Pally Changes

[hiryuu1115]

Saw it on the main forums here, in a post Fangtooth responded to.
Pally buff time might be getting cut in 1/10th?
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Err, not to interrupt the nth argument about the usefulness of paladins or anything, but I'm actually pretty hopeful for these changes.

Re: Combining Seals, Blessings, and Judgments - I'm guessing that they will impliment catchall sort of talents where, as an example, 5/5 Improved Wisdom will improve the effect of Seal of Wisdom, Blessing of Wisdom, and Judgment of Wisdom by 30% or something like that. It would also be nice to see Improved Blessing of Salvation not take 22 points :P

Re: Group Blessing - I'm going to be hopeful and hope for the best. The worst would be replacing the 31 point talent somewhere with the group blessing spell and putting it on a timer. I guess it is a fragile balance between making it a lot easier for a raid to get buffed and introducing a spell that actually gets more powerful as the number of people in a raid increases.

Re: Increasing Blessing Duration - I am all for this, and so are most paladins that I am aware of. The only way this could be bad is if Blizzard decides that to get triple duration they need to multiply the mana cost by a factor of five or something.

Also, increased Blessing duration means that the set bonus from Zandalar actually has a purpose! Yay for 10% longer duration on 10 or 15 minutes!