WoW Forever Paladin Talents
Paladin talents that differ between Classic Era and WoW Forever: 19 new, 27 changed, 12 removed, 1 with the same tooltip.
Of the changed, 0 nerfed and 3 buffed.
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New Paladin talents in WoW Forever
| Name | State | Change |
|---|---|---|
| | added Retribution | Rank 1 Forever Increases your spell damage by up to 10% of your Intellect. |
| | added Holy | Rank 1 Forever Gives your Holy spells 5% increased damage against the first 4 enemies that enter your Consecration. |
| | added Holy | Rank 1 Forever Improves your chance to hit with Holy spells by 6%. |
| | added Retribution | Rank 1 Forever Reduces the mana cost of your Consecration, Holy Wrath, Exorcism, and Hammer of Wrath spells by 20%. |
| | added Holy | Forever Blasts the target with Holy energy, causing 134 Holy damage to an enemy, or 114 healing to an ally. |
| | added Protection | Forever When Seal of Fury's shield is fully absorbed, restore 0 Mana, increased by 15% per level the attacker is above you, up to 45%. |
| | added Holy | Rank 1 Forever Your Holy Shock and Flash of Light critical hits reduce the cast time of your next Holy Light cast within 15 sec by 0.5 sec. |
| | added Retribution | Rank 1 Forever Reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 0.5 sec, and reduces all threat you generate by 10% while Righteous Fury is not active. |
| | added Protection | Rank 1 Forever Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability by 5%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 2% for 6 sec. |
| | added Holy | Forever Applies Light's Vigil to the target for 30 sec. Your next Holy Shock cast on them triggers no cooldown and causes enemy targets to suffer 182 Holy damage and refund 75% of Light's Vigil's Mana cost, or allied targets to heal their party for 324. You may only have one Light's Vigil active per party. |
| | added Holy | Rank 1 Forever Reduces the mana cost of your Cleanse and Purify spells by 10% and reduces the cooldown of your Exorcism and Holy Wrath spells by 17%. |
| | added Holy | Rank 1 Forever Allows 10% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting. |
| | added Retribution | Forever Increases the damage of your Holy Strike ability by 20% and causes it to refresh all Judgement effects on the target. |
| | added Protection | Rank 1 Forever Increases your total Stamina by 2% and reduces the cooldown of your Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Templar's Bulwark spells by 30 sec. |
| | added Retribution | Rank 1 Forever Gives your Judgement ability a 33% chance to return 20% of the Mana cost of the judged seal. |
| | added Protection | Forever Finishes the remaining cooldown on your Judgement ability and reduces the Mana cost of your next Judgement by 100%. |
| | added Protection | Forever When activated, this ability grants you an absorb shield equal to 100% of your maximum health for 8 sec. Applies Forbearance for 1 min. Cannot be cast while Forbearance is active. |
| | added Retribution | Forever Reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%, and when you replace your Seal of Command, Seal of Righteousness, Seal of Fury, or Seal of Justice with a different Seal, you gain an Echo of that Seal. Your next melee attack applies the replaced Seal's effects, consuming the Echo. |
| | added Holy | Forever Grants you immunity to Silence and Interrupt effects for 6 sec. |
Paladin buffs in WoW Forever
| Name | State | Change |
|---|---|---|
| | buffed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your Defense skill by 2. Forever Increases your Defense Skill by 4. moved from row 3 to row 2 |
| | buffed Protection | Classic Era Increases chance to block by 30% for 10 sec, and deals 65 Holy damage for each attack blocked while active. Damage caused by Holy Shield causes 20% additional threat. Each block expends a charge. 4 charges. Forever Increases chance to block by 30% for 10 sec, and deals 110 Holy damage for each attack blocked while active. Damage caused by Holy Shield causes 20% additional threat. Each block expends a charge. 4 charges. no longer requires Blessing of Sanctuarynow requires Templar's Bulwark |
| | buffed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the damage you deal with one-handed melee weapons by 2%. Forever Increases the damage you deal with one-handed melee weapons by 3%. 3 ranks (Classic had 5)moved from row 6 to row 4 |
Reworked Paladin talents
| Name | State | Change |
|---|---|---|
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Reduces the Mana cost of your Judgement and Seal spells by 3%. Forever Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 2%. |
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 1%. Forever Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 1%. moved from row 3 to row 2 |
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your Parry chance by 1%. Forever Increases your Parry chance by 1%. moved from row 2 to row 1 |
| | changed Holy | Classic Era When activated, gives your next Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Holy Shock spell a 100% critical effect chance. Forever When activated, gives your next Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Holy Shock spell a 100% critical effect chance. moved from row 5 to row 4no longer requires Illumination |
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era All spell criticals against you cause 15% of the damage taken to the caster as well. The damage caused by Eye for an Eye will not exceed 50% of the Paladin's total health. Forever All critical strikes against you cause 5% of the damage taken to the attacker as well. The damage caused by Eye for an Eye will not exceed 50% of the Paladin's total health. |
| | changed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Reduces the cooldown of your Blessing of Protection by 60 sec and increases the duration of your Blessing of Freedom by 3 sec. Forever Reduces the cooldown of your Blessing of Protection by 1 min and increases the duration of your Blessing of Freedom by 3 sec. |
| | changed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the amount healed by your Holy Light and Flash of Light spells by 4%. Forever Increases the amount healed by your Holy Light, Flash of Light, and Holy Shock spells by 4%. moved from row 3 to row 2 |
| | changed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the critical effect chance of your Holy spells by 1%. Forever Increases the critical strike chance of your Holy Shock and Holy Strike spells by 3%, and all other spells by 1%. |
| | changed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Holy Shock heal spell, gives you a 20% chance to gain Mana equal to the base cost of the spell. Forever After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, Light's Vigil, or Holy Shock heal spell you have a 20% chance to gain Mana equal to 50% of the base cost of the spell. now requires Reverence |
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Decreases the cooldown of your Judgement spell by 1 sec. Forever Decreases the cooldown of your Judgement ability by 1 sec. |
| | changed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the amount of threat generated by your Righteous Fury spell by 16%. Forever While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 2%. |
| | changed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the damage done by your Seal of Righteousness and Judgement of Righteousness by 3%. Forever Increases the damage done by your Seals and Judgements by 5%. 3 ranks (Classic had 5)renamed from Improved Seal of Righteousness |
| | changed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your chance to hit with melee weapons by 1%. Forever Improves your chance to hit by 1%. |
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases movement and mounted movement speed by 4%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects. Forever Increases movement speed and mounted movement speed by 8%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects. |
| | changed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Gives you a 20% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike. Forever Gives you a 8% chance after Blocking and a 20% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Cannot occur from Blocks more than once every 1.5 sec. |
| | changed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your chance to block attacks with your shield by 6% after being the victim of a critical strike. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks. Forever Damaging melee attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 4%. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks. |
| | changed Retribution | Classic Era Puts the enemy target in a state of meditation, incapacitating them for up to 6 sec. Any damage caused will awaken the target. Only works against Humanoids. Forever Puts the enemy target in a state of meditation, incapacitating them for up to 6 sec. Any damage caused will awaken the target. Only works against Humanoids. moved from row 7 to row 5 |
| | changed Retribution | Classic Era Gives the Paladin a chance to deal additional Holy damage equal to 70% of normal weapon damage. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Lasts 30 sec. Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing Holy damage, 93 to 101 if the target is stunned or incapacitated. Forever Gives the Paladin a chance to deal additional Holy damage equal to 70% of normal weapon damage. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Lasts 30 sec. Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing 48.5 Holy damage, 97 if the target is stunned or incapacitated. |
| | changed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your shield by 10%. Forever Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your shield by 10%, and gives your blocks a 33% chance to restore 4% of your maximum Mana. May only occur once every 3 sec. |
| | changed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Gives your Flash of Light and Holy Light spells a 14% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage. Forever Gives your Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Light's Vigil spells a 35% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage. 2 ranks (Classic had 5) |
| | changed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your armor value from items by 2%. Forever Increases your armor value from items by 2%. moved from row 2 to row 1 |
| | changed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your chance to resist Fear and Disorient effects by an additional 5%. Forever Reduces the duration of Fear and Disorient effects on you by 15%. moved from row 3 to row 2 |
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Gives you a 3% bonus to Physical and Holy damage you deal for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike from a weapon swing, spell, or ability. Forever Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 1% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 3 times. 3 ranks (Classic had 5)moved from row 6 to row 5no longer requires Convictionnow requires Sanctified Judgement |
| | changed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Gives the Paladin's damaging melee attacks a chance to reduce the target's Strength and Agility by 5%10 sec. Forever Gives your damaging melee attacks a chance to reduce the target's Attack Power by -2, and increase your Attack Power by 1% for 30 sec. |
Paladin talents removed in WoW Forever
| Name | State | Change |
|---|---|---|
| | removed Protection | Classic Era Places a Blessing on the friendly target, increasing total stats by 10% for 5 min. Players may only have one Blessing on them per Paladin at any one time. |
| | removed Protection | Classic Era Places a Blessing on the friendly target, reducing damage dealt from all sources by up to 10 for 5 min. In addition, when the target blocks a melee attack the attacker will take 14 Holy damage. Players may only have one Blessing on them per Paladin at any one time. |
| | removed Holy | Classic Era Consecrates the land beneath Paladin, doing 64 Holy damage over 8 sec to enemies who enter the area. |
| | removed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Blessing of Might by 4%. |
| | removed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the effect of your Blessing of Wisdom spell by 10%. |
| | removed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the effect of your Concentration Aura by an additional 5% and gives all group members affected by the aura an additional 5% chance to resist Silence and Interrupt effects. |
| | removed Protection | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the armor bonus of your Devotion Aura by 5%. |
| | removed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Gives the target of your Lay on Hands spell a 15% bonus to their armor value from items for 2 min. In addition, the cooldown for your Lay on Hands spell is reduced by 10 min. |
| | removed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the damage done by your Retribution Aura by 25%. |
| | removed Retribution | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Seal of the Crusader and the Holy damage increase of your Judgement of the Crusader by 5%. |
| | removed Holy | Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the duration of your Judgement of Light and Judgement of Wisdom by 10 sec. |
| | removed Retribution | Classic Era Increases Holy damage done by party members within 30 yards by 10%. Players may only have one Aura on them per Paladin at any one time. |
Paladin talents with the same tooltip
| Name | State | Change |
|---|---|---|
| | internal Protection | - |
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