Yawn: A look at updated 3.2.2 patch notes
Well, I’m fresh out of ideas, and frankly the idea of doing two BLTNFs in a row bores me to tears. So, I decided to do a post on everyone’s favorite, excruciatingly mundane topic: patch notes. Contain yourselves, please.
Blizz updated their test realm patch notes, which you can see on mmo-champ and elsewhere. The official site too, I suppose, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Seal of Corruption and Seal of Vengeance: These seals will now only use the debuff stacks generated by the attacking paladin to determine the damage done by the seal and by the judgement.
Nice fix to an annoying bug.
Hammer of the Righteous: The damage from this ability is now considered physical instead of Holy. The threat generated by the ability has been increased such that it will continue to do approximately the same threat it did when it was Holy damage.
This will hopefully help us with our one source of snap aggro on multiple targets. I for sure wasn’t relishing the prospect of having diminished threat in the snap category, so this is a nice mitigation to an annoying nerf.
Relics: All buffs provided by relics (idols, librams, totems and sigils) now share an exclusive category such that gaining a buff from one of these items will remove all other buffs gained from items in this category.
This really doesn’t affect us. I think only the most intense of the min-maxers were actually bothering to libram swap. The swing timer reset was too much of a hassle, and the threat bonus was marginal, all things considered. I wonder if this change means other classes were relic swapping as well, or if Blizzard’s trying to be ahead of the curve.
Speaking of librams, I’ve been seriously considering picking up the Libram of Valiance for my threat set. And, by threat set, I mean in heroics I tend to swap out my stam trinks and Libram of Defiance for Lavanthor’s Talisman, the STR Darkmoon Card: Greatness, and Libram of Obstruction.
Supposedly, according to numbers I’ve seen elsewhere, the 200 STR of LoV has a 90% uptime, so is worth a constant 180 STR, which then threat wise works out to an equivalent of 540 BV. Not straight conversion, mind you. Threat conversion. So, even with the change to Libram of the Sacred Shield in 3.2.2 to ~450 BV, the LoV will still work out to be better.
And that’s before the mind-shattering additional spell power you get from strength. Just try to wrap your head around that! … Uh, yeah.
All around we’re looking at a 5-6% threat nerf. Not great, but could be worse.
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I would love the new 245 ret libram for my ret set and prot threat spec, but I’m not swimming in t9 yet. Very tempting though since I haven’t had any issues tanking regular 10 and 25 ToC and it will be a while before we start on the heroic versions.
@Rhidach
11 September 2009 at 3:18 pm #
Yeah, very, very tempting for me as well. I think I’m going to sit tight and grab the Clutch of Fortification first, then the Libram. It’ll be a while before I have enough dkp to win another trophy, so I’m going to be sitting on emblems for a while.
How is the dodge Libram uptime? One of my issues is I like to/have to carry a complete Prot/Holy/Ret set (in that order) and I love being able to be viable in all three specs. A lot of my badges are going to fill holes in my gear, and I’m curious if you’ve seen the dodge libram pass the block librams.
The dodge libram is… how do i say it?….
ZOMGBBQSAUCESOME!
If you are like 99.9% of the 969 paladin tanks out there, you get like 3-4% dodge with around 80 to 90 % uptime, and well, you lost the block value of the previous librams, but lets face it, they are lackluster, the BV provided by the ilvl 200, 213 and 226 librams is not gamebreaking, and you shouldnt see a significant drop on your TPS while getting a very nice chunk of avoidance, so it’s made out of pure win
In 3.2.2 I heard that you will be able to buy the Crusader Orb’s from the Dalaran Triumph Vendor.
That may be a good chance to get the mats needed for the tank crafted gear. I have a tank friend with the recipe for the bracer’s :D