Originally Posted by: "Blizzard "

Paladin

• Seal of Truth, when Judged, now benefits from a multiplier of 20% per stack of Censure, up from 10%.
• Blessing of Might now increases melee attack power by 20% and ranged attack power by 10%.
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization now increases damage done with 2H Weapons by 25%, up from 20%.
• Sanctified Wrath now increases critical strike chance of Hammer of Wrath by 2/4/6%, down from 20/40/60%.

Paladin Tier 13

• Retribution, 2P -- Your Judgement ability also generates 1 Holy Power.
• Retribution, 4P -- While Zealotry is active your abilities deal 12% more damage.

Originally Posted by: "Daxxarri"

Paladin
After monitoring thousands of Firelands kills, we've concluded that Retribution’s damage was not where we wanted it to be, so we're going to increase Censure damage by roughly 40%. We'll also be keeping an eye on paladin damage as we move towards patch 4.3. We expect that this hotfix should be applied sometime later today.

We're also considering shifting some of the damage from Hammer of Wrath into other attacks. While that may not necessarily cure some of the current concerns about proc reliance, it should help smooth out damage a bit.

Unfortunately the wounds are still gushing blood!

First off a little information about this, what it means and what it means to us as raiders.

What Is This?

At the most basic level, the DPS Bot attempts to determine and display how various World of Warcraft classes and specs compare against each other. It does this by crunching data from World of Logs.

There are a few things to be aware of above all else:

• All values are aggregated over the last 14 days from all public logs. So for a specific boss fight, you are usually looking at the median over all kills from the past 14 days.
• Data should be interpreted with a large grain of salt for new fights or bosses that have only been killed by a handful of guilds.
• Be smart about using this data in discussions of class balance. Don't just look at the overall charts and QQ on forums. The truth is usually more nuanced than what is shown here.

What is Spec Score?

Spec Score is the best measure I've been able to come up with to compare specs across all fights of a given tier. The goal has been to minimize the effect a "gimmick" fight has on the overall rankings and generally normalize fights to have a common ground of comparison.

In a nutshell, each spec is scored on a curve for each fight. For each individual boss, the spec with the top DPS on a fight gets a score of 100 and then all other specs are scored according to that top spec. The average across all fights for a given spec is the Spec Score for the current tier. As usual, this score is not the end-all, be-all measure of anything. It's merely an interesting collection of data trying to compress a whole lot of data into a single comparable value. Don't ever forget that each spec has its strengths and weaknesses and may be needed for any number of reasons. While raw numbers are absolutely an important facet of raiding, there are often other variables that are far more important.

All of that said, I think Spec Score is a far better indicator of relative spec power than a simple aggregation of DPS values from all fights. Those values are still available but I hope and pray that you understand that they have their own variety of problems and caveats. A more detailed description and example will be posted on the Raidbots Blog.



Should we as Retribution Paladins be worried?