Paladin — Forever vs Classic
Paladin received the single largest class pass of the first beta tuning. Holy Strike was reshaped, Improved Holy Strike became baseline, and Retribution's damage talents were rebalanced. Classic values below describe the vanilla-era numbers Forever is derived from.
60.1.700 Confirmed Confidence: Confirmed. Stated directly by an official source. Last verified
Head-to-head (6 rows)
Holy Strike weapon-damage scaling
Changed Confirmed Confidence: Confirmed. Stated directly by an official source.Classic
25/25/30/30/35/35/40/40%
Forever
25/29/32/36/39/43/46/50%
Scales every rank in Forever rather than every other rank.
Holy Strike cooldown
Changed Confirmed Confidence: Confirmed. Stated directly by an official source.Classic
12 sec
Forever
10 sec
Improved Holy Strike
Removed Confirmed Confidence: Confirmed. Stated directly by an official source.Classic
Talent node
Forever
Removed — effect is baseline
Righteous Fury Holy threat
Changed Confirmed Confidence: Confirmed. Stated directly by an official source.Classic
90%
Forever
60%
Holy Power effect
New Confirmed Confidence: Confirmed. Stated directly by an official source.Classic
Did not exist
Forever
+15% crit to Holy Strike
Retribution Vengeance stacks
Changed Confirmed Confidence: Confirmed. Stated directly by an official source.Classic
Up to 5
Forever
Up to 3
Now triggers from any non-periodic crit.