I've been considering this off and on for weeks now, and I have been wondering how exactly I would write it when it came. So I guess the best thing to do is to "Tell ya what I'm gonna tell ya".

As I'm sure many people know or have been expecting, I am now officially retiring my paladin as a main. I realize this means that I sacrifice my raid spot on my paladin as well as a multitude of other things. I do plan on changing to my warrior as a main for those who see me on said warrior all the time this should not come as very much of a change.

Now I suppose some reasoning is in order for this, although it will occur in no particular order:

#1. It is no longer fun for me to play this toon. I logged in to help AFK with their raid tonight, and I just felt lathargic. There was nothing really I wanted to do persay, no drive or motivation. It felt like I was back in a grind, and not for the people, with whom I enjoy raiding greatly, but simply because of the toon.

#2. The nerf to damage. This is a class that I have played since December of '05 in some way or another, nearly all that time spent as ret. I remember the days of Vanilla when "dps" consisted of Seal of Command and white attacks to Current day with Exorcism, Consecrate, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm and Judgement. However in an effort to balance pvp, I have been watching our pve continuously take hits like an old boxer backed into a corner.

In this most recent patch, although we should have a minor dps increase on patchwerk like mobs of standing still, we are going to suffer a huge nerf when it comes to AoE fights (Freya, Razorscale, Kologarn, Auriaya, Thorim) and fights that require quick burndown or time off target (XT Heart, Hodir, Mimiron, Possible General).

I believe I have already reached a point where my warrior can keep pace dps wise as arms, and I am still learning new things (and getting new gear) every day in order to perfect arms. When I am high on rage, I have ways to burn it for more dps, paladins have no way to do this as ret.

#3. It is just no longer fun to play this toon. As I said, I feel lathargic when I play my paladin, wondering what I am going to do. It has reached the point where I dread logging into my paladin, and when I raid all I can think of is the time left until I can get back onto my warrior just because it is no longer fun.

There is plenty more that I can go into here if I wanted but I think I have gone on enough. So with that, I retire my class of 3.5 years to alt status, picking up holy as an offspec to replace my old pvp spec. We will see where this new road I am on takes me, but the road to warrior is a very interesting and interactive one.

With That,

Warrior LFG. Arms, Fury, Prot or PvP PST

P.S. I still will be available to help people with any ret or paladin questions they have.