Shadowlands
Shadowlands : Réponse de Blizzard sur le Paladin
Cette nuit, le développeur Sigma a apporté une réponse sur les forums du jeu à propos du Paladin.
Son message fait office de réponse global aux retours apportés à la classe, et parle notamment des sorts suivants :
- Blessing of the Seasons (Aura des saisons)
- Word of Glory (Mot de Gloire)
- Ashen Hallow (Bénédiction cendrée)
- Shield of the Righteous (Bouclier du vertueux)
- Seraphim (Séraphin)
- Inquisition
Word of Glory was buffed recently on alpha, in particular for Holy.
Some people have seen, but, a few things not clear on Blessing of the Seasons from tooltips alone: the party is only in one Season at a time (whichever you’ve cast most recently). So you are not simply pressing a button every 15 seconds to maintain 4 buffs. You can let each season last anywhere from 15-60s. Assuming you have a favored buff based on role/context, that you want to keep for 60s, it’s more like 4 presses every 2 minutes, but you might vary that based on planning ahead to have certain buffs at certain times.
Ashen Hallow was pretty recently iterated upon, and its tuning might be pretty far off. Increasing value or reducing cooldown could both be options there, although increasing value might be preferable because the visual is so enormous. Also, a long cooldown is better contrast to the other Paladin options.
Seraphim + Inquisition is uncomfortable, we agree. Candidly, one reason it’s hard to address is that there’s probably a split among people thinking one or the other would be cooler to keep. Open problem for now.
Shield of the Righteous: This is an example (with respect to Ret and Holy) of something there hasn’t been much of in the past two expansions or so. A button mainly intended for another spec, that is given to the class while leveling, that you don’t have a strictly clear max-level use for. You certainly can use it, and one can imagine situations where you would. But if you don’t, or don’t put it on your bar, that’s fine. Our current thinking is that instead of taking it away when you choose your specialization, we can just … not. We are discussing the UI that lights up buttons you don’t have on your bar, for cases like this.