Torchlight II

Torchlight II

WoW Style Paladin (v.952)
Adamidius  [developer] 2 Nov, 2014 @ 11:25pm
Hello Everyone!
Hi everyone! I decided to play TLII again (mainly due to a lack of other games to play), and so, I popped onto my very own made class... and found a few things I could improve on.

As i've mainly been playing the Ret spec, the greatest changes have happened there. I intend to play Prot soon, and I bet there'll be something coming there too.

For Ret, playing in Elite Mode, I found that for a Melee class, I'm too darn squishy. To that end, I removed Retribution Aura, and replaced it with Sacred Shield. The design goal of Sacred Shield is clear - to provide a bit more tankiness to the Ret spec without nulling and voiding the Prot spec. We'll see if it succeeds or not.

I also changed Flash of Light to use mana instead of Holy Power. The reason for this change is to provide a more offensive playstyle - you spend less time running around, trying to gen Holy Power to survive, and more in the faces of your enemies, something I'm quite happy with.

I've made Divine Shield and Divine Storm accessible to both Ret and Prot specs without having to invest in the tree - if you're dedicating yourself solely to one tree or another, it doesn't make sense having to invest in another to get the abilities. I'm hoping this'll open up the trees a bit.

Speaking of Divine Storm, I've shortened the cooldown by 20 seconds. I felt that it didn't do a great deal of damage, and I often didn't always hit what I wanted with it, so a much shorter cooldown seems appropriate.

Hope you guys like Light of Dawn as a new skill to play around with; I've always enjoyed OP skills in games that also have significant drawbacks, and I feel I've done a decent job balancing it's insanely high damage by making you lose damage and survivability afterwards.

Anyway, have fun!