WotLK Beta - Patch Notes Update

[Nathanyel]

And druids get +5% more crit, just because! YAY!!!

Yep, just because they lost 7-10% crit by going from Live to Beta and are getting less crit from Agi.

[mrchee]

Yep, just because they lost 7-10% crit by going from Live to Beta and are getting less crit from Agi.

OH NOES the bare and kat durids cant just stack one stat any more

[ElGeFe]

Judgement has been replaced with 3 new spells; Judgement of Light, Judgement of Wisdom, and Judgement of Justice. All Judgement spells are considered ranged attacks for purposes of how they hit and how they critically hit. All cause damage based on attack power and spell power.

With only 1 kind of hit rating this will affect mostly holy, but they get 4% from talents for judgements, we will have to see how it pans out. The crit part is debatable, yes, it will be nice to hit for more, but you are probably judging for wisdom or light, not the seal or damage effect, so crit would be a bonus. At least that is my take on it...

- Seal of Righteousness deals damage based on weapons peed plus an amount based on attack power and spell power, increases Judgement damage by 25%.

They really need to fix that mistake...

I play mostly prot on my paladin, but it seems I might give the other trees a try when WotLK hits. Yeah, they changed the class around, but I like what I see.

[Mahtamori]

Consecration scales off of attack power and spell power...
Seal of Righteousness scales off of attack power and spell power...
Judgements scale off of attack power and spell power...

Which has the higher coefficient? I'd like to know if right off the bat my tankadin's gear is going to screw him over in the expansion (being focused solely on spell power).

Roughly talking, AOE type abilities scale better from spell power and single target scales better from strength. The reason I write strength is that strength gives a significant amount of block value, something that benefits the single-target threat of Shield of the Righteous quite heavily. Also, 1 STR = 2.30 AP.

Expect tweaks to be leaning towards weapon damage and strength more than spell power. Spell power speccing is to improve threat, not to get some in the first place.

[Juztice]

Loving that my Arcane torrent buff, now I can be resisted alot more often!