Protection Paladin Hero Talent Showdown in The War Within - Lightsmith vs. Templar

The War Within Опубликовано 17.08.2024 в 03:42 Lincoln

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The War Within Hero Talents Overview

Protection Paladin in the War WithinHero Talent Showdown: Templar vs. Lightsmith Молот СветаСотрясение небесБлагородное призваниеСвятой оплотСвятое оружие Templar

Strengths

Weaknesses

Око ТираМолот СветаПравосудиеБлагословенный молотМолот праведникаМолот гневаСотрясение небесЩит мстителяОко ТираСокровенный Свет Lightsmith

Strengths

Weaknesses

Святой оплотСвятое оружиеГнев карателяБлагословение горна What's Changed? TemplarМолот СветаЩит праведника Lightsmith

Святое оружие and Святой оплот are no longer ground-targeted spells. You cast them directly on yourself or another player.

There is a talent, Солидарность, that will automatically cast Святое оружие or Святой оплот on a group member when you cast it on yourself. There is a built-in priority order for each based on role. For Святой оплот, the role priority when self-casting is Tank > Healer > DPS. For Святое оружие, it will go on the closest DPS first then on Healers then Tanks.

The damage of Святое оружие scales completely based on the Paladin who casts it. The amount of damage, the haste scaling, critical strike chance, etc. are all calculated based on the stats of the Paladin who cast it. The target has nothing to do with any of this. It's not an external like Придание сил.

Святое оружие has an RPPM of 8. This is the total number of procs that includes both damage and healing.

In logs and add-ons like Details, all damage of Святое оружие will be attributed to the casting Paladin. The player who receives the buff will not have a listing in their damage breakdown.

The only thing that matters with Святое оружие is that the target maximizes their actions per minute to saturate the proc chance. The only thing you don't want is to cast it on someone who is AFK.

Святое оружиеСвятое оружиеПридание сил And the Winner Is...

Class Fantasy & Visuals: Templar (Winner)

Here are some visual examples that show how cool Templar looks! It's a two-part animation. The first part puts golden wings on your back and you swing a giant hammer. The second part is the animation of nearby enemies being hit. When you press Молот Света and see the whole animation, combined with the sound effects, it feels like this big power moment in your rotation where you did something awesome.

Lightsmith on the other hand doesn't have a real animation. It just has a slight visual flourish but it's hardly noticeable. Here is the flourish for Святой оплот.

Fun & Rewarding Gameplay: Templar (Winner)

Templar adds an interesting new way to juggle Holy Power and your defensive buttons. It's a nice change of pace from previous expansions and shakes up the gameplay when it comes to managing Holy Power and Щит праведника uptime. It's also rewarding to keep up Сотрясение небес as much as possible. Templar rewards you for playing well.

Lightsmith falls short because it's just Dragonflight Protection Paladin with an extra key bind. No new interactions or gameplay loops are created and that just makes it boring.

Difficulty: Lightsmith (Winner)

Lightsmith is a bit easier to learn and play since you focus on maintaining Щит праведника and Освящение without the Сотрясение небес mini-game that Templar brings along with it.

Defensiveness & Utility: Lightsmith (Winner)

Lightsmith allows you to utilize all defensive cooldowns while Templar does not. Templar requires that you commit Око Тира as part of your rotation, which makes Lightsmith way more flexible defensively.

Leveling: Templar (Winner)
Templar will do more burst damage in a big outdoor world pull that will make leveling go faster by shortening combat times when doing quests or outdoor content. Templar also brings with it Безудержная скачка that makes getting around the open world much easier.

Mythic+: Lightsmith (Winner)

Lightsmith is better for Mythic+ because Templar as it stands is not compatible with how Protection Paladin needs to play in Mythic+. I'll get more into this when I discuss hero tree feedback.

Raid: Templar & Lightsmith (Tie)

This will come down to tuning. Protection Paladin will focus on two things for raids in The War Within: damage and externals like Благословение защиты от заклинаний. Since Благословение защиты от заклинаний is not hero tree specific, it will come down to damage tuning of both trees. Odds are that Protection Paladin will play the one that does the most damage and we'll know which is better once tuning is more settled closer to the raid release in September.

Best Overall: Lightsmith (Winner)

Lightsmith is the better overall hero tree. It's better for Mythic+ and could be a competitive raid option. Until Templar's Mythic+ weaknesses are resolved then It's more likely that Lightsmith will be a "set and forget" option for most people.

Hero Talent Feedback Templar Rotational Problems TemplarЩит мстителяСотрясение небесБлагородное призваниеЩит мстителяБлагородное призвание Templar

Оплот праведной ярости

Рвение Феррена Маркуса

Каратель Тира

Дар золотой валь'киры

Великий воин Света

Ободряющая стойкость

Минута славы

Щит мстителя Templar in Mythic+

You need to give up a defensive, Око Тира, to make the rotation work.

To play optimally, you have to overlap Око Тира and Молот Света with Гнев карателя (and that means Часовой) to get the most out of it.

Talents like Благородное призвание discourage using Щит мстителя, which is critical for AoE damage and interrupts.

Щит мстителяОко Тира LightsmithЩит мстителяБлагословение горнаЩит мстителяСвятое оружиеСвятой оплот Base Protection Paladin Gameplay & TalentsЩит праведникаТоржествоБожественный замыселСила убежденности State of the Protection Paladin At The Launch of TEWAWIDragonflight Changes

Щит мстителя was decoupled from the Holy Power system

Early Paladin class tree designs had Благословение защиты от заклинаний available to Retribution and Holy

Щит небес was weakened by mechanically attaching it to Освящение

Блокирование заклинаний came into the game for Protection Warriors, making "magic block" no longer unique for Protection Paladin.

Длань защитника was capped in effectiveness

A mana cost was added to Торжество to hard-cap Paladin healing overall

The War Within Changes (so far)

Щит мстителя was not integrated into either Hero Tree

Торжество was not rescaled with the health pool buff for The War Within, effectively nerfing Paladin self-healing

Благородное призваниеБлагословение горнаМолотопадНарастающий гневЩит мстителяЩит праведникаЩит мстителяЩит мстителяЩит мстителяЩит праведникаЩит мстителяЩит мстителяОгненная глыбаУдар бочонкомЩит мстителяЩит мстителяЩит мстителяТоржествоТоржествоТоржествоТоржествоТоржествоТоржествоИзбавление Света Templar

Templar Молот Света always costs 3 Holy Power, even with consuming Избавление Света or Божественный замысел procs

Templar Сотрясение небес doesn't extend it's duration by 8s when using Молот Света - This also affects Retribution!

Lightsmith Божественное наставление prefers to heal up to 5 injured targets and sometimes does no damage at all as a result

Templar Око Тира doesn't benefit from Печать порядка's 10% cooldown reduction

Templar Молот Света doesn't benefit from Божественный замысел's damage bonus but still consumes the buff.

Should You Play Protection Paladin in the War Within?Hammer of Wrath CommunityTwitterHero Talent Guides for the War Within Launch

Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK

Havoc DHVengeance DH

Balance DruidFeral DruidGuardian DruidRestoration Druid

Aug EvokerDevastation EvokerPreservation Evoker

BM HunterMM HunterSurvival Hunter

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Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk

Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest

Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue

Elemental ShamanEnhance ShamanRestoration Shaman

Affliction WarlockDemo WarlockDestro Warlock

Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior

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