Taking to note that the first pala on the 3s ladder in our region is r158 just shows class bias towards it. Holy is underwhelming, and ret is just a joke. So squishy and poor mobility it is sad. If I dont have bubble up, I cant expect to do anything. And even that said, with a priest on the other side who got back the 0.1 sec mass dispell that removes a 4 min cooldown is just rubbish… Outside of that there are no defensives to save you from anything. Even if they removed forbearence and allowed us to use all of those abilitieschained we would still be too squishy compared to other classes with this sad off healing that trades all damage into mediocre heals… I am just disappointed that this is the treatment they give my class for the past years. Pala’s used to be an unstoppable force which was the concept. Unslowable , but cc-able. You couldn’t keep a paladin rooted or slowed for long. Now just purge everything off and laugh at em… Divine steed thats on a global cooldown is the biggest joke ever introduced into this class. We do not like it, we never liked it. Same goes for shield of paper thats a 30% hp absorb that disappears in like 0,1 seconds versus anyone.
Note to blizz: We do not want to 3 shot people when we pop wings then feel useless for the following 2 min or until we get a reckoning proc! We want substantial damage, with convenient off-healing and decent mobility. It is not too much to ask, we’ve had this before in wotlk/cataclysm/mop. Give some justice to our class…
I really hope blizzard take a notice of this post, but im pretty sure they will just ignore it as all the other posts regarding retribution paladin, and the fantasy of the class overall which is outdated, or to put it better, Away from its long lasted fantasy.
Do you remember when paladin was the superior Slow plate Knight that didnt have zug number bursts, strong Buffs for his team, good support heals and mediocre dmg?
Do you remember that it was not a terror to fight against it like (SL retribution) , but instead you would think twice cause it was living up to its fantasy, it was a strong DEFENSIVE knight.
But ye… they prunned it so much, to the depths of hell , removed like 70% of its fantasy, you cant even remove Magic anymore, our toolkit is outdated vs the lazer wars we fight vs other classes atm, and yet blizzard thinks we need the “Steed of absolute wheelchair shame” , or the “Blind cheese” 1 shot zomg zug burst and then Be a clown and a “burden” to your teammates til you have CDS again to Play the RNG slot machine zugfest.
Defensives are nowhere to be found, support ofheals are nowhere near the DMG output the other classes put on you and your partners, idk sup anymore with paladin.
Long Live the Paladin class we all knew, Call me a boomer, call it a cliker, outdated, not a mglad rank 1 vid , but thats what the true Fantasy of the class was combined with a bit of engineering, why not update this kind of design to the modern erra?.. Just my thoughts. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=extHtbuhKQc
SL ret was also bad. It was the same as now, only now we do shadowlands healing and damage numbers in the new expansion. DH rotation hunt - essence break - 1 annihilation =300k. My rotation, 2 builders for 20k dmg and a consumer for 30k