Paladin

Kognus Fixes the Paladin Class

Kognus — Thu, 10/30/2008 - 14:10

Well, the next never-ending round of ret nerfs is through and I can't say that I'm the least bit surprised. Sure we've been the laughing stock of The Burning Crusade and Vanilla WoW before that, but what the heck, why should Wrath of the Lich King be any different? Your friendly, neighbourhood dwarf will still be fighting the good fight. I will adapt, I will continue to dominate bad players of stronger specs, and I will continue to lose to just about anybody that really knows what they are doing with their class (that isn't a rogue, warrior, enhancement shaman, or hunter).

Anyway, I was thinking about these nerfs and what a difficult time Blizzard has had with balancing our spec. I mean think about it: we're a plate-wearing class with healing abilities, large burst damage, and stuns. That is going to be incredibly difficult to balance. If we have limitless mana as we effectively did for the past couple of weeks then there is never going to be any end to the QQ. The obvious solution is to address one or more of these issues. Blizzard just gutted our burst by around 15-20% and took us from having nearly limitless mana to real mana issues in PvP (and arguably PvE as well for that matter, do the math). That's certainly one way to do it, but not the one that I would have chosen. The real issue isn't that ret paladins have limitless mana (though that is something that should have been tweaked, albeit not the degree that it was) or even that we do really big burst damage. The real problem was that we did it while the person was stunned. Stunning someone and critting them for their life bar inside the stun just isn't fair. Especially when you take into account that we were able to heal up afterwards and negate any damage that they did to us outside of the stun.

Ryu as a squishie!!

Kerilyn — Tue, 10/28/2008 - 19:44

in his imaginary T6

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Finally updated

Anonymous — Fri, 10/24/2008 - 16:58

Just wanted to finally link the armory link in my healing gear: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorgonnash&n=Phyltran

PS. If you see me online and wanna run something to test me, thats fine, just send me a tell :)

flash of light

darkwolf — Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:15

i am looking for holy pally input, for my 2 glyphs i got the holy and flash of light glyphs, holy light is great. i am just curious what others think of the flash of light i dont know if i like it or not.

Help Me Heal

garreth — Wed, 10/15/2008 - 11:06

I've been freakishly busy the last few weeks and haven't had a chance to really get into the healing mechanics much for the new paladin spells.

Can someone please direct me to some links that discuss the new techniques to healing as a pally in 3.0, specifically in how to get to the most out of Beacon of Light and what not?

Thanks!

Paladin

Echoes of Doom

garreth — Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:08

You all probably remember my hysterical, rant-filled, rage-fueled freak-outs over the Illumination nerf right after BC. You all told me "it will be alright" and then it went live and it wasn't alright. Paladins to this day are considered some of the weakest healers in the game and it's something I struggle with in raids nightly.

Then the first beta talents came out and I was... overjoyed. The talents were amazing, the abilities exactly what we'd begged for for years.

Then we got it all taken away.

This post pretty much sums it all up: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10532600037&sid=20...

Read it and understand why being a Holy Paladin is about the shittiest role to play in WoW. At this point, playing Holy is nothing but a labor of love for me. It's fun in a "hit yourself with a hammer" sort of way, but I know that if I don't heal, we will lose one of the few remaining healers left in this fucking game.

A fundamental flaw of WoW is that it bases the entire success of a group of people on a set number of those people "taking one for the team" and rolling a tank or a healer. You've all heard this rant before, yes, I know. But at one point I was EXCITED for the paladin Holy changes in Wrath. And now they've all been pounded into the ground and we've been reverted right back to where we were.

In before the inevitable Shihli post stating "It's beta, nothing is set in stone".
In before the auto-shotting Hunter tells me to suck it up because "dps r hard 2".
In before the resto shammies emo out again.
In before the tanks tell me "you think YOU got it bad".
In before the resto druids realize they actually get an AoE HoT in Wrath. (Yarly: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=53251)