Blizzard has shared several adjustments coming to the Paladin, and Rogue classes in the Season of Discovery Phase 4 PTR, as well a World Buff consumable being added to the Consumables vendor on PTR.
WoW Classic Season of Discovery Phase 4 PTR Development Notes — June 28th, 2024
Build: 55391patch1.15.3
Testing Focus We have a new PTR build going up soon (55391) and we’ve included a few more classes’ adjustments today with that build. We again increased the damage and health of Testwerk for the PTR as well to help with more accurate testing.
Lastly, we’ve also added a World Buff consumable to the Consumables vendor on PTR.
We still plan to deploy additional class adjustments today which we hope to get out before the weekend, barring unforeseen circumstances.
Paladin
- Hammer of the Righteous damage has been increased to three times weapon damage (up from 2x weapon damage).
- Art of War now reduces the remaining cooldown of Exorcism by 2 seconds on critical hit (previously was 1 second).
Developer’s Note: The old version of Art of war did allow for a playstyle that was unique to SoD where a fast two-handed weapon had a place in the game and while we’d like to move away from “exo spam” one button playstyle, we still love the idea of the build. The previous adjustments to Art of War also hit protection especially hard so we felt it appropriate to adjust this to still allow exorcism to be used rapidly without it completely dominating the rotation of both retribution and protection paladins.
The Divine Sacrifice rune has been replaced with Hand of Sacrifice:
- Causes target party or raid member to transfer 30% of damage taken to the caster. Lasts 12 seconds or until the caster has transferred 100% of their maximum health. 2 minute cooldown.
Developer’s Note: The version of Divine Sacrifice we introduced to Season of Discovery has a lot of drawbacks, and it is very situational on a slot filled with other situationally good utility. We’re changing this to be more like
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