Protection Paladin Changes on Shadowlands PTR and Beta
In a blue post today, several changes were announced for Protection Paladins. The most significant change is that the Holy Power changes implemented July 8th have been reverted. Some of Shield of the Righteous’ damage mitigation has been moved to Consecration. Shining Light has also been replaced with Bastion of Glory.
Catching up on a few things on Protection:
–Reverted the Holy Power changes from the July 8 update. All things considered, the attempt to rearrange where Protection Holy Power comes from wasn’t enough of a win, given the general sense that Judgment feels a lot better when it generates. Total Holy Power generation should also be higher again in this build as a result.
–Moved some mitigation from Shield of the Righteous to Consecration. This improves mitigation outside of Shield of the Righteous and makes damage less swingy.
–Replaced Shining Light with Bastion of Glory (similar mechanic that existed in Warlords–Shield of the Righteous gives a stacking self-healing increase to Word of Glory). The role of the passive is the same–give Word of Glory a rotational cadence that gives it a clearly “better” time to use.
