I want to give feedback on Retribution Paladin and the talent tree presented to us.
I don´t know why the developers are so shy in giving Ret some good numbers you notice it in every talent. As it is Retribution isn´t really brougth to Raid nor Mythic Plus.
Most players mainly Pug Mythic Plus keys and as the talent tree stands we don´t get invited in even a +10 key. In a world (of warcraft) where current destro wl exists for a whole season you literally can´t break anything to give Retribution some agency since we weren´t really op in the whole lifetime of World of Warcraft.
First the good:
the consecration talents
exorcism back in the way it is
Some improvements:
Class tree
Divine Steed talents
put them all together in one talent and make one new movement ability called lightspeed or whatever (Cast time 1 second and functions as night fae covenant ability right now - 3 dashes and movement speed increase) Inspiration from Kizaru in One Piece
Avenging Wrath
bake in the 60s cooldown reduction in this talent point
60s Cooldown reduction on wings talent
As above put in the base talent and instead put Vision of Perfection or Awakening here
Judgement talent (Judgement causes the target to take increased damage)
Put it in the normal Judgement spell baseline and get Boundless Judgement from Retribution tree here (Your judgement has a 25% chance to chain to a nearby enemy)
Incandescence
nice talent but has to be higher proc chance and uncapped aoe or 8 targets and reduced dmg above
Blessing of Protection
put lines to the side here see below
Aspirations of Divinity - Blessing of Protection - Incandescence
Aspirations of Divinity and Seal of Clarity and Seal of the crusader
Reduce to two points
Of Dusk and Dawn and Seal of order
Remove those and put Divine Toll with Divine Resonance here
Put Aura Mastery somewhere on the Class tree otherwise Ret won´t be brought to any content higher than a +10 key in Pugs
Spec tree
Shield of vengeance
Put a choice here: 30s reduced Cooldown and gives 20% DR
in low level content you would pick reduced Cooldown and high M+ or Mythic raid you pick 20% dr. Furthermore reduce Cooldown to 1.5 minutes baseline
Zeal/Boundless Judgement talent
is now only Zeal because Boundless Judgement is in Class tree see above
Ashes to Dust
Don´t know why we getting nerfed to live Server because we aren´t brought to any content on live Servers. We rather need buffs then nerfs.
Change to 50% like on live servers and make it work with Consecrated Blade (Resets put down consecration)
Wake of Ashes resets put down a Consecration for each enemy hit underneath them up to a maximum of 3
Truth´s Wake
Put into Wake of Ashes baseline
Exorcism
Great function but make it generate one holy power
Divine Toll and Divine Resonance
As stated above is in Class tree now. Put Ashen hollow here with conduit or legendary.
This would give Retribution a good niche in Raid and Mythic plus and wouldn´t be op because only Retribution has access to it.
Retribution is in dire need of buffs instead of nerfs and even if all my suggestions end up as overpowered nobody would be mad because it would be refreshing to see Ret Paladins in race to world first and MDI as historically they were never really brought to any of this content.
Even all these changes wouldn´t make Retribution as OP as current Destro Warlock has been for a whole Season, so go ham.