Pally Changes

[vor_lord]

Why would a paladin bother using Divine Shield to break out of sheep or seduce when their partymates can break them out of it for free?
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Ummm, last I checked you couldn't use Divine Shield to break out of sheep or seduce. At all. Never have been able to.

And I thought the Blessing of Sacrifice trick had been fixed, but I haven't played my paladin in so long I don't really know.

My opinion is that paladins as a class are broken. They are very powerful in a few situations when that $%#$#@ shield is available -- broken. Blessing of Salvation in a raid situation -- a little unbalancing, maybe broken. The majority of their skills are useless most of the time -- broken. Their talent trees are the weakest in the game (shamans have a lot of totally lame talents, but several very good ones to help make up for it).

The combination of (at least perceived) overpoweredness in some highly visible situations, and toothlessness elsewhere, makes a broken class.

I think caster itemization needs a lot of help. I think mages need a boost. I think rogues need to be a little less dependent on timers. I think the shaman talent trees really need to be redone. I think the priest holy tree needs to be looked at. Lots of things in the game need tweaking.

But no other class is broken fundamentally like the paladin is broken. This very thread is evidence of that -- Horde screams "Overpowered!" and paladins scream "Gimped!"