Tracking BC Talent/Spell Changes...

Head on over to the preview page for our new spells and talents, and you'll start to see some changes per Tseric's post.

Here's what's been altered thus far:

Improved Devotion Aura has been buffed, increasing the armor bonus by 8% per talent point invested (up to 4o% bonus, previously 5% per point for up to 25%). This was a no brainer, and I'm glad the developers have finally heard the cries and logic.

Avenger's Shield (41 point Prot talent, AKA "ZOMG Captain America!") tooltip now shows two additional trainable ranks of the spell, the top costing 825 mana and dealing 581-709 Holy damage. Adding in the snare effect from the daze, this is shaping up to be a really cool ability.

Righteous Defense, our AOE "taunt" ability, has had its cooldown increased from 13s to 15s. In case you were wondering, the Warrior AOE taunt Challenging Shout has a 10 minute cooldown, while their standard Taunt cooldown is 10 seconds. Some are crying about it on the forums, but for now I'm not finding it to be that significant a change.

The Redoubt talent has had its mechanics altered. It no longer reacts to critical strikes. The tooltip now reads: "Successful melee and ranged attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 6% (up to 30% with 5 invested points). Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks."

• Plusses: It is much improved and in-line with tanking - the gear for which generally adds defense skill and reduces the chance you will be critically struck.
  
• Minuses: It is now yet another RNG ability which we will observe to be very effective at times, and endure dry spells in others.
  

Reckoning, that quirky old talent, has finally been changed a bit. The tooltip now reads: "Gives you a 20% (100% with 5 talents) chance after being the victim of a critical strike that the next 4 weapon swings within 8 sec. will generate an additional attack.

• Plusses: You now only need to get critted against once in order to deal four extra attacks. It will hopefully have eliminated the auto-attack swing timer problem. If used as I believe it was originally intended, it is vastly improved. Remember, also, that (assuming it hasn't been changed) the extra attacks will carry with them the effects of whatever seal you have up at the time.
  
• Minuses: With only an 8 second window, you will need to be using a weapon with a speed of 2.0 (Quel' Serrar) or faster in order to get the full benefits out of this ability. I'm assuming it no longer stores attacks, bringing an end to the fabled "reck bomb" era - something I always found pretty cheesy anyway.
  

Holy Shock (Rank 5), as described in the tooltip, eliminates the range of damage/healing and states that it will deal 640 damage/healing. Note, this is prior to factoring in spell damage gear and such.

Seal of Command tooltip now shows additional trainable ranks, up to 6. The judgment damage for rank 6 is disproportionately higher than the preceding ranks - 579-639 Holy damage if the target is stunned. Looks like a buff overall here.