Let the leaks begin!
The Cataclysm Alpha was leaked to the internet and now screenshots and datamined info galore is spilling into the community.
Unfortunately not much about Paladins is yet known. I checked mmo-champ’s talent calculator for our class and the only talent change I could see was Crusader Strike is now gone from the Ret tree and in its place is a talent (Improved Crusader Strike) that increases damage of that attack by 10%. I thought we were getting rid of +% talents?
The one very interesting thing leaked so far are the stat values of enchants and profession bonuses. The max level of Toughness gives 60 stamina right now. In Cataclysm it’s going to give 121 stamina. There’s a chest enchant that gives 75 stamina. Several different new tanking enchants as well, like +blocking on bracers, +dodge on bracers, +dodge on weapon. Hopefully this means we won’t still be using Mongoose still in Cataclysm, haha.
I know these are just placeholders and probably will change, but think about what that might mean for other things. If Toughness is 120 stamina, then would epic gems in Cataclysm give 60 stamina each (following the formula of epic gems being about half the stamina of the prof. bonus)? Gravity thinks this means we’ll see tanks in T11 with 120k hp. Hawt.
If you want to see something really cool, check out the maps of all the various zones on mmo-champ. Some crazy changes there that I won’t spoil in this space. (Likewise, I’ll be sure to post spoiler warnings and tuck stuff behind a read more link when it comes to storyline and whatnot…)
I’m eagerly awaiting some more substantive leaks. For now though I’m content to know that the first hole has opened up in the dam, and eventually we’ll have a torrent.
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Actually if you follow the trend… epic gems won’t be available right off the bat in Cata… so I would imagine that it would be the blue quality gems granting 60 stam each. Unless of course they give more sockets to BS.
They would then rebalance the profession and increase the bonus once Epic gems are released.
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@Rhidach
6 May 2010 at 12:12 pm #
I didn’t even think of that. You’re right, and that is crazy.
We’re probably going to see off-the-charts stat inflation in Cata.
Stat inflation?
http://elitistjerks.com/f15/t29453-combat_ratings_level_80_a/p22/#post1639830
If we can expect to go from ~32 to ~192 per percent of haste then there’d better be some ludicrous stat inflation.
Nice find.
@Rhidach
7 May 2010 at 7:59 am #
Wow, they really don’t want people carrying ICC gear into the first raid. I guess it makes sense, cause it’ll slow down first tier raid clears in a way that Naxxramas couldn’t.
@Orthien
6 May 2010 at 2:55 pm #
I hadn’t even looked at the enchants in terms of what health pools wed end up having. I guess I was to destracted by the pics.
Will be interesting to see how that nature damage on hit enchant stands as a threat enchant.
Also with the awsome names they have been given I hope they have awsome effects to go with them.
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Also take a look at the Shaman enhancement tree, you will see they have a Talent that mirrors our imp. crusader strike. Imp. Lava Lash. I suspect will see an addition to our C-strike talent.
Also, non-pally related, It would appear that its very easy to make a dual-wield resto shaman thanks to the extra 5 points.
@Rhidach
7 May 2010 at 7:58 am #
That is nuts! I have an ele friend who will be excited at the thought of being a dual-wield caster.
Dual wield resto shaman would probably see me re-roll. Haha. Or dw elemental. Om nom nom. I am just madly in love with dw’ing.