So just a slight change in the Holy tree that I can see. They tossed out Improved Lay on Hands. To which I say, “You bastards.”<\/p>\n
However. The talent replacing Improved Lay on Hands allows us to play with other builds.<\/p>\n
Last Word (2\/2)<\/a> is now sitting in the second tier of Holy.<\/p>\n Here’s the question I have: how often are we actually going to use Word of Glory?<\/p>\n Word of Glory<\/a>, if you don’t recall, is an instant, mana-free heal that will utilize the new secondary resource system of Holy Power. Presumably, it increases in potency depending on if we have 1, 2 or 3 charges of Holy Power.<\/p>\n How do we gain Holy Power? Crusader Strike (which is now baseline) will give you a charge. Holy Shock will also give you a charge. And so will healing your beaconed target, if you have any points in Tower of Radiance<\/a> (33%\/66%\/100% chance to grant you a charge of Holy Power). Question: Will healing your beacon with Holy Shock grant you two charges?<\/p>\n So it looks to me like we’ll have ample methods of gaining Holy Power. I don’t imagine we’ll be using Word of Glory more than every 10 seconds or so, depending on how gaining Holy Power goes.<\/p>\n The question that comes to mind now is, do we even want Last Word?<\/p>\n Here’s a build with no Last Word:<\/p>\n 32\/0\/9<\/a><\/p>\n It picks up all the PVE talents in Holy, maxes them all out. That means .3 seconds off Holy Light and Divine Light (Clarity of Purpose) and the full three points in Tower of Radiance.<\/p>\n It picks up all the healing talents in the Retribution tree on the first two tiers that we’d want: Rule of Law (15% extra crit to Holy Shock and Word of Glory), Crusade (30% extra healing to Holy Shock), Conviction (3% extra healing after critting, stacks 3 times) and maxes all of them out, too.<\/p>\n Honestly, this is a really pretty-looking tree. No half-filled talents (which is awkward due to the 2 and 3 point talents versus 5 point talents, but still requiring five talents to advance to the next tier) and, do my eyes deceive me? No useless talents…<\/p>\n But if Last Word is actually useful in PVE, maybe we want to go back to something like this:<\/p>\n