lasts 20 sec per charge of Holy Power consumed.

The Art of War, Retribution: This has been merged into Exorcism.

Judgments of the Bold: Your Judgment hits grant one charge of Holy Power and cause the Physical Vulnerability effect.

Tower of Radiance, Holy: Healing the target of your Beacon of Light with Flash of Light or Holy Light has a 100% chance to generate a charge of Holy Power. Now part of Beacon of Light.

Vengeance, Protection: Each time you take damage, you gain 1.5% of the unmitigated damage taken as attack power for 20 sec.

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: Places a Blessing on the friendly target, increasing mastery by 3000 141. If the target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected. Players may only have one Blessing on them per Paladin at any one time.

Crusader Strike: 10% of mana, up from 5% An instant strike that causes 125%100% weapon damage. Applies the Weakened Blows effect. Weakened Blows - Demoralizes the target, reducing their physical damage dealt by 10% for 30 sec.

Flash of Light: Now 20.7% of base mana, down from 37.8%. Heals a friendly target for 146 to 163 (+ 112%(+300% of Spell power).

Hammer of Wrath: Hurls a magical hammer that strikes an enemy for 0 (+ 161%169% of Spell power) Holy damage. Only usable on enemies that have 20% or less health.

: Consumes up to 3 Holy Power to heal a friendly target for 0 (+ 49%%up to (264.591% of Spell power) per charge of Holy Power.

Judgment: 5% of base mana, down from 12% A magic attack that unleashes the energy of a Seal to cause 8 (+ 54.6%48% of Spell power + 68.7%58% of Attack power) Holy damage. Judgment is now naturally free for Holy Paladins, and naturally generates 1 Holy Power for Retribution Paladins. Requires an active Seal to cast.

Redemption: Now 4.0% of base mana, down from 75.0%

: No longer costs mana.

: No longer costs mana. Fills you with Holy Light, increasing your casting speed by 10%, improving healing spellshealing done by 5% and giving melee attacks a chance to heal you for (16% Spell power).

Word of Glory: 1.5 sec cast time for Holy, Instant for Prot and Ret due to spec abilities. Consumes up to 3 Holy Power to heal a friendly target for 0 (+ 72.6327%up to (264.591% of Spell power) per charge of Holy Power.

Evil is a Point of View: Your Turn Evil now also affects Humanoids and Beasts.

MoP Abilities Changed to WoD Specialization/Talents

Avenging Wrath: now Retribution

Aura Mastery: Now Holy

: Now Protection

: Now Holy and Retribution only.

: Now Protection and Retribution only.

Blinding Light: Now a talent

Draenor PerksClick here

: Avenger's Shield strikes 2 additional targets.

: Increases damage done by Consecration by 100%50%

: Increases the amount blocked by your shield by an additional 10%.

: Reduces the duration of Forbearance by 30 sec.

: Holy Power consumers have a 25% chance to make your next Divine Storm free and deal 50% more damage.

: Reduces the duration of Forbearance by 30 sec.

: Reduces the cooldown on Hand of Sacrifice by 30 sec.

: Hammer of Wrath can now be used on targets below 35% health.

: Your single-target heals heal your Beacon of Light target for 10% more.Also applies to Beacon of Faith.

: Increases the healing from Daybreak by 100%.

: Your Holy Light and Flash of Light have a 10% chance to cause your next Holy Shock to not trigger a cooldown.

: Reduces the duration of Forbearance by 30 sec.

Changed Crowd Control

Blinding Light has been removed.

Repentance's cast time has been increased to 1.7 seconds.

Turn Evil's cast time has been increased to 1.7 seconds and now has a 6-second duration in PvP (down from 8 seconds).

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Ability Pruning

See the Ability Pruning section above for discussion of why we're pruning class abilities. For Paladins, the pruning focused on removing niche abilities, and trimming cooldowns.

Avenging Wrath is no longer available to Protection Paladins.
Divine Favor has been removed.
Divine Plea has been removed. Mana costs for Paladins have been adjusted accordingly.
Guardian of Ancient Kings is now only available to Protection Paladins.
is now only available to Protection Paladins.
Holy Light has been removed.
Inquisition has been removed.
is no longer available to Holy Paladins.
is no longer available to Holy Paladins.

Ability Consolidation and Refinement

There were a few mergers of passive abilities, and some tweaks to a couple of abilities.

Divine Light has been renamed Holy Light.
Divine Protection now lasts 8 seconds (down from 10 seconds).
Guardian of Ancient Kings now lasts 8 seconds (down from 12 seconds).
now heals all allies within 10 yards for 15% of Holy Shock's healing (instead of 75%, split between each ally).
Grand Crusader now triggers from any avoidance, not just dodge and parry.
Hand of Sacrifice is now off global-cooldown.
Judgment is now naturally free for Holy Paladins, and naturally generates 1 Holy Power for Protection and Retribution Paladins.

Judgments of the Bold has been removed.

Redemption's mana cost has been reduced by 95%.
Selfless Healer no longer causes to apply to Flash Heal. For Holy Paladins, it now increases the healing of Flash Heal on others by 35% per stack (up from 20%). For Retribution and Protection Paladins, the effect on Flash of Light remains unchanged.
Sword of Light now increases damage by 25% (down from 30%).

The Art of War's effects have been merged into baseline .

Holy Changes

We made several changes for Holy, to go along with other larger system changes to compensate for the removal of Guardian of Ancient Kings from Holy, and merged its benefits into Divine Favor. In order to follow through on our change to merge all types of Haste %, we removed the Spell Haste % from to a Holy-only passive, so that it didn't also increase Protection's baseline Haste by 10%. Our changes to healer mana and mobility also indirectly increased the value of Selfless Healer by a large amount, so we brought it back down to be even in power with the other talents on its row. We also raised the range of Denounce to be consistent with other spells. Lastly, we adjusted the critical strike chance of Holy Shock, to increase the value of Critical Strike for Holy Paladins.

Avenging Wrath now also increases all of the Paladin's healing by 20% for its duration.
Beacon of Light now has a small Mana cost.
Denounce's range has increased to 40 yards (up from 30 yards).
Holy Shock now has twice the normal chance to critically strike (instead of having an additional 25% chance to critically strike).
Infusion of Light now also passively increases Haste by 10%.
no longer increases spell Haste by 10%.
Selfless Healer for Holy no longer causes Judgment to grant Holy Power. It also is only usable on Flash of Light, no longer on Holy Light or .
Beacon of Light's effects have been changed and merged into baseline Beacon of Light.
Beacon of Light now causes Flash of Light and Holy Light on a Beacon of Light target to refund 40% of the spell's Mana cost instead of generating 1 Holy Power.

Protection Changes

For Protection, we tweaked in order to reduce its massive self-healing amount, and provide better balance between talents on that row. We also added a new passive, , in order to give defensive value to the new Multistrike stat. 's damage and cooldown were also increased, and Sanctified Wrath changed to buff it further, in order to give Protection Paladins more burst threat and damage, while retaining its core damage-splitting identity.

Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases damage reduction from Shield of the Righteous by 6% (scaling with Mastery, down from starting at 8%), and causes Bastion of Glory to increase healing received from Word of Glory by 6% (scaling with Mastery, down from starting at 8%).
no longer affects the periodic healing of . It still affects the direct healing portion of the ability.
Sanctuary now reduces damage taken by 10% (down from 15), and no longer increases Armor.
now increases Stamina by 15% (down from 25%), and increases block chance by 5% (down from 10%).
Shield of the Righteous now reduces physical damage taken by 20% (down from 25%).
now increases Word of Glory’s healing by 6% per stack (down from 10% per stack).
is a new passive ability for Protection Paladins.

: All heals you receive have a chance equal to your Multistrike chance to trigger , healing you for an additional 30% of the triggering heal.

's damage has been increased by 100%, and its cooldown increased to 15 seconds (up from 9 seconds).
Sanctified Wrath for Protection Paladins has been redesigned.

Sanctified Wrath (Protection) now increases the damage of by 100% and causes it to generate 1 Holy Power.

Miscellaneous Changes

We made a few additional changes to Paladins. We revised the functionality of Hammer of the Righteous a bit, such that its performance is about the same, but its tooltip is much clearer. We also made much more attractive to use as an emergency button. We also revised how interacts with Holy Power, and allowed it to once again trigger . One big change for Retribution that isn't mentioned here is the removal of Inquisition (see Ability Pruning), which will have a notable effect on their rotation.

's periodic healing effect has been changed. Its duration now scales with Holy Power, instead of its healing. Its effect at 3 Holy Power remains unchanged.
Hammer of the Righteous now deals 50% Physical weapon damage (up from 15%) to the primary target, but the primary target is no longer hit with the Holy damage.
can once again be triggered by .
Seals no longer cost any mana.
(the Holy version of ) now deals its healing in a large burst at first, and then decreasing over time (reversed from before).

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