After last patch rets has been nerfed once more.
The whole concept of the ret at least for the last 2 expansion was that he could deal insane damage in a burst window every 2 minutes and with a preperation of couple of seconds (seraphim stack max holy power). It can be easily countered by playing defensively when you see wings though
Also Ret is a low mobility character that rely on that burst damage and self healing.
Now the burst has been nerfed and it should have been nerfed but also the healing and mobility should have been buffed, for example WOG should be buffed for at least 20% alongside with flash of light and divine steed should either goes to 5 seconds and be unaffected by snare effects or remove snare effects on use (that might be a bit too much)
Also don’t forget that Ret has no healing reduction debuff unlike most of other classes and that’s why he was compensated by having big bursts.
One last thing is that Aura of Reckoning should be go back to 50 stacks for 2v2 , 70 stacks for 3v3 and 100 for the BGs that has more players
Those are simply my thoughts about Rets , feel free to comment and share what you think
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I think the burst specs are more fun/interesting to heal against than the grinder specs.
1man1global 100->0 kills are abit much. But counterplaying burst spec’s big goes feels like better gameplay than tanking sticky grinder specs that are kinda just always going.
Some of the other melee classes feel more like a raid debuff than an enemy player tbh.
Execution Sentence is still there and it can hit pretty hard,but it gives even more time for your opponent to react.
One of the major problems is that the damage outside of cds is next to zero compared to other melee specs.
yeah feels bad, Blizzard either doesn’t know how to properly balance Ret, Enh, FDK or Hunters, but are seemingly quite content if their usual favourites like Warrior are OP
Ret is inherently bad designed.
Its defensives are really bad, especially vs casters. Its mobility is awful. Its self healing is heavily undertuned. LoH is a meme at best. Ever wondered why ret is the target 100% of the time?
Burst was and has been the only thing that has ret made viable over the past expansions and every time its not there, the spec is trash tier.
Blizzard has no interest in making ret a decent spec.
Summary: it has bad defensives, bad mobility and now it doesnt bring dmg either. That equals to one of the most useless specs.
Ret needs a massive re design, it will always be either s tier (and it wasnt even s tier) or totally trash tier depending on the burst. Probably the spec with the worst design currently
you could swap Ret for Enh and it’s the same. Both classes rely on Healing for Survivability, both have to sacrifice alot of damage to do that even though its way worse than DPS’ surviability due to high damp start and you’re almost guaranteed to be facing an MS effect. You might aswell switch to DK/Warr/Rogue they do everything these classes do but better aside from offhealing, but a) for reasons stated above the healing is trash and b) you have way more CC
I think you’re right though, Blizzard don’t really seem interested in making these specs viable in PVP
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