An Overview of Paladin Class Changes in the War Within Patch 11.0.5

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• New Talent: Holy Ritual — Allies are healed when you cast a Blessing spell on them and healed again when the blessing ends.
• New Talent: Worthy Sacrifice — You automatically cast Blessing of Sacrifice onto allies within 40 yards when they receive damage while below 35% health and you are not in a loss of control effect. This effect activates 100% of Blessing of Sacrifice’s cooldown.
• New Talent: Steed of Liberty — Divine Steed also grants Blessing of Freedom for 3 seconds.
• New Talent: Eye for an Eye — Melee and ranged attackers receive Holy damage each time they strike you during Ardent Defender or Divine Protection and Divine Shield.
• New Talent: Stoicism — The duration of stun effects on you is reduced by 20%. 10% in PvP combat.
• New Talent: Wrench Evil — Turn Evil’s cast time is reduced by 100%.
• New Talent: Stand Against Evil — Turn Evil now affects 5 additional nearby enemies.
• New Talent: Righteous Protection — Blessing of Sacrifice now removes and prevents all Poison and Disease effects.
• New Talent: Light's Countenance — The cooldowns of Repentance and Blinding Light are reduced by 15 seconds.
• New Talent: Sacred Strength — Holy Power spending abilities are 2% more effective. Choice node with Divine Purpose.
• New Talent: Divine Spurs — Divine Steed’s cooldown is reduced by 20%, but its duration is reduced by 40%.
• New Talent: A Just Reward — After Cleanse successfully removes an effect from an ally, they are healed.
• New Talent: Empyreal Ward — Lay on Hands grants the target 100% increased armor for 30 seconds and now ignores healing reduction effects.
• New Talent: Lightbearer — 10% of all healing done to you from other sources heals up to 4 nearby allies, divided evenly among them.
• New Talent: Selfless Healer — Flash of Light and Holy Light are 30% more effective on your allies and 40% of the healing done also heals you.
• New Talent: Inspired Guard — Ardent Defender and Divine Protection increase healing taken by 15% for their duration.
• New Talent: Holy Reprieve — Your Forbearance’s duration is reduced by 10 seconds.
• New Talent: Light's Revocation — Removing harmful effects with Divine Shield heals you for 10% for each effect removed. This heal cannot exceed 30% of your maximum health. Divine Shield may now be cast while Forbearance is active.
• New Talent: Blessed Calling — Allies affected by your Blessings have 15% increased movement speed.
• New Talent: Lead the Charge — Divine Steed reduces the cooldown of 4 nearby ally’s major movement ability by 3 seconds. Your movement speed is increased by 3%.
• New Talent: Divine Reach — The radius of your Auras is increased by 20 yards.
• Fist of Justice has been redesigned — The cooldown of Hammer of Justice is reduced by 15 seconds.
• Sanctified Wrath has been redesigned — Now increases the duration of Avenging Wrath and causes its respective specialization effect (was able to be its own spell).
• Consecrated Ground is now a class tree talent (was a Protection and Retribution talent).
• Auras of the Resolute now additionally teaches the paladin Crusader Aura.
• Seasoned Warhorse is now a passive learned at level 40.
• Judgment damage increased by 10%.
• Judgment cooldown has been reduced by 1 second.
• Hammer of Justice base cooldown is reduced to 45 seconds (was 60 seconds).
• Avenging Wrath now increases Critical Strike chance by default.
• Unbound Freedom now additionally targets a nearby ally by default if you cast Blessing of Freedom on yourself.
• Lightforged Blessing now heals for 3% of maximum health for all specializations (was 1% for Holy/Protection and 2% for Retribution).
• Of Dusk and Dawn: Blessing of Dawn’s effect has been increased by 10% for Protection and Retribution and by 5% for Holy Paladins.
• Fixed an issue that caused Seal of the Crusader to display the incorrect heal value.
• Fixed an issue that caused Faith's Armor to appear multiple times in the talent tree for Protection Paladins.
• Divine Toll’s icon has been updated.
• Many talents have changed locations.

The following talents are now 1 point:

• Fist of Justice
• Holy Aegis

The following talents are now 2 points:

• Vengeful Wrath
• Zealot's Paragon

The following talents have been removed:

• Avenging Wrath: Might
• Crusader Aura
• Fading Light
• Golden Path
• Incandescence
• Seal of Mercy
• Seal of Order
• Seal of the Crusader (Retribution and Protection)
• Seasoned Warhorse (now learned at level 40)
• Strength of Conviction
• Touch of Light
• Vanguard's Momentum (Holy)

• Dawnlight’s activation stacks now appear on the personal resource display.
• Dawnlight now appears on enemy nameplates.

• 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:

• Excoriation
• Fear No Evil

• Healing increased by 3%.
• Word of Glory healing increased by 5%.
• Shield of the Righteous damage increased by 10%.
• Divine Favor now appears on the personal resource display and no longer has a visual effect.
• Awakening’s Judgment buff now appears on the personal resource display.

• New Talent: Refining Fire — Enemies struck by Avenger's Shield burn with Holy Fire, suffering damage over time.
• Damage increased by 6%.
• Word of Glory healing increased by 20%.
• Base armor increased by 10%.
• Armor from Shield of the Righteous increased by 10%.
• Shield of the Righteous damage increased by 20%.
• Blessed Hammer cooldown reduced by 10%.
• Judgment cooldown reduced by 10%.
• Hammer of the Righteous cooldown reduced by 10%.
• Inmost Light cooldown reduction increased to 33% (was 20%).
• Several talents and connections have changed locations.

The following talents are now 1 point:

• Gift of the Golden Val'kyr
• Uther's Counsel

• Consecrated Ground has been removed.

• Damage increased by 6%.
• Shield of the Righteous damage increased by 20%.
• Word of Glory healing increased by 10%.

• New PvP Talent: Spellbreaker — Eye for an Eye can now also trigger at 100% effectiveness from Magic damage. Eye for an Eye's damage is increased by 150% in PvP combat.
• Wrench Evil (PvP Talent) has been removed.

• New PvP Talent: Divine Plea — After casting Aura Mastery, you restore mana over 20 seconds, but your healing and damage is decreased by 30%.

• New PvP Talent: Bear the Burden — Word of Glory's mana cost is reduced by 100% and now reduces the cooldown of Blessing of Freedom by 2 seconds when cast, but its healing is reduced by 50% when cast on allies.

• New PvP Talent: Ultimate Retribution — Mark an enemy player for retribution after they kill an ally within your active Aura. If the marked enemy is slain within 12 seconds, cast Redemption on a fallen ally.

You can find other Patch 11.0.5 class changes linked below.