Played a Ret Paladin since the start of Legion. Took a break half way through BfA and have just returned.
Seriously struggling at the moment with survivability in 8.3 solo content - pull a mob of 3 enemies and that’s me struggling to survive the fight. I dont remember being this squishy before I took a break.
Now I dont know if it’s because I’m rusty, because I’m undergeared or just generally the mobs in 8.3 are just harder in general but it’s frustrating the life out of me at the moment.
My two main defensives are Shield of Vengeance and Divine Shield, which work great - but their cooldowns suck so I cant use them in every fight. Could anyone maybe point out where I’m going wrong? What defensive skills do you use as a Ret Paladin? I really dont remember it being THIS bad before I took the break.
Tbh i’m 475+ and anytime i switch to ret, i feel insanely squishy. Any hit in raid is pretty much 3/4 of my health pool, and my self healing, which once was the main feature to balance our horrid dmg outside wings, it’s now non existent.
I tried to do the legendary cloak questline when I was at 390ish item level and got stomped. You’ll be surprised at how much more DPS you’ll put out and how better you are at staying alive when you’ve geared up on WQs and done a heroic Darkshore or two.