Paladin Lightsmith Hero Talent "Fear No Evil" has a pretty substantial bug

The talent “Fear no evil” is only working when the “Sacred Weapon” buff is applied but not “Holy Bulwark”. So essentially 50% of the time it doesn’t work. I only tested this with Psychic Scream so there is still more testing to be done, but I’ll leave that for people being paid to do so. This has a significantly negative impact on PVP due to how important avoiding CC is for a Paladin. If this bug affects all fears (which is very possible) it also will have a negative impact for PVE, especially M+ as fears are present in multiple dungeons this expansion.

Steps to reproduce
1- On a Holy Paladin, ensure “Fear No Evil” is selected in the Lightsmith Hero Talents
2- Buff yourself with “Holy Bulwark”
3- Have a hostile priest cast “Psychic Scream” on you and observe the full duration.

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to read, I’ll post a youtube video after work for visual reference… This one is a bit of a painful discovery as I thought the talent to be a very fun mechanic for arenas as I often prioritize managing priest fears in those matchups. I wish I discovered sooner than the day before the season starts.

PS- You may want to take a look at recompense as well. It doesn’t trigger if the 30% threshold is reached. It may not be a bug, but it sure would be a lot more fun if it just capped instead of cancelling. Especially now with the nerf to it’s competing Blessing of Sacrifice talent.

Hopefully, they’re already aware of it so it’s in the patch update tomorrow for S1.

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I hope it gets fixed soon, it’s pretty detrimental to HPAL gameplay.

BRO!!! At first, I thought this was a bug too. Turns out, you got to “Hawk Tuah” Contemplate on that thang to get the buff.

Update, it’s working. Only 10% reduction in warmode

They probably will not worry about fixing it. They’re removing it in the 20th Anniversary Patch anyways so it will persist until then I imagine, these notes are specifically for Lightsmith and not the rest as Pally is receiving a talent tree rework so it is a lot, but if you want the link I’ll put it in the very end:

  • Lightsmith

  • New Talent: Authoritative Rebuke – Successfully interrupting an enemy’s spellcast reduces your Rebuke’s cooldown by 1 second. Effect increased by 100% while wielding a Holy Armament.

  • New Talent: Tempered in Battle – When you or an ally wielding a Holy Bulwark are healed above maximum health, transfer 100% of the overhealing to your ally. When you or an ally wielding a Sacred Weapon drop below 40% health, redistribute your health immediately and every 1 second for 4 seconds.

  • The following talents have been removed:

    • Fear No Evil

    • Excoriation