Prot Pally BfA Changes

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at the end of the day, tanks will again tank 10 mobs with ease, outdps the shitdps and outheal the healers.

[cuafpr]

I just hope we stop playing like a D3 crusader, I hate those spinning hammers so much.

agreed the hammers need to go... or at least have the other talents on par with it so i can just not use it without gimping myself to much.

[Vintersol]

They should make holy shield and consecrated hammer competitive to blessed hammer. 95% of the time, blessed hammer is a no brainer. I'm tired of it.

[Raeph]

Got into the Alpha and been playing for about 2-3 hours so far. No real significant changes yet but just for information purposes I've been taking some notes on a 110 premade BE Pally.

Naked:
360 Str
369 stam
116 armor

6% Crit
8% Mastery
3% Dodge/Parry
17% Block

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Stats

1% Haste - 16.53 (.0605 per point)
1% Mastery - 17.64 (.0567 per point)
1% Crit - 17.64 (.0567 per point)
- 1% Parry from crit - 22.68(.0441 per point)
1% Versa:
-Damage/Healing - 20.92 (.0478 per point)
-Damage reduction - 41.84 (.0239 per point)

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Created Character - Item level 196

21675 HP
4000 Mana
945 Str
1445 Stam
1712 Armor

21% Crit
23% Haste
28% Mastery
16% Versa
3% Dodge
20% Parry
28% Block

(Fun fact - the Alpha versions of the Legion Legendries are 280 ilvl)

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Spell changes that I have noticed are just Shield of the Righteous what may be a Tooltip change on Blessing of Freedom:

Shield of the Righteous - 20(16.3 at 22.70% haste) sec Recharge, 3 charges - 174 holy, increases armor by 338% of your strength for 5 secs (+1218 armor when naked)

Blessing of Freedom - 40 yard range - 45 sec CD - immunity to movement impairing and forced movement effects for 8 secs.

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Gameplay wise everything feels rotationally sound, though there haven't been any significant changes to core abilities yet. I have not yet had a chance to try out the two open dungeons yet (spent 40 mins in LFG and only saw two dps que up with me for a random) so that will have to wait to see how much change there is when dealing with magic and physical damage and boss damage.

I did do several large trash pulls in the world 5-8 targets and it *felt* the same as on live. Pulling an elite 110 rare actually felt better but it had no specials and only did physical attacks.

If you have any questions let me know and I'll try to get an answer as soon as I am able.

If someone wants to create a sticky for Prot Alpha and want to use anything I posted here feel free.