New Seal Of Blood Glyph Released In PTR
March 24, 2009 by Angelo Fernandez
Filed under Paladin
Finally the missing piece of the new Ret pally puzzle has been released. The new Seal of Blood glyph has been reworked. If you’ve been following this issue, the removal of Spiritual Attunement as a baseline ability caused some stir in the Ret pally community since Spiritual Attunement served a pretty important purpose for them. It gave healers more reason to heal through the recoil damage of Seal of Blood at the same time it gave them mana back from the heals they receive. Now that SA will no longer be at their disposal, Ret pallies needed some sort of reworking to make up for this change.
seal of blood glyph
A short while back, I remember Ghostcrawler saying that they’ll have to rework the Seal of Blood glyph to give mana back some other way now that Spiritual Attunement is “gone”. Well the new Seal of Blood glyph does exactly that. According to MMO Champion, this is how it is in the PTR:
* Glyph of Seal of Blood — When your Seal of Blood, Seal of the Martyr, Judgement of Blood, or Judgement of the Martyr deals damage to you, you gain 11% of the damage done as mana. (Old – Glyph of Seal of Blood — Your Seal of Blood or Seal of the Martyr increases the mana received from Spiritual Attunement by 10% while active.) source
So they didn’t remove the recoil damage of SoB like a lot of paladins were hoping. So even if all the new changes gives enough mana back to match what SA gave, the presence of the backlash damage will still be a wee bit of an inconvenience for healers but this time without the incentive of giving the pally mana through SA.
Speaking of changes that give paladins more mana back, the idea to buff the initial mana gain effect from using Judgements of the Wise has been included in the PTR, according to MMO Champion, and in fact at a much higher buff than they first mentioned at a refund of 25% base mana instead of 20%.
The final piece of this puzzle to rework the abilities affected by the SA removal as a baseline ability is complete. It’s not what you were hoping for but if you think about it, it looks really decent. You win some, you lose some but it really could have gone a lot worse.
