Disgusted with Paladins 1.10

[Taem]

If anything, these should be the synergies:

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• Fanaticism, Zeal, and Charge
  
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• Conviction, Vengeance, and Fist of the Heavens
  
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You fall back in the fact going down this road. Fanaticism already reinforces Zeal and Charge. With double reinforcing you hit the potential maximum with either attack somewhere around the level 50 mark and all further upgrades are item-only. That's the 1.09 Fist Paladin's he problem. He reaches critical mass at the end of Nightmare and there's still the entirety of Hell to go so Nightmare becomes too easy and Hell becomes disproportionately hard.

Conviction? Same problem. Double reinforcing just doesn't work towards a balanced game. Try sticking to keeping Synergies restricted to Combat Skills only and it gets easier to retain sane upgrades. ;)

I hear what your saying warblade, but these are the most logical associations, by far. Any other associations just don't make any sense! Maybe instead of the synergy adding damage, it can add something else to not make it overpowered such as:

Fanaticism, Zeal, and Charge = Enhanced passive resistances (elemental, magic, OR physical - 1% per 5 cumulative points in all associated skills)

I don't exactly mean to burst your bubble here either, but the whole overpowering thing is already being done:

Barbarian:
Battle Order + Battle Command + Shout
War Cry + Battle Cry
Stun + War Cry (nice combo)
Berserk + Howl + Shout (what? Overpowered? Nah!)
Frenzy + Taunt

Druid:
Hurricane + Cyclone Armor
Any elemental skill + any other elemental skill (great for skills with casting delay switch over to next best one in between - like the sorceress does now!)
Fire Claws + any fire elemental skill (or secondary skill at least)

Amazon:
Immolation Arrow + Exploding Arrow (in between casting delay, your a slaying maniac!)
Valkeryie + almost all over passives (duh!)
I don’t know enough about the casting delays and Javelin skills at this time

Need I go on? Seriously, the "overbalancing" is already being done! The bugs... there’s more now than ever. I don't EVER expect to see a working 1.1 anytime soon, and when it does come out, if its anything like this beta, I will be extremely disappointed at the obvious lack of thought blizzard put forth into it!