Patch 2.1.2 preliminary notes

[Watto44]

Two cents incoming.;)

I'm very non-plussed about the trinket changes. The vanillarizing of PvP continues. I can see exactly where Quark is coming from here and I can also see why druids are complaining about it. While it will be difficult to tell until the changes go live, sap and cyclone have basically become ways to draw the use of a trinket rather than CC. (Given that cyclone is not dispellable and gets hit hard by diminishing returns, I can see why someone would trinket out of it rather than, say, fear or blind, both of which break on damage and can be removed by other means.) While the ability to draw the trinket will probably turn out to be quite powerful, I still don't like the change. (Another reason that druids are a little cranky about this change: judgment of justice is not affected by the trinket.)

Rogues and druids aside, the change is also a major buff to burst teams, who are already very successful, and a nerf to control teams.

A minor aside: (MS) warriors and (holy) paladins have always been, and probably always will be, gods of moderate to large scale PvP. On the warrior front: large health pools and good physical DR, good burst damage and an array of excellent debuffs. On the paladin side: good physical DR and short cast time, highly efficient, healing spells in addition to good to excellent buffs and the ability to live through twelve seconds of assist-trainage. In my opinion, there really is no comparison to these two classes for group PvP.