#0 - July 21, 2010, 7:30 a.m.
- The much-anticipated interrupt is in: Rebuke, a fourth-tier Ret talent (completely inaccessible to Prot).
- Impr Devo Aura has been replaced with Protector of the Innocent, which reduces damage taken by 3% and increases healing received by 6% for anyone affected by your auras.
- Prot now has a proc to watch: Grand Crusader, 20% chance on HotR/ShoR hits to refresh CS's cooldown and increase its damage by 100%.
- Divine Sacrifice is gone, but Divine Guardian is back (20% damage reduction to party/raid for 6 seconds, 2-min cooldown).
- Holy Shield increases your chance to block by 30% for 10-seconds (1-min cooldown), duration increased by 10 seconds for each stack of Holy Power.
- Ardent Defender still has the "below 35% health" activation requirement.
- Reckoning is back. Same proc effect as live, now with a 30% chance to proc - but only on blocks.
- No Spiritual Attunement or bonus stamina talents - perhaps they are now given as passives at level 10?
- Unsure if this was in the last build or not, but Holy Wrath appears to damage all targets while stunning only Undead and Demons (snap AoE threat, anyone?). There is a new talent in Prot that increases its damage and crit chance.
- Shield of the Templar now causes ShoR crits to give the next Judgment a 100% crit chance. This seems to be a deliberate tie-in to the second-tier Ret talent Conviction (basically Vengeance renamed).
Other than the interrupt being Ret-only and Ardent Defender still having the silly activation requirement, it actually looks pretty good. Compared to the previous build, the Prot tree is much slimmer and the top tiers of Ret are more appealing to Prot.
