Paladin

With the Burning Legion onslaught raging unchecked and the world’s forces helpless to stop them, Azeroth looks to its champions to find new weapons that may perhaps turn the tide against what appears to be certain defeat.

Ashbringer, the bringer of ashes, the legendary blade that put an end to the Mograine bloodline, shattered the runeblade Frostmourne, and slew legions of the undead has been central to Paladin and, arguably, Warcraft lore for a very long time.

The Legion alpha rolls onward, and we learn a little more about the expansion with each iteration.

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We've spent a lot of time these last few months discussing all the shiny new spells, talents, and artifact traits Holy Paladins will be receiving in Legion, but as is always the case, in with the new, out with the old!

Because there is still nothing really new under the sun to discuss about Protection Paladins in Legion, I am going to talk about something today that I have never written about in this space: PVP. Forgive me for the outsider’s perspective here and the intrusion into a facet of the game to which I am hopelessly out of my depth, but Legion appears to be poised to do something really interesting for Protection Paladins (and all tanks, really): give them a means of meaningfully participating in PVP.

https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/663884048868085760 It's official: Blizzard wants healers to be able to quest in their healing specs in Legion.

With the Legion Alpha well underway, it seems like we're seeing more and more information about our snazzy new artifact weapons every day.

It begins! The alpha client is being delved by intrepid dataminers, each lowered down into the depths of the code in rickety buckets, armed with a pickaxe and a headlamp, so that they can chip away at obfuscation and return with gold nuggets of much anticipated information. This is easily one of the most exciting points in the expansion cycle because the possibilities seem so endless. So far the spell changes and talents have been revealed for Protection Paladins, though not yet the artifact weapon talents. Even without a deeper look at the preliminary benefits attached to our artifact sword and board, there is still a whole lode of information that we can pore over. Let’s jump right in and see what’s in store for us so far.

As players are eagerly hopping onto the Legion servers to check things out, community dataminers have been hard at work digging up the dirt on our new spells and abilities.