Hunter and Paladin WoTLK Talents Available In Wowhead!
July 18, 2008 by Angelo Fernandez
Filed under Hunter, Paladin
As the rest of the classes got a look at their cool new WoTLK talents, hunters and paladins were made to wait quite a while. But at last, they’re finally here, again thanks to Wowhead. The paladin trees got quite a bit of a shake up, which probably was one of the reasons why it look longer to come out.
Click here to see the WoTLK Hunter talents.
I’d have to say that the new hunter talents look really nice. I don’t play one but I understand enough about them to say that the new stuff will make a lot of hunters drool. Survival hunters will drool on the Hunting party talent, making them quite useful in raids by regenerating mana, rage, energy and runic power. This also helps their mana pool problems. Marksmanship’s Chimera Shot will allow the hunter to be a bit more versatile, consuming various stings to fit the situation needed. BM’s Aspect Mastery also improves on the hunter’s need for the situation by buffing the various aspects the hunter could use.
Click here to see the WoTLK Paladin talents.
The Paladin talents got quite a shakeup, especially for the holy and protection trees. Imp conc aura is now in the holy tree while divine strength is in prot. Various talents have shifted tiers within their trees too. I noticed a lot of focus on Judgements for the holy tree, which is strange because it’s something I don’t normally use a whole lot as a Holy Paladin. Beacon of light is quite interesting since it heals the whole raid but not for much considering it’s a small amount spread over 15 seconds.
Retribution’s most interesting new talents are probably Conviction and Divine Storm. With all the focus on the Judgements for the holy tree, some people are already speculating on going holy/ret for conviction since it’s assumed the increased crit chance will also apply to heals. Divine Storm is interesting since it not only affects more than one target but also heals the 3 raid members for 20% of the damage.
Protection’s most talked about talent in Divine Guardian, which is useful for paladins of any spec but most especially for tankadins and healadins. 15% of all damage taken by the raid within 30 yards redirected to the paladin while his/her bubble (divine shield) is up has a lot of applications and has a lot of paladins drooling over this talent. I can see this as one of the talents that will entice paladins to spec into the Protection tree, aside from Blessing of Kings.
Click here to see the WoTLK talent trees of all classes from Wowhead.
At first glance the trees are not that impressive, I was kind of dissapointed. Only when you work through a whole talent spec do you realize the potential is pretty good for the new talents.