Announced changes are NOT working in instanced PVP.
Please fix this ASAP, we are all tired of playing herald without any option to switch.
How did you manage to screw up only ret among the long list of spec changes is beyond me, feels like intentional griefing without any reason. It’s not like we get any buffs to mainly played hero tree or the class overall, the changes are just buffing the other gimped tree and now even those are broken on release. When is this game supposed to be playable?
It has been tested by many many people already, its not the first report of the problem - people have been reporting it since US reset on Tuesday.
Some changes are in effect in pvp:
Penitence affecting Empyrean hammers
Hammer of Light damage increase
Rest of the list is NOT working. Even tooltips are changing in PVP - and numeric values correspond to those tooltips, many changes are duration increase so its very easy to test.
Unfortunately even with all the changes working, Templar will be bad in PvP. It is too much of an one-trick pony spec, where the trick is not even good. Even if HoL did 2 million non-crits I doubt it would be worth picking.
For me, to pick Templar in PvP over Herald, it would require the following:
2 Million (or more) HoL non-crits
For whom the bell tolls buffed to 200% (or more) instead of 100%
Massive empyrean hammer buffs or some insane mobility boost
Even so, it would not be nearly as fun as Herald, because templar is not really compatible with 30 sec wings (it would be if we did not have to use crusade in PvP, as normal wings are nerfed by 50%…).
I feel like Templar would be better if Empyrean Hammers couldn’t target pets.
From what I’ve seen it doesn’t look too bad all things considered, but then you queue into a Hunter or a UHDK and suddenly like 20% of your damage is randomly absorbed by pets.