Blue Post Roundup: Prot Paladin Mitigation, New PvP Info Soon, Remote AH Shut Down

Blizzard Posted 2018/04/11 at 10:15 PM by Anshlun

Protection Paladin Magic Mitigation

A known change going into BFA is that Shield of the Righteous will increase your armor as a % of your Strength stat. This orients Shield of the Righteous to be strong against physical damage while losing any value vs. Magic attacks. This change is fine. I'm ok with this change.

A lesser known change is how armor interacts with Block. Currently on alpha, the amount of damage you block reduces as you get more armor. For example, on my 117 Paladin in Alpha quest gear, I have 33% baseline block DR. When I hit Shield of the Righteous, it drops to 14% DR.

Now if you consider Holy Shield, a Protection Paladin talent, I gain the ability to roll a block on magic attacks. This has been a tool since WOD for Paladins to counter consistent magic bosses like Krosus. With the changes to Shield of the Righteous, Holy Shield will be the only way to reduce magic damage for Protection Paladins in BFA.

However, when you put both changes together, pressing Shield of the Righteous reduces the amount of magic damage I could reduce via Holy Shield. In a fight like Krosus, it would be better to spec Seraphim and sit on Shield of the Righteous charges (or use macros to cancel the aura) than spend them and take more damage.

This is problematic and counter-intuitive. Pressing an active mitigation button shouldn't cause me to take more damage than I would have if I didn't press that button. No other tank has to deal with an interaction like this. It will lead to /cancelaura macros where am I pressing Shield of the Righteous for damage then canceling it right away to maximize the damage reduction from Holy Shield. Imagine having to do Krosus but having to /cancelaura Shield of the Righteous constantly as to not take more damage than we should be and maximizing damage/threat.

There will be points during Mythic bosses where, I'll be thinking, "Here comes the magic hit, let me click off my Shield of the Righteous so I can increase my damage reduction vs magic." Tanking shouldn't work that way.

/cancelaura macros for Active Mitigation Buffs against spell damage is not good gameplay and changes should made to avoid this situation.

Holy ShieldShield WallAwakening Alpha Fixes

Is the tier 90 talent Awakening intended to put Avenging Wrath on cd for the full 2 minutes or even at all? Seems underwhelming to randomly grant it for less than half the duration and put it on full cooldown just for a slight chance of it being granted while still on cooldown then putting it back on full cooldown. Is this intended or accidental for the talent?

New PvP Information Soon™

Look if you are going to hang out here and meme with us can you please also relay legitimate concerns about the game back to the developers. It has been a long time since this community has been heard or acknowledged.

Why Kill the Remote Auction House

The most logical explanation is that costs to keep it updated are not worth the relatively small number who use it.

Because they need to show investors that people are still logging into the game.

GumdropsWoW Economy Article

Comment by JacevandeverWhy would an AM that increases armor reduce DR? This doesn't make any sense to me.Comment by 68docWell I mean they nerfed the game into triviality based on a tiny percent of the population complaining driving their subs down 10 million plus. So why not listen to a percent of a percent? Worked well in the past.Comment by SilmafarionDid you like, not read the whole thing before commenting?
Are you one of those guys who only read the title and then made a conclusion based said title? You know, the main demographic for Buzzfeed news.Comment by GolgothConsidering that a large part of the issue of "too few people using remote AH" was the app being buggy, poorly maintained and borderline unusable, it's not that great of an excuse! :^)

I mean, nothing wrong with removing a faulty product, it's just that they shouldn't mistake it for a lack of demand. A properly working application would certainly see a lot of use (just look at the Companion App)Comment by gumby760Will this lower the number of people who post pages of singles instead of stacks in the auction house? If so I'm all for it!