Bulwark Capstone needs changing

karvare

With the recent changes to Binding oath and Absolution, it would be a good time to redo Holy barrier.

With 2 new shields what we could use would be a separate level of damage reduction. Maybe barrier could provide a 5% reduction per stack in incoming damage with a maximum of 10 levels of barrier. A damage reduction of 2.5% for allies maxing at 25% with an agro draw and chance for divine power like the cap for justice would be a perfect addition as well.

This could, with vigilance feat, add up to a 75% total damage reduction (8 seconds for vigilance and 10 seconds for holy barrier) and add reason to max out the bulwark branch.

2 cents worth, thoughts?

newlybred

Sounds good to me!

karvare

Maybe a rework could read as follows:

Holy Barrier

When an encounter comes off cool down you gain a stack of barrier. When you have 10 stacks of barrier,
you may consume them by activating Divine Call and you gain a shield for 10 seconds which reduces
incoming damage by 50% and allies (up to 4) gain a shield reducing their incoming damage by 25%.
While the shield is active the Paladin generates increased agro and their encounters have a chance to
restore a level of Divine Call. After activating Holy Barrier you may not gain stacks of barrier for 10
seconds.

vonbek

+1

Hell, I'd even be tempted to respec from Justice/gifts for that capstone. o7

armadeonx

The entire Bulwark path needs a rewrite tbh...

obsidiancran3

The whole Bulwark path needs a rework, and has always needed one. The problem is fairly fundamental, its major benefits work against each other or are random in nature making them impossible to depend on. You are generally better off with the faster recharges from Justice and the 3 tiers of Light than investing in Bulwark; I say that as someone that played Bulwark extensively, and even ran Justice/Bulwark before moving the the near universal Justice/Light spec we see these days.

So yes, Bulwark needs to do 3 things; stop countering itself, get rid of the random junk, give more agro.

Want the Bulwark capstone to be great; just make it give agro generation to Sanctuary.

armadeonx

And make it so Divine Call is generated by TAKING damage as well as giving it...