Pally Changes

[Rinnhart]

I completely agree the paladin class can be quite dull at times. And their talents are lackluster, I empathize. You leave out some pretty crucial things to make the "paladins are underpowered" argument though.

- Two lengthy posts about how you feel paladins are inferior to among other classes, yet not mention their survivability? No class comes close to matching them.

Bull#$%&. We last 12 seconds longer than any other class IF shield is up. If it's down, we die as fast as anyone else, if not faster than any other healer due to a lack of a decent fast heal or defensive spell besides shield.

Against well played casters and hunters, we're easily kited and burned down, against well played rogues, out lack of ranged ability is mercilessly exploited, and against warriors- again, if shields are down, we die like everyone else.

- Considering mana to heal ratio, paladins actually have the best short timer heal among classes.

A heal that is of only situational worth in pvp.

- Healing spells are much more mana efficient than damage spells.
JustAGuy, if you want PvP advice vs. shamans I'd be glad to help! Well-played paladins will win vs. a well-played shamans in 1v1 fights the majority of the time simply due to mana expenditure. It's just a matter of knowing what to expect from your opponent's class.

You wanna know how to kill a paladin as a shaman? Stop shocking and melee us except to interrupt our heals. You far outdamage us in melee and we have, assuming it's a protection build, two spells both on minute timers which we need to either interrupt your heals or stop the onslaught long enough to heal ourselves.

Anyway. I really hope the paladin talent changes are great. After seeing the druid changes I have some high hopes for the other two hybrid class talent changes when their times come. It would be excellent for both of these classes to have more variety and spice.
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They're going to suck. Blizzard has no clue what they want the paladin class to do.