07-22-2006, 01:58 AM
Quote:A couple of rogues want to switch to paladins -- and very badly.Delurking...
I think the new raid healing setup will end up being:
5 Priests
4 Paladins
3 Shaman
3 Druids
Your rogues want to switch to paladins for the same reason mages might want to switch to shamans -- and very badly.
5 priests, 5 druids, some mixture of 5-6 shamans/pallies.
Your crusade over the supposed faction imbalance has blinded you to a few simple truths.
Most notably, paladins aren't very good healers. This is something that horde never really seem to grasp. This is probably because of pvp healadins, who are admittedly quite sexy, but not because of their raw healing power. In a raid paladin survivability is wasted, much like shaman dps. The overstated paladin advantage over shamans does not translate to paladins replacing shamans AND druids. They just don't have the healing output. Three pallies are perfectly capable of applying all the blessings a raid wants without sacrificing the benefits of the two unquestionably superior healing classes.