Patch 3.2.2 Changes

Yet again, I'm getting the news late. Taking the weekend off made me miss the announced changes in patch 3.2.2. Anyway, here they are:

• Righteous Fury: The bonus threat from Holy spells caused by this talent has been reduced from 90% to 80%. [Straight-forward nerf to tankadin threat. Maybe we should have seen this coming, with the recent buffs and all. Even though I don't enjoy being forced to pump out less threat, I think this is a good change in the long run. Blizzard has had problems with scaling tankadin dps since our threat modifier was so big. I'd prefer to get threat from pure dps than from a modifier that won't help me actually kill stuff.]

• Judgements of the Just: The reduction in cooldown to Hammer of Justice provided by this talent has been reduced to 5/10 seconds instead of 10/20 seconds. [PvE nerf due to PvP. Ever heard that one before? Apparently, a stun on a 20 second cooldown was too good to be true in PvP, even though it was barely useful as an interrupt in PvE. For me, this is the final nail in the coffin for Hammer of Justice as a tankadin ability. I didn't put points into the Improved Hammer of Justice talent since I believed the cooldown was still too long, and now Blizzard has made it even worse. Just face it: They don't want us to be able to interrupt.]

• Touched by the Light: This talent now provides 20/40/60% of the paladin’s strength as spell power instead of 10/20/30% of the paladin’s stamina. [Another PvP nerf. Protection specced healing paladins decked out in spell power plate in Arena was the latest Flavor of the Month, and Blizzard decided to crush that spec hard and fast. With the nerf to Judgement of the Just AND Touched by the Light, that spec is now dead. For the normal tankadin, it is a small threat nerf, since we still have more than twice as much stamina than strength. But the change still makes sense. Stamina shouldn't be a threat stat, and Strength now got even better as a threat stat. In the long run, I think this also is a good change.]

• Seal of Command: This ability now chains to strike up to 2 additional targets when it is triggered by an attack. [Seal of Cleave! Yes, sounds good! Since Seal of Vengeance sucks rhino balls on trash, this will make up for it. However, Seal switching is quite expensive these days. Having to switch seals between trash, bosses, and AoE packs will drain one's mana. Just imagine the Onyxia fight, when switching between the Broodmother and her whelps. That would require a seal switch every time.]

Patch 3.2.2 is already up on the PTR, so adjustments to these changes will surely pop up during the coming weeks. Even though the changes so far are nerfs to tankadins, I don't cry myself to sleep at night.