What kind of silliness is that ?

[WarBlade]

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.

The first time I saw this assertion, it was the product of dii.net speculation. And the time after that and the time after that and suddenly it's public lore. One source I have never seen any mention of monster life being doubled is from Blizzard. If you know of such a source, can you link it please?

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

Fanaticism? :huh: Err Zeal and Holy Shock is quite competitive with Fanaticism as it stands now, so saying he's "giving up" anything is a stretch. By the same token could say that Fanaticism/Zeal forfeits any ability to deal with Physical Immunities.

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.

:huh: I'm trying to make sense of this. Really I am. :huh:

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.

More dangerous than usual? Are you saying that "Usual = Fanaticism + whatever else"? That's just nuts.