06-29-2005, 01:20 PM
lemekim,Jun 28 2005, 05:54 PM Wrote:What is your mana pool? Quite a few paladins I know have over 5k mana, some have 6k mana (compare to average feral druid with 4k mana). These paladins also have a lot of life as well (4k-5k or so), and they use a shield so they take less damage and thus can heal for a long time. So yes, a properly specced a paladin can be a good healer, I see it every day. And druid's heals are not shorter - Healing Touch is 3.5 seconds, and both Regrowth's HoT component and Rejuvenation usually get dispelled fast, making them mana inefficient (Regrowth essentially becomes 1k mana cost 1k heal with 2 second cast time).[right][snapback]81915[/snapback][/right]
I have around 4k mana buffed and 5k life buffed. I have had the luxury of being the only plate wearer in most instances on the Lurker side and have been lucky to get 6 out of the 8 lightforge set. Because of my new role as more support healer in PvP I've been collecting the LF set and looking consistenly for items with + to healing to assist with the fact that I have no talents in the holy tree. Once Shalandrax is capped however Sharanna will probably be shelved for PvP purposes.
lemekim,Jun 28 2005, 05:54 PM Wrote:I will have to agree that priests make better healers. But they don't have plate or some of neat paladin tricks. =) And I'll stop tempting you to reroll now! I bet Blizzard's fix will be simply updating description rather then fixing class to match the description. (There are a lof of options available to give better melee options for paladins, even going as far as, for example, giving a talent to reduce intellect by 10% while increasing strength and agility by 10%).[right][snapback]81915[/snapback][/right]
Giving paladins at least one dependable (non-talent related) direct damage skill will go a long ways towards pleasing many of us paladins. I've played Paladins all throughout beta and retail from when they were gods to gimped to gods and back to gimped. I'm happy with being an offtank/surprise healer/dispeller and buffer but it would be nice to point to at least one button and say "If I push that someone will get hurt." As it is now I fire up seal of command and say "If I'm lucky I will hurt someone more than they hurt me." ;)
lemekim,Jun 28 2005, 05:54 PM Wrote:As for you getting CCed, in a good group with a decent amount of priests/paladins it should never happen, except maybe for AOE fear. If you get sheeped and stay sheeped, it's the fault of other members in your group. For example, in warsong gulch, lets say you have 2 priests and 2 paladins. Thats 4 dispellers. If any of you get sheeped/mezzed/feared, the other 3 will/have to dispel that person. Of course this only goes for coordinated groups and smart players, we will not go by what happens in pick-up groups =\.
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True. I'm just pointing out that in my PvP experiences on Stormrage the Horde have started keeping paladins, druids and priests either dead or cc'd. ;)