Classes : General
- Area-of-Effect Damage Caps: We’ve redesigned the way area damage is capped when hitting many targets. Instead of a hard cap on total damage done, the game now caps the total damage done at a value equal to the damage the spell would do if it hit 10 targets. In other words, if a spell does 1000 damage to each target, it would hit up to 10 targets for 1000 each, but with more than 10 targets, each target would take 1000 damage divided by the number of targets. 20 targets would be hit for 500 damage each in that example.

Races : General

- Will of the Forsaken now shares a 45-second cooldown with similar effects, including the Medallion of the Horde, Titan-Forged runes, Insignia of the Horde, etc.

PvP

- All level 71-80 Battleground daily quests will now award 25 Arena points in addition to their current rewards.

Paladins (Color coating starts now!)

# Divine Intervention: This ability now also removes Exhaustion or Sated from a target if the recipient is out of combat when the effect ends. In addition, the cooldown on this ability has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
# Flash of Light: This spell no longer causes a heal-over-time effect unless the player has the Infusion of Light talent.
# Lay on Hands: This ability will place Forbearance on the paladin if used on his or herself. It will not place Forbearance on others.

# Talents

* Holy

o Aura Mastery: This effect of this talent has been reduced in duration to 6 seconds.
o Infusion of Light: This talent now causes the paladin’s Flash of Light spells to heal the target for 50/100% of the Flash of Light healing amount over 12 seconds. (A nerf in the sense that nobody but Holy Paladins can get this.)

* Protection

o Divine Guardian: This talent no longer increases the amount of damage transferred to the paladin from Divine Sacrifice. Instead it causes all raid and party members to take 10/20% reduced damage while Divine Sacrifice is active. In addition, the duration has been changed to 6 seconds, however the effect does not terminate when Divine Sacrifice is removed before its full duration.

o Divine Sacrifice: Redesigned. The effect of Divine Sacrifice is now party-only and the maximum damage which can be transferred is now limited to 40% of the paladin’s health multiplied by the number of party members. In addition, the bug which allowed Divine Sacrifice to sometimes persist despite reaching its maximum damage has been fixed. Divine Sacrifice will now cancel as soon as its maximum damage value is exceeded in all cases. Finally, Damage which reduces the paladin’s health below 20% now cancels the effect early.

* Retribution

o Repentance: This crowd control effect will no longer break early from the damage done by Righteous Vengeance. (About damn time you give this to us after you promise it so long ago!)

Verdict :

Nothing happened for Paladins this patch. The Flash of Light nerf is a slap in the face, preventing us from killing 1-2 extra people in Battlegrounds (glad to see Blizzard balancing around this) and nerfing our already abysmally low skill cap at high rated Arena play to the ground baby! even further.

Sure, we got a nice new Divine Sacrifice, but we very much called it that nothing would happen to help our class out in 3.3. You heard it here, and I’m sure you’ve heard it everywhere else, Paladins just plain do not scale well compared to other classes. Thanks for the barely acceptable raid spot (assuming everyone is equally skilled) and watching us plummet down more in arena ratings past 1900!

If you’re doing well now, nothing has changed too much for us, so things will continue to be well for you. Don’t fret unless your DPS spot in PvE is declining while everybody else gets gear and you don’t play Arena super competitively!

Bug Fixes

# Aura Mastery: The animation for this ability will no longer be extra bright when used with Concentration Aura active.
# Beacon of Light: The effect of this ability will no longer sometimes continue past the duration of its buff. In addition, the duration when used with the Glyph of Beacon of light will now correctly be 1.5 minutes. Finally, the tooltip was corrected to indicate benefitting targets must be in the paladin’s party or raid.
# Blessing of Kings: It is no longer possible to have multiple buff icons from this spell.
# Blessing of Sacrifice: Damage transferred via this ability can now be prevented by damage absorption effects.
# Blessing of Sanctuary: It is no longer possible to have multiple buff icons from this spell. In addition, the tooltip has been corrected to include 10% increased strength.
# Devotion Aura: When in a party with another paladin using a different rank of this ability, it is no longer possible to see two different Devotion Aura icons displayed as buffs.
# Divine Sacrifice: This ability now properly counts all damage transferred against its limit, instead of not counting some damage.
# Greater Blessing of Kings: It is no longer possible to have multiple buff icons from this spell.
# Greater Blessing of Sanctuary: It is no longer possible to have multiple buff icons from this spell. In addition, the tooltip has been corrected to include 10% increased
strength.
# Guardian’s Favor: Corrected a tooltip error in rank 1 of this ability.
# Hand of Freedom: It is no longer possible to use this ability while under the effects of the druid spell Cyclone. In addition, disconnecting while rooted will no longer sometimes trigger casting this on oneself.
# Hand of Reckoning: Tooltip clarified to indicate taunt immune targets will not take damage from this ability.
# Hand of Sacrifice: Damage transferred via this ability can now be prevented by damage absorption effects.
# Heart of the Crusader: The effect of this talent is now always removed when the target no longer has an active Judgement debuff.
# Judgements of the Just: The effect of this talent is now always removed when the target no longer has an active Judgement debuff.