07-02-2003, 04:27 PM
3129.5 average damage of both the elemental splash and the added damage to weapon, at first it looks way overpowered, but lets look at the factors:
1) The monsters' life are being doubled, making this 3129.5 average damage to like 1564.75 damage in the current patch.
2) The paladin gives up a speed AND damage boosting aura which could give his life-leeching items a lot more impact on the survivability of the paladin
3) I believe Blizzard said there will be more elemental resistances and less physical resists, so in order to compensate for more monsters with resists and/or immunities to lightning they got to make it look good.
4) The only good way a paladin can deliver the full damage of Holy Shock is to be in melee range and Zeal away, something that will be more dangerous than usual due to the fact he don't got fanat to boost his physical damage to life leech enough to make him survive, meaning a lot more investment on life/defensive equiqment.
What they did is by far not the best of ideas but it's something, something more than we usually would've gotten if it was not Blizzard so take that in mind, and read Bolty's loungerant about the patch :).
1) The monsters' life are being doubled, making this 3129.5 average damage to like 1564.75 damage in the current patch.
2) The paladin gives up a speed AND damage boosting aura which could give his life-leeching items a lot more impact on the survivability of the paladin
3) I believe Blizzard said there will be more elemental resistances and less physical resists, so in order to compensate for more monsters with resists and/or immunities to lightning they got to make it look good.
4) The only good way a paladin can deliver the full damage of Holy Shock is to be in melee range and Zeal away, something that will be more dangerous than usual due to the fact he don't got fanat to boost his physical damage to life leech enough to make him survive, meaning a lot more investment on life/defensive equiqment.
What they did is by far not the best of ideas but it's something, something more than we usually would've gotten if it was not Blizzard so take that in mind, and read Bolty's loungerant about the patch :).
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