Paladin by shibboleth

Level 1:

Charge (W): The paladin now charges a short distance to the target

Sacrifice (E): Punish now consumes 4% of the Paladin's health when cast, but damage bonus is increased to 250%

Defiance (D): While Prayer is active, grants allied heroes 8 armor


level 4:

Sacred Bolts (Q): Increases Holy Bolt's healing by 33%. Holy Bolt's cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds when it heals an ally.

Concentration (D): Improves the damage bonus of Might to 15%

Ring of the Bat: The Paladin recovers 3 mana per basic attack against non-heroic targets and 6 mana per attack against heroic targets.


level 7:

Cleansing (D): Prayer reduces the duration of Poison damage and negative status effects on allied heroes by 50%

Blessed Aim (D): While Might is active, allied heroes deal 25% increased damage with every 3rd basic attack.

Piercing Bolts (Q): Quest: When Holy Bolt strikes an enemy, reduce its cooldown by 2 seconds. After hitting 30 enemies with Holy Bolt, Holy Bolt's range is increased by 1 and penetrates the first target hit


level 10:

Fist of the Heavens (R)

Blessed hammer (R)


level 13:

Holy Shield (W): Smite now gives the Paladin 25 armor for 3 seconds.

Sanctuary (D): Might allows allied heroes' basic attacks to ignore armor

Zeal (Secondary): Activate to gain 60% attack speed for 4 seconds. 20 second cooldown.

Redemption (Q): When Holy Bolt damages an enemy or heals an ally, restore 20 mana and heal for 165(+4%)


level 16:

Sanctuary (W): Smite damages and knocks back all nearby enemies and slows them by 30% for 1.5 seconds.

Vengeance (E): Punish deals an additional 160 (+4%) spell damage and slows the targets attack and movement speed by 25% for 2 seconds.

Fanaticism (D): Might increases the attack speed of allied heroes by 10%

Meditation (D): Prayer restores 2 mana per second to allied heroes


level 20:

Salvation (Secondary): Activate to grant nearby allied heroes 65 spell armor for 6 seconds. 50 mana; 100 second cooldown.

Conviction (Secondary): Activate to give nearby enemy heroes -50 spell armor for 5 seconds. 80 mana, 120 second cooldown.

Hammer Storm: Blessed Hammer summons 2 additional hammers, and its cooldown is reduced by 1 second each time a hammer hits an enemy hero.

1-2 Punch: Fist of the Heavens gains a second charge

The Paladin is an offensively focused melee support hero (like Kharazim). His central feature is his ability to switch between a healing aura (prayer) and a damage aura (might), as his circumstances require. Talent choices can shape him into a defensively focused healer or a lethal frontline fighter.

The abilities and trait are intended to showcase the skill tree of the Diablo 2 Paladin, with nearly every talent named after a Diablo 2 skill. Diablo 2's progressive skill tree is represented here by the talents adding to a base ability, "replacing" it with a new, better version.

Some changes had to be made due to the inherently different natue of Heroes of the Storm and Diablo 2. For example, I invented an ability (Punish) to serve as the base for Sacrifice and Vengeance talents to modify. Conviction and Salvation are spells rather than auras in order to keep them impactful enough when you use them without weakening them too much or having them conflict with the trait.

It should also go without saying, but the numbers are some combination of ballpark figures and placeholders. I did my best to make them realistic but i can't exactly playtest them.