PTR Changes – Build 9722 – Ret Changes..
OK so Blizzard have started to talk about our up-coming changes…
Divine Storm now causes 110% of weapon damage to up to 4 enemies within 8 yards.
Righteous Vengeance now also affects Crusader Strike.
This is a nice buff. Straight up.
Crusader Strike is now An instant strike that causes 110% weapon damage. In addition, if you strike a player while they are casting, their magical damage and healing will be reduced by 50% for 6 sec.
Crusader Strike has been nerfed by 11% to make way for this extra PvP ability. Not sure I’m completely happy about that – Unless we think it’ll work in PvE? (Just checked the talent tree’s on the Blizzard page – it says it should be 110%….so why does my in game one say 121%? Am I being thick?) ……Wait a minute…is that a mortal strike effect? /facepalm
Judgements of the Wise now immediately grant you 25% of your base mana. (Up from 15%)
There’s our mana return increased. Will this be enough? As soon as the EU PTR is up I’ll take a look.
Right so the first phase of the Ret-tree fixing has started – all in all it seems positive – some extra pvp abilities and more mana back and a seemingly nice buff as well.
Edit: They’ve added a Glyph change as well!
Glyph of Seal of Blood — When your Seal of Blood, Seal of the Martyr, Judgement of Blood, or Judgement of the Martyr deals damage to you, you gain 11% of the damage done as mana.
More Mana! Very nice – So Martyr is no longer less appealing. 11% seems a bit much given the increase on Judgements of the Wise.
Edit 2: The Crusader Strike Debuff isnt coming to the game in 3.1 – Ghostcrawler
Thanks to Tim @ Suicidal Zebra for letting us know.
5 Responses so far
Suicidal Zebra
March 24th, 2009
12:50 am
Divine Storm change is a Buff.
Your in-game tooltip (121%) also reflects the boost to Crusader Strike from the Art of War talent (10%). Hence the change is a straight buff, though probably only really useful in PvP.
The Glyph of Seal of Blood also regens 11% of the feedback damage from SoB and JoB.
All straight buffs, and very welcome too. Not too happy about the retention of JoB feedback damage, but I guess you can’t have everything in one patch.
Suicidal Zebra
March 24th, 2009
1:05 am
Oh, and the Crusader Strike change isn’t a Mortal Strike effect. The way that it works is the following:
1) If a spell isn’t being cast then there is no additional effect,
2) If a spell is in the process of being cast the target is afflicted with a debuff that reduces healing output and magic damage done by 50%.
3) The spell being cast is not interrupted.
This is a pretty strong spell against casters which cast a lot of non-instant spells (Holy Paladins, Priests, Mages, non-affliction warlocks) but of much less value against casters which rely heavily on instant cast spells (Resto Druids being the most obvious example).
Micah
March 24th, 2009
1:31 am
Zebra is right about the base damage of CS. This isn’t a nerf.
And while I am glad that CS is finally getting a secondary affect, this really more of a Holy PVP nerf than it is a Ret buff.
Think about it. Holy is “considered” overpowered in PVP right now and which healing class is completely bound up in cast times?
The real question is if a Ret/War team goes into arena and the Ret gets this on the healer and the warrior gets MS on the healer’s partner…
Does it stack?
Suicidal Zebra
March 24th, 2009
1:47 am
False Alarm, we’re not getting the debuff for CS:
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/15864309119-new-ptr-build-paladin-changes.html
Peregrine
March 24th, 2009
4:05 am
Still nice though
I think overall, this is a net gain. I’m theorycrafting of course, but I think our mana regen rate will be more or less the same as before, maybe even better depending on how big your Blood/Martyr crits are. And we also got a Divine Storm buff 
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