Anticipation
Paladin · Protection · opens at 5 points spent · 5 ranks
Anticipation works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Anticipation ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your Defense Skill by 4.
- Rank 2 Increases your Defense Skill by 8.
- Rank 3 Increases your Defense Skill by 12.
- Rank 4 Increases your Defense Skill by 16.
- Rank 5 Increases your Defense Skill by 20.
What Anticipation does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Increases your Defense skill by 2.
- Rank 2 Increases your Defense skill by 4.
- Rank 3 Increases your Defense skill by 6.
- Rank 4 Increases your Defense skill by 8.
- Rank 5 Increases your Defense skill by 10.
Where Anticipation sits in the Protection tree
Anticipation is a Protection talent for Paladin. You need 5 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Precision, Guardian's Favor
How often people take Anticipation
72 of the 209 public Paladin builds saved here — 34% — put at least one point in Anticipation. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Anticipation
5 of the public Paladin builds written up here spend points on Anticipation.
- Paladin Protection 2/32/17 — 5/5 , 4 up
- Paladin Protection 2/33/16 — 5/5 , 3 up
- Paladin Protection 2/31/18 — 5/5
- Paladin Protection 2/36/13 — 5/5
- Paladin Protection 2/40/9 — 2/5
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.69893