Might not have been but Ret has stagnated long ago, last time we got something new was in Legion with wake of ashes and steed. And the steed cost us a lot in the mobility front as it replaced several other talents meaning it was an outright nerf.
Yes this works in the current system when everyone actually gets wings when lvling, with talent trees we dont. Thats why it should be a basic toolset from the get go!
Can you give me an example from mage. Can you get talents that buffs icy veins without getting icy veins?
Why dont fire mages have to specc into hot streak? Can they specc ino combustion talents without combustion?
Arcane mages must specc into clearcasting to advance further down the tree where later they can get more clearcasting talents.
These talent trees are thought through, to buff one talent you MUST have the base talent! This is not the case for paladins!
I would agree with this if paladins were hard to stop like DKs and have gapclosers. We can now sit in roots for the full duration, we cant spam slows and we can be slowed while on steed.
If mages only had 1 blink and no talents to buff it or reset CDs and suddenly one expansion they decided to more then tripple the CD of blink, that is paladin mobility development over the last 18 years.
You talking about offhealing or selfhealing? Two very different things. Prot pals BASE WoG heals for 315% spell power and increases by 250% based on missing health if cast on self, can be talented to do the same on others now in SL. I dont know how often Prot offheals others in PVE but in DF Avenger sheild no longer generates Holy power and many have complained about being HoPo starved, they wont be using WoG on others.
Now the Rets counterpart is only if talented and its at 100% (in pvp its 50%). Must also point out to you WoG in pvp is already nerfed down to 60% of its original healing.
So with all those nerfs for Ret selfhealing/offhealing when compared to prot do you think even for a second that they would allow Prot like healing for ret??
And now ill go into why offhealing is so overrated
- Its the healers job
- All other classes have selfheaing
- All other classes have deff CDs
- Nearly all other classes even have a minibubble
So for offhealing to have value, all of the above must have failed!
Edit:
Care to give an example as to what you think is a relevant issue? Guy that thinks mobility is overrated, think talents that dont do anything if the base talent was skipped isent a design flaw and thinks that offhealing would fix anything for Ret. Also didnt mention the lack of communication from the devsā¦ minor stuff.