I have been playing prot pally for a while now and have gotten as high as +17 in mythics. Prot pally is built around the Divinity talent but is only usable if your primary stat is Strength. That being said- the dungeon set for paladin tanks is all stamina and intellect with no strength in sight. So even though I've gotten a few pieces of +14 and +15 of the pally set, those pieces are thrown into the trash because they don't work with Divinity. The whole spell tank thing is really cool and I'd like to make use of the Int-tanking. Could we perhaps change the divinity talent to function while Strength OR Intellect is the primary stat?

It's quite a buzzkill to get a high m+ version of a set that is made specifically for your build but then it's an auto-delete because the main talent of your build doesn't allow you to use intellect as main stat.

Hi guys...I'm here with another Prot Pally idea after my many hours of tanking high keys and heroic raids.

I think it would be great if we could add an additional talent called Improved Blessing of Sanctuary at level 35 as a 5 point talent with a defensive capstone effect. Each point increases the amount of Stamina received from Blessing of Sanctuary by 1%.

The current effect of Blessing of Sanctuary regenerates 6% mana whenever you block/dodge/parry. My idea for the capstone would be that in addition to the mana regeneration, Improved Blessing of Sanctuary also causes the player's block/dodge/parries to extend the duration of Divine Protection by 1 second, up to once per second. This will allow Paladin tanks to get another few seconds out of the Divine Protection spell if their build is done correctly.

I tried making a build that runs max attack speed with instant poison on bow. Using Compound Power with Slice and Dice for another 32% ranged attack speed. It works...but is very weak. Steady Shot has its limits... ranged attack speed is down to 0.87 but the maximum dps reached with the current set up was 5.4k on single target. The build doesn't work well. Assassination rogues get so much damage out of their poisons because at 5 stacks of deadly poison you also apply instant poison so its twice as many instant poison procs. But... Deadly Poison doesn't work with ranged weapons so here's my idea-

The build would use:
Compound Power LRE
Envenomed Epic RE
Munitions Expert RE

And then add this to the game:
"Vile Quiver" Epic RE
Your Wild Quiver shots now apply a damage over time effect, dealing X nature damage over 12 seconds (scales from ranged AP) and stacking up to 5 times. Once at 5 stacks, additional applications will also apply your bow's instant poison.

We have a lot of custom content in Ascension. We have dodge and parry gems for bear/parry tanks with dodge and parry tanks being able to get to 80% chance in their respective mitigation chances but there are no gems for shield tanks- being forced to go into hybrid setups since there are no other options. I'm not sure if this needs to be reworked from a shield talent to shift strength into block rating instead of parry or if this has to be a RE but in the meantime this would be an easy fix to help out the shield tanks-

Adding a block rating gem would give a lot of gameplay value to shield tanks. A+8 block rating gem would exceed the % mitigation chance of a +8dodge or +8parry gem so perhaps add a hybrid red gem such as +5 block rating with +5 block value? I'm not sure where you'd be able to add this into the game as far as a recipe drop but either way this would give a lot of relief to shield tanks who are being railroaded into choosing dodge or parry gems that don't flow well with their talent setups.

So I'm playing a crit build. Relatively low ap/sp but I have ~70% melee and spell crit chance. Would greatly benefit from an RE that allows Consecration ticks to crit. Without having a ton of ap/sp Consecration really sucks. Allowing it to crit via an epic RE would be very useful for those of us running holy crit builds.

For tanking gems you're either going to roll stamina, defense, dodge, or parry. However, there are no gems for block which puts shield tanks at a severe disadvantage. The thing is...with dodge and parry you don't take any damage, but when you block you can still take damage if your block value isn't high enough. And even with my 1.9k block value it still often falls short in mythic and ascended raids.

Adding a gem for block rating is not needed as block chance is very easy to come by through talents and gear. Therefor, in order to increase the effectiveness of shields I'd like to see a red or yellow gem that increases your block value by 20. If you have 10 gem slots you get +200 block value.

@DannyDemonic If I remember correctly (I'm a master swordsmith) there was a prerequisite questline you do before he gives you the option. I'd try searching OG tbc guides

Growing Light LRE decreases the target's physical damage taken by 10%. Not sure if this was intended but spell damage mitigation would also be nice

When M+ rolled out it was suppose to "run alongside raid progression" but it looks like this dungeon set pales in comparison. I normally roll a prot pally. So here's a comparison of the mthic+ set and the tier 5 set (both at 130ilvl).

Tier 5 (130ilvl) Prot Pally Set Totals:
4979 Armor
129 Main Stat (Str)
253 Stamina
159 Defense Rating
100 Block/Dodge/Parry Rating

Mythic+8 (130ilvl) Prot Pally Set Totals:
4857 Armor
142 Main Stat (Int)
164 Stamina
133 Defense Rating
0 Block/Dodge/Parry Rating...but 56 mp5 instead?

It has slightly less armor but its fine. It has about 10% more primary stat which is odd. But then its missing an entire 89 Stamina which is a whopping 35.2% reduction in total Stamina, and 100 (yes...ONE HUNDRED) Block/Dodge/Parry Rating. I don't blame ascension devs on this one...this is a weird set that blizzard made back in retail tbc but it hasn't gotten any attention from the ascension staff. There needs to be a massive increase in Stamina with each item level you upgrade it by. As an example, going from 120ilvl to 130ilvl the chest piece only gains 3 stamina. I think this scaling needs a significant buff. And to top it off this set is completely missing block/dodge/parry.

Mana Shield in the Arcane Mage tree seems to be quite ineffective in PvE content. It's good in PvP because the damage dealt against players is so much lower than NPCs so the absorb works well but if you get hit by a NPC in a raid the mana shield offers very little utility.

The final rank of the spell gives 1.1k absorb but doesn't scale off anything. I think with the talents and REs I got it up to like 1.5k absorb but it still feels like a waste of a cast. Could we please get some scaling for this instead of being a flat amount? Like maybe make it scale off arcane spell damage... or just Intellect in general if you don't want to be too specific. It seems counterintuitive that a fully t5-geared caster has the same absorb from this spell as a fresh 70 with no gear.

Since this absorb comes BEFORE armor or spell mitigation I feel like a 5k absorb would make it worthwhile in PvE and then in PvP just nerf it by 80% back to the ~1k original amount.

Slam base cast time is 1.5 seconds. The improved slam talent 2/2 reduces the cast time down to 0.5 seconds. But Slam is still on the 1.5 GCD so this makes no sense. Please take Slam off of GCD or change the improved slam talent to be useful.

So I'm playing a crit build. Relatively low ap/sp but I have ~70% melee and spell crit chance. Would greatly benefit from an RE that allows Consecration ticks to crit. Without having a ton of ap/sp Consecration really sucks. Allowing it to crit via an epic RE would be very useful for those of us running holy crit builds.

I made a dps build that uses hammerstorm but of course it requires righteous fury or defensive stance. This is a very fun ability to use as dps but the threat gen from tank stance is a buzzkill and makes it unplayable in groups. Please remove this requirement. It's very fun to play a dual wield paladin.

The plains stalker trial gives the blue kodo pet. Except one thing...it's not a kodo.... it's a storm lizard. Can we please get a normal kodo beastmaster whistle?

Please allow bulwark to proc stormgarde (Maybe 1sec ICD). Crimson champion is the only good shield tank. Please don't make Bulwark so bad. It doesn't proc anything useful

Playing a Paladin parry tank for mythic+ on League 4. I can heal a lot with Divine Storm BUT it spreads the heal in group. Could we please get an RE that modifies this so that it ONLY heals you? This would be ideal for heal tanks such as myself or if you are in PvP

I think it would be really cool to add a component to dungeon/raid sets where once you acquire the full set, that set's bonuses are "unlocked" and then can be swapped out like REs.

As an example, let's say the Tier 4 set bonuses are best for my build...but Tier 5 is the current content. Because of the stats on the higher ilvl gear I'd have better performance output with the Tier 5 armor set BUT I have to alter my build to be effective in raids in order to take advantage of the Tier 5 set bonuses. This forces players to take certain builds over others based on the strongest gear that is available. Instead, once I acquire the full Tier 5 set I'm now able to "swap" set bonuses. So now I get the item stats from the Tier 5 set BUT I'm using Tier 4 set bonuses.

Please increase the effect of Deep Wounds (criticals deal +33% of avg wep dmg over 6 seconds) so that it is more on par with the fire mage talent Ignite (criticals deal +40% damage dealt over 4 seconds).

If I hit a creature with a Mortal Strike critical (~5.5k) dmg it would make sense that deep wounds would deal an additional 33% (1,815) over 6 seconds, but it doesn't. Instead, it only deals 33% of my ~1300 weapon damage. Deep Wounds is very lackluster and this is why most people only put 1 point into it just to allow you to benefit from the Blood Frenzy talent.

With Naxx being the top raid on Seasonal I thought it would be good timing to add a lore-friendly LRE for paladins that highlight their transition to becoming deathknights OR fighting the temptation of the lich king. This LRE could be used as a 2-in-1 build. Players would be able to make conscious real-time decisions between remaining a righteous defender of the light OR becoming a servant of the lich king. These choices by the player determine how the build will function between either Holy or Shadow...

Dealing direct damage with any Shadow spell or ability grants you "Servant of Shadow" for 10 seconds

1. All Holy spells and abilities are converted to Shadow damage and scale with your Shadow spell power. While under the effects of "Servant of Shadow" none of these spells or abilities can trigger "Hand of Light".
2. Dealing damage with any Judgement spell reduces the cooldown of your Chaos Bolt by 2 seconds.
3. Your Crusader Strike and Divine Storm refresh the duration of your Corruption on the target

Dealing direct damage with any Holy Spell or ability grants you "Hand of Light" for 10 seconds.

1. All Shadow spells and abilities are converted to Holy damage and scale with your Holy spell power. While under the effects of "Hand of Light" none of these spells or abilities can trigger "Servant of Shadow".
2. Your Shadow Bolt, Shadowburn, and Chaos Bolt can trigger your Seal spells.
3. Dealing a critical strike with Shadow Bolt on a target effected by your Execution Sentence extends the duration of your Execution sentence by 1 second, up to 6 seconds.

Thunder clap is very good in AoE because there is no target limit. BUT when fighting 1-3 targets its a waste of a GCD unless you're a tank (enemy atk spd debuff). Thunderclap seems a bit overpowered when targeting 10+ mobs. I can easily get 60k Thunderclaps in Mythic+. Its a bit overkill. Would like to see some scaling adjustment so there's a bit less damage after 8 or 10 targets...and deals more damage if it hits 3 targets or less. Not sure if this is possible but it would make the ability much more viable and less AoE oriented.