08-17-2009, 03:09 PM
Quote:Well, The damage is better on stand and deliver things, and it's not like we just don't do anything on trash or heroics. The big problem comes from the the idea that they stated they wanted to make it interactive, they wanted to make it less faceroll, and they didn't. They made it irritating as hell, and that's about it.
Agreed - I was sorely disappointed in the retribution changes, even though I was mostly ret for arenas. From a PVP point of view the spec became even less interesting. I was sincerely hoping they would trade burst damage for other tools (a regular interrupt, etc), so that good players could shine and facerollers (so to speak) would sit on their mediocre ratings, but alas...the spec is even more boring in arenas than it used to be.
To do decent damage ret paladins in arenas are now putting 5 points in holy to buff seal of righteousness, meaning they don't have reduced cooldown on HoJ, sot hey interrupt/stun even less often and basically still just run after folks hitting 3 buttons over and over plus an exorcism every 15 seconds.
And in PVE...yeah, auto-attack as a mechanic for ramping up DPS? Talk about non-interactive.
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