Protection Paladin Review of Lightsmith Hero Talents - Unnecessarily Complicated?
This past week, Blizzard revealed new Hero Talent Trees in a First Look at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Protection Paladin guide writer, Lincoln, offers an early review of the Lightsmith Paladin Hero Talents for Protection addressing why these new armaments might be too complicated and need significant streamlining before launch.
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Lightsmith Paladin Hero Talent Tree
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Blizzard recently announced the Lightsmith Hero Talent Tree. This is the shared talent tree between the Holy and Protection specs. The core idea embodies the fantasy of forging weapons of light to aid allies in combat. This fantasy is derived from existing stories around the force of Light including Lightforged Draenei or depictions of Lady Liadrin and Turalyon where their weapons are empowered with light to smite their foes. This core idea is in line with the Paladin fantasy as we know it from lore and fantasy. This shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone that a utility centric class is getting a utility focused talent tree!
The Lightsmith talent tree is at its core a support talent tree. It centers around a keystone talent called Holy Armaments. Based on released information, here is how it works:
Holy Bulwark, which grants a scaling absorb shield based on max health or
Sacred Weapon, which adds a Holy damage proc to spells and abilities.
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