Paladin Updates to Two Spells, Plus Block Specialization

ANNOUNCEMENT: GM Nyxus announced three Paladin updates are live: 1) DS from Higher vision (1610) goes up! Remember to stop it and recast for the new benefits. 2) Paladins can now learn block specialization as a shield specialization. 3) Faith’s Clarity (1612), now with more redux! Here are the details:

Text of Discord Post follows:

Higher Vision (1610) – DS Changes
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from the Official GemStoneIV Discord
on #development-announcements channel

The Defensive Strength benefit from 1610 has been raised to +1 for every Paladin Spell ranks above level 10, up to the player’s level. This means that the rank bonus has been doubled. Higher Vision’s total possible DS bonus (before lore training) is now +100 at level 100.

You will need to STOP 1610 and recast 1610 in order to see the updated benefit.

Paladins – Block Specialization

Paladins (and paladins only) may now learn Block Specialization as a Shield Specialization.

Faith’s Clarity (1612) – Redux Benefit

Faith’s Clarity has gained the following benefit for paladins (and paladins only): The redux penalty for training in spells is significantly reduced, such that redux has no penalty up to 1.4x spell ranks and is penalized at a maximum of 50% at 2x spell ranks. For example, a level 100 paladin with 140 ranks of spell training will have their redux calculated with 0 ranks, and a level 100 paladin with 202 ranks of spell training will have their redux calculated with 101 ranks. More details can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RMMcqFxrDrQP6oNCFrZq6f6y7LSc7DuXCp3HBtKjK5k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.udngwukk3wou

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