Hail

Tharvolde here and it appears as though a new build has been deployed to Beta as of late last night. Could this be the build with the new round of sweeping Paladin changes GC has been alluding to? Perhaps but for the time being the following information has already been procured (I will only be considering max rank of the talent updates as I don’t have direct access to beta yet):

• 1] Relic slot items are now more similar to any other slot in that they can have stats and sockets in but what’s left to be seen is whether they will retain special effects. For example, not the Libram of Three Truths that, as of today, stack Strength each time you use Crusader Strike:
  
  
  
  




• 2] The Holy Power interface is in and looks, I must say, rather cool:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 3] Eye for an Eye reworked: Now makes all magic attacks against you have a 40% chance to cause 30% of the damage back to the caster
• 4] Crusade reworked: Increases the effectiveness of your CS, HotR, TV and Holy Shock by 30%
• 5] Improved Judgement reworked: Increases the range of your Judgement by 20 yards
• 6] Eternal Glory (new talent): Gives your Word of Glory a 40% chance to not consume Holy Power
• 7] Communion reworked: Your auras increase party and raid damage by 3% and your damage by an additional 2%. In addition, your Judgement grants Replenishment.
• 8] Art of War reworked: Increases the damage by 60% and the critical strike damage by 100% of Exorcism. In addition, your melee attacks have a 30% chance to reduce the cast time of your next Exorcism by 100%. This effect cannot be triggered while Exorcism is on cooldown.
• 9] Long Arm of Justice (new talent): Your Judgement has a 100% chance to increase your movement speed by 30% for 4 seconds when used on targets at or beyond 15 yards. GAP CLOSER
• 10] Improved Crusader Strike replaced with Sanctity of Battle (NYI): Haste effects lower the cooldown of CS.
• 11] Divine Purpose reworked: Judgement, Exo, TV, DS, Inquisition and Holy Wrath all have a 40% chance to generate Holy Power
• 12] Inquiry of Faith reworked: Increases the periodic damage done by your Seal of Truth by 30% and the duration of your Inquisition by 150%

And, not exactly Paladin-related, I thought I would point out that the Guild Vendor available to any member of a guild has mounts available for purchase and, in particular, the flying mount is, well, awesome to say the least:

First of all, a big thanks goes out to Wynndor of our own RetPaladin.com forums for a great deal of this information. I will be updating this post as new changes are revealed (which they will be throughout the day and into tomorrow). Expect at least a few small Paladin changes but, if we are lucky, we might be afforded a laundry list of adjustments.

Swing ‘em hard!

~Tharvolde

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*** UPDATE 8/17/10 @ 8:08PM EST ***

- Check out the latest talent calculator here (make sure to clear your cache if you’ve been there before).