Skill Mastery: The Art of War
Skill Mastery: The Art of War For today’s Skill Mastery, we’ll take a look at a passive talent instead of a fancy button you can press. This has been my favorite talent ever since it was introduced in the Beta even though it has seen numerous iterations — so many, in fact, that it might be a little premature to write about it. On the other hand, this latest version feels like it’s almost in its final form — not overpowered and quite utilitarian. The Art of War is a two point talent on Tier 7 of the Retribution tree that increases the Critical Strike damage of Judgements, Crusader Strike, and Divine Storm. For PvE, that’s a simple DPS increase that scales properly while in PvP, it helps to counter Resilience. Ideally, however, the number should be tweaked to completely negate it as Resilience damage reduction from crits is capped at 25%. The damage bonus is a good buff for the three main damage sources of a Retribution Paladin, but the better part of the spell is the reduction in the cast time of Flash of Light. With the changes in Wrath, Retribution Paladins are no longer gimped healers and Flash of Light can heal for decent amounts. The
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