Dawnlight is always up. so it feels good, but having a spell you see once every 30 sec feels off when it only does at best 800k after buffs. Which is worth 1 dawnlight btw. It would be good if they lowered the stacks for prot of hammer of light to like 30-40 instead of 50. cuz 50 is like a 5 sec difference from 60 and it doesn’t make it much better.
Note that if your being cced, snared, or rooted for 10-12 sec, you wont be able to use hammer of light at all because it has a 10 yard range unlike all your other abilities that are 30 yard.
The reason ret paladin has 30 yard range on all its dmg is because blizzard wanted to not make it like other melees that have infinit mobility tools and instead let it do its dmg from range at the loss of being mobile.
So from that note, we learn that hammer of light in pvp is just gonna get outrange with no out to get it to land everytime. And if you miss that hammer of light, you just lose so much dmg (no shake the heavens, sacrosanct crusade, undisputed ruling). You just become hard countered by casters ( with revamp with no spellward, no judgement of the pure and melee range burst its gonna be very hard to play anything but ret/war, because the warrior roots and snares to let you keep on target)
I think templar needs a look at for pvp by either making hammer of light range increased to 30 yard ( THIS DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING TO PVE !!! this is perfect no ? )
or by making it so that you can proc more hammer of light faster so 30-40 stacks to make it able to use out of the long cc chains people use when they see wings ( you get wings every time you pop wake of ash which is also what pops hammer of light, so its very telegraphed and easy to stop, unlike a rogues burst which you dont even know if its their basic rotation or their burst.
It really doesn’t need a range extension and the drop from 60 to 50 stacks is likely going to take 5-10secs off of the cycle to generate a free Hammer. You have to look at the sum total of the changes, rather than any one individual piece of it.
PvP targeting for Empyrean Hammers needs to be addressed either way.
well you got me for there ! Doesn’t excuse the off topic comments, i did report the others too but i can only answer to 1 comment until someone else posts after me. Thats how their forum is programmed sadly. The changes i propose are fair concernes that would make the game better for everyone, allies, enemies, yourself, etc. It just makes the game more fluid and doesn’t impact much of the balance while making the gameplay more uniform. Imagine having to be in melee or close range when all your abilities are range. contradictory game design.
The hero spec is focused around shake the heavens, not HoL. pressing it more then once with the exception of the free HoL is not intended and a bug, and the spec itself is already buffed. Wanting to press it more is asking for the spec to be broken again. HoL is not meant to be pressed often in the hero spec and the people that wants to spam it like OP needs to get over it.
Also, it’s not a good look to only go after one person and call them out when everyone else is also saying the same thing in the thread.
