Anyone else feel like the Prot Talent Tree in 9.0 is a bit… meh.
I feel like the COMPLETE lack of ‘extrarotation’ button to push kinda sucks.
Holy can pick up Prism, or Light’s Hammer (regardless of how meme they are, supposedly) Ret can pick up Execution Sentence, Final Reck and Justicar’s.
But Prot gets nothing. There’s not a SINGLE TALENT in the WHOLE TREE that adds something new and exciting to the standard kit. Some stuff is altered, other stuff is replaced, and some things change how you do things… but we don’t have one cool stand alone ability that’s fresh or exciting.
Thoughts?
I didn’t think it would bother me… but actually, I would really like the option to pick up Final Reckoning, Prism, or Light’s Hammer. Just for fun.
Well you can have swirly hammers, I guess . Also level 40 talents allow you to have an extra cooldown button, they don’t feel worth picking at this moment, but who knows what happens in Shadowlands.
And I do think they could make room for a buffed Light’s Hammer by removing the useless Moment of Glory.
Hurl a Light-infused hammer into the ground, where it will blast a 10 yard area with Arcing Light for 16 sec. Generate 1 Holy Power and 1 additional Holy Power every 4 seconds while the hammer is active.
I think in order for it to be even an option for both Holy and Prot it needs to regen HP since its competition in the slot is doing it aswell.
I disagree. My favorite prot talent is Final Stand. It turns the unusable divine shield into the most powerful tanking cooldown. To me that’s new and exciting.
Its alright at best but First Avenger has it beat not only do First Avenger hit two additional targets which eats up the extra damage it gets when we AoE tank we proc Grand Crusade quite often and get alot of Avenger’s Shields already and as icing on the top we gain an absorb shield that helps us defensivly aswell.
Not to mention that Grand Crusade and Moment of Glory doesnt stack so Grand Crusade procs after you popped it is pretty much wasted. So you will pretty much always miss out on 1 or even 2 procs during it making the benefit minimal but the sacrifice significant.
Best case scenario it does slightly more damage against exactly three targets , if its 4+ First Avenger will do more damage than it. Its a flawed talent that doesnt synergies well with our kit.
I think it’s great when you know there will be a lot of interupts doing a certain moment. I did shrine of the storm earlier, and had 66 interupts while the dk had only 22. It’s pugs, but still
Sounds about right, as a Prot Paladin you should be that far ahead of everyone else especielly in Dungeons with alot of casting enemies, when AoE tanking your Avenger’s reset 24/7 and you can do a ton of interupts don’t really need Moment of Glory for that.
. Also level 40 talents allow you to have an extra cooldown button, they don’t feel worth picking at this moment, but who knows what happens in Shadowlands.