by Matthew Rossi
Right off the bat, of course, we know Mortal Strike, Bloodthirst, Dual Wield Specialization, Two-Handed Weapon Specialization, Precision and Vitality are all no longer talents at all. Furthermore, several talents are obviously not finalized yet, as they don’t have icons. Still, we have quite a lot to discuss here.
Arms
Arms talents have seen a good amount of shifting around. The top tier of arms, despite the loss of Deflection, still contains talents that will be of interest to protection after spending its 31 points: Field Dressing, a new two-point talent will increase self healing (Enraged Regeneration, Blood Craze, Second Wind, Bloodthirst) by 10/20% and all healing taken by 3/6%. Meanwhile, Improved Rend (additional 15/30% damage to Rend) will be attractive to prot warriors with the talent Blood and Thunder (which we’ll discuss later), and War Academy in the first tier will be attractive because it increases damage of Heroic Strike, Victory Rush and Slam by 5/10/15%.
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by Gregg Reece
Retribution “A righteous crusader who judges and punishes opponents with weapons and Holy magic.”
First, before we talk about anything else, please note that we are not going to get Divine Storm as our active ability for picking the tree. They are likely going to create a new single-target ability specifically for this purpose.
Divine Storm will end up back in the talent tree, but not as the defining talent in the tree. It’s going somewhere in the middle, and they’re adding yet another ability as the 31-pointer — to what end, we currently don’t know. They’ve also hinted that they’re going to be making a third new ability for use someplace else. So, we’re getting three new abilities, and we only have a vague idea what one of them will be called (Divine Retribution … another dartboard pally skill name).
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Slay Captain Brightwater and report to General Khazgar at Venture Bay.
Description
With every advance, our men are met by fresh Alliance reinforcements. It’s almost as though their commander anticipates my every move!
The time has come for good Captain Brightwater to meet his end. He commands his troops from aboard an Alliance destroyer at the far end of the bay.
This will be no easy fight, <name>. Take along a couple of trusted friends, or if you have a key to one of those repaired shredders, use it to disembowel Brightwater! Either way, he must fall!
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Bring the Cedar Chest to Ivan at Aspen Grove Post.
Description
We have what the trappers want. Now it’s up to us to sign them up with our side.
Take the chest to a trapper named Ivan at the Aspen Grove Post, just north of here.
If all goes well, we’ll have local woodsmen serving as scouts for the king’s army in no time.
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Gan’jo wants you to collect the Snow of Eternal Slumber from his chest in the Drakil’jin Ruins.
You are to use the Snow on the Ancient Drakkari Spirits there and take their Drakkari Spirit Particles back to Kraz at Harkor’s Camp.
Description
It be as the prophecies said, mon. A <race> <class> be comin’ to set our spirits to rest. We been waitin’ for a long time now!
The Drakkari have become a lost people, fierce and savage.
But here we suffer by no fault of our own, mon. This place need cleansin’ and only the living can do it.
Speak to me when ya be ready to rejoin your body. Then take the snow from the chest near me here and put my bruddas to sleep.
Take their remnants to your spirit guide. He be knowin’ what to do next.
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Hierophant Thayreen at Amberpine Lodge wants you to speak to Orsonn at the Rage Fang Shrine and Kodian at the Heart’s Blood Shrine.
Description
The furbolgs of Grizzly Hills carry with them a corruption of some kind, that is for sure. Tribal war has broken out amongst them after years of peaceful coexistence.
What remains to be seen is whether the bears they worship as gods have also been tainted.
Ursoc’s two children, Orsonn and Kodian, dwell in the Heart’s Blood Shrine and the Rage Fang Shrine, south and southeast of Grizzlemaw.
See if they will speak to you regarding what has happened here.
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by Gregg Reece
Protection “Uses Holy magic to shield himself / herself and defend allies from attackers.”
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. The paladin, in general, is still heavily under development, and don’t expect the next patch’s protection tree to look at all like this. Also, ignore the Holy Shield in this build, as it is going to stop being a constant, maintained ability and instead will be something you hit when you need it, much like trinkets.
They chose Avenger’s Shield as the active ability you nab for choosing protection spec. It gives you damage and allows you to pull in dungeons more easily at low levels. Touched by the Light as a passive allows early conversion of the strength-based plate gear we’ll be wearing into the spellpower we need.
Some quick things of note before we dig into things. Ardent Defender is no longer passive. It is an active Last Stand-esque ability. Some things have been moved from other trees into protection, like Improved Crusader Strike and Seals of the Pure. We get Improved Exorcism to remove the cast time off the spell so that we can actually use the ability for something other than pulls.
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?by Gregg Reece
Holy “Invokes the power of the Light to protect and to heal.”
This is not the holy revamp that you’re looking for. Ghostcrawler (WoW lead systems designer) said that what we’re seeing isn’t what they’re wanting for holy paladins yet. It will likely be a beta build or two before something vaguely final for our class is ready as we’re one of the classes lagging towards the back of the pack.
One thing I’m annoyed with (but I believe they’re going to fix in an upcoming patch) is that our spell pushback resistance is talented, when just about every other caster appears to be getting it as one of their passive bonuses for picking the tree. Expect some sort of change regarding this in the future.
There are still a couple things to glean from these changes, though. First off, Holy Shock has returned to a healadin-only ability. Blizzard felt that it was important to start giving us the tools we needed to heal earlier on as well as giving us something that can double as a damage ability. Secondly, Beacon of Light (at least for this brief moment) has been tossed higher into the tree so that you can nab it at sometime around level 30.
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Speak with Raegar Breakbrow at Prospector’s Point.
Description
With all the excitement about the army trying to move through Thor Modan, I’d almost forgotten about Raegar’s crew down at Prospector’s Point.
I sent Raegar and his assistants, along with a mountaineer friend, down to establish a small post near Dun Argol, at the southern end of the Eastwind Shore.
They were to investigate the iron dwarf presence in the southern hills, but I haven’t received any reports yet. Could you check up on them if you’re going down that way?
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Kill 10 Runic Battle Golems and return to Brugar Stoneshear at the Westfall Brigade Encampment.
Description
I hope Gryan knows I withdrew my men from Thor Modan when the battle began. There’s no way we can excavate anything until that place settles down.
You seem like a brave sort, though, and you have Stoutmantle’s trust.
Thor Modan is just to the northeast of us and the battle still rages between our Earthen brothers and the creations of those accursed iron dwarves. Help our brethren to even the odds and I’ll start figuring out how we’re going to accomplish this survey of Thor Modan.
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